Wow, that’s just really discouraging. Do you think the Republicans in DC who appear to be on the side of the people are really just “positions” playing a part?
Pretty obvious when it only would have taken one to end the pro forma sessions and allow President Trump to make any recess appointments among lots of other things.
A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system [that describes the overwhelming influence of the administrative state and lobbyists – W], even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it. To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.
That 2014 Princeton study got all kinds of attention at the time overseas, but very little to none in the MSM in the US since that didn’t fit the agenda of maintaining the illusion of voter control:
Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
17 Apr 2014
“To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.”
This is an immensely important observation. It explains SO MUCH. Too often, people evaluate and react with/from emotions.
The interests of the economically elite aren’t always contrary to those of the “hoi polloi”… but that doesn’t mean they CARE about us.
Similarly, when the interests of the Elite are contrary to ours, that doesn’t mean they’re out to destroy us.
The reality is, the Elite WITH THE REAL POWER don’t care about us one way or the other, any more than WE care about members of an insect colony in our back yards.
If they’re ants and don’t sting or come in the house, we let them be. If they’re bees, and make good honey, our interest GOES UP, and we want them alive to produce for us.
But in neither case does that mean we LOVE THEM. If the ants invade our kitchens, or the bees sting our children, then we call the exterminator, BUT IT AIN’T PERSONAL.
And that’s pretty much how the economically elite view us. They use us, tolerate us, or eliminate us, based solely on our VALUE or how much inconvenience we cause them. And THAT creates the treadmills and hamster cages many of us propel.
It’s a combination of kabuki and a fan dance–just watch how Miss Lindsey Graham teases heads rolling when he’s “mad” and then says that he’s not a prosecutor and he doesn’t have any power to bring out the guillotine.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Just fighting the closure of my kids’ rural, crowded elementary school while schools in the local town that were 1/3 empty remained open, opened my eyes and gave me a real education into the difference between my understanding of the way things are supposed to work, and the reality that they control us. They fight very dirty, will target your kids even. The evil is pervasive, everywhere. People need to understand that the country is being run by ENEMIES, people who hate them, and who have no legal right to do so, they are infiltrators.. We need to ignore them, get on with our lives, and when anyone starts to harass/target someone, send out a text for a patriot flash mob to show up. Soon we will be overwhelmed with imported combatants.
I think if a parent understands the system they will do everything possible to not send their kids to public school……remove yourself from pop culture….
homeschool………. give your kids an honest education and perpetuate your family culture. Anyone can do it; the homeschool resources out there are many. As for the canard: don’t you want your kids to associate with all types of people? ANSWER: no, I don’t. Do YOU associate with all types of people; or are you selective
Write down your family history, family tree, note your ancestors who:
homesteaded
pioneered
founded towns
served in War for Independence, etc.
Started businesses, were blacksmiths, merchants, mayors, town council, etc.
who served where and did what in WWII, etc. If any ministers in the family, etc. Old photos – label who it is.
Do this on hard copy. Make copies for all family members.
Go to old book stores and buy remaining factual history books about American History. Protect those books to hand down to your descendants as family heirlooms.
Get those classic portraits of George Washington, etc., that used to be in every elementary school classroom.
This will be important for the future when your descendants come to that point when they want to know Truth.
We laughed at Obama being a community organizer. That’s how they did it. They infiltrated everything from the highest office to the lowest coffee shop. And with our own money.
They infiltrated THE most important part of the equation first: our culture. That’s been going on for many decades. As Andrew Breitbart said, politics is downstream from culture.
READ chapter 6 of Andrew’s book, “Righteous Indignation.”
It started under Clinton – IMHO – and Bush was asleep at the switch for 2 terms. And I always thought the creation of ODNI, was a huge mistake. DHS was another organizational mistake. And obviously the ‘fusion centers’ are (well at least one we know about) being abused as well.
its a cliche….all the cool kids staying cool…..morals, ethics, values…..not important to them…..getting a promotion, getting invited to the country club, moving on up….oh, and keep that facade of virtue….
lack of morals/ethics/values is actually an advantage if you want to move on up….
“how far down into the individual states do you think (or know) this goes?”
“all the way down”
Exactly.
I posted here long ago MY simple description of the great depth of the swamp/deep state whose primary component is the “administrative state” as Steve Bannon called it when he said the goal was “the deconstruction of the administrative state”:
It’s every bureaucrat along with every lobbyist and politician at every level of government who would not give up their job or influence even if it was certifiably in the best interests of the country.
Now, how HUGE is that and how are you ever going to fix that in our easily propagandized idiocracy?
I think if you look at the states that have taken down the mandates, are fighting the vaccine passports, fighting for gun rights, fighting for women’s sports fighting to protect their police and a few other things you will find the governmental people who care about America and Americans.
From my experience in local government where I helped expose a county official’s participation in a massive fraud, it’s all the way down there, and probably lower–think school boards (from some of the effluent leaking out of that cesspool).
They protect their own and punish anyone with a shred of integrity.
Excellent question! Probably why so many States with known electoral fraud in the last election have done absolutely nothing. Also explains why the Dominion voting system will still be used in future Federal/State/Local elections! God help us! Hosanna!
