During the Clinton era. I actually downloaded the Starr report, read every word and remember saying that it wasn’t the sex that would get him impeached but rather the lying. Then I learned about narcissism and psychopathy. Seeing that clip of HRC laughing about killing Kaddafi, I knew she was disgusting, but that was sick. In my psych education I learned to watch what people do, not what they say. Sometimes you watch both and really take a persons measure… I guess it was in 2013-2014 I read about the psychopathic control grid in global politics. I knew that no good could come of globalization.

When the red bulbous nose and boney index finger waved defiantly into the White House TV cameras while stating “I did not have sexual relations with that Lewinsky woman”… Lies so easily rolled out of Democrat supporters and RINO power protectors made anyone with a moral belief system want to evaluate past Government involvement (JFK Assassination, Nixon Impeachment efforts…) and, of course, every future Government event.

When Clinton was elected and assembled a gang of liberals in Arkansas to facilitate the ‘transfer of power’, followed by the blue dress and all related events, and finally including the Hillary Clinton method of sure fire investment success. Obama being elected only confirmed the fact that we were headed for serious trouble.

The day a friend of my uncle, who had just returned from Viet Nam said “our military isn’t in charge of that war, the politicians are and they’re losing badly because they don’t care if we die”.

In 1998, listening to Rush with co-workers in work van going to lunch. But it wasn’t until 2015 that Donald Trump really began opening my eyes to the Swamp. And at the same time I began working on my PHD after I stumbled on the Treehouse

I was starting to question our paradigm when George Bush Senior spoke about a NWO in a speech. I was wide awake after 9-11 and the 2000 page Patriot Act just happened to be ready to go.

The day PDT was inaugurated. After it was over I called my mom who lived in northern VA. I asked her what she thought of the event (she was a big supporter of PDT). She said “It was lovely and Melania looked fabulous. However, it’s the beginning of the end. Something bad will happen during his presidency.”

I got the call 72 hours later. She had passed away:(

While my mom didn’t go to college she read on average 3 books a week. She was very knowledgeable about history and geopolitics. She owned a small business that did some govt contracting and understood the swamp.

I became an even more voracious reader and follower of politics at that point.

When Obama stated in a campaign speech, “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

One of my first port calls decades ago – Mombassa, Kenya. Carrier/embarked airwing was anchored a mile off shore. Found a perch onshore and surveyed the landscape. The carrier dominated the entire visual. At that moment, the lightbulb illuminated and I understood at a gut level I was one spoke in the projection of American power; real, raw, no kidding “you will submit to our will or we will destroy you” power. The cultural contrast between life in Mombassa and the technical complexity of the CVBG was stark. From that point forward I dispensed with whimsical Patriotic slogans and was vigilant in working toward the details/intentions that lay at the roots of American projection of power. The policy mechanics itself – sometimes high minded, sometimes arguably corrupt.

After Rush made his millions selling us Bush Cheney for 20 f ing years , it opened my eyes .

My wakening has been progressive. It started with that smart ass Bush 41 who made my skin crawl. His remark “we’re gonna leave God out of it” when asked who would give the inaugural prayer was my wake up call. The Clinton crime wave cemented it for me. I knew we were toast when Oboingo slimed his way in and B43 proved to be a disaster. Once the election was stolen from Trump I knew we were officially voiceless slaves.

When Sandy Berger was caught smuggling terror-related docs from the National Archives. Read the first news of it in the paper and remember thinking what a story it would turn out to be when all the details come out. The kind of story that would make an investigative reporter’s career. But there was basically nothing after that, media silence. The realization that the 4th estate was under control of the left and only propaganda theater for the masses began then for me.

After watching Trump and Prime Minister Abe feeding the fish and then watching NBC news report on it. I was truly amazed at the way they portrayed Trump. At this point I really started to pay attention to the narrative being presented by the mainstream media. So dishonest.

