Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone

This November might mark the end of the Virtual Civil War we’ve been fighting for ten years. Or rather, Barack Obama and the establishment government’s war on half the country. The Democrats could take both the House and the Senate, effectively ending the Trump presidency and the MAGA movement.
On the Right, they’re calling me a “Debbie Downer” or a catastrophist, just as they did on the Left when I tried to tell them Trump would win in 2016. But I worried a year ago, when the Trump administration cut Medicaid, millions lost their health insurance, and many saw their monthly premiums rise.
When I spoke up about this, no one wanted to hear it. It wasn’t my job to tell the Right what to do with their power, but from where I sat, as a former Democrat, it felt like the beginning of the end.
We don’t talk much about how that COVID era gave Americans financial relief and, for a time, free healthcare; some didn’t even have to pay rent. We got fat unemployment checks through the CARES Act, and under Biden, the spending went through the roof.
No matter the Trump administration's intentions to cut spending, clean up fraud, and attempt to fix our broken system, once everyone felt the pinch of inflation, gas prices, the war in Iran, and healthcare costs, they'd finally be ready, I believed, to vote blue.
I know I’m not the only person who feels like I’m living in the Twilight Zone. None of us understands what has happened to us in the age of the internet and social media, Obama and Trump. How can I have thought Trump was the ultimate evil in 2016, only to turn around and vote for him in 2024? And now spend my time warning about my former side?
I was hoping that after the indictments, the impeachments, the assassination attempts, and the felony conviction, Trump’s second win would be the moment the delusional bubble burst on the Left and we could all go back to the way things were before the war.
But that didn’t happen. They just got meaner and more radicalized, all the while learning how to hide that side of themselves, to lie to voters that they really aren’t as extreme as they were in the past.
Even as some candidates have learned to lie better about “gender affirming care” or radical Islam to tamp down the widespread, mainstream radicalization that has overtaken the party, all one has to do is look at what’s happening in France to see that, in the midst of a Communist-like takeover, moderate liberalism won’t cut it.
They don’t just want some of it. They want it all. And if France was the model the DSA in America pointed to as a socialist utopia, how do you explain a violent revolution unfolding on the streets?
That won’t just happen here. It already has happened here. It wasn’t Islam; it was Black Lives Matter, but the forces of social-justice revolutionaries and the oppressed/oppressor doctrine rage on.
I wake up every day confronting the cruelty of the Totalitarian Left as, even now, they try not just to destroy me and my business, but to wipe me out, erase me, unperson me. I feel it everywhere, not just online.
I live in a town that would turn on me in an instant if they saw me in a MAGA hat. I know them. I live among them. They smile and chat with me on the street, and I hope they don’t get close enough to figure out who I am, that I’m scorched earth among their kind online.
As of now, in the real world of my very small, very liberal town, I am a complete unknown. But if real life mirrored the internet, there would be wild-eyed fanatics putting up posters of me all over town that say TRUMP SUPPORTER.
Because they were never held to account, nothing has really changed. They’re better liars, but no one has any plans to change how they treat the other half of the country they’ve thrown away like human garbage.
They still see the evil in this country as racism, Islamophobia, sexism, misogyny, bigotry, transphobia. And now, they’ve married it to socialism, but even in France, that’s not enough, so Communism it will have to be.
Barack Obama still leads the army on the Left. In many ways, his presidency of the ruling class half of the country never ended. He couldn’t walk away, not from the party, not from the country, because he could not stand to leave it in the hands of Donald Trump and to allow him and his movement to redirect the future of America, out of the hands of the totalitarian cult the Left has become.
Today, he tweeted the most astonishing thing about Ilhan Omar:
This, after they used the FBI and the CIA to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop while Trump was the sitting president, weaponized the government to frame Trump as a Russian asset, raided the home of a former president, indicted him four times, and convicted him of a felony on a ticky-tack charge. Tried to throw him off the ballot in several states - tied him up in court to keep him off the campaign trail.
And all of that before you get to the debanking scandal, where ordinary Americans were cut off from their financial institutions on their political beliefs alone, throwing Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro in jail for Contempt of Congress, hunting down anyone who might have attended the rally on January 6th, throwing many of them in jail with no due process, not to mention the toll it took on their everyday lives as the media painted them as criminals.
