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William Skelley's avatar

I lived through the 60s being 77 I have seen a lot, there were many more assassinations, riots and mayhem. Things are likely to get much worse in this country before they get better due to the internet and instant communication. It will be very hard on a lot of people especially the younger ones who haven’t witnessed it before but the US will survive. This is the greatest country in the world don’t believe otherwise, could it be better of course but violence won’t make it so

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Tom Kennedy's avatar

Thank God for commentators like Sasha and Salena Zito who aren't blinded by a lack of feedback on what is actually happening.

Salena just penned an article :

(https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3460799/mcdonalds-vs-media-trump-2024-election/)

that listed examples of the MSM blindness:

"The outrage machine was churning out stories. According to the Associated Press, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, Trump stood to lose not only Puerto Rican voters but also his support among all Hispanic voters."

This prediction by the MSM reporters was completely wrong.

Engineers know feedback loops act like a guiding hand, continuously monitoring and correcting the system’s behavior to prevent it from spiraling out of control.

When humans or systems lack feedback they often spiral out of control.

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Paul Scofield's avatar

Well said.

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Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

I disagree. The US will NOT survive as we once knew her. I too am 77 years old and here is what I know about the nation's economic health:

The global Keynesian economic system, with its central banks and socialist's government spending is unraveling. Great Britain and Japan are glaring examples. Under Trump the U.S. national debt just ballooned to $37.2 trillion, and a staggering $9.2 trillion of it is set to mature in 2025. This accounts for 25.4% of the country’s total debt, raising concerns over its implications for financial markets, interest rates, and economic stability. The rapid accumulation of debt has been fueled by historic levels of deficit spending. More recently, since 2020, debt has grown by $13 trillion, averaging $2.6 trillion per year for five consecutive years.

Meanwhile, the federal deficit for 2024 stands at $1.8 trillion, or 7% of GDP, and interest payments on the debt have ballooned to over $2 trillion per year. The United States Consolidated Fiscal Balance recorded a deficit equal to 7.0 % of its Nominal GDP in Dec 2024, compared with a deficit equal to 6.4 % in the previous quarter. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/consolidated-fiscal-balance--of-nominal-gdp

Sooner than later, Secretary of US Treasury Scott Bessent will attempt to rescue the US Treasury markets from a banana republic collapse because of investor demand for higher interest rates; but Bessent's only bullet is the Federal Reserve will buy the US Treasuries in a massive QE event. A "turbo-QE". This will inflict upon the US economy a 10%/10% stagflation (10% unemployment - 10% real inflation) which will devastate the bottom 70% of Americans.

"A day's wages for a loaf of bread". [Revelation 6: 5-6]

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JBell's avatar

I do not think your prognostications are factoring in the super-charged growth we are beginning to see and will see it accelerate soon.

I am only 59, not around as long as you, but neither of us has seen the kind of plans this administration has been implementing and the results could very much surprise you as they are not following the traditionally paved path.

I am going to keep my optimism.

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Wendi's avatar

Bingo! Ignore the naysayer- a bigger plan for prosperity is at foot!

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Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

My question would be this. If you are “paid” with something that is worthless (for all intents and purposes) as an exchange for your labor, are you not a victim of theft? Where is the “income”?

And if you are exchanging portions of your very life for these worthless fiat pieces of paper, because of FIAT legislation, are you not a slave for the amount of time you take to obtain them?

For you see…US Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized theft.

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KARYN TRUITT's avatar

It's extremely disingenious to say that the nation debt 'under Trump' ballooned to $37.2 Trillion dollars. 37 of that 37.2 was already there from the Biden administration.

According to the GAO : 'In 2020, the national debt of the United States was approximately $26.9 trillion'. If true, the Biden administration added 11 TRILLION dollars in 4 years. (If Trump adds .2 Trillion a year, 4 years will be less than a Trillion.) You're touting the debt as though it is due to Trump, but yet show that an average of $2.6 Trillion was added EACH YEAR by the democrats since 2020.

This fiscal irresponsibility is one of the reasons Trump was elected. Did he have to increase the budget? Yes, but only because of higher expenses. Look at it this way - we still need a place to live, but Trump is getting a small 3 bed 2 bath instead of a huge McMansion with marble floors, gold fixtures, and a chocolate fountain in every room.

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Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

Sooner than later, Secretary of US Treasury Scott Bessent will attempt to rescue the US Treasury markets from a banana republic collapse, because of investor demand for higher interest rates. However, Bessent's only bullet is the Federal Reserve will buy the US Treasuries in a massive QE event. A "turbo-QE". This will flood the money supply and inflict upon the US economy a 10%/10% stagflation (10% unemployment - 10% real inflation) which will devastate the bottom 70% of Americans.

