The headline here is a twist on a great book about how to not be a participant in your abuse called “Codependent No More“. The message directly relates to something CTH discusses frequently in both articles and in the comments section.
In order to stop being abused, you must first stop making excuses for your abuser. Accept things as they are, not as you interpret them to be. This tweet by Robert Barnes is a great example:
At first blush Barnes is saying something we can all agree with. Yes, Liz Cheney is toxic to the base of support within the republican party; and yes, the GOP putting Cheney into a very visible position of leadership tells us something. However, the visiblity of Liz Cheney is not because the GOPe are stupidly disconnected from their base, Liz Cheney is purposefully visible because the GOPe wants her there. She is a feature not a flaw or mistake; and the GOP totally gets it.
The Republican party believes the conservative voter base of the party is the problem, not the leadership. Please accept that as an empirical fact or we will continue to have discussions that are misinterpretations of motive. From the mindset of the institutional Republican party YOU are the problem, not Liz Cheney.
When you finally accept that the RNC wing of the UniParty hates you, literally hates their base of voters, only then can you begin to break the cycle known as “Battered Conservative Syndrome.”
However, to break this toxic mindset we must stand firm against the abuser. THEY are the problem, not you. THEY work for you, not vice-versa.
The GOP leadership is supposed to represent your priorities, not carry out their priorities while managing your angst.
We The People are being abused by them.
Everything they are doing – they are doing because what they are doing is exactly what they want to do.
The institutional republican leadership are not making mistakes. Accept who they are.
Battered Conservative No More!
If you are a regular reader of this site you are generally a person who engages in intellectual discussion on daily events and more than likely a root cause thinker. Meaning you are able to grasp events at their cause and not at their consequence.
However, for some reason, many of those who understand big picture dynamics are still comfortable sticking their heads in the sand about “motive”. Many 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 anymore.
Those of us active in the Tea Party got hit smack in the face with the reality of this. The GOP hates conservatives, they don’t want them in their party.
Absolutely true. It was a hell of a wake up call.
Years before the Tea Party, Bill Crystal and his thugs who called themselves Neo-Cons took over the Republican Party and squeezed Conservatives out by constant belittling and ridiculing their faith.
Remember the terms: Jesus Freak, or Bible thumper, I can’t remember any more but there were plenty.
I do remember when people would preface their declaration of Faith by saying: “I’m not a Jesus Freak but I believe in God.” Just think how battered those bewildered people were.
btw…what is religion if any OF Billy Cristol ????
I remember that too
Because WY has I think three candidates it might slim things down…maybe so much Liz won’t run..?
I think the only reason a Lizard Cheney is still in the game is to watch over her families corrupt war gains and making sure the exposure is minimal
She obviously could care less about the good people of Wyoming
“The GOP hates conservatives, they don’t want them in their party.”
I’m just trying to wrap my head around this. Can someone explain a little more about it or point me to a link/website/article that explains it, and the GOP’s reasoning for hating conservatives? Are GOP members considered true Republicans, or RINO’s and UniParty animals? This is my first time really getting in to politics and what goes on and what APPEARS to go on in Washington. Thanks in advance!
Hey nic. Boy, you asked a loaded question. Find a comfy branch and set a spell.
The quick answer is their goals are not our goals. We want America as founded.
They want the North American Branch of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party).
They are greed and graft, we are God, family, country, peace.
On the right hand side of each page are tools to help research questions and ideas. The historical conversations are a big help.
And keep asking questions. There is much to learn, but the burden is light.
Be Blessed.
They are greed and graft, we are God, family, country, peace AND FREEDOM.
Agree. If you are putting them in order, I would put freedom ahead of country. The problems we are facing are not primarily political. When God isn’t first, the rest cannot work. The progression was first deny the Bible and the Creator, then redefine morality, then see what happens when the Creator gives people up to do what they imagine. The answer has always been, regain people one at a time.
jeans, thank you!
@nicskip To the best of my ability…. The GOP hates us true conservatives since we are not part of their club. They deeply frown upon us for being capable of seeing through their thin, and fake skins. After all, they think they are smarter than us, as all the UniParty animals think so. How dare we vote for Trump, whom they consider beneath them?! To them, we are dumb, and must have them to guide us in our lives.
Another point, is their pure evil greediness. Too many in the GOP are DemonRats disguising as Conservative. They are there to rob and destroy, filling up their bank accounts, as they have no concern for those of us who trusted them. Sadly, only a handful are who they claim to be.
Thank you Mrs. Patriot!
The GOP is as corrupt as the DNC, they just want you to believe otherwise, so you keep sending money to them to ‘fight the evil’ on the other side.
Greed, Corruption, it’s all there. It’s all just business to them. Morals, Ethics, Integrity, none of that exist, they will back stab you (Pence anyone) look you straight in the face and say, oh nothing personal, it’s just doing business. In their eyes, that genuinely is… all it is.. you are nothing but a transaction to be used to line their pockets.
The quicker people realize the cancer they are and get rid of them by ANY means possible, the better off the country will become as a whole.
Thanks Sam!
…and aside from needing to overcome ballot access rules in certain states, tell me again why replacing the GOP (3rd Party) rather than yet another attempt at reforming it is the way to go?
It’s every state.
Every one of them would make it impossible for a 3rd party associated with MAGA to get on a ballot.
This.
Two thumbs up.
Some states don’t even put third party on the ballot.
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This Cheney broad is revealing to the Democrats that they can backstab their party’s president and still blab on the party line.
Those who see Bribem as a complete catastrophe in the Democrat party can take comfort in starting to be a bit more brazen in their negativism of his performance, due to Liz.
Both parties have factions. The R’s are learning that the Trump faction is the largest in terms of support.
While a third party of Trump supporters might seem to you as a ‘winning side’, without a major defection by D’s to said party the third party just simply does not have any traction.
Presenting a divided R-party as ‘the norm’ though, may lead to the D’s (voters, not office-holders) mirroring the ‘splitter’ strategy, and defeating themselves in the process.
The D voters HAVE TO SEE the D officeholders denigrating Bribem in order for them to be trusted as re-electable, is my guess. And (having been shown that it is done, regularly, by R’s) that will lead to a split in the D party of a bigger proportion than the R party . . .