They held a lengthy show trial with Liz Cheney lying to the American public about Trump without him having any chance to defend himself or make his case to the people, with a full-court propaganda press doing their bidding.
I’m not a fan of lawfare. I don’t think they should be raiding the home of Ilhan Omar, but the Democrats have done far worse and have gotten away with all of it. If Republicans can’t see what’s about to happen to them if they allow these folks to take back power, then I don’t know what to say anymore.
Everything Trump did for them, all of these years, the lies spread by the media, the ways the government took power that did not belong to them to go to war on the American people, the lengths they went to destroy Trump and anyone who voted for him is the scandal, and it is the war.
Trump is as good as it gets for MAGA. They will never have anyone that rich, that tough, that famous, that tenacious, that dedicated to fight for them again. Never. This was a once-in-a-generation opportunity, with a Gray Champion of the Fourth Turning attempting to stop the totalitarian takeover of this country and bring back a freer country to those of us who don’t want to live under the boot of tyrants.
If MAGA allows their resentment over Israel and their temporary dip in finances to open the door to the Democrats, they will not know what hit them. They will once again be ordered to comply, or else.
Their speech will be censored, especially if Democrats get control of AI. They will finally have Big Brother and a surveillance operation that already knows too much about all of us. With that power, they'll create Orwell’s nightmare of 1984.
How do I know? Because I was one of them. I became a target for them. I was attacked, policed, and punished for thought crimes long before I ever became a Trump voter. They have changed nothing. They never had to change. No one has ever held them accountable except us voters.
All I can hope is that I’m wrong. I can only hope that no one cares what Marjorie Taylor-Greene or Tucker Carlson thinks. I hope people laugh at my pessimistic outlook after November.
But I watched everything I loved become captured in a totalitarian utopian cult - movies, books, science, education - they had the hearts and minds of Americans from preschool through college through the workforce. There was no escape. Their mandated ideology was and remains everywhere.
And I know that if the Democrats take the House and the Senate, they will not only undo everything Trump did, but they will rig the system so they never lose another election ever again. We already saw them do it in 2020.
Obama’s War
The collective hate that now defines and consumes today’s Left is rooted in the lie that America is infested with racists, misogynists, transphobes, and Islamophobes. Trump and his supporters have been systematically dehumanized for ten long years, and the Democrats have never backed off even a little bit.
Their hatred is so deep and profound that they might never snap out of it.
There are already no limits to what they’ve done. They see themselves as justified, believing that this country belongs only to them and that they should eradicate the bad people by any means necessary.
This is where they still are. They haven’t changed because their leader, Barack Obama, encourages it. He has never tried to help the country unite. His ego can’t handle losing to Trump twice. This is all payback for one man’s vanity.
And so now, with the end in sight, it’s time to take a good, hard look at the America the Democrats want. It is an America where thought and speech are monitored and controlled. It is an America that does not allow dissent. It is an America that doesn’t even want to be America anymore.
How can you rule a country when you hate half of its people, its founding principles, its silent majority? This can’t be business as usual; this is war.
The polls may be wrong. Republicans might turn out in greater numbers than anyone predicted, as Frank Luntz explains:
Harry Enten reminds everyone that the race is close enough that a robust MAGA turnout will close the gap and at least hold the Senate.
The 2026 midterms might be the last battle in Obama’s war. It was never his intention to allow Trump to lead or to govern, and now he’s going in for the kill. It isn’t that Trump hasn’t made mistakes, and it isn’t that I agree with every decision he’s made, but I know what will happen if the Democrats, in their current state, regain power, and that scares me a lot more.
There is no saving the Left. There is only saving the country from them.
All I can do is hope. I hope that the Democrats come to their senses soon because we can’t live like this anymore - we have to learn how to share the country with people we don’t agree with. I hope MAGA will vote as if their lives depended on it, because they do. Most of all, I hope that when this war finally ends, we still have one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.



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I always knew growing up half-Jewish meant hiding. I figured out early on that it wasn’t something you were supposed to be. My mother isn’t Jewish and, if anything, has never been a fan of Jews — especially now. It’s just the kind of thing you know growing up, even if you don’t talk much about it.
