Man, I can think of many, many people who should read this. But they won’t. And even if they did, they’d dismiss it as “right wing propaganda” as they do with everything that doesn’t confirm their ideology and contradicts what they believe to be true.
This is spot on and captures the zeitgeist accurately, as well as the corrosive rot that is the modern day left—like termites feeding on wood and all the while taking down an old rickety manse long past it’s useful life. In their feeding frenzy, they can’t pull away from the feast of old decrepit wooden support structures. How long will the building stand? Maybe it’s time for the building to fall down, and the rebuilding process to begin anew, with a smaller America that is focused on the core of what it’s constitution set in motion more than two hundred years ago.
Pols love to call the American experience “an experiment”, well it’s high time that the conclusions from the “experiment” be written, and in that analysis, a new way forward be forged. One that is closer to the original ideals of 1776. How this will happen, rather how it will be triggered by an event or a situation, remains to be seen. Could it be civil war (likely), economic collapse (very likely), WW3 (distinct possibility), full exposure of the systemic rot (unlikely), or perhaps some unforeseen event that is yet to transpire?
One thing is certain, we are living in tectonically historic times.
Not sure if you follow astrology, but apparently the U.S. is in the midst of its Pluto return. The last time this happened was 1776, and we all know the significance of that year. So now things have built to head, we are obviously at a tipping point, and something’s gotta give. Just hope it’s a change for the good (trying to remain optimistic). And remember: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”...
It’s a famous song by Gil Scott Heron (RIP) from the 70’s. Sadly my liberal friends seem to have forgotten this and are all in on the mainstream “resistance”.
1776 is when the Declaration of Independence was written, not when the Constitution was adopted. I certainly do not wish to return to that time, when African men (slaves) were 3/5 of a person, Native Americans were savages, and women weren't mentioned at all!
Fortunately, the Founders were wise enough to know that future generations would have different ideas and needs, thus making the Constitution amendable, not set in stone. Good thing, too, or we'd have no Bill of Rights.
"ome have speculated the former president views Waco as a symbol for government persecution, particularly as the rally takes place during the 30th anniversary of one of the deadliest law enforcement altercations in American history — one that far-right groups are known to reference."
Trump sends us lots of clues in where he has his rallies and when. He's saying, "Oh, I know about this too, Deep State... just wait for retribution... it's coming."
Had a conversation with a longterm friend, she being the friend with the obama coffee table book on her coffee table. When the takever started in 2020, she wanted to talk politics, told her I was committed to staying positive, and I don't discuss (with woke leftys).
Met for happy hour, she was talking about her 30 something daughter, that she was pretty grounded considering current events, but she, my friend, was so worried, (took a long pause-looked downward), about climmate change. Didn't see that one coming. Been driving a big SUV forever.
Another one told me she's voting for biden cause he will dismiss her numerous student loans.
Drove up to another friends house and in front yard was a campaign sign for a ccp astronaut being selected for senate. Asked her whats up with the sign? She proceded to tell me that when she moved here years ago she interacted as R (which is what i thought she was) because they were more active, but she really wasn't. Now supports people I loathe.
I used to be more accepting-this is harder to be around. I need new friends.
I actually had another part of Gladiator in mind where one of the other slaves, Juba (played by Djimon Hounsou) says to Maximus, "You have a great name. They must kill your name before they can kill you."
TDS was never about the man, it was -- and is -- about what he represents. An existential threat to the ever-expanding (and expensive) administrative state, an America for *all* Americans, not just a select elite (along with those who serve them), and a focus on getting our own house in order before expending blood and coin fighting endless wars on the other side of the globe.
Now consider what the morally, financially, ethically, and intellectually compromised Muppet that was installed to "save us" from the Bad Orange Man has done to this nation in just two short, awful years. The economy is set to implode any day now, with the banking system being the canary in the coalmine. We are on the precipice of direct war with a nuclear superpower over a nation that has zero strategic or economic value to the U.S., not to mention the Americans who will likely soon be sent off to fight and die to protect a bunch of corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs who just so happened to have poured dump trucks of cash in to the Biden family coffers. Our perpetually failing educational school system from K thru post grad has for the most part stopped teaching academics in lieu of straight up Neo-Marxism, hyper-sexualizing children, and attempting to eradicate the entire notion of gender -- all the while still howling and whinging over imagined gender discrimination lurking around every corner. I could go on, but if you're reading this Stack then already know the score.
And "But they’re playing with (their Reichstag) fire" was a brilliant line.
Most of the populace is completely ignorant of what this even means, let alone what daily life in America will be after the collapse. But it is coming and coming soon. Be prepared.
Indeed. The Goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it ✝️🌹. Be well and enjoy your everyday 😊 🍻
I think we all see what's coming down the road albeit from slightly different perspectives. Like it or not we're all in this together -- all of us, that is, except for those who actually caused it.
Ideally, at the ballot box. But I'm not so sure that mechanism hasn't been compromised beyond repair. Most all of the largely unconstitutional changes to state election laws implemented in the frantic weeks leading up to the 2020 election -- done so through the courts and not the state legislatures as the Constitution explicitly requires -- remain in place. The Zuckerbucks money machine (and many more like it) is still laser-focused on staffing and implementing policy in key Democrat districts. Maricopa County, the largest county in the key swing state of Arizona, has shown for the past two elections that it is wholly incapable of executing fair, honest, and open elections. There is no reason to believe 2024 will not be a repeat of the same madness.
The alternative of course is nothing short of another civil war. And that's too frightening to even think about.
Our only real hope lies with enough of the sheep opening their eyes and finally seeing the wolves at their throats. But this would require they look away from their phones and TicTok for a moment, something most can't be bothered to do.
I think 2024 is already set, and the GOP are not going to win. Even though the campaigns will make it obvious Biden should not win, he will. And if that doesn’t start some serious pushback, the country’s definitely finished. It’s already on life support.
I believe Trump knew they would steal the election long in advance... so he let them. They weren't expecting that. They wanted him to fight so they could paint him as Hitler and the reason the country was collapsing, which was going to happen no matter what, and actually, has to happen so we can end the Central Bank... he set them up and threw gas on the fire so they'd take all of the blame. (Ever see Trump on January 6 holding The Red Folder? That's what they were actually looking for at Mar-A-Lago. Turned out to be a trap. Those were PEADs which were signed and put into effect -- they have no idea what's in them -- military instructions.)
I think Trump will be reinstated shortly after the collapse -- military had all of the evidence of election interference due to EO 13848 and still serves him as the actual CIC.
Clues: He left Washington, D.C. with The Nuclear Football... Joe Biden was surrounded by fake Marines at his "inauguration" sham and only got an 18 gun salute, which is what they give to foreign dignitaries... at their funeral.