You are certainly free to do that. Why don’t you? Your answer will explain it.
Yes, and thank you for that article.
Correct Sundance. It’s because Americans are too busy. They have jobs and family affairs to handle. They have church and many other responsibilities. We don’t have time for standing around in the streets waving pitchforks.
That’s why we send representatives to handle things. But, they don’t. They handle their bank accounts instead. They are all phony cowards.
We can’t do this anymore. At some point, we need to act I keep asking God to help me understand what I must do. So far, I have nothing. I’m not sure why. Maybe he will be coming back to fix it himself.
I want to remain lawful. I’m not even sure it’s a good thing to remain lawful in the time of war.
I’m particularly angry with our military. They are charged to protect this nation. Why are they not protecting this nation? This Marxist administration is comprised of a small number of idiotic foreigners. They are enemies to our nation.
Why doesn’t the military standup and fight? The Blue Angels fly overhead in our area from time to time. They fly low and very very loudly. It’s an intimidation measure to frighten the enemy.
So, why don’t they fly low and scare the shit out of the small morsels who think themselves high and mighty?
Trump! Listen to me. Get back onto your own aircraft and fly low over Washington D.C. Make a noise so loud that they will but quake and tremor to their very souls. The military won’t do it. But, YOU can do it.
I know that’s ridiculous. Everything now is ridiculous.
I’m right there with you, Justice.
Everyone was busy back in 1776 too. Just sayin’. In fact they didn’t even have electricity.
But they got it done.
Yep. That’s why we need to set aside being too “busy”. This our job now. Not easy to do, but it’s our responsibility now.
We do not have respresentation in D.C. We don’t even have our military to defend the nation. It’s just us now.
It will be interesting to see how long people think they can hide behind there “busy life” before they wake up to a new communist oppressive reality.
If you ever served in the military you’d know exactly why they will do nothing to stop the destruction of our republic.
They are systematically destroying the republic and putting people in to power who believe conservatives should be reeducated or worse. Meanwhile conservatives do what they do best, bitch about the left and media. If only conservatives were as motivated as the cucks, gender confused, anarchist and criminals. Instead it’s all just a bunch of talk talk talk.
Being too busy is a copout, we are too lazy and comfortable to get out of the rut because we don’t think it will really be that bad. Guess what folks it is that bad and will get worse. Every one of us has to start taking action and banding together with others to take action.
Many people are in survival mode and have little energy after working all day to barely get by, raise the kids and get the laundry done before collapsing into bed exhausted to do it all over again the next day. Your virtue signaling “copout” comment is divisive and unhelpful –at best.
Respectfully I don’t believe its virtue signaling. I think we all are walking around in shell shock and trying to raise the alarm to our fellow patriots. One thing we all need to do is not be at odds with oneanother. They want us divided. Treepers all love this country and hate seeing its downfall. That some are tired and barely treading water is comendable. We all are tired. Some more than others.
I agree TallPaul.
Many good people are wanking around very confused and discouraged and frightened.
They do not know what to do next and are barely hanging on so to speak.
I want those people to know that this feeling of confusion and despair and not knowing what to do next is pretty normal and if thy will not panic or give up but try and keep calm things will move on,
If they could try and find something they like to do as a family or a couple if they don’t have children and if they are single go out and find some friends who like some of the same things that you do.
Our lives do not need to center around politics all day all the time.
Sorry to say this Sundance but maybe go one day without reading The Treehouse pick up some friends and going hiking in the mountains or what ever it is you do in the state that you live in.
Eating breathing and sleeping politics is not healthy.
Get together with some families who have kids the same age as yours and have a picnic on the beach or take some boats out on the lake and spend the day fishing.
Our family is hoping to get just a little more downhill skiing in tomorrow before the season is gone.
We are taking as many grandkid us who will get up in the morning and get out on the slopes.
My sweet husband and I have an actual cash bets as to which ones will show and which ones will sleep in.
I think I might be able to make about $57 off of him if I am lucky tomorrow
Justice- you NAILED IT. Right the hell on!
This article reminds me of a “seven minute message” that my pastor gave on the church’s Facebook page, where he compares what’s going on in our country to domestic abuse. If you’re interested, it’s ROLCC, River of Life Community Church in New Bloomfield, PA. I thought the message was interesting.
https://www.facebook.com/ROLCCNewBloomfield
The date to this message is February 11, 2021
Yes, well worth a listen. He sums it all up nicely. Here’s the link to the seven minute message:
https://www.facebook.com/dennis.gerkin.5/videos/4393610640665838/UzpfSTE0MzE4NDQ2OTE5ODQ3MDoxNjQyOTE0OTA5MjI1NDEx/
I wholeheartedly agree.
It is just sad how long and how slowly I have come to accept this truth. The logic makes perfect sense. Once the platitudes have worked to place them in office, how many people will be truly good enough to work for the good of the people who elected them? Yet we refuse to accept that someone is actively working to do us harm.
For some reason, we have to believe that everybody has good intentions. To believe that they mean well.
I don’t want to know how many decades I wasted believing that Democrats believed they were truly trying to help people, just doing it poorly. Just unintentionally doing great harm to people.
First I noticed how they attacked their own for trying to stop them from doing harm. Like Patrick Moynihan.
Then I noticed how they demonize their opponents, blaming them for the consequences Democrat policies create. It is always useful to have scapegoats, but it is never an act of a good person.
Then I realized how their political fortunes rely upon increasing the number of victims their policies create.
All of a sudden, I realized that they were intending the harm they caused, knowing their victims would buy into their lies about other people causing that harm. Vile and malicious. Harming evermore people so that evermore people will vote for you. Lying about the cause, so that your victims would love you for ‘helping’ them and hate your opponents.
And after all that. I still thought that the our side was truly trying to help me. But yet more decades have opened my eyes again.
Reagan sponsored free trade? Nope, Bush/Clinton giant sucking of our jobs. Unilateral surrender isn’t free trade.
Reagan growth of manufacturing. Nope, Clinton/Bush(W) transferring our jobs to China.
Can our side stand up for permanent Tax cuts? Nope, not since Reagan. Wouldn’t give them when Trump wanted them either. All are set to expire.
What about foreign policy? Since Bush inherited Reagan’s collapse of the USSR, It has been total incompetence except for Trump’s brief but dazzling interlude. And our politicians aren’t complaining at Biden undoing all of Trump’s good progress.