Right down to local libraries. “Friends of the [city/county’ Library] are comprised of volunteers. The members vote each year for president, VP, treasurer, etc. The members decide which books get sold out in the lobby for fifty cents or a quarter. At my library, there was always a plethora of conservative titles that had been removed from circulation.
I dunno. I think your comment assumes the press operates independently of govt but it doesn’t. The politicians control the media through relationships like special interests (big pharma) and pay the media through organizations like DNC, Perkins Coie, Podesta Bros and others.
We witnessed how powerful the Senate Maj leader is. In Trump’s case it was Mitch, but it could have just as easily have been Schumer with the same result.
The Senate Maj leader controls all executive political appointments AND judiciary appointments. The House and Senate control all bills, and if both houses are in agreement on said bills, the President has no choice but to sign due to veto override. The Congress can and will impeach and convict. They also approve the next President for office.
The actions we saw over the last 4 years were to demonstrate to the world, to the American people and to the American President who is boss and who runs this country. The media is just a pawn of the Congress who holds the real power.
Veto override is the only power over Congress the President has that I am aware. The Congress is where the real power of our government is.
Independent? How can that be when there such incestuous relationships between all of these organizations.
CEO’s and Executives of major corporations who spouse is the director of the regulatory agency that supposedly oversees them? Then you have the in-laws, sons and daughters in key locations.
Corporatism has been launched. The news media reports/censors what the corporate sponsors want. Fox is laboring to please their sponsors. Truth is way down the list. Ratings become moot, if sponsors pay for something else.
They are one and the same from my observations. Ex intelligence officials running for office is another hard tel.
Linus in W.PA.
April 29, 2021 11:10 pm
Not what we want to hear.
So sad….
HEIDI
April 29, 2021 11:21 pm
What I find especially concerning is that leftists no longer even pretend to be positive movement as they did in the 60’s when they coopted various movements (free speech, anti war, civil rights, etc.). They now just openly operate through fear (killer viruses, killer climate, killer cops, etc.) intimidation and weaponized gov agencies. The burden is on the people to prove their innocence as in proving you’re NOT a threat to someone’s health or NOT responsible for killing blacks or earthquakes & various weather events, etc. It’s Stalinism, and requires you to ‘purchase’ your freedom as in a vaccine passports or carbon credits. How much longer can such a negative movement last?
These leftists are not your grandfathers’ leftists.
These insane anarchists are only the transitional stage, indeed the justification, for the fascists that will surely come next.
joebkonobi
April 29, 2021 11:22 pm
Does the USSC realize this? Likely not. There is a point where we the people will have to remind them of the US constitution. It will not be pretty but what must be done must be done. We are the majority and we must find a way to userp the decimation of our Constitution. We are the patriots, what must be done to preserve our freedoms must be done. We are close to a civil war 21st century style. Our problem is we are not united enough. The dems are mostly united. Time to unite and WIN. We have the majority. Let’s go’ F the establishment.
Remember WHY the Dems are “united”. The are all blackmailable. They toe the line or risk exposure. Recall Clapper bragging about planting evidence on people’s computers?
spoogels
April 29, 2021 11:39 pm
White House on alert as US officials probe ‘mysterious attack’ – people suddenly fall ill
LOL. Duh, they are just hearing about the Frankenvax effects/deaths?
TMonroe
April 29, 2021 11:41 pm
“Giuliani notes the federal government went into his i-cloud account in 2019 during his representation of President Trump against fraudulent impeachment allegations and the FBI did that without a search warrant.“
There are so many levels of privilege under which that falls, and the alleged nonobservance of that speaks for itself.
“As Attorneys General committed to protecting the safety and well-being of the residents of our states, we write to express our concern about the use of your platforms to spread fraudulent information about coronavirus vaccines and to seek your cooperation in curtailing the dissemination of such information,” the letter opened.
This caught my eye because of someone pointing out a short time ago a similar concept about schools saying that their most important role was protecting the safety of their students. A school’s most important role is to teach their students reading, math, science, etc. And attorneys general should be committed to seeing that the law is carried out – equally I might add.
deleware
iowa
massachusetts
michigan
minnesota
new york
oregon
pennsylvania
virginia.
_———-
Review that list and see if any are red states – this will indicate a turncoat. But these AGs are direct threats to the Amendments the founders DIED FOR
Draconian measure? Masks, no worship, small businesses declared non-essential…..they already use draconian measures.
We must become defiant and locally take back our communities.
What Biden is really saying when he says the the USA is under threat is to do with crooked government. Crooked government must be saved at all cost. It is how they make their dirty living.
It is the people of the USA that are under threat from the government. This has been clearly demonstrated with the capture of our elections.
If you speak up, you are a white supremist terrorist. If you happen to be a different color, you will be stuffed into a different box with the appropriate label.
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tax2much
April 30, 2021 12:22 am
William Colby told us a long time ago that the CIA runs this country when he told us that the CIA had taken over the media. They had previously blackmailed all the politicians that they needed.
CountryClassVulgarian
April 30, 2021 12:36 am
There is indeed a very dark cloud of evil over this nation. May God have mercy on His children.
Mike
April 30, 2021 12:48 am
I said many times there’s no down side to the progressive project. Congress’s goal is to null the Executive, install a Parliamentary system and remove the Bill of Rights. They’ve nulled the Executive by stealing the election and installed handlers.
