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
In 2008. I saw Obama’s election as a coup. The Left had finally reached its goal of taking over the reins of government. Once they’re in office, you have to shed blood to get them out. In fact, I believed Obama would refuse to leave office at the end of his term, and they’d have to arrest him and march him out. He did refuse, but in a different way. The rest since then has been filling in the details.
I had my first inkling when his biography came out; it was a genius move to pre-empt any criticism of his disqualifying past life.He out-Hillary’d Hillary.
The day Obama was elected I knew we were losing our country. When he said he wanted to fundamentally transform this country I knew we were in trouble.
The Wednesday after the election I was riding a shuttle bus from the hotel to the airport in Chicago. On the bus with me were four very nice Black women that were headed to work at the airport. Looked like they might be in food service. Hard working women. They were absolutely in adoration of Obama and his win the night before. One of them looked and me and said “This is the greatest day ever. What do you think about the election?” “I would have to say that this is probably one of the most important elections in history.” She replied, “Exactly right!” I saw just a bit of the emotion that elected BHO and the power that it held. If you can manufacture enough of it, emotion can beat rational thought, but only for a while.
I started to really pay attention because of the extremely evil 0bama coup of 2008!
Our USA was completely sold out. Our Constitution was shattered. All this crap happening now are the results and to be expected.
1992: Papa Bush, Ross Perot, Billy Goat.
Perot’s 30 minute tv campaigns were classic.
Chicken Feathers, Deep Voodoo and the American Dream… lol
It was the Vietnam Christmas truce in 1969. My Army husband and I were stationed on Okinawa. The B52 sorties, taking off from Kadena Air Field, were larger, more frequent, and loaded with bigger bombs. I remember thinking “Merry Christmas, Charlie”. That was when my innocence was taken from me and I’ve been skeptical of the bureaucrats ever since.
My father was stationed at Kadena Air Field from 1964 – 1967. I remember having to cover my ears daily as the jets took off over our quonset hut school room, mere feet above our heads.
We thought they were cool. Little did I know as a 9 year old, the world that was speeding toward us.
I am genetically skeptical so there is no one thing I can point to as a Road to Damascus moment. There is one event that does stand out however. I have always been a Constitutionalist and that has stayed with me in my wanderings across the political landscape and indeed has motivated some of the wanderings. However, Nov. 3-4, 2020 convinced me that the Constitution was dead. There had been many outrages against the Constitution before but they always seem fixable. But now the government has no legitimacy and it is impossible to fix.
1966 when I returned from Vietnam.
No doubt the veil was lifted when we got home.
LBJ set that ball a rolling.
I guess I started paying close attention to politics in the 80’s as the celebrity-ization of race hustlers began to pervade media. Then at work it seemed it was nothing but nonsensical diversity seminars for a couple of years. Made me feel manipulated and unfairly accused of something that occurred in the 16th century.
In 2006 the company I worked for started talking about the global economy and most new hires were foreign nationalist.. I knew I was retiring in 2014 so I wasn’t too concerned, like so many others I thought this was going to be someone else’s fight.. We were an international company however, I also noticed the new hires were keeping our compensation down. Then found too much of our economy was service driven.. Even argued with my son about the new black Jesus. Had never had a political party association but I knew we were no longer in good hands this mess was not gonna fix it’s self..
I noticed something was wrong when Al Gore contested the 2000 election. I live in Palm Beach County. I remember being told by the poll workers to be sure to push through the “chads” and be deliberate. They did this at every election. Not specific to that year. Watching all the ensuing insanity I said to my wife that this crisis was created. No one we knew felt disenfranchised or even suspicious about the “Chad” thing. In days to come the media created such a frenzy and people then began to go into different camps. The country in my opinion became divided and has gotten exponentially worse.
When Richard Nixon was advised to contest the election with JFK his reply was, no it will divide the country. He was absolutely correct. Smart man Mr. Nixon.
