Sasha, you are so special. I keep saying that, but you are. I am so happy for you that Matt and Meghan have given you exposure that allows more to find your introspection, creativity and humor. Keep on keeping on. You add to our collective world.
Cat C. Bless you for your outpouring of love on behalf of your special needs son. We belong to your community, as there are special needs people in the family. Keep reading and posting. Your views are important to all. There is no group that has higher stress levels than that of special needs mothers; this proven by research. As I tell the parents in our family, they are not doing work
of the world, they are doing “Kingdom work”. The Word says, “The First shall
come last and the Last shall come First.” This applies to single mom families.
You are the first person that I have seen on Sasha’s blog that spoke of a special needs child. When people like to talk about pro-life, I say’ “well, come out and hang out with us; we’re are one of the most pro-life groups you will ever see.”
I am hoping that when Trump is further down his path that he will redo the ACA
insurance . He has said in the debate that he has a group working on a plan
that could do it. He has said in another interview that, yes, it would include preexisting conditions. I also wish private citizens could start a non-profit group in each state that could repair, and recycle equipment for this special needs population.
We are rapidly becoming unburdened from what has been and it has been awesome. Still a long way to go but Donald and company have been throwing down hard.
I find it cathartic to post links that they must confront. For example today they were all excited with the president of Columbia not allowing the U.S. planes to land that were repatriating illegal aliens. I posted the article that the Columbian president capitulated to Trump within a few hours after Trump threatened sanctions.
Phase 3, From Trump…. “Let’s make a deal”. 🤠. And if not, then…
Phase 4, “bombs away, now you get regenerated towards the benefit of your common peoples.” With government force. I don’t want government force at all.
I truely hope Trump wishes to help common folks. We will see what happens. We actually know that a lesbian bishop of a false church can not help us in her false church in Washington DC. She was never qualified to be a Christian oversear/Elder according to Holy Scriptura, from 1st Timothy and Titus. She should repent and then turn back to King Jesus.
I am a Christian and my only hope is Jesus the Christ, the Messiach. For keeps, for eternity. That ain’t Trump. We will see what happens. I am a sinner. Washed in the blood of the lamb. Jesus Christ. With His stripes i am healed. With His righteousness I will be clothed and prepared to enter His Kingdom .
God is good, God is glorious , God is gracious , with mercy, for His church.
It is not nor has it ever been the role of the United States government to help the common folk. Government's role is to facilitate an environment for the common folk to help himself....provide equal opportunity for one's own pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, while keeping us safe and protecting our God given rights.
Petro then posted an unhinged rant about President Trump, including boasts that "his people" were in the Americas long before Trump's. So much for white settler colonialism
Italy's nationalist government is setting up a camp in Albania (where they're always looking for Western money, no matter what scheme it is) to house "refugees" from Africa while they're being processed. (About 90 percent young men.) We would really need a large land area in Africa to house tens of millions in, from all over the West. There is actually such land in eastern Africa that isn't used for much and could be bought, or you could buy patches of land in different countries. But I guess that will never happen.
This is a great post. One of your best. I aways appreciate your perspective as a former hard leftist.
However, there needs to be peace and forgiveness for this to end. Hold the powerful leftist elitists accountable, but forgive the gullible majority for being persuaded. There are many reevaluating their positions right now and we need to let them know they are welcome to reconsider their thoughts rather than dig themselves in deeper. We need to embrace the conversation, not deny it, especially since it has become obvious the only discussion has been with the minority opinion.
We cannot unite if this social media battle continues. Lets be like JD Vance and approach social media like he did on Face the Nation.
That's the difference between the left and MAGA, The left tolerates no discussion: MAGA wants to find a way. If the two sides communicate on the common ground, solutions develop.
Indeed. I have seen so many posts since the election along the lines of "If you voted for Trump, de-friend me... etc." I have never seen a "If you voted for Biden, de-friend me." post.
Just yesterday I was talking to my 27 y/o uber-woke neice who said she would not allow anyone in her life who votes Republican... including her *current* friends AND family. She barely has any real friends as it is, so I told her it'll get lonely real quick in that little bubble of hers. She shrugged me off, of course.
