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

My wake-up moment was in 2003 when I learned of the New World Order, can’t remember exactly how I heard about it; might have been a conversation with someone. Since then, I have been down many rabbit holes and the belief that everything the government has spewed out is a total lie has solidified. NASA fake, JFK the truth hidden, 9/11, the Bush’s, Clinton’s, Obama everything all pushing toward the NWO. So much gaslighting and lying by the fake media. Very sad & disheartening that our country has been taken over by communists/socialists and it makes me angry.
The big political awakening for me was the COVID plandemic where elected leaders were abusing their emergency powers to lock us down and threatening criminal penalties for just keeping doors open as well as all the BS about restricting how many people we could have over or imposing crazy mask mandates. This really opened up my eye to just how out of touch the government was willing to go in order to control us. Then we had the rigged 2020 election and then Washington using January 6 to put the label of “domestic terrorist” and the claims of being threats to democracy on anyone who did not agree with the outcome of their blatant cheating. Then, the fact we have a weaponized FBI that is raiding the homes of people just for praying outside of an abortion clinic. Add the corrupt corporate press, and the fake evidence and phony information that the democrats use to launch revenge investigations and then hiring trump hating special prosecutors with the goal of throwing him in prison to try and stop him from running. All of these things made me realize that there is a evil movement within our own government that is weaponized against the people of this country and we have a major political party (dems) and even some republicans who are perfectly okay with it. From now on I am always going to pay attention to who is really fighting for the people who is just another phony Washington snake politician.
In 1960, I was 8 and grew a great dislike for Richard Nixon based strictly on gut level emotions.
Living through the Vietnam era I saw that the politicians (mostly Democrats) “running” the war had no real desire to win and end that war. As I reached draft age, I was totally unsure about what I would do if drafted to fight and die in a stupid war. I was on a college track and received that deferment. I was not going to college for a deferment but for an education.
In 1972, my first Presidential election, I voted for George McGovern. I regret that vote and take it as an example of why people under the age of 21 should not be allowed to vote.
I lived through the Carter years with the massive inflation, misery index, energy shortages, gas lines, etc. My recollection of those years was that Carter was not a leader and tried to do everything himself without delegating to experienced leaders.
I graduated as an Electronic Engineer and started working in 1975 as a Civil Service Engineer working for the Navy. Once I received my security clearance and began to work in my position, we were required to work 8 hours of overtime every week whether we had anything to do or not. This was feather bedding. By reporting excessive overtime when the next budget came up, they could justify the need for more employees and all of the supervisors could move up another level. I observed many more examples of government waste there.
One year later, I was bored and couldn’t picture doing this job for another 30 years. So, I changed careers, took a 30% pay cut and went into a health care related field. This put me into another economic dilemma. Under Democrat control, health care received more funding and we got more income but I could see the waste, again.
I was ready for Ronald Reagan and consider him to be the greatest President of my lifetime. He accomplished so much while having to battle Tip O’Neill and the Democrat congress the whole way. One of the saddest things about that time was that he was unable to get rid of the Federal Department of Education because of the Democrats in control of Congress.
I had a ringside seat as Medicare and Medicaid caused the huge inflation in Healthcare costs. The over-regulation of every aspect of health insurance causes costs to skyrocket.
I will jump forward to keep this shorter.
I did not vote for Donald Trump (the second greatest President in my lifetime) in 2016. I voted against Hillary Clinton. She would have been a total disaster for the country. I voted for President Trump in 2020 and the election was stolen!
I am now happily retired. I worked for 42 years in healthcare taking care of actual people. This was a great joy. I have concluded that only a career where one is helping other people can bring satisfaction in one’s life. On the other hand, having to fight government bureaucrats to get paid for the work that I did was the worst aspect of the career and it has only gotten worse.
Two books that I see as influential in my political evolution were Catch 22 in 1973 which showed me the stupidity of government and Atlas Shrugged several times since the late 80’s.
I hope someone finds this to have been worth reading.
I found it very much worth reading.
THANKS!
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You reminded me now of Atlas Shrugged, which I came to relatively late in life. I was totally enthralled, and it certainly played a big role in my awakening, bringing many of my critical thoughts into sharper focus.
