It's the loss of Christianity. The evidence of history is compelling: the more Christian a people is, the likelier it is that they'll be extremely literate, and too smart to fall for demagoguery.
It's not a surprise that most Candace Owens followers are women who give no evidence of being anything more exalted in intelligence than any other bunch of dopes.
The state of education, period. I started reading Augustin Rudd's _Bending the Twig_, Aristotle's _Nichomachean Ethics_, Josef Pieper's _Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power_, and Thomas a Kempis's _Of the Imitation of Christ_ during the last couple of weeks and it's been eye-opening. Thanks to Dewey, the Columbia Teachers' College, and some others, we have a monumental task before us.
Finding "fault", & "blame" are counterproductive, and useless wastes of time....WHO CARES whose "fault" it is?....What difference does it make, whose fault it is?....
You should think about how to stop Iran from ever getting the damn thing, and not crying about the fallout. Preparation is the best prevention. It's either Iran or us. You can distain your fellow American, but you really should pay attention in keeping Iran from getting the bomb and how far you'll go to stop it.
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a leading figure in the Islamic Revolution and one of the architects of the Islamic Republic during its first three decades, was known to tell his associates: “Israel is a one-bomb state. A single nuclear bomb could destroy half of it, and the rest of its population would flee in panic.”
No Israel would be flooded with islamast, raping and killing until all were wiped out. Then they will turn to Spain or England. But they won't have much effort, because as of today, those countries are accommodating their demise. The Hamas lovers of Amarica won't go there.
So if Trump hadn’t attacked Iran in February, Iran would have a nuclear weapon & would have blown up NYC? Even after we bombed their nuclear program to smithereens (“obliterated” it per Trump) last June? You live in a very simple comic book world?
mtg is a sellout. She waits till she's eligible for "lifelong salary" from US and then quits. Now there's some character, huh? "vote for me, I'm the only one who cares for you down trodden." OOPS, never mind, I'll take care of myself and whine about it.
MTG is the woman without a party. She is self-toasted. Time for MTG to chill out at a mental health clinic. Georgia has been embarassed enough by its pols.
According to Trump. He's been saying that we need to finish the war that Iran started with us in 1979. He's been saying that for over 40 years. You have not been listening.
Actually, I’m inquiring as to the relevant details of Jeff’s sarcastic, blanket “black or white” assertion. I think even he (& you) would have to agree that there’s a big gap between “no wars” & “forever wars.” So if Trump was only ruling out “forever wars,” then was all else on the table? 1 year wars? 2 year wars? 5? 10? That appears to be what Jeff is suggesting. According to him, Trump apparently was saying that everything between “none” & “forever” was fair game. Is that really how the country understood Trump’s commitment? I don’t think so.
So why don't you try to delineate Trump's intentions between "no more Middle East wars" and "no forever wars?" What type or length of war was he communicating it would be OK to get into? You won't have an answer, of course, so my question to you (and to Jeff, Mike) is purely rhetorical.
El Sayed is a true demagogue. A gifted public speaker. Very dangerous, especially as a muslim. He exudes violence. He is also a violent technocrat who as health dept director in Michigan truly gloried in and loved mandating covid policy, though of course not for BLM protests.
Why did the guy apologize? some of the things he said may be in bad taste, but people like Don Lemon who actually violated peoples rights when he stormed that church aren’t being called out in the New York Times. You may wonder why I even bothered with the New York Times. Sorry I just regressed.
He NEVER should have apologized!! Only a weak person with no mind of their own apologizes for how they feel and think. People like him are more than half the problem!! Screw them, it makes me so angry caving to the mob.
"But how do we learn to exist with one another if we don’t agree on everything?" That is a major, major problem. The Left is so crazy, I don't know other than to totally defeat them in the polls.
Until last year, I lived in Omaha. That's Congressional District #2. It is the so-called Blue Dot. I've lived in Omaha all my life and I can't believe how far left it has become.
CD #2 is open. A multi-millionaire named Denise Powell is running against Omaha city councilman Brinker Harding.
This Powell woman is unhinged. Her actual campaign is that she's a "pissed off mom" who is going to "stand up" and fight against Trump.
On her website, she says she will fight monopolies. Her husband (Hobson) works for LinkedIn which is owned by Microsoft; two monopolies.
She support trans rights. She supported the right of crazy parents to mutilate their children.
I hope that male Dems don't vote for her. The Dems have a real problem with male voters. I can't see cops, plumbers or firemen voting for this loon.
