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Brian DeLeon's avatar

This is why I stay off of social media. This is the first I’ve heard of the Trump hospitalization rumor, and this is my first exposure to these so-called influencers. My thought is, you can’t be an influencer if no one is paying attention to you. It’s a shame more people don’t drop social media and simply interact with each other in person.

JJoshua's avatar

Social media, like academia, is a cesspool. It’s the bane of society.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Academia is responsible for starting this mess TDS, DEI, cancel culture, transgenderism, etc., in the first place; it really is a cesspool.

LilDawg's avatar

Is “academia” anything other than a liberal cesspool anymore? I have a son @ TCU, I don’t sense this moral, anti- American sentiment from him and his friends, or anyone from his catholic HS in NW suburban Chicago.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

You and he are lucky that he hasn't been influenced by Woke ideology. Most conservative faculty have been pushed out and new hires meet diversity quotas.

Derek's avatar

Careful, you might give “cesspool” a bad name. Cesspools at least serve a useful function.

Dutchmn007's avatar

To me it’s just boring anymore. To go on X & what? - me too/me too/me too?

Used to be pretty active on X/Twitter years ago but it just bores the hell out of me now.

steven t koenig's avatar

Some of us saw it coming and never participated to begin with

Bob's avatar

Some of us participated to begin with and never saw it coming. Or did we? Hmm.

steven t koenig's avatar

To be fair, I was bad-mouthing television 40 years ago

Roger Beal's avatar

Watching cute cat video clips on YouTube is a far better use of time than scrolling thru X comments.

Maxx Mueller's avatar

With all due respect, Roger, I disagree. I have a ball when I've got a little time, and heartily enjoy trading insults with the a$zhole lefties on X. 😏.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

I'll go with dog or parrot videos . 😁

Bob's avatar

Pornhub fan myself. Well used to be, before they went all vanilla and started vetting their content.

JJoshua's avatar

It’s just awful all around sadly

Kurt's avatar

Except for Sasha, who is like the cesspool’s exterminator.

Bill G's avatar

I've thought about taking this tact too. I'm trying to assess how much of the time I spend swiping through reels on Instagram or Facebook etc. is really "useful" information and how much is just entertaining dreck. Even seeing some awesome food preparation/recipe becomes a time waster at some point. The last couple of days I've tried to find some "source" where you could get an update on the search for the missing pilot (?) and nowhere could I find something that was an clearly straightforward presentation or update. This is crazy. We have more "communication" available than ever and yet it's all tainted. I did see this article that gave some interesting background on the role Oman was playing regarding the Strait of Hormuz problem, but this was just something random I came across not a place I would have been looking for "information". Consuming less of the chatter seems more and more like a good approach.

Deb Hunt's avatar

I agree with the fear that all news is tainted now. Even some of the good ones have opted for the dark side recently. Ego, money, clout, relevance and other things they seek over truth

Brian M's avatar

This is the operative question: "Can we exist with these people any more"? I ask myself that question, often. The Left continuously cranks up the enmity and hate towards the other half of the country. This cannot continue. At some time the entire American experiment is going to blow, just like it did in 1861. I hope the Left is ready for the historic event they are creating.

AncientViking's avatar

"I hope the Left is ready for the historic event they are creating."

I hope they're not....

Harry Prothero's avatar

If it went that far the wealthy lefties would immediately leave the country. Then you'd have a bunch of blue-haired "thems" acting tough but dying in seconds in a shooting war. The Dems would then sue for peace and bring CCP in as "peacekeepers", which is their eventual goal anyway.

Gitch's avatar

Exactly, don't even mention it on the news. That's all they want is attention

Hektor Bleriot's avatar

I'm on social media a lot and I did not hear about it until this story either. And I'm glad for it.

He is risen!

Pat Robinson's avatar

I don’t know Sasha.

The left really is that bad, repellent sewer people who literally prefer it if 7th century sociopaths kill Americans (and Israelis).

