The NBC media panel for Meet the Press is absolutely apoplectic about their inability to destroy President Donald Trump and his supportive base of pragmatic, awakened Americans. The pearl-clutching and fear are palpable, as the leftist roundtable contemplates future elections that may deconstruct decades of election control, manipulation, fraud and falsehood.
What the panel of John Heilemann, Marianna Sotomayor, Kimberly Atkins Stohr and Brendan Buck really fear is the pesky system within our constitutional republic we call ‘federalism’. They need to keep their attacks against Donald Trump cast in the role of eliminating baby Hitler simply to avoid confronting the flaws in their own ideological arguments. They fear freedom. They need the collective. Individual liberty is against their own sense of self and purpose.
If you listen through their nonsense (not for the faint of heart), all of the panel apoplexy boils down to individual states in control of their own elections. What they fear is federalism itself, which makes sense when you remind yourself there are two generations of leftists who were taught that collectivism (the we are the world crap), where only one centralized federal government, of all consuming power and authority, should be allowed to make decisions. WATCH:
While it would be fun to debate a group like this, the core of their fear is a diminishing ability to control. As CTH reminds frequently, the need for control is a reaction to fear. This applies in all levels of social society from elections to COVID responses. Elites need control, because at their core they fear the inherent inequity of freedom.
Sally Struthers pleads into the camera for donations to feed the starving child in her arms in Africa… leftists swoon, and the U.N. activates. Meanwhile, some pragmatist watching the commercial leans over to her husband and says, “I wonder why the cameraman didn’t just give the kid a sandwich”?
Control is a reaction to fear. Think in terms of politics and society – the fear behind leftist politics is the fear that someone might withhold things (opportunities, money, whatever) from me. Fear that if you live your life in a way I dislike that it might affect my life. Fear that if you get that job, there will be nothing left for me. Fear that if you make tons of money, it means there’s less money out there for me. So, people who believe in leftist ideologies seek control as a means of trying to create guarantees and safeguards against those circumstances they fear.
The DC UniParty knows exactly how to exploit that fear, and both Democrats and Republicans love to provide those guarantees and safeguards.
Modern “liberals”, leftists, try to control the world and people to enable their comfort and happiness. Which, as we know, is an endless quest. Trying to control others does nothing in the way of making oneself happy. By extension, voting in this mindset so that government can try to control others will also – shocking – not lead to a happier, more comfortable life.
The conservative (and moderate, independent, but for the sake of expediency, the conservative), on the other hand, relies on himself to meet his own needs. And the trade off of being free to live his life as he wishes, is also understanding that he has to make peace with how you live yours. By extension, aware that he wants to be able to hold onto this liberty and freedom forever, the conservative votes accordingly, so that everyone can remain free and in charge of his or her own life.
But here’s the crucial difference, perhaps, particularly where misery on the left stems: The conservative does not worry, so to speak, about you. The conservative knows that you were born with the same access to self-love, self-empowerment, self-determination and self-reliance that we all were, no matter the circumstances into which you were born. (Think about the millions of people this country has allowed to crawl up from poverty into prosperity – the conservative KNOWS this is possible.) And the conservative believes that if you want prosperity, or a good job, or a good education, you can make it happen – but you have to work hard.
The conservative hopes and intends that the free markets bring you all of the affordable and positive opportunities and resources that you need. The conservative also knows that on the other side of that hard work is great reward – material and, more importantly, emotional, spiritual and mental.
The conservative understands that not only is it a waste of time to try to control you, it’s actually impossible. Humans were born to be free. And if we put a roadblock in front of you, you’ll find another way around it. So we see attempts at control as a waste of resources, energy and time at best, and at worst, creating detrimental results that serve to hinder people’s upward mobility or teach dependence. We see much more efficiency, as well as endless opportunity, in leaving you to your own devices. And we want the same in return.
This is where modern democrats misview conservatives as heartless. But really, the conservative believes that there is one and one path only to sustainable success and independence – and that is self-empowerment. All other avenues – welfare, affirmative action, housing loans you can’t actually afford – ultimately risk doing a disservice to people, as they teach dependence on special circumstances, the govt, or arbitrary assistance (that can disappear tomorrow). And the real danger – they will ALWAYS backfire, and leave the recipient in equally or more dire circumstances. Any false improvement will always expire.
