I went to bed last night really pissed at the network "commentators" who kept referring to candidates as "election deniers" when Democrats have "denied" every election to come along for the past 50 years. THEY are the real election deniers, and the media are their town criers.
I’m so grateful you took the time to write this on midterm day. It seems we have travelled similar paths (California children of the 70’s/80’s, former lifelong Democrats who are now firmly in the Independent camp). One thing though: I absolutely think the 2000 election was stolen to enable their neoconservative plans for the world, and most likely it was the same forces behind the 2020 election shenanigans. Think NWO...
EXCELLENT ARTICLE! One thing gets me, I don't see how Democrats can blame Vietnam on Nixon when JFK started it and Nixon started pulling troops out as soon as he took office. (Yeah, I know, Ike had military advisors in South Vietnam but he had them all over the world. It was JFK who decided to up the ante because he was embarrassed about the Bay of Pigs.)
Nixon had some blame like courting China in fact some of the blame for the made in China push came from opened dialogue between Nixon and China by 1984 they went to 3rd largest trading partner.
Not sure what you mean by that since it had nothing to do with the Vietnam War. Yes, Nixon established a dialogue with China as well as the USSR. The trading partner business is more due to US corporations than to politicians. We like to blame politicians, but the reality is American companies bought from China. Incidentally, the late M.E. Cooper, who served in China during WW II, staid that China would eventually dominate the world and that was BEFORE Mao won.
Actually it did Nixon did help end the war by opening dialogue in China. Also after the war Communism quickly abandoned Vietnam forcing the united country to make capitalism moves sooner than later. Though I do agree fake Democrats love pointing to JFK as their beacon what a true democrat was but he was a big-time war monger and his politics were not great.
I meant your original comment had nothing to do with the Vietnam War. Sasha said Democrats blamed Nixon for the war when he actually ended it. Most Americans are not aware that by the 1972 election, the US had withdrawn all but a handful of troops from South Vietnam. Yes, Nixon sent B-52s against North Vietnam in December (and lost a bunch of them) but they were flying from Guam.
There was no carpet bombing of Cambodia! WTF was there to bomb? Nixon - finally - allowed US troops to go into Cambodia and those of us who were there applauded it. I was in C-130s and we were going into field son the border and the PAVN were sending guns on trucks across the border to shoot at us then hotfooting it back across. There was no carpet bombing in the Vietnam War at all for that matter. It was a World War II tactic used mainly against troop concentrations in Normandy.
They were upset that Nixon just didn't pull all the troops out as soon as he took office. In fact, he began withdrawing almost immediately and turning the war over to the Vietnamese. When I left Vietnam in the summer of 1970, the war had died down to a virtual standstill. It re-erupted two years later but by that time there were only a handful of US troops left in the country.
Hey Jude, :D. I’m with you. Unfortunately, I think the majority of the country are now so completely dependent on government welfare in all its forms (eg teachers and college professors get paid via tax dollars, tax payer funded healthcare, CHIPS, etc) that we will move to greater and greater socialism like Europe has. And as a result our standard of living will diminish like most of theirs did. Eventually we will become like the PIGS and finally when the (net) tax payer funded leeches finally run out of other people’s money, the Ponzi will fail, people will get very hungry, and blood will flow in the streets.
Excellent; timely, relevant, clear, comprehensive, compelling and truthful. Woknazis are unlikely to change given how crushing it would be to admit how cruelly they behaved for so long.
Here is how the Democratic Party is more violent than the Republican Party; 1 Dems promote millions of abortions and that is clearly violent for the baby getting pulled limb from limb. 2 Dems promote the release of violent criminals that results in even more violence upon poor blacks (bc over 90% of violence in blacks is done by blacks). 3 Dems promoted BLM and BLM promoted violence. 4 Dems promote Defund Police resulting in less arrests, less prosecutions, less incarcerations, more lawlessness and violence in cities upon poor blacks. I am in Philly and we average 5 shootings per day and have almost no arrests. 5 Dems promote welfare policies that render black households fatherless (which in turn results in poverty and violence).
