Writing here from Australia, I have to say I always love reading Sasha's posts. It is always piercing insight in comparison to the commentary we get from our own MSM mouthpieces. There is a huge divergence between what is going on in the US and what is going on in the rest of the so-called
"Anglosphere" and the Eurozone. In America, you are done with being gaslighted by your MSM - it seems a great plurality of opinion polls show the Democrat Party/MSM media narrative is increasingly falling on deaf ears. Trump is an awesome force sweepng away the debris of a collapsing order. But in the rest of the western world we are suffering from a tightening net of on line censorship. It makes me feel like I am in the scene from the Star Wars movie - "Obi-wan-Kenobi, you are our only hope" - except that I am actually saying to the MAGA voters of America, that YOU are our only hope. You must save the American republic as envisioned by your founding fathers, because everywhere else in the western world, we are still very much under the thumbs of the hidden/concealed globalist powers-that-be that still have control of our politicians and our bureaucracies. The situation is dire!!
As does the right to bear arms! The one and only significant difference with the rest of the euro world and why they are fighting so hard to keep restricting our 2A here.
How do we tell the difference between the "good" demagogues (Trump) and the bad ones, like obama?
I guess go back (the wayback machine? This can be at least removed, as Peter Srock shows- when he dumped his twitter/X account, the "wayback machine" lost it's records too) and read everything that they have ever written?
We have Trump right now, and maybe JD Vance for the next 4/8 years. Are there others in the lineup? The best research takes time and it's much better to form an opinion before an election is staring you in the face.
We are going to be facing sophisticated "grass roots" (appearing) counter movements (counter movements against Trump). It appears clear that the CIA was entirely anti Trump, and this was DURING 2016 to 2020. They infiltrated (along with the FBI) into all of the social media constellation. They may have been mostly removed from Twitter/X (or possibly keeping their "heads down" now that Elon has cleaned up the company) but they are not going to go away, IMO. And that Smith-Munct Act (the one that obama neutered before leaving office) allows color revolutions and apparently took the CIA's "gloves" off here. Can that be fixed? And although the "democrats" play for keeps, we don't (and I don't know that we should?) and it's going to be easy to duplicate the treachery that they have just been "busted" for. IOW, we need to get the playing field a little more on our side. How do we do this?
Regardless, it's important for the future that we look and see how we got to our present. Thanks for your great webpage Sasha. I got there from TGP
It is easy.... who is for less government, less control, more independence, more tolerance, more self-reliance. That is the leader to follow. The umbrella for that movement can be called libertarianism. IMO, JD Vance is going to be a perfect leader. He has all of Trump's best qualities and none of his worst (womanizing, braggadocio)
I really like that Trump spiked up tariffs on Brasil for how the Globalists in that country treated Populist, Bolsanaro. Where it doesn’t hurt America, I’d like to see more of this. Cut back on biz with those countries that suppress 1A.
Thx for the insight Duncan. I'm gonna say that that the evangelical, Bible-belt states (mostly the South) have a LOT to do with America's counter-revolution against the Left. Relationship with God, being God-fearing, under His authority, it gives one wisdom and discernment. People who worship false gods (money, pleasure, self, power), they are given over to believe the lie. (as explained in II Corinthians 4:3-4, and many other places).
Texyz, I understand your point about faith and authority, but it’s important to also think about how the Bible communicates power—often using harsh, fear-based language.
Romans 13:1 says government power comes from God and calls for obedience to rulers. Psalm 21 shows God using violent force against enemies. These passages promote an “us versus them” mindset based on fear and domination.
This kind of language makes honest and kind communication hard, both in personal relationships and society. Fear and control replace empathy, which can weaken relationships and even contribute to higher divorce rates.
When rulers claim they’re chosen by God, especially in theocracies, it can be very dangerous because it shuts down accountability and allows oppression, as history shows.
While some biblical values can guide wisdom if carefully chosen, many of the Bible’s messages about good and evil aren’t unique—they appear across cultures. This means we need better ways to relate to each other.
Nonviolent communication, which teaches empathy and compassionate listening, offers a much better way to build understanding and trust than fear or domination.
So, as we think about faith and revival, it’s important to read the Bible carefully, avoid picking verses to push political ideas, and recognize how fear-based power harms relationships and peaceful problem-solving.
I agree with some of what you say. But you ignore the obvious fact that leftists deploy divisive and condemning language at least as often, if k no or more often. Like many conservatives, I have been called a racist, a fascist, a Nazi, et al., all too often. Once those words are falsely used against political opponents, there’s no need for further communication. And thus the divides deepen.
I absolutely agree with that. The leftists have gone from being pluralistic in viewpoint to becoming the populists they rally against. Democrats’ view of the wider community is not populist in the traditional sense. They usually try to get everyday people on board with them, but what they're really doing is getting the everyday academic and activist on board—so I guess we could call them "elite populists with a largely anti western agenda," representing elites who no longer believe in equal human rights based in common humanity.
Here’s the strange inversion: instead of embracing everyday people like traditional populists do, they show anger toward everyday people for not sharing their viewpoint (yes, an elite populist who’s frustrated with the very people they’re supposed to represent!).
In terms of how they've tried to subvert the court through activist judges and the language they use against opponents, I agree with you. It’s amazing they haven't seen themselves—that they’ve stripped away the idea of equal human rights grounded in common humanity, favoring identity politics instead (the system grounded in the concept of oppressor and oppressed. Good versus bad). For a party that used to support the constitution, they are now actively undermining it, along with the pluralism that supports democracy and many rights embedded in the constitution.
I think this is one of the most dangerous developments. We are seeing Marxists take over the political party and work against democracy within the Democrats. Marxist-style language becomes more evident, dividing people as it is designed to do.
At the end of the day, it’s about communication systems that govern how we paint one side as good and the other as bad—often using shame, intimidation, or compulsion instead of reason and compassion to maintain adherence. As soon as you do that—whether it’s the Bible or any other ideology, including Democrat or Republican—you strip away the ability to see the person as a fellow human. That’s the point I’m making, and why I think Marshall Rosenberg’s nonviolent communication is one of the best cures for this age.
You make so many good points here. Thank you for posting this. I can honestly say that you’ve challenged me (in a very good way!) to be more reflective in how I respond to people who don’t agree with me. I’m guilty of some of these very things. I’m learning to do better. And your help in that regard is greatly appreciated, NC.
Well, I think that's very kind, and I do waffle on a little, so thank you for having the patience to wade through XD. At the end of the day, it’s about people, how we relate, the words we use the architecture behind that, and how we internalise the discussion (moving away from good and bad — Marshall Rosenberg).
I really enjoyed Marshall Rosenberg's book because it helps solve relationship problems. I wish it were taught to children so they’d have better tools for adult life. Schools teach sex education but not relationship communication — which is arguably more important for quality of life: getting the right job, having the right friends, the right partner, and the skills to communicate with community and the world. It also explores how we relate more widely and across cultures.
Thank You though you seem like someone I’d love to have a beer with even if your half a world away— you like ideas and, essentially, you love people.
Well stated Duncan. You’ve nailed it. Trump is our 2nd George Washington, with one big difference. Trump 2.0 has the high ground. And an army of MAGA supporters so f-ing YUGE like the world has never before seen. Growing hourly. Backed by 11 carrier groups, 5th gen fighter jets, B-2 stealth wizardry, and that’s just the baseline. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is going to put America’s economic engine into overdrive. You ain’t seen nuffin’ yet. Hang in buddy. Hook your caboose to our locomotive and enjoy the ride.
I think that what Duncan and countless others realize, is that America’s success in combating the native evil cabal that has done so much to undermine our country, is now their only geopolitical hope in the battle against the global evil that has largely ‘captured’ the West.
To the extent that is so, he is absolutely correct.
From a geopolitical perspective, we are the last national hope of keeping the fires of freedom, truth, and traditional Judeo-Christian morality and ethics alive. If and when the United States falls, that hope will fall with it.
But (Behold the Underlying Truth), God…
Both the true and living God of the Bible, and Satan, are working very powerfully in our world today, using the same material elements, but to diametrically opposed ends.
It is a time of choosing for the world at large. The stakes are existential, and consequences, eternal.
Satan and his minions will have his day at some point, and I believe it cannot be too far off.
But, God will have His way in the Universe in the end; His Word will stand true in every detail, and He will fulfill the ‘Plan of the Ages’ conceived before the foundation of the world, and the creation of mankind.
Ultimately, the only question is where each of us will spend eternity. The pivot upon which that will swing, is whether we truly love the truth, seek to know and honor God, and what we choose to do with Jesus, the Jewish Messiah and Savior of the world.
The ship of this world is sinking, and the world can protest, wail, howl, and insist that ‘there must be another way’ to save the passengers from their pending doom. The question must be addressed individually, but how many have the courage of conviction to move against the flow of the mob?
Tragically, not many…
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Matthew 7:13-14 (NKJV)
May the Lord make Himself known as ‘the Way, the Truth, and the Life’, to all those with eyes to see, and ears to hear. May He send revival to those who know Him but may have drifted and slumbered through this period of encroaching darkness, and work a mighty work of salvation in the midst of this great and evil time.
We might be getting a "reprieve" with President Trump. If we can again become a model for the world, perhaps Europe will demand some kind of democracy there (it really isn't now, as the riots across Europe show. We don't see most of these riots; they've been going on for way over a year in places like Holland, where farm owners drive tractors over the streets and try to raise awareness of the globalism that is trying to snuff out any independence and to control the food) and we can get the world back "in shape" a little. I'm still opposed to intervention in places like Ukraine though and (mostly) any other force. We have PLENTY to do at home and we have a financial mess with our own country, what 35+ trillion?
It's going to be important to get truthful news on a large scale. I understand the MSM consists of 6 large groups. This situation needs fixing, perhaps we can use anti trust laws to break up these companies like President Teddy Roosevelt did in the early 1900's.
