Let me qualify this post and question by saying this is something I have wanted to ask and write about for quite a while. I often ask this question to people I meet in general life discussion, and I am very interested to hear every response. Today is a great day to ask this…
Think back… So, you are living your life, doing what you and everyone familiar to you are doing in the ordinary and regular way of living your specific life.
Perhaps you paid some attention to the political comings and goings of things, perhaps not.
Perhaps like most comfortably invisible people you were just putting one foot in front of the other, and generally doing the day-to-day things that most would consider ordinary.
Then one day, for some unknown and likely not that consequential reason, something caught your attention. Something piqued your curiosity; perhaps you noticed something you wouldn’t ordinarily have noticed. Perhaps you heard something, or saw something, or were just in a situational space where something itched your brain as you looked at something, heard something or noticed something that just didn’t quite fit or sit right.
Perhaps that little something, or big something, caused you to look just a little bit closer at the story, event or moment with a little more curiosity than before. Perhaps you dug into that specific moment with a little more than a side-eye glance, and you noticed something. After looking at it a little closer, you realized that construct was not at all what it appeared to be on the surface.
From that moment forward, for the first time, you really started to question the ‘thing’ that was in front of you, and from that moment forward, you woke up to recognize that things around you, things you perhaps didn’t pay attention to before, were not what you thought they were. It was from this moment when you really started to pay attention and your political awakening began.
Question: When was that moment for you?
I am always amazed at the replies I get in real life to this question of when the individual awakening began.
For some it was at an early age, for others much later in life. For some it was recently, and for others it was a long time ago. However, for everyone there was that moment when it started, and it is completely unique to the individual.
So, on this day, Sunday February 19, 2023, a generally innocuous day in the grand scheme of things, I pose this question to everyone.
Yes, even all the CTH lurkers who read here and never join the conversation. The comment section is open for all replies with the general rules of on-line decorum still standing. Us old schoolers still use the early internet standards of on-line discussion, and CTH requests polite and civil conversation that enlightens, expands thinking and uplifts the audience.
I am genuinely curious and will be reading every reply because it’s really cool to see what that “moment” was for each person. I’m pretty sure the entire CTH community will also enjoy reading the unique replies to the question.
We all travel a different path. We all come from different, likely comfortably invisible, life experiences. And we all merge into this big melting pot of curious people who are looking deeply at the issues we face. Regardless of how each of us arrived here, the larger dynamic is that we likely share a common curiosity for the reality of our situation. It’s a safe bet to say that almost everyone reading this is in the top-tier of “high information” consumers.
My question is not what arrived you at The Conservative Treehouse, but rather what the moment was when you began looking around and realizing that things just didn’t seem to add up. That’s the origin of the journey. That’s the moment I am inquiring about.
Perhaps it’s a weird way of looking at CTH, but our fellowship is always what has been the most important aspect to this little corner of the internet. It’s not the content of the Treehouse, but the conversation on the porch that matters. You, the readers, friends, people who assemble here, are the important element. Not me and not the site admins.
That’s genuinely the way I have always looked at our fellowship, and that’s also the reason for every detail I put into keeping this little corner of the internet standing.
So, with that in mind, what was that moment in your life when you realized the social, political and/or media narrative, was not at all what it was presented to be?
Love to all,
~ Sundance

To be honest—it was the whole QAnon saga. I still don’t know what that psyop really was, but there was as enough shocking truth revealed, plus it was just so damn intriguing to read, that I was red-pilled to research my own truth. Trump and his first campaign and the presidency forced so many masks to fall and people to expose themselves. I found this site and so many other people who helped bring about my awareness. I am a natural cynic, so the silencing of voices that I considered credible was my first confirmation that a larger plan was in place to do real harm to the nation. It became so obvious to me that the corruption & evil was way more rampant than what I thought that I knew.
FYI…
There’s still a bunch of “Q” stuff on Truth Social
There’re still doing it.
I,too was intrigued with Q, learned much esp. Epstein’s shenanigans—never got so informed on that as Q posts on it.
I will freely admit that Q posts were of great interest and intrigue. I actually downloaded all the posts up until they suddenly stopped. The links probably don’t work anymore; however, the content of the drops remain intact.
Reading the 8-chan links blew my rather naïve mind. (Speaking of things better left unsaid and unseen). I was made aware of the true sense of evil that is alive and intentionally propagated in this world as described in in Ephesians 6: 10-18
The Armor of God10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
Q was/is a group of less than 10 people close to POTUS Trump. They used the public access information to start a group of people willing to put pieces together to see the last plan to overthrow the grip of evil against the US and world.
The idea was to start an information surge of people doing their own research, (as they should have been all along) and getting informed to start a ground swell of freedom cry again.
Future was laid out loosely among disinfo to throw off enemies so when things got really tough, the digital soldiers can comfort and also encourage others until the defeat of evil is complete. This is especially true once the internet goes down for a while which it will.
The informed researchers who followed the posts were able to spread the word to the masses asleep so there would be support when evil is overthrown lest this effort be in vain and it be worse than before.
Informed unity in opposition is what the deep state fears the most.
The purpose of q was to wake up the inquiring minds who want to know, lead them to want and look for the truth, and form a foundation for a freedom loving society to start again.
This is only one of the answers to,prayer when GOD HIMSELF announced His plans to clean the swamp around 1980 when He asked for prayer and fasting in DC in the mall. It sounded crazy then, but not now.
