If 2022 was not the apex year for the era of great pretending, then we remain sitting in a handbasket – destination, full speed ahead.
When asked for the topic of a ‘big picture‘ podcast this 2022-year ending, the obvious answer from me was We Need to Quit Pretending.
For the past two years I can only encapsulate the entire social, political and socioeconomic dynamic that surrounds us by saying we are living in an era of great pretending. Why? Because nothing else adequately explains it.
A recession is no longer two negative quarters of economic growth. Elections are no longer defined by votes cast, but by ballots counted. Meanwhile, women are claimed to have penises and people will argue -strenuously and with commitment- that men can give birth to babies.
Simultaneously, vaccines are no longer about medicines to avoid viruses, and Americans have some moral obligation to fund the administrative salaries, pensions and expense accounts for a nation of European politicians, in a country that few taxpayers could find on a map.
We must pretend the occupant of the oval office is not a dementia patient, at the same time we must pretend the Dept of Homeland Security and FBI is not telling online speech platforms that identifying the dementia patient, as a dementia patient, means you are a domestic violent extremist. The absurdity of the pretenses are off-the-charts.
However, on the upside, we now see even blissfully ignorant people starting to realize something is wrong when their electricity and heating bills quadruple, while the same system of governmental caretakers are telling us to embrace a new earth friendly normal of $12 dollar eggs. We been knew, but more are now knowing – thank God.
History provides reference points, and prolonged pretending never ends up in a good place. So, there is room for optimism on a couple of points.
First, there is more support than ever for the ‘burn it all down‘ approach. Whereby we keep the basic U.S. Constitution in place and shred every other institution created that has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
This includes both the DNC and RNC wings of the UniParty apparatus. I mean, really, at the core of it, what do we have to lose? Why not just get rid of the dysfunctional systems that abuse us.
Second, in a weird way, we are in a rare space where we can feel the history around us. Normally we would have to look in retrospect at the events as they unfolded to recognize the inflection point historians would use – not now. We can look around us right now and have full confidence the most influential voice in the next two decades will be the man, woman or entity that starts openly and publicly calling out this ridiculous pretending.
How messed up does society have to be, and how low to the ground does the actual bar have to rest, in order to realize the most important and influential person in our lifetime will simply be the one who stops pretending? Ultimately, this is the source of my optimism for the future.
When it becomes so easy to deconstruct the madness simply by pointing out the reality, eventually anyone can do it. In an era of great pretending, when you speak factual and pain truth, people thirsting will come for the sanity. Yes, there’s only so much hypocritical nuttery that can possibly fit into the social fabric of a nation, and we’re full.
I see that dynamic starting to play out now. Mainstream media are openly mocked everywhere for being the Baghdad Bob’s they are. The MSM credibility and influence essentially destroyed by the Potemkin villages and Eco-chambers they built around themselves.
The congressional J6 committee is yet another example of a proclaimed thermonuclear ICBM missile that ended up delivering a contrasting reality. The fading whistle & pop akin to a dysfunctional bottle rocket.
There’s no help on this pretending issue coming from the political side of the American spectrum; sneeze that thought into a tissue and flush it.
The big movement that will end this era will come from ordinary people laughing, mocking and belittling the pretenders.
I do genuinely believe this phase is well underway, albeit we are in the beginning phases of the great mocking.
Whenever possible, we should do all we can to fuel both mocking and shame when discussing the great pretenders. There’s only so much ridicule they can take before they must change course. Ridiculing is another way to throw sand in the machinery. Again, I think we are beginning to see that pendulum shift taking place right now.
Evidence for my optimism can be found in the most obscure places, including this paragraph from a recent NPR article:
…[…] “Only 15% of people eligible for the Covid booster shot that targets the omicron variant have gotten it — a rate that is even lower than the perennially disappointing rates for flu vaccine uptake. Vaccine fatigue seems to have spread to other shots, too — including those to prevent measles and polio — according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.”
Think about it. “Eligible for the Covid booster” means that 85% of those who took the COVID-19 “vaccine” are not taking the booster. Eighty-five percent of the people who took the shot have stopped pretending the covid shot had anything to do with public health. That’s 85 out of 100 people who took the shot, not taking the booster. That’s a lot of simultaneous pretense quitting.
Yes, 2022 was another year in this great pretending era, but along with it comes a new enlightenment for a whole bunch of people. From where we sit at the end of this year, it looks like the pretending has apexed.
Eyes are wide open; people are starting to be intellectually honest and more curious.
Yes comrade rebels, slowly, albeit painfully slowly, there is hope emerging.
thank you, Sundance . . .
d’ya mean like it’s all downhill from here and that’s in a good way?
We’ve witnessed an entire governmental class turn aside after gain. Creating institutional bribery and turning Justice up-side down. It’s all about the money they’re printing for themselves.