The conservative believes in abundance. The liberal believes in scarcity.
The conservative believes man is born free and will be who he is, no matter what arbitrary limitations or rules are put on him. The leftist believes man is perfectible, and by extension, believes a society at large is perfectible, and command and control is justified in the quest to a “perfect” utopian society. (Sounds familiar!)
The conservative tends to be more faithful – and not necessarily in God, but in the ability of the individual to find great strength in himself (or from his God) to get what he needs and to be successful. Therefore the conservative has an outlet for his fear and disappointment – trust and faith in something bigger.
The leftist believes the system must be perfected in order to enable success. Therefore disappointment is channeled as anger and blame at the system. Voids are left to be filled by faith in the govt, which they surely then want to come in and “fix” things.
And therein lie the roots of love and fear respectively. For the conservative, when life presents great struggles, he knows he has the power to surmount them. Happiness stems from internal strength and perseverance. For the modern leftist, when life presents great struggles, the system failed, therefore they were at the mercy of a faulty system, and they believe that only when the system is fixed can their life improve. Happiness is built on systemic contingencies, which they will then seek to control or expect someone else to.
One blames himself. The other blames anyone and everyone but himself.
And there it is. There’s where the meanness comes from. The leftist ideology causes that person to cast anger at the world when things go wrong or appear “unfair.” He constantly chooses only to see the “injustices” – and that makes for a very miserable, mean, blame-casting existence.
One last point that we have seen over and over and over with many (not all) of our leftist friends: Extreme stinginess and cheapness.
In our conservative community growing up, we were always taught that you give when people are in need – make donations to the Red Cross when there’s an earthquake, donate to charity when you can afford it, etc. Even if it’s just $50 here and there – it’s the right thing to do. Conservatives see this as the responsibility that comes with gaining from the capitalistic system; if you happen to benefit greatly from the system, it’s your duty to give back.
The liberal, on the other hand, does not seem to share this same viewpoint, at least not in my experience. They perhaps think this is linked to believing in scarcity, and that your dollar comes at the cost of mine. So it seems that liberals, on some level of consciousness, feel guilty about not being voluntarily charitable. Therefore, to write off their guilt, they outsource their “generosity” to the government by voting for wealth re-distributive policies. Thus, the liberal cheats himself of the joy and addictiveness of direct generosity. (Not to mention – redistributive policies ALWAYS end up disempowering those who they’re meant to help.)
We think the Treehouse is a good armory for those who are doing long distance walking for the sake of our nation. We hope you’ll think so, too. Find yourself a good branch….or just pull up a rock to the campfire.
The demonization of conservatives and free thinkers has a purpose. You know what’s next, right? Look at history. This has all happened many times before.
The media is the enemy of the people, America and Freedom, they must be destroyed.
I wish I hadn’t watched this right before going to bed. This is what nightmares are made of. The supposedly mainstream “unbaised” press lecturing on how gullible millions of Amerians are because they watch Fox and Newsmax. Umm….no…it’s because we KNOW you are lying to us.
More people are seeing it for what it is and don’t like what they are seeing. What they see is depressing and makes them sick. When they get sick enough, they will look to Trump as the leader to bail them out.
It is really that simple. There will be no; “I don’t like the way Trump talks or the color of Trumps hair”. There will only be, “Get us out of this mess”.
This coming year is going to be the most interesting. It will be the year Americas enemy within is destroyed and America will get back on its trajectory when Trump was in the Oval Office.
” It will be the year Americas enemy within is destroyed and America will get back on its trajectory when Trump was in the Oval Office.” <– I’m not seeing it. Dominion still has domain over the important elections.
If we don’t get rid of mail-in ballots and Dominion voting machines, the country is lost. Then the world is lost because the USA is the last country standing… barely.
I think the only way to get rid of Dominion, is with sledge hammers,…and axes.
More fundamentally, we need to get rid of the Governors and SoS’s that signed the purchase orders, and the legislatures that relinquished, or never recognised to begin with, their authority and responsibility to oversee election procedures.
Unless we fix THAT, the PEOPLE, the machines are secondary.
Machines don’t rig elections, PEOPLE rig elections.
Your suggesting Dominion will still be around. IMO, Dominion will not be around. There is no way the Constitution stands with Dominion. Don’t you think Trump knows it?