2 things happened in early summer of 2008.
First, I noticed that a lot of houses were up for sale in neighborhoods surrounding the Job Corps center where I worked. A lot more real estate signs in front yards than normal.
Second, a Machine Shop trade instructor advised me to cash out my 401k when he heard that I had given notice and was leaving the job. I was getting ready to move to another state. When I asked why I should cash out the 401k, (I would get hit with penalties for early withdrawal as I was too young to retire at the time) he told me that a massive housing crash was coming soon; retirement funds, stocks, jobs, and pensions would be wiped out. I asked him how he knew this, where did he get this information? He replied that he had friends who were local politicians in Salt Lake City and Davis County . He said they knew what was coming and advised him to do the same with his 401K.
When my wife and I moved to Oklahoma, the job market was better, cost of living more affordable, gas prices were lower, etc. But we also saw the ripple effect of the Great Recession affecting businesses and the job market in our new location. Even temp labor offices were not sending workers out to job sites; very little demand for temp help. The economy was slowing down considerably in our new location. I saw how the large financial institutions were crashing when I did watch the mainstream news. I had the impression that something was very wrong when Barry Obongo ok’d the huge bailout.
A friend who lives San Diego lost a huge chunk of money when her pension took a hit, well over half of it, or so I heard. I was glad I cashed mine out. It kept us from being homeless.
I guess I could say that was my wake-up call.

Early in the GWB era. Read an article/blog/commentary about the DC money machine and how it and the area surrounding it was the highest incomes in the land. Was becoming more and more frustrated with how GOP people would side with Dem’s. So I did some research and looked at censes data over the years on county income. Over time, you could see the rise of DC over places that actually made stuff fell away. The past 2 cycles, 7 of the top 10 counties for income in the USA are around DC. I knew then that there was only one “party” as the GOP and RNC colluded to fleece us and stuff their pockets. The vision on the depth and level of this corruption in the system came when Trump started to expose it. And now we all know its everywhere. Fed, state, county……..sick times.

1971, I was 11. Nixon took us off the gold standard. China, I never understood, even then, why we needed to reach out to China, pretty obvious now why we should not have reached out. Kissinger, when he talked, he gave me the creeps, 11 to 14 was my awakening. thats my story, thanks for inquiring.

During the first Gulf War I started listening to Rush Limbaugh and wondering why no one was being held accountable for anything.

I subscribed to the WSJ for decades. I bought into their position that opening China and inviting them to participate in the world economy was good for them and good for the west. An open chinese economy would bring them more into the world of commerce and they would abandon their communist idealism. My job required me to travel weekly to many American cities and as time went by, I saw the decay of manufacturing and production here in America. I said enough back in the 80’s and frustrated with the politicians for not recognizing this abandonment of American workers as China also became more belligerent rather than more accommodating. The final straw for me was clintons’ election. I was so frustrated with politics, I took the family to DisneyWorld immediately so I would avoid the ‘news’ played incessantly about the the ‘two for one’ POTUS! The ONLY relief since then was DJT! And too short lived.

Planes taking out buildings and crashing into fields only to be totally vaporized….

The awakening started in the late 80’s thanks to Rush Limbaugh. The second term of GW Bush was for me, a dismal failure. Then with the internet really taking off, I started searching for alternative views to the common narrative. In 2007 when Obama was pushed from obscurity, I got my CCL and bought my first handgun. My family thought my views of government were radical. Then DT burst on the political scene. Having read his book “The Art of the Deal”, years prior and a long time admirer and understanding his true views in general, he had my attention and my vote. Then it all started to be exposed. In no small part to sources like The Conservative Treehouse and others I realized my views were not only not radical but had hardly scratched the surface. Now, here we are in the biggest criminal banana republic in the world.

I’d say it was in 3 phases:

1. The 2008 election and preceding “financial crisis”. Seemed manufactured, or at least well timed. Also the one clip of the lady at Obama’s inauguration crying about how she’s never going to have to worry about money again cause now there’s “Obama money” or some such thing. 😳

2. But at that time, I still thought the R’s were the good guys. Not until 2016 and the last few years did I come to realize that none of the DC or “elite/establishment” types (maybe a couple exceptions?) are the good guys.