And all the people who made their careers arguing for the good Trump achieved, political, economic, diplomatic etc. Those people, after decades of arguing based upon principles, threw all their principles out their windows, just to oppose Trump achieving success.
But the biggest eyeopener was the political grandstanding of our ‘allies’. Illegal actions by Obama’s henchmen? ‘We have a show to put on to make it look like we care and are trying to do something about it. Just give us your vote.’
Rise up to put more R’s in office? (Tea Party). Our side joins in on the illegal actions to stop us. And grandstands another ‘investigation’.
Win the House for them? We can’t do anything without the Senate.
Win the Senate too? We need the Presidency.
Give them all three? They use a bogus, fraudulent charge to derail all legislative actions and steal Trump’s Honeymoon period.
Think about it. Our side controlled everything. Yet they squandered it all. They even worked to give control of everything back to the other side.,
Just like those dishonest, supposedly conservative ‘thinkers’, they wasted the opportunity to achieve all the promises they had made to us.
And they have been squandering the lives of our children. Children who commit themselves to protect our country get sent to bleed and die for foreign countries that don’t want them there. To fight wars that can have no end.
It goes on for forever.
Some may start out wanting to serve us. But they get forced out of that pretty quickly. Eventually, they all join in on abusing their voters.
This is not your grandparents’ country anymore.
Few people recognize when something has changed. Remember that.
You describe perfectly the mental path I have been on this ever since I started trying to understand – which was about 50 years ago now.
As for the ones who start out wanting to serve us… reading Lin Wood’s whistleblower account gave a pretty convincing picture of how that works.
The Marjorie Greenes are few and far between and we must protect them. I hope PDJT starts to work with and protect her.
Seriously good post, Jin in TN.
Such a true rendition of our saga, all because we are good people wanting to see the good in others and believing the best, not the worst. Now, truthfully, I pray that God’s justice on all of them come – soon. I also am not opposed to a 8+ earthquake taking out DC and the surrounding area on a weekday. I mean it. I would consider that God’s justice too.
I will never forgive the Republican’s trick of forcing Pres.Trump to use EOs.. virtually no legislation was passed except for tax cuts…..nothing else. They knew the next guy could roll all of them back. It was the Plan.
And they also never allowed Congress to go into recess so Pres. Trump could not fill all of the vacant seats to run the Govt. I believe Ben Carson never got all of his appointees. I despise the GOP for allowing this and The Steal to happen. A pox upon their house.
I come from a family of indoctrinated leftists, and battered woman syndrome is exactly how I feel with regards to them. They’ve been nothing but demeaning & spiteful towards me (including my own mother) ever since I became an outspoken conservative, no matter how much I try to love and accommodate them in my life. I’ve reached a point where I’ve just had enough and no longer even want to invite them to gatherings at my home or be a part of their lives in any way.
At least they are honest & don’t pretend to be in the same party, an even bigger lie. RINOs like Cheney, McCain etc, have been exposed as the tumors on our freedoms they are, it’s past time to exorcise their malignant presence.
Sorry about your family. I have some family members who are always trying to bait me with liberal dogma. As for our RINO enemies within, they are worse than Pelosi and crew.
Sorry to hear about your family, many have experienced the same, you are in good company.
One fact about life; you can’t choose your family but you can choose your friends.
Another pearl of wisdom is this; the world can take your money, your freedom, even your life, your integrity on the other hand, that you have to give up, thus in the end its only thing you actually own.
I feel your pain although my siblings and mother are not outright hostile. We don’t discuss politics, and they are not part of my social media, but I can’t understand how they can vote for democrats except for willful blindness.
Heidi, I’m in a similar place and now that I’ve “cut the cord” my life has been much more peaceful. Enjoy your new found freedom and move on. True “family” can come in many forms.
I can’t really cut the cord very deeply where I live (very close to a major source of leftist infection in the U.S.: Cambridge MA).
About 90% of the people in my life are moonbats. Many of them have very high IQs but serious Leftist Derangement Syndrome (TDS is but a specialized strain of it – it’s been around forever).
I concentrate mostly on that precious 10%. And there are some high IQs there as well. It’s never been a matter of intelligence. It’s emotional, and how healthy one is emotionally…
The RINO ‘s will leave kicking and screaming, get hired by CNN, where they will blame us for systemic racism and whatever else they can conjure up. Best thing Trump ever did was take away the cookie jar by putting donations in a Super PAC.
I’ve found one really nasty personal takedown of liberals with facts and a blistering inquisition of all the things they think they believe IS the best way to deal with them…the main reason is most liberals are not used to being challenged and are deeply insecure about their belief system…they generally rely on guilt and a bullying attitude that they are morally superior to carry their arguments …preferably, do it to one person in a large group of liberals…and if any others want to jump in, tell them to get in line, you’ll have plenty of time to get to them….you probably wont convince them of anything, but they’ll have a healthy fear of you from now on and will steer the conversation from politics in future encounters
We did that to one of our friends who had the gall to say she thought President Trump was Hitler. We leveled her….with facts and examples of the blatant hypocrisy that the left shows the world everyday.
She has been very kind and quiet ever since!
Our side is trained to lose. That’s why we sit here bitching while they take to the streets.
Being nice to people who want to destroy your country and your life is not a winning formula.
You are in a very difficult situation. I have a leftist sister and set down the ground rule that we will not talk politics. So many here are in the same boat. Very hard.
Heidi- I feel you. Same in my family. I am the lone conservative surrounded by Commie sister, brother, adult children, in laws, you name it.
Sometimes I feel the only reason I still have much to do with my adult children is because of my grand kids.
I am trying not to look at them as “the Enemy” but it is not easy. I have to pray on it all the time. I never want to be in a place where I hate my own flesh and blood, yet sometimes I feel that way.
At some point I have to learn to separate politics from the rest of my life.
Politics is inseparable from life though, literally giving up control over your life through coercion, subjugating you to the will of corrupt state powers is what the left agitates for. How do you make nice with people who believe in legalized theft & slavery, even if they believe it’s for some greater good… that never materializes.