This on top of the actual political violence like the NY lefties who choked that Latina zeldin voter at the hochul rally, the beer can thrown at senator cruz, the would be kavanaugh assassin, the guy who shot the GOP Senator (forgot his name) at the congressional softball practice... etc. the left is actually more racist and more violent than the right. But it gets much less criticism and attention.
You are a perfect example of why she can clearly and accurately point to lefties as "deniers" - and frankly the left is either dishonest or ill informed. There is no in between. The lefts "protests" have by FAR - killed more people, destroyed more property and livelihoods - it's not even close!!
No, Im genuine. Im quite insulted that Sasha downplays the violence on the right, as she always does. To say the summer of 2020 Movement were violent protests and hypocritical, just proves the point that she doesn’t understand what happened in the summer of 2020. I’d go as far as saying she doesn’t understand the current climate as all.
You’re nuts. How many guns did we bring on January 6th? How many bombs did we drop or even molotovs did we throw? How many blue politicians were we able to kill? Oh, zero? (The one police officer people say died that day actually died of a stroke). And actually the OTHER side had guns and killed three of us? Quite the insurrection. “Insurrection” means an armed attempt to overthrow a government by violent means. It’s patently obvious that no one there that day actually intended to forcefully take over the government, against a correct and obvious democratic result. We were there rallying for more transparent and verifiable election results that we are owed.
Wow. That was one of the most impassioned and heartfelt analyses of where we stand today as a nation I have encountered in recent memory. I hope to wake tomorrow to a better one...but I'm not holding my breath.
Regardless of the outcome of 11/08/2022, future generations must understand the truth of Twenty-first century America and how far off course we have drifted -- or been led astray. It isn't pretty, and if we don't course correct soon the efforts and spilt blood of our forefathers will have been in vain.
I knew a Vietnam vet who returned from that horror at only 19 with his Purple Heart. He said then China was/is the one to watch/fear/etc. not Russia. Until he died a few years ago, he never wavered from that assessment. China domination; their goal.
Thanks for the post, Sasha; always appreciate the perspective of a former Leftist. We need more of you sharing these stories and perspectives. Always remember there are also establishment republicans(McConnell and McCarthy) who share the same vision and fear of ordinary Americans.
Wow, reading this from the perspective of November 9... gut check. This not going to go the way anyone thinks it will. With mail in ballots and election “weeks”, we will essentially have one party rule here in America for years to come. Get ready for more recessions that aren’t “recessions”. Get ready for more “girls” with penises. Get ready for more “owning nothing” but being “happy” about it. God will save the world, but it will be a bumpy ride until then..
This is from RedState a heavily pro-conservative site
"Don Bolduc lost in New Hampshire, Trump trashed him despite the fact that he was one of the former president’s endorsed candidates. He also bashed Mehmet Oz after that race was called. Worse, in the midst of Republican struggles becoming clear late on election night, Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the loss of Joe O’Dea in Colorado’s senate race. Later, he bragged about his supposed endorsement record, calling the disappointing night a “great victory.” That’s not leadership. It’s self-serving buck-passing, and it’s especially off-putting given Trump was attempting to take credit for the red wave right up until the moment that it ceased to be."
Trump needs to leave and leave fast. He is the leader of the GOP I don't care if you say he wasn't he was the kingmaker the decider the rally flag. He takes all the credit zero blame. He was created by people neglected in the rural lands but now the chickens have come home to roost he is doing more damage being there than retiring and leaving the GOP to the future.
I went to bed last night really pissed at the network "commentators" who kept referring to candidates as "election deniers" when Democrats have "denied" every election to come along for the past 50 years. THEY are the real election deniers, and the media are their town criers.
Sasha, great job!
What a clear argument framed in decades of clear history of denying elections
I’m so grateful you took the time to write this on midterm day. It seems we have travelled similar paths (California children of the 70’s/80’s, former lifelong Democrats who are now firmly in the Independent camp). One thing though: I absolutely think the 2000 election was stolen to enable their neoconservative plans for the world, and most likely it was the same forces behind the 2020 election shenanigans. Think NWO...