I have been watching what you describe happening in Europe over the past several years, and have rejoiced in the open stands taken by the people of Europe and Canada (Australia? New Zealand?) against the actual tyranny of evil that holds them in its grip.
It is resurgent America, inspired by President Trump and the MAGA/MAHA coalition, that poses the greatest threat to the Satanic ambitions underlying Globalism. And, it is for that reason that, as you suggest, it is so critical that our focus be on ‘Making America Great Again’.
That said, truly meaningful success in those efforts will only be achieved to the extent they are led and empowered by the Spirit of God. And our principal weakness and vulnerability in that regard is that we, as a nation, have drifted so far away from God. Rather than being led by our knowledge of God and His will, our actions are characterized by the spirit of ill-considered, self-gratifying impulsivity; “…everyone (doing) what (is) right in their own eyes.” (Judges 21:25b).
That, together with a foolish self-confidence, renders us extremely vulnerable to the time-proven ‘divide and conquer’ strategy Satan is now exploiting in order to defeat the threat the MAGA/MAHA coalition poses. He is using many different tactics in this effort, but the most obvious are the Epstein-related affairs and continued American support for the nation of Israel.
(While it is a complicated, powerfully divisive, and emotionally super-charged subject, Genesis 12:3 is an eternal promise, and our fate, as well as the world’s - and Satan’s - is inextricably linked to that of contemporary and future Israel.)
History makes a compelling case that he will succeed, and it is only by the grace of God that he hasn’t already.
I rejoice with others in God’s continuing restraint and revealing of what has been largely hidden evil, and yearn for those responsible to be brought into open shame and held accountable. In that unfolding process, there is hope that many will come to realize the precariousness of the hour, turn from the vain things that they have previously put their faith in, genuinely seek God, and then be led by the Spirit of Truth to place their faith and trust for salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ.
“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
In closing, I believe that it is primarily for that purpose that ‘we’, as in America, the West, and the world at large, have been given the reprieve you mention - and praise God for it.
Man on the street UK is calling for deportations from that country. That is all because of Trump. Trump has normalized deportations, and Western native populations around the globe are picking up the baton. It will take some time, and possible set backs. But the revolution occurring in the USA must continue on after Trump and be beacon for rest of the planet who loves and yearns for freedom.
Trump also announced this week another brilliant immigration policy. For certain countries who citizens chronically overstay their visas, US immigration now requires a $ deposit upon entry. I read $15K for Mawali citizens to enter USA from an airplane. Foreign visitor gets the $ back when they depart. Or if they don’t, $ use to hunt them down and kick out.
Thanks Mike for your reply. I can see the wisdom in your words as someome who has indeed "drifted and slumbered through this period of encroaching darkness" at different times.
Thank you Duncan. I also spent far too long adrift on the seas of wishful thinking and worldly desire. In fact, I spent twenty-five long years running from God; running from what I knew to be true, but didn’t want to believe must be.
I sought refuge in doubt, and the strange thing is that, even though it was self-generated, it did provide some fleeting solace. I know it sounds unbelievable, but I would be confronted by the Spirit of God at least once in every single day for that entire period, always saying the exact same thing; “You are living a lie. Is today the day you are going to stop?”
I would take it in, once again, knowing it was true. And then reply, “No, not today.”
‘The Hound of Heaven’ never gave up on me, but I continued to resist His call.
My stubborn willfulness eventually gave Him no choice but to allow the consequences of my foolishness to utterly crush me. And then, when all I could think about was ending my life from the shame, to my complete shock, He came into the room, grieving with me over what I had done, and offering me another chance. I was like a drowning man, grasping at the only hope that could save me. He graciously restored me to ‘right relationship’ with Himself, and began to lead me in the paths He chose for me to walk, through twists and turns, trials and temptations, ultimately to realize the abundant life He desires for us all.
So much could be said, but that was twenty-five years ago (this very day) and I now live seeking to serve and honor Him in every way I can, including through these comments. I don’t expect to be well-received but, God helping me, I share the best I have to give, to the best of my ability. And it is a blessing to receive a response such as yours.
Mike, it’s like you’re narrating my adult biography. The Lord saved me in April 2000 from a life of evil. I eagerly read about serial killers and satanists. I devoured the Satanic Bible (which is really just a humanist tract, with some flourishes; evil regardless). I consumed porn with abandon. Within a month of my submission to Jesus Christ, I had trashed all the porn, all the depraved literature, and so much more. As Augustine said (paraphrasing), when confronted by a former lover from his pre-Christian days with “Don’t you remember me, Augustine?", “But I am no longer he."
That’s always such a wonderful thing to hear Samuel!
I once read of an English Pastor who, when witnessing at Speakers Corner in London’s Hyde Park, was regularly mocked and ridiculed by an atheist proclaiming that his testimony was full of children’s fairy tales, etc.
One day the Pastor responded by issuing this challenge to his antagonist:
The next week, he would bring at least 100 persons whose lives had been transformed from bondage to every vice and degradation known to man, and given lives filled with purpose, meaning, and value through their faith in Jesus Christ.
And the enthusiastic atheist could bring as many as he could find whose lives had been transformed similarly by embracing atheism.
The next week, only the Pastor and his fellow transformed believers showed up…
Well said mate! Fortunately for the U.S., we have a constitution and we are armed to the teeth. Only reason we still exist as envisioned by the founding fathers.
Hold tight, friend. We will not fail you. America is back to its roots. We stand for liberty! God bless the USA and may the light of liberty cover the entire globe. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm all for "holding tight" until the "light of liberty covers the whole globe". Sound awesome!
I am a recently retired Aussie and if something happened here in Australia so that I could feel that we had turned a corner in the same way America has - well, I would tell my wife : Hey, we are gonna hop and a plane and then rent a car and go do a road trip through some of those co-called "fly-over" red states of the USA. Because I reckon those places might seem TO ME like a kind of "paradise" to me in a way that California or Hawaii never would!
Duncan just the other day President Trump was answering questions at a press conference. A journalist asked Trump if he would come save their country. (Paraphrasing here) Trump said we’re getting close, as soon as we fix the US we’ll be there. What he didn’t mention is that the, what I call International Crime Syndicate (Research Operation Gladio) is worldwide and so when President Trump and team are finished with those affecting the US, chances are he will have eliminated those affecting beautiful Australia. They are the same people destroying the world not just one country. Duncan, pray for all of us and my family will pray for you brother. God bless you and your family. 🙏❤️
I've been discussing with chat gpt about hegemonic progressivism, which could also be defined as woke marxism or post structuralist thought. Unfortunately except for the United states due to the system of checks and balances with the electoral college, most western countries have right wing blocs of between 35 and 45% and therefore can no longer challenge the ideological capture combined with growing migrant children populations. Debt to GDP ratio exposes social policies to more instability. Essentially, I see my future as a Uruguayan tax resident instead of Australian, spending time in South America, eastern Europe and Kenya:
This is a table that is created to show the score out of 100 of hegemonic progressivism + the share of immigrants as primary school students, as a single total.
For added context, the size of the right wing bloc is the second number. The third number is how much debt the country holds.
From this analysis, we can see that all countries up to 22 (Israel) have now become captive to left-wing ideas and cannot escape due to the size of the right wing bloc not having a strong majority. The left-wing will use the courts they control to target politicians (Marine le Pen, Bolsinaro, Trump) or their connections through other systems such as de-banking (Nigel Farage) or the intelligence services (AFD).
The only countries that are not captured are those that can see the new ideology as they recently escaped the Soviet Bloc (Eastern Europe),
🌍 Full 50‑Country Overview: ICI Score (Ideological Capture Index)
It’s not 100% correct but I’ll give it a good 75%, as a lot of the analysis did hit obvious truths. But he still misses the boat big where it counts.
In his analysis of what their autopsy showed the party did wrong with the media he said, “…and was also too tame in going after Trump. Which, to be honest, I could have told you too…”. I’m sorry, they were NOT too tame. They were overboard fierce and cruel and ugly. They fought like the nastiest middle school girls fresh out of Lord of the Flies. When you try to smear someone’s reputation and character so badly you get others to actually believe they are another Hitler, and a pedo, without solid evidence to back up your claim requiring you to manufacture evidence or misrepresent and misquote, you are anything but tame. You’re despicable nasty fighters that don’t deserve a single vote.
Win on the basis of better ideas, more common sense, mature governance that places the People as more important than the Party - and be gracious when you lose to an opposing side trying to do the same thing. But winning on the basis of smearing with lies and conjecture, trying to brainwash others, and controlling the narrative by hiding the truth and/or rewriting it will lead to everyone distrusting you going forward - and never forgetting what you did.
The problem with democrats is they only look at HOW to win, not WHY. Winning is everything to them and more important than our Republic or their constituents. When winning becomes the only goal then you set up a system where you refuse to ever work with the other side unless they give you your way. That’s not mature governance. There are great ideas on both sides of the aisle. The Democrats are a bunch of juvenile delinquents no matter their ages.
Sorry you all don’t have 2A, mate. Until and unless you do, change to normalcy is gonna be hard. It’s true the zeitgeist is changing here in USA, and boy is it refreshing.
We will do our best to save you and the world by exposing the truth and providing an example. I truly believe that Truth and Love always win in the end
Yup, and that’s exactly why they’ve been trying to foment a color revolution here in the US (as Sasha accurately points out), because once the US and it’s independence falls, the rest of the world will follow. Trump has said this same thing himself, and I agree with him.
It's the definition of insanity. Democrats are hitting record lows in unpopularity on every major poll in the US, yet the party hasn't changed or even shown signs of willingness to change, on any major policy positions.
Interesting that on the rare occasions posted foreign sites, so many Brits etc would post things like “why is it Americans have guns” or speak as if Freedom exists. I always tried to point out our Bill of Rights and specifically free real speech. And now see what I and other Americans would post, is coming home to UK, Canada. No powerful Margaret Thather type coming to UK again. Very sad but what we’ve posted as could happen to UK is happening.
