Well it is the American middle class that is the greatest source of man made activity that is causing global warming!!! Obama even said that man made climate change (global warming 1.2) is the greatest threat facing the WORLD! Also the American middle class is RACIST and FASICT and hates gay people and women (go figure that one). You comment is spot on. Just look at LA ... ashes.
No Malibu and the Palisades in LA are literally ashes. And the toxic runoff from the ashes is killing dolphins and sea lions and everything else off the coast.
Pray tell, what does a sarc tag look like? There is a great need for this in the Text Age. I’ve been using heavy brackets [which has been a wildly successful practice] 😏
I'm gonna say, the BidenAdmin was the crescendo, the orgasm of liberal/leftism/communism in the US -- the result of at least 60 years of effort. The communists finally had everything they wanted: Americans divided against each other, the wanton sexualizing of children, a US debt bomb which explodes us into the arms of 'the govt', anti-religious fervor, a propaganda media to control the masses...and even with the overturn of Roe, abortion is still legal in near half the states.
CommunistDems had 'arrived' and this is why they have no platform today -- their pinnacle of success were the Biden years -- THAT is what they have to offer us now, and what they wanna go back to. They're incapable of offering a 'tamped-down' version of that.
Yep, and personally, I can only give glory to God for how (it seems) He orchestrated a multi-layered, multi-pronged attack against their foregone conclusion: Musk buying Twitter, Kirk doing "Turning Point USA", the guy with the beautiful long, flowing locks going to Pennsylvania to turn it red (I'm lousy with names), Taibbi and Schellenberg doing the "Twitter Files", that other guy who took on CRT in our schools, Sasha giving us her eye-opening perspective and so many others, including, of course, Trump, Vance and the "crew".
Glory to God indeed! An orchestrated answer to millions upon millions of sincere prayers. And we must not let up now. Give thanks to God and keep praying!
Also note: Chris created a new account to specifically smear Sasha. That’s its only purpose at the time of my posting this. The only Substack his account reads is Sasha’s. This is a hateful propaganda account that would be worthwhile to block. Typical tactic of the left AND “our industry” of which Chris is a part of or he wouldn’t have used “our”. Think about that.
She HAS grown. That was 11 years ago while she was brainwashed by her party to only see through a particular set of lenses. When she started to see without those lenses, without their carefully crafted narratives, she started to see clearly. Nobody from the left OR her industry has been more contrite and regretful about how they once thought or talked. And no ex-Democrat has gone to the lengths Sasha has to right that wrong and help wake others up.
This is NOT a new “grift” for her. And her industry is full of twisted, hateful, evil people, so their negative opinions of her only make her glow that much brighter.
I certainly hope she has grown with regard to the juvenile foul language, but opposition to big game trophy hunting is something I applaud. I've never understood why being conservative has to go hand-in-hand with being okay with killing animals strictly for fun. So I'm okay with the spirit if not the tone of the quoted post.
Maybe---- just like the head of NPR, when recently questioned about her previous ranting, anti-Republican texts. However, in Sasha's case, the conversion was authentic and her eyes have been opened to who the Democratic Party really, truly is.
I don't give a darn what "people (you all aren't 'folks') in your industry" think about Sasha. You all are warped in the head, generally speaking. Do you have a job or hobby that you could be doing?
The first true sign of an ideologue is someone who once having formed an opinion, never, ever, ever re-evalutes, despite the ongoing torrent of new. additional information. Many of us are not that.
I’m thankful for the fact that the things I wrote in my youthful ignorance and hormonal intemperance years ago doesn’t follow me around. The sobering realization of one’s own past errors and the effect of a faith of repentance, redemption and restraint tends to change one for the better. I’ve appreciated Sasha’s writing during the past year that I have followed her Substack.
Today, right wingers make Christmas cards with the parents and children all showing off their guns including one of the dumbest ones - M T Greene. Also Andy Ogles (R-TN), Thomas Massie (R-KY) ("Merry Christmas -“P.S. Santa, please bring ammo.”), Rick Brattin (MO state sen) ("And it was something that I thought was funny, kind of sends a good message.")
“The video released by McCarthy included footage of Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” who became the face of the “insurrection” in the media and who was sentenced, in the fall of 2021, to 41 months in federal prison. As many as nine police officers calmly escorted Chansley around the Capitol complex, at several points even checking for unlocked doors for him. They did not try to hinder, let alone apprehend him. It also included footage showing Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died on January 7, 2021, walking around and apparently healthy on January 6. A month after his death, the Washington, D.C. medical examiner issued a report concluding that Sicknick died of natural causes. To this day, Democrats and the corporate press cite Sicknick’s death as evidence of their narrative, claiming he died due to blunt force trauma to the head with a fire extinguisher. The security footage withheld by the Select Committee clearly indicates that this never happened.”
A police officer WAS hit on the head with a fire extinguisher on Jan 6 thrown by a rioter, which may have led to the confusion that Sicnick was hit on the head. https://nypost.com/2021/01/11/video-shows-capitol-rioter-hit-officer-with-fire-extinguisher/. Sicnick was sprayed in the face with bear spray and possibly assaulted during the riot. He died of a blood clot in the brain which is often very sudden so he was healthy on Jan 6.
"The video aired by Carlson was captured on internal CCTV cameras "only from approximately 2:56 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.," after Chansley had already breached a police line with the mob and "faced off with members of the U.S. Capitol Police for more than 30 minutes in front of the Senate Chamber doors while elected officials, including the Vice President of the United States, were fleeing from the chamber."
Chansley then entered the Senate Gallery, where he proceeded to scream obscenities while other rioters rifled through the desks of U.S. Senators on the floor below. In sum, Chansley was not some passive, chaperoned observer of events for the roughly hour that he was unlawfully inside the Capitol."
While they note that it is true one officer was with Chansley as he made his way to the Senate floor after breaching the chamber earlier as the televised video reflects, the officer has said in a statement to prosecutors he was merely "trying to de-escalate the situation.""
