The Left has gotten so far out of control because of the lack of effective opposition. You can thank Bush 1 and his successors for that. They never cared for anything but the donor class. The Democrats got used to flaccid Republicans while the Republican base fumed. Then came Trump. He should be credited as much for what he did to the GOPe as for what he did to Democrats, not to mention his policy success.
I agree and appreciate your insights, Richard. I read somewhere the bail out of Wall Street splintered the conservatives between those who didn’t want the government to bail out the banksters. They were also very anti-neocon and against the wars. Meanwhile, the press, elites, Hollywood focused on the top 1% of the wealthy and the bottom 40% of the country that are dependent on local/state/federal employment and benefits (eg teachers, defense, professors, etc). Socialism and Fascism has been the policy and environment for the last 20 years.
The fact that "Fascism has been the policy" has been made plain with Taibbi and company's exposure of the cooperation between social media corporations and the Biden administration, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) doing what the Biden regime can't because of that pesky Constitution.
Uniparty. Too bad Trump couldn't or wouldn't run as an independent. The RP is filled with the usual opportunists and hypocrites working only to ensure re-election (as recent budget votes and the approval of state censorship demonstrate).
Biden will go back to his basement and Trump will be running against the msm same as 2020, same as Kari Lake vs Katie Hobbs in Arizona who was afraid of Kari and spent her “campaign” hiding from Kari while the media ran her campaign. That’s pretty much the norm now for elections.
As usual, your insights are startling! There are these massive transformations going on and these weird patterns of behavior are being treated like they are normal. The pattern of opposing the results of elections by impeaching elected presidents is another.
This train the Dems are on is truly horrible. It really feels like they are propping up a corpse. Trump is also too old, but looks much older and more tired lately. I hope he can bounce back if he can survive the lawsuits. We should have younger candidates than these guys. But the entire Democrat thing is evolving into a horror movie. It has become consumed by insanity and Biden realistically represents what it really is.
Not to mention that Barack Obama traded blow jobs for crack, and it was dutifully covered up by the MSM. Doubt that? Watch Tucker's interview of Larry Sinclair and then get back to me.
I’m no Obama fan, and I did watch that Tucker interview, but I couldn’t help but ask myself why I should trust that Larry Sinclair guy. He seems like a grifter, and as others have stated he has a history of being a con man.
I think he is a grifter but like Pacificus, I believed him. The details were there. I think it’s hard to make up a lie like that and stick to it every time. Makes more sense to me that this is actually the truth plus I’ve heard stories from his high school years and “hand job Barry”. Do you think his chef actually drowned? I hear there was a tell all book coming out.
I found Sinclair to be sincere and very specific in his memories of his interaction with Obama. Came across (to me at least) over the course of an hour as very believable testimony--certainly far far more specific than, say, E. Jean Carroll. "Trust," per se, has nothing to do with it.
Of course "others have stated he has a history being a con man." Does not make it so.
Not "conspiracy theorists," but people willing to believe the worst about a former President who is demonstrably both a hypocrite and war criminal. The stuff on the public record is enough to damn Obama as one of the worst Presidents we've ever suffered under.
Good job compiling the evidence of Sinclair's unreliability, though.
For a fact guy, you are a bit challenged... it is worth noting that the jury in the E. Jean Carroll trial did not find Trump guilty of rape, but "sexual abuse." So you are off base there. Second, we all kind of know that Sinclair was not a model citizen--after all, he does admit to swapping a blow job for crack cocaine with Obama... his shady background does not in itself make his story untrue... in fact, it makes it more believable to me.
Again, I urge all to listen to Tucker's interview with Sinclair and make up your own mind as to whether he is telling the truth or not.
Brilliant. It seems to me that the greatest danger to this country is our almost total rejection of the European Christian ethic whose values were foundational to the successful development of the country in the first 150 years of its existence. A non-Christian country could not have absorbed the calamity of the Civil War undertaken for the elimination of the existential evil of slavery without falling apart. The further we move from those values, the higher the likelihood that we will have societal collapse. God will not be mocked for long, even by the Smart Set.
"The further we move from those values, the higher the likelihood that we will have societal collapse."
If this is true, pack a bug-out kit and get some rural property suitable for subsistence farming because the Christian God is dead to a majority of the country.
A great recitation of history compiled very nicely by you.
I am a GenXer growing up with Trump on TV more often than not; on Oprah(Mom loved her so I watched when suitable). When he came down the elevator in 2015 I thought it was an act of self-promotion, et al. Self promotion is part of any leaders gig, but the courage that man has demonstrated is unimaginable. And I love it.
Could YOU withstand what he has endured?
BTW - He is a notorious germaphobe which leads me to disbelieve he would seek women of the worlds oldest profession. Plus, his ex's have never talked shit about him. His kids are not on TMZ. You tell me.
We have slid from the top of the list...to the bottom, the vices, and the current anti-Constitutional Administration is smack dab in the throes of it. Say what you want of Donald Trump as a man, I don't care. I can say one or two things about his Administration, and it barely scratches into the vice part of this list. Here is where our Nation's Government currently stands, and I can give examples of each easily:
Cowardice: Failing to take constructive action in the face of fear or danger. A lack of firmness or conviction. (Waffling on Israel. Botched Afghanistan withdrawl.)