Since the election, I have seen consistent deep, dark disdain by the MAGA crowd against anyone that felt anything good whatsoever about the accomplishments of Biden/Harris administration.
Most of the time. But go to Revolver News and write in the comment section that you love Trump's promises, but you point out the many times he broke them in the past and you hope he won't do it this time, and you'll see the hate you're met with. Realism not allowed.
Or go to Breitbart and write any criticism of Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians, with facts and statements by doctors who have witnessed it, and you'll be downvoted and shouted at. That is, of course, if your post even appears, since if it includes the words "Jews" or "Jewish" it will be hold up in moderation, meaning it will only appear much later when it will be far down and buried by other posts.
These fanatics were not the people who actually campaigned for Trump in 2015 and 2016, online and offline. These were cruzbots back then. They hated Trump intensely, calling him a "racist". Then they changed their Twitter accounts when he won.
Oddly, these fanatics will talk about the Deep State and about the need to attack foreign countries, but they avoid the topic that actually got Trump elected both times, to stop the mass immigration of tens of millions of people. Their MAGA simply sounds like something you'd say during Bush.
Sure, that's why they chanted "Hang Mike Pence" and tore apart the Capitol. I didn't hear one "let's get together and discuss this on common ground". your statement is quite humorous, if you THINK about it.
“…dig themselves in deeper…” That’s what the DNC did over the weekend. Choosing two white men to be their top two leaders instead of a black woman or one of their 64 genders. Seems the party is content being the ‘resistance’ and never wanting to win anymore national elections for the foreseeable future.
Back at ya. From the "gullible majority". As far as JD Vance goes, in his own words, "If I have to make up lies to get people to pay attention then I will". No thanks.
Ryan, in theory it sounds good to say let’s talk, forgive, and make peace. Unfortunately the left tends to be bullies and they won’t back down unless they’re made to.
The others on the left who aren’t bullies still don’t want to be corrected. It makes people feel stupid to admit they were wrong.
I get it. I guess it has to do with how you define who is the Left. I'm all for holding the hardliners making the most noise accountable, but that is not the entire Left, which swung about 10 points towards Trump this election.
I'll offer my daughter and her boyfriend as examples. They were sure Trump was a corrupt Nazi 3 years ago and believed everything they learned about him from teachers and professors. Now they're starting to see reality. I'll forgive anyone like them, or Sasha. I don't want this to continue they way it has. I don't enjoy the fighting, I just want us to win it and be done with it.
Now if Maddow or the hosts of the View wanted forgiveness, that is a different story.
Anyway, that's my POV and thanks for the response.
Yes, understand. I was thinking more the View type people, and not people like your daughter.
To my point, today a lady on this platform called me a bunch of names and said she wants CA to secede from the US so she never has to deal with MAGA people again. Pretty sure we can’t have a conversation or peace with someone like that.
Fabulous expose of the new liberal. They’ve completely lost their common sense in an attempt to turn truth upside down. And the accusations and ridicule against those of us who see the truth just leaves us scratching our heads.
I think we just ended an era, and it seems like these eras gradually exhaust themselves and then abruptly collapse.
The Civil Rights Era, which began in the late 50s ended with Jimmy Carter and stagflation. The archetype was the Hippie. If you had to put something in a time capsule from that era, it would be a "Don't Trust Anyone Over 30" T-shirt.
The Free Markets era, which began with Reagan ended in 2008 with the collapse of the real estate bubble. The archetype was the Finance Bro. If you had to put something in a time capsule from that era, it would be a stock split beeper.
The Great Awokening, which began with Obama ended with Biden, COVID, and cancel culture. The archetype was the hectoring liberal white woman. If you had to put something in a time capsule from that era, it would be a In This House We Believe yard sign.
Not sure what follows, but if history is any guide, leftism is going to be on the defensive for a couple of decades.