All the schizophrenic, dangerous, and strange behavior is a natural off-shoot of the immense amount of pretending that is required for such selfishness.
Yes indeed, the Age of Great Pretending is a living monument to the Power of Truth and Honor.
GODSPEED PATRIOTS WORLDWIDE:
2023 is going to be BRILLIANT!
NEVER.GIVE.UP!
Happy New Year friends,
GOD = PEACE
Stop pretending that the enemy isn’t within?
Good start ..
MAGA hat is free speech
He should be there momentarily for a interviewLIVE: From Mar-A-Lago – New Year’s Eve With President Donald J. Trumphttps://rumble.com/v231ljo-live-from-mar-a-lago-new-years-eve-with-president-donald-j.-trump-123122.html
TRUTH
@ilpresidento
BIG FIESTA @ MAR-A-LAGO TONIGHT!!! FBI NOT INVITED!!!
😂 😂 😂
We don’t need no stinking invite. We got the badges! Just like before!
BEAUTIFUL!!!😍😍😍(AND MELANITA LOOKS GOOD TOO!!!) 😂 😂 😂
A few Q&A as President Trump and First Lady Melania enter the New Years Party at Mar-A-Lago
https://rumble.com/v23d2zu-beautiful.html
Politics is war by other means.
We are at war and our soldiers (politicians) all almost all traitors…
Well, if politics is war by other means-the inference being that we are essentially at war-then it would behoove one and all to understand that when at war, anything goes.
Inter arma enim silent leges
No it is not pee! It is recycled body fluid. You are an extremist if you don’t drink it. /s
Goes nicely with bugs.
plain
Yet pain works too.
There is historical precedent for Sundance’s thesis, namely the Emperor with no clothes.
And it took a child to cut through all the pretending to tell the truth that all could see. Only then did the mocking happen.
But I am not sure that is a historical precedent. More of a literary precedent.
The biggest pretending that I have seen today was on “A New Year Awaits” right here on CTH.
It is the pretending that Military Tribunals (which are alien to common law and justice) in 2023 (almost here) would be a good and wonderful thing that we should all be wishing and praying for, when in plan fact any such thing would be like the J6 Select Committee on crack and would be directed at Donald Trump and his major supporters (maybe even Sundance if he has gotten on their radar) , and likely Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson too. .
To think that CIC Biden, SecDef Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Milley and Pentagon Gang would run any Military Tribunal against Biden, Pelosi, Obama and their supporters/lackeys is pretending to the point of delusion.
But “Citizen’s Justice Tribunals” on the other hand, run by the actual and intended victims of the corrupt federal system, i.e. “us”…
In the right time, place and situation, could be of great value.
Well said!
Pretty surprised about only 15% getting the booster shot. That is good news!
Let’s hope they’re not getting flu shots, or any other shots for that matter. When Big Harma is determined to ‘depopulate’ by injection, it behooves us to avoid any and ALL injections.
I’ll never take another “flu” shot again. Bring it bitches!
As Sundance said, 85% of people who took the original vaccine (some of whom had taken a pre-Omicron booster as well) said, “No mas.” This doesn’t even include the 30-40% of Americans who declined the original jabs, so it is likely that 90-95% of Americans are rejecting the Omicron jab. Sorry, Pfizer and Moderna, your piggyback ride on American taxpayers is over.
The faster we hit that cliff the better… Embrace the suck and let’s get this fight going folks.
At this point any delay is just giving them more time to make the next Shi t sandwich they plan on force feeding us.
When the mockery and rebellion begins to hit full tilt, those 87,000 well-armed and deeply dedicated IRS agents will take a hand in putting some quietus on the har-dee-har. Piss-ant FEDGOV bosses don’t f+k around when it’s on the line…
Took a road trip today.
Among all the fireworks I saw a man with a small canopy that was selling amo.
Looked like he had plenty of amo and plenty of customers.
Preparing for fireworks of a different nature.
87,000 well-armed and deeply dedicated IRS agents would be well advised to make their final arrangements before they start something that there is not enough of them to finish. They are likely not the only ones that don’t f+k around when it is on the line.
Happy New Year to Texas from Alabama. Center the round on the dot. Godspeed!
Rino’s gonna fire the 87k…so they say😉
Probably fund body armor for the lot of them. Safety first and all.
and neither will we.
See my above comment. Bring it bitches! You can only die once!
