That thing inside us that urges us to Not be victims, but to do the right thing, is integrity. Epictetus said it best: “If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.”
Is it a coincidence that Critical Race Theory (CRT) combined with the advent of social media has given an astronomically off the charts rise in children thinking they were born in the wrong body? When “teachers” indoctrinate CRT to young white children, they begin to hate themselves; they are too young to understand that their young minds are being manipulated by an illogical theory. They, in turn, become victims since it “works” in 21st century America.
Integrity? OK, but I'm going with conscience first. Everybody's got one, and it requires integrity to do the next right thing. C.S. Lewis developed this brilliantly in Mere Christianity. Thus proving the existence of God.
Yes! And I wish Sasha and others would stop writing “Black” with a capital B (while using a lower case W for (W)hites. In fact, EVERY race OTHER THAN “Whites” is capitalized. It’s an adjunct to CRT that has —strangely — become accepted by people who don’t accept the ideas behind CRT.
Who would have thought that all those people in pussy hats didn't amount to anything, but the guy who talked about grabbing them would turn out to be the guy who brought the sanity back? Turns out he was the ultimate feminist...
You touch on the most important cornerstone of living a happy and fullfilled life....integrity. Getting up in the morning and knowing you did the right thing when challenged. Everything else is superficial. Sounds corny but it makes life worth living regardless of wealth or status. Congratulations and thank you for joining the 2nd revolution to free America from tyranny.
Trans ideology strips identity from children just when they are discovering who they are. This is because, like morality, they’re cutting all moorings and anchors of self, leaving the next generation bereft of any point of reference or framing for their nature and purpose. This is yet another seismic shift in their development which accommodates transforming them into anything ghastly the powers that shouldn’t be desire.
But more importantly to the parasite predators at the top pushing this vile sickness down upon us: The primary objective of this orchestrated trans movement is to get rid of and delegitimize age-of-consent laws by pretending little kids are actually “little adults”, mature enough to decide anything for themselves, so that when they are raped by actual adults its “consensual”. In the horrific linked which in very deep detail shows just how advanced the pedophile war on the next generation is, an ACLU lawyer argues that children as young as two know whether they are trans or not, and that castrating them is their choice, meanwhile the WHO is pushing masturbation from birth into the global school curriculum: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/demons-disguised-as-guardians-philanthropic
Pedophilia is rising and they stripped civics out of school curriculums specifically to suppress citizen action from stepping in and ending vile madness just like this: Podesta talks creating compliant citizenry by doing so: https://tritorch.com/degradation/podestaDropCivics.png [image]
Like so many families, ours was also impacted by the trans social contagion. In 2018, our middle school son came home one day and announced he was trans, and told his father and I we had to start calling him by the girl's name he had chosen or else we'd be "dead-naming" him. After we recovered from that blindside, we sat him down and explained the concept of ADOLESCENCE to him. Not too long after (because it takes a while to eradicate a mind virus), sanity returned and he extricated himself from the cult, and found a new group of (real) friends. While we didn't exactly dodge that bullet, thankfully it only grazed us.
Exactly this. And the crazy loons in Albany are continuing to push these horrible bills making minors in charge of their health. It’s sickening and there’s hardly any push back :(
Thank you for talking about that! It’s been happening gradually. But it is here! There is a huge number of pedophiles and we don’t know how bad it really is!
Sasha, this piece is phenomenal. You put into words what so many of us have been feeling but haven’t always been able to articulate. The sheer level of intellectual fragility in our culture today is staggering—it’s not just that bad ideas are spreading, but that people are terrified of words themselves. 🎯
Reading The Coddling of the American Mind and watching the documentary in 2024 was incredibly insightful and illuminating. The ideas presented there opened my eyes to the fragility that has taken hold in our society, and I highly recommend anyone read the book or watch the film. Now, I’m finishing up The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad, which builds on those same concepts and offers even more depth into how these toxic ideologies are spreading and infecting our common sense.
Having spent a decade in Portland, Oregon, I’ve seen firsthand how these ideologies have seeped into every corner of life—especially in universities and even in progressive Christian spaces.
Your point about the Greatest Generation vs. today’s victimhood-obsessed mindset is so spot-on. This past summer during the Olympics, I saw it in real-time—those of us standing up for women’s sports were branded as bigots by the same progressive Christians who claim to champion justice. It was a déjà vu moment, eerily reminiscent of the ideological lockdowns of the pandemic. That’s when it hit me: these people haven’t changed at all. The dogma just shifted.
