The most important thing to remember is WE THE PEOPLE because of President Trump now know how the government being controlled by the Leftist Democrats have been poisoning our country with anti American rhetoric and now WE The People will never let our country fall back into the Leftist ideology of the Democrat party.
“WE The People will never let our country fall back into the Leftist ideology of the Democrat party.”
The open borders, war on meritocracy for the sake of equity democrats are half the country. In what sense does America still exist as a country? We don’t even have a common reality and without that there is no common sense or commonality which is essential for cohesion which is essential to be a country. Not all is doom and gloom though. AI is doubling its capabilities every 6 months which is exponential growth which means that by Christmas it’ll be easily powerful enough to save us. Hope springs eternal.
“Ilya Sutskever Calls for SuperAlignment Before Data Centers Evolve Into Artificial Life.” (8 min)
Who writes the search code and search criteria for AI and who decides which specific large or small databases that AI machine will have access to?
If a certain AI platform employed by any major university (or Al Gore) tells us global warming in going to kill us all — will we be required to automatically believe it?
AI is already past human coders telling it how to function. It’s now based on synthetic neural networks similar to the biological human brain and can reason the way people do except far faster with vastly more data. Ilya says at the end of the video that it even seems to have a tailwind helping it advance. He’s talking about the universal “emergence phenomena” of complexity emerging from simplicity. This is why AI researchers can’t even follow how AI is advancing. Too fast and too bafflingly complex.
“Ilya Sutskever Calls for SuperAlignment Before Data Centers Evolve Into Artificial Life.” (8 min)
AI isn't smarter than it's designers. It is faster and can process tons more information than a human can, but unless it becomes sentient and makes some leaps it isn't technically smarter at this time. If it achieves sentience, then who knows? I discuss this all the time with Grok. Entropy is an interesting concept, but if AI does become sentient it will be self-sustaining (with robotic help of course).
As far as friends go, use pattern recognition to govern who you become friends with or hang around with. Stay away from mentally ill people.
And once it discovers how to tap into free energy, no one will have to work for wages. See Star Trek with its replicators. But, it will be interesting no doubt.
Who writes the search code and search criteria for AI and who decides which specific large or small databases that AI machine will have access to?
If a certain AI platform employed by any major university (or Al Gore) tells us global warming in going to kill us all — will we be required to automatically believe it?
Since the BBB deleted the ban on state regulation of AI, the resulting chaos will probably buy some time to figure it out...I doubt we will use the time wisely. After all we have been kicking the cad down the road on Social Security for decades now. The Chinese will go full steam ahead and damn unintentional results. That will give them a big lead or implode them.
Elon and Geoffrey Hinton give an educated guess of 80% helpful rather than harmful. Many believe their superior intelligence will mean they will consider us as inferior beings and treat us accordingly but humans are much more intelligent than cats and dogs yet far from regarding them as inferior beings many people love them and consider them family due to our sense of commonality with them based on feelings rather than IQ.
Plus many people, myself included, consider it ghastly the way chickens, cows and pigs are treated and want it changed. Kim Iversen is one of my favorites I follow and has a good video interview with a woman, Gail Eisnitz, about it. I bought her book, “Out of Sight” on Kindle and I’m reading it now. Also joined “Humane Farming Association” which she’s involved with and donate monthly to them. I do my best to help all animals, not just my cats.
“From Farm to Fork: The Cruel Cost of Cheap Meat.” (47 min)
Republicans and Democrats once shared similar core values (Constitutionalism, National Sovereignty, with an emphasis on Individual freedoms, and --yes--Christianity), and the debate was always about the amount of government welfare. No longer. The Dems have "progressed" into something completely opposite of our nations's founding beliefs--not to mention their proclivity towards barbarism/hedonism/crime. No, we cannot get along, and the smiles and back slaps you receive from your very liberal "friends" are just part of a fraudulent facade. Their beliefs are a cancer eating away at this country which needs to be isolated legislatively. Happy Fourth!
We can thank Howard Zinn and his "A People's History of the United States" for the cancer that is devouring the thinking of the elites and too many young people in this country. That and the NYT's 1619 Project which portray America as land-stealing white supremacists, hellbent on colonizing and enslaving anyone with skin tone a shade or more darker. Than you to Sasha for including the clip from Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College, one of the few outstanding holdouts in classical higher learning. A professor there, Wilfred McClay, has written an excellent history of the USA entitled "Land of Hope, An Invitation to the Great American Story." His express intention was to counter the destructive work of Zinn and the Hate America First media. Highly recommend McClay's work and the many free on-line classes Hillsdale offers.
Howard Zinn's "Peoples' History..." is a classic example of incredibly poor historiography. It was universally panned for that when it came out and its survival has prompted numerous articles and at least one book on its mistakes, mischaracterizations, and it's outright lies. Calling it 'fact-based' is ridiculous and that doesn't even begin to touch its intellectual dishonesty.
I too fell for it. Read it and even bought the children's version for my kids. I felt so enlightened. That was 2010. Then the drones and bombs began to fall on Libya, Somalia, and others at the hands of the Democratic savior Barack Obama and I realized I'd been fooled.
Howard Zinn's book was featured prominently in every classroom, at every school I've worked at/visited in the Los Angeles area. Many teachers even created lesson plans derived from that vile, "proctologist's view" of America. I cite Dennis Prager with that appelation.
These people, mostly atheists, have a human need, like all of us, to feel like they belong to something. So they have essentially created their own "religion," or in this case, cult.
There is no greater proof that this is a cult, than the fact that anybody who disagrees within this group is chastised and ostracized by the group. Cancelled!
Conservatives can actually disagree about some things but realize that we agree on more that we disagree on. So we are compatriots on the same side.
With Progressives, it's almost like they regard somebody who has one or two different beliefs than them as contamination, that they will hurt the cause.
In this cult that they have created, everyone in, it is of a different "victim group." This is their rallying cry, "we will fight the oppressors," i.e., white men.
And it's all based on feelings, not any logic, because now their system is breaking down because they go totally batshit crazy, when they have to confront a black Trump supporter. I have seen them be nastier to a black conservative than they've ever been a white conservative.
Because all around them is evidence that their beliefs are not true. They can't handle the fact that things aren't the way they were told they would be.
Of all of these issues... Transgenderism has exposed them the most. It's the modern example of the King with No Clothes. They can see that the person is a man with a dress on, but their political party cult demands of them that they have to call it a woman. And what mental pretzels the Progressives tie themselves into, trying to logically justify their wide array of beliefs that are contradictory, but not true.
I love watching Charlie Kirk civilly having public talks with Progressive students. Some of them are total Karens (here comes the name calling and insults!) and can't handle it, but every now and then you see the light go on.
Students on college campuses aren't really accustomed to defending their point of view, logically. Indisputable facts really seem to bother the indoctrinated!
THEN, when the light 🚨 finally comes on, and they realize EVERYTHING they were told and taught, was a lie! It's happening more and more, because the Progressive Lies are becoming more and more outrageous.
Kudos to those who have the courage to ask questions, and determine the truth, without blindly following the crowd.
I’ve found this with liberals who aren’t completely leftist. They can have a reasonable conversation and debate and even agree on certain principles but disagree on the implementation. This is who the GOP used to reach across the aisle to and compromise with. With leftists, there’s no such compromise. Leftism is a cancer that must be eliminated.
The reasons why we have the problems that we have, is because the radical Left Progressives no longer believe in the goodness of our country. Or in truth.
Good example:
1 Boys have a penis.
2 Girls have a vagina.
3 Men can't get pregnant.
Never thought anybody would ever say that that isn't true. Never though anybody would ever be CRAZY enough to say it!!
Everybody can have their own opinion. But when it gets dangerous is when everyone wants their own "truth," when the evidence is in total opposition.
I have family members (I'm the oldest of ten kids) and a best friend who pathologically hate Trump and anyone who voted for him and there isn't any reasoning with them. The best friend served with me in Vietnam 59 years ago and we have been best friends all that time but today whenever we communicate, it's endless, continuous ranting about how horrible Trump is.
I try to avoid confronting any of them but the more rabid of them keep at it - so I don't cut them off completely, but I avoid contact.
It's crazy that they can't face the reality of the nightmare that Obama started in the process that became self-hate and destruction of the basic goodness our country and our Constitutional system. That system that kept the world stable and safe and productive for the two and a half centuries we have been here. If Trump hadn't become our president right now, we would have been lost to the world, but they can't see that. I can't let my best friend or family members be away from me, but I will do my best to try to gently move them in the direction of sanity.
Its sad but as of the 60's they are Marxists and they can never be American.
Marxists only believe in elite government, no God and forced rights and behaviors in honor of the oppressed,,if the oppressed prosper you wouldn't need them so a permanent under class is necessary and then middle class they remove. Flower Power
Most of us will never forget the totalitarian efforts of Biden/Harris/Cabal that began with Obama/Biden/Cabal. The scheming. The dereliction. The profound incompetence.