Trump would not be going forward without his number one objective being getting rid of dominion.
I purposely choose 1 Democrat on the ballot. It’s always some minor office(to me). I live in Florida, and although my county is considered a Republican county, I don’t trust our county commissioners, or school board. In my mind, if I throw one democrat into the mix, my ballot won’t be switched.
Don’t you wonder why there’s a resistance to purge voter rolls? I don’t see why any election supervisor should not do this purge yearly.
Please refer to Sundance’s phrase “whatever it takes” along with “putting sand in the machine”. Is the picture becoming more clear?
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Oh my. I juat watched. This is dumbfounding.
Tim Russert is rolling over in his grave at how much his show has turned into a worthless leftist/deep state propaganda machine.
Doubtful… he would have moved much farther left so he wouldn’t be excluded from Washington cocktail parties…
… and Tim was soooooo pleasant!!! Todd always sound like an excited POd high school student.
Another home run article by Sundance, couldn’t force myself to watch the panel discussion,…had a deliscious dinner, but didn’t want to taste it again, as I ‘lost it’…maybe later.
Dutchman, I suffered through the panel, Being somewhat of a sadist where liberal pundits are concerned. I found the fear of people like you and I most satisfying
Operation Mockingbird was exposed during the 2016 election, and cemented during the 2020 election.
…the genie is out of the bottle…
Masterclass in projection by the criminals now conducting the cover-up.
Fear is the foundational element for the desire to control. That much is true, however this fear runs deeper than stated. You give Leftists too much credit for having altruistic motives. Their basic motivation is not altruism, but avarice. What truly brings about their fear is lack of faith in God, and supplanting that faith with faith in the very falible so-called intellectual elite — or psuedo-intellectualism. Because mans’ knowledge is transitory, or ever changing and highly fallible– unlike God’s knowledge, which is infallible and absolute — when Leftists put their faith in the philosophies of men, they only increase their own fear and the desire for more control. They can not see the absurdity of their own self-deceit and intellectual arguments. Example: Hawkings, once said that with the vastness of the universe, there must be super intelligent life out there, yet he rejects God.
You cannot argue with emotion, you can only assuage it. Fear is an emotion, thus our inability to argue with Leftists who are grounded in emotionalism. True faith in God, is the height of intelligence. Men who have mans’ knowledge as the base they build upon will ever faulter. Faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, is a foundation which can never fail. Some people’s faith does faulter because they do not yet comprehend the true nature of God. But if they continue to press forward, with an eye single to the glory of God, their faith in Him and their knowledge of truth increases. Truth is not transitory.
They’re not even fighting Trump. They’re fighting reality, and reality is going to crush them without even noticing it’s under attack.
I agree they are not fighting Trump. They over threw the United States constitutional government by the use of a fraudulent election. This is outright treason.
They used a manmade Covid-19 bioweapon to create a deadly pandemic which creates the necessary fear for the use of write-in ballots which can be fraudulent. The use of the Covid-19 bioweapon constitutes a crime against humanity.
How they thought they would ultimately get-by with all this is beyond me. Now that they are being exposed and more exposure to come has them in panic desperation. Their arrogance and evil over loaded what little commonsense they may have had.
If liberalism is about control it would explain why weather makes them so crazy. Global temperatures go up and down, there are droughts and flood, hurricanes and tornadoes, AND THERE’S NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT. So they come up with anthropogenic climate change and decide that they have to be in control of more or less everything.
I find men being obsessed with the weather channel, need to be in control, and it’s the one thing they cannot control.
Very insightful! Thank you for posting.
I’ve always wondered why the end times as discussed in the Bible involved so much destruction of the planet and even the sun and stars. For several reasons, I believe the end times are very near (mainly, because I see Satan trying to usurp control of man’s free will).
Besides God showing His power and might by manipulating His creation, I wonder if perhaps He also wants to show these earth worshipers that they can’t control anything!
Sundance is right…..that video is not for the faint of heart. I was able to get to 1:09, and had to turn it off.
when i read a story the first thing i do is check the source & if i see new york commie times, communist news piece-of-work [cnn] and/or many others than i know it’s bs… it’s scary that a paid actor in a lab coat or talking head in a spiffy suit can influence so many useful idiots… short end of a long story a stranger asked my “expert” opinion on a famous heavily advertised “product”, after being cornered for a opinion, i said it’s a piece of garbage & you were scammed… in shock they said “but the commercial says ********…
“While it would be fun to debate a group like this”
‘Debate’ is not the word I have in mind.