Its not President Trump's doings that will cause our banana republic to collapse. Its the inevitable unraveling of the Keynesian-Central Bank economic model that will cause the demise of the American empire.

"A day's wages for a loaf of bread". [Revelation 6: 5-6]

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JBell's avatar

Repeating yourself does not make your statements any more true or convincing!

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William Skelley's avatar

No problem those are my thoughts. I think Sasha’s article was actually about Political Violence

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Orenv's avatar

Fortunately whatever our fate, we will get to see it play out in Japan and Europe first.

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Janine's avatar

Carl, we aren't repaying the "debt". The Federal Reserve is a "quasi-private" organisation" (SCOTUS). It has been stealing from American Citizens since 1931; Let them pound rocks. We will get a fresh start with new United States of America dollars. It's all good.

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steven t koenig's avatar

Sasha,

Thank you for the passion you put into this.

I'm 68 and have always been conservative (except that time when I was 18 and voted for Jimmy Carter). After nearly 50 years of screaming into the ether, I concluded I couldn't change the other sides' minds, and I had virtually given up. And then you changed your own mind. That makes your voice more important than mine. Continue to preach. That's what I pay you for.

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Paul Scofield's avatar

Agreed. Violence is the last stop for the Left, however it turns out for them.

A majority in the nation will not again put up with another Summer of Violence, on the belief that appeasing those who threaten chaos will somehow cause it to stop.

That did not work in 1938 or 2020.

Ball is in your court, Lefties.

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Bill Pieper's avatar

People long for heroism and regret that they were born at a time when there are few real opportunities to be recognized as a hero (by their definition of hero), so they create crises that don't actually exist such as systemic racism- only people who have not lived outside the US believe the US is the most racist nation on earth. As a result, they have actually resuscitated racism which was on life support prior to the Obama admin. Of course, the loathsome media and other political criminals, mostly on the left, loved this and encouraged it purely for selfish political reasons with complete disregard for what they would do to society in general. In addition to fanning the flames of racism against white and Jewish people, they have only increased resentment and fatigue among the white population who have done absolutely nothing to deserve being targeted by people suffering from delusions of oppression.

On the bright side, such a movement is self-defeating. When you have "Queers for Palestine" and what is effectively "AWFLs for sharia law" it does not take Sherlock Holmes to see the basic flaws in their movements. But they can and will do real damage before they are swept into the ash heap.

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Brent Nyitray's avatar

Somebody named it: Selma-envy

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Matthew J Florio's avatar

Your opening line is beautiful.

The tragedy of the modern left is that many of them probably started as frustrated saviors, eager to solve the big problems. Never mind that the big problems (poverty, class divisions, racism, etc. ad nauseam) had existed for thousands of years before now and stubbornly survived all attempts at permanent solutions.

Now that the fantastic promises that Obama gave them have surrendered to enduring reality, they're all geared up for a revolution that's never coming. An army of dragonslayers and nary a dragon in sight.

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Citizen Bitcoin's avatar

Almost makes me cheer for Islam if it means the literal end of AWFL feminism

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AncientViking's avatar

The femi-nazis are taking themselves out of the equation. Just let them continue to disassemble. And further--have no daughters to 'groom'.

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davewohl@midco.net's avatar

It can get depressing watching the idiots out there do the things they do. I really don't want to get violent but if I feel my family is threatened, that IS the hill to die on, and I certainly won't go alone.

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Paul Scofield's avatar

Yup. I feel the same way about my kith and kin and the Constitutional Republic of our inheritance.

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Steve G's avatar

These idiots have no idea what they are unleashing. The great unwashed, flyover country, the deplorables have backed as far as they are going to. Be careful what you wish for.

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Paul Scofield's avatar

Copy that. They may get a 21st Century version of Sherman's March to the Sea.

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JMaryH's avatar

The left can only destroy, they can't rebuild. Even the millionaires in LA can't replace their homes with the government they elected in office. And still they vote for their own demise.

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McLeod Bruce's avatar

They can build if they don’t steal all of the money. The problem is what they build is always a horror show. Public housing built starting in the 60’s was a disaster. Or the new Presidential Library. The Department of Education….

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Citizen Bitcoin's avatar

Unlike 2020 the majority will not be willing to die for the cause if the cause is for people whose only language is Spanish. Press one for English. Press two to self deport

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Kurt's avatar

Sasha, great piece. I wish you didn’t have so much material on this topic. And I hope you don’t get any more with assassiations. The left is unhinged in their daily calls for violence against the demonized oppressor du jour in their twisted, sick narrative. Corporate CEOs for Luigi, next Mamdani and landlords. It’s getting ugly fast.

