Amen!! I think Matt Walsh is spot on. Bring in small regional acts with traditional music from said areas, or heck, even tribute bands! There’s so much more talent that better represents America than these 2-bit National acts.
Even better, make it a platform for emerging artists who are struggling to be noticed — put out a “cattle call” and the applications would be overwhelming. We know the talent is out there so what could be more in the spirit of American exceptionalism than to give exceptional Americans a chance they might never have to perform in front of millions of viewers?
There are so many brilliant jazz and classical musicians who really cannot make a living at what they were born to do. My fear is that the homicidal censoriousness of The Left would intimidate them into not performing. Right now, they can scratch up $10,000 to $20,000 per year. It would be easy for them to imagine that they would be blacklisted.
I used to be a subscriber to The Kurt Weill Foundation newsletter, but several months ago, they ran a dreary, predictable, infuriating editorial decrying Donald Trump and all of his works and all of his ways.
The Kurt Weill Foundation! Anyone who knows music knows that Weill may have been the greatest musical theater composer of the 20th century, and that he was a Jew whom the Nazis went after right after Hitler came to power. He had a hair's breadth escape, having to walk the German/French border at night because he knew if he stayed on the train, he would be arrested. Eventually, he made it to the United States and became one of our most ardent patriots.
And The Kurt Weill Foundation had the gall to invoke Trump in Hitlerian terms. It's vomitorious, but these are 95% of the types who inhabit the performing arts.
The intimidation you fear for anyone agreeing to perform is real, hence all the backing out being done by the likes of Martina McBride — and very publicly being done at that, just to be sure the “right” people are aware of how virtuous they are. I only hope there are some brave souls out there who decide it’s worth the risk and pick up the hammers to nail the coffin of cancel culture shut once and for all.
Thanks for pointing that editorial out. I was curious and looked it up and, actually, it's quite entertaining to read. It should be called "Sour Grapes" because nearly all of those people probably were getting tens of thousands to hundreds of millions in faux grants and other goodies from USAID programs until we cut them off. Now they'll probably have to get a real job.
I wish insults weren't mandatory today. Does Matt Walsh really have to say "washed-up has beens"? I worked through my anger and grief re: both parties and now am a content independent with no need to be loved by my former tribe, or the tribe I never did consider to be my own. I don't need to get angry and I don't need to control what happens. I'm no longer in any way contributing to the toxic non-stop fighting. I was sick of my own judgments an behavior spoiling what time I have left. I dearly wish more people would stay engaged but unattached to any person or point of view. I wish everyone would stop insulting other people and tend to their own failings. Too many people today are harboring hurt feelings instead of working through them and getting to a new and better place that doesn't need to take swipes at anyone.
I get what you're saying with the name calling - it's just derogatory instead of being educational or constructive, but I do it too, sometimes because the abuse and attacks are so out of line, it's nearly criminal. I'm STILL sometimes being shadow-banned on X (Twitter) and Facebook. Honestly, Matt Walsh doesn't do it often and also remember that he and others are part entertainers too.
BTW, I'm very "attached" to my constitutional republic: the U.S.A. I'll remain that way. Maybe it's because I have children and family and friends and I want them to have freedom/liberty and free expression of religion/faith for another 250 years. Maybe it's because for 300 years, one side of my family fought and died and sacrificed for it. And thank God, the Founders were "attached" to the idea of this country!
What you experienced and wrote about here is quite real, distressingly common, and not going to just buff right out. I was still a faculty member back in 2016 when I opined that Trump wasn't all wrong. That's all that it took for a one way ticket to to Palookaville on the express.
The Left hates "America" as our Constitution describes and sets rules for our country. All of us who want to adhere to the original ideals of America, the ideals of freedom, liberty and unity we grew up loving and which 250 years of men and women have fought to preserve, are now the enemy to the Left who want a different America (should not even use that word). They want some Marxist Utopia that can never work. A place with open borders, free groceries and housing, free transportation, no requirement to work and no chance to "get ahead" via capitalism. The Euro-Caucasians who founded the country are supposedly the oppressors (even though ironically, the Founders families were actually the oppressed, including my own 1750s Scottish family). Until the Left changes their minds and rejoins the unity of conservative America, we are in a permanent war over which America will emerge the victor.
You were on track when you said there is only ONE AMERICA (USA). Those who captured the Democrat Party do not want America to exist and we know this because nearly everything they do, every Bill they pass, every State and Federal Regulation, mandate, is designed to destroy America or greatly diminish the liberties granted to American Citizens under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights!
A Political Party that continues to import the worlds poor and diseased (often in the dark of night, into non-international airports to avoid scrutiny by ICE) is not an American political party. They are clearly treasonous operatives for Foreign powers! This is completely obvious and the lawfare they engaged in was also a tell to their loyalty and fear. Fear that another Trump Presidency, one they can no longer control (via spies and Deeply Entrenched operatives in the Republican party and the Beltway), will be exposed.
The Grift of the NGO's which proliferated under OBAMA has been cut off at the neck and we are no longer afraid of the rattle, which, btw is all they have left!
I always loved movies but I haven't been to a theater now for over four years and before that, a pathetic rendition of CATS that was....so bad I can't describe it, worse than a joke.
Yes, and the objective in importing nobodies who have zero education or understanding of the virtues of the American Project is that the elite can push the illegals into any agenda they want because the nobodies are just grateful to live where there aren't bullies taking their stuff, indeed giving them all their needs free.
What a bunch of patsies! Is this what they think and WHY they exploit a profoundly trusting society and grift us out of millions?
Thank you! The best analysis yet, by a woman who has the pulse of the new Counterculture! I was a former “hippie” who grew up to reality and became an adult. Thank you Sasha for
This is why the Spencer Pratt campaign in L.A. is touching a nerve nationwide!