It started for me the day Bill Clinton signed the Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and sat proudly proclaiming that we were moving to a service economy. I knew our standard of living would soon deteriorate. A service economy only fosters dependence on government. New wealth and prosperity must be earned by building things. As you can see after 40 years we are dependent on other nations of people for most of our needs. Food ,clothing and even prescription drugs.
President Trump began to reverse these ideas, that is why he had to go.
Nafta was negotiated by Pappy Bush… Not a party thing, but a global optic thing.
My awakening began during the Clinton years. That was about the time I started listening to Rush on a regular basis. After I became a regular Rush listener, I could never unknow what I knew. I’m fully awake, and have been for many years now. There are government watchlists with my name on it, I’m sure.
Rush was my reawakening. Thanks for sharing that.
Our family was already ahead of the curve. We did not always vote for the candidate the GOP wanted us to vote for that was listed ono the card that was mailed at the appropriate time. The card had the ‘chosen’ names for each position, the judges, commissioners, etc.. My father would cut articles from the newspaper about court cases and the judges decisions and when it came time to vote, he would pull the box out and would cross check the names and we would vote for the BEST, not because they were Republican. We got tired of hearing, “Better of the two”.
The ‘wake-up call’ was Terri Schiavo! Along with the judge, both bushies, let her die and the mysterious circumstances of her ‘accident’ helped her ‘husband’ achieve his wishes. When her parents wanted to take care of her, he should have been happy to have his wife taken care of. That was when I started following the news online from researching.
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Been following Conservative Treehouse, for many many years!! He is spot-on and I have posted a lot of his articles to educate others! By reading the comments posted, there is always additional information to be garnered.
After twa 800 blew up, as well as the OK bombing
The clintons……
September 15, 2008 Global Financial Crisis due to collapse of mortgage backed securities and derivatives.
And then the 2008 “election” and Jan 2009 installation of Barack Hussein Obama..
And then all investigations by House Oversight and the “amazing” Darell Issa:
12/14/2010 Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry murdered in operation Fast and Furious, “gunwalker” operation.
Feb 2012 the Lois Lerner/IRS /Eric Holder/DOJ targeting of Tea Party patriots
September 11,2012 Benghazi
Oct 2013 failed launch of Healthcare.gov.
WTF?! FUBAR!!
Sharyl Atkinson and Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch were helpful in my early education.. then came the Herman Cain radio show that was a lifeline for me. And finally, somehow, God blessed me and led me to Sundance and CTH!!!
What a long, slow painful education…
Thanks Sundance for showing me how to Live my best life ! I am Loving God and serving Him by helping and loving others.
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I started paying attention in 1972 after reading Smiling Through the Apocalypse. The evidence presented in the Kennedy assassination of the grassy knoll shooters was compelling. I’ve always voted conservative because they are the least of the worst of the rest of the evils. Thank God I scored to low on the Foreign Service Officers exam and didn’t end up in the belly of the beast.
When Obama awarded medals to the “Corpse-men”.
If he’d have watched “Sands of Iwo Jima” bunches of times like a normal guy – where the heroic “Core-men” were summoned 3-4 times during the fighting sequences, he’d know how to pronounce it properly.
It showed his – and his voters ignorance and contempt for the best of this country.
When the Clintons came to town, evil arrived.
When the Obamas came, the country was euphoric and did not see the evil.
Then the Bushes loved and adopted the Clintons and the Obamas.
Then my eyes really opened.
My enlightenment started with “Read my lips, no new taxes”; “New World Order”; “Thousand Points of Light” and “Giant Sucking Sound”.
Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck, and then The Treehouse! The good people lurking here has also taken me down many avenues of truth.. Q… So uncanny the truth exposed and forecasted.
I love this hangout. So many fine conversations. When I share this site with others, I always say Sundance is one of the few outstanding journalists ever. Don’t know how you do it.. You are spot on!
Love you and what you have given us to make sense of the madness.. God Speed..