JJoshua's avatar

That is because because deep inside the left hates themselves and America.

D Parker's avatar

They hate liberty along with everything else.

That means people are able to live their lives as they want – they can't stand that.

AncientViking's avatar

They cover their hate with nihilism and false gods...

NWCitizen's avatar

You want trump to kill 93M people in Iran?

NNTX's avatar

I read recently a post from Javier Millei re. the Left. He refutes the obvious explanation for their idiocies and lies, that they are “stupid”. Instead he characterizes these folks as riven by greed, envy and division. Sounds about right to me. And sad, when there are other saner options available.

Pat Robinson's avatar

I think they have to have a certain level of stupid to defend the things they do.

Being unable to think for yourself is a form of stupidity.

NNTX's avatar

You make a good point.

Pat Robinson's avatar

They are mostly educated and they have a bunch of stuff in their heads but they cannot marshal it into a coherent whole.

And so they are easily fooled and manipulated.

A cult, but to them it’s the other side that is the cult.

George Jonas once used a term for Justin Trudeau the perfectly encapsulates the left:

“Educated beyond their intellectual means”.

Perfect.

ALLYSONRT's avatar

I sometimes wish we could become two separate countries. The left can have some states all to themselves. No police, no military, no decorum and live in a colored rainbow of homeless tents among Ms 13 villains.

We could live as civilized people with our rights, law and order and never have to deal with the Liberal white women who support evils they never see . They can find out how life is without us. I had had it with stupidity of " influencers"

Sasha..you are the best!

Nietzsche's Hammer's avatar

Nah, I would not cede one square inch of US soil to them. Not even shitoles like Baltimore, Oakland or Chicago. I'd rather kick them off our soil, and rebuild the places I just mentioned.

Brian M's avatar

Kick them where? That is the problem. They control the Federal govt and the judicial system. It is going to require a battle to accomplish this division.

Nietzsche's Hammer's avatar

I don't care where they get kicked too. They just can't stay here anymore.

Tricia's avatar

Yo! That would be "rainbow of color!!" :) To add to the two separate countries idea, no immigration or "asylum seeking" from the crazy country to the civilized country.

Brian M's avatar

I would honestly like for the Red states to build a giant wall dividing us from the Blue states. Let those states secede from the Union and form their own Marxist society. We will need to use our military to police our new national border and protect our border from illegal entries by the Left. Screw them all. And I will need to give up my home state of Oregon to the Marxist cabal

Alice's avatar

I think your sentiment about wishing for separate countries finds many agreeing on all parts of the political spectrum. I don’t know about other parts of the nation but here in the west there is a Cascadia movement. (https://www.cascadianow.org) I don’t follow it so I’m not sure if there is acknowledgment that California, Washington, and Oregon themselves are states divided.

I’m not sure it would fall out as you describe. Most of states that regularly pay more on federal taxes than they receive tend blue states (historical top 10–California, Colorado, Washington State, Nebraska, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illinois, Minnesota). Just take out California and you have a problem funding a national military. (chttps://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-contribute-the-most-and-least-to-federal-revenue/)

You might be interested in American Nations by Colin Woodward. He traces the different histories of US regions, which have often acted almost as rival nations throughout our history. I’m

Not enough of a historian to critique the book—but I found it fascinating. These differences are nothing new.

Brian M's avatar

You are making an assumption that conservative taxpayers, individual and corporate, will not relocate to Red states. They will. They already are. The Blue states are never happy with the taxes they collect and always try to take more. This is true of CA and NY. They are pushing their biggest taxpayers to Red states. Once the division is declared, that will accelerate and there will be plenty of taxes to fund the basics our Constitution promises us. It never promised us welfare or national healthcare. Those are unConstitutional expenses.

