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I respectfully disagree. Maddow does sound like she's lying. Always has. I quickly saw in my old mother how Maddow could possess someone and disarm their judgement. Poor Rachel (paid a kazillion dolllars) suffered depression and cried (authenticity!) and had to take the horizontal when the world was too cruel, and yet she was so brave, getting up with her fist in the air to fight. It was all so fake, so transparent. I could never understand how anyone bought into her crap and manipulations and the irritating use off emotion. She exudes ego and self-absorption. She loves her own voice. She is one more narcissistic gal in a sea of narcissism. It's a wonder to me that anyone thinks she reads as sincere and a lot of people do not, even here in Brooklyn. She's a joke but also pretty lethal. A seriously bad combination.

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I have family members that quite literally think she's some sort of holy saint. We're dealing with pod people.

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FRM

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Claudia, your description of Maddow is an accurate one. Good that you could see through her so easily.

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This is what I was coming to say also. She sounds like she's lying and looks like a crazy person and always has.

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There are numerous good reasons just why women were kept well away from politics and women like Maddow typifies all of them . No country or society can long endure the political empowerment of deranged women

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You may well be correct, but I happen to disagree with you. I don’t really go in for group identities and tend to prefer individuals, as temperament, traits, personality type, and so on, account for so much. I do agree that Maddow’s voice and presence are maddening and completely idiotic, but to my taste, Mr. Adam Schiff & Kinzinger & Biden, and the list goes on, are no better. Rather than discriminating based on sex, I would think that we might care more about personality type, decency, the degree and scope of a person’s moral imagination, and their willingness and grace to listen, interpret, and discern well.

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Nice song. Thanks for sharing.

Rachel Maddow 🤮🤮🤮 she’s beyond feeling empathy, just an angry woman pushing hate and lies.

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She's a well-paid officer of propaganda. lol. Enjoys her power and influence. Don't believe she's nearly as popular, hemorrhaging audiences to places like right here!! Folks peeling off. Since HRC lost, the DNC and its propagandists have gone full-squirrel-nutty. lol They can't handle the fracking fact they lost the working class to middle-class to DJT. lol Rachel is like the Hollywood answer for "news". lol

Just laughing about the fact rank-and-file of the Teamsters are 60% Trump over Harris.Teamsters are in Hollywood. Local 399

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“Hysterical Kamala Harris parody ad goes viral after being banned by Gavin Newsom.” (6 min)

Sky News Australia. Sept 19, 2024

https://youtu.be/NIz-aoZFzM4?si=Wq1dmUOlmqww3j2d

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Seva, that parody was awesome because it’s so true! Thanks.

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Newsom apparently received the same treatment. While politically accurate, I know I wouldn’t want my voice stollen.

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Sasha,, I recently found you on the internet and have enjoyed, in fact, look forward to every one of your emails. I just read and watched this email and was fascinated by it. Like RFK Jr. I was raised a Kennedy Democrat but left the party in the late 90's, early 2000 because of the likes of Larry Elder,

Rush Limbaugh and many others but, most importantly, Andrew Breitbart. It destroyed my marriage of 35 years but I have never felt more free and at peace. I have a new life now and, although it was a very rough patch with my three lovely children, they embrace my new relationship with my also Conservative partner. Probably too ,much information but your journey compelled me to share my journey. Keep up the GREAT work. Robin

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Thanks for sharing your journey. It must have been tough but at least it seems you feel it has been worth it. I get the impression that Sasha’s journey has been really rough also. It seems to me that while it is in part about love of America, a greater driving force is love of humanity and protection of children.

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"Too much information"? Nah - you have said it very diplomatically! Sounds like you expelled that demon that was trying to possess your mind before it got control and then discovered you were in a relationship with someone who preferred to embrace his own demon more than you . . . how horrible!

Nice to hear the happy ending to your story despite the long journey. Hats off to your husband for taking you on with your three kids and may he get his reward in heaven because he has walked a road less travelled only possible because you believed in him!

It is a great story - four people saved from destruction by the demonic "blob", not only one. What a hero! Although I'm sure it was not easy at times.

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Living with a mindset that is the complete opposite of our own is hell on every level and in every way, 24/7. Congratulations on having the brains , the will, and the courage to get out.

