I was a young mom, early 90’s maybe just driving along one day looking for something to listen to on the radio. A voice caught my attention as I flipped through the stations. His monologue that day resonated so strongly with me that I remembered thinking, “Yes, yes! This is exactly what I believe!” and “Finally someone is publicly saying it out loud!” That of course was Rush Limbaugh. I listened every day I could. Secretly connected with like minded coworkers. Visited our local “Rush Room” restaurant for lunch that had his program on for all to hear. That began a long and continuous trek in my life to learn more. A caller introduced me to Human Events, a little newspaper at the time delivered in the mail. As I navigated through the new experience of the internet, I eventually landed here at CTH. Been here a loooog time, mostly lurking, occasionally posting. I really believe that landing on that little AM channel one day changed the course of my life.

I was born conservative but 1971 as a teenager started questioning what was happening in the world, politics and social change. Never have believed the media!

I have to break this up into pieces

That something was very wrong in Academia. Grade school (70s) –> college (late 80s to 90s)

That our DOJ/FBI/ATF was utterly corrupt and would happily go along with totalitarianism — Waco, Ruby Ridge — this is when I started listening to Rush.

That our state dept was utterly evil — Muslim Brotherhood / Bemghazi

That there was an actual goal to control us — post-9/11 creation and operation of DHS. It was clear the goal was not to make us safer but to make us compliant.

That the press was an arm of the government — Rush –> JournoList –> Trump admin particularly “fine people” lie.

That “science” was corrupt — Global warming –> coconut oil –> cow farts –> scamdemic

That “medicine” was corrupt — Obamacare –> corporate “medicine” (I could see the quality of care from my own doctor declining into “treat the symptoms” –> scamdemic

That the “MIC” was real — every “war” post-Reagan — both us and thsoe we supported — gradual awakening to the realization that the only reason for these was to expend massive amounts of armaments that would have to be rebuilt.

That there was a uniparty — My dad was retired military and he served from 56-79. He always said there wasn’t a dimes worth of difference between the partys. But I as very slow to accept the uniparty reality. I could see that GOPe was only as conservative as they had to be to get elected, but I still didn’t accept that they were really all the same party until Trump.

So chronologically I started suspecting things after Waco. I started listening to Rush and he both gradually awakened and blinded me. Although he dropped hints of the Uniparty (that I only see in hindsight), he was so “Dem bad GOP good” that iI was reluctant to accept it until the Trump candidacy made it obvious.

As I’ve said before, Trump’s superpower is that he causes people to reveal themselves for who they really are.

When it fully dawned on me that journalism, of all forms, had been transfromed from investigation and reporting, to dissemination of talking points and agendas.

That realization occured gradually really. Rush Limbaugh would occasionally provide examples of various media outlets actually repeating the exact same phrases, which was at first amusing, but then became deadening.

Then there was the rise of Obama, a man who clearly hated America, and was essentially a third world revolutionary, gaining the support of so many Americans.

Russiagate – clearly a false narrative, but dominating the news for years.

Those are just examples from among many that amalgamated into an understanding that the apparatus of government/media was no longer in the hands of believers in America.

Can’t put a time stamp on it .
Had to be from starting computer use .
I was losing most of my writing and spelling skills from lack of use,I worked in construction.
Definitely after 911.
I know I was hating on Bush, because he was stacking the laws against the poor. I grew up poor, on welfare,and spent some time in foster care .
So Bush changing the credit card laws had me pissed ,and my family were all Bush fans .
My true awakening was probably closer to the beginning of the OBammy era .
I was looking at what Ron Paul was saying ,and he made so much sense .
Also the movie loose change ,that made more sense than the story they gave us .
My spidey senses were in heightened alert at the beginning of the plandemic.
I knew what was up for the most part ,by the end of February 2020.
Gotta say , the level of bull bleep since then is in comprehendible .

I grew up in the Chicago area and I’m closing in on 70 years old. My parents were Kennedy Democrats and hard working people. Mom & Dad raised 7 kids in a 3 bedroom house. I had the great good fortune to be born a voracious reader and in those days the dead tree media still had some value. Through exposure to the cynicism of guys like Mike Royko who wrote about corruption and the Chicago machine and my Dad’s clear eyed view of the real world as a WWII survivor and a young man making his own Horatio Alger success story I learned at an early age that things are hardly ever what they seem. I did tend to stumble along on my own non-path until I finally married and I became a dad. Then the S**t got serious. I fear for my country, and the kids coming up willfully unconscious. Trying not to be an old curmudgeon but hard to remember your Christianity when staring in the face of such blatant hypocrisy, corruption and pure evil. Rediscovered the need for prayer in my daily life.

For myself it was in and around the very time that Barack Hussein Obama was about to capture the nomination over Hillary. I could not believe at the time that such a number of US citizens were going to vote in a person with almost no normal work or executive type experience, almost none. I couldnt believe it. He wouldnt produce his Birth Certificate either at the time. I was shocked and really started paying much more, daily, attention at that general time and have ever since.