Actually, in 1964 with Reagan’s great speech. Then the Vietnam War. More so, a few weeks after Reagan left office and Bush I took power. Then, the intervention in the Middle East called “Desert Storm”; Clinton’s corruption, Bush II’s Wilsonian insanity, Obama’s Communism, and beyond my worst nightmares, Biden’s selling his office to the nation’s enemies. Trump offered brief hope but his constant complaints about staff combined with his persistent failure to fire people created a serious question that persists even today. Needless to write: Lights have popped on over and over. I’ve been troubled for a long long time.
The moment I became aware of politics from a totally different perspective was when President Trump was banned from social media sites. In a discussion about that with my sister, she told me about the Treehouse/Sundance and I’ve been here everyday since.
My in laws were always saying how evil the Democrats were. I was married in 1983 but with having 4 children I was busy and did not pay much attention to politics. As time went on, I noticed more and more. I started listening to Rush around 2000 and when a “green” senator from Illinois was elected president I took more notice. His rhetoric was communistic in nature.. When he was re-elected, even though I knew there were many who didn’t like his policies, I looked closer. Then came Donald Trump. I was not a fan in the beginning, thinking we needed someone more politically savvy, but as I listened to what he said, not necessarily HOW he said it, I started to like him. I personally believe the 2020 election was stolen, but the thing I credit DJT with is opening the eyes of the country to what has been going on. Thanks to the real journalists online, we are learning more and more each day.
Benghazi
I’ve always been pretty aware that things on the visible surface didn’t represent the actual reality. There was never an actual moment when I crossed the threshold from unaware to seeing clearly. It’s been more a matter of how much I was aware of and how well I understood the pure evil of the elites running the world. The period from President Trump’s escalator ride to today has REALLY ripped the doors off the walls the deep state erected to keep us in the Matrix. My “awareness crossover” was from being pretty well-informed to an absolutely crystal clear understanding of the malicious intent of the bastards in the Deep State/Deep Church who want to destroy us. 2015 to today has clarified patterns, identified players and sewn together connections I’d not known about. The Deep State underbelly has been exposed, revealing the truth that The Matrix was a documentary, not a fiction film. The last piece of the puzzle for me in understanding this happened the literal moment Inslee announced the C-vid restrictions in WA. I knew beyond any doubt what was coming and how that manufactured event was nothing more than a bold Luciferian move to frankly wipe out as many people as possible. I knew it in a second, in a flash that lit up my soul. And it turns out, I was right. The entire system has been exposed as thoroughly rotten, designed to keep us enslaved and blind to its machinations. Thankfully, I see that very clearly now, whereas before Trump, I sensed it only partially and without understanding objectively, deliberate evil foundation.
1995-1996… English literature class. The teacher had us read native son.. Then watched as half the class turned into raging communists soon after.
Everyone else sees this time as the high point before the commies really took over but they were already thoroughly embedded by that point.
While kids at the time were all arguing over which music and movie starts were ‘selling out’ the most.
Few of them realized they were the ones being sold out. No one ever listened when I pointed it out and everyone older than me had their Bush vs Clinton blinders on.
When I was in law school over 20 years ago, I realized what my parents taught me about the constitution and the inalienable rights I received from God had been erased by a balancing test that had been devised by the Supreme Court in the 1890s.
What court case or circumstances brought about the “balancing test” of the 1890’s that you refer to in your response? Can you elaborate on this event? Thank you.
As a very young person – remember Nixon being forced from office; later the Clinton scandals – particularly Monica, OK bombing, Waco–burning people alive, sending that boy back to Cuba – ?Elion?–armed agents raiding that family was shocking; Bush/Gore election debacle really got my attention and I learned more about elections, and lawfare.
Spent a few years in and around federal government — faith in government — shattered. Within government the goal is to gain/spend money and maintain/accrue power. This is what is promoted/rewarded. Ends justify the means.
When Trump came down the escalator. I have not stopped paying attention. Look…here I am posting on CTH!
April 2020, wear a mask, I know respirators & some piece of cloth isn’t going to do squat. I only thought I was alert before. It’s been a fire hose now that we have our tinfoil hats. Big Pharma, big healthcare, big food, big government, big military, on & on.
“Once you see the strings in on the marionette you can’t unsee them”
Sundance
I first recognized something wasn’t right when Waco happened.