TRUTH President Trump
@realDonaldTrump
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of the Radical Left Democrats, Marxist Lunatics, China loving Coco Chow and her Obedient Husband, Mitch, and Clueless RINOS, who are working so hard to DESTROY our once great Country. More importantly, HAPPY NEW YEAR to the Incredible, Brave, and Strong American Patriots who Built, Love, and Cherish America. The REAL leaders of our Country will always remain FAITHFUL and LOYAL to you. The USA will be back, Bigger & Better & Stronger than ever before. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109611314478969621
“Coco Chow”
that should be well-received
Screw ‘em. God bless Donald Trump for not giving a flying flip how they receive what he says. If the truth hurts, so be it. It needs to be said. The time for niceties are long past.
God bless you, President Trump!!
Sand-gears. Saltlife. 2023
Watched an interesting interview on Tucker Carlson Today when he interviewed the person behind the Twitter account (Chaya Raichik) for Libs of Tik Tok. I admire her bravery and courage and giving a one finger salute to “journalists” like Taylor “TayTay” Lorenz for their stunning hypocrisy
My goal for 2023 is to be brave and call out some of this garbage for what it is. I’m done being quiet and I’m sick and tired of being afraid.
How dare she call herself TayTay!
Chaya Raichik gave her the moniker to minimize her (and I hope it sticks). CR wouldn’t be caught dead in the same room with Taylor Lorenz because (and I agree with her) she’s just not a nice person.
I was kidding because TayTay is pretty much Taylor Swift, so I definitely know she was mocking her.
Haha I didn’t know that nickname was for Taylor Swift (bit of a generation gap – now I’m admitting how old I am!).
Replay Gimme Shelter instead of Taylor not to swift.
Only one way to go after hitting an apex…
Be ready for the times to come.
I’ve been repeating everything my grandparents told me about how they survived the 1930’s living in NYC to all of my siblings and those cousins who will listen. Have been doing so for awhile now. Praying and prepping.
As long as the communists have control of the media, the pretending will continue.
If the media are a clown show, but no one is watching, does the media exist?
I do agree that some are waking up.
My vaxxed neighbors had Covid during the holidays. Uh huh.
(I took them a nice care package..
quercetin, zinc, c, d, emergenC, soup..lol)
Good for her though. She told me she was never getting one of those shots again.
She said it did not prevent her from getting Covid and the shot caused her to have other health problems.
She admitted I was right all along and asked me how I knew.
This opens all kinds of doors.
Thank you Sundance for being a bright light in this dark, deceitful world.
And Sundance and Treepers, I wish you all a blessed and joyous New Year.
I took so much heat for the past few years because I took a “wait and see” attitude with regard to getting the jab (and lost some friends in the process). I feel the same thing. People who were extremely critical of me seemed to have softened their attitude somewhat. I don’t think people who got it (and the subsequent boosters) would ever admit that perhaps they might have been caught up in the hype? I dunno. I just hope that when the next “wave of whatever” comes our way (and no doubt – it’s coming), people will be a little more cautious and not jump off the bridge because everyone else was doing it.
Hey, a girl can hope, can’t she?
Blessings to all who share a branch here at the CTH. Happy New Year!
You’re not alone. I walked away from a “friend” after doing my best to be patient with her fears for an entire year. (We saw each other once during Covid at a “picnic” in a parking lot, each sitting “socially distant” in our own cars shivering with the windows rolled down on a cold day while eating our lunch. After that, she was “too scared” to see me … for over a year.) Meanwhile, she would call up and, knowing how I felt about the jab, announce “I’m getting my first shot! I’m so happy!” … “I’m getting my second shot! I’m so happy!” I’m getting a booster! I’m so happy!” … Of course, she went on to get Covid, which she announced mildly in an e-mail which I didn’t see until months after she sent it.
Because the final straw came when all the Catholic churches opened up again, made the Sunday Mass obligatory once again, and dropped all mask mandates … when I asked her if she would be okay with seeing me in person if we attended the same Mass in public, my “friend” could not give me an answer. Not a yes, not a no, just dead silence. So that pretty much killed the friendship.
Why does it always seem that those of us who are on the same wavelength, whether Treepers or other people who seem to be of like mind and kindred spirit, always seem to live far away from each other? One answer I’ve gotten was that God has strategically placed us where we can be like a lighthouse of prayer and example to others, surrounded by people to pray for and be an example to.
Yes, we can hope. Hope is a virtue.
Faith, hope, and love!
And seeking first the Kingdom of God,
which means following the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Interesting thought. God allowed persecution of the early church so it would disperse from Judea into the entire known world
I like the way you think! 🙂
My vaxxed and boosted brother ditched his mask at our Christmas gathering. This is progress!
I’m not sure if these people are really over it, or they’re just enjoying the respite until the ENEmedia freaks them out all over again.
I’m glad you had a nice Christmas gathering this year! 🙂
“Pray, hope and don’t worry.” Padre Pio
For sure! Love St. Padre Pio! 🙂
Good advice!