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Dena's avatar

Yes, I’m afraid It’s going to get worse, and thank God Trump will fight back. Of course the media amplifies, lies & normalizes the crazy on the left while demonizing the right as Sasha so eloquently writes. All the while Ignoring the disgusting state of major blue state cities. The crime and the suffering of suicidal, homeless drug users who are encouraged to live like dogs until they die. Fanning the flames are Dem politicians like Crawford who outright lie about who’s committing the violence - it’s not MAGA. ( though what a surprise that the lone sane dem voice supporting ICE belongs to Fetterman!) Delusional, evil mayors like Bass with her constant, stupid Cheshire smile as who lies, literally through her teeth, about protecting all ‘Angeleno’s’ ; when she really means all illegals. This will be some 4th turning for America. Steel yourselves.

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sherronkilgore@yahoo.com's avatar

Sasha, keep documenting your thoughts with all the material...... we need to see it too!

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Carlos's avatar

The American Left use a different name - but they are FABIAN SOCIALISTS - whose logo tells you who they are: A snarling wolf, hiding behind a smiling sheep's mask.

Orwell and Huxley warned us. Every dictatorial overthrow - with the 100 million dead ( Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina) has started with "cancel culture" and struggle sessions - which always turned to mass murder.

The violent and bloody cherry on top of this Marxist attempt - is that they brought in 41 million mercenary illegals - and promised them that not only could they stay - they would be given housing, health care, and $5,000/month - if they were willing to fight Americans in the streets here ( 34 milllion are military aged men with training) - and they will be given PREFERENTIAL STATUS and GUARANTEED CITIZENSHIP...And with all of these people being at the bottom of their third world countries - what did they have to lose in coming here?

It's not just a "maybe it will get violent." Now that the BBB has passed and there is funding - the Trump Admin will be hiring 10,000 more ICE and DHS agents. The problem is - even adding that number - along with 4 million strong military - the manpower pales in comparision to 34 million - spread across every major city. And now that SCOTUS has rightfully sided with Trump and the American people - the Left's only choice is to start the revolution.

Orchestrating all of this - is China and the IDF - both of which are our mortal enemies - but the IDF is the snarling wolf pretending to be our "biggest ally" - while China is a stated and overt enemy ( the Mossad and the IDF helped orchestrate Jan 6).

The American citizen is in for a world of hurt. They ushered in the Trojan horse - listening to liars and murderers like Biden and Mayorcas - and acting as if unchecked immigration is "humanitarian". They have come to destroy everything, and what they don't destroy - they will claim as theirs. Not sure that Trump has 7 & 8 D chess to play - because we don't have another 20 million pawns that we desperately need.

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Mike Perceval's avatar

“…the IDF is the snarling wolf pretending to be our "biggest ally" - while China is a stated and overt enemy (the Mossad and the IDF helped orchestrate Jan 6).”

So much deception, corruption, treason, and evil has been uncovered over the past decade, and the last five years in particular, that I have had to face and process as true, many things that were, for me, previously unthinkable and impossible to accept.

I’m not talking about the unelected, un-Constitutional, non-accountable, ‘Deep State’ shadow Government that has existed for many decades.

What I am referring to is what I term ‘the Cabal’, which is clearly Global, and evil, in nature. It is amorphous; comprised of many different entities who may have specific points of difference, but are animated by, and empowered through, one common source; Satan.

The Fabian’s are only one of the more significant players in the Cabal. They have played a large role in shaping the current state of the world for over a hundred years now. But other very significant players, such as the Masons, or the Illuminati, have been around for far longer.

What has become clear over the past six years, in particular, is how far advanced the various groups had progressed in implementing their plans to undermine and collapse all countries with a Judeo-Christian heritage. In other words, ‘Western Civilization’.

Every single institution in the United States had been infiltrated and ‘captured’, with the key leadership either fully onboard with the Cabal’s ‘vision’, coerced into collaborating (most likely blackmail involving pedophilia), or deceived and blindly participating in the evil involved.

We are talking about leadership personnel within the military, CIA, FBI, DHS, CBC, and all other government agencies, as well as throughout the Private Sector, of the United States. To the extent that claim is true in the United States, it is at least equally true in many other nations of the world - including Israel. In other words, virtually every single country has people within high places, whose ultimate loyalties are to the Globalist, ‘One World Government’, ‘New World Order’ agenda - not to their own nation and people.

We are in the midst of a spiritual battle between the forces of God, and Satan, made manifest in our physical world.

