First things first…. It is important to identify protection and favor when it surfaces. CTH is not only thankful for our ability to be faithful stewards to our community, but at this specific inflection point we are thankful to God for his providence. CTH stands steadfast!
Was it not for the notification and deplatforming in November, and the inspired members of the Rebel Alliance that came to our aid, we may not have survived the past 24 hours.
Thank you. We are humble and steadfast to our mission. Ever faithful.
To the larger CTH community, we are fortunate to have an anti-fragile system in place to withstand the deplatforming currently underway by Big Tech. So-far, so-good, fingers crossed.
Two recent features are interconnected. (1) There is now an internal flagging system in the comment section to draw attention to content that is outside guidelines. (2) Admins now have enhanced moderation tools to intercept that content.
With the enhanced focus of Big Tech to find justification, including in the comment sections of websites, to take down voices of the Rebel Alliance – it is unfortunately critical that we hold strong filters in place for tone and comment content at the moment.
As a reminder, here are the general guidelines for comments:
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood”.
1.) First, please READ THIS ENTIRE THREAD – and the full text of any discussion thread you wish to participate in.
Skipping to the comments to express an opinion without reading the content of the discussion is not helpful.
Often, unfortunately quite often, we find many of the points injected into comments are already outlined in the construct of the thread itself; questions asked while the answers are in the primary post.
2.) STAY ON TOPIC – please do not post something unrelated to the specific matter and content of the thread subject. There is a ALWAYS a daily open thread available for any subject you feel should get attention. Never place unrelated, “O/T”, or “Off Topic” comments on a thread unrelated to the topic. It is not ok to say: “sorry, O/T but”… or any iteration therein, it is actually quite rude.
The Treehouse operates on the ‘old school‘ standards and practices of civil discourse amid the original blogging community.
3.) NARROW YOUR THOUGHTS – Quality beats quantity. Please construct your comments to target specific areas and not broad generalizations about the discussion topic at hand. If you have four or five disconnected points, break them up into individual comments.
4.) AVOID GENERALIZATIONS – Do NOT speak in riddles. Words like “he, she, they, it, them” should rarely be used. Spell out “who” using the name, spell out who “they” are at the beginning of every sentence in your paragraph; so that there is clarity as to who you are talking about. Avoid using acronyms.
5.) BLOCK PARAGRAPHS – Do not post huge blocks of text. Think of the reader, and modify your presentation for understanding, not for exclaiming. Do not write to yourself, you are writing to others, so please structure your thoughts so other people can grasp and enjoy. NEVER post massive blocks of text without paragraph breaks. In the current comment system hit the return twice to put two lines between your paragraphs; when the comment posts it will only show on space.
Do not post huge blocks of text
6.) PARAGRAPHS – Should NEVER be longer than two or three sentences taking up three to five standard lines of text. Again, you are writing to be understood, the emphasis should be on the reader comprehending what you are sharing.
Do not post huge blocks of text
7.) SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION – This is not school and we do not demerit for poor spelling, nor do we allow anyone to call others out for the same. However, if your construct is too poorly written the context is lost and important details can be missed. Read the comment carefully before you send it. Proofread it again. Does it make sense?
8.) TIME – Everyone ‘s time is valuable. Many of our discussion threads are 500 to 1,000+ comments long. We try to limit the comments to 500 and then post another related thread, but with some research threads it is challenging to do so because we do not want to break a continuity.
9) CITATIONS – There’s a big difference between an opinion and an assertion of fact. Feel free to provide opinions; however, if you are making an assertion of fact you must attach a citation for review. If you do not have a citation – don’t post; this avoids spreading rumors, gossip and unfounded claims. Also related, do not post links without an explanation of the reason, purpose and content that is behind the link.
10.) THOUSANDS ARE WATCHING – For every person writing a comment, there are easily hundreds of thousands of reading lurkers on every discussion thread. There are thousands of CTH readers and a community reach of well over 15 million/mo. Do not write anything you would not say in your own living room. Do not disparage our conversation with vulgarity, profanity, or any expressions of any “ism”.
11.) MODERATION / FILTERING THE HATE – Because of our honest approach at seeking facts and truth, and openly discussing various analytical theories along the way, we are bombarded by those with ulterior motives which include:
- Intentional efforts to distract
- Intentional diatribes to affix labels to our objectives
- Intentional expressions of rabid hate, vulgarity, and threats.
- Trolling and professional obfuscation.
- Concern Trolling as a tool of distraction and derailing conversation.
- Psy-ops and intentional efforts to diminish fact-finding.
We do our earnest best to stop the agenda-horde at the moderation gates, however sometimes they get through. If you see something untoward say something. When a new comment surfaces that we view is likely presented only to argue, we watch carefully – but we also are not perfect. You can help. Feel free to flag or alert us via email.
12.) MANNERS MATTER – Simple kindnesses and courtesy should always be present in tone and content. When writing, ask yourself before you hit send: does this add value?
13.) NO PERSONAL ATTACKS – Ever. The fastest way to lose commenting privileges is to ridicule, bully or personally attack another person’s opinion or comment. Unfortunately people, often good people, let their passion interfere with good manners and personal judgement. If you cannot be polite or respectful, pause – and – do not comment.
