Adam Townsend had a great podcast interview with journalist Lee Smith last week, and for the first time Smith eloquently hit on something CTH has discussed for several years.
The “elites” writ large are so open in their current proclamations of being beyond reach, because they want us to know their power removes them from any accountability.
Often we see people ask ‘why are they so openly admitting to their wrongdoing’? Within the answer I have written frequently ‘they simply do not care’…
It is not a sense of boundless hypocrisy that drives them to showcase their disconnect, the disconnect is purposefully part of the ideological advancement of their goal. FIRST, the segment, WATCH:
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The question “do the elites care if we know” is accurately answered by “they want people to know.” The outlook that elites are hypocritical is the wrong nuance to what is visible. Their openness about their untouchable constructs is part of their purpose.
“Elitism” in its most raw and brutal display is a system of people who are beyond reproach according to their own outlook. They must not be questioned; they are in ultimate control of society, outcomes or (fill_in_the_blank) as an extension of their self-proclaimed magnanimity. Essentially they are projecting their position inside a club and all those not in the club are outsiders who do not get to provide input or judgement on the club rules.
This might sound like a DUH statement from the literal definition of “elitism”; however, it must be accepted this outlook is one of consumption, not determination. They believe they represent the ‘greater good’ and by extension control moral authority. Thus, within their mind, they are above reproach. The visible outcome is they operate outside the systems they push upon others who are not in the club.
Elites do not have to wear masks (Pelosi hair salon); or elites do not have to abide by group and social distance rules (Newsom at restaurant party); or elites do not have to concern themselves for carbon emissions (Kerry private airline travel); or elites do not have to worry about the justice system (Clinton emails, Comey FBI lies), etc.
This is NOT hypocrisy, this is a fundamental part of creating a classist society.
Those within the club, in this example the DC club, want those outside the club to accept there are two systems of rights and responsibilities. The club members have all powerful rights and no responsibilities for consequences; the non club members have lesser rights and full responsibility for consequences. This is the cornerstone of a tiered or classist society outlook.
“Rules for thee and not for me” is more than a catch phrase; it is an actual worldview with a history in political control. They are not hypocrites, they are living out their creed.
The outlook gained popularity going all the way back to the formation of the Fabian Socialist society. You might remember George Bernard Shaw saying “at a certain point those [outside the club] will have to justify their existence.” Shaw was advocating for a genetic cleansing of those undeserving people who take more from society more than they provide in value.
This Fabian Socialist outlook is the most extreme form of “elitism”, the actual extermination of undesirables, but it is essentially along the same continuum as believing their are two sets of rules depending on your place in the hierarchy of society.
This outlook has been modernized to include the latest industry of Big Tech. Those who control technocracy have merged with those who control the politics of society. The outcome is elites deciding which voices are allowed to participate in the national conversation, and which voices must be ostracized because they are not compliant to the elitist worldview.
It is critical, actually beyond critical, that people start to accept what they are witnessing is not some misplaced system created by bad actors. Those bad actors are actually elites who benefit from numbing society to the sheer audacity of their ideology.
Again, we return to this image….
…. And I pray that people will pause, stand back and contemplate just what follows the natural conclusion of events if these ideological “elites” are not confronted. That image is not far away from where we are today.
Those who understand big picture dynamics are still comfortable sticking their heads in the sand about “motive”. Most people are still clinging to actual beliefs around a principle of ‘rule of law’ that applies to National Leadership.
You’d better change that thinking quickly – or you’ll be asking ‘what happened’ far too late.
There seems to be a willful blindness on the part of the American people, a chosen refusal to acknowledge the implications of the unAmerican and unConstititional behaviors, actions and outcomes we are being served on a daily basis.
It can no longer be presumed to be a matter of “I can’t see what’s happening” because a whole lot of normal Americans really are clean and articulate.
“I can’t see it” just doesn’t cut it.
Bullsh!t! You can see it, you are just choosing to reconcile the irreconcilable because it is more comforting to ignore the truth of it. You are scared:
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- You are scared of being labeled
- You are scared of being belittled
- You are scared of being Alinsky’d.
- You are scared of being targeted.
- You are scared because you have never been here before.
- You are scared of being right.
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Just be honest. Avoidance has become your survival mechanism.
It’s more along the lines of “I see what’s happening, but it’s scary and complicated and confusing, and if I admit that I see it, I will become responsible in a way that I am not if I keep pretending I can’t see it or hear it or maybe I don’t understand it.”
Our Republic has become Kitty Genovese screaming in the darkness, being assaulted repeatedly and viciously, while onlookers sitting in the darkness startle onto their feet–some trying to reach for phones or light switches while others try to hush them, accusing them of exaggerated reactions.
The screams reach some homes where the residents look nervously and silently at one another, really hoping that someone else will call the cops, because obviously something really bad is happening out there.
Now, like then, you, like those people in New York, look around and say well someone is going to do something about this usurpation of power and unconstitutional action. So you pull the comfy blankies of historical public leadership reference over your head, cover your ears, block out the sights and the sounds, and do nothing.
You don’t even accept the fact a woman, Lady Liberty, our republic, is being repeatedly stabbed, carved up and her flesh torn from her body. She is bleeding on your grass and her bloody hand prints are on your trees and sidewalks. You know it, yet you lie there.
Doing what? Really? If not you,….. WHO? Who is “them”?
Remember the visual illusions on big cards, (Rorschach tests) just black and white splotches that required you to “stare just right”– and when you did, you could see the ink-drawn cow in a snow drift? That’s the one we grew up with–yours might have had palm trees in it or something else. But you stared hard, knowing that eventually you would see a clear picture —ah! There it is! For just a minute, but you saw it there–for just a minute.
How many are sitting in the midst of this implosion still believing that if they stare hard enough at the national mess they will still see a Constitutional government and a Representative Republic?
Well, stare as long as you want. The details of a Constitutional Representative Republic will no longer come into focus because it turns out that the Republic was apparently stitched together with dissolvable thread like the surgeons use.
Why don’t we dare say what is so? Are we a bit afraid that if we give up the willful blindness we will perhaps start screaming and not be able to stop? Do we think we have so little courage? Do we really believe that we have no resources to bring to the battle? Or nothing more to contribute to the turning of the battle?
There are patriots who some might say resemble one of those slightly mad orchestra conductors who keep yelling, “More trumpet! More TRUMPET!” Many of you are such slightly mad orchestra leaders. Don’t be alarmed by some of the strange looks you are getting these days.