Carlson is good at twisting things to fit his agenda.
Here’s an excellent video of Rep. Massie trying, and failing, to get some answers from a government official about FBI involvement in the Jan 6 “Insurrection!” A very good example of why I so totally distrust your Democratic Party and their media. The same people who imported 12 million illegals for political gain and dumbed down our schools, even medical schools, for the sake of equity aka race based equal outcomes.
“Rep. Thomas Massie accused Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday of lying during a House Judiciary Committee hearing about his knowledge of federal law enforcement activities during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.”
“Massie (R-Ky.) previously tangled with Garland in October 2021 over the same issue, questioning whether undercover FBI agents were present at the storming of the Capitol.”
“Breaking: DOJ report shows FBI field sources stormed the Capitol on January 6th.”
You already know that Fox lied about Smartmatic voting systems. I have been reading Fox since 2016 and have observed that they omit anything that makes Trump or the right look bad, and don't believe anything they say.
A., Too add to your point, after reading Matt Taibbi's article on the Biden administration Ukraine policies, the zeal to risk WWIII over the most corrupt non-democracy of Europe, fleshes out they are possessed by anger-hate-victim-woke, proxy war ideology, so much so, that WWIII becomes a reasonable risk.
It is still deeply pathological, witness the protests over DOGE on Saturday. They will persist until they tear the fabric apart.
What? I am responding to your comment, "I like to think they hate the middle class because this class represents homeostasis.....the balance point between the polar ends, where most people can flourish if they arrive there." The thread started with "The Left has always hated the middle class and they have never shied away from ruling over ashes."
I agree with many of the positions of the left! You sound like a right winger to me. Where did I ever say that you are on the left? I AM left, one of the few on Stone's page.
A famous general once said, “When everyone’s thinking alike, somebody’s not thinking.” If you agree with this, you know what Trump’s facing, which is the status quo, the same status quo that’s allowed globalization to enrich the rich and hold down the middle class.
It was Patton. Probably a reference to the Battle of the Bulge where his intelligence chief was the only one in the whole ETO who predicted the German offensive. Thus 3rd Army had a plan ready to pivot 90 degrees and attack north. When Ike asked him how soon he could do this, Patton said 24 hours and wasn't believed, if appreciated. Ike gave him 48 and I think it took about 36.
Right. My father was a tank commander in the BOTB. One thing Patton and Trump had/have in common: when a subordinate recommends a policy and Trump asks why and the response is “Because that’s the way it’s always been done,” Trump bristles in frustration.
I didn't read past the headline because the headline is so spot on! The real BIG story of our time is why so many of the people in the West want the West to commit suicide? It is a psychosis or some sick masochistic fetish.
Cultural hatred and despair certainly DO play a big part but there just feels to me like there is MORE to the story of self emmolation. It is just so insane I can't get my mind around it.
D.T: Cultural hatred has been ongoing for so long, it's pretty much knee jerk now. After JFK was killed, so was MLK, then RFK. Then came the Jimmy Carter presidency with a sinking economy, then came the Iran hostage crisis. For awhile under Reagan it was "morning in America". But too many years of Democrat presidents and their anti-Americanism since 1988 has raised generations of kids who have never been taught our values. If the kids don't know any better, it's up to us old timers to save the country.
Maybe liberals, the self loathing type, are projecting their hatered of themselves onto us. But I for one have had enough no matter what the cause. time for the woketards to go!
Good point here. By insisting that all cultures are equally beneficial to humanity, and that there is that "spark of divinity" even in the most barbaric populations, we forget what made Western Civilization such a large leap forward. And for nearly 200 years, we have allowed many among us to tear it down in favor of...what? They have no bloody clue; what nihilists.
the guilt thing is everywhere and has been since the 60s, we question ourselves as christians because we are being good, they expoit this by implying that we are somehow maybe bad.
Trump has been thinking about this for the last four decades. He's run all of the possibilities. There is no way he intends to fail. His legacy is a big part of the play and he wants to keep it intact or even enhance it. I believe he knows what he is doing!
What scares me is I agree with Sasha that the Democrat Party will do unspeakable things to force crash the economy just so they can blame it on Trump’s plan not working, when in fact it would have if they hadn’t sabotaged it. Like we need the tax cut bill to go hand in hand with the tariffs. If they sabotage that bill then the tariffs won’t work. That will be THEIR fault, not Trump’s, but they’ll spend the next four years narrating that it was his fault. They really are wholly selfish and evil to the core.
The Dems and the legacy media certainly going to try this tactic as though we are still in 2005. Problem here is that twenty years later we've moved far beyond the point where either Dems or media can still influence public opinion on a large scale.
Sure, the Dems and media will do anything humanly possible to derail America's return to greatness as they have profited mightily from attacking U.S. interests. It is a mindset that is the result of being marinated in institutionalized self loathing and first world boutique leftism that they consumed at "elite" universities.
Their actions are completely predictable, from the domestic terrorism we're seeing against those who drive Teslas, to outright assault on people wearing MAGA hats. Keep up with the violence Dems, and you legacy media outlets out there, turn up the hideous catharsis up to 11.
Um, why do we want a tax cut? We are 35 trillion in debt with 700 billion in interest payments. I make over 100k as a single, pay over 30k a year in payroll and income taxes but would rather see the budget deficit dissappear and then go back to paying down the debt.
Take heart Sasha, I think Trump’s in a pretty good position. Will they do anything to preserve their grifter economy? Yes. I’m just not sure it’s enough, especially with their 20 something percent approval rate. They still have all their big Soros type donors, though, so we can’t Just ignore them and laugh at them. Read this for a realistic view of what’s going on:
Isn't that the truth! Jeff is a resource like no other. Smart, long view, patience grasshopper, sees the game plan & the step-by-step to success Trump & his team are using. He never fails to counter the narrative & thus calms my nerves!
