I was a paid subscriber of Tucker's but I have dumped him and I used to admire Candace but no longer. Both of them keep hammering on about the same things and I am beyond tired of the Trump is bad and the Jews run the world schtick.
This Tucker reader comments go straight to the sycophancy that Tucker demands of his followers. This idea that the "war with Iran. (Which the U.S. is losing.)", is ridiculous. That is what Democrats lie about to try and hurt a political opponent. No one who knows a thing about conflict thinks America is "losing the war". How is that even possible? Iran's leadership and military are decimated (300-400 deep, the equivalent of all top offices in America, including all of the Congress). Their economy is in shambles. That is not "WINNING" by any definition. It is LOSING in a big way. Trump / America won the easy part, the military and economic part where America holds all the cards. The hard part, that was really not even on the agenda for Trump for good reason, is regime change. That is a requirement to completely dominate including occupation. And that is VERY hard to do in the Muslim world, which operates under tyranny by the design of that religion, where religious leaders / mullahs, have the upper hand in tradition and where freedom, democracy and secular elections are literally, a foreign concept. This was the George W Bush mistake, thinking that Iraq and Afghanistan could ever be anything like the European west. Iran / Persia is nothing like Europe and never has been
If the Persians (which are by far the majority of the Iraqi population) had a gun or two and the right leader to point the way, this whole shebang would end much more quickly. They are not Muslims and have never professed to be. It still bothers me that the radical Muslim fundamentalists were even ever able to gain power in 1979.
I have a vivid memory of watching TV news in 1979, and seeing Ayatollah Khomeini boarding an airliner in Paris to fly to Tehran ... and thinking to myself, where are the sharpshooters? Who is letting this happen? Can these western fools not understand history?
President Carter had issues with the Shah of Iran over 'human rights violations' and withdrew US support for him, and if I remember correctly supported the mullahs taking power. We could have avoided many problems if Carter had not done this.
Carter was EVIL! He did terrible things that ruined Persia. The people that escaped prior to the Mullahs taking over were educated, good decent people! I have known several throughout my life. How could Carter sentence all those women to a life of slavery. He was evil and clearly human rights was not something he cared about. The man was actually a Socialist Whimp!
True... I thought there would be a plan to arm the secular population in Iran and Iraq. There was talk of the Kurds doing just that, but the Turks opposed giving the Kurds that role, and all the armaments to handle. Turkey is still a NATO "ally" and so Trump really wasn't able to use that route. But there must be others. Pakistan is not reliable. Air drops could work since Iran has almost no air defenses at this point. But where, and who would lead? France had this role with America during our own Revolutionary War. They armed Americans with small arms and ammunition, as well as holding off the British Navy at sea. Gen. Lafayette helped lead the insurgency. The Duponts, who likely supplied gunpowder moved by ship during the Revolution, even relocated to Delaware in 1802 to make gunpowder for the colonists.
I have said from the beginning that we need to get AK and ammo in there. Our "allies" in the region certainly have enough money. And they also have enough dishonesty to create "plausible deniability".
But then again, maybe they don't really want Iran to be a democracy. They have to choose which is worse: Iran being a democracy or Iran having nukes. My guess is that they have privately given up on "no nukes".
I agree that the Kurds shouldn't of kept the arms for themselves...but they have been fighting the same enemies as ours for decades & have experienced nothing but broken promises by the west..So who can really blame them?
Many do not know their anthropology: Northern European Caucasians, including me, are descended from Persia. During the last ice age (10,000 BCE) the light skinned, light haired Indo-European "Aryans" migrated from the Central and West Asian steppes, as well as Scandinavia in front of the advancing ice to Persia, which was always ice-free. These people lived in Persia until the ice receded. Then many followed the retreating ice back north where they re-settled those areas. I am Scottish-English. Most Scots DNA is Scandinavian (from the Viking invasions). So, even though the culture is very different today in Iran, these are my ancestral people
I slowly lost interest in tucker before the supposed “antisemitism” (yes there is antisemitism in the world, but the line judge (SPLC) has apparently been busy fellating a grand wizard, therefore specific calls are a little unreliable), so i haven't witnessed anything caution inducing. I did give him a year of support. Maybe it’s time to give you some.
The reason Iran is winning is because of the asymmetry of modern war. Yes, we have decimated a large portion of their military and armaments, however, they still have the ability to completely thwart our every effort to open the Strait of Hormuz. How? With cheap, easily replenished drones and sea mines.
Why do the Straits matter when we are energy independent? Because the world economy in which we are intricately integrated depends on the free flow of goods through there.
Here are the consequences:
weeks ago, financial and energy experts were warning that if the Straits weren’t opened within weeks, the world will be plunged into global recession and like a depression. The world is already facing a massive famine in many African countries and will quickly spread, because the world’s fertilizer flows on ships through the Straits. That is cut off.
Keep in mind that even IF we manage to open the Strait, it will take many months to open it.