EXCELLENT ARTICLE! One thing gets me, I don't see how Democrats can blame Vietnam on Nixon when JFK started it and Nixon started pulling troops out as soon as he took office. (Yeah, I know, Ike had military advisors in South Vietnam but he had them all over the world. It was JFK who decided to up the ante because he was embarrassed about the Bay of Pigs.)
Nixon had some blame like courting China in fact some of the blame for the made in China push came from opened dialogue between Nixon and China by 1984 they went to 3rd largest trading partner.
Not sure what you mean by that since it had nothing to do with the Vietnam War. Yes, Nixon established a dialogue with China as well as the USSR. The trading partner business is more due to US corporations than to politicians. We like to blame politicians, but the reality is American companies bought from China. Incidentally, the late M.E. Cooper, who served in China during WW II, staid that China would eventually dominate the world and that was BEFORE Mao won.
Actually it did Nixon did help end the war by opening dialogue in China. Also after the war Communism quickly abandoned Vietnam forcing the united country to make capitalism moves sooner than later. Though I do agree fake Democrats love pointing to JFK as their beacon what a true democrat was but he was a big-time war monger and his politics were not great.
I meant your original comment had nothing to do with the Vietnam War. Sasha said Democrats blamed Nixon for the war when he actually ended it. Most Americans are not aware that by the 1972 election, the US had withdrawn all but a handful of troops from South Vietnam. Yes, Nixon sent B-52s against North Vietnam in December (and lost a bunch of them) but they were flying from Guam.
I think they blamed him for taking an entire presidential term to end it that included the carpet bombing of Cambodia.
There was no carpet bombing of Cambodia! WTF was there to bomb? Nixon - finally - allowed US troops to go into Cambodia and those of us who were there applauded it. I was in C-130s and we were going into field son the border and the PAVN were sending guns on trucks across the border to shoot at us then hotfooting it back across. There was no carpet bombing in the Vietnam War at all for that matter. It was a World War II tactic used mainly against troop concentrations in Normandy.
They were upset that Nixon just didn't pull all the troops out as soon as he took office. In fact, he began withdrawing almost immediately and turning the war over to the Vietnamese. When I left Vietnam in the summer of 1970, the war had died down to a virtual standstill. It re-erupted two years later but by that time there were only a handful of US troops left in the country.
Well said Sasha. Hear hear!
What will it take people? Who looks at the last 2 years and thinks "I want me some more of that" ??
Hey Jude, :D. I’m with you. Unfortunately, I think the majority of the country are now so completely dependent on government welfare in all its forms (eg teachers and college professors get paid via tax dollars, tax payer funded healthcare, CHIPS, etc) that we will move to greater and greater socialism like Europe has. And as a result our standard of living will diminish like most of theirs did. Eventually we will become like the PIGS and finally when the (net) tax payer funded leeches finally run out of other people’s money, the Ponzi will fail, people will get very hungry, and blood will flow in the streets.
Excellent; timely, relevant, clear, comprehensive, compelling and truthful. Woknazis are unlikely to change given how crushing it would be to admit how cruelly they behaved for so long.
Wow this piece was published less the 24 hours ago, and has already aged poorly.
The gall and the absurdity to claim that the right are less violent then then the left. What a fucking distortion of reality Sasha.
Here is how the Democratic Party is more violent than the Republican Party; 1 Dems promote millions of abortions and that is clearly violent for the baby getting pulled limb from limb. 2 Dems promote the release of violent criminals that results in even more violence upon poor blacks (bc over 90% of violence in blacks is done by blacks). 3 Dems promoted BLM and BLM promoted violence. 4 Dems promote Defund Police resulting in less arrests, less prosecutions, less incarcerations, more lawlessness and violence in cities upon poor blacks. I am in Philly and we average 5 shootings per day and have almost no arrests. 5 Dems promote welfare policies that render black households fatherless (which in turn results in poverty and violence).