Hollywood rarely presented Jewish people to American audiences, even if Hollywood was run by Jews. That left me wondering why not. Did I look Jewish? Was that bad? As a young woman, I knew it meant I didn’t fit either place. I didn’t fit in the Jewish community, and I didn’t fit outside of it.
But somehow I just knew the shame that came with being born half-Jewish, or Jewish enough for the camps. A boyfriend once said, “They have to have done something…” Meaning: why were they so hated and persecuted? I can’t say I ever knew the answer, because I never knew the history.
I didn’t think about it much because my heroes, many of whom were Jewish, also didn’t talk much about it — Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Leonard Cohen, or the Coen brothers. Steven Spielberg would finally address it in Schindler’s List, and that movie would help keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. But that was 1993. A lifetime ago.
How is it that it could be 2026 and we’d be living through a moment in history where they have turned “Zionist” into a slur? Was it always? And how easy it is now to see the word “Jew” hurled on social media as an insult so casually.
How could it be that Tucker Carlson, like so many others, could be so soft on Hitler now? He assumed, wrongly, that it was not Hitler’s fault we went to war.
With Jacob Reese-Mogg:
Here is Victor Davis Hanson:
Whole thing here.
It was so ignorant and dangerous of Tucker to spread these lies about Hitler that even Poland’s embassy in Washington had to issue a statement.
And every time I post about this, I know I will lose subscribers, especially paid ones, because Tucker Carlson has about 5.8 million subscribers on YouTube, not quite 6 million but getting there. And me, well, let’s just say I don’t have that many.
Undeniable tension is building within the MAGA movement as we head into the midterms. There are so many angry people on the Right, resentful that we bombed Iran “for Israel.” Foreign wars quickly became Israel’s war. Then it became about the money sent to Israel. But now, it’s anger at Trump for siding with the Jews.
I tried to stay neutral on the war in Gaza and have not talked much about what is happening on the Left and the Right. But it is getting too big to ignore. We are at a dramatic inflection point where the word “genocide” is hurled as both a weapon and a struggle session. SAY THE WORD, say it! Say it’s genocide!
It’s the last worst word. The rest of the words have been tossed on the scrap heap: fascism, Nazi, dictator, racist, rapist, bigot, sexist, homophobe, transphobe. What do words even mean anymore? They’ve been twisted, co-opted, and reshaped to control how we think about ourselves in the world and how we define what we believe.
If you say “it’s a genocide,” then you are in. If you deny it, you’re one of the bad people. They say it on the Left as emotional blackmail. They say it on the Right to imply intent. Those evil Jews just want to kill Palestinians when everyone knows the opposite is true.
Genocide
Every day, images flood social media of what Gaza looks like now after it was bombed by Israel. That’s proof of genocide, they said. How can it not be genocide? But the word they are looking for is war. That is what losing a war looks like. It is also what winning a war looks like.
World War II was beyond anything most people alive today could ever imagine. They can’t remember, and no one will tell them what war looks like. But here is what it looks like.
The Allies bombing Berlin into rubble.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki after getting nuked:
Is that “genocide”? No, that’s war. Genocide is the attempt to kill a whole people based on their ethnicity or their religion. That’s not what the Allies did in World War II, and it’s not what Israel has done now.
If anything, the opposite is true. Hamas, like much of the Islamic world, wants not just to kill Jews but to wipe them off the map. That’s genocide. They just don’t have the wealth or the weaponry to carry it out.
Here is Bill Maher:
Trump hit Iran to castrate a genocidal regime before it could nuke Israel, yes, but also other countries too. Death is nothing to jihadists. They have no problem using children as tools of propaganda and weapons of war as long as it serves a higher purpose.
October 7th was meant to be so bad that Israel had to respond, and then they would have their holy war to turn hearts and minds against Israel all over the world.
The footage from the war is their proof to the world that Jews are the bad ones, the Nazis, and Israel therefore must be destroyed. From the River to the Sea…
Antisemitism is nothing compared to genocide
For a time, it was bad to be antisemitic. Now, it feels like yet another word that has no power. Anyone who is charged with antisemitism can deflect it much more easily than being called a rapist or a racist. It’s a way out for Jews who do not wish to be hated or shunned for being Jewish but not a Zionist, or Jewish but not approving of what Israel has done, Jewish but not really.