The counterculture is made of distributed power that circumvents the establishment. For the 250th celebration specifically, I agree: bring in talented “lesser knowns” and give them an opportunity to thrive outside of the existing structure.
Sasha, you have forged this path as well. You were part of the existing power structure until they kicked you out. Then you found a different way.
Money is power… until innovation and ingenuity disrupt it.
Gradually… then, suddenly. When I look around, it appears to me that we are right on the verge of “suddenly.”
I was demoralized during the bitter days when that dedicated husk of a president held sway…or his autopen staff did. I had a major stroke late in 2023 partly due to the mounting despair I had for my country.
Now that Trump is back and reorganizing the world at breakneck speed, his energy helps me to feel like a man again.
The president seems to be channeling Admiral Farragut, who said in the midst of a sea battle, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” That’s my kinda guy.
When FDR’s casket rolled north from Warm Springs to Washington on the eve of VE Day, one man stood there and wept. Someone asked him, “Did you know the president?” He replied, “No, I didn’t know him, but he knew me.”
I love the torpedo quote, but FDR was a slick Socialist that snuck in Covid-Era like changes to a Depressed Country, made Depressed by the Elite London Banking Cabal. My F-I-L was also in awe of FDR because he was a child of the Depression and his family was hit hard by the crash and again by the Dust Bowl (also Gov't intervention caused-lack of fallowed fields and windbreaks), His father was often absent or moving the family from one get rich quick scheme to another. So he grew-up listening to FDR on the radio. A great orator offering hope and change as he sat by the fireside, like a Father to giving advice and direction to adoring boys and young men.
We recently had another "Great Orator" President, who gave smooth articulate advice and innuendo to a fatherless Generation. He ushered in the chaos and division that we are living under today, because he to was a Socialist Elitist puppet of a foreign power, who sent our young to die in Muslim Countries an ushered in a rise in Islamic power. Barock Hussain Obama and his Party were weakening our Citizens and ushered in a massive dumbing down and indoctination campaign in Academia, a redistribution of tax dollars and an influx of poor Democrat voters!
Beware the Presidents who the Elitists fast-track for they have no real world experience, only nepotism and good oration skills!
I remember! I promptly canceled out Netflix subscription when I saw the stuff they were pushing into our cue! The "you might also like" feature that is so off base, which Spotify does daily now. I was already battling the Middle School for the minds of my children, I certainly was not going to allow the filth streamed into my home! This was also going on as the Sex ED teachers, unbeknownst to parents, was not actually teaching how HIV/AIDS is spread. Instead telling or insinuating that anal sex is fine and healthy, a great way to not get pregnant! I found that out years later in a Mother/Daughter conversation. Good God! What has happened to our Country!
It was quite unfortunate that Netflix chose to alienate one of their original customers! But they had a new CEO who chose identity politics over his customer base.
Google News pushes Aljazeera TV. Lol I only see it in my notifications if I happen to slide right on my old phone when using it to listen to podcasts. I use podcasts the way I did Radio and audiobooks. They are something to listen to while doing physical tasks, to stimulate the mind and take in knowledge while doing physical tasks. I save my reading and commenting Sub stack and chair time. Not too much worth watching on TV these days.
I (and my husband) were very vigilant and watchful too, but then my son went to a university........ At least he's not a rabid leftist now - just more of a "both sides are bad and corrupt and I don't care".
SO totally gross...I remember many years ago my sweet daughter was in a sex ed class and was horrified that they had to say penis and I was too, actually. The subject matter has gotten so debased that love and marriage is no longer sweet and romantic but sick and depraved. First get rid of Randi and the teachers union for a start.
Trump is so beyond washed up 'entertainers' in perpetual depression. He is targeting the City of London and their control for the last century; they control distribution of many things, controlling supply which means prices. We just sold 1 million barrels of oil to Japan. Think bigly, folks. Iran is an outpost of the British, so are many in South America and the Caribbean. The democrat party is an outpost of the UK and Trump is kicking them out.
Trump is a builder, democrats are destroyers and republicans are controlled opposition.
I remember reading (don't know if it's true) that Thomas Jefferson was pissed that after fighting off the British to gain independence, we went and got all entangled in their stock exchange!
Good idea and don't stop with the acts. Create a new entertainment infrastructure with booking agents, venues and whatever else is needed to maintain the momentum. I don't have a clue how to do this but I bet the Trump Organization does.
Nashville's recording industry used to be that place, until Hollywood came calling when they courted Country Music to exploit big bucks from musicians as they did in LA.
True but Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash were leftists before that happened. Nashville was at least tolerant of ideological diversity and the fans did enforce a certain discipline.
You know Johnny, Merle and Willie were and still are drug addicts. So no surprise that they would chose a political ideology that would support their self-destruction and enable their handlers to continue to profit. We see this type of enabling for profit and destruction in the Homeless Industrial Complex the Left currently runs in California and other Democrat captured States!
“…Take it from me. I lost a substantial income when a story about me appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, calling me a “MAGA darling” and exposing that I voted for Trump. One major studio pulled its ads that day.”
Man, that would really piss me off. We all probably have during our lives been jilted by someone or some group, but that usually passes because we/they grow up or move on. As an adult to be freaking excommunicated and have your livelihood threatened, that’s freaking evil.
Hope your trip went well and you have some stories to tell.
It is very Highschool! The LEFTISTS are the Highschoolers who never made it to adulthood. The Cancel Clique sees the world as one big Quad and they are the in-crowd, sitting up on the Senior bench, calling the shots while their adoring lower classmen carry out their demands for CHAOS down on the streets of America.