More than a few ordinary Britons have been attacked and imprisoned simply for criticizing your Islamofascist brethren. I actually agree that criticizing any nation should be permitted under free speech principles, including Israel. But your opinion is blind to the growing caliphate in the UK.
Liz Warren calling Mamdani the future of demoncrat polices demonstrating once again their embrace of slavery/ exploitation/ communism & it's inherent violence. Nothing has changed since that party's inception.
But awareness continues to rise. Former dem Brandon Straka, a gay man & founder of "Walkaway" was filming while attending J6. He never entered the Capitol. But he was arrested, persecuted & imprisoned, lost his FB page & large following. As he put it, what they told me would happen to me under Trump DID happen to me under Biden. His YT channel highlights the rising movement of those leaving the left, like this one, “My kids can’t even go to school—in America?”: How the Left Lost Latinos ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoGZaIH7kjQ&ab_channel=%23WalkAwayCampaign
I have followed Brandon since the beginning of the Walk Away movement. He is a brave patriot and what the system did to him and the other J6ers should put a chill down every single American’s spine.
Russell Brand has made a remarkable transformation as well, fascinating to listen to him through his journey to where he is today. He did an interview w Charlie Kirk recently on it.
He "walked away" previous to the Jan 6 operation. That's why he was dangerous (or why the regime thought that he was dangerous) to them. He didn't do anything wrong, but government could care less about guilt or innocence. It doesn't enter into the "calculation" at all.
To "err is human" but if you REALLY want to screw something up (or kill a large number of people) it takes a government.
I hesitate to pontificate about another countries politics But. The Democrats were handed their asses. In the Presidential election. As rightly they should have been. When you take policies to an election that the majority of the voting public, think open borders, with lavish support for illegal immigrants. And biological males I’m female sport and dressing rooms. Are seriously on the nose to the electorate and they vote accordingly.
You would expect Democratic management to think, we sure fucked up here. It would be a good idea to change our tune. But nope they doubled down on the policies that got them in this position in the first place.
Some one should point out to them that doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting. A different result, is a well known definition of insanity.
Lots of insanity within the democrat / leftist party of destruction. They have never been held accountable for the wide range damage their policies & power have wrought. So they continue on expecting not to be held accountable for anything. A party of death, insanely celebrating abortion & demanding the right to mutilate innocent children’s sex parts. But that is after they’ve corrupted the innocent mind first with their lying propaganda. The Sydney Sweeney outrage of hatred is the latest example of leftist crazy - now the mob has moved on to attacking her beautiful dog because he’s a German Shepherd- a nazi dog. I’d say that’s close to rock bottom crazy now.
Government is force. That's all it is. Like when you want to move a boulder, it helps enormously if you can get 100 (or 1000 for a big rock) behind you. It has no reasoning abilities at all. The individuals have the reasoning ability, and those people give government it's reasoning ability. If they are not in the correct place to input their expertise, then they may as well not even be there.
Maybe when some people who have reasoning ability (and desire- many don't GAF) into positions where they can be heard, there will be possibility for change, but until then, government with it's enormous momentum, is going to just keep rolling in the direction that it was last pointed in.
Yet you cancel sharing Tucker videos...because antisemitism, or something. All he did was criticize a country meddling in American politics...and just like that...he's a racist. Some old leftist habits die hard I suppose.
No one is obligated to share other people's content. If you can't find Tucker's videos without Sasha doing the work for you, that is your failure, not hers. She hasn't 'cancelled' 😱 anyone.
The people who cancel Tucker and call him an antisemite - have in them the same sickness of those from the Far Left who call people Hitler, Nazi, Racist, etc. - they just come from the other side of the political horseshoe. All of these people have no ability to learn, just a desire to burrow ever deeper into their emotional, online shells.
Some of us look at the two opposing forces in the Middle East and draw conclusions as to which is the bigger danger to Western Civilization.
We notice that some people don’t see it as two opposing sides. They only see Israel bad. We notice that they never have any ideas or plans about what comes next. What happens in the area if Hamas stays in power, having been given the Palestinian state they have refused for years.
Some of us look at all the destabilization of Arab countries by US/Israel actions over the past 25 years (Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria) and see that many people from those countries fled their devastated homelands and migrated to Europe (and the UK). Of course those EU countries had open doors and governments w/ Globalist weaponized empathy, welcoming them. But would all those Sharia inspired migrants left their deserts for France, Germany, Belgium, UK etc. if there had not been the US/Israel wars to destabilize countries in the first place? 🤔
Not really. Carlson has had a full year to renounce Darryl Cooper and apologize for his promotion of Cooper as America's best popular historian. He hasn't.
It's lunatic enough that Cooper blames Hitler more than Churchill for World War II. When Hitler invaded Poland Churchill wasn't even in the Cabinet, let alone Prime Minister. If I weren't certain Cooper is sinister, I'd suspect his parents had been cousins. But Carlson hasn't retracted his labeling of Cooper as our greatest popular historian.
Cooper blames The Holocaust on inadequate bureaucratic planning to take account of weather conditions. Tucker listened with rapt wonder to this. Granted, Tucker was by his own acknowledgement the typical rich, drunken fratboy undegrad, but he's had decades to learn better about a matter as important as The Holocaust. Meanwhile, Cooper's tweets as martyrmade show him to be a vile human being.
Now, Carlson and Candy are a twosome. I couldn't fathom why Candy didn't back down when the Macrons sued. DNA is incontrovertible. Then I realized something: Candy will use the judgment against her as an even better cudgel for Jew bashing:
"Well, now, just who owns these labs? Who are on their Boards of Directors? Don't we all know who controls medicine?" Etc.
I think Owens is demon influenced and certainly a psychopath. I think Carlson is not as wicked, just that his character is far worse than I had suspected. He deserves far more opprobrium than he has thus far received.
Whatever it is, I’ve found those on the Right, succumbing to knee jerk labeling of people as antisemitic or antisemitic adjacent - if you postulate America 1st thoughts that also include criticism of the modern nationstate of Israel. It’s a 10/7 disease I’m happy to never catch.
The left globs onto it because of the Marxist paradigm of oppressor\oppressed and identity politics nonsense. They've been sold that lie since the 1960's. The current populist right is only talking about nations (plural) influencing our domestic issues and politicians selling out to foreign interests. That's it. It has nothing to do with race. It could be Zimbabwe for all we care.
Darryl Cooper pointed out a truth. And that truth is that the US neocon class has used WW2 tropes to advance forever wars for the past 80 years. Such as, ‘that country is a literal Hitler and must be stopped!’. Or, if one hesitates to go to war.. ‘don’t be a Chamberlain’.
I don’t live in the world of cancel culture, publius. I try to live in the world of truth and ideas. And this ‘kook’ pointed out a truth that resonated with me (WW2 tropes used for many decades to advance forever wars).
Susan, why is being critical of Israel ‘selling one’s soul’? This is an emotional argument, IMO. Every government on earth should be open to criticism.
Tucker is a dangerous antisemitic dastardly. He has gone down the samecrabbit hole as the Democrats. He is a doomsday freak. I am a Jewish Ametican and his rhetoric is as insane as Rachel Madcows. Islam is the enemy. Israel is fighting the boogie man that zobama brought to life.
Young lady, you ‘see’ antisemitism like your NGO grift depends on it. Your organization reminds me of the homeless industrial complex. It never goes away, so always another fund drive. Yuck 🤮
That is very rapidly changing though. There is a huge shift against Israel now even among conservatives. Even MTG now says Gaza is a genocide and is obviously not America First. Trump gets worse and worse. He seems determined to turn the world, including friends like India, against America. Truly appalling how incompetent and deranged he’s become. God only knows where we’ll all end up.
I recently had a neighbor tell me an unbelievable fact about Texas law. So I looked it up, found it to be untrue. Asked where she got the information and she heard it on Saturday night live. Referencing Colbert is just as asinine and gets you the same quality of information
Colbert wasn’t the source. Clarissa Ward was and she is a very reliable source of information since she was talking from Jordan about how the people in the Middle East now feel about America. I do not excuse your stupidity. You’re a good example of why America is now so deeply hated by an ever growing number of people in the world. Our global leadership is gone as is our moral credibility. Shame on you and all those like you. You people are morally bankrupt and despicable.
I'm unconcerned what the Middle East thinks of me. Or you either, for that matter. But this I know: I'm a farmer and if you piss enough of us off, you'll starve.
“I'm unconcerned what the Middle East thinks of me.”
If you paid any attention to what’s happening to the world you live in you’d know Israel/America is now very rapidly heading for WW3 against Russia/China/Iran which is very strongly supported by the Middle East and the global south. In other words, this is a war we will lose. Big time.
Any criticism of Israel is antisemitism; didn’t you read the room? This site is now about 97% pro-Zionist and has zero tolerance for any criticism of Israel. Israel killed tens of thousands of children this year and they defended it.
Oh I have read it. Last I checked there were 50 stars on our flag, not 51...but so many people don't seem to realize that. Between Ukraine and Israel and all these pleas for support that are purely emotional based on their face, while subversively being about idealism and our supposed blind alliance. We have major problems in this country...but we need to send another pallet of 500lb bombs over to Israel and Ukraine...so get to work, and make sure you pay your taxes on time...or else. Don't even get me started on where those displaced people end up...and who pays for it.
David Horowitz was a California conservative who in his early years as a young man in the sixties was a leftist who knew many of the Black Panthers such as Huey Newton. He was appalled when he realized Newton was just a thug and also appalled that the white liberals still adored him. He became a conservative and spent the rest of his life fighting the left. He died recently and I’ve just started reading his book (May 2019) “Mortality and Faith: Reflections on a Journey through Time.” Some say AI will fulfill all our needs and then we’ll be happy but Horowitz questioned this belief.
“Genesis is the story of our beginning and our end. We are creatures of desires that cannot be satisfied and of dreams that will not come true.”