We can see the results of their long-range plans and how the insidious creep has infected everything it's touched, all by design. Too many people looked away, did nothing and said nothing. That is finally coming to an end. All the screaming, the petulant resistance, the hateful rhetoric are now acting as a repellent to their cause. The curtain has been pulled back and no one will ever be able to unsee the churning cesspool from which these insideous efforts originated and what their endgame requires.
I don't want to get along with these people anymore. Their leaders took every opportunity and used every pretext to use the mechanisms of government against me and anyone else that disagreed with them, and they cheered and snickered. They were all party to the most consequential deception in the history of American politics when they propped up their sock-puppet and pretended everything was fine for years while he drooled into his pudding and his "advisors" ran things in his name.
I consider that the 2 sides in our original Civil War, 1861, both sides had something 'tangible' to fight for.
Today, I believe conservatives are fighting for tangible freedoms, 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness', along with national security...safety, worship of God. We are fighting against The Left.
But the DemLeftists cause seems much less 'tangible', except that they stand for selfishness, rampant immorality and the open border dissolution or dismantling of the USA. Essentially, they stand for spiritual depravity, ending with ultimate slavery to some false god (money, power, drugs, porn, self).
Thanks for bringing up our original Civil War. 50 years after Gettysburg, the remaining veterans had a reunion at the battlefield and embraced each other, the tough old bastards on both sides admiring the courage and grit their opponents displayed so many years before. But now, I can’t imagine that happening 50 years from now because our opponents have no courage and no humanity, but they truly believe we have no right to exist, let alone have our beliefs.
...agree Baker. Whatever it is that they 'stand' for, it is as weak and shallow as piss on a hot sidewalk...evaporating quickly. 50yrs from now, historians will be scratching their heads: 'What the hail was that all about.....'.
I see the continued vitriol of the left as a kind of seller's remorse. Since the disillusionments of the Vietnam War, each generation has been looking for a great cause, some grand crusade to gallop off toward. Maybe it's our romantic characterization of WWII. We remember ourselves as the unequivocal good guys, saving the world from murderous despots. Each generation has, I think, tried to replicate that sense of moral certainty, a cause so compelling that you actually can draw a simple bright line and call everyone on one side the good guys and everyone on the other the bad guys. None have seen more than limited success.
The left is desperately trying to manufacture some circumstance that will justify selling all their principles in the name of their crusade against Trump. They *need* Trump to be a dictator-in-waiting, because if he's not, they became the people they say they hate for nothing.
What these people need much more for their mental health, is for them to search for God, who is real, and described in the Holy Scriptures. The Scriptures show all the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of human beings, and the goodness of a just and loving Creator and Saviour.
The real analysis is, cognitive dissonance. When you have been lied to by a movement, for your entire life. Uncovered. Time and time and time again, the Left is found to be lacking in substance and Truth, and their lies are exposed.
So at that point you either abandon ship, which many moderate Democrats are doing, or you double down on the insanity.
Because actually admitting that you have been deceived and you have been wrong your whole life, essentially de-personifies you. Your whole life philosophy has been proven to be a total lie.
Admitting that you are WRONG is extremely hard for some people because their sense of worth comes from them believing that they are somehow enlightened, compared to the masses.
They believe that they are "the Good Guys," and when their lies are exposed, they just can't handle it.
It's worse than that for many people. It's also what they gave up that they cannot ever recover. Many of these lefty women remain single and childless well into their 40's and 50's, many having had abortions. Many men remain in a sort of permanent adolescence, never really reaching meaningful milestones that used to define adult life. Once the lie is exposed, they aren't just wrong, they have given up the life they most probably would have had if they had realized this sooner. Meaning, family, children. It's just too much of an ask.
Yep, I think the LIE began in the rebellious late 1960s, with the rise of sexual freedom (immorality) and the demise of Christian/religious morality. Society was saturated with that lie via music and movies, and it continues today. Sex and related emotions are very powerful, yet we're taught to ignore any guilt -- 'everybody does it'. Casual-sex-without-consequences damages women and leads men toward that 'permanent adolescence'.
As a Christian, I think America needs another Great Awakening, a great revival, repentance. Without that personal repentance, people become 'reprobate', no conscience, and I think that's where the Leftists are now.
What I don’t understand is how much Trump lives in so many heads so much of the time. It really makes no sense. It’s like they have no other life.
I mean I loathed the Obama and despised Joey, but they weren’t with me 24/7 and I never thought about them outside of news articles. Leftist resisters today seem totally consumed. They really are mentally ill.
Regardless. Happy Independence Day fellow Americans! 🇺🇸🎉🎇🚨
I think most people who voted for Trump weren’t looking for a savior, but for a leader. I can’t say that for everyone, but I can certainly say it for myself. The Left is looking for someone to save their souls and that is why they react with so much fervor. They’re looking for a human to be perfect and they don’t understand that it will never happen.
I guess to them the Obama was perfect even though if you looked at his eyes, he really hated and still hates everyone. Same as the Mooch, but she doesn’t try to hide it.
Anyway, I really can’t stand Trump in the way he speaks and his taunting and picking fights and the fact he only has about three adjectives. But I choose to not listen and I do love the actions. But dude, get rid of the hat!
Obama hates normal Americans. He should move back to Kenya where he was born. His resort in Martha’s Vineyard should be an immigration camp for ICE, to prepare them for deportation.
He also bragged that he would "fundamentally transform America."
Sadly, he did. He reversed 50 years of race relations. His Third Term, Mr. Vegetable "Autopen" Biden, almost did us in. His Fourth term, probably would have.
Thank God we dodged that bullet. Radical Progressive Leftism is destructive to America, communities, and families, and must be defeated.
It sounds like you have plenty of targets for your hatred. BTW, after promoting his birtherism theory for years, Trump denounced it in 2016. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States,” Trump said brusquely at the end of a campaign event in his new Washington hotel. “Period.” Do you believe your dear leader, Trump?
I think Mar-a-lala would make a good ICE detention center.
Fake news droids are always confused about why Christians support Trump. We don’t need a Saviour, we already have one, Jesus Christ. What we need is someone to lead us that doesn’t try to suppress our religious liberties which are God given. We need leaders who are clear eyed and don’t try to lie about everything. And no, a man in a dress will never be a woman.
Are any men sexually attracted to other men (or women sexually attracted to other women) or is that left wing myth also? As the parent of a child with autism, it is obvious that not everyone is "neurotypical." While the majority of men may be wired to be attracted to women, there is a certain percentage that is not. There are also people who feel that they were born in the body of the opposite sex. Why can you accept one and not the other?
It is not a myth, it is the truth. That said, it is abomination to the Lord. These folks should never have access to other people’s children. If they wish to take their wicked desires to the bitter end, that is on them. Leave the children alone of other people. Truth is truth. I don’t accept either the one or the other one. I can be civil and kind to my neighbors if they disagree with me. The Day of the Lord is coming for all human beings, living and dead. I am not anyone’s judge. I am a sinner.
"I am not anyone’s judge": "That said, it is abomination to the Lord." That sounds judgmental to me. BTW, did you know that there are plenty of heterosexual pedophiles?
Why are you appealing to the lowest common denominator?
Because there are heterosexual pedophiles, so now you say it's just okay (?)
NONE of it is okay.
The problem is, Progressive Leftist Democrats aren't happy just living their lives on their own. No. They want to push their LGBTQ crap down everyone else's throats! Teaching it in schools, Pride Parades. Drag Queens reading to kindergarteners. Great way to fuck up kids' heads, for life. Ahh, but that is their purpose, isn't it? 🤔
"And then they tried to put him in jail because they could not beat him"
And more: they tried to stop him from getting on the ballot so voters could decide. At least two states, Colorado and Maine, went through some crazy interpretation of the 14th Amendment to do that.
It was tossed out by the Supreme Court in a 9,-0 decision, all liberal Justices voting against the ban. That's how crazy and dictatorial they had gotten.
And Democrats have never realized how ironic it is that their protests are called "No Kings."
When they are the ones who I tried every dirty trick to disqualify or imprison legally elected Trump...
even changing laws on statutes of limitations, so they could prosecute him. Nobody's ever been prosecuted under some of the charges that they prosecuted him under. Nobody.
And how ironic, that they installed their own King, Mr Autopen Biden, in 2020.
Well, kirk must have done alot if work to cherry pick someone to say what he wants. Tom Potts implied that all LGBTQ people are pedophiles which is a lies.
Charlie Kirk lets everyone speak their piece. Something that is pretty rare in this world. Something that leftist Democrats, never do. They shout down their opposition, especially on college campuses.
Conservatives? Well, we let woke Progressives express (and make fools) of themselves.
If your opponent is digging a hole, let him. Throw him a shovel. That is what Charlie Kirk is doing.
Well, Charlie kirk doesn't care what repubs did in 1964; he wants to repeal it now! BTW, after JFK's assassination, LBJ gave a speech to congress pledging to honor jfk by passing the Civil rights act & went against his OWN party to do so. Then he passed the voting rights act, fair housing act and got Thurgood Marshall appointed to the SC. LBJ was a civil rights champion!