Contempt: Showing disregard, disdain, or lack of consideration for someone or something worthy of action or admiration. (Philadelphia blood red speech...Ultra MAGA right wing extremists threaten our Democracy.)
Immoderation (Extremism): Acting in excess or to an extreme. Lacking restraint. (Transexuals in the White House getting naked, Cocaine in the White House, Sex Tapes in Congress, Jan6'ers getting years in prison for meandering.)
Dishonor: Failing to demonstrate good character, integrity, and acting deceptively. (Afghanistan. Every word out of Biden's mouth.)
Self-Deception: Acting on a belief that a false idea or situation is true. Being deluded or deceived by ideas that endanger the humanity of others and movements that are unjust. (LGBTBBQ, imprisoning Jan6 Grandmas, throwing Christian anti-abortion activists in prison for praying.)
Injustice: To harm others by applying unequal rules and damaging another’s inalienable rights and dignity. (Where is Trump right now? Also see above.)
Hubris: To have excessive pride, vanity, and arrogance that usually leads to a tragic fall. (Again, see above.)
Imprudence: Acting without care or thoughtfulness for consequences. Exercising lack of wisdom appropriate to situations. (Again, see all above.)
Irresponsibility: Acting on poor judgment or failing the trust others place in you. (You get the point.)
Our whole world is rotting and collapsing in real time before our very eyes. Only God knows what fate has in store for us but we’ll no doubt soon find out.
I was recently watching a video of John Mearsheimer who said Putin and the Russians consider our ruling class totally untrustworthy and flat out insane. I have no doubt that’s true since that’s also how I feel about them. The only bright spot I see in our future is AI and it is indeed very bright. This is happening right now and is easily capable of being a game changer for all of humanity and the only thing I see that can save our sinking ship. The best of times. The worst of times. Truly our situation in a nutshell.
“OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o Spring Update Event: Everything Revealed in 2 Minutes.”
Plus "I should note that at my kids’ school, they seem to use ChatGPT to write more elaborate insults about one another, such as a Shakespearean sonnet about how someone’s face looks dumb. Really adds some gentility to the middle school experience.)"
They’re getting better all the time plus AI will help people become more intelligent and more functional. There are so many people who are just so totally dysfunctional and simply do not know how to live at all. AI will help us move beyond this dreadful situation.
No, I cannot. Every single day I read about and watch videos of the disintegration of the society and world we live in. Every single day it gets worse. If we had the weapons we now have a hundred years ago it’s very highly unlikely we’d be here now.
“Why place so much faith in this technology?”
Because every single day I read about and watch videos of how amazing it is and how rapidly it’s advancing. It’s the only thing powerful enough to get control of all our out of control problems which are rapidly taking us to the abyss. But would it really be possible for a WW3 to bring down our entire global civilization and destroy us all? It sure would.
Not to many minutes ago I heard two AI songs. Both had what I call "off-beat, over-flow": hitting 4.5 and 1.5. (Gerry Rafferty never wrote a song without it, as far as I am aware.) I will give you some examples from some guys you may know:
"speaking words of WIS-DOM, Let It Be"
"She's got a Ticket to RI-IDE"
"I feel like ICE IS slowly MEL-TING"
I have long know this day would come. It has arrived.
Fair comment....and Australia is worse than Canada. It's still screwed up. This is the United States, and the Democrats are breaking it. Time to take away their toy.
America no longer exists as a country. It has already ceased to exist as a country internally which is why it’s collapsing externally. It is what it is. Wishful thinking won’t save our sinking ship.
That’s almost funny, Richard, but I have to say that I never imagined Canada would be the authoritarian threat that it has become, sitting on our border. During Trump’s presidency I recall hearing some hysterical squawking from our northern neighbors about the authoritarian threat they felt from our side.
I kinda wonder how people like you can be so blissfully unaware of the damage done by democrats with things like open borders, dumbed down schools, the demonization of “Whiteness!” and the war on meritocracy which is being replaced by Equity aka Equal Outcomes. The idea that America even still exists as a country is absurd.
Here’s a posting from the Chicago police blog “Second City Cop” about Joe and our wonderfully progressive media.
Pedo Joe.
Just so you're all aware, Snopes, the "fact checking" website, has changed the rating on the Ashley Biden Diary story from "False" to "True" meaning everything she wrote in the diary wasn't the product of a right-wing conspiracy smear job, but was in fact, factual:
• Ashley Biden wrote a letter to the judge confirming the diary is real and belongs to her.
In case you needed a reminder - or an enlightenment since the media has been hiding this story for three or more years next to the Hunter Biden computer story - president girl sniffer took showers with Ashley up to an "inappropriate age" and Ashley uses the word "molested" in her narrative.
A number of the Republicans who tried to force Clinton out of office by using his affair with Monica Lewinsky as an excuse subsequently had their own sexual indiscretions exposed to public view. The Republicans had been laying on self-righteous self-congratulations and over the top public posturing about their Christian moral values until a critical mass of their leaders were found to be dishonest hypocrites. Then the Republicans suddenly fell silent as far as media grandstanding and virtue signaling was concerned.
Washington D.C. is not a haven for politicians who are faithful to their wives or husbands or their pretended sexual orientation or any other form of morally upright behavior. To expect it of them is naive. Men in power attract women and men, and most politicians take advantage of the impact of their charisma, money and status on their admirers. That is okay because most Americans have historically been more interested in a president's merits as the federal executive than in his practice of sexual continence. That is precisely why Trump's admirers under react to his history of philandering.