In this case, I have to respectfully disagree, Sasha. What the COVID regime (which played a huge part in creating and emboldening the Intolerant Liberal) taught me is that all the the tolerant interesting smart talented liberals turned into the Intolerant Liberal. All of them. I had many personal experiences with this and observed it endlessly as well. A couple of people did not follow suit. I know because I relied on them and they were the only ones who spoke out and came to the anti-mandate protests I attended in NYC for two years—Glenn Greenwald, Mark Crispin Miller, Dr Christian Northrup, RFK Jr, Naomi Wolf, and a handful more. I am a native New Yorker artist, writer, and professor, who grew up around artists and intellectuals all of my life. I stupidly attended graduate programs (I always hated them but needed the degree to teach). I refused the vax and mask mandates, which were terrible in NYC, and I literally became a pariah in my world, which was all liberals basically. I couldn't go anywhere in my city for two years. So I fully believe (and have written about this at great length on my own blog) that all these people became the brainwashed intolerant liberals because they probably always were this way! At the very least, their so-called big brains should have questioned the corporate media and the endless lies they told about COVID and everything else. That's what the Left always did, right? Question the media, the Govt, Big Pharma, the war machine, the secret intelligence agencies (now they just make endless movies glorifying the CIA, govt spies, and professional assassins). But no. They did none of those things. And why didn't they? Because they finally had all the power at their disposal and they didn't care if it was wrong or right, true or a lie, only that they had total control of all cultural discourse. Look at the Associated Press writing that in his final years David Lynch was afraid to leave his house for fear of contracting COVID?! How pathetic and cowardly is that. Look at the films that man made and he's afraid of COVID after 5 years? They’re still publishing this fear-mongering junk? Lynch who questioned the 9/11 narrative on Charlie Rose but not the COVID narrative after 5 years? Maybe chain smoking all his life was the problem. Or Laurie Anderson cozying up to Anderson fucking Cooper in 2022 on CNN, when they did a profile on her. She was my hero growing up. The list goes on and on. No musicians spoke out, apart from Eric Clapton, who got torn apart even though he was vaccine injured! What all of this taught me is the Left has always been authoritarian and mob-minded. They just hid it well and didn't have the cultural power/majority they acquired in recent years to express their true agendas. I am now full convinced that Gorge Carlin, Richard Pryor or whoever else would now be on the wrong side. Look at Joni Mitchell and Neil Young going after Joe Rogan in 2022, and trying to get his podcast cancelled for talking about curing his COVID with Ivermectin instead of the jab. I think maybe it's time (and this has been my difficult trajectory as well) to admit that the Left was never tolerant, or normal, or particularly bright. I mean we know that the CIA had artists and intellectuals working as operatives. So, who the fuck were these people, really? And this is coming from someone who was on the Left all her life, and in the arts and academia in NYC. But even when I was a teenager, and in my 20s, I always felt oppressed by these people. I hated academia. I felt their lack of true critical thinking and their fakeness--always. Looking back, I also see the militancy and the degeneracy and the mob mentality and all the identity politics shit has always been there. When I rewatch old movies, I see it. Luckily, I came from a dissident family and was always a loner/outsider and critical thinker, so there was no way I was going to let anyone tell me what to do during COVID. I wasn't following my so-called “party” off a cliff, even though it meant I literally lost everyone and everything, in mid-life, no less. In the end, I learned what I always knew and what my parents taught me: there is nothing more important than being free, independent, thinking for yourself, and being true to your principles. No matter what! After all, it's all about what you do when the chips are down. Thanks for doing the same.
I’m seeing SOME signs that it is the intolerant liberals who are starting to go underground. Suddenly instead of scary, they are starting to sound just silly. The Elon Nazi salute was a great example. Everyone is laughing at the lame attempts to make Elon a Nazi. Even funnier when all the videos emerged of AOC, Hillary, Kamala, etc., all doing the same thing. I predict we will quickly see independent filmmakers catch on to this new zeitgeist and return some semblance of normalcy to their industry. The pandering to the milquetoasts will stop.
>But sooner or later, the worm will turn. Then will come the apologies and the denials.
This is the only thing you say in this essay that I disagree with. The modern day, perpetually aggrieved, liberal will never apologize. I'm not even sure they will even recognize that they are wrong. They will continue to insist that men can have babies and women can have a penis, as well as their other very many fictions, until the sun turns into a red giant and engulfs the earth.
Everyone knows about the Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693). But few know about the aftermath of repentance and contrition:
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the primary accusers who accused many people of witchcraft. In 1706, she made a public confession at the Salem Village church, where she acknowledged her role in the trials, stating that she was "deluded by Satan" and expressed sorrow for her actions. She specifically apologized for the false accusations she made against many individuals, including Rebecca Nurse.
