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Greg Olear@gregolear.bsky.social |
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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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Greg Olear
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This is satire. At least I think it is. These days, it's hard to tell... "Running Man, and Other Suggestions for How to Pick a Joe Biden Replacement in a Way That Will Satisfy the Clickthirsty Media"
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Greg Olear
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It’s like a game show, except contestants on game shows win money, and this would be lighting $91,000,000 on fire.
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Greg Olear
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“If you were born in a country or at a time not only when nobody comes to kill your wife and your children, but also nobody comes to ask you to kill the wives and children of others, then render thanks to God and go in peace.” - Littell
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Ian Boudreau
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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Greg Olear
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They got, what, three seasons of story arc out of the MS diagnosis? When Trump sent thugs to steal his medical records IRL, the story lasted half an afternoon.
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Greg Olear
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Thank you, and yes, we are!
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Willie Fitzgerald
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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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Greg Olear
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Thanks to the great Lisa Graves for sharing her wisdom, knowledge, and optimism with us on tonight's show. Always great to talk to her.
Topics: #Epstein, #Assange, #Project2025, #SCOTUSIsCorruptAF
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Greg Olear
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Thank you!
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L O L G O P
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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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Greg Olear
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Three hours until showtime... 🍸🥃🎱
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Greg Olear
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Thank you!
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Greg Olear
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Piece lives here:
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
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Greg Olear
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No, Biden Should Not Drop Out FFS Please Stop…
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Greg Olear
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The like button is insufficient to express the level of my like for this.
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Greg Olear
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Total coincidence! Because I’m not sure he knows what NATO stands for. Like, the letters.
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Greg Olear
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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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He needs the rest.
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DCboy
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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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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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But she told us that all she wants to do is take our moNEY.
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Don Moynihan
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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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L O L G O P
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Um. From May.
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Katie Mack
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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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Greg Olear
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At long last, I'm pleased to report that the #RoughBeast audiobook, narrated by Yours Truly, is now available!
It will be on Amazon & iTunes in a few days. For now, it's on Audible:
www.audible.com/pd/Rough-Bea...
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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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Insurrection by definition cannot be an official act.
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Greg Olear
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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."
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Greg Olear
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This:
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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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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Greg Olear
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No! Thanks!
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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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They are complicit. What they’re doing is intentional. It’s hard to suggest otherwise.
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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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Thank you!
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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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Less than half an hour until showtime:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZukP...
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emptywheel
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Lot's of people discovered the Gish Gallop after @hcrichardson.bsky.social mentioned it in today's column. Here's Mehdi Hassan describing it.
www.c-span.org/video/?c5081...
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Greg Olear
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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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Greg Olear
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There are two Corinthians who disagree… 🙃
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Dave Levitan
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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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