So many of us have chosen to see the light rather than take the Kool Aid (and the jabs), yet it still seems to be not enough. Do we have the numbers, the resolve, and most importantly, the financial resources to take our county back from those who have quite literally stolen it from underneath us?
Many places in here Substack-ville give me hope and that's as good a place to start as any.
She's got the gift, for sure. Maybe we can convince her to run for office -- I'd vote for Sasha over every politician out there, w/ possible exception of Manchin, Kasich, and maybe a couple others. :+)
"... all we can do is the Trump show day in and day." (needs a final "out")
Really excellent essay, but you could point out that the Jan 6th protesters were incited by the FBI (not very successfully), that the protestors were all unarmed (what kind of "insurrection" is entirely unarmed?), that the people in the Capitol were deliberately let into the building by Capitol Police and even escorted about (see Tucker videos), and that the only real violence was the murder of unarmed veteran Ashley Babbit by the Capitol Police.
Patrick, what you say is absolutely true, but it is also absolutely true that if you continue to say it, it will get you the attention of representatives of the Deep State...yep, that's where we are in America, ca. 2023.
. . . pummeled with a metal bat by DC Metro Police Officer Lila Morris, Badge Number 5869, who was hailed a hero for her behavior on January 6 and attended the Superbowl weeks later as a guest of honor.
Morris colleague. Capitol Officer Michael Byrd. was housed at taxpayer expense at Joint Base Andrews after he shot and killed U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt. Judicial Watch documents show that Lieutenant Byrd and a pet stayed in a “Distinguished Visitor Suite” at the “Presidential Inn” (part of Air Force Inns) under a “Capitol Police Presidential Inn Reservation” for the period July 8, 2021, through January 28, 2022.
I think the metal baton was Victoria White in my post below, here's a graphic video of Lila Morris continuing to beat Roseanne Boyland as she lay on the ground unconscious. You need to log in to wach.
We need to remember who the Jan 6 killers are and keep their names in the sunlight. Michael Boyd, Lila Morris, and their masters - you are on deck for justice and karma. We will never forget what you did.
No, we must never forget any behind the travesty of J6, Covid, or the election for starters. Too many who sit in the halls of congress are culpable IMO and unwilling to take the steps to start the process of justice. Or if they start it, will they be able to follow through. MTG said it best at the Waco rally on RSBN, until we have all three houses independent of RINO and Marxist nothing will change.
We know Racist only goes one way. Posobeic argues your point.
"Posobiec argues that had the races been reversed, and even the genders, the attention surrounding the abuse would be greater, as was seen during the fallout after the death of George Floyd in 2020."
Its a horrible thing to watch there was a woman from MN who was beaten unconscious by a male cop who was trapped in the tunnel, and people from behind kept pushing anyone trying to escape forward into the mace and beatings, she was lucky to survive, Victoria White. Apparently beating and killing women is a big thing with these evil bastatards.
"Prosecutors Identify Psychotic Police Captain Who Beat the Hell Out of Woman with Metal Baton Nearly to Death and Bashed Her in the Face on Jan. 6th"
Very well done, Sasha. The primary response this evokes is sadness. Those who know history know how, given that human nature has not changed one iota over the millennia, this is likely to end. Those who have once drunk the heady wine of power bought through violence and intimidation will forever lust after it. History shows they do not give it up without a fight. Just ask Maximilien Robespierre.
This is poignant, insightful and humble. I only started following you since Did I Just Leave a Cult? in mid February... regardless of ideology, I wish all voting citizens could be persons of reason and truth seekers like you... I tip my conservative hat to you, Sasha!
I’m of a similar background as Sasha, but not nearly as articulate. California grown former lifelong liberal Democrat, similar age, and completely disgusted with what our prior political affiliates have become. Only difference is I last voted Democrat (for president) in 2004, started waking up after that but could never vote Republican so mostly voted 3rd party candidates that represented my values, but now I’m pretty much in MAGA camp and will most likely vote Trump (or DeSantis if he’s the nominee) in ‘24. So consider that a hopeful sign we can turn this around!
Politics is war without bloodshed, in most cases. Those who don’t have a set of core values or principles will only get turned into useful tools... they just can’t reason themselves out of a position that they didn’t reason themselves into in the first place... I’m a generation older than you and Sasha. I had the good fortune as a liberal to see the lights as I witnessed firsthand the Carter’s years of debacle when mortgage rates were over 16%. President Reagan turned it 180° in just three years... I voted for Reagan in his second term and learned the true difference between Democrats and Republicans. Although today’s parties on both sides of the isles are not what they used to be, I remain an Independent conservative... it took me till the end of October in 2016 to make up my mind to support Trump. I loved his policies which were all his campaign promises and will support him again... the swamp that’s the uniparty couldn’t be clearer and more omnipresent today... as Sasha calls it we are at the fourth turning, it’s now or never. We are Trump and Trump is us!!
Thanks for the reply. Gonna have to agree to disagree about Reagan, from my perspective he did a lot of irreversible damage, namely eliminating funding for mental illness facilities that led to our current homeless crisis. There was also Prop 13 that emanated from his era which we are still suffering the effects from. So I guess I could say I’m more of a liberal Independent, but not the current version of liberals as they’ve lost their god damned minds and are destroying the country. I do respect and agree with conservative family values and fiscal responsibility. Ultimately I’d like to see some combination of liberal social causes and conservative economic policies. Definitely less government is desirable.
I remember Reagan being pressured to cut funding to the mental hospitals (and some say he was the one who gave the order to release all the patients - again, if that's true, I think he was pressured). Prop 13 was voted on by the people, it didn't have anything to do with the government.
All I remember was how he and Tip O’Neill worked together on a few bipartisan policies and his peace through strength approach to tear down the wall in Germany and broke apart Russia.
From the red scare of the 1950’s to Trump of 2016 the Communist have infiltrated our government and brainwashed the Democrat voter to believe that Capitalism and conservatism is evil. Unfortunately the small brains of the Democrat voter have been easily manipulated into this mind set and they are now true believers in Socialism and Communism. From College campuses, Hollywood, social media, Main stream media and now high school and grammar school the Leftist who have taken over the Democrat party have spun an unbelievable story so large that to deny it would be impossible.
The only hope we have is that people like Sasha and many other True Liberals start opening their eyes to the big Lie of the Democrat party and than maybe we can get back to a normal existence here in America.
But, in the meantime the last 50 years of keeping the Communist of Russia and China apart has now changed and the clowns running our country have brought our two biggest enemies together. This will be a bigger problem that the American people and from the looks of it the American people will have no idea that America will no longer be the dominant leader in the world and this will destroy our way of life.
"the clowns running our country have brought our two biggest enemies together"
This above all I believe will be the crowning legacy of the Biden maladministration. The end of American global hegemony. Everything this inept crook and his coconspirators have done to try and cripple the Russian economy has backfired, up to and including the war crime of blowing up Russia's gas pipelines (and yes, we did it). While at the same time they have effectively destroyed the robustly recovering economy they inherited from Trump leaving all but their precious donor class far behind financially than they were two years ago.