2010: Border Agent Brian Terry, who was from Michigan, was shot in the back and killed in a gun battle with a drug cartel in Arizona. Shortly after, the rumors started circulating about the murder weapon being from Fast and Furious. That got my attention. Shortly after I started reading Breitbart and CTH – it shook me out of my political apathy.
JFK Assassination was the start. I was a senior in high school. Followed things with a passion, the official version had a foul odor from the start.
It was a long journey. Took 40 plus years from “doubting Thomas” to understanding that the official version (of anything) was almost certainly a lie.
2008.
There were so many bothersome things about Obama’s affectations, his history, both known and hidden, his comments, politics, ineligibility, his perversion, his father’s sentiments towards America, his mother’s sentiments towards America, his “church,” his comrades, his purported autobiographies, his pretensions, his stentorious tone, his arrogance and sermonizing of America’s citizens despite his obvious stupidity and self-admitted laziness.
My attention really got ramped up when he was inaugurated and on a near daily basis executed one illegal action after another, hurting our country, our citizens, our justice system, our military, economy, foreign affairs, budget, respect (and lack thereof) of the law.
All my life I have loved to read, I was a voracious reader of books. I miss them; since 2008 I don’t have time for pleasure reading as I’m stuck reading about our continuing non-stop train wreck of the destroy America coup which began in earnest with the installation of the Manchurian Marxist Muslim.
Yep.
Yes
Sometime around 2015 did I really start to understand all the dynamics, along with how screwed we were. Told a friend back then that if Trump won, we might have a chance to claw back this country. Other than that, it was a lost cause. And I said even then, if everything went right, it still might be too late because the pukes that were running things in DC were not going to go quietly, and their level of evil is probably more than we can comprehend. Turns out, I underestimated how horrible people can be. From the media to our political class, we are absolutely screwed.
I became a patient advocate after I became a nurse and some years later realized that some patients were being hastened to death through misapplication of opioids and sedation in hospice back in 1996 and found that the health care industry was being intentionally infiltrated by those who no longer affirmed the Hippocratic Oath and would intentionally do harm as utilitarians.
This was the politicization of health care which became the foundation for the COVID coup through health “care” mandates not just in the US, but in many nations. Stealth Euthanasia: Health Care Tyranny in America describes how over a period of several decades those who sought to transform our society and health care in particular, succeeded in tainting the service we desperately need when we are sick and ailing. It’s online as a pdf at the Health Care Leadership and Advocacy Group website at:
https://halovoice.org/wp-content/uploads/stealth-euthanasia-1-by-Ron-Panzer.pdf
They never could have pulled off the COVID killing and the genetic injection poisoning without laying the foundation over decades, re-“educating” doctors and nurses and others to think differently, to view death differently and to devalue the lives of some of the people we serve in health care.
My husband died in a hospice home and I’ve always thought they hastened his death.
Having seen people as they pass away, there is a fine line between taking no extraordinary measures to prolong the inevitable and withholding very basic care. I think hospice intentionally blurs that line.
When my dad was left to die without basic nourishment (I feel it was due to his age) I brought him his favorite sandwich. He bounced back full of life for one more blessed year, then passed in his 96th year when the hospital again mistreated him.
May your husband rest in peace, Lindy.
Even though I am old enough to remember when JFK was killed, I had always thought Dems and Rs both loved America, cherished our Constitution, wanted our people to do better – but they just had different ways of going about it (with the Dems giving them more stuff directly, and Rs pushing tax cuts and economic growth.
Then came Bill Clinton. He was first to expose who Dems really were and that Dem pols were not interested in The Good, but in power. So naive I was that that shocked me. But I still thought Rs were the good guys. I remember arguing with a brother about Paul Ryan and that era. I couldn’t imagine Paul Ryan was really a bad guy.
Then came Donald Trump. I started with laughing at him, never thinking he would be elected. Then I heard/read his plans, and I said “Well that would be good if he could do it”. I was shocked again by his following, and began to pay attention. Then was the miracle of his actual election (which I did not see happening at all) – and suddenly all hell broke loose.