“As an agnostic, I have no idea if the universe began with a bang or has existed forever, or is the work of a Creator. But I do know that the biblical book called "Genesis" conveys a central truth about human fate. The First Parents wanted to be like God and could not be satisfied with anything less. Though they were immortal and lived without labor and suffered no pain, they found paradise wanting. What they lacked became their desire.”
“We are defined by negatives; they describe the emptiness we fill. What is good without evil or love without hate? God warned the first couple that death would be the reward for their immodest desire. But they rejected His warning and pursued their ambition anyway, and were punished. Genesis is the story of our beginning and our end. We are creatures of desires that cannot be satisfied and of dreams that will not come true.”
“Man's longing for God can be understood as the need to be released from the pain of being, even if that pain is paradise it-self. To live eternally in paradise without knowledge of what we lacked, even if it was knowledge of evil, even if it was evil, was unhappiness to us. To end our unhappiness, we chose to die.”
“Ex-Google Exec (Warning): The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven! - Mo Gawdat” (2:34:12)
I think this is another good example of who is 'in power':
“Meet Marlene Engelhorn, one of the major organizers of anti-Israel protests in Europe.
“Fun fact: Her wealth comes from her great-grandfather Friedrich Engelhorn, who made his fortune from producing Zyklon B, the gas used by the Nazis to murder Jews during the Holocaust.”
I think the metaphor for the whole party (what's left of it) is Mamdani. Who, it seems, had several grooming sessions with a certain former prez.
Snakes of a leather, slither together. He is a total fabrication and just as phony as his grooming coach...
NYC is going to fail, and fail hard. The questions is--will this be the model for the nation? The Republic is strong--but cannot survive certain things...
One week he's got the press fawning over him for eating with his hands. A few days later he's in his secure African compound partying away with all of the locals held at bay by gunpoint. He's got the communist routine down at a pretty young age.
Fascinating observation, and kind of explains TDS. I read, and see, many posts online about Trump that come across as a bit unhinged. But I also recently read a post with an exhaustive list all the things that make the author think Trump is a horrible person: shady business practices, inappropriate sexual advances, the mean (maybe vicious) attacks on social media, his association with Epstein, and on and on and on. With no context, it is a hell of an indictment! This person built a convincing case that explains why people do not like (hate) Trump.
But then I think back to when I heard his bright, articulate grandaughter speak so lovingly about him. I was struck with a bit of cognitive dissonance. For a moment, I saw him as a wonderful family man. (A clear contrast to the image I have of Joe Biden’s family.) So, for me, Trump is truly an inigma. I constantly try to center my naive self, and remember that both of these people have worked the systems they’ve lived in (business and politics) to advance their own personal best interest. But then I ask myself, what is the end game? Right now, one side seems to be working to preserve the America I love, and the other seems hell bent to fundamentally change it into an America I don’t recognize. And, it scares me.
The left has created a monster named Donald Trump because he is an existential threat to the progressive project of taking over America. They hate and fear him because he threatens their power. Their caricature is not real. He plays into some of it just to stir them up and they always take the bait so he can laugh at their craziness along with the offline half of America that Sasha writes about here. The real Trump is a complex character like most people are. Salena Zito knows him well and knows his people, look up her writing for a different perspective.
The one reason why Barack Obama will always be the worst president this nation ever endured is because he's the only president in history, from either party, who held our nation in contempt.
Another insightful article. I have hope for our Constitutional Republic, but I find it very difficult to believe that the level of "belief perseverance" that leftists have will be broken/wrecked without an "earth shattering" event or events. Extreme force feeding of life event FACTS will be needed to break through the left's useful idiot's "feelings driven" views/the very long time they've held those views. The communists leading the left have done a great job of brainwashing a significant part of the population and undermining the republic.
You're the rare person, Sasha, to look back on your beliefs and behaviour and publicly analyze where you went wrong. It's helpful to us all, even if, as in my case, we never liked Obama. (Early on, I wondered, “Why would he change his name from Barry Sotero to Barack *Hussein* Obama?") I didn't care that he was blackish. I cared that his dad was a Muslim from Kenya, that he was more more aligned with Arab interests than that of Americans. Here on the West Coast, I can report that the summer of 2020 took years off my life. I'm tremendously proud of you that you woke up and decided violent mobs didn’t represent you.
It always galled me them billing themselves as "the resistance." Resistance to what? To the nuclear family? To the rights of children to be protected from a predatory cabal of med-surg investors and big tech operatives that would sell their products through the public school system? To *rule of law*, for Pete's sake? Cloaking themselves in the glamour of real-life Audrey Hepburn, who actually *was* part of the resistance. Aligning themselves with the White Feather Society, who leafletted Nazi Germany against the Nazis and were summarily shot. Now these same people make it plain they'd love to kill us for defending Israel, keeping boys out of girls' spaces and men out of women's spaces, "misgendering" (?!), and praying. Re: this last, I was never particularly religious, but the demonic character of today's Left (and here I must refer the reader to Ann Coulter's eminently witty and concise book, Demonic) has driven me closer to God. Friends seeking to protect their children from perverts and perverted teachings/indoctrinations choose Christian private schools. I can no longer see what purpose the Democrat party serves now in the U.S. Are they helpful? Do they contribute anything constructive?
So few voices on the left are serious people or grown-ups.
“We cannot stand for this!” is not an argument. It’s an emotional fit, screaming about what they don’t like.
“I hate you I hate you I hate you!”
I know, sweetheart, but those are the rules. You like to talk about “democracy,” right? This is what democracy means. We play by the rules and now it’s his turn. When it’s your turn, you can decide. Not now.
Writing here from Australia, I have to say I always love reading Sasha's posts. It is always piercing insight in comparison to the commentary we get from our own MSM mouthpieces. There is a huge divergence between what is going on in the US and what is going on in the rest of the so-called
"Anglosphere" and the Eurozone. In America, you are done with being gaslighted by your MSM - it seems a great plurality of opinion polls show the Democrat Party/MSM media narrative is increasingly falling on deaf ears. Trump is an awesome force sweepng away the debris of a collapsing order. But in the rest of the western world we are suffering from a tightening net of on line censorship. It makes me feel like I am in the scene from the Star Wars movie - "Obi-wan-Kenobi, you are our only hope" - except that I am actually saying to the MAGA voters of America, that YOU are our only hope. You must save the American republic as envisioned by your founding fathers, because everywhere else in the western world, we are still very much under the thumbs of the hidden/concealed globalist powers-that-be that still have control of our politicians and our bureaucracies. The situation is dire!!
Praying for you. Never give up. Never give in.
Faith moves mountains.
🙏♥️🙏
As does the right to bear arms! The one and only significant difference with the rest of the euro world and why they are fighting so hard to keep restricting our 2A here.
The goal of 'them' is to stop the populists: Trump, Le Pen, Georgescu, Milei, Bolsanaro, Orban, the ADf, Abe(killed), et al.
You have to support them when they arise.
How do we tell the difference between the "good" demagogues (Trump) and the bad ones, like obama?
I guess go back (the wayback machine? This can be at least removed, as Peter Srock shows- when he dumped his twitter/X account, the "wayback machine" lost it's records too) and read everything that they have ever written?
We have Trump right now, and maybe JD Vance for the next 4/8 years. Are there others in the lineup? The best research takes time and it's much better to form an opinion before an election is staring you in the face.
We are going to be facing sophisticated "grass roots" (appearing) counter movements (counter movements against Trump). It appears clear that the CIA was entirely anti Trump, and this was DURING 2016 to 2020. They infiltrated (along with the FBI) into all of the social media constellation. They may have been mostly removed from Twitter/X (or possibly keeping their "heads down" now that Elon has cleaned up the company) but they are not going to go away, IMO. And that Smith-Munct Act (the one that obama neutered before leaving office) allows color revolutions and apparently took the CIA's "gloves" off here. Can that be fixed? And although the "democrats" play for keeps, we don't (and I don't know that we should?) and it's going to be easy to duplicate the treachery that they have just been "busted" for. IOW, we need to get the playing field a little more on our side. How do we do this?
Regardless, it's important for the future that we look and see how we got to our present. Thanks for your great webpage Sasha. I got there from TGP
It is easy.... who is for less government, less control, more independence, more tolerance, more self-reliance. That is the leader to follow. The umbrella for that movement can be called libertarianism. IMO, JD Vance is going to be a perfect leader. He has all of Trump's best qualities and none of his worst (womanizing, braggadocio)
Watch some FoxNews. They are more 'in tune' than any other legacy media.
LOL! Fox omits anything that doesn't fit their agenda.
Nope. Fox was DUMPED when they fired Tucker Carlson. 👋
By playing for keeps is precisely how we get there.
I really like that Trump spiked up tariffs on Brasil for how the Globalists in that country treated Populist, Bolsanaro. Where it doesn’t hurt America, I’d like to see more of this. Cut back on biz with those countries that suppress 1A.
unarmed and helpless. America's 2nd amendment was put in place to protect the population from the government
Thx for the insight Duncan. I'm gonna say that that the evangelical, Bible-belt states (mostly the South) have a LOT to do with America's counter-revolution against the Left. Relationship with God, being God-fearing, under His authority, it gives one wisdom and discernment. People who worship false gods (money, pleasure, self, power), they are given over to believe the lie. (as explained in II Corinthians 4:3-4, and many other places).
Start a Biblical, Christian revival in Australia.
Texyz, I understand your point about faith and authority, but it’s important to also think about how the Bible communicates power—often using harsh, fear-based language.
Romans 13:1 says government power comes from God and calls for obedience to rulers. Psalm 21 shows God using violent force against enemies. These passages promote an “us versus them” mindset based on fear and domination.
This kind of language makes honest and kind communication hard, both in personal relationships and society. Fear and control replace empathy, which can weaken relationships and even contribute to higher divorce rates.
When rulers claim they’re chosen by God, especially in theocracies, it can be very dangerous because it shuts down accountability and allows oppression, as history shows.
While some biblical values can guide wisdom if carefully chosen, many of the Bible’s messages about good and evil aren’t unique—they appear across cultures. This means we need better ways to relate to each other.