I can’t separate politics from life. All i can do at this point is separate myself from abusive people who want to take freedoms & liberties and seek out like minded people to hang out with & learn from. I really appreciate this site & everyone who posts here BTW. Thank you for taking the time to post insightful things. I learn a lot from the interesting posts here & pass them along.
I have asked family members not to turn the others in the family who are conservative in to be sent to the reeducation camps when the Hammer comes down. It’s so awful that you are alone, praying you have good loyal friends.
It’s a fascinating proclivity of the human animal; by refusing to acknowledge the problem, one believes they are therefore relieved of any responsibility for it.
It is literally the equivalent of hiding your head in the sand, hoping whatever bad thing is out there will just go away.
The terrifying, yet liberating truth is that this never works, and always results in the problem becoming even bigger, and more dangerous.
Deputy Barney Fife had it exactly right, “Nip it, nip it in the bud!”
Now that is an excellent point Chance.
“By refusing to acknowledge the problem, one believes they are therefore relieved of any responsibility for it”.
I did my part by disassociating myself with the Republican party after a lifetime. I made it clear to everyone I know inside and outside of my family and friends, and most agreed 100%, that the Republican Party betrayed us en masse. They have no intentions, as a party, of acknowledging the travesty done to us.
Most abusers, as I know from personal experience, WILL CONTINUE TO ABUSE YOU UNTIL YOU STOP THEM. YOU MUST CUT THEM OFF AT THE KNEES AND REMOVE YOURSELF FROM THEM FOREVER. LET GOD SAVE THEM. YOU CAN’T. Sorry for the caps, but I’m screaming to the heavens – this lesson I learned the hard way – and oh was it painful. I am forever changed by it, and grateful to be free of it.
“The party” is abusive. The Government is abusive. I realize Trump is attempting to rebuild the party, but I’m not convinced yet. I’ve been playing along (contribute, vote, vote, vote, be loyal, volunteer), but I’m not going to do it ever again. Trump will have to be mighty compelling to change my mind. I’m not going to give to his Save America PAC. Nope. I’m not going to play 5D chess with a bunch of Swamp Monsters. I trust maybe 5 people in our government right now and I still watch them like a hawk.
Liz Cheney is done. Done. The Old Guard betrayed us. We owe them nothing. And NO, they don’t know better than us. Word of the day: Hubris.
words for everyday: betrayal and treason
The RNC lives and fends power by donation money. Give them nothing again, as repayment for betrayal. COmplain if your employer is a crony giver—do it. I would send cash to Trump’s PAC, though, recognizing that he should not start another party—just starve the existing RINO shell to zero and reclaim the GOP in Lincoln’s image with patriots.
Don’t count the war monger out until she is done. She will help flood the primary which already has at least 2 challengers, and use fear mongering to make herself look good.
We have a lot of people here in WY who suffer from the battered conservative syndrome.
I only supported Trump. I tried to give him what he needed. He told us they wanted us and he was standing in the way. I never forgot. It was the truth.
May God take vengeance on them all post haste.
You got it. There must needs be a change in how we fight for this country. The military is NOT there for us. I’m not speaking with derision about our many very fine and skilled U.S. soldiers. I’m speaking about the ‘commanders’ and leadership who daily forget that we need to stop this invasion.
How about upgrading our entire military training to handle the covert operations? Police detectives have more skill than our mighty vast armory that remains parked on the ground doing nothing.
This has been passed down to us. It’s now our labor of love to protect the nation.
Have you seen the chaos in Mayanmar? This takeover is everywhere. We must act now. No, not four years from now. This is a different problem to solve. We can’t wait any longer.
My successful exit from a lifetime of up-and-down BCS was a 1-step process, engaged late in 2020, works 100%
You’ll be right at least 95% of the time using your method
Angelo Codevilla’s American Spectator “The Ruling Class” from 2010 describes our situation. The traditionalists don’t have a party that represents our interests. We vote for Republicans for lack of a better alternative.
The historic American people (those who are descended from the original nations of the American federal compact) are now the largest more numerous people on Earth not only to not have our own country, we don’t even have a single country-level institution representing our collective interests. EVERY other group does.
The leadership of the pre-Trump Republican party represented the interests of globalists, the transnational financialists who mutilated our country from a stable and prosperous European-heritage Christian-heritage federal republic into a morally, spiritually, and financially bankrupt multicultural woke empire that is now in a highly profitable forever war with the unwoke all over the world. The signature achievement of the globalists was sending half of our industry to communist China for fun and profit. It was the greatest act of treason in human history, by far.
Much of the disconnect comes from Congressmen/ Senators who talk or imply they will do X while campaigning, never do it , do the opposite, then get re-elected by the same voters who don’t want it. Short term memory problems seem common amongst voters …..or what?
All the Republican Statists in Congress and the Senate are elected by people who are not Statists.
Crooked, lying congresscritters (but like mark twain, I repeat myself) are not now subject to recall for perfidy, voter-betrayal or corruption. Candidates who claim to be MAGA should sign a “Contract of Trust”, enforceable Agreement to resign, or be subject to recall with a recall vote if they violate their ‘promises’, or lose favor with the voters who elected them.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Is this really a revelation? The reason Trump rose in 2015 and 2016 was because the Republicans were always talking a good game but never delivering…whether it be repealing Obamacare or stopping illegal immigration, they always rolled over…look at Romney’s debate performance against Obama as Exhibit “A”…and since Trump walked down that elevator, the GOP has been doing everything they can to steer us back to “normal” without any real success…yes, things are more out in the stark open with the way Ryan and McConnell stabbed us all in the back, but the trend towards Trump and America First and end to the cronyism, graft, and gaslighting has been a long time brewing
If you recall 2015-16, none of the establishment candidates drew flies. Cruz and Trump ran away from the rest of the establishment pack. Trump really upset the money laundering scheme that is Washington, DC, hence the nonsense with that traitorous scum Ryan and the frenemy McConnell. Right out of the gate in 2017, too.
I do not trust Ted Cruz. He covers his GOPe feathers with a beard of clever obfuscations. When push comes to shove I believe ol’ Ted is down with the globalists, not We The People.
Cruz is extremely ambidextrous.
He can talk out of either side of his mouth with equal ease.
He is an opportunist and nothing more.
Never listen to a man’s words for they can be soothing lies. Look at his past behavior. It is the best predictor of future behavior.