Elle
April 30, 2021 4:34 am
The cell towers, transmitters, fiber optic cables and other forms of communication that did not exist before the 20th century are the chains that bind us. Without them, they are nothing.
Martin
April 30, 2021 7:49 am
It’s all about the Benjamins. We can characterize it as elbowing for proximity to the trough, but that’s the gist.
Four Presidents who attempted to stem the tide paid the price.
SD’s discovery is a huge red pill for many. It’s been understood in my family, with 50 years of IC perspective.
But the “trusty-plan” is pilloried. Why that’s been abandoned is a quandary. And a mistake.
A few more red-pilled percentage points, and the Big Ugly begins. No time to be alive better than the present.
I understand.
So what is the point of President Trump to run again?
Or to vote again?
Ausonius
April 30, 2021 8:21 am
I wrote on page 1 that History shows how the man or woman at the top can become irrelevant in states with large bureaucracies.
In some cases, the bureaucrats were necessary, when the pharaoh or the emperor etc. was incompetent, mentally ill, or physically incapable of keeping the state operating. This assumes that the bureaucrats are honest and patriotic.
The temptation is always that they become aware of their numbers and their power and begin to operate independently to increase their own standing: the method is always through the promulgation of more rules, necessitating more bureaucrats to enforce the rules, sending the original bureaucrats into higher positions.
Today we see that they have allied with the multi-national businesses (including especially international banks) and media – who have their own bureaucracies! – to start imagining a totalitarian dystopia (for us, not for them) where we are increasingly controlled by a blizzard of governmental regulations and of business rules (No Entry Without a Mask, No Airline Seat Without a Vaccination).
In Music, you would call this situation Variations on Themes by Lenin and Mao.
Yes, my friends, the dark night of fascism has indeed landed in our beloved Country.
The question I have is this- when will We the People finally have had enough? At what point do things get so uncomfortable for us that millions of us will actually rebel en masse?
I live in NY which has become a totalitarian Gulag under the heavy handed rule of the Stalinist/Left/ Demo-commies that completely control state government. I am at an age where I really don’t want to pull up roots and move to a free state, but when I can no longer get fuel to heat my house, drive my car or have dependable electricity, it will be too late. And that is what I see coming. We already have the Green New Deal- see how advanced the commies are?
NY is worse than California in many ways and in some respects the decay is even worse. NY City is one of the oldest big cities in the country and it was until recently a world capital for the arts, culture, business, finance, etc. No more. Instead, it looks like a shanty town between the scaffolding, the boarded up windows and the homeless that infest so many blocks.
Every day I try to throw some sand in the machinery but what are a few grains in such a giant machine of tyranny?
All I can do is keep praying and make preparations for what I fear is coming. My greatest hope is that our President Trump will somehow re-emerge as the de facto leader of our country- and I don’t mean by overturning the election which is never going to happen. He mentions he wants to start doing rallies again. That is a good beginning.
Many thanks, Seneca the Elder, for the link and update on the situation in New York.
Atlas is shrugging more and more in Ohio, especially in the small towns and cities. More and more Ohioans seem to be ignoring the RINO Gov. DeWine’s illegal ukases and are going about their business. Here in the big city I have noticed a few more people – besides myself – not wearing masks in stores, and we are not hassled.
To be sure, in my 3-piece suit and tie and at (still somewhat muscular) 6′ 3″ 185 pounds I present – according to my wife – an intimidating persona! 🙂 But even this morning, in blue jeans and a navy blue sweatshirt, nobody bothered me. There were even a few employees doing shelf-stocking whose masks were under their chins.
Greetings, Ausonius!- Glad to hear you are well and intimidating!
I am pleased to report that yesterday I went shopping at the local Home Depot without a mask and for the first time ever, NOBODY said a word. Prior to that, I went maskless in the garden area but as soon as I walked inside, I was hassled and left.
I think that the powers that be realize we all know the jig is up. For all intents and purposes, as the real scientists and doctors are telling us, Chi Com Covid is pretty much over. We reached herd immunity in April and if you look at the stats, there is no denying that there is no longer a pandemic of any sort.
This article explains that the Bidenistas are not even pretending that the muzzle masks/ Jew Badges are about health. As always, it’s about CONTROL.
The only people left in the U.S. with enough background knowledge to understand what is happening are over 50 years of age. I’m 62 and went through grades 1-12 in the Baltimore City Public School System and got a first class education. A college education was meaningful then; today people graduate with a college degree and think they’re educated, but the reality is that most graduates today are only ignorant. They have no critical thinking skills, no spiritual awareness, no guilt. Sadly, we’re in the hands of sociopaths at every level of government and business building a brand new world built on nothing but lies.
“Meanwhile, in Europe, over 1,000 French military personnel, including 20 former generals and 100 officers published an amazing open letter:”
When the French military shows more spine and bravery than the American military…
HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM…
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Bubby
April 30, 2021 10:25 am
Without term limits we have those in both houses of Congress from both parties who serve for 30,40,50 years and never retire ending up dying in office. This surely provides a solid basis for the continuity of corruption, secrecy and power as length in office increases the interlocking nature of the Uniparty. Also when leftist couples work in separate branches of government or in the media and government then one can provide secret data/cover for the other. These kind of politically incestuous relationships generate couples like the Ohr’s! Who by the way are still active! That has to also stop! But I wasn’t born yesterday. God help us! Hosanna!