Alice's avatar

In my long life I have read constantly about how taxes will drive businesses away. It has never happened to a great degree but things change so I make no claims. My personal opinion is that climate change will have a lot more to do with migrations than taxes. But if a billionaire moves to a state with no or low state taxes, it benefits the billionaire but not the state. So to make up for lost federal revenues wouldn’t the Federated Red Stated have to either services or raise taxes? Personally, I have always lived in states with high taxes and have refused offers in two states with low taxes—so I’m not a good judge and certainly not an economist.

To thrive modern businesses need a strong infrastructure and an educated and healthy workforce. When major businesses move, they tend have an effect on the places to which they move.

I don’t think I claimed anywhere that the Constitution required welfare or national healthcare. If you mean the original Constitution, the great compromise, it allowed slavery and left voting to the states who mostly limited it to white men who owned property.

ALLYSONRT's avatar

Thank you. I am going to check out the information!

Yasmin Martin's avatar

after reading Kurt Schlichter's books about a national split, I imagine it would not be pretty

ALLYSONRT's avatar

Probably noy..but a fantasy to not live with the morons in LA

Rooster's avatar

Happy Easter Sasha! Thanks for fighting the good fight.

Timothy G McKenna's avatar

I won’t worry too much about the asshats on the other side until a stadium full of college students spontaneously burst into chants of “F DONALD TRUMP!!!” I happened to be watching that TV coverage when you could clearly hear the kids screaming “FUCK JOE BIDEN” and the sideline reporter said, “uh, I think they’re saying ‘Let’s Go Brandon!’l

Hilarious.

Don’t piss n my shoes and tell me it’s raining, MSM and compliant subservient dolts..,

Bill G's avatar

For the record, Brandon Brown WAS a great stock car driver... 😜

BradK (Tuckered out)'s avatar

I don't think we need to worry about Iranian trolls. We have plenty of home grown ones to feed the grist mill.

And worse, an endless supply of gullible and embittered followers (or influencees) who hang upon their every duplicitous posting.

Richard's avatar

It would have been the military doing the communication and rescue. Disinformation possibly the CIA. I have seen some speculation that they were using in country assets to help hide him and/or disrupt Iranian assets looking for him. Mossad seems to have more of this asset than CIA and Israel like the US and unlike Europe has the same bring them all back attitude. Obviously, no one can talk about that because it would endanger the Iranians who helped.

Maxx Mueller's avatar

You are absolutely correct. As a former military person, I fully understand what GOOD deep cover can due in these situations. It's a crying shame that our "allies" are so weak, corrupt, cowardly & shortsighted that they fail to see what the future holds if they continue on their current path.....

JudyC's avatar

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!” Let them swim in their self made cesspool! (And I say that having grown up in Venezuela, Libya, Italy, Cyprus and Switzerland, and traveling all over Europe, South and Central America and the Middle East.)

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Maxx Mueller's avatar

Yeah, that's how it gets done.

Gitch's avatar

Iranian trolls.. hopefully! Otherwise these people need what I call a lane correction. I'm so sick of the negative trashing of DJT. Where were these people when we had a pet rock for a President that needed trashing! Yeah, right they were stealing $$ from us tax payers

Mtone's avatar

The lockstep marching keyboard warriors continue to provide comic relief yet nothing else of relevance, substance or value.

Happy Easter Sasha and to all who view this post.

Curt Chipman's avatar

I left X because I defended you online when you lost your account and then they started targeting me. Could care less now. Life is more real. Happy Easter Sasha.

Jim I's avatar

Dems have lost their propaganda prop.

The DNC is in a huddled panic today trying to invent word salads for Schumer, Jeffries, AOC and Mamdani.

Drcurls's avatar

I don’t have time in life to read all the crap…. Which is why I love how you stay on top of everything and give superb synopses. 🙏🙏🙏

Jeff Keener's avatar

I suspect it was the latter. The Horrid Left will maintain their hate any way that they can.

Otherwise, Happy Easter everybody!

NothingButNet's avatar

Look at the bright side, Sasha - the left/Democratic Party provides a home for the majority of the mentally ill in this country!

