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Well that was brilliant. You covered so much ground and so efficiently that both my mind is full and I’m surprised the lesson is over. I am stuck on thinking that we have hit the tipping point where more voters depend on significant government money and services as employees, contractors or dependents; and that they would vote to nuke the US before they’d vote to risk losing a penny of government’s welfare. American nationalism does not run strong in Democrats. :D. Finally, in a few years it will break hard enough that the decisions on America will be made ex-US as dollar reserve currency gets rejected all at once, Russia annihilates Ukraine, Inflation jumps to 18%, and cities burn so bad that the BLM riots will look like a friendly campfire. All this by 2026.

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I don't see another fiat currency replacing the dollar. The only ones with the liquidity to do it are the Euro and the yen, and both of those currencies have the same problems we do. The Chinese could do it, but they will never give up the centralized control required to be a reserve currency. So the USD wins by default.

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Brent, your optimism is heartening.

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Why assume that it will be a fiat currency?

Physical silver and promises of silver would work far better than dollars. When you pay online, you'd be promising physical silver.

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I drove a Fiat 128 in the early 80s...loved it!

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So long as the BRIKS have the dollar in reserve, they can toy with the Yuan. Notice they are trading in Yuan because they don't want to spend any of their dollars.

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Gresham's Law in action

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Neither party has the answer because they are both in on the problem. THis is the Establishment. if you are a politician and want to get elected in CA, you better call yourself a D. If you are in TN, you better call yourself an R. Note that what those politicians actually believe and do are irrelevant.

Now with vote harvesting, they no longer have to care what "independents" think, because they can out harvest the opposition with all the money they have. The harvesting of the great 40% who could care less are the election deciders. And who has the money to go after the 40%????

The establishment......

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The man always empowers the man.

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I guess my point is that there are not two parties. There is one party comprised of people in "safe seats" that can do whatever they want. They conspire with each other to stay in power and dole out the big guy cut.

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Another brilliant post Sasha. Is RFK Jr the antidote? The only thing I can say is that I bought everything they said about his insanity, until I read his book. Buckle up, this could get interesting.

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I’d pull the lever for RFK Jr

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Can’t believe I’m saying this but I think I would too.

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May 9, 2023·edited May 9, 2023

It's the honesty he projects. All of us are starved for that.

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Skilled actors can make you believe anything. That is the skill set of a politician. Does he believe all this? Maybe. Can he withstand the scrutiny? I don't know if he has enough money to fight all the court battles he will be put into. At least Trump has the money to fight.

Trump doesn't project honesty, he projects Trump. But he certainly did a good job up to the point of the deep state hobbling us all with the pandemic response (you may recall Trump tried to open the country but was called a killer).

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Orenv, my praise for Bobby Jr does not mean that I necessarily disagree with your points re: Trump. Trump and Bobby Jr seem to share similar concerns about the sell out of the Middle class and the looming collapse of America. I'd like to (maybe) see they form a populist unity ticket.

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Same here. I would consider contributing, but five years after I contributed to a couple of candidates, I’m STILL getting spammed to death by every party hack running for dog catcher.

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You have to unsubscribe from those :-)

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I want to start read RFK’s books. I have looked over the titles but can’t decide which one to read first. Does anyone have a recommendation for me?

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You write "But what I love about this moment are the voices rising. These are the truth tellers who follow in the footsteps of none other than Donald Trump. Without someone with that kind of toughness and resilience to say things no one else would or could, there would not be a hunger for more of it."

You also write "The 2024 election will be just like 2020 and 2022, as the Democrats exploit a system they once could not tame but now have mastered - gaslight Americans, hide the candidates, and let The Machine do the rest."

I absolutely believe that no matter what Trump had said or how he behaved in 2020 that they would have just kept counting until he just barely lost. There is no way Joe Biden received 15,367,706 more votes than Obama received in 2012. Not given all the prior vote totals.

I read RFK Jr's "The Real Anthony Fauci" and it was my first genuine introduction to him. I've now watched over four hours of him and I think he is very much a man who could lead this country out of this very dangerous time. But I don't think either Trump or Kennedy will have the capability to overcome the machine in 2024. The fix is in.

But they might if they worked together ;)

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I’m not saying the election wasn’t rigged, but I think a lot of the vote discrepancy between votes between Obama & Biden was due to the ruling class hating Trump more than they loved Obama.

Although Obama’s opponents, McCain & Romney, were Republicans, they were still ruling class candidates of the Bush ilk and had full support of the neocons.

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Keep in mind that Trump in 2020 exceeded Obama's 2012 result by 8,308,180. Is the excess for Trump real? The total turnout in 2012 was 127 million to 156.5 million in 2020.

Both 2008 at 129 million and 2016 at 129 million total were historic with a black and a woman candidate, but then they're telling us that you throw some hate for one side into the mix and a candidate who did absolutely nothing on the other side and the totals go up by almost 20%?

I don't believe it.