Every 8 years this was held and finally the last one in 2016 was held in Philadelphia. It indicated to me that the Capitol will most likely be moved at some point too.
Q was/is only a small (but important) part of this restoration of the US. How long will this last? Don’t know. There has to be a time of peace and safety for a while.
The alternative was far worse than any of us can imagine.
Long, long time lurker here… I had two…
First was 9/11 – got the sense that people outside wanted us gone and would whatever to do so. Started me on the path. The second was when John McCain “suspended” his campaign during the bank failures of 2008 – it made things clear to me that he was designated to take a dive and there was some higher authority pulling the strings.
Going to high school and college in the 80s and 90s I was a naive Republican. Sure, I listened to Rush but didn’t think about it too deeply. Republicans were for smaller government and against abortion. It was more like a sporting event and I was rooting for the team that best represented my values and for the team that I thought would fight to protect my individual freedom. I was upset with the results of the first Obama election but it was the second Obama election where I started to see that the Republican Party wasn’t really fighting for individual freedom. I ended up on Reince Priebus’ e-mail list (who was heading the RNC at the time) and started to see that the Republican Party wasn’t fighting for anything. They asked and asked for money based on the premise that “Obama bad. Republicans good” but not one e-mail mentioned what the RNC was committed to fighting for. Republicans lost that election when the economy was in the tank and it should have been a slam dunk. Republican “leaders” like Nikki Haley supported another term for Reince Priebus rather than calling him out for having no backbone and my eyes were opened that most (if not all) politicians were in it for themselves and not for “the American people”. I remained a conservative but began to distance myself from the Republican Party as a whole. I couldn’t unsee that all politicians are in it for power and money and that very few stood for anything. By the time Covid hit I could see very clearly from day one where it was going. It was immediately clear to me that they were going to blow up Covid as big as possible to use it to restrict individual freedom. And neither party would do anything to stop it. By then I knew that it wasn’t just politicians that were corrupted for the want of money and power but that media, academia and the administrative state were intertwined as well.
…..and the GOP is still not fighting for anything. Their silence now in the midst of all this chaos is now deafening.
Political Economy at Berkeley championed Social Democracy; Capitol Hill experience in DC with Ayn Rand turned things 180 . Personal investigation taught Rand was wrong about her cohort’s virtue and about atheism and Objectivism. Media gotcha ambushes of athletes at ‘80 Olympics, Rodney King sensationalism and criticism of Admiral Stockdale for not ‘looking the part’ showed true colors were agenda driven. Media mob behavior swarming Sen Warner with Liz Taylor like rabid animals at ‘80 Detroit GOP convention disgusting and dangerous. The Kennedy assassination, the Nixon ouster, the assaults on Reagan with the apologetics for the Clinton immorality served as litmus tests. 9/11, Russia Gate, Impeachments, the scamdemic, lockdowns, vax, stolen election, open border, Afghan surrender . . . The hardest part is converting the outrage, through accepting that we live in a Fallen World, into action for the Mission and His Kingdom. Jesus is the Answer – The Way, The Truth and The Life.
’90,. I was working at a job site where the foreman was playing Rush Limbaugh. The foreman actually came to me and discussed some of the things that Rush was talking about. On Friday, Rush preformed a caller abortion, about the most powerful radio there has ever been.
I had always loved radio, but politics was just white noise to me, but from that point on, I was a political junkie!!!
I then became a federal police officer. I spent an inordinate amount of time following and discussing politics. I retired early in 2019 due to family problems. In twenty twenty, we had the Rona, and the election that we knew that was going to be stolen, was being stolen. I had hope that the supreme court would iron it out.
But going into December, I was losing faith in the courts. My family problems were defeating me and I could see nothing in my life that had been worth while. I was drunk and stoned, sitting in front of the TV crying. Everything I believed in was being crushed.
And I saw it! This was a spiritual battle. Good and evil on an super natural scale. I thought that I can’t be on the wrong side of this! I can’t be on the side of evil, I need to get right with God!!!
It’s strange, because I immediately replied to myself “but I love my sin”
Over the next two months, I had the same conversation with myself many times. I would wake up in the middle of the night sweating until, one night, I said that I need to get right with God and I realized that I didn’t love my sin at all. My anguish had been accepted as a prayer. The Lord had saved me. A few weeks later, I decided that I should pray to the Lord anyway. It was three months later that I started to attend church.
And then I quit drinking and quit tobacco, and my life changed. I could have gone several lifetimes without being saved, it’s a miracle that the Lord saved even me!
I am blessed to finally have a worthwhile passion and a love for my neighbor. I now know that no politician is going to save us from the mess we are in. Trump was the best president I’ve seen, but our march to the end barely slowed with his best efforts.
Jesus is our only hope. And that is the story of when I saw the light!
God bless you all!!!
In this thread of comments, your experience has touched many of us. Keep sharing your living example of being touched by Him.
Keep your eye on the Asbury revival.
The tea party was close,
The MAGA picked up the ball ,
The Asbury spark will carry us over that line.
Mark my word.
Not a national unity , but the spiritual unity that will defy their divisiveness on a global scale.
God can go global too ya know .
It seems late in the game but thats how he rolls.
God Bless Pedro, welcome to your Eternal Family.
Just this week , the awards show with the devil worship scene complete with horns was just another reminder that you walk now in Sodom and Gomorrah. Walk with discernment, truth and wisdom, my friend.
hi Pedro
sounds like you have let the world spin you into depression…put your faith in the one who has overcome the world, this will all be sorted out, and the ones who stand firm in Him will triumph. The world is full of sinful, fallen people who only want their own way. God, who judges righteously will set things right. Meanwhile,I choose to stand and speak out about the dark side of our government. Each of us can make a difference.