Here was a man who actually followed through on his promises. Here was a man who really did try to MAGA. Here was someone who took questions seemingly every day. And here was a man who everyone in DC hated. And I could not figure why. I was still a believer in America, and how good we were, or could be. But then rising out of the swamp a littler each day was the hate-filled beasts – against Trump!
I think that’s the last time I was shocked. Although in the years since then I saw sacred institution after sacred institution reveal itself as fallen, corrupt, vicious, and greedy. Glory, Power and Riches – the perennial temptations that I somehow assumed our powerful people were immune to.
Now I see otherwise, and feel besieged by lies from dawn to dusk, every day, 24/7, 365, decade upon decade.
Trump did that. And for that I love him. He is a congenital truth teller, and he says it out loud. He’s got the biggest pair of cojones I’ve ver witnessed in public life.
Excellent post. I was paying closer and closer attention after 2008 when Obozo was selected but it was President Trump (with the Treehouse’s help) that fully opened the curtain for me.
Great post.
Ryan really showed his true side after he was put on the ticket as VP. I don’t know if he did a 180° then, or if it just became obvious. But everything he did after that was transparently against America and it’s citizens and for the corruption.
Fast forward and everyone knows the govt (CIA, etc.) killed JFK and it’s a ho hum.
There are so many examples, like the Vegas shooting that got memory holed. One shooter my ass.
So I divorced from news. I try to keep up with things via CTH, but I have to live in the light, in a higher vibration, or I will get sucked into the hate. Which fuels their evil. So I try to live in love. It’s difficult, but that’s my journey.
The day Obama was elected. I could see the direction of things coming. I have not been wrong.
When it became clear (to me) that the FBI was completely corrupt, spying on a sitting President, with the confirmation that the Mueller “Investigation” was a captured operation of the Deep/Administrative State.
2007 when I did my research on Barack Obama and realized he was basically a lazy arrogant person like Woodrow Wilson thinking he was the smartest person the room, and really never worked a day in his life. Additionally I learned he was raised as a socialist, communist mentality and a Shiia Muslim ( Islam is a religion that does not mesh with our Constitution) . I learned that he and his top advisor (valerie Jarrett) were affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and she has a Chicago history with the Obamas. Thanks to David Fredosso who published a book that year (the case against Barack Obama). It was the only piece of information I had to evaluate BHO. Its a well sourced book and documents BHO’s professional career, which isnt much. I also learned that year I was a conservative and that we were being taking for a ride by the supposed conservative party. McCain, Graham, McConnell and Ryan etc. If you recall the immigration push but the 3 amigos that year. Trump brought to light everything I suspected about this uniparty conspiracy against the american people.
when I say conservative, its understanding and implementing the constitutional framework of our society. Leaving the Federal government to deal with national issues and the states dealing with the rest, as it is designed. Its a strong middle class and family focus providing opportunities to elevate ones self as they see fit within the parameters of the law. Its aspiring to virtues laid out in many texts through history that improve society, not hurt it.
Yep
I stopped being a sheeple when I noticed how the media twisted what Trump had said because it was not what I heard. Are we better off knowing and worrying or being clueless I wonder. This June my eyes were opened to the chemtrails being sprayed all over the world. My eyes were opened to the True Evil prophecies of the Bible that are unfolding around us. Thank you for your encouragement Sundance and may we be protected from the Evil.
I’m a dem, voted 100% dem through Obama. The wokeness started to hyper accelerate in O’s 2nd term, so I decided to vote gop just to oppose dems. Then russiagate really pulled back the curtain and sealed it for me. Fell in love with President Trump along the way.
When posted to the B-1 bomber operations team in the 1980s, I asked my instructors about serious technical flaws often reported about the airplane. They looked at me like I had two heads “What are you talking about?” The issues discussed were, at worst, early test-program work completed years prior and were not even remotely an issue for the fleet. The airplane is very well made and has always been a stellar performer. Period.
In that moment, I realized that I’d been had by mass-media, to include news, technical journals and various ‘intellectual-speak’ that are consistently contaminated with political blather, bias and deliberate deception, not coincidentally aligned with the strategic intent of Soviet (style) influence operations in media – and politics. This perception was since confirmed over the years by numerous accounts from commie-block defectors, refugees, etc…and from professionals in most other venues (business, medicine, sciences, et al) with similar stories.