14.) TONE and HONESTY – Often the information and research CTH provides are about challenges we face and/or events that are hidden from larger review. It can be frustrating to see the scale of corruption; however, only you control how that information is absorbed by you. The truth doesn’t care about our feelings. Try to keep an even keel and optimistic disposition.
15.) DEVICES – It is a reality that many people use their phones to browse information and/or comment. Cellular phones and iPads are okay for reading, but also present challenges in commenting. Please make every effort to avoid the run-on issue of text from these devices. Put extra spaces in your paragraphs. Also remember your service provider (ISP) may have filters to limit the websites they permit you to view. It’s not CTH, nine out of ten issues are related to your service provider. This issue is worse in 2020 for obvious reasons.
We are working to build-out enhancements to the current platform that will make phone and tablet users have a better experience while retaining the overall theme.
SUMMARY: The Tree House community has historically accomplished a lot. Through exhaustive research and analysis our accuracy and reputation for truthful fact-finding, regardless of where it leads, is well regarded. Retain that distinction of intellectual armament.
We are The Conservative Tree House, not because of political affiliation, but rather because the word “conservative” expresses our outlook. We would rather be deep, than wide; we would rather be honest, than popular; we avoid semantics in favor of accurately presenting both intention and meaning.
We are bold in our willingness to go into conversational places where others do not, and we are brave enough to stand firm for principles which are time tested.
We would rather advertise our outlook, so the viewer can understand our perspective on a particular subject, than deceptively claim we are something else and deliver an inherently biased view. The entire spectrum of the MSM is based on the latter.
Every reader knows where we stand on any given issue, and our opinions -while they may be unpopular- are based on solid research and analytical insight into the subject matter at hand. This is why our predictive analysis is routinely more accurate than others.
Lastly, this Treehouse is a conversation. Hopefully, just like sitting on a porch with friends. Because the “conversation” is the ends and not the means, this approach inherently means YOU are important; do not diminish yourself:
[Remember] …”However each of us got here, it’s probably a fact that we have the turmoil of those storms in common, perhaps some unease that we could share and always, we also find fresh ground to cover from day to day.
We’re developing valuable relationships as we trust one another in our community in the woods. The chatting in the branches encourages, strengthens and equips for some serious walking.
We think the Treehouse is a good intellectual armory for those who doing long distance walking for the sake of our nation. We hope you’ll think so, too. Find yourself a good branch….or just pull up a rock to the campfire”.
Wolverines faithfully patrol the perimeter.
Humor is good way to avoid fear. Be kind and please be respectful… Manners really do matter… after all, this is a fellowship. We are stewards. The Rebel Alliance is strong.
Throughout history large armies have been defeated through the process of division.
It is not a leap to see the same strategic objectives being deployed against social assemblies, on-line communities, and even religious congregations.
The bond of fellowship is needed more than ever.
Each of us has a different connection to our community. Each of us has a different level of internal strength… such is the nature of living. However, the distance between people is manifestly not a good outcome when combined with the lack of food for the soul.
The control mechanisms of social media was already troublesome; physically distancing from human engagement only worsens the impact. There is no digital or virtual replacement for the true fellowship of humanity on a personal level.
Ultimately it is the currency of human connection that is the true value in our lives.
We have each felt how our positive influence upon the lives of others nourishes our own sense of purpose and fulfillment… Do not lose that. Do not think you can compensate for that through other arbitrary measures; you cannot.
Give the gift of hope and light to those you love by first reminding yourself of the gift that a loving God has given us all. It is too easy in our human sense to forget the biggest gift we have been granted, the gift of life. The ability to live and choose how we engage in the lives of others.
Remind yourself of the kind of purposeful HOPE that would leave a throne to be born into a manger as a baby only to grow into a Man willing to lay down His everything for the wretchedness of humanity.
No politics or false sense of security can overwhelm the message of HOPE that a loving God has provided. No effort of man or human disposition can surmount the greatest love of all. “No power of hell, nor scheme of man” can come close to the purpose of God’s intent and love for you as a unique person qualified to receive that love.
Stand steadfast in faith and the Rebel Alliance will thrive.
The November strike on CTH was an Establishment effort to silence opposition to the ongoing election theft, yes, but it was likely also a test bed for the outright censorship we’re seeing now. Kudos to our host for such a nimble response to these deviltries. Or at least it appeared nimble out here on a branch, but I know a great deal of hard work went into making it appear nimble.
We’re all going to have to sever our monolithic connection to the tech oligarchs and monopolies, eventually. It might be expedient to have government carve up these cartels, but they own Uniparty government, so it will have to happen organically. Our host has taken a huge step here and we’ll have to find ways to act accordingly, as individuals.
Years ago, media was a fragmented collection of cacophony. Starting about 35 years ago, a consolidation began, even before the internet took off. Newspapers and broadcast were bought up, USA Today began publication, and the era of generic McNews began. News stories now began to be editorials in pure form, not news. The cacophonous voices were silenced, one by one, in favor of homogenized McNews. The tech oligarchs have surmounted that generic presentation with a hammerlock on distribution/editing of even the generic McNews.