Each of us needs to make a difference! It’s my hope that we will save some Americans!
The power of one ripples like a stone skipping on a pond. How do we make a difference? By being kind and observant as we go thru our daily routine.
My mother was an ardent Republican and generous in donating to the RNC. She got a 6 inch stack of scare mail daily of the type “The sky will fall if you don’t immediately send money to defeat the dastardly Democrats’ plan for XXX.” Every week, we had great conversations about books and gardening and investments, but I would shut her off when she started talking about politics because it was, to me, crazy. She had a stroke the night after Obama named Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State; she truly believed that the Clintons were pure unadulterated evil and I believe her fears helped to bring on that stroke that ended her life a month on life support later.
I was never interested in politics and didn’t watch television. I spent my time doing things – a job, a second job, involvement in church and community, and a zillion hobbies. Read and studied a lot of history.
In 2016, I was visiting a friend and told her that I just couldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, but was terrified about what I was hearing about Donald Trump. She started talking and talking about DJT and I took note. I came home and asked my minister what he thought. He also highly praised DJT. Hmmm. So I voted for him and went back to my oblivion, but I did notice gas prices were going down, the economy was doing well, a couple of small investments were increasing nicely.
I guess it was Covid that woke me up. An online friend followed the Covid statistics daily. She noticed the changes suddenly made, going back and adding “cases” to the Michigan numbers by Gretchen Whitmer. Other states did the same, sudden jumps in previous numbers that most people wouldn’t notice. So many businesses here closed and we were supposed to stay home, wear masks, and bow to the fear porn. I silently disagreed with several posts in hobby groups on Facebook and started actually researching, hungry for accurate information.
And realized that not only was the sky falling, but the house was on fire, too, and the firemen refused to do anything about it. Went back and read about Russia, Russia, Russia, the impeachment #1 hoax, and really studied the issues in the 2020 election. The election fraud got my complete attention. Then the censorship on Twitter and Facebook REALLY got my attention. I left Facebook, changed my party to Republican, and got involved in the local Republican group. Read everything and watched everything, conservative social media stories on free speech sites. Began to watch Tucker Carlson on Fox News live streaming and began to read here. By then, I was not completely surprised, but at the same time shocked at the implications when the Revolver News story about January 6 dropped.
During the Clinton presidency I became aware that the national press was just an extension of the Democrat Party. At that time the apt nickname for CNN was the Clinton News Network.
911 was when I realized that elements of our own government were openly at war with the United States.
I remember the video of W Bush at an elementary school where the teacher coincidentally had her pupils spelling words such as plane, must, hit, steel in a rhythmic almost satanic chant. George looked terrified like he thought his security detail was going to eliminate him in my opinion.
Then the instance of Comey’s investigation of Hillary where he laid out all the evidence for a sedition case against her and then declined to prosecute proved our justice department was totally corrupt too.
When Donald Trump entered the presidential race and the media behaved like hyenas.
This may sound odd but I became alarmed years ago, when public telephones started to disappear (from everywhere…. gas stations, courthouses, airports, train stations, schools, downtown areas, etc) and people were all being forced (figuratively speaking, of course) to carry personal phones.
Thereafter, I really began to notice unsettling manipulations in politics, in media, etc.
I thought the same thing when they started removing pay phones. My immediate thought was “why” was there such a push to remove those besides their lame excuse they weren’t being used.
Good point. Considering there is no direct legislation that one must carry a smart phone, they sure have done an amazingly effective job in convincing everyone to do so. Get smart, e’rbody. Dump yer phone.
I don’t carry my phone anywhere when I am home. It stays on my counter. I only carry it when going out of town on long trips and hate to have to carry it then.
Personally and socially, it was around 1997-1998. I became a single mother by choice in 1995 and didn’t think there was anything wrong in doing that. I was busy working full time, providing for my daughter and going broke. I started listening to Larry Burkett (the guy and organization from which Dave Ramsey got all his plan for getting out if debt) and to Dr. Laura Schlessinger. My views, habits and things I did changed a lot. I’m kind of happy I didn’t listen to Dr. Laura before then because I would never have had my daughter.
Politically, I’m not sure. It was after that although it kind of started then with Clinton and Monica. I supported Bush but not everything he did. Obama was a disaster and I couldn’t believe he was re-elected but during all this time, I felt kind of helpless and forgotten by politicians until the elections rolled around. I was listening to a lot of political talk shows locally on WBAL in Baltimore (RIP Ron Smith and Rush Limbaugh) and in 2015 realized President Trump was saying a lot of what I felt. I didn’t care about his personal life. I had made stupid and poor personal decisions over the decades as well. Jimmy Matthis was the Saturday morning host and in August he said Trump was a summer fling and all discussion and support would be gone in the fall and at least by the Iowa caucuses and SC primary. I distinctly remember I was doing the dishes and thinking nope, that’s not true. His campaign is when I started really, really paying attention.
I first started seriously questioning the status quo soon after 9/11/01. Despite (or perhaps because of…) just having finished 4 years at a prestigious university and 3 years of law school – until 9/11 I was blind to the truth. Needless to say my eyes are now WIDE open and have been for years. Thank you, Sundance (and other truth tellers) !
I was apolitical until Obama came along and discovered the left is vicious.