Seva's avatar

An astonishingly damning assessment of Trump, Netanyahu, other word leaders, of America and of where the world is heading by Jeffrey Sachs and all on Easter Sunday, a day when all who consider themselves Christian, or have any religion or at least a conscience, should take the time to consider where they stand on the moral issues of our time. Jeffrey Sachs is a professor at Columbia University and public policy expert well known and respected here and globally. In this interview he’s talking to a reporter from the “Times of India” the world’s largest selling English daily. She’s appalled by the Iran war and says it’s opposed globally by more than half the people. No doubt way more than half since it’s so obviously wrong. My guess is that China, backed by Russia and India, will step in at some point to stop it.

‘Iran War Disastrous’: Jeffrey Sachs Shows No Mercy To ‘Psychopathic’ Trump, Netanyahu. (11 min)

Times of India. Apr 5, 2026. Easter Sunday

https://youtu.be/sBXIbgObeBM?si=Eero06BgucnRj9Z6

steven t koenig's avatar

Go ahead, root for the enemy. We all know who you are. You've tagged yourselves with nose rings, tattoos and purple hair. Your idiocy will sink you in the end

quarkdetector's avatar

...chances are and I haven't looked at the link ... Sachs didn't mention the seven other Columbia professors who signed a letter distancing themselves from Sachs and his views published in a Berkeley blog a couple of years ago ...

secondly ... perhaps the commenter prefers just paying the Iranians ... like when the Iranians held Jermey Rezaian (2014-2016) and coincidentally 400 million dollars was airlifted to Iran on the day he was released ...

Libertarian's avatar

Seva served in the US Marine Corp and he is not a chicken-hawk Neocon who puts the Epstein Zionist Israel class before America like so many of the commentators here do. He’s a US Marine. And just in case, four of my brothers and I are also US military veterans (Army, Navy, Marines). Our Catholic pope has indicated the war with Iran is unjust and as a result all 1.4 billion Catholics are compelled to oppose it. @seva240486

Maxx Mueller's avatar

IF Seva served in the USMC, as I did, he's one sorry az$ Marine. The Corp's motto is Semper Fidelis ( Latin 4 Always Faithful ). I'm wondering how being his type of "faithful" squares with abandoning the future of the entire USA, as well as the rest of the civilized world?

Don't fool yourself, Roman Catholics, for the most part don't bow down & kiss the ring of the Pope or any other King.🤴.

Libertarian's avatar

Since you put Israeli Epstein class Jews before the United States of America and Americans. And Baal before Jesus Christ, you should join the IDF and practice crucifixions. Then you can go to Gaza and help in their genocide of Palestinians.

Seva's avatar

“squares with abandoning the future of the entire USA”

You’re the one abandoning America which is now ruled by the ever more deranged, foul-mouthed, buffoon Trump who has turned the world against America with his insults, bullying, threats, wildly erratic tariffs, and has ruined global trade and economies with this idiot war on Iran and is planning on sending in Marines who will be slaughtered by Iran’s precision missiles and drones. Iran is being helped by N. Korea, Russia and China and is also plugged into China’s satellite system where they will get the exact coordinates in real time of where our troops are and will annihilate them with drones and missiles. Trump is sending them into a meat grinder. There won’t even be bodies left to send home.

And you’re all on board with this because Trump says it’ll be a cakewalk for our Marines to beat the Iranians in their own country. You’re a dummy, just a truly stupid fool. And how much longer will it be before America is getting pounded the way Israel now is?

‘Apocalyptic Strike’: Iran Hellfire Jolts Israel’s Haifa, Scenes of Devastation, IDF Stunned. (10 min)

Times of India. Apr 5, 2026

https://youtu.be/BAsU25wr8I8?si=bQ3UHbaJwMQEgoJ2

Maxx Mueller's avatar

Thank for your perspective. But, you are the fool to think it's acceptable to wait until Iran is capable of striking the US in force. They've made their intentions perfectly clear.