“We Need More Trumpets !”
The elites in the Intelligence and Justice Departments used to try to try to appear neutral. Quite telling that now they too don’t care what we think about their unconstitutional actions.
it was spontaneous I can tell you…this level of elite beyond your realm tier system is directly attributed to real power they have accumulated…through fraud.
that what all of these elements of the deep state have in common..it did not happen over night.
it took decades…and then, the tipping point when there are no good men left to do anything in the face of evil.
we passed into this new institutional corruption years ago, but it was limited in many ways ..because there were still a few good people left in positions of power to expose it.
that has changed. Now, there is more fear than doing the right thing.
we can take FBI as a mini example…where were any of the so called good law enforcement officers who stepped forward ?
even if there are some, none would dare doing it…who would listen? The risk is that not only would nothing get done about it..but they would be persecuted for defecting ..for telling the truth..for exposing corruption.
so there are probably many people within “government” who are good and normal law abiding patriots..but they are scared stiff…and just don’t know how to do anything that would accomplish anything other than ruin their own lives and those that matter the most about them.
BUT WE KNOW…and WE ARE NOT EMPLOYEES…WE ARE NOT BEHOLDEN TO THE ELITES.
WE ARE THE WHITE HORSES THAT ARE COMING TO SAVE THIS NATION.
as we always have been…just slightly asleep for years decades assuming someone else was taking care of business.
the GIANT HAS AWAKEN.
the gap narrows.
stage 3 advances.
stay frosty.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
What’s more disturbing is the sense of entitlement and delusional perception of superiority is found in the lowest level agent, analyst, paralegal in these agencies now.
That’s how everyone who works for the secret police typically feels.
Yes, I KNOW. When asked for information, and told them to bring a warrant, they showed up with armed agents, and of course I had the choices of dyeing or surrender. Guess what choice I took.? This is how they will get our guns. ONE BY ONE. Now that I know how they operate, I no longer have any fear. Dear Lord, forgive me ahead of time for disobedience of one of your commandments that You gave to Moses, Amen.
They proved during the Trump Administration that they are above the law and can do whatever they want with no consequences.
Especially to an elected representative of the despised PEOPLE. Amazing that these wealthy, privileged humans look at the rest of us as “useless”, hilarious, really. Money does not make you a better human being. It just makes it easier for you to buy power to bully.
Civil disobedience needs to make a big comeback.
Debate, petitioning and commonsense seem to have run into walls as the madness on various levels continues.It runs counter to the conservative mindset – but considering our options – it’s a valid step on the way to other means of resistance and it’s scalable, specific and the more the merrier.
We need to put Traitor Joe’s out of business. Stone cold out of business. Period.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke
When people have had enough.?442
No, they don’t hold all power and control. My God does. That’s how I live day-by-day.
We good?
We are good Gunner.
Definitely!
You bet.
Time to decide what you are prepared to do. Depend on no one else to take action. When will we be stronger?
True Monticello.
Sometimes it starts with something as simple as refusing to wear a mask to the store.
I know we will get a dozen posts from treepers “explaining” to us as to why they must wear one and they will all sound reasonable.
But some times it all starts with some one like Rosa Parks saying she will not give her bus seat up to a white man.
That is all it takes, one Rosa Parks and off we go.
At work I wear it….but outside of there forget it. And if they tell me to….I leave. Time to vote with your feet…and wallets….
I do the same, leave. There are plenty of stores that do not abuse customers. I’m surprised that no minimum wage worker patrolling the entrance of a store for people without a mask on and confronting them hasn’t been injured. You stop me from purchasing groceries for my family YOU will have a problem.
what are you gonna do steal when they won’t ring up your groceries. keyboard warrior
Yes.
My grandfather, a WWI vet, said this to my Mom when discussing the Depression. “I will ask a man for work. If he says no. I will take the food my family needs.” Take. The. Food. Get it? Got it? Good.
the dude at Walmart tasked with monitoring the door for masks/no masks had his below his nose so mine came off!
Actually, I know someone who lost her job because she refused to wear a mask. So, why can’t you do that?
Some jobs have you “wear” your mask….hint hint…
In my town (California) I do not wear a mask. I guess they are more lenient here because there are only a few stores who will not let me shop. Which is fine with me because they are not getting any of my money.
I talk to the employees who do have to wear masks and almost everyone of them say their job requires masks and they know it is all about Communist control. This pleasantly surprises me because I didn’t pre-judge they would see it that way.
I live in Montana and our new Republican governor just got rid of them. Bye-Bye you stupid pieces if cloth that don’t work and are a symbol of slavery.
They get government money to enforce this tyranny. They don’t care about your direct dollars when you can be taxed and given your money to oppress you.
“Diabolical narcissism” as Ann Barnhardt calls it.
Exactly! And whether they acknowledge it or not, they are serving Satan, the original narcissist.
Excellent essay. Thank you.
It’s kind of simple, in a way, Almost every society known to man has had a class system. The American experiment was the aberration. If we want it back, we may at some point have to take it by force.
I’ve listened to some of the commenters here saying things such as “you’re a fool if you join the military” and similar. Well I disagree. More of us need to be in the military. That is why they are looking to purge “extremists” now. When push comes to shove… our children will not fire on their families and homes. They are who I want armed.
Why do I think so? General Robert E. Lee, one of our greatest generals and Lincoln’s first choice to lead the fight against the states that seceded, said:
“With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the Army, and save in defense of my native State, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword.”
General Lee was no slave owner. Nor did he fight for the South for political reasons. The real history, perhaps more than anything else, is why the leftists want him destroyed. And by the way, it is the same for most. In combat, soldiers fight for each other first. To the extent there is a secondary reason, it occurs in the defense of home and family.
Speaking of the militia members referred to in the prefatory clause of the 2nd Amendment, Alexander Hamilton said,
“Where, in the name of common sense, are our fears to end, if we may not trust our sons, our brothers, our neighbor’s, our fellow citizens?”
(The Federalist 29)
Outstanding essay by Sundance & an outstanding comment by you O.H. Counsel !
It’s definitely in your face, in your place behavior. They dare us to challenge them. That’s why the are tracing hundreds of people to the DC rally and charging them in DC. They are saying we will destroy you if you complain too loudly.
Or if you even dare to complain?
”Their openness about their untouchable constructs is part of their purpose.”
