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Nov 21, 2022Liked by Sasha Stone

Excellent piece Sasha....as always.

I'm sorry, but I have to keep fighting. We're in the midst of a revolution.

As Chapelle said last week, Trump is an honest liar, who knew xactly what the elites were doing to this society becuse he played in those circles, and was honest enough to call them out and attack them. Bill Barr wrote a piece for Bari Weiss that said if we forsake Trump we can rebuild the Reagan coalition.

Bill was part of the old Reagan coalition, and I watched as it did what Trump did in 2016. It took out an old neocon mindset and took us in a new direction, but that's irrelevent now.

Reagan didn't have a media that was nothing more than a partisan and dishonest mouthpiece for the DNC. He didn't face a weaponized FBI/CIA/IRS/CDC/FDA who fought the legitmacy of the Republican party. He also didn't have an academic class indocritnating students in socialistic/racial/gender cultures at odds with the best interest of the country. In my 65 years I've never witnessed a leader willing to take on the permanent governing class and international elites like Trump. and until I see someone rise to that level of confrontation, maybe DeSantiss can, I'll continue to support him. We're in a revolution, and need someone who's willing to acknowledge and confront that.

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Sasha, thank you for your inspiring words! It makes such a difference to know that there are people who can change their minds, and who seek truth amid all the deafening BS. There are many more out there, thanks for helping to reach them.

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Trump is not giving up and neither will I. If he can endure all of this terrible treatment for us...then I can at least stand behind him and support this wonderful soul who will not kiss the ring of any half ass jerk-off just to get along! He will fight the bullies until he can't stand up anymore. Like Jack Dempsey famously said...."A champion is someone that gets up when he can't"

That's the guy that I want fighting for me!

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Nov 21, 2022·edited Nov 21, 2022Liked by Sasha Stone

Okay, I read Sasha's column earlier today, then forwarded it to my wife.

She was working on a project in the next room and decided to listen to the podcast.

Holy Shit?!?!

It's an entirely different experience. For those of you who are too impatient to listen to the podcast, I strongly encourage you listen. Sasha incorporates many of the portions of, what may be, Trumps most powerful speech ever. And as a bonus, includes segments from Mr Smith goes to Washington. Awesome!!!!! Excellent job Sasha.

I guess I'm going to start having to listen to more of the podcasts from Matt/Walter, Bari and Sasha.

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Wow this is a pretty depressing essay. Much more gloomy tone than you usually have, almost as if you’re giving up? Regarding the mid-terms, I firmly believe some of the MAGA losses were due to voter fraud. Specifically in Arizona. I just don’t see how Kari Lake lost without cheating. The numbers just don’t add up. Keep an eye on that because I don’t think it’s over. And do you really think there’s no way Trump can win? I admit the odds are against him, but if more truth comes to light in the coming months it will certainly help MAGA. I don’t have any choice but to remain hopeful, the fate of the world literally rests on him winning...

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Beautifully written.

I don't know about Trump. I'm Trump ambivalent. No, he is nowhere as bad as they say he is. In fact, he's at least an "honest liar." But in the end, their target was never really Trump. Their target is the uppity working and middle class who don't know their place and they feel should be satisfied with crumbs.

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America loves a winner. I didn't see much of that in the mid-terms. But many in America love something else. They love a fighter, someone who gets up time and again after being knocked to the canvass. Trump for all his faults is one such guy and I can't take that away from him. I just wish he was younger and me too for that matter! Thank you for your thoughtful writings. Most others I skim and not read to the end but here I look forward to the results of your thoughts and labor.

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First, so glad I subscribed to your podcast for next 12 months. Super value! Second, I really liked how you combined your extensive knowledge of films and the current climate in US. Third, midterms were discouraging for a lot of us who hoped BreD and butter issues would result in conservative wins. Anyway, thank-you for sharing your talents and having the courage to be truthful. I admire that.

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Nov 21, 2022·edited Nov 21, 2022

The most important story I have read about the Nov 2022 midterms is that the culinary union workers from Nevada, and some recruited from California, in their own words, "knocked on 1 million doors" in Nevada, presumably to harvest ballots for the Democrat Senate and Governor candidates. As Biden, Fetterman, Hobbs have demonstrated, the Democrat candidates do not matter, the election is over long before the now empty ritual of Election Day. Republicans need to concentrate on catching up with, and hopefully surpassing, the Democrat mail-in/early voting, ballot harvesting scam. If the Republicans cannot do this, it makes no difference which Republican candidate runs.

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My dream ticket is Trump-DeSantis 2024, then Ron in 28 and 32. I got mad when Trump went after DeSantis a couple of weeks ago. If they do go against each other in the primary, they should debate on policy. No stupid personal attacks. Trump was very respectful of Ben Carson in 16 and that's how he should be with DeSantis. He's one of us, not the usual RINO. You don't go dirty on your allies.

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Man you can write. What a phenomenal read. Here's the thing. Yeah Ron will have the power brokers..because it means he took their money and is beholden to them. No, its got to be trump or nothing. If we lose , we lose with our best fighter.

Nominate DeSantis and they will destroy him just the same. They will play games with ballot harvesting and scanners and mystery suitcases brought out from under tables(on camera in Atlanta). If as you say its hopeless......I want to see how far down the rabbit hole the feds will go to take away our freedoms so that when a fed building blows or something similar, you can say without a guilty conscience "well they had it coming".

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Please keep chopping wood, Sasha. You hold the mirror up so that these oligarchs and their minions with their degrees, credentials, and complete assumption of power and virtue can see themselves in the light of day.. If, but, they would only look.

Someone will have to give them the full Clockwork Orange treatment to get them to look at this.

Can it happen? Anything is possible.

Will it happen? That depends on all of us, doesn't it?

Are we dealing with people who will at some point stare at a stack of dead babies and profess to see nothing? Only time will tell. Like you, I live in hope. Float, little feather, show me the way.

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This post is my favorite Sasha Stone thus far. I listened to it yesterday and woke up thinking about Trump's speech in the rain. I watched the speech again and wept.

In my youth I rode bulls, played football, participated in many fist fights, had my experiences with guns and - after living through all that - started my own business which has died and come back to life a half dozen times over the last thirty years. I know a little bit about courage. When I look at Trump, I am awestruck by the courage that flows through his veins. He is the most courageous man I have ever seen and I love him. He is a leader you can trust to keep us safe. He's been the greatest President of my lifetime.

Meanwhile, the mob that is trying to tear him apart are the hateful, the jealous, the corrupt, and, most notably, the effete of our nation. The Mitt Romneys and Paul Ryans of America. The Anderson Coopers and Chuck Todds who've never been in a brawl. Men who contain no true manliness in their entire being.

Sasha, your use of Mr. Smith and the scenes you picked are perfect... absolutely perfect. Thank you for this post. Thank you for your own great courage. And thank you for giving voice to exactly what is in my own heart.

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Ditto Jon below. As a Goldwater supporter in a blue color neighborhood, LBJ's great society, was the beginning decline of America, then there was only one choice, Ronald Reagan. We are in much bigger trouble today as a country. I will stay strong for Trump, and if DeSantis wins the primaries, I will support him, but I will stand with a winner, even when the elections are rigged.

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Sasha,

So true. So true. You have such a clear view and call out the craziness every column. Keep it up, and you rock!

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My biggest fear is if they can't find some way to disqualify Trump from running, then they will JFK him. They are scared to death of him being reelected because this time he knows how the game is played and he will destroy them and their deep state players.

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