These things are plausible. There has always been a tendency for organizations to be become corrupted like this. Its a primary reason for the original design of the Republic with the 3 branches & checks and balances. And it does “feel” like this corruption is growing in America, the underlying drivers may have something to do with the growing imbalance between [people / economic needs and desires] vs. [real economy].
That is: As the real, substantive, higher-tier economic synergies gradually diminish in the US (shifted to China etc.), supplanted by the venal vapor economy of Wall St. and the debt-serf service economy, there are more people desperately seeking to maintain their increasingly tenuous economic position in the face of disappearing opportunities for honest vocation, and this drives more corruption of all kinds.
Its not just in government, it seems to be increasing everywhere. A symptom of the times.
The federal civil service has been largely protected against corruption for a long time, in theory at least. That was the reason the civil service was established in the first place, replacing the spoils system. But there are always those who desire more power and money, even in the civil service. And the protections for the others, who want to remain ethical, are being increasingly eroded – including by the security state apparatus abused by the corrupted ones to push the uncorrupted ones out.
The comment on the IGs is illuminative. They may present as advocates for the ethical in government and contractors, when in some cases this may actually be a honeypot to identify and *remove* the ethical employees.
It is a very sad state of affairs we have reached, when we cannot trust anything any more.
Spryte
April 30, 2021 11:20 am
More blatantly we see today that Biden (Executive “Branch”) is subservient to Pelosi and Schumer (Legislative) and Lawfare
(Judicial). Everyone’s one big happy illegitimate family with Christopher Wray in swimming in their swampy mire.
Biden is like the mast on the Titanic, after the ship splits in two like our country, he heads face down into the depths of the ocean. What a mess.
Steven Interest
April 30, 2021 12:07 pm
This would argue that an absolute monarch is better than a republic, wouldn’t it?
Seeing how the republic devolved to an extreme democracy that was then taken over by a foreign power — yes. At least monarchs are incentivized to care for rather than exploit their own countries.
Well argued and increasingly obviously true once one is trained to observe the d33p st@te marionette strings. It’s amazing how many people still believe in the Schoolhouse Rock version of America. From the corrupt and communist Democrat Party perspective, their propaganda remains amazingly effective and the problematic independent thinkers can easily be dealt with by the weaponized FB! & D0J.
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Alleycats
April 30, 2021 12:30 pm
Thank you Sundance once again for your tireless efforts to keep us informed. Keep hammering away at the same facts so more and more people will equate the truth of the situation with what they see around them, despite what the Uniparty tries to say.
It will definitely come down to individual states asserting States Rights. There’s no telling when or even if DC itself can be brought back from the depths of corruption there now. We will have to largely fend for ourselves at the state level.
I remain hopeful because of Almighty God, my love for this country, and the knowledge that there are at least 80 million of us who feel the same way.
Letjusticeprevail2014
April 30, 2021 12:34 pm
FTP:
“Once the patriot act made the government responsible for total safety; the previously embedded bad actors took full control.”
Like everyone else, I’m growing older. And, with age, many things seem less important, so memory of them fades.
BUT… to this very day I can STILL remember EXACTLY what I was doing on the day when I first read about “The Patriot Act” and I remember the feeling of dread that came over me.
It was on THAT DAY I realized that all of the so-called “Rights” and protections recognized by the Constitution had just been erased.
The total subjugation of Americans had just been legalized, so no court could ever be compelled to protect me if government apparatchiks targeted me.
ReglarMerican
April 30, 2021 12:44 pm
One of President Trump’s greatest achievements was exposing these cancer tumors.
Gotta know where the tumor is to be able to do life-saving surgery.
Banana Republic Vespucciland
April 30, 2021 1:50 pm
“We’re with the government and we’re here to help.” ~ 9 scariest words
Another question I have is how far down into the individual states do you think (or know) this goes?
nicskip: Depending on the state, all the way down. City councils. Zoning boards. Everywhere.
Wow, that’s just really discouraging. Do you think the Republicans in DC who appear to be on the side of the people are really just “positions” playing a part?
Pretty obvious when it only would have taken one to end the pro forma sessions and allow President Trump to make any recess appointments among lots of other things.
And when they didn’t do what they had promised after they were given both houses and the WH multiple times.
BTW, here’s statistical proof from 2014 of the truth of this particular SD column:
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens [Princeton University, 2014]
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Excerpts:
A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system [that describes the overwhelming influence of the administrative state and lobbyists – W], even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.
That 2014 Princeton study got all kinds of attention at the time overseas, but very little to none in the MSM in the US since that didn’t fit the agenda of maintaining the illusion of voter control:
Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
17 Apr 2014
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
“To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.”
This is an immensely important observation. It explains SO MUCH. Too often, people evaluate and react with/from emotions.
The interests of the economically elite aren’t always contrary to those of the “hoi polloi”… but that doesn’t mean they CARE about us.
Similarly, when the interests of the Elite are contrary to ours, that doesn’t mean they’re out to destroy us.