So, is it possible there were Israelis, including some within Mossad and the IDF, involved in setting up and exploiting Jan. 6? Perhaps, though I doubt you have definitive proof of your claim.

But, even if there was some such involvement, it may well have been rogue efforts by their own Deep State, not the actions of the official government. And, at the end of the day, there is plenty of fault and blame to go around, as they would have had to coordinate and collaborate with their counterparts in the US forces of darkness.

My firm conclusion is this: Some Jews may well have been involved, and remain involved, in many different ‘progressive’ actions intended to weaken, undermine, and even ‘destroy’ America.

A significant focus has been, and remains at present, ‘getting Trump’. But I have no doubt the same thing is true for some Israeli and Diaspora Jews in regard to Netanyahu, and Israel.

May the Lord continue to restrain and expose the great evil that is abroad in the world, bringing revival, and turning many who are lost and blind to Him for salvation.

May He bless, guide, and keep all who delight in, and trust, Him. And may He continue to bless, guide, protect from evil, and grant victories in fighting against it, to America, and to Israel, in the name of Jesus Christ / Yeshua HaMashiach.

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Carlos's avatar

I do have tons of evidence re: J6, Summer of *Love*, the Zionist run NGOs ( even " Catholic Charities"), Mike...even how the Mossad set up ( with the CIA) Haitian " unrest" - to "legally" usher in 500,000 trained guerillas into Florida,Jersey City, Brooklyn, NYC, Philly, Boston, Chicago, Springfield,Detroit and Houston

But you seem to get the picture so I won't cite chapter & verse.

It's a spiritual war all right,with the bloody embodiment to come before the fall🤕🫣

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Will Whitman's avatar

Sasha's song, or so I guess. But I'm just man who finds her voice rather attractive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKnnh8VDULs&list=RDIKnnh8VDULs&start_radio=1

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Gary Bickerstaff's avatar

“Sasha’s song.” I like that. I count myself among those who agree. I’m guessing there are many.

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Bidman's avatar

I'll add myself to that opinion.

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Bill Darrow's avatar

Yes. I feel I can no longer talk to my Left friends. They’re so far gone. And they no doubt feel the same way about me. The real world seems irrelevant to their views. It’s like a cult.

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KARYN TRUITT's avatar

Not 'like'. it is. there is nothing rational about the leftist, liberal, or democrats anymore.

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Jen Todd's avatar

What would be rational would be to move away from #resist and offer intelligent, meaningful resolutions. But of course, that is exactly the opposite intention for Dems. They don't in any way want what's best for Americans and America. Dems have become a party that is hell bent on perpetuating their "big lie" as far and wide as possible. Fortunately, for the rest of us, that house of cards is in full collapse.

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Terry Tucker's avatar

i agree

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Jim I's avatar

Trump was so feared by the Crony Leftwing Establishment that they spied on him, they repeatedly told us on CNN and MSNBC he was a Russian asset (now under criminal investigation), they rioted every night for three months, they exploited COVID harming Americans to harm him, they used various different charges in multiple states trying to gag him and lock him up before people could vote for him, they removed him from ballots to prevent people from voting for him, they forced out Biden who held all the primary votes and replaced him with someone with no primary votes — and they called him Hitler so many times that inspired two assassins one who came within an inch of killing him on live TV.

The results?

He and his voters won everything. Again.

Now — give us one reason to vote for Democrats in 2028.

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Clarity Seeker's avatar

Sasha, so glad you included the Casablanca scene ( among the most emotional scenes in movie history). From the negative comments I see above it looks like you hit the bullseye for those readers only seek to justify or rationalize the violence that has been on vivid display for five-years. Keep up your great work.

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Teresa Maupin's avatar

Tour de force, Sasha! You’ve given as good an explanation as any why the political party of tolerance became the party of violence. It did take decades. The problem with all the pious Karens in the closing video is their supreme self-confidence. I doubt they ever stop and think “wait a minute …”.

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Bill's avatar

One of your best, Sasha. Seriously. As a fellow former Democrat, this has me hit hard, in a good way. Here’s to a return to conversation and debate over violence, here’s to right over wrong. Here’s to being human beings to one another. I truly hope and pray for those things. While I’m sad for the friends who have spit in my face and rejected decades of friendship for saying those things, as many of us here have likewise experienced (yourself included), I’m very much at peace with the knowledge that we are on the right side of this tension, both morally and politically.

Keep up the thoughtful resistance to hatred and immoral violence, and a special thank you for choosing a non-Neil cover of his outstanding protest song written at a time many years ago when he stood up and wrote for what was right, unlike the blind hatred he’s succumbed to and what has driven him in recent years.

