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Jenn Griffin's avatar

Leverage leverage leverage. So good. I always listen to Gal. 🤓

South African poet 😹.

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Greg Olear's avatar

I mean, the sink! The chainsaw!

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Jenn Griffin's avatar

They operate better in chaos 😲. That makes sense. Lots of balls in the air to take advantage of.

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Lisbeth Farnum's avatar

TGIF🎉🎉🎉While we all enjoy the middle school fight in the girls’ bathroom, don’t let up on planning for your 6/14 rallies. No Kings rally tonight in Boston, 5-7pm The Common for everyone in town!

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Greg Olear's avatar

No let up.

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Deepak Puri's avatar

KILL THE BILL says Musk: Catherine Rowland, Congressional Progressive Caucus Center explains what's next in the Budget Reconciliation process and how you can help kill the bill: PODCAST

https://thedemlabs.org/2025/06/05/kill-the-bill-catherine-rowland-congressional-progressive-caucus-center-explains-budget-reconciliation-process-podcast/

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Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks, Deepak!

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Lisa Charles's avatar

I’m guessing Thiel and Putin are manipulating their ketamine soaked Musky Menace to help clear the path for the trained and cooperative Dicktator Vance to take his intended throne.

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JDinTX's avatar

I didn’t think it would be by this route, maybe polonium tea, or such

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cal lash's avatar

Yep

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Greg Olear's avatar

Actuarial tables suggest Couchfucker will be president at some point in the not so distant future. Heaven help us.

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William E. Becker's avatar

In getting rid of Trump and the GOP melange, there are no real choices. They're all bad or worse.

What's in the Epstein files is that Trump is a pedophile and was/is for a long time; this was written about extensively at one time, but now it is quiet and barely whispered. Epstein was in position to be a dealer in blackmail at the international level, as well as the intel that came with that situation. And in good standing with the US govt. for a long time...it is not like no one knew. So, those videos are dynamite, although the really serious and powerful clients probably aren't there...you know, those people who, if you fuck with them, that's it for you. Like what happened in the end.

So, Elon should know all about that - ahem - vulnerability. Even if much of it isn't true, there's still some powerful evidence there. The gov is like those tribes that walk over hot coals...very quickly and once is enough.

The real situation in Pennsylvania and the states that swung the election is found in Musk's statement about the 'help' he gave Trump. And the seeming confidence he has that that won't blow up in a bad way, that it can't be proven they stole those states to win the election. But, for so many people, the outcome was so unrealistic that their conclusion still is: He stole it.

Regardless, this is a crisis time, even if it doesn't feel like it moment-by-moment...that's the situation they don't have anyone concentrating upon, the theft and the consequences. With DoJ and FBI in the wrong hip pocket, there needs to be an independent investigator in that area and others. I know, seemingly not possible. But it needs to be. Maybe Four Eyes can help (the other got poked out).

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Greg Olear's avatar

The Musk statement felt like a confession. But what's worse: violating federal law to swing an election, or being the complicit beneficiary of that violation? Probably we'll never find out, just like we'll never really know the extent of the Epstein stuff.

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JDinTX's avatar

Great post Greg, just my take. Not even remotely possible that either one had given a thought to anyone other than themselves. Putin must be watching with glee. What a choice he is facing because two of his puppets are “entangled” as it looks like they are circling the drain.

My take is that the handlers were in charge of “carefully planned chaos” and the narcissist twins chose plain old chaos, their comfort zone.

Well, my upper for the day. Thanks

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Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks, JD. It does seem like they maybe didn't think this all the way through...

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JDinTX's avatar

The carefully planned chaos has some U-turns it seems

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Steve B's avatar

Gal wins the internet for the next week with, "The Battle of the Idiots." 🤣🤣🤣 I've never seen a competition where I was rooting for BOTH sides to lose as badly as possible, until now. Trump and Musk are both idiots, and the idea that people "revere" either one of them is disgusting on its face. Ugh!

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Greg Olear's avatar

Amen!

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Old Man's avatar

I vote for distraction to hide the beginning of a coup. 4547 has never been anyone’s cup of tea, especially Vlad the Impaler who does not suffer imbeciles. However he was the only Republican capable of a 2024 win. "Get him elected, get him out" may have been the underlying mantra. JD was Putin's desired Oval office inhabitant. He is unelectable, so horrible a person that he his. Put him in the Vice position, get the fool out. The orange imbecile needs be out by Thanksgiving, this gives JD three full years to get the Vlad agenda done, including stopping elections. Consider the big, beautiful bill the equivalent of polonium tea, the Epstein files an accidental fall down the staircase. The 25th Amendment is the cabals answer. Such a sensational act gives cover and would be welcome by circa 55% of the country.

The fly in the ointment, 2026 elections. The cabal cannot lose the house, this screws up the evil plan. Likely a Senate majority is a lock, albeit smaller than today. A quick exit stage left for 4547 gives time to sort this out. Notice how last year's loud mouths, Jordan, Greene and Bobert, et al have gone underground, anyone who may have been election risks have taken a low profile, most focused on getting rich, trading on inside info in exchange for staying out of the limelight.

Another fly, Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian military. While Vlad is focused on controlling the US, he must watch his back at home. The Ukrainian's refusal to roll over, no less taking the fight to Vlad gives him agita at home. His answer to the recent drone success, while destructive was feeble, demonstrating how depleted his military is. Zarina may have thoughts on this. Lev Parnas has an interesting perspective.

The imponderable, Elon the Musk. I believe he is a loose cannon, a sole operative who no one controls other than a drug cocktail. He is close enough to Vlad, as long as he is useful, fine. He is, however a real candidate for a staircase adventure, polonium and novichok gets too close to Vlad but the ever popular crime story tool, a needle in the arm leading to an overdose works as does a prick with an untraceable heart attack agent, the cause attributed to excessive drug use.

I believe 4547 was and is bigger today a truly TACI TACO man, always caves in, always chickens out. He never was an asset, always a useful fool to be tolerated. He is now simply a liability to the cabal.

Two names confuse me. Stephen Ghoul and Mike no Johnson. Part of the cabal or lone wolves doing their thing?

Greg, thanks for giving me space to spin my crazy thoughts. Mrs OM and I look forward to tonight's The Five 8. My laptop is connected to the HDMI port on the family room TV so that we feel we are in the room with you and LB. Which cocktail tonight?

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Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks, Old Man! I always enjoy reading your thoughts. I hope you liked the show...Manhattans for me, after spending the day there.

The Ukrainians are concerned that too many people in the US, hearing of the success of the last operation, are like, "Oh, good they're winning," and then they can disengage. The war is not over, it won't be over until Russia is defeated or it leaves. Trump's election was bad for Ukraine, bad for global democracy, all of it.

I am not taking free and fair midterm elections for granted, but there's a lot of resistance going on now.

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Old Man's avatar

Thanks, we really liked the show, always do.

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Earl Heflinger's avatar

Thanks for the range of hypotheses* about why this feud is going on now.

*Once Neil deGrasse Tyson said on Stephen Colbert’s show (and I’m obviously paraphrasing), “You don’t have a theory, you have a hypothesis. Einstein had a theory. You have a hypothesis.”

I hope you understand that I’m saying this to add some humor, not to be critical.

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Greg Olear's avatar

I think I remember that episode! Yes! LOL.

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Layne Ostrochovsky's avatar

The billionaire bailout bill doesn’t bailout Elon. The EV credits are stripped.

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Greg Olear's avatar

How much money does one man need? I know he's got a lot of kids, but man...

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