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Powerful piece, Sasha. Well done.

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Glenn Greenwald is my favorite journalist. I watch pretty much everything he comes out with. Very smart, sane and insightful. I recommend starting at the 27 min point of this video and watching till the end where he’s not only talking about Trump being demonized for the past 8 years but also Putin. All during the Cold War years with the Soviet Union it was considered basic common sense to keep Russia and China apart. Especially though, in the past 8 years the fanatics who rule us have not only done everything possible to force Russia into an alliance with China but also to demonize both Trump and Putin as “another Hitler” who are now working together and simply must be stopped. They’ve done immense damage to America and to the entire world which is ever closer to WW3. Truly insane.

“What Caused the Second Trump Assassination Attempt.” (34 min)

Glenn Greenwald. Sept 17, 2024

https://youtu.be/vWW9VewdYaM?si=cKBaQWKFr_zGrMhq

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This article on Persuasion says “the United States needs a minimally functional democracy on its southern border.” In what sense is America still a functional democracy? And if democrats cared about border security we wouldn’t have had an open southern border for the past 3.5 years. In what sense does America even still exist as a country?

“Americans should care about this, because the United States needs a minimally functional democracy on its southern border. The institutional degradation Mexico is experiencing, along with its government’s apparent willingness to cede large chunks of territory to drug cartels, is incompatible with Mexico’s long-term prosperity and stability. And a poor and unstable Mexico is not just an economic drag on the United States, it’s also the ultimate push factor for migration. Nobody wants this. But it’s no longer clear that it can still be stopped.”

“The Mexican State is Being Vandalized.”

“Hollowing out courts while playing footsie with the cartels, Mexico’s President AMLO is leaving office, but not power.”

Persuasion. Sept 16, 2024

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-mexican-state-is-being-vandalized?r=cldfa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webB

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His proposal about the judiciary is that judges be elected as is common here.

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Sasha continues to factually review the series of gaslighting mendacity and slippery slope of culture abomination caused originally by the neocons obsession with Putin and transferred to Trump— both primary disrupters in their spheres working for the real development of their countries…..not merely for power as purpose nor control as consequence….

Sasha wants to take a shot at galvanizing a crew with the Sowells, the Weiss’s, Shellenbergers, Weinsteins— all the socio- economic journalist independent thinkers— each their own person—- to join the Musks, the Shanahans, the GABBARDS….

THE LIST IS LEGION of the men and women REAL PEOPLE who have and are still recognizing the TRUTH as distinct from the years of very strategic propaganda begun in force with “fundamentally transforming” a western civilization built upon spiritual leadership and principles….

The PIED PIPER that has dominated requires a legion of courageous INDIVIDUALS to exterminate the distortions and civil ignorance pervading our society…. ASAP! Out

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Heartfelt song, thanks Sasha. Glad you’re long over Maddow. Other than RFK I can’t think of one sane, rational liberal around today. Politician or media. Of course R’s have their fakers & manipulators ( looking at you Lindsey Graham). But the left takes the hatred & lies to a whole new level. Did you hear the TDS affected diatribe from Whoopi today? Wow. Clinton & her disgust for the deplorable Trump supporters. “ Put them in reeducation camps”. Most regular people on the left hate Trump simply because they’re told to by these talking heads. If they spent any time actually listening to Trump, especially his one on one discussions, they might have an awakening like you Sasha. I don’t know what the powers that be have in mind but it’s not good. The fact that they can seriously put a candidate like Harris out there for POTUS shows that they have something pretty awful in mind for our country.

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If you have any doubts about Harris, take a quick look at that bozo she picked as a running mate. Yes, you are judged by the company you keep.

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yet, I like Walz better than Harris. He's more sincere.

Do you suppose the MC's on MSNBC secretly argue off air, 'no I"M the mad prophet! Rachel is Sybil the Soothsayer.'?

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So sincere Mn. education rank has dropped from 7 to 17 nationally. And he's in favor of cutting off young female body parts even if it's against the wishes of the parents.

This, the soldier who ran AWAY from the battle instead of toward it.

