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This was truly creative and brilliantly done. It was organized, timely, spellbinding and comprehensive in a way that not only exposes the hypocrisy of Christian haters but also makes it memorable. I very much look forward to the rest of the tale and the 2024 election. Subscribing to you and Tucker has been by far the best investment of the year.

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My only complaint, I could' ve continued reading & reading😂 Yes truly nailed the crazy. I remember the Peter Fonda meltdown. Throw in that Michael Rappaport - oh darn - then there's DeNiro, Crazy Kathy "Trump broke me" and too many to bore with a list. But wow this was a delight to read, & fun. Especially knowing it flowed from someone that WAS one of "them" once upon a time. I was also, until 1989. Indoctrinated by a communist witch lesbian as a young teen. She was my counselor! "Death to all men, castrate all men, Sisterhood is Powerful hell yeah!"✊🏾 I redeemed myself - four spoiled rotten male chauvinist (oops "misogynist" - I just dated myself too) grandsons and I love teaching them how to be *almost perfect privileged males - if only they were white it would be perfect & karma!

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I hope you listened to it as well. Sasha's verbal delivery on this one I'd outstanding as well.sexy and funny....WOW! Maybe the ability to communicate at that level is sexy too. Green eyes and funny too? Stick a fork in me Jesse, I'm done🤪😍🤣

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I did not, but I will now! Hey I have green eyes... oh nm, my voice is flatter than a real crepe - not those thick flapjacks most restaurants serve. Green eyes AND red hair is sexy whether male or female, do you agree? Gingers Rock! If I could appropriate I'd be a Scottish Ginger or a Geisha. Alas, I'm merely a great-grandma with a flat voice craving crepes! Take care!

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😂 you have just added a delightful addendum to Sasha’s midnight tale. I hope to see more, um, color commentary from you, Tina, Rebel of the Communist Witch Lesbian.

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Libertarian, thank you so much! Normally I'm shunned, then banned or suspended. I like it here and hope I can stay - I am behaving to the best of my ability😬 There is so much here, I wish I could spend the time and read more. I'm sure there are many talented, bright, funny, insightful writers and experts that I'm missing! The 60s and 70s - oh my! It was the best of times; it was the worst of times☮️🌸✌️ The best was the ability to stick our thumbs out and go anywhere in America, and feel safe. "WHAT HAPPENED!?" The worst was trying to find an unused space when hitching near a freeway entrance because it was overpopulated with other adventurous spirits and "others." Have a wonderful Christmas aka Holiday, and a Happy New Year!

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yes, Sasha is talented and this is a funny read. But 'SouthPark' already took down Reiner--who by the way, seems pretty right to me about the war machine, the CIA, and JFK. Wish he could connect the dots to nowadys, but no ones' perfect. However, I continue to question why so many of uh, free-thinking people let Trump, you know, grab them by their genitals (and specifically, how he would do anything to solve the problem). He didn't and he wouldn't. I don't believe in cvil war, I don't think revenge movies at the theater are the answer to the world's problems. I don't believe in forever wars, but talking to other countries' leaders instead. Also, Christians are fine, if they keep their superstitions to themselves and don't punish people for atheism.

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The phenomena of Christians punishing atheists is tiny compared to atheists punishing Christians. The French Revolution alone dominates the issue before we even get to the Bolsheviks and Mao.

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well....kind of skipped over the Crusades and Dark Ages. but kindly provide evidence though of how Christians are 'cheated' in the US, and please don't say 'because they don't get their own views imposed for everyone'. thanks.

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The target of the Crusades were Muslims not atheists with a lot of damage to Jews who are also not atheists. If there were atheists around in the Dark Ages, I am unware. Lots of fighting between Christians and pagans. Also between Nicaean Christians and the various Christians heresies (called such because they lost).

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thanks for scholarship, it flatters the audience as my college debate teacher used to say. I should have cited the enlightenment. In any case, Trump is not a religious man. By the way, 'because they lost' could also be said about Trump, in all burrows of his home town of NYC except Staten Island. Like people say about Desantis in FLA, can't the red team find a candidate who can win his home ? I mean, don't those people know him best, so why not support him?

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You guys make fun of Gaven, but he'd win California...

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The Crusades were defensive wars. You ever look into how Islam was spread? And where? And how quickly? They were ruthless, rapacious colonizers who warred their way all over the Middle East, North Africa, and then into Europe, where the Crusaders stopped them. And historians no better than to use the term "the Dark Ages." Might want to look into that as well. A term born of anti-Catholic Protestant propaganda is bound to not be totally on the level.

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Someone's ideas of the True, Good, and Beautiful will prevail and be behind whatever laws we have. Christians have as much right to proffer their views as atheists do theirs.

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proffer, huh? such a lawyeresque term... I think I was suggesting more forcefulness tho, with demands by law and so forth.