But the problem is that Israel is the only place left where Jews could reclaim their homeland. As Jeremy Boreing said so eloquently, they have nowhere else to go. The war against them has lasted thousands of years. It won’t stop any time soon.
Whole thing here.
I can see the fight now, too. It’s not Left or Right. It’s not blue or red. It’s a fight for Western civilization. Israel represents not just democracy but civilization in an uncivilized part of the world.
Forcing women to cover their faces and bodies, marrying 9-year-olds, throwing gay people off rooftops, and stoning women to death is not civilized, and no amount of woke ideology will change that.
It is not civilized to fly airplanes into buildings and mass murder thousands of Americans. It’s not civilized to wear a suicide vest and blow up a building. It’s not civilized to paraglide into the Nova music festival and rape, torture, and murder Israelis for Allah.
We are fighting a war here, too. It’s a war for the truth. We’ll have politicians winning elections now who will push the lies, some in office already do. And they will try to distort and co-opt October 7th.
The woke white liberals desperately want this to be a story about white supremacy and oppressed brown people, but at some point, there is no saving the entire world. There is saving civilization.
This Claude AI video beautifully illustrating Western civilization went viral last week, and nothing has put things into perspective better than this.
So here are some hard truths:
War isn’t exactly civilized either. It’s the worst thing human beings can do to each other, but we’ve been doing it almost as long as we’ve been around. But if someone starts a war, they’d best be prepared to fight to the death. One side or the other will win. And one side will lose.
Hitler would not have stopped. He had to be stopped. Hamas will not stop, and they have to be stopped. Gaza looks that way not because of genocide, but because of war. Hamas can surrender any time. That would not be true if this were a genocide.
If Israel walks away from finishing the job, they will lose the war, and Hamas will win. They are fighting for the civilized world they built. So are we. We will lose our country if we do not understand that.
I would fight for Israel’s right to keep its home even if I weren’t half-Jewish. It isn’t my home. But it is theirs.
My father was Jewish and went to Hebrew school. I wasn’t raised with any faith at all, except for the times I spent at my grandmother’s house, where she would celebrate the traditional holidays, both Christmas and Chanukah. She died a long time ago.
I think of her now, what she would think of me, what she would want me to fight for, what she would want me to stand for. She kept her portrait of Bill Clinton taped to her kitchen wall until the day she died. She was a lifelong FDR Democrat. How proud she must have been to have a president who knew what a monster Hitler was and moved mountains to stop him.
I can’t imagine what she’d think of today’s Democratic Party, who have no courage left to fight for people like her and have lost their perspective because none of them know the meaning of words. They are afraid of their own voters and they have no spine. So they allow Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, and Hasan Piker to take over the party and tell them what to think and say.
I could probably do much better, make more money, be more popular on the Left and the Right if I just said two words: “Free Palestine.” But I can’t do that. My grandma would expect more from me. A little bit of courage 80 years after a real genocide that killed off much of her family is not too much to ask.


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I’m probably the last person who should write about morality. I grew up on the Left, after all: a hippie childhood in Topanga Canyon, then coming of age as the first generation after Roe v. Wade as a liberated woman who did whatever I wanted, dressed however I wanted, and always felt free in my mind and heart. I was never someone who would have demanded morality. I didn’t even know what that was.
I watched the counterculture revolution of the 1960s and 1970s break free of norms and traditions. Where we’ve ended up is at the Empire’s end: a Caligula-like culture that strictly polices thought, speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry of any kind, but one that also treats morality and decency as oppressive relics from a patriarchal past.
So when a 20-year-old Jane Doe walked into the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell on October 24, 2024, her only armor was the rule of “consent.” As long as it was okay with her and she said so, anything goes.
She agreed to a threesome with two 20-year-olds, but then, when more men flocked to her body like seagulls chasing a bag of chips left on the beach, she was too high or drunk to even know how to get herself out of it.
No one knew how to just say this is wrong, this is bad behavior because they don’t live in a culture that believes that — not unless it’s rape. But this wasn’t rape by any legal definition. She consented, then she consented again. Then, she was drowning in a sea of consent, and so were they.
In the days, weeks, and months that followed, Jane Doe would absorb the truth about what really happened that night. Shame would follow when she saw her classmates pointing and laughing at her, calling her a slut, saying it was a “gang bang.”