Perhaps you would prefer to have a silly DemoRat like Jimmy Carter in the White House. Wouldn't that be wonderful ( again ) when an Iranian crisis occurred?

Seva's avatar

I voted for Trump 3 times and had high hopes for him but since taking office he’s been an ever worsening disaster. He’s turned most of the world against America with his insults, bullying, threats, wildly erratic tariffs and now war which has severely damaged world trade plus how long will it be before our many enemies start targeting America’s infrastructure with drones and missiles with precision strikes? It’s great that the American Airman was rescued but more planes will be shot down and we can’t keep up with these rescues and how about the boots on the ground in Iran which will be sitting ducks for the missiles and drones which will know precisely where to find the troops?

‘You Crazy Bas***ds’: Trump’s Abusive Iran Rant After Pilot Rescue; Drops New ‘Iran Deal’ Date. (11 min)

Times of India. Apr 5, 2026

https://youtu.be/nhuMtdWH72I?si=NzPbNWDhlFDbcs41

Maxx Mueller's avatar

Seva, do you have even the slightest idea about what Islamism has as it's ultimate goal? Before you praise the mass slavery or indoctrination of the world, do a little research or at the very least some reading.

Seva's avatar

I did some research and found that your beloved Trump welcomed the new president of Syria who is an Islamist to the White House. He’d been on a terrorist watchlist before becoming president which was offering a $10M bounty for him. Trump got along with him quite well.

Heyjude's avatar

The world according to Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, or Norman Finkelstein. Over and over and over again. It’s tiresome.

Seva's avatar

And you’re not tiresome with your love of whatever Trump does? We are now at the point where we’ll have troops on the ground in Iran who will be slaughtered which will lead to more troops on the ground who will also be wiped out by precision guided drones supplied by N. Korea, Russia and China. Any you call me “tiresome!?” You are grotesque and I hate you at least as intensely as you hate me. At this point people like you are even more destructively deranged than the Woke white left.

Heyjude's avatar

I don’t hate you, nor would I ever say you are grotesque. I feel sorry for you. You have enveloped yourself in a doomsday cult, and seem to relish every step into the gloom.

Seva's avatar

You’re a good example of why humanity is too dysfunctional to survive. I feel sorry for humanity. No doubt even God is appalled by what a disastrous flop it turned out to be.

Koshmap's avatar

Jeff Sachs is an anti-American, pro-globalist traitor who shills for the atrocious United Nations and every authoritarian regime on the planet (China, Russia, Iran) while blaming America for every atrocity these authoritarian regimes commit. For example, he excused Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Russia's 'legitimate right to defend itself' against NATO expansion, even though neither Ukraine nor NATO attacked Russia prior to Russia's invasion. I personally think it would have been better to treat Ukraine as a 'buffer state' between Russia and NATO, but that doesn't mean I think that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was legitimate. Conversely, while Sachs says that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was provoked by America's actions, he argues that Trump's attack on Iran is illegitimate, even though Iran's has undertaken many provocative actions against the US either directly or through its proxies (the taking of hostages from our embassy in Tehran, the bombing of the marine barracks in Lebanon, the attacks on our military personnel in Iraq, and so forth). As far as Sachs is concerned, everything that our enemies do is legitimate and justified, and everything the US does is illegitimate and unjustified. He consistently uses a double standard in evaluating our foreign policy versus those of authoritarian regimes. Sachs is widely reviled, not respected, and btw, being a professor at Columbia University doesn't have the status you think it does -- after all, Zohran Mamdani's father is also a professor at Columbia University. BDF.

OverFlowError's avatar

Sachs….a credentialed apologist for Russian aggression.

Erich Sielaff's avatar

I am a new subscriber to your posts and a big fan. Thank you for putting this out today. The problem is not only that they are spreading poison and lies, but there are millions of Americans who are getting their news exclusively from miscreants like this. And then like a real super spreader, they pass it along and we have to overcome the lies in multiple venues. Sick, insane vermin.