As Neil Kellen mentions above, the end of the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency is now all but guaranteed. When it happens it will happen fast. When it's over America will be the next post-WWII England, although with a lot more debt. Don't say we didn't warn you. Get ready for $10 gas and $10 eggs -- and be prepared to stand in line for hours to get them, with the millions of illegal aliens ushered in by Josef Biden and Co. lined up ahead of you.
The self-imposed ignorance of so much of the American populace is truly stunning, which is particularly concentrated in the so-called "educated" elites. The more letters after one's name the further one's cranium is inserted into their rectum.
Truly it’s the people who have nothing left but Trump. Everything else has been exposed as the psychological prison of an omnipresent financial slave system.
As a life-long Dem, I tuned into the 2016 Republican debates for more comic relief. Who could forget Rick Perry not being able to remember the three cabinet posts he vowed to eliminate? Having a known serial buffooner like Trump in the mix promised that it would be even funnier than the 2012 version.
But as soon as Trump began to say everything that the other candidates would not/could not say--chiefly, bring home the troops, bring home the jobs, and secure the border--and seem to mean it, I stood up and took notice. I've been on the Trump train (more or less) ever since.
I could never vote for Trump. After my mistakes with GWBush, I have vowed to only vote for the person I actually want to be POTUS and not for the lesser of two evils. This decision has been remarkably liberating. For this reason, I wrote-in Jim Webb in 2016 and Tulsi Gabbard in 2020. I am still very proud of those votes. Nevertheless, I will be eternally grateful that Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. If Biden is toxic to America's future, Hillary would have been ten times worse.
Hi Jeff. I feel you (as they say) re: voting for the person you really want, as opposed to the binary choice you are stuck with...it's a conversation I've had with friends numerous times over the years. Yes, it feels good to vote for the person you most want (and I heartily endorse both of your alt choices, Webb and Gabbard) , but I don't think "democracy" actually works that way, in that it is rare to non-existent that the person I most admire is the nominee/has a chance in hell of winning...that's 'cuz all these other people have a say in the process (the "democracy" part), and that means compromise--remember how they told us that in school, that democratic politics inherently requires compromise? Ugh, it does.
My recommendation: vote your conscience in the primary, and in the general, vote for Bad over Worse. Because that is, in reality, the nature of the democratic process.
I very much appreciate your reply and I get what you write about democracy. I simply urge you and all to follow your conscience where it leads. My only quibble is that each of us should vote our own conscience and not feel compelled to vote for another's conscience.
Could you even imagine if H. Clinton's economy was the one we had as we headed into the COVID19 shut down (that she would've demanded from ALL the states - no state's rights, as Trump upheld)???? Right now she'd be in negotiations with CCP China on when we'd be turning over CA to them, in payment for all of our debt, as we'd no longer be able to pay it back because we'd be in a FULL BLOWN DEPRESSION, if not a GOVERNMENT COLLAPSE!!
I'm with you, though you should have joined my unchartered, uncommunicated, unbudding, ramshackle write-in campaign (of one) for John Kasich in 2016 and 2020.
I'm experiencing the same transformation as you but I'm a little more stuck. I've hated the dnc ever since hillary cheated bernie. I think this is why I was able to see through so much of the propaganda and censorship. I can't help but think the republicans need to change in major ways too. Sasha is a good read.
Very brave column, Sasha. I have been telling the left, in my ridiculous way in online comment threads, since Inauguration Day, 2017, that Democrats do not get Trump because they mistakenly believe they are "The Resistance", when all along, the truth is, they are the Status Quo and that Trump IS the Resistance and his MAGA ARE the Resistance. This was most evident in the dueling 2016 campaign slogans... Hillary's "I'm With Her" vs Trump's "I'm With You."
Trump can only exist because his opposition is so horridly rotten and beholden, which they prove with every ludicrous iteration of: "This time, fer sher, we got him."
Today, we find that the Democratic Party is no longer compatible with our Bill of Rights. Today, we find that Huey Long was right when he warned, "When fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-fascism."
Wake-up from Woke, America! Elitist self-obsession is self-destruction.
EXACTLY! Ordinarily, the Trump candidacy would have been exposed as a publicity stunt, at best.
In fact, Trump's candidacy was of more substance than that of the other candidates and the GOPe, combined, AND it was substantively populist, rejecting the UniParty's pissing on populist America's boots and telling us it's raining - but it came into existence because between the evil axis of media, academia, and the administrative and corporate states, we the people had no other voice.
Remind your Democrat friends that think they’re part of some “resistance” that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (shoutout Gil Scott Heron). That might make them pause a bit, at least the OG ones...
😂 the troll either doesn’t know or doesn’t acknowledge the Twain reference. It’s priceless.
I love it when trolls beg to be acknowledged, engaged with or responded to. Reminds me of the monster plant, Audrey ll, in “Little Shop of Horrors” yelling:
Exactly Michael. @Pierce is perpetually calling subscribers here "psychotic", "autistic", "stupid", "mentally ill", dip$heet, and so on, posting profane personal attacks, cut and pasting from his large database that he must have spent a good part of his life copying from other posters (BTW, he just copied the verb "gaslighting" from me), 2nd rate rhetoric, and cryptic comments in order to hide his true identity, half-wittingly believing that people here can't see through his temper tantrums. He really believes that everyone here is an idiot that should be bullied or cancelled, while at the same time confusing socio-psychological word salad and tosh with substance.
Even though I may not politically agree with you Michael, but you have the right to free expression on this board, and I will defend that.
What's wrong with you @pierce? Stop bullying people around. If you don't ideologically agree with what they have to say, then make an intelligent argument or go away.
Sasha please take notice of this bully turning your comment board into a public toilet graffiti wall. Clearly he wishes to suppress diverse opinions here and only allow expression that agrees with his socialist ideology and with the bankrupt inhumane ideology of Marxism.
@e.pierce -- cut the bullying and try to act a little mature. If you disagree with Michael, then provide an intelligent counter-argument, or just go away. This place is not a public toilet to post graffiti.
Sacha, are you going to do something about e.pierce who is driving your members away?
Sasha, I read your piece here and there is much of it I agree with. Especially the part that exposes “the resistance”, as actually “the empire”. As a child of Russian Jews who fled the emerging Soviet empire of the beginning of the 20th century; I know this story full well.
I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. I know what “counterculture” and “resistance” looks like; and it never has sponsors like ABC, CBS, NBC, Coca Cola, Netflix, Google and Facebook. The real thing doesn’t have sponsors at all, it looks more like the Tea Party and MAGA, or those parents in Loudon County, VA.
I remember family dinners in the 1970’s with half my family on one side and half on the other and we would Duke it out constantly but at the end of each day, know that both sides had merit in their arguments, and that no matter what, we were family and loved each other.
This New Democrat dystopian nightmare allows no reconciliation. No debate.
This new evil empire born out of the Democrats having lost an election in 2016….NOT a resistance. It’s the rise of Stalin. It’s “Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back” (starring Donald Trump as the hapless Han Solo encased in carbonite….at the end.
But as I read respected writer after writer currently say “I voted for Biden, but I regret it now” or something to that effect. I can’t help but feel a need or longing for absolution. Liberal legal scholar, Alan Dershowitz, says over and over again that the Democrats are running roughshod over the Constitution and the rule of law itself (Christ! We are the USA and there is razor wire around our Capitol and we have actual Gulags with political prisoners!!! 😢 ); yet he voted for it (Hillary, Biden,…et al) and is proud of it.
Sasha Stone here writes that she was caught up in it and used her talents to vote for Biden and promote the empire, but now regrets it and is doing all she can to undo the evil empire that now rules us all in this American dystopian nightmare.
So you got played. And now it’s time to make a course correction. The Left created a monster, a troll, to beat a perceived boogeyman, Trump, and now that monster is bigger than all of us and is eating our all our souls. Every day we grow weaker and it grows stronger.
I don’t have answers, but I think the path to absolution will be in no longer feeding the monster.
Super writing, Eric. This topic of different past positions has come up before as if we can never learn, change our minds, or be forgiven. Like some kind of permanent mill stone around our neck or scarlet letter on us. That mindset is neither Christian or Enlightened. We have all changed our minds at times and we all regularly fail at being perfect. Thanks for your story, Eric; I am better for it.
Excellent piece, Sasha! You manage to meet the very high bar you've set for yourself, and others, every time!
"...we were never the 'resistance.' We were always the empire. We were a massive alignment of corporate and cultural power that had, over the past twenty years, become the side with all of the money..."
I've always felt this way, but have never been able to articulate it.
"...we owned what we believed now defined America."
"It’s just that it didn’t. It only seemed that way. We had control of the mainstream media and that gave us a distorted image of our own importance and convinced us that if we could control the narrative we could decide reality."
This seems to have not changed.
"That’s how they got away with their 'cabal' of powerful allies to essentially rig the 2020 election. They didn’t do it with fraudulent ballots or anything like that. They had enough lawyers and enough money to simply change any laws that got in their way. They also needed complete control of the media to gaslight us about everything..."
This ought to serve as a caution about standing on legality, versus that which is constitutional, or failing that, ethical. Let's not forget, what the Nazis in Germany did was entirely legal.
"It...vindicates January 6th, the protest, and the riot because it proves that this was never about justice or the rule of law, or even Democracy. It was about a fairy tale. A story based on delusions fighting a supervillain that doesn’t exist."
I submit this has been the case since election night in 2016. The wailing, the gnashing of teeth, and the rending of garments was that the fairy tale that SHOULD have been reality vanished before their very eyes.
The parallel between the first Russian revolution is almost prescient. The modern-day Romanovs haven't learned, or they have forgotten there was a second revolution fourteen years later. The Russian Romanovs didn't survive the second - perhaps the constitution and due process may save the modern-day Romanovs a similar fate.
I disagree they jave nothing left but Trump. They still have the election fraud they used in 2020 and which still worked a trick in 2022 mid-terms despite it being more effectively covered up. There will be a major depression and social unrest before the 2024 elections. Riots and city burnings again. The election fraud is never vovered ny the media except to gaslight those trying to expose the truth.
Yes. I would be far less concerned about our situation if I did not think the electoral process had not been corrupted from top to bottom. At this point, there is no effective electoral check on the Borg's power.
Man, I can think of many, many people who should read this. But they won’t. And even if they did, they’d dismiss it as “right wing propaganda” as they do with everything that doesn’t confirm their ideology and contradicts what they believe to be true.
Thank you for writing this.
This is spot on and captures the zeitgeist accurately, as well as the corrosive rot that is the modern day left—like termites feeding on wood and all the while taking down an old rickety manse long past it’s useful life. In their feeding frenzy, they can’t pull away from the feast of old decrepit wooden support structures. How long will the building stand? Maybe it’s time for the building to fall down, and the rebuilding process to begin anew, with a smaller America that is focused on the core of what it’s constitution set in motion more than two hundred years ago.
Pols love to call the American experience “an experiment”, well it’s high time that the conclusions from the “experiment” be written, and in that analysis, a new way forward be forged. One that is closer to the original ideals of 1776. How this will happen, rather how it will be triggered by an event or a situation, remains to be seen. Could it be civil war (likely), economic collapse (very likely), WW3 (distinct possibility), full exposure of the systemic rot (unlikely), or perhaps some unforeseen event that is yet to transpire?
One thing is certain, we are living in tectonically historic times.
Not sure if you follow astrology, but apparently the U.S. is in the midst of its Pluto return. The last time this happened was 1776, and we all know the significance of that year. So now things have built to head, we are obviously at a tipping point, and something’s gotta give. Just hope it’s a change for the good (trying to remain optimistic). And remember: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”...
I’m not familiar with the television reference, forgive my ignorance.
Also, I agree—I subscribe to the Fourth Turning Theory.
It’s a famous song by Gil Scott Heron (RIP) from the 70’s. Sadly my liberal friends seem to have forgotten this and are all in on the mainstream “resistance”.
1776 is when the Declaration of Independence was written, not when the Constitution was adopted. I certainly do not wish to return to that time, when African men (slaves) were 3/5 of a person, Native Americans were savages, and women weren't mentioned at all!
Fortunately, the Founders were wise enough to know that future generations would have different ideas and needs, thus making the Constitution amendable, not set in stone. Good thing, too, or we'd have no Bill of Rights.
Many who I once respected.
So well said, Amie. The veil must come off before one can see.
I suggest prayer and fasting. Be well 🥰
As a side note, you can bet these pilots on Trump Force One aren't vaxxed.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110087661672753664
Anyone else wonder why the Left leaning DS MSM was melting down over the timing of Trumps Waco rally?
"Trump rally falls during anniversary of Waco's dark past"
https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2023/03/24/trump-rally-falls-during-anniversary-of-wacos-dark-past/
"The timing of the rally has raised eyebrows, as it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Waco siege"
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-waco-rally-texas-siege-arrest-1790163
"ome have speculated the former president views Waco as a symbol for government persecution, particularly as the rally takes place during the 30th anniversary of one of the deadliest law enforcement altercations in American history — one that far-right groups are known to reference."
https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-campaign-rally-waco-anniversary/
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/trump-rally-texas-waco-siege-anniversary-17851580.php
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-to-expect-from-trumps-rally-in-waco
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-03-25/trump-invokes-jan-6-at-waco-rally-ahead-of-possible-charges
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-2024-trump-waco-rally_n_641fbe3be4b0f6517fea3c03
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/opinions/waco-siege-30th-anniversary-trump-rally-hemmer/index.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-rally-falls-anniversary-wacos-dark-past-98110496
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/trump-waco-texas-rally-17860984.php
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/03/21/trump-rally-waco-texas-history-raid-on-branch-davidian-compound/11510179002/
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-waco-texas-campaign-rally/
Yahooooo had to get 2 digs in on it.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-holds-first-2024-campaign-193506424.html
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-rally-falls-during-anniversary-211541704.html
Then the good old NYSlimes err Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/opinion/trump-waco-rally.html
A good expose Waco by Mike King of the Anti NYTimes
https://www.realhistorychan.com/anyt-03262023.html
Trump sends us lots of clues in where he has his rallies and when. He's saying, "Oh, I know about this too, Deep State... just wait for retribution... it's coming."
Forgot to include the disorder of hypocrisy.
Had a conversation with a longterm friend, she being the friend with the obama coffee table book on her coffee table. When the takever started in 2020, she wanted to talk politics, told her I was committed to staying positive, and I don't discuss (with woke leftys).
Met for happy hour, she was talking about her 30 something daughter, that she was pretty grounded considering current events, but she, my friend, was so worried, (took a long pause-looked downward), about climmate change. Didn't see that one coming. Been driving a big SUV forever.
Another one told me she's voting for biden cause he will dismiss her numerous student loans.
Drove up to another friends house and in front yard was a campaign sign for a ccp astronaut being selected for senate. Asked her whats up with the sign? She proceded to tell me that when she moved here years ago she interacted as R (which is what i thought she was) because they were more active, but she really wasn't. Now supports people I loathe.
I used to be more accepting-this is harder to be around. I need new friends.
I actually had another part of Gladiator in mind where one of the other slaves, Juba (played by Djimon Hounsou) says to Maximus, "You have a great name. They must kill your name before they can kill you."
TDS was never about the man, it was -- and is -- about what he represents. An existential threat to the ever-expanding (and expensive) administrative state, an America for *all* Americans, not just a select elite (along with those who serve them), and a focus on getting our own house in order before expending blood and coin fighting endless wars on the other side of the globe.
Now consider what the morally, financially, ethically, and intellectually compromised Muppet that was installed to "save us" from the Bad Orange Man has done to this nation in just two short, awful years. The economy is set to implode any day now, with the banking system being the canary in the coalmine. We are on the precipice of direct war with a nuclear superpower over a nation that has zero strategic or economic value to the U.S., not to mention the Americans who will likely soon be sent off to fight and die to protect a bunch of corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs who just so happened to have poured dump trucks of cash in to the Biden family coffers. Our perpetually failing educational school system from K thru post grad has for the most part stopped teaching academics in lieu of straight up Neo-Marxism, hyper-sexualizing children, and attempting to eradicate the entire notion of gender -- all the while still howling and whinging over imagined gender discrimination lurking around every corner. I could go on, but if you're reading this Stack then already know the score.
And "But they’re playing with (their Reichstag) fire" was a brilliant line.
and the dollar slipping away as the world's reserve currency...
Most of the populace is completely ignorant of what this even means, let alone what daily life in America will be after the collapse. But it is coming and coming soon. Be prepared.
Indeed. The Goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it ✝️🌹. Be well and enjoy your everyday 😊 🍻
Perception is reality. Your perception is valid Brad. Be well and enjoy your everyday 😊 🍻
Thank you, William.
I think we all see what's coming down the road albeit from slightly different perspectives. Like it or not we're all in this together -- all of us, that is, except for those who actually caused it.
How will we wrestle the country away from them?
Ideally, at the ballot box. But I'm not so sure that mechanism hasn't been compromised beyond repair. Most all of the largely unconstitutional changes to state election laws implemented in the frantic weeks leading up to the 2020 election -- done so through the courts and not the state legislatures as the Constitution explicitly requires -- remain in place. The Zuckerbucks money machine (and many more like it) is still laser-focused on staffing and implementing policy in key Democrat districts. Maricopa County, the largest county in the key swing state of Arizona, has shown for the past two elections that it is wholly incapable of executing fair, honest, and open elections. There is no reason to believe 2024 will not be a repeat of the same madness.
The alternative of course is nothing short of another civil war. And that's too frightening to even think about.
Our only real hope lies with enough of the sheep opening their eyes and finally seeing the wolves at their throats. But this would require they look away from their phones and TicTok for a moment, something most can't be bothered to do.
I think 2024 is already set, and the GOP are not going to win. Even though the campaigns will make it obvious Biden should not win, he will. And if that doesn’t start some serious pushback, the country’s definitely finished. It’s already on life support.
There absolutely cannot be a civil war. I refuse to battle my friends and family.
You may not recognize it, but the battle has already begun.
I believe Trump knew they would steal the election long in advance... so he let them. They weren't expecting that. They wanted him to fight so they could paint him as Hitler and the reason the country was collapsing, which was going to happen no matter what, and actually, has to happen so we can end the Central Bank... he set them up and threw gas on the fire so they'd take all of the blame. (Ever see Trump on January 6 holding The Red Folder? That's what they were actually looking for at Mar-A-Lago. Turned out to be a trap. Those were PEADs which were signed and put into effect -- they have no idea what's in them -- military instructions.)
I think Trump will be reinstated shortly after the collapse -- military had all of the evidence of election interference due to EO 13848 and still serves him as the actual CIC.
Clues: He left Washington, D.C. with The Nuclear Football... Joe Biden was surrounded by fake Marines at his "inauguration" sham and only got an 18 gun salute, which is what they give to foreign dignitaries... at their funeral.
You make a number of predictions there. Things are going to get spicy.
Your comment is a brilliant essay on its own. Thank you for your articulate (and utterly accurate) response!
Thank you Catie, that was very reassuring.
So many of us have chosen to see the light rather than take the Kool Aid (and the jabs), yet it still seems to be not enough. Do we have the numbers, the resolve, and most importantly, the financial resources to take our county back from those who have quite literally stolen it from underneath us?
Many places in here Substack-ville give me hope and that's as good a place to start as any.
Wow, Sasha, it’s an everything in it article. Thank you. Brilliant, soulful writing.
She's got the gift, for sure. Maybe we can convince her to run for office -- I'd vote for Sasha over every politician out there, w/ possible exception of Manchin, Kasich, and maybe a couple others. :+)
Typo:
"... all we can do is the Trump show day in and day." (needs a final "out")
Really excellent essay, but you could point out that the Jan 6th protesters were incited by the FBI (not very successfully), that the protestors were all unarmed (what kind of "insurrection" is entirely unarmed?), that the people in the Capitol were deliberately let into the building by Capitol Police and even escorted about (see Tucker videos), and that the only real violence was the murder of unarmed veteran Ashley Babbit by the Capitol Police.
Patrick, what you say is absolutely true, but it is also absolutely true that if you continue to say it, it will get you the attention of representatives of the Deep State...yep, that's where we are in America, ca. 2023.
I'm sure they're already well aware of me because of my site, https://patrick.net/
You seem to be forgetting another woman "Rosanne Boyland".
"Rosanne Boyland Killed by Cops – Police Prevent Her Rescue – Push Protesters Down Steps – Beat Rosanne and Protesters with Sticks — Protesters Attempt CPR"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/new-video-rosanne-boyland-killed-cops-police-prevent-rescue-push-protesters-steps-beat-rosanne-sticks-protesters-attempt-cpr/
"CRYSTAL CLEAR Video of Rosanne Boyland as She DIED on Steps of US Capitol on January 6"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/unbelievably-heartbreaking-j6-video-exclusive-crystal-clear-video-rosanne-boyland-died-steps-us-capitol-police-allegedly-killed-capitol-wont-politicians/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking
. . . pummeled with a metal bat by DC Metro Police Officer Lila Morris, Badge Number 5869, who was hailed a hero for her behavior on January 6 and attended the Superbowl weeks later as a guest of honor.
Morris colleague. Capitol Officer Michael Byrd. was housed at taxpayer expense at Joint Base Andrews after he shot and killed U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt. Judicial Watch documents show that Lieutenant Byrd and a pet stayed in a “Distinguished Visitor Suite” at the “Presidential Inn” (part of Air Force Inns) under a “Capitol Police Presidential Inn Reservation” for the period July 8, 2021, through January 28, 2022.
I think the metal baton was Victoria White in my post below, here's a graphic video of Lila Morris continuing to beat Roseanne Boyland as she lay on the ground unconscious. You need to log in to wach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUYMdY4lJok
"Officer Lila Morris, Badge Number 5869, Beat a Protestor To Death on Steps of US Capitol on Jan 6"
"Jan 6: Beating of Unconscious Trump Supporter Who Later Died Ruled ‘Justifiably Reasonable’ by DC Metro Police"
"Boyland then lost consciousness in the melee and was beaten with a metal rod by Capitol Police officer Lila Morris."
https://nationalfile.com/jan-6-beating-unconscious-trump-supporter-later-died-ruled-justifiably-reasonable-dc-metro-police/
https://thewashingtoncountyauditor.com/meet-lila-morris-the-murderer-who-killed-unarmed-rosanne-boyland-on-january-6th-and-celebrated-by-the-nfl/
We need to remember who the Jan 6 killers are and keep their names in the sunlight. Michael Boyd, Lila Morris, and their masters - you are on deck for justice and karma. We will never forget what you did.
No, we must never forget any behind the travesty of J6, Covid, or the election for starters. Too many who sit in the halls of congress are culpable IMO and unwilling to take the steps to start the process of justice. Or if they start it, will they be able to follow through. MTG said it best at the Waco rally on RSBN, until we have all three houses independent of RINO and Marxist nothing will change.
Thanks for this work, Kelly. Keep on.
It must have felt good to beat that racist to death. That’s where we are at now.
We know Racist only goes one way. Posobeic argues your point.
"Posobiec argues that had the races been reversed, and even the genders, the attention surrounding the abuse would be greater, as was seen during the fallout after the death of George Floyd in 2020."
https://humanevents.com/2023/01/27/posobiec-officer-lila-morris-badge-number-5869-beat-a-protestor-to-death-on-steps-of-us-capitol-on-jan-6
Thanks for reminding me of this.
Its a horrible thing to watch there was a woman from MN who was beaten unconscious by a male cop who was trapped in the tunnel, and people from behind kept pushing anyone trying to escape forward into the mace and beatings, she was lucky to survive, Victoria White. Apparently beating and killing women is a big thing with these evil bastatards.
"Prosecutors Identify Psychotic Police Captain Who Beat the Hell Out of Woman with Metal Baton Nearly to Death and Bashed Her in the Face on Jan. 6th"
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/prosecutors-identify-psychotic-police-captain-beat-woman-metal-baton-nearly-death-bashed-face-jan-6th/
Very well done, Sasha. The primary response this evokes is sadness. Those who know history know how, given that human nature has not changed one iota over the millennia, this is likely to end. Those who have once drunk the heady wine of power bought through violence and intimidation will forever lust after it. History shows they do not give it up without a fight. Just ask Maximilien Robespierre.
That’s exactly it- human nature hasn’t & will not change.
It amazes me that a large segment believes they can legislate, or by some other means, control & shape human behavior to achieve their idea of utopia.
This is poignant, insightful and humble. I only started following you since Did I Just Leave a Cult? in mid February... regardless of ideology, I wish all voting citizens could be persons of reason and truth seekers like you... I tip my conservative hat to you, Sasha!
I’m of a similar background as Sasha, but not nearly as articulate. California grown former lifelong liberal Democrat, similar age, and completely disgusted with what our prior political affiliates have become. Only difference is I last voted Democrat (for president) in 2004, started waking up after that but could never vote Republican so mostly voted 3rd party candidates that represented my values, but now I’m pretty much in MAGA camp and will most likely vote Trump (or DeSantis if he’s the nominee) in ‘24. So consider that a hopeful sign we can turn this around!
Politics is war without bloodshed, in most cases. Those who don’t have a set of core values or principles will only get turned into useful tools... they just can’t reason themselves out of a position that they didn’t reason themselves into in the first place... I’m a generation older than you and Sasha. I had the good fortune as a liberal to see the lights as I witnessed firsthand the Carter’s years of debacle when mortgage rates were over 16%. President Reagan turned it 180° in just three years... I voted for Reagan in his second term and learned the true difference between Democrats and Republicans. Although today’s parties on both sides of the isles are not what they used to be, I remain an Independent conservative... it took me till the end of October in 2016 to make up my mind to support Trump. I loved his policies which were all his campaign promises and will support him again... the swamp that’s the uniparty couldn’t be clearer and more omnipresent today... as Sasha calls it we are at the fourth turning, it’s now or never. We are Trump and Trump is us!!
Thanks for the reply. Gonna have to agree to disagree about Reagan, from my perspective he did a lot of irreversible damage, namely eliminating funding for mental illness facilities that led to our current homeless crisis. There was also Prop 13 that emanated from his era which we are still suffering the effects from. So I guess I could say I’m more of a liberal Independent, but not the current version of liberals as they’ve lost their god damned minds and are destroying the country. I do respect and agree with conservative family values and fiscal responsibility. Ultimately I’d like to see some combination of liberal social causes and conservative economic policies. Definitely less government is desirable.
No doubt, less government is a good starting point to put our beloved Republic back on path... cheers!
I remember Reagan being pressured to cut funding to the mental hospitals (and some say he was the one who gave the order to release all the patients - again, if that's true, I think he was pressured). Prop 13 was voted on by the people, it didn't have anything to do with the government.
All I remember was how he and Tip O’Neill worked together on a few bipartisan policies and his peace through strength approach to tear down the wall in Germany and broke apart Russia.
Wow. Absolutely right on the money. I can't add a thing, aside from my respect. Thank you.
Attagirl, Sasha.
When we give these manipulative bastards an even break, they just stick it up our ass. Again and again.
Like they're doing us a favor. And then demand thanks. No more.
Keep chopping wood. Truth is the strongest solvent to years of lies.
From the red scare of the 1950’s to Trump of 2016 the Communist have infiltrated our government and brainwashed the Democrat voter to believe that Capitalism and conservatism is evil. Unfortunately the small brains of the Democrat voter have been easily manipulated into this mind set and they are now true believers in Socialism and Communism. From College campuses, Hollywood, social media, Main stream media and now high school and grammar school the Leftist who have taken over the Democrat party have spun an unbelievable story so large that to deny it would be impossible.
The only hope we have is that people like Sasha and many other True Liberals start opening their eyes to the big Lie of the Democrat party and than maybe we can get back to a normal existence here in America.
But, in the meantime the last 50 years of keeping the Communist of Russia and China apart has now changed and the clowns running our country have brought our two biggest enemies together. This will be a bigger problem that the American people and from the looks of it the American people will have no idea that America will no longer be the dominant leader in the world and this will destroy our way of life.
"the clowns running our country have brought our two biggest enemies together"
This above all I believe will be the crowning legacy of the Biden maladministration. The end of American global hegemony. Everything this inept crook and his coconspirators have done to try and cripple the Russian economy has backfired, up to and including the war crime of blowing up Russia's gas pipelines (and yes, we did it). While at the same time they have effectively destroyed the robustly recovering economy they inherited from Trump leaving all but their precious donor class far behind financially than they were two years ago.
As Neil Kellen mentions above, the end of the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency is now all but guaranteed. When it happens it will happen fast. When it's over America will be the next post-WWII England, although with a lot more debt. Don't say we didn't warn you. Get ready for $10 gas and $10 eggs -- and be prepared to stand in line for hours to get them, with the millions of illegal aliens ushered in by Josef Biden and Co. lined up ahead of you.
The self-imposed ignorance of so much of the American populace is truly stunning, which is particularly concentrated in the so-called "educated" elites. The more letters after one's name the further one's cranium is inserted into their rectum.
Well said, though I’m guessing eggs will be closer to $20 a dozen... 😉
Truly it’s the people who have nothing left but Trump. Everything else has been exposed as the psychological prison of an omnipresent financial slave system.
Indeed. I am grateful for the Patriots around the world in opposition. Be well ✝️ 🌹 🇺🇸 🍻
As a life-long Dem, I tuned into the 2016 Republican debates for more comic relief. Who could forget Rick Perry not being able to remember the three cabinet posts he vowed to eliminate? Having a known serial buffooner like Trump in the mix promised that it would be even funnier than the 2012 version.
But as soon as Trump began to say everything that the other candidates would not/could not say--chiefly, bring home the troops, bring home the jobs, and secure the border--and seem to mean it, I stood up and took notice. I've been on the Trump train (more or less) ever since.
I could never vote for Trump. After my mistakes with GWBush, I have vowed to only vote for the person I actually want to be POTUS and not for the lesser of two evils. This decision has been remarkably liberating. For this reason, I wrote-in Jim Webb in 2016 and Tulsi Gabbard in 2020. I am still very proud of those votes. Nevertheless, I will be eternally grateful that Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. If Biden is toxic to America's future, Hillary would have been ten times worse.
Hi Jeff. I feel you (as they say) re: voting for the person you really want, as opposed to the binary choice you are stuck with...it's a conversation I've had with friends numerous times over the years. Yes, it feels good to vote for the person you most want (and I heartily endorse both of your alt choices, Webb and Gabbard) , but I don't think "democracy" actually works that way, in that it is rare to non-existent that the person I most admire is the nominee/has a chance in hell of winning...that's 'cuz all these other people have a say in the process (the "democracy" part), and that means compromise--remember how they told us that in school, that democratic politics inherently requires compromise? Ugh, it does.
My recommendation: vote your conscience in the primary, and in the general, vote for Bad over Worse. Because that is, in reality, the nature of the democratic process.
Yeah, for years I voted “lesser of 2 evils”, which to me meant Democrat. Never thought I’d see the day when the less evil choice is a Republican!
I very much appreciate your reply and I get what you write about democracy. I simply urge you and all to follow your conscience where it leads. My only quibble is that each of us should vote our own conscience and not feel compelled to vote for another's conscience.
Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
Could you even imagine if H. Clinton's economy was the one we had as we headed into the COVID19 shut down (that she would've demanded from ALL the states - no state's rights, as Trump upheld)???? Right now she'd be in negotiations with CCP China on when we'd be turning over CA to them, in payment for all of our debt, as we'd no longer be able to pay it back because we'd be in a FULL BLOWN DEPRESSION, if not a GOVERNMENT COLLAPSE!!
I'm with you, though you should have joined my unchartered, uncommunicated, unbudding, ramshackle write-in campaign (of one) for John Kasich in 2016 and 2020.
Can we agree on writing in Manchin in 2024?!
Thanks for your comment, but I'm leaning towards Tim Scott in 2024. This could change depending on how the campaign season goes.
That works.
I'm experiencing the same transformation as you but I'm a little more stuck. I've hated the dnc ever since hillary cheated bernie. I think this is why I was able to see through so much of the propaganda and censorship. I can't help but think the republicans need to change in major ways too. Sasha is a good read.
Very brave column, Sasha. I have been telling the left, in my ridiculous way in online comment threads, since Inauguration Day, 2017, that Democrats do not get Trump because they mistakenly believe they are "The Resistance", when all along, the truth is, they are the Status Quo and that Trump IS the Resistance and his MAGA ARE the Resistance. This was most evident in the dueling 2016 campaign slogans... Hillary's "I'm With Her" vs Trump's "I'm With You."
Trump can only exist because his opposition is so horridly rotten and beholden, which they prove with every ludicrous iteration of: "This time, fer sher, we got him."
Today, we find that the Democratic Party is no longer compatible with our Bill of Rights. Today, we find that Huey Long was right when he warned, "When fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-fascism."
Wake-up from Woke, America! Elitist self-obsession is self-destruction.
EXACTLY! Ordinarily, the Trump candidacy would have been exposed as a publicity stunt, at best.