Yes! Total immaturity. It's all feelings and emotions for them and they have much more emotional and mental instability (as per study that was done a couple of decades ago - and that asses who did it, "mistakenly" reported that it was those on the right who had more emotional and mental issues. It wasn't for another 5-10 years that they said "Oops, we reported it wrong, it's those on the left!").
MAGA is the “rugged individualism “ the left despises. We forge our own path unlike the Marxist lemmings in the democrat party. Experienced Rational reasonable critical thinking shows collectivism fails every time. Hakeem Jefferies threatens to break our spirit, crush our souls! Harrumph! Whatever they throw at us triggers our instinct to Improvise, Adapt and overcome. Success is the best revenge. Be joyful knowing the dark side will not win. They hate it when you’re happy.
Dr. Jill said this morning on CBS her husband would have been a great President if he would have been re-elected.
She also insinuated Trump would have put Hunter in prison, when he was indicted and prosecuted by her husband’s own FBI and DOJ, and found guilty of three federal crimes long before Trump became President.
She never mentioned Afghanistan or the 15M illegals from every country on the planet he ushered in.
That woman is so much more evil than I’d ever imagined. A power and control freak, an elder abuser and horrific liar. The Marxist lies and propaganda are more than I can take. It began hard during Covid when the jabs were pushed so hard and the Lancet, a once respected medical journal, stated that the BLM riots were fine, even though it involved black people who were supposedly at the hugest risk for Covid, because the message was good, so it was worth the risk of death. What kind of nonpartisan medical journal would say that?! It’s become crazy land ever since. Obama and Biden have been an absolute nightmare for our country as they continue Obama’s “fundamental transformation”. It makes me so mad and very sad. It seems to be a true war of good versus evil.
The Democrat/left response to BLM and Covid was eye-opening. Was the Lancet piece the same as the letter by health professionals proclaiming that the mass demonstrations were fine because the scourge of racism was a bigger public health risk than Covid? Or was that something else? Then it turned out that the “epidemic” of unarmed black men killed by police was nearly imaginary. People thought it happened hundreds or thousands of times a year, but the actual numbers are closer to 10.
It’s incredible that so many still buy the lies and propaganda. I guess everything they stand for is thrown out the window if reality steps in. Can’t do that. Can’t reassess and readjust to a new reality, then you have to admit you fell for the lies and admit you were duped. While they had their mass demonstrations, Trump had rallies and he and his supporters were cast as “disease spreaders” like Hitler cast the Jews as TB (disease) spreaders. The double standards are what gets me the most. I still seek fairness in an unfair world. And it’s very frustrating.
And I think it was the Lancet that published that completely fabricated, bogus "research" about Hydroxychloroquine, saying it made people with COVID sicker. The opposite was the truth.
"Our country paid too high a price for having politics and culture merge, as it did under Obama." This sentence perfectly encapsulates the origin of what's happened the past ten years. Great post.
That was the TV kickoff, but back in the JFK years the Broadway and Beltway Liberals used the Camelot Analogy to market Jack and Jackie. And Hollywood pushed the narrative as well, long after the London Bankers did away with JFK!
Yes, the "powers that be" (in London AND in NYC) didn't like that JFK wanted to pay off the Federal Reserve (which is neither "federal", nor a "reserve") debt with a United States certificate note (can't remember the exact name) and that JFK wanted to "go after the 'shadow government entities'". Watch "The speech that got JFK killed" on Youtube - if it's still there.
Yep, and his charming ways with the public. Watch the Bush/Clinton townhall type "debate" and see the woman who asked a question, swoon when Bill answers them! At the time, some women said they were voting for Bill because of his great hair! BTW, I actually saw Clinton at a local, upscale restaurant in 2005ish and the women were still swarming around him.
I lived in the Bay Area when Chelsea was a student at Stanford and Bill visited frequently (snarling traffic from the airport to the campus) and boy, did he charm the wives of the local officials he met. Years later, I spent a couple years in Westchester County, and my business partner ran into him at a Chapaqua restaurant. A highly educated professional, she was struck by his charisma.
Now that I think about it, the same was said about Ted Kennedy decades earlier when I worked in Boston. Is that quality inherent to a successful politician or attributed after the fact??
You can't leave out Bill's womanizing, philandering and "bedding" women who weren't his wife (Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, among MANY MANY others). And being accused of sexual assault (which Paula Jones would've won her court case if she went through with it, because the evidence was solid, but instead, she took the million dollars - in today's money, that Bill offered her to drop it). So I think it goes WELL beyond "inherent to a successful politician and attributed after the fact". It's said that Hillary picked Bill out of the crowd, in college, because he was so magnetic and she had big political aspirations way back then. Also, I remember reading a comment from a person who briefly worked with Bill Clinton. He was a Christian and his assessment was that he had "charming spirits" that "charmed people in a supernatural, spiritual way". It's illuded to in the Bible and it's not a good thing.
"They aren't the 'resistance.' They have always been the empire." Yes! And they absolutely love to pretend to be the oppressed, to virtue signal to show their smug moral superiority, even to get so worked up as to actually fight physically (have you seen the poor horses in New Jersey getting attacked- horses!).Then when Trump leaves office they will deign to "take us back in." How benevolent.
Late last night while channel surfing I glanced for a few minutes to watch an NPR program about Woodstock which was per NPR one of our greatest moments. Young people (then) coming together blah blah blah. Those young people are now all old hippies and they still have that same case of ass rash. There is no cure for whatever it is that infects their minds.
Old, tired public broadcasting knows which side its bread is buttered and has since forever—it's those old, tired, dirty effin' hippies, of course. Now would you please join me in a round of some old Pete Seeger dirge?