Nonviolent communication, which teaches empathy and compassionate listening, offers a much better way to build understanding and trust than fear or domination.
So, as we think about faith and revival, it’s important to read the Bible carefully, avoid picking verses to push political ideas, and recognize how fear-based power harms relationships and peaceful problem-solving.
I agree with some of what you say. But you ignore the obvious fact that leftists deploy divisive and condemning language at least as often, if k no or more often. Like many conservatives, I have been called a racist, a fascist, a Nazi, et al., all too often. Once those words are falsely used against political opponents, there’s no need for further communication. And thus the divides deepen.
I absolutely agree with that. The leftists have gone from being pluralistic in viewpoint to becoming the populists they rally against. Democrats’ view of the wider community is not populist in the traditional sense. They usually try to get everyday people on board with them, but what they're really doing is getting the everyday academic and activist on board—so I guess we could call them "elite populists with a largely anti western agenda," representing elites who no longer believe in equal human rights based in common humanity.
Here’s the strange inversion: instead of embracing everyday people like traditional populists do, they show anger toward everyday people for not sharing their viewpoint (yes, an elite populist who’s frustrated with the very people they’re supposed to represent!).
In terms of how they've tried to subvert the court through activist judges and the language they use against opponents, I agree with you. It’s amazing they haven't seen themselves—that they’ve stripped away the idea of equal human rights grounded in common humanity, favoring identity politics instead (the system grounded in the concept of oppressor and oppressed. Good versus bad). For a party that used to support the constitution, they are now actively undermining it, along with the pluralism that supports democracy and many rights embedded in the constitution.
I think this is one of the most dangerous developments. We are seeing Marxists take over the political party and work against democracy within the Democrats. Marxist-style language becomes more evident, dividing people as it is designed to do.
At the end of the day, it’s about communication systems that govern how we paint one side as good and the other as bad—often using shame, intimidation, or compulsion instead of reason and compassion to maintain adherence. As soon as you do that—whether it’s the Bible or any other ideology, including Democrat or Republican—you strip away the ability to see the person as a fellow human. That’s the point I’m making, and why I think Marshall Rosenberg’s nonviolent communication is one of the best cures for this age.
You make so many good points here. Thank you for posting this. I can honestly say that you’ve challenged me (in a very good way!) to be more reflective in how I respond to people who don’t agree with me. I’m guilty of some of these very things. I’m learning to do better. And your help in that regard is greatly appreciated, NC.
Well, I think that's very kind, and I do waffle on a little, so thank you for having the patience to wade through XD. At the end of the day, it’s about people, how we relate, the words we use the architecture behind that, and how we internalise the discussion (moving away from good and bad — Marshall Rosenberg).
I really enjoyed Marshall Rosenberg's book because it helps solve relationship problems. I wish it were taught to children so they’d have better tools for adult life. Schools teach sex education but not relationship communication — which is arguably more important for quality of life: getting the right job, having the right friends, the right partner, and the skills to communicate with community and the world. It also explores how we relate more widely and across cultures.
Thank You though you seem like someone I’d love to have a beer with even if your half a world away— you like ideas and, essentially, you love people.
Best to you there xxoo.
Keep hope alive, keep fighting! Thanks for sharing your thoughts mate.🫡
Well stated Duncan. You’ve nailed it. Trump is our 2nd George Washington, with one big difference. Trump 2.0 has the high ground. And an army of MAGA supporters so f-ing YUGE like the world has never before seen. Growing hourly. Backed by 11 carrier groups, 5th gen fighter jets, B-2 stealth wizardry, and that’s just the baseline. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is going to put America’s economic engine into overdrive. You ain’t seen nuffin’ yet. Hang in buddy. Hook your caboose to our locomotive and enjoy the ride.
You are going to have to save yourself. We're done.
I think that what Duncan and countless others realize, is that America’s success in combating the native evil cabal that has done so much to undermine our country, is now their only geopolitical hope in the battle against the global evil that has largely ‘captured’ the West.
To the extent that is so, he is absolutely correct.
From a geopolitical perspective, we are the last national hope of keeping the fires of freedom, truth, and traditional Judeo-Christian morality and ethics alive. If and when the United States falls, that hope will fall with it.
But (Behold the Underlying Truth), God…
Both the true and living God of the Bible, and Satan, are working very powerfully in our world today, using the same material elements, but to diametrically opposed ends.
It is a time of choosing for the world at large. The stakes are existential, and consequences, eternal.
Satan and his minions will have his day at some point, and I believe it cannot be too far off.
But, God will have His way in the Universe in the end; His Word will stand true in every detail, and He will fulfill the ‘Plan of the Ages’ conceived before the foundation of the world, and the creation of mankind.
Ultimately, the only question is where each of us will spend eternity. The pivot upon which that will swing, is whether we truly love the truth, seek to know and honor God, and what we choose to do with Jesus, the Jewish Messiah and Savior of the world.
The ship of this world is sinking, and the world can protest, wail, howl, and insist that ‘there must be another way’ to save the passengers from their pending doom. The question must be addressed individually, but how many have the courage of conviction to move against the flow of the mob?
Tragically, not many…
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Matthew 7:13-14 (NKJV)
May the Lord make Himself known as ‘the Way, the Truth, and the Life’, to all those with eyes to see, and ears to hear. May He send revival to those who know Him but may have drifted and slumbered through this period of encroaching darkness, and work a mighty work of salvation in the midst of this great and evil time.
We might be getting a "reprieve" with President Trump. If we can again become a model for the world, perhaps Europe will demand some kind of democracy there (it really isn't now, as the riots across Europe show. We don't see most of these riots; they've been going on for way over a year in places like Holland, where farm owners drive tractors over the streets and try to raise awareness of the globalism that is trying to snuff out any independence and to control the food) and we can get the world back "in shape" a little. I'm still opposed to intervention in places like Ukraine though and (mostly) any other force. We have PLENTY to do at home and we have a financial mess with our own country, what 35+ trillion?
It's going to be important to get truthful news on a large scale. I understand the MSM consists of 6 large groups. This situation needs fixing, perhaps we can use anti trust laws to break up these companies like President Teddy Roosevelt did in the early 1900's.
I have been watching what you describe happening in Europe over the past several years, and have rejoiced in the open stands taken by the people of Europe and Canada (Australia? New Zealand?) against the actual tyranny of evil that holds them in its grip.
It is resurgent America, inspired by President Trump and the MAGA/MAHA coalition, that poses the greatest threat to the Satanic ambitions underlying Globalism. And, it is for that reason that, as you suggest, it is so critical that our focus be on ‘Making America Great Again’.
That said, truly meaningful success in those efforts will only be achieved to the extent they are led and empowered by the Spirit of God. And our principal weakness and vulnerability in that regard is that we, as a nation, have drifted so far away from God. Rather than being led by our knowledge of God and His will, our actions are characterized by the spirit of ill-considered, self-gratifying impulsivity; “…everyone (doing) what (is) right in their own eyes.” (Judges 21:25b).
That, together with a foolish self-confidence, renders us extremely vulnerable to the time-proven ‘divide and conquer’ strategy Satan is now exploiting in order to defeat the threat the MAGA/MAHA coalition poses. He is using many different tactics in this effort, but the most obvious are the Epstein-related affairs and continued American support for the nation of Israel.
(While it is a complicated, powerfully divisive, and emotionally super-charged subject, Genesis 12:3 is an eternal promise, and our fate, as well as the world’s - and Satan’s - is inextricably linked to that of contemporary and future Israel.)
History makes a compelling case that he will succeed, and it is only by the grace of God that he hasn’t already.
I rejoice with others in God’s continuing restraint and revealing of what has been largely hidden evil, and yearn for those responsible to be brought into open shame and held accountable. In that unfolding process, there is hope that many will come to realize the precariousness of the hour, turn from the vain things that they have previously put their faith in, genuinely seek God, and then be led by the Spirit of Truth to place their faith and trust for salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ.
“Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
In closing, I believe that it is primarily for that purpose that ‘we’, as in America, the West, and the world at large, have been given the reprieve you mention - and praise God for it.
May it last long…
Man on the street UK is calling for deportations from that country. That is all because of Trump. Trump has normalized deportations, and Western native populations around the globe are picking up the baton. It will take some time, and possible set backs. But the revolution occurring in the USA must continue on after Trump and be beacon for rest of the planet who loves and yearns for freedom.
Trump also announced this week another brilliant immigration policy. For certain countries who citizens chronically overstay their visas, US immigration now requires a $ deposit upon entry. I read $15K for Mawali citizens to enter USA from an airplane. Foreign visitor gets the $ back when they depart. Or if they don’t, $ use to hunt them down and kick out.
If I may ask, Richard, what news sources do you rely upon? I’m actively seeking good ones. Thanks!
Thanks Mike for your reply. I can see the wisdom in your words as someome who has indeed "drifted and slumbered through this period of encroaching darkness" at different times.
Thank you Duncan. I also spent far too long adrift on the seas of wishful thinking and worldly desire. In fact, I spent twenty-five long years running from God; running from what I knew to be true, but didn’t want to believe must be.
I sought refuge in doubt, and the strange thing is that, even though it was self-generated, it did provide some fleeting solace. I know it sounds unbelievable, but I would be confronted by the Spirit of God at least once in every single day for that entire period, always saying the exact same thing; “You are living a lie. Is today the day you are going to stop?”
I would take it in, once again, knowing it was true. And then reply, “No, not today.”
‘The Hound of Heaven’ never gave up on me, but I continued to resist His call.
My stubborn willfulness eventually gave Him no choice but to allow the consequences of my foolishness to utterly crush me. And then, when all I could think about was ending my life from the shame, to my complete shock, He came into the room, grieving with me over what I had done, and offering me another chance. I was like a drowning man, grasping at the only hope that could save me. He graciously restored me to ‘right relationship’ with Himself, and began to lead me in the paths He chose for me to walk, through twists and turns, trials and temptations, ultimately to realize the abundant life He desires for us all.