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It was about the ruling class not underestimating Trump and ramping up the harvest machine. YOu may recall the political machines of the past. This is the political machine of the future. And the internet and computers make it even easier to go national. Zuck spent $400M to buy 110K votes for Biden that won the electoral college.

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The Achilles Heel for the left (aside from mockery) is that they need people to believe in the institutions. Now just as the left completes its long march through the institutions public confidence in them is failing.

You can force compliance with threats, but you can't make people believe in the system. Even Stalin couldn't pull that off.

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Once the system becomes powerful enough, it no longer needs to be believed, only feared.

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The left's problem is that people can leave, easier now than ever. How many 1099-ers who can work remotely will just leave and Air BnB all over the world?

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At least for a while, but it never lasts for more than about 50 years.

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I am not so sure of that. This is now most of humanity is ruled today and throughout time.

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I didn't say that the replacement system is any better...

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Thank you Sasha! You are fabulous! You have a wonderful way of conveying information. I so appreciate where you've come from and where you are now! It is comforting to me to hear you talk about what we are all seeing, but no one in public is talking about it. Thank you for speaking the truth in the way you do. You are appreciated and I am grateful to be able to listen to your podcasts! Thank you for what you are doing and how you do it!

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Oh how disappointing that you think RFK Jr is the one to steer the ship. He has many attributes, but the Deep State and MSM will tear him to bits just like Trump. Trump deserves his second term. RFK Jr should run NIH and CDC. No way did 81 million vote for that buffoon Biden when votes were found after they closed the election sites. Biden’s been wrong on every foreign issue his entire career. He’s been caught as a liar so many times and skated, so now he thought when VP he could sell himself to the highest bidder. He’s a traitor and a con man. The Dem party currently ran by radicals with Obama getting his 3rd term wish list needs to be destroyed.

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Votes were found after they were created.

I believe the votes counted by machine accurately represents the ballots submitted. I also believe there are many millions of ballots that were manufactured, submitted, and then counted.

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And many times counted Twice 🤬

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At least Trump has the resources to fight them.

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Yes!! He’s been fighting ‘them’ so long, he now knows what to do and how. He also now knows who he can trust and who the RINOs are.

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Great analysis again. More pressure not needed but as the USA goes, so goes the interesting world. This makes the rest of us spectators worried that the end of PAX Americana means Dark Ages ahead and not just the Four Horsemen.

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Why to worry? Dark Ages only lasted 600 years and hardly anyone even knew they were in them at the time. :D. It’s kind of like saying our cities are dying and not realizing they’ve been dead for a couple of years already.

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Why worry? Because although my beautiful grandsons may not realize they are in Dark Ages, I will know and weep for them.

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Yes! I have 6 grands; one in the military

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Bingo.

If it weren’t for my descendants, I’d be LMAO from somewhere,watching the people who voted for socialism stumble around, wondering why all the free stuff they were promised turned out to be crap because the productive people have either died, or been driven away.

“Atlas Shrugged” was prophetic.

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OMG... VDH... Greenwald... Sharyl... Codevilla...

I am not surprised, really, you are a smart lady. Glad you are onto them.

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“On its face, the statute could apply to any protest that includes violence if the government alleges that the organizers intended that result and aimed to interfere with "the execution of any law of the United States." “

Weird how antifa in Portland did exactly that as did so many BLM protest but sedition charges were never brought. But a bunch of Trump supporters do something and BAM! Sedition it is.

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Indeed. Many in DC privately donated directly to those woke terrorists. Many nonprofits and major corporations did too. Even churches got into the mix. No doubt some of your tax dollars went to support the useful idiots.

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Not to mention the recent state level seditions that are not covered by the media.

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"They have painted themselves into a corner with two ineffectual leaders at the top of the ticket. They have no one to replace them because the only decent candidate in the Democratic Party is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and he don’t play."

They are going to run Michelle Obama. And she will sweep the elections.

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I don’t see how she would interrupt her life to help a country she doesn’t even like.

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She wouldn’t be helping the country she hates, she would be destroying it. The fact that she hates it makes her perfect to be the figurehead for the evil cabal that has taken over the government.

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I think she prefers her wealthy, comfortable life. All this talk about here is a setup for a distraction.

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This is my husband's assessment. Yes, she would amass money and power by running but she has enough right now why bother.

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LOL! It's not about helping the country, it's about funneling taxpayer money into hers and her friends coffers and bankrupting it. And that is worth running for!

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I think the D machine wil drop Harris and + Susan Rice to replace

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A truly frightening prospect because she knows what she's doing.

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Second time I’ve seen this statement; one said Rice left the WH to help Moochelle

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Btw I stand by my prediction regardless of Dem candidate. This economy, the debt, the cities and wars aren’t sustainable till 2026.

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Might you mean 2028? Even if so, I don't think the republic as we know it will be here.