The phony prudes on all sides seem to have in common the tendency to wage pseudo moralistic campaigns to try to oust sitting presidents from the other party. It hasn't been working very well for them, and probably won't this time either.
I'm not sure there is a significant difference between 15 and 18. It may just be that Republicans are slightly more likely to lie about it. Remember Mark Sanford and the Appalachian Trail.
Self-reporting bias is high in these polls, and it goes in both directions. Some people love to confess their infidelity to researchers and others withhold the information.
This is an extremely interesting reference, Libertarian. I haven't previously studied cheating as a function of religion, but have made a fairly deep dive into other research on the subject. It's been a while, so I don't have the references handy, but usually it includes two measures of cheating: lifetime, and past year. Past year statistics combined with lifetime stats tell you more about someone's habits.
Within the U.S. there is a significant relationship between ethnicity and cheating, with black men and Hispanic men usually scoring the highest in "multiple relationships." There is evidence that relating sexually to multiple partners, with or without the primary partner's consent or knowledge, is viewed as "normal and inevitable" for men in these cultures.
When surveys are used (these are not rigorous epidemiological studies like the ones I just mentioned) the rates of reported cheating by both men and women are far higher than the ones reported in the study you included above. Lifetime rates of sexual infidelity that include the whole range of indiscretions (one night stands to years long affairs) range up to 50-75% for American married men in general, and around 50% for married women. (These results are probably biased, because the surveys are sampling people who are willing to confess these things to researchers).
It is noteworthy that when black Americans are polled, they have (at least until recently) been more inclined than white Americans to say they are "religious" and "Christian." The same has also been true of Hispanic Americans. I think that there has been a decline in active religious practice among black Americans within the past generation, but I haven't checked out the polling data. Wilfred Reilley and other black conservative writers have commented on this trend. An interesting factor operating here is that when the ethnic culture normalizes or even valorizes cheating for males ("multiple relationships" without primary partner's consent), these behaviors are not necessarily correlated with the men's stated degree of faith in God, or importance of religion in their lives. That is, people can claim to be very religious and say God is central to their lives, but also engage in marital infidelity, including publicly, without much if any condemnation from their ethnic communities.
I wonder if females are less likely than males to have sex outside the partnership because historically they are typically more stuck with the resulting pregnancy. I think that across most of Nature, males have more partners than females.
That is an interesting question. In the male centric culture of gay men non monogamy is the usual lifestyle, which means that most of the men in the community are sexually available to other men to various degrees.
It is the case of urban black communities there is a shortage of young men, due to high rates of mutual homicide, incarceration, and drug addiction. Men are on the favored side of the supply and demand for partners.
But in other situations the question of who the female sex partners are becomes more difficult to answer. One possibility is that women who are single (who are not counted in infidelity polls), make up a significant part of the sex partners for married as well as single men.
I think the differences between men and women with respect to sexual behavior are mostly biologically based. In subcultures where men are left off the leash imposed by female preference, they tend to be sexually active outside of their primary partnerships to a much greater degree than women do. Examples include the black subculture and even more, the gay male subculture.
I believe the differences in sexual behavior between men and women are due to social pressure and fear of consequences on the part of the female. When the pressure fell away and the BCP reduced the consequences during the sexual revolution, female behavior changed.
Women felt freer to be sexual when the fear of pregnancy was reduced. Women of child bearing age are fearful that they will lose the right to control their reproductive function. I agree with that part of what you appear to be saying. I disagree with arguments that women are like men in the way they function sexually and in intimate relationships. There is overlap in the sexual and mating behavior of the sexes, but women and men are not the same.
I think that Bill Barr was one of the leaders of the impeachment effort. Subsequent to the above article his wife publicly stated her belief that he did have an affair while she was married to him. I don't know if he ever admitted it.
Why would anyone trust the outcomes of anything from the University of Chicago? Why don’t they focus on “black on black” crimes of violence and the insanity of the BLM movement? Or the effect of illegal immigration stealing resources from the poor people in Chicago? Or the severe damage that the Chicago Teachers Union has on the education of their children?
The above article mentions a few of them, but I recall others. I am at an age when it becomes difficult to remember names from the past. If I can find references to any more of these people I will post them here.
I think that Bill Barr was one of the leaders of the impeachment effort. Subsequent to the above article his wife publicly stated her belief that he did have an affair while she was married to him. I don't know if he ever admitted it.
Sasha, I hope you told the people at the ER that you’re an illegal in America. That way you’ll dodge getting the $10,000 bill for the six stitches and the government will be charged and pay for it. What’s not to like about being an illegal in America?
Denver hospital system may collapse due to migrant crisis: ‘We are turning down patients.’
The depravity of the 1st Weimar Republic was a bit sick to listen to. Especially the bit about cutting heads off the goose and men doing you know what.
This story illustrates why the alternative news is so important and why the corporate press is dying (god rot them).
Sasha Stone has taken the time and effort to look up our recent political past and presents us the facts of history and how the DP and liberals in general have willfully ignored their past in order to feel virtuous about their new, re-imagined, anti-Trump sexual orthodoxy.