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He may believe in things that you don't, but what do these things have to do with sincerity? Also, being in the military for as long as he was is certainly good enough for me. Better than I having to enlist! Finally, number 17 is still pretty good. I would suspect it's higher than Oklahoma for example...

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Ben, don’t feed the Russian trolls on this page…

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If RFK Jr is a rational Democrat this country is fucked.

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He's more rational than most democrats, because he still believes in civil liberties, is against censorship, is for peace and not forever wars like Kamala/Biden, and is even for comedy, which sticks in their butts dems now cancel. So...hopefully, the country should listen to RFK, Jr. MORE, to avoid being fcked.

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He believe in stuff as long as it benefits Republicans not a step more and I wont listen to RFK Jr and Bret Weinstein especially after hearing Brett comments on half the country.

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I do not know who Bret Weinstein is. sorry, on that. Now, if you were talking about Howard Stern, a person who I know to have said ugly things about half the country, we are in agreement. Right?

but RFK, Jr., as you or I, if we were polling 3, 5 and even higher percentile in some states, and especially the swing ones, would expect to have the presumptive nominee schedule a meeting with us. It most likely would not even had to have been Kamala--who is the one who has no genuine beliefs or policies that could not be immediately changed or swayed for expediency, just a meeting. So, what would YOU do? if your presence in some swing states meant her certain victory there? He did the right thing. The first amendment is the most important one, and the admitted media censorship and FBI control as well as suppression of the Hunter laptop thing right before the election (MISINFORMATION!---and don't think about what he was doing on all those foreign plane rides with the prez!), but also of course Covid-questions and artificial elevation of COVID lies as unquestioned facts, is already enough to justify his decision. He is still on the ballot in my state and I intend to vote for him. of course, all the awful sycophants on blue team media can go into overdrive on the ad hom insults, choice words, I guess, hashtag, roadkill, hashtag bear, hashtag worm in brain, ho ho ho, belch, as if such stupid conformity beats the first and fourth amendments. They don't. He is an attorney who has fought many more good causes than Kamala. Only the DNC ordered you guys to anoint her without competition and if anyone disagrees, shout them down that they are a sexist and a racist. !! Cancel them. !! Why would he want to benefit those awful undemocratic DNC zombies?

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They are just as much zombies as they calling MAGA cults

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Maybe, we'll see.

But as I was discussing with a staunch 'anyone but Trump' family member, I did not like how he was waving away anything bad or questionable or unsavory or anti-democracy thing the blue team might do---as long as Trump loses it would be worth it, he asserted. I am blue, but Neil Young doesn't tell me what to do. What's the point if we're not law-abiding and democratic and anti-war and fair press and free speech anymore?

Finally, our anointed candidate does even fewer press conferences than Joe Biden. This is a problem. Is she afraid of people? Compare with I know, 'Hitler' Trump, who sat in for the entire 'Gutfeld' show last night. and guess what? the way she is behaving now is the way she always behaved in California, as I live here in the Bay.

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Good one Sasha. Wow - what's up with Nicole Shanahan? She's come out of nowhere to be the best advocate for the Right I've ever seen. What a gem.

Here's a thought: Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged suggested that all productive people should go on strike if certain demands are not met. I don't remember the demands. Suppose we make clear that we will all be on strike if Kamala wins. Just thinking away here.

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Nicole got a taste of what they have in store for all the rest of us. We need to all sober up, the alcohol is running out and the party is almost over.

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That pretty much sums up our situation!

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Thanks Andrew, I read everything she wrote back in the 50’s and 60’s. Wouldn’t she be a lovely voice of sanity in this insane day and age!

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now you're going to bug me until I find out the demands!

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I forgot, Galt's strike wasn't about making demands it was about granting demands. Here's an excerpt from his big speech:

“We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one’s happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

“There is a difference between our strike and all those you’ve practiced for centuries: our strike consists, not of making demands, but of granting them. We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality—the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind.

“We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. We do not need you.

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First really constructive idea I’ve heard. We’d need a galvanizing leader and critical mass and, of course, clear demands.

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I’m just so tired of it all. I’ll vote come November but I’m done paying attention to anymore news leading up the the election. I hate that I’m tired but I am. I’ll do my part.