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HL3's avatar

If you call your friends evil and wrong constantly I wonder why they dont want to be friends with you anymore.

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Matthew J Florio's avatar

This is a perfect summation of why the left is no longer welcome anywhere they don't already control.

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HL3's avatar

Because you hate them just as much as they hate you.

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Matthew J Florio's avatar

Weird that I posted this just a couple of weeks ago:

"Heaven forfend that we don't like the people who called us racists and fascists for years."

To stop the attack against everything you say you support, all that needs to happen is for your fellow lefties to admit you started the fight. No admission, no peace, and we will most assuredly dismantle every government giveaway and taxpayer-funded activist organization that has become your camp's favored employers. No more jobs giving away other people's money.

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HL3's avatar

Leftists started this? all you want is incontestable power and forever blame on the left. People like Sasha get off forever blaming every problem on the left.

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Fred Mertz's avatar

The left is increasingly desperate and they are catering to a mentally ill audience. It had to lead here. What we allowed to happen in the summer of 2020 because we were all told we were racist cops, has now bled into the rallying cry of a political party that feels they have lost everything because they lost one election.

The rhetoric got us here. We're part of the problem as well. Owning the libs became a game because people felt the need to fight back. Now they feel the need to fight back and they know that acting crazy on social media, crying into the camera,a doesn't work anymore. They need to do more.

Add in a university education system that has taught generations (now) that you need to feel guilty for loving this country and we have where we are right now.

There's no fixing this. My only hope is that the sane people amongst us outnumber the people who will choose violence while being spurred on by actors in Congress and the Senate and the mainstream media.

There are more normies out there than these people and their choice to act like children, like the guy rushing Kristi Noem, makes them look like performative babies to the majority of us who don't have Bluesky accounts or watch MSNBC/CNN all day.

But yeah, they are desperate. They were desperate a year ago when they tried to kill Trump in Butler. It's easy to be violent and crazy when you know the press will paint you as a hero.

Everybody needs to log off and try life that way for a while, but we all know that isn't going to happen. It's just crazy to me to see how fragile minds are. I had more hope in my fellow Americans and the human race. Seeing a pediatrician blow her career to own the Maga crowd online after people died in a flood told me way too much. It's pretty hopeless out there when people who work that hard to achieve in life can't turn off the noise and politicize everything. Even James Gunn and stupid brother trying to drive a wedge issue into the Superman premiere shows me that they are all so brain polluted now they can't turn this off.

And this isn't just the left. It never is. Zuckerberg really screwed us all in 2004. We just didn't know until it was too late.

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HL3's avatar

24/7 online being connected has allowed very nasty alter egos to emerge some like Trump use that to get power and money and some use it to spread fear and anger.

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Fred Mertz's avatar

I would agree with you if you also admitted that Obama, Biden, etc. have also used this to get rich and powerful. This isn't a one is better than the other argument. That's not what I was making. When politicians encourage people to do violence, act out and loot because they want to swing an election, it's evil. Now we're dealing with the aftermath of that. I don't see the way out because there are enough feeble minded on both sides to not realize they need to log off and stop politicizing every single thing that occurs in their lives.

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HL3's avatar

My comments on Biden are well known he was a prop for the establishment because they feared Sanders.

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Jim I's avatar

Obama was an cyberverse candidate. Just ask Sasha.

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HL3's avatar

Obama wasn't this ingenious evil but the times he was situated in created this massive problem. Despite all this technology we are more divided, angry and often times more isolated and dumb than ever before.

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Jim I's avatar

You are correct — the cyber world is the perfect vehicle to fuel, express and cultivate hatred.

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AmericanTruthPatriot's avatar

Those that are still supporting the Liberal party are mostly a group of misfit victims, born with very little common sense. They have the mental capacity of 3rd graders. They are easily manipulated, throw temper tantrums, dye or shave their hair in protest and have zero ability to connect the dots. I’ll never take another Liberal serious about anything, ever again. I’ll be nice to them but never look at them as anything smarter than a 3rd grader.

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HL3's avatar
Jul 10Edited

So is MAGA easily manipulated, under-educated and proud of it, and think common sense only when it relates to Trump agenda otherwise screw it. People like you are the most easiest people to see as nothing more than cultists and fanatics of Trump because when people analyze your posts they are nothing but that.

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AmericanTruthPatriot's avatar

“most easiest”….Like I said….3rd Grader! Sorry, you were born that way. Unfortunately, nothing will change that.

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HL3's avatar

Now I am being serious go fuck yourself.

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