I know someone who lived in Omaha for over 20 years. Maybe you know him. He’s the guy flying the flag, hitting the range every weekend and loving me. What could be better? 😉😄
Of course, Trump is not “far right,” he is a moderate. If he were far right, Obama & Co. would be in Gitmo, Boasberg and Roberts would have been given an offer they can’t refuse, and the state media—cable, broadcast, online and print—would have been shut down. RINOs would be extinct and Trump would have 100% control of voting systems.
In short, don’t accept the left’s premises that “Trump is far right so the Democrats are going far left.”
Everything Trump is doing is within the bounds of the Constitution and the checks and balances it enumerates. As for the so-called social issues—transgender, men in locker rooms, criminals should be in jail not in the streets, etc., Trump holds positions that are in synch with 80% of the populace, and were held by all presidents before they ran for office, and when they took office, Obama and Biden included. Obama “changed” once safely in the White House. Biden had no idea what opinions he held since about 2015, and is an asterisk of presidential succession.
During the early 2019 campaign, I briefly met & spoke with Biden at a rally. He was clearly senile. I was dumbfounded that the Dems ran him for POTUS. How naive I was....
It would seem that the hard Left and Islamists would be primed to kill each other. Apparently, that day of reckoning will be postponed until they finish off America.
The left is so easily sucked into causes for the "oppressed &/or colonized". At some threshold, the islamists they've welcomed into their "Big Tent" will gut them in their sleep and take everything they have.
They won’t like it. My mother lived in Saudi Arabia for a couple of years while Dad was working for Aramco. Mom despised the burqa and sharia intensely and went home. Dad stayed 10 years. Sharia law is a total nightmare for western women. We don’t want or need ANY Muslims in the USA. None. These Tik Tok idiots have no idea….
Hi Sasha, I just got an email from a prestigious arts colony I attended years ago and enjoyed greatly. To my surprise, they now, in 2026, require proof of Covid vaccination. Whut? There is no pandemic at present, and the shots are confirmed not to stop transmission. Just what we need in artists and writers: sheep willing to be coerced who possess no crucial thinking skills. No one else welcome. I thought of your experience in the movie biz.
Sadly, what shocked me most was how large a segment of our population are sheep. My next door neighbor would still be standing on her head if Fauci had told her to do so, and she's a doctor, although not practicing. My liberal friends were terrified and would do anything they were told and insist others follow suit.
I'm sure that if Fauci insisted on putting a plastic bag over one's head and sealing it off with duct tape, we would have been subjected to shrews demanding compliance.
“Utopias only have two paths forward. They collapse, or they become more authoritarian.” — in my view, the articles of faith that have been the basis for their utopian ideals are, one after the other, being falsified, and, as a result, they are truths no longer. Meanwhile, the Left’s authoritarians have the atomic mass of French Revolution Jacobins, that is, they are ‘high emotion’ NPCs. What the Trump side understands is that, if the radical’s public-funding sources dry up, then there is no there there, the authoritarians will be unable to muster.
Well said Sasha. I am despairing for our country. I blame poor education on matters of civics as the main culprit...
It's the loss of Christianity. The evidence of history is compelling: the more Christian a people is, the likelier it is that they'll be extremely literate, and too smart to fall for demagoguery.
It's not a surprise that most Candace Owens followers are women who give no evidence of being anything more exalted in intelligence than any other bunch of dopes.
Candace Owens is the Alex Jones of black women.....so what?....WHO cares what she says?....
The state of education, period. I started reading Augustin Rudd's _Bending the Twig_, Aristotle's _Nichomachean Ethics_, Josef Pieper's _Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power_, and Thomas a Kempis's _Of the Imitation of Christ_ during the last couple of weeks and it's been eye-opening. Thanks to Dewey, the Columbia Teachers' College, and some others, we have a monumental task before us.
Do not despair. Just do a little bit in your circle.
Every little bit advances our cause.
Finding "fault", & "blame" are counterproductive, and useless wastes of time....WHO CARES whose "fault" it is?....What difference does it make, whose fault it is?....
Actually, it's all Trump's fault. With out him, the Iranians would have gotten nuclear weapons and NYC would no longer be a problem.
Just a huge radiation plume.
Is that a GOOD THING for you? I live in a neighboring State. I guess you’re willing to sacrifice MY LIFE.
Charity starts at home…start with YOUR OWN!
You should think about how to stop Iran from ever getting the damn thing, and not crying about the fallout. Preparation is the best prevention. It's either Iran or us. You can distain your fellow American, but you really should pay attention in keeping Iran from getting the bomb and how far you'll go to stop it.