Where once, an independent cacophonous news org would publish dissenting views in editorials and letters to the editor, and there were strict boundaries between all editorial content and the news they published on the front pages, McNews today publishes only a Pravda-esque wall of approved groupthink, and only sealclapping commentary response is allowed. All else is to be squelched.
Since we have no direct recourse with the tech oligarchs and monopolies, we have to act as our host has, and evolve. I’m not certain what that looks like, but it’d have to include a decoupling with the oligarchs and their systems. We have a brilliant case study right here with our host.
Thank you, Railer for these thoughts. We are extremely fortunate to reap the benefits from all the technical pains (time, money, energy, and heart ache) that Sundance and Team and Treepers underwent to get CTH2.0 up and running.
So, we should ask some important questions:
Input on strategic scenarios and prescribed solutions might do a world of good to get in front of their next play.
I’ve been hanging on to an old Ham radio I got for the Obama era. Was going to sell it but maybe I’d better hang on.
Affirmative.
If WordPress knew this purge was coming, why did they give Sundance like a two week notice so he time to go elsewhere?
Because two weeks is not enough time to pull it off, but for providence.
This is just my personal opinion: I think WordPress probably thought they had covered themselves legally but had hoped to catch CTH unaware, unprepared and/or unable to make a clean total conversion to an independent platform within the 2 week period.
For most amateur website / blogsite hosts who depend *entirely* upon web hosting resources and services, I believe they would NOT have been able to transition their entire historical archive of information, comments, and backup material within that time period.
Also, Sundance noted that, for whatever reasons, his team received decent technical support from the WP technical support staff in assisting with the transfer off WP.com. So it appears that those support people were not as ideologically malicious as their management.
This all started many years before the ’80s…
Exceptionally insightful and very well said railer!
During college I wrote and read the news each hour on local public radio station weekends. My only source for info were two huge teletype printers, United Press International and Associated Press. I was amazed even back then how one could shape and massage the message/tone of stories coming across the wires…
Not much different today, with most naive twenty somethings journalists lapping up the approved daily narrative. Amazes me how programmed and conditioned most are, be very careful listening to main stream news.
But all good Treepers already know this.
I quickly chuckled thinking how visionary Sundance is and maybe that CTH wasn’t the best first pick. I echo many of your thoughts but we must all push forward to avoid being spoonfed group think and as my Psychologist friends says, “Mind F**K”.
There is always a day of reckoning,.. still waiting on the Clinton’s though. We may never see it but we know it’s coming. God Bless us All.
Scribes such as Charlie Reese and Mike Royko are a thing of the past. No longer tolerated.
Almost forty years ago I edited a well-known journal monitoring print and broadcast journalism. Then, according to U.S. law, it was impossible for any national (or international) corporation to buy up the mostly family-owned, local media outlets to create today’s media giants.
Of course, the Whores of Congress cashed in and those regulations were sold off to the highest bidders.
Now, our news and information come to us from above instead of from below.
“In the arms of the Angel may you find some comfort here.”
When a door closes God seems to show us another way. That was the way I looked at the Deplatfoming.
2.0 is so much safer and getting better every day. Thanks Sundance for the enormous amount of blood, sweat, and tears that went into your valiant effort. It has paid off for us beyond measure. As President Trump says, ‘The best is yet to come’.
Sorry Betsy/admin, if I flagged your comment ,didn’t know what the little flag did.
When God closes a door, he opens another one. The problem is the hallway sucks.
Sometimes it does. Just keep moving!
Yep. This blog is much better too because we can edit our posts!!!! I can’t tell you the nightmare errors I used to have to leave and the 2 or 3 “correction” replies I’d have to do just to fix it.
That made me chuckle!!! I’d write something, read it and hit post. As soon as I did that I’d see the error/typo glaring back at me… Its so nice to be able to fix the silly little things.
The traitor Barr-zini not only sabotaged the Russia gate investigation and Hunter’s laptop he allowed the high tech oligarchs run wild. Say prayers for President Trump he’s surrounded like Custer at the Little Big Horn.
I sincerely believe Trump has a better plan than Custer did. I do agree he seems to be surrounded but I believe that was by design. When you go into battle it is best to know who has got your back versus those who will stab you in the back. Trump in fine fashion has been very effective in finding this out. I still believe there is a plan. He would of not put all his eggs in one basket (Pence and Congress) that he wasn’t carrying.
When surrounded in battle, marine corps general chesty puller responded….’we have them right where we want them’
ETCM, I was thinking of that quote and trying to remember who said it. You have a nimbler mind.
The old line from wargaming was “I’m not surrounded, I’m in a target rich environment.”
When there is lots of ‘surface’ traffic, that is exactly what submariners say….lots and lots of targets. Our nickname for surface ships is ‘targets’….in the navy, there are boats and targets. Good times for sure….
We’re Airborne, we are supposed to be surrounded
And let us not forget Abrams’ gem:
“They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.”