Saw the strings. Can’t un-see them.
STRINGS. Perfect metaphor!
For me, I became politically active when Bush ran for POTUS. I despised the Bushes and their ‘progressive'(commie) agenda. I REALLY got engaged when Trump announced. It was like he was speaking my language without pc and with real sincerity. No platitudes from him. Then the real wake up and questioning began when Q came on the scene and I am now waiting for the culmination of “the plan”. And please don’t attack over this as time will tell the truth of it all. I am fully engaged and fighting the good fight with fellow patriots and that is what should matter most.
I grew up in a family of Conservatives. As a teen, I noticed Nixon seemed to be waiting until he was reelected to get us out of Viet Nam. That didn’t sit quite right with me.
Also, in my final year of college all these guys were coming out as gay. There were tons of them in Los Angeles. Straight guys were mostly not into marriage either in those days. That was definitely not the world I expected to be waiting for me when I grew up.
Well Sundance, you described me to a tee! I worked very hard providing for my family ()as many of us do). I did pay attention to what was happening, but only in a superficial way. I have to say that the event that truly woke me up was 9/11. I think most Americans have that event etched in their memory – where we were and what we were doing. That tradgedy and the immediate questions that arose in my mind caused me to begin a deep dive into how this happened. I am an engineer and the structural collapse of the buildings did not make any technical sense. The deeper I dug the more I realized that there was “something rotten in DC”. As you have said multiple time, Sundance, (to paraphrase)
“Once you see the strings, you cannot ignore them”. My world perspective was utterly changed.
I thank you Sundance and the many in the alt-news sphere for working so had to make the situation we are in more visible to more people.
God Bless!
2005 listening to people on the radio share information how 9/11 was an inside job…opened my eyes to the plans behind the patriot act etc…9/ 11 was my eye opener
It’s been a long journey but it started in the late 90s- early 00s when I was around my early 20s. I had just worked my butt off to get trained in the IT field and had been working for a couple of years. The H1B1 visa situation really opened my eyes to the uniparty aspect of our government when nearly every Republican AND Democrat in congress and the senate voted to give good IT jobs away to foreigners at the expense of citizens for half the salary. This was after bleating about STEM education and jobs. BOTH parties nearly unanimously passed it with maybe 2 or 3 dissenting.
I dug a little bit and discovered that all of the big companies of the day (Microsoft, IBM, HP, Cisco, etc) were giving vast sums of money to both parties and nobody was looking out for the average Joe. Worse, they were actively sabotaging our future in order to line their pockets.
That was the start for me. Now at the time, I still had some faith in our government and didn’t believe that every institute was rotten to the core. That took a little more time.
The nomination of McCain. I was becoming aware of his machinations and how party bigshots saw to it he was nominated. After that the air got clearer. However I used to love Cruz, but after his 2016 production I detested him.
But my clarity has resulted in pretty much losing all hope and trust in the very election process. All of it. We might as well be in a one party government. Morality is splintered and unity is impossible. God alone can purge the enemy and it won’t be at the ballot box.
When Obama threw his ‘typical white grandmother’ who raised him, and she quietly died without one word uttered the day before his election.
I grew up in a family that always debated around the kitchen table. We lived in the Detroit area. The moment of awareness for me came while watching footage of the final evacuations out of Saigon, known as Operation Frequent Wind, in April 1975. At the tender age of 17, I knew how we left Vietnam was unpalatable to most Americans. That departure left me hungry for answers and I learned a lot about what led up to it and why. I never lost interest in politics and world events from that moment on. Leaving Afghanistan brought flashbacks and was even worse on the part of our government. Just sickening because I truly believe Biden was told by China to get out immediately.
I work up back in the late 1990s courtesy of my late father. There was a disaster here in Australia which my late father investigated as part of an expert committee set up by the govt. Trouble is they found the govt totally to blame.
Suddenly the committee was locked into their meeting room and forced to sign NDAs and told if they revealed the truth their life would be v difficult. My father, normally mild mannered was livid.