Their new permissiveness, as Stone astutely points out, resembles that of Wiemar Germany, where everything goes, men are women and vice-versa, or any kink imaginable is on the menu, from "otherkin" to furry orgies, with transsexualism at the fore, drag queen story hour and all. Heterosex, with mating rituals and family building are, to them, passe and stifle their libertine inclinations. The left's control of the culture has insured grudging toleration of this insanity, but many of us normies are getting fed up and so get on the Trump Train.
I hope to god we see a pendulum swing rightward and it cuts the heads off every last TDS scumbag willing to lie from both sides of his face, every CHAZZ proponent, every Ham-Ass fetishist of the stripe that buries a statue of Washington with prefabricated hateful slogans.
Actually, the majority of the woke extremists are young people who are much less interested in any kind of sex than has been true of previous generations. And many of the most offensive trans activists are incapable of it, due to hormones and surgeries. These people are selecting themselves out of the gene pool. Unfortunately, it will take a long time before they become extinct.
If it's not too distasteful for you, have a gander at Pornhub.com and search for "furry orgies."
Of course, heteronormativity (an unnecessary term from sociology describing a biological reality) is not "passe" among the entire left. One must generalize sometimes. I object to sex and sexuality becoming political causes in the left's ersatz "liberation" of a formerly persecuted minority.
Anyone doing business at Trump's level is bound to encounter your "sleazy financial underworld" (whatever that is), and I'd say Trump's hush money to a whore is part of it, as is E. Jean Carroll's shakedown.
An inference we can make from Stone's commentary is that we Americans no longer really care about a President's "character" or moral rectitude when it comes to their private lives, and we haven't had any expectation of Presidential moral leadership since Johnson. I think this is generally true.
Trump is a sorely needed populist; we desperately need an "America first" agenda, and until a less crude candidate with his political outlook has a chance of winning the Presidency (like Ramaswamy, for instance) I'm voting for him.
Whether he "cares" or not is irrelevant to me. "By their fruits ye shall know them." He did well by the working class in his last term and may have done more in other areas had he not been hamstrung by the fanatics--the press and the disloyal opposition willing to turn us into Oceanea to stop him--trying to railroad him out of office.
Trump has become much larger and more important than his Agenda 47 platform. He represents opposition to politics as usual, and his egotism and wit are features that are off-putting but also have managed to destroy any remaining credulity in the sham debates that invite 2-minute sound bites instead of real arguments. I doubt Dementia Joe would concede, for example, to a 3-hour discussion with Trump using Joe Rogan as interlocutor (Not moderator).
I think the Dems are propping up Dementia Joe so that Trump will win and then be blamed for the catastrophes to hit in 1Q2025; 20% Inflation, Ukraine surrender, Gaza slaughter revealed, Market 15% drop. No way the Dems want to be holding the bag in 2025. And the GOP are too stupid and too neocon to avoid it. America needs far more courage than can be found in our establishment political leadership. My best hope is for some kind of team built around Trump, Musk, Freedom Caucus, Rand Paul, Vivek, DeSantis, Haley and that they dump the neocons.
The wild card in our future is AI. It will soon impact all areas of our society and world. Big change is coming, big time. The sooner the better. We can’t last much longer on our present path. We’re on a runaway freight train heading for a washed out bridge that spanned a deep ravine. Many are quite aware of this but can’t do anything to stop it since it has too much momentum to stop. Just consider how often people lost control in the dreadful twentieth century as events spun out of control.
The Left has gotten so far out of control because of the lack of effective opposition. You can thank Bush 1 and his successors for that. They never cared for anything but the donor class. The Democrats got used to flaccid Republicans while the Republican base fumed. Then came Trump. He should be credited as much for what he did to the GOPe as for what he did to Democrats, not to mention his policy success.
I agree and appreciate your insights, Richard. I read somewhere the bail out of Wall Street splintered the conservatives between those who didn’t want the government to bail out the banksters. They were also very anti-neocon and against the wars. Meanwhile, the press, elites, Hollywood focused on the top 1% of the wealthy and the bottom 40% of the country that are dependent on local/state/federal employment and benefits (eg teachers, defense, professors, etc). Socialism and Fascism has been the policy and environment for the last 20 years.
The fact that "Fascism has been the policy" has been made plain with Taibbi and company's exposure of the cooperation between social media corporations and the Biden administration, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) doing what the Biden regime can't because of that pesky Constitution.
Uniparty. Too bad Trump couldn't or wouldn't run as an independent. The RP is filled with the usual opportunists and hypocrites working only to ensure re-election (as recent budget votes and the approval of state censorship demonstrate).
Trump is successful despite the RP.
Great point
The lefty pundits are losing it seeing the writing on the wall. Everyone outside DC knows Joe is toast and they see through the bullshit court cases.
This would be good news except they won’t run Biden. At the convention he will be replaced. Probably Michelle. Maybe Newsom.
Biden will go back to his basement and Trump will be running against the msm same as 2020, same as Kari Lake vs Katie Hobbs in Arizona who was afraid of Kari and spent her “campaign” hiding from Kari while the media ran her campaign. That’s pretty much the norm now for elections.
As usual, your insights are startling! There are these massive transformations going on and these weird patterns of behavior are being treated like they are normal. The pattern of opposing the results of elections by impeaching elected presidents is another.
