You don't think the Clintons were the beginning of the end of America? Or maybe the beginning of the end was when the Deep State could assassinate a president. Maybe it was way back to Kennedy. And it's taken 60 years to fully unwind.
The Deep State, such as there was one in 1963, was extremely pro - Kennedy. As someone has said, "Why would the C.I.A. have wanted to kill Kennedy? He was giving them everything they wanted."
Do you know what Operation Mongoose was? It was the Kennedy administration's ongoing effort to kill Fidel Castro, which Attorney General Robert F Kennedy was in charge of. Lyndon Johnson, who, despite his known mutual hatred of Robert Kennedy, always figures somehow into these Deep State psychoses which were fostered primarily by Oliver Stone, who is a psychopath, hadn't known about the existence of Operation Mongoose until shortly after he became President. He was appalled by it and canceled it immediately for reasons of pure self protection. For the rest of his life he believed that, as he said to one friend, "Kennedy tried to get Castro, but Castro got Kennedy first."
For people who have some attachment to madness - free life, a Castro influenced, at least, assassination of JFK actually makes a little sense, not much, but a little. After all, Oswald fancied himself a Communist. It's clear that throughout 1963, he was doing everything he could to establish a basis for ingratiation with Castro's regime. It's clear that when he spent most of five days at the Cuban Embassy, in Mexico City, in September, 1963, he was waging a desperate campaign to be allowed to defect to Havana. He certainly would have told the Cuban legation about his attempt to kill Major General Edwin Walker the previous March, a shot fired with the rifle which all ballistics experts have said was the only rifle in the world which could have fired the second shot, the one which passed through both JFK and John Connally, in Dealey Plaza shortly after 12:30 PM that day in late November.
We know that Oswald wasn't permitted to defect, nor did he leave Mexico City with anything which could attach him to the Castro regime. That does not mean, however, that the Cubans, realizing they had a live one on their hands, wouldn't have encouraged him to act on any violent impulses he had toward Kennedy, then sent him on his way with no expectation whatever that such a feckless man would do a damned thing.
But there WAS C.I.A. conspiring going on on November 22, 1963, in the same hour that JFK was being murdered in Dallas: a C.I.A. officer in Paris was meeting with a man who was regarded by the C.I.A. as a potential Castro assassin.
Watch on Youtube (if it's still there) "The speech that got Kennedy killed". It's a speech he made about his idea of paying off the debt to the Federal Reserve (which is neither federal or a reserve) by using Congressional issued money certificates of some sort (I can't remember the name of it). Also, I saw a brief clip of Kennedy talking about finding and exposing the "secret groups that are imbedded in the government, behind the scenes and are influencing/running the government" (paraphrased). I'm thinking the Deep State didn't like either of these things.
actually, dan lauria on megyn kelly (they were on her show to promote the reagan movie) shared what he says in this interview below (it's 3/4 of the way down the page):
Oh-Kay; no offense but we've come full circle in this thread -- from Kennedy gave the CIA anything it wanted, via Robin Hood's barn, to this. Both these things cannot be true. This issue has percolated so long that even should Someone in fact do an archive dump, I can't imagine clarity.
Sorry, Bobby, totally wrong on this. Both the CIA and Hoover at the FBI hated the Kennedys and wanted them gone. Oswald was a double agent wannabe who was tricked into being the "patsy" on 11/22/63--kind of like Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Routh today.
It wasn't Castro. The CIA organized the murder of JFK. That's exactly why Pompeo begged Pres. Trump to NOT declassify the rest of the Kennedy Assassination papers in 2018 despite Candidate Trump's pledge to do so. But Trump is now fully aware of the myriad traitors who surrounded him in his first term. When Trump wins in Nov., that's one of the first things he'll do in January.
Exactly. We know the CIA was involved by their ongoing efforts to cover it up by hiding the documents that prove it. There is no other explanation (no, not protecting "sources and methods").
I would not use ex-CIA agent McCarry to corroborate either side of this debate. He is skilled in the art of deception such that he can include facts in a fictional tale and still people won't be able to discern reality from fabrication. No thanks.
Wow. I had to look that up. I did not know that Israel had nuclear capability in the early 60s. That's particularly wild to me given how short a period Israel had been a state. I'll have to read more ... I'm assuming the U.S. had its hand in helping that process along.
Trump has become the (unlikely as a billionaire) proxy for middle America. Obama is a proxy for the nuevo-Aristocracy, the entertainment Elites and the Establishment. Middle America outnumbers the Obama coalition by 10:1. They will lose their battle with America, even though the Obama team has more money and more institutional power. But the mass majority wins these battles. We can only hope it does not become bloody before it is over
Obama was the beginning of the end of America. And not because he was black, but because he and Michelle hate America and dedicated themselves to destroying (they called it Change) our country. They have largely succeeded
I just read it and hope you someday feel a sense of satisfaction at having been vilified for having displayed the audacity of thought.