I’m grateful to have clawed my way out of those spaces, and I resonate so deeply with your call for a cultural course correction. We have to push back. It’s not about being mean or contrarian—it’s about saving our ability to think freely before it’s too late.
Thank you for writing this. More people need to wake up.
Sasha-- What you're talking about doing is one of the heaviest lifts ever. We've been forced down this path many of us absolutely do not want for several decades. It will take a monumental shift to counteract, at the least.
But then again--we just had a Super Bowl where Trump was cheered and Taylor Swift was booed. So maybe there's hope....
It goes beyond that Liberals and Conservatives have hated each other guts since the 2000s its become a game of one upmanship and they are not even hiding it see the Superbowl.
Conservatives don’t hate liberals guts. We want mental illness to be addressed. We want real science and transparency. We want informed consent, no medical mandates. We want honesty and integrity, hard workers and legal immigrants. We want people to obey the law and not be released because they can’t afford bail. We want voter ID. We want less government. We want more of our hard earned $$$ in our pockets and not overseas. I could go on and on.
I read Brietbart, American Greatness, Townhall, Pjmedia, Redstate and NYpost its an outright hate now. By the way you only want to follow the laws when it benefits the GOP never anytime else. Voter ID and GOP still temper tantrum when they lose see Wisconsin. This amount of horseshit GOP produce is just as bad as the Democrats.
There are some people on the right, mostly in media, who show hatred and glee against the left. There isn’t a good excuse for it, despite the ongoing vile hatred espoused since 2015 by an overwhelming part of the left. But I don’t see it as part of discussions with my friends. But I still see it in people I know on the left. They usually say “but not you” when slurring the right. As, if that makes the comments better. What I mostly see on the right is joy because the heavy yoke of the left has been lifted (some) and there is optimism that it will be dismantled further. I have always tried hard not to hate anyone. But things over the last 10 years really made that very difficult. Perhaps if we all try to stop the hate, we will succeed. But it won’t happen if each side says “you first”. Let’s each try to stop the hate and focus on fixing our country, together.
So Joe Biden has been grifting the U.S. for 50 years with his entire family, and I get it; that's the way he learned how government worked and it was cooperation on both sides of the isle. And then maybe Eisenhower, or Kennedy started to see the grift and started stirring the pot, and you see what happened. Now Elon and Trump are laying this swamp/deep state/administrative unelected grift bare and the party most entwined in it is screaming like a coyote caught in a leg trap. Not even you HL3 can believe in this crap anymore. To paraphrase Schmucky Chumer, Trump has release the whirlwind and it's going to be glorious to watch the criminals caught up in it!
Watch Mike Benz explain how the Trans movement was used to provide rent-a-riot services to the CIA by USAID for regime change purposes. As in America it has been a tool for election manipulation.
Sasha writes yet another epic column that nails it. Fully recognizing and acknowledging actual reality, aptly put as "uncoddling", is the only way to stop this pathelogical psychosis the Left has created and promoted.
“True suffering” crushes far more than it strengthens. We’d be much better off without it and that’s one of the many ways AI can make our fallen world a better place. There’s just way too much suffering in it now. For many our world is simply Hell on earth.
Indeed most Americans have never experienced anything like the poverty in Africa, Central and South America, Asia, China, India or the Middle East. Our military keeps them blissfully in the dark about how badly 80% of the world suffers daily. There is a reason billions of people would risk everything to leave their families and try to get to the US or EU. I thank Jesus every night he put me in America.
Even many Americans suffer daily from things like chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and both on top of something like Lyme disease or all the many other diseases and ailments that afflict so many and are like being in Hell and endlessly being tormented by Satan’s demons with their pitchforks. And this is by no means exaggeration. I personally saw my brother suffer from chronic pain due to nerve damage by the AIDS virus and I’ve read books by people living with chronic pain and their daily struggle to find a way out of it. This is one of the many reasons why I’m such a big fan of AI since it will enable them to escape the nightmare they live in. I’ll be 75 in May but feel like a healthy young man with the many memories of an old man. I want to continue like this and even improve my good fortune and I believe AI will enable me to do this. I feel very inspired by this trust in AI. Plus we’ll all have digital human friends that we’ll be able to talk to at any time about anything from health to religion or any thing at all. That’d be very nice.
Now we know the Obama-Biden Regimes used 10,000 federal employees and billions of our tax money to export this self-induced insanity to other countries. After their meltdown the crazies are now threatening to shut down the government to stop Trump from looking any deeper. Fight on!!!
You missed 2 zeroes; over 1,000,000 federal employees and countless state and local government employees, especially teachers and professors, undermined Trump and our elected officials. They are traitors and cowards.