The 1970’s was such a tumultuous decade, political and cultural. If I wanted to spend time with my Dad, I had to be where he was. As such, I would sit with him every night after work and watch the national news. I stopped watching when I, as a teen, realized that my emotions were being manipulated. I avoid Dan Rather like the plague he is.

My eyes were opened when I first found the Treehouse. I came here to follow the investigation into Jessica Chambers death and stayed b/c I sensed that this was a place where I could find the truths that no one else was willing to say out loud. I stayed b/c it turned out I was right 🙂 I may be on one of the lowest hanging branches b/c I don’t post very often (this may be my 3rd or 4th post in all) but I read every day and go thru most of the comments as well… The Treehouse has given me a place to come where I know I won’t be treated as a conspiracy theorist or worse and my thoughts and ideas will be respected. It has been my refuge in these last few years as most, if not all, of my friends and family members have bought into the covid nonsense and shots.

For me, it was Clinton’s first term. Whitewater, cigars, and all the rest. I lost my naive confidence in the American voter when I was shocked that he was elected to a second term.

But I STILL didn’t realize the corruption in our government until Trump won and he was attacked from all directions. That’s when I fully realized what everyday American citizens were/are up against.

It was around 1993, when Clinton was elected. I had started listening to a daytime talk show a friend told me about. The one and only Rush. I knew there was something wrong with American politics, and wanted more information. A day or two of Rush and I was HOOKED. He just had an uncanny ability to make me understand the big picture and how things were related. I miss Rush’s commentary and big picture analysis . I get very frustrated these days with the political system. I wish more people in this country would open their eyes to what’s really going on in this country..

I have been saying this for a what seems like a long time now, nothing is ever quite what it seems to be.

It was 1984. During the re election of one of our greatest presidents when he visited a junior college in my hometown and said said, “ Abe Lincoln said, we must disenthrall ourselves with the past — and then we will save our country. Well, 4 years ago, that’s what we did. We made a great turn; we got out from under the thrall of a government which we’d hoped would make our lives better, but which wound up living our lives for us”. I had seen what a mess Carter had made without even being corrupt and three years later the wall came down. My buddy who’s mom grew up in post war Germany was telling me about his cousins and the hatred East Germans had towards the communists. Now look at the mess these statist bastards have made of our country and It affirms Reagan was right, freedom is only a generation away from extinction.

For me, it was the George W election fiasco (I dumped the Republican Party and changed to Unaffiliated that year), but what really sent me down the rabbit hole was the Building 7 collapse on 9/11. From that day forward, I knew we were being lied to…by everyone. Ever since, I have been seeking out my own information and completely ignoring anything said by the Media or Government.

What immediately popped into my mind when reading the question was this: I took a job overseas in an Arab country in the second half of 2007. Part of my job required that I regularly visit the US Embassy for business. On these days I looked forward to the visit because of the opportunity to lay eyes on the American flag, something that I think we in the US take for granted – the number of American flags we see day to day. Its hard to describe but on these visits I also experienced great service from the embassy staff – it’s like they knew they were important to we citizens living and working in that foreign country and went out of their way to show they appreciated us.

Fast forward to 2009 and my first opportunity to visit the embassy, again on business. My first impression was I did not see any Americans at the front entrance, nor in the screening area where the metal detector was located, nor in the new waiting area (a tent) that visitors had to wait in until embassy staff came to escort them into the embassy (previously we could walk on our own to “our” embassy. Waiting there I watched over a dozen non-citizens get called before me, had the occasion to examine the reading materials and posters on the walls of the tent and what was glaringly apparent was the lack of normal US citizens – all were “celebrating” muslims in America.
When the embassy staff member finally called my name again it was not an American that came to get me but another non-citizen employee.

I quickly did my business, absent the service level I mentioned in my previous visits, and left as soon as possible. It was only when I got back to my car to drive away that I realized I never looked up to see the American flag. I remember resenting how I was made to feel by the very government I, along with millions of American taxpayers, pay for and knew then that things had changed.

2017, Russia Russia Russia

Listening to Rush as an 18 year old young man driving around making deliveries I learned how biased the media was against then George HW Bush and what it meant to be a liberal democrat and how I wanted nothing like that in my life.

Reading the Drudge Report in the early 90s which pointed out the liberal bias in the media by linking to their own articles, and how they “shelved” Bill Clinton’s sexcapades.

Reading and listening to Milton Friedman talk about individual freedom over collectivism, capitalism over socialism/communism and how the latter leads to tyranny and misery and how the former leads to the common man rising out of grinding poverty.

my triggering moment was roe v wade.

1973.

a case based on a lie to greenlight the slaughter of children.

in 1973, our nation lost its soul.

Back in the early 80’s I opened a computer software store where I live. A local attorney and I got into a political discussion one day with me making the the comment, “Well, the Supreme Court always has our back.” She said, “Boy do you have a lot to learn.” I was kind of struck by that and I started studying the Constitution on the side. Shortly after that I made an acquaintance with a retired judge. I would see him daily as he walked about town. When I told him of my interest in the Constitution he began to help me gain an understanding. He had a great style as he would have me explain it to him and then he would comment on my understanding. It was really a great time and a great awakening.
It was not long after that I heard Rush Limbaugh on the radio and realized that I was not alone in my thinking.
There certainly is no going back now.
I think an understanding of the Constitution, and the founding, is the true beginning for anyone.