Here's the difference in musical form. If you watch "1776" you have better scope for what the Founders endured than watching "Hamilton" which is really skewed toward sympathy for one man. I'm watching "1776" as I write this. It clearly illustrates the humanity of the Founder. It demonstrates the struggles, individual and regionally, which by and large remain. We are not a homogenous unified same, we are a republic made up of 50 independent states. And while slavery was the impetus for the Civil War, states' rights was the underlying fuel. Right now we have masked billionaires playing a dangerous game of chess with our freedom. The exposure of some of the worst via DOGE show just how corrupt our legislatures and courts have become at our expense.
I have a similar story to the one related. We have an adult child steeped in the creative class. To survive and thrive, she has embraced all their views as her own. That is her right. As a conservative, I don't think my children need to be an extension of my own beliefs. That being said, we have been sent an ultimatum which I think was scripted by DNC movers. It seems they were supposed to persuade us and get us to call our congressional reps regarding the Big Beautiful Bill. We didn't do it. It felt like a trap. While I don't think our children must reflect our views, there is, or at least used to be, room for civility. I don't like being told what to think. If the Left has done nothing else, they have removed manners, consideration and honest debate from the table and replaced it with performative stunts and outright lies. Until that changes, this only gets worse.
I agree with most except the part about the lies. I read both sides; the right regularly omits anything that doesn't fit their agenda and makes up conspiracy theories.
Like GOP did with Obama or Biden? There was little honest debates or manners from the GOP when they were minority. They did the exact same Democrats did in congress lie, obstruct and deny at every turn. The beauty is we always overlook the party we favor bad behavior because we support it similar to Sports and videogames.
Oh, please. The right didn’t spend four years (plus 8) weaponizing our government agencies, media, our educational system and the courts. The right didn’t politically persecute its political enemies, set them up, stalk them, raid their homes, arrest and jail them.
Obama began his presidency by stating in a speech in 2008, “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”. What do you think he meant by that? Nobody fundamentally transforms something or someone they love.
Biden was a dementia wreck and the left ran him for office from the basement. He was a tyrannical disaster with lockdowns and jab mandates and firings for noncompliance.
One would hope that Americans would try to obstruct such tyranny. Socialism, Marxism and communism are diametrically opposed to our founding and Constitution.
Talk about overlooking one’s party’s failures. The left have become everything they claim to hate X 10,000.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declared, "We will take America without firing a shot. We will destroy you from within."
Yes. Thanks to all the "useful idiots" in universities and colleges, and big cities, all across America. Progressive Dems largely hate America. They have NO IDEA what it is like to live under Communism. Khrushchev and Stalin would be proud. Leftist indoctrination is alive and thriving on college campuses.
Democrats have nominated a total Marxist for Democrat candidate in New York City.
This may actually be "good news" for MAGA, because HOW close to the cliff of Communism, will most Democrats allow their party to get? 🤔
Trump is already trolling them on Mamdami 😂 and Democrats are starting to defend him. Hopefully, another 80-20 issue for Trump!
Absolutely agree. The only thing I’m not in 💯 agreement is that Mamdani is a full fledged communist, not a Marxist or a socialist. He has a video with the DSA (there is no such thing in reality) where he stated he wants “to seize the means of production”. I mean, that is the dictionary definition of communism. It’s mind blowing. And government grocery stores? As if that hasn’t been tried and fails massively. And you are right, now the left is busy defending full on communism. The left are a horror show for those who love their country and love freedom. It’ll be fascinating to watch. As fascinating as a horror show, but it’s now reality. What a time to be alive.
They used every trick to lie and now they are trying to rewrite history on every democrat to be bad. The funny aspect of the left and right and their unmitigated hate for each other and both cannot see or will not see it.
The right don’t have unmitigated hate for the left, while the left hate everyone and everything, especially the right. The right fear losing the Republic to communism and/or Marxist tyranny. We used to get along and the left used to actually love our country.
That is like saying Democrats splintered with Blue-dogs. They are both so few and small similar to Elon Musk rebellion only a couple people actually care. The funny thing Democrats dont want Dick Cheney either at least the main party only establishment hoping they could pull .5% of the base to not voting.
Sasha, thank you for this patriotic podcast. Your love of our country shines through in this time of deep division. Your voice is humble yet your message is clear-eyed, important and powerful. Your analysis is trenchant as always. Thank you for all your time and work, and your attention to this matter, this America.
While I am grateful to still be alive in this late stages of my life, it is painful to witness this willful hateful destruction of the country I love. Is it where the wish of just a few communists like it's kind of always been. That would be bad enough but it is literally the population of this great country. I don't know how we overcome this. It appears to be a war between good and evil, in fact, it is undeniably true. Yes, we are in a civil war already and have been since Barack Hussein Obama the golden tongued divider stepped onto the world stage. And now, Even more unbelievably we have Obama 2.0 on the brink of becoming the mayor of New York City. They want to talk about what they paid for? We paid for all these overeducated America haters to be bred in our schools and then finally in our universities. And the beauty part is they all masquerade as 'Johnny do goods'. Dear Sasha Stone, I'm so happy you purged yourself from this cabal of perennial haters and I love you.
Thanks for this Sasha it is indeed helpful to understanding the mind of the “bleeding hearts”.
Listening to Neil diamond sing is heartwarming and a little sad heartening back to a different America not that long ago.
It recalls for me the days after 9/11 where myself and so many asked themselves- why do they hate us so much? It seems such a naive question these days.
History books nor government explanations were not adequate to answer. For me it came from a rather arrogant Pakistani I used to work with. It was simple, human and guttural. It was honest and made sense more than anything coming from the right or the left or even my own libertarians.
He said that if a son sees his father-his family die from a bomb or soldier from another country he will carry an opinion about said country forever.
Not so funny fast forward I found myself asking myself why the left hates America so much. I came to Substack to the Common Sense trying to answer that question years ago. It was in the comments that I witnessed both sides trying to debate it out. The homeless democrats seemed so lost clinging to the TDS they had been trained to believe. The frustrated right trying to point out the egregious hypocrisy of the left.
After a while it felt like I was in a struggle session therapy group of democrats trying to come to terms with their world view. But I so wanted to know how they viewed and how they justified what was happening. Why they hated and were determined to destroy any one who disagreed with them.
After six years of trying I have come to the conclusion many just believe in a distorted imaginary reality based in mass dissonance created by power elites. It is still startling how they view America and conservatives.
It does feel like a civil war and country living in two different realities. It feels purposeful. It feels like we have become lab rats being manipulated by something we cannot quite see or no it’s purpose other than the destruction of America.
Coming to America used to represent something very different than what we see today. Most of the time it feels like the rest of the world thinks they own us and should have special rights above our own.
I loved this piece. It is a reminder of the fact that we are Americans. America was founded on ideas not on our heritage. But you have to believe in those ideas to be granted citizenship. Somewhere along the way we forgot that. I resent democrats or immigrants that want to transform us into socialists/ communists or any other thing.
“It does feel like a civil war and country living in two different realities.”
Some excerpts below from a Quillette review of a book about the irrational side of human nature. The last one says: “One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.” That sure is the truth. Few here have any interest in AI but it’s the only thing I see powerful enough to alter our present trajectory which is rapidly taking us to the abyss. We’re most likely already in WW3 and more so by the day.
“Mackay makes the case, often in gory detail, that episodes of collective mania seem to be an inevitable consequence of human nature. Humans in every time and place have cast aside their better judgment and allowed themselves to be caught up in all manner of irrational hoopla.“
“His chapters on the Swabian Peasants’ War and Anabaptist uprisings are terrifying depictions of the end-times frenzy that wreaked havoc on northern Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. The distance between these events in the German-speaking world and, say, the Reign of Terror in France or the Chinese Cultural Revolution is not that great. And the speed with which apparently reasonable people moved from the embrace of a new theological idea to a willingness to torture those whose own theological ideas diverged even slightly is startling.“
“There is plenty to recommend about The Delusions of Crowds. It is laden with great anecdotes and the writing is always engaging. One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.”
Our problems have outrun and overwhelmed us. The momentum for war has already taken on a life of its own and is out of control. Only AI can save our sinking ship. You don’t seem to realize how dire and deadly our situation is both here and globally. This is WW3 we’re sliding into. This is not a game. This is for real.
The reasons why we have the problems that we have, is because the radical Left Progressives no longer believe in the goodness of our country. Or in truth.
Good example:
1 Boys have a penis.
2 Girls have a vagina.
3 Men can't get pregnant.
Never thought anybody would ever say that that isn't true. Never though anybody would ever be CRAZY enough to say it!!
Everybody can have their own opinion. But when it gets dangerous is when everyone wants their own "truth," when the evidence is in total opposition.
But you seem to feel there’s something new about this. Even the dreadful twentieth century though had major nations become quite insane for periods of time. If we had the weapons we now have a hundred years ago it’s highly unlikely we’d be here now.