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Do you perhaps mean, "Christian-haters"?

I believe I know the point being made, it's just that to me, it reads as "Christians who hate"...I concur 100%, anyway.

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You are correct, Tex. Thanks for catching it.

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Wonderful column, Sasha! You’re so gifted at putting the fruits of your contemplation on paper in such an enjoyable way! Thank you!

I watched this show with my parents every single week. It was so healing for society- it mocked every human failing but never dehumanized. It studied all human paradoxes, right? Archie was a lovable racist bigot.

Meathead was an arrogant jerk who adored his wife.

Gloria was a joyful goofball.

Edith was a brilliant dingbat.

George was successful racist bigot.

Louise was one great mom and one smart cookie.

People are so much more complicated and interesting and wonderfully messy than the vacuous rules of intersectionality would suggest. I’ve always thought if this way of looking at the world could have remained, the world would be a much better place today.

I love my family- I don’t demand perfection of them and thank God they don’t demand it of me.

Thanks again Sasha! You’re the gift that keeps on giving!🎅🏻

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I love this! Can’t wait for the next part!

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Sasha and fellow readers, please excuse my diversion to another topic, but I think this is worth raising and I respectfully call your attention to this. I was absolutely floored when I read the results of Rasmussen's polling on mail-in voting fraud. Although Trump have had the means wrong, he is absolutely right that there was massive and widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. It is safe to say that Trump's instinct was correct:

"Seventeen percent (17%) of those who cast mail-in ballots in 2020 say they signed a ballot or ballot envelope on behalf of a friend or family member, with or without their permission. Heartland Institute officials noted that “forging a signature on a ballot or ballot envelope are fraudulent activities that invalidate votes.

Among all voters – not just those who voted by mail – 11% say a friend, family member, co-worker, or other acquaintance has admitted to them that they filled out a ballot on behalf of another person in 2020. Ten percent (10%) have a relative or acquaintance who has admitted to you that they cast a mail-in ballot in 2020 in a state other than their state of permanent residence, and eight percent (8%) say that a friend, family member, or organization, such as a political party, offer to pay or reward them for voting in the 2020 election." -- Rasmussen Reports, 12/11/2023

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/one_in_five_mail_in_voters_admit_they_cheated_in_2020_election

I was sure there was some of this illegal activity going on, but I had no idea of the magnitude of illegal voting. To be sure, this is a bipartisan problem. Both sides engage in it. With the collapse of trust and faith in government, is this the final straw? I am really shaken by this. Maybe I'm late to the game here, but since reading these results, I'm finally seeing what a sham American democracy has become. Whose flaming bad idea was it to institute mail-in voting for everybody, especially in a general election?! There's a reason mail-in ballots have been banned by almost all developed nations.

Stop the Damned Steal!

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I saw that story. I'd like to say I'm shocked and surprised. I'd like to..but in 2020 having received 4 mail-in ballots, I can't.

"I was sure there was some of this illegal activity going on, but I had no idea of the magnitude of illegal voting. To be sure, this is a bipartisan problem. Both sides engage in it."

I have been following Presidential Elections since Nixon v Kennedy. 2020 was unlike Anything I have ever seen!

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Agree with you regarding 2020. So many things seemed to be off kilter. These recent moves towards mail-in ballots and ranked choice will only lead to greater distrust and acrimony. The solution is so simple and clear.

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How about Play The Game By The Rules?

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Not like Algore in 2000 or Hillary.

2020 was unlike any election I've ever seen.

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No and why do you need to be absurd? I voted for Democrats in the last two general elections, but recognized that the way the 2020 election was conducted would be a catastrophe for the republic.

Here is the simple and easy solution:

Qualified citizens only

Register minimum 7 days in advance of Election Day

Federal holiday on Election Day

When the polls close, the polling closes. Period.

In-person only vote with only exception for legitimate absentee ballots

Voter ID required

Paper ballots, retained until the next general election is concluded.

Our general elections are the last nationally unifying event left. Vote on the same day and vote together. If we can't even do that, we're lousy citizens and we don't have a country worth even minimal sacrifice.

Inauguration Day used to be the other nationally unifying event, but the protests of the 2005 and 2017 inaugurations have ruined it. Because of the exceptionally bad handling of the 2020 general election and the inevitable (and equally poor) reaction, future inaugurations will be circled by security walls and 20,000 armed NG troops.

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Dem voter fraud will be much much worse in 2024 because they believe they are the only legal and moral option.

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I wish I could disagree with you...But I've got a bad feeling.

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When you believe that the opposition is "worse than Hitler", wouldn't you do anything to defeat him and feel justified in doing it?

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Unlike you frail pale gay fiftyish white cucks

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Then the converse is just as much likely to be true that even more people cheated and lied that they didn't.