Not a chance. Obama gets the benefits of being president without the need to answer for the chaos he is creating.
This is the bet of the century. Does Vegas have a line on this possibility?
likely Newsome!
This train the Dems are on is truly horrible. It really feels like they are propping up a corpse. Trump is also too old, but looks much older and more tired lately. I hope he can bounce back if he can survive the lawsuits. We should have younger candidates than these guys. But the entire Democrat thing is evolving into a horror movie. It has become consumed by insanity and Biden realistically represents what it really is.
I also have believed for a while now that he will be replaced at the convention. Old Joe is too far gone to be a viable candidate.
Not to mention that Barack Obama traded blow jobs for crack, and it was dutifully covered up by the MSM. Doubt that? Watch Tucker's interview of Larry Sinclair and then get back to me.
I’m no Obama fan, and I did watch that Tucker interview, but I couldn’t help but ask myself why I should trust that Larry Sinclair guy. He seems like a grifter, and as others have stated he has a history of being a con man.
I think he is a grifter but like Pacificus, I believed him. The details were there. I think it’s hard to make up a lie like that and stick to it every time. Makes more sense to me that this is actually the truth plus I’ve heard stories from his high school years and “hand job Barry”. Do you think his chef actually drowned? I hear there was a tell all book coming out.
The chef thing is very shady. Maybe Sasha can get to one of the Edgartown cops ?
I found Sinclair to be sincere and very specific in his memories of his interaction with Obama. Came across (to me at least) over the course of an hour as very believable testimony--certainly far far more specific than, say, E. Jean Carroll. "Trust," per se, has nothing to do with it.
Of course "others have stated he has a history being a con man." Does not make it so.
Years ago not every single thing was recorded. Obama never claimed it to be false so what’s that tell you.
Not "conspiracy theorists," but people willing to believe the worst about a former President who is demonstrably both a hypocrite and war criminal. The stuff on the public record is enough to damn Obama as one of the worst Presidents we've ever suffered under.
Good job compiling the evidence of Sinclair's unreliability, though.
Nice documentation!
For a fact guy, you are a bit challenged... it is worth noting that the jury in the E. Jean Carroll trial did not find Trump guilty of rape, but "sexual abuse." So you are off base there. Second, we all kind of know that Sinclair was not a model citizen--after all, he does admit to swapping a blow job for crack cocaine with Obama... his shady background does not in itself make his story untrue... in fact, it makes it more believable to me.
Again, I urge all to listen to Tucker's interview with Sinclair and make up your own mind as to whether he is telling the truth or not.
Your name gave me a right giggle. Thank you!!
The race card is maxed out.
Brilliant. It seems to me that the greatest danger to this country is our almost total rejection of the European Christian ethic whose values were foundational to the successful development of the country in the first 150 years of its existence. A non-Christian country could not have absorbed the calamity of the Civil War undertaken for the elimination of the existential evil of slavery without falling apart. The further we move from those values, the higher the likelihood that we will have societal collapse. God will not be mocked for long, even by the Smart Set.
We haven't rejected it as much as Europe itself
"The further we move from those values, the higher the likelihood that we will have societal collapse."
If this is true, pack a bug-out kit and get some rural property suitable for subsistence farming because the Christian God is dead to a majority of the country.
A great recitation of history compiled very nicely by you.
I am a GenXer growing up with Trump on TV more often than not; on Oprah(Mom loved her so I watched when suitable). When he came down the elevator in 2015 I thought it was an act of self-promotion, et al. Self promotion is part of any leaders gig, but the courage that man has demonstrated is unimaginable. And I love it.
Could YOU withstand what he has endured?
BTW - He is a notorious germaphobe which leads me to disbelieve he would seek women of the worlds oldest profession. Plus, his ex's have never talked shit about him. His kids are not on TMZ. You tell me.
Go down the list: https://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/principles-and-virtues
We have slid from the top of the list...to the bottom, the vices, and the current anti-Constitutional Administration is smack dab in the throes of it. Say what you want of Donald Trump as a man, I don't care. I can say one or two things about his Administration, and it barely scratches into the vice part of this list. Here is where our Nation's Government currently stands, and I can give examples of each easily:
Cowardice: Failing to take constructive action in the face of fear or danger. A lack of firmness or conviction. (Waffling on Israel. Botched Afghanistan withdrawl.)
Contempt: Showing disregard, disdain, or lack of consideration for someone or something worthy of action or admiration. (Philadelphia blood red speech...Ultra MAGA right wing extremists threaten our Democracy.)
Immoderation (Extremism): Acting in excess or to an extreme. Lacking restraint. (Transexuals in the White House getting naked, Cocaine in the White House, Sex Tapes in Congress, Jan6'ers getting years in prison for meandering.)
Dishonor: Failing to demonstrate good character, integrity, and acting deceptively. (Afghanistan. Every word out of Biden's mouth.)
Self-Deception: Acting on a belief that a false idea or situation is true. Being deluded or deceived by ideas that endanger the humanity of others and movements that are unjust. (LGBTBBQ, imprisoning Jan6 Grandmas, throwing Christian anti-abortion activists in prison for praying.)
Injustice: To harm others by applying unequal rules and damaging another’s inalienable rights and dignity. (Where is Trump right now? Also see above.)