I watched the tape, and not once were the words The Constitution or Constitutional rights ever used. The panel kept referring to Democracy, and those that believe the election was stolen don’t believe in Democracy. If believing in fair elections and the Constitution, which the panel and Todd equated with believing in”propaganda”and “lies”, then 70 million Trump voters are a basket of dupes. The last sentence spoken on this tape was a huge slap to Steve Bannon, and once again proves the fearfulness of the left. Sotomayor seems particularly incensed by elected officials listening to their constituents.
When did SNL come on Sunday Shows, still not good.
I believe freedom is inherent equity, not inherent inequity as the article states liberals fear.
We all have a choice, we can take the red pill or the blue pill.
I’m not surprised at how many chose the blue pill
One can tell the word is getting out and “some” people are starting to understand how the fascist government is starting to affect their own personal lives (hello, food, gas and utility prices). Also, and I think this is important, we should
replace the word “communist” with “fascist” because, again “some” people think perhaps “socialism” or
“communism” isn’t too bad (go figure).
I was at lunch with two liberals, one a good friend who keeps her mouth shut about President Trump and
another who is a ditz head liberal casual friend.. She didn’t bring up Joe/Hoe, but she did ask me what I thought of President Trump and his lies. I told her that although sometimes I didn’t like what came out of his mouth, he
was always truthful and it was refreshing in a politician. I also told her that he was the best president we ever
had regarding policy. The kicker – I sighed dramatically and said, “Remember gasoline at $1.87?”
No rebuttal whatsoever.
I have not heard one person say one good thing about Joe/Hoe. And I am around many people through working
with customers around the country, church, grandchildren’s sporting events, etc. No one says a word.
To me, that is very telling.
Years ago I remember when Rush Limbaugh started calling that show ‘meet the depressed’. Brilliant!
An attack needs to be organized, structured and mounted against these and like-minded people: they are usurpers.
These people need to be identified, labelled for what they are, refuted at each bend, harassed/shamed -destroyed as political/cultural actors.
Excellent!
These people need to be identified, labelled for what they are
That has been done for years in books, columns and comment sections like this one.
refuted at each bend, harassed/shamed
By who – us?
destroyed as political/cultural actors.
It is obvious by now that we – the Polite Right – don’t have that in us.
Not that hard.
At the gas pump, the clubhouse, the checkout line, etc., etc., it’s more than easy to casually note “crazy times…eh? These folks in charge are nuts. Can’t believe I have to chose between gas and food on the table.” Time available, this can easily be expanded. Others may be listening. It’s easy. And it works.
Think out of the box. There are small acts that are preparatory.
There’s a lot going on. At some point the cabal will get too far ahead of itself.
Start with George Soros.
It’s interesting that these media types attack Trump for denying the 2020 election results. It’s exactly what they did after the 2016 election in declaring that Trump won because the Russians interfered and tipped it his way. Pot meet kettle!
“If you listen through their nonsense……”. I can’t. I just can’t. I know, I know, –Know Thine Enemy–(and what they’re up to) but life is too short and precious to cheapen it with these scumbags.
And they should be scared. They threw over a twice duly elected president and his government, that’s treason. President Trump is not as important than what it means for our Republic going forward. In the long run it’s our children and grandchildren and what we leave them.
This is a case of flim-flam men believing their own con. Once the con is fully exposed it vaporizes. Inside the swamp bubble they speak to one another and look at their countrymen as dirty Walmart shoppers. More and more we see them as cornered swamp rats and the desperation is becoming palpable.
We know, you know, the world knows the election was a fraud.
How much more fully exposed does it have to be?
The “world” knows. The “world” doesn’t care.
Got it. You were in one of the first lifeboats off the Titanic.
How is a violent, or destructive protest against “X “delineated from an insurrection, or uprising, against “X”? Would someone please ask the narrators.
Thank the Lord for The Treehouse. Simply stated-It is the best.
We love you Sundance!
You leave out that leftists are just mean and LIKE making and watching other people suffer.
… an ”adviser to Paul Ryan and John Boehner ”
… bipartisan panel Dem style!