Fuel and energy prices have been kept lower “artificially” due to supply from Strategic Petroleum Reserves and temporary tax holidays in many states. But the SPR can be drawn down only to a point and those tax holidays WILL expire. Energy experts are predicting it would take over a year to get everything back up and running and only THEN do we begin a trend toward equilibrium.
We are getting to a point where patriotism might crash into realism.
I don't think Carlson is a Christian at all. The vast majority of Christians are solidly behind Israel. I believe he is a Catholic. Catholics don't believe the nation of Israel is a fulfillment of prophecy as almost all non-Catholics do. They just see it as a political issue.
You sure spend a lot of time in a stack where you think everyone but you is stupid. You obviously hate Israel and love Hamas. You should visit the Jew hating stacks. You’d get along better there.
I've discovered Erin too. She is good at cutting through the bull, has a nice accent, and has some good guests. She also doesn't curse every time she is frustrated like MK does. She has these funny episodes weekly where she responds to messages.
There are something like 930,000 words in the English language. Why do so many people need to use the same 7 to express themselves? And as a + if you use all the words, people think you're smarter than you really are.
I went to a sales pitch for a mutual fund company that was owned and run by lesbians. Of course the speaker was lesbian and used the F word repeatedly along with that little head bob thing they do. They too, thought that makes them look and sound edgy.
The Dems are all about theatrics. They use the word "authentic" all the time, but have no idea what that word means. Democrats are anti-authentic. It is a party requirement
Hmmm… thanks! Never heard of Erin, now I’ll check her out. I agree about MK — I used to tolerate her because she sometimes raised good points, but she gossips and cusses like a middle-schoolgirl who has just discovered the f-word and is trying to shock everyone with by saying it.
Men always like Megyn Kelly, but I tried, but she curses like a drunken sailor and gossips like a high school aged girl. I slowly lost interest in her podcast, then she totally lost her mind and I just couldn't go with her.
I'm glad you didn't join her in losing your mind too. MK is too devoted to Tucker which has twisted her and her hunger for relevance has corrupted her. She's not reliable or authentic. Her F-bombs get old, especially, as she is supposed to be so professional.
Prior to her Fall 2025 Tour, she started on GLP-1. Qzempic can cause cognitive changes and muscle loss in addition to fat loss. Her tour occurred shortly after the Kirk assassination. During her tour, her animosity toward Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro was revealed. She also highlighted Tucker Carlson in an obsequious manner. Her personality changed as well. It was shocking to see this.
I’ve lost all respect for Megan Kelly she went from a hard charging journalist and woman of substance to a gutter grabbing click baiter she will never return to the heights of respect she once garnered
As the great Andrew Klavan explains regularly Antisemitism is the devil’s flagpole. It always rears its ugly head wherever evil is afoot. Today’s Andrew Klavan Show 7/10 (out every Friday) as always, is worth a listen for some much needed perspective in this regard. Always a brilliant analysis of the quagmire du jour.
In today’s world it is, because it quickly degenerates into criticism and hatred of THE JEWS. I have seen it happen in my closest friends, people who have had close Jewish friends now distancing themselves from them. Criticize Netanyahu and Israel all you like, Granny, but watch yourself when you start noticing how people’s last names are spelled.
"Criticisms of Israel" is a meaningless statement that is nothing but irrelevant talking points and no criticism. I've asked what "criticisms of Israel" means and essentially what comes back, everytime, is nothing short of what can be only classified as nonsensical. I'll also point out that those here using the phrase "criticisms of Israel" offer exactly no criticisms.
First, “overblown” is a matter of opinion and subjectivity. And if a podcaster expresses fair criticism, even IF deemed unfair and overblown, the person cannot be held responsible for the rhetoric of others.
I loved Tucker and Meghan and liked Candace. They are all bat shit crazy now. Tucker reminds me of what happened to Glenn Beck. They just lose it - probably because of ego. It is truly sad the lengths they'll go to to marginalize themselves to make money. The Israel stuff is preposterous...and the hard core Muslims are incredibly evil.
I think Sasha’s sign-off — “to thine own self be true” — is really the key here. Those other folks you named have all sold out at some point or another.
I was also a real supporter of both Candace and Tucker. They are really lost and I haven't the energy to try and find out why, but I agree with your sentiments on it 100%.
Here's my entire problem with this reader or any other who wants to leave. Go ahead. You don't need to announce it, BUT IF YOU DO...and you are dumb enough to say things like, "The United States is losing its war against Iran," I am unwilling to mourn your loss to a community or even consider your case because you have shown yourself to be badly led by dis, mis, and malinformation. Why would anyone miss you? We don't need liars in these spaces. Idiots either.
My brain was holding similar thoughts but couldn’t organize them as well as you have. Thanks for the clear response I couldn’t seem to come up with. We definitely don’t need liars or idiots around here, there are enough of them in other spaces and I’m glad to have found a semi-escape here.
I don’t understand people who write to a Substack author to inform them they’re canceling their paid subscription. If you no longer wish to subscribe to someone’s column, just cancel it and move on. Why is an editorial necessary, other than to rub it in the face of the author.
