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Alan Stamm's avatar

Mike -- I read both parts of your fine Archibald Ayres Drake saga over Christmas weekend, via emailed newsletters I'm glad I saved. They weren't too long, nor agnonizing.

I scrolled past a paragraph or three here and there, but you diligently uncovered a compelling tale with a satisfying coda, and the imagined mutterings entertained. I hope you post an edited version, as it deserves to be read more widely.

Hold your ground, man, just as he did.

Clarence Wilhelm Spangle's avatar

Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) have every right to say what they like about Israel and the genocide of Palestinians as elected members of the US House of Representatives; they never took an oath to serve Israel . . .

I voted for Ron Desantis (R-FL) to be governor of Florida, not ambassador to Israel.

The recently ousted Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who took at least a dozen votes to get elected speaker, traveled to Israel immediately upon his election, declaring to the Israeli Knesset that the USA is steadfastly committed to supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia . . .

Was he running for speaker of the Israeli Knesset too?

Following his ouster . . . McCarthy (R-CA) traveled abroad again, this time to England, and expressed his open contempt for the white Republicans who make up the majority of the GOP and praised Democrats for their diversity during a debate at Oxford in the wake of his ouster as House Speaker . . .

Is he now running for the Prime Minister of the U.K.?

Nevertheless, he is free to go on media tours bashing white people and lobbying for Israel, because he has now resigned from the US House of Representatives . . . I can only conclude that the collective RINO butthurt over former Speaker McCarthy is all about the Israelis who have hijacked the American deep state war machine.

It has become so painfully obvious, especially where you have someone like Nikki Haley wagging her finger and shouting down Vivek Ramaswamy in a presidential debate on live national television when the questions of this Ukrainian war against Russia and any mention of Israel are concerned, that the United States government has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committee.

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/satanism-is-a-jewish-cult

Shannon's avatar

So thanks for self-editing your work. It is YOUR work, after all, and you get to do whatever you see fit to do. You are a great writer.

Just letting you know I won’t be staying with Substack in 2024. I have decided that publishing Nazi material is not okay with me and while I don’t agree with book banning, I also don’t agree with freely publishing Nazi propaganda, so I’m off. I will still follow you on socials, so if you find another publication to post on, I’ll see you there happily.

Clarence Wilhelm Spangle's avatar

Volodymyr Zelensky is an Israeli operative . . . Ukraine’s Azov Regiment Visits Israel: ‘Mariupol is our Masada’ . . . https://nationalvanguard.org/2022/12/ukraines-azov-regiment-visits-israel-mariupol-is-our-masada/

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Why Do the Ukrainians Allow Their Country to Be Completely Run by Jews? . . . https://russia-insider.com/en/why-do-ukrainians-allow-their-country-be-completely-run-jews/ri27010

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Zelensky, Biden, Satanism, War, Greed, Theft, Propaganda, Domestic Spying, International Intrigue, Treason, Sedition, FTX, Ukraine, Israel . . . https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/zelensky-biden-satanism-war-greed

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Documents leaked from Soros’ “Open Society Foundation” show how the Jewish billionaire behind Hillary Clinton gave orders to the State Department and manipulated media coverage of events in Ukraine . . . https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/09/documents-show-soros-ran-us-foreign-policy-on-post-coup-ukraine/

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How Christine Lagarde, Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland Funded a Massive Ukrainian Ponzi Scheme . . . https://russia-insider.com/en/how-christine-lagarde-clinton-and-nuland-funded-massive-ukrainian-ponzi-scheme/ri27390

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Jewish Corruption in Ukraine . . . by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D. . . . https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/02/17/jewish-corruption-in-ukraine/

Tama2U's avatar

To thine own self be true and keep doing you 😊

Sílvia's avatar

Well, I skimmed through it... I'm having little patience for long reads. 🙂

Lorie Mayorga's avatar

I feel comforted by the fact that you've uttered something that you later needed to retract. This happens to me all the time, it seems, and I always feel as if I'm the only one. Thanks for being honest and sharing your journey with your readers, warts & all!