If the boys said nothing, she said nothing; no one would know what they did that night, but the boys bragged about it. They betrayed her trust, and she ended up looking bad.
The real kicker was being disinvited to that same frat with those same guys. In her mind, she was the one being punished and not the boys.
From the New York Times:
At Chi Phi, the fraternity was preparing for a Halloween party, and Jane Doe was eager to attend. Text messages included in the investigation show Mr. Ingalls assuring Jane Doe that he and other fraternity members wanted her to be there.
“chi phi is your house and you are welcome here,” he wrote, relaying the views of the fraternity’s president, who was not among those accused of sexual assault.
“thank u i really appreciate that,” Jane Doe responded. “
But then Jane Doe received a phone call from the fraternity’s president, according to the text messages.
She was disinvited from the party. It was for her own good, he said.
Jane Doe sent a biting text to Mr. Ingalls.
“I knew this was going to happen,” she wrote. “The woman will always get the short end of the stick. Yall aren’t my friends. Yall are covering your asses.”
That’s when the anger and resentment set in, and eventually, it would fester until she decided she needed to get something back, something she lost in her efforts to protect the boys and not herself.
Whether she knew it or not, she was walking around with a loaded gun and a trigger she could pull at any time. Two years later, she did just that, and the righteous, delusional, fanatical mob ignited into a frenzy. Even AOC got into the mix, condemning and convicting the boys, putting an image in everyone’s head about what happened that night.
Everything that came next has been a horror show. The Cornell newspaper released the boys' names, knowing that in modern-day America there can be no such thing as due process. If she was accusing them of rape, gang rape, then they were guilty.
The University newspaper, the Cornell Sun, wrote an op-ed naming the boys:
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story. Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.
To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University’s concealment.
Two websites cropped up to name and shame the boys. One is Cornellseven.com, run and operated by activist Aaron B:
And the other, The Cornell 7, run by a former South Park writer, Toby Morton.
Some guy was mistakenly identified as one of them and began receiving death threats:
They had their villains. They just needed their innocent victim. Jane Doe is such a perfect name for the kind of victim our culture seems to so desperately need. A helpless baby deer caught in the headlights just before she’s run over.
In their mind’s eye, she had been passed out as men did a train on her. In reality, that was never true. In reality, she did consent. It was only later, as she thought about it, that she decided it wasn’t consensual. None of them got away clean. They all carried with them a film of shame.
It is not cool anymore among Gen Z and younger to have morals when it comes to sex. Consent is all they decide matters. And yet, morality is the only thing that might have stopped Jane Doe from consenting to the threesome in the first place. It’s okay to say that allowing men to snort ketamine off your “perfect body” is wrong.
Not to excuse the boys. Like her, they’ve been saturated in a culture that doesn’t think morality is cool either. It’s a culture where anything goes for almost everyone, unless you happen to be a heterosexual man.
Then, you are sequestered off into the booming online porn industry where sex is everywhere, any kind of sex, especially group sex with girls who act like they want it and anything goes. Imagine having one of these typical porn scenarios playing out in the very next room.
Hollywood could not have cast them better if they were looking for inclusive and representative, though they’d never portray the alleged rapists as anything other than white. We see them now, their faces innocent and smiling, unaware of what lies ahead.
Each image on the website looks like a “wanted: dead or alive” poster.
The porn industry is booming to something like $13-60 billion a year. Young heterosexual men have nowhere else to turn because just looking at a girl across a room can be seen as predatory now, let alone asking for a phone number and the fear that goes along with dating a woman who can turn around and accuse you of anything.
Ah, but now, they can have an entire industry of OnlyFans girls welcoming them in, cultivating what feels like a real relationship almost, and even more importantly, they’re not treated like rapists.
Barely legal virgins making cute little TikToks to build a massive client base on OnlyFans and make hundreds of millions? Check.
Lily Phillips sleeping with 100 guys in a train and claiming she’s doing society a favor by helping these men out? Check.
Bonnie Blue proud of all the men she slept with and holding a Baby Daddy reveal party? Check.
And everywhere they look in culture, extreme sexuality is on display for almost every kind of person except them. Queer sexuality especially is treated like some kind of sacred ritual to be encouraged, with no limits.
Kids are even exposed to it because what parent would be caught dead sounding like a bigot? They seem obsessed with their private parts in deciding what gender they might be. This is all way too much for children.