I am your age, have a kid your kid's age, was strong for Obama as a local party chair, but peeled away from him as soon as it became evident that he was the big bankers' tractable fool. If somebody had penned a stink piece like this about me, I would fucken frame it! Congratulations!
Personally, I'm glad I didn't stick around for further abuse. I did vote for him in '12, but only because Romney was worse. I finally went all in for Trump and even donated to him on 7/5/16, after being informed that Hillary was too big to jail.
I told myself, "Trump may turn out to be a buffoon, but at least they'll watch him. They won't be monitoring HER at all, and I know she's just more of the same as Bush."
I really had no idea HOW close they would watch him, though, and was gobsmacked when the NYT just came out and said that yellow journalism was now okay, because Trump.
You and Sasha and other women like y'all, hold so much power; primary demographic Kamala Harris needs if she wants to win re-election. You're really important. I hope y'all don't forget how much you're needed!!
And somehow, The Party gurus of venture-capitalist AI generated gobbledygook all think the nuanced psychobabble slogan like
"freedom to be..." ...is the key to win-over some algorithmic generated fuzzy version of y’all …some kind of... midlife soul-searching professional and educated women, on a sort of artsy spiritualistic life quest to you know, "...just be" ...it's like a water-downed noncommittal to Shambhala. As if voting D is like some spiritual quest to exit Bardo and into a new dimension of awakening....
...just vote for Shambhala Kamala (lol) and it will be what it is, as it is, defining what once was as is today. you know? a freedom to just be...yeah. heh.
That's further evidence for my suspicion that "AI" stands for "average intelligence" or maybe "artificial ignorance. "
2016 swelled my head a little, that first year I voted GOP, because I live in Wisconsin and felt that my vote for Trump was a pivotal one. Part of a pivotal few thousand, anyhow.
As a former card-carrying Democratic tool, as well, I smelled a rat in 2017 when the DNC announced that its 2020 convention would be held in Milwaukee, after all the hubbub about Hillary's having taken Wisconsin for granted (and doing so also did her in in the 2008 primaries). Although Wisconsin had been known for clean elections, Obama had ushered in voting machines, and our returns were coming in later than they had with paper ballots. Between that and a huge Dem presence in Milwaukee in 2020, I had a feeling that they were going to do their best to ratfuck us over.
And did they ever! In so many ways! We're still dealing with that hard cheese.
Read via link. Go Sasha. Maybe the Sydney film festival would be worth a look at next year. Guarantee noClintons or axelrods will be there. Have been going for 30 yrs. Many films from many countries.
The Free Press (once Weiss's ground -breaking Common Sense) has turned into just another Main Stream rag in support of the Left. She is hemorrhaging readers who once turned to her as a beacon.
Same here. I unsubscribed from the TFP daily email bulletin and only log in once or twice a week to cherry-pick articles to read. I can't stand Nellie Bowles. I miss the Common Sense days. I fear TFP is turning into the very thing it was created to counter, and I've told them that, not that they ever respond to direct emails. They've also started cutting off comments on stories after a couple of days, I don't know what's up with that. They've gotten too big and full of themselves, a victim of their own success.
I force myself to stay connected because I don't want to wall myself off completely -- we have to be able to ride the line a bit. But I find myself reading less over there. I still support her and what she's done.
From the first seconds of the article, it's obviously disingenuous - taking your mocking "white power" as out of context as they're taking "bloodbath". Infuriating. But, of course, that's how they roll ...
The only ‘movie star’ that still resembles one today in my mind is Tom Cruise. We don’t know who he votes for, or if he does vote. We don’t what he thinks about BLM, LGBTQ+, Antifa, George Floyd, transing kids, immigration, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. He remains an enigma. Once, part of being a star entailed having an air of mystery, or a ‘mystique,’ as Michael Jackson used to say. MJ believed in that.
Totally agree about Tom Cruise - and old fashioned Hollywood star who makes great movies and gives his all to them. Shame on Hollywood for not rewarding "Top Gun Maverick' - the movie that brought us out of the pandemic.
I can't wait until Sasha "finally tells all" about Hollywood and the Oscars. This country is teeming with deception, manipulations, lies, theft, blackmail and bribes in every possible department and industry-- government, health, military, climate, education, big tech, big ag, big pharma and of course, entertainment. Is it any wonder we trust no one and question everything.
Sasha, you are beloved by all of us who have no platform but our votes and our pocketbooks.
You are a voice that has been within and now has the scales dropped from your eyes and you have a very important perspective to share with us. Your willingness to do so is commending.
God richly bless you and bring comfort for all the losses you have endured to tell the truth.
I lived in Hollywood for 40 years, my husband Tom Snow is a very successful songwriter with 21 Millionaire Awards, there is so much about this article that I find fascinating & really quite profound.