Jeb!
On a podcast of the People’s Pundit called what are the Odds which runs every Monday Robert Barnes stated that a problem can never be solved by a politician. Because if it is then it isn’t an issue and people will look around for new leadership. He mentioned it in the case of race relationships and how the poverty industrial complex needs to have blacks in a state of helplessness or grifters like Clyborn, Jackson, Sharpton and Booker will lose their jobs.
That was the problem with Trump. He fixed things. By the time of the election illegal immigration wasn’t an issue (now it is). Jobs were not an issue because there were more openings than people (it will be now). Wages were going up. No wars to feed the industrial military complex. All while being backstabbed, betrayed, lied and pilloried. He was a mortal threat the grifters of the political class. Hence the determined coordinated effort to take him down and us with him. We urgently need term limits including the Judiciary.
Politics are not static. This is their high water mark. They launched their Operation Barbarossa and are now in their battle of Stalingrad. Alternative media is being created. Once content creators leave Twitter, Instagram, You Tube and Tick Tock their whole business model collapses. But they don’t really care because they want to be accepted in the so called smart society.
So I am determined to fight and have been. I will not be cowed. I have stayed engaged. I have taken to heart Sundance’s message of living my best life now with joy. I am ready to do battle. I have set my face to stone, girded my loins for battle and I am acting with purposeful cold anger. I am not alone because I have 70M+ warriors beside me.
This article is in my reference library now.
Bayou Renaissance Man: US politics have now become a war for survival – for both sides
Yes, remember, Trump instantaneously jumped to 40% support when he touched the third rail of illegal immigration…it was an issue the base was just itching for someone to come along and address
Powerful. Resonates as truth. Thank you for posting.
Perfect summation in the graphic. The best thing the “gov” can do, leave me alone and get the hell outta my way.
Yes PDJT is not perfect, no man is, but I feel strongly that God prepared and then brought him into the arena at this specific time to reveal truth too all those on the Earth that would see, on of all days the feast of the epiphany. I’m still amazed that few have written about this?
Just like we Patriots even now are attempting to figure out to true MAGA vs Decepticons. Hint follow the currency. Regardless whether PDJT was a force from God to reveal the truth or force from God to reverse mankind’s descent towards the rule of Satan that must occur before the end times by definition, only time will tell. As a Christian I’m good either way. God’s Will be done.
The problem is one of lessor evils. I held my nose and voted Republican because the alternative was always worse. The Republicans have become Democrats and the Dems have become Socialists and Communists. Third party just gives the win to Democrats. If anyone has an answer I’d love to hear it. Primary them out hasn’t worked. Term limits will never pass. I feel like a dinosaur watching a really big meteor hit the Yucatan.
Follow our President’s lead. Donate to his PAC, via his website. This will link through WINRED, but our funds will belong to Trump.
It will drive the Rino’s Mad.
WinRed powers the contribution function at the donaldjtrump (dot) com website. Is WinRed now under Trump’s control or does the crooked RNC still boss the money?
https://saveamerica.com/about
* We are an independent nonprofit organization not affiliated with Save America PAC or with President Donald Trump. One of the key benefits of donating to us is your heartfelt values are confidentially represented, unlike your name and address being publicly disclosed by a political action committee (PAC) or candidate.
If you want to know what they do with donations, here’s their email address – ask them.
This was in their FEC filing that someone posted today.
My email to them has not yet been answered – but I sent it only this morning.
I think we should all bombard them with emails.
[email protected]
What do you think of my proposal to vote only for House-Senate candidates who make an enforceable Agreement to be subject to recall if they ‘lose favor’ with those who voted them in? Or are censured by the State’s GOP organizatiions? (either-or)
There is no alternative and that’s the mistake that’s being made. Fed GOP is exactly the same as Fed Dem. If you don’t really believe that, let the Dems win everything in 2022 and watch. Nothing will change in relation to today because the Fed GOP is the Democrat party and vice versa. The Fed GOP is giving Democrats everything they want, but didn’t even give Trump a Recess appointment. All 50 GOP Senators and I estimate 98% of House needs to lose. Only when there is no Uniparty can there be a Opposition party.
Maybe we just thought they (R’s) were the lesser of 2 evils. Looking at it from today’s perspective perhaps I should have realized sooner that they were all part of the same con and I was the mark.
Establishment Democrats and Establishment Republicans are two wings on the same globalist vulture.
The answer is to stop thinking of things on a short term basis. The whole “The Democrats are even worse” depends on the race. Voting for McCain and Romney because they were “Better” than Obama didn’t accomplish anything, and even if they’d been elected they would’ve been worse in the LONG RUN. Electing McCain for 20 years, because the Democrat was “worse” was a losing strategy, since we got McCain. We should have taken a loss in 2004, and then elected a conservative in 2010. Similarly, voting for Lisa Murkey in 2022 because “The Democrat is worse” is stupid. We need to get rid of her no matter what. No Democrat can be worse than this traitor.
Now I realize we only thought the alternative was always worse. In truth, all politicians are.working towards the same end, as has been revealed by the 4 year coup and 2020 election steal
…and some ppl after 11/3/2020 and 01/06-07… may never return to “politics”… VSG/ESG PDJT must do clean cut off with RINOS AND WISHY-WASHY- such tim scott..guy from florida is no better…agree with Madame Peasant..
The GOP dichotomy … people such as Ron DeSantis are used and fronted by the GOP power structure (Mitch McConnell) to retain credibility. The GOP structure needs to be refurbished, with the old school power lusters retired (forced, if need be) and replaced with MAGA oriented kick-ass populists.
The names of the Decepticons are well known with CTH readers; they posture as good Republicans while lusting after the power wielded by the Democrats and joining them when convenient.
Are they though? I reckon all 50 GOP Federal Senators are fake Cons. Real conservatives may win a Primary but then the GOP{ comes to the aid of the Dems like how Ryan and McConnell and Graham were taking money and orders from the Clinton campaign in 2016.
I received a fundraising questionnaire from the RNC and returned it today.
I was thorough in how I view this gop with notes attached to almost every question. I identified my political affiliation as other and wrote in MAGA.