So much could be said, but that was twenty-five years ago (this very day) and I now live seeking to serve and honor Him in every way I can, including through these comments. I don’t expect to be well-received but, God helping me, I share the best I have to give, to the best of my ability. And it is a blessing to receive a response such as yours.
God bless, guide, and keep you Duncan! Love, Mike
Mike, it’s like you’re narrating my adult biography. The Lord saved me in April 2000 from a life of evil. I eagerly read about serial killers and satanists. I devoured the Satanic Bible (which is really just a humanist tract, with some flourishes; evil regardless). I consumed porn with abandon. Within a month of my submission to Jesus Christ, I had trashed all the porn, all the depraved literature, and so much more. As Augustine said (paraphrasing), when confronted by a former lover from his pre-Christian days with “Don’t you remember me, Augustine?", “But I am no longer he."
That’s always such a wonderful thing to hear Samuel!
I once read of an English Pastor who, when witnessing at Speakers Corner in London’s Hyde Park, was regularly mocked and ridiculed by an atheist proclaiming that his testimony was full of children’s fairy tales, etc.
One day the Pastor responded by issuing this challenge to his antagonist:
The next week, he would bring at least 100 persons whose lives had been transformed from bondage to every vice and degradation known to man, and given lives filled with purpose, meaning, and value through their faith in Jesus Christ.
And the enthusiastic atheist could bring as many as he could find whose lives had been transformed similarly by embracing atheism.
The next week, only the Pastor and his fellow transformed believers showed up…
Love, Mike
Well said mate! Fortunately for the U.S., we have a constitution and we are armed to the teeth. Only reason we still exist as envisioned by the founding fathers.
Hold tight, friend. We will not fail you. America is back to its roots. We stand for liberty! God bless the USA and may the light of liberty cover the entire globe. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm all for "holding tight" until the "light of liberty covers the whole globe". Sound awesome!
I am a recently retired Aussie and if something happened here in Australia so that I could feel that we had turned a corner in the same way America has - well, I would tell my wife : Hey, we are gonna hop and a plane and then rent a car and go do a road trip through some of those co-called "fly-over" red states of the USA. Because I reckon those places might seem TO ME like a kind of "paradise" to me in a way that California or Hawaii never would!
Duncan just the other day President Trump was answering questions at a press conference. A journalist asked Trump if he would come save their country. (Paraphrasing here) Trump said we’re getting close, as soon as we fix the US we’ll be there. What he didn’t mention is that the, what I call International Crime Syndicate (Research Operation Gladio) is worldwide and so when President Trump and team are finished with those affecting the US, chances are he will have eliminated those affecting beautiful Australia. They are the same people destroying the world not just one country. Duncan, pray for all of us and my family will pray for you brother. God bless you and your family. 🙏❤️
Blessings to you and all patriotic Aussies. May we all bask in our God-given freedoms very soon!
Amen Brother!
I've been discussing with chat gpt about hegemonic progressivism, which could also be defined as woke marxism or post structuralist thought. Unfortunately except for the United states due to the system of checks and balances with the electoral college, most western countries have right wing blocs of between 35 and 45% and therefore can no longer challenge the ideological capture combined with growing migrant children populations. Debt to GDP ratio exposes social policies to more instability. Essentially, I see my future as a Uruguayan tax resident instead of Australian, spending time in South America, eastern Europe and Kenya:
This is a table that is created to show the score out of 100 of hegemonic progressivism + the share of immigrants as primary school students, as a single total.
For added context, the size of the right wing bloc is the second number. The third number is how much debt the country holds.
From this analysis, we can see that all countries up to 22 (Israel) have now become captive to left-wing ideas and cannot escape due to the size of the right wing bloc not having a strong majority. The left-wing will use the courts they control to target politicians (Marine le Pen, Bolsinaro, Trump) or their connections through other systems such as de-banking (Nigel Farage) or the intelligence services (AFD).
The only countries that are not captured are those that can see the new ideology as they recently escaped the Soviet Bloc (Eastern Europe),
🌍 Full 50‑Country Overview: ICI Score (Ideological Capture Index)
1. Sweden – Total: 88.5 | Right‑wing polling ~38% | Debt‑GDP ~33%
2. Norway – 84 | ~46% | ~45%
3. Finland – 80 | ~45% | ~69%
4. New Zealand – 78.5 | ~40% | ~39%
5. Canada – 77.5 | ~46% | ~107%
6. Denmark – 76.5 | ~38% | ~29%
7. Iceland – 74.5 | ~33% | ~59%
8. France – 73.5 | ~38% | ~113%
9. Netherlands – 70.5 | ~43% | ~44%
10. Germany – 68.5 | ~52% (CDU/CSU + AfD) | ~63%
11. United Kingdom – 67.5 | ~47% (Reform UK ~31% + Conservatives ~16%) | ~96%
12. United States – 69.5 | ~43% GOP generic vote/support | ~123%
13. Australia – 64.5 | ~38% (Coalition) | ~44%
14. Ireland – 63 | ~33% | ~44%
15. Spain – 62 | ~33% (PP + Vox) | ~102%
16. Italy – 61.5 | ~33% (center-right coalition) | ~135%
17. Belgium – 60 | ~33% (N‑VA + VB) | ~106%
18. Austria – 59 | ~30–35% | ~80%
19. Portugal – 58 | ~30% | ~104%
20. Switzerland – 57 | ~28% (SVP) | ~38%
21. Luxembourg – Total ~56 | Center-right ~22% | ~26%
22. Israel – 50 | ~33% (Likud & religious parties) | ~70%
23. Slovenia – ~47 | ~25% center-right | ~80%
24. Czech Rep. – ~45 | ~25–30% | ~60%
25. Poland – ~44 | ~30–35% (PiS, opposition) | ~122%
26. Slovakia – ~43 | ~25–30% | ~85%
27. Hungary – ~41 | ~40–45% (Fidesz + others) | ~80%
28. Romania – ~40 | ~35% right-center | ~120%
29. Greece – ~39 | ~30% center-right | ~160%
30. Chile – ~38 | ~25–30% (right bloc) | ~65%
31. Mexico – ~37.5 | ~30% center-right | ~85%
32. South Africa – ~37.5 | ~25–30% (DA & conservatives) | ~75%
33. Argentina – ~36 | ~30% (JxC, PRO) | ~155%
34. Brazil – ~35 | ~30–35% (Bolsonaro‑aligned coalition) | ~90%
35. India – ~33 | ~45% (BJP) | ~90%
36. China – ~30 | N/A (one‑party state) | ~87%
37. Japan – ~28 | ~30% conservative parties (LDP mainly) | ~255%
38. South Korea – ~27 | ~30% conservatives | ~50%
39. Singapore – ~25 | ~30% PAP (dominant center-right) | ~168%
40. Hong Kong / Macao – ~24 | pro‑Beijing bloc ~50% (de facto) | ~35%
41. Taiwan – ~23 | ~30–35% (KMT) | ~43%
42. Estonia – ~20 | ~30% center-right | ~18%
43. Latvia – ~18 | ~25–30% | ~45%
44. Lithuania – ~16 | ~25–30% | ~47%
45. Croatia – ~15 | ~25% center-right | ~85%
46. Bulgaria – ~14 | ~30–35% (GERB, PP) | ~30%
47. Serbia – ~13 | ~30% center-right | ~50%
48. Slovenia – see above duplicate entry
49. Georgia – ~12 | ~25% center-right | ~40%
50. Romania – duplicate entry
Thanks - very interesting!
Duncan, I think you will find some comfort in this post which, although written by a Democrat, is 100% correct:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-169824538
The Dems ought to hire this guy. He gets it. Great link.
It’s not 100% correct but I’ll give it a good 75%, as a lot of the analysis did hit obvious truths. But he still misses the boat big where it counts.
In his analysis of what their autopsy showed the party did wrong with the media he said, “…and was also too tame in going after Trump. Which, to be honest, I could have told you too…”. I’m sorry, they were NOT too tame. They were overboard fierce and cruel and ugly. They fought like the nastiest middle school girls fresh out of Lord of the Flies. When you try to smear someone’s reputation and character so badly you get others to actually believe they are another Hitler, and a pedo, without solid evidence to back up your claim requiring you to manufacture evidence or misrepresent and misquote, you are anything but tame. You’re despicable nasty fighters that don’t deserve a single vote.
Win on the basis of better ideas, more common sense, mature governance that places the People as more important than the Party - and be gracious when you lose to an opposing side trying to do the same thing. But winning on the basis of smearing with lies and conjecture, trying to brainwash others, and controlling the narrative by hiding the truth and/or rewriting it will lead to everyone distrusting you going forward - and never forgetting what you did.
The problem with democrats is they only look at HOW to win, not WHY. Winning is everything to them and more important than our Republic or their constituents. When winning becomes the only goal then you set up a system where you refuse to ever work with the other side unless they give you your way. That’s not mature governance. There are great ideas on both sides of the aisle. The Democrats are a bunch of juvenile delinquents no matter their ages.
Yes, well, Kahn is indeed a Democrat which clouds his ability to perceive reality.
Sorry you all don’t have 2A, mate. Until and unless you do, change to normalcy is gonna be hard. It’s true the zeitgeist is changing here in USA, and boy is it refreshing.
Never live by lies.
We will do our best to save you and the world by exposing the truth and providing an example. I truly believe that Truth and Love always win in the end
Yup, and that’s exactly why they’ve been trying to foment a color revolution here in the US (as Sasha accurately points out), because once the US and it’s independence falls, the rest of the world will follow. Trump has said this same thing himself, and I agree with him.
I have never seen a Party so dug in that they cannot see above the crevice they have created. It must be very dark down there.
On the bright side: As they wallow in self-misery--not many of them are breeding....
Hence, the 'importing'.