… citizens are getting involved in the political process… this takes us to : ”(…) a darker and darker place (…)”
”Steve Bannon doesn’t belive in democracy” … what I see is Steve Bannon urging The People to get involve in their political system… because you see, they didn’t before! I guess this amounts to insurgency… no, no, just leave it up to us, the ”Fair and Balanced” Media!
This discussion made me smile. I am glad to see that they:
I always said; we find ways around every roadblock they emplace. It’s in our DNA. Great post Sundance. Keep up the fire.
Talking head freak show shoveling propaganda that would make a pile of manure smell like perfume.
Don’t insult the manure!
You might drive down to the country store, see some old men playing dominos and chatting. The subject may be wormer, or sheep, maybe weather or politics.
You don’t like it so you walk away.
It’s going on all day every day all over the world.
Why spend one precious second listening to these demonic lying trash on Any station or channel?
A 20-Million-Man-March on Washington would change the dynamics overnight. Media –ALL MEDIA– keeps the butts in the chairs where anal-ysis presides
Honestly, who still watches this NBC show? It’s been dead to me for a very long time. NBC produces no talking show that isn’t founded on Leftist propaganda.
MTP died with Tim Russert, who despite being a liberal Democrat understood the need to challenge ideas and offer differing POVs.
The way I see it, liberals think there is one pie that needs to feed everyone. Therefore, someone’s slice has to be made smaller in order for someone else to get their “fair share.”
A conservative will see that there is not enough pie for everyone to get a decent sized slice and say, “Let’s bake some more pie.”
You may substitute your favorite pastry or confection for pie.
The lack of self-awareness as they accuse Trump supporters of being in a right-wing media “echo chamber” is truly amazing to watch. Liberalism is a mental disorder with symptoms similar to Trump Derangement Syndrome. No cure.
“… Collective Media …”
The perfect description of the RAT lackeys masquerading as “reporters”.
They only exist in the media BECAUSE they are “Collective” and are incapable of understanding anyone (WeThePeople) who is not.
The liberal media is the propaganda machine for
the Democrat Party.
The Washington District of CORRUPTION should be prosecuted in total – except for the freedom caucus – for CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA. ELECTION FRAUD is the #1 issue in America today!
YES!!!
Do you notice the talking points pertain perfectly to the Obama Hussein / Biden Administration? The liberals instead insert the name Trump, and complain and cry about everything they are doing but blame someone else for all of it. This is directly out of Saul Alinski’s, “Rules for Radicals” book, and Hillary’s college thesis that she did on Alinski. Never overlook, whatever the Uniparty is blaming everyone else for is exactly what they are doing, then the press pushes the same narrative to the foolish sheeple of the US in an attempt to brain wash them and pile on the psyche warfare that continues.
We know better, we do not need to lie, facts speak 10X more than what the Uniparty or the media can push on us.
FJB
How to genuinely awaken those foolish sheep let is the question, but I think the resident is doing it!
One can only push a lie so far. At some point it will implode and scatter its BS on every participant.
This Meet the Press segment is Saul Alinsky on steroids. https://bolenreport.com/saul-alinskys-12-rules-radicals/
They are in panic mode, backed into a corner, and they know dam well a poo storm is on the horizon.
GOOD!!!
Did Stacy Abrams ever concede?
The conservative is willing to teach others how to fish…..
Doctor “Oz” is running for the Senate in Pennsylvania but first he has to explain this about his attack on the Constitution and the 2nd. Amendment:
https://thegunfeed.com/senate-gop-candidate-dr-oz-is-anti-gun/
Is he trying to ensure that the Democrat wins?
Democrats pushing marxist ideas and forcing them upon the country is just a farce, but the useful idiots that they motivate who work toward these ends, e.g., Burn, Loot, and Murder (BLM) and Anti-First Amendment (antifa) — not antifascism, are trying to destroy the country. The only problem is that socialist/communist theories never can tell you what is beyond the police state and genocide. They just want to tear it down!
I smell fear….oh boy these demonrats are on the run…
Ayn Rand was asked “Who will help the poor in the world you envision”.
Her reply was ‘You won’t be stopped”
Most liberals would change their mind when it is their money.
it’s a shame they don’t realize that it IS ‘their’ money, in the form of taxes, inflation, etc… can’t fix stupid, i guess