3. The global and insidious nature of the entire agenda to bring down the USA didn’t become apparent to me until the 2020 election and Covid. It’s both a blessing and a curse to not be able to unsee it.

Sundance, first of all,

Thank You, for all the time and hard work spent on the treehouse.

2008 was the year that I saw clearly through smoke and mirrors of that (s)election and the big club.

2015 I found the treehouse and spend time here every day gaining knowledge.

Went from being:

I just wanted to be left alone,

to an elected school director trying to keep our small town school safe from the woke.

I have been blessed by God with a beautiful family and a wonderful life.

March 2010, during a discussion with a friend he played loose change 2nd edition in the background and something caught my ear so I made him restart the video. All downhill from there

1980 I thought Carter might drive us over the hyperinflation and regulation cliff
Then the 1992 election and installation of the Clinton gang and lawless accomplices.

Then the meteoric rise of the terrorist Ayres’ accolyte and indo-afro nobody in 2006-08.

Then the malicious prosecutions and accomodated rioting from 2012, on.

I started reading Newsweek in high school at the library. The photos of the Kent State massacre did it for me (and I read everything I could about it).

Clinton and Monica. Never kept up with politics till this happened. Been gagging since.

I was aware political machinations certainly since the 1980s but the top down control brought into force during COVID stunned me. I focus on data and the data in early 2020 told me the level of illness was being blown out of proportion and being used to control populations with ridiculous Simon Says commands to the detriment of peoples’ well being. It was psychotic that well known and available effective medications were available and being banned.

As a platoon sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division, the force projection asset of the DoD, assuming Deployment Readiness Force One status in 1993 during the Clinton military budget slashing policy my M16 did not pass the IG arms room inspection because I had to trade my firing pin and extractor with my privates so their weapon would pass. The supply system was broke and the only unit that could put a Battalion Combat Team on eighteen hours notice, wheels up, on C141s enroute to an objective anywhere in the world could not afford a firing pin. The kicker was in 1999 the VP of the U.S.A. was caught delivering missile secrets to the Chinese and then got away with it. “I am the great and powerful Oz” just did not work for me anymore. Twenty years as a cold war warrior then to come home in 2001 and see the enemy was already here.

Sundance, I was not raised in a political family. My whole life revolved around music and it was music that took me to Romania when I was 18, then to two more communist countries when I was 20 – Hungary and Yugoslavia. In both cases I was very blessed to have tour guides who took the time to tell me what life was like living under communism. (This was back in the mid 1970’s.) I came away learning how bad communism was. Those adventures led me to do lots of reading, particularly in the area of education. I became a registered Republican.

I think the moment I realized that things were not as they seemed was when I heard newly elected REPUBLICAN President George H.W. Bush give his inaugural speech on the “NEW WORLD ORDER.” I was shocked. What was HE doing talking about THAT subject? That did not fit in with our constitutional republic. That was a part of Agenda 21.

But back then, I wasn’t aware of the Uniparty. I still thought in terms of Dems = Commies, Reps = good Americans. I wasn’t aware of just how bad the CIA was. I could not have told you what the CIA actually did, but I thought they were fighting communists, not turning on American citizens.

Even though I voted for George W. Bush over Al Gore, I admit to being very uneasy when Colin Powell got up in front of the UN and told the world how we had to get Bin Ladin, who was in Afghanistan, yet we somehow started a war in IRAQ None of that made sense to me until years later when I learned that going into Iraq was payback for Saddam Hussain walking on GHWB’s face which was tiled on the floor of some building in Iraq. Oh, how many lives were lost, how many of our tax dollars were wasted on that folly which created so many problems for other countries in the Middle East?

I don’t remember how I found CTH, but I remember seeing your avatar on another website I stumbled upon that was supporting Sarah Palin during her 2008 vice presidential campaign created by a host who had previously supported Hillary Clinton.

All I know is that I’m so glad to have found CTH. I share many of your posts with others with the hope that they, too, will be enlightened. So many of the bloggers here are so intelligent and write so very well and are so knowledgeable about so many different topics that I’m one of those lurkers who is content to just read your posts and their comments on a daily basis. Thank you for all you do.