I'm hoping he was being sarcastic. Hard to tell these days.
Pretty much think she was being sarcastic!
Pretty much leftist have no sense of sarcasm or irony. Totally no fun 😊 people. Too serious. Unless laughing at making others miserable.
That WAS sarcasm - taking care of that 'problem' in that way would be horrific for the planet.
If it's so easy, why didn't they get one while biden was office?
How do you know for sure that they secretly didn't?....
Seem like we would detect any tests.
Israel would go first.
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a leading figure in the Islamic Revolution and one of the architects of the Islamic Republic during its first three decades, was known to tell his associates: “Israel is a one-bomb state. A single nuclear bomb could destroy half of it, and the rest of its population would flee in panic.”
No Israel would be flooded with islamast, raping and killing until all were wiped out. Then they will turn to Spain or England. But they won't have much effort, because as of today, those countries are accommodating their demise. The Hamas lovers of Amarica won't go there.
Umm…nukes have no boundaries. Wow, get a grip.
Ahem, maybe that is why it is not in our intrest to let Iran have one. Ever think of that?
😂😂😂
Nor LA, Washington DC, Boston , nor Norfolk Naval yards.
So if Trump hadn’t attacked Iran in February, Iran would have a nuclear weapon & would have blown up NYC? Even after we bombed their nuclear program to smithereens (“obliterated” it per Trump) last June? You live in a very simple comic book world?
BOT
Based.
To MTG, et al: Trump never said "no more foreign wars", he said "no more forever wars". See the difference?
mtg is a sellout. She waits till she's eligible for "lifelong salary" from US and then quits. Now there's some character, huh? "vote for me, I'm the only one who cares for you down trodden." OOPS, never mind, I'll take care of myself and whine about it.
She doesn’t…she’s a useless fool at this point.
MTG is the woman without a party. She is self-toasted. Time for MTG to chill out at a mental health clinic. Georgia has been embarassed enough by its pols.
Oh, so according to you, he was completely leaving open the idea of launching a new war in the Middle East. Yeah, got it. 😂
BOT
Hilarious 🤣
How very articulate, erudite & effective!
You must have been an English major! A debater? A lawyer?
😂🤣😂
Still a bot.
WE HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME!....sheesh, either STFU, or else say something constructive & productive, will ya please?....
Wow, you added two whole words! Keep up the good work, idiot!
According to Trump. He's been saying that we need to finish the war that Iran started with us in 1979. He's been saying that for over 40 years. You have not been listening.
Actually, that is according to you, not the person you replied to who said no such thing.
Actually, I’m inquiring as to the relevant details of Jeff’s sarcastic, blanket “black or white” assertion. I think even he (& you) would have to agree that there’s a big gap between “no wars” & “forever wars.” So if Trump was only ruling out “forever wars,” then was all else on the table? 1 year wars? 2 year wars? 5? 10? That appears to be what Jeff is suggesting. According to him, Trump apparently was saying that everything between “none” & “forever” was fair game. Is that really how the country understood Trump’s commitment? I don’t think so.
BOT or idiot. Maybe both.
So why don't you try to delineate Trump's intentions between "no more Middle East wars" and "no forever wars?" What type or length of war was he communicating it would be OK to get into? You won't have an answer, of course, so my question to you (and to Jeff, Mike) is purely rhetorical.
That's a bunch of silly, immature blabber.
El Sayed is a true demagogue. A gifted public speaker. Very dangerous, especially as a muslim. He exudes violence. He is also a violent technocrat who as health dept director in Michigan truly gloried in and loved mandating covid policy, though of course not for BLM protests.
Why did the guy apologize? some of the things he said may be in bad taste, but people like Don Lemon who actually violated peoples rights when he stormed that church aren’t being called out in the New York Times. You may wonder why I even bothered with the New York Times. Sorry I just regressed.
He NEVER should have apologized!! Only a weak person with no mind of their own apologizes for how they feel and think. People like him are more than half the problem!! Screw them, it makes me so angry caving to the mob.
It is useful to read both sides.
You should try that sometime. Trump hysteria is for losers.
because they came for him and he had to. didn't help him though did it.
I feel zero sympathy for those who apologize for speaking the truth.
I agree that the real threat is totalitarianism and AI will enable it. The PRC is a good example and the DSA are extolling its virtues.
"But how do we learn to exist with one another if we don’t agree on everything?" That is a major, major problem. The Left is so crazy, I don't know other than to totally defeat them in the polls.
Until last year, I lived in Omaha. That's Congressional District #2. It is the so-called Blue Dot. I've lived in Omaha all my life and I can't believe how far left it has become.
