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Super writing, analysis and insight. I would like to add if I may; I am in Philly and here one can see the real work of the Democratic Party in it’s subjugation of blacks. Dems have been in control for over 4 decades. Now average 562 murders a year, 1,200+ shootings, far more assaults, robberies. 92% is black on black crime. Abortions far higher on average for blacks. Near zero arrests and prosecutions. Schools are truly abysmal. So forget the words and look at the data; Democratic Party has optimized the destruction and subjugation of blacks. Keep fighting the good fight Sasha.

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Reading your posts really does give me hope for our future. We will need people to see the Democrats for what they have become, and be willing to let go of what in many cases has been a life-long loyalty. That is not easily done, and I salute your courage in facing the truth. The Kathy Bates character seems like an exaggeration, but I think it will be really that difficult for some to face reality.

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Oct 10, 2022·edited Oct 10, 2022

I've been sitting on the fence for a little while reading your substack. While I've generally enjoyed your posts, you pushed me over the fence and caused me to subscribe after your post on Walker. I found it fair and informative. Thank you and well done!

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I know you were a committed democrat for most of your life but this stuff was ALWAYS there if you looked. It was always about power. It’s just out in the open now - and being recognized for what it is. They’re completely unhinged now.

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Another great take...

I am hopeful the populace has now awakened and this midterms will be an electoral slaughter. If not, this country won't be saving...

I have never seen such a demonically possessed political party as today's Democrats. Transitioning children, defunding the police, amping crime and chaos everywhere like our border, destroying our energy grid, jacking inflation, supporting domestic terrorism when its leftist while applying a nuclear double standard to malfeasance 1% of the left's rioters, pro-censorship, pro-campus kangaroo court, pro incineration of journalism.

This country must attempt an exorcism soon or our children will never forgive us for the freedoms we squander -- this in peacetime, when there wasn't even a foreign war or enemy to destroy this republic, but merely university identitarianism gone mad.

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There's no one more angry than those who lose their religion, but I understand. I've had it happen a couple times in my life.

And actually, the Clintons are the perfect analogy, especially Hillary. We don't know what happened with Walker's girlfriend. I don't know how long ago it was (I suppose I would if I bothered to read past the hysteria). We don't know what he would have done if the child had been born. But here's what I do know. Hillary Clinton claims to be such a great woman that the rest of us women should be ashamed we didn't vote for her. We betrayed her, in essence. Yet that she was willing to smear a bunch of women her husband had taken advantage of to the point of sexual assault and rape, that to me is just as hypocritical or worse than Walker. Standing by Bill was one thing; helping him take out the women who brought claims, that's another. And you bring up George Floyd. The man came from the same background and place as Walker, yet because he gets killed by a bad cop, we give him seven funerals and bury him in a gold casket and burn cities in his name. Never mind that he once held a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach because he wanted money or things to sell for drugs.

So, yes, Walker's hypocrisy bothers me, but Warnock is just as big a hypocrite. He nearly ran over his ex-wife and is behind on child support, neither of which indicates a standup guy. So given a choice between two men of questionable character, go with the one that you will think will represent what you want. As you say, that really is his only job.

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Nice to see you Sasha, that you have been awakened from the “woke” nonsense

Truth is truth. Your pix of Herschel and the Donald speaks volumes and volumes and volumes. They were old friends for many decades. Trump supports his old friend. That is a natural and normal thing to do for any person. The entire racist angle is dead on arrival.

Our entire society needs desperately to get awakened from the Woke Monsters who wish us all dead.

So, let’s do this, little by little. Starting with absolutely not believing that anything that media and the US government says, is truth.

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I look forward to every piece you write, or more accurately, put together since each involves all types of media. I listen to them on my morning walk, sometimes twice!! Although, my intention is to comment when I get back inside, I usually get sidetracked because I stay away from my computer as much as possible!!

I loved your term "Black dissidents", for anyone who dares stray from the Democrat party line. And there is a plethora of brilliant dissidents out there! From the treasured Thomas Sowell to the maverick Kanye West. Herschel Walker's succinct description of himself at the end of the piece is why I would vote for him.

I have certain required reading and viewing that bring me to my computer: Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Megyn Kelly, Glenn Loury, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell (when he writes), and Sasha Stone.

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I do not thnk winning in 2020 would revive the dems in a true mening of the name. There is too much of corporate push, big pharma, other vested interests in the party, too much elite. It became a classic version of Marx-esque imperialism merged with the state, i.e., the opposite of its name. Irreversible. But writing etc. is superb indeed, and the analysis is excellent.

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Thank you for providing a more rounded, empathetic view of Herschel Walker than I'd read to date, a corrective to the Peggy Noonan "Lesson from the Heights of political Decency" she published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday. We all try to evaluate candidates for political office in as fair-minded and objective a way as we can. However when you hear (read) only one take on a candidate it's easy to lose sight of the fact that partisan assessments conceal and weight everything selectively. I mostly admire Noonan, but her representation of Walker's life employs a gross rhetorical sleight-of-hand: she collapses the history of his life into an undifferentiated temporal pancake that makes it seem as if everything he's ever done happened last week. People get wiser with age, and sometimes they clean up their ways. I know I have. I don't know if Herschel Walker has, but the coverage of his past treats that question as if it was incidental to our assessment of his character, when in fact it is essential.

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"Very rich, very powerful people do not like having things taken away from them."

This is it, in a nutshell.

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Excellent commentary on this!

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Sasha, I love your columns, but how did you live with the years of calling Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom along with any other male black Republican, or the abuse on Condoleezza Rice back in your Democrat days.

Was it the same as your defense of Clinton?

I've never figured out how the left lived with the cognitive dissonance, Thank God you had a number of epiphanies.

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This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Still disappointing

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Want to personally thank you for your outstanding writing, narration, and music selections. Brand new on Substack. We have you on - a quiet family Saturday night in San Diego CA - as you play in the background. I’m a total media snob, and hate posting comments. You’re really good! Please know we’re desperate for insights like yours.

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I used to be shocked when the far left (the globalists) played dirty but now it's no surprise because I expect it. To not see it has to be willful blindness and kickbacks make it worthwhile. It's not poor farmers like Jabez Stone in The Devil and Daniel Webster that have sold their souls. In today's world it's the elite and monied who are schooled to pillage the nations. Things have come easy for them and they don't have the conscience to play fair.

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