I like your first comment better Sasha. I think it was sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein who said, "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It will frustrate you and it annoys the pig." Which is why I don't try to reason with the radical left.
That doesn't read like any Hemingway writing I've ever read, and I've read most of his works, from his newspaper reporting in the Kansas City Star to The Old Man and the Sea - and Islands in the Stream, published posthumously. He was a good friend of Dr Logan Clendening - "One Reader Writes", who was my grandfather's next door neighbor in KC, and he'd come over to drink and play cards on a fairly regular basis. His children were all born in KC, and the Hemingways and my grandparents had the same pediatrician.
I believe Joseph will be visiting a burn ward after that scathing takedown. And deservedly so, I might add. People like him are the reason Trump won and the Dems in Congress are polling at less than 30%. They get everything they have coming to them.
They are still stuck in their delusion that if they could only "get" Trump, that people will all of a sudden fall in-line. This is totally backwards: many Trump voters are voting for him because of his policies, not because of him. If you don't like illegal immigration, censorship, climate catastrophism, lawfare, etc., what other choice is there?
Right. he is my guy for these reasons, a former jock and a good one (baseball), his policies are to save America from ruin, stop the un vetted from illegal entry, stop the un vaxxed, stop foreign nationals for whom English is a second language, reject Clinton trade policies, stop the gender chaos in our schools and in government, bring industry here, reduce the size of government and government excess, support our competitive nature, get the wackos out of the bureaucracy, etc., etc. all good stuff, and out in the open! Also, Great job Sasha!
How about just adding a little common sense, whose idea was to revise Title IX and what sense does it make or better yet what difference does it really make, apparently none for the democrats who all voted for it. Also, doesn't stopping the invasion of our borders make sense? You're just not looking at one issue, are you?
No I am not. Where did you hear Trump was going to stop the unvaxxed? Especially with the people he's got running the NIH, CDC etc. There is so much Trump is doing that I voted for. I am dismayed that 500,000 people protested many of his common sense moves yesterday. I am alarmed he is using AI to find visa holders who clicked like on anti-Isreal stuff. One day, when the leftists are in power, they may come for me, because I clicked like on some of el gato Malo's posts.
"There is not anything so amazing to others, or so destructive to itself; so proud and insolent if it succeeds, or so extravagant if it be disappointed. No repulse discourages it, and, for want of other matter to work upon, it falls foul upon itself;
Joseph reminds me of an acquaintance. We run in many of the same circles, and yet, when our paths cross, he often non-humorously remarks, What are YOU doing here?
It offends something in his entitled worldview to see me out of place, mentally. Even when I have a FORMAL connection to the context, and he doesn't.
Narcissism is overused as a term. But it applies.
Nice to see you too, Joseph. I'll try to be a gracious host. Because you're a guest in my space, and I belong here.
Just always remember: they don’t disagree with us, they want to eliminate us. If not from public discourse, then from the room literally. It’s not impossible to believe they would eliminate us physically if given the opportunity. Just ask Thomas Crooks.
It's not only possible, it has been happening on a global scale, through the bioweapon "pandemic" jabs. They have been covertly culling the populations of the world: https://outoftheordinaryworld.substack.com/archive .
Trump did an amazing thing in 2016. He made it so the public could see and hear with their own eyes and ears EXACTLY how the left thinks and acts. Before, it was all behind the scenes and they were all silent about it.
With Trump Derangement Syndrome the gloves came off and liberals went truly unhinged letting out everything they believed and thought. It ALL came out for the world to see.
I put Sasha on my 97 yr old mom's tablet, she LOVES her and reads everything Sasha puts out. Mom is still working 3 days a week, taking "old" people shopping, Dr's appts, visiting friends, etc. Sharp as a tack.
"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
-St. Augustine-
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
-Thomas Paine-
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
-Ronald Reagan-
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke-
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer-
"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?"
-Ayn Rand-
“The money one gets for selling one’s soul is always spent in deadening one’s conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.”
-Thomas A. Edison-
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn-
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Reading through these quotes is deeply encouraging and edifying, John. So thankful for persons such as you, who pay attention to what is worthy of our attention. Thank you!
Poor Joseph. He’s such a sad remnant of a sad party yhat’s completely in tatters. They’re just crawling around trying to find a home. He’s truly who does not belong in Substack. Substack was created to get away from people like him and his censorship-for-the-greater-good obey-for-the-greater-good, “Follow the Science” dumb ass, sheeple party. Way to put him in his place, Sasha.