This on top of the actual political violence like the NY lefties who choked that Latina zeldin voter at the hochul rally, the beer can thrown at senator cruz, the would be kavanaugh assassin, the guy who shot the GOP Senator (forgot his name) at the congressional softball practice... etc. the left is actually more racist and more violent than the right. But it gets much less criticism and attention.
You are a perfect example of why she can clearly and accurately point to lefties as "deniers" - and frankly the left is either dishonest or ill informed. There is no in between. The lefts "protests" have by FAR - killed more people, destroyed more property and livelihoods - it's not even close!!
Is this sarcasm? The first half seems real and the second paragraph seems like definite sarcasm.
No, Im genuine. Im quite insulted that Sasha downplays the violence on the right, as she always does. To say the summer of 2020 Movement were violent protests and hypocritical, just proves the point that she doesn’t understand what happened in the summer of 2020. I’d go as far as saying she doesn’t understand the current climate as all.
Please enlighten us all about the summer of 2020 movement, because to us ordinary mortals it looked like a lot of violence.
Oh I forgot- the left has redefined violence to mean "speech we don't like". Burning and looting is now "peacefully making your voice heard".
Simple question: do you think there was an insurrection on January 6, 2021?
Yes, everyone who denies that, aren’t being honest with themselves.
You’re nuts. How many guns did we bring on January 6th? How many bombs did we drop or even molotovs did we throw? How many blue politicians were we able to kill? Oh, zero? (The one police officer people say died that day actually died of a stroke). And actually the OTHER side had guns and killed three of us? Quite the insurrection. “Insurrection” means an armed attempt to overthrow a government by violent means. It’s patently obvious that no one there that day actually intended to forcefully take over the government, against a correct and obvious democratic result. We were there rallying for more transparent and verifiable election results that we are owed.
The using of “us” is quite the tell.
Wow. That was one of the most impassioned and heartfelt analyses of where we stand today as a nation I have encountered in recent memory. I hope to wake tomorrow to a better one...but I'm not holding my breath.
Regardless of the outcome of 11/08/2022, future generations must understand the truth of Twenty-first century America and how far off course we have drifted -- or been led astray. It isn't pretty, and if we don't course correct soon the efforts and spilt blood of our forefathers will have been in vain.
Absolutely nailed it. Great writing.
I enjoy reading your pieces Sasha. Thanks
Thanks for being a voice of reason Sasha! I’ve said it before but you continue to give me hope for humanity! Don’t stop!
I knew a Vietnam vet who returned from that horror at only 19 with his Purple Heart. He said then China was/is the one to watch/fear/etc. not Russia. Until he died a few years ago, he never wavered from that assessment. China domination; their goal.
Thanks for the post, Sasha; always appreciate the perspective of a former Leftist. We need more of you sharing these stories and perspectives. Always remember there are also establishment republicans(McConnell and McCarthy) who share the same vision and fear of ordinary Americans.
Wow, reading this from the perspective of November 9... gut check. This not going to go the way anyone thinks it will. With mail in ballots and election “weeks”, we will essentially have one party rule here in America for years to come. Get ready for more recessions that aren’t “recessions”. Get ready for more “girls” with penises. Get ready for more “owning nothing” but being “happy” about it. God will save the world, but it will be a bumpy ride until then..
Trump is trash time to call him out.
This is from RedState a heavily pro-conservative site
"Don Bolduc lost in New Hampshire, Trump trashed him despite the fact that he was one of the former president’s endorsed candidates. He also bashed Mehmet Oz after that race was called. Worse, in the midst of Republican struggles becoming clear late on election night, Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the loss of Joe O’Dea in Colorado’s senate race. Later, he bragged about his supposed endorsement record, calling the disappointing night a “great victory.” That’s not leadership. It’s self-serving buck-passing, and it’s especially off-putting given Trump was attempting to take credit for the red wave right up until the moment that it ceased to be."
Trump needs to leave and leave fast. He is the leader of the GOP I don't care if you say he wasn't he was the kingmaker the decider the rally flag. He takes all the credit zero blame. He was created by people neglected in the rural lands but now the chickens have come home to roost he is doing more damage being there than retiring and leaving the GOP to the future.