… this applies to the election hijac. Yep! What can you do about it? Well… you may always go to a court… even the SC… see what happens! … well… you may hope the GOP will rise to the challenge… yeah! … right! … keep hoping!
We’re just a hop, skip, and a jump away from Soylent Green. And the elites are pushing us in that direction.
This hurts, but I’m agreeing.
“The scoops are on their way”
Sundance is absolutely correct!!! They have taken away our vote and our rights! We can’t even peacefully protest in Washington because they locked it up! our legislators ignore us. I think we need to organize boycotts of big businesses on an enormous scale! Hurting them in the pocketbook is the only way they
will hear us. The Dems and Republicans need to feel the disdain of the American people. loud and clear! Im so disgusted by the Washington elites and so disappointed in our military leaders. They have openly betrayed us and don’t care!
NO…..let me be as clear as I possibly can be:
peaceful “civil disobedience” in Washington DC is PRECISELY what we should be doing.
the most powerful acts of defiance against a corrupt state is to establish street level protests IN AND AT THE CENTER OF THE CORRUPT STATE.
It must be relentless and be coordinated and it must happen often.
WE CAN PEACEFULLY PROTEST IN WASHINGTON DC.
DO NOT ALLOW WHAT HAPPED WITH THE RIOT AND THE NARRATIVE MANUFACTURED AS SOME PERCEIVED BARRIER.
THE MORE WE ACT< THE MORE PRESSURE WE ASSERT, THE MORE EXPOSURE WE HAVE ABOUT OUR CLAIMS< GRIEVANCS…AND DEMANDS.
We MUST DEFY the fraud. We must expose it by putting ourselves our selves ON THE FRONT.
There can be no backing down.
the line was drawn..We KNOW where they are weak..They have made it clear.
they do not want protesters demonstrating in DC>
SO THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
this is how a revolution works.
and yes, you can do this.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Yes! It looks like a Superman prison, so should be maintained as one. Move the seat of governance to another location and keep them in their prison.
I would love to see those gates welded shut.
Amass OUTSIDE of DC? Surround it?
Thank you.
No need to go to DC, when your own backyard is in disarray.
What are the primary concerns of your local school board and city council? What do their policies say? Which special interest groups are trying to push their agendas on them? These boards are non partisan, but if you attend meetings or at least read the minutes, you can get an idea which ones are conservative or not. Seek those out that are, and ask what you can do to help them.
Show up at the meetings and ask the uncomfortable questions. You don’t need a large group, just stand on your own. One person can make a difference……see Ms Green (R) GA.
pocketbook is powerful
They have not taken our vote as we can reclaim it, one state at a time. They cannot take our rights as they are inalienable. Stop whining. Fight back from the precinct level. It is not that hard to take over the Republican party.. 200,000 of 400,000 precinct level Republican committeemen position are open. Take them and we take control and can remake the Republican party.
these numbers you are writing about. I encourage you to develop this. I really don’t think many people here understand it. Just use one example. I can guarantee people WILL take action, but we can’t just assume they know all of the options and the details.
It’s important to understand many law abiding citizens in this country are feeling a sense of hopelessness…It’s like a desert for many and they WANT to do something about that, but really don’t have a path …so we all need to do a show and tell. Be specific if you can.
In my state for instance, yes, there are many party committee positions vacant at this time. But most of them are volunteer slots. not actionable power slots…but many are feeling not to comfortable getting involved with GOP memberships…And I don’t blame them. at all.
But there are opportunities to hack them and get directly involved.
if you can present an example…that would be more helpful…elaborate please.
Awesome article. 100 percent truth.
Was just saying this to somone yesterday.
Then agin this morning.
Yes, people are really seeing what is going on and realizing if we wait to act, it’ll be too late.
“They are not hypocrites, they are living out their creed”. 100%. Pointing out the hypocrisy, the double standard is a waste of time. Everyone know, everyone sees it and it doesn’t move the needle. Time for us to start living our creed.
We need a great plan and a great leader. We need these fast. Dear God help us.
You answered your own question.
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Magatrump, stand up and be the leader. That goes for everyone.
Yes- an army of 100 million needs a great leader and we all know who that is. Hoping and praying that he comes back to the field soon.
Trump never left. Events are evolving in the manner they have to evolve in order to be effective. It is essential the American people; Hear, See and Feel. The past 4-years has been the “Hearing”.
Since the fraudulent election to the present has been and is being the Seeing phase. The impeachment trial has given the people the opportunity to See a part of the corruption. McConnell’s speech gave people a chance to hear and see first-hand the disconnect between the Politician class and the people.
Here are a couple of articles shared with me.
Do believe that the Democrats are not looking out for America or Americans. Eventually even those that are supporting the Democratic regime will be screwed.
Biden Takes ‘Death to America’ Terrorists Off Terror List, Replaces Them With Republicans
https://disq.us/t/3ut581g
Principal of NY School Demands Parents Become “White Traitors” – https://summit.news/2021/02/15/principal-of-ny-school-demands-parents-become-white-traitors/
You know who else had Master Races, inferior races and detailed racial grading systems?
But at least the cattle cars er trains ran on time.
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I refuse to understand, and must ask lots of questions and followup questions, what is “whiteness”, what is a “Black” (capitalized), etc. The only good response to delusional statements, gibberish and stupidity is to politely and interestedly — and convincingly — keep asking questions and failing to comprehend.
I keep wondering how much farther these crackpot schools need to go before parents finally give up and take their kids out.
Every year there are more and more parents who are a product of “these crackpot schools.”
We’re into second and third generation.
There is, ultimately, only one way to deal wit these people. We had better be ready to make the same choices as those we so admire from the past.
Monsters can not be reasoned with. We know that much.
Psychopathy exists in 1% of the population. They lie compulsively and deny the truth even when confronted with it. They sometimes have staring, ‘shark” or “goat” eyes. This is called the “predatory stare.” Two examples are Don Lemon and Andrew Cuomo. I don’t usually diagnose people I haven’t met, but when you’ve been in the field long enough, you can tag it quickly.
“Monsters can not be reasoned with” = pyschopaths. Psychopaths ride into town on the backs of apaths (apathetic people) and target empaths (normal, feeling-ful people). This is what we see in D.C. A toxic flocking of psychopaths in this historical period we are in.
The wisdom of mental health care is: get away from psychopaths. You cannot change them. Their brains work differently than the other 99%. What Sundance says about not denying what is happening is true.