I have also followed climate change since the late 1970s and this started really getting traction in the early 2000s. I could clearly see that the govts claims were completely at odds with the data , so the suspicion level was greatly heightened.
So when covid arrived I saw immediately that this would be a vehicle for Leftist control and surveillance, and nothing to do with health.
My kids and wife are completely awake courtesy of me. And many of my friends were woken up by the utterly ridiculous covid response.
I became interested in the “bigger picture” I when I was 12 years old and saw the resignation of President Nixon.
The event was so affecting and moving as I witnessed him weep that my curiosity as to how that happened—that began my quest for discovery beyond my own immediate world.
As a freshman in college, I read the memoirs of President Nixon and pretty quickly discovered the press and media of America were not fair, not impartial, and hated conservatives like me.
Nixon’s departure was event that whetted my appetite to try to learn what the hell was really going on around me.
In September 11th 2001 I was living in New York City. I witnessed the plane flying into the buildings … and yes they did. I saw the people jumping from the Twin Towers. Man I knew was killed other people I knew ran for their lives while the jumpers’ bodies exploded like paintballs on the plaza far below.
I was a true believing liberal Democrat bird brain at the time although not a leftist. Conservative parents so I was inoculated against communism. I was horrified to hear the Democrats I knew start to say that we had deserved the attacks and I realized that that their hatred for America was real and that it trumps any other considerations, including their alleged consideration of Human Rights.
I watched them make absolute sacred cows out of the Muslims and Islam, whom they were criticizing fiercely just months before. These were their new Heroes because they burned thousands of Americans alive.
I couldn’t get out of their boat fast enough! I liken it to going to bed with a handsome prince and waking up to realize he’s really an Orc.
So I joined some people who called ourselves liberal Hawks in the war on the jihadis. Then I started wondering what else the left was lying to us about and that my friends is a never-ending Quest because you find one lie after another lie after another lie. As the man said, it’s Turtles all the way down.
Now I have returned to my conservative roots with a vengeance. And I regret very much some of the idiot ideas I endorsed back in the day.
I will just add that the screaming dissonance between alleged liberal values and core Islamic teachings is so extreme that I realized the so-called liberal values or just a fig leaf for whatever they wanted to accomplish in any given time. Easy to discard and just a disguise for their true intentions which is to try to make themselves gods and rule the world.
But….9/11 was an inside job.
When I was a kid my dad would say jokingly, “I don’t want to ruin my image!”. In this he made me think, that things are not always as they seem…
I just had my 80th birthday. I have been on the political right most of my life. I think that what the left considers to be far right is just mainstream common sense and in line with our founding fathers. One of the things that stand out in my mind happened many years ago, maybe 70’s or 80’s. I read an article about a small cheese factory that wanted a waiver on a government requirement for the size of holes in their swiss cheese. Their request was rejected. From that moment I realized how deeply the government had become in our daily lives. If they can regulate swiss cheese holes, they can do anything.
👆Trump x Establishment speech.
The Boy Whose Head Was Full of Americans
I’m 75. An Aussie. Musician. Like many of my childhood peers I was raised on American culture. Radio serials, TV shows, movies, fashion and especially, for me, music. Every afternoon and on the days I’d wag school I’d be jammed up against the old radiogram in our kitchen filling my head with the most incredibly diverse spectrum of sounds in popular music history. Perry Como’s Catch A Falling Star would be followed by Chan Romero’s Hippy Hippy Shake. Percy Faith’s Theme From A Summer Place came hot on the heels of Eddie Cochran’s Summertime Blues. In 1960 my nan bought me a guitar. A life-changing moment. Sixty-two years later I can honestly say that everything I’ve got, everyone I’ve ever known, is a result of my nan’s gift. The guitar was my interface. It was my passport in and out of – what I now realise was – consensus reality. For most of my life my worldview was comprised of melodies, chord progressions, rhythm patterns, sounds and orchestrations.