Waco and Ruby Ridge.

Never again.

Definitely Trump’s election. I always paid attention and knew that there were shady dealings with past politicians but Trump’s election opened my eyes to the complete fraud that is our government. The coordination among politicos, media, universities and corporations was astounding. That was the first time for me it became obvious that none of it is natural or spontaneous. I have now come to realize our government is nothing more than a Hollywood crew taking up camp in D.C., it’s all make believe.

My moment was the first time I found Rush on the radio. When he passed, my second moment was upon discovering CTH, for which I am extremely grateful.

O’Bama. I am a reformed Progressive and thought O’Bama’s election was the culmination of events leading to a new era. Then I listened to his race baiting comments. And, credit where credit is due, out of curiosity I started listening to Rush. That was it – my whole outlook was changed and I became Conservative.

It took the “pandemic” with mandates and lockdowns to really red pill me. Oh, and I became an active Christian.
Quite a transformation.

9/11
The phony report by NIST.

Many a Treeper here have read bits and pieces of the development of my worldview over the years.

Second generation to Italian immigrants. Lived upstairs to my grandparents and spent nearly every free moment of time with them. I was taught at a very young age the federal, state and local governments were eerily mirroring the Facista hell they had escaped.

As I became a student, I found myself quite interested in history and especially American history. My eyes opened when I looked past the snippets in my school issued history books and discovered Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were precisely what my grandfather was telling me about.

An employee asked me to watch a few minutes of Loose Change (on Rumble now) and I learned about building 7 WTF! Then architects and engineers for 911 truth. Researching Obama when he got elected peeled back the onion to the Bushes. All the dots started to connect.

1980. After reading “A Bright Shining Lie” by Neil Sheehan.

Started to pay attention when I began , at the behest of my brother, listening to Rush Limbaugh. That was 1986. I rarely missed his show or at least, the transcript. To this day, I greatly miss him. When I stumbled across CTH within this past year, I once again fail to miss your articles. I read them with great interest as they point to areas I knew something was wrong but couldn’t put my finger on it. CTH puts the finger on it clearly.

Never paid much attention to politics until the JFK assassination and the Warren Report came out.
Really became aware after I was drafted.
Very discouraged during the Clinton/Obama crime era.
Rush kept me updated and PDJT’s election gave me hope.
When the persecution of PDJT started by the Deep state and media, I became discouraged then outraged.
Except for TCTH, there’s not much hope left.

When Bruce Jenner came out about the time woke ism was born in a small college on the west coast.

Interesting walk down memory lane. I was 17 0r 18 and in our Sunday paper “magazine” insert there happened to be a Q&A asking are you a democrat or republican. I answered the questions overwhelmingly republican. My folks looked at me… nodded and smiled. Growing up on the heels of the Vietnam era suspicions of the media became a gnawing constant. I am now 66. I tried some college but my passion was finding a job I loved in service to others. During that process I experienced affirmative action policies. When I did finally land my dream job and went to work I had to join a union. After the union’s attempt to reshape my thinking by “telling me” I doubled down on my conservative values .Then along came Rush. He gave me such aneducation. I am grateful for his gift. I will always remember Rush’s insight of “follow the money”.

I am saddened today my country’s media is so far off the rails. For the vast great majority of the media there is no honor or truth.

Today is Transfiguration Sunday in my church’s calendar as we head into Lent we place our eyes on HIS eternal Peace, Hope and Love.

After Obama’s re-election where a) Mitt Romney disappeared from campaigning in the last few weeks and b) the day after Sean Hannity did an about face on illegal immigration, live on air, how it wasn’t that bad and we needed to give these people legal status after years of saying the exact opposite. In fact, I noticed everyone at Fox singing the same tune on immigration, like it was an order. That’s when I knew the news and opinion shows were directed, not free flowing reports of actual events or discussion of ideas, but top down propaganda.

I started really paying attention watching the phenomenon of Trump’s 2016 campaign. Having cancelled cable TV in 2011, I used SM, mostly Twitter, for links to news. Why were 20,000 going to a rally? Remember how in those days the media gave him a platform? It was a thrilling victory, defeating the 98% odds. But what really woke me up was the media hate a few months into his term. This had never happened before. What was going on?