These people, mostly atheists, have a human need, like all of us, to feel like they belong to something. So they have essentially created their own "religion," or in this case, cult.
There is no greater proof that this is a cult, than the fact that anybody who disagrees within this group is chastised and ostracized by the group. Cancelled!
Conservatives can actually disagree about some things but realize that we agree on more that we disagree on. So we are compatriots on the same side.
With Progressives, it's almost like they regard somebody who has one or two different beliefs than them as contamination, that they will hurt the cause.
In this cult that they have created, everyone in, it is of a different "victim group." This is their rallying cry, "we will fight the oppressors," i.e., white men.
And it's all based on feelings, not any logic, because now their system is breaking down because they go totally batshit crazy, when they have to confront a black Trump supporter. I have seen them be nastier to a black conservative than they've ever been a white conservative.
Because all around them is evidence that their beliefs are not true. They can't handle the fact that things aren't the way they were told they would be.
Of all of these issues... Transgenderism has exposed them the most. It's the modern example of the King with No Clothes. They can see that the person is a man with a dress on, but their political party cult demands of them that they have to call it a woman. And what mental pretzels the Progressives tie themselves into, trying to logically justify their wide array of beliefs that are contradictory, but not true.
I love watching Charlie Kirk civilly having public talks with Progressive students. Some of them are total Karens (here comes the name calling and insults!) and can't handle it, but every now and then you see the light go on.
Students on college campuses aren't really accustomed to defending their point of view, logically. Indisputable facts really seem to bother the indoctrinated!
THEN, when the light 🚨 finally comes on, and they realize EVERYTHING they were told and taught, was a lie! It's happening more and more, because the Progressive Lies are becoming more and more outrageous.
Kudos to those who have the courage to ask questions, and determine the truth, without blindly following the crowd.
Um, dude, you just contradicted yourself. Conservatives are the ones in the GOP LOL. I think it's great that you realize that conservatives can disagree, but still realize that they are on the same side, unlike Democrats.
Right now Democrats are facing a pretty serious split. Moderate, or traditional liberals, are being ostracized by the woke progressive wing of the party, which is becoming dominant. The progressives don't want any dissent from their opinions.
Both the progressive, and the more traditional liberal wings, want to run the Democrat party.
MAGA GOP are the ones who kick their own party members from office just merely opposing Trump on anything. They viciously attack anyone who dares speak against them see Elon Musk. They are ideological gatekeepers who then pretend only Democrats are the ones who do it.
The beauty of the left is when progressive democrats win they outright win the general election see Carter, Clinton, Obama but the Democrats center establishment is so against them they will rig primaries to get their safe candidate over the hill and they dont give a fuck if they lose.
Progresives allowed Democrats to win every time they went safe and established they lost. The GOP are the ones that egg on Democrats trying to say progressives are bad because they rather face the easiest choice. Newsom is another controllable face similar to Biden and Hilary. AOC at least is willing to relate to people and talk to them you will never see that out of the establishment.
Other than Obama, radical Progressives have lost every election.
Carter was not a radical progressive.
Bill Clinton was more centrist.
So you sort of forget about Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Walter Mondale... They were all huge losers.
Bill Clinton realized that somebody that is that is from the far left in the Democrat party, was not electable.
That's why he ran as a centrist.
He made the mistake of letting Hillary Clinton try to revamp the healthcare system. Went too far left and he lost big time in the midterms. So, being smart, he talked back to the center, and won reelection.
I find it interesting, that Trump has moved the GOP into the wider, what would be considered 20 years ago, the classic liberal region.
A lot of what comes out, in the center, is just common sense.
Donald Trump doesn't have to work very hard at all, to end up on the winning side of an 80-20 issue. He just proclaims his opinion, knowing the Dems will automatically oppose him, and VOILA! Another winning issue!
He trolls the Dems, wonderfully, on this. He even has some of them defending Iran 😂
Nikita Khrushchev, Russia’s combative leader from 1953 to 1964, famously threatened, “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.”
Thank You, Sasha, for getting our Independence Day off to a great start!!
Actions will always speak louder than words. Today will be a particularly great day to pay attention to the actions of both the Right and the Left. A Very Happy 4th to All!
I propose to remove the word "indivisible " from the Pledge. No, we can't all just get along and it's time to quit pretending. While the Left pretends about many things, this one is endemic on the Right.
The most important thing to remember is WE THE PEOPLE because of President Trump now know how the government being controlled by the Leftist Democrats have been poisoning our country with anti American rhetoric and now WE The People will never let our country fall back into the Leftist ideology of the Democrat party.
Happy Fourth of July my fellow Americans.
“WE The People will never let our country fall back into the Leftist ideology of the Democrat party.”
The open borders, war on meritocracy for the sake of equity democrats are half the country. In what sense does America still exist as a country? We don’t even have a common reality and without that there is no common sense or commonality which is essential for cohesion which is essential to be a country. Not all is doom and gloom though. AI is doubling its capabilities every 6 months which is exponential growth which means that by Christmas it’ll be easily powerful enough to save us. Hope springs eternal.
“Ilya Sutskever Calls for SuperAlignment Before Data Centers Evolve Into Artificial Life.” (8 min)
Financial Wise. May 20, 2025
https://youtu.be/n13GppYIMg4?si=UQ3PAU45dqcOUZv0
Who writes the search code and search criteria for AI and who decides which specific large or small databases that AI machine will have access to?
If a certain AI platform employed by any major university (or Al Gore) tells us global warming in going to kill us all — will we be required to automatically believe it?
AI is already past human coders telling it how to function. It’s now based on synthetic neural networks similar to the biological human brain and can reason the way people do except far faster with vastly more data. Ilya says at the end of the video that it even seems to have a tailwind helping it advance. He’s talking about the universal “emergence phenomena” of complexity emerging from simplicity. This is why AI researchers can’t even follow how AI is advancing. Too fast and too bafflingly complex.
“Ilya Sutskever Calls for SuperAlignment Before Data Centers Evolve Into Artificial Life.” (8 min)
Financial Wise. May 20, 2025
https://youtu.be/n13GppYIMg4?si=UQ3PAU45dqcOUZv0
As complexity emerges, so must entropy, the universal tendency of systems to move to disorder. That may well be the limitation on AI.
AI isn't smarter than it's designers. It is faster and can process tons more information than a human can, but unless it becomes sentient and makes some leaps it isn't technically smarter at this time. If it achieves sentience, then who knows? I discuss this all the time with Grok. Entropy is an interesting concept, but if AI does become sentient it will be self-sustaining (with robotic help of course).
As far as friends go, use pattern recognition to govern who you become friends with or hang around with. Stay away from mentally ill people.
But once AI is started it replaces one job that creates it replaces thousands of jobs.
And once it discovers how to tap into free energy, no one will have to work for wages. See Star Trek with its replicators. But, it will be interesting no doubt.
Who writes the search code and search criteria for AI and who decides which specific large or small databases that AI machine will have access to?
If a certain AI platform employed by any major university (or Al Gore) tells us global warming in going to kill us all — will we be required to automatically believe it?
Sink, if we are not damned careful. Happy Dominion Day a few days ago, BTW!
Since the BBB deleted the ban on state regulation of AI, the resulting chaos will probably buy some time to figure it out...I doubt we will use the time wisely. After all we have been kicking the cad down the road on Social Security for decades now. The Chinese will go full steam ahead and damn unintentional results. That will give them a big lead or implode them.
Elon and Geoffrey Hinton give an educated guess of 80% helpful rather than harmful. Many believe their superior intelligence will mean they will consider us as inferior beings and treat us accordingly but humans are much more intelligent than cats and dogs yet far from regarding them as inferior beings many people love them and consider them family due to our sense of commonality with them based on feelings rather than IQ.
Plus many people, myself included, consider it ghastly the way chickens, cows and pigs are treated and want it changed. Kim Iversen is one of my favorites I follow and has a good video interview with a woman, Gail Eisnitz, about it. I bought her book, “Out of Sight” on Kindle and I’m reading it now. Also joined “Humane Farming Association” which she’s involved with and donate monthly to them. I do my best to help all animals, not just my cats.
“From Farm to Fork: The Cruel Cost of Cheap Meat.” (47 min)
Kim Iversen interviews Gail Eisnitz. Jun 6, 2025
https://youtu.be/GF-T26-TiV0?si=MtvrShyk9G-i1Z_5
Seva, stop with the appeals to my conscience, I'm not going to be able to enjoy my bacon anymore...
Just hunt. Feral pigs are a huge problem.
Problem is, where we live, feral pigs are very very elusive prey. I'd still be out of bacon..
70+ million voted for Harris & are part of the "we".
Republicans and Democrats once shared similar core values (Constitutionalism, National Sovereignty, with an emphasis on Individual freedoms, and --yes--Christianity), and the debate was always about the amount of government welfare. No longer. The Dems have "progressed" into something completely opposite of our nations's founding beliefs--not to mention their proclivity towards barbarism/hedonism/crime. No, we cannot get along, and the smiles and back slaps you receive from your very liberal "friends" are just part of a fraudulent facade. Their beliefs are a cancer eating away at this country which needs to be isolated legislatively. Happy Fourth!