I canceled my subscription to Matt Taibbi when he took a different direction with his Substack and he lost his longtime podcast partner Walter Kirn. I didn’t fire off an angry missive to Matt, I just quietly quit the subscription. He probably didn’t notice anyway, since he has thousands of subscribers.
Sasha, I don’t always agree with you, but you are consistent, honest, and courageous, and also a very gifted writer. I’ll be sticking around for a while.
He was always a crazed anti-American leftist… but he could see the left’s free speech/censorship apparatus as a real threat and stood up to it - until it fell to some degree, then other more important leftist drivel needed attention - and ‘voila’ Matt returned to the tribe.
I do think some have gone back to their tribe. Anna Kasparian tried to play in the middle for a short while. She probably was only trying to grow her brand and wasn't sincere.
This speaks to the subscriber's need to be heard, to overcome their own low self-esteem. Tucker has thousands of followers like this. They are his army
When Taibbi ditched Walter, that was it for me. I realized Walter was the reason I was listening to the podcast. I noticed, leading up to the split that the comments on Spotify were suddenly being populated with Kirn haters. It was odd and felt inorganic/bot like. Then Matt started making strange and reaching arguments, with extra um's. I began to wonder what was afoot.
The joke after Matt ditched Walter was Matt trying to continue the podcast with the insufferable Michael Tracy, who isn’t a terrible journalist, but lacks the charm and erudition of Walter. I listened to it for about five minutes and turned it off. There was no chemistry between Tracy and Matt. In a short time, Matt dumped that podcast and now does a book one with some guy I’ve never heard of. Not interested.
Frankly, I think your doing a great job! And to your point - Free thinking- is about discerning what the problem is by exploring outward concentric circles from oneself. Sometimes cold hard truth hurts. And if one is having difficulty with that, this is where discernment begins with oneself and then increasingly larger outward concentric circles.
Losing readers like that is just fine. Good riddance. Tucker? Egomaniacal jerk who has lost all his credibility and sense of reality. Good riddance to him too (and Candace).
We used to love watching his long form interview show back on the Fox streaming channel. The range of guests he had on was superb. I have no idea what ate his brain between then and now, but this is not the same Tucker of 5 years ago. Hell, even during the 2024 election he was still rational.
In what world do they also lose their total sense of humility? Do they really believe you can lie about positions for monetary gain and there not be any repercussions to their character and reputation? They are unable to look in the mirror.
I don't think Tucker knows he is lying. I think he believes what he says. He's being influenced by his fans and other podcasters who believe (some of them might be lying, I don't know) the same things. I think he's just deluded.
Well - blessings on you Sasha.... I have gone through the same evolutions as you, so can relate... But YOU write about it.... That is courageous. I'm 87 and started losing the few friends I had left as well as family members, because of my shifting beliefs and support of Trump... so pretty much shut up about my opinions. So you are my voice :-) and it's a relief to read you expressing my feelings about things.
I don't understand people who are so fickle in their support of Trump. He is way far from perfect - but aren't we all? I just believe in his honest desire to make things better for Americans and the world - and know that he is working against forces we know nothing about sometimes - like the entrenched bureaucracy in all the govt. agencies who fight him every step of the way. But he is making progress and I am so grateful that there is finally someone (along with RFK jr. and others in his admin) that is trying to make some sensible change in the direction things were going! Wahoo!
I think you know by now that you speak for a lot of folks out there - so hang in there and keep up the good work. You make my day most days that you write! Thanks!
Those who are fickle on Trump I believe connect for maybe one or two of his policies but don’t really understand the overarching intention of what he is doing, ie they like the trees but don't see the forest. I am a Canadian and I believe he is freeing the US- making it a sovereign nation again (ended at FDR) not beholden to other nations— primarily Britain who has been making big revenue off and controlling the US (banking, foreign policy- wars) for years.
Huge topic which Promethean Action (is on X, website and other social media) is way better qualified than me to give you the history. The killing of US presidents, the control of interest rates, money, Fed, the Civil War etc. Its all there backed up with receipts. I highly recommend them to all Americans.
Thanks for mentioning them, Carol. I follow them and am grateful for their viewpoints and knowledge from years of following world affairs. I too recommend them.
Right, I put up with that asinine laughter for years. Now that the mind behind it has melted down, good riddance. Candace never had a mind, and Megyn is nothing more than a slightly less crazy mind-crash than Carlson.
Yes, haven't listened to him for so long I forgot about the 'laugh'. Honestly, I have always thought it was a nervous tic so I've never made fun of it.
I laugh and laugh at anyone who thinks Trump is "losing" the war with Iran, or that this 47-year conflict is a "new war." I feel pity for those fans of Tucker who followed him over his personal waterfall; I just waved goodbye as he went over the edge without a paddle or even a canoe.
Your question cuts to the heart of one aspect of the debate over Iran policy. The assumption on the part of some correspondents is that Israel would be in mortal danger, and that, for some reason, Iran would nuke Israel as soon as they had a nuke. Yet Israel has had dozens of nukes for decades. North Korea has them. India and Pakistan have them. My best guess is that Iran would never dare start a war with Israel even if they had a nuke. what we’ve now proven to Iran is that they actually would have been better off with a nuke.