It's the definition of insanity. Democrats are hitting record lows in unpopularity on every major poll in the US, yet the party hasn't changed or even shown signs of willingness to change, on any major policy positions.
Spare a thought for UK freedom of expression
Wesley Winter been doing terrific man-on-the-street reporting in the UK and around the EU the past several years on what’s ailing your continent.
https://youtu.be/beCZmcp5W8c?si=-8Pmw6mtUpqjkjyC
So has Ezra Levant up at Rebel News in Canada.
Late noticing, or knowing, I suppose. Thanks for the link. Subscribed.
Paul Joseph Watson, "Modernity" channel on YT. He lives in the north of England.
Second that. PJ Watson is entertaining, on point, and deserves our support.
Thanks for the rec, Roger
All the more reason to watch his programming!
Interesting that on the rare occasions posted foreign sites, so many Brits etc would post things like “why is it Americans have guns” or speak as if Freedom exists. I always tried to point out our Bill of Rights and specifically free real speech. And now see what I and other Americans would post, is coming home to UK, Canada. No powerful Margaret Thather type coming to UK again. Very sad but what we’ve posted as could happen to UK is happening.
UK; The country you can now get arrested and sent to jail for criticizing Israel. Freedom of expression is dead there.
“More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/19/palestine-action-protests-uk-london-arrests
More than a few ordinary Britons have been attacked and imprisoned simply for criticizing your Islamofascist brethren. I actually agree that criticizing any nation should be permitted under free speech principles, including Israel. But your opinion is blind to the growing caliphate in the UK.
Indeed the UK is being taken over. The strategy has been for Israel and the US to make the Middle East in particular to be a good place to flee.
Liz Warren calling Mamdani the future of demoncrat polices demonstrating once again their embrace of slavery/ exploitation/ communism & it's inherent violence. Nothing has changed since that party's inception.
But awareness continues to rise. Former dem Brandon Straka, a gay man & founder of "Walkaway" was filming while attending J6. He never entered the Capitol. But he was arrested, persecuted & imprisoned, lost his FB page & large following. As he put it, what they told me would happen to me under Trump DID happen to me under Biden. His YT channel highlights the rising movement of those leaving the left, like this one, “My kids can’t even go to school—in America?”: How the Left Lost Latinos ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoGZaIH7kjQ&ab_channel=%23WalkAwayCampaign
I have followed Brandon since the beginning of the Walk Away movement. He is a brave patriot and what the system did to him and the other J6ers should put a chill down every single American’s spine.
Brandon Straka is both hero and martyr in our movement. Say his name.
Russell Brand has made a remarkable transformation as well, fascinating to listen to him through his journey to where he is today. He did an interview w Charlie Kirk recently on it.
He "walked away" previous to the Jan 6 operation. That's why he was dangerous (or why the regime thought that he was dangerous) to them. He didn't do anything wrong, but government could care less about guilt or innocence. It doesn't enter into the "calculation" at all.
To "err is human" but if you REALLY want to screw something up (or kill a large number of people) it takes a government.
I hesitate to pontificate about another countries politics But. The Democrats were handed their asses. In the Presidential election. As rightly they should have been. When you take policies to an election that the majority of the voting public, think open borders, with lavish support for illegal immigrants. And biological males I’m female sport and dressing rooms. Are seriously on the nose to the electorate and they vote accordingly.
You would expect Democratic management to think, we sure fucked up here. It would be a good idea to change our tune. But nope they doubled down on the policies that got them in this position in the first place.
Some one should point out to them that doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting. A different result, is a well known definition of insanity.
Lots of insanity within the democrat / leftist party of destruction. They have never been held accountable for the wide range damage their policies & power have wrought. So they continue on expecting not to be held accountable for anything. A party of death, insanely celebrating abortion & demanding the right to mutilate innocent children’s sex parts. But that is after they’ve corrupted the innocent mind first with their lying propaganda. The Sydney Sweeney outrage of hatred is the latest example of leftist crazy - now the mob has moved on to attacking her beautiful dog because he’s a German Shepherd- a nazi dog. I’d say that’s close to rock bottom crazy now.
There is no bottom to leftist crazy, they keep coming up with something else even more delusional than before
They suffer from chronic inflammation
The soiled diaper kind of inflammation.
Government is force. That's all it is. Like when you want to move a boulder, it helps enormously if you can get 100 (or 1000 for a big rock) behind you. It has no reasoning abilities at all. The individuals have the reasoning ability, and those people give government it's reasoning ability. If they are not in the correct place to input their expertise, then they may as well not even be there.
Maybe when some people who have reasoning ability (and desire- many don't GAF) into positions where they can be heard, there will be possibility for change, but until then, government with it's enormous momentum, is going to just keep rolling in the direction that it was last pointed in.
Yet you cancel sharing Tucker videos...because antisemitism, or something. All he did was criticize a country meddling in American politics...and just like that...he's a racist. Some old leftist habits die hard I suppose.
No one is obligated to share other people's content. If you can't find Tucker's videos without Sasha doing the work for you, that is your failure, not hers. She hasn't 'cancelled' 😱 anyone.
Tucker sold his soul, but imagine he got a good price.
Care to foster an argument or evidence? Or are we just doing a cliché off?
The people who cancel Tucker and call him an antisemite - have in them the same sickness of those from the Far Left who call people Hitler, Nazi, Racist, etc. - they just come from the other side of the political horseshoe. All of these people have no ability to learn, just a desire to burrow ever deeper into their emotional, online shells.
Some of us look at the two opposing forces in the Middle East and draw conclusions as to which is the bigger danger to Western Civilization.
We notice that some people don’t see it as two opposing sides. They only see Israel bad. We notice that they never have any ideas or plans about what comes next. What happens in the area if Hamas stays in power, having been given the Palestinian state they have refused for years.
We wonder why that is.
Some of us look at all the destabilization of Arab countries by US/Israel actions over the past 25 years (Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria) and see that many people from those countries fled their devastated homelands and migrated to Europe (and the UK). Of course those EU countries had open doors and governments w/ Globalist weaponized empathy, welcoming them. But would all those Sharia inspired migrants left their deserts for France, Germany, Belgium, UK etc. if there had not been the US/Israel wars to destabilize countries in the first place? 🤔
Maybe not. But that’s rather like arguing that Americans today owe reparations because of slavery.
The situation you describe is not made any better by giving radical Islamists a Palestinian state.
Not really. Carlson has had a full year to renounce Darryl Cooper and apologize for his promotion of Cooper as America's best popular historian. He hasn't.
It's lunatic enough that Cooper blames Hitler more than Churchill for World War II. When Hitler invaded Poland Churchill wasn't even in the Cabinet, let alone Prime Minister. If I weren't certain Cooper is sinister, I'd suspect his parents had been cousins. But Carlson hasn't retracted his labeling of Cooper as our greatest popular historian.
Cooper blames The Holocaust on inadequate bureaucratic planning to take account of weather conditions. Tucker listened with rapt wonder to this. Granted, Tucker was by his own acknowledgement the typical rich, drunken fratboy undegrad, but he's had decades to learn better about a matter as important as The Holocaust. Meanwhile, Cooper's tweets as martyrmade show him to be a vile human being.
Now, Carlson and Candy are a twosome. I couldn't fathom why Candy didn't back down when the Macrons sued. DNA is incontrovertible. Then I realized something: Candy will use the judgment against her as an even better cudgel for Jew bashing:
"Well, now, just who owns these labs? Who are on their Boards of Directors? Don't we all know who controls medicine?" Etc.
I think Owens is demon influenced and certainly a psychopath. I think Carlson is not as wicked, just that his character is far worse than I had suspected. He deserves far more opprobrium than he has thus far received.
My theory is that it isn't a horseshoe...it's a circle. We are just told to think it's a horseshoe so there is forced separation and division.
Whatever it is, I’ve found those on the Right, succumbing to knee jerk labeling of people as antisemitic or antisemitic adjacent - if you postulate America 1st thoughts that also include criticism of the modern nationstate of Israel. It’s a 10/7 disease I’m happy to never catch.
The left globs onto it because of the Marxist paradigm of oppressor\oppressed and identity politics nonsense. They've been sold that lie since the 1960's. The current populist right is only talking about nations (plural) influencing our domestic issues and politicians selling out to foreign interests. That's it. It has nothing to do with race. It could be Zimbabwe for all we care.
Exactly right, Matt. TDS - Tucker Derangement Syndrome
Yes. He thinks Darryl Cooper is intelligent. Proof of his idiocy and irrelevance.
Darryl Cooper pointed out a truth. And that truth is that the US neocon class has used WW2 tropes to advance forever wars for the past 80 years. Such as, ‘that country is a literal Hitler and must be stopped!’. Or, if one hesitates to go to war.. ‘don’t be a Chamberlain’.
Darryl Cooper is a kook whose references include Holocaust deniers like David Irving.
I don’t live in the world of cancel culture, publius. I try to live in the world of truth and ideas. And this ‘kook’ pointed out a truth that resonated with me (WW2 tropes used for many decades to advance forever wars).
X1,000.
Not convinced that Tucker "sold his soul" but certainly he has been deceived. He has recently had several guests highly critical of Israel.
Susan, why is being critical of Israel ‘selling one’s soul’? This is an emotional argument, IMO. Every government on earth should be open to criticism.
That was not my comment but my response to a prior comment that used that expression. Substack gets confusing when it moves around responses.
My apologies, Susan.
If criticizing Israel means “selling one’s soul” then I’ve made a fortune
That phrase was not mine but used in a prior comment. Substack gets confusing when it moves responses around.
Sorry my bad, thought I was replying to the original comment
Tucker is a dangerous antisemitic dastardly. He has gone down the samecrabbit hole as the Democrats. He is a doomsday freak. I am a Jewish Ametican and his rhetoric is as insane as Rachel Madcows. Islam is the enemy. Israel is fighting the boogie man that zobama brought to life.
Don't drunk post.