I do a recurring $5/month payment through one of his other options you can find at the bottom of his Substacks. So it feels like a subscription but I just don’t get his Sunday articles. That’s ok, because I need a break for one day given how long I spend reading through his comment sections 🤣
He’s $50 a month and most of my subscriptions are $50 a year😬, so I’m currently a free subscriber. Glad to know Juju that there are options for payment. Somebody complained about a payment method, maybe it’s Redpay???? Might be better to “tip” Jeff. Some say he will be in Vance’s first term in 2028 & weeks will lose him. He’s a great read no doubt!!
I haven’t had issues. I never created a dashboard account and just let it send me confirmation emails that my donation is received each month. However I just now went to their site and activated my dashboard. No problems or concerns, just shows all my donations there.
Look at the Bill Maher Trump dinner take away all the offense horseshit speeches, all the cameras and they had a calm dinner and started talking dinner table stuff cordially. Put the cameras back on their evil alter egos remerge.
I don't know. You're position here is admirable, but a vast majority of Dems are too far gone. We all have experience in our circle of friends and/or family - it's just a waste of time to engage in a meaningful manner as you suggest.
My personal reaction to these leftists is to remain quiet and smile. You'd be surprised at how this REALLY gets under their skin. Without a way to vent their pre-rehearsed ad hominem attacks, they consume their bile and it has gotta just tear them apart inside.
Democrats, or liberals, or whatever they think they are, have come a long way from liberal ideas we grew up with. It's the core theme of my latest piece: With liberals like these, who needs conservatives?
This is so spot-on in my opinion. I keep waiting for a strategy besides “the opposite of Trump”, and no one on the far left has told me one yet. It’s like he said in his congressional address: he could announce a cure for cancer, and the left wouldn’t clap. I think (hope) more people realize that now.
It drove me nuts watching two congressional hearings this past week (JFK, and government censorship during Biden/Covid,) and every time a Democrat spoke they used smear tactics at the speakers or the Republican Party, and then pivoted to a long “but Trump” monologue and made it a hearing about him today. Only the republicans focused on what the hearing was actually for. It was so unprofessional of the Democrats to hijack the hearing and force it to be a hearing for Trump. Their strategy is so easy to see and it’s pathetic.
Batya Ungar-Sargon was engaged in a lively debate the other day too in defense of Trump (and in dismay of Leftist-Democrats). Her main point was that Donald Trump was working on behalf of the working class, whereas, Democrats have thrown in with leftists, globalists, progressives, and the woke agenda. Sasha and Batya have read the room well — Leftist-Democrats need to be removed to the ash heap.
Batya is one extremely credible reporter. She has a very smart take on how Trump sees America and is working for our best interests. I wish my Dem friends and family could see how much good Trump is doing, but they are so blinded by hate that they will cling to anything negative about him.
Trump is working on no one's behalf but his own. At best, the tariffs are a mob scheme to extract tribute from countries and corporations so he can line his pockets and those of his cronies. At worst they are an act of spite and vengeance because he lost the election in 2020.
Ukraine is his chance to win a Nobel Peace Prize. That Obama has one and he doesn't must rankle him to no end. Hence, the Putin political blow jobs.
Of course, this all assumes that he is actually lucid. Anyone who objectively listens to his speeches these days must wonder whether he is at the threshold of dementia.
Make no mistake, I agree with those who believe the far progressive left has created many more problems than it solved. But the Trump administration is not the answer and has the potential to make things much worse.
Commies (true Commies) are all about gaining power. The program is violating rights, like Free Speech, in order to violate the ultimate right: "no taxation without representation".
I would say that their millennium is a lot more Hitler than FDR: how is the way the Nazis used to talk about Jews different than the way that our "divisionist" Lefties talk about Whites? Vile oppressors, inherently evil, having too much status, bearing collective inherited guilt, living where they don't belong. Only the percentages are different.
I forgot one thing that should have been on my list: "to be denied 'protection of the law'". They have shown that not only with property damage but also with both Rittenhouse and the Supreme Court Justices.
They wanted money and power (but I repeat myself). They will do what it takes to get it. Trump and Elon have more money than they EVER will. Elon has MUCH MORE TO LOSE than even Trump, but he persists. Trump nearly lost his life and Elon is now a licensed target by the Democrats and any stray lunatic they can get to do it. The Republicans are not much better. Trump has played the face up cards on the table that were supposedly favored by BOTH parties, but they all failed to enact the policies. Why? Well because there was money being made on the old policies and the political deals and laws made to keep them going, and any disruption upset the flow of big guy cuts.
Keep playing the clips of Republicans and Democrats saying the same things as Trump and maybe put a laugh track on it. They are incapable of shame, but mockery gets their goat.
Trump is dictating financial terms. In contrast Reagan was a capitalistic whore. I know because the US company where I worked was gobbled up by the mother ship in the mid ‘80’s. They paid us off to help ease the pain based on years worked. My neighbor who worked for a US road construction company in that same era had a new owner. From England. You’re right about the takedown of Trump. I figured it out by early June 2020. The Morning Joe show. I’ve never looked back or watched the liberal msm ever again. Condolences to your daughter’s lost graduation celebration.
The stock market will come roaring back. People need to relax. It goes up, it goes down. checking it nonstop is not a good activity.
If we do not manufacture what we need, then we are cannot be self-sufficient & we cannot be leader of the free world. we cannot depend on enemies to supply us with essentials.
Succeed at what? Pillaging the nation? Trump doesn't care about the United States beyond how he and his cronies can make it their mob territory to line their pockets.
As a matter of political platform, malleability is key for Dems. They can be in favor of something in one month and against it the next, as a tool of expediency. Their followers are sheep, with no critical thinking skills, driven by emotion and anger. They need an enemy to hate.
Crashing the economy? Why not, if it hurts my enemy and makes me important again?
These people have been around us for generations, shape shifting the entire time to conceal their identities. The KKK terrorists, the anti-Vietnam war activists, the Occupy Wall Street losers, the Antifa foot soldiers, the Free Palestine kooks, all of them are anti-American communists in service to the Dems to create chaos as a way to consolidate power.