I thought it was isolated
but recognized what our Govt was capable of.
I only really started paying attention when the Tea Party formed. My real eduction began when Trump was in the primary.
The Q drops in late 2017
And through today supercharged my understanding. You (Sundance) informed my understanding of collusive world wide food commodities and drug pricing and then many other facets of the Uni Party and whatever you call the international cabal that can coordinate such things.
I’m so well informed now
(But still somewhat ignorant compared to Sundance and other notable truth seekers)
it’s difficult to talk politics with ideological allies because they still think
token victories are a big deal. I can see how easily led around we as a people are. The powers that be really had us by the throat until President Trump and we didn’t even know it.
Most still don’t. I think
that’s getting better.
Sundance your intel is so good as are many others I wonder if a covert operation feeds intel ( to worthy talented people) to fuel this great awakening. Without people like you we would be in darkness.
So many revelations seem so arcane I have a hard time accepting our good fortune
that random citizen activists can see it let alone
devote the equivalent of a work week to figuring it out. Not to insinuate you aren’t doing the work but
rather to explain how
people can do it when to
Keep food on the table it’s all I can do just to read and to absorb it. Thank you
For educating me. It’s been a wild 6 years. I feel like I’ve been in college (I didn’t go ) due to the level of re eduction I’ve had.
In 1970, when I was in High School. The teacher was explaining “propaganda” and how those bad countries use it to control their people. After she was done I thought, isn’t that what our newspapers and politicians are doing here? After that, I read and listed with a questioning mind. That was at the height of the Vietnam fiasco, so I got lots of practice sifting what I was hearing and reading, and it just didn’t add up. It hasn’t really been adding up since.
The tsunami of slander and vilification that inundated Pat Buchanan after his 1992 Culture War speech at the GOP convention.
For me, the betrayal of everything I believed occurred in 1988. As a young man who was lucky enough to be in a Union piping trade apprenticeship, I thought unions represented the working man and that Democrats represented us.
At that time, I was called to picket the State House in Boston, controlled almost completely by Dems and Governed by Mike Dukakis, who had just announced a run for President.
At issue was the hiring of an out of State contractor, but also a non Union contractor! I was completely shocked that our perceived benefactors would not only “give away” our work to out of Staters, but to non union!
Then the moment of clarity: our Business Agent, a big alley cat of a man, came out to the picket. I politely asked him how our Governor, who had aspirations of Presidency, could let this happen. He answered, : Kid, I know he is a no good Greek son of a bitch….but his is OUR no good Greek son of a bitch.”
Devastated that everything I had believed, after voting D all the way down since I could vote was a complete delusion, my life changed. I opened my eyes and started reading and listening to people that had been awake for much longer.
As an Independent- now “unenrolled”- I supported primarily Republicans, though very scarce in MA.
Today, after the utter exuberance of President Trump, I see what our weaponized government has become, and realize that we, the American People, have been completely abandoned, and are currently being abused.
If I could, I would burn it all to the f8cking ground, scorched earth style.
I am deeply saddened to have become this cynical and angry.
I no longer believe that President Trump will survive another attempt to regain what was stolen from him– and us.
During the early successes of the Trump Administration. I was a relunctant Trump supporter, I had him as my 3rd or 4th choice. I would have literally voted for any of the Republican candidates over Hillary. However, once he started demonstrating significant positive results immediately with several openly hostile agencys, congress and of course the media, I realized there had to be a fundamental reason for that amount of organized and coordinated push back.
I also retired in 2016 and as my life “slowed down” I was able to have more time to “look around” and “smell the roses”. At some point I found CTH and as I tried to critique I quickly came to realize CTH was getting to the root cause of several issues. “Once you see the strings…”
I’m’a late bloomer… I kinna sorta noticed things going south all along – I suppose. I never voted. Never got involved. Bitched the same as others like me. But did nothing to facilitate change.
Then Trump came along. I did not vote in 2016. Was glad Trump won. The spent the next 4 years watching what that man endured – successfully.