The stories I could tell about the hypocrisy & the selfish small minded people I met & knew there.
Tom is in the Academy so we can watch all the films released each year to be voted on but we now have a 10 minute rule, you can guess how many make it through even that long. I could go on but this is just to say WELL DONE what a terrific article!!!
Sasha, you are the best! I love your posts. You are the queen of the intersection of politics, popular culture and history. Your writings are love letters to America, filled with passion and caring, covering the good and the bad. A future generation could find them like a time capsule and see exactly when and how we got off track.
I thought the Reagan movie was awesome. For context, I'm an old guy who almost never goes to the movies, nor has a tv, nor watches movies online at home. I was actually tearing up through much of the Reagan movie, though. I liked the way they tried to show the good side of everyone, not only Reagan, but also Tipp O'Neil, Nancy and Gorbachev. Prior to the film they showed a trailer for what is apparently the next Captain America movie. That one, I wouldn't go to see if they were paying me.
I just saw a clip of Reagan saying a joke at a speech: "A young boy was outside a Democrat fundraiser selling kittens and as the Democrats came out of the building at the end, he said "Get your Democrat kittens here!". A couple of weeks later, the Republicans had a fundraiser at the same place and he had his kittens again and as they were coming out of the building when it was over, he said "Get your Republican kittens here!". A guy from the press saw him and said, "Hey, kid; you're the same kid who was here a couple of weeks ago, selling kittens. You said they were Democrat kittens. Aren't they the same kittens? But you're selling them as Republican kittens. What makes them Republican kittens now?" The kid said "Yeah, these are the same kittens as a couple of weeks ago, but what makes them Republican kittens now, is they've got their eyes open".
Just saw 'Am I Racist'? by myself. Silence followed when I informed my blue family that I was seeing it. It's by the same guy who did 'What is a Woman?'. VERY 'Borat' this time, only funnier. The one thing I will say is that I was only allowed to pick a seat in very limited upper rows, but most of the house below was booked by people who did not show up. Suppose, even in the Bay, someone determined that the movie did not deserve one of those 'ha ha, no one is seeing this MAGA movie!' stories from the blue team state media. no matter, as again, it is very funny and like the best of 'Impractical Jokers', kind to the audience at the expense of the 'actor and his uh, black cameraman (who accepts reparations from the 'White Fragility' lady, and so forth...' ). Highly recommended!
we went to see it as a family on opening weekend in scottsdale. i'd listened to matt walsh on megyn kelly talking about it and knew we had to support it opening weekend. it was great! what bothered me the most was the scene with the petition for the monument and all the people willing to sign it, even if they didn't know what the petition was about or for. THAT is where we are with so many people when it comes to voting, they don't think or ask questions, they just do it. we'd see this in pdx where folks would vote in every tax measure on the ballot and then complain after their rent was increased the following year to cover them. no connecting of the dots! but then, they'd do it all over again the next voting cycle. insanity...
Meanwhile, is it just me? but did Maher jump the shark in the last episode? (where this horrible hag from MSNBC Stephanie Ruhle teamed up with Bill to double-demand (in this context, offensively/threateningly too far right Brett Stephens--that he needs to dump all semblance of so-called journalistic objectivity and 24/7 promote/campaign for Kamala to defeat Hitler Trump 'by any means necessary'). Yes, that appeared to be their angry snarky argument: the NYT as too right wing!! You've heard it all before: democracy has only one chance, nothing else matters, do anything, nothing else matters, but to defeat that existential threat Donald Trump, because he is evil and we are holy, amen.
THEN, Bill did a comedy bit that appeared not to know that Charlie Pride and Freddie Fender (or even Dolly Parton, for that matter...) made country records back when, and now, any rapper or white guy who has tats on his face if he makes a country record, it will be much better than Hank Williams. That was actually the bit...Then, if that weren't enough, he shoe-horned in an insult to Elvis Presley, using his 'dumb guy' voice. I think there was a time, Bill would have immediately scheduled Matt Walsh on his show when this movie came out. Now? he might get cancelled, so he would not dare risk it...
Batya was great, thanks for making that available to your readers. "let them eat joy" indeed, what a great line. The only good thing in that Oprah clip is knowing all of them are on the other side.
Really powerful post, Sasha, you keep on nailing it and love that about you. I read the hit piece when it came out and laughed my ass off. They no longer know you and don’t know how to react any longer, except to attack and vilify. The emptiness inside to write such drivel is sad and pathetic.
Sasha. I don’t think it’s half the country they hate. I think they hate themselves. Too bad they all could have rode off into the sunset with Obama and all his glory and left the rest of us and the world alone.
The problem with this is that Obama is still in DC, he didn’t ride off into the sunset. He’s still pulling the puppet strings to some extent. Why would he stay except to continue exerting power? No presidents other than Wilson and Roosevelt stayed in DC after their terms and that was for health reasons. Obama is there to continue controlling the Democrats and keep pulling in the celebrities. It’s like mothers milk to him.