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It’s definitely exhausting! And it negatively affects my mental health. Watching that TikTok interview of the severely ignorant women who thought Trump was the root of evil was pretty depressing to me, because I know there are millions more people that are equally brainwashed and that they might swing the election towards Kamala. It’s infuriating really…

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I get it . I have almost totally stopped watching television and I pared WAY down on what I get off the internet. I rely on Tucker's morning update and everything else he puts out, Jeff Childers and Sasha for "news."

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The interviewees were an excellent example of the Democratic party's (and the media's) indoctrination of Americans. How can anyone think that the past 4 years have been anything but a rapidly sinking democracy (under Biden/Harris) and expect something different by voting for Harris?

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Yes it baffles the mind doesn’t it?

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The US is experiencing a 'psychotic-break', an induced one.

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Interesting take and a good description.

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Somewhat successful psychological warfare, would also work.

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That break happened a LONG time ago.

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I Want to Be Perfectly Clear Here: Kamala Harris Is a Monster

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/09/18/i-want-to-be-perfectly-clear-here-kamala-harris-is-a-monster-n3794681

It puts a whole new spin on the gun-grabber moniker when she's threatening law-abiding residents that she now has the authority to - and will be - sending her brownshirts marching into your home at HER discretion to ascertain your weapon is secured properly.

And you can't do jack about it.

https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1836411430012133747?

"...Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of YOUR LOCKED HOME doesn't mean we're not going to walk in and check that you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs..."

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While I agree she is horrible on the Constitution, Is it possible that the tape was manipulated? Her face is blurred too much.

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Thanks again for your honesty and deep insight into how deeply us "progressives" have abandoned rationality for fear and hatred and shared self-delusion. I am not sure where we go from here.

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We go into the dystopian universe of 1984.

Sorry we already have.

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Sep 19Edited

Sasha, First there’s is nothing irresponsible about saying they are eating the dogs and cats. The media is lying again. Did you see the video of the police who arrested a woman for doing just that?

However it’s worse than that. The uncomfortable truth is it’s most likely part of Santeria rituals and not that these folks are hungry. Wait till that comes out! Just like you realized Maddow was lying all those years it’s happening again now.

Harris is not leading in the polls. It’s not possible that someone who has been VP for almost 4 yrs, with approval numbers in the 30’s is suddenly within weeks neck and neck with Donald Trump. You understand media and marketing…it’s not possible in 6 weeks.

You are being lied to again. That is what’s going on here.

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Sep 19Edited

There is no mass pets being stolen and killed just drop the whole bullshit angle and move on.

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lol…my brother or sister you clearly are being naive. Have you been to Haiti or know anything about Santeria? Mass? How do you define that? It’s happening, it’s not a lie. Whether it happened 1 time or 20 times.

It’s happening and they are being arrested. Americans will soon find out what happens when you import people who practice Santeria into your town.

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Canton Ohio. Woman held on $100,000 bond for animal abuse. She stomped a cat to death (crushed his head) with eye witnesses.

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There is NO mass incidents in America of this happening just shut the fuck up about that.

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It doesn't have to be a "mass incident".......in fact it doesn't have to occur at all.

If you want to vote for someone who says America is closely aligned with North Korea, who wants to take private insurance away from 200M people, who wants to enforce price controls but offers no details how, and wants to raise taxes, then go ahead. But first give an example of any city, county, state, or government that taxed its way to prosperity.

Or are taxes something that someone else has to pay?

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Harris is now N Korea now?

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She said it, dufus, not me

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Sep 19Edited

Me thinks thou protesteth too much.

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ah, oh. when I read such as this, I worry if FBI demands for the misinformation label again...

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You got nothing just stop

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I never believed any of them. I voted for Bill Clinton, but Hillary gave me the creeps. I never voted for another democrat after the Clinton’s. Maddow is too strange to believe, never watched her show.

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I dislike her to the point that if I see her in even a short clip I have to change the channel. I still remember her saying that if we got the shot we would absolutely not contract covid. There is no more sanctimonious person anywhere on tv.

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she is not a journalist, but a pundit, which is okay as long as we differentiate and don't get confused. I suppose like Sasha she did not immediately make my skin crawl only because of her California familiarity (to us). But she's more partisan than Haney, that point cannot be disputed.

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