At the end is the fundraising “pitch” to defeat the evil democrats and this is where I let loose on the uniparty. I ended by letting them know I am contributing to the Save America fund and supporting only Trump endorsed candidates. Hopefully they receive many more like mine.
yes, if we do not respond, they will assume that they still have imprisoned and battered us as captive votes.
Better to let them think they are powerful.
disagree
I sent one of those myself about a week ago. Felt great.
For those who are curled up in despair – I recommend this as excellent therapy!
Well the Dem’s are doing great evil are they not? But that is all part of the system of control. Basically its good cop vs bad cop. Both are on the same side trying to get all of us to collectively endorse the same thing. If that doesn’t work then they fix the vote.
The only solution is to replace good cop, which ironically, isn’t your first instinct is it?
The second problem who among us can we count on being a true MAGA cop? Answer, a deplorable. I would vote for anyone on this board or any MAGA voter, the humbler the better, before any other. The more you just want to go home from the District of Corruption the better. Just like Jury Duty, that needs to be your MAGA Representatives mindset. If you want it, you likely aren’t a good MAGA candidate. Maybe we can just draw straws. Short straw goes to DC.
I only give $$ directly candidates. Plus, I’ll give $$ to Trump because I trust him. I stopped giving to the RNC and Republican Senate Committee when they started stabbing the tea party in the back.
Cognitive Dissonance is a plague in this country right now.
I agree, but she is now under attack by the uniparty. We need a completely pro-MAGA funded, network and legal support group that is independent of uniparty to support our Representatives.
As a MAGA man I shall: — -Not vote for or give money to the GOPe or its decepticon agents. – -Support those candidates that demonstrate a desire to uphold the concepts and ideals of America First.
-Spread the word to others-to the best of my ability-about why MAGA is the right path for the future of this nation.
And never stop reminding people that the 2020 election was stolen by fraud.
Well, I’ve seen the constitutional shaving/bending/ignoring escalate since the early 1990s. I have hung lanterns in the north church for years, with most listeners taking what Sundance refers to willful blindness (until THEY get screwed by a political judge). People today think constitutional and natural laws are as constant as the sun, ever dimming each day until they whine that there is not enough to see.
Luckily, there are a LOT of us who see/saw the lanterns and can be leaders in securing the 2nd (hopefully bulletless) American Revolution. Maybe it can be coined the American Restoration.
We are in the minority due to stolen elections. Period. Full stop.
Any other focus is just shiny object distraction. “Squirrel!” noise.
I watched every state special hearing the state Republicans held on election fraud in December. WI, MI, GA, PA, AZ, NV – absolute jaw dropping.
Nothing matters or will ever matter without this being dealt with.
EXACTLY. We have permanently LOST THE POWER TO VOTE.
Until we wrest away the powers now in control of us, NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
This is the ugly pile of stinking excrement in the middle of the room that no one wants to look at let alone clean up.
You are so right. These “cheats” will never willingly relinquish what they so flagrantly stole. They are hellbent on their agenda. Cancer never goes away of its own, short of divine intervention. And this cancer on the body politic will only go by cutting it out of the patient. Uncle Sam has terminal cancer. Unless its dealt with in the most radicle way our Republic will die.
Ayn Rand’s quote, “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
Denial of the consequences of ignoring reality is what will doom us–sooner or later, if we stay with the abuser, we will end up dead or in a psych ward.
Agree , and on another note that is somewhat related, we need to stop using the word “Transgender.” The REALITY is that one cannot change (transition) their sex/gender unless someday someone can figure out a way to change chromosomes. Meanwhile, the REALITY is that transathletes do not really exist. Instead, the reality is that biological males who want to pretend that they are females do exist and they should never, ever be allowed to compete against women in sports, or share intimate quarters (showers, lockerrooms etc.).
My granddaughter said the neighbor was a girl. I said , no. He’s a boy. She said his mother said he’s a girl….I said, they are all pretending.
Say it like it is…… they are pretending.
Until these politicians become “only as good as their last vote” and not their years of service, things won’t change.
Vote on how they’ve acted recently, not in their entirety.
the Uniparty Clowns will read here for feedback
of their latest moves
then they will figure out some new material
and try again.
must suck for them as
the game is exposed and no escape !
At that big presser with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell said that the electronic voting machine system was mainly a service the machine manufacturers sold to incumbent officeholders: “You install our machines in your precincts, districts & states and we will guarantee your incumbency for as long as you choose to hold office.” Remember how Elliot Ness busted up illegal stills and supplies of beer & whiskey? The same needs to happen to the crooked voting machines. Literally, put the ax and the sledge-hammer to the crooked machine system. Return to pen & paper balloting.
i’m voting with a hammer next time !
I have no reason to ever pull a lever again !
Elliot Ness vs the “steal-easies” and “dis-steal-eries”
LOL great turn of phrase.
A survey was conducted a couple of years ago, please forgive me for not remembering when or who did it and for not having the time to look it up, when Congress’ approval rating was about 17%. The question was who or what is the problem, and Congress was determined to be the problem. But when the follow up questions were answered, it was perceived by the people answering the survey, that they thought their own local representatives were doing a good job; but everyone else’s representatives were the problem.
There you have it. My folks are okay. You need to get rid of yours. We all need to recognize that anyone who has the stench of the DC swamp on them for more than 5 minutes is the problem. They ALL need to go.
I have never suffered from this particular delusion.
But then again, since I have lived exclusively in blue states except for a spell in Pennsylvania in the 70’s, I have never had a representative who wasn’t a DementoRat! None ever represented me for an instant.
That reminds me, I need to call the little witch who stole the election in my district tomorrow and give her some choice opinions about HR1…
does anyone here know the ins and outs of Ballot harvesting??
time to step up the game on this side
I have easy access to a few senior communities in my area.
where do I start??
This is why I have been saying for awhile that the dems are bullies, and the repubs are snakes…..which in my opinion are much worse than the dems.
Bullies can be dealt with, but snakes must be thouroghly defeated. This is why I support a 3rd party. If the good repubs want to join they should be welcome, but reforming the repub party is a lost cause.
“Plot Against the President” > patpmovie.com > Oct 09, 2020
Documentary on high treason, Pence stabbed Flynn in the back, then stabbed PDJT and all Americans > share Truth
Liz Cheney, to the GOPe, is the paradigm of what a Republican should be, what a Republican should believe.