If Obama was another "chosen one," which I tend to think, I don't know how much power he truly holds. I mean, yes, of course, he has power and was given a ton of money -- that's your reward for playing the game. More like he played his part. Maybe he was the CIA's pick. Again, no definitive proof. Lots of speculation. But since we've seen the last nine years, I think we now know, "they" can do anything. Yes. I know. Sounds all very "conspiratorial," but aren't we finding out more and more of the "conspiracy theories" have turned out to be true?
That said, Kamala definitely was Obama's candidate. A lot of money got dumped into her for the 2020 campaign, and she failed early. So maybe he didn't want to give up on his horse, and he did push this installation of her as "the candidate" with no democratic process.
This is the problem when you don't have a functioning Fourth Estate. You just don't really know where the truth lies!
Definitely! The capture of the media is the root of all evil. None of this woke nonsense would pass the sniff test with a truth-telling media. I agree that Kamala is Obama’s candidate, 💯. I think Obama also orchestrated Biden’s nomination once it was clear all the others weren’t up to snuff. Interesting thought that maybe Obama was the CIA’s pick. The CIA seems to be the true seat of power and the agency that most fears Trump. They have certainly helped try to kill him.
Unsurprisingly, Oprah and the Obama’s are implicated in the P. Diddy case. Gotta love it.
Julia Robert’s talks about her college age kids as extensions of herself assuming they’re voting exactly as she will, as though they have no mind of their own. No autonomy. I find that quite sickening.
I live in South Orange County, California which supposedly turned blue. Last weekend my friend and I went to San Clemente to the outlets to get something and there was a Trump MAGA store. The movie playing in the theater was Matt Walsh,’s “ Am I a racist “. I’m so oblivious I wouldn’t have noticed if it was not pointed out to me but I’m glad because it made me optimistic.
I imagine that both those things would’ve provoked riots in some other cities.
If something that blatantly “conservative” appeared 20 years ago or more here I would’ve been very unhappy. Times have changed.
These “powerful” phoney narcissists time is coming to an end. Many are and others will be exposed, unlike the Epstein story. I hope.
Making bad movies is the least of their crimes. They do have no clue and they think they’re untouchable.
Watching and listening to any one of them is truly unbearable .
God I so love this. What a powerful analysis of Hollywood. I'm so glad you have made it your mission to write and share these insights. I wish everyone who works in Hollywood would read this with an open mind. They won't so I hope average Americans keep rejecting them and what they stand for. Thank you, thank you for this.
for my money, he made three good ones in a row, maybe a decade/15 years ago or so ago, 'Magic, Working/Dream, and Wrecking Ball', but not very many people know of them.
Every once in a while, when I'm feeling down I watch the Ricky Gervais monologue prior to the People's Choice or Oscars - I can't remember which. They are giving themselves so many awards, it's hard to keep them all straight. He does some straight-up truth telling. It's really great.
It was the 2020 Golden Globes, and it was epic. Whenever he would host an awards show, I would watch just for his monologue then change the channel. He will never be invited back. The looks on some of their faces while he was ripping into them was priceless.
Obama was the beginning of the end of America and Hollywood entertainers were mesmerized by the devil.
You don't think the Clintons were the beginning of the end of America? Or maybe the beginning of the end was when the Deep State could assassinate a president. Maybe it was way back to Kennedy. And it's taken 60 years to fully unwind.
It actually goes back further than that.
The Deep State, such as there was one in 1963, was extremely pro - Kennedy. As someone has said, "Why would the C.I.A. have wanted to kill Kennedy? He was giving them everything they wanted."
Do you know what Operation Mongoose was? It was the Kennedy administration's ongoing effort to kill Fidel Castro, which Attorney General Robert F Kennedy was in charge of. Lyndon Johnson, who, despite his known mutual hatred of Robert Kennedy, always figures somehow into these Deep State psychoses which were fostered primarily by Oliver Stone, who is a psychopath, hadn't known about the existence of Operation Mongoose until shortly after he became President. He was appalled by it and canceled it immediately for reasons of pure self protection. For the rest of his life he believed that, as he said to one friend, "Kennedy tried to get Castro, but Castro got Kennedy first."
For people who have some attachment to madness - free life, a Castro influenced, at least, assassination of JFK actually makes a little sense, not much, but a little. After all, Oswald fancied himself a Communist. It's clear that throughout 1963, he was doing everything he could to establish a basis for ingratiation with Castro's regime. It's clear that when he spent most of five days at the Cuban Embassy, in Mexico City, in September, 1963, he was waging a desperate campaign to be allowed to defect to Havana. He certainly would have told the Cuban legation about his attempt to kill Major General Edwin Walker the previous March, a shot fired with the rifle which all ballistics experts have said was the only rifle in the world which could have fired the second shot, the one which passed through both JFK and John Connally, in Dealey Plaza shortly after 12:30 PM that day in late November.