We can thank Howard Zinn and his "A People's History of the United States" for the cancer that is devouring the thinking of the elites and too many young people in this country. That and the NYT's 1619 Project which portray America as land-stealing white supremacists, hellbent on colonizing and enslaving anyone with skin tone a shade or more darker. Than you to Sasha for including the clip from Larry Arnn of Hillsdale College, one of the few outstanding holdouts in classical higher learning. A professor there, Wilfred McClay, has written an excellent history of the USA entitled "Land of Hope, An Invitation to the Great American Story." His express intention was to counter the destructive work of Zinn and the Hate America First media. Highly recommend McClay's work and the many free on-line classes Hillsdale offers.
Zinn's work is a classic example of lying by omission.
Zinn may have radicalized a lot of minds, but his book was based on facts.
All good propaganda is “based on” facts.
Howard Zinn's "Peoples' History..." is a classic example of incredibly poor historiography. It was universally panned for that when it came out and its survival has prompted numerous articles and at least one book on its mistakes, mischaracterizations, and it's outright lies. Calling it 'fact-based' is ridiculous and that doesn't even begin to touch its intellectual dishonesty.
Everybody gets to have their own "opinions..."
What most on the Left don't realize, is that everyone doesn't get to have their own "facts."
Read McClay’s book and get back to me.
Thanks I’ll look into it
Yeah, Zinn's screed screwed up a lot of minds re: US History... Full disclosure: I assigned his text many times, way back when... sigh..
I too fell for it. Read it and even bought the children's version for my kids. I felt so enlightened. That was 2010. Then the drones and bombs began to fall on Libya, Somalia, and others at the hands of the Democratic savior Barack Obama and I realized I'd been fooled.
Howard Zinn's book was featured prominently in every classroom, at every school I've worked at/visited in the Los Angeles area. Many teachers even created lesson plans derived from that vile, "proctologist's view" of America. I cite Dennis Prager with that appelation.
They are a hammer looking for a nail, any nail, to beat down & win an election no matter the cost....
Trump
Transgenders
Ending either of the two wars started on Biden's watch
Lowering taxes
PROGRESSIVISM
It's a religion, a cult.
These people, mostly atheists, have a human need, like all of us, to feel like they belong to something. So they have essentially created their own "religion," or in this case, cult.
There is no greater proof that this is a cult, than the fact that anybody who disagrees within this group is chastised and ostracized by the group. Cancelled!
Conservatives can actually disagree about some things but realize that we agree on more that we disagree on. So we are compatriots on the same side.
With Progressives, it's almost like they regard somebody who has one or two different beliefs than them as contamination, that they will hurt the cause.
In this cult that they have created, everyone in, it is of a different "victim group." This is their rallying cry, "we will fight the oppressors," i.e., white men.
And it's all based on feelings, not any logic, because now their system is breaking down because they go totally batshit crazy, when they have to confront a black Trump supporter. I have seen them be nastier to a black conservative than they've ever been a white conservative.
Because all around them is evidence that their beliefs are not true. They can't handle the fact that things aren't the way they were told they would be.
Of all of these issues... Transgenderism has exposed them the most. It's the modern example of the King with No Clothes. They can see that the person is a man with a dress on, but their political party cult demands of them that they have to call it a woman. And what mental pretzels the Progressives tie themselves into, trying to logically justify their wide array of beliefs that are contradictory, but not true.
I love watching Charlie Kirk civilly having public talks with Progressive students. Some of them are total Karens (here comes the name calling and insults!) and can't handle it, but every now and then you see the light go on.
Students on college campuses aren't really accustomed to defending their point of view, logically. Indisputable facts really seem to bother the indoctrinated!
THEN, when the light 🚨 finally comes on, and they realize EVERYTHING they were told and taught, was a lie! It's happening more and more, because the Progressive Lies are becoming more and more outrageous.
Kudos to those who have the courage to ask questions, and determine the truth, without blindly following the crowd.
I’ve found this with liberals who aren’t completely leftist. They can have a reasonable conversation and debate and even agree on certain principles but disagree on the implementation. This is who the GOP used to reach across the aisle to and compromise with. With leftists, there’s no such compromise. Leftism is a cancer that must be eliminated.
Very true.
A big thing that is disappearing in politics, is saying,
"We just have to agree to disagree."
That is just not acceptable to Leftists.
The reasons why we have the problems that we have, is because the radical Left Progressives no longer believe in the goodness of our country. Or in truth.
Good example:
1 Boys have a penis.
2 Girls have a vagina.
3 Men can't get pregnant.
Never thought anybody would ever say that that isn't true. Never though anybody would ever be CRAZY enough to say it!!
Everybody can have their own opinion. But when it gets dangerous is when everyone wants their own "truth," when the evidence is in total opposition.
Bring back mental asylums!
I have family members (I'm the oldest of ten kids) and a best friend who pathologically hate Trump and anyone who voted for him and there isn't any reasoning with them. The best friend served with me in Vietnam 59 years ago and we have been best friends all that time but today whenever we communicate, it's endless, continuous ranting about how horrible Trump is.
I try to avoid confronting any of them but the more rabid of them keep at it - so I don't cut them off completely, but I avoid contact.
It's crazy that they can't face the reality of the nightmare that Obama started in the process that became self-hate and destruction of the basic goodness our country and our Constitutional system. That system that kept the world stable and safe and productive for the two and a half centuries we have been here. If Trump hadn't become our president right now, we would have been lost to the world, but they can't see that. I can't let my best friend or family members be away from me, but I will do my best to try to gently move them in the direction of sanity.
Its sad but as of the 60's they are Marxists and they can never be American.
Marxists only believe in elite government, no God and forced rights and behaviors in honor of the oppressed,,if the oppressed prosper you wouldn't need them so a permanent under class is necessary and then middle class they remove. Flower Power
So Joe McCarthy was right all along. Hollywood is full of communists.
Never forget Joe Biden's warning for the Fourth of July:
Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a backyard barbecue, so long as the number of guests is five or less.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1940916757868560624
Most of us will never forget the totalitarian efforts of Biden/Harris/Cabal that began with Obama/Biden/Cabal. The scheming. The dereliction. The profound incompetence.
We can see the results of their long-range plans and how the insidious creep has infected everything it's touched, all by design. Too many people looked away, did nothing and said nothing. That is finally coming to an end. All the screaming, the petulant resistance, the hateful rhetoric are now acting as a repellent to their cause. The curtain has been pulled back and no one will ever be able to unsee the churning cesspool from which these insideous efforts originated and what their endgame requires.
Yes, but the strangest part is how bright many of these "useful idiots" are. I'll never understand that.
100% parasitic.
I don't want to get along with these people anymore. Their leaders took every opportunity and used every pretext to use the mechanisms of government against me and anyone else that disagreed with them, and they cheered and snickered. They were all party to the most consequential deception in the history of American politics when they propped up their sock-puppet and pretended everything was fine for years while he drooled into his pudding and his "advisors" ran things in his name.
And they're not sorry. At least, not yet.
Out of the park HR, again. Thank you, Sasha.
HOME RUN indeed!
I consider that the 2 sides in our original Civil War, 1861, both sides had something 'tangible' to fight for.
Today, I believe conservatives are fighting for tangible freedoms, 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness', along with national security...safety, worship of God. We are fighting against The Left.
But the DemLeftists cause seems much less 'tangible', except that they stand for selfishness, rampant immorality and the open border dissolution or dismantling of the USA. Essentially, they stand for spiritual depravity, ending with ultimate slavery to some false god (money, power, drugs, porn, self).
Thanks for bringing up our original Civil War. 50 years after Gettysburg, the remaining veterans had a reunion at the battlefield and embraced each other, the tough old bastards on both sides admiring the courage and grit their opponents displayed so many years before. But now, I can’t imagine that happening 50 years from now because our opponents have no courage and no humanity, but they truly believe we have no right to exist, let alone have our beliefs.
...agree Baker. Whatever it is that they 'stand' for, it is as weak and shallow as piss on a hot sidewalk...evaporating quickly. 50yrs from now, historians will be scratching their heads: 'What the hail was that all about.....'.
I stand enlightened, thx AA.
Let's see -- 'political Mick Jaggers'. Oh right, I've seen Tampon Tim perform onstage....a rock star legend in his own mind.
Alright.
I see the continued vitriol of the left as a kind of seller's remorse. Since the disillusionments of the Vietnam War, each generation has been looking for a great cause, some grand crusade to gallop off toward. Maybe it's our romantic characterization of WWII. We remember ourselves as the unequivocal good guys, saving the world from murderous despots. Each generation has, I think, tried to replicate that sense of moral certainty, a cause so compelling that you actually can draw a simple bright line and call everyone on one side the good guys and everyone on the other the bad guys. None have seen more than limited success.