We got to 2024 with the Left handing over the election to Trump because enough is enough. Mental illness is real, so is TDS, it wasn’t being addressed and so America said NO.
The fight for integrity or common sense has started. The corrupt establishment which includes the media doesn’t want to lose the gravy train that Elon and his smart young DOGE team is uncovering. You can see examples of so many Executive Actions being put on hold by corrupt activist judges. I have faith that the Trump coalition team was prepared for this fight.
I’ve asked that and so have others but there’s never a response. The media started doing that though after George Floyd died from a heart attack and fentanyl overdose and the media claimed he’d been murdered by a racist white cop, that AmeriKKKa was permeated with white racism, aka “systemic racism” and that people needed to vote for democrats who were committed to fighting and stopping it. The capital letter in Black was meant to show respect for blacks while the lower case letter in white was meant to show that racist whites deserve no respect. The left has severely damaged America in many ways, poisoning race relations for political gain was only one of them. Others were open borders to import illegals and the war on meritocracy which was being replaced with equity aka race based equal outcomes. The left is insane. I like Sasha but that always annoys me and I wish she’d stop it.
Or, how about we stop using “white”? It is so offensive. For example, I am a freckled, redheded, female of Northern European/scandinavian descent. “White”just irritates me because I am not. I am spotted.
Millions think you have a great reputation, Sasha. So, carry on.
That thing inside us that urges us to Not be victims, but to do the right thing, is integrity. Epictetus said it best: “If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.”
Is it a coincidence that Critical Race Theory (CRT) combined with the advent of social media has given an astronomically off the charts rise in children thinking they were born in the wrong body? When “teachers” indoctrinate CRT to young white children, they begin to hate themselves; they are too young to understand that their young minds are being manipulated by an illogical theory. They, in turn, become victims since it “works” in 21st century America.
Not today, Satan!
I wish I could like this more than once!
Integrity? OK, but I'm going with conscience first. Everybody's got one, and it requires integrity to do the next right thing. C.S. Lewis developed this brilliantly in Mere Christianity. Thus proving the existence of God.
Thank God for giving us C.S. Lewis!
Yes! And I wish Sasha and others would stop writing “Black” with a capital B (while using a lower case W for (W)hites. In fact, EVERY race OTHER THAN “Whites” is capitalized. It’s an adjunct to CRT that has —strangely — become accepted by people who don’t accept the ideas behind CRT.
Epictetus had it right !
Who would have thought that all those people in pussy hats didn't amount to anything, but the guy who talked about grabbing them would turn out to be the guy who brought the sanity back? Turns out he was the ultimate feminist...
Always was…
Did anyone notice that when the young girls and women gathered around Trump, it wasn't in the cringy sort of way of Biden sniffing and pawing?
I always wondered how women viewing Biden make these young girls and they mothers visibly uncomfortable, and no one said anything!
You touch on the most important cornerstone of living a happy and fullfilled life....integrity. Getting up in the morning and knowing you did the right thing when challenged. Everything else is superficial. Sounds corny but it makes life worth living regardless of wealth or status. Congratulations and thank you for joining the 2nd revolution to free America from tyranny.
Dick Minnis removingthecataract.substack.com
Trans ideology strips identity from children just when they are discovering who they are. This is because, like morality, they’re cutting all moorings and anchors of self, leaving the next generation bereft of any point of reference or framing for their nature and purpose. This is yet another seismic shift in their development which accommodates transforming them into anything ghastly the powers that shouldn’t be desire.
But more importantly to the parasite predators at the top pushing this vile sickness down upon us: The primary objective of this orchestrated trans movement is to get rid of and delegitimize age-of-consent laws by pretending little kids are actually “little adults”, mature enough to decide anything for themselves, so that when they are raped by actual adults its “consensual”. In the horrific linked which in very deep detail shows just how advanced the pedophile war on the next generation is, an ACLU lawyer argues that children as young as two know whether they are trans or not, and that castrating them is their choice, meanwhile the WHO is pushing masturbation from birth into the global school curriculum: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/demons-disguised-as-guardians-philanthropic
Pedophilia is rising and they stripped civics out of school curriculums specifically to suppress citizen action from stepping in and ending vile madness just like this: Podesta talks creating compliant citizenry by doing so: https://tritorch.com/degradation/podestaDropCivics.png [image]
Like so many families, ours was also impacted by the trans social contagion. In 2018, our middle school son came home one day and announced he was trans, and told his father and I we had to start calling him by the girl's name he had chosen or else we'd be "dead-naming" him. After we recovered from that blindside, we sat him down and explained the concept of ADOLESCENCE to him. Not too long after (because it takes a while to eradicate a mind virus), sanity returned and he extricated himself from the cult, and found a new group of (real) friends. While we didn't exactly dodge that bullet, thankfully it only grazed us.