We know that Oswald wasn't permitted to defect, nor did he leave Mexico City with anything which could attach him to the Castro regime. That does not mean, however, that the Cubans, realizing they had a live one on their hands, wouldn't have encouraged him to act on any violent impulses he had toward Kennedy, then sent him on his way with no expectation whatever that such a feckless man would do a damned thing.
But there WAS C.I.A. conspiring going on on November 22, 1963, in the same hour that JFK was being murdered in Dallas: a C.I.A. officer in Paris was meeting with a man who was regarded by the C.I.A. as a potential Castro assassin.
Watch on Youtube (if it's still there) "The speech that got Kennedy killed". It's a speech he made about his idea of paying off the debt to the Federal Reserve (which is neither federal or a reserve) by using Congressional issued money certificates of some sort (I can't remember the name of it). Also, I saw a brief clip of Kennedy talking about finding and exposing the "secret groups that are imbedded in the government, behind the scenes and are influencing/running the government" (paraphrased). I'm thinking the Deep State didn't like either of these things.
Bobby Kennedy, on Tucker a week or 2 ago , straight out said the CIA killed Kennedy.
actually, dan lauria on megyn kelly (they were on her show to promote the reagan movie) shared what he says in this interview below (it's 3/4 of the way down the page):
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/from-investigating-the-kennedy-assassination-to-the-wonder-years-dan-lauria-has-done-it-all/
Oh-Kay; no offense but we've come full circle in this thread -- from Kennedy gave the CIA anything it wanted, via Robin Hood's barn, to this. Both these things cannot be true. This issue has percolated so long that even should Someone in fact do an archive dump, I can't imagine clarity.
Be well!
Sorry, Bobby, totally wrong on this. Both the CIA and Hoover at the FBI hated the Kennedys and wanted them gone. Oswald was a double agent wannabe who was tricked into being the "patsy" on 11/22/63--kind of like Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Routh today.
It wasn't Castro. The CIA organized the murder of JFK. That's exactly why Pompeo begged Pres. Trump to NOT declassify the rest of the Kennedy Assassination papers in 2018 despite Candidate Trump's pledge to do so. But Trump is now fully aware of the myriad traitors who surrounded him in his first term. When Trump wins in Nov., that's one of the first things he'll do in January.
Exactly. We know the CIA was involved by their ongoing efforts to cover it up by hiding the documents that prove it. There is no other explanation (no, not protecting "sources and methods").
You might want to read Charles McCarry.
I would not use ex-CIA agent McCarry to corroborate either side of this debate. He is skilled in the art of deception such that he can include facts in a fictional tale and still people won't be able to discern reality from fabrication. No thanks.
I thought it was the inspections of the Israel nuclear facility that was the line JFK crossed.
Wow. I had to look that up. I did not know that Israel had nuclear capability in the early 60s. That's particularly wild to me given how short a period Israel had been a state. I'll have to read more ... I'm assuming the U.S. had its hand in helping that process along.
We did not help them and in fact they set up a dummy facility when JFK demanded to inspect it.
Tricky.
There is evidence that it was stolen from the US. "NUMEC: How Israel Stole the Atomic Bomb and killed JFK" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOiIcD-HxpY
Stolen or did they have assistance? I'll check out the video. Thanks.
Trump has become the (unlikely as a billionaire) proxy for middle America. Obama is a proxy for the nuevo-Aristocracy, the entertainment Elites and the Establishment. Middle America outnumbers the Obama coalition by 10:1. They will lose their battle with America, even though the Obama team has more money and more institutional power. But the mass majority wins these battles. We can only hope it does not become bloody before it is over
Obama was the beginning of the end of America. And not because he was black, but because he and Michelle hate America and dedicated themselves to destroying (they called it Change) our country. They have largely succeeded
Absolutely agree
“I had an entire hit piece written about me because I dared to mock the “White Dudes for Harris,”.
Any chance of a link to that article? Would like a good laugh as I watch this mess from afar. Ignore the critics Ms Stone.
De Nile is a river in Hollywood.
Thanks
Amr Australia
Ha. I can't bear to read it or link to it but you can find it -- something like "how an oscar blogger became a MAGA darling."
I just read it and hope you someday feel a sense of satisfaction at having been vilified for having displayed the audacity of thought.
I am your age, have a kid your kid's age, was strong for Obama as a local party chair, but peeled away from him as soon as it became evident that he was the big bankers' tractable fool. If somebody had penned a stink piece like this about me, I would fucken frame it! Congratulations!
Yeah, Beth, the banker bailout was the first whiff that Obama was a turd...
Personally, I'm glad I didn't stick around for further abuse. I did vote for him in '12, but only because Romney was worse. I finally went all in for Trump and even donated to him on 7/5/16, after being informed that Hillary was too big to jail.