Camryn Manheim went viral for saying the quiet part out loud: how white liberal women today desperately need queer kids to give them status in the non-binary, Ceterosexual, polysexual, multisexual, and pansexual world of Gen Z.
Of course she’s virtue-signaling for applause and making jokes to make gay sons feel better, but it also has the opposite effect by further shaming heterosexual sons, like they are somehow the minority.
It isn’t that morality should mean a “trans genocide” or forcing everyone to be heterosexual. It’s just that it’s become an upside-down culture, leaving young heterosexual men almost nowhere to turn but to porn and young women with no idea what to do with their bodies once they have opened the door with consent.
For these boys, finding a girl who wanted to party and had no problem having other men join in was straight out of a porn fantasy. They couldn’t believe their luck.
Women need the story
I didn’t want to watch Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story on Netflix. I already knew from how Ryan Murphy fetishized serial killer Ed Gein, suggesting that if he had been treated for gender dysphoria, he might not have killed all of those women. The blending of extreme violence and sexuality was too much.
But since I am a Lizzie Borden obsessive who's read everything, listened to every podcast, and knows all the details of the case, I thought, let’s see what this show is about. That was a mistake. There are scenes in that series I will never unsee. All I could think when it was over was how much Hollywood needs the Hays Code back.
Anyone can turn on Netflix and watch that series, which depicts an axe pounding a human head into a bloody pulp as Lizzie and her maid, splattered in the victim’s blood, embark on a love affair. Again, the message is that if only our society allowed queer women to feel empowered, maybe they would not kill.
They somehow bring in serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who brings her gay lover to the Borden House Bed and Breakfast (which didn’t exist as a B&B until after she had been arrested), and they have sex in all of the rooms, even on the murder couch.
As bad as it was, it became a must-see, with 12 million views after it dropped. Everyone was talking about it on TikTok, most people panning it because it’s terrible, but some women seemed to really believe the story, to see Lizzie Borden as the victim. She was not the victim. She murdered her parents so she could get the money and live the life to which she believed she was accustomed.
Kall Me Kris sums it up well:
But it’s the story that had to be rewritten for today’s Great Feminization, a culture dominated and saturated with the female gaze - a gaze that sees itself as both empowered and helpless. And always abused and traumatized by men.
Netflix has done the same thing with the new East of Eden, a feminist reboot that sympathizes with Cathy, the book's embodiment of evil.
And of course, the whole thing came full circle with the star, Florence Pugh, posting about the Cornell 7 on her Instagram, then talking about it at a Q&A:
Women have to be the victims now because men have to be at fault. But that also means women are infantilized, which ultimately makes them unable to even consent just by being female. Ironic, isn’t it?
This clip of Camille Paglia, a voice greatly missed right about now, was making the rounds.
The Pendulum Swing
I grew up in an era mostly free of morality and decency. We policed ourselves with our made-up rules around progressivism. But looking back now, I feel betrayed by my willingness to participate in behavior I thought was liberating, but in reality, I came out of a lot of it feeling used.
I don’t blame anyone but myself, but I sometimes wish I’d grown up with different rules, because now I can see all too clearly what having no standards of morality or decency can do to a person, to kids, to a culture.
The pendulum swing happened in the 1930s with the Hays Code, and it swung again with the Counterculture movement in the 1960s and 1970s. We’re overdue for another pendulum swing, and this time, it will have nowhere to go but back toward morality and decency.



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I just made this little video as a Thank You to all of you who shared your kind words and sent in donations to help with vet bills. I am always overwhelmed by your kindness. I am hoping Jasper is on the mend. He has packed on some weight from the steroids, but so far he seems to be healing.
His hair is growing back, and he is getting his energy back, even chasing squirrels and growling at strangers. I got a little worried last night because yesterday was his first full day without Prednisone. He was a little agitated at night, and I kept checking for fever. So far, so good, thank you, God. And thank you, dear readers, for caring about my pup! More photos in the video above.



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MAGA, it would seem, is on the ropes. Things are looking dire. Tucker Carlson is appearing on NPR talking about removing Trump for threatening nuclear war, even though, you know, not long ago he was telling Ted Cruz that we should definitely nuke a country if they tried to assassinate our president.