On January 14, 1697, all twelve jurors who convicted many of the accused witches signed a public statement of contrition. They confessed to being "sadly deluded and mistaken" in their judgments and asked for forgiveness from God and those they had wronged.
Judge Samuel Sewall was one of the judges in the Court of Oyer and Terminer that presided over the trials. In 1697, Samuel Sewall made a public confession in the Old South Church in Boston. He stood before the congregation while his confession was read, taking full responsibility for his part in the trials. He expressed his "blame and shame" and asked for forgiveness. Sewall also set aside a day each year for fasting and prayer to atone for his actions.
In 1702, the Massachusetts General Court, the legislative body of Massachusetts Bay Colony that officially sanctioned the trials declared a day of fasting for the errors of the trials, indicating a collective recognition of the injustices committed. In 1711, they passed a bill reversing the convictions of those accused in Salem.
What are the odds we see anything like that again?
Thank you. Interesting they use the word delusion. This is at the root of what happened during the Salem witch trials, a failure of understanding and reasoning, a misperception of reality. Leftists are also deluded. I visited a friend yesterday and as I entered the room she had on the TV and there was Jen Psaki speaking. She also watches The View. She’s a lovely, intelligent person but her mind has been warped by the programs that she watches. We are still friends even though we disagree politically. At least we can talk to each other about these issues and still remain friends. But for me, I get so upset sometimes about how deluded she and others are that it becomes too stressful for me physically. i’m finding it’s all just been too much over these many years. I tried to also defend the J6 prisoners and explain that what she sees, the clips on leftist TV, are the violence that occurred at the tunnel that involved may be 100 or 200 people at most, and yet 1500 who were not violent have been prosecuted and tormented. When I think about the idiots at the Kavanagh hearings who were screaming in the halls of Congress and were not charged with parading in the capital or interrupting an official proceeding or anything else and then I look at how the J6 people have been treated, I just find it really hard to deal with.
This was timely! Today I got yelled at by a liberal friend. for having the nerve to offer her an old Russian recipe to relieve her cold and flu symptoms. I made the mistake of ending the text with "Here's to Mother Russia!" Wellllllll...lectured about Putin's evil blah blah blah. Didn't know it was HIS recipe, but whatever. I followed up by saying I guess I better officially warn her I was about to start "War and Peace." Does that count as a "Maule"???
Kinison on famine and U-hauls was the one of the most offensive and hilarious bits I have ever seen. People who do not appreciate humor likely fail to embrace the contradictions of the human condition.
I'd like to hear Sasha review "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." To me, progressives are pod people. That is how I view them - without hate or animosity. They are handicapped in some odd way. Trump may be the breakthrough to reality for some of them. Many of them are terminal and beyond hope. Keep them at a safe distance. On a side note Sasha, how about a review of "Mulholland Drive"? My favorite movie of all time and I still don't get it.
I've been thinking of them as Stepford Wives, stuck in their shallow group think, never realizing they have been programmed out of individual realization..
Sasha, you are so special. I keep saying that, but you are. I am so happy for you that Matt and Meghan have given you exposure that allows more to find your introspection, creativity and humor. Keep on keeping on. You add to our collective world.
I wholeheartedly agree and if I didn't have the expenses of a special needs son, I'd be giving regularly.
Cat C. Bless you for your outpouring of love on behalf of your special needs son. We belong to your community, as there are special needs people in the family. Keep reading and posting. Your views are important to all. There is no group that has higher stress levels than that of special needs mothers; this proven by research. As I tell the parents in our family, they are not doing work
of the world, they are doing “Kingdom work”. The Word says, “The First shall
come last and the Last shall come First.” This applies to single mom families.
You are the first person that I have seen on Sasha’s blog that spoke of a special needs child. When people like to talk about pro-life, I say’ “well, come out and hang out with us; we’re are one of the most pro-life groups you will ever see.”
I am hoping that when Trump is further down his path that he will redo the ACA
insurance . He has said in the debate that he has a group working on a plan
that could do it. He has said in another interview that, yes, it would include preexisting conditions. I also wish private citizens could start a non-profit group in each state that could repair, and recycle equipment for this special needs population.