I saw Obama go abroad on trips and refer to us as “THEY” don’t like to travel. I saw how he was treated when he arrived in Cuba and knew he was totally against Americans and Cuba knew it too.
He secretly met with his hero Fidel and denied it, and his Leg-Humping Media let him.
Fast & Furious, Eric Holder, Lois Lerner 2-Tierd Justice, the forcing of CTH to change Servers.
Thinking back. 9/11 was the moment I started to pay attention. And it was for all of the patriotic reasons which were prevalent at the time. Yes, I wanted to make the Middle East a “glass parking lot”.
I was married and just had my fourth child 9 days earlier, and we were in our morning routine to get the older kids off to school when the TV showed the second jet hitting the towers. Stunned. Shocked. Numb. Angry. Utter disbelief that such an evil attack on innocent people could actually happen.
Little did I know at the time, but over the years I would come to believe that our own government and its leaders had a hand in it. Glen Beck, O’Reilly and yes, Hannity, were all involved in opening my eyes. I did not vote for Obama, but hoped he would be the healer and unifier that he campaigned on. Yes, I am naive.
Born in ’59, I was too young for Viet Nam, but had knowledge of it, as well as the JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations. I watched my 6th grade teacher cry when Nixon beat McGovern in ’72. Those events and others had given me an inherent distrust in our government but I could not put a finger on it.
It was not until I watched the “Splitter Strategy” in 2016 be explained and watch it unfold that I could actually see the strings. That would be my “Aha!” moment. Yes, took me awhile, I did not want to believe it to be.
Las Vegas (after 9/11) is still the biggest FU to us citizens I can think of. Well, that and “Covid”, “mail in balloting”, the 2020 “election”, “MSM propaganda”, “J6″……the list is almost endless.
Now, I don’t believe a single thing our government says or does.
For me it was when I went to the Conservative Review Liberty Scorecard to see the lifetime conservative voting records of my Ohio members of the US House and Senate in 2017.
I was shocked at what I learned. I then did the same for Kentucky and Indiana to see the same Rino results.
My next step required two full days of research as I went to each state and investigated all 535 members voting record of both the Democrats and Republicans.
What I learned was that None of the Democrats ever vote Conservative; 70% of the Republicans have a D or F grade of conservative voting in both the House and Senate. That “ working across the aisle” only happens when the Uniparty Rinos vote with the Democrats.
Unfortunately that is still the case today as Rhinobuster continues to investigate them. Please join me and see for yourself at Conservative Review Liberty Score?
One of Bongino’s rules is that all democrats are democrats but not all republicans are republicans.
Well…awakening is a journey. You don’t just one day open your eyes and see. I don’t know if you really see all unless you are aware of your Presence. So my journey actually began back in the 70’s when I first graduated. I had an event happen in my life where I had a near death experience. This incident got me to start questioning life and it’s meaning and why I was here…why I came. What’s my purpose, those type of questions; which led to me to researching many different books, authors, spiritual teachers,etc. One thing led to another, but I came upon Hal Lyndsey’s book, The Late Great Planet Earth. Not long before a feeling developed in me about the world and before long there were a number of us getting together and discussing what we thought and believed at the time…was coming. Much of what we see now…if you can believe that. We planned moving out of the city, into the mountains and prepare for what we see today. The demise and the take down of America. We believed that was what was going to happen and that there would be chaos and civil unrest. I have felt this in my being my whole life now. Over 40 years later…look what is happening. I have known for a very long time that things were not right and that something was coming. I have been watching and looking for signs all along the way. In and out of different spiratual movements, read many books and along the way found my focus, my center if you will….or the Presence within. My guide, some would call their conscience. This is a relationship that can be developed and be more than just your conscience. It becomes an awareness. Of everything around you. In 2014…2015 when DJT said he was running and we had the Hillary e mail scandal, I started to see the underlying corruption. This was at the end of the Obama years…where I believed this take down was going to occur. I believed it would happen under Obama. Well, some did. But not what I had expected. This IS the moment where I dug in. Trump came down the escalator and I knew he was my guy! Still is! I’ll never forget telling my parents who couldn’t beleive what I was saying. But, after months of sharing with them what I was seeing…they ended up as Trumpers! So..the awakening is still undergoing, many things I still beleive…have not come to pass, but they still could. It’s as though they lay dormant until another event brings it into the fold. The amazing thing is that much of what is happening that we see…does not surprise me because I really already knew! But that is not me, that’s this Presence within me…showing me, guiding me, revealing to me, awakening me! I believe everything that manifests, is energy and a vibration before hand and that we can be aware of it before it ever becomes form. We truly are living in a biblical moment! And what’s coming…isnt going to be easy. But it’s coming and it must come to pass! The other thing is that it isnt all just about our government, the governments of the world, the NWO and WEF capturing most of those governments, that there is this plan to destroy us and free nations of the world, to limit the population, etc. I believe there is something even bigger happening that a lot of this stuff…if not all of it is really surrounding or covering up or distracting us from…it is something we can not avoid or keep from occurring. It’s celestial. And every so many thousands of years it happens. Many ancient civilizations have left signs, records and writings on cave walls. If you add this to the mix…it explains a lot of things. Why is it that all these elites have been building underground shelters and storing food and other items. Why has the deepstate been doing this. What do they know and what are they preparing for? And…why does the Vatican have one of the most sophisticated observatories in the world? What are they looking for out there? Hmmm! Keep you eyes on the things above! There IS something going on up there…and it’s not those silly balloons the bafoon in the White House just shot down!