The left is desperately trying to manufacture some circumstance that will justify selling all their principles in the name of their crusade against Trump. They *need* Trump to be a dictator-in-waiting, because if he's not, they became the people they say they hate for nothing.
What these people need much more for their mental health, is for them to search for God, who is real, and described in the Holy Scriptures. The Scriptures show all the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of human beings, and the goodness of a just and loving Creator and Saviour.
Amen, tompotts.
The real analysis is, cognitive dissonance. When you have been lied to by a movement, for your entire life. Uncovered. Time and time and time again, the Left is found to be lacking in substance and Truth, and their lies are exposed.
So at that point you either abandon ship, which many moderate Democrats are doing, or you double down on the insanity.
Because actually admitting that you have been deceived and you have been wrong your whole life, essentially de-personifies you. Your whole life philosophy has been proven to be a total lie.
Admitting that you are WRONG is extremely hard for some people because their sense of worth comes from them believing that they are somehow enlightened, compared to the masses.
They believe that they are "the Good Guys," and when their lies are exposed, they just can't handle it.
It's worse than that for many people. It's also what they gave up that they cannot ever recover. Many of these lefty women remain single and childless well into their 40's and 50's, many having had abortions. Many men remain in a sort of permanent adolescence, never really reaching meaningful milestones that used to define adult life. Once the lie is exposed, they aren't just wrong, they have given up the life they most probably would have had if they had realized this sooner. Meaning, family, children. It's just too much of an ask.
Yep, I think the LIE began in the rebellious late 1960s, with the rise of sexual freedom (immorality) and the demise of Christian/religious morality. Society was saturated with that lie via music and movies, and it continues today. Sex and related emotions are very powerful, yet we're taught to ignore any guilt -- 'everybody does it'. Casual-sex-without-consequences damages women and leads men toward that 'permanent adolescence'.
As a Christian, I think America needs another Great Awakening, a great revival, repentance. Without that personal repentance, people become 'reprobate', no conscience, and I think that's where the Leftists are now.
Now add to that the parents of children who, in the confusion of adolescence, were allowed and encouraged to butcher their bodies.
I agree that these people will die on their hills. Coming to terms with what they've done would drive any reasonable person to self-destruction.
True...
Better, for them, to go down into the grave, clinging to their wrongs committed against THEMSELVES.
Lol, Bitter clingers? 😂
....very good point ScottScott. THEY are actually the 'bitter clingers' at this point.
Very true!
They were sold the lie that they could have everything...
(To me that would be
They could have a career,
They could have children,
They could have a great marriage...)
But to them?
I think a ton of them were told, and still told...
"You don't need a man."
So they were young and just played the field. Now that they're older, maybe they want to settle down, maybe, but time has passed them by.
And now they're in their 40's and 50's and 60's and they realize that they MISSED OUT ON LIFE!
And become bitter Karens.
So their life now is just bitterness and protest, that other people actually got some of the good stuff, and they didn't.
What I don’t understand is how much Trump lives in so many heads so much of the time. It really makes no sense. It’s like they have no other life.
I mean I loathed the Obama and despised Joey, but they weren’t with me 24/7 and I never thought about them outside of news articles. Leftist resisters today seem totally consumed. They really are mentally ill.
Regardless. Happy Independence Day fellow Americans! 🇺🇸🎉🎇🚨
Happy Independence Day!
I think most people who voted for Trump weren’t looking for a savior, but for a leader. I can’t say that for everyone, but I can certainly say it for myself. The Left is looking for someone to save their souls and that is why they react with so much fervor. They’re looking for a human to be perfect and they don’t understand that it will never happen.
I guess to them the Obama was perfect even though if you looked at his eyes, he really hated and still hates everyone. Same as the Mooch, but she doesn’t try to hide it.
Anyway, I really can’t stand Trump in the way he speaks and his taunting and picking fights and the fact he only has about three adjectives. But I choose to not listen and I do love the actions. But dude, get rid of the hat!
I find it difficult to listen to him too. But I'll take the outcomes of most of his actions all day long.
Obama wasn't perfect but you are delusional about "hate" in his eyes. Trump constantly spews hate in his words and actions.
Clearly you’ve not paid attention. But you have a blessed Independence Day
Clearly you have been brainwashed and only read right wing sources.
Sure thing sweetie. Are you sure though, that you don’t want to have a blessed Independence Day?
Obama hates normal Americans. He should move back to Kenya where he was born. His resort in Martha’s Vineyard should be an immigration camp for ICE, to prepare them for deportation.
Obama said it:
"I will stand with the Muslims."
Fact.
He also bragged that he would "fundamentally transform America."
Sadly, he did. He reversed 50 years of race relations. His Third Term, Mr. Vegetable "Autopen" Biden, almost did us in. His Fourth term, probably would have.
Thank God we dodged that bullet. Radical Progressive Leftism is destructive to America, communities, and families, and must be defeated.
It sounds like you have plenty of targets for your hatred. BTW, after promoting his birtherism theory for years, Trump denounced it in 2016. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States,” Trump said brusquely at the end of a campaign event in his new Washington hotel. “Period.” Do you believe your dear leader, Trump?
I think Mar-a-lala would make a good ICE detention center.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/donald-trump-birther
Hillary Clinton’s campaign started the “birther movement”. Blame her
Fake news droids are always confused about why Christians support Trump. We don’t need a Saviour, we already have one, Jesus Christ. What we need is someone to lead us that doesn’t try to suppress our religious liberties which are God given. We need leaders who are clear eyed and don’t try to lie about everything. And no, a man in a dress will never be a woman.
Are any men sexually attracted to other men (or women sexually attracted to other women) or is that left wing myth also? As the parent of a child with autism, it is obvious that not everyone is "neurotypical." While the majority of men may be wired to be attracted to women, there is a certain percentage that is not. There are also people who feel that they were born in the body of the opposite sex. Why can you accept one and not the other?
It is not a myth, it is the truth. That said, it is abomination to the Lord. These folks should never have access to other people’s children. If they wish to take their wicked desires to the bitter end, that is on them. Leave the children alone of other people. Truth is truth. I don’t accept either the one or the other one. I can be civil and kind to my neighbors if they disagree with me. The Day of the Lord is coming for all human beings, living and dead. I am not anyone’s judge. I am a sinner.
"I am not anyone’s judge": "That said, it is abomination to the Lord." That sounds judgmental to me. BTW, did you know that there are plenty of heterosexual pedophiles?
NW,
Why are you appealing to the lowest common denominator?
Because there are heterosexual pedophiles, so now you say it's just okay (?)
NONE of it is okay.
The problem is, Progressive Leftist Democrats aren't happy just living their lives on their own. No. They want to push their LGBTQ crap down everyone else's throats! Teaching it in schools, Pride Parades. Drag Queens reading to kindergarteners. Great way to fuck up kids' heads, for life. Ahh, but that is their purpose, isn't it? 🤔
Stop the Grooming! Leave kids out of it.
I think we were looking for someone to stand up for us.
Their souls are long gone.
So true. And you simply cannot converse with someone living in an imaginary world. Much less a malevolent one.
It's a cult. I've gotten in trouble for saying that, but for those suffering from TDS, it really is.
"And then they tried to put him in jail because they could not beat him"
And more: they tried to stop him from getting on the ballot so voters could decide. At least two states, Colorado and Maine, went through some crazy interpretation of the 14th Amendment to do that.
It was tossed out by the Supreme Court in a 9,-0 decision, all liberal Justices voting against the ban. That's how crazy and dictatorial they had gotten.
Happy Fourth of July!
And yes, God Bless the United States of America!
And Democrats have never realized how ironic it is that their protests are called "No Kings."
When they are the ones who I tried every dirty trick to disqualify or imprison legally elected Trump...
even changing laws on statutes of limitations, so they could prosecute him. Nobody's ever been prosecuted under some of the charges that they prosecuted him under. Nobody.
And how ironic, that they installed their own King, Mr Autopen Biden, in 2020.
Yet, Donald J. Trump is WINNING!
We really dodged a close one!
Good Bless America!
Except biden was elected.
So was Trump, 3 times!
Twice; he tried to reverse a US election in 2020.
Elected twice, huh?
That's a big change from Democrats saying he was never elected, remember Putin and the Russiagate?
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-decline-of-the-democratic-coalition
America revitalized after 4 years of autopen rule, waiting for another Republican to get on Mount Rushmore.
I saw this recently, but can't remember who to attribute it to...
"America is so great that even the people who hate it won't leave."
And that's true!
Happy 4th to all of you who love America!
I saw Charlie Kirk recently interact with a Leftist Democrat who says he hates America.
Charlie replied,
"The United States of America is the only country where, even if people claim to hate it, they won't leave it."
Well, kirk must have done alot if work to cherry pick someone to say what he wants. Tom Potts implied that all LGBTQ people are pedophiles which is a lies.
You must not know who I'm talking about 😂
Charlie Kirk lets everyone speak their piece. Something that is pretty rare in this world. Something that leftist Democrats, never do. They shout down their opposition, especially on college campuses.