UPDATED Just because NPR touts some version of Woodstock, let's not reflexively trash that moment. Nixon had been elected in 1968, based on a promise ('secret plan') to end the Vietnam War, and then reneged. He castigated peaceniks as bums, and the draft was going full blast, even after the 1969 lottery. Woodstock was a showcase for great music and cooperative living.
Nixon was re-elected Nov. 1973, the Paris Peace Accord was signed two days after Nixon's second Inauguration. How did he renege? He had been steadily drawing down the number of US troops in Nam during his first term and Nixon ended the draft. Sounds to me like he kept his promises. BTW the last draft call was Dec. 1972 and the last draftee reported June 1973. That was of special interest to me since I turned 18 in July, 1973.
KM: Please see my updated post, especially my correction on which election I meant to refer to. My mistake. It now reads the 1968 election. With that in mind, why did it take four years to end the war on terms essentially available in 1968? Nixon switched to "Peace with Honor" as an excuse to keep the war going, and continue to divide the country. The drawdown was slow, and the draft kept going. In those four years we had dirty tricks, Law and Order, Watergate, illegal secret bombing of Cambodia, Kent State, Jackson State and so on. We also had over 20,000 American troops killed, and many more wounded. Not to mention a huge number of Vietnamese. He and Pat Buchanan thought they would win re-election in 1972 by dividing the Democrats, and in the campaign painted WWII B-24 George McGovern as a weak fringe sellout. The DNC refused to support. McGovern, and Hardhats for Nixon was born. The New Yorker (and others) later covered Buchanan's 1971 memo memorializing this along with the Southern Strategy.
Excerpt: Pat Buchanan wrote a 1971 memo to President Richard Nixon (and his advisors) titled along the lines of “Dividing the Democrats.” It outlined a political strategy to exploit divisions in the Democratic Party and the broader country to build a lasting Republican majority.
The Core Idea: "Cut the Country in Half"
The memo's most quoted line captures the essence of what you're asking about:
“Such gambits... could cut the Democratic Party and country in half; my view is that we would have far the larger half.”
Buchanan argued that by exacerbating existing fault lines in the old New Deal/FDR coalition (working-class whites, Catholics, Southerners, etc.), Republicans could win the bigger share of a divided electorate.
I agree that it took too long. But thank God Nixon did win again and he did end it. BTW, the southern strategy didn't amount to anything and the whole Watergate thing was partially a set up, I believe. Read some of the more recent research and revelations regarding it. I read (but didn't follow up with research) that one of the guys who broke into the Watergate DNC offices used to be a long time Democrat! Was it all a DNC plan all along? Nixon was hugely popular and McGovern was a socialist, if I recall, so I'm not surprised he won. What is "Law and Order" and "dirty tricks" and wasn't Cambodia helping Nam, in a big way? Also, I don't think you can blame Kent State and Jackson State on Nixon.
It was a cultural moment, I guess, but it never spoke to me, a vanguard Gen Xer. Boomers act as if they accomplished something with Woodstock, but that altruism vanished with the draft lottery and the drawdown. And the music is so ancient it needs a toupee. Meh.
BN/KM: Woodstock was a cultural moment, not a world-changer. But it a rebuttal to the assertion that only the Silent Majority types were upstanding citizens. As a generation, the Boomers have been a great disappointment, no question. The first Boomer President, Bill Clinton, dove towards the middle with triangulation and created the Democratic Leadership Council. The agenda became ending "welfare as we know it," Sister Souljah, and female exploitation.
EXCERPT: "Bimbo eruptions" is a phrase coined by Betsey Wright, a longtime aide and chief of staff to Bill Clinton during his time as Arkansas governor and deputy chair of his 1992 presidential campaign.
It described the pattern of women coming forward with claims of sexual affairs or misconduct with Clinton, which the campaign had to manage or suppress. Wright later expressed regret over the term, as it was dismissive and derogatory toward the women involved."
Sadly, Clinton marked the end of the New/Old Left.
As the Left's control over news and culture slips away, they cling ever tighter, in desperation, to that dwindling power they once knew and enjoyed. They'll be ever more doctrinaire and uglier by the end, Jennifer Welch ugly, but an artistic Renaissance is just around the corner.
Amen!! I think Matt Walsh is spot on. Bring in small regional acts with traditional music from said areas, or heck, even tribute bands! There’s so much more talent that better represents America than these 2-bit National acts.
Even better, make it a platform for emerging artists who are struggling to be noticed — put out a “cattle call” and the applications would be overwhelming. We know the talent is out there so what could be more in the spirit of American exceptionalism than to give exceptional Americans a chance they might never have to perform in front of millions of viewers?
America’s got talent!
Maybe Ticketmaster and Livenation would choose to step up, since they have relationships with venues and could give the warm up acts a boost.
There are so many brilliant jazz and classical musicians who really cannot make a living at what they were born to do. My fear is that the homicidal censoriousness of The Left would intimidate them into not performing. Right now, they can scratch up $10,000 to $20,000 per year. It would be easy for them to imagine that they would be blacklisted.
I used to be a subscriber to The Kurt Weill Foundation newsletter, but several months ago, they ran a dreary, predictable, infuriating editorial decrying Donald Trump and all of his works and all of his ways.
The Kurt Weill Foundation! Anyone who knows music knows that Weill may have been the greatest musical theater composer of the 20th century, and that he was a Jew whom the Nazis went after right after Hitler came to power. He had a hair's breadth escape, having to walk the German/French border at night because he knew if he stayed on the train, he would be arrested. Eventually, he made it to the United States and became one of our most ardent patriots.