I told myself, "Trump may turn out to be a buffoon, but at least they'll watch him. They won't be monitoring HER at all, and I know she's just more of the same as Bush."
I really had no idea HOW close they would watch him, though, and was gobsmacked when the NYT just came out and said that yellow journalism was now okay, because Trump.
So sick of those horrible oligarchs!
Interesting process of discovery.
You and Sasha and other women like y'all, hold so much power; primary demographic Kamala Harris needs if she wants to win re-election. You're really important. I hope y'all don't forget how much you're needed!!
And somehow, The Party gurus of venture-capitalist AI generated gobbledygook all think the nuanced psychobabble slogan like
"freedom to be..." ...is the key to win-over some algorithmic generated fuzzy version of y’all …some kind of... midlife soul-searching professional and educated women, on a sort of artsy spiritualistic life quest to you know, "...just be" ...it's like a water-downed noncommittal to Shambhala. As if voting D is like some spiritual quest to exit Bardo and into a new dimension of awakening....
...just vote for Shambhala Kamala (lol) and it will be what it is, as it is, defining what once was as is today. you know? a freedom to just be...yeah. heh.
That's further evidence for my suspicion that "AI" stands for "average intelligence" or maybe "artificial ignorance. "
2016 swelled my head a little, that first year I voted GOP, because I live in Wisconsin and felt that my vote for Trump was a pivotal one. Part of a pivotal few thousand, anyhow.
As a former card-carrying Democratic tool, as well, I smelled a rat in 2017 when the DNC announced that its 2020 convention would be held in Milwaukee, after all the hubbub about Hillary's having taken Wisconsin for granted (and doing so also did her in in the 2008 primaries). Although Wisconsin had been known for clean elections, Obama had ushered in voting machines, and our returns were coming in later than they had with paper ballots. Between that and a huge Dem presence in Milwaukee in 2020, I had a feeling that they were going to do their best to ratfuck us over.
And did they ever! In so many ways! We're still dealing with that hard cheese.
Beth, we seem to be on a similar journey, politically speaking.
Obama dismantled what crumb was left from the
Smith Mundt act.
He also helped get rid of paper ballots in my state, Wisconsin. That happened in 2010, the year he got "thumped."
We are at a time and place in which one's enemies are evidence of one's value.
Absolutely!
Read via link. Go Sasha. Maybe the Sydney film festival would be worth a look at next year. Guarantee noClintons or axelrods will be there. Have been going for 30 yrs. Many films from many countries.
Amr Australia
Sasha, do you follow Bari Weiss or Naomi Wolf? They've been down the road you're on. Friends and jobs vanished.
I appreciate your work, keep it up
I definitely do follow them, though they've ended up in very different places.
The Free Press (once Weiss's ground -breaking Common Sense) has turned into just another Main Stream rag in support of the Left. She is hemorrhaging readers who once turned to her as a beacon.
To be fair, there's still some good writing there, but, the left is seeping in. I always look to see what's offered, but don't always read
Not yet ready to boot it
Thanks for your comment.
Same here. I unsubscribed from the TFP daily email bulletin and only log in once or twice a week to cherry-pick articles to read. I can't stand Nellie Bowles. I miss the Common Sense days. I fear TFP is turning into the very thing it was created to counter, and I've told them that, not that they ever respond to direct emails. They've also started cutting off comments on stories after a couple of days, I don't know what's up with that. They've gotten too big and full of themselves, a victim of their own success.
I force myself to stay connected because I don't want to wall myself off completely -- we have to be able to ride the line a bit. But I find myself reading less over there. I still support her and what she's done.
From the first seconds of the article, it's obviously disingenuous - taking your mocking "white power" as out of context as they're taking "bloodbath". Infuriating. But, of course, that's how they roll ...
Great podcast. Hollywood, we hardly knew ye.
The only ‘movie star’ that still resembles one today in my mind is Tom Cruise. We don’t know who he votes for, or if he does vote. We don’t what he thinks about BLM, LGBTQ+, Antifa, George Floyd, transing kids, immigration, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. He remains an enigma. Once, part of being a star entailed having an air of mystery, or a ‘mystique,’ as Michael Jackson used to say. MJ believed in that.
Totally agree about Tom Cruise - and old fashioned Hollywood star who makes great movies and gives his all to them. Shame on Hollywood for not rewarding "Top Gun Maverick' - the movie that brought us out of the pandemic.
An enigma CO$
Here it is. It's kinda funny, knowing what we really know about Sasha.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sasha-stone-politics-white-power-1235973173/
I can't wait until Sasha "finally tells all" about Hollywood and the Oscars. This country is teeming with deception, manipulations, lies, theft, blackmail and bribes in every possible department and industry-- government, health, military, climate, education, big tech, big ag, big pharma and of course, entertainment. Is it any wonder we trust no one and question everything.