The reality is, the Elite WITH THE REAL POWER don’t care about us one way or the other, any more than WE care about members of an insect colony in our back yards.
If they’re ants and don’t sting or come in the house, we let them be. If they’re bees, and make good honey, our interest GOES UP, and we want them alive to produce for us.
But in neither case does that mean we LOVE THEM. If the ants invade our kitchens, or the bees sting our children, then we call the exterminator, BUT IT AIN’T PERSONAL.
And that’s pretty much how the economically elite view us. They use us, tolerate us, or eliminate us, based solely on our VALUE or how much inconvenience we cause them. And THAT creates the treadmills and hamster cages many of us propel.
The original rolcons.
It’s a combination of kabuki and a fan dance–just watch how Miss Lindsey Graham teases heads rolling when he’s “mad” and then says that he’s not a prosecutor and he doesn’t have any power to bring out the guillotine.
Senator John Cornyn (Uniparty-DC) certainly looks like one of them.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Just fighting the closure of my kids’ rural, crowded elementary school while schools in the local town that were 1/3 empty remained open, opened my eyes and gave me a real education into the difference between my understanding of the way things are supposed to work, and the reality that they control us. They fight very dirty, will target your kids even. The evil is pervasive, everywhere. People need to understand that the country is being run by ENEMIES, people who hate them, and who have no legal right to do so, they are infiltrators.. We need to ignore them, get on with our lives, and when anyone starts to harass/target someone, send out a text for a patriot flash mob to show up. Soon we will be overwhelmed with imported combatants.
I think if a parent understands the system they will do everything possible to not send their kids to public school……remove yourself from pop culture….
homeschool………. give your kids an honest education and perpetuate your family culture. Anyone can do it; the homeschool resources out there are many. As for the canard: don’t you want your kids to associate with all types of people? ANSWER: no, I don’t. Do YOU associate with all types of people; or are you selective
Write down your family history, family tree, note your ancestors who:
Do this on hard copy. Make copies for all family members.
Go to old book stores and buy remaining factual history books about American History. Protect those books to hand down to your descendants as family heirlooms.
Get those classic portraits of George Washington, etc., that used to be in every elementary school classroom.
This will be important for the future when your descendants come to that point when they want to know Truth.
Secular leftists worship the State. It substitutes for God. The oddballs who see something magical about Fauci are the paradigm.
We laughed at Obama being a community organizer. That’s how they did it. They infiltrated everything from the highest office to the lowest coffee shop. And with our own money.
Read Agenda 21.
They infiltrated THE most important part of the equation first: our culture. That’s been going on for many decades. As Andrew Breitbart said, politics is downstream from culture.
READ chapter 6 of Andrew’s book, “Righteous Indignation.”
It started under Clinton – IMHO – and Bush was asleep at the switch for 2 terms. And I always thought the creation of ODNI, was a huge mistake. DHS was another organizational mistake. And obviously the ‘fusion centers’ are (well at least one we know about) being abused as well.
Poppy Bush came from the see eye eh.
I don’t think Dubya was “asleep”. I think he played the “good ol’ Texas boy not-really-very-smart” in order to deceive us while all this was underway.
its a cliche….all the cool kids staying cool…..morals, ethics, values…..not important to them…..getting a promotion, getting invited to the country club, moving on up….oh, and keep that facade of virtue….
lack of morals/ethics/values is actually an advantage if you want to move on up….
This is also the Agenda21/30 strategy. Sidestep the fed and infiltrate government at the local level. USA is over – welcome to ComMerica.
“how far down into the individual states do you think (or know) this goes?”
“all the way down”
Exactly.
I posted here long ago MY simple description of the great depth of the swamp/deep state whose primary component is the “administrative state” as Steve Bannon called it when he said the goal was “the deconstruction of the administrative state”:
It’s every bureaucrat along with every lobbyist and politician at every level of government who would not give up their job or influence even if it was certifiably in the best interests of the country.
Now, how HUGE is that and how are you ever going to fix that in our easily propagandized idiocracy?
80,000,000+ Trump voters have enough wherewithall to correct this.
And – The Almighty is on the side of truth, since He is Truth.
I think if you look at the states that have taken down the mandates, are fighting the vaccine passports, fighting for gun rights, fighting for women’s sports fighting to protect their police and a few other things you will find the governmental people who care about America and Americans.
From my experience in local government where I helped expose a county official’s participation in a massive fraud, it’s all the way down there, and probably lower–think school boards (from some of the effluent leaking out of that cesspool).
They protect their own and punish anyone with a shred of integrity.
Excellent question! Probably why so many States with known electoral fraud in the last election have done absolutely nothing. Also explains why the Dominion voting system will still be used in future Federal/State/Local elections! God help us! Hosanna!
Right down to local libraries. “Friends of the [city/county’ Library] are comprised of volunteers. The members vote each year for president, VP, treasurer, etc. The members decide which books get sold out in the lobby for fifty cents or a quarter. At my library, there was always a plethora of conservative titles that had been removed from circulation.
Same. Even the innocent children’s books have all but vanished, to be replaced with books with an agenda.
The media is our # 1 enemy, because without them, our IC would be powerless, and DC couldn’t hide their crimes.