I think my ‘Stack is my private conversations. I am happy to have people disagree. But flaming haters get blocked instantly. Life is too short to engage with that.
The endless entitlement from the left continues to baffle me. They aren’t liked outside of their nasty little echo chambers. They are boring, predictable bullies with a varying range of violence - and that’s all they are. No real skill or talent in most cases - just mean unhappy people who attack others.
I wish I’d tempered this with a little more kindness. Some of us have been battered by the left socially and legally by left leaning bureaucrats and my default isn’t warm and kind now for anything outside of parenting. I want to be forgiving and kind but it’s not in me the way it used to be.
I’m with you! I am done trying to remain civil with them. They’ve made themselves unworthy by their own actions & they don’t deserve any effort on our part.
Thank you, Sasha, for publishing a story that perfectly illustrates why we say that leftists aren’t liberal and we need to STOP saying that they are.
Leftists have exploited that label for decades to imply favourability towards freedom and individual liberty. It is the exact opposite with them and this proves this.
I am and always have been a liberal. But most people think I am a far right extremist. I don’t think I changed. You do you, I will do me. Balance budgets. Government should have the lightest touch. Etc. That is now Nazi!
My Mensa threads frequently discuss Dunning-Kruger. It applies equally to a thought path where the individual is wholly confident of moral and logical supremacy. Lack of doubt correlates with lower intellect.
LOL! I don't know about correlations. The Left thinking captured some obviously brilliant people, including Satya Nadella, Bill Gates and even Elon Musk for a time. But the comment about moral and logical supremacy rings true. That was what Hillary told us, that we are all "deplorables" (she was looking for the word "degenerates")
All the major areas we grapple with are ‘open-ended systems’. They are practically infinitely complicated. Weather, the economy, relationships (my wife!), bodies and health, maybe psychology more than anything, etc. If you get really expert in some area at some point you have to face up to the fact you have only barely scratched the surface. Even if I know 10x more than the next person I still don’t know enough to be sure. It might be my guess/decision is reasoned and better, ie less likely to cause damage, it still is nowhere near enough to consider myself a true expert.
I thank God for people like you Sasha who have seen the light and are so articulate in expressing how the Left has torched this country! And I am so thankful that I found you on Substack. Keep up the great work!
Please keep writing, the truth will come out. Like children, we give advice that they take or not.... but someday in their lives, they will say "mom was right" to themselves. It may not be in our lifetimes, but the truth always prevails.
Home run, Sasha. From Hemingway: “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Remember Sasha Stone: When you are taking incoming fire, it means you are over the target.
wow! wish i said that George.
That's actually the first Hemingway quote that I like.
And knowing my former self well, I've got a lot of room for this nobility to grow!
I like your first comment better Sasha. I think it was sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein who said, "Never try to teach a pig to sing. It will frustrate you and it annoys the pig." Which is why I don't try to reason with the radical left.
That doesn't read like any Hemingway writing I've ever read, and I've read most of his works, from his newspaper reporting in the Kansas City Star to The Old Man and the Sea - and Islands in the Stream, published posthumously. He was a good friend of Dr Logan Clendening - "One Reader Writes", who was my grandfather's next door neighbor in KC, and he'd come over to drink and play cards on a fairly regular basis. His children were all born in KC, and the Hemingways and my grandparents had the same pediatrician.
It might have been stated before Hemingway’s birth. But he used it often when talking about themes in his writing.
Great quote!☺️
I thought it was from the 2014 movie "Kingsman: The Secret Service" when Harry (Colin Firth) was mentoring young Eggsy (Taron Egerton). 🙂
I believe Joseph will be visiting a burn ward after that scathing takedown. And deservedly so, I might add. People like him are the reason Trump won and the Dems in Congress are polling at less than 30%. They get everything they have coming to them.
They are still stuck in their delusion that if they could only "get" Trump, that people will all of a sudden fall in-line. This is totally backwards: many Trump voters are voting for him because of his policies, not because of him. If you don't like illegal immigration, censorship, climate catastrophism, lawfare, etc., what other choice is there?
It's the policies, stupid.