Unfortunately, the rest of us can’t really climb into the minds of psychopaths. If we could, we would be psychopaths. They are that chillingly void of empathy. They are low in empathy, low in frustration tolerance, and high in risk-taking behavior. They are the predators among us, hiding in plain sight.
These differences are biological and neurological brain differences. All animals have predators. We have ours. They look just like us but aren’t us.
IMO, we can only get away from them by leaving them and taking as much of the country as we can with us. Engaging with them is actually damaging up to and including loss of life for the other 99%. I’ve seen it in my work and it is traumatizing to witness as I have.
They need us. We don’t need them. We don’t need D.C, We don’t need to send people to D.C. We need to send our representatives to a new Capitol, starting really soon.
Agree. The country is gone. Time to think about how to salvage what is left of Western Civ. Redraw the country in new states with similar values and interests, no more rule of entire large states by communist loaded urban centers. Western NY and Northern and western PA combine and create a new state. The same in Calif., Washington state and Oregon. Secede, decline to participate, patronize businesses that support conservatives, etc. How does Afghanistan keep kicking out “superpowers”?? They don’t directly confront a huge army directly. Are the self appointed elites targeting and threatening family members? Why weren’t we at polling places in signif numbers to deter the blatant shipping in of votes? Why are we so trusting?
Spot-on diagnosis…
Yup! I’ve been saying this relentlessly (and probably annoyingly) for a while now. All this talk about a third party and voting people out and how we’ll get ’em next time is foolish.
When I was a kid, my mother used to say “they’re all possessed.” I simply didn’t see how that many people could be possessed, and I dismissed it.
Then I got older and met some… people, and my spiritual senses woke up more. Now I not only see she was right – the ones that aren’t straight-up possessed are driven – but am flabbergasted at how much more she didn’t mention.
I don’t know if anyone here is familiar with Perelandra, the second book in C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy. For those who do not know, the main character is in locked in battle with a demon, a very specific demon, who possesses a man – and after the man dies, continues to animate his body. In reading Perelandra, I “met” that demon (which was just about as much fun as it sounds.) The thing is, I can now recognize him, or his class, or whatever it is.
Several of the ‘elites’ are possessed (animated?) by that particular [class of] demon. Hillary Clinton is the most prominent example – that one is blatantly obvious. Possibly Schumer, possibly Finestein – not sure about those two. A couple more I can’t bring to mind at the moment.
Pence and McCarthy have the same [kind of] demon riding them; not the reanimation one: I don’t “know” them “personally” but they look the same.
Interestingly, I don’t see one on AOC. I think she really might just be dumb as a box of rocks. Tlaib has the same one lurking in her eyes that the jihadists do.
When looked at in the spiritual realm, Trump blazes with light. Melania is less brilliant but complementary to him. Ivanka has traces of the same light (I’ve never really looked at the sons.) Jared is… unclear. But Donald John Trump (mighty warrior, gift of God, winner) blazes.
Found in the bin…. 🙁
Thanks for fishing me out! Guess I should keep my comments confined to the physical…
AOC, a hired actress, evinces more of the traits of the mythological Sirens, they lure men (and women, when simply looking at the world of ideology) to their doom. Dumb as a box rocks, great description. If one were to look at symbolism from the Greek and Roman type myths.
AOC seems to be the kind of pitiful creature that is you stroke their ego they will do anything for you.
If you stroke their egos too long they begin to believe the things that are said about them and will turn on their creator in a heartbeat if the praise does not come fast and quick enough and they go looking for another master.
It is a difficult balance keeping fragile creatures like AOC up and running, too much praise and they outgrow their creator, too little and they get crabby and fuss and whine and complain.
They are usually low intelligent, vain and shallow.
The DC Swamp is full of them but she is the worst.
There are millions of Fallen Angels/Demons and they plus their leader hate humanity .
They seek to destroy us.
For God has replaced them with his new creation , Man .
Actually they want Dominion over us (isn’t that the perfect name for the fraudulent voting system), else they have no beings with volition to control. They are eternally jealous of the Father and seek to elevate themselves to His level, which is, of course, impossible. But they have not stopped trying since mankind was created.
And the hero finally discovered it had to be killed. It could not be reasoned with or talked out of what it intended (to corrupt a yet uncorrupted race).
Hey, TC…great that you mention CS Lewis. You may remember this from his God In The Dock: “those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
I haven’t read that one. Thanks for adding it to my reading list.
I play trumpet…
LOL…boy are they scared. Trump won again, he’s hasn’t said a word yet so they don’t know what he’s going to do and DC is still chained up-from the outside.
AS time passes and they screw up, more of their flock will begin to see the reality. One does not have to like Trump to see the reality.
More people were rallying and cheering President Trump today, on President’s Day, than any parading or cheering Joe in Washington. It’s odd that all the BLM racists want to to erase George Washington from our culture, but will gladly celebrate a paid day off….on Washington’s Birthday. Pathetic.
On Youtube there are four times as many people dissing Biden’s speech as liking it. Biden can’t even overcome his own unlikeability let alone compete with President Trump. He’s a fake and a fraud. One cannot live such a lie. It will catch up with him.
It’s called ignorance. It’s the #1 subject taught in school today. And the only subject taught from K-12. Ignorance. It’s taught in every state and to every religion, race, and gender. It’s the one subject they put effort into teaching.
Good comment Jackphatz.
And no matter what they do or how many news shows they go on and babble and try to provoke Pres Trump into giving away what he is thinking or even a smidge of an idea as to what he might be going to do next he never does.
The Swamp babbles and flaps and croaks and sings and snarls and stands on their heads for CNN and ABC and all of the Alphabet networks and tweets and who knows what else.
And Pres Trump just quietly sits patiently, he will let us know what he wants us to do when he wants and needs to let us know what he wants us to do.
Hope that last sentence made sense, it has been a long cold frozen day here.
I do not disagree with anything that Sundance has written but am wondering what are the “best” next steps to take…running around like Chicken Little is obviously out of the question but there are many of us who are simply bidding our time, strengthening our support networks, preparing our finances as best as we can, and watching for the right opportunities.
Is that cowardice? Is that denial? Or is that being prudent and practical? The number one entity that has enabled the elites to take over, to the extent that they are now openly bragging about it and mocking us “poor peasants”, is the mainstream media conglomerates who have almost complete control over every piece of information that we are “allowed” to see.