Not sure about that. You are assuming that if Iran had a weapon they wouldn’t use it against Israel. You are assuming all the players are rational, not extremely radical to a point of funding world wide terrorism and inserting radical terrorists within countries. Iran has (3rd level as Trump likes to say) CLERICAL jihadists running the country whose religion sees everyone as someone to be dominated or killed. Read the history. Go to Spain and see the Museums. Then tell me Iranian or any other muslim clerical leaders are rational.
If you do go to Spain, be careful not to get run over by the half-million-plus subSaharans, mostly Muslims, the leftard Spanish government is importing.
The Ayatollah SAID he was going to Nuke Israel and America as soon as he could. When someone with that power and authority threatens you, declares you the Great Satan and that Israel is the Little Satan, and the cost of being wrong is millions of innocent lives, the leaders of those countries are obligated to believe the Ayatollah and do something about it. You could doubt they can pull it off. But they are allied with China which has the technology and apparently was selling it to Iran. How do you think NoKo got the bomb? You think they have thousands of MIT trained physicists there? China gave it to them to protect its eastern flank
A rational society like Israel (fortunately) has a nuclear deterrent. Iran is utterly irrational and fanatical. This is a good example of the asymmetrical relationships that exist in the world. It's always been like this, but in the 21st Century things happen quite quickly.
Keep up the great work... I canceled Tucker a long time ago. He has gone batshit crazy. Some say demonic. Keep your head up and your heart full. You should make a playlist - I always enjoy the music you end your pods with. All My Best - B, Austin Texas.
I was an unpaid subscriber but I just became a paid subscriber specifically because of this post. I found you through Megyn, but have since soured on her because she dove in with Candace on the Israel conspiracy theories. Megyn has been sitting on the sidelines for 10 months while Candace viciously attacks Erika and TPUSA. That is unacceptable from Megyn, a supposed friend of Charlie, and it is demonic of Candace. I also left Tucker long ago when he went out to left field blaming Israel for everything Sick.
I came to you from the right side and you came here from the left. That’s what makes America (freedom) so beautiful.
I was a paid subscriber of Tucker's but I have dumped him and I used to admire Candace but no longer. Both of them keep hammering on about the same things and I am beyond tired of the Trump is bad and the Jews run the world schtick.
This Tucker reader comments go straight to the sycophancy that Tucker demands of his followers. This idea that the "war with Iran. (Which the U.S. is losing.)", is ridiculous. That is what Democrats lie about to try and hurt a political opponent. No one who knows a thing about conflict thinks America is "losing the war". How is that even possible? Iran's leadership and military are decimated (300-400 deep, the equivalent of all top offices in America, including all of the Congress). Their economy is in shambles. That is not "WINNING" by any definition. It is LOSING in a big way. Trump / America won the easy part, the military and economic part where America holds all the cards. The hard part, that was really not even on the agenda for Trump for good reason, is regime change. That is a requirement to completely dominate including occupation. And that is VERY hard to do in the Muslim world, which operates under tyranny by the design of that religion, where religious leaders / mullahs, have the upper hand in tradition and where freedom, democracy and secular elections are literally, a foreign concept. This was the George W Bush mistake, thinking that Iraq and Afghanistan could ever be anything like the European west. Iran / Persia is nothing like Europe and never has been
If the Persians (which are by far the majority of the Iraqi population) had a gun or two and the right leader to point the way, this whole shebang would end much more quickly. They are not Muslims and have never professed to be. It still bothers me that the radical Muslim fundamentalists were even ever able to gain power in 1979.
I have a vivid memory of watching TV news in 1979, and seeing Ayatollah Khomeini boarding an airliner in Paris to fly to Tehran ... and thinking to myself, where are the sharpshooters? Who is letting this happen? Can these western fools not understand history?
President Carter had issues with the Shah of Iran over 'human rights violations' and withdrew US support for him, and if I remember correctly supported the mullahs taking power. We could have avoided many problems if Carter had not done this.
Yet one more reason why Carter was the second worst President in my lifetime of 78 years.
Who do you think was the worst president? TBH, in my opinion it was Obama. The damage he did is still metastasing in different ways avross the nation.
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Jimmy Carter was letting it happen. I know Carter was book smart, but he was world stupid
Carter was reportedly in extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before the Iranian revolution.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/10/ayatollah-khomeini-jimmy-carter-administration-iran-revolution
Carter was EVIL! He did terrible things that ruined Persia. The people that escaped prior to the Mullahs taking over were educated, good decent people! I have known several throughout my life. How could Carter sentence all those women to a life of slavery. He was evil and clearly human rights was not something he cared about. The man was actually a Socialist Whimp!