Agreed. Well said.
I ditto that! I read an article last year from her that saved my sanity - and consider her a part of my mental health routine ever since.
Day Seven of the Great Un-Bidening of What Has Been and it's been a phenomenal week. Hope the new week is even better.
We are rapidly becoming unburdened from what has been and it has been awesome. Still a long way to go but Donald and company have been throwing down hard.
Loved “the Great Un-Bidening” words! Haven’t seen that before!
Just don't get tired of winning!
Right on, neighbor!👍
I find it cathartic to post links that they must confront. For example today they were all excited with the president of Columbia not allowing the U.S. planes to land that were repatriating illegal aliens. I posted the article that the Columbian president capitulated to Trump within a few hours after Trump threatened sanctions.
Simple. Why are they so lame?
Phase 1, extreme threat
Phase 2, extreme panic followed by capitulation
Phase 3, From Trump…. “Let’s make a deal”. 🤠. And if not, then…
Phase 4, “bombs away, now you get regenerated towards the benefit of your common peoples.” With government force. I don’t want government force at all.
I truely hope Trump wishes to help common folks. We will see what happens. We actually know that a lesbian bishop of a false church can not help us in her false church in Washington DC. She was never qualified to be a Christian oversear/Elder according to Holy Scriptura, from 1st Timothy and Titus. She should repent and then turn back to King Jesus.
I am a Christian and my only hope is Jesus the Christ, the Messiach. For keeps, for eternity. That ain’t Trump. We will see what happens. I am a sinner. Washed in the blood of the lamb. Jesus Christ. With His stripes i am healed. With His righteousness I will be clothed and prepared to enter His Kingdom .
God is good, God is glorious , God is gracious , with mercy, for His church.
It is not nor has it ever been the role of the United States government to help the common folk. Government's role is to facilitate an environment for the common folk to help himself....provide equal opportunity for one's own pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, while keeping us safe and protecting our God given rights.
Petro then posted an unhinged rant about President Trump, including boasts that "his people" were in the Americas long before Trump's. So much for white settler colonialism
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/26/colombias-petro-goes-on-unhinged-rant-at-trump-threatens-tariffs-if-you-know-anyone-stubborn-thats-me/
Wasn't that hysteria? Watch Mahyer Tousi cover it. https://www.youtube.com/live/OgB6oLOQNDo?si=-0qToqD0bXuZkOaC A delight.
Yes! It made me think of the expression, 'F around and find out.'
Italy's nationalist government is setting up a camp in Albania (where they're always looking for Western money, no matter what scheme it is) to house "refugees" from Africa while they're being processed. (About 90 percent young men.) We would really need a large land area in Africa to house tens of millions in, from all over the West. There is actually such land in eastern Africa that isn't used for much and could be bought, or you could buy patches of land in different countries. But I guess that will never happen.
Too bad it's not WHERE THE FOOD IS!
This is a great post. One of your best. I aways appreciate your perspective as a former hard leftist.
However, there needs to be peace and forgiveness for this to end. Hold the powerful leftist elitists accountable, but forgive the gullible majority for being persuaded. There are many reevaluating their positions right now and we need to let them know they are welcome to reconsider their thoughts rather than dig themselves in deeper. We need to embrace the conversation, not deny it, especially since it has become obvious the only discussion has been with the minority opinion.
We cannot unite if this social media battle continues. Lets be like JD Vance and approach social media like he did on Face the Nation.
That's the difference between the left and MAGA, The left tolerates no discussion: MAGA wants to find a way. If the two sides communicate on the common ground, solutions develop.
Indeed. I have seen so many posts since the election along the lines of "If you voted for Trump, de-friend me... etc." I have never seen a "If you voted for Biden, de-friend me." post.
Just yesterday I was talking to my 27 y/o uber-woke neice who said she would not allow anyone in her life who votes Republican... including her *current* friends AND family. She barely has any real friends as it is, so I told her it'll get lonely real quick in that little bubble of hers. She shrugged me off, of course.
Since the election, I have seen consistent deep, dark disdain by the MAGA crowd against anyone that felt anything good whatsoever about the accomplishments of Biden/Harris administration.