And The Kurt Weill Foundation had the gall to invoke Trump in Hitlerian terms. It's vomitorious, but these are 95% of the types who inhabit the performing arts.
He no doubt was rolling in his grave at that attack on Trump. These people have lost their ever-loving minds.
The intimidation you fear for anyone agreeing to perform is real, hence all the backing out being done by the likes of Martina McBride — and very publicly being done at that, just to be sure the “right” people are aware of how virtuous they are. I only hope there are some brave souls out there who decide it’s worth the risk and pick up the hammers to nail the coffin of cancel culture shut once and for all.
I've had the same thought. Tyranny gathers strength like a tumorous mass until people just determine, "Hell, no," and start to resist it.
Thanks for pointing that editorial out. I was curious and looked it up and, actually, it's quite entertaining to read. It should be called "Sour Grapes" because nearly all of those people probably were getting tens of thousands to hundreds of millions in faux grants and other goodies from USAID programs until we cut them off. Now they'll probably have to get a real job.
I wish insults weren't mandatory today. Does Matt Walsh really have to say "washed-up has beens"? I worked through my anger and grief re: both parties and now am a content independent with no need to be loved by my former tribe, or the tribe I never did consider to be my own. I don't need to get angry and I don't need to control what happens. I'm no longer in any way contributing to the toxic non-stop fighting. I was sick of my own judgments an behavior spoiling what time I have left. I dearly wish more people would stay engaged but unattached to any person or point of view. I wish everyone would stop insulting other people and tend to their own failings. Too many people today are harboring hurt feelings instead of working through them and getting to a new and better place that doesn't need to take swipes at anyone.
I get what you're saying with the name calling - it's just derogatory instead of being educational or constructive, but I do it too, sometimes because the abuse and attacks are so out of line, it's nearly criminal. I'm STILL sometimes being shadow-banned on X (Twitter) and Facebook. Honestly, Matt Walsh doesn't do it often and also remember that he and others are part entertainers too.
BTW, I'm very "attached" to my constitutional republic: the U.S.A. I'll remain that way. Maybe it's because I have children and family and friends and I want them to have freedom/liberty and free expression of religion/faith for another 250 years. Maybe it's because for 300 years, one side of my family fought and died and sacrificed for it. And thank God, the Founders were "attached" to the idea of this country!
What a great idea/thing to do. Takes a lot of self-awareness and vulnerability to stick to it. But, IT IS SURELY FREEING!!!!!!!!
What you experienced and wrote about here is quite real, distressingly common, and not going to just buff right out. I was still a faculty member back in 2016 when I opined that Trump wasn't all wrong. That's all that it took for a one way ticket to to Palookaville on the express.
The Left hates "America" as our Constitution describes and sets rules for our country. All of us who want to adhere to the original ideals of America, the ideals of freedom, liberty and unity we grew up loving and which 250 years of men and women have fought to preserve, are now the enemy to the Left who want a different America (should not even use that word). They want some Marxist Utopia that can never work. A place with open borders, free groceries and housing, free transportation, no requirement to work and no chance to "get ahead" via capitalism. The Euro-Caucasians who founded the country are supposedly the oppressors (even though ironically, the Founders families were actually the oppressed, including my own 1750s Scottish family). Until the Left changes their minds and rejoins the unity of conservative America, we are in a permanent war over which America will emerge the victor.
You were on track when you said there is only ONE AMERICA (USA). Those who captured the Democrat Party do not want America to exist and we know this because nearly everything they do, every Bill they pass, every State and Federal Regulation, mandate, is designed to destroy America or greatly diminish the liberties granted to American Citizens under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights!
A Political Party that continues to import the worlds poor and diseased (often in the dark of night, into non-international airports to avoid scrutiny by ICE) is not an American political party. They are clearly treasonous operatives for Foreign powers! This is completely obvious and the lawfare they engaged in was also a tell to their loyalty and fear. Fear that another Trump Presidency, one they can no longer control (via spies and Deeply Entrenched operatives in the Republican party and the Beltway), will be exposed.
The Grift of the NGO's which proliferated under OBAMA has been cut off at the neck and we are no longer afraid of the rattle, which, btw is all they have left!
They are Demons one and all working for the prince of darkness. It is simple to understand once you see it clearly.
Hollywood can have their vulgar degenerate culture, I want no part of it!
I always loved movies but I haven't been to a theater now for over four years and before that, a pathetic rendition of CATS that was....so bad I can't describe it, worse than a joke.
Yes, and the objective in importing nobodies who have zero education or understanding of the virtues of the American Project is that the elite can push the illegals into any agenda they want because the nobodies are just grateful to live where there aren't bullies taking their stuff, indeed giving them all their needs free.
What a bunch of patsies! Is this what they think and WHY they exploit a profoundly trusting society and grift us out of millions?
Thank you! The best analysis yet, by a woman who has the pulse of the new Counterculture! I was a former “hippie” who grew up to reality and became an adult. Thank you Sasha for
“adulting” for me so eloquently!
The last video she posted brought tears to my eyes.
This is why the Spencer Pratt campaign in L.A. is touching a nerve nationwide!
The counterculture is made of distributed power that circumvents the establishment. For the 250th celebration specifically, I agree: bring in talented “lesser knowns” and give them an opportunity to thrive outside of the existing structure.
Sasha, you have forged this path as well. You were part of the existing power structure until they kicked you out. Then you found a different way.
Money is power… until innovation and ingenuity disrupt it.
Gradually… then, suddenly. When I look around, it appears to me that we are right on the verge of “suddenly.”
Very well said. Thanks.
That’s the spirit, Sasha.
I was demoralized during the bitter days when that dedicated husk of a president held sway…or his autopen staff did. I had a major stroke late in 2023 partly due to the mounting despair I had for my country.