True... I thought there would be a plan to arm the secular population in Iran and Iraq. There was talk of the Kurds doing just that, but the Turks opposed giving the Kurds that role, and all the armaments to handle. Turkey is still a NATO "ally" and so Trump really wasn't able to use that route. But there must be others. Pakistan is not reliable. Air drops could work since Iran has almost no air defenses at this point. But where, and who would lead? France had this role with America during our own Revolutionary War. They armed Americans with small arms and ammunition, as well as holding off the British Navy at sea. Gen. Lafayette helped lead the insurgency. The Duponts, who likely supplied gunpowder moved by ship during the Revolution, even relocated to Delaware in 1802 to make gunpowder for the colonists.
Iranian population. Not Iraqi population.
I have said from the beginning that we need to get AK and ammo in there. Our "allies" in the region certainly have enough money. And they also have enough dishonesty to create "plausible deniability".
But then again, maybe they don't really want Iran to be a democracy. They have to choose which is worse: Iran being a democracy or Iran having nukes. My guess is that they have privately given up on "no nukes".
They tried thru the Kurds and the Kurds kept the arms. It’s so hard to trust anyone in the Middle East.
I agree that the Kurds shouldn't of kept the arms for themselves...but they have been fighting the same enemies as ours for decades & have experienced nothing but broken promises by the west..So who can really blame them?
This! (And anyone who knows Persians also knows how beautiful their country was before the radical Islamic revolution messed it all up).
Many do not know their anthropology: Northern European Caucasians, including me, are descended from Persia. During the last ice age (10,000 BCE) the light skinned, light haired Indo-European "Aryans" migrated from the Central and West Asian steppes, as well as Scandinavia in front of the advancing ice to Persia, which was always ice-free. These people lived in Persia until the ice receded. Then many followed the retreating ice back north where they re-settled those areas. I am Scottish-English. Most Scots DNA is Scandinavian (from the Viking invasions). So, even though the culture is very different today in Iran, these are my ancestral people
I think you meant Iran, not Iraq
I slowly lost interest in tucker before the supposed “antisemitism” (yes there is antisemitism in the world, but the line judge (SPLC) has apparently been busy fellating a grand wizard, therefore specific calls are a little unreliable), so i haven't witnessed anything caution inducing. I did give him a year of support. Maybe it’s time to give you some.
The reason Iran is winning is because of the asymmetry of modern war. Yes, we have decimated a large portion of their military and armaments, however, they still have the ability to completely thwart our every effort to open the Strait of Hormuz. How? With cheap, easily replenished drones and sea mines.
Why do the Straits matter when we are energy independent? Because the world economy in which we are intricately integrated depends on the free flow of goods through there.
Here are the consequences:
weeks ago, financial and energy experts were warning that if the Straits weren’t opened within weeks, the world will be plunged into global recession and like a depression. The world is already facing a massive famine in many African countries and will quickly spread, because the world’s fertilizer flows on ships through the Straits. That is cut off.
Keep in mind that even IF we manage to open the Strait, it will take many months to open it.
Fuel and energy prices have been kept lower “artificially” due to supply from Strategic Petroleum Reserves and temporary tax holidays in many states. But the SPR can be drawn down only to a point and those tax holidays WILL expire. Energy experts are predicting it would take over a year to get everything back up and running and only THEN do we begin a trend toward equilibrium.
We are getting to a point where patriotism might crash into realism.
The word decimation is being used constantly and no one seems to know what it mean. To decimate is to destroy 10% of something.
Oh please. Carlson demands nothing except in your own mind.
Carson is a Qatari owned, hyper-Christian, anti-Semite.
I don't think Carlson is a Christian at all. The vast majority of Christians are solidly behind Israel. I believe he is a Catholic. Catholics don't believe the nation of Israel is a fulfillment of prophecy as almost all non-Catholics do. They just see it as a political issue.
You sure spend a lot of time in a stack where you think everyone but you is stupid. You obviously hate Israel and love Hamas. You should visit the Jew hating stacks. You’d get along better there.
I was a HUGE fan of Megyn Kelly.....Not Any More.
Erin Molan has replaced Megyn for me.
I've discovered Erin too. She is good at cutting through the bull, has a nice accent, and has some good guests. She also doesn't curse every time she is frustrated like MK does. She has these funny episodes weekly where she responds to messages.
There are something like 930,000 words in the English language. Why do so many people need to use the same 7 to express themselves? And as a + if you use all the words, people think you're smarter than you really are.
For a short while the Dems started using the F word. They thought it made them look edgy and tough. It looked scripted.
I went to a sales pitch for a mutual fund company that was owned and run by lesbians. Of course the speaker was lesbian and used the F word repeatedly along with that little head bob thing they do. They too, thought that makes them look and sound edgy.
The Dems are all about theatrics. They use the word "authentic" all the time, but have no idea what that word means. Democrats are anti-authentic. It is a party requirement
LOOK is the operative word.
I've noticed that if you take the cursing out of modern movies, the movie is half as long.
Hmmm… thanks! Never heard of Erin, now I’ll check her out. I agree about MK — I used to tolerate her because she sometimes raised good points, but she gossips and cusses like a middle-schoolgirl who has just discovered the f-word and is trying to shock everyone with by saying it.