When Empress BroomHillary used the FBI to frame and railroad an innocent man, Billy Dale, into prison–over NOTHING. At the time, it was the most arrogant, imperious, gratuitously WICKED abuse of power I had ever seen. Funny, it’s all but forgotten now in the prodigious catalogue of ClintonCrime that has since transpired, but it has never left me. Indeed, we see now that it was bookended by her work on the CIA Coups against both Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.
It has since been an onion unpeeling until you get to where we are today, with an Evil Occupation Government trying to hold down the Light. OH, HELL, NO.
Interestingly, it is now the Jubilee Year of the Nixon Coup called Watergate, and of the Jesus Movement in America.
And nothing and no one, not even Jezebel, will stop His Coming Glory, Hallelujah!
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(ps; the photograph up above showing Director Chris Wray inspecting the Jan. 6th Defendants is perfect.)
I grew up conservative. My first vote and every vote thereafter were Republican until I wasted my vote on Ross Perot. I knew that Bush 1 was not a Reagan conservative but a globalist. What really woke me up was Glen Beck and his blackboard. I learned for the first time about the Fabian Socialist and the London School of Economics. I learned how they got their tentacles into America thru the Frankfurt School, the Department of Education and the teacher’s unions. He taught me how they continued to grow and prosper thru the teacher’s colleges and then into every aspect of both government and education. I had listened to Rush for 2 decades and had agreed with 99% of everything he ever said but Beck was the one who had me searching for who and where the radicals were hiding in plain site…..“True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.”
— Saul Alinsky
Beck was exactly on target and firing for effect.
Hence his departure from Faux News.
Controlled opposition and gaslighting are the rule of the day.
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.
My awakening was the market crash and economic meltdown of the great recession. The following years of hardship helped me pay attention and understand the big picture. Even though Sundance said not to say when we joined…I started with a link from the drudge report about trayvon martin. Been a reader ever since.
Hanging chads in Florida as Al Gore attempted to overturn the 2000 election was a big wake up call for me. I started listening to Rush Limbaugh and talk radio and joined a local Town Hall monthly Meetup group of conservatives in 2001 to discuss current events and conservative policies. We knew Obama would be bad for our country before he was ever elected. The bailouts for the big banks led me to co-found the Tampa Tea Party in February of 2009. Early on however I realized that DC was broken and I became more heavily involved especially at the local level but also at the state level. Local government impacts your life everyday. It is easier and faster to gain success at the local level and if we ever want Constitutional Governance returned to DC the States must re-take their power. Another wake up call was in 2013 when my husband and I started a local blog because local media had become so biased. I believe the “wake up calls” will continue but then decide what you can do to effectively make some impact.
My moment was April 2015 when Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal. When it came out he secretly shipped pallets of cash during middle of the night to Iran I was appalled. How could anyone make any deal with such a murderous regime and think the Iranians would keep their word. I was ashamed of Obama for believing this was a smart path. And as history has shown it was a terrible and dangerous deal Obama created.
Another eye opener recently. I’m sure that you are well aware of the “women’s protests” in Iran. But the US government was behind those protests and had NGO’s and government workers working to see if we could get regime change.
Last Saturday, not covered by US or western media, 20,000,000….yes, twenty million Iranians turned out all over Iran in a pro-government demonstration in support of their government. Iran is a country that wants to remain sovereign, not be controlled by western countries, and has the people behind it.
When They Shot The Pope! Who would do that?
Thank you, Sundance, for what you do to make this space available to us—and for today’s opportunity. I am not able to identify a specific event that was like a lightbulb turning on. I was brought up in a conservative part of the nation, pretty homogeneous in viewpoint, in what from my perspective was a golden post-war era, a “Boomer.”
I became politically active fairly young and by my early thirties was engaged in conservative political activism.
What really lit a fire under my activism was moving to California in the late ‘80s and discovering (as an engaged parent, active in PTA and the school governance board and in investigating what my child was being taught) that the curriculum was full of leftwing indoctrination and failed/failing pedagogical experimentation.
When she came home from her third grade class one day and told me that “Christopher Columbus was a bad man,” a new door of commitment opened in my life.
The story is too long to tell here—and your question is what, not then what.
So, we could say that my what was the character assassination of Christopher Columbus. I had read the biography written by his son and other historical books with good research on Columbus. I had learned that he believed he was helping to encourage the return of the Messiah by taking the Gospel around the world and helping to fulfill Matthew 24:14. While he was not a perfect man, he was not a bad man, and there certainly was more to his story that the racially biased and Christian-hating screed California’s educators were inculcating into the minds and emotions of our vulnerable children.
We removed our daughter from public school, rented a less expensive place to live so that we could afford Christian school, and I became an almost full-time volunteer activist in several conservative organizations for the next couple of decades.
The rest of the story is being acted out now by the parents who are awakened to the perverse results of a culture that the educators substantially helped create, being the products of the teaching departments of universities influenced top down by the United Nations (which in 1947 published documents stating that global citizens would be created by teachers) and other “new world order” supporters.
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It was gradual, but the 2016 election was the trigger. Hilliary with the illegal server, corrupt FBI and the crap President Trump got and still getting from the DC cartel, was the trigger.
Ruby Ridge!
As I followed the episode while it played out, and subsequently researched the events, it became evident to me that we had real issues with government overreach and abuse of power.