Shouldn't that be De Niro is an asshole in Hollywood??
Sasha, you are beloved by all of us who have no platform but our votes and our pocketbooks.
You are a voice that has been within and now has the scales dropped from your eyes and you have a very important perspective to share with us. Your willingness to do so is commending.
God richly bless you and bring comfort for all the losses you have endured to tell the truth.
Commendable, not commending.
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Thanks, didn't know that.
I lived in Hollywood for 40 years, my husband Tom Snow is a very successful songwriter with 21 Millionaire Awards, there is so much about this article that I find fascinating & really quite profound.
The stories I could tell about the hypocrisy & the selfish small minded people I met & knew there.
Tom is in the Academy so we can watch all the films released each year to be voted on but we now have a 10 minute rule, you can guess how many make it through even that long. I could go on but this is just to say WELL DONE what a terrific article!!!
Would like to hear those insider stories. Please share if you don't mind. I'm sure others would too.
Why?
I like insider stories.
Sasha, you are the best! I love your posts. You are the queen of the intersection of politics, popular culture and history. Your writings are love letters to America, filled with passion and caring, covering the good and the bad. A future generation could find them like a time capsule and see exactly when and how we got off track.
I thought the Reagan movie was awesome. For context, I'm an old guy who almost never goes to the movies, nor has a tv, nor watches movies online at home. I was actually tearing up through much of the Reagan movie, though. I liked the way they tried to show the good side of everyone, not only Reagan, but also Tipp O'Neil, Nancy and Gorbachev. Prior to the film they showed a trailer for what is apparently the next Captain America movie. That one, I wouldn't go to see if they were paying me.
Yes. I want to see Reagan movie. I can never get enough of RR’s sense of humor.
I just saw a clip of Reagan saying a joke at a speech: "A young boy was outside a Democrat fundraiser selling kittens and as the Democrats came out of the building at the end, he said "Get your Democrat kittens here!". A couple of weeks later, the Republicans had a fundraiser at the same place and he had his kittens again and as they were coming out of the building when it was over, he said "Get your Republican kittens here!". A guy from the press saw him and said, "Hey, kid; you're the same kid who was here a couple of weeks ago, selling kittens. You said they were Democrat kittens. Aren't they the same kittens? But you're selling them as Republican kittens. What makes them Republican kittens now?" The kid said "Yeah, these are the same kittens as a couple of weeks ago, but what makes them Republican kittens now, is they've got their eyes open".
That’s funny
Classic Ron! Thanks for that. I forget what a wonderful wit he had. I have never missed him as much as I do now.
The Reagan movie is excellent.
took my mother to see 'Reagan', it was decent.
Just saw 'Am I Racist'? by myself. Silence followed when I informed my blue family that I was seeing it. It's by the same guy who did 'What is a Woman?'. VERY 'Borat' this time, only funnier. The one thing I will say is that I was only allowed to pick a seat in very limited upper rows, but most of the house below was booked by people who did not show up. Suppose, even in the Bay, someone determined that the movie did not deserve one of those 'ha ha, no one is seeing this MAGA movie!' stories from the blue team state media. no matter, as again, it is very funny and like the best of 'Impractical Jokers', kind to the audience at the expense of the 'actor and his uh, black cameraman (who accepts reparations from the 'White Fragility' lady, and so forth...' ). Highly recommended!
we went to see it as a family on opening weekend in scottsdale. i'd listened to matt walsh on megyn kelly talking about it and knew we had to support it opening weekend. it was great! what bothered me the most was the scene with the petition for the monument and all the people willing to sign it, even if they didn't know what the petition was about or for. THAT is where we are with so many people when it comes to voting, they don't think or ask questions, they just do it. we'd see this in pdx where folks would vote in every tax measure on the ballot and then complain after their rent was increased the following year to cover them. no connecting of the dots! but then, they'd do it all over again the next voting cycle. insanity...
Meanwhile, is it just me? but did Maher jump the shark in the last episode? (where this horrible hag from MSNBC Stephanie Ruhle teamed up with Bill to double-demand (in this context, offensively/threateningly too far right Brett Stephens--that he needs to dump all semblance of so-called journalistic objectivity and 24/7 promote/campaign for Kamala to defeat Hitler Trump 'by any means necessary'). Yes, that appeared to be their angry snarky argument: the NYT as too right wing!! You've heard it all before: democracy has only one chance, nothing else matters, do anything, nothing else matters, but to defeat that existential threat Donald Trump, because he is evil and we are holy, amen.
THEN, Bill did a comedy bit that appeared not to know that Charlie Pride and Freddie Fender (or even Dolly Parton, for that matter...) made country records back when, and now, any rapper or white guy who has tats on his face if he makes a country record, it will be much better than Hank Williams. That was actually the bit...Then, if that weren't enough, he shoe-horned in an insult to Elvis Presley, using his 'dumb guy' voice. I think there was a time, Bill would have immediately scheduled Matt Walsh on his show when this movie came out. Now? he might get cancelled, so he would not dare risk it...