I have not rested from seeking the truth since then. I now look at all historical ‘Facts’ with skepticism. What I see are lies to control an outcome at every major turning point in history. The biggest, saddest for me is Sept 11. I no longer use the gov. name, it was created to continually traumatize us. Everything is a lie. From wars, to false flag operations, to so-called holy men. Rush explained NAFTA back in the day, what they wrote into law materialized. The interesting thing is they tell you what they are going to do. The major groundbreaking legislation have all led to the destruction of us. Obamacare anyone? Agenda 2030. No need to list everything here. One more though. The virus hoax was thé biggest factor leading to awareness. My governor would not allow us to buy garden seeds or house paint. She shut down my business by EO. She threatened doctors licenses very early on. It made no sense.

Coming to terms with the lies we have been told has been painful and at times terrifying. We are governed by narcissistic sociopaths. But one blessed day a few months ago, I saw that there is truth. It is in God’s holy scripture. There I find my Lord, his redemption. He knows. He is the way, the truth, and the life.

1996, I started listening to Rush Limbaugh.

When I learned that private banks (not the US treasury)operate as if they owned our money supply. No audits ??????

What was happening to President Trump because he wasn’t a politician. When he said we will not be a socialist Country. I thought the USA would never hah. When he addressed us at his SOTU and said ” They are not after me they are after you and I am in their way”. I could have never imagined the corruption and evil of Politicians.
Thank you Sundance for the Conservative Tree House I have learned so much from your perspective and truths.

High school, northern Calif, 1972. A young teacher overturned a club election result she didn’t like. Suddenly, particular students’ votes “counted more” than others.

It seems I’ve always been interested in politics—even wrote to (and received a great letter from) Barry Goldwater as a teenager. What really opened my eyes was an occasion during a Poly Sci class I had while in college. Congressman John Tunney (CA) was invited to have dinner and speak with my class. He was arrogant and spent half the night telling us about being Ted Kennedy’s roomie in (IIRC) grad school. He spoke little on any issue of importance and proceeded to hit on one of the other girls for the remainder of the evening. It was then that I realized I needed to pay way more attention to who was being elected to represent me.

911 started my journey. At the time I knew everything about Florida State Football and was leaving for a game when 911 happened. My husband and I listened to Rush (first time) in the car on our way to Tallahassee. He was the only one on talk radio we could pick up. By Friday of that week I felt like the stupidest person on the planet. Why would anyone hate us this much? How could our government let this happen? On and on. From then with each piece of information I uncovered I wanted to know more. Had to know more. My “truths” have changed a lot over the years (used to love the Bushes!) and sometimes feel like putting my head back in the sand but then a dot connects to other dots (thanks to people like Sundance and anonymous people on TS) and the lightbulb goes off again and I remember GOD has the plan and this is truly a wonderful time to be alive!!!!!

It was 1974, Boston, I was a freshman in a Catholic high school. The issue was forced busing to “achieve racial integration”. The means was to take working class, ethnic whites from their neighborhoods and bus them to all black schools across town, and vice versa. All ordered by Left elites to shove down the throats of recalcitrant ethnic whites. No issue in my lifetime has risen to the intensity of forced busing in Boston 1974 to 78. All the elements we see today of cancel culture, fake news, bureaucratic elites, non stop agitation were all present, along with outright violence and rioting. It was a complete failure as a social experiment, no racial integration was achieved, but the Left elites doubled and tripled down. The Left lamented that they needed control of all housing to achieve their Nirvana. My parents kept us out of the destroyed public schools. But I had to navigate public transportation to a war zone on the border of a white/ black no man’s land. It was dangerous, sometimes frightening, but the political education from the forced busing experience in Boston was profound. I knew the Left was not interested in spreading the wealth around a bit, or empowering minorities. I knew they wanted complete transformation and control. They would never stop. I was not in the least surprised as the Left marched through our institutions methodically. When they revealed themselves fully in the 2000s I was not caught unawares.