Here is Ben Shapiro:
Marjorie Taylor Greene has learned the trick of the elite Left that you can be as rich as you want, live wherever you want, party all you want, marry and spend lavishly as long as you also hate on Trump and name-drop the “resistance.” Hey, it’s nice work if you can get it.
The idea is that Trump was supposed to rebuff Israel, ignore Iran’s threats of building a nuke because of Israel, find pedophiles that do not exist in the Epstein Files buried because of Israel, and listen to Tucker Carlson for advice OR ELSE. But really, it’s the Jews. It’s always been the Jews.
After ten years of Trump giving himself over to fight for representation of people who have been thrown away like human garbage by a country ruled by an aristocratic ideological utopian cult, after being the target of the worst attacks I’ve ever seen - his hair, his weight, his hands, his skin, his daughter, his sons, his wife, his walk, his clothes, what he says, what he does, where he goes, what he eats- here we are again: the walls are closing in, only this time the calls are coming from inside the house.
How hard would it be, you know, just for old times’ sake, to use your vote to prevent what is likely to be the Series Finale of the Trump Show? Him getting impeached a third time, maybe booted out of office this time. Sure, it would take a large majority of Senate Republicans, but by now, why wouldn’t they go along with it?
Then, he’d be prosecuted and frog-marched off in an orange jumpsuit as Jen Psaki and Kara Swisher throw a party at Rosie O’Donnell’s house, livestreamed on The View.
I mean, this is your future MAGA, should you choose to accept it:
And for these folks, their dream is finally coming true. Their ten-year war is about to come to an end because Trump supporters are jumping ships like rats. But someone should tell them their future will look grim with Trump out of the way.
Maybe they don’t realize what’s coming, how much worse it will be than either the country under Joe Biden or Donald Trump. Maybe they have no idea what’s in store for them after the revolution.
Maybe the revolutionaries somehow take X from Elon. Maybe they take control of AI and gain mind-control capabilities for generations to come. I know these people. They do it with a smile and the best intentions, but they want absolute power. They want their utopia back, and you are in the way.
The biggest threat is what will happen to our freedom, something most are not even factoring into the equation, but I know because I come from the Left.
In China, in Iran, in other countries run by dictators, everything seems to be going very well. People are smiling, going to work, living their lives and saying nothing. They stay silent because they know what will happen if they ever say what they really think.
My daughter has grown up inside of a culture now that is ruled by the same kind of fear. She already knows that she can’t say what she really thinks because everyone on the Left knows. They can’t write books they want to write—they can’t tell the truth—but they still have to smile and pretend everything is going great in utopia!
They have scared an entire generation into compliance. And it’s oh so much worse now that Sharia Law has entered the chat. Oh, I know we’re not supposed to think of guys like Abdul El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani as anti-American terrorists - that’s racist!
But the more I think about it, the more I think this alliance was inevitable: two strident fundamentalist ideologies that hate America’s history and want to remake it from the ground up as something completely different, and they’re prepared to use their army of fanatics and scolds to make everyone go along with it.
The Left and their legacy media have spent ten years lying about Trump, saying fascism or authoritarianism was the threat. But it was never the Trump side that represented oppression and societal control. It’s always been the Left. And now, it’s gone to the next level.
And the only one standing in their way, the Gray Champion of the Fourth Turning, the guy so many in MAGA have turned against, is The Donald.
Perfect? No. Flawed, beyond. Messy — he makes it up as he goes along. Offends people casually. Can’t be controlled, but this man is the one, the only one who was tough enough, rich enough, and determined enough to stand up to the most powerful political party in American history and beat them twice.
He’s not done smart things this time around. He’s been too careless with his second win. He enriched himself and his family. He might have made a mistake trying to end the forever war with Iran.
But on his worst day, he is still the one to lead us to a brighter future, away from totalitarianism, away from fanaticism, away from societal control.
A Blue Tsunami
The conspiracy theories started instantly after Charlie’s death. The Jews did it, the same people who are hidden in the Epstein Files - the Pizzagate of it all - the dangerous invisible menace that was choking the life out of all good things in America.
Genocide and pedophiles, Epstein and Iran. And all of that came before they found their real weapon: affordability. Note the pivot by the Left away from “abolish ICE” and “Trans women are women” to kitchen table issues. Don’t be fooled. It’s just a new strategy to the same end goal.
