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Libertarian's avatar

Fascinating conversation with two very well read and experienced writers. Their talk flows pleasantly and yet is very insightful also. They cover the Fourth Turning theory and manifestation of it recently also. I really liked it.

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Matt L.'s avatar

Nice chat you had there w/ Paul, Sasha, enjoyed the listen. Hope I’m able to grasp the chaotic nature of the Pendulum (40 year cycles) book when I check it out. You are spot on, IMO, on the ‘2 America’s’ (Obama’s virtual, collective, politically correct) vs. (Trump’s America which champions free speech/thought, individualism, ‘real’ relationships). This election is to determine if Trump can stop Obama’s cold in its tracks or if it’s gonna take longer. Your quip about airport ‘safe spaces’ where you can enter to freely speak your mind was gold. Howe it seems has lost his ability to speak w/ pure honesty post J6, which is sad. I’m not going to bother buying his update. Finally, it is indeed Trump who is our Grey Champion and I’m also damn proud to be Gen X !

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Kurt's avatar

Sasha, fantastic interview. You should do a reading/book club thing on the Fourth Turning. I read it a while back after finding your Substack and it is spot on. Of course this is crunch time before the election too. Busy busy. However they fit together, hand in glove. They compliment each other.

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John Baus's avatar

Amazing interview!! I enjoyed every minute.

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Lew's avatar

I also want to say that I hate hosts who keep interrupting their guests and Paul Finn was exemplary in letting you go on until you finished a thought.

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Lew's avatar

Your voice has a serenity and peacefulness (is that redundant?) that makes it very easy to listen to you but you also relate stories and opinions in an interesting way. Your posts are great but I admit that I really love the podcasts. I guess that it's lots of extra work to do them so however often you do them is fine with me.

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Faith's avatar

Thank you...coming from you, I'll take a listen.

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Ruth's avatar

Great informative interview!

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Being a Nancy's avatar

Enjoyed. I too started a couple of successful home businesses years ago so I could stay home with the kids.

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Libertarian's avatar

Sash, Ryan banned me on AD for defending you. 😂

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Ripple's avatar

AD?

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Libertarian's avatar

Awards Daily. AwardsDaily.com It’s Sasha site that reviews movies and makes predictions on various film awards (eg Best Film, Best Actress, etc). It’s cool site but the guy who monitors comments is super woke and bans those commenters who aren’t (eg me 😂)

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David MacGregor's avatar

Don't even have to read this post (but I will Sasha) hope you like my poem Jesus someone else borrowing on false fame and fake news https://open.substack.com/pub/davidmacgregor/p/dialectic-of-american-revolution?r=patn2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Heyjude's avatar

Don’t you even wonder how 20,000 Haitians ended up in a community of 68,000 in Ohio? Wonder how you would react if your community had to absorb a 30% increase in population, all immigrants from a completely different culture. Oh wait, we already know. How fast was that small group of Venezuelans evicted from Martha’s Vineyard? Less than 48 hrs, as I recall. Hypocrites.

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Libertarian's avatar

Jude, I was in Haiti for a bit when I was in the US military. I am from Philly and had been to NYC, Chicago and Camden before Haiti; but Haiti was a completely different and more dangerous place than all the others put together. Extreme poverty and lawlessness. The streets were littered with human feces, child prostitutes and every sort of gang. I wish the people that facilitate this immigration would have the guts to have the people move in with them instead of their much poorer neighbors.

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Heyjude's avatar

Oh you progressive leftists! So willing to discount eyewitness accounts from those rubes in favor of a government office pronouncement, carefully worded. Nothing can be verified (because we will never check it out), no credible reports (because it’s just those deplorables complaining again).

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Art's avatar

Dang, never heard of a group of people so pure and stainless. Ten thousand people and none have committed any misdemeanors, even a traffic violation! Hint: gaslighting is more effective if it as at least somewhat plausible.

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Libertarian's avatar

Bet you $100 you never had a Haitian family living in your house. Nice virtue signaling though 😂

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Libertarian's avatar

Whew! That’s like a book review! Nice work.

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