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Hey Tex, I think it breaks in 2025 for a few reasons; if Biden wins 2024 then it will have been at the cost of putting all possible resources at risk and their marker will need to be paid in 2025; if GOP wins 2024, Dems will create enough havoc (think major cities burning to the ground; urban public schools on strike for months, police call outs, more wars, etc) to not only get revenge on the GOP but what ever is left of the middle class. Both of the alternatives are already very much in motion so 2025 is a safe bet for SHTF.

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While I hope what you prognostigate is not borne out,

"...their marker will need to be paid in 2025;"

Might you elaborate on what that means?

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Please delete this post before the DNC reads it and then follows it. Ugh. Scary cuz it makes sense.

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Come to think about it, she would essentially have the same team that Biden has running things into the ground. Other than people thinking they like her, she would be just another empty suit like Biden and her husband. But he did get elected twice. So there is that.

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Better and better, Sasha. Your voice continues to get stronger and clearer.

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Brilliant. Shared far and wide.

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Again, a courageous and insightful piece. Comments are so appreciated as well. I will share.

I'm supporting Vivek Ramaswamy and Robert Kennedy. Frankly, I'd vote for that dynamic duo of Genghis Khan and Vlad the Impaler if they were running. Let's draft them!

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The solution is not very complicated. As was shown by Trump, the implementation will be fought with the fury of 1000 suns by every weapon of the establishment and the money behind them. The big guy cut on the federal budget last year was $730B ($7.3B in spending - keep in mind that is a 55% increase over the 2019 budget and our "new baseline"), throw in another $200B big guy cut from the Mexican cartels (does anyone think those guys are untaxed???) and you have a near $1T slush fund in a world where you can get someone to do almost anything for $500.

At least Trump is rich enough to fight back.

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All the way with RFK!

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While I respect him immensely his climate position & abortion turn me away.

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How did we start down this very disturbing path? In my opinion, the seminal moment in the malignant mutation of the administrative state - to now include the media and tech branches of the government - was when the following quote was uttered by a US President:

We are going to punish our enemies and reward our friends.

- Barack Obama 2010

Normally, a culture changes gradually over many years. But under the right conditions, change can occur almost instantaneously. The United States was fundamentally transformed in October of 2010 when Barack Obama stated “We are going to punish our enemies and reward our friends.” While this sentiment was expressed within his administration as soon as he took office, it’s success as a governing philosophy in DC allowed him to introduce it to the entire country.

As a skilled orator who deeply understood the power of words, this was not a slip of the tongue or an off the cuff quip. This was his expression of “commanders intent”. And the genius of this statement is its clarity and simplicity. In just eleven short words – all of them simple and easy to understand – Obama sent an unequivocal message to his administration and his followers; conquer, consolidate, kill – we’ve got your back.

“We”. Barack was referring to a broad collective. In the context of the times, shortly after he was elected, so many tens of millions of people felt like they were an integral part of something historic. They were now “We”. He was referring to his new “band of brothers”, and not just his bureaucrats in DC. He knew it, DC knew it, and the new “We” knew it. The constraints of democracy were loosed, and the energy of tyranny was released.

“Going”. This was new direction would be permanent, not temporary. This new direction was aggressive. There was no “maybe” about it; “We” are “going to”. There was no end date, and no deferred start date. The change was to begin immediately and last forever, or at least until all “our enemies” were punished.

“Punish”. Obama didn’t use the word “defeat”, or “vanquish”, or “convince”, or any other word indicating victory. Victory wasn’t the objective; eliminating opposition was and still is. This word is a clear exhortation for punitive action. And there were intentionally no limits on this exhortation.

“Our”. Us vs. them; there is no middle ground. You are either for us or against us. Obama drew a line, and it was tribal not philosophical or objective. Whatever the cause of the day would be, if it was “our” cause there could be no compromise. And that cause could flip polarity in a day or a week. Nothing matters but the tribe.

“Enemies”. This qualification of “our” eliminates any boundary of interpretation. Enemies are to be purged, eliminated, killed. Any disagreement, of any type and of any scale, makes an enemy. Once an enemy, there is no place for discretion. It is a simple half-binary choice: eliminate the threat with prejudice.

“Reward”. This may be the most important word choice Obama made. The approval of your Grand Master (Obama) is conditioned on unquestioningly following his directive. It doesn’t matter how you do it, legally or illegally; peacefully or violently (the preference is for the latter), if the result was life or death (again, the preference is for the latter), you will have no concern about negative repercussions. In the past, politicians looked the other way when supporters did something unethical, illegal, or anti-social. Obama changed that; whatever you do in support of me will be rewarded.

Obama never apologized for the most divisive statement in Presidential history. He lukewarmly, in a very perfunctory manner, questioned his choice of words. But that was just political cover. He knew exactly what force he was releasing, and he know where it would lead. This was not an inflection point either. It was a massive schism. And it was fully intentional.

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This is Obama’s third term.

Obama wanted to transform America and it’s happening right in front of us.

Biden is the puppet and Obama is the Puppet Master.

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