Hubris: To have excessive pride, vanity, and arrogance that usually leads to a tragic fall. (Again, see above.)
Imprudence: Acting without care or thoughtfulness for consequences. Exercising lack of wisdom appropriate to situations. (Again, see all above.)
Irresponsibility: Acting on poor judgment or failing the trust others place in you. (You get the point.)
Hey, Canada is worse.
Our whole world is rotting and collapsing in real time before our very eyes. Only God knows what fate has in store for us but we’ll no doubt soon find out.
As Adam Smith said, there is a great deal of ruin in a nation. So I am not sure I will survive to see it.
I was recently watching a video of John Mearsheimer who said Putin and the Russians consider our ruling class totally untrustworthy and flat out insane. I have no doubt that’s true since that’s also how I feel about them. The only bright spot I see in our future is AI and it is indeed very bright. This is happening right now and is easily capable of being a game changer for all of humanity and the only thing I see that can save our sinking ship. The best of times. The worst of times. Truly our situation in a nutshell.
“OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o Spring Update Event: Everything Revealed in 2 Minutes.”
CNET. May 13, 2024
https://youtu.be/jay7kise3PI?si=FGx1qNAzkik2VjZn
“Math problems with GPT-4o.” (3 min)
OpenAI. May 13, 2024
https://youtu.be/_nSmkyDNulk?si=agndJcyHy3Sz6Bzp
What could go wrong?
https://www.wired.com/story/air-canada-chatbot-refund-policy/
Plus "I should note that at my kids’ school, they seem to use ChatGPT to write more elaborate insults about one another, such as a Shakespearean sonnet about how someone’s face looks dumb. Really adds some gentility to the middle school experience.)"
They’re getting better all the time plus AI will help people become more intelligent and more functional. There are so many people who are just so totally dysfunctional and simply do not know how to live at all. AI will help us move beyond this dreadful situation.
Can you not imagine a human solution? Why place so much faith in this technology?
“Can you not imagine a human solution?”
No, I cannot. Every single day I read about and watch videos of the disintegration of the society and world we live in. Every single day it gets worse. If we had the weapons we now have a hundred years ago it’s very highly unlikely we’d be here now.
“Why place so much faith in this technology?”
Because every single day I read about and watch videos of how amazing it is and how rapidly it’s advancing. It’s the only thing powerful enough to get control of all our out of control problems which are rapidly taking us to the abyss. But would it really be possible for a WW3 to bring down our entire global civilization and destroy us all? It sure would.
A technology created by the very humans Seva lacks faith in.
Not to many minutes ago I heard two AI songs. Both had what I call "off-beat, over-flow": hitting 4.5 and 1.5. (Gerry Rafferty never wrote a song without it, as far as I am aware.) I will give you some examples from some guys you may know:
"speaking words of WIS-DOM, Let It Be"
"She's got a Ticket to RI-IDE"
"I feel like ICE IS slowly MEL-TING"
I have long know this day would come. It has arrived.
Fair comment....and Australia is worse than Canada. It's still screwed up. This is the United States, and the Democrats are breaking it. Time to take away their toy.
America no longer exists as a country. It has already ceased to exist as a country internally which is why it’s collapsing externally. It is what it is. Wishful thinking won’t save our sinking ship.
That’s almost funny, Richard, but I have to say that I never imagined Canada would be the authoritarian threat that it has become, sitting on our border. During Trump’s presidency I recall hearing some hysterical squawking from our northern neighbors about the authoritarian threat they felt from our side.
I kinda wonder how people like you can be so blissfully unaware of the damage done by democrats with things like open borders, dumbed down schools, the demonization of “Whiteness!” and the war on meritocracy which is being replaced by Equity aka Equal Outcomes. The idea that America even still exists as a country is absurd.
Pure gold Sasha. Thank you for your candor and your bravery.
Here’s a posting from the Chicago police blog “Second City Cop” about Joe and our wonderfully progressive media.
Pedo Joe.
Just so you're all aware, Snopes, the "fact checking" website, has changed the rating on the Ashley Biden Diary story from "False" to "True" meaning everything she wrote in the diary wasn't the product of a right-wing conspiracy smear job, but was in fact, factual:
• Ashley Biden wrote a letter to the judge confirming the diary is real and belongs to her.
In case you needed a reminder - or an enlightenment since the media has been hiding this story for three or more years next to the Hunter Biden computer story - president girl sniffer took showers with Ashley up to an "inappropriate age" and Ashley uses the word "molested" in her narrative.
“Second City Cop.”
May 14, 2024
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com
And let's not forget using the FBI as the Biden private Stasi to retrieve the diary.
This should be front page across the USA and world.
A vain hope!
A number of the Republicans who tried to force Clinton out of office by using his affair with Monica Lewinsky as an excuse subsequently had their own sexual indiscretions exposed to public view. The Republicans had been laying on self-righteous self-congratulations and over the top public posturing about their Christian moral values until a critical mass of their leaders were found to be dishonest hypocrites. Then the Republicans suddenly fell silent as far as media grandstanding and virtue signaling was concerned.
Washington D.C. is not a haven for politicians who are faithful to their wives or husbands or their pretended sexual orientation or any other form of morally upright behavior. To expect it of them is naive. Men in power attract women and men, and most politicians take advantage of the impact of their charisma, money and status on their admirers. That is okay because most Americans have historically been more interested in a president's merits as the federal executive than in his practice of sexual continence. That is precisely why Trump's admirers under react to his history of philandering.