Conservatives? Well, we let woke Progressives express (and make fools) of themselves.
If your opponent is digging a hole, let him. Throw him a shovel. That is what Charlie Kirk is doing.
I know Charlie kirk. He has said the Civil rights act should be repealed.
Why did most of the Republicans vote for the Civil Rights Act, and most of the Democrats vote against it?
In the House of Representatives:
Overall: The House voted 290 to 130 in favor of the Act.
By Party:
Democrats: 152 (61%) voted in favor, while 96 (39%) voted against.
Republicans: 138 (80%) voted in favor, with 34 (20%) voting against.
Note: The "no" vote in the House consisted of 74% Democrats.
In the Senate:
Overall: The Senate passed the bill with a vote of 73 to 27.
By Party:
Democrats: 46 (69%) voted in favor, with 21 (31%) voting against.
Republicans: 27 (82%) voted in favor, while 6 (18%) voted against.
Note: 78% of the "no" vote in the Senate were Democrats, and Southern Democrats led the filibuster against the act.
Well, Charlie kirk doesn't care what repubs did in 1964; he wants to repeal it now! BTW, after JFK's assassination, LBJ gave a speech to congress pledging to honor jfk by passing the Civil rights act & went against his OWN party to do so. Then he passed the voting rights act, fair housing act and got Thurgood Marshall appointed to the SC. LBJ was a civil rights champion!
Here's the difference in musical form. If you watch "1776" you have better scope for what the Founders endured than watching "Hamilton" which is really skewed toward sympathy for one man. I'm watching "1776" as I write this. It clearly illustrates the humanity of the Founder. It demonstrates the struggles, individual and regionally, which by and large remain. We are not a homogenous unified same, we are a republic made up of 50 independent states. And while slavery was the impetus for the Civil War, states' rights was the underlying fuel. Right now we have masked billionaires playing a dangerous game of chess with our freedom. The exposure of some of the worst via DOGE show just how corrupt our legislatures and courts have become at our expense.
I have a similar story to the one related. We have an adult child steeped in the creative class. To survive and thrive, she has embraced all their views as her own. That is her right. As a conservative, I don't think my children need to be an extension of my own beliefs. That being said, we have been sent an ultimatum which I think was scripted by DNC movers. It seems they were supposed to persuade us and get us to call our congressional reps regarding the Big Beautiful Bill. We didn't do it. It felt like a trap. While I don't think our children must reflect our views, there is, or at least used to be, room for civility. I don't like being told what to think. If the Left has done nothing else, they have removed manners, consideration and honest debate from the table and replaced it with performative stunts and outright lies. Until that changes, this only gets worse.
I agree with most except the part about the lies. I read both sides; the right regularly omits anything that doesn't fit their agenda and makes up conspiracy theories.
Like GOP did with Obama or Biden? There was little honest debates or manners from the GOP when they were minority. They did the exact same Democrats did in congress lie, obstruct and deny at every turn. The beauty is we always overlook the party we favor bad behavior because we support it similar to Sports and videogames.
Oh, please. The right didn’t spend four years (plus 8) weaponizing our government agencies, media, our educational system and the courts. The right didn’t politically persecute its political enemies, set them up, stalk them, raid their homes, arrest and jail them.
Obama began his presidency by stating in a speech in 2008, “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”. What do you think he meant by that? Nobody fundamentally transforms something or someone they love.
Biden was a dementia wreck and the left ran him for office from the basement. He was a tyrannical disaster with lockdowns and jab mandates and firings for noncompliance.
One would hope that Americans would try to obstruct such tyranny. Socialism, Marxism and communism are diametrically opposed to our founding and Constitution.
Talk about overlooking one’s party’s failures. The left have become everything they claim to hate X 10,000.
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declared, "We will take America without firing a shot. We will destroy you from within."
Yes. Thanks to all the "useful idiots" in universities and colleges, and big cities, all across America. Progressive Dems largely hate America. They have NO IDEA what it is like to live under Communism. Khrushchev and Stalin would be proud. Leftist indoctrination is alive and thriving on college campuses.
Democrats have nominated a total Marxist for Democrat candidate in New York City.
This may actually be "good news" for MAGA, because HOW close to the cliff of Communism, will most Democrats allow their party to get? 🤔
Trump is already trolling them on Mamdami 😂 and Democrats are starting to defend him. Hopefully, another 80-20 issue for Trump!
Absolutely agree. The only thing I’m not in 💯 agreement is that Mamdani is a full fledged communist, not a Marxist or a socialist. He has a video with the DSA (there is no such thing in reality) where he stated he wants “to seize the means of production”. I mean, that is the dictionary definition of communism. It’s mind blowing. And government grocery stores? As if that hasn’t been tried and fails massively. And you are right, now the left is busy defending full on communism. The left are a horror show for those who love their country and love freedom. It’ll be fascinating to watch. As fascinating as a horror show, but it’s now reality. What a time to be alive.
They used every trick to lie and now they are trying to rewrite history on every democrat to be bad. The funny aspect of the left and right and their unmitigated hate for each other and both cannot see or will not see it.
The right don’t have unmitigated hate for the left, while the left hate everyone and everything, especially the right. The right fear losing the Republic to communism and/or Marxist tyranny. We used to get along and the left used to actually love our country.
BINGO!!!
So many on the Left have been indoctrinated to HATE America...
Not exactly. GOP has splintered and not all support Trump. Many supposed conservatives such as Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol ended up supporting Biden.
Dick Cheney and Bill Kristol, are has-beens, George W. Bush Establishment Republicans.
George Wills, Mitt Romney, John McCain. RINOs.
But for all the establishment-type Republicans who have left, and don't support Trump...
Trump has picked up more than that from almost every demographic group, in the center of the political spectrum.
That is like saying Democrats splintered with Blue-dogs. They are both so few and small similar to Elon Musk rebellion only a couple people actually care. The funny thing Democrats dont want Dick Cheney either at least the main party only establishment hoping they could pull .5% of the base to not voting.
Yeah, I didn't understand at all, Kamala campaigning with Liz Cheney...
That was really a bone-headed move.
Not all enemies of my enemy, are my friend. That was the miscalculation here.
Liz cheney clearly understood what jan 6 was about
Riiight...
Nancy Pelosi turn down Trump's offer to activate the national guard for Washington DC. So did Washington DC Mayor Bowser.
And the people at the Capitol were invited inside...
Only a few people got raucous. It really didn't even qualify as a riot, but you know... Democrats think rioting is fine when they do it.
All the people that were there were arrested and thrown in solitary confinement, many of them, without charges, without legal representation...
Little old Grandmas who are just walking by the Capitol, were hunted down and arrested.
Got to love the Leftist police state.
You've got a bad case of TDS.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure that yours is curable. Good day.
Sasha, thank you for this patriotic podcast. Your love of our country shines through in this time of deep division. Your voice is humble yet your message is clear-eyed, important and powerful. Your analysis is trenchant as always. Thank you for all your time and work, and your attention to this matter, this America.
While I am grateful to still be alive in this late stages of my life, it is painful to witness this willful hateful destruction of the country I love. Is it where the wish of just a few communists like it's kind of always been. That would be bad enough but it is literally the population of this great country. I don't know how we overcome this. It appears to be a war between good and evil, in fact, it is undeniably true. Yes, we are in a civil war already and have been since Barack Hussein Obama the golden tongued divider stepped onto the world stage. And now, Even more unbelievably we have Obama 2.0 on the brink of becoming the mayor of New York City. They want to talk about what they paid for? We paid for all these overeducated America haters to be bred in our schools and then finally in our universities. And the beauty part is they all masquerade as 'Johnny do goods'. Dear Sasha Stone, I'm so happy you purged yourself from this cabal of perennial haters and I love you.
And forget not that Mr Reagan was an optimist: Freedom is no longer a generation away from extinction -- it's an election. Beware the midterms.
Thanks for this Sasha it is indeed helpful to understanding the mind of the “bleeding hearts”.
Listening to Neil diamond sing is heartwarming and a little sad heartening back to a different America not that long ago.
It recalls for me the days after 9/11 where myself and so many asked themselves- why do they hate us so much? It seems such a naive question these days.
History books nor government explanations were not adequate to answer. For me it came from a rather arrogant Pakistani I used to work with. It was simple, human and guttural. It was honest and made sense more than anything coming from the right or the left or even my own libertarians.
He said that if a son sees his father-his family die from a bomb or soldier from another country he will carry an opinion about said country forever.
Not so funny fast forward I found myself asking myself why the left hates America so much. I came to Substack to the Common Sense trying to answer that question years ago. It was in the comments that I witnessed both sides trying to debate it out. The homeless democrats seemed so lost clinging to the TDS they had been trained to believe. The frustrated right trying to point out the egregious hypocrisy of the left.
After a while it felt like I was in a struggle session therapy group of democrats trying to come to terms with their world view. But I so wanted to know how they viewed and how they justified what was happening. Why they hated and were determined to destroy any one who disagreed with them.