Here is a similar thought. My small church decided to stay open. We met quietly but not secretly. The governor in my state was sending state police out to get license numbers in church parking lots. We did not care. We were going to meet. We provided streaming for those that wanted to stay home, but people that want to come were welcome to come. We never had a mask mandate, but if anyone want to wear them, it was fine. After a few months we were back to what amounts to normal.
We could only do this because we are small. Small congregations have an advantage over big ones. The big mega churches were a mega target. There was a protection in small.
We have learned of a few other small churches like us from a wide variety of denominations. All were fine with no problem from the state.
God protected us and we have every intention of honoring that.
One more thing. People tell us we were courageous. I tell them it had nothing to do with courage. It was all about what was right.
It had everything to do with putting God first! 🙂
One day, we all may be called to show courageous like this. Praise God let it be so!
Pope Benedict XVI blessed us with the Mass again. Now the Globalist Francisco is pretending it didn’t happen. It is all part of the plans of the Build Back Better cabal.
Amazing video, at minute 25 we see J6 rebels taking back their Church. Thank you for posting MTeresa.
Must have been Kentucky.
I was so disappointed in how some really dear friends handled the pandemic. Some were/still are afraid of their own shadow. I’m very sad for them and what they are missing out on in life and relationships.
The future is so uncertain, and we are living in some very dark days. I admit that I am afraid of a lot of things, but I know that God walks with me always and will not leave me. Sometimes, I see such courage around me and hope and pray that when faced with such challenges, I’ll rise to the occasion. I think this is what Sundance says about living your best life.
Yes, there is still courage and hope to witness! 🙂
Maybe your former friend is ashamed of herself.
I tried to warn people…yes, their were painful consequences…no regrets, I did try.
My son lost his job for refusing the jab…very tough times…and most people criticized him.
I am so thankful he had the courage to reject it.
It has sure been interesting.
Have a joyous New Year.
In the old days, mom got sick with whatever the family got because that’s what moms do.
In today’s world, I guess mom would be considered a good mom if she locked a sick kid in the attic and fed them through a trap door.
Yes, I keep reminding people of what we did in the past, trying to encourage just
using some common sense. Good grief, some of the nonsensical thinking…
I not only took care of my own kids, I took in their friends whose parents shunned them. People were absolutely delusional in the year leading up to the poison death shots.
The only thing that I am worried about IS the poison death shots! These people have desecrated the human gene pool!
That is great.
If I were those kids I’d never look at my parents the same. Ever.
EVERYONE I talk to feels it. However “it” is defined. Call it the calm before the storm, the pause at the crossroads, etc.
The other thing is these greedy, corrupt thugs in D.C. have destroyed any connection, bond, whatever between the
people & the government. There’s nothing holding us together anymore.
It’s US vs THEM.
God help us.
At this rate, I’m hoping for a sink hole that opens up in DC and swallows everything. Even the monuments, sorry to say.
It. Is. Time. Take that to mean what it may. General Washington, where are you?
I pray for all of the souls taken to early and families torn apart. The trust imparted to governments and institutions , will not be recovered for generations.
Did it have to be this way? Rhetorically, yes!
Biden better watch out, I’m telling him why
Elon Musk’s got the truth and he is coming to Washington town
Pulling Biden’s …. mask … down is on his list
Biden will throw tantrums way more than twice
As Elon Musk does slice and dice
Truth Teller is Elon Musk and he is coming to Washington town
He knows Biden is a liar
He knows Biden is a psycho
He knows Biden is an ass hole
He’s been told by Yahweh just what to do
So Biden better watch out
I’m telling him why
Truth Teller is Elon Musk and he is coming to Washington town
Truth Teller is Elon Musk and he is coming to Washington town
The other day I had a conversation with an “I don’t know why but I’m a democrat, but” and ended the conversation with there are two very hard things for people to come to grips with.
Wishing all the Treepers a glorious 2023. I’ve had a great 2022 I’ve offended every leftist I know and improved my marksmanship.
Hoist one for the Captain.
Many tight groupings!
The group photo showing Liz Cheney….omg, the look on her face could set off car alarms and make dogs howl.
She has so many pathologies it would make Freud’s knees knock
And her demented stare could stop a cuckoo clock
Now picture her naked!!!!!!
And curdle all the milk for blocks around.
Resting B face.
Not at rest.
THAT was a hallway full of demons.
Hillarys twin.
Oh I wish she could see your post! LOL
Funny, LOL – big grin on my face 🙂
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
2 + 2 = 5
Where have we seen 2023 before???
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
Four.
The ministry of love
The ministry of peace.
fellow perole.
Engineer – the glass is over designed.
Maintenance guy, get the right size glass.