2020 came along. I wanted to be part of the tidal wave that was forming to re-elect Trump. Could. Not. Fail. And then he did – sorta. When Trump had the election stolen from him. When I was told FJB garnered the most votes in election history. When… everything else that simply defies logic took place – that was my Ah’Ha moment.
Like I said “Late Bloomer” but bloom I have.
On July 17, 1996 when TWA flight 800 was shot down. I started reading the witness accounts and I thought something didn’t add up. Then I read Jack Cashill’s book and I knew then something was not right. After that I questioned and researched everything. At the time I was reading WND and I listened to Rush Limbaugh.
When clinton denounced ‘the rights of ordinary Americans’ on guns, was the beginning for me.
And every time they came after guns or attacked the second amendment after that, a little more.
And obama more after that. In fact, obama was and in hindsight continues to be the eye opening-est of all.
There was a piece written somewhere about an obama insider talking about race that haunts me to this day. The jist of the piece was ‘you aint seen nothing yet’, and look where we are today.
The first time I read an article by Thomas Sowell. Simple as that.
I was raised in a democrat home until my parents voted for Reagan and never another dem after that. I was a young deli owner on Long Island and voted for Perot because he was a businessman and not a politician. When it was revealed that he was promised the computer business for the Hilary Health Care Plan I had that moment of distrust for the system…. I started to listen daily to Rush Limbaugh and Bob Grant and Mike Savage to get educated about the political SWAMP and it’s tentacles…..
I realized the GOP was NOT interested in “winning” when they assisted paid liars to take down Herman Cain.
I’m a man with no party or Washington representation ever since.
2020 election and Covid.
There are a lot of instances where I look at it all and it makes sense.
I am going to go back to the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone and the unpopular treaty…I was a kid then.
When we went down there, my Dad said it would not last forever (our time there, and he was right), Dad was a chief engineer on a tug boat, then. Kissinger and Congress along with Carter, gave it away. The plan was there. Had been there, for globalism. Fast forwards as everything is built upon prior policy (?)…we have Chinese a presence too close for comfort. They truly play a long game and it is no accident.
The Donald Trump Administration that favored “The Forgotten Men and Women”, confirmed it all.
The escalating events, over the decades, made me aware. But with the rapid simplicity that things under PDJT, improved for me, and others, was my WTF wake up moment.
The current occupant of 1600 and the communist warp speed of his communist policies, just confirm it. Of course I am older and more knowledgeable about things, and the implication of 10/1/79.
Depends … paying attention to what, specifically? I’ve been trying to be attentive for decades, but attention is one thing, sustaining hyper-alertness across 360 degrees, 24/7/365 is very difficult and tiring.
In general, though, the main touchstone for me are things that distinguish eternal from temporal/worldly concerns. We are mortal creatures. We have one shot at this life to make a difference, to witness to the Good, to either show character, spirit, and courage out of loyalty to the One (Jesus Christ) who died to set us free (Galatians 5:1), or to show cowardice, disloyalty, and selfishness, which will not be glorious “on that day.” But scripture speaks again and again of “that day,” offering signals of the coming “day of the Lord,” whether I live to see its historical fulfillment at the end of the present age with the return of the Righteous Judge, or whether I experience his return more personally “for me” at the end of my own life. Either way, the same patterns, the same warnings apply, whether in undeniable headlines or in existential rhymes; those are the things that capture my attention most readily, because nothing less than eternity is at stake.
So when the powers that be start telling me that I must do something, anything, in this case, take an experimental “vaccine,” and they attach moralistic appeals (“for the common good”) and threats (“you won’t be able to buy or sell or travel or leave your home”) … this is the same sort of pressure that will be exerted on people to take the mark of the beast. Do I think the bio-weapons touted as vaccines are the mark? No (but not for lack of trying on the part of the evil one). But if we “test the spirits to see whether they are of God,” this whole threatening guilt-trip was and is clearly not of God; rather it is a clear trademark, an obvious tell, of the lying spirit that will eventually push the mark.