Yep, check out Latrice Littleton
Men always like Megyn Kelly, but I tried, but she curses like a drunken sailor and gossips like a high school aged girl. I slowly lost interest in her podcast, then she totally lost her mind and I just couldn't go with her.
I'm glad you didn't join her in losing your mind too. MK is too devoted to Tucker which has twisted her and her hunger for relevance has corrupted her. She's not reliable or authentic. Her F-bombs get old, especially, as she is supposed to be so professional.
she is so thin now she looks unhealthy!
Prior to her Fall 2025 Tour, she started on GLP-1. Qzempic can cause cognitive changes and muscle loss in addition to fat loss. Her tour occurred shortly after the Kirk assassination. During her tour, her animosity toward Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro was revealed. She also highlighted Tucker Carlson in an obsequious manner. Her personality changed as well. It was shocking to see this.
I’ve lost all respect for Megan Kelly she went from a hard charging journalist and woman of substance to a gutter grabbing click baiter she will never return to the heights of respect she once garnered
Also a Catholic. And Candice converted to it about a year ago.
As the great Andrew Klavan explains regularly Antisemitism is the devil’s flagpole. It always rears its ugly head wherever evil is afoot. Today’s Andrew Klavan Show 7/10 (out every Friday) as always, is worth a listen for some much needed perspective in this regard. Always a brilliant analysis of the quagmire du jour.
Ben and Andrew at the Daily Wire were the people who got me started on podcasts maybe 10 years ago? 🤔I’ll check out the latest Klavan one.
I always love the beginning of his podcast. He's hilarious. His books are really good, too.
Criticism of Israel’s leadership and the conduct of war at their hands does not equal antisemitism.
In today’s world it is, because it quickly degenerates into criticism and hatred of THE JEWS. I have seen it happen in my closest friends, people who have had close Jewish friends now distancing themselves from them. Criticize Netanyahu and Israel all you like, Granny, but watch yourself when you start noticing how people’s last names are spelled.
"Criticisms of Israel" is a meaningless statement that is nothing but irrelevant talking points and no criticism. I've asked what "criticisms of Israel" means and essentially what comes back, everytime, is nothing short of what can be only classified as nonsensical. I'll also point out that those here using the phrase "criticisms of Israel" offer exactly no criticisms.
The primary "criticism" is that Israelis dare defend themselves from violent, radicalized neighbors.
The way the leaders have conducted these conficts, specifically.
When it’s massively overblown it does
First, “overblown” is a matter of opinion and subjectivity. And if a podcaster expresses fair criticism, even IF deemed unfair and overblown, the person cannot be held responsible for the rhetoric of others.
I like Klavan when he is on other people's shows. He's insightful. On his show I don't get his humor.
I LOVE his humor! I'm sure my husband wouldn't, though.
Neither did my hubby. 🤷♀️
Me too!
I loved Tucker and Meghan and liked Candace. They are all bat shit crazy now. Tucker reminds me of what happened to Glenn Beck. They just lose it - probably because of ego. It is truly sad the lengths they'll go to to marginalize themselves to make money. The Israel stuff is preposterous...and the hard core Muslims are incredibly evil.
Did you really mean to say Glenn Beck? Seems like it should be Glenn Greenwald - just asking out of curiosity.
Greenwald has taken a nasty turn or, maybe, it took me a while to notice because he has done real and important reporting in the past.
Beck dod lose it. Keith Olberman as well. Ego kills
Haven’t noticed a big change in Glenn Beck. But then, I don’t follow him super closely.
I used to really enjoy him, and he did go bonkers at some point, but as of late has returned to a fairly decent position.
I listened to Beck a while after and enjoyed his voice.
I think Sasha’s sign-off — “to thine own self be true” — is really the key here. Those other folks you named have all sold out at some point or another.
you are correct. at one point i think God was using beck, unfortunately he began to see himself as God
I met Tucker Carlson in 2017 when I attended his TV show on Fox. He seemed reasonable when I talked with him and his show was good.
That was then😔
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I was also a real supporter of both Candace and Tucker. They are really lost and I haven't the energy to try and find out why, but I agree with your sentiments on it 100%.
Sonja
I’m with you - I did the same with Tuckers site and feel the same about Candace - so disappointing.
Sasha, you’ve got a clear head and I appreciate your ability to stand up for yourself in the wake of somewhat crazy land.
Ditto on all counts.
SAME!
It is anathema any thinking person finds any of these lunatics credible. I'm not digging Vance, either.They belong to some sort of cult.
"Don't let the door hit you on the way out."
To be more specific, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out." That's how I learned it.
“Don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you” is what I’ve always heard.
Gerald Vanderleun put it even more succinctly: "Ass. Door. Bang."
Here's my entire problem with this reader or any other who wants to leave. Go ahead. You don't need to announce it, BUT IF YOU DO...and you are dumb enough to say things like, "The United States is losing its war against Iran," I am unwilling to mourn your loss to a community or even consider your case because you have shown yourself to be badly led by dis, mis, and malinformation. Why would anyone miss you? We don't need liars in these spaces. Idiots either.