It is only recently that I realised the trigger for my “Hang on, that doesn’t make sense” moment came in 2001. September. Watching TV, newsflash, Twin Towers. Cut to President Bush talking, from memory, in a school classroom to a bunch of pupils. Prior to that moment (and for quite a while after) I was not the least bit interested in politics and knew nothing about George W. Bush. As a musician I’d always found politics hard, brittle, damaging to the creative spirit. So, a Bush aide sidles up to the President and whispers something in his ear (the attack on the Twin Towers). Something in George Bush’s eyes made me think ‘Hang on, he already knows about it.”
I became a veracious reader of newspapers. Three a day end to end. I believed much of what I read. My mindset was still predominantly musical, something like 23 hours out of each day’s available 24. I read as much to feed my own data hunger as I did to know what was going on in the world.
Cut to 2019. All our local and national newspapers suddenly went climate crazy. It felt like total bullshit. I bought some books, researched online. And turned much of what I discovered into songs. Not protest songs (I never liked Dylan and the likes of Barry “Eve Of Destruction” McGuire). I ended up writing 40 or so. Then suddenly, climate change gave way to Covid-19. This too, felt like total bullshit. More books, more reasearch, more songs. Then came … now … Ukraine/Russia. More bullshit. In fact, for me, climate change, Covid and Ukraine reeks of the same smell.
So there it is and here I am. The Boy Whose Head Was Full of Americans. All those that entered into my little grey cells during my formulative years I still treasure. The absolute minority who intruded more recently I could well do without.
Trump awakened me!
i’m a seasoned citizen so this goes way back. the jfk single bullet theory was the eye opening moment for me decades ago.
I started paying attention rather early after taking serious employment opportunities (just trying to make it and pay off college initially until late 20s) – several things, can’t remember dates exactly. Stood toe to toe with Senator Kerry of Nebraska (war vet, lost leg) trying to answer my questions concerning his efforts to socialize all medical care. I thought it completely absurd to call severe but common illnesses of old age as “catastrophic” – things like cancer in children were catastrophic, but not in his mind, this was about money and medical entity power. Lived in OK when Waco occurred – WTF moment for me, and that followed by Murray building explosion in OK City. Other stuff but the real kicker for me was Arab Spring/Hillary/ Benghazi. And so many around me totally oblivious and continue to be.
Murrah building, keeps spell checking me grrr
I woke up big time during DJT’s 2016 campaign and after the 2020 stolen election…. Once the veil has been lifted from your eyes you cannot go back to sticking your head in the sand.
The gist of all of these accounts is that entering wedge whacked with sufficient force can split a tree trunk of Illusion in half.
When Saddam Hussein was caught and executed and we switched to ‘nation building’ and stayed there. That woke me up. And then they gave the banks TARP and went ahead and paid the banks retention bonuses for $80 Billion. That pissed me off.
Yep the 08 bailout ticked me off as well.
Bama and Hillary wanted TPP so bad and Trump’s 1st move was to stop it and the overlords just lost it.
That was my eye opener. Guess we should always follow the $ to find true motives like in every crime.
Summer 2010 a demand thundered into my brain, “you need to prepare!”. Wasn’t sure for what so I did a methodical approach, bioWeapon, nuclear, earthquake, floods, fire, civil breakdown, food shortages, etc. it has been exhausting and over time expensive but slow as you go month by month. Rush was my sage, Levin my council. I bought books written by people I thought that could bring light and intellectual information to who, what, where, when and why that I have no access to. Kept info that made since chucked what didn’t. Read websites like CTH, my daily review and favorite. Conclusion; all governments are corrupt, greed, power, lust and ego reign, they hate the common people, no one is coming to help you, your on your own. Just look at Ohio, perfect example, nothing but a political football, to hell with the residents, look at our southern boarder, look at covid, look at China, Russia/ Ukraine, this isn’t past history this is today, on and on it goes in anywhere USA. Prepare like your life depends on it because it does. I am doing everything not for myself, I am in my twilight years, but for my two daughters, grandkids and great grandkids, God willing they will have a safe haven to retreat to. GGM
My dad was concerned that politically correct speech would lead to censorship (the Clinton days); that the civil rights act was actually a violation of property rights and would rebound against business owners; that the RICO act was probably going to cause issues (but he thought the war on drugs justified it). I agreed with him, except for the war on drugs. Drugs won from the start obviously. He was republican, I went libertarian, back before they went communist. Libertarians screamed at y’all about the Patriot Act gutting the constitution. No one cared. I still thought there was a way out. Until Obama. Then I knew the media and the government worked together against us and it was game over.