So my question for all of you is HOW do we break that logjam and construct a new communication network that will allow millions of people who feel the same way as we do to unite and strategize and fight back? Is that a Patrick Bryne project? An Elon Musk effort? Is that WHY they are going to continue to go after the entire Trump family? Where do we go from here??!!!
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” Jim Morrison
Ground zero is the “ public education “ system . As long as they control what goes into our children’s minds they control the playing field . Get rid of one Obama and they are turning out another hundred from the lobotomy factory called public education .
Not to sound chauvinist, but there has been a complete dereliction of parenting and authority in the home. Society scorns the Alpha Male, portraying such as an overbearing Neanderthal. This is another example of distorting something that is positive and good. I am an alpha male…I love my wife dearly, respect her and love every hair on our childrens’ heads. I am not overbearing, but take responsibility for being the head of our family. I always try to put them first, but with an overall view of what’s best for the family as a whole. My wife is certainly no wallflower, but appreciates my role. How many times have you seen the role of the man of the house to be totally neutered or associated with poor character? Meanwhile, passive beta males are celebrated and extolled? No school will usurp my authority. It’s time to promote the family structure that God designed. The family concept is not some social experiment.
Such an important point. People look for leaders, but they have been socially engineered into fatherless, feminized soyboyz. God bless you and your wfe.
Thank you!!!
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Right now, interestingly, school systems are closed in all the “best” places. We homeschooled our kids. It is fun, rewarding, and really not that difficult. I think one thing that we can do is put up websites to help and encourage parents to homeschool. Start with the curriculum you knew decades ago… lists of books… etc. Keep this available: https://hslda.org/ Home school Legal Defense Association.
They who control education of children own the future. Period.
That explains why I recently saw a proposal that children in the United States start school at age 2, as they do in China.
Oh yes. The DemoCommunists want to control the entire development of every citizen’s cognitive abilities, experiences, and education; literally from cradle to grave.
That’s exactly how the Soviets and the ChiComms did it.
Sundance, I applaud this particular essay. I’m not sure why it struck a chord, but despite your having said it before, something especially appealed to me.
Having said that, I look at the people still willing to discuss and debate, and think “You know you are trying to convince people who are incapable of logic. Just learn how to say Bullshit”.
Sundance and Treepers keep me sane. God and President Trump give me hope.
God bless all of you.
I might put it differently: IT’S NOT HYPOCRACY IT IS AGGRESSION. IN OUR FACES F.Y.
i think we should respond silently and lethally
Yes. It’s one thing to celebrate the bravery of those from the past, it’s another to embrace and if needed, act on it now.
Godless.
Nothing more to be said .
They will fail
Not only are they godless, but they are setting themselves up as God–or usurping God’s rightful place. Of course, God will not be mocked. Sooner or later, He will show them who has all power and authority.
Civil society precedes the state, both morally and historically. Society creates order and grants the state legitimacy.
If a ruler seeks (or rulers seek) absolute power, if he acts (or they act) both as judge and participant in disputes, he puts himself (or they put themselves) in a state of war with his (or their) subjects and we have the right and the duty to kill such rulers and their servants. (John Locke)
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One quibble. We do not have “rulers”. There is no such thing as an “elite”. If you do not want to be a serf or a sheep you must recognize that you cannot pray for, hope for, or wait for a “leader”. You have to BE one.
Hail Martok! Leader of the Empire! – YouTube
There is only one way this ends.
Malignant narcissism. It is not enough for the rules to not apply to them. Their pleasure derives from you SEEING them flaunting the rules. Their knowing that YOU know that THEY don’t have to follow the rules YOU follow is what gets them off.
Think of Vice President Biden, up there in front of everyone fondling women and children, he knows everyone sees it, but that’s part of his high. The masher !
If each man and woman does what they must
The overreaching tyrants will be turned into dust
Our Lady of Justice will possess them in her breathtaking, hair raising bed
She will tingle each spine as she captures each heart and each head!
Job 1: DO NOT succumb to the pressure to ignore that this election was stolen, that we are not victims of a “color revolution.” So many — including supposed conservative outlets like Breitbart — have become accomplices to this BIG LIE.
Once upon a time, the Lefties lauded “speaking truth to power.” Well, they are in power, and in the name of our Founding Fathers — and God — we must continue to bear witness that the Biden-Harris Junta is not legitimate!
OVER and OVER, ALWAYS preface with the fact that the Xiden regime is illegitimate and a coup, and no, we do not believe that it will be OK to “Oh, well, fix it for next time”.
I tried to post a comment but it may have been a little too esoteric and off the wall… just a question, is open spiritual discussion permitted on the Treehouse?
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Sundance stated here that there is “willful blindness on the part of the American people”.
I somewhat agree but I also ask what is the motivation for this “willful blindness”?
Perhaps most Americans have long believed that “our betters” a/k/a as Doctors, Lawyers, (and Lawyer/Politicians”) DO COMPRISE a different class. More educated, more informed, better prepared to act to engage in judgement, behavior and decision making that promote the public good.
In fact, a colleague of mine who was the CFO of a Fortune 25 company, echoed this repeatedly when he stated that that more than a majority of their 45,000 US based employees had “zero ability” to understand how to save, invest, allocate their employment paycheck appropriately to plan for a successful retirement. For this reason, the Executive continued, the employees needed to have “professionals” assigned by the Employer organization manage their paycheck for all family and personal expenses (how much to spend and on what, when, where and why and whom to elect for the best management of the economy etc.)
Freedom and personal responsibility was NEVER discussed as a critical consideration since only education level, professional standing, class hierarchy and the “greater good” mattered in this decision making process.
Isn’t this the exact attitude elites communicate when referencing deplorables and MAGA nation?
Working class laborers, service providers, and all others who are NOT Doctors like Senator Cassidy, Lawyers like the lobbyists and most Politicos and other Politicos represent an elite class who just KNOW they are wiser, better equipped and more skilled to decide on exactly how everyone should live.
And sadly, perhaps MANY Americans agree that they just do NOT merit this decision. SAD!
I would add my thoughts here, to expand upon your words.
In my experiences there is little correlation between formal education and exhibiting those good traits that you have mentioned.
Many of those are ingrained by mentors and parents in rearing children. Others must be learned individually, and some more painfully then others.
Outside of narrow areas of expertise, I would not put much in the stock of experts. If they would claim anything more than such, I would not implicitly take it at face value.