My brain was holding similar thoughts but couldn’t organize them as well as you have. Thanks for the clear response I couldn’t seem to come up with. We definitely don’t need liars or idiots around here, there are enough of them in other spaces and I’m glad to have found a semi-escape here.
Exactly right. Glad it helped.
Especially idiots. The left abounds in them, go join that flock.
Agree on all points
Tucker has lost his way - and Candace is beyond help. You’re right to call them out Sasha! Lose a few subscribers- your integrity is worth far more.
I wonder if Tucker was ever genuine or if it was just an act for him. He was always over the top.
I’ve had the same thoughts. Made me really sad too, because at one time I was a big fan.
I don’t understand people who write to a Substack author to inform them they’re canceling their paid subscription. If you no longer wish to subscribe to someone’s column, just cancel it and move on. Why is an editorial necessary, other than to rub it in the face of the author.
I canceled my subscription to Matt Taibbi when he took a different direction with his Substack and he lost his longtime podcast partner Walter Kirn. I didn’t fire off an angry missive to Matt, I just quietly quit the subscription. He probably didn’t notice anyway, since he has thousands of subscribers.
Sasha, I don’t always agree with you, but you are consistent, honest, and courageous, and also a very gifted writer. I’ll be sticking around for a while.
Could not believe how Taibbi went from a reasonable, Truth-seeker to a crazed anti-American Leftist. I stopped listening to a thing he had to say
He was always a crazed anti-American leftist… but he could see the left’s free speech/censorship apparatus as a real threat and stood up to it - until it fell to some degree, then other more important leftist drivel needed attention - and ‘voila’ Matt returned to the tribe.
I do think some have gone back to their tribe. Anna Kasparian tried to play in the middle for a short while. She probably was only trying to grow her brand and wasn't sincere.
Narcissism is now a virtue.
Writing like that has the stink of, I’m so important, and I need to tell you that.
... and charge a subscription fee so I can tell you that at length.
I also cancelled Taibbi and picked up Sasha.
Sasha is the only one on Substack whose essays keep me engaged the whole way.
This speaks to the subscriber's need to be heard, to overcome their own low self-esteem. Tucker has thousands of followers like this. They are his army
Lol, ya know why? Portraying themselves as a VICTIM. Oh feel bad for me you hurt my feelings with your writing!
When Taibbi ditched Walter, that was it for me. I realized Walter was the reason I was listening to the podcast. I noticed, leading up to the split that the comments on Spotify were suddenly being populated with Kirn haters. It was odd and felt inorganic/bot like. Then Matt started making strange and reaching arguments, with extra um's. I began to wonder what was afoot.
The joke after Matt ditched Walter was Matt trying to continue the podcast with the insufferable Michael Tracy, who isn’t a terrible journalist, but lacks the charm and erudition of Walter. I listened to it for about five minutes and turned it off. There was no chemistry between Tracy and Matt. In a short time, Matt dumped that podcast and now does a book one with some guy I’ve never heard of. Not interested.
I always found Taibbi to be a better writer than speaker. He also has a scratchy voice that my ears don't like.
Agree 100%
Same here. I do miss America This Week with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn though. Now I have to wonder if maybe he did lose a lot of us.
Same with Taibbi.
Frankly, I think your doing a great job! And to your point - Free thinking- is about discerning what the problem is by exploring outward concentric circles from oneself. Sometimes cold hard truth hurts. And if one is having difficulty with that, this is where discernment begins with oneself and then increasingly larger outward concentric circles.
Losing readers like that is just fine. Good riddance. Tucker? Egomaniacal jerk who has lost all his credibility and sense of reality. Good riddance to him too (and Candace).
Too bad - he used to be must-see-TV for me, especially during the Kavanagh hearings. He’s just gone now - bat$h!t crazy
We used to love watching his long form interview show back on the Fox streaming channel. The range of guests he had on was superb. I have no idea what ate his brain between then and now, but this is not the same Tucker of 5 years ago. Hell, even during the 2024 election he was still rational.
In what world do they also lose their total sense of humility? Do they really believe you can lie about positions for monetary gain and there not be any repercussions to their character and reputation? They are unable to look in the mirror.
I don't think Tucker knows he is lying. I think he believes what he says. He's being influenced by his fans and other podcasters who believe (some of them might be lying, I don't know) the same things. I think he's just deluded.
Well - blessings on you Sasha.... I have gone through the same evolutions as you, so can relate... But YOU write about it.... That is courageous. I'm 87 and started losing the few friends I had left as well as family members, because of my shifting beliefs and support of Trump... so pretty much shut up about my opinions. So you are my voice :-) and it's a relief to read you expressing my feelings about things.
I don't understand people who are so fickle in their support of Trump. He is way far from perfect - but aren't we all? I just believe in his honest desire to make things better for Americans and the world - and know that he is working against forces we know nothing about sometimes - like the entrenched bureaucracy in all the govt. agencies who fight him every step of the way. But he is making progress and I am so grateful that there is finally someone (along with RFK jr. and others in his admin) that is trying to make some sensible change in the direction things were going! Wahoo!