Once most Americans realize the Dems would rather crash the economy to gain back power than to serve in the best interests of their constituents, the truth will stand out and the Dems will be cast into the wilderness for at least a generation. Of course, if they cannot moderate their positions (and I believe they will not), they will be out of power much longer.
Almost everything Trump said this week—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded. His reading of history is upside down. He has long glorified the high-tariff, low-income-tax era of the late-19th century. In fact, the best scholarship shows that tariffs impeded the economy back then. He has now added the bizarre claim that lifting tariffs caused the Depression of the 1930s and that the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were too late to rescue the situation. The reality is that tariffs made the Depression much worse, just as they will harm all economies today. It was the painstaking rounds of trade talks in the subsequent 80 years that lowered tariffs and helped increase prosperity.
On economics Trump's assertions are flat-out nonsense. The president says tariffs are needed to close America's trade deficit, which he sees as a transfer of wealth to foreigners. Yet as any of the president's economists could have told him, this overall deficit arises because Americans choose to save less than their country invests—and, crucially, this long-running reality has not stopped its economy from outpacing the rest of the G7 for over three decades. There is no reason why his extra tariffs should eliminate the deficit. Insisting on balanced trade with every trading partner individually is bonkers—like suggesting that Texas would be richer if it insisted on balanced trade with each of the other 49 states, or asking a company to ensure that each of its suppliers is also a customer. Trump's trade war as "the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era."
The Economist degenerated into a Left-wing rag sheet years ago. It is indistinguishable from any of the Trump-hating legacy media.
But even if you buy the macro-economic argument in full (all restrictions on the free flow of capital and labor are bad), then you are still stuck with the following: (1) if restrictions are bad, then why does every major economy except us engage in such behavior on a wide scale; (2) isn't it better to have negotiating leverage (bring down tariffs on both sides) than to simply rely on the kindness of other nations; (3) consider the logical absurdity of the United States outsourcing all food and manufacturing to other nations, because they do it more cheaply and therefore create more wealth for the system... this is tantamount to a national suicide pact, it being essential that the nation be able to meet its own basic needs, which presently we do not.
I'm willing to give Trump a chance, my 401k be damned.
The stock market will come roaring back. People need to relax. It goes up, it goes down. checking it nonstop is not a good activity.
If we do not manufacture what we need, then we are cannot be self-sufficient and we cannot be leader of the free world. we cannot depend on enemies to supply us with essentials.
If we had been outsourcing our food production and manufacturing before WW2, we never could have won the war. That puts us in a very vulnerable position.
The Left has always hated the middle class and they have never shied away from ruling over ashes.
Well it is the American middle class that is the greatest source of man made activity that is causing global warming!!! Obama even said that man made climate change (global warming 1.2) is the greatest threat facing the WORLD! Also the American middle class is RACIST and FASICT and hates gay people and women (go figure that one). You comment is spot on. Just look at LA ... ashes.
Oh you son of a gun! Ya almost had me! I was warming up my flamethrower until it dawned on me you're being satirical. Oh...you're ((((good)))!
Me too!
Don’t forget Lahiana Maui
You forgot the "sarc" tag! And San Fran, NYC and Chicago are also ashes.
No Malibu and the Palisades in LA are literally ashes. And the toxic runoff from the ashes is killing dolphins and sea lions and everything else off the coast.
Ah! You were speaking of literal ashes! Yes, the Dems are ruling over their kingdom of literal ashes in the L.A. area!
Pray tell, what does a sarc tag look like? There is a great need for this in the Text Age. I’ve been using heavy brackets [which has been a wildly successful practice] 😏
I didn't know about the brackets. I just usually have add a (sarc) or "sarc" at the end of my sarcastic comment.
The [brackets] were something I made up. Far too many misunderstandings leading to needless acrimony on antisocial media.
I'm gonna say, the BidenAdmin was the crescendo, the orgasm of liberal/leftism/communism in the US -- the result of at least 60 years of effort. The communists finally had everything they wanted: Americans divided against each other, the wanton sexualizing of children, a US debt bomb which explodes us into the arms of 'the govt', anti-religious fervor, a propaganda media to control the masses...and even with the overturn of Roe, abortion is still legal in near half the states.
CommunistDems had 'arrived' and this is why they have no platform today -- their pinnacle of success were the Biden years -- THAT is what they have to offer us now, and what they wanna go back to. They're incapable of offering a 'tamped-down' version of that.
Yep, and personally, I can only give glory to God for how (it seems) He orchestrated a multi-layered, multi-pronged attack against their foregone conclusion: Musk buying Twitter, Kirk doing "Turning Point USA", the guy with the beautiful long, flowing locks going to Pennsylvania to turn it red (I'm lousy with names), Taibbi and Schellenberg doing the "Twitter Files", that other guy who took on CRT in our schools, Sasha giving us her eye-opening perspective and so many others, including, of course, Trump, Vance and the "crew".
Glory to God indeed! An orchestrated answer to millions upon millions of sincere prayers. And we must not let up now. Give thanks to God and keep praying!
Amen and Amen!!!!
Scott Presler turned out the Anabaptist vote in PA.
YES! Scott! He's great and thank God for him!
They reached the promise land and found a barren wilderness. They were following a lesser god...
The middle class and the middle finger: these days they go together.
Perhaps she has "grown" since 2014. Many have, particularly over the last 4 years.
Also note: Chris created a new account to specifically smear Sasha. That’s its only purpose at the time of my posting this. The only Substack his account reads is Sasha’s. This is a hateful propaganda account that would be worthwhile to block. Typical tactic of the left AND “our industry” of which Chris is a part of or he wouldn’t have used “our”. Think about that.
Sounds like an unhealthy obsession. Thx.
Yes. Don't feed the trolls...any of them.