There were many other prior and subsequent events that nurtured my scepticism regarding both sides of the political aisle, but yeah, Ruby Ridge was my alert to always pay attention.
When George Bush was in office and I saw George H. and Bill Clinton traveling the world like father and son. I watched the Bush/Clinton bashing for at least 8 years. I didn’t expect them to hate each other; but, that is when the globalism and New World Order sunk in. I started reading the FBI archives, about 9/11, the CIA, missing documents, and one cover-up led to another and here we are.
They all pretended to be on different sides to get elected. George and Laura voting for Hillary in 2016 took the cake. Lying liars.
Watching Republicans kowtow to Obama for 8 years and never questioning anything he did was a big awakening for me. They sat quietly while Obama damaged our country beyond anything I had imagined in my lifetime.
When I saw how much these same Republicans hated President Trump’s economy, trade deals, employment numbers and gas independence (which were better than ever), I needed no other proof that there is one party in Washington, DC. Donald Trump is the thorn in their side. So far, he is still the only Republican with a backbone.
I pray Donald Trump never removes the thorn.
God bless our great President Trump!!!
A friend from Poland referred me to the movie, THE SOVIET STORY, and I began to see that “history is written by the victors”. Next came Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Kravchenko, Ayn Rand, Suvorov, G Edward Griffin, Sowell, Dalrymple and Diana West’s AMERICAN BETRAYAL and finally Germar Rudolf.
September 11,2001.
Except for President Trump, it’s been all downhill since.
Building 7,clinched it for me… – – -…
Retired from the Air Force after 25 years of service in 2000 and after 9/11 was hired on as a Civil Servant at my local Air Force Base. In 2002 I discovered a link to a site called Junk Science which began my journey on finding out just how dis-functional our federal government is. At that time the DOD was able to function despite the political idiots in charge. Once the election of 2020 was stolen, I decided it was time to retire again as I could not serve an illegitimate administration. After seeing yesterday’s news about Susan Rice taking over Government hiring to ensure equity, I know I made the right decision.
In 2005 I saw the housing collapse of 2007 coming down the track and after the Magic Mulato was elected by the moron brigade, I went into high gear in preparing for economic collapse. I have been amazed out how far down the road TPTB have been able to kick the can down the road and foresee things to get really spicey later this year. We have been under attack since the summer of 2020, and it continues to escalate daily as the WEF controlled governments continue the rein of terror on their citizens. Get out of the blue hives and year to early is better than a day late.
First the financial meltdown, and then the push for Obamacare, that even though unpopular, got passed knowing all the pitfalls. Beginning of the end when the govt can control your healthcare and has access to all your information. It has only snowballed into all aspects of life from there, and I no longer have any trust in our govt to do anything that is ethical or just
I was born into a family of awakened people, grew up around my grandmother and grandfather who were political (in the 40s, 50s, and beyond). I was always awakened…my parents did not let us sleep through politics. Read everything. Deep connection to God, although I branched out away from their church. Went through rebellions, rolled my eyes, did not want to be bothered (after all, I was a teen during the 50/60s, I was raised by the greatest generation…and spoiled). However, I was never non interested in politics. I was deeply patriotic, prayer minded, salty, fearless person. I would get bogged down in life, kids, life threatening car wreck, loss of child, divorce, remarry, kids, ya know, life. I never lost the urge to seek the truth. I developed the discernment to drop old lies, or beliefs when the truth was presented…that started with my deeper relationship with Jesus and the Word of God. I can be brutal. Discernment of the info presented is one of the most valuable gifts from God I have in order to walk through these most dangerous times. Since I am ancient but of sound mind, I have found it has been a struggle to admit the end of our great Republic is at hand…and that all of us who live here are more responsible than we want to admit. This has been a growing acceptance over the last decade. I am being forced to admit not everyone loves God, family and country. That is difficult. That is my awakening. Even as God does not force His redemption upon us, I cannot make fellow citizens accept the truth. I have not given up…just know that not all want to see the truth. I honestly believe we are a battle between good v evil, and we have a responsibility to be prepared. Everyone has a role to play. We are watchmen…when a patriot brings us truth or inquiry, we should be sharing. All starts with our immediate family, and goes out. Hard sometimes. Life was much easier for me than it is for my grandchildren and great grandchildren. My kids (all in their 50s) are spoiled, informed and are struggling with the truth that their lives are about to become “unspoiled”. Thank you for asking this question(s). I believe it is important for each of us to reflect on how we have matured in our lives, not for reproach but for clarification and refinement. I believe that one should never think she/he knows all things, be willing to hear, have courage to change understanding, and stand steadfast when you know what you know is the truth. Thank you, Sundance. God have mercy on us.
Well stated.
9/11, or a couple weeks after when the official narrative started showing some holes. The rushed “patriot act” that followed too closely…
I found the late, great Rush Limbaugh early in 1990 and have not looked back.
The JFK coup was a data point for me. I had shaken his hand at a parade in China Lake, ca earlier that summer.
I was about 10 years old.. it didn’t make sense,Jack ruby shooting the patsy and I could see it.
I filed that away and lived life. In my teens to 30s I was lost to the world chasing my addiction to drugs and alcohol.