Yes
I dunno. I think your comment assumes the press operates independently of govt but it doesn’t. The politicians control the media through relationships like special interests (big pharma) and pay the media through organizations like DNC, Perkins Coie, Podesta Bros and others.
We witnessed how powerful the Senate Maj leader is. In Trump’s case it was Mitch, but it could have just as easily have been Schumer with the same result.
The Senate Maj leader controls all executive political appointments AND judiciary appointments. The House and Senate control all bills, and if both houses are in agreement on said bills, the President has no choice but to sign due to veto override. The Congress can and will impeach and convict. They also approve the next President for office.
The actions we saw over the last 4 years were to demonstrate to the world, to the American people and to the American President who is boss and who runs this country. The media is just a pawn of the Congress who holds the real power.
Veto override is the only power over Congress the President has that I am aware. The Congress is where the real power of our government is.
Independent? How can that be when there such incestuous relationships between all of these organizations.
CEO’s and Executives of major corporations who spouse is the director of the regulatory agency that supposedly oversees them? Then you have the in-laws, sons and daughters in key locations.
It is nepotism all the way down.
LOL. You are kidding, right? The IC controls the media.
Corporatism has been launched. The news media reports/censors what the corporate sponsors want. Fox is laboring to please their sponsors. Truth is way down the list. Ratings become moot, if sponsors pay for something else.
Indeed, and as we can see now in perfect hindsight, the gang of 8 structure of oversight, was a huge mistake.
There are so very few journalists any more…
Presstitutes!
They are one and the same from my observations. Ex intelligence officials running for office is another hard tel.
Not what we want to hear.
So sad….
What I find especially concerning is that leftists no longer even pretend to be positive movement as they did in the 60’s when they coopted various movements (free speech, anti war, civil rights, etc.). They now just openly operate through fear (killer viruses, killer climate, killer cops, etc.) intimidation and weaponized gov agencies. The burden is on the people to prove their innocence as in proving you’re NOT a threat to someone’s health or NOT responsible for killing blacks or earthquakes & various weather events, etc. It’s Stalinism, and requires you to ‘purchase’ your freedom as in a vaccine passports or carbon credits. How much longer can such a negative movement last?
Until it is stopped.
So true, Heidi.
These leftists are not your grandfathers’ leftists.
These insane anarchists are only the transitional stage, indeed the justification, for the fascists that will surely come next.
Does the USSC realize this? Likely not. There is a point where we the people will have to remind them of the US constitution. It will not be pretty but what must be done must be done. We are the majority and we must find a way to userp the decimation of our Constitution. We are the patriots, what must be done to preserve our freedoms must be done. We are close to a civil war 21st century style. Our problem is we are not united enough. The dems are mostly united. Time to unite and WIN. We have the majority. Let’s go’ F the establishment.
Remember WHY the Dems are “united”. The are all blackmailable. They toe the line or risk exposure. Recall Clapper bragging about planting evidence on people’s computers?
White House on alert as US officials probe ‘mysterious attack’ – people suddenly fall ill
hehe
China?
Russia?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1429781/white-house-attack-mystery-Washington-DC-Pentagon-US-investigation-joe-biden-latest-news
LOL. Duh, they are just hearing about the Frankenvax effects/deaths?
“Giuliani notes the federal government went into his i-cloud account in 2019 during his representation of President Trump against fraudulent impeachment allegations and the FBI did that without a search warrant.“
There are so many levels of privilege under which that falls, and the alleged nonobservance of that speaks for itself.
They did the same with Cohen.
Twelve State Attorneys General Write Letter to Big Tech Asking Them to Suppress Americans with the ‘Wrong’ Viewpoint
https://www.westernjournal.com/twelve-state-attorneys-general-write-letter-big-tech-asking-suppress-americans-wrong-viewpoint/
“As Attorneys General committed to protecting the safety and well-being of the residents of our states, we write to express our concern about the use of your platforms to spread fraudulent information about coronavirus vaccines and to seek your cooperation in curtailing the dissemination of such information,” the letter opened.
This caught my eye because of someone pointing out a short time ago a similar concept about schools saying that their most important role was protecting the safety of their students. A school’s most important role is to teach their students reading, math, science, etc. And attorneys general should be committed to seeing that the law is carried out – equally I might add.
deleware
iowa
massachusetts
michigan
minnesota
new york
oregon
pennsylvania
virginia.
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Review that list and see if any are red states – this will indicate a turncoat. But these AGs are direct threats to the Amendments the founders DIED FOR
conneticut
north carolina
rhode island
(some other AGs are hiding still – but lets make sure note the ones in our faces – Iowa stands out, Penn stands out, north carolina stand out)
something is going to snap. look out.
Thats what they want because it gives them an excuse for draconian measures. theyve been doing it since the rigged election.
agreed.
but it’s a very tidy catch-22, is it not?
rise up and you get acute fascism,
acquiesce and you get fascism on a relaxed timetable….
Draconian measure? Masks, no worship, small businesses declared non-essential…..they already use draconian measures.
We must become defiant and locally take back our communities.
tick, tock…. /sarc
Don’t hold your breath.
I believe every word this guy said. If you put into actions, it mimics everything they did to President Trump.