When I read the transcript of the Charlottesville interview.

Viet Nam.

I was always a Rush listener, so I knew what was going on, but I really perked up in 2007.
This guy, Obama, was shooting his mouth and my bullsh!t detector blew a fuse.
I listened and I knew we were in trouble because I could see this guy hated this country and I knew he would be elected because we’ve got so many other people who either hate the country or badly needed to signal their virtue by voting for him.
I foresaw bad things, so I started watching what he did and what he said.
Now, the bad things are here.

About the same time I discovered the truth about Santa Claus. No fooling.

Once you figure out people are capable of big lies, and big lies have more organization and are more successful than little lies, then it’s just a matter of connecting the dots.

Like many, my first route to seeing “the real world” was through discovering Rush Limbaugh in the very late 80’s. As brilliant as that man was, I do believe even he wasn’t aware of the depths and breadth this evil possessed.

I, like many, still believed that our government, and most elected officials, were just trying to govern around their ideals.

The Obama administration was the flashing yellow light. Too much was going on, yet didn’t really see it. I despised McCain but voted anyway. I didn’t particularly like Romney, but voted for him anyway. Trump was AMAZING, and gave me hope we had turned a corner. It was during his prep for taking office, with the evil pushing for his impeachment even before taking his oath, that I discovered TCT. Throughout the walk Sundance served as my Morpheus, offering up red pill after red pill, until I was sickened by the depravity of this “real world”.

It is because of the Treehouse that “I SEE THE MATRIX”, hence my handle. The journey is long and repulsive to all that we were brought up believing in. America….a beautiful beacon for freedom….ruined by greed and depravity.

Can the masses ever come to this point of understanding? Not likely, until it is too late. We can hope, but the difficulty of the journey makes them turn back to their entertainment, tic tok, YouTube and recreational drugs.

As a young 20 year old Marine, my unit stationed in Okinawa was called upon in April 1975 to help in the evacuation of South Vietnamese fleeing from their own country after being overrun by the Communists. With 1976 being an election year, and my leaving the Corps in July, a family friend convinced me to vote for Jimmy Carter. He was elected and immediately pardoned ALL Vietnam draft dodgers. I was absolutely LIVID that this President did such a thing as pardoning Americans that left their own country to dodge being drafted into the service of their own country. Then we had the Iran situation and I saw that President COWER down to the point that it just disgusted me to the bone. From that point on, I NEVER trusted another DemocRAT especially when the abortion issue started really piling up the numbers of aborted babies. I then paid as close attention as was possible to the actions of the two Party’s, which gave me no choice as a Patriotic American but to align my self with the Republican Party. The older I got then, and the more I learned, the more Conservative I got, and am now again not trusting a majority of that Republican Party I aligned myself with because of those that Rush Limbaugh correctly dubbed as RINO’S. LOOK AT US NOW….I am thoroughly disgusted in what is going on in the country that I put that Marine Uniform on to defend now. I have near ZERO Tolerance now for Traitorous attitudes which appears to be nearly ALL DemocRATS, and a lot of RINO’S. Thank you Sundance for your input to us that we can trust as facts. Keep up the good work and God Bless.

My “awakening” occurred sometime in early 2001 if I remember correctly. I believe it was former VP Al Gore that was touring or parading around the middle east and Africa at the time, I forget what his cover story was. I had listened to Rush on and off over the years, which I believe was how I had picked up on the story.

It was irritating that Gore was undermining the current administration at the time. I had been a longtime reader of the CNN website, fan of CNN in general since Gulf War 1. At work, I usually had the browser in back to check news when on downtime.

That was my snowball moment. There was no mention of it AT ALL, anywhere, on CNN’s website. I was old school journalism mentality. I grew up believing that even though the press shaded left, that by and large the news covered everyone, it just -spun- things to the left. It disillusioned me to the point that I had sent a message to the effect of “why isn’t this newsworthy?”

From then on I realized that media manipulated you more by not reporting than reporting – you don’t know what you don’t know. That led to, for the first time, looking for supporting news sources. Over the years that became awareness of copy paste journalism; opinion pieces and editorials being cited and read into legislative record as fact evidence because they came from “news” sources; to “fact-checking” narratives; to the current practice of “stealth editing” the digital record, or in some cases removing the digital “record” entirely.

All in all, it’s made me a more diligent consumer of information.

About 15 years ago. The “Climate Change” scam and the obvious corruption of NOAA and NASA to support the scam is what grabbed my attention first and then new discoveries in other agencies made from there.

I will answer this question in terms of “in a big way.”

It was when the enormously dark cloud of oppression and tyranny in the form of forced lockdowns, masking, “social distancing,” “testing,” and silencing overtook America– And all the world.

And suddenly America no longer looked or felt like America.

And I saw who (including mainstay institutions) were not only good with this happening, but were all in on making it happen, and on tightening the screws tighter and tighter on my now bewildered, shell shocked fellow citizens.

This is when I realized: