I thought I’d open up the chat to a few items in the news of late if you have anything you’d like to add to any of this.
The first: Julie Kelly has proved that the DOJ lied about Ray Epps and she isn’t letting the story go. Good for her:
Epps remained on Capitol grounds at least 40 minutes longer than DOJ claimed.
In a 14-page statement of offense signed by Epps on September 10, assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon detailed Epps’ behavior on the evening of January 5 and part of the day on January 6. Gordon acknowledged Epps’ presence at a rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza the night before the Capitol protest where Epps encouraged people to go “in to the Capitol” the following day.
Epps’ involvement in the first breach of an exterior barrier—including his whispering in the ear of Ryan Samsel, one of the first individuals to knock down metal racks at Peace Circle on January 6—was covered as well.
DOJ gave short shrift to Epps’ presence at the second breach point moment later; Epps touched then appeared to help protesters hold down part of a fence, which created an opening for people to get closer to the building right as the joint session of Congress convened at 1 pm. (Recall how a federal judge recently designated the unauthorized touching of a temporary fence an act of terrorism.)
She also proves contradictions in Epps account of events and has video to back it up:
Epps: “I also orchestrated it.”
So, why did Gordon claim Epps left at least a half hour before he actually did? It appears the DOJ attempted to substantiate Epps’ false testimony to the January 6 Select Committee last year.
Epps told committee members that “at 2:12 pm, I was on my way back to the hotel room.”
The 2:12 pm mark is crucial; according to his phone records, Epps sent this text to his nephew: “I was in the front with a few others. I also orchestrated it.” When pressed by the January 6 Select Committee to explain what he meant by the text, Epps insisted it was just normal banter between family.
He twice more testified that he was off Capitol grounds when the text was sent at 2:12 pm. But he wasn’t on his way back to the hotel or exiting the premises. At 2:12, Epps is seen on video, refusing to leave even after police dispensed tear gas on the increasingly agitated crowd:
The second: Joe Biden’s speech in Arizona demonizing the “Extreme MAGA Republicans,” scaring Americans yet again, and deflecting from his party’s own extremism, not to mention his failures, might work but he’s done more damage to this country than Trump ever did in his four years in power. He said:
“But there is something dangerous happening in America. There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. The MAGA Movement. “Not every Republican – not even the majority of Republicans – adhere to the extremist MAGA ideology. I know because I’ve been able to work with Republicans my whole career. But there is no question that today’s Republican Party is driven and intimidated by MAGA extremists. Their extreme agenda, if carried out, would fundamentally alter the institutions of American Democracy as we know it.”
Disgraceful.
The third: The impeachment of Joe Biden - blatant corruption in the Biden family. They do have evidence. The inquiry was ill-timed, opening the door for Democrats to screech and shriek about the government shutdown. They only have themselves to blame for their Trump obsession that knocked down norms and precedents that will now splash back on them in ways they do not like.
The best clip is Nancy Mace laying it out:
Megyn Kelly nails it:
The fourth, the GOP debate without Trump, was, to my mind, a hot mess. Ron DeSantis did fine, and Vivek Ramaswamy is always entertaining. Beyond that, the chaos made it feel like a waste of time. The problem is that they think attacking Trump and criticizing him and his administration is the right play. It isn’t. That only helps the Democrats defeat Trump.
I agree with Newt (with apologies for the Fox link) when he says, “Trump is not really a candidate. He’s the leader of a national movement.”
The Fifth - The latest from Russell Brand. Substack does not allow embeds from Rumble, which is why I’m using Youtube, even though they suck. Perhaps we can start a petition to have Substack work with Rumble to allow for that.
Last and final:
Does this peel voters from the Left or from the Right?
As to the GOP debate, it amazes me what they do not discuss - no pandemic response, no state censorship, no corruption, no impeachment - you know, the things that really matter systemically (using that word correctly) right now.
It's like having an election in 1944 and not talking about the war...I mean Basil Fawlty pulled it off, but still.
You and your friends have just watched a three-overtime game featuring amazing catches, a punter pull a fake and run 72 yards for a touchdown, thirteen lead changes, two successful onside kicks, some random guy called down from the stands to fill in as a wide receiver, two statue of liberty plays, a schoolhouse left, and a running back literally cartwheeling into the end zone for a touchdown.
The game ends and you and your friends then spend the next two hours talking – exclusively and sometimes heatedly – about which is better: aluminum or vinyl siding.
That was last night’s (and to be honest the first one a couple months ago) Republican presidential debate in a nutshell – two hours of not talking about what has just happened, what is happening, and what it means.
Does anyone else share my bafflement? Or is it because everyone - especially the media and both parties - want to memory hole the pandemic because everyone acted so awfully?
I like this Nancy Mace woman. She is articulate, thorough, and doesn't speak in that annoying upspeak that pretty much everyone under 40 seems to indulge in. What we used to call "valley girl speak" back when Frank Zappa was still around. "I'm like so sure."
How anyone with a functioning brain cell left (and on the Left) could look at even a portion of the damning evidence collected so far of the entire Biden family grift and still repeat the mindless mantra, "there is no evidence" shows just how deluded so many of our fellow Americans have become. And they won't be snapping out of it any time soon -- if ever.
I am of the opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in history the “rule of law” began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (FISA Court) of James Comey, et.al. were never pursued; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable. And the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump is my proof.
Please be cognizant, the Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to the July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia. According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussion.
Therefore as We the People encounter the 2024 election cycle, it is wise to conduct yourselves as living is a “Post-constitutional Republic”. I compare it to the time of Jesus Christ living in Roman occupied Jerusalem.
I agree that the most accurate way to see Trump is as the leader of a national movement and not primarily as a presidential candidate.
Love him or hate him, he towers over every other national politician in either party. Some have compared him to Andrew Jackson.
I think that is roughly accurate. Like Jackson, Trump champions the outsiders (which is to say, almost all Americans) against the tiny clique of insiders who run the government, our government, for their own benefit.
I'd like to comment on the Biden speech at the McCain library. My spouse, my most beloved person in the world is a bit to the left of Lenin and Bernie Sanders. She asked me to watch it with her after she'd already seen it twice. Somewhere in the middle with about 20 minutes left, I asked her to pause and said "respectfully, can you tell me how this isn't another campaign ad?". She first stared at me as though I'd just stepped off of the Mars-Earth shuttle and said "how can you say that?". I then very carefully explained that I felt the speech should have been only about McCain and his legacy, what he meant to the country and that there was really no place in THIS speech for MAGA-bashing. I then said that if Trump were giving the same speech but at all denounced any liberal voters or citizens, every talking head she loves would scream about the Hatch act or how dark the speech was. She thought about it and somewhat agreed - one of the very few times she didn't reflexively go all Nicholle Wallace or Rachel Maddow on me. Anyway - from almost exactly that point until the speech was over, Biden dropped the MAGA-bashing and I felt that the rest of the speech was actually pretty good and inspiring. Of course, I know that he didn't write a single word of it, likely didn't see any of it until it was up on the multiple teleprompters, etc. - but it wasn't the worst speech ever written for him. I just shake my head that the "Centrist" who promised to bring Americans together can't seem to string together two sentences without demonizing a huge number of Americans. We never used to be like this - but the MSM and all elected Dems have normalized it - even now seem to require it to justify their own existence. Sad, Sad, Sad.
That last question -- does an RFKJr independent run take more voters from the left or right? -- is a really good one.
My opinion: It will take more from the right. The left is really good at sticking together, holding its nose, and voting for utter incompetence (Biden) or evil (H. Clinton) even in the face of better alternatives, at least when the alternative has no shot at winning.
Stated differently, the left is better at casting its votes against something, rather than for something. It wasn't Joe Biden that most were voting for. It was Trump they were voting against. Same thing this time around, in my opinion. It would be more interesting if Biden dropped out and the powers that be attempted to insert, say, Newsom. Then all bets are off vis-a-vis the above question.
I am in TOTAL DISBELIEF that Fox had us watch a foreigner I. Calderon , a Colombian citizen, ask her smarmy leftist questions of courageous Americans who go to the colossal trouble of running for President of the United States of AMERICA!!!
WHO the HAIL is she to be asking questions of these Americans???
I agree with most of what you wrote here Sasha but I am curious about what a Maga Extremist is and what they are doing or saying that is so threatening? I think most people support Maga/or Trump because of Trump's policies that seemed head and shoulders better than the way things have been going these last 3 years.
Regarding Biden's speech defaming MAGA. For those who have not seen this, I think his speech is an excellent case in point.
These five rules of propaganda have been known for a long time, and they are certainly not original with myself. Please send them around so that more people will be aware of them. Thank You.
The Five Rules of Propaganda
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Why did everyone at the debate pile on Vivek and why did they moderators allow the free-for-all chaos? This is the RNC there unifying the message to be anti-Vivek because he was the only one there who isn’t pro-establishment and the RNC does not like that. Well worth watching what they have to say about Vivek.
Epps was a Fed planted there with others to stir up the crowds. That is why he was no charged at first. Only public pressure forced the DOJ to charge him with the misnomer offense which he quickly agreed too as part of the coverup the fact that the DOJ lied about the 30-40 minutes that he lied about not being there and their ignoring the actual video evidence is all you need to know.
I'm not sure where RFK's voters will come from, but I found it fascinating that there were people predicting he'd run as a Libertarian! While I like his viewpoints, he is the furthest thing from a Libertarian other than a doctrinaire Democrat or a Cheney Republican.
Regarding the Russell Brand thing. I tried a small test this week. On each of three search engines, Google, Bing and Duck Duck Go, I made three searches (nine total). On each I searched on my name and substack, the name of my site with my name, and the exact title of one of my posts with my name. On Bing and Duck Duck Go my searches came up at the top, on Google it was not found except possibly far down the list. I do not compare myself to Russell Brand, but it's evidence of what we are dealing with.
Thank you for drawing our attention to Julie Kelly's very interesting post.
In her article Ms. Kelly failed to mention the following: "During the [September 20, 2023 Epps] hearing, a prosecutor told Judge James E. Boasberg, who is overseeing that case, that Mr. Epps had not worked as an agent of the government 'before, during or after' Jan. 6." (http://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/us/politics/ray-epps-pleads-guilty.html)
I think the most important one is the last one. I think RFK will peel some from both parties, but my hunch/fear is he would pull more from Trump. And personally RFK would be my choice, but I don’t think he can win and would hurt Trump more than Biden.
That's a good question about RFK. Both sides will be trying to figure it out. Based on name recognition alone you'd think Dems. But just paying attention to things it seems like he's really hated by Dems and their party base, whereas Republicans are generally receptive to his message. He was just on with Dennis Prager. So I could see him possibly pulling from Trump a fair bit. Honestly if it's Biden-RFK-Trump that will be a difficult call. Personally I might like RFK the most of that bunch, but i'd also be worried voting for him would help Biden win. Which is by far the worst outcome.
Scott Adams talked this morning about how the Dems seem to be all in with "MAGA Extremist" label. He doesn't think "MAGA" is a very good slogan for Conservatives to attach themselves to, in particular the "Again" part - it's backwards looking. Instead, he suggests something to do with being the party of anti-corruption. ANTICO? Not sure about this but on the right track.
It’s going to take a Trump win and appointment of an aggressive AG who appoints an equally aggressive special prosecutor to even begin to get to the truth of the J6 witch trials. If Trump wins, I hope to see a lot of pardons & commuted sentences.
The problem is, most conservative prosecutors are fair-minded and play by the rules, which is sadly a losing strategy in the banana republic Dems have created by destroying (often illegally or unconstitutionally) all norms.
I don’t know how many times I’ve read “crossed the Rubicon” in the past year.
“Epps remained on Capitol grounds at least 40 minutes longer than DOJ claimed.”
-Because Epps was FBI. Planted there to help instigate an event that would allow the Democrat party to arrest their political opponents and put them in gulags.
“Joe Biden’s speech in Arizona demonizing the “Extreme MAGA Republicans,… Their extreme agenda, if carried out, would fundamentally alter the institutions of American Democracy as we know it.”
-Because the Democrat party has become an Orwellian police state hellbent on one party rule and has fundamentally altered all “institutions of American Democracy” to something other than “government by the people and for the people”. So yes, once seen in this context they are closer aligned to the British rule under King George lll and “MAGA Republicans” are very similar to the founders of the USA and seen as “extremists”
“The impeachment of Joe Biden - blatant corruption in the Biden family. They do have evidence.”
Yes, that is why an inquiry/investigation has been launched. To verify the allegations and launch an impeachment trial. It is throwing a lifeline to the Democrat party to have their opponents remove the corpse bride from office for them. Best scenario is that all evidence is presented and verified in public and no actual impeachment launched. Make the Dems themselves remove their front runner. Orrrr….just wait for Trump and the MAGA Republicans to dispatch and dispose of the corpse currently in the White House
“Trump is not really a candidate. He’s the leader of a national movement.”
Same as it ever was…even back in 1776. The thing about national movements is they are like The Terminator; they can not be reasoned with, they can not be tricked, and they can not be stopped. Trump and the MAGA movement is already ahead in all polls and this movement is just getting started. The Orwellian Democrat party is in its descent. They will do childish things and flail and throw temper tantrums like little children…but their 15mins of fame is up and everyone knows it, especially them.
“RFK Jr runs as independent”
Now is the time for Donald Trump to reach out to RFK Jr, a liberal’s liberal, and join forces nationwide to crush the Orwellian Democrats next year across the nation up and down the ballot.
Sasha, from this Friday Chat on Big Topics, "Substack does not allow embeds from Rumble, which is why I’m using Youtube, even though they suck. Perhaps we can start a petition to have Substack work with Rumble to allow for that.”
The link below, from September 30, 2023, has a Rumble embed that worked from a Substack article, so maybe they have a work-around or it's not a Substack issue. (I'm a subscriber to their Substack under "Conservative Treehouse," Edgar Friendly, with various posts by Sundance.)
Here is my thoughts on RFK voters. RealClearPolitics polls show him getting 15 percent of democrats against Joe Biden. As far as pulling from republicans..... I view that as a plus for trump because they would've probably voted for Biden anyways (never trumpers). So with those 2 categories of Biden voters going to RFK, it won't even be close. And of course with 69 percent of democrat voters want someone else besides Biden to run for the democrat nomination, there will be another 5 percent who will not even vote for Biden that did in 2020. Trump wins in a landslide.
I am unsure of your market share, Sasha, but I recommend to simply continue on your path. Wow. Great post and I share it with everyone I know as they are in the same boat.
Weekly 'republican' report from flyover: Burgum and Vivek are acceptable because they live in the private sector, the rest represent globalist forces. I like DeSantis, but he belongs to the Bush wing moneywise = bad juju.
RFK Jr. pulls voters from Biden. Love Megyn and Nancy, but be a little wary as they still have ties to the globalist establishment.
In the Megyn Kelly clip - Hakeem Jeffries says “there’s not one scintilla of evidence”. Wow! I wonder where he got that word! Maybe from his buddy Barak! 😎
This Real Clear Investigations article below from 2020 is about the “1619 Project” and what the author Nikole Hannah-Jones told the editors of the Chicago Tribune about its purpose which is, she said, to instill guilt in white liberals so they will support reparations for blacks. White liberals are not being targeted though. White children in our public schools are. And our Woke white leftist ruling class loves this and is totally supportive of it. She was even given a Pulitzer Prize for this poison in 2020. This is not “black history” though. This is anti-white hate mongering pretending to be history. This is evil and this is what the democrats have become. And these are the same people who are working to put Trump in prison.
“If you read the whole project, I don’t think you can come away from it without understanding the project is an argument for reparations,” she told the Chicago Tribune in October.
“I'm not writing to convert Trump supporters. I write to try to get liberal white people to do what they say they believe in,” she said. “I'm making a moral argument. My method is guilt.”
“Disputed NY Times ‘1619 Project’ Already Shaping Schoolkids Minds on Race.”
“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
Simon Leys is by no means obscure—much of his work is still in print, and he was the subject of a major biography by Philippe Paquet entitled Simon Leys: Navigator between Worlds. But he deserves greater recognition as an analyst of totalitarianism, not least for the way in which he built upon Czesław Miłosz’s warning: “The man of the East cannot take Americans seriously because they have never undergone the experiences that teach men how relative their judgments and thinking habits are. Their resultant lack of imagination is appalling… If something exists in one place, it will exist everywhere.” To this, Leys added (in the Los Angeles Times of all places): “The everyday order of our lives may seem to us natural and permanent, but it is in fact as fragile and illusory as the cardboard props on a theatrical stage: It can collapse in a flash and turn at once into black horror. Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”
“Maoism had unique traits but Leys nonetheless always saw it as a member of what he called the “great totalitarian family”—ideologies produced by patterns of thought found across human societies, from tiny shipwrecked pre-Enlightenment microcosms to vast 20th century nations.”
“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”
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Awesome review, tks! I would add that RFK, Jr pulls votes from Biden (or whoever is installed in his place) due to his adherence to Big Govt, especially his leadership of the eco-fascist movement, which those on the right oppose.
I am troubled a lot by the recent civil case where judge Engoron basically dissolved the Trump Organization without a plan! Obviously a drastic and highly unusual step to take. The judge sounds irrational and/or incompetent and dependent on his law clerk.
I'm a big fan of RFK Jr. His possible running an an Independent would be perfect. That would permanently screw the plans of the Docile Mannequin or any other candidate including Big "Mike"
I'd be happy to sign a petition to get Substack to allow links to Rumble. YT does suck. Linking to their videos defeats the purpose of truth since YT blocks anyone they disagree with. It's why so many YTubers send viewers to Rumble, where they can say whatever they want.
“ Perhaps we can start a petition to have Substack work with Rumble” … yes, please do! And thank you for including the Tucker Carlson links - I refuse to access X, and I would prefer not to access YouTube either!
GOP debate: Perhaps criticizing Trump to help the Democrats win is the purpose. There are Republicans who have become TDS, and would rather see Joe Biden win (or any Democrat), than have Trump win in 2024.
I believe RFK Jr will take votes from both the left and right. As a former leftist I have been looking for someone to trust from either side or Independant. RFK is the only one out there at this moment that I believe can stop the corruption. He has the courage to call out the bad actors and actually speaks about what he will do to end the travesty. Trump has a lot of charisma and people behind him, but do you believe he will truly change things and heal the divide? I don't. I want justice for him from all these indictments and the circus of the Dems attacking him to end. I just don't feel in my heart and mind this country can get to where it needs to go with him at the helm.
If you haven't listened to RFK speak, I recommend it.
The first: Julie Kelly has proved that the DOJ lied about Ray Epps and she isn’t letting the story go. Good for her.
Amen. Good for Julie Kelly.
Fun fact! The Epps name may be as common as Smith, Jones, Fernsby or Dankworth in some circles, but I was surprised *fake shock face* to read that it goes all the way back to the…
Wait for it…
Wait for it…
Salem Witch Trials
“Nevertheless, schoolmaster Daniel Epps helps Bridget financially. In the summer of 1681 she sold him “two poles, or rods, more or less” of land between their houses in exchange for a sturdy fence, ten shillings in money, and other “considerable expense and cost, which Epps hath been at for said Oliver’s use, amounting in all to five and thirty shillings which added to the former makes up the full and just sum of three pounds, ten shillings.” [Six Women of Salem by Marilynne K. Roach]
Say what? Daniel Epps and the first person to be executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692 were next-door neighbors? *fake shock face again*
I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing that Bridget Bishop, God bless her soul, was not a witch.
Hmmm.... hard to say about RFK Jr. Great question though. Of the republicans there's no way he'd get any Trump supporters. Not one would budge away from Trump, mostly because Trump and his way of running the country is a known entity, and his legacy was a positive one. I for one- as much as I agree with what Kennedy has been saying about big pharma- wouldn't vote for him based on that alone.
The best would be a ticket with Trump and RFK Jr. if not, then Trump earned my vote based on his past performance.
The Substack stance on Russel Brand is worrying ... but more so, it is disappointing.
The Establishment Left could have taken down Brand a long time ago, when he was one of them, the Establishment Left - but they did not.
Why only now?
That said, his part in the movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"was regrettably not acting, just being his plain debauched self of those times when he was the Darling of the Left.
Yet, as an atheist, in my opinion true and genuine and sincere repentance is a beautiful thing ...
If Kennedy is really running in the general as an independent, I think it helps republicans-- may even be their best shot. The right wing media have cultivated Kennedy astutely. The Republicans also need Cornel West siphoning votes on the left side.
As to the GOP debate, it amazes me what they do not discuss - no pandemic response, no state censorship, no corruption, no impeachment - you know, the things that really matter systemically (using that word correctly) right now.
It's like having an election in 1944 and not talking about the war...I mean Basil Fawlty pulled it off, but still.
I expanded on this in my debate post - https://thomas699.substack.com/p/the-elephants-in-the-room - which used a different analogy:
Imagine if you will the best Super Bowl ever.
You and your friends have just watched a three-overtime game featuring amazing catches, a punter pull a fake and run 72 yards for a touchdown, thirteen lead changes, two successful onside kicks, some random guy called down from the stands to fill in as a wide receiver, two statue of liberty plays, a schoolhouse left, and a running back literally cartwheeling into the end zone for a touchdown.
The game ends and you and your friends then spend the next two hours talking – exclusively and sometimes heatedly – about which is better: aluminum or vinyl siding.
That was last night’s (and to be honest the first one a couple months ago) Republican presidential debate in a nutshell – two hours of not talking about what has just happened, what is happening, and what it means.
Does anyone else share my bafflement? Or is it because everyone - especially the media and both parties - want to memory hole the pandemic because everyone acted so awfully?
"with apologies for the Fox link" 🤣
I like this Nancy Mace woman. She is articulate, thorough, and doesn't speak in that annoying upspeak that pretty much everyone under 40 seems to indulge in. What we used to call "valley girl speak" back when Frank Zappa was still around. "I'm like so sure."
How anyone with a functioning brain cell left (and on the Left) could look at even a portion of the damning evidence collected so far of the entire Biden family grift and still repeat the mindless mantra, "there is no evidence" shows just how deluded so many of our fellow Americans have become. And they won't be snapping out of it any time soon -- if ever.
I am of the opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in history the “rule of law” began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (FISA Court) of James Comey, et.al. were never pursued; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable. And the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump is my proof.
Please be cognizant, the Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to the July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia. According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from her use of a private email server.”
Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussion.
Therefore as We the People encounter the 2024 election cycle, it is wise to conduct yourselves as living is a “Post-constitutional Republic”. I compare it to the time of Jesus Christ living in Roman occupied Jerusalem.
I agree that the most accurate way to see Trump is as the leader of a national movement and not primarily as a presidential candidate.
Love him or hate him, he towers over every other national politician in either party. Some have compared him to Andrew Jackson.
I think that is roughly accurate. Like Jackson, Trump champions the outsiders (which is to say, almost all Americans) against the tiny clique of insiders who run the government, our government, for their own benefit.
I'd like to comment on the Biden speech at the McCain library. My spouse, my most beloved person in the world is a bit to the left of Lenin and Bernie Sanders. She asked me to watch it with her after she'd already seen it twice. Somewhere in the middle with about 20 minutes left, I asked her to pause and said "respectfully, can you tell me how this isn't another campaign ad?". She first stared at me as though I'd just stepped off of the Mars-Earth shuttle and said "how can you say that?". I then very carefully explained that I felt the speech should have been only about McCain and his legacy, what he meant to the country and that there was really no place in THIS speech for MAGA-bashing. I then said that if Trump were giving the same speech but at all denounced any liberal voters or citizens, every talking head she loves would scream about the Hatch act or how dark the speech was. She thought about it and somewhat agreed - one of the very few times she didn't reflexively go all Nicholle Wallace or Rachel Maddow on me. Anyway - from almost exactly that point until the speech was over, Biden dropped the MAGA-bashing and I felt that the rest of the speech was actually pretty good and inspiring. Of course, I know that he didn't write a single word of it, likely didn't see any of it until it was up on the multiple teleprompters, etc. - but it wasn't the worst speech ever written for him. I just shake my head that the "Centrist" who promised to bring Americans together can't seem to string together two sentences without demonizing a huge number of Americans. We never used to be like this - but the MSM and all elected Dems have normalized it - even now seem to require it to justify their own existence. Sad, Sad, Sad.
That last question -- does an RFKJr independent run take more voters from the left or right? -- is a really good one.
My opinion: It will take more from the right. The left is really good at sticking together, holding its nose, and voting for utter incompetence (Biden) or evil (H. Clinton) even in the face of better alternatives, at least when the alternative has no shot at winning.
Stated differently, the left is better at casting its votes against something, rather than for something. It wasn't Joe Biden that most were voting for. It was Trump they were voting against. Same thing this time around, in my opinion. It would be more interesting if Biden dropped out and the powers that be attempted to insert, say, Newsom. Then all bets are off vis-a-vis the above question.
I am in TOTAL DISBELIEF that Fox had us watch a foreigner I. Calderon , a Colombian citizen, ask her smarmy leftist questions of courageous Americans who go to the colossal trouble of running for President of the United States of AMERICA!!!
WHO the HAIL is she to be asking questions of these Americans???
What am I missing? I'm in serious disbelief.
When will Ray Epps be arrested, detained for a year, charged and convicted as the domestic terrorist that he is ??
Russel Brand has aged visibly by about 5 years. If he was still an abusive addict they’d have left him alone.
I agree with most of what you wrote here Sasha but I am curious about what a Maga Extremist is and what they are doing or saying that is so threatening? I think most people support Maga/or Trump because of Trump's policies that seemed head and shoulders better than the way things have been going these last 3 years.
I think both parties should be worried. The smartest move would be for he and Trump to unite and start an America First Party and run together!
I love this! Just stating the facts, so much better than The Free Press’ Friday roundup which is burdened by half cocked commentary. Do it every week!
Regarding Biden's speech defaming MAGA. For those who have not seen this, I think his speech is an excellent case in point.
These five rules of propaganda have been known for a long time, and they are certainly not original with myself. Please send them around so that more people will be aware of them. Thank You.
The Five Rules of Propaganda
1. The rule of simplification - reducing all data to a simple confrontation between 'Good and Bad', 'Friend and Foe'.
2. The rule of disfiguration - discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.
3. The rule of transfusion - manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one's own ends.
4. The rule of unanimity - presenting one's viewpoint as if it were unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people: draining the doubting individual into agreement by the appeal of star-performers, by social pressure , and by 'psychological contagion'.
5. The rule of orchestration - endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.
Why did everyone at the debate pile on Vivek and why did they moderators allow the free-for-all chaos? This is the RNC there unifying the message to be anti-Vivek because he was the only one there who isn’t pro-establishment and the RNC does not like that. Well worth watching what they have to say about Vivek.
“We Can’t Trust You!”- Reaction to Nikki Haley Saying Vivek Helped China. (12 min)
Valuetainment. Sept 28, 2023
https://youtu.be/2vrOidLHPzY?si=C2nh-gVQC8qpcXbu
Epps was a Fed planted there with others to stir up the crowds. That is why he was no charged at first. Only public pressure forced the DOJ to charge him with the misnomer offense which he quickly agreed too as part of the coverup the fact that the DOJ lied about the 30-40 minutes that he lied about not being there and their ignoring the actual video evidence is all you need to know.
I'm not sure where RFK's voters will come from, but I found it fascinating that there were people predicting he'd run as a Libertarian! While I like his viewpoints, he is the furthest thing from a Libertarian other than a doctrinaire Democrat or a Cheney Republican.
Regarding the Russell Brand thing. I tried a small test this week. On each of three search engines, Google, Bing and Duck Duck Go, I made three searches (nine total). On each I searched on my name and substack, the name of my site with my name, and the exact title of one of my posts with my name. On Bing and Duck Duck Go my searches came up at the top, on Google it was not found except possibly far down the list. I do not compare myself to Russell Brand, but it's evidence of what we are dealing with.
"The latest from Russell Brand. Substack does not allow embeds from Rumble, which is why I’m using Youtube, even though they suck."
Thanks, I did not know that. Why does Substack not allow embeds from Rumble?
@Substack
Sasha,
Thank you for drawing our attention to Julie Kelly's very interesting post.
In her article Ms. Kelly failed to mention the following: "During the [September 20, 2023 Epps] hearing, a prosecutor told Judge James E. Boasberg, who is overseeing that case, that Mr. Epps had not worked as an agent of the government 'before, during or after' Jan. 6." (http://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/us/politics/ray-epps-pleads-guilty.html)
I think the most important one is the last one. I think RFK will peel some from both parties, but my hunch/fear is he would pull more from Trump. And personally RFK would be my choice, but I don’t think he can win and would hurt Trump more than Biden.
That's a good question about RFK. Both sides will be trying to figure it out. Based on name recognition alone you'd think Dems. But just paying attention to things it seems like he's really hated by Dems and their party base, whereas Republicans are generally receptive to his message. He was just on with Dennis Prager. So I could see him possibly pulling from Trump a fair bit. Honestly if it's Biden-RFK-Trump that will be a difficult call. Personally I might like RFK the most of that bunch, but i'd also be worried voting for him would help Biden win. Which is by far the worst outcome.
Scott Adams talked this morning about how the Dems seem to be all in with "MAGA Extremist" label. He doesn't think "MAGA" is a very good slogan for Conservatives to attach themselves to, in particular the "Again" part - it's backwards looking. Instead, he suggests something to do with being the party of anti-corruption. ANTICO? Not sure about this but on the right track.
It’s going to take a Trump win and appointment of an aggressive AG who appoints an equally aggressive special prosecutor to even begin to get to the truth of the J6 witch trials. If Trump wins, I hope to see a lot of pardons & commuted sentences.
The problem is, most conservative prosecutors are fair-minded and play by the rules, which is sadly a losing strategy in the banana republic Dems have created by destroying (often illegally or unconstitutionally) all norms.
I don’t know how many times I’ve read “crossed the Rubicon” in the past year.
“Epps remained on Capitol grounds at least 40 minutes longer than DOJ claimed.”
-Because Epps was FBI. Planted there to help instigate an event that would allow the Democrat party to arrest their political opponents and put them in gulags.
“Joe Biden’s speech in Arizona demonizing the “Extreme MAGA Republicans,… Their extreme agenda, if carried out, would fundamentally alter the institutions of American Democracy as we know it.”
-Because the Democrat party has become an Orwellian police state hellbent on one party rule and has fundamentally altered all “institutions of American Democracy” to something other than “government by the people and for the people”. So yes, once seen in this context they are closer aligned to the British rule under King George lll and “MAGA Republicans” are very similar to the founders of the USA and seen as “extremists”
“The impeachment of Joe Biden - blatant corruption in the Biden family. They do have evidence.”
Yes, that is why an inquiry/investigation has been launched. To verify the allegations and launch an impeachment trial. It is throwing a lifeline to the Democrat party to have their opponents remove the corpse bride from office for them. Best scenario is that all evidence is presented and verified in public and no actual impeachment launched. Make the Dems themselves remove their front runner. Orrrr….just wait for Trump and the MAGA Republicans to dispatch and dispose of the corpse currently in the White House
“Trump is not really a candidate. He’s the leader of a national movement.”
Same as it ever was…even back in 1776. The thing about national movements is they are like The Terminator; they can not be reasoned with, they can not be tricked, and they can not be stopped. Trump and the MAGA movement is already ahead in all polls and this movement is just getting started. The Orwellian Democrat party is in its descent. They will do childish things and flail and throw temper tantrums like little children…but their 15mins of fame is up and everyone knows it, especially them.
“RFK Jr runs as independent”
Now is the time for Donald Trump to reach out to RFK Jr, a liberal’s liberal, and join forces nationwide to crush the Orwellian Democrats next year across the nation up and down the ballot.
“From the wars against disorder
From the sirens night and day
From the fires of the homeless
From the ashes of the gay
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.“
~Leonard Cohen
Apparently, the DNC strategy is to portray QPQ-Joe as the most clueless father in America.
Great campaign schtick to wave at us, guys!
Technical Note
Sasha, from this Friday Chat on Big Topics, "Substack does not allow embeds from Rumble, which is why I’m using Youtube, even though they suck. Perhaps we can start a petition to have Substack work with Rumble to allow for that.”
The link below, from September 30, 2023, has a Rumble embed that worked from a Substack article, so maybe they have a work-around or it's not a Substack issue. (I'm a subscriber to their Substack under "Conservative Treehouse," Edgar Friendly, with various posts by Sundance.)
https://www.conservativetreehouse.org/p/president-trump-speech-to-california
Here is my thoughts on RFK voters. RealClearPolitics polls show him getting 15 percent of democrats against Joe Biden. As far as pulling from republicans..... I view that as a plus for trump because they would've probably voted for Biden anyways (never trumpers). So with those 2 categories of Biden voters going to RFK, it won't even be close. And of course with 69 percent of democrat voters want someone else besides Biden to run for the democrat nomination, there will be another 5 percent who will not even vote for Biden that did in 2020. Trump wins in a landslide.
Sasha, thank you for posting this. You rock!
I am unsure of your market share, Sasha, but I recommend to simply continue on your path. Wow. Great post and I share it with everyone I know as they are in the same boat.
Weekly 'republican' report from flyover: Burgum and Vivek are acceptable because they live in the private sector, the rest represent globalist forces. I like DeSantis, but he belongs to the Bush wing moneywise = bad juju.
RFK Jr. pulls voters from Biden. Love Megyn and Nancy, but be a little wary as they still have ties to the globalist establishment.
Trump with buckets of calm and calculated common sense on Newsmax: https://rumble.com/v3lklo2-trump-democrats-are-destroying-the-blood-of-our-country.html
In the Megyn Kelly clip - Hakeem Jeffries says “there’s not one scintilla of evidence”. Wow! I wonder where he got that word! Maybe from his buddy Barak! 😎
I think RFK, Jr is more detrimental to the Dems - as he will pull the "sensible" democrats, if there is such creatures.
There’s place for every one in the modern day caste system.
This Real Clear Investigations article below from 2020 is about the “1619 Project” and what the author Nikole Hannah-Jones told the editors of the Chicago Tribune about its purpose which is, she said, to instill guilt in white liberals so they will support reparations for blacks. White liberals are not being targeted though. White children in our public schools are. And our Woke white leftist ruling class loves this and is totally supportive of it. She was even given a Pulitzer Prize for this poison in 2020. This is not “black history” though. This is anti-white hate mongering pretending to be history. This is evil and this is what the democrats have become. And these are the same people who are working to put Trump in prison.
“If you read the whole project, I don’t think you can come away from it without understanding the project is an argument for reparations,” she told the Chicago Tribune in October.
“I'm not writing to convert Trump supporters. I write to try to get liberal white people to do what they say they believe in,” she said. “I'm making a moral argument. My method is guilt.”
“Disputed NY Times ‘1619 Project’ Already Shaping Schoolkids Minds on Race.”
Real Clear Investigations. Jan 31, 2020
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/01/31/disputed_ny_times_1619_project_is_already_shaping_kids_minds_on_race_bias_122192.html
Black history ‘Underground Railroad’ forms across US after DeSantis, others ban books.
Yahoo News. USA Today. Sept 30, 2023
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/black-history-underground-railroad-forms-095608314.html
“Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
Simon Leys is by no means obscure—much of his work is still in print, and he was the subject of a major biography by Philippe Paquet entitled Simon Leys: Navigator between Worlds. But he deserves greater recognition as an analyst of totalitarianism, not least for the way in which he built upon Czesław Miłosz’s warning: “The man of the East cannot take Americans seriously because they have never undergone the experiences that teach men how relative their judgments and thinking habits are. Their resultant lack of imagination is appalling… If something exists in one place, it will exist everywhere.” To this, Leys added (in the Los Angeles Times of all places): “The everyday order of our lives may seem to us natural and permanent, but it is in fact as fragile and illusory as the cardboard props on a theatrical stage: It can collapse in a flash and turn at once into black horror. Our condition is forever precarious; even basic human decency can shatter and vanish in an instant.”