The phony prudes on all sides seem to have in common the tendency to wage pseudo moralistic campaigns to try to oust sitting presidents from the other party. It hasn't been working very well for them, and probably won't this time either.
Hey Sandra, spot on analysis. Here’s a study you may find relevant. “..Strong Democrats. A full 18.8% of them have stepped out of their marriage at some point compared to only 15.4% of the strong Republicans….” https://ifstudies.org/blog/extramarital-sex-and-religion-democrats-vs-republicans
I'm not sure there is a significant difference between 15 and 18. It may just be that Republicans are slightly more likely to lie about it. Remember Mark Sanford and the Appalachian Trail.
Self-reporting bias is high in these polls, and it goes in both directions. Some people love to confess their infidelity to researchers and others withhold the information.
This is an extremely interesting reference, Libertarian. I haven't previously studied cheating as a function of religion, but have made a fairly deep dive into other research on the subject. It's been a while, so I don't have the references handy, but usually it includes two measures of cheating: lifetime, and past year. Past year statistics combined with lifetime stats tell you more about someone's habits.
Within the U.S. there is a significant relationship between ethnicity and cheating, with black men and Hispanic men usually scoring the highest in "multiple relationships." There is evidence that relating sexually to multiple partners, with or without the primary partner's consent or knowledge, is viewed as "normal and inevitable" for men in these cultures.
When surveys are used (these are not rigorous epidemiological studies like the ones I just mentioned) the rates of reported cheating by both men and women are far higher than the ones reported in the study you included above. Lifetime rates of sexual infidelity that include the whole range of indiscretions (one night stands to years long affairs) range up to 50-75% for American married men in general, and around 50% for married women. (These results are probably biased, because the surveys are sampling people who are willing to confess these things to researchers).
It is noteworthy that when black Americans are polled, they have (at least until recently) been more inclined than white Americans to say they are "religious" and "Christian." The same has also been true of Hispanic Americans. I think that there has been a decline in active religious practice among black Americans within the past generation, but I haven't checked out the polling data. Wilfred Reilley and other black conservative writers have commented on this trend. An interesting factor operating here is that when the ethnic culture normalizes or even valorizes cheating for males ("multiple relationships" without primary partner's consent), these behaviors are not necessarily correlated with the men's stated degree of faith in God, or importance of religion in their lives. That is, people can claim to be very religious and say God is central to their lives, but also engage in marital infidelity, including publicly, without much if any condemnation from their ethnic communities.
I wonder if females are less likely than males to have sex outside the partnership because historically they are typically more stuck with the resulting pregnancy. I think that across most of Nature, males have more partners than females.
Since the population split is pretty much 50/50, what are these males having sex with?
That is an interesting question. In the male centric culture of gay men non monogamy is the usual lifestyle, which means that most of the men in the community are sexually available to other men to various degrees.
It is the case of urban black communities there is a shortage of young men, due to high rates of mutual homicide, incarceration, and drug addiction. Men are on the favored side of the supply and demand for partners.
But in other situations the question of who the female sex partners are becomes more difficult to answer. One possibility is that women who are single (who are not counted in infidelity polls), make up a significant part of the sex partners for married as well as single men.
I think the differences between men and women with respect to sexual behavior are mostly biologically based. In subcultures where men are left off the leash imposed by female preference, they tend to be sexually active outside of their primary partnerships to a much greater degree than women do. Examples include the black subculture and even more, the gay male subculture.
I believe the differences in sexual behavior between men and women are due to social pressure and fear of consequences on the part of the female. When the pressure fell away and the BCP reduced the consequences during the sexual revolution, female behavior changed.
Women felt freer to be sexual when the fear of pregnancy was reduced. Women of child bearing age are fearful that they will lose the right to control their reproductive function. I agree with that part of what you appear to be saying. I disagree with arguments that women are like men in the way they function sexually and in intimate relationships. There is overlap in the sexual and mating behavior of the sexes, but women and men are not the same.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/01/12/gops-rep-barr-had-affair-while-married-flynt-alleges/
I think that Bill Barr was one of the leaders of the impeachment effort. Subsequent to the above article his wife publicly stated her belief that he did have an affair while she was married to him. I don't know if he ever admitted it.
Why would anyone trust the outcomes of anything from the University of Chicago? Why don’t they focus on “black on black” crimes of violence and the insanity of the BLM movement? Or the effect of illegal immigration stealing resources from the poor people in Chicago? Or the severe damage that the Chicago Teachers Union has on the education of their children?
I don’t remember this Sandra. Who are these Republicans?
Hey Alice, see my reply to Sandra for some related information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton#:~:text=Many%20other%20prominent%20Republican%20members,of%20whom%20voted%20for%20impeachment.
The above article mentions a few of them, but I recall others. I am at an age when it becomes difficult to remember names from the past. If I can find references to any more of these people I will post them here.
You seem to me to be very wise even if you recall less than before.
Newt Gingrich has admitted to having an affair while he was going after Clinton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/01/12/gops-rep-barr-had-affair-while-married-flynt-alleges/
I think that Bill Barr was one of the leaders of the impeachment effort. Subsequent to the above article his wife publicly stated her belief that he did have an affair while she was married to him. I don't know if he ever admitted it.
