"With its gorgeous beaches and fine weather, Crimea has a seasonal tourist economy. What the Crimean people want above all, Beketova tells me, is stability and peace. Putin can no longer provide that. No one wants to go on holiday to a war zone."
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10:58 AM - Sep 08, 2023
Thanks to the great @MuellerSheWrote for joining us on The Five 8 for the Season Finale!
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11:52 PM - Jul 28, 2023
All this anticipation for the third indictment reminds me of the anticipation for the first indictment, when we at The Five 8 did this:
https://youtu.be/7Yua4NsmC...
https://youtu.be/7Yua4NsmC...
06:54 PM - Jul 27, 2023
""I could sense which moments he *thought* would be big moments—mic-drop moments, nuke-exploding moments—but most of them, for me, either didn’t go far enough or missed the mark completely. Unlike in real life, the bomb didn’t go off."
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03:11 PM - Jul 23, 2023
In response to Greg Olear.
Instead of draining the swamp, Trump pardoned the swamp.
09:58 AM - Jul 18, 2023
""Twenty-three decades later, Republicans in U.S. Congress, ignorant of the chaos that befell the country that helped fund our country’s birth as a nation, are hellbent on making the same error committed by the French Parlement."
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https://gregolear.substack...
09:33 AM - Jul 18, 2023
"The Constitution is vague on the subject, but presidential pardons are intended to correct errors or to show mercy, not to reward sycophants for their loyalty, and certainly not to obstruct justice."
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08:23 AM - Jul 11, 2023
10:44 AM - Jul 02, 2023
I've been delinquent in posting on here, My apologies. Wanted to share the show link for tonight:
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11:29 PM - Jun 30, 2023
I really enjoyed this discussion with my friend Rachel Slade, who has a book dropping in November on the rise & fall & resurrection of U.S. manufacturing that I CAN'T WAIT to read.
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Prevail with Greg Olear: Making it in the USA, or, Building Back Better (with Rachel Slade) on Apple Podcasts
Where have all the manufacturing jobs gone? Is it possible to bring them back? Can an American manufacturing company exist in today’s market? Greg Olear talks to the best-selling author and journalist Rachel Slade, whose forthcoming new book, “Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Man..
09:20 AM - Jun 02, 2023
"Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich was bad. Donald Trump pardoning Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn, and his other cronies busted by Robert Mueller is orders of magnitude worse. "
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03:19 PM - May 30, 2023
"But the poem is not really about Ramesses the Great. It’s about the contemporary Ozymandiases all around him—and all around us."
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09:50 AM - May 21, 2023
Remember, the Founders declared independence from Britain because the king was being a tyrannical dick. The last thing they wanted was a Supreme Court dominated by George the Thirds.
Fast-forward 235 years, and that’s pretty much what we have.
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Fast-forward 235 years, and that’s pretty much what we have.
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10:13 AM - May 02, 2023
ICYMI: LB and I inverted the formula last night -- instead of five topics for eight minutes each, we covered eight topics for five minutes each. There was a LOT to talk about...
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08:30 AM - Apr 22, 2023
“He’s not a fascist. On social issues, he’s probably more progressive than a lot of Democrats in the United States. But he’s willing to corrode democratic institutions in this country in a way that I think is very dangerous.”
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01:00 PM - Apr 14, 2023
"From the looks of things, SCOTUS has not just been captured; it is owned."
#ClarenceThomas
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#ClarenceThomas
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01:57 PM - Apr 11, 2023
"My mother asked me a few years ago if I thought Trump was the anti-Christ. I’m not sure he’s the prophesied figure from Revelation with the Number of the Beast tattooed on his forehead, but in myriad ways, FPOTUS is the polar opposite of Jesus."
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08:28 AM - Apr 09, 2023
MANCHIN: I may make a third party run for president.
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GREG: What's less than one percent?
CONNOR ROY: Percentages.
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GREG: What's less than one percent?
CONNOR ROY: Percentages.
02:01 PM - Apr 02, 2023
Thanks to the intrepid Kat Abu for joining us on tonight's THE FIVE 8 Indictment special and bringing us the knowledge from 🦊.
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09:40 PM - Mar 31, 2023
Fascinating discussion w/ the very funny Mark Plotkin on the Amazon, the medicinal properties of plants found there, “The Last of Us,” wine, beer, psychedelics, & climate change.
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Prevail with Greg Olear: Between the Shaman and the Microchip (with Mark Plotkin) on Apple Podcasts
Greg Olear is joined by the ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin, president of the Amazon Conservation Team, author of “Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice” and “The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know,” and the host of “The Plants of the Gods.” They discuss his career as an ethnobotanist studying the Amazon, t..
07:55 AM - Mar 31, 2023
"This is not Mandela or Navalny wrongly imprisoned for their political views; this is a lifetime of crime finally catching up to a money laundering tax cheat & rapist with deep ties to the Russian mob & the Kremlin."
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07:54 AM - Mar 31, 2023
Running this piece again.
Three Toes is probably too dumb to understand the correlation between her hateful rhetoric and violence against the #Trans community...or, maybe, she knows exactly what she's doing and is just an evil, soulless ghoul.
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Three Toes is probably too dumb to understand the correlation between her hateful rhetoric and violence against the #Trans community...or, maybe, she knows exactly what she's doing and is just an evil, soulless ghoul.
https://gregolear.substack...
06:19 AM - Mar 29, 2023
"In short, his taxes are an indictment of Donald Trump—as of this writing, the only indictment we have."
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01:26 PM - Mar 28, 2023