Ok, a little off topic but I just figured out who Rachel Maddow reminds me of: Beaker from the Muppets.
Funny. But, careful now. Beaker has a lawyer. ;)
😂😂😂
One could argue that Hollywood always served the Regime, but when the Regime turned against the citizens it exposed its bias.
Batya was great, thanks for making that available to your readers. "let them eat joy" indeed, what a great line. The only good thing in that Oprah clip is knowing all of them are on the other side.
Really powerful post, Sasha, you keep on nailing it and love that about you. I read the hit piece when it came out and laughed my ass off. They no longer know you and don’t know how to react any longer, except to attack and vilify. The emptiness inside to write such drivel is sad and pathetic.
Sasha. I don’t think it’s half the country they hate. I think they hate themselves. Too bad they all could have rode off into the sunset with Obama and all his glory and left the rest of us and the world alone.
Good God these people are friggin annoying
The problem with this is that Obama is still in DC, he didn’t ride off into the sunset. He’s still pulling the puppet strings to some extent. Why would he stay except to continue exerting power? No presidents other than Wilson and Roosevelt stayed in DC after their terms and that was for health reasons. Obama is there to continue controlling the Democrats and keep pulling in the celebrities. It’s like mothers milk to him.
If Obama was another "chosen one," which I tend to think, I don't know how much power he truly holds. I mean, yes, of course, he has power and was given a ton of money -- that's your reward for playing the game. More like he played his part. Maybe he was the CIA's pick. Again, no definitive proof. Lots of speculation. But since we've seen the last nine years, I think we now know, "they" can do anything. Yes. I know. Sounds all very "conspiratorial," but aren't we finding out more and more of the "conspiracy theories" have turned out to be true?
That said, Kamala definitely was Obama's candidate. A lot of money got dumped into her for the 2020 campaign, and she failed early. So maybe he didn't want to give up on his horse, and he did push this installation of her as "the candidate" with no democratic process.
This is the problem when you don't have a functioning Fourth Estate. You just don't really know where the truth lies!
Definitely! The capture of the media is the root of all evil. None of this woke nonsense would pass the sniff test with a truth-telling media. I agree that Kamala is Obama’s candidate, 💯. I think Obama also orchestrated Biden’s nomination once it was clear all the others weren’t up to snuff. Interesting thought that maybe Obama was the CIA’s pick. The CIA seems to be the true seat of power and the agency that most fears Trump. They have certainly helped try to kill him.
Does it matter who They hate? Obscenely overpaid pipsqueaks who pretend to be other people? Really?
Good one, Sasha.
Unsurprisingly, Oprah and the Obama’s are implicated in the P. Diddy case. Gotta love it.
Julia Robert’s talks about her college age kids as extensions of herself assuming they’re voting exactly as she will, as though they have no mind of their own. No autonomy. I find that quite sickening.
I live in South Orange County, California which supposedly turned blue. Last weekend my friend and I went to San Clemente to the outlets to get something and there was a Trump MAGA store. The movie playing in the theater was Matt Walsh,’s “ Am I a racist “. I’m so oblivious I wouldn’t have noticed if it was not pointed out to me but I’m glad because it made me optimistic.
I imagine that both those things would’ve provoked riots in some other cities.
If something that blatantly “conservative” appeared 20 years ago or more here I would’ve been very unhappy. Times have changed.
These “powerful” phoney narcissists time is coming to an end. Many are and others will be exposed, unlike the Epstein story. I hope.
Making bad movies is the least of their crimes. They do have no clue and they think they’re untouchable.
Watching and listening to any one of them is truly unbearable .
God I so love this. What a powerful analysis of Hollywood. I'm so glad you have made it your mission to write and share these insights. I wish everyone who works in Hollywood would read this with an open mind. They won't so I hope average Americans keep rejecting them and what they stand for. Thank you, thank you for this.
You end with Springsteen. Even he is lost.
Not lost. Sold out.
for my money, he made three good ones in a row, maybe a decade/15 years ago or so ago, 'Magic, Working/Dream, and Wrecking Ball', but not very many people know of them.
I love your articles…! ❤️👍🏻
Every once in a while, when I'm feeling down I watch the Ricky Gervais monologue prior to the People's Choice or Oscars - I can't remember which. They are giving themselves so many awards, it's hard to keep them all straight. He does some straight-up truth telling. It's really great.
It was the 2020 Golden Globes, and it was epic. Whenever he would host an awards show, I would watch just for his monologue then change the channel. He will never be invited back. The looks on some of their faces while he was ripping into them was priceless.
My favorite was Tom Hanks's face. Supposedly he's on Diddy's list...🫢🫣