In short, when something that threatens people’s eternal destiny arises, that is when I shift from paying (low-grade) attention to hyper-alertness. The hopeful news, as I see it (if there is any in this fake-vaccine episode, fatal as it has been for many), is that (1) if certain people have died prematurely and very unjustly, it was not because of “the mark” because these jabs are not (yet) the mark (i.e., they are not on the right hand or the forehead, so that is a pretty clear indicator). In other words, there remains hope for their eternal souls. And (2) if and when those who have survived the whole covid plan/scamdemic finally realize the evil that has been done, then more and more people will have the courage and spirit to refuse the mark, when the archenemy attempts to deploy it.
God be with you, treepers.
No one new item that I remember.in the fifties dad & I were putting together Crystal sets.dad worked for Glen l Martin co,&brought home the materials.in bed at night started to listen to the talk radio at that time.only one I remember is Joe Pine.65 years later still listen to talk,but not as much since Rush passing.
I’m 79 and I saw we had a real national problem when Kennedy was shot. I was just one year out of high school.
My journey started with being uncomfortable with James Baker’s pronouncement of a “new world order” way back in the Gulf War days; it was an odd choice of words coming from a man whose generation fought to defeat a tyrant whose goal was to impose his vision of that phrase on the world.
That’s when I began to believe that maybe things we were seeing and hearing were there intentionally to distract us from the bigger picture.
I have always been politically aware but I would say the Obama – (gag) McCain campaign. Until then I was just another American, proud of my country, trying to make my way through Life but then McCain nominated Sarah as his running mate and it was Katie bar the door. When MCCain shived Sarah I knew the fix was in and full disclosure, I voted for Team Sarah but to no avail.
Trump was the game-changer who re-energized politics and restored my faith in our elections … until the Dems stole our future in 2020. I pray we can hold our Republic together.
I know exactly where I was and approximately when. Late 1980s. Driving to a sales call on IL 162 and scanning the car radio for something interesting. Rush Limbaugh’s voice over KMOX St Louis came across the airwaves. I was mesmerized. He changed my life. He articulated and explained my subconscious principles with such clarity as I never would’ve been able to do myself. My daughter grew up with him and is what Rush fondly called a “Rush Baby”. Miss him every day. Lordy I loved that man.
My kid was a Rush baby as well–and his fifth grade “portrait” from school has him wearing a “Rush is Right” pin on his shirt. No one misses Rush more than he or I do.
I started after Clinton won. I voted for him, but was appalled at Hillary and her actions.
There were three distinct times in my adult life when I started paying attention because I was forced to.
The financial crash of 2007-2009. My home value dropped in half. Most people don’t put more than 20% down, so to buy under your means, and then find your home so worthless you can’t even sell it for what you owe on it was shocking. I watched the banks get bailed out and I was very angry. I felt swindled. I started researching in earnest only to find out that the whole thing was manipulated and the hardworking, tax paying, regular people got screwed. I was one of those people. I’m not dumb about real estate any more and I watch it like a hawk. We are in a similar situation right now.The stolen election of 2020 was the second biggest hit to my psyche. It was obvious. How dare they? Our sacred right to choose our leaders doesn’t exist. They do whatever they want, whenever and however they want with no regard for the will of the People.The covid plandemic. I was awake, really, sharply, awake. I did my research early on. I noted that it was not a vaccine, but gene therapy. Something you give people when they have cancer and need radical intervention. I refused it and warned everyone in my family to not take the shot. I was shocked how many people in my extended family and friends took the shot because their medical provider insisted it was safe. Since then, 1 died of an aggressive, returning, cancer. Another, who was in remission, is filled with an aggressive return of the cancer. Another’s heart has been weakened and has required intervention every 6 months or so. Another died suddenly, young and strong, and then another died suddenly, young and strong.It wasn’t a singular event. Even 9/11 didn’t wake me up. I have zero faith in the government and medical community now. I can see all the strings on the marionettes. I am wide awake. I don’t see how we get out of this mess unless Jesus returns, but I’m hopeful.
The overthrow of the elected government in Ukraine in 2014. Which the now defunct US site MP.net gave great coverage of.