Posted on 10/13/2024 3:21:44 PM PDT by CFW
I’ve listened to Bob Dylan’s anthem of alienation, Like a Rolling Stone, so many times throughout my life, but it’s never hit home quite the way it does now as I’ve been exiled by almost everyone I once knew. How does it feel, Bob Dylan asks? It feels like tumbling through space with no place to land. It feels like being trapped in a nightmare. It feels like nothing I’ve ever gone through before.
But it’s too late to turn back now. It’s full steam ahead. Yes, I am a California Liberal voting for Donald J. Trump. Why am I doing it? Why was I willing to destroy my so-called “career,” end friendships overnight, and lose any status I’ve attained in the past 30 years I’ve been online, which, granted, isn’t saying much? The answer is easy. I couldn’t do the other thing.
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For some, it was the government’s authoritarian crackdown on masks and lockdowns. For others, it was the lies about COVID. But for me, it was suddenly seeing that unseen hands were manipulating us as a form of social control.
It sounds paranoid. I’ll grant you that. I don’t know how else to explain it. I was very much inside the insular feedback loop of the Left. I genuinely believed everything they said on CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times.
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Everything that happened in 2020 was designed to push Trump out of power. I watched them all but rig the 2020 election using the same unseen hands. I walked away from that election no longer a registered Democrat for the first time in my life.
(Excerpt) Read more at sashastone.substack.com ...
I’m still watching the embedded video (a couple minutes at a time) as I do other things this evening. Some of these acts of violence against Trump supporters I remember. But a few of them I’d never heard of before or else totally forgotten. If you don’t take the time to read the entire article, at least take the time to watch that 14 minute video to refresh your memory as to what we are up against.
And they say Trump supporters are violent!! I doubt anyone can put together 14 minutes of video showing a compilation of Trump supporters attacking someone due to their politics.
That’s the weird thing. Take California. Gavin was accused of cheating in the recall, making the “yes” option visible, or on the fold or something. I believe it.
Also there were the four Republicans that won, then lost as more votes kept being found.
So the question is, in such a stronghold like CA... why do they need to cheat?
I’m with CFW, I think they cheat heavily.
That is not going to happen sadly.
You are going to be treated to more of the same but at higher volume.
Of course, there’s some shenanigans going on. But it’s California. Even if you have a guy like Rudy to clean up California, they’ll still vote 55% in favor of the Democrat. It’s all about demographics.
Concur, whatever happens we’re in for a rough ride.
I’ll check out the video.
“Trump or no Trump, we got big problems in this country. But, without Trump getting in this year, they will probably never be solved.”
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That is why (although it has been said many times in the past) the election next month is probably the most important Presidential election in our nation’s history.
A hard rain’s gonna fall...
Yep, that should be the biggest red flag. How they howl and whine when you get near voter ID!
Their argument is preposterous. ID to buy a gun, no ID to vote? C’mon.
“That is not going to happen sadly.
You are going to be treated to more of the same but at higher volume.”
I wondered if Sasha was saying that tongue in cheek or if she really believes it. If she actually believes that then she has a lot more awakening in her future.
Yes, it is preposterous.
Man, that is a great piece. Thanks for posting it here.
Who is this woman? Her name rings a very distant bell with me, but it’s a such an “author-y” name perhaps I’ve never actually heard of her.
And, what’s the Fourth Turning thing? I’ve def. heard of that before, but other than it being some grand theory of history I got no clue.
Any helpful mansplaining is appreciated!
Thanks again for this post, she’s so dead on with some things. I kind of totally lost faith with it all when the Rodney King crap happened. Oh yeah, long term racism is a bigger health threat than covid. So go breath all over each out, and shout and yell. Yeah, right. File under: SO IT’S ALL A LIE
And so good she sticks up for females and some confused children who should not be made the pawns of troubled adults. We used to think this stuff was bad.
Seriously, this is the best thing I’ve read in a month. Thanks again CFW!
has she mentioned how much hatred she receives now?
From those loving and caring liberals?
This is why I think Trump Should form a new MAGA a party.
The current GOP membership is only 35 million
The current Democrat membership is only 40 million
Trump got 80 million legitimate votes
He would draw from both parties
It would not be a third-party spoiler , it would become the biggest party over night
“has she mentioned how much hatred she receives now?
From those loving and caring liberals?”
Yes, she does.
“But it’s too late to turn back now. It’s full steam ahead. Yes, I am a California Liberal voting for Donald J. Trump. Why am I doing it? Why was I willing to destroy my so-called “career,” end friendships overnight, and lose any status I’ve attained in the past 30 years I’ve been online, which, granted, isn’t saying much? The answer is easy. I couldn’t do the other thing.”
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“I told Neera Tanden that Trump would benefit from the public’s desire for law and order. She told me to keep quiet until after the election. I told her I couldn’t do that, but it did strike me as odd that such a high-level Democrat would care what I thought. But that’s how it is on the Left. No one is allowed to stray from the mandated narrative.
Even now, most people I know on the Left have no idea how bad it got. That’s why they don’t understand the comparisons to January 6th. They only saw one violent riot but they saw it over and over again, yet more proof of social control.
It wasn’t until Bari Weiss resigned from the New York Times after exposing their unwillingness to publish the truth about what was happening on the streets for fear it was racist even just to report on it, that I realized I had to separate myself from the hive mind whose sole mission was to support the Democrats. And that’s how it went for the rest of the year. It was “don’t ask, don’t tell” for a once-mighty movement that now cowered in fear.”
And this:
“But they would not listen to me. They would scream at me, attack me, shun me, try to destroy my business. Even just being kind - practicing what they preached - was crossing a forbidden line.
The attacks against Trump supporters began right around 2015 when Trump’s warnings about the border were interpreted as Hitler-esque racism. That is what justified punching, kicking, spitting on, and, in some cases, even killing Trump supporters.”
“I’m still watching the embedded video...”
Did read the whole thing, but didn’t realize there was a vid. Was also confused a bit at the very end when it said “comment on this podcast” or something like that.
Sigh, new media confuses me!
Screw this “why this liberal” BS. To f’n late moron
I’ve been thinking this too, regarding California. Culturally, California is very similar to Texas in many ways, across all the major groups, i.e. the whites, blacks, and latinos. Lots of conservatives in there. Yes, there are lots of crazies there, but there are in Texas too. So, I do wonder if California elections were being stolen early on, and we all just wrote it off as a democrat state.
The revolution starts small.........................
Because if 2017-2021 did not convince them of that another four years will not.
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