In fact, Trump's candidacy was of more substance than that of the other candidates and the GOPe, combined, AND it was substantively populist, rejecting the UniParty's pissing on populist America's boots and telling us it's raining - but it came into existence because between the evil axis of media, academia, and the administrative and corporate states, we the people had no other voice.
Trump was the result, not the cause.
That's Right you're Not From Texas!
What the heck does that comment even mean??
That's right, you're Not From Texas. I think he was agreeing with him.
Well said!
Remind your Democrat friends that think they’re part of some “resistance” that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (shoutout Gil Scott Heron). That might make them pause a bit, at least the OG ones...
I appreciate the invitation, but I'll respectfully decline on the advice of Mark Twain.
😂 the troll either doesn’t know or doesn’t acknowledge the Twain reference. It’s priceless.
I love it when trolls beg to be acknowledged, engaged with or responded to. Reminds me of the monster plant, Audrey ll, in “Little Shop of Horrors” yelling:
“Feed me Seymour! Feed me now!!” 😂😂🙄
Equally meaningless.
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Exactly Michael. @Pierce is perpetually calling subscribers here "psychotic", "autistic", "stupid", "mentally ill", dip$heet, and so on, posting profane personal attacks, cut and pasting from his large database that he must have spent a good part of his life copying from other posters (BTW, he just copied the verb "gaslighting" from me), 2nd rate rhetoric, and cryptic comments in order to hide his true identity, half-wittingly believing that people here can't see through his temper tantrums. He really believes that everyone here is an idiot that should be bullied or cancelled, while at the same time confusing socio-psychological word salad and tosh with substance.
Even though I may not politically agree with you Michael, but you have the right to free expression on this board, and I will defend that.
Bingo.
Are you practicing cancel culture just like the Wokes?
What's wrong with you @pierce? Stop bullying people around. If you don't ideologically agree with what they have to say, then make an intelligent argument or go away.
Sasha please take notice of this bully turning your comment board into a public toilet graffiti wall. Clearly he wishes to suppress diverse opinions here and only allow expression that agrees with his socialist ideology and with the bankrupt inhumane ideology of Marxism.
@e.pierce -- cut the bullying and try to act a little mature. If you disagree with Michael, then provide an intelligent counter-argument, or just go away. This place is not a public toilet to post graffiti.
Sacha, are you going to do something about e.pierce who is driving your members away?
“I still voted for Biden.“
Sasha, I read your piece here and there is much of it I agree with. Especially the part that exposes “the resistance”, as actually “the empire”. As a child of Russian Jews who fled the emerging Soviet empire of the beginning of the 20th century; I know this story full well.
I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. I know what “counterculture” and “resistance” looks like; and it never has sponsors like ABC, CBS, NBC, Coca Cola, Netflix, Google and Facebook. The real thing doesn’t have sponsors at all, it looks more like the Tea Party and MAGA, or those parents in Loudon County, VA.
I remember family dinners in the 1970’s with half my family on one side and half on the other and we would Duke it out constantly but at the end of each day, know that both sides had merit in their arguments, and that no matter what, we were family and loved each other.
This New Democrat dystopian nightmare allows no reconciliation. No debate.
This new evil empire born out of the Democrats having lost an election in 2016….NOT a resistance. It’s the rise of Stalin. It’s “Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back” (starring Donald Trump as the hapless Han Solo encased in carbonite….at the end.
But as I read respected writer after writer currently say “I voted for Biden, but I regret it now” or something to that effect. I can’t help but feel a need or longing for absolution. Liberal legal scholar, Alan Dershowitz, says over and over again that the Democrats are running roughshod over the Constitution and the rule of law itself (Christ! We are the USA and there is razor wire around our Capitol and we have actual Gulags with political prisoners!!! 😢 ); yet he voted for it (Hillary, Biden,…et al) and is proud of it.
Sasha Stone here writes that she was caught up in it and used her talents to vote for Biden and promote the empire, but now regrets it and is doing all she can to undo the evil empire that now rules us all in this American dystopian nightmare.
So you got played. And now it’s time to make a course correction. The Left created a monster, a troll, to beat a perceived boogeyman, Trump, and now that monster is bigger than all of us and is eating our all our souls. Every day we grow weaker and it grows stronger.
I don’t have answers, but I think the path to absolution will be in no longer feeding the monster.
The opposite of love is not hate; or vice versa;
it’s indifference.
The revolution will not be televised.
Super writing, Eric. This topic of different past positions has come up before as if we can never learn, change our minds, or be forgiven. Like some kind of permanent mill stone around our neck or scarlet letter on us. That mindset is neither Christian or Enlightened. We have all changed our minds at times and we all regularly fail at being perfect. Thanks for your story, Eric; I am better for it.
Excellent piece, Sasha! You manage to meet the very high bar you've set for yourself, and others, every time!
"...we were never the 'resistance.' We were always the empire. We were a massive alignment of corporate and cultural power that had, over the past twenty years, become the side with all of the money..."
I've always felt this way, but have never been able to articulate it.
"...we owned what we believed now defined America."
"It’s just that it didn’t. It only seemed that way. We had control of the mainstream media and that gave us a distorted image of our own importance and convinced us that if we could control the narrative we could decide reality."
This seems to have not changed.
"That’s how they got away with their 'cabal' of powerful allies to essentially rig the 2020 election. They didn’t do it with fraudulent ballots or anything like that. They had enough lawyers and enough money to simply change any laws that got in their way. They also needed complete control of the media to gaslight us about everything..."
This ought to serve as a caution about standing on legality, versus that which is constitutional, or failing that, ethical. Let's not forget, what the Nazis in Germany did was entirely legal.
"It...vindicates January 6th, the protest, and the riot because it proves that this was never about justice or the rule of law, or even Democracy. It was about a fairy tale. A story based on delusions fighting a supervillain that doesn’t exist."
I submit this has been the case since election night in 2016. The wailing, the gnashing of teeth, and the rending of garments was that the fairy tale that SHOULD have been reality vanished before their very eyes.
The parallel between the first Russian revolution is almost prescient. The modern-day Romanovs haven't learned, or they have forgotten there was a second revolution fourteen years later. The Russian Romanovs didn't survive the second - perhaps the constitution and due process may save the modern-day Romanovs a similar fate.
I disagree they jave nothing left but Trump. They still have the election fraud they used in 2020 and which still worked a trick in 2022 mid-terms despite it being more effectively covered up. There will be a major depression and social unrest before the 2024 elections. Riots and city burnings again. The election fraud is never vovered ny the media except to gaslight those trying to expose the truth.
Yes. I would be far less concerned about our situation if I did not think the electoral process had not been corrupted from top to bottom. At this point, there is no effective electoral check on the Borg's power.
What an eloquent piece.
And, yes, we're watching death throes or birth pangs, I'm never sure which, but I'm really, really hoping it's death throes.