She HAS grown. That was 11 years ago while she was brainwashed by her party to only see through a particular set of lenses. When she started to see without those lenses, without their carefully crafted narratives, she started to see clearly. Nobody from the left OR her industry has been more contrite and regretful about how they once thought or talked. And no ex-Democrat has gone to the lengths Sasha has to right that wrong and help wake others up.
This is NOT a new “grift” for her. And her industry is full of twisted, hateful, evil people, so their negative opinions of her only make her glow that much brighter.
I certainly hope she has grown with regard to the juvenile foul language, but opposition to big game trophy hunting is something I applaud. I've never understood why being conservative has to go hand-in-hand with being okay with killing animals strictly for fun. So I'm okay with the spirit if not the tone of the quoted post.
Maybe---- just like the head of NPR, when recently questioned about her previous ranting, anti-Republican texts. However, in Sasha's case, the conversion was authentic and her eyes have been opened to who the Democratic Party really, truly is.
You are probably writing this in your Mom's basement eating Pop Tarts.
“Folks in our industry….”
That’s all we need to know about you.
Poor you
I don't give a darn what "people (you all aren't 'folks') in your industry" think about Sasha. You all are warped in the head, generally speaking. Do you have a job or hobby that you could be doing?
The first true sign of an ideologue is someone who once having formed an opinion, never, ever, ever re-evalutes, despite the ongoing torrent of new. additional information. Many of us are not that.
That's an interesting article.
Thanks for sharing!!
❤️WE LOVE YA, SASHA!!❤️
I agree with the sentiment that hunting big game (or any hunting) is stupid, unless the meat is used for food.
I’m thankful for the fact that the things I wrote in my youthful ignorance and hormonal intemperance years ago doesn’t follow me around. The sobering realization of one’s own past errors and the effect of a faith of repentance, redemption and restraint tends to change one for the better. I’ve appreciated Sasha’s writing during the past year that I have followed her Substack.
2014? Where have you been? Eleven years ago is time for a lot of people's eyes to be opened.
Not if their head is stuck in the sand, as seems to be the case here.
Today, right wingers make Christmas cards with the parents and children all showing off their guns including one of the dumbest ones - M T Greene. Also Andy Ogles (R-TN), Thomas Massie (R-KY) ("Merry Christmas -“P.S. Santa, please bring ammo.”), Rick Brattin (MO state sen) ("And it was something that I thought was funny, kind of sends a good message.")
“The video released by McCarthy included footage of Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” who became the face of the “insurrection” in the media and who was sentenced, in the fall of 2021, to 41 months in federal prison. As many as nine police officers calmly escorted Chansley around the Capitol complex, at several points even checking for unlocked doors for him. They did not try to hinder, let alone apprehend him. It also included footage showing Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died on January 7, 2021, walking around and apparently healthy on January 6. A month after his death, the Washington, D.C. medical examiner issued a report concluding that Sicknick died of natural causes. To this day, Democrats and the corporate press cite Sicknick’s death as evidence of their narrative, claiming he died due to blunt force trauma to the head with a fire extinguisher. The security footage withheld by the Select Committee clearly indicates that this never happened.”
What We Know and What We Don’t About January 6.
Real Clear Politics. John Davidson. Apr 5, 2025
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/05/what_we_know_and_what_we_dont_about_january_6_152593.html
A police officer WAS hit on the head with a fire extinguisher on Jan 6 thrown by a rioter, which may have led to the confusion that Sicnick was hit on the head. https://nypost.com/2021/01/11/video-shows-capitol-rioter-hit-officer-with-fire-extinguisher/. Sicnick was sprayed in the face with bear spray and possibly assaulted during the riot. He died of a blood clot in the brain which is often very sudden so he was healthy on Jan 6.
"The video aired by Carlson was captured on internal CCTV cameras "only from approximately 2:56 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.," after Chansley had already breached a police line with the mob and "faced off with members of the U.S. Capitol Police for more than 30 minutes in front of the Senate Chamber doors while elected officials, including the Vice President of the United States, were fleeing from the chamber."
Chansley then entered the Senate Gallery, where he proceeded to scream obscenities while other rioters rifled through the desks of U.S. Senators on the floor below. In sum, Chansley was not some passive, chaperoned observer of events for the roughly hour that he was unlawfully inside the Capitol."
While they note that it is true one officer was with Chansley as he made his way to the Senate floor after breaching the chamber earlier as the televised video reflects, the officer has said in a statement to prosecutors he was merely "trying to de-escalate the situation.""
Carlson is good at twisting things to fit his agenda.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-video-qanon-shaman-fox-aired-lacks-context/story?id=97830102
Here’s an excellent video of Rep. Massie trying, and failing, to get some answers from a government official about FBI involvement in the Jan 6 “Insurrection!” A very good example of why I so totally distrust your Democratic Party and their media. The same people who imported 12 million illegals for political gain and dumbed down our schools, even medical schools, for the sake of equity aka race based equal outcomes.
“Rep. Thomas Massie accused Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday of lying during a House Judiciary Committee hearing about his knowledge of federal law enforcement activities during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.”
“Massie (R-Ky.) previously tangled with Garland in October 2021 over the same issue, questioning whether undercover FBI agents were present at the storming of the Capitol.”
“Breaking: DOJ report shows FBI field sources stormed the Capitol on January 6th.”
LiveNow from Fox. Sept 25, 2024
https://youtu.be/aItGIPk0eKA?si=EPVSMB1J2jW6Bts-
You already know that Fox lied about Smartmatic voting systems. I have been reading Fox since 2016 and have observed that they omit anything that makes Trump or the right look bad, and don't believe anything they say.
Here's a photo of the Massie family showing off their family arsenal in a Christmas card: https://x.com/repthomasmassie/status/1467197523127422979
The middle class is the biggest bulwark for liberty and freedom.
They do hate that anyone might not be dependent on them.
A., Too add to your point, after reading Matt Taibbi's article on the Biden administration Ukraine policies, the zeal to risk WWIII over the most corrupt non-democracy of Europe, fleshes out they are possessed by anger-hate-victim-woke, proxy war ideology, so much so, that WWIII becomes a reasonable risk.