Well, they weren’t in bed with each other exactly, but were in bed simultaneously with forbidden fruits.
Sasha
Once again, you use truth and facts to hit the ball out of the park.
Excellent podcast.
Sasha, I hope you told the people at the ER that you’re an illegal in America. That way you’ll dodge getting the $10,000 bill for the six stitches and the government will be charged and pay for it. What’s not to like about being an illegal in America?
Denver hospital system may collapse due to migrant crisis: ‘We are turning down patients.’
“Denver Migrants Send List Of Demands To Mayor!”
TD Media Group. May 13, 2024
https://youtu.be/uQ9mxNZ6PZw?si=AqenJbVYZCoVlbIz
The unending pretend puritanical instinct lives on! I think there needs to be a t shirt with LBJ celebrating why his name was Johnson!
LOL!
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It turns out that
All of that free sex
Really imposes a cost
- To women.
They just want someone
To pay for it.
Those emotions are a bitch.
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Turns out taxpayers are the ones stuck with the bill. Women AND MEN running around with pants unzipped want the rest of us to pay for it.
The depravity of the 1st Weimar Republic was a bit sick to listen to. Especially the bit about cutting heads off the goose and men doing you know what.
And here we are with the T cult, repeating history.
LOL!! This thread is getting evil!
This story illustrates why the alternative news is so important and why the corporate press is dying (god rot them).
Sasha Stone has taken the time and effort to look up our recent political past and presents us the facts of history and how the DP and liberals in general have willfully ignored their past in order to feel virtuous about their new, re-imagined, anti-Trump sexual orthodoxy.
Their new permissiveness, as Stone astutely points out, resembles that of Wiemar Germany, where everything goes, men are women and vice-versa, or any kink imaginable is on the menu, from "otherkin" to furry orgies, with transsexualism at the fore, drag queen story hour and all. Heterosex, with mating rituals and family building are, to them, passe and stifle their libertine inclinations. The left's control of the culture has insured grudging toleration of this insanity, but many of us normies are getting fed up and so get on the Trump Train.
I hope to god we see a pendulum swing rightward and it cuts the heads off every last TDS scumbag willing to lie from both sides of his face, every CHAZZ proponent, every Ham-Ass fetishist of the stripe that buries a statue of Washington with prefabricated hateful slogans.
Actually, the majority of the woke extremists are young people who are much less interested in any kind of sex than has been true of previous generations. And many of the most offensive trans activists are incapable of it, due to hormones and surgeries. These people are selecting themselves out of the gene pool. Unfortunately, it will take a long time before they become extinct.
If it's not too distasteful for you, have a gander at Pornhub.com and search for "furry orgies."
Of course, heteronormativity (an unnecessary term from sociology describing a biological reality) is not "passe" among the entire left. One must generalize sometimes. I object to sex and sexuality becoming political causes in the left's ersatz "liberation" of a formerly persecuted minority.
Anyone doing business at Trump's level is bound to encounter your "sleazy financial underworld" (whatever that is), and I'd say Trump's hush money to a whore is part of it, as is E. Jean Carroll's shakedown.
An inference we can make from Stone's commentary is that we Americans no longer really care about a President's "character" or moral rectitude when it comes to their private lives, and we haven't had any expectation of Presidential moral leadership since Johnson. I think this is generally true.
Trump is a sorely needed populist; we desperately need an "America first" agenda, and until a less crude candidate with his political outlook has a chance of winning the Presidency (like Ramaswamy, for instance) I'm voting for him.
Whether he "cares" or not is irrelevant to me. "By their fruits ye shall know them." He did well by the working class in his last term and may have done more in other areas had he not been hamstrung by the fanatics--the press and the disloyal opposition willing to turn us into Oceanea to stop him--trying to railroad him out of office.
Trump has become much larger and more important than his Agenda 47 platform. He represents opposition to politics as usual, and his egotism and wit are features that are off-putting but also have managed to destroy any remaining credulity in the sham debates that invite 2-minute sound bites instead of real arguments. I doubt Dementia Joe would concede, for example, to a 3-hour discussion with Trump using Joe Rogan as interlocutor (Not moderator).
Great piece, how will it all end in November? Buckle up.....my guess is crazy time is coming.
I think the Dems are propping up Dementia Joe so that Trump will win and then be blamed for the catastrophes to hit in 1Q2025; 20% Inflation, Ukraine surrender, Gaza slaughter revealed, Market 15% drop. No way the Dems want to be holding the bag in 2025. And the GOP are too stupid and too neocon to avoid it. America needs far more courage than can be found in our establishment political leadership. My best hope is for some kind of team built around Trump, Musk, Freedom Caucus, Rand Paul, Vivek, DeSantis, Haley and that they dump the neocons.
Haley is perhaps the worst of the Neocons. She wanted so many wars, I lost track.
The wild card in our future is AI. It will soon impact all areas of our society and world. Big change is coming, big time. The sooner the better. We can’t last much longer on our present path. We’re on a runaway freight train heading for a washed out bridge that spanned a deep ravine. Many are quite aware of this but can’t do anything to stop it since it has too much momentum to stop. Just consider how often people lost control in the dreadful twentieth century as events spun out of control.