First pivotal moment was Nancy Pelosi telling whopper lies to George Stephanopoulos, with no push back whatsoever. I began to notice how the media not only allowed the lies, but they were also actively promoting them.
I would have to say years ago listening to Rush Limbaugh it got me questioning the narrative I was being fed by the Media in general. I have never looked back once he opened my eyes.
Two pivotal moments (maybe three)
When Obama was running for President. Some of his words were chilling; others were obviously lies.
It was in 1996 when the ValuJet crash happened in the Florida Everglades right before the 1996 Olympics. The FAA took the drastic move of shutting down the low cost airlines that was getting way more reservations than the designated official air line. I did some research and realized that mainstream media wasn’t telling the whole story and we never got the troubling questions answered about how dangerous oxygen canisters were loaded on board before takeoff.
A high school classmate of mine and his whole family perished in the crash. I’ve been watching ever since.
I was raised conservative and considered myself a Reagan republican.
It was under the HW Bush term that I began to notice that the words of the republicans did not match their actions.
I have been registered NPA for over 30yrs.
For me that time was the late 80’s, when I couldn’t find a copy of the US Constitution. I was triggered by a conservative friend during a discussion concerning our rights, and myself as a non-political sort, did not know my constitutional facts.
And so I searched for the truth, and became suspicious when none of our local bookstores carried a pocket copy of the US Constitution. I ended up at the local library, hand copying the Declaration and the Constitution on notebook paper.
My friend is a brilliant fiend.
$14,000 per year for Individual Major Medical Insurance slapped me in the face in 2014.
I’ve never really been sick !
In the 1990s…The local 6 oclock news lead story was a political poll that the station ran ..It dawned on me that they were creating news not reporting it
When the global cooling “crisis” of the late 1970s morphed into NASA’s Jim Hansen testifying before Congress in 1988 that we had a manmade global warming “crisis” on our hands. I was in Yosemite National Park at the time and staring at the cliffs of Yosemite Valley that were formed by nowhere to-be-seen glaciers it all seemed like such hubristic bullshit. The final nail in the coffin was the UN rebranding global warming “climate change” the same year.
Dear CTH,
I have been reading you columns on a regular basis for near on 15 years I recon!
What started the itch was probably Y2K, “How come they couldn’t tell it would be a fizz?”
But what made me scratch like hell was bloody Global Warming, something never jelled with the “its CO2”, and every time I poked around on the net I found a reply – “It’s not CO2 they didn’t tell you this!” I stumbled across JoNova early and other similar sites often by following links in the readers comments.
It didn’t take long to realis the Conservative Right seemed to have a better idea of what they were doing, that lead to news sites like Dillingpole on Breitbart, etc.
I bought a MAGA tshirt and wear it to every polling day in Australia, but am dismayed our Liberal Right lean too left and the Nationals can’t get enough traction to balance them. Trump was robbed in 2020 but he failed to get it legally proven so he just looked a poor looser and now I would hate to see him become another Joe – what a miserable end!
Keep on truckn’ Sundance. 🙂
The moment was when Barack Obama began to criticize the St Louis police- before anyone could possibly have known anything. Then I started really paying attention. It’s been like turning over a board and finding unbelievable filth underneath. And it’s gotten worse, worse, and worse. Now I wonder how I could have been so blind. Parts of my family are not happy with me- and vice versa.
The beer summit incident was troublesome too.
The “beer summit” and also Obama’s refusal of help from other countries regarding the Louisiana oil spillage did it for me…
The way they treated Reagan, the way they treated Justice Thomas, the way they treated Buchanan, the way they treated Rush,
the way they treated Jewel, the way they treated Palin, the way they treated Angle, the way they treated McDaniel, the way they treated Trump, the way they treated Lake. Basically, just try and do something meaningfully good and fine for this country and “they” will eat you alive. The only silver lining about the coming apocalypse will be that maybe just maybe “they” won’t be “they” anymore after it.
It’s almost as if “they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
[h/t Chuck U. Schumer]