Photographer — Needs the Rule of Two-Thirds
So, there is room for optimism on a couple of points. First, there is more support than ever for the ‘burn it all down‘ approach. Whereby we keep the basic U.S. Constitution in place and shred every other institution created that has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Aside from outposts like CTH and a few other places, I’m not as confident there is anywhere near the necessary momentum for a “burn it all down” approach. I wish it weren’t so, but not convinced this mindset is as pervasive as it needs to be.
But secondly, and more importantly, the scorched earth approach Sundance envisions (and that I support) carries with it serious, even irreversible after-effects. Though my caution should not be interpreted as reluctance or diffidence, just a note of warning that we should be careful what we wish for.
In other words, if you’re going to build a fire, have fire extinguishers available.
Build them a fire, and they will be warm for a night. Set them on fire, and they will be warm for the rest of their lives.
– Sun Tzu’s Great Nephew, Moon Yoo Tzu
Touché
Thank you & happy new year!
The Declaration of Independence contains similar admonishments, but declared our independence.
When the welfare state goes broke, your scorched earth policy will be the last of our troubles.
We buy time until then..
And no “bail-out” will come.
As Joe Dan of Frog Legs say, save America, save the world.
In every sense..
The biggest pretense of all is that we’ve had elections from 2018 on. Dropping out of the Matrix just means you understand how bad things are. All of the raw power is still in the hands of the bad guys…so much so that many are hesitant to even ask what to do next.
That picture is the best!
I called my cousin tonight to wish her a Happy New Year.
My cousin is a 72-year-old female who always believed what the Cable TV told her; in fact, she was addicted to the TV. She isn’t particularly intelligent and has only a high school degree. She isn’t subscribed to any websites. She doesn’t have critical thinking abilities. She ‘was’ a serious pro-vaxxer (two shots & one booster). She has one friend. She is in the lower range of income. She voted Democrat all her life.
What a surprise on the phone to hear her rant against the TV networks. “They are all liars”, is what she kept repeating. No more boosters for her. She is now leaning pro-Trump.
Yes, change is coming. If it can happen to her, how many more?
“She isn’t particularly intelligent and has only a high school degree. ”
Look at the bright side. If she had a degree in Ethnic or Trans Studies, instead of listening to you, she would be even less intelligent.
I don’t see how that statement about only having a high school degree should be assumed to be a negative. I have never seen any evidence of any kind suggesting that having an “education” beyond high school makes a person more intelligent. Never.
This country is being run right now by people with endless numbers of advanced college/university degrees.
Why on earth would anyone think “only having a high school degree” (diploma) is a bad thing?
Most of the really stupid people I know are college graduates. And some of the stupid people are “only” high school graduates. The level of the intelligence is not determined by how many years they sat in formal classes.
Look how many college educated people are teachers who are grooming the children and insisting that a man can get pregnant…..Ridiculous.
“Most of the really stupid people I know are college graduates.” Conversely, most of the really successful people I know barely finished high school!
I think they were too smart for college and impatient to get out into the world. They forged their own paths to success.
I was “only” a high school graduate until I was nearly 60. I had a very successful consulting career based on what I knew and what I could do. I was only asked for my college degree one time, a quote for a job involving a government contract.
I finally finished my degree after 40 years from the time I started. I finished with a 3.98 GPA in an engineering related degree program. I did this for one reason, my family never let me forget that they were disappointed that I did not get a degree, so I proved I could. I am thinking about getting a PHD for the fun of it.
I really should not have cared so much what my family thought, but I sort of wanted to prove it to myself as well. Anyway, I should have known. Most of my family are still Democrats so they have been wrong a long time about a lot of things.
I got a fancy college degree and a doctorate, it took me 10 yeras to start to get over it. I could have stayed on the ranch. It’s got nothing to do with intelligence, but it takes a while to get your common sense back.
Thank you for this post. Your cousin sounds exactly like my mother who DID have a college degree, but thought and did just as your cousin. Before my mother died, she was horrified that my father, who had just enough college later in life to qualify to get his CPA license which wasn’t much, intended to vote for Donald Trump. My mother watched “The View” and Cable news religiously. My father, who did not get to see Donald Trump elected, had many get up and tell us all at his funeral that he was the smartest man they had ever known and relayed stories of his intelligence as if we would be stunned by his intelligence as they had been.
There are smart people and there are those that just aren’t unfortunately, but they do have the ability to learn as, thankfully, your cousin obviously has. Thank God for that. Let’s hope more do!
Never know, maybe CTH is just what she needs.
Lightning strike?
Mostly age produces this type of enlightenment.
The young are the silly dreamers.
I wouldn’t judge people who “only” have a high school degree. Many who have college degrees are not the sharpest tacks in the room and represent a group that has obediently followed every order from the corrupt government thereby demonstrating a lack of critical thinking skills.