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What a ridiculous conclusion.

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"There was an election that got overturned but the system did catch it"

Which Presidential Election? Cite Sources Please.

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1. Thanks.

2. I thought you were talking Presidential Elections.

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So, how do you feel about so many voters admitting to casting illegal ballots?

Is that a problem?

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The problem isn't voter fraud, no matter how representative the poll is or how many people told the truth. The problem is election fraud and the criminals are the people running the election in a small number of big cities.

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That was amusing but don't forget that Norman Lear and Carrol O'Connor were just as much hard core leftists as Reiner. Meathead was supposed to be the hero of the piece showing up the bigoted Archie. But it backfired on them and then became too popular to kill. Looking forward to the next installment.

btw, the government really was spying on the anti-war movement. Not only that but trying to provoke them into violence. There was a standing joke that all meetings had to have a workshop on blowing up the Statue of Liberty so the attendees could be identified as FBI. They really were glowies in those days with their short hair (Hoover was still running the show) and all. The FBI has switched sides, not changed tactics.

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The FBI showed up at anti war demonstrations wearing stiff black suits and carrying little cameras. We would point and laugh at them. They would knit their brows and scowl. There was an old joke that if the FBI dropped out of the American Communist Party there wouldn’t be enough members left to hold a meeting.

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Yes, they were also well known to have infiltrated the labor movement and provoked the kind of violence that would justify brutal crack downs from management or the police.

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To complete they list, the FBI also infiltrated the radical environmentalist movement. Their instructional manual, Ecodefense, has a whole chapter on how to spot FBI informers and provocateurs. Civil Rights movement was heavily infiltrated. Ron Karenga, inventor of Kwanza, was an asset. On the other side, the militia movement had a joke that the only members current on their dues were the FBI agents. It is estimated that about half the dues for the KKK were paid by the government. And out in another dimension, they were provoking Islamic violence. The attackers of the Motunes conference in TX were being run by the FBI and actually transported to the site. Fortunately, the FBI didn't tell the local cops, one of whom smoked the terrorists. Actually, I am not sure this is the complete list but generally anywhere anyone is advocating violence, look for the FBI.

It is probably older than that but the technique was perfected by the Okhrana (Czarist secret police). Their specialty was stirring up pogroms. They produced the Protocols of the Elders of Zion for this purpose. Perhaps someone will investigate where all the current attacks on Jews are coming from. There was also a shadowy connection with Stalin before the revolution. He appears to have been a double agent but it is unclear who is was actually working for.

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Wow. Any good books on this?

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I know there's a book on the young Stalin, whose thuggery was devoted to robberies and, of course, killing people. I don't know that it would have any of the info you're after, but it might. In fact, if dim memory serves, I think it does. I never read it, but I know about it, and think you might be able to discern a copy of it on Amazon.

( You may have seen the now rather famous photo of the Stalin of this period. He's rumpled, unshaven, blank looking. They've shown this photo to fourteen year old girls, who swoon at the sight of it. )

Stalin's pre - Commie psychopathy was prodigious. I think it was Simon Sebag Montefiore who summed up the difference between Hitler and Stalin in this way:

If Hitler invited you for the weekend, you'd have the plushest accomodations and the best food, the price for this being you'd have to listen to his hours - long monologues. But you'd leave on Monday morning, no less healthy for your wear. If Stalin invited you for the weekend, you couldn't be sure you'd see Monday morning.

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Richard and I agree on some things, folks...

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Dec 14, 2023·edited Dec 14, 2023

Exactly. Meathead became the character that the fans loved to hate and Archie became the character they loved and hated it.

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Reiner may be among the subjects of a new MK-Ultra.

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Looking forward to part 2!

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I lived in Chappaqua for 25yrs. Took me a while to understand why I could not relate to the elites there. I could relate to my plumber, contractor and barber just fine but they lived in more rural communities like Brewster and Salem.

Since then, I moved and, now with the last 4yrs of madness of these people, it's clear. I live in a rural community and relate to everyone.

Funny about that.

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Looking forward to next installment

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What a creative adaption, Sasha! Love it 👌

Anxiously awaiting parts 2 and 3 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Reiner is Jewish neuroticism on steroids ...my family is Jewish, we’re used to it but not at this totally off-the-wall strength. Reiner’s neuroticism would make director & writer Woody Allen - who put Jewish neuroticism front and center on the big silver screen - blush & cringe.

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He was great in "This is Spinal Tap" though.🤣

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Actors/actresses can be so good at their craft. It's when they begin to think that they're so important that their opinions must be heard and accepted that they sink into madness. My mother used to say that narcissist types like actors and politicians "start believing their own press notices".

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Meathead is an communist amplifier. A broken speaker of the deep state. He goes to 11.

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You rock, Sasha. Grammy nomination?!! I can hardly wait for part 2.

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