Now that Trump is back and reorganizing the world at breakneck speed, his energy helps me to feel like a man again.
The president seems to be channeling Admiral Farragut, who said in the midst of a sea battle, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.” That’s my kinda guy.
When FDR’s casket rolled north from Warm Springs to Washington on the eve of VE Day, one man stood there and wept. Someone asked him, “Did you know the president?” He replied, “No, I didn’t know him, but he knew me.”
I love the torpedo quote, but FDR was a slick Socialist that snuck in Covid-Era like changes to a Depressed Country, made Depressed by the Elite London Banking Cabal. My F-I-L was also in awe of FDR because he was a child of the Depression and his family was hit hard by the crash and again by the Dust Bowl (also Gov't intervention caused-lack of fallowed fields and windbreaks), His father was often absent or moving the family from one get rich quick scheme to another. So he grew-up listening to FDR on the radio. A great orator offering hope and change as he sat by the fireside, like a Father to giving advice and direction to adoring boys and young men.
We recently had another "Great Orator" President, who gave smooth articulate advice and innuendo to a fatherless Generation. He ushered in the chaos and division that we are living under today, because he to was a Socialist Elitist puppet of a foreign power, who sent our young to die in Muslim Countries an ushered in a rise in Islamic power. Barock Hussain Obama and his Party were weakening our Citizens and ushered in a massive dumbing down and indoctination campaign in Academia, a redistribution of tax dollars and an influx of poor Democrat voters!
Beware the Presidents who the Elitists fast-track for they have no real world experience, only nepotism and good oration skills!
Remember Obama’s culture and family destroying videos pandering to single women: “Life of Julia”?
Total propaganda, and the precursor to the AWFLs, Karens and manipulated young women we see today.
I remember! I promptly canceled out Netflix subscription when I saw the stuff they were pushing into our cue! The "you might also like" feature that is so off base, which Spotify does daily now. I was already battling the Middle School for the minds of my children, I certainly was not going to allow the filth streamed into my home! This was also going on as the Sex ED teachers, unbeknownst to parents, was not actually teaching how HIV/AIDS is spread. Instead telling or insinuating that anal sex is fine and healthy, a great way to not get pregnant! I found that out years later in a Mother/Daughter conversation. Good God! What has happened to our Country!
It was quite unfortunate that Netflix chose to alienate one of their original customers! But they had a new CEO who chose identity politics over his customer base.
It is astonishing how quickly the left manipulated their levers of power to install their world view and cultural taste on all.
My Linkedin frequently “recommends” that I connect with their preferred Left wing influencers, including BHO. Ridiculous.
Google News pushes Aljazeera TV. Lol I only see it in my notifications if I happen to slide right on my old phone when using it to listen to podcasts. I use podcasts the way I did Radio and audiobooks. They are something to listen to while doing physical tasks, to stimulate the mind and take in knowledge while doing physical tasks. I save my reading and commenting Sub stack and chair time. Not too much worth watching on TV these days.
Totally agree. We cut the chord a couple of years ago. Don’t miss it at all.
Even though I do not pay and have marked my account as RETIRED, they are still sending me their crap.
Good for you. You have been a vigilant mother. Would that all mothers were so watchful.
I (and my husband) were very vigilant and watchful too, but then my son went to a university........ At least he's not a rabid leftist now - just more of a "both sides are bad and corrupt and I don't care".
SO totally gross...I remember many years ago my sweet daughter was in a sex ed class and was horrified that they had to say penis and I was too, actually. The subject matter has gotten so debased that love and marriage is no longer sweet and romantic but sick and depraved. First get rid of Randi and the teachers union for a start.
👍🏻👏👏👏so true
Trump is so beyond washed up 'entertainers' in perpetual depression. He is targeting the City of London and their control for the last century; they control distribution of many things, controlling supply which means prices. We just sold 1 million barrels of oil to Japan. Think bigly, folks. Iran is an outpost of the British, so are many in South America and the Caribbean. The democrat party is an outpost of the UK and Trump is kicking them out.
Trump is a builder, democrats are destroyers and republicans are controlled opposition.
You are SO spot on! Follow Promethean Action to learn about City of London.
Yep, found them a year ago.
I remember reading (don't know if it's true) that Thomas Jefferson was pissed that after fighting off the British to gain independence, we went and got all entangled in their stock exchange!
Good idea and don't stop with the acts. Create a new entertainment infrastructure with booking agents, venues and whatever else is needed to maintain the momentum. I don't have a clue how to do this but I bet the Trump Organization does.
Nashville's recording industry used to be that place, until Hollywood came calling when they courted Country Music to exploit big bucks from musicians as they did in LA.
True but Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash were leftists before that happened. Nashville was at least tolerant of ideological diversity and the fans did enforce a certain discipline.
You know Johnny, Merle and Willie were and still are drug addicts. So no surprise that they would chose a political ideology that would support their self-destruction and enable their handlers to continue to profit. We see this type of enabling for profit and destruction in the Homeless Industrial Complex the Left currently runs in California and other Democrat captured States!
“…Take it from me. I lost a substantial income when a story about me appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, calling me a “MAGA darling” and exposing that I voted for Trump. One major studio pulled its ads that day.”
Man, that would really piss me off. We all probably have during our lives been jilted by someone or some group, but that usually passes because we/they grow up or move on. As an adult to be freaking excommunicated and have your livelihood threatened, that’s freaking evil.
Hope your trip went well and you have some stories to tell.
Chin up…
It is very Highschool! The LEFTISTS are the Highschoolers who never made it to adulthood. The Cancel Clique sees the world as one big Quad and they are the in-crowd, sitting up on the Senior bench, calling the shots while their adoring lower classmen carry out their demands for CHAOS down on the streets of America.
