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Lisbeth Farnum's avatar

It’s TUESDAY🎉Phew; this represents a LOT of work! It also represents an important read for future US history students. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks. And I feel like I missed at least half a dozen obvious things...

Lisbeth Farnum's avatar

Friday’s content!

Wd52's avatar

Don't worry. Within two weeks of 1 Jan 1988, we will have all Trump mobster documents. He has personally assured us regularly.

Dawna Stromsoe's avatar

Huh? I don’t understand the “1988” reference either 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wd52's avatar

#Trump is and has always been a #Mobster, owned by Israel, Moscow and Saudi for the last 30 years, by the FBI & CIA before that  He WAS a #MOB stool pigeon informant TO DA #Giuliani in NY the late 1980s. That's how they first met! 

FULL HISTORY: 1. https://gregolear.substack.com/p/tinker-tailor-mobster-trump 2. https://gregolear.substack.com/p/from-trump-to-trump-how-the-mobs 3. https://gregolear.substack.com/p/give-me-secrecy-and-give-me-death

Wd52's avatar

It will be shown eventually that Epstein ran a massive blackmail operation on behalf of ISRAEL. And that is too hot to admit, EVER.!!! ?PROOF? What would both Biden and Trump want to cover up?? ... and the answer is: Israel-Epstein running a Honeytrap Blackmail operation on American soil !

Greg Olear's avatar

You have to layer in the Kremlin, though. Remember, JE was tight with the head of the FSB for a long time, too. And the Russians are really good at the honeytrap.

Dennis's avatar

Released or not, we assume the worst. But human imagination cannot begin to grasp the cosmic venality of this creature. The arc of justice is taking a long tortured detour.

Greg Olear's avatar

Seriously. The arc is on the side of the road, car up on a jack, waiting for AAA to come.

Bronwyn Fryer's avatar

wow, Greg! you did a whole lot of homework!!!! thank you (I think).

Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks, Bronwyn!

BearPondBoy's avatar

🫡

(That's kinda small, so allow me to write it out: BIG SALUTE!!!)

Greg Olear's avatar

Thank you!

Fun fact: I didn't realize that emoji was someone saluting until fairly recently. It looks like a girl with half a braid, and it always confused me...

Katherine Davies's avatar

I have spelled trump’s name with lower case letters for many years, like Stephanie. It’s a small thing (sorry) but an important one because he has never deserved anyone’s respect.

How infuriating. I remember being taught in civics class that we, the people, ARE the government, and I have always believed that. So why are we now the last to know what’s in these documents that we pay for and which belong to us? (Rhetorical question).

Old Man's avatar

Likewise, always lower case

Greg Olear's avatar

I respect it, but I can't do it. I have grammar OCD, and it irks me, the lack of a capital letter...

We are the government...only we're not, not really.

Katherine Davies's avatar

I know you’re right - we’re not really the government. Certainly not anymore - if we ever really were…

Old Man's avatar

Thanks Greg, amazing compilation. As another said, "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." — Gloria Steinem

Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks, Old Man! As usual, Gloria was right.

Chopinsheart's avatar

As always, a Mr. Olear posting has two responses from me; the “skim,” during which I either cry or laugh hysterically and the deep read that elicits first AWE…. Then, after that tidal wave of amazement dies down, my brain neurons start producing what is needed…. THIS piece brought an unGODLY hysteria of laughter because it is an endless candy store of perversion. I’m pretty sure, with Vance making sure the world knows for sure we are incompetent and they are waiting until our attack of poison ivy is DONE so we can get back to normal (like Hungary.). [….and the real Jesus is allowed to do his job without more chaos.]

Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks, Jackie. We do like to hand out candy, especially in this sort of piece. Otherwise it becomes unbearable.

Homi Hormasji's avatar

What is it in our psyche that makes us so unwilling to confront the deeper truths about ourselves, preferring - regardless of the cost to human wellbeing and happiness - to cling to a slick, superficial facade of lies? The massive, ongoing coverup by our administrators, intelligence services and press regarding the monster at the helm of our nation is mindboggling. How - if we pretend to be one that is governed by law - can any of this be tolerated?

Has the incessant bombardment of advertising to which we are subjected so conditioned us that we can no longer see the substance for the skin?

Greg Olear's avatar

It's astonishing how effective the state-owned legacy media, a techbro-owned social media, and a news system set up, like ChatGPT, to play to our biases, can be. For me, I think it's been helpful that I've always loathed TV news, hated being spoon-fed information, even if it's something I agree with. The tedium of the news cycle on these news channels literally makes me crazy. I only watch on election night or when buildings are collapsing in NYC.

I forgot to mention the advertising. How quickly gambling has become normalized, for one thing. So dangerous.

Gary Martoni's avatar

Damn Greg, what work, what scholarship! Thank you. I worry. If .... if we regain our Democracy and if the Democrats are in charge once again, will they have the cojones to eschew this American knee-jerk reaction to "put all this behind us and move forward" and hold this miscreant, and all those who enabled him, to account. To their credit and our shame, the so-called "Third-World" countries of Peru and Brazil promptly had their law-breaking leaders in jail, sometimes within days!

Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks, Gary.

The world will never trust us again if we don't go after Trump & Co., and go after them hard. No mercy, no forgiveness, maximum extent of the law, etc. But I don't know that this will happen. Hungary is the model, so far at least...

Gary Martoni's avatar

Amen Greg! We can hope.

TheTimeline's avatar

Somehow the music and movies references A) make this pill (of new info) slightly less painful to swallow, and B) there really is a *cultural comfort* / camaraderie in referencing music and movies from simpler times (in our lives, not, perhaps the world). 😌 Shared experience.

Also the Substack app designer must be left handed… I always accidentally hit send, when I’m just correcting a typo.

Okay, back to reading… 🤓

TheTimeline's avatar

Okay… AND school supplies! 😂 Like your ‘Raiders of the Lost Trapper Keepers!!’ Fab.

Our past cultural comforts.

TheTimeline's avatar

🔥😂🔥

“Koff spells Donald Trump with lowercase letters on purpose. I’m keeping them.” LOVE it.

Same.

In #TheTimeline, I intentionally spell the PB shack: maralago. You know, homage to his abhorrent grammar habits. 😎😏

Greg Olear's avatar

Whose, DT's or JE's? ; )

TheTimeline's avatar

C) all of the above? 😏

Greg Olear's avatar

I try to throw in the jokes, and the references are really just inside jokes...

TheTimeline's avatar

Holy hell. I’d forgotten some of those… documents. Damn. What a flaming pile of mess. GREAT recap, Greg.

We need Noel back on 5/8.

Also I’m now getting curious how people are thinking this [regime] will end? What scenarios may play out.

God I’m so SO sick of him. The #MaraLEGO AI clips at least vent what we really feel. But cheering on Iran, also feels… off. Ooof.

What a world.

Greg Olear's avatar

Thanks!

We used Stalin to beat Hitler, we can use Iran to beat Trump. By any means necessary!

Earl Heflinger's avatar

Thanks for the substantive recap.

Greg Olear's avatar

You're welcome...I think... ; )

AndTheSlithyToves's avatar

Bless you, Greg!

Something occurred to me the other day after thinking about NY Rep. Dan Goldman's testimony a few weeks ago. What if the so-called "pee-pee tape" is not of Trump and prostitutes cavorting in a Moscow hotel room but about him assaulting a young US teen in the mid-80s (possibly in Hilton Head, SC) resulting in her biting his "pee-pee"--all caught on tape. Just a thought.

https://youtu.be/uf0K6O3mODU

Greg Olear's avatar

Thank you!

Anything, literally anything, is possible.