Greg Olear

The cat's out of the bag, guys: my new Epstein book, ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET, is now available. amazon.com/dp/B0H2RPKJ85 I did a little Q&A about the Q&A book, in which I answer my own burning questions: gregolear.substack.com/p/another-wond…

Yes, Trump has eclipsed Mitch McConnell as the worst American of my lifetime. So have other monsters Donald has empowered: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, etc. But without Addison Mitchell McConnell III, there would be no Donald Trump. Remember this: Mitch fed the cancer. He nurtured the tumor. He prevented the oncologists and surgeons from administering treatment. And knowing he possessed the singular cure, he chose to sit on his hands as the terminal disease ate away at our democracy. That is the sum of his life’s work. That is his ignominious legacy. For shame. gregolear.substack.com/p/mitch-mcconn…

One of those bodies littering Washington is now McConnell's own. Oh, the irony.

Apparently the NDAs are no longer enforceable

My piece on Lindsey Graham from late November 2019... "The conversion of Lindsey Graham did not occur on the road to Damascus, like Paul of Tarsus, but on the back nine of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. And he did not come to Jesus, but to the Antichrist." open.substack.com/pub/gregolear/…

Thus spoketh the Delphic oracle.

@AshNicoleMoss Something about the initials.

yeeeeeeah, Jude Bellingham is really HIM

@JamieBonkiewicz Family as in Five Families.

Three marriages. Multiple affairs. Hush money payments after his wife gave birth. Convicted of 34 felonies. Rapist. Pedophile.

@davetroy Hasn’t the Trump administration already established that subpoenas are optional?

See, I think the right move here might be to 1) set this document on fire, 2) post a video of that act, 3) refuse to show, 4) direct the public to the appointed time and place for a flash mob. This government is illegitimate.

Collective Effervescence x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Wednesday — Democrats force a candidate out for being a sexual predator Thursday — Republicans name an airport in honor of a sexual predator

“Titanic” kinda vibe, no?

Makes sense, this is where flights to Epstein’s island left from.

Siri just told me that I shouldn't call her Shirley. I think I had my phone on airplane mode.

When you dance the Denial Waltz, The allegations are always false.

Amazing and depressing, but not surprising.

During my legal career I represented hundreds of women on behalf of @WomenAgnstAbuse who were victims of domestic violence and, too often, rape. I find Racicot’s description both typical and believable. Many women who were raped don’t go to the police because it’s retraumatizing.

@magnauseum Almost definitely. Good call.

@gregolear Not meaning to disrespect this excellent article, but do you ever wonder if the cartoonists at Mad Magazine studied the Goya or other “masters”?

Old, deaf, disillusioned, and tormented, it seems, by inner demons, Goya repaired to the country house, where he almost immediately fell deathly ill, only for his life to be saved by the ministrations of his dear friend, who happened to be a physician. Once his strength returned, he began work on the Black Paintings, which he produced between 1820 and 1823. But here’s the thing: he painted them on the walls of the Quinta del Sordo. The plaster walls. These visions of anguish and nightmare were what he chose to look at in his own house—his personal décor. He did not receive many visitors; he lived in the house with Leocadia Weiss, his much younger caretaker, who may also have been his lover, and her children—one of whom, the painter Rosario Weiss Zorilla, rumored to have also been his. (His guilt about the living arrangement is evident in some of the paintings and likely contributed to his internal agony.) Goya did not talk about the paintings to anyone. He did not write about them to anyone. He did not mention them anywhere. He did not give them titles. And because they were rendered on crumbling plaster, he did not intend for anyone else to see them. As the art critic Fred Licht wrote, the Black Paintings “are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art.” Salvador Martínez Cubells, an artist and art restorer, supervised a process of taking the paintings from the plaster and moving them onto canvas, which I did not think was possible, decades later—after the invention of photography, thank God. That’s what I was looking at in that dim room at the Prado: 14 works the artists never wanted me, or anyone else, to see—faithfully restored, but damaged in the process. open.substack.com/pub/gregolear/…

See the great @gregolear he was in Madrid the other day when he recorded this. But what he says about the fourth and what’s happening to us with these fascist is so spot on. Always a great read, but he’s very good talking to. open.substack.com/pub/gregolear/…