Yes! Total immaturity. It's all feelings and emotions for them and they have much more emotional and mental instability (as per study that was done a couple of decades ago - and that asses who did it, "mistakenly" reported that it was those on the right who had more emotional and mental issues. It wasn't for another 5-10 years that they said "Oops, we reported it wrong, it's those on the left!").
MAGA is the “rugged individualism “ the left despises. We forge our own path unlike the Marxist lemmings in the democrat party. Experienced Rational reasonable critical thinking shows collectivism fails every time. Hakeem Jefferies threatens to break our spirit, crush our souls! Harrumph! Whatever they throw at us triggers our instinct to Improvise, Adapt and overcome. Success is the best revenge. Be joyful knowing the dark side will not win. They hate it when you’re happy.
Touché!
This is what I've been saying since the 2016 campaign: Trump IS the Resistance.
MAGA and the rag tag band of outliers have love and hope. The DemonCrats have hate, more hate, and despair. Doesn’t seem like much of a choice!
Let the outlier musicians have their day in the sun ☀️ I would much rather listen to them than “the chosen ones!”
Either way, TAW! 🤩🔥❤️💥🙏
Dr. Jill said this morning on CBS her husband would have been a great President if he would have been re-elected.
She also insinuated Trump would have put Hunter in prison, when he was indicted and prosecuted by her husband’s own FBI and DOJ, and found guilty of three federal crimes long before Trump became President.
She never mentioned Afghanistan or the 15M illegals from every country on the planet he ushered in.
That woman is so much more evil than I’d ever imagined. A power and control freak, an elder abuser and horrific liar. The Marxist lies and propaganda are more than I can take. It began hard during Covid when the jabs were pushed so hard and the Lancet, a once respected medical journal, stated that the BLM riots were fine, even though it involved black people who were supposedly at the hugest risk for Covid, because the message was good, so it was worth the risk of death. What kind of nonpartisan medical journal would say that?! It’s become crazy land ever since. Obama and Biden have been an absolute nightmare for our country as they continue Obama’s “fundamental transformation”. It makes me so mad and very sad. It seems to be a true war of good versus evil.
The Democrat/left response to BLM and Covid was eye-opening. Was the Lancet piece the same as the letter by health professionals proclaiming that the mass demonstrations were fine because the scourge of racism was a bigger public health risk than Covid? Or was that something else? Then it turned out that the “epidemic” of unarmed black men killed by police was nearly imaginary. People thought it happened hundreds or thousands of times a year, but the actual numbers are closer to 10.
It’s incredible that so many still buy the lies and propaganda. I guess everything they stand for is thrown out the window if reality steps in. Can’t do that. Can’t reassess and readjust to a new reality, then you have to admit you fell for the lies and admit you were duped. While they had their mass demonstrations, Trump had rallies and he and his supporters were cast as “disease spreaders” like Hitler cast the Jews as TB (disease) spreaders. The double standards are what gets me the most. I still seek fairness in an unfair world. And it’s very frustrating.
And I think it was the Lancet that published that completely fabricated, bogus "research" about Hydroxychloroquine, saying it made people with COVID sicker. The opposite was the truth.
She's so fucking delusional. Sorry for the f-word, but it seemed appropriate. I bet they all nodded along and no one pushed back on her insanity?
Bipartisan: A word that means both major political racketeering organizations get to fleece the government, and the people get shafted.
So true!
"Our country paid too high a price for having politics and culture merge, as it did under Obama." This sentence perfectly encapsulates the origin of what's happened the past ten years. Great post.
Bill Clinton playing the sax on late night tv and discussing his chosen underwear style kicked it off imo.
That was the TV kickoff, but back in the JFK years the Broadway and Beltway Liberals used the Camelot Analogy to market Jack and Jackie. And Hollywood pushed the narrative as well, long after the London Bankers did away with JFK!
Yes, the "powers that be" (in London AND in NYC) didn't like that JFK wanted to pay off the Federal Reserve (which is neither "federal", nor a "reserve") debt with a United States certificate note (can't remember the exact name) and that JFK wanted to "go after the 'shadow government entities'". Watch "The speech that got JFK killed" on Youtube - if it's still there.
Yes! that’s the degeneracy & vulgarity of the culture applauded by these people.
Yep, and his charming ways with the public. Watch the Bush/Clinton townhall type "debate" and see the woman who asked a question, swoon when Bill answers them! At the time, some women said they were voting for Bill because of his great hair! BTW, I actually saw Clinton at a local, upscale restaurant in 2005ish and the women were still swarming around him.
I lived in the Bay Area when Chelsea was a student at Stanford and Bill visited frequently (snarling traffic from the airport to the campus) and boy, did he charm the wives of the local officials he met. Years later, I spent a couple years in Westchester County, and my business partner ran into him at a Chapaqua restaurant. A highly educated professional, she was struck by his charisma.
Now that I think about it, the same was said about Ted Kennedy decades earlier when I worked in Boston. Is that quality inherent to a successful politician or attributed after the fact??
You can't leave out Bill's womanizing, philandering and "bedding" women who weren't his wife (Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, among MANY MANY others). And being accused of sexual assault (which Paula Jones would've won her court case if she went through with it, because the evidence was solid, but instead, she took the million dollars - in today's money, that Bill offered her to drop it). So I think it goes WELL beyond "inherent to a successful politician and attributed after the fact". It's said that Hillary picked Bill out of the crowd, in college, because he was so magnetic and she had big political aspirations way back then. Also, I remember reading a comment from a person who briefly worked with Bill Clinton. He was a Christian and his assessment was that he had "charming spirits" that "charmed people in a supernatural, spiritual way". It's illuded to in the Bible and it's not a good thing.