“History does not repeat itself, but ideas do.”
“Maoism had unique traits but Leys nonetheless always saw it as a member of what he called the “great totalitarian family”—ideologies produced by patterns of thought found across human societies, from tiny shipwrecked pre-Enlightenment microcosms to vast 20th century nations.”
“Analyst of Totalitarianism-Reading Simon Leys Today.”
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https://quillette.com/2020/09/28/analyst-of-totalitarianism-reading-simon-leys-today/
Where’s the beef? If they can't pin it on the president, I fear all this is for not.
The evidence is there, but is it enough?
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/30/ten-reasons-why-the-biden-impeachment-inquiry-is-justified/#more-210158
also wanted to add, if you haven't seen this, it's got a lot of behind the scene experiences which endeared me even more to Trump (i'd thought about DeSantis for a short while initially, now, fully support DJT) : https://humanevents.com/2023/09/29/exclusive-raheem-kassam-tells-all-about-surprisingly-candid-personal-donald-trump-interview
Awesome review, tks! I would add that RFK, Jr pulls votes from Biden (or whoever is installed in his place) due to his adherence to Big Govt, especially his leadership of the eco-fascist movement, which those on the right oppose.
I am troubled a lot by the recent civil case where judge Engoron basically dissolved the Trump Organization without a plan! Obviously a drastic and highly unusual step to take. The judge sounds irrational and/or incompetent and dependent on his law clerk.
I'm a big fan of RFK Jr. His possible running an an Independent would be perfect. That would permanently screw the plans of the Docile Mannequin or any other candidate including Big "Mike"
I'd be happy to sign a petition to get Substack to allow links to Rumble. YT does suck. Linking to their videos defeats the purpose of truth since YT blocks anyone they disagree with. It's why so many YTubers send viewers to Rumble, where they can say whatever they want.
“ Perhaps we can start a petition to have Substack work with Rumble” … yes, please do! And thank you for including the Tucker Carlson links - I refuse to access X, and I would prefer not to access YouTube either!
GOP debate: Perhaps criticizing Trump to help the Democrats win is the purpose. There are Republicans who have become TDS, and would rather see Joe Biden win (or any Democrat), than have Trump win in 2024.
I believe RFK Jr will take votes from both the left and right. As a former leftist I have been looking for someone to trust from either side or Independant. RFK is the only one out there at this moment that I believe can stop the corruption. He has the courage to call out the bad actors and actually speaks about what he will do to end the travesty. Trump has a lot of charisma and people behind him, but do you believe he will truly change things and heal the divide? I don't. I want justice for him from all these indictments and the circus of the Dems attacking him to end. I just don't feel in my heart and mind this country can get to where it needs to go with him at the helm.
If you haven't listened to RFK speak, I recommend it.
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The first: Julie Kelly has proved that the DOJ lied about Ray Epps and she isn’t letting the story go. Good for her.
Amen. Good for Julie Kelly.
Fun fact! The Epps name may be as common as Smith, Jones, Fernsby or Dankworth in some circles, but I was surprised *fake shock face* to read that it goes all the way back to the…
Wait for it…
Wait for it…
Salem Witch Trials
“Nevertheless, schoolmaster Daniel Epps helps Bridget financially. In the summer of 1681 she sold him “two poles, or rods, more or less” of land between their houses in exchange for a sturdy fence, ten shillings in money, and other “considerable expense and cost, which Epps hath been at for said Oliver’s use, amounting in all to five and thirty shillings which added to the former makes up the full and just sum of three pounds, ten shillings.” [Six Women of Salem by Marilynne K. Roach]
Say what? Daniel Epps and the first person to be executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692 were next-door neighbors? *fake shock face again*
I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing that Bridget Bishop, God bless her soul, was not a witch.
Either.
Sasha, I hate to be the one to have to break it to you... I’ll send you an email if that’s ok.
"The second: Joe Biden’s speech in Arizona demonizing the “Extreme MAGA Republicans,”"
Oh That's Scary Boys & Girls!"
Count Floyd
Hmmm.... hard to say about RFK Jr. Great question though. Of the republicans there's no way he'd get any Trump supporters. Not one would budge away from Trump, mostly because Trump and his way of running the country is a known entity, and his legacy was a positive one. I for one- as much as I agree with what Kennedy has been saying about big pharma- wouldn't vote for him based on that alone.
The best would be a ticket with Trump and RFK Jr. if not, then Trump earned my vote based on his past performance.
The Substack stance on Russel Brand is worrying ... but more so, it is disappointing.
The Establishment Left could have taken down Brand a long time ago, when he was one of them, the Establishment Left - but they did not.
Why only now?
That said, his part in the movie "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"was regrettably not acting, just being his plain debauched self of those times when he was the Darling of the Left.
Yet, as an atheist, in my opinion true and genuine and sincere repentance is a beautiful thing ...
If Kennedy is really running in the general as an independent, I think it helps republicans-- may even be their best shot. The right wing media have cultivated Kennedy astutely. The Republicans also need Cornel West siphoning votes on the left side.