Right. he is my guy for these reasons, a former jock and a good one (baseball), his policies are to save America from ruin, stop the un vetted from illegal entry, stop the un vaxxed, stop foreign nationals for whom English is a second language, reject Clinton trade policies, stop the gender chaos in our schools and in government, bring industry here, reduce the size of government and government excess, support our competitive nature, get the wackos out of the bureaucracy, etc., etc. all good stuff, and out in the open! Also, Great job Sasha!
Stop the unvaxxed? If that's on his agenda, it is very very wrong.
I agree. Considering who is running NIH, the CDC and FDA, I don’t think stopping the unvaxxed is on Trump’s agenda.
How about just adding a little common sense, whose idea was to revise Title IX and what sense does it make or better yet what difference does it really make, apparently none for the democrats who all voted for it. Also, doesn't stopping the invasion of our borders make sense? You're just not looking at one issue, are you?
No I am not. Where did you hear Trump was going to stop the unvaxxed? Especially with the people he's got running the NIH, CDC etc. There is so much Trump is doing that I voted for. I am dismayed that 500,000 people protested many of his common sense moves yesterday. I am alarmed he is using AI to find visa holders who clicked like on anti-Isreal stuff. One day, when the leftists are in power, they may come for me, because I clicked like on some of el gato Malo's posts.
With their own base
Yep. 👍
Do you even believe those poll numbers?
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
― Lao Tzu
True.
And there's this:
"There is not anything so amazing to others, or so destructive to itself; so proud and insolent if it succeeds, or so extravagant if it be disappointed. No repulse discourages it, and, for want of other matter to work upon, it falls foul upon itself;
—Seneca, "Anger and Clemency"
Joseph, don’t you have a Tesla dealership to be firebombing?
His mom hasn’t washed his black hoodie and face mask yet.
“MOM! I told you I needed my hoodie today! You never do what I say!”
Joseph reminds me of an acquaintance. We run in many of the same circles, and yet, when our paths cross, he often non-humorously remarks, What are YOU doing here?
It offends something in his entitled worldview to see me out of place, mentally. Even when I have a FORMAL connection to the context, and he doesn't.
Narcissism is overused as a term. But it applies.
Nice to see you too, Joseph. I'll try to be a gracious host. Because you're a guest in my space, and I belong here.
Just always remember: they don’t disagree with us, they want to eliminate us. If not from public discourse, then from the room literally. It’s not impossible to believe they would eliminate us physically if given the opportunity. Just ask Thomas Crooks.
It's not only possible, it has been happening on a global scale, through the bioweapon "pandemic" jabs. They have been covertly culling the populations of the world: https://outoftheordinaryworld.substack.com/archive .
BOOM!
oooh.
sadly he probably ran to hide and will never see your inquiry
🤣😂
Please don’t encourage him/he/they. That is the extent of my civility in view of his crudity.
Please don’t encourage him/he/they (that is the extent of my effort to remain civil despite his profound incivility & downright crudity)
Trump did an amazing thing in 2016. He made it so the public could see and hear with their own eyes and ears EXACTLY how the left thinks and acts. Before, it was all behind the scenes and they were all silent about it.
With Trump Derangement Syndrome the gloves came off and liberals went truly unhinged letting out everything they believed and thought. It ALL came out for the world to see.
Thankfully, they are still doing it.
Yes - I have been saying this too. Donald Trump has made the Left and the Democrat party reveal their true nature.
i can't wait til the majority is laughing at their ridiculousness. We should not have to enjoy chuckling alone.
Sasha, i don't know how I found you, but I'm thankful everytime I read another article you write that I did.
I put Sasha on my 97 yr old mom's tablet, she LOVES her and reads everything Sasha puts out. Mom is still working 3 days a week, taking "old" people shopping, Dr's appts, visiting friends, etc. Sharp as a tack.
She taught me right, (am 4 out of 6 kids).
Your mom sounds AMAZING 😻
"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
-St. Augustine-
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
-Thomas Paine-
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
-Ronald Reagan-
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke-
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer-
"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?"
-Ayn Rand-
“The money one gets for selling one’s soul is always spent in deadening one’s conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.”
-Thomas A. Edison-
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn-
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
-Winston S. Churchill-
Please stay frosty! The neo-communists are becoming desperate in their failures and escalating violence is their only perceived remedy to stop us d
Yes violence seems to be their answer. However they find out there are a lot of Kyle Rittenhouse’s out there.
perfect choices John. YES!