CD #2 is open. A multi-millionaire named Denise Powell is running against Omaha city councilman Brinker Harding.
This Powell woman is unhinged. Her actual campaign is that she's a "pissed off mom" who is going to "stand up" and fight against Trump.
On her website, she says she will fight monopolies. Her husband (Hobson) works for LinkedIn which is owned by Microsoft; two monopolies.
She support trans rights. She supported the right of crazy parents to mutilate their children.
I hope that male Dems don't vote for her. The Dems have a real problem with male voters. I can't see cops, plumbers or firemen voting for this loon.
I know someone who lived in Omaha for over 20 years. Maybe you know him. He’s the guy flying the flag, hitting the range every weekend and loving me. What could be better? 😉😄
Of course, Trump is not “far right,” he is a moderate. If he were far right, Obama & Co. would be in Gitmo, Boasberg and Roberts would have been given an offer they can’t refuse, and the state media—cable, broadcast, online and print—would have been shut down. RINOs would be extinct and Trump would have 100% control of voting systems.
In short, don’t accept the left’s premises that “Trump is far right so the Democrats are going far left.”
Everything Trump is doing is within the bounds of the Constitution and the checks and balances it enumerates. As for the so-called social issues—transgender, men in locker rooms, criminals should be in jail not in the streets, etc., Trump holds positions that are in synch with 80% of the populace, and were held by all presidents before they ran for office, and when they took office, Obama and Biden included. Obama “changed” once safely in the White House. Biden had no idea what opinions he held since about 2015, and is an asterisk of presidential succession.
Spot on, Alan.
During the early 2019 campaign, I briefly met & spoke with Biden at a rally. He was clearly senile. I was dumbfounded that the Dems ran him for POTUS. How naive I was....
Make no mistake about this. At its root, today's DSA is an islamo-fascist movement.
It would seem that the hard Left and Islamists would be primed to kill each other. Apparently, that day of reckoning will be postponed until they finish off America.
The left is so easily sucked into causes for the "oppressed &/or colonized". At some threshold, the islamists they've welcomed into their "Big Tent" will gut them in their sleep and take everything they have.
Trojan horse indeed. You are literally voting in people who will make The Handmaid's Tale look tame.
I wonder how well the TikTok women will do under Sharia law…
They won’t like it. My mother lived in Saudi Arabia for a couple of years while Dad was working for Aramco. Mom despised the burqa and sharia intensely and went home. Dad stayed 10 years. Sharia law is a total nightmare for western women. We don’t want or need ANY Muslims in the USA. None. These Tik Tok idiots have no idea….
Seems like going to a lot of trouble just to avoid the "male gaze"...
If a western women walked down the street in Saudi, without a burqa, she WOULD be raped. This is the problem in Europe now.
Brilliant.
Lenin said we'd sell him the rope to hang us.
At some point residents of free states will have to say "μολὼν λαβέ".
We had better get busy making the enemy sorry for messing with us. Closing HUD comes to mind.
Thank you for saying what I wish I was smart enough to write.
Hi Sasha, I just got an email from a prestigious arts colony I attended years ago and enjoyed greatly. To my surprise, they now, in 2026, require proof of Covid vaccination. Whut? There is no pandemic at present, and the shots are confirmed not to stop transmission. Just what we need in artists and writers: sheep willing to be coerced who possess no crucial thinking skills. No one else welcome. I thought of your experience in the movie biz.
Sadly, what shocked me most was how large a segment of our population are sheep. My next door neighbor would still be standing on her head if Fauci had told her to do so, and she's a doctor, although not practicing. My liberal friends were terrified and would do anything they were told and insist others follow suit.
It was maddening.
I'm sure that if Fauci insisted on putting a plastic bag over one's head and sealing it off with duct tape, we would have been subjected to shrews demanding compliance.
Totally true with most of my acquaintances. High IQ, low common sense, weak followers. Way too many of them in America these days.
A total lack of common sense.
My liberal friends are still scared out of their wits of Covid.
Well dang…. We still haven’t taken the poison ‘kill’ shot.
“Utopias only have two paths forward. They collapse, or they become more authoritarian.” — in my view, the articles of faith that have been the basis for their utopian ideals are, one after the other, being falsified, and, as a result, they are truths no longer. Meanwhile, the Left’s authoritarians have the atomic mass of French Revolution Jacobins, that is, they are ‘high emotion’ NPCs. What the Trump side understands is that, if the radical’s public-funding sources dry up, then there is no there there, the authoritarians will be unable to muster.