Yep. There's a reason for that, though. The Orange one is antithetical to goodness and trust.
Time for a $150,000 grant to figure out why.
Money means nothing in eternity.
Most of the time. But go to Revolver News and write in the comment section that you love Trump's promises, but you point out the many times he broke them in the past and you hope he won't do it this time, and you'll see the hate you're met with. Realism not allowed.
Or go to Breitbart and write any criticism of Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians, with facts and statements by doctors who have witnessed it, and you'll be downvoted and shouted at. That is, of course, if your post even appears, since if it includes the words "Jews" or "Jewish" it will be hold up in moderation, meaning it will only appear much later when it will be far down and buried by other posts.
These fanatics were not the people who actually campaigned for Trump in 2015 and 2016, online and offline. These were cruzbots back then. They hated Trump intensely, calling him a "racist". Then they changed their Twitter accounts when he won.
Oddly, these fanatics will talk about the Deep State and about the need to attack foreign countries, but they avoid the topic that actually got Trump elected both times, to stop the mass immigration of tens of millions of people. Their MAGA simply sounds like something you'd say during Bush.
Sure, that's why they chanted "Hang Mike Pence" and tore apart the Capitol. I didn't hear one "let's get together and discuss this on common ground". your statement is quite humorous, if you THINK about it.
Both only tolerate it only if they are in the same sphere of influence.
“…dig themselves in deeper…” That’s what the DNC did over the weekend. Choosing two white men to be their top two leaders instead of a black woman or one of their 64 genders. Seems the party is content being the ‘resistance’ and never wanting to win anymore national elections for the foreseeable future.
“Hello, Whigs? Need some company?”
Back at ya. From the "gullible majority". As far as JD Vance goes, in his own words, "If I have to make up lies to get people to pay attention then I will". No thanks.
Ryan, in theory it sounds good to say let’s talk, forgive, and make peace. Unfortunately the left tends to be bullies and they won’t back down unless they’re made to.
The others on the left who aren’t bullies still don’t want to be corrected. It makes people feel stupid to admit they were wrong.
I honestly don’t see a way through.
I get it. I guess it has to do with how you define who is the Left. I'm all for holding the hardliners making the most noise accountable, but that is not the entire Left, which swung about 10 points towards Trump this election.
I'll offer my daughter and her boyfriend as examples. They were sure Trump was a corrupt Nazi 3 years ago and believed everything they learned about him from teachers and professors. Now they're starting to see reality. I'll forgive anyone like them, or Sasha. I don't want this to continue they way it has. I don't enjoy the fighting, I just want us to win it and be done with it.
Now if Maddow or the hosts of the View wanted forgiveness, that is a different story.
Anyway, that's my POV and thanks for the response.
Yes, understand. I was thinking more the View type people, and not people like your daughter.
To my point, today a lady on this platform called me a bunch of names and said she wants CA to secede from the US so she never has to deal with MAGA people again. Pretty sure we can’t have a conversation or peace with someone like that.
Nah, no peace and forgiveness. Can’t we just burn them at the stake? Asking for a friend.
Fabulous expose of the new liberal. They’ve completely lost their common sense in an attempt to turn truth upside down. And the accusations and ridicule against those of us who see the truth just leaves us scratching our heads.
You’re an inspiration! ❤️
I think we just ended an era, and it seems like these eras gradually exhaust themselves and then abruptly collapse.
The Civil Rights Era, which began in the late 50s ended with Jimmy Carter and stagflation. The archetype was the Hippie. If you had to put something in a time capsule from that era, it would be a "Don't Trust Anyone Over 30" T-shirt.
The Free Markets era, which began with Reagan ended in 2008 with the collapse of the real estate bubble. The archetype was the Finance Bro. If you had to put something in a time capsule from that era, it would be a stock split beeper.
The Great Awokening, which began with Obama ended with Biden, COVID, and cancel culture. The archetype was the hectoring liberal white woman. If you had to put something in a time capsule from that era, it would be a In This House We Believe yard sign.
Not sure what follows, but if history is any guide, leftism is going to be on the defensive for a couple of decades.
Gee, I sure hope so! A couple of decades? That would be so freakin' awesome!