Exactly this. And the crazy loons in Albany are continuing to push these horrible bills making minors in charge of their health. It’s sickening and there’s hardly any push back :(
Thank you for talking about that! It’s been happening gradually. But it is here! There is a huge number of pedophiles and we don’t know how bad it really is!
Sasha, this piece is phenomenal. You put into words what so many of us have been feeling but haven’t always been able to articulate. The sheer level of intellectual fragility in our culture today is staggering—it’s not just that bad ideas are spreading, but that people are terrified of words themselves. 🎯
Reading The Coddling of the American Mind and watching the documentary in 2024 was incredibly insightful and illuminating. The ideas presented there opened my eyes to the fragility that has taken hold in our society, and I highly recommend anyone read the book or watch the film. Now, I’m finishing up The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad, which builds on those same concepts and offers even more depth into how these toxic ideologies are spreading and infecting our common sense.
Having spent a decade in Portland, Oregon, I’ve seen firsthand how these ideologies have seeped into every corner of life—especially in universities and even in progressive Christian spaces.
Your point about the Greatest Generation vs. today’s victimhood-obsessed mindset is so spot-on. This past summer during the Olympics, I saw it in real-time—those of us standing up for women’s sports were branded as bigots by the same progressive Christians who claim to champion justice. It was a déjà vu moment, eerily reminiscent of the ideological lockdowns of the pandemic. That’s when it hit me: these people haven’t changed at all. The dogma just shifted.
I’m grateful to have clawed my way out of those spaces, and I resonate so deeply with your call for a cultural course correction. We have to push back. It’s not about being mean or contrarian—it’s about saving our ability to think freely before it’s too late.
Thank you for writing this. More people need to wake up.
Portland is one of the wokest and it is hard to live here as a Conservative. Lost two grandchildren to the woke mind trans virus.
So sad to hear. Maybe with the current societal course-correction, they too will course-correct.
I hope someone can rescue your grandchildren still. Must be devastating, Chris.
"We have to push back." 💯🎯
Sasha-- What you're talking about doing is one of the heaviest lifts ever. We've been forced down this path many of us absolutely do not want for several decades. It will take a monumental shift to counteract, at the least.
But then again--we just had a Super Bowl where Trump was cheered and Taylor Swift was booed. So maybe there's hope....
It also shows you how bitter, vengeful and angry MAGA still is revealing this very much divided country.
It's almost like MAGA has every right to be those things after 8 years of systematic persecution
Ya think?
It goes beyond that Liberals and Conservatives have hated each other guts since the 2000s its become a game of one upmanship and they are not even hiding it see the Superbowl.
Conservatives don’t hate liberals guts. We want mental illness to be addressed. We want real science and transparency. We want informed consent, no medical mandates. We want honesty and integrity, hard workers and legal immigrants. We want people to obey the law and not be released because they can’t afford bail. We want voter ID. We want less government. We want more of our hard earned $$$ in our pockets and not overseas. I could go on and on.
I read Brietbart, American Greatness, Townhall, Pjmedia, Redstate and NYpost its an outright hate now. By the way you only want to follow the laws when it benefits the GOP never anytime else. Voter ID and GOP still temper tantrum when they lose see Wisconsin. This amount of horseshit GOP produce is just as bad as the Democrats.
There are some people on the right, mostly in media, who show hatred and glee against the left. There isn’t a good excuse for it, despite the ongoing vile hatred espoused since 2015 by an overwhelming part of the left. But I don’t see it as part of discussions with my friends. But I still see it in people I know on the left. They usually say “but not you” when slurring the right. As, if that makes the comments better. What I mostly see on the right is joy because the heavy yoke of the left has been lifted (some) and there is optimism that it will be dismantled further. I have always tried hard not to hate anyone. But things over the last 10 years really made that very difficult. Perhaps if we all try to stop the hate, we will succeed. But it won’t happen if each side says “you first”. Let’s each try to stop the hate and focus on fixing our country, together.
You mean America is divided between the normies and the degenerate, weirdo, haters. Fixed it for ya.
Ie anybody who doesnt worship Trump.
Yep, America is still divided--between the normies and the degenerate, weirdo, haters. But, turns out the normies are in the majority--thank God.