After six years of trying I have come to the conclusion many just believe in a distorted imaginary reality based in mass dissonance created by power elites. It is still startling how they view America and conservatives.
It does feel like a civil war and country living in two different realities. It feels purposeful. It feels like we have become lab rats being manipulated by something we cannot quite see or no it’s purpose other than the destruction of America.
Coming to America used to represent something very different than what we see today. Most of the time it feels like the rest of the world thinks they own us and should have special rights above our own.
I loved this piece. It is a reminder of the fact that we are Americans. America was founded on ideas not on our heritage. But you have to believe in those ideas to be granted citizenship. Somewhere along the way we forgot that. I resent democrats or immigrants that want to transform us into socialists/ communists or any other thing.
"Listening to Neil diamond sing is heartwarming and a little sad heartening back to a different America not that long ago."
Still Is! For people who come here Legally.
Legal is necessary but not sufficient. Like my four Polish grandparents, they must come here To. Be. Americans.
“It does feel like a civil war and country living in two different realities.”
Some excerpts below from a Quillette review of a book about the irrational side of human nature. The last one says: “One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.” That sure is the truth. Few here have any interest in AI but it’s the only thing I see powerful enough to alter our present trajectory which is rapidly taking us to the abyss. We’re most likely already in WW3 and more so by the day.
“Mackay makes the case, often in gory detail, that episodes of collective mania seem to be an inevitable consequence of human nature. Humans in every time and place have cast aside their better judgment and allowed themselves to be caught up in all manner of irrational hoopla.“
“His chapters on the Swabian Peasants’ War and Anabaptist uprisings are terrifying depictions of the end-times frenzy that wreaked havoc on northern Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. The distance between these events in the German-speaking world and, say, the Reign of Terror in France or the Chinese Cultural Revolution is not that great. And the speed with which apparently reasonable people moved from the embrace of a new theological idea to a willingness to torture those whose own theological ideas diverged even slightly is startling.“
“There is plenty to recommend about The Delusions of Crowds. It is laden with great anecdotes and the writing is always engaging. One comes away with the sense that civilization operates on narrow margins and is always on the verge of collapsing into irrationality.”
“The Delusions of Crowds-A Review.”
Quillette. Feb 8, 2021
https://quillette.com/2021/02/08/the-delusions-of-crowds-a-review/
OMG ...
I was reading your comment...
Thinking to myself, when does AI come into it? Lol.
What we need in this country is more actual intelligence, not artificial intelligence.
Our problems have outrun and overwhelmed us. The momentum for war has already taken on a life of its own and is out of control. Only AI can save our sinking ship. You don’t seem to realize how dire and deadly our situation is both here and globally. This is WW3 we’re sliding into. This is not a game. This is for real.
The reasons why we have the problems that we have, is because the radical Left Progressives no longer believe in the goodness of our country. Or in truth.
Good example:
1 Boys have a penis.
2 Girls have a vagina.
3 Men can't get pregnant.
Never thought anybody would ever say that that isn't true. Never though anybody would ever be CRAZY enough to say it!!
Everybody can have their own opinion. But when it gets dangerous is when everyone wants their own "truth," when the evidence is in total opposition.
Bring back mental asylums!
But you seem to feel there’s something new about this. Even the dreadful twentieth century though had major nations become quite insane for periods of time. If we had the weapons we now have a hundred years ago it’s highly unlikely we’d be here now.
PROGRESSIVISM
It's a religion, a cult.
These people, mostly atheists, have a human need, like all of us, to feel like they belong to something. So they have essentially created their own "religion," or in this case, cult.
There is no greater proof that this is a cult, than the fact that anybody who disagrees within this group is chastised and ostracized by the group. Cancelled!
Conservatives can actually disagree about some things but realize that we agree on more that we disagree on. So we are compatriots on the same side.
With Progressives, it's almost like they regard somebody who has one or two different beliefs than them as contamination, that they will hurt the cause.
In this cult that they have created, everyone in, it is of a different "victim group." This is their rallying cry, "we will fight the oppressors," i.e., white men.
And it's all based on feelings, not any logic, because now their system is breaking down because they go totally batshit crazy, when they have to confront a black Trump supporter. I have seen them be nastier to a black conservative than they've ever been a white conservative.
Because all around them is evidence that their beliefs are not true. They can't handle the fact that things aren't the way they were told they would be.
Of all of these issues... Transgenderism has exposed them the most. It's the modern example of the King with No Clothes. They can see that the person is a man with a dress on, but their political party cult demands of them that they have to call it a woman. And what mental pretzels the Progressives tie themselves into, trying to logically justify their wide array of beliefs that are contradictory, but not true.
I love watching Charlie Kirk civilly having public talks with Progressive students. Some of them are total Karens (here comes the name calling and insults!) and can't handle it, but every now and then you see the light go on.
Students on college campuses aren't really accustomed to defending their point of view, logically. Indisputable facts really seem to bother the indoctrinated!
THEN, when the light 🚨 finally comes on, and they realize EVERYTHING they were told and taught, was a lie! It's happening more and more, because the Progressive Lies are becoming more and more outrageous.
Kudos to those who have the courage to ask questions, and determine the truth, without blindly following the crowd.
Conservatives can actually disagree about some things but realize that we agree on more that we disagree on. So we are compatriots on the same side.
People who disagree in the GOP are primaried, mocked and attacked viciously so that is a complete lie.
Um, dude, you just contradicted yourself. Conservatives are the ones in the GOP LOL. I think it's great that you realize that conservatives can disagree, but still realize that they are on the same side, unlike Democrats.
Right now Democrats are facing a pretty serious split. Moderate, or traditional liberals, are being ostracized by the woke progressive wing of the party, which is becoming dominant. The progressives don't want any dissent from their opinions.
Both the progressive, and the more traditional liberal wings, want to run the Democrat party.
It should be pretty interesting.
*Eating popcorn.*
I did not contradict myself
MAGA GOP are the ones who kick their own party members from office just merely opposing Trump on anything. They viciously attack anyone who dares speak against them see Elon Musk. They are ideological gatekeepers who then pretend only Democrats are the ones who do it.
The beauty of the left is when progressive democrats win they outright win the general election see Carter, Clinton, Obama but the Democrats center establishment is so against them they will rig primaries to get their safe candidate over the hill and they dont give a fuck if they lose.
You're wrong on that, Sparky.
Hard-Left Progressive Democrats can win primaries in these big blue cities, that are very hard Leftist.
But these Progressive politicians are not electable, nationwide.
Bernie Sanders? Nope. But the Dems didn't even let him win the primary because they knew he would lose.
Gavin Newsom? Nope. He's running California into the gutter.
AOC, or Jasmine Crockett? 🤣😂
Kamala Harris? NOPE. But I hope she runs again anyway haha...
Progresives allowed Democrats to win every time they went safe and established they lost. The GOP are the ones that egg on Democrats trying to say progressives are bad because they rather face the easiest choice. Newsom is another controllable face similar to Biden and Hilary. AOC at least is willing to relate to people and talk to them you will never see that out of the establishment.
Other than Obama, radical Progressives have lost every election.
Carter was not a radical progressive.
Bill Clinton was more centrist.
So you sort of forget about Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Walter Mondale... They were all huge losers.
Bill Clinton realized that somebody that is that is from the far left in the Democrat party, was not electable.
That's why he ran as a centrist.
He made the mistake of letting Hillary Clinton try to revamp the healthcare system. Went too far left and he lost big time in the midterms. So, being smart, he talked back to the center, and won reelection.
You're right.
I find it interesting, that Trump has moved the GOP into the wider, what would be considered 20 years ago, the classic liberal region.
A lot of what comes out, in the center, is just common sense.
Donald Trump doesn't have to work very hard at all, to end up on the winning side of an 80-20 issue. He just proclaims his opinion, knowing the Dems will automatically oppose him, and VOILA! Another winning issue!
He trolls the Dems, wonderfully, on this. He even has some of them defending Iran 😂
As the Democrats argue about who in their party can be the most anti-American, the working-class voters who once formed their base are fleeing.
Nikita Khrushchev, Russia’s combative leader from 1953 to 1964, famously threatened, “We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within.”
Democrats are the ones doing it.
Many proclaim HATE for America.
"They say it's racist, it's misogynistic, it's colonizers," yada yada yada.
Regurgitated indoctrination.
He's great at Trolling
He gets them spitting at the wall and saying totally idiotic things 😂🤣
He gets a lot of “free press,” by the media reporting on these people who are opposing something he said. And they are totally loony, batshit crazy…
By their actions and their speeches, they make him look very reasonable.
Thank You, Sasha, for getting our Independence Day off to a great start!!
Actions will always speak louder than words. Today will be a particularly great day to pay attention to the actions of both the Right and the Left. A Very Happy 4th to All!
I propose to remove the word "indivisible " from the Pledge. No, we can't all just get along and it's time to quit pretending. While the Left pretends about many things, this one is endemic on the Right.