I think you know by now that you speak for a lot of folks out there - so hang in there and keep up the good work. You make my day most days that you write! Thanks!
Those who are fickle on Trump I believe connect for maybe one or two of his policies but don’t really understand the overarching intention of what he is doing, ie they like the trees but don't see the forest. I am a Canadian and I believe he is freeing the US- making it a sovereign nation again (ended at FDR) not beholden to other nations— primarily Britain who has been making big revenue off and controlling the US (banking, foreign policy- wars) for years.
Huge topic which Promethean Action (is on X, website and other social media) is way better qualified than me to give you the history. The killing of US presidents, the control of interest rates, money, Fed, the Civil War etc. Its all there backed up with receipts. I highly recommend them to all Americans.
Thanks for mentioning them, Carol. I follow them and am grateful for their viewpoints and knowledge from years of following world affairs. I too recommend them.
Well said.
Spot on! 👍
I was a huge Tucker fan until his discourse seemed to no longer be rooted in RATIONAL THOUGHT.
Even back when I liked Tucker, I always hated that stupid fake laugh that he uses.
Right, I put up with that asinine laughter for years. Now that the mind behind it has melted down, good riddance. Candace never had a mind, and Megyn is nothing more than a slightly less crazy mind-crash than Carlson.
it's creepy!!
Yes, haven't listened to him for so long I forgot about the 'laugh'. Honestly, I have always thought it was a nervous tic so I've never made fun of it.
It’s a bizarre laugh I’d expect from a ventriloquist’s dummy.
I laugh and laugh at anyone who thinks Trump is "losing" the war with Iran, or that this 47-year conflict is a "new war." I feel pity for those fans of Tucker who followed him over his personal waterfall; I just waved goodbye as he went over the edge without a paddle or even a canoe.
Hear hear!
I liked Tucker too before he went full retard.
Hahaha! Full retard he certainly is!
That one made me almost spit out the gulp of water I had just taken!🤣
I was just going to become a paid subscriber because you lost one, but I see Im already a paid subscriber.
Why people think that Iran wouldn’t demonstrate that they have nuclear weapons by first testing it over Israel is a mystery to me.
Your question cuts to the heart of one aspect of the debate over Iran policy. The assumption on the part of some correspondents is that Israel would be in mortal danger, and that, for some reason, Iran would nuke Israel as soon as they had a nuke. Yet Israel has had dozens of nukes for decades. North Korea has them. India and Pakistan have them. My best guess is that Iran would never dare start a war with Israel even if they had a nuke. what we’ve now proven to Iran is that they actually would have been better off with a nuke.
Not sure about that. You are assuming that if Iran had a weapon they wouldn’t use it against Israel. You are assuming all the players are rational, not extremely radical to a point of funding world wide terrorism and inserting radical terrorists within countries. Iran has (3rd level as Trump likes to say) CLERICAL jihadists running the country whose religion sees everyone as someone to be dominated or killed. Read the history. Go to Spain and see the Museums. Then tell me Iranian or any other muslim clerical leaders are rational.
If you do go to Spain, be careful not to get run over by the half-million-plus subSaharans, mostly Muslims, the leftard Spanish government is importing.
The Ayatollah SAID he was going to Nuke Israel and America as soon as he could. When someone with that power and authority threatens you, declares you the Great Satan and that Israel is the Little Satan, and the cost of being wrong is millions of innocent lives, the leaders of those countries are obligated to believe the Ayatollah and do something about it. You could doubt they can pull it off. But they are allied with China which has the technology and apparently was selling it to Iran. How do you think NoKo got the bomb? You think they have thousands of MIT trained physicists there? China gave it to them to protect its eastern flank
China gave the bomb to both North Korea and Pakistan and they are considered to be rational.
A rational society like Israel (fortunately) has a nuclear deterrent. Iran is utterly irrational and fanatical. This is a good example of the asymmetrical relationships that exist in the world. It's always been like this, but in the 21st Century things happen quite quickly.
Israel is the ONLY civilized country in the Middle East.
? Really?
Hmm
Really one of the most sensible people on internet. So level headed!
Keep up the great work... I canceled Tucker a long time ago. He has gone batshit crazy. Some say demonic. Keep your head up and your heart full. You should make a playlist - I always enjoy the music you end your pods with. All My Best - B, Austin Texas.
I was an unpaid subscriber but I just became a paid subscriber specifically because of this post. I found you through Megyn, but have since soured on her because she dove in with Candace on the Israel conspiracy theories. Megyn has been sitting on the sidelines for 10 months while Candace viciously attacks Erika and TPUSA. That is unacceptable from Megyn, a supposed friend of Charlie, and it is demonic of Candace. I also left Tucker long ago when he went out to left field blaming Israel for everything Sick.
I came to you from the right side and you came here from the left. That’s what makes America (freedom) so beautiful.
I love your content. God bless you.
Well said. Your response represents the opinions about Megyn, Tucker and Candace that a lot of us hold.