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Greg Olear

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Lapsed novelist, #RoughBeast author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of The Five 8, enjoyer of Friday Manhattans.

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Thank you, and yes, we are!

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.

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Three hours until showtime... 🍸🥃🎱

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No, Biden Should Not Drop Out FFS Please Stop…

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The like button is insufficient to express the level of my like for this.

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Total coincidence! Because I’m not sure he knows what NATO stands for. Like, the letters.

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"A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —Declaration of Independence

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Americans are too busy rushing forward to look in the rear view mirror. Russia plays the long game. If you’re 18 years old and casting your vote for the first time, the carrot colored clown has been painting the town red with the Russians for twice as long as you’ve been alive.

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I always look forward to Friday nights, because I enjoy The Five 8 so much, but THIS Friday night I'm especially looking forward to. Great guest & lots to discuss.

Please do join us tomorrow! 🍸🥃🎱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdWD...

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Congratulations to Donald Trump, who became a Kremlin property on the Fourth of July 1987, when he took his first trip to Moscow. Here's to 37 years of Russian ownership, Donald!

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But she told us that all she wants to do is take our moNEY.

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JFK: Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. RFK: Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. RFK Jr.:

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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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For all of Alito’s and Thomas’s bluster about “originalism,” where they ask WWJD (where “J” stands for “Jefferson”), the one thing we Americans—even little kids, ffs!—know for sure about the Founders is that they did NOT want another king.

gregolear.substack.com/p/kingmakers...

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Well, Trump has recently demonstrated Chapter 1 (he's a liar) and Chapter 2 (he's a crook) of #RoughBeast.

If you want to know what he would do in a second term with his newfound kingly powers, I direct you to Chapters 5-7.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D47CMX17

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Insurrection by definition cannot be an official act.

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"That I did not become that person is a minor miracle & required a self-awareness I didn't realize I possessed, as well as no small amount of dumb luck. This isn’t me bragging that I made the right choices. This is me being pleasantly astonished that I did."
gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pag...

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God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

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The Chevron ruling is going to hasten the demise of the country and the planet. But on the plus side, I got Wordle in two!

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They are complicit. What they’re doing is intentional. It’s hard to suggest otherwise.

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5/ How to move forward? Unity. Unity. Unity. If we are united, and accept the leadership of the best president of my lifetime, we will not lose. On the contrary, we shall prevail.

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3/ The panic comes from fear that he'll lose. That's what the panic is. And the only way we lose is if we splinter. 4/ Splintering is what Jabba the Trump wants, which is why he Gish-galloped his way through that ugly debate.

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2/ Where does the panic come from? Is it fear that Joe can't do the job? No. Because we know he can. He's done it for 3.5 years at the highest possible level. The government is in good hands with Joe/Kamala.

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1/ Why the Dem freakout after the debate? We are all traumatized by 2016, and the debate triggered our collective trauma. "No! Not again!" Hence the panic.

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We were so fortunate to have the brilliant Dahlia Lithwick on the show, on the day that SCOTUS overturned the Chevron precedent. She is very good at explaining why this is very bad.
www.youtube.com/live/ZukPIY9...

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My thoughts on last night's debacle. #DebateNight

"At one point, Trump *blamed the insurrection on Nancy Pelosi*, which, I mean, if Tapper and Bash don’t correct the record on THAT, why are we even here?"

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There are two Corinthians who disagree… 🙃

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I’ve been saying for like nine years that the only questions Trump should be asked are like “what does NATO stand for” and “what is Medicaid” just let him drown in the shallowest imaginable water

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BIDEN: (stumbles through smart, thoughtful answer) TRUMP: LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE MODERATORS: Next question.

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We missed you! The return of The Five 8 from our short hiatus happens to fall on the day after the first, and hopefully only, presidential debate. We will discuss this and four other choice topics, LIVE on Friday night! 🍸🥃🎱

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“Hold Me Now” is one of the best songs of the 80s, and that bass fill in the third verse gets me every time.

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All true, but they didn’t have the architecture of a 250-year-old democracy to contend with.

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"There are lots of pros to being a dictator, no doubt—as Mel Brooks said, 'It’s good to be the king!'—but there are some cons, too: not least the fact that strongmen are constantly worried that someone will go Macbeth on them."

gregolear.substack.com/p/et-tu-vp

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