I got sober in 1987 and was able to start paying attention again. Some friends had a conversation with me about conservative values and it stuck with me. The next big data point for me was the Obama era, shovel ready jobs, a big hurry to pass bills to rob our treasury … it all cascades into a very clear picture.. our government is corrupt to its very core.
thanks for the opportunity to participate…
I’ve read just about all of the posts today and all of them are familiar events. Thanks for everyone posting up. You’re not alone in your outrage…
Parents phone banked for Reagan for Governor. Still have a Reagan ‘76 bumper sticker somewhere. Read Buckley in high school. Considered Bush 41 and 43 honorable, if somewhat ineffectual men.
First started considering things were not as they seemed with Kerry’s Christmas in Cambodia whopper and the devastating takedown performed by Powerlineblog, Captain’s Quarters et al. Never considered the possibility of “conservative” Quislings until Trayvon Martin and my introduction to purple drank and the Three Amigos by Sundance and The Last Refuge.
Absolutely convinced there are Quislings within the conservative wire and attribute that understanding to observing the ongoing reaction of the political class to the candidacy and presidency of President Trump. The Uniparty truly exists and Sundance’s deconstruction of the Dossier has brought me to finally see the marionette strings.
For that, I will be forever grateful.
My first Interest in politics started with the 72 election way back in 4th grade
What I couldn’t understand and grasp back then was when you were told what each candidate stood for,
how could so many people support the Democrat platform when it was so weak and crap back then?
It sounded fake back then
That always stuck in my gut.
Bought Rush’s first book
And I knew Clinton’s were crooks all along
2016
The curtain fell
2020
Pants around the ankles
Now I fully know the fix has been in my whole life
And it finally all makes logical sense!
Great question, SD. I’ll need all week to read all these.
I noticed there are no bad answers.
And they come fast and furious.
It was the day LBJ flew on Air Force 1 with Jackie Kennedy after the murder of her husband. Something seemed so wrong when he was being sworn in. I couldn’t help but wonder if he had orchestrated it all.
Hmmm. Well..difficult question for me. I have always been a seer. I remember having an argument with a very informed guide on the Empire State Building as they pointed out the jewel of NY twin towers. I went into the future and saw the people dying. I told this guide the buildings housed evil and many would die. I turned my back on the arrogant guide who laughed at my question of airplanes and explosions. I refused to ever look at them again. That was before the towers were finished.
So on the one hand, I knew things-many things. On the other hand, I didn’t know anywhere near as clearly as when I joined my life with Jesus in 1980. He took my seeing ability to another level and I began to understand much more.
I had collected history books from the 1700s and the 1800s as well as early 1900s so I could see,the sterilizing of history and the occult infecting it. Many stories of the founding fathers were removed -miraculous GOD centered stories-and now replaced with occultic lies or exaggerations.
Once I committed to go to Washington for Jesus to,pray and fast in DC as God directed to clean the swamp to Christians from around the world, He opened my eyes to see the big picture exponentially.
Finding people who were digging then such as Steuart McBirnie, Charles Taylor, and Salem Kirban was a great way to start to put many,pieces together.
In 1982, I saw a time coming where the churches in the US would be closed and people would have to learn to listen to God’s voice like the Chinese Christians did. No one believed me.
So, in short, I would have to say it was both a lifetime of puzzle pieces, and an awakening to Jesus Christ combined that opened my eyes to see clearly.
One last aside-the DC prayer and fasting happened every 8 years since 1980 for God’s plan to clean the swamp. Last one was held in 2016 in Philadelphia. I suspected then it was a sign the Capitol would be moved.
Since the 1st rally where many showed up from all over the US and around the world, everyone got into,groups with signs where they were from.
I saw many signs from many countries. God spoke to me and said that because these people sacrificed to come pray for the US, their countries would be part of this big cleaning and awakening coming in the future. I saw almost every country that has been having groundswell awakenings represented in person there that day. Others came in following years.
When I watched my 401k go negative during the dotcom bust. And then again thru the housing bubble… I realized there would never be anything there at the end of the line come retirement. The cream would always be skimmed and the carrot jiggled. That’s what woke me up to the grift of DC and TPTB.
The Powers That Be are not Godly, Christian men. If your motive isn’t Christ, then you’re left with money, sex(perversion), and power.
Always has been 🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
It was actually a slow process starting when I left an urban environment for a ranch. I entered “real ville” as Rush called it. And he was a big influence in my evolution. 911 was a transformative moment but I was still a Bushie/republican at that point. The total awakening came with Trump and thankfully I was fully awake by the time covid came on the scene. I’ll never close my eyes again.
For me Sundance, it began during the jimmy carter years. Gas shortages, embassy overrun, etc.
it grew from there till I landed here and got my Masters in understanding the kabuki theater show.
My husband was deep deep deep down the rabbit hole. Knew way more than could ever be written on a site where even mildly awake people would read. I listened to him until it got too intense (mainly about the child trafficking), and then I’d say enough! I was not awake though. My journey began after my husband took his life in Dec 2015, along with other circumstances, I blamed what he saw and knew. When Trump got elected I started to pay more attention. I was amused, I loved listening to him. Those infamous mean tweets! He entertained and made politics interesting to me. I saw what they were attempting to do to him and wondered why. I kept thinking, imagine what he could do if they worked WITH him rather than to spite him. I watched the run up to 2020, the excitement, the red wave, it was glorious! He kept saying they would steal the election, but I just couldn’t see how they would do it with all the love for Trump out there. My eyes were opened wide about 2 hrs into election day. I didn’t even watch the evening, I couldn’t, I saw it happening in front of my eyes and nobody was doing a thing about it. It went downhill from there. I was fully awake and was looking into everything, and recalling so many things my husband had told me that I hadn’t really listened to. Fast forward to today, I still don’t know as much as there is to know, that’s a full time job and I already have one of those. I’m Canadian, so I could only watch in horror without any input. Then I started paying attention to Canada politics only to see the blatant corruption that Trudeau has cast upon us, and it seems now even USA feels bad for us, that says alot! I now know that these “leaders” are not running the show at all. They are puppets, run by deep state elite, unelected cabal. Prior to 2016 they at least tried to hide it. President Trump threw a wrench so big into their game that everything had to be sped up and they made many mistakes. If nothing else, Trump woke masses of the people, but also caused the cabal to up their game. We can’t go back to what it was, that isn’t good enough. We HAVE to move ahead and hope we can fix it. It’s a big job.