It is still deeply pathological, witness the protests over DOGE on Saturday. They will persist until they tear the fabric apart.
The hole only gets deeper. There is no bottom.
I AM the middle class, along with my friends & neighbors. Why would I hate it?
What? I am responding to your comment, "I like to think they hate the middle class because this class represents homeostasis.....the balance point between the polar ends, where most people can flourish if they arrive there." The thread started with "The Left has always hated the middle class and they have never shied away from ruling over ashes."
I agree with many of the positions of the left! You sound like a right winger to me. Where did I ever say that you are on the left? I AM left, one of the few on Stone's page.
A famous general once said, “When everyone’s thinking alike, somebody’s not thinking.” If you agree with this, you know what Trump’s facing, which is the status quo, the same status quo that’s allowed globalization to enrich the rich and hold down the middle class.
It was Patton. Probably a reference to the Battle of the Bulge where his intelligence chief was the only one in the whole ETO who predicted the German offensive. Thus 3rd Army had a plan ready to pivot 90 degrees and attack north. When Ike asked him how soon he could do this, Patton said 24 hours and wasn't believed, if appreciated. Ike gave him 48 and I think it took about 36.
Right. My father was a tank commander in the BOTB. One thing Patton and Trump had/have in common: when a subordinate recommends a policy and Trump asks why and the response is “Because that’s the way it’s always been done,” Trump bristles in frustration.
When everyone is thinking alike, nobody is thinking
Anti-establishment is now anti-liberal. What a crazy world!
It's a theme I cover in my latest piece: With liberals like these, who needs conservatives?
https://typerider.substack.com/p/with-liberals-like-these-who-needs?r=2ywal
My father was descended from general Putnam. I believe that Putnam was my grandfather's middle name.
General Israel Putnam? Same here.
Yes.
I think I once read that on a Flat Earth site.
Yes, I saw his video.
I didn't read past the headline because the headline is so spot on! The real BIG story of our time is why so many of the people in the West want the West to commit suicide? It is a psychosis or some sick masochistic fetish.
Respectfully disagree. The inflection point was disco music - nothing good has happened since.
Lol
Cultural hatred and despair certainly DO play a big part but there just feels to me like there is MORE to the story of self emmolation. It is just so insane I can't get my mind around it.
D.T: Cultural hatred has been ongoing for so long, it's pretty much knee jerk now. After JFK was killed, so was MLK, then RFK. Then came the Jimmy Carter presidency with a sinking economy, then came the Iran hostage crisis. For awhile under Reagan it was "morning in America". But too many years of Democrat presidents and their anti-Americanism since 1988 has raised generations of kids who have never been taught our values. If the kids don't know any better, it's up to us old timers to save the country.
Maybe liberals, the self loathing type, are projecting their hatered of themselves onto us. But I for one have had enough no matter what the cause. time for the woketards to go!
Do you have a suggested reading list? I have read deeply but fall far short if understanding still.
Communist manifesto and Mein Kamph(f) is all you need, just keep rereading and it will scare you like crazy!!!!
Is there any possibility you have been brainwashed by Trump and are part of his cult?
Good point here. By insisting that all cultures are equally beneficial to humanity, and that there is that "spark of divinity" even in the most barbaric populations, we forget what made Western Civilization such a large leap forward. And for nearly 200 years, we have allowed many among us to tear it down in favor of...what? They have no bloody clue; what nihilists.
" all cultures are equally beneficial to humanity, and that there is that "spark of divinity" even in the most barbaric populations"
That is of course unless its members voted for Trump.
I know right!!!
Yes, I remember that commercial. I can still hear the song.
the guilt thing is everywhere and has been since the 60s, we question ourselves as christians because we are being good, they expoit this by implying that we are somehow maybe bad.
So follow them........
So True, the original communists outside the US, knew that alternative ways to takeover were they only way, especially after we dropped the bomb
Total nonsense. Loving other people does not prevent one from loving themselves.
I have general knowledge of psychology & attachment theory and have no interest in seeing the world as you do.
Is this your "religion" or are you a Christian also? It seems to contradict Christianity.
Thank you Sasha.
Your updates, comments and observations are appreciated.
Trump is definitely taking a big short term risk with the American economy with his tariff policy.
If it works out, the country and our fellow citizens will be greatly rewarded.
Trump is a winner. So if I had to bed, I think it probably will work out.
I certainly hope it does. Not for Trump‘s sake. But for the American people.
The once great Democratic Party is now the party of losers, hatred and delusion.
With the hatred of Trump and his policies they continue to go down the path of self-destruction.
Trump has been thinking about this for the last four decades. He's run all of the possibilities. There is no way he intends to fail. His legacy is a big part of the play and he wants to keep it intact or even enhance it. I believe he knows what he is doing!
And he has a team of very smart and dedicated people helping him!
Especially Bessent. That guy is a rock star!
What scares me is I agree with Sasha that the Democrat Party will do unspeakable things to force crash the economy just so they can blame it on Trump’s plan not working, when in fact it would have if they hadn’t sabotaged it. Like we need the tax cut bill to go hand in hand with the tariffs. If they sabotage that bill then the tariffs won’t work. That will be THEIR fault, not Trump’s, but they’ll spend the next four years narrating that it was his fault. They really are wholly selfish and evil to the core.
That summarizes the problem well. Sasha is right, they do not give a damn about the country. They're seeking revenge and a one-party system.
The Dems and the legacy media certainly going to try this tactic as though we are still in 2005. Problem here is that twenty years later we've moved far beyond the point where either Dems or media can still influence public opinion on a large scale.
Sure, the Dems and media will do anything humanly possible to derail America's return to greatness as they have profited mightily from attacking U.S. interests. It is a mindset that is the result of being marinated in institutionalized self loathing and first world boutique leftism that they consumed at "elite" universities.