Reading through these quotes is deeply encouraging and edifying, John. So thankful for persons such as you, who pay attention to what is worthy of our attention. Thank you!
Thanks :)
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
-Aristotle-
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
-John Wayne-
Poor Joseph. He’s such a sad remnant of a sad party yhat’s completely in tatters. They’re just crawling around trying to find a home. He’s truly who does not belong in Substack. Substack was created to get away from people like him and his censorship-for-the-greater-good obey-for-the-greater-good, “Follow the Science” dumb ass, sheeple party. Way to put him in his place, Sasha.
I think my ‘Stack is my private conversations. I am happy to have people disagree. But flaming haters get blocked instantly. Life is too short to engage with that.
but what about Signalgate??? 🤣 Joey is a pitiful 🤡
"There is nothing more loathsome than the self one has outgrown." God, that is a great line!
I was going to highlight that one, too. Very good.
Agree - brilliant!
The endless entitlement from the left continues to baffle me. They aren’t liked outside of their nasty little echo chambers. They are boring, predictable bullies with a varying range of violence - and that’s all they are. No real skill or talent in most cases - just mean unhappy people who attack others.
I wish I’d tempered this with a little more kindness. Some of us have been battered by the left socially and legally by left leaning bureaucrats and my default isn’t warm and kind now for anything outside of parenting. I want to be forgiving and kind but it’s not in me the way it used to be.
I’m with you! I am done trying to remain civil with them. They’ve made themselves unworthy by their own actions & they don’t deserve any effort on our part.
Thank you, Sasha, for publishing a story that perfectly illustrates why we say that leftists aren’t liberal and we need to STOP saying that they are.
Leftists have exploited that label for decades to imply favourability towards freedom and individual liberty. It is the exact opposite with them and this proves this.
Oddly i know Progs that loudly declare their disgust at Liberals. They are not Liberals. They are Progressive.
Yes!
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been accused of being a liberal, as some sort of insult.
While they exploit the word, they also hold it in some disdain.
🤣 A distinction without a difference Mystic. Especially now, but it's technically true that not all Liberals are progressive/regressive.
I am and always have been a liberal. But most people think I am a far right extremist. I don’t think I changed. You do you, I will do me. Balance budgets. Government should have the lightest touch. Etc. That is now Nazi!
Liberal along with liberty have there it’s etymological roots in the word Libertas.
In point of reference, the founding fathers were liberals, people who favour individual liberty and limited government.
Consider my recent essay:
Are you a classic liberal?
Some mind-blowing facts that will shake your perceptions of the political spectrum.
https://parkerd.substack.com/p/are-you-a-classic-liberal
There is a big difference because as Rush used to say – Words mean things.
Leftists always exploit certain words to convey false feelings, take away those words, and you take away their ability to convey those false feelings.
Wouldn’t that be worth it?
Well said, Sasha.
My Mensa threads frequently discuss Dunning-Kruger. It applies equally to a thought path where the individual is wholly confident of moral and logical supremacy. Lack of doubt correlates with lower intellect.
LOL! I don't know about correlations. The Left thinking captured some obviously brilliant people, including Satya Nadella, Bill Gates and even Elon Musk for a time. But the comment about moral and logical supremacy rings true. That was what Hillary told us, that we are all "deplorables" (she was looking for the word "degenerates")
And the truly brilliant come to realize the fallacy and hypocrisy, and leave.
Ergo, Elon Musk.
All the major areas we grapple with are ‘open-ended systems’. They are practically infinitely complicated. Weather, the economy, relationships (my wife!), bodies and health, maybe psychology more than anything, etc. If you get really expert in some area at some point you have to face up to the fact you have only barely scratched the surface. Even if I know 10x more than the next person I still don’t know enough to be sure. It might be my guess/decision is reasoned and better, ie less likely to cause damage, it still is nowhere near enough to consider myself a true expert.
Which threads? Do we know each other?
I thank God for people like you Sasha who have seen the light and are so articulate in expressing how the Left has torched this country! And I am so thankful that I found you on Substack. Keep up the great work!
Please keep writing, the truth will come out. Like children, we give advice that they take or not.... but someday in their lives, they will say "mom was right" to themselves. It may not be in our lifetimes, but the truth always prevails.
Beautiful response!