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my hopes are:
he releases troves of unredacted information, particularly on russiagate, crossfire hurricane, the special counsel investigation, his impeachment, the contents of weiner’s and biden’s computers, perhaps even seth rich’s, and any false flags possible.
makes some much-needed pardons, certainly including julian assange (to whom trump and his followers owe much of their relatively early understanding of the true nature of hillary clinton) and bradley/chelsea manning.
clearly explains why the one-state solution for palestine/israel is so important for the future of the region, our nation, and the world.
There might not be a way to publish that info. But I agree with you.
President Trump never knew who had his back. Right up to the end new characters came out to expose themselves. He did however find the depths of the swamp and I will love his next term. Welcome back General Flynn.
The president needs to find a way to get a significant ‘data’ dump out to the average american regarding the embarrassing and damning classified material…..which may let us all know what our government has been doing to us…..would really enjoy that….
I am with you on that D.O.! Keeping the faith!
“..Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer..”
POTUS Trump email service has also suspended him. He could go over to proton mail and prob would be solved. Unfortunately, Google can prevent you ever receiving that mail. Everyone get a proton mail account. Just keep gmail as a spam catcher.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com
His email??????????????? This is so over the top outrageous. He is the president of the United States for crying out loud. I cannot even imagine them doing that to the Prime Minister of Italy or the UK or any other country.
They are doing this to further the false narrative that he is unhinged or unfit or whatever their lie of the day is about him.
Indeed. Narrative engineering on steroids to be sure.
I use the American Thinker search and the treepers here as my google,
You are my google.
Question. Is there any Truth that congress had the DNI report on foreign meddling
before they voted to certify a fraudulent election unknowingly exposing themselves to sunlight ?
Interesting. I’ve read that the report was delivered to CONgress just after the electoral certification occurred. I’m not sure that’s true either. I trust no one and nothing until I can vett it myself.
JMHO….I believe nothing until confirmed by multiple reliable sources…and the definition for and of a ‘reliable source’ continues to be muddied….I am thinking you have a handful of sources reliable enough to trust presently of the millions government officials. IMHO you cannot trust ANY politician, intelligence or law enforcement source, including the DOJ / DHS….scary stuff.
Also goes for your local version of child protection agencies. They operate under federal health and human services umbrella. They operate under guilty until proven innocent and there is little to no oversight
Thank you. Praise God.
Good thing I delete facebook and twitter and not miss,
lets take down socialism. Facebook and twitter,
Yep, I deleted my accounts with Twitter, Facebook and Google.
The French elites tried to silence opposition to their greed and corruption, how’d that work demorats “Can you hear the people sing”. Dear Demorats 14 percent of Americans self identify as progressives, spit, when the rest of you fail to fall inline and spout their nonsensical prattle you will be censored as well don’t expect us to have your backs.
I am French , we are addicted to socialism ,we have the mess we deserve .
The answer for you is the answer for all of us. We MUST repent as a culture, not only for sins of the flesh but for child sacrifice and condemning mothers to go through life knowing that they murdered their child.
Just watch how things magically start to turn around if we do that.
(By the way, do I have to hit enter twice to get decent paragraph breaks? Or is there some other way?)
We must repent for all murder: the babies of course but also and the murder in unGodly wars including sanctions that don’t hurt the leaders but starve and kill the poor and civillian population. Like Venezuela where most of the population is Christan, they don’t even allow abortion there, it’s illegal. Our bombs killed many Christians in Syria. This the LORD will not tolerate. And then there is the murder in our streets a lot of it goes unpunished and punishment for murder gets less and less with every generation.
C’est vraiment triste, pour nous tous.
So thankful for you SD and the whole gang.
We will find a way around their monopolistic moats. They are pulling up the bridges but can not hide from the truth.
Thank God I never had a twitter account. Joined facebook years ago but have never used it. Unfortunately, we as a whole have become very dependent on the internet and computers for communication whereas our fathers, mothers and grandparents wrote letters to communicate. It was slower but much more private and not subject to the whims of the censors.
Letters are even beginning to be unsafe these days!
Hi all. Haven’t posted here for a while. The Alabama Senate fiasco burned me out lol. Nice to see some familiar faces.
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Thank you for the ability to communicate. They are making their move, taking away our ability to gather. It’s absolutely, unbelievable, if these atrocities against the constitution stand now, buckle up, because much, much worse is coming…..resist now.
Soon enough action will be necessary I’m afraid…present scenario should scare us all to our core. Swiping the 2nd amendment is right around the corner, trust me on that one. I can’t find additional ammo anywhere….
Same, can’t even find reloading equipment anymore. Fortunately, I thought ahead, hoping for the best but being old and wise, prepared for the worst. ?
Reading SD’s comments and the Rules of Posting…then the exhortation to Hope….Steadfast….and scrolled to the overwhelming photo of a RALLY…….WHOA!…..GOOSEBUMPS!
This lurker of years is rolling a rock to the campfire
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I understand. Watch our “P’s” and “Q’s” as they say. Does that date me?
Unfortunately the left doesn’t understand irony and sarcasm or innuendo. Good example is PDJT’s comment about maybe the Russians could help find HRC’s emails. No matter what is said it is twisted and distorted by their illogical brains.
I have never used any social media and don’t plan to start. Sundance needs to drop any big tech links that censor people. Some may say they need it, but what will happen if in the middle of some important use, you are dropped, canceled, censored, or squated(my term for twitter ban) and now you have to find another way? Might as well get on it now so it can’t happen.