Affordability! That got MAGA’s attention. Gas prices are high. Trump couldn’t wave his magic wand and get rid of the inflation hangover from 2020. Tariffs were implemented to help Americans bring back manufacturing, but they seem to have had the opposite effect by making things cost more—or so they say. I haven’t seen it myself. It just looks like politics as usual to me.

Mark Halperin keeps suggesting a Blue Tsunami wipeout is coming in November. They could lose both the House and the Senate. And Texas.
Cook Political Report has now predicted doom as well, and even Rasmussen is coming up blue.


One of Trump’s gifts has always been eternal optimism. They threw their whole arsenal at him, and he’d pop up cheerily, wave to the crowd with a thumbs up, and get one with it.
Now, that might not work for the first time in ten years because his own side is going against him. Rick Wilson must be uncorking the champagne every night. Rachel Maddow is probably dancing naked under the full moon.
Should this be the moment MAGA has had enough and turns on the only guy who saw them at all, let alone fought for them, people like this sad woman will finally have their dreams come true.
Some people are still out there trying to hold the line, but it seems nearly impossible now.
How to Stop the Islamo-Commie Takeover
For ten years, the Democrats never figured out that the only way to stop Trump was to offer the people something better. Fear can only take you so far. The GOP can’t sell fear alone because most Americans don’t understand an existential threat like Communism fused with Islam.
In 1932, Herbert Hoover was painted as out of touch, with “rugged individualism” not matching the suffering of America’s underclass hit hard by the Great Depression. FDR won in a landslide and served for four terms, through World War II.
So how bad will it get if the Democrats win? Will they keep Trump or persecute him for the next two years? Will they impeach all of his Cabinet members? Try them for war crimes?
Trump was the Moonshot
In 2020, nothing in my life made sense anymore. The media I trusted were lying. The friends I had were too scared to speak out, and mobs were coming for me on almost a daily basis. I was alone. My daughter was away. All I could see coming off of my social media was hate. The most overwhelming and ugly hate I’d ever seen in my life, all aimed at one man and his supporters.
I don’t know exactly what happened to me, but something did. I pulled back. I knew I could not live that way anymore. I decided to find out for myself who Trump really was, who his supporters were, and what this MAGA movement was really about.
What I found was a guy who had fame, wealth, and power who had dropped into a story where he was cast as the unlikely hero, the guy who would represent forgotten Americans. If Obama represented the New America built mostly online - where geography did not matter as much as ideology- then Trump represented the other America - out there in the real world.
I saw this America when I drove across the country. There it was. The churches, the towns. The highways. The tire shops. The parks. The World War II memorials. It was an America those of us living our lives virtually didn’t think much about, but Trump reached them as they reached out to him.
The side with all of the power wanted their complete destruction. They were called racists, bigots, transphobes, extremists, fascists, Nazis, Christian Nationalists. None of it worked because they had the truth on their side, and they had Trump, and he was indestructible.
Trump did big things: kept his promises on the border, transgender ideology foisted upon children, and protecting women in sports. Perfect, no, but he gave us a chance at a better future. He wanted to move mountains, build ballrooms, and end wars. He took on crime directly and changed things.
But of course, it wasn’t enough because it’s never enough for the permanently aggrieved. Trump was never going to be destroyed by the Left. They tried and failed. Ah, but if he’s destroyed from within, that’s the best way to bring down the hero.
Such a lowly finale, isn’t it, for such a mighty warrior as Trump, who dodged bullets and came back to win a second time, handing his supporters more power than they’ve ever had or will ever have.
It’s hard for me to watch them give it all up after Trump gave so much. It’s hard for me to watch them leap off the cliff to their own demise, like lemmings. No future is written for them in this story except to paint them as the rioters at the Capitol who almost overthrew the United States.
As for me, well, I learned my lesson in 2016. I won’t be wasting much of my time trying to save people who don’t want to be saved. I’ll just have to stand back and watch in horror as they learn their lesson the hard way.
Either way, I will hold out hope for the decent Americans I know who are ride-or-die MAGA and who stood with Trump even when they were freezing to death, even in the midst of a shooting, and in the rain, watching the water come down in sheets, refusing to move, refusing to find shelter from the storm, and hanging on every word.




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