Their actions are completely predictable, from the domestic terrorism we're seeing against those who drive Teslas, to outright assault on people wearing MAGA hats. Keep up with the violence Dems, and you legacy media outlets out there, turn up the hideous catharsis up to 11.
Am I not entertained? Yes, yes I am.
Um, why do we want a tax cut? We are 35 trillion in debt with 700 billion in interest payments. I make over 100k as a single, pay over 30k a year in payroll and income taxes but would rather see the budget deficit dissappear and then go back to paying down the debt.
Take heart Sasha, I think Trump’s in a pretty good position. Will they do anything to preserve their grifter economy? Yes. I’m just not sure it’s enough, especially with their 20 something percent approval rate. They still have all their big Soros type donors, though, so we can’t Just ignore them and laugh at them. Read this for a realistic view of what’s going on:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-first-seal-friday-april-4-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=463409&post_id=160575854&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=yyzmm&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Thank you, Alice. I was going to post the link, you beat me to it.
I always read C & C to calm my jitters and give me an optimistic outlook.
Isn't that the truth! Jeff is a resource like no other. Smart, long view, patience grasshopper, sees the game plan & the step-by-step to success Trump & his team are using. He never fails to counter the narrative & thus calms my nerves!
Totally agree! I look forward to it every day
Excellent read! Thanks for posting. I was going to subscribe but the $50/month has me reconsidering. Maybe you can convince me why it's worth the $$.
I do a recurring $5/month payment through one of his other options you can find at the bottom of his Substacks. So it feels like a subscription but I just don’t get his Sunday articles. That’s ok, because I need a break for one day given how long I spend reading through his comment sections 🤣
His free option gets you a daily essay.
Thank you.
He’s $50 a month and most of my subscriptions are $50 a year😬, so I’m currently a free subscriber. Glad to know Juju that there are options for payment. Somebody complained about a payment method, maybe it’s Redpay???? Might be better to “tip” Jeff. Some say he will be in Vance’s first term in 2028 & weeks will lose him. He’s a great read no doubt!!
Thanks all! That’s helpful!
He uses Donately, which you can access through his post: https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/-give-a-donation-to-coffee-and-covid
I haven’t had issues. I never created a dashboard account and just let it send me confirmation emails that my donation is received each month. However I just now went to their site and activated my dashboard. No problems or concerns, just shows all my donations there.
Thanks Juju!
AWESOME! Thank you!
Enjoy!
Join a Democrat club. They don't know you are not a Democrat. Do not attack. They listen politely as they are open minded.
1. Comment on the issues, border, inflation, schools, Covid.
2. Use their words to remind them that they are now 180 degrees from before.
3. Present logic
4. You'll be surprised how they are so ignorant about issues.
5. Be another source that goes around MSM.
6. We need more dialog. Do your share.
7. Gently poke fun at contradictions.
8. You will be surprised at their assertions, like a religion...no..more.
9. Their organization an activism is jaw dropping. Why don't Republicans do as much.
We need to infiltrate them and present a view to reality. They can not infiltrate us and present fairy tales.
As long as we let politicians keep us separated by "us vs. them", our country will be at war with itself.
I attended one of their ladies luncheons as a transgender woman. They were shocked at first, but what could they say? Gender is fluid. LoL
Have fun with their stupid thought process.
Look at the Bill Maher Trump dinner take away all the offense horseshit speeches, all the cameras and they had a calm dinner and started talking dinner table stuff cordially. Put the cameras back on their evil alter egos remerge.
I don't know. You're position here is admirable, but a vast majority of Dems are too far gone. We all have experience in our circle of friends and/or family - it's just a waste of time to engage in a meaningful manner as you suggest.
My personal reaction to these leftists is to remain quiet and smile. You'd be surprised at how this REALLY gets under their skin. Without a way to vent their pre-rehearsed ad hominem attacks, they consume their bile and it has gotta just tear them apart inside.
Democrats, or liberals, or whatever they think they are, have come a long way from liberal ideas we grew up with. It's the core theme of my latest piece: With liberals like these, who needs conservatives?
https://typerider.substack.com/p/with-liberals-like-these-who-needs?r=2ywal
This is so spot-on in my opinion. I keep waiting for a strategy besides “the opposite of Trump”, and no one on the far left has told me one yet. It’s like he said in his congressional address: he could announce a cure for cancer, and the left wouldn’t clap. I think (hope) more people realize that now.
It drove me nuts watching two congressional hearings this past week (JFK, and government censorship during Biden/Covid,) and every time a Democrat spoke they used smear tactics at the speakers or the Republican Party, and then pivoted to a long “but Trump” monologue and made it a hearing about him today. Only the republicans focused on what the hearing was actually for. It was so unprofessional of the Democrats to hijack the hearing and force it to be a hearing for Trump. Their strategy is so easy to see and it’s pathetic.
Batya Ungar-Sargon was engaged in a lively debate the other day too in defense of Trump (and in dismay of Leftist-Democrats). Her main point was that Donald Trump was working on behalf of the working class, whereas, Democrats have thrown in with leftists, globalists, progressives, and the woke agenda. Sasha and Batya have read the room well — Leftist-Democrats need to be removed to the ash heap.
Batya is one extremely credible reporter. She has a very smart take on how Trump sees America and is working for our best interests. I wish my Dem friends and family could see how much good Trump is doing, but they are so blinded by hate that they will cling to anything negative about him.
I LOVE Batya Ungar-Sargon. She is just incredible. We need more like her.
Trump is working on no one's behalf but his own. At best, the tariffs are a mob scheme to extract tribute from countries and corporations so he can line his pockets and those of his cronies. At worst they are an act of spite and vengeance because he lost the election in 2020.
Ukraine is his chance to win a Nobel Peace Prize. That Obama has one and he doesn't must rankle him to no end. Hence, the Putin political blow jobs.
Of course, this all assumes that he is actually lucid. Anyone who objectively listens to his speeches these days must wonder whether he is at the threshold of dementia.
Make no mistake, I agree with those who believe the far progressive left has created many more problems than it solved. But the Trump administration is not the answer and has the potential to make things much worse.