The military has to be part of it too. I find that extra disturbing.
Nobody wants to go there…. Nobody wants to say what “there” is…
BUT
We all know. Nobody wants to start new history.
But that, my friends, is where we are……..
Spiritual warfare with an evil that only Jesus can defeat.
That is what I’ve been saying. This is beyond corruption. It’s satanic. Only the prince of darkness could plan this out so far in advance.
Manhattan Project-era nuclear waste tank may be leaking
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/manhattan-project-era-nuclear-waste-tank-may-be-leaking-20210430-p57np7.html
What Biden is really saying when he says the the USA is under threat is to do with crooked government. Crooked government must be saved at all cost. It is how they make their dirty living.
It is the people of the USA that are under threat from the government. This has been clearly demonstrated with the capture of our elections.
If you speak up, you are a white supremist terrorist. If you happen to be a different color, you will be stuffed into a different box with the appropriate label.
William Colby told us a long time ago that the CIA runs this country when he told us that the CIA had taken over the media. They had previously blackmailed all the politicians that they needed.
There is indeed a very dark cloud of evil over this nation. May God have mercy on His children.
I said many times there’s no down side to the progressive project. Congress’s goal is to null the Executive, install a Parliamentary system and remove the Bill of Rights. They’ve nulled the Executive by stealing the election and installed handlers.
The cell towers, transmitters, fiber optic cables and other forms of communication that did not exist before the 20th century are the chains that bind us. Without them, they are nothing.
It’s all about the Benjamins. We can characterize it as elbowing for proximity to the trough, but that’s the gist.
Four Presidents who attempted to stem the tide paid the price.
SD’s discovery is a huge red pill for many. It’s been understood in my family, with 50 years of IC perspective.
But the “trusty-plan” is pilloried. Why that’s been abandoned is a quandary. And a mistake.
A few more red-pilled percentage points, and the Big Ugly begins. No time to be alive better than the present.
I understand.
So what is the point of President Trump to run again?
Or to vote again?
I wrote on page 1 that History shows how the man or woman at the top can become irrelevant in states with large bureaucracies.
In some cases, the bureaucrats were necessary, when the pharaoh or the emperor etc. was incompetent, mentally ill, or physically incapable of keeping the state operating. This assumes that the bureaucrats are honest and patriotic.
The temptation is always that they become aware of their numbers and their power and begin to operate independently to increase their own standing: the method is always through the promulgation of more rules, necessitating more bureaucrats to enforce the rules, sending the original bureaucrats into higher positions.
Today we see that they have allied with the multi-national businesses (including especially international banks) and media – who have their own bureaucracies! – to start imagining a totalitarian dystopia (for us, not for them) where we are increasingly controlled by a blizzard of governmental regulations and of business rules (No Entry Without a Mask, No Airline Seat Without a Vaccination).
In Music, you would call this situation Variations on Themes by Lenin and Mao.
In Hollywood you would call it the sequel. Same story, different cast and setting.
Andrea Widburg from American Thinker has an incredible article on this very topic:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/the_dark_night_of_fascism_has_finally_landed_in_the_united_states.html
Yes, my friends, the dark night of fascism has indeed landed in our beloved Country.
The question I have is this- when will We the People finally have had enough? At what point do things get so uncomfortable for us that millions of us will actually rebel en masse?
I live in NY which has become a totalitarian Gulag under the heavy handed rule of the Stalinist/Left/ Demo-commies that completely control state government. I am at an age where I really don’t want to pull up roots and move to a free state, but when I can no longer get fuel to heat my house, drive my car or have dependable electricity, it will be too late. And that is what I see coming. We already have the Green New Deal- see how advanced the commies are?
NY is worse than California in many ways and in some respects the decay is even worse. NY City is one of the oldest big cities in the country and it was until recently a world capital for the arts, culture, business, finance, etc. No more. Instead, it looks like a shanty town between the scaffolding, the boarded up windows and the homeless that infest so many blocks.
Every day I try to throw some sand in the machinery but what are a few grains in such a giant machine of tyranny?
All I can do is keep praying and make preparations for what I fear is coming. My greatest hope is that our President Trump will somehow re-emerge as the de facto leader of our country- and I don’t mean by overturning the election which is never going to happen. He mentions he wants to start doing rallies again. That is a good beginning.
Many thanks, Seneca the Elder, for the link and update on the situation in New York.
Atlas is shrugging more and more in Ohio, especially in the small towns and cities. More and more Ohioans seem to be ignoring the RINO Gov. DeWine’s illegal ukases and are going about their business. Here in the big city I have noticed a few more people – besides myself – not wearing masks in stores, and we are not hassled.
To be sure, in my 3-piece suit and tie and at (still somewhat muscular) 6′ 3″ 185 pounds I present – according to my wife – an intimidating persona! 🙂 But even this morning, in blue jeans and a navy blue sweatshirt, nobody bothered me. There were even a few employees doing shelf-stocking whose masks were under their chins.
Greetings, Ausonius!- Glad to hear you are well and intimidating!
I am pleased to report that yesterday I went shopping at the local Home Depot without a mask and for the first time ever, NOBODY said a word. Prior to that, I went maskless in the garden area but as soon as I walked inside, I was hassled and left.