Let’s say you have a business that ships a lot and the shipping company is losing your packages or missing delivery’s. Would you continue to support them? How about if America had one source of oil and really needed it, but that source is Iran? What if your only small town grocery store refused to allow any Trump clothing in the store? It’s time, right now, to pressure all conservative voices and organizations to stop supporting companies that hate us and are trying to destroy us.
CTH. Please drop the links to censoring companies.
A few years ago a dear neighbor asked me for a recommendation on where to go for good national news. She was dismayed at the disrespect shown our President by NPR. Now whenever we talk, she thanks me for referring her to the Conservative Treehouse. Credit goes to Sundance, Menagerie and the admins for crating such a good resource.
Does anyone know if you can access Parker from DuckDuckGo.
Goto parler.com no app needed
The government just took down the President of the United States. You and your family will be next in line. History shows the jewish people first lost there business. Then there rights to speak and be part of there country of Germany.Then it spread to other countries where Jewish citizens resided. Last they rounded them up, took all there possessions they had on their backs. Lined them up fathers, mothers and kids. Last but not least they executed them. If you think this could not happen in United States? The first four on this list have. People are evil since the start of time. This play has been well documented throughout history.
Yes, this is very true. It comes in stages and those stages you mentioned are already underway. Towards the end it could go something like this:
For example, REPARATIONS they would actually inform some people “we notice you live in a 4-bedroom home and you only have 2 people living there. We feel this is too much living space for only 2 people and you have no children. We have these nice compact “apartments” for you to move to and we will be moving in a family of 8 from the inner city that has been a victim of institutional racism.” If you object you’re racist and a hater and then they arrest you for that and take your home anyway!
They also did a lot of what the Nazi did but in the Soviet Union, one day a teacher is told she is “teaching wrong” (teaching kids to think for themselves and question things that are not right). Then a few months later she gets a knock at the door at midnight dragged out of bed to be interrogated then is sent in the same clothes she’s got on to the gulag in Siberia dropped off in the snow in 45 degree below zero weather where she is sentenced to 10 years, most died way before their sentence.
Gulag Americo.
“their… their… their…” lol
And we know that those who will not read or learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We are indeed in very dark, evil times.
GOP Rep Scalise just stuck a dagger in Trump’s back….basically hung the riot around Trump’s neck. Guys, the only time I have ever been this ashamed and disturbed by our elected officials was Benghazi attacks. Our government is the epitomy of cowardice…just DISGUSTING!
And they even shot him, for Pete’s sake. Well, Trump has been a terrific instrument for separating the sheep from the goats. Good to know.
Everyone is showing their true colors. All the masks are off.
ETCM, et tu Scalise. Hopefully, the people of Louisiana will deal with him. He’s up for reelection in 2022.
The fact of the matter is no matter what side a person is on if you look at this thing objectively there is one person responsible: THE HEAD OF SECURITY FOR THE CAPITOL: Steven A. Sund was sworn in as the tenth Chief of Police in June 2019.
I understand the protestors did what they did so they are ultimately responsible for their actions; but that is why there was supposed to be security that day and instead he told his security officers to go home at 10am and didn’t even call them back in after the commotion started.
HEAD OF THE CAPITOL POLICE = Steven A. Sund was sworn in as the tenth Chief of Police in June 2019.
It is NOT the responsibility of the president who assumed the capitol would be well guarded as it normally is and assumed it would be extra secure due to the rally that day.
Same thing they did at the Chicago campaign rally in 2016. Swamp blamed Trump. Cruz and other RINOs joined in. Megyn Kelly who thought she was “all that” joined in. Same. Thing.
At the risk of being off topic, I’d like to ask everyone to take a moment to contact the President through the whitehouse.gov portal and offer a few words of encouragement.
This wealthy man gave up a comfortable lifestyle to become targeted and incessantly harassed for the past five years. He has staying power I can only envy but while most of us are focused on our personal misery of the coming circumstances we shouldn’t forget this man and what he has done for us.
Just did exactly that…*whitehouse.gov/contact*
Amen to that. Will do.
Thank you – very good idea!
I took your advice, went to https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ , and sent him a brief, encouraging message.
Done!
Done!
This is a great idea, Tyrone; I’m sure he’d appreciate it. I did this very same thing several days ago, thanking him and telling him honestly that I will be forever proud to have called him My President. (figured he needed a boost from his true supporters to let him know we are not deserting him … unlike a # of other so-called Republican allies and “friends” who are now knifing him in the back … some are pretty surprising … just goes to show ya).
Gab is got 12 million visitors in 12 hours and is adding 10 new servers today
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com
Gab is constantly under attack and is down or so slow as to be hardly useable. We can not even setup and maintain the protection of one site. 🙁
One, I really like the new flagging feature. Very useful. That being said, the little pop-up message when you scroll over it gets cut off in the middle of a word – “And please don” and it cuts off.
Two, I have a question about Rule #2. What if a comment is originally on topic, but the replies follow an association of ideas, so by the end of the reply thread the topic is not the same as the article (but is relevant to the other replies/original comment)? Is that permitted?