In this case, I have to respectfully disagree, Sasha. What the COVID regime (which played a huge part in creating and emboldening the Intolerant Liberal) taught me is that all the the tolerant interesting smart talented liberals turned into the Intolerant Liberal. All of them. I had many personal experiences with this and observed it endlessly as well. A couple of people did not follow suit. I know because I relied on them and they were the only ones who spoke out and came to the anti-mandate protests I attended in NYC for two years—Glenn Greenwald, Mark Crispin Miller, Dr Christian Northrup, RFK Jr, Naomi Wolf, and a handful more. I am a native New Yorker artist, writer, and professor, who grew up around artists and intellectuals all of my life. I stupidly attended graduate programs (I always hated them but needed the degree to teach). I refused the vax and mask mandates, which were terrible in NYC, and I literally became a pariah in my world, which was all liberals basically. I couldn't go anywhere in my city for two years. So I fully believe (and have written about this at great length on my own blog) that all these people became the brainwashed intolerant liberals because they probably always were this way! At the very least, their so-called big brains should have questioned the corporate media and the endless lies they told about COVID and everything else. That's what the Left always did, right? Question the media, the Govt, Big Pharma, the war machine, the secret intelligence agencies (now they just make endless movies glorifying the CIA, govt spies, and professional assassins). But no. They did none of those things. And why didn't they? Because they finally had all the power at their disposal and they didn't care if it was wrong or right, true or a lie, only that they had total control of all cultural discourse. Look at the Associated Press writing that in his final years David Lynch was afraid to leave his house for fear of contracting COVID?! How pathetic and cowardly is that. Look at the films that man made and he's afraid of COVID after 5 years? They’re still publishing this fear-mongering junk? Lynch who questioned the 9/11 narrative on Charlie Rose but not the COVID narrative after 5 years? Maybe chain smoking all his life was the problem. Or Laurie Anderson cozying up to Anderson fucking Cooper in 2022 on CNN, when they did a profile on her. She was my hero growing up. The list goes on and on. No musicians spoke out, apart from Eric Clapton, who got torn apart even though he was vaccine injured! What all of this taught me is the Left has always been authoritarian and mob-minded. They just hid it well and didn't have the cultural power/majority they acquired in recent years to express their true agendas. I am now full convinced that Gorge Carlin, Richard Pryor or whoever else would now be on the wrong side. Look at Joni Mitchell and Neil Young going after Joe Rogan in 2022, and trying to get his podcast cancelled for talking about curing his COVID with Ivermectin instead of the jab. I think maybe it's time (and this has been my difficult trajectory as well) to admit that the Left was never tolerant, or normal, or particularly bright. I mean we know that the CIA had artists and intellectuals working as operatives. So, who the fuck were these people, really? And this is coming from someone who was on the Left all her life, and in the arts and academia in NYC. But even when I was a teenager, and in my 20s, I always felt oppressed by these people. I hated academia. I felt their lack of true critical thinking and their fakeness--always. Looking back, I also see the militancy and the degeneracy and the mob mentality and all the identity politics shit has always been there. When I rewatch old movies, I see it. Luckily, I came from a dissident family and was always a loner/outsider and critical thinker, so there was no way I was going to let anyone tell me what to do during COVID. I wasn't following my so-called “party” off a cliff, even though it meant I literally lost everyone and everything, in mid-life, no less. In the end, I learned what I always knew and what my parents taught me: there is nothing more important than being free, independent, thinking for yourself, and being true to your principles. No matter what! After all, it's all about what you do when the chips are down. Thanks for doing the same.
Are you my long-lost twin? Based on my own experience, I could've written your comment word for word. :)
So nice to hear that! It's been brutal out here. I'm in the belly of the beast (NYC).
Massive walls of texts are impossible to read. In the future please divide your comments into much smaller and spaced paragraphs.
I’m seeing SOME signs that it is the intolerant liberals who are starting to go underground. Suddenly instead of scary, they are starting to sound just silly. The Elon Nazi salute was a great example. Everyone is laughing at the lame attempts to make Elon a Nazi. Even funnier when all the videos emerged of AOC, Hillary, Kamala, etc., all doing the same thing. I predict we will quickly see independent filmmakers catch on to this new zeitgeist and return some semblance of normalcy to their industry. The pandering to the milquetoasts will stop.
