Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
Episodes
Did I just Leave a Cult?
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The modus operandi of every cult is to convince you there's something wrong with you and only they can fix it.” ― Marty RubinI grew up in the e...
Caligula at the Grammys
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the podcast version. If you’d like to read the text version, that is here. I usually post them together but this time I didn’t. Which do y...
How the Legacy Media Lost My Trust
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or s...
The Great Reset vs. The Great Uprising
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebe...
The Kavanaugh Delusion and the Hillary Democrat
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2016 was meant to be the crowning achievement for the Hillary Democrat. Those who stuck by her in her in 2008, during the Benghazi hearings, the Monic...
The Fall of Hollywood's Empire
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do you remember good movies? I mean, really good movies you had to see in the movie theater the second they came out? Movies so good you would sacrifi...
A New Year, a New Hope
01 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two years ago, I started this Substack to find a path out of the madness that had overtaken the Left. The madness was everywhere. People were getting ...
The Shameful Jan 6 Show Trial and the Puppet Press
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth....
Musk Derangement Syndrome
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk is, to quote, Ben Shapiro, moving fast and breaking things. He could see a big problem, as anyone outside the m...
Yes, the 2020 Election was "Rigged"
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Old Journalism Ethics | Rivers“We're under a lot of pressure, you know, and you put us there. Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, first amendme...
It's Elon Musk Who is Trying to Save Democracy
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Jack Dorsey invented a chat-like social media platform with character limitations, he probably had no idea it would one day become the most power...
Thank You, Readers for Saving My Life
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. T...
Mr. Trump Goes to Washington
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trump was nearing the end of a campaign speech for Marco Rubio in Miami, days before the midterms when it started to rain. The MAGA faithful used thei...
Joe Biden: The Man Who Wasn't There
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.” ― Ronald ReaganThe 2022 midterms have emerged as a Rorschach ...
America's Road Ahead: 1980 or 1984
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden had a smile on his face the morning after the midterms. That’s the look of someone who just escaped total disaster. At least for now.The l...
Will the Real "Election Deniers" Please Stand Up?
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Apologies for the audio - it was raining pretty hard here and the power kept cutting off]“We had to do something [in Bush v. Gore], because countri...
The Collapse of Biden's Woketopia
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.” ― Ge...
Can Elon Musk Save the Democrats from Themselves?
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As we head into the midterm elections, our virtual civil war all too often is fought on social media, as each side battles daily to capture the media ...
The Democrats Are Out of Touch and Out of Time
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The look on Joy Behar’s face said it all. Confusion, befuddlement, and an ever so slight hint of anger. She was reacting to a recent poll from the N...
Meet the Temporary Republicans
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in wh...
The "Antiracists" Come for Herschel Walker
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb ...
What Gets Lost in the Abortion Fight
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Dominik’s new Netflix movie Blonde has offended just about everyone. Based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name, it is a fictional...
The Myth that MAGA is Driven by "White Rage"
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how justified you think it is, prosecuting someone for what lives inside their minds and hearts is a road to ruin. It’s even worse than th...
Moral Superiority Won't Fix the Border Crisis or Anything Else
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden told a bedtime story about the border. It was secure, he said. But more importantly, those in charge were now humane, not like the previous ...
How Joe Biden Lost My Vote
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden emerged from his speech last week “on the continued battle for the soul of our nation” like a squalling infant birthed from the loins of...
The "Semi-Fascists" Are Coming from Inside the House
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic...
'Trump Derangement Syndrome' is a Luxury Few Can Afford
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.” - Abraham LincolnWe live in a time where there are more people connected than ever before,...
The Raid that Red-Pilled America
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Democrats, the media, and the blue-checks on Twitter have no idea how many people have been red-pilled over the past three years. No one who watch...
The Ultra Elite vs. The Ultra MAGA
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, an unprecedented alliance of the richest and most powerful entities in the country came together to rig an election. Now I’m not saying th...
How the Left was Lost
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What has become obvious to anyone paying attention is that we are living through a kind of revolution. It is not a physical one. As my friend Abe Gre...
The Season Finale of Catch Trump if You Can
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If there is one thing I learned watching the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial it’s this: you can’t just hear one side of the story. Because of so...
Dobbs Was a Middle Finger to the Invasive Activism of the New Left
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2020, after the protests and the riots erupted on the streets of major cities, causing over one billion dollars in damages, implied threats have...
"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Trump Supporter"
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The January 6th riot was ugly and violent. It was one of the worst things to happen in this country after one of its most difficult years. Protests ar...
The Depp Verdict Shows How Out of the Touch Media Elite Have Become
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
PROFANITY WARNING — cursing all through some of the videos.When Johnny Depp won his defamation case against Amber Heard it marked the first time a #...
The Richest Non-compliant Man in the World
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Update: Since writing this, Elon Musk has actually bought Twitter!]The American dream says that the best and the brightest can rise as fast and as fa...
When Reality Slaps You in the Face
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on live television was probably the most truthful ten minutes anyone in Hollywood or watching at home had seen in five ...
Lost Horizons: How the Oscars Became Hollywood's Shangri-La
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This Sunday, the beleaguered Oscars will hold their 94th Academy Awards ceremony. I will be attending, as I have for the last several years. I get my ...
Putin and the Baby Bird
26 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A long while back, during the Obama presidency, when my daughter was in elementary school, we were taking a walk with another mother and her daughter....
Joe Rogan, the Truckers and the Collapse of the Left
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Neil and Joni, if your side wins—and Spotify bends the knee to your demands—it will mark peak woke and the beginning of your end. In defeat...
Whoopi Goldberg and Ilya Shapiro Prove Intent Does Matter
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On his daily podcast, Ben Shapiro notes that many were outraged that ABC had suspended Whoopi Goldberg from The View for two weeks following comments ...
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been ...?
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is no doubt, at least to my mind, that we’re living through some kind of a mass hysteria event. Writing on his site, John Kass says:A weak pre...
Truth, Justice and the American Way
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What’s so funny about Peace, Love, and Understanding?We’ll leave 2021 with no stronger grasp on collective truth than we had in 2020. One kind of...
Houses of the Holy: The New Religion of the Left Threatens the Democrats
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Democrats are out of touch and out of time.There have been so many opportunities for the Democrats to turn things around since the wake-up call in...
The Kings of Film Twitter
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Barney was mostly invisible on Film Twitter. His 3,593 or so loyal followers hung around but he couldn’t break out much farther than that. He was a ...
The Horror Movies I Love are Frozen in Time
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stanley Kubrick’s sublime The Shining breaks all of the rules. It breaks the rules of adaptation by completely upending the plot and meaning of Step...
Operation: Save Joe Biden's Poll Numbers
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere in Washington, in a parked car. Ike: It’s a dumpster fire.Mike: They’ll bound back.Ike: Didn’t Elon Musk invent some kind of brain enh...
Getting Tired of the Puritans
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, there are only two paths for the left generally and the Democrats specifically to take: totalitarianism or collapse.Some days, like today, wh...
Reimagined History: Monica Lewinsky, The Academy Museum, and Kim Kardashian
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Probably every society goes through revisionist history. Usually this happens gradually, over time, as stories become myths which become legends. Trut...
Listen to: My Unfinished Near Future Sci-Fi Novel on Standby
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the podcast version of my last post. I will offer these up to see if they are more convenient for people. If you’d like to subscribe to this...