The Republican Party was utterly lost, after Hoover midwifed the Depression, after the coming of FDR and the New Deal. They wandered 20 years in the wilderness, and then Eisenhower came, and invented the new Republican Party (with Nixon, and the much overlooked Henry Cabot Lodge, and a few key others).
To the GOPe a proper Republican is most definitely a globalist. They are huge believers in global institutions, and most definitely not conservatives. America’s proper place is to be the leader of the world, head and shoulders above all other countries, and that includes paying the lion’s share of the bill for all globalist institutions. To a GOPe member, this status quo has prevented World War III, has prevented communism from taking over the world, and has prevented the rise of another Hitler. To them, it has been a monumental success. Trump and all conservatives are fools or evil for questioning this.
This is the belief system of Bush 41 and 43, Nixon, McCain, the Cheneys, and many other insiders. I suspect the perfidy of Bill Barr was his way of defending the GOPe ideology. After decades of dominance, you cannot change their minds. We’re the fools for trying.
I think you have this bit wrong:
…America’s proper place is to be the leader of the world, head and shoulders above all other countries…
Globalists hate it when America wins.
However, the next part of your statement, about America’s being responsible for paying for everyone else (and the actual responsible party being us deplorables), was spot on!
Agreed, when I saw her out there it really floored me… It’s evidence that they really are out of touch… Even worse Scalise appeared on stage with her which implies support… Our leadership just doesn’t get it… Our pollsters have made clear that she’s radioactive and yet she prances out there arrogantly as if she doesn’t have a care in the world… I believe the Bush is still controlling the E Republicans behind the scenes and like McCain, he’d prefer to destroy everything if he can’t be in charge…
It sounds like you didn’t read Sundance’s article….
As long as we’re on the subject of reality, let’s talk about how the Congress is destroying and nullifying our Constitutional voting rights. Once JoeBama’s exec order on voting is implemented along with HR 1, we can kiss our Republic goodbye.
It doesn’t matter if our President Trump re-takes the GOP or starts a new party. We will never have a clean and fair election again.
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2021/03/09/democrat-election-bill-h-r-1-nullifies-constitutional-bargain-n1431162
The states must immediately sue for H.R 1’s blatant violation of the 10th Amendment, before the ink of Biden’s signature dries on the copy at his desk.
If SCOTUS refuses to hear THAT case, or votes to uphold the new law, then REAL insurrection is justified..
Civil Service Unions need to be busted.
Stop with giving money to people.
The National Treasury is being embezzled.
Anyone want to give up your home, your money, your life?
They are quite content behind the barbed wire fence.
Take off your mask tell them to kiss your .
God help us. We need all the help we can get.
This train went off the track along time ago.
this reminds me of what Chuck Schumer said years ago on a leaked phone call, i’m paraphrasing “I do whatever my Caucus tells me to do”
Liz got the nod from leadership to do what she did. As did those RINOS that voted for impeachment. There was no punishment for what they did from GOP Leadership. Only the States Republicans did something, censure. Only states will be able to do anything, and that’s primary and remove them from office. So it’s up to the Voters in their states to kick out the RINOS. If that doesn’t happens, we’re stuck with garbage RINOS.
They are two wings of the same ugly vulture that wants to see us dead and pick our bones. We don’t need EITHER PARTY.
We need Americans being Americans led by and represented by Americans.
We are out of time.
While on the topic of the UniParty, basic b*tch Sean Spicer was pretty unwatchable on Newsmax yesterday because he was trying his hardest to get the base riled up against the latest stimulus bill to desperately get the base back into a mindset of R vs. D. It doesn’t work anymore. We all can see it is about MAGA vs. UniParty. We’re not going to be riled up into sending funds to NRSC, NRCC, and RNC to save us from the Dems when they just preserve RINO’s (and the UniParty).
Maybe this has been discussed, but if somehow the path was cleared for Donald Trump to rightfully
return to the presidency, which as we all know he won hands down, when would his term begin?
Assuming the presidential term commences January 2021, would his return prevent him from contesting in 2024?
Interesting.
Per the view of the ” institutional Republican party, I admit that people like me ARE the problem
Part of the problem is the only other choice on the ballet is a liberal communist. Or just don’t vote. Hell of a choice.
Here is my take. A professional politician is a misnomer. There are no professional politicians. We can demand fealty from our elected leaders as professional behavior, but we will not get it. Politics is a very messy game and it consumes nearly everyone who decides to play.
Those who remain steadfast to their principles instead of trying to find their place in the hierarchy will discover that there is no place for them in the hierarchy of big league politics. Demonstrate that you are adept at the things that matter to the survival of all politicians and you will be given a position in the power structure. Adherence to principles is basically just part of a political stage show designed to help with obtaining a higher position on the ladder. Being a great fundraiser allows you to achieve top positions in the legislative hierarchy. Being the best at speech making serves only a self interest. The subject of the speech is to gather wealthy supporters who can be moved by the positions and therefore improve the politician’s standing among the other politicians of your Party. Being a great fundraiser allows you to achieve top positions in the legislative hierarchy. Nothing else really matters because money can win elections.
The only break with this system is if the people are well informed and do not get bought in the next election. Democraps are working on bypassing the whole electoral process and transforming it to the politics of hierarchy within the Politburo.
I no longer refer to myself as a Republican but as a Conservative! The two parties have become like the legendary two headed dragon. Two heads with one body and no brain. This creature is a denizen of the Swamp and under the control of the Deep State!
Its simply amazing President Trump Probably received over 80 million votes….
What did Cheney receive? like 100,000 200,000 votes to win her seat?
And that the way she should be treated.
What can she bring to everyday Americans except waterboarding and more war?
I would really love it if Sundance would create a “pinned discussion” or one that could be called up by clicking on an icon – where everyone could share their ideas on how to try and defeat or weaken this totalitarian monster that wants to kill us. Everything from companies to support/avoid, spending, education, media, politics, how-to ideas … you name it. What are you doing in your daily life, even little things, to resist and fight back.
People mention good stuff within the comments but once the topic ages, it’s out of sight and out of mind.
I think it would do a world of good if we had an easily accessible “living” discussion on “Making A Difference.” It might be a positive counterbalance to what feels hopeless at times. Some optimism maybe. I know I could use it. There is a lot of brainpower and ideas on CTH. I would like to tap into it!