Commies (true Commies) are all about gaining power. The program is violating rights, like Free Speech, in order to violate the ultimate right: "no taxation without representation".
I would say that their millennium is a lot more Hitler than FDR: how is the way the Nazis used to talk about Jews different than the way that our "divisionist" Lefties talk about Whites? Vile oppressors, inherently evil, having too much status, bearing collective inherited guilt, living where they don't belong. Only the percentages are different.
Agree, very scary, they believe it,,seems they are willing to kill now
I forgot one thing that should have been on my list: "to be denied 'protection of the law'". They have shown that not only with property damage but also with both Rittenhouse and the Supreme Court Justices.
They wanted money and power (but I repeat myself). They will do what it takes to get it. Trump and Elon have more money than they EVER will. Elon has MUCH MORE TO LOSE than even Trump, but he persists. Trump nearly lost his life and Elon is now a licensed target by the Democrats and any stray lunatic they can get to do it. The Republicans are not much better. Trump has played the face up cards on the table that were supposedly favored by BOTH parties, but they all failed to enact the policies. Why? Well because there was money being made on the old policies and the political deals and laws made to keep them going, and any disruption upset the flow of big guy cuts.
Keep playing the clips of Republicans and Democrats saying the same things as Trump and maybe put a laugh track on it. They are incapable of shame, but mockery gets their goat.
Trump is dictating financial terms. In contrast Reagan was a capitalistic whore. I know because the US company where I worked was gobbled up by the mother ship in the mid ‘80’s. They paid us off to help ease the pain based on years worked. My neighbor who worked for a US road construction company in that same era had a new owner. From England. You’re right about the takedown of Trump. I figured it out by early June 2020. The Morning Joe show. I’ve never looked back or watched the liberal msm ever again. Condolences to your daughter’s lost graduation celebration.
Excellent as always!
I have so many friends literally freaking out over the tariffs—they are smart but this has unglued them
I say trust Trump, this will balance out in 6 months
Why is it wrong to impose tariffs on products from countries who put tariffs on our goods?
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander
absolutely
It has to be done
It will pay off in the end
The stock market will come roaring back. People need to relax. It goes up, it goes down. checking it nonstop is not a good activity.
If we do not manufacture what we need, then we are cannot be self-sufficient & we cannot be leader of the free world. we cannot depend on enemies to supply us with essentials.
Bloody hell, thank you for saying what needs to be said, Sasha.
The only thing we disagree on is that Trump wont be able to succeed. I believe he will succeed!
LFG!!!!!!
Succeed at what? Pillaging the nation? Trump doesn't care about the United States beyond how he and his cronies can make it their mob territory to line their pockets.
Thanks for your POV, Kurt.
Thank God for free speech!
As a matter of political platform, malleability is key for Dems. They can be in favor of something in one month and against it the next, as a tool of expediency. Their followers are sheep, with no critical thinking skills, driven by emotion and anger. They need an enemy to hate.
Crashing the economy? Why not, if it hurts my enemy and makes me important again?
These people have been around us for generations, shape shifting the entire time to conceal their identities. The KKK terrorists, the anti-Vietnam war activists, the Occupy Wall Street losers, the Antifa foot soldiers, the Free Palestine kooks, all of them are anti-American communists in service to the Dems to create chaos as a way to consolidate power.
Once most Americans realize the Dems would rather crash the economy to gain back power than to serve in the best interests of their constituents, the truth will stand out and the Dems will be cast into the wilderness for at least a generation. Of course, if they cannot moderate their positions (and I believe they will not), they will be out of power much longer.
Almost everything Trump said this week—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded. His reading of history is upside down. He has long glorified the high-tariff, low-income-tax era of the late-19th century. In fact, the best scholarship shows that tariffs impeded the economy back then. He has now added the bizarre claim that lifting tariffs caused the Depression of the 1930s and that the Smoot-Hawley tariffs were too late to rescue the situation. The reality is that tariffs made the Depression much worse, just as they will harm all economies today. It was the painstaking rounds of trade talks in the subsequent 80 years that lowered tariffs and helped increase prosperity.
On economics Trump's assertions are flat-out nonsense. The president says tariffs are needed to close America's trade deficit, which he sees as a transfer of wealth to foreigners. Yet as any of the president's economists could have told him, this overall deficit arises because Americans choose to save less than their country invests—and, crucially, this long-running reality has not stopped its economy from outpacing the rest of the G7 for over three decades. There is no reason why his extra tariffs should eliminate the deficit. Insisting on balanced trade with every trading partner individually is bonkers—like suggesting that Texas would be richer if it insisted on balanced trade with each of the other 49 states, or asking a company to ensure that each of its suppliers is also a customer. Trump's trade war as "the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era."
The Economist
The Economist degenerated into a Left-wing rag sheet years ago. It is indistinguishable from any of the Trump-hating legacy media.
But even if you buy the macro-economic argument in full (all restrictions on the free flow of capital and labor are bad), then you are still stuck with the following: (1) if restrictions are bad, then why does every major economy except us engage in such behavior on a wide scale; (2) isn't it better to have negotiating leverage (bring down tariffs on both sides) than to simply rely on the kindness of other nations; (3) consider the logical absurdity of the United States outsourcing all food and manufacturing to other nations, because they do it more cheaply and therefore create more wealth for the system... this is tantamount to a national suicide pact, it being essential that the nation be able to meet its own basic needs, which presently we do not.
I'm willing to give Trump a chance, my 401k be damned.
100%
It has to be done
It will pay off in the end
The stock market will come roaring back. People need to relax. It goes up, it goes down. checking it nonstop is not a good activity.
If we do not manufacture what we need, then we are cannot be self-sufficient and we cannot be leader of the free world. we cannot depend on enemies to supply us with essentials.
Take your money and buy gold.
If we had been outsourcing our food production and manufacturing before WW2, we never could have won the war. That puts us in a very vulnerable position.