"They aren't the 'resistance.' They have always been the empire." Yes! And they absolutely love to pretend to be the oppressed, to virtue signal to show their smug moral superiority, even to get so worked up as to actually fight physically (have you seen the poor horses in New Jersey getting attacked- horses!).Then when Trump leaves office they will deign to "take us back in." How benevolent.
Late last night while channel surfing I glanced for a few minutes to watch an NPR program about Woodstock which was per NPR one of our greatest moments. Young people (then) coming together blah blah blah. Those young people are now all old hippies and they still have that same case of ass rash. There is no cure for whatever it is that infects their minds.
Old, tired public broadcasting knows which side its bread is buttered and has since forever—it's those old, tired, dirty effin' hippies, of course. Now would you please join me in a round of some old Pete Seeger dirge?
UPDATED Just because NPR touts some version of Woodstock, let's not reflexively trash that moment. Nixon had been elected in 1968, based on a promise ('secret plan') to end the Vietnam War, and then reneged. He castigated peaceniks as bums, and the draft was going full blast, even after the 1969 lottery. Woodstock was a showcase for great music and cooperative living.
Nixon was re-elected Nov. 1973, the Paris Peace Accord was signed two days after Nixon's second Inauguration. How did he renege? He had been steadily drawing down the number of US troops in Nam during his first term and Nixon ended the draft. Sounds to me like he kept his promises. BTW the last draft call was Dec. 1972 and the last draftee reported June 1973. That was of special interest to me since I turned 18 in July, 1973.
KM: Please see my updated post, especially my correction on which election I meant to refer to. My mistake. It now reads the 1968 election. With that in mind, why did it take four years to end the war on terms essentially available in 1968? Nixon switched to "Peace with Honor" as an excuse to keep the war going, and continue to divide the country. The drawdown was slow, and the draft kept going. In those four years we had dirty tricks, Law and Order, Watergate, illegal secret bombing of Cambodia, Kent State, Jackson State and so on. We also had over 20,000 American troops killed, and many more wounded. Not to mention a huge number of Vietnamese. He and Pat Buchanan thought they would win re-election in 1972 by dividing the Democrats, and in the campaign painted WWII B-24 George McGovern as a weak fringe sellout. The DNC refused to support. McGovern, and Hardhats for Nixon was born. The New Yorker (and others) later covered Buchanan's 1971 memo memorializing this along with the Southern Strategy.
GROK: https://grok.com/c/65032cff-51cf-41c8-b3e7-8759883bbb54?rid=1ed8c2e1-1419-41ab-bb3c-e4b3bbae91c3
Excerpt: Pat Buchanan wrote a 1971 memo to President Richard Nixon (and his advisors) titled along the lines of “Dividing the Democrats.” It outlined a political strategy to exploit divisions in the Democratic Party and the broader country to build a lasting Republican majority.
The Core Idea: "Cut the Country in Half"
The memo's most quoted line captures the essence of what you're asking about:
“Such gambits... could cut the Democratic Party and country in half; my view is that we would have far the larger half.”
Buchanan argued that by exacerbating existing fault lines in the old New Deal/FDR coalition (working-class whites, Catholics, Southerners, etc.), Republicans could win the bigger share of a divided electorate.
I agree that it took too long. But thank God Nixon did win again and he did end it. BTW, the southern strategy didn't amount to anything and the whole Watergate thing was partially a set up, I believe. Read some of the more recent research and revelations regarding it. I read (but didn't follow up with research) that one of the guys who broke into the Watergate DNC offices used to be a long time Democrat! Was it all a DNC plan all along? Nixon was hugely popular and McGovern was a socialist, if I recall, so I'm not surprised he won. What is "Law and Order" and "dirty tricks" and wasn't Cambodia helping Nam, in a big way? Also, I don't think you can blame Kent State and Jackson State on Nixon.
There was tons of sex, drugs and rock an roll; not my kind of "cooperative living" because it tends to end up badly.
It was a cultural moment, I guess, but it never spoke to me, a vanguard Gen Xer. Boomers act as if they accomplished something with Woodstock, but that altruism vanished with the draft lottery and the drawdown. And the music is so ancient it needs a toupee. Meh.
As a boomer myself I agree with everything you wrote except the music, a lot of it was damn good.
KM: We agree on the music, at least.
BN/KM: Woodstock was a cultural moment, not a world-changer. But it a rebuttal to the assertion that only the Silent Majority types were upstanding citizens. As a generation, the Boomers have been a great disappointment, no question. The first Boomer President, Bill Clinton, dove towards the middle with triangulation and created the Democratic Leadership Council. The agenda became ending "welfare as we know it," Sister Souljah, and female exploitation.
GROK:https://grok.com/c/0ff93916-3215-4f81-89aa-7124b3b09750?rid=82fdcca8-d3a8-477f-9921-e0aeec699370
EXCERPT: "Bimbo eruptions" is a phrase coined by Betsey Wright, a longtime aide and chief of staff to Bill Clinton during his time as Arkansas governor and deputy chair of his 1992 presidential campaign.
It described the pattern of women coming forward with claims of sexual affairs or misconduct with Clinton, which the campaign had to manage or suppress. Wright later expressed regret over the term, as it was dismissive and derogatory toward the women involved."
Sadly, Clinton marked the end of the New/Old Left.
As the Left's control over news and culture slips away, they cling ever tighter, in desperation, to that dwindling power they once knew and enjoyed. They'll be ever more doctrinaire and uglier by the end, Jennifer Welch ugly, but an artistic Renaissance is just around the corner.