Does this make sense?
The USA Titanic has a gash in her side. I think the term “normalcy bias” was coined then, when 3rd class passengers were locked below decks and rather than acknowledge the impending tragedy, with a smile on their faces tucked their children into bed as the water was rushing in around their feet. I think most of the motivation to people thinking I want to be lawful, are people that cannot consider that this whole mess is water rushing in around our feet. It’s too horrible. It can’t be happening. Take heart, it will collapse under it’s own weight of incompetency and insanity. The bad news, it will give us all a large dose of misery. I think it will make us that come through it stronger. The Democratic Party? Isn’t.
This is why I think if Trump is not going to go 3rd party option which I do kinda understand the reasoning behind he we should at least demand independent minded type of caucus group with its own leadership and support. We are close enough to the republican party to work on most goals but at sametime need separated lines. That way when the stupid party does their stupid stuff we can point to them just like the dems. We can also work together to protect eachother and push our shared ideals without being tarred by the repubs BS.
Keys to success will be CONTROLLING our own funding and being choosy with who we allow to share the banner NO TRAITORS just rock ribs down for the struggle and willing to work together as a independent unit to force our agenda forward. We can then recruit easier no one has to abandon the repub party and its infrastructure and repubs can work with us within or kick us all out forcing a open battle.
“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.”
For the same reason I was called a troll here when I said, with substantiation, that nothing significant was ever going to happen to any of the Spygate perps, that all of the “investigations” were being intentionally slow-walked to run out the clock when the entire, detailed investigative path had been laid out for them in detailed, heavily footnoted books like those from Dan Bongino who, BTW, even admitted he was a fool to believe anything would happen. That reason – an aversion to the loss of HOPE that a massively corrupt system could be corrected via the mechanisms of that system.
By replacing the RINOs? Which would be what, all but 49 of the 212 Reps in the House who are in the Freedom Caucus and maybe even some of them? How many in the Senate? With the so many thereby required unbought and unbuyable pols who will magically appear and bypass the vetting process of the Uniparty and their lapdog media which so easily manipulates our noses in their smarter-than-they-are phones (aka, mobile propaganda distribution device) idiocracy?
By voting? “The Government™” isn’t something you can vote for because it is, in reality, the vast unelected administrative state which is present at every level of government and the unelected lobbyists who effectively own the comparatively few politicians found at every level of government, all pretending to be in control. The Princeton University 2014 study proved that and this video illustrates it:
From:
A STRANGE GAME – the only winning move is not to play
7 Feb 2021
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/02/07/a-strange-game/
Excerpt:
There is absolutely no one in Washington DC looking out for the long-term best interests of the citizens. It’s solely about power, control, and enrichment of themselves and the oligarchs who put them in power.
Not one decision is being made looking out further than the next election, as these corrupt captured faux representatives divvy up the spoils, as the country spirals further into debt, while the Fed printed 40% of all the money ever printed in U.S. history during 2020 – with 2021 on its way to new records. The insanity of the monetary and fiscal decisions being made by Powell, Yellen, Biden and a congress filled with narcissistic myopic mathematically retarded troglodytes is enough to make a sane, rational, critical thinking American scream in agony at the devastation, strife and economic wasteland we are leaving for future generations.
I find myself increasingly ignoring the daily blather of posing politicians, fake news pundits, “medical experts”, self-styled financial gurus, twitterati, and government drones. Why should I get outraged on a daily basis by the actions of a presidential administration I consider illegitimate and central bankers doing the bidding of the oligarchy, as always? At this point I feel like blurting out Crooked Hillary’s famous angry outburst during the Benghazi hearing – “What difference at this point does it make?”.
I know there are many still believing, if the GOP can just win back the house and/or senate in 2022, they can get the country back on course. Others are waiting for the victorious return of Trump in 2024 like MacArthur’s “I shall return” moment in the Philippines. Some still believe the Qanon pablum and are trusting the plan. They are badly mistaken, as the country is too far gone, and must crash and burn before it can possibly be rebuilt.
How can you defeat an enemy who controls the presidency, congress, mainstream media, social media, major cities, major states, the military, FBI, CIA, DOJ, and the courts?
I have thrown in the towel on believing we can vote our way out of this mess, as Washington DC is ruled by the Uni-Party, beholden to globalist billionaire oligarchs, the upstart Silicon Valley billionaire censorship tyrants, and the Deep State snakes surveilling all our communications and controlling the narrative through propaganda and suppression of our First Amendment rights.
There are no white hats coming to save us. It is now up to millions of truculent, disagreeable, angry, deplorable citizens to undermine the establishment and force this empire built on a foundation of unpayable debt to collapse. It might seem like a daunting task, but each individual act of resistance is like a grain of sand added to the unstable pile. No one knows which grain will trigger the catastrophic failure of the system. We are all capable of becoming the straw that broke the camel’s back.
If millions of individuals Go Galt and Starve the Beast, one transaction at a time, withdrawing our consent because we believe those governing us are illegitimate, the State lacks the enforcement power and means to punish people they cannot find or identify as criminals. This is guerilla warfare in a modern technological dystopian world. Each of us has different life circumstances, financial capacity, and constraints, but everyone can contribute something to toppling our oppressors. Here are some thoughts. I am sure you can creatively add to this list:
Thanks for the share. I enjoyed the read. Spot on.
“She is a feature not a flaw or mistake; and the GOP totally gets it.
The Republican party believes the conservative voter base of the party is the problem, not the leadership. Please accept that as an empirical fact or we will continue to have discussions that are misinterpretations of motive. From the mindset of the institutional Republican party YOU are the problem, not Liz Cheney.”
Perzactly.
Article: “… is not because the GOPe are stupidly disconnected from their base … the GOP totally gets it.”
Exactly.
And.. the exact same thing applies for everyone that posts (fairly frequently) that the GOP are “timid” or “incompetent” and the like. No, they aren’t.
They’re playing their role; and by “allowing” them the excuse of being cowards or incompetent, “we” give them a pass to continue doing so.
They’re more than happy to be labeled as chickens or idiots. Meanwhile (with many distracted by the ruse), they continue to faithfully advance the cause of the Uniparty.
Starve the beast.