Young lady, you ‘see’ antisemitism like your NGO grift depends on it. Your organization reminds me of the homeless industrial complex. It never goes away, so always another fund drive. Yuck 🤮
“We’re Paying For The Weapons And We’re Giving Them Cover.” (5 min)
Clarissa Ward On US Actions In Gaza.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Jun 26, 2025
https://youtu.be/bW1fs6BXzaE?si=YJ4-KFhcsi9iD9J_
Colbert. Now there's a trustworthy source. You'll excuse me if I don't click on that
Any questioning Israel gets you automatically labeled antisemite and has the pro-genocide lobby very upset.
That is very rapidly changing though. There is a huge shift against Israel now even among conservatives. Even MTG now says Gaza is a genocide and is obviously not America First. Trump gets worse and worse. He seems determined to turn the world, including friends like India, against America. Truly appalling how incompetent and deranged he’s become. God only knows where we’ll all end up.
That’s why I go to Mass and say Rosary daily. Semper fi, Marine.
“Woman punched in face in downtown Cincinnati speaks for first time.” (2 min)
WCPO 9. Aug 6, 2025
https://youtu.be/7y2fAHWyaUc?si=uYTGnLn-1gbFOSbP
I recently had a neighbor tell me an unbelievable fact about Texas law. So I looked it up, found it to be untrue. Asked where she got the information and she heard it on Saturday night live. Referencing Colbert is just as asinine and gets you the same quality of information
Colbert wasn’t the source. Clarissa Ward was and she is a very reliable source of information since she was talking from Jordan about how the people in the Middle East now feel about America. I do not excuse your stupidity. You’re a good example of why America is now so deeply hated by an ever growing number of people in the world. Our global leadership is gone as is our moral credibility. Shame on you and all those like you. You people are morally bankrupt and despicable.
I'm unconcerned what the Middle East thinks of me. Or you either, for that matter. But this I know: I'm a farmer and if you piss enough of us off, you'll starve.
“I'm unconcerned what the Middle East thinks of me.”
If you paid any attention to what’s happening to the world you live in you’d know Israel/America is now very rapidly heading for WW3 against Russia/China/Iran which is very strongly supported by the Middle East and the global south. In other words, this is a war we will lose. Big time.
Any criticism of Israel is antisemitism; didn’t you read the room? This site is now about 97% pro-Zionist and has zero tolerance for any criticism of Israel. Israel killed tens of thousands of children this year and they defended it.
Oh I have read it. Last I checked there were 50 stars on our flag, not 51...but so many people don't seem to realize that. Between Ukraine and Israel and all these pleas for support that are purely emotional based on their face, while subversively being about idealism and our supposed blind alliance. We have major problems in this country...but we need to send another pallet of 500lb bombs over to Israel and Ukraine...so get to work, and make sure you pay your taxes on time...or else. Don't even get me started on where those displaced people end up...and who pays for it.
David Horowitz was a California conservative who in his early years as a young man in the sixties was a leftist who knew many of the Black Panthers such as Huey Newton. He was appalled when he realized Newton was just a thug and also appalled that the white liberals still adored him. He became a conservative and spent the rest of his life fighting the left. He died recently and I’ve just started reading his book (May 2019) “Mortality and Faith: Reflections on a Journey through Time.” Some say AI will fulfill all our needs and then we’ll be happy but Horowitz questioned this belief.
“Genesis is the story of our beginning and our end. We are creatures of desires that cannot be satisfied and of dreams that will not come true.”
“As an agnostic, I have no idea if the universe began with a bang or has existed forever, or is the work of a Creator. But I do know that the biblical book called "Genesis" conveys a central truth about human fate. The First Parents wanted to be like God and could not be satisfied with anything less. Though they were immortal and lived without labor and suffered no pain, they found paradise wanting. What they lacked became their desire.”
“We are defined by negatives; they describe the emptiness we fill. What is good without evil or love without hate? God warned the first couple that death would be the reward for their immodest desire. But they rejected His warning and pursued their ambition anyway, and were punished. Genesis is the story of our beginning and our end. We are creatures of desires that cannot be satisfied and of dreams that will not come true.”
“Man's longing for God can be understood as the need to be released from the pain of being, even if that pain is paradise it-self. To live eternally in paradise without knowledge of what we lacked, even if it was knowledge of evil, even if it was evil, was unhappiness to us. To end our unhappiness, we chose to die.”
“Ex-Google Exec (Warning): The Next 15 Years Will Be Hell Before We Get To Heaven! - Mo Gawdat” (2:34:12)
The Diary Of A CEO. Aug 4, 2025
https://youtu.be/S9a1nLw70p0?si=F-HFbuUUbya4MFyk
I think this is another good example of who is 'in power':
“Meet Marlene Engelhorn, one of the major organizers of anti-Israel protests in Europe.
“Fun fact: Her wealth comes from her great-grandfather Friedrich Engelhorn, who made his fortune from producing Zyklon B, the gas used by the Nazis to murder Jews during the Holocaust.”
I did Nazi that coming."
- Don Surber
Telling
I think the metaphor for the whole party (what's left of it) is Mamdani. Who, it seems, had several grooming sessions with a certain former prez.
Snakes of a leather, slither together. He is a total fabrication and just as phony as his grooming coach...
NYC is going to fail, and fail hard. The questions is--will this be the model for the nation? The Republic is strong--but cannot survive certain things...
One week he's got the press fawning over him for eating with his hands. A few days later he's in his secure African compound partying away with all of the locals held at bay by gunpoint. He's got the communist routine down at a pretty young age.
Youth is so easily deceived by Golden tongued liars such as mandami and the Kenyan fuhrer.
Your question will be answered quickly when Mamdani assumes the mayor's office and appoints "Fire Alarm" Jamaal Bowman as his Schools Chancellor.
Fascinating observation, and kind of explains TDS. I read, and see, many posts online about Trump that come across as a bit unhinged. But I also recently read a post with an exhaustive list all the things that make the author think Trump is a horrible person: shady business practices, inappropriate sexual advances, the mean (maybe vicious) attacks on social media, his association with Epstein, and on and on and on. With no context, it is a hell of an indictment! This person built a convincing case that explains why people do not like (hate) Trump.
But then I think back to when I heard his bright, articulate grandaughter speak so lovingly about him. I was struck with a bit of cognitive dissonance. For a moment, I saw him as a wonderful family man. (A clear contrast to the image I have of Joe Biden’s family.) So, for me, Trump is truly an inigma. I constantly try to center my naive self, and remember that both of these people have worked the systems they’ve lived in (business and politics) to advance their own personal best interest. But then I ask myself, what is the end game? Right now, one side seems to be working to preserve the America I love, and the other seems hell bent to fundamentally change it into an America I don’t recognize. And, it scares me.
The left has created a monster named Donald Trump because he is an existential threat to the progressive project of taking over America. They hate and fear him because he threatens their power. Their caricature is not real. He plays into some of it just to stir them up and they always take the bait so he can laugh at their craziness along with the offline half of America that Sasha writes about here. The real Trump is a complex character like most people are. Salena Zito knows him well and knows his people, look up her writing for a different perspective.
I like the way you think.
I've always thought you could best judge a man by how his kids turned out.
The one reason why Barack Obama will always be the worst president this nation ever endured is because he's the only president in history, from either party, who held our nation in contempt.
ALL Democrats hold America in disgust disdain and embrace humanity’s destruction.
And those traits continue to this day. I define him as a narcissistic psychopath.
I read some of the stuff from the leftist media. It is like they missed the last decade. I guess they spent it living in their bubble.
Another insightful article. I have hope for our Constitutional Republic, but I find it very difficult to believe that the level of "belief perseverance" that leftists have will be broken/wrecked without an "earth shattering" event or events. Extreme force feeding of life event FACTS will be needed to break through the left's useful idiot's "feelings driven" views/the very long time they've held those views. The communists leading the left have done a great job of brainwashing a significant part of the population and undermining the republic.
Sasha, you take the pulse on American culture and politics like no one else out there!
Another masterful analysis of the current reality. Keep ‘em coming please.
Where is your tip jar you refer to? Can’t see it on my iPhone version of your Substack page. Steve Hoffman, Fountain Hills AZ
You're the rare person, Sasha, to look back on your beliefs and behaviour and publicly analyze where you went wrong. It's helpful to us all, even if, as in my case, we never liked Obama. (Early on, I wondered, “Why would he change his name from Barry Sotero to Barack *Hussein* Obama?") I didn't care that he was blackish. I cared that his dad was a Muslim from Kenya, that he was more more aligned with Arab interests than that of Americans. Here on the West Coast, I can report that the summer of 2020 took years off my life. I'm tremendously proud of you that you woke up and decided violent mobs didn’t represent you.
It always galled me them billing themselves as "the resistance." Resistance to what? To the nuclear family? To the rights of children to be protected from a predatory cabal of med-surg investors and big tech operatives that would sell their products through the public school system? To *rule of law*, for Pete's sake? Cloaking themselves in the glamour of real-life Audrey Hepburn, who actually *was* part of the resistance. Aligning themselves with the White Feather Society, who leafletted Nazi Germany against the Nazis and were summarily shot. Now these same people make it plain they'd love to kill us for defending Israel, keeping boys out of girls' spaces and men out of women's spaces, "misgendering" (?!), and praying. Re: this last, I was never particularly religious, but the demonic character of today's Left (and here I must refer the reader to Ann Coulter's eminently witty and concise book, Demonic) has driven me closer to God. Friends seeking to protect their children from perverts and perverted teachings/indoctrinations choose Christian private schools. I can no longer see what purpose the Democrat party serves now in the U.S. Are they helpful? Do they contribute anything constructive?
So few voices on the left are serious people or grown-ups.
“We cannot stand for this!” is not an argument. It’s an emotional fit, screaming about what they don’t like.
“I hate you I hate you I hate you!”
I know, sweetheart, but those are the rules. You like to talk about “democracy,” right? This is what democracy means. We play by the rules and now it’s his turn. When it’s your turn, you can decide. Not now.