Sundance, your exposure of the beast, and all it’s friends in these last days, has helped me and countless others understand what we’re truly up against . No longer do I wonder what the beast is.
With your hard work, it is as plain as day. Thank you. But most of all, Thank You Lord.
He is indeed a good man in times where the goodness of men is questioned.
Sundance thank you for that timely scripture as my heart and spirit needed that!
I have been introduced to Clouthub.com as an alternative and joined. Lots of conservatives and groups on there…will be testing it out.
Citizen Free Press is still non functional. Demons all…
Citizen Free Press appears to be running well now..
https://www.citizenfreepress.com
I sincerely believe there is more to come. Good but likely painful. One of the last tweets that POTUS got out before being banned mentioned giant voice.
“President Trump tweeted Friday that his supporters “will not be disrespected” and will “have a GIANT VOICE long into the future.” Capital letters puts emphasis on GIANT VOICE. Maybe he was telling us something.
Search Giant Voice and you will find,
“Federal Signal’s mass notification giant voice sirens and speakers are designed for community or industrial facility emergency situations that require mass notification.
The left is in a panic to get him out before the 20th. What could they be afraid of? He has only got 11 days left to go. Something big is going to happen.
Exactly what I was thinking…I believe he is going to release a large amount of very damaging information regarding the demonrats and prior actions by specific individuals in government service. Thus the rush to get him out the door. I am SURE, that is why you now are hearing about usually Trump supportive “GOP” members (Scalise) (Graham) wanting to get him out with the 25th amendment. Their roles will be revealed along with the demonrats. Unfortunately, there is a procedure that is required to be followed to release classified info, he can’t just launch it, he’ll put himself at some risk if he does…….though, at this point, the traitors in our government want him strung up anyway. And anyone that supports him I might add……
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Anyone know what’s happening to Citizen Free Press? They are not online this am. Just hope they haven’t been taken down too. Anyone?
They are migrating to a cloud and are having technical difficulties doing so.
It seems to be taking an extremely long time. Is Kane communicating with anyone??
Maybe some upgrades? Site is quickly resolving now ..
I’m mostly a lurker, but want you to know CTH is appreciated beyond words.
I’m almost scared to post this here, so delete if not appropriate, no hard feelings
From the comment section at Townhall
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This is from an article at the conservative treehouse website, anybody else see a [glaring] problem with it?
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“Two recent features are interconnected. (1) There is now an internal flagging system in the comment section to draw attention to content that is outside guidelines. (2) Admins now have enhanced moderation tools to intercept that content. [emphasis added]
With the enhanced focus of Big Tech to find justification, including in the comment sections of websites, to take down voices of the Rebel Alliance – it is unfortunately critical that we hold strong filters in place for tone and comment content at the moment.” [emphasis added]
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Hint: So they are proud to have circumvented [potential] external censoring by exponentially increasing internal censoring.
Me again: Just figured I’d give a heads up.
Excellent point.
Comments on CTH are very good. But with the big tech purge in play, there is no end to the possible end justifications they would use to obliterate the site. Frankly big tech doesn’t need an excuse they will just shut down sites and move on. It’s called totalitarianism and it is in complete control now. There are no appeals and no one to appeal to. Courts, the intelligence agencies, politicians, DOJ? They cancelled the President of the United States.
Civility is a hallmark of any polite society. Sometimes, civility isn’t well learned and that’s where grandmothers and flagging systems come in. It’s not censoring when someone is reminded of uncivil conduct.
But “civil conduct” has been redefined, as has “polite society”, which now excludes any non-marxist non-wokester.
This is an issue, yes. I’d like it best if we policed ourselves and kept this site above the mire, but there are those who deliberately seek to disrupt, and unfortunately an intervention is required on them. If we all acted right and followed the site guidelines, it won’t be necessary.
I do not wish to speak to Sundance and his crew but I believe the point is that this site will be targeted by very unsavory, evil, malicious characters. They will come here and try to post filth, threats, racists comments and the sort of stuff that will give the censors reason to shut the site down – not that they need reason.
The admins here are going to work to prevent that kind of disruption. At least, that is what I take from the measures as SD outlined them.
That’s nothing but gossip.
Shouldn’t even repost it.
There’s absolutely ZERO reason for us to know that someone is gossiping.
The thing about gossip is that even if we didn’t say it, if we pass it along we are gossiping.
I don’t think you meant to do that but that is exactly what gossip is, passing along what someone said.
Gossiping is not just being the starter of a narrative and a person doesn’t even have to agree with that being said, but gossiping is passing it along too.
Even if it is being done “to inform.” The truth is most gossip IS passed along “to inform.”
CTH is often inundated with actors intent on sowing dissent and discrediting the site. Wise monitoring by the CTH team is key to maintaining what we so treasure here. The flag function merely enables commenters to bring things to the attention of the team, much as we have long done via email when necessary. I would suggest that the commenter you encountered is either overreacting, or, attacking CTH.
I was telling someone about this site yesterday. I told him the comments were thoughtful, intelligent comments without the usual trolls who just comment with filth and negativity. I’m glad it’s goin g stay that way.
FWIW Rumor has it that the internet will be down for at least 24 hours if the good guys take action. Cell phone comm, as well. … So be sure to have your analog comms. Have fresh and extra batteries.
Hamm radio scanners are cheap (if you can find them now). You don’t need licences, or understand hamm protocols. Just listen to the chatter. It will help to know what is happening around you, and in the world.
FMR/GMRS walkie-talkie. Listen to the chatter, and communicate with neighbors, etc.
If you only have Tee Vee, and commercial radio, enjoy the music, but if you must watch or listen, then only believe the opposite of what you hear and none of what you see.
Cite your source please
The thing that people don’t understand is that they think because they voted for a certain candidate they are immune to the consequences of their vote. Doesn’t matter which side you are on. The middle class will be decimated like every other third world country. Your life savings will be stolen. Our dollar will be worthless. Not worth the money it’s printed on.
You think toilet paper and other essentials were hard to find during the Covid experiment. The experiment to see how far we as a free people/nation would bend.
They got the data they needed/Wanted. We are well on our way to becoming Venezuela or any other nation ruled under Socialism/communism.
The only difference between 1930’s Germany is your government knows everything you do. There’s no hiding in Anne Frank’s attic. Your car,phone,computers,
Alexa,Google,
intelligence agencies,credit cards you name it have been tracking your every move and thought.
Then you have the Karen’s that emerged during Covid lockdowns.
We are in a evil period. Biden’s “Dark Winter” is only beginning. our beloved United States is under attack from within and from every other country.
Prepare & Pray ????
The thing about being a Christian, giving your life to Christ, is we know what we signed up for. We know that we will be hated and persecuted, our LORD Jesus Christ told us this. Many of us have been prepared for a time like this for years.
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.”
[John 15:18-21]
Thank you for the good advice.
147 Patriots in Congress!
https://thedonald.win/p/11RhKGvF8G/these-are-147-patriots-who-stood/c/
Many of those on the list are now condemning POTUS. additionally those are the ppl likely to be targeted by dems in Congress or the lawfare group who will “never work again”
SENATE
Thank you for posting that canary row!!!
I copied and pasted it into a separate post for others to make easier to read.
So good to know 147 are not prostitutes of the BROTHEL!
Good to know there are still Americans in Washington. We need to pray for them and encourage them. They are going to be viciously attacked. Thank God my congressman is among them.
Dear conservativetreehouse, As a reader of “1984” twice, and a CTH reader for years, I’ve tried since 2008 to tell my loved ones “They are using 1984 as a playbook!” One by one my family slowly understood that old Mom might just be right.
My point is, that when you were expelled from your previous web host, I was horrified because of what it signified. True to form, they are now following through with a vengeance. So yes, dear CTH, it was Divine Providence that put you in the forefront for all of of your loyal readers. Indeed, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way” (William Cowper).
My husband I just got back from running Saturday errands and we encountered several interesting issues. First he went into the bank as we are preparing for various scenarios which may present themselves and thought having cash available would be prudent. While in line, a gentleman struck up a conversation noting the price of ammo. We live in a very RED community so most have similar mindsets. Needless. to say , the prices have kept rising. Secondly, everyone was taking out cash. He stated he and his son where there to get cash as well. This fellla also advised my husband to watch for small signs going up around the county with info about meet ups so communication can begin to take place between like minded people.
on the way home, we stopped by out friendly local gun shops and the owners in each stated they attemted to order ammo this morning and the orders were not accepted. They were not told when they could place orders again. They were busy.
We then stopped for lunch out, and folks were talking about their disgust with the tech shutdowns of social media.
i was kinda pleased when I got home because we do have acommunity of like minded people who are preparing to look out for each other. May it remain so.
After reading so many comments the one common thread I see is,… Hope/Faith. Clearly treepers are not quitters! Although I highly recommend quitting Twitter, it’s very empowering. Stickin’ it to the man. I’m hoping this is the big reset and that behind the scenes Trump has one more miracle up his sleeve, you can’t silence a lion and his roar will be louder for having been toyed with. I have to believe Trump didn’t write an EO for election fraud based on whim and that at bare minimum he’s going to expose some shady stuff. Until then praying for our nation as it’s really hurting and praying others see that supporting companies who support Communism is not a path forward. Never accept less than you deserve.
When did America stop killing Communists? When did America start voting for Communists?
Who are “Rebel Alliance” ?
Are they truly a “friend”, or a convenient platform, mandating conformity ?
World Press’ actions befuddled me, and the Big Tech entities behavior, magnified the confusion !
Seeing policy trumping profit, is unnatural, and is difficult to understand.
The Internet has “super highways”.
Who determines the “policing” of those highways ?
Dirty cops…may do dastardly things !
I prefer “back roads” maybe rutted and washboard, and slow to travel, at times, but which offer free ingress, egress and mobility !
AND few cops, if any !
I am on the outside looking in, being quite some thousands of kilometers off the Florida east coast. I’ll do what I can if various nets go down because I can assure you ours will not go down. I don’t do any ‘social media’ so that’s a moot point, but there is always a way to get informations out and in.
This idea came to me while reading comments on the “big tech purge” and, I want to throw it out for discussion. First a question that will, more than likely not have an answer and that would be, how many of the 80,000,00 to 100,000,000 Trump supporters have Amazon Prime ? While I subscribe to Prime I seldom use it and plan to cancel it in the near future. As most know with Prime you able to return certain purchases for free, subject to limitations. What would happen if, suddenly millions of Prime customers started buying and then returning items to Amazon ? What would be the cost or loss in processing the returned items, the loss in the cost of shipping boxes or envelopes, labels, packing tape, packing materials? I do not know how Amazon processes returns and this buy & return idea may be a complete waste of time however, I would like the opinions of my fellow treppers. Thanks for your input and suggestions.
If it is a product being sold by Zon for a member, for instance I am an author and Zon sells my books, the return is charged back to the seller if possible along with any costs of the return (costs being to the best of my knowledge but I will look it up and see of The Zon will give a straight answer). In other words, if you return one of my hard copy books, it is charged back to me, not Zon, so you may instead of hurting Zon hurt private members of Zon. This being said, I’ve never had a hard copy book returned although authors I know have had returns and been charged back for them.
Amazon banned a book forgoing against COVID narrative at the beginning of June last year. Banned another book in October for same reason. Also banned a book in August 2020 that described the dangers of homosexuality. This are just the first three from an internet search with the terms “Amazon bans book”
Interesting comment and theory… probably cause considerable confusion, but Amazon Prime is pretty big, and it would take most of the 80-100 million to have a real effect.
So we now see that Amazon is kicking Parley off if it’s web hosting platform. Let’s say 10% of the “Rebel Alliance” orders 2,3 or 4 small cost items each week. If my non common core math is correct, Amazon is looking at the potential delivery and return of almost 40,000,000 items each week. Now I am the first to admit this may not work as 40,000,000 may be a drop in the bucket compared to their total daily products sold & shipped. The free return policy is limited I believe to items 50 lbs or less & have been sold & fulfilled by Amazon. What I do know is Amazon is not our friend. I’m trying to think outside the box and appreciate your comments.
Capitol Police Chief is responsible for the entire fiasco
and above him is the politician that gave him the order to keep security lax that day.
DOES ANYONE KNOW HIS BOSSES NAME?
Steven A. Sund was sworn in as the tenth Chief of Police in June 2019 but I’m not sure if he was the one that told his men to go home at 10am or if it was someone who works under him. In any case he is responsible.
WHO CALLED HIM AND TOLD HIM TO GO LAX THAT DAY?
Is the following of interest to fellow Treepers? QubeOS linux
I don’t think that I am savvy enough to use this, though I am presently reading about it on the website.
I am still not getting CTH’s daily updates by email. Anything I did wrong? How do I get back on the emails to me??
Thank you.
The daily update service is still being worked on by CTH…Email notification currently works only for the comment section – – click the “Subscribe arrow” which is above the “Join the discussion” box (choose the type of notification from the drop down box and fill in your email address).
Note; I recommend clicking the “new replies to my comments” before you send in a comment … be aware: if you click “new follow up comments” you may get an email for every comment posted to the article – you may get 100’s of them…
It’s not really storming the capital if the guards open the barricades and escort you in, is it?
Don’t know if this has been offered before. The last 72 hours have been something I did not think I would ever see. The censorship, de-platforming, Pelosi attempting to usurp Presidential power by speaking directly to the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, the lies about what actually happened on the 6th, etc. It seems that this may simply be the usual over reaching by the Swamp, but perhaps another scenario is possible. They may be trying to provoke a small violent reaction(s) which they believe they will be able to quash quickly to frighten further dissenters.
Stay frosty. Don’t play into their hands. As dark as the future may be there is but one certainty…the future is uncertain. The Swamp creatures believe that they have won finally and decisively. Remember, these creatures (Pelosi, Schumer, and the countless other “elites”) have never had to face true adversity. They’ve never had to make a payroll, seek a job, take a real risk. They trust that the safety net that has protected them all their lives will never fail.
Be observant and steadfast in our beliefs. Never give them what they want.
I suppose we all need to read the signals carefully. I thought her reaching out was an odd thing to do and then we hear of all the media closures. Skirmish one to them. we all need to wise up a bit more.
I do worry for our businesses now. The past four years have seen such tremendous growth and now I sense some clients pulling back.
You wrote, “The last 72 hours have been something I did not think I would ever see.”
I don’t disagree if we were still back in November 2016.
That said, for the past 4 years, those on the left in pretty much all of their forms and institutions have not been subtle with respect to their intentions. During that time they have gotten progressively more and more willing (and able?) to censor anyone who opposes them (even people who are on their own side sometimes).
This is what the totalitarians have done for centuries…silence dissent.
I applaud Sundance and the team for the move to the new platform.
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“… progressively more and more willing … to censor anyone who opposes them …”
censor, schmensor
they’re willing to dox you, get you fired from your job, make you lose your business, show up at your house with a mob, beat hell out of you if you get caught in one of their brown-shirt gauntlets, and on and on
yeah, I get that censoring is a bad thing but it many respects it’s close to the least of the calamities they’re prepared to crush us with
just sayin’