Chris Takacs's avatar

Historical fiction could be your genre. Kept me reading!

Stephanie's avatar

It wasn’t agonizing to read. The first part may have been a bit long but the beauty of your phrasing and the amazingly sharp intellect of your insight is worthy of the length. You are truly gifted.

Dave Larson's avatar

I liked it a lot and described the situation excitedly to my wife. I keep finding ties between us, which unsettle me a bit. I tracked down the hero of this story, and grew up pretty near there. I'm pretty sure we live about a mile from one Panera you described. Looking forward to reading, and thinking about, more of what you've got to say.

Mike Humphries's avatar

I read the pieces and while the eventual story itself is good, I don't disagree with you because it took too long to get there. Tighter, with less setup and teasing about what you're *about* to tell us. It's like listening to director's commentary before watching a film.

Also, "...the Pellet’s or Osborn’s or Armstrong’s. By the Hill’s though…" Apostrophes aren't for pluralization. :P

Take another swing at it and it'll be great.

CH (K)'s avatar

I will wait. Upon reading comments it sounds like a really good story already but I will honor your editing process and wait for the republished version. (will leave the e-mails unread)

Please be kind to yourself, Mike.

Sarah R Davis's avatar

I liked it. Yeah, it could've been cleaner and maybe clearer but I still enjoyed reading it.

chichi robado's avatar

I guess I missed the whole thing 😐. I often don’t have time to read content when it’s posted so I come back to it. I guess this one just flew by. Interestingly, I came across this just before I went to Substack: https://a.co/d/2e3ROMP. The book is on shutting off the inner critic. FWIW.

Off topic: emails? I get notifications of payment but I don’t get emails with any content. Can someone enlighten me? Thanks in advance.

DB Irwin's avatar

If you’re subscribed, whether or not you’re a paying subscriber, you should receive an email with the body of the post (without the photo, unfortunately). I think you’re right about the inner critic.

chichi robado's avatar

Thanks for the info! I haven’t received content emails since April. So I cruised around in my Settings and for some reason all my prior settings were set to the default - which doesn’t have me receving emails with the post. I fixed that and hopefully I will start receiving them in my email again.

Krista Allen's avatar

You are BRILLIANT and CAPABLE and WONDERFUL. We’re here because we adore your work and YOU, Mike. I read it before you took it down and I loved it. It’s good to have standards but not if they cause you internal strife. You have absolutely nothing to apologize for. ❤️

Clarence Wilhelm Spangle's avatar

If you cannot be honest about the sex, what can you be honest about?

When Arnold Schnitzel-wagger got caught impregnating his voluptuous maid, the tsunami of faux moral outrage swept across television and computer screens from people who have the slenderest claim to any semblance of fidelity or ethics of any kind.

Arnold couldn't admit he likes fat girls and Maria couldn't admit she was too anemic to get the job done anymore . . . After all, marrying into the Katholic Kennedy Klan should come with special social privileges, should it not?

Monogamy is an unnatural order created by Zionist churchmen to attach vicarious liabilities in the secular law, to control monarchial successions, as well as to establish ecclesiastic control over white female procreativity and individual white male posterity . . . All men are born of a woman, married or not.

The older pagan sexual mores were much more conducive to the health of Nordic-Scandinavian societies, and much more supportive of women than those of the Jewish god Yahweh, the locust master, the one who drowned the world and demanded a witch be burned alive, or an adulteress be stoned to death . . .

https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/heinrich-himmler-on-how-bolshevik-christianity-spreads-homosexuality-and-hatred-of-women

Jessica Logan's avatar

Kinda sad I missed it, the nosey part of me thinks it would be interesting to see what didn’t cut it for you when of course your writing is always seemingly perfect. I also fully get wanting to pull it when it’s not what you wanted though, and then I’m grateful not to have seen it. Can’t wait to see the polished version, though.