Remember…we’re the 30% red-pilled on the right.
The other 30% are squarely in the insanity dimension of left side, without any obvious pill.
That gap in the middle, preoccupied with whatever they do to avoid everything and not think critically, will need much more payne. Much much more.
Pour me another glass of piss and Kung Hei Fat Choy to ya’ll.
Yes, the pretending may eventually stop. But after so much damage has been done. Families divided. So many unnecessary deaths including a significant increase in suicides. Lost personal wealth that may never be recovered. Lost trust in medical, political, media, educational institutions never to be fully recovered. Along with the stop in pretending there needs to be accountability to the individuals who drove the pretense.
This is the hard part-there is so much damage to absorb and the difficulty for normal people is that their natural instinct is to make it right. I have come to the place (after trying and failing at other methods) where faith, hope and love is the only response to that feeling of helplessness in the face of this insanity.
There are only two parties in this country now: Purebloods and Lucifer’s Children. Pretending the RNC inc and DNC inc are valid parties is just…… well pretending.
THAT is exactly right. Good job Driver!
So, I got the shots because I was dead center of the high risk category. Am I now Lucifer’s child? Or did you mean something else?
The J6 Committee did what it was always supposed to do. Deliver a bunch of nonsense to DOJ who will hold it until we near primary season. Then they will indict Trump on a bunch of nonsense charges. The RNC will then rule that Trump cannot run in its primaries because he is under indictment. They will stop Trump from running at all costs. If he wants to run 3rd party they will gladly accept that as it guarantees the leftist Democrat will cruise to victory. It’s hard to see any possibility of a good ending here.
Write Trumps name on whatever primary ballot they give you along with not voting in any other races on that primary ballot except for Trump endorsed candidates.
That might be OK because if third party happens the amount of republicans that also get voted in also will also crater.
I swore I’d never vote for another Republican after the the 2020 elections. (in fact, I wrote to my State Republican Party leadership and told them that in a scathing letter).
In fact, I’ve been advocating not voting at all as it does not good. Example: Arizona.
However, I would reconsider voting using your idea-write in only Trump as an independent. Of course, people will say that Democrats will only benefit from such a strategy.
Like the Democrats aren’t already benefitting from election fraud?
By voting for Trump as an independent-and anyone he endorses as an independent-it would crater the Republican Party. It’s said they GOPe would rather lose to Democrats than win with America-First voters. Ok, I’ll be delighted to assist in their loss.
The problem with a third party challenge to the uni-party has always been momentum. There was never before a personality with the power to swing the electorate away from the corrupt two party system. Mr. Trump is one of the few people who might actually be able to pull that off.
Unfortunately, he is too full of himself and sees himself as the saviour of the Grand Old Party. The problem is Donald Trump has hobbled himself with his unreasonable promotion of his own genius at saving the world though the Warp Speed program.
Still, he might be the one to do it IF he isn’t actually controlled opposition and he can get his head out of his ass in time. There are plenty of people in this country who are miles ahead of the true President, but don’t have the resources to affect any meaningful change. Sad for the rest of us that can see the truth of what is happening. Maybe someone will come along and light the fire to burn down the corrupted state.
You made me laugh for the first time today with that glass full of pee. Thank you, Sundance.
Pretending stopped with President Trump.
Sundance
and many others
taking a stand and speaking Truth.
Elon dropped the fake media wall, but real media is elsewhere…CTH, etc.
There’s no stopping the truth. It will be a fight but we will win.
The country will be different. Much will be taken to the ground.
It’s a process, hard and heart wrenching at the same time.
May Sundance and Team and all Treepers have a blessed 2023.
To be honest, I would lay decent odds that by the summer of 2024, the large American cities will all lie in ashes. Probably from the actions of their own inhabitants.
Look at the looting in the middle of a blizzard in Buffalo. Now imagine the DS running the Cyberpolygon tabletop game for real. Run a desperation move, false flag it to Russia or whoever the current favorite Emmanuel Goldstein is then.
Cities in ashes would, to be fair, solve the election rigging problem in advanceof 2024. No Detroit, no stolen Michigan. No Phoenix, no stolen AZ. No Atlanta, no stolen GA.
A very great cost, but not really that difficult to imagine.
Those residents will still cast ballots to be counted.
Just because the residents are dead does not mean that they will stop casting ballots.
I’m not good with words so this may be clumsy. I don’t need someone to publicly call out for me this ridiculous pretending, as Sundance mentioned. I have never signed up or participated in social media. I have never had a desire for it nor seen a need for it.
I am greatly puzzled that so many have fallen under the social media ‘spell’ for lack of a better word. I have seen those disparaging it while still succumbing to its addiction. It’s like the smoker or alcoholic lying to themselves they can quit anytime they want.
