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The other editor was Jen Pastor, seen here bragging about the photo shooter, now treated like a hero by the good people of the left. For podcast listeners, an Instagram post by Jen Pastor of the story on the Trump White house. Back in 2014, the New York Times covered her wedding to Mark Hanna. For podcast listeners, a headline A Certain Metaphysical Attraction by Anita Gates. November 14, 2014. For a guy who was then the director of academic communications for Parsons, the New School of Design in New York, Mark Hanna was at a surprising, embarrassing loss for words. There he was in Soho on a cold Sunday afternoon in January 2012, settling in at the McNally Jackson Bookstore Cafe, reading up on the doctoral programs he was applying for. Caught a glimpse of Jennifer Pastor, then a 33 year old magazine photo editor planning a new freelance career, poring over the lonely Planet guidebooks for India and Bhutan. She was stunning, he thought, and so he decided to introduce himself. I said something really memorable, like going to India, huh? Mr. Hannah recalled. Pasteur was lovingly captured this way. The bride burst into laughter at least once during the vows, showing off an impossibly wide smile that was half Anne Hathaway, half 1990s Julia Roberts. You see, even in 2014, they had to stipulate. Yeah, you know, back when Julia Roberts had not aged even a day, they couldn't get away with that now. Or maybe they could. They make the rules. After all, it is nice to be among the privileged ruling class in America, among the good people of the left who see their mission to spread that goodness and if you don't go along with it, they will destroy you. Well, at least that was the plan. Trump upended it and they've never figured out exactly why. Even now, they think all of us should want to live inside their puritanical, suffocating bubble of goodness. Newsflash, we don't. The truth is that they are not a party defined by goodness so much as all consuming hatred for the lesser half of the country. It buzzes through their fake Anne Hathaway Julia Roberts smile like flies buzzing around rotting meat. Their hatred is everywhere, usually pooling and coagulating on blue sky, but every so often it seeps back to X, where they marshal their forces as a hate army to attack those they deem toxic, dangerous or disgusting. Why did they lose to Trump a second time is a question they would never ask. Is it them? No, it couldn't be. Everyone wants to be them. They're the special people, the good people, the chosen people, the woketopians that will take America into the future. I know what it feels like to see myself through their eyes, even though I was once one of them. They sent a photographer to take my picture for a New York Times profile of me at a time when they were trying to make it seem like they kind of sort of cared about the half the country that voted for Trump. Don't do it, my friend warned. Send them a selfie. I should have listened to him, but like the Trump administration, I was far too trusting. How bad could it be? Well, it was nothing less than the worst photo of me ever taken, appearing in the world's most widely read outlet. So there I was, looking fat, ugly and old, which is the message they wanted to send. Don't be like her or this is what you will look like. They say it openly and freely now. This is what hate does to You. And they define hate as disagreeing with their politic. The photographer was nice. She took many photos of me. And maybe it's true, they were all just as bad as the one the editor chose. But I think, as with the Vanity Fair photos, they picked the worst one because that is who they are. And if they didn't, they'd have been accused of elevating the wrong people to bad people. The racists and the fascists. This way, they signal to their readers, women and gay men, that they're still on their side. They're still on board with the real hate campaign, one they've waged for 10 years now and counting. They have no plan for the other half of the country. All they want to do is take back power again and raise the drawbridge to their queendom. While it's true that the right will mock how women look, especially the wicked witch of the left, Jennifer Welch, you'd never see that at Vanity Fair or the New York Times, where women on the left, especially minorities, are depicted as saintly in refusing to normalize the wife of a fascist. All magazines boycotted the beautiful Melania Trumpet. Nothing she could do would ever change their conviction of who they believed she was. They use every magazine, every late night comedy show, every Hollywood movie, every article in every magazine to push that lie. When they mocked Kellyanne Conway's age, she did something about it. She took that one thing off the table. They found something else when they mocked Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her makeup and her weight. She did something about it, but they found something else. And now when they mocked Caroline Levitt for her thin upper lip, she did something about it and they punished her for it. The truth doesn't matter to them. It never has. They can't even face the truth about themselves, let alone the other half of the country. Ivanka was always to be portrayed as the daughter of a Nazi, as are all the Trump children. There's never been one moment when they were given the credit they deserve. Not because they're American royalty, but because we the people, voted for them to fight for us. That used to matter in a country not under the control of an elite ruling class that sees themselves as better than everyone else. Trump, his administration, and his voters have to be whatever they say they are. If they need them to be kings, so be it. Hitler. Sure thing. Let us know what you want, women and gay men who live in a fantasy world. And we'll give it to you because you've been elevated inside Woketopia. The funny thing is, all they do is expose what liars they are. We all know What Caroline Levitt, J.D. vance, Marco Rubio and Susie Wiles really look like. This wasn't about telling the truth. It was about giving their readers the comfortable lie. See, it's okay to dehumanize them and treat them like toxic waste because they deserve it. Oh, Vanity Fair. Did you have to make it that obvious? They must wonder why so many Americans don't see them the way they see themselves. Or maybe they don't wonder at all. Maybe they never ask. Maybe they've been united in hate and dehumanization for so long, they don't know the difference anymore between what is real and what is a manufactured delusion. Isn't that the right didn't mock the Democrats Press secretaries Jen Psaki and Karine Jean Pierre, they did. It's that the left is the side that always pretended to be our moral betters because they aren't like that. They don't criticize women. They don't tear down other women. Except that they do. That was lesson number one for me almost 10 years ago. They are exactly like that. And I remember thinking, we aren't the good guys anymore. The women on TikTok, those who have helped make our culture intolerable by always portraying women as victims in fiction, in Lifetime movies, in Hollywood, become the very monsters they once pretended to oppose. So all Vanity Fair did was prove not who the Trump administration is, but what the left has become. They're nothing but a grease stain where a once mighty movement used to be. Caroline Levitt is not only beautiful, young, smart and successful, but she's also confident. And that's what they really hate about her. If they can't destroy her, they will try to humiliate her. It's become a ritual in the media by now, but never quite as blatantly as with this Vanity Fair piece. Maybe their readership is declining. Maybe they're bored. Maybe they don't know any other way to be anymore. Whatever it is, the stench of failure follows them around every time they signal to the rest of us that they're still this helpless and this desperate to lie to the American public with nothing less than lowly propaganda disguised as journalism. Vanity Fair, Hollywood, the New York Times, they don't exist for all of us anymore. They don't view the other half of the country as worthy of their attention or their coverage. Even though Trump won the popular vote and they still haven't figured it out, they haven't solved the problem. We picked Trump because we can't stand living in their America anymore. We can't stand them. They're the side that demands conformity, One that has cultivated a climate of fear and a culture of silence. Who wants to live like that? It's boring, it's predictable, it's mean. And it's over. Thank you for listening to my podcast, Sashastone.com and I hope you have a great weekend. If you like my work, you can always leave a tip on the main page, or you can become a paid subscriber, or you can write a review. And remember to thine own self be true.