This is because people have been taught to defer to “experts” in govskool dumbing down to blind obedience and hatred of learning. Buckminster Fuller touched on this in “Education Automation”. Govskool TRACKS kids. The most intelligent high IQs into the professions, sciences, the medium intelligent into management, and the rest into the military, trades, etc. You can see how this system could be used to tank intelligent, but rowdy or lower class kids. Anyway, Fuller explains that this system fragments knowledge so that the most intelligent are in silos where they do not connect the relationships between events, facts, discoveries, and because they are the most knowledgable in their professional track of expertise, they defer to other experts in their fields. Thusly, the most intelligent people who would see the framework of tyranny and control are defused and tracked away, they are managed by people of less intelligence who get off on controlling people smarter than them (look at todays healthcare and the sidelining of direct care drs and nurses, the Great Barrington Declaration by business suit administrators), and the mass of people are tracked into lower level paying jobs where they live paycheck to paycheck and wonder how they got there…some simply because some teacher didn’t like them. When I learned this, it took me back to my high school days years ago when I wanted to take Latin. I had gotten straight As in Spanish, and knew that Latin was important for a true education, even as a teenager. A Oh-so CARING “guidance counselor” approached me and told me that Latin was too difficult for me and that I shouldn’t pursue getting into that class. I actually thought she was kind and doing me a favor, and was too embarrassed to tell my mom. So I was tracked OUT of Latin class, a class that all the teachers had their kids in. That is how an entire population is dumbed down, knowledge fragmented and people tracked away from their natural talents and gifts. HOMESCHOOL, people!
Found in the bin… 🙁
Waiting until the next election, to be greeted by a ballot full of shill candidates, is not a winning strategy. Elections are nothing more than a necessary nuisance for the Uniparty. And hold little hope for those of us feeling trapped by these now visible assholes (excuse me).
Our best chance seems to be to recall and discharge the lot of them by means written into our state constitutions. On other words, the legal path to replace all of our elected, and now ummasked, officials already exists.
Finding who, in each state, will have the ability to find these laws and how we could find each other and rally together to such action, as have Californians, is a realistic course to consider.
“This Fabian Socialist outlook is the most extreme form of “elitism”, the actual extermination of undesirables, “
Globo Marxists are only one funny flag design away from picking up where the nazis ended.
Unbelievable video. He was off his rocker, to put it mildly.
I’ve been saying for almost a year now that the Ruling Class WANTS to rub their power and control in our face. They WANT to humiliate us, patronize us, intimidate us. It gives them a rush, a kind of high. They feed off the ability to gratuitously mock us and parade their (tissue thin) power.
However, unless me and Sir Isaac Newton are wrong, there will eventually (and probably sooner than later) be a reaction. And if that reaction is proportional–or more likely exponentially greater–the Ruling Class and their enablers face a very dark and unpleasant future.
Quite right on there being a sizable reaction due.
However, for as bad as these so called “elites” are, there are much worse types waiting to seize the opportunity.
We must tread carefully, for the path ahead is treacherous.
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I do not recognize any human being as my “ruler”.
“It’s all a game, the only way to win is not to play…”
You might ask where you (can only) start and take action…
https://twelveround.com/blog/free-thy-mind
Thank you for this link.
this was a good post on that site too :
https://twelveround.com/blog/the-grand-illusion
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good?
Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?
– Frederic Bastiat
Ah . . . Bastiat! The greatest political philosopher since Aristotle.
Not clay, $$$$.
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. “–Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Forget the criminality for a minute. Think of the sheer arrogance it takes not just to steal the election from your fellow citizens, but then to expect them to like it. To try to force them to say it wasn’t stolen. To even blame them for the crime that you are yourself committing. And especially the arrogance to assume that business can go on as usual. It can’t. It won’t.
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”–Dr. Theodore Dalrymple
That said, do not assume we have surrendered just because there has not yet been a revolt. Some of that is because we’re not used to dealing with this level of evil at home–and the knowledge of that evil:
Dr. Norman Doidge: “Hamlet hesitated to bring Claudius to justice, and he paid with his life and the lives of those he loved. But it is in “Richard III” that one can learn most from characters who see evil, yet freeze at the key moment. The principal characters are fully aware of Richard’s undeniable evil, yet they let him have his way despite themselves. Richard is the most systematically evil character in all of Shakespeare’s plays. “I can smile, and murder while I smile,” he says, swearing that he will outdo all the villains of history “and set the murderous Machiavel to school.” The most important thing Richard knows is that while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it actually blinds us before the most extraordinary ones. The idea that conscience blinds us, making us less able to oppose evil’s most brazen forms, is deeply disturbing, for conscience is the sine qua non of civil society. Conscience is supposed to be the faculty that helps us become aware of our effects on others and our motives towards them, notably our baser motives…. But conscience, designed to ferret out evil within, can also actually narrow our awareness of evil. This happens, according to Freud, because the person with a conscience learns to repress automatically his own most destructive inclinations so as not to act on them. He becomes ignorant, for example, of the thrill of evil that a sadist like Richard III feels when he plays God and exercises the freedom to kill whomever he pleases. But the cost of repressing one’s most destructive feelings is an inability to understand, without significant effort, those who give these feelings free rein. This is seen over and over in “Richard III,” especially in Richard’s seduction of Lady Anne, whose husband he has murdered, and it is seen over and over in our dealings with terrorists. Richard actually gets Anne to drop her sword when she’s about to kill him. Anne, although she knows Richard is evil, cannot see that he has no conscience. She tells him he should hang himself for what he has done. She keeps missing the point. He feels no guilt. Eventually, she marries him, and he murders her. Conscience, when it is functioning well–automatically and without the intervention of reason, so that we do the right thing without thinking–is not simply rational. It is a force, a blunt instrument before which the conscientious person is guilty until proven innocent. As the preventive agency in the mind, conscience blocks first, thinks later. Men like Arafat and Richard know this. That is why both men constantly charge others with crimes–to paralyze them. Both know it doesn’t matter whether the charges are false. Richard brazenly accuses Anne of inspiring the murder of her husband, as Arafat accuses the West of causing terrorism. It is this force inside the psyche of his enemies that the person without a conscience can so effectively enlist as a fifth column. Having himself no such inner force always second-guessing him, he can see it clearly in others–far more clearly than do those who are in its thrall and take each of its charges seriously.”…….
Rest in the Vine: Jerusalem: Israel’s Eternal Capital
We, as Americans, will get our hands around this insidious evil, one way or another. Fear not. It will not stand the light of day.
btw, Lee Smith is a national treasure.