To stop the pretending quit the addiction to social media.
I’ve been saying this for years and could not agree with you more!
The addiction to mainstream media is just as pervasive. Propaganda is propaganda.
Agree – I don’t have a smart anything (from what I’ve seen they’re not very “smart” anyway). My family teases me about this and have tried to talk me into getting a smart phone. I don’t do Facebook – it is a colossal waste of time. I have a total aversion to all this tech stuff – particularly userid’s and passwords. I loathe them and will not sign up even with my medical systems. I ask them to please either send me an email or call on the phone – you remember, those contraptions that allow people to talk to each other.
Well said, dunewall, and not a bit clumsy.
“We been knew, but more are now knowing…..”
“We been knew” What language is that?
Ebonics ?
I believe that would be “We be knowin'” 🙂
Is it a regional idiom?
Covfefe language 😂
It’s Sundance’s blog so he can use any language he prefers.
Colloquial English. It’s great fun 🙂
LOL…. noticed that, too…. my first thought was… oh well, it is New Year’s Eve after all… but in reality it was probably just a slip of the cursor.
It’s Sunspeak for told ya so.
It’s creative language, like when my daughter called my bra “a bobbazeer.”
Kinzinger looks like he just drank the specimen thinking it was Jameson and water!
So funny as I checked my email alerts I see the title of this post “Pretending.” Listening to Jackson Browne’s song at the same time “Pretender.”
The entirety of Western Civ had become a Propaganda Paper Tiger. It will end but like anything built on a house of cards the collapse will be devastating. I can’t link it (F Word) but a MUST READ from Kunstler.com in his latest post “Lend a hand” is something all of us should absorb. 2023 looks to be the year the lies stop working. Not sure if it’s good or bad but it must happen for humanity’s sake.
Happy New Treeps!!
The only thing that makes me feel better is that in the collapse, they will go down with us! So the joke will be on them because they think they are exempted for some unknown reason. They think they are smart but they are actually as dumb as a box of rocks.
Can’t say I’m not against a little Schadenfreude myself. Unfortunately it’s the only way for the betterment of most. A society made to serve the upper classes is no freedom at all.
I read Kunstler as well and agree that it is a must read. I thank God for Sundance’s post. It saved me from despair.
I feel better now. Sundance, you have a rare talent for describing not only the problem but also the solution.
Happy New Year to all!
I’m not sure, but the inflection point might have been when the majority of people simply decided they were done wearing masks. It wasn’t long after compliance dropped to around 10% that they dropped their mandates. I know it doesn’t seem like it was a turning point right now but it’s actually pretty profound and I think there’s a chance that a few decades from now we look back and see that’s when people realized that you can’t make 300 million people comply if they just cease to do so
No one rules if no one obeys.
Nailed it! Happy New Year!
“Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender” – Jackson Browne
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This is a truly excellent article, Sundance!
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
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Ha ha ha 😏👍🏼
“Again, I think we are beginning to see that pendulum shift taking place right now.Evidence for my optimism can be found in the most obscure places, including this paragraph from a recent NPR article:
…[…] “Only 15% of people eligible for the Covid booster shot that targets the omicron variant have gotten it — a rate that is even lower than the perennially disappointing rates for flu vaccine uptake. Vaccine fatigue seems to have spread to other shots, too — including those to prevent measles and polio — according to a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation.”
Think about it. “Eligible for the Covid booster” means that 85% of those who took the COVID-19 “vaccine” are not taking the booster. Eighty-five percent of the people who took the shot have stopped pretending the covid shot had anything to do with public health. That’s 85 out of 100 people who took the shot, not taking the booster. That’s a lot of simultaneous pretense quitting.”
This explains why my new young, Holistic Dr. went off on me out of the blue a few weeks ago because I declined to get the flu shot, vaccines, and a prescribed med which I don’t need. She was overly dramatic in her yelling at me and told me that supplements don’t work and that the vaccines and meds are clinically studied for a long time yada, yada. She said since I won’t take her “requirements” she didn’t know if she could work with me again. When I asked about since when are shots requirements, she started to backtrack a bit on that. She was way out of line and over the top dramatic. By the way, she saw my husband a week later for an appt., didn’t realize that we were married, and treated him completely different even when he firmly declined all shots and med(s) like I did. He called her out on her terrible behavior towards me and that she treated him differently. We realized that she is not who she originally wrote about herself in her bio (it has since been changed since we first saw her). We will be looking for a new Doctor some time next year. Needless to say, this experience put a bad taste in my mouth towards Doctors which was already waning thin.
Yeah they’re not doing it (taking the follow ups). Lord one must think back to this time last year and the intense pressure to take the originals. Member winter 2021 was supposed to be death and despair for the unclean. Seems like forever doesn’t it?