Twenty something years ago I was visiting a friend of mine, talking to him while he worked in his garage. I started listening to the man on the radio he had playing on a shelf. The man said things that just resonated with me, things I had always known were true, but had never heard expressed aloud before. That man on the radio was Rush Limbaugh. I started listening daily after that, and continued to do so for years afterwards. My journey towards the red pill began there.
When barry osama stood before America in 2008 and said he would fundamentally transform us. He was elected based on skin color which was the exact opposite of Dr. Kings speech. I knew then. I must get involved.
In 2008 I saw a cardboard sign on a telephone pole that said google Ron Paul. I don’t know why but I did. Then I looked for other “Ron Paul’s” in my State that I could vote for. Needless to say, I couldn’t find another honest, non wavering politician like him in Massachusetts.
Wow, reading through these great testimonies, I thought what can I add. Well here goes:
My dad was a WWII war hero, though he never really spoke about it till later in his life, which at that time I gleaned much to understand his heroism and dedication toward his effort to give his life for his country.
However being of draft age during VN War and subsequently entering the USArmy, though remaining stateside thank God, caused me to question what is going on inside the think tanks of our government.
As for my patriotism… it had it’s roots in the late fifties and early sixties watching American TV. The great Classic Disney broadcasts of the heroes who helped forge America in the late 18th century gave me expectations that America was the most God honoring place on the planet (even though I was not a God honoring youth).
Watching the movie The Alamo, the great war movies and television shows… remember Francis Marion in Swamp Fox?
There’s a long list of heroic men fighting for freedom that inspired me.
However, my nation seemed to change by the time I graduated from HS. I was disillusioned with all the BS. I didn’t know left from right; up from down, In retrospect, I guess I was a product of the dumbing down method by the takeover of our education department.
I voted for Jimmy Carter (may he rest peacefully and may he be prepared with seeing his judge soon). I was emotionally moved by my awareness of the Moral Majority movement during Reagan’s two terms, though I had not yet become a Christian, and my shift to the right had me supporting the Bush’s. Add another war or two, all of which I would learn were undeclared war… add Bill Clinton (not to mention Hillary), bringing me up to the final straw…
Bob “Because it’s my turn” and “Senator For Hire” Dole. That was it. 1996 was the last year I voted for a Republican in the presidential campaign. Till Trump. I know he’s not perfect. He could have stood stronger and vetoed the unconstitutional spending bills that came across his desk…. But I’ll vote him again.
Correction by Gronimo:
I intended to say,,, ’92 was the last time I voted for a Republican presidential candidate.
As a teenager in the 1980s I discovered the punk band
The Dead Kennedys.
It started me questioning official narratives and history.
A lot of what Jello Biafra sang about has come to pass.
As a young man
In the early 1990s a friend lent me the book
“Behold a pale horse ” by William S Cooper.
That book rocked my world and I never looked back.
People don’t think I’m crazy and uneducated anymore.
Not that I cared when they did!
Thank you Sundance
Stay over target!
It started for me during the Iraq war in 2002. What I saw on the ground and what was reported in the news were not the same. From there, it went to the huge push for illegals (thank you Harry Reid) telling Americans “they love our country and must stay.” Those “America-loving” illegals were protesting in my town with f—- America flags and were attacking people on the street and in their cars and openly murdered several. Remember that “Day without an Immigrant?” That was one of the safest (and cleanest) days to go out in public. From there it just spiraled into realizing how big the disconnect was between voters and those in power and how condescending they were to us if called out. Calling them out didn’t change a darn thing. I cut off TV, and started researching and noticing coincidences occurring too often to be coincidence and realized everyone’s in bed with everyone else.
My eyes were suddenly opened one day when I happened across a short video on Youtube that presented overwhelming evidence that no airplane had crashed into the Pentagon on 911. Probably a missile hit the Pentagon, but not a large airplane. Where were the wings? The luggage? The dead bodies? It was so obviously a lie that I began to look at all the other evidence that 911 was an inside job. How did those smaller buildings just fall on their own? I felt like I was waking up from a dream, or from deep hypnosis. It was not a pleasant feeling… my psyche was rocked. The world that I had lived in comfortably and took for granted no longer existed. I felt like I had fallen out of a deep sleep in a warm, comfy bed into an ice cold raging river. Suddenly I could see through the countless lies that our government and our society tells us and that we accept without question. I could suddenly see the vast corruption of our Rulers and the bottomless brainwashed stupidity of everyday people. I could see that the mind-control mechanism was the outrageous lies told by the smiling, friendly faces of the Mainstream Media. However, when I tried to wake up the people around me from their hypnotic stupor, I found out that they strongly resist being awakened. Their sleep is too deep, their bed is too warm, and the raging river of truth is too cold for them to bear.