Right? I feel like an extremely heavy weight has been lifted off my shoulders, and I can finally fully breathe now.
>But sooner or later, the worm will turn. Then will come the apologies and the denials.
This is the only thing you say in this essay that I disagree with. The modern day, perpetually aggrieved, liberal will never apologize. I'm not even sure they will even recognize that they are wrong. They will continue to insist that men can have babies and women can have a penis, as well as their other very many fictions, until the sun turns into a red giant and engulfs the earth.
Everyone knows about the Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693). But few know about the aftermath of repentance and contrition:
Ann Putnam Jr. was one of the primary accusers who accused many people of witchcraft. In 1706, she made a public confession at the Salem Village church, where she acknowledged her role in the trials, stating that she was "deluded by Satan" and expressed sorrow for her actions. She specifically apologized for the false accusations she made against many individuals, including Rebecca Nurse.
On January 14, 1697, all twelve jurors who convicted many of the accused witches signed a public statement of contrition. They confessed to being "sadly deluded and mistaken" in their judgments and asked for forgiveness from God and those they had wronged.
Judge Samuel Sewall was one of the judges in the Court of Oyer and Terminer that presided over the trials. In 1697, Samuel Sewall made a public confession in the Old South Church in Boston. He stood before the congregation while his confession was read, taking full responsibility for his part in the trials. He expressed his "blame and shame" and asked for forgiveness. Sewall also set aside a day each year for fasting and prayer to atone for his actions.
In 1702, the Massachusetts General Court, the legislative body of Massachusetts Bay Colony that officially sanctioned the trials declared a day of fasting for the errors of the trials, indicating a collective recognition of the injustices committed. In 1711, they passed a bill reversing the convictions of those accused in Salem.
What are the odds we see anything like that again?
Thank you. Interesting they use the word delusion. This is at the root of what happened during the Salem witch trials, a failure of understanding and reasoning, a misperception of reality. Leftists are also deluded. I visited a friend yesterday and as I entered the room she had on the TV and there was Jen Psaki speaking. She also watches The View. She’s a lovely, intelligent person but her mind has been warped by the programs that she watches. We are still friends even though we disagree politically. At least we can talk to each other about these issues and still remain friends. But for me, I get so upset sometimes about how deluded she and others are that it becomes too stressful for me physically. i’m finding it’s all just been too much over these many years. I tried to also defend the J6 prisoners and explain that what she sees, the clips on leftist TV, are the violence that occurred at the tunnel that involved may be 100 or 200 people at most, and yet 1500 who were not violent have been prosecuted and tormented. When I think about the idiots at the Kavanagh hearings who were screaming in the halls of Congress and were not charged with parading in the capital or interrupting an official proceeding or anything else and then I look at how the J6 people have been treated, I just find it really hard to deal with.
This was timely! Today I got yelled at by a liberal friend. for having the nerve to offer her an old Russian recipe to relieve her cold and flu symptoms. I made the mistake of ending the text with "Here's to Mother Russia!" Wellllllll...lectured about Putin's evil blah blah blah. Didn't know it was HIS recipe, but whatever. I followed up by saying I guess I better officially warn her I was about to start "War and Peace." Does that count as a "Maule"???
Kinison on famine and U-hauls was the one of the most offensive and hilarious bits I have ever seen. People who do not appreciate humor likely fail to embrace the contradictions of the human condition.
I'd like to hear Sasha review "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." To me, progressives are pod people. That is how I view them - without hate or animosity. They are handicapped in some odd way. Trump may be the breakthrough to reality for some of them. Many of them are terminal and beyond hope. Keep them at a safe distance. On a side note Sasha, how about a review of "Mulholland Drive"? My favorite movie of all time and I still don't get it.
I've been thinking of them as Stepford Wives, stuck in their shallow group think, never realizing they have been programmed out of individual realization..
Well, thanks a lot, Sasha. Now I have to go rummage around Netflix again so I can see “Scent of a Woman” again. One of Pacino’s best, IMHO.
So lovely to find you on Megyn Kelly. What a wonderful way to start my Sasha following 🥳
Thank you Sasha for bring back common sense .