I think that the powers that be realize we all know the jig is up. For all intents and purposes, as the real scientists and doctors are telling us, Chi Com Covid is pretty much over. We reached herd immunity in April and if you look at the stats, there is no denying that there is no longer a pandemic of any sort.
This article explains that the Bidenistas are not even pretending that the muzzle masks/ Jew Badges are about health. As always, it’s about CONTROL.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9529483/Biden-calls-masks-patriotic-responsibility-says-border-control.html
The only people left in the U.S. with enough background knowledge to understand what is happening are over 50 years of age. I’m 62 and went through grades 1-12 in the Baltimore City Public School System and got a first class education. A college education was meaningful then; today people graduate with a college degree and think they’re educated, but the reality is that most graduates today are only ignorant. They have no critical thinking skills, no spiritual awareness, no guilt. Sadly, we’re in the hands of sociopaths at every level of government and business building a brand new world built on nothing but lies.
“Meanwhile, in Europe, over 1,000 French military personnel, including 20 former generals and 100 officers published an amazing open letter:”
When the French military shows more spine and bravery than the American military…
HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM…
Without term limits we have those in both houses of Congress from both parties who serve for 30,40,50 years and never retire ending up dying in office. This surely provides a solid basis for the continuity of corruption, secrecy and power as length in office increases the interlocking nature of the Uniparty. Also when leftist couples work in separate branches of government or in the media and government then one can provide secret data/cover for the other. These kind of politically incestuous relationships generate couples like the Ohr’s! Who by the way are still active! That has to also stop! But I wasn’t born yesterday. God help us! Hosanna!
On the numbered points in the linked piece (https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1387911271652147201.html):
These things are plausible. There has always been a tendency for organizations to be become corrupted like this. Its a primary reason for the original design of the Republic with the 3 branches & checks and balances. And it does “feel” like this corruption is growing in America, the underlying drivers may have something to do with the growing imbalance between [people / economic needs and desires] vs. [real economy].
That is: As the real, substantive, higher-tier economic synergies gradually diminish in the US (shifted to China etc.), supplanted by the venal vapor economy of Wall St. and the debt-serf service economy, there are more people desperately seeking to maintain their increasingly tenuous economic position in the face of disappearing opportunities for honest vocation, and this drives more corruption of all kinds.
Its not just in government, it seems to be increasing everywhere. A symptom of the times.
The federal civil service has been largely protected against corruption for a long time, in theory at least. That was the reason the civil service was established in the first place, replacing the spoils system. But there are always those who desire more power and money, even in the civil service. And the protections for the others, who want to remain ethical, are being increasingly eroded – including by the security state apparatus abused by the corrupted ones to push the uncorrupted ones out.
The comment on the IGs is illuminative. They may present as advocates for the ethical in government and contractors, when in some cases this may actually be a honeypot to identify and *remove* the ethical employees.
It is a very sad state of affairs we have reached, when we cannot trust anything any more.
More blatantly we see today that Biden (Executive “Branch”) is subservient to Pelosi and Schumer (Legislative) and Lawfare
(Judicial). Everyone’s one big happy illegitimate family with Christopher Wray in swimming in their swampy mire.
Biden is like the mast on the Titanic, after the ship splits in two like our country, he heads face down into the depths of the ocean. What a mess.
This would argue that an absolute monarch is better than a republic, wouldn’t it?
Seeing how the republic devolved to an extreme democracy that was then taken over by a foreign power — yes. At least monarchs are incentivized to care for rather than exploit their own countries.
And you know who’s in charge, like him or not.
And if his bureaucracy gets out of hand, he just changes them.
In other words, who watches the watchers?
Well argued and increasingly obviously true once one is trained to observe the d33p st@te marionette strings. It’s amazing how many people still believe in the Schoolhouse Rock version of America. From the corrupt and communist Democrat Party perspective, their propaganda remains amazingly effective and the problematic independent thinkers can easily be dealt with by the weaponized FB! & D0J.
Thank you Sundance once again for your tireless efforts to keep us informed. Keep hammering away at the same facts so more and more people will equate the truth of the situation with what they see around them, despite what the Uniparty tries to say.
It will definitely come down to individual states asserting States Rights. There’s no telling when or even if DC itself can be brought back from the depths of corruption there now. We will have to largely fend for ourselves at the state level.
I remain hopeful because of Almighty God, my love for this country, and the knowledge that there are at least 80 million of us who feel the same way.
FTP:
“Once the patriot act made the government responsible for total safety; the previously embedded bad actors took full control.”
Like everyone else, I’m growing older. And, with age, many things seem less important, so memory of them fades.
BUT… to this very day I can STILL remember EXACTLY what I was doing on the day when I first read about “The Patriot Act” and I remember the feeling of dread that came over me.
It was on THAT DAY I realized that all of the so-called “Rights” and protections recognized by the Constitution had just been erased.
The total subjugation of Americans had just been legalized, so no court could ever be compelled to protect me if government apparatchiks targeted me.
One of President Trump’s greatest achievements was exposing these cancer tumors.
Gotta know where the tumor is to be able to do life-saving surgery.
“We’re with the government and we’re here to help.” ~ 9 scariest words
We are now living in Tammany Nation.