This tells me the herd is uneasy now. I also believe this is why the pressure to commit to the experiment subsided. TPTB know this and are aware that it might not be wise to push. Last thing they need is a bunch of the herd coming to places like the Treehouse. Upset the herd (mob) and see all hell break loose. It’s always been this way.
I’m afraid that any and all vaccines are Mrna and won’t be taking them. The government blew trust right out of the water!
concur any and all things given to the masses are suspect
My Honey and I have the same doctor. I go with him to his appointments as he has trouble remembering things. When the jabs came out his family pressured him to get it. I asked him to wait for the doc’s opinion, fully expecting the doc to say “no way.” He told him to get the jab.
Being old, overweight, diabetic, high BP, etc. and living with a “essential worker” I am high risk. When my appointment came up about a month later, I presented the same doc with a list of supplements (from Frontline Docs) that I was taking and asked what he was willing to do for me when I got covid. I was totally against the jab by that time as I did my research. I was pleasantly surprised that his protocol was not “take tylenol and when you get worse go to the ER” like other docs were spouting. By that time he had treated 100+ patients…nobody died, nobody hospitalized. He told me to give him a call so he could send out a nurse to do a regeneron infusion.
Summary: We did our two weeks of lockdown March 2020 (Texas). To keep immune systems up we gathered weekly with four other couples (close friends who had reason to stay extra safe as we all have parents in their 80s and 90s and/or compromised immune systems). We’re all including the parents still plugging along. One death…not in our group but a dear friend, died of a heart attack, 63 year old one week after his first jab.
However, my best friend fell for the mass psychosis as she only watches antennae tv. She did not leave her house at all in 2020. After her first jab in early 2021 I was able to coax her out into the yard and 2022 she entered the outside world in June. She is now eagerly waiting for her sixth booster (no kidding). She had covid between her 4th and 5th booster. She says she is grateful she didn’t die of covid while I am shocked all the jabs haven’t killed her.
It seems the various “vaxx” lots contain varying levels of toxicity. It could be she just got lucky and hasn’t gotten the really toxic batch. If she keeps taking them, her number will eventually come up.
I look forward to the time when the evils of post-modern relativism is rejected by the people as a whole…. and we go back to calling such things what we have always called them before…. lies, deceit, vain imaginations, madness and balderdash.
Happy New Year, everyone! May God bless you in it as together we grow in the grace and knowledge of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ the King!
We know what we know, and from it we must grow. Food shortages will increase, food costs will continue to go up, people will lose homes, cars, rentals, and jobs. Need and want are two separate things.
Take the time to study your options, and then opt out of the insanity.
Happy New Year! My seeds are sown and fruit trees in the ground. Grow lights, frost protection, fertilizers, pesticides purchased. I have my well water, I can cook from scratch, can, and preserve. I make my own yogurt, and cheese, and I don’t need no government. All I need is my property tax paid and they can damn well leave me alone!
I hope you are right, Sundance. But you see more happening than I have actually seen happen over the last 35 years. People seem to be tuning out the political nonsense around them, but they are still behaving like the lemmings they were taught to be in the Government’s grammar schools. We have a whole lot of Communist brainwashing to remove and weak minded people will cling to what they learned in those grammar schools no matter how senseless those lessons were. The absolute majority of the children in this country come from broken homes and they will create another generation with even more broken homes. This has been going on for at least four generations and it is only getting worse. We knew about these trends more than 50 years ago and we have been unable to even address the situation, much less do anything about it. I will believe in some kind of awakening when people start relearning the value of a good family environment. My State, Colorado, is still dumbing down and has a long way to go before there will be any noticeable uptick in epiphanies here. Here on the last day of 2022, it is hard for me to look forward to 2023.
my mnemonic 2022 media.
look who the bartender is.
I say the ‘burn it all down’ approach..
really.. i thought long and hard about this.. (at least four minutes..)..
just by itself government is innately corruptible..
and we know Republic based governments last around two hundred years or so..
the former U.S. governance.. which is now 247 years old.. has definitely run its course..
the processor is bogged down by too much previous coding.. antiquated scripting.. and old programs way past their freshness date.. it’s time to clear the cache..
it’s time for a reboot..
Constitution 1776..
Version 2.0
Unfurl the Bonnie Blue.
This guy does some truth telling mocking in an original way .. you kind of expect him to go off the rails – sometimes.
The most traumatizing events from 2022!
Awaken With JP
Published December 31, 2022
https://rumble.com/v23ae6y-the-most-traumatizing-events-from-2022.html
Love JP Sears!
Thanks for posting! He’s always awesome!!
I regret that I have only one up-vote to give.
Amazing video, love his delivery. We had so many things happen that were papered over by the Mockingbird media.