So Joe Biden has been grifting the U.S. for 50 years with his entire family, and I get it; that's the way he learned how government worked and it was cooperation on both sides of the isle. And then maybe Eisenhower, or Kennedy started to see the grift and started stirring the pot, and you see what happened. Now Elon and Trump are laying this swamp/deep state/administrative unelected grift bare and the party most entwined in it is screaming like a coyote caught in a leg trap. Not even you HL3 can believe in this crap anymore. To paraphrase Schmucky Chumer, Trump has release the whirlwind and it's going to be glorious to watch the criminals caught up in it!
I love your podcasts. They are so soothing to listen to while you hit me between the eyes with truth. I love them. I wish there were more! Thank you!
Watch Mike Benz explain how the Trans movement was used to provide rent-a-riot services to the CIA by USAID for regime change purposes. As in America it has been a tool for election manipulation.
Where can I watch?
Sasha writes yet another epic column that nails it. Fully recognizing and acknowledging actual reality, aptly put as "uncoddling", is the only way to stop this pathelogical psychosis the Left has created and promoted.
Thank you, Sasha. I needed to hear this today! Life is tough a d full of suffering for a reason. We cannot know true joy without true suffering.
I love you brave lady!
“True suffering” crushes far more than it strengthens. We’d be much better off without it and that’s one of the many ways AI can make our fallen world a better place. There’s just way too much suffering in it now. For many our world is simply Hell on earth.
Indeed most Americans have never experienced anything like the poverty in Africa, Central and South America, Asia, China, India or the Middle East. Our military keeps them blissfully in the dark about how badly 80% of the world suffers daily. There is a reason billions of people would risk everything to leave their families and try to get to the US or EU. I thank Jesus every night he put me in America.
Even many Americans suffer daily from things like chronic fatigue, chronic pain, and both on top of something like Lyme disease or all the many other diseases and ailments that afflict so many and are like being in Hell and endlessly being tormented by Satan’s demons with their pitchforks. And this is by no means exaggeration. I personally saw my brother suffer from chronic pain due to nerve damage by the AIDS virus and I’ve read books by people living with chronic pain and their daily struggle to find a way out of it. This is one of the many reasons why I’m such a big fan of AI since it will enable them to escape the nightmare they live in. I’ll be 75 in May but feel like a healthy young man with the many memories of an old man. I want to continue like this and even improve my good fortune and I believe AI will enable me to do this. I feel very inspired by this trust in AI. Plus we’ll all have digital human friends that we’ll be able to talk to at any time about anything from health to religion or any thing at all. That’d be very nice.
An epic and perfectly timed column.
Now we know the Obama-Biden Regimes used 10,000 federal employees and billions of our tax money to export this self-induced insanity to other countries. After their meltdown the crazies are now threatening to shut down the government to stop Trump from looking any deeper. Fight on!!!
You missed 2 zeroes; over 1,000,000 federal employees and countless state and local government employees, especially teachers and professors, undermined Trump and our elected officials. They are traitors and cowards.
We got to 2024 with the Left handing over the election to Trump because enough is enough. Mental illness is real, so is TDS, it wasn’t being addressed and so America said NO.
The fight for integrity or common sense has started. The corrupt establishment which includes the media doesn’t want to lose the gravy train that Elon and his smart young DOGE team is uncovering. You can see examples of so many Executive Actions being put on hold by corrupt activist judges. I have faith that the Trump coalition team was prepared for this fight.
Nice. Thanks, Miss Stone! (Question, though: why do you capitalize "Black" but not "White"?)
I’ve asked that and so have others but there’s never a response. The media started doing that though after George Floyd died from a heart attack and fentanyl overdose and the media claimed he’d been murdered by a racist white cop, that AmeriKKKa was permeated with white racism, aka “systemic racism” and that people needed to vote for democrats who were committed to fighting and stopping it. The capital letter in Black was meant to show respect for blacks while the lower case letter in white was meant to show that racist whites deserve no respect. The left has severely damaged America in many ways, poisoning race relations for political gain was only one of them. Others were open borders to import illegals and the war on meritocracy which was being replaced with equity aka race based equal outcomes. The left is insane. I like Sasha but that always annoys me and I wish she’d stop it.
Or, how about we stop using “white”? It is so offensive. For example, I am a freckled, redheded, female of Northern European/scandinavian descent. “White”just irritates me because I am not. I am spotted.
I hear ya, but what's your word of choice? Unblack? (This just in: Few if any Blacks are actually black, either!)
“Hot EU Chick”. Don’t forget to cap “Chick”.
Hottest chicks in the world.