Thank you. It is kind of like the scene in “The Shawshank Redemption” where John Coffee explains how the killer got the 2 little girls to cooperate with their abduction. He theatened each to kill the other. “All over the world, they kills with they love”. The evil take advantage of the good, and employ it to do evil. The good cannot fathom this, their minds don’t bend in this way. Narcissists prey on people with this lack of understanding/experience. It is their “superpower”.
For anyone who has a fear of actually killing someone, and if you are a Christian, go back and read about King David – how he prayed to the Lord before he went into battle. Then read what actions he took in battle. God did not condemn him. God was with him. We need to stop thinking like helpless peasants who are restrained to work through a broken legal and political system. We are humans with God given rights – that are being stripped from us by wicked people. We need to gird our loins and fight back.
We cannot be bound by the laws of an illegally installed,occupying, traitorous regime. They are unlawful. They can kill/ jail us, but it is not justice, it is an act of war.
I’ll say it again.. It’s not like some guerilla “journolist” crew ripped the gate off the posts at the end of nancy peolsi’s driveway, defeated the security systems, “Ramboed” their gear into a corner of her 2500 sq. ft. kitchen, and ambushed her just as she was opening up one of her $20,000 Sub-Zero freezers!!!
They broadcast it on jimmy frickin’ kimmel, for crying out loud!!!!!
If that isn’t the essence of “their ” view as to “our” humanity, I don’t know what is!!!!!
And just think… WE the “deplorables” are the only one’s who seem to be aware enough to even be offended?
I have often marvelled ” how f**king DUMB can her constituents be?”
As you would say, Sundance, “the bloom is off the ruse”.
I am constantly thinking of the motivation, the end goal. Like the transgender push. It is because they want us to stop having kids and nuclear families, I’m sure. Probably due to their climate religion and more control over us, another victim group, too. They want us all drugged and confused and without reproduction. And keep on importing dependent third world labor to keep their power.
I do think those that got President Trump and agreed with his policies see this. My husband and I looked around at some facebook comments from people he knew that are obvious Trump supporters, probably not on here, though, and also from Trump supporting friends. They know the GOP are traitors now.
The problem is the low info voter, even the ones who vote straight GOP like my husband’s family. They’re the ones who only cared about personality. I still can’t believe one of my husband’s sisters said, “I like Kamala.” Really? Do you even know what she’s about and her policies? Or you think she’s cool? This is a forty something person!
I am waiting to see what President Trump does, whether it be third party or remake the GOP. But it’s time we start getting involved at the county level if it’s try to reform the GOP.
But no reforming the traitors or current members except a few. They had their chance, and failed miserably.
“All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs” is a quote from the UK’ s Enoch Powell. The controlling elite eventually implode in the face of the reality of human nature – and running out of other people’s money.
Three examples in the last month:
President Trump was removed through widespread election fraud, and this leaves him at Enoch Powell’s ‘happy juncture’ with no stigma of failure and powerful consequences to come….
#2-another example of elite Fauci shoving his tyranny in our faces. NOW that Xiden is installed we will change the rules.
Transgenderism seems to be a way to groom children to be amenable to their pedo appetites. Pedophilia is, weirdly, a big thing with these self designated “elite” pervs, like they are sexually stunted, or maybe it is just trying to get as satanically evil as they can, idk. Hollyweird is still rife with it. There should be no movies/shows with kids, at least a moratorium until some system is in place to protect them, if that is even possible. They are vehicles to groom meat for pedos. Watch “An Open Secret”.
Perhaps that is why the “elites” so fear an armed populace … arrogance will backfire one day and then all bets are off. When elections fly in the face of popular resentment, do not be surprised when upset voters decide it’s time to change the vowels in their ballots.
Leon Brozyna,
I see what you did there.. 100%
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Watch the movie ” V for Vendetta “.
There are lessons in it.
Learn to be defiant.
Just say NO to our masters, regardless of the consequences.
Yes–it reads like a newspaper.
I mean, if we had newspapers. Epoch Times excepted, naturally.
Now we know that our political system of elections is a total fraud and our justice system of impartial law enforcement and judges is a total fraud as well. What we don’t know is how long these frauds have been going on!
At this point, I don’t care how long they’ve been going on. Rather, I want to know when (and how) we’re going to put a stop to them!
In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in The House of the Seven Gables that elections never matter because the candidates in both parties are selected by the elites and will enact the same policies.
Considering how extensively the elites have infiltrated and taken control of both state governments, the federal government, I’d guess for at least 29 years (since BJ Clinton’s election). They would never have allowed Reagan to get elected, and Bush 41, fraud that he was, was truly elected by Reagan supporters (I was one of them) who believed Bush’s lies that he would continue Reagan’s policies.
As a old guy getting up in years, I have increasingly wondered what it will take… what it will take for us to turn the ship of our Republic around… and to leave a legacy for our kids and grandkids.
And I mean… something that our present “elite” would not be able to do much about.
And something that would keep them up at night.
The great challenge is that… we and our opposition are markedly different people. We play by the rules, work on our livelihoods and build our families. They, on the other hand, are activists by nature. Many, not willing or being able to to compete in the open market place, build institutions and organizations that will shelter them and protect them.
But most importantly, they build institutions that will give them power and control.
So what could we as law abiding deplorables do?
First and foremost, too many of us underestimate the awesome power of our cumulative pocket books. Simply put, support those businesses and institutions that strengthen our families and help our Republic… and really shun those who do not. Some of us, sadly, may have to learn a new word – sacrifice.
Speak to our kids, about freedom and the founding our great nation. And find out what’s going on in their classrooms. Spend quality times together, especially at mealtimes. Practice and build your faith.
Also go local… both in your purchases, your activities and in finding out about about your representatives, from school boards to mayors. Support the good ones.
And for those who want to do more… get involved with your local government programs and build a network of like-minded people. Volunteer at charities and church programs. And most of all, go out and vote… and take as many fellow warriors with you as you can.
Will any of this work enough? And will there be enough time before they consolidate power to a point of no return…?
There’s only one way to find out.
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Read to the kids. One book I recommend, Ravitch’s anthology:
The American Reader: Words That Moved A Nation
One thing is to cutting off the well heeled from being elected to office. No Ivy leaguers, no millionaires or billionaires. Only normies get elected.
We cannot remain stuck in the “we have to elect….” mode. First we have to rid each state of the fraudulent, manipulable voting machinery. Until then, attempts at electing moral and honest people into critical positions of control will largely remain futile.
Your comment about our tremendous economic power is a good one crusty old vet.
We can be particular about where and how we spend our money.
We can try to spend it at stores that align up with our patriotic beliefs but that is not always possible and if we must shop at the ones that some have mentioned here on the Treehouse as being the enemy we can shop there as sparingly as possible.
Riveting read of who and what we are. I am guilty of most of it. My biggest error was/is RELIANCE. I relied on my vote counting, I relied on my county officials to be non corrupt and do the right thing about voting irregularities. I relied on my representatives in the state legislature and governor to stand up to the forces of the cancel culture and refuse to certify the results. I relied on the judicial system to deliver justice. I relied on my federal level representatives to be non corrupt and stop this madness. I relied on the military to be my last line of defense in stopping this usurper from taking office. Look what reliance got me.
I would like to think we are not FUBARed but it is going to take a major undertaking and divine guidance to get this Republic out of the quicksand that we are in now. The LORD will toss us a rope or let us go under. As you look at the country now you have to be concerned about that rope.
I cannot speak for everyone obviously, but I daresay most of us are equally as “guilty” as you.
Control is like a drug.
Eventually the high obtained from it begins to diminish and you need an increased dose to get that same high.
It starts with mandatory face masks and ends with death camps.
Yup.
2 weeks to flatten the curve becomes hands behind your back 10 months later.
“They simply do not care…”
…..because most people don’t care either……..until its too late.
“Do we really believe that we have no resources to bring to the battle? Or nothing more to contribute to the turning of the battle?”
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i don’t know what resources we have anymore – they appear to all have been co-opted (i.e.: the courts, social media, congress, et al.)
i don’t know what more i can contribute – i’ve done everything (yes, everything) within my immediate purview already.
i do fear being targeted – that takes money i don’t have to defend oneself.
i’m hoping that better, more talented strategists than i might offer some direction FORWARD.
It’s a bitter lesson – some still refuse to learn it at this late date.
Not hypocrisy – hierarchy
Here’s a very good article by Linh Dinh about his stay in Albania. It sounds like a nice place. It’s ironic that a few decades ago Albania was known as one of the most repressive states on earth, while the US was a beacon of freedom.
https://www.unz.com/ldinh/good-morning-albania/
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Totalitarianism conjures up images of jackboots and gulags, but its two core features, affecting all, are the removals of free speech and free movement, and both are happening, with frightening speed, in the supposedly freest countries!
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With absurd rules at airports and no-fly list, Americans have been conditioned, for many years now, to accept traveling as not a right, but a privilege granted by the state. Now, suddenly, they are told they can’t even leave their house, for weeks on end. Even Enver Hoxha never tried this stunt.
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As I’ve discovered this past year traveling through South Korea, Serbia, North Macedonia, Lebanon, Egypt and now Albania, lockdowns aren’t necessary to combat this way overblown Covid. In each of these countries, I walked daily through crowded streets, ate in restaurants and relaxed in cafes or bars, without a mask, of course, or any social distancing. Within touching distance of my kind, I happily ate and drank.
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The lockdown is entirely evil.
The State is forcing healthy people to quarantine themselves. It is asinine.
It’s not even a law, but a dictate from the mouth of the governor, enforced by the police.
I thought Americans knew and valued their freedom.
Now I see them, masked, walking like zombies with frightened eyes, moving aside when I walk past.
Who are these people?
“Americans knew and valued their freedom.”.
Each year a new class of indoctrinated graduates. Do you think when they stop teaching civics, etc. in schools that wasn’t part of the Democommunist plan ? These classes haven’t been taught the values we cherish, it’s been going on for decades, graduating the indoctrinated into society for decades.
Todays’ leprous legal system is what shocks me. Growing up I had respect for the town lawyer who had been a fighter pilot in WWII. We had respect for the local judge who had a beautiful horse farm just outside of town. When these men spoke we listened. They would act according to the law for everyone. There was no two-tier justice for us back then.
My family always held all the politicians in contempt. Used car salesmen rated higher with us than the president of the usa. The local varmint catcher was more popular than any other pol.
so, I am old now and know the government of usa is off the rails as usual. I really am sorry the “supreme court” and all other courts and lawyers has been sucked into the political stench. The Barons at Runnymeade would weep.
How to gird myself? What does this communist onslaught do to me? Gas prices already 30cents higher than last fill up. I wonder if Yellen will tax unrealized capital gains. ouch! eliminate the step up for my kids. ouch! will they take my farm? will they set up gulags. We sit around the fire here and ask ourselves at what point do we say huh uh. nope,
There are good lawyers — read the Institute for Justice, which does honorable pro bono work on behalf of the American citizen who has no recourse. While our eyes are on the malfeasance of national leaders, there is much evil being done on the local level — and Institute for Justice works tirelessly to end unfair practices. I wish I had heard about them years ago.
You can read about their cases here: https://www.ij.org/cases/
This case was in the current issue of their free newsletter:
Selling homemade foods is a great way to support your family—unless you’re in Wisconsin. Wisconsin bans the sale of many homemade foods, including common and shelf-stable foods like candies, chocolates, granola and roasted coffee beans. For those who would dare sell, say, a piece of fudge made in their home kitchen, the punishment includes up to $1,000 in fines or six months in jail.
https://ij.org/case/wisconsin-cottage-foods-ii/
Interesting comment merrie.
It is interesting that lawyers and judges themselves have managed to ruin their own profession.
They destroyed themselves from the inside out.
We used to say Lawyers, used car salesmen and realtors were lower than shark sh!t
Huh uh. Nope,
You are so right. It’s a dark day and we’ve really fallen far. But the fact we have good people here like you is very hopeful. We have to right this ship for your family and all our families. Just don’t give in to despair, that’s what they want because it weakens you. That’s how to gird yourself. You have to realize with all your mind and soul that God is infinite. This universe is infinite. That literally means there is ALWAYS a way, ALWAYS a solution. Seek and you SHALL find. It’s a fact. Both literal and spiritual fact.
Just try to look for the ray of sunshine, the sign from God for the opening, the next step. Stay open to ways to right this ship. And by the way, I’m seeing cool things on the horizon and Sundance lifted our spirits by saying he saw others too. We’ll find a way, just stay open to God’s best. God bless.
And never beat yourself up for a down moment because we are human. But we can all lift each other up again when we need it and be there for each other. And of course thankfully you are surrounded by a family of love.