I think everything you put out is premium content. Nobody else has recognized and documented the Hero’s Journey as you have- both Donald Trump’s and your own. Thanks for sharing it all with us. I’m glad I found your Substack, it’s one of my favorites, and I’ll want to hear your voice as long as you keep publishing.
Sasha- you are doing a terrific job! You are obviously a concerned and conscientious person! I for one totally appreciate all your hard work and the thought you put into it (even if I can barely get to 1/2 of your offerings!) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, but most of all THANK YOU!!!
Sasha, you are a treasure. While I am enlightened by other publishers, only you combine the necessary information with the delivery techniques that touch me. You have an unparalleled ability to bring tears to my eyes in your story telling while cutting through the dredge to make your point. You are the only person I read that I set aside dedicated time to spend with your latest offering. My life is better having been exposed to you and most of the folks here in Sasha's community. I cannot thank you enough. Have a Merry Christmas
Megyn was great on the All-In Podcast as was David Sacks at the end. Chamath is also very good. Shortly after the 1500+ page CR spending bill was released I saw a video clip of Vivek saying he’d read it all and it was waste and garbage that should not be passed. I was wondering how he could have read so much so fast but apparently what he’d done was to use something like Elon’s “Grok” AI to read and summarize it. At the 34 min point in this All-In Podcast below Chamath talks about this and how it will be a game changer for how our government functions since it will allow instant transparency to what politicians are actually doing. I saw a Fox News video today that said it did get passed anyway for reasons I can understand but it’s still going to a great advantage for us to have this amazing amount of transparency. David Sacks is gone because he’s in DC helping Trump with AI issues when he takes office.
“New feature: Grok auto analyses all new congressional bills, summarizes it into a few pages a 5-th grader can understand and publishes it into everyone's feed.”
“You can mute these stories but you can't say you weren't given a chance to know.”
10:53 AM • Dec 19, 2024 • 624.2K Views. Chamath Palihapitiya on X.
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google’s AI comeback with bestie Aaron Levie. (1:36:00)
This is amazing, Sasha! I was never a Trump fan although voted for him and thought he did a mostly good job. Certainly better than Obama did or Hilary would have done. Then came the dark years. My husband was all in for DiSantis (and i like him) but I knew we had to have a disruptor. Only a that was going to reclaim the country. It was Trump or “1984” on steroids. I’m so thankful
Sasha, you are awesome. You are one of two subscriptions I pay for. This is the intro I wrote to whom I forwarded it.
Worth listening; don't miss it. It is hard to summarize the "political history of Donald J. Trump" in 57 minutes but this does a pretty good job of it. Sasha understands the power of movies in telling stories. She nails it in this story. It is, in my opinion, an award deserving piece.
Trump may not be an "unprecedented" political character. But I think he is arguably the most influential political character in the last 10 years and his most ardent enemies had a big part in making him just that. If they had any idea (they didn't and don't) of their role in his journey, they only have themselves to "blame" for the outcome.
The official first Morse code message transmitted in the US on May 24, 1844, to officially open the Baltimore–Washington telegraph line was, "What Hath God Wrought?" It was a reference/translation of Numbers 23:23.
Numbers 23:23 (NIV) says, "There is no sorcery against Jacob, no divination against Israel; it will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, 'See what God has done!'"
The "book" of Trump could say,
"There is no sorcery against Trump, no divination against the United States; it will now be said of Trump and the United States, 'See what God has done!'"
The futility of trying to harm or curse those whom God has blessed and protected, affirming that God's will stands above all human or spiritual efforts to oppose it. Don't over interpret this statement but one must consider possibilities.
Trump is no Jacob; or is?
But Trump is an epic political character in the history of the United States. We are not just witnesses to history but participants, as we may desire. Living in history needs to be more "fun" than just reading it.
Another reference to the phrase in was made in the title of a history book:
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 is a nonfiction book about the history of the United States written by historian Daniel Walker Howe. Published in 2007 as part of the Oxford History of the United States series, the book offers a synthesis history of the early-nineteenth-century United States in a braided narrative that interweaves accounts of national politics, new communication technologies, emergent religions, and mass reform movements. The winner of multiple book prizes, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History, reviewers widely praised What Hath God Wrought. Historian Richard Carwardine said it "lays powerful claim to being the best work ever written on this period of the American past.
All in. I seldom do the video; the time factor and worse, the aging divergence between that which I can hear and how much of what I hear I can comprehend. No problem with that clip. But your all inedness -- heart and soul -- comes through loudly and clearly in the transcripts. Bless you.
I think everything you put out is premium content. Nobody else has recognized and documented the Hero’s Journey as you have- both Donald Trump’s and your own. Thanks for sharing it all with us. I’m glad I found your Substack, it’s one of my favorites, and I’ll want to hear your voice as long as you keep publishing.
Merry Christmas Sasha!
Sasha- you are doing a terrific job! You are obviously a concerned and conscientious person! I for one totally appreciate all your hard work and the thought you put into it (even if I can barely get to 1/2 of your offerings!) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, but most of all THANK YOU!!!
Sasha, you are the best! Your pieces are incredible and your work ethic is amazing. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas.
Sasha, you are a treasure. While I am enlightened by other publishers, only you combine the necessary information with the delivery techniques that touch me. You have an unparalleled ability to bring tears to my eyes in your story telling while cutting through the dredge to make your point. You are the only person I read that I set aside dedicated time to spend with your latest offering. My life is better having been exposed to you and most of the folks here in Sasha's community. I cannot thank you enough. Have a Merry Christmas
I love this! Trump won. Thank God Trump won. And thank you Sasha for putting this great piece together. Trump won 🙏
Thank God indeed.
Indeed. Let's ensure he lives into office.
Sasha, what a wonderful piece. I planned to only watch a couple minutes tonight, but your narrative drew me in, and I couldn't turn away.
Thanks for all you do - and especially thanks for sharing your journey from a died-in-the-wool liberal to a Trump (and commonsense) supporter!
Megyn was great on the All-In Podcast as was David Sacks at the end. Chamath is also very good. Shortly after the 1500+ page CR spending bill was released I saw a video clip of Vivek saying he’d read it all and it was waste and garbage that should not be passed. I was wondering how he could have read so much so fast but apparently what he’d done was to use something like Elon’s “Grok” AI to read and summarize it. At the 34 min point in this All-In Podcast below Chamath talks about this and how it will be a game changer for how our government functions since it will allow instant transparency to what politicians are actually doing. I saw a Fox News video today that said it did get passed anyway for reasons I can understand but it’s still going to a great advantage for us to have this amazing amount of transparency. David Sacks is gone because he’s in DC helping Trump with AI issues when he takes office.
“New feature: Grok auto analyses all new congressional bills, summarizes it into a few pages a 5-th grader can understand and publishes it into everyone's feed.”
“You can mute these stories but you can't say you weren't given a chance to know.”
10:53 AM • Dec 19, 2024 • 624.2K Views. Chamath Palihapitiya on X.
DOGE kills its first bill, Zuck vs OpenAI, Google’s AI comeback with bestie Aaron Levie. (1:36:00)
All-In Podcast. Dec 20, 2024
https://youtu.be/hY_glSDyGUU?si=cmm6--5J9QDnUTY1
This is amazing, Sasha! I was never a Trump fan although voted for him and thought he did a mostly good job. Certainly better than Obama did or Hilary would have done. Then came the dark years. My husband was all in for DiSantis (and i like him) but I knew we had to have a disruptor. Only a that was going to reclaim the country. It was Trump or “1984” on steroids. I’m so thankful
Sasha, you are awesome. You are one of two subscriptions I pay for. This is the intro I wrote to whom I forwarded it.
Worth listening; don't miss it. It is hard to summarize the "political history of Donald J. Trump" in 57 minutes but this does a pretty good job of it. Sasha understands the power of movies in telling stories. She nails it in this story. It is, in my opinion, an award deserving piece.
Trump may not be an "unprecedented" political character. But I think he is arguably the most influential political character in the last 10 years and his most ardent enemies had a big part in making him just that. If they had any idea (they didn't and don't) of their role in his journey, they only have themselves to "blame" for the outcome.
The official first Morse code message transmitted in the US on May 24, 1844, to officially open the Baltimore–Washington telegraph line was, "What Hath God Wrought?" It was a reference/translation of Numbers 23:23.
Numbers 23:23 (NIV) says, "There is no sorcery against Jacob, no divination against Israel; it will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, 'See what God has done!'"
The "book" of Trump could say,
"There is no sorcery against Trump, no divination against the United States; it will now be said of Trump and the United States, 'See what God has done!'"
The futility of trying to harm or curse those whom God has blessed and protected, affirming that God's will stands above all human or spiritual efforts to oppose it. Don't over interpret this statement but one must consider possibilities.
Trump is no Jacob; or is?
But Trump is an epic political character in the history of the United States. We are not just witnesses to history but participants, as we may desire. Living in history needs to be more "fun" than just reading it.
Another reference to the phrase in was made in the title of a history book:
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 is a nonfiction book about the history of the United States written by historian Daniel Walker Howe. Published in 2007 as part of the Oxford History of the United States series, the book offers a synthesis history of the early-nineteenth-century United States in a braided narrative that interweaves accounts of national politics, new communication technologies, emergent religions, and mass reform movements. The winner of multiple book prizes, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History, reviewers widely praised What Hath God Wrought. Historian Richard Carwardine said it "lays powerful claim to being the best work ever written on this period of the American past.
Great piece and I am very glad you put Megyn's rebuke of the idiots in there.
All in. I seldom do the video; the time factor and worse, the aging divergence between that which I can hear and how much of what I hear I can comprehend. No problem with that clip. But your all inedness -- heart and soul -- comes through loudly and clearly in the transcripts. Bless you.
I think it's great! I shared it with several people.
This was more interesting and well-made than most documentaries out there now.
Brilliantly done and nice way to wrap a tremendous year from you and another awesome gift to us. Thank-you and well done, Sasha Stone.
Sasha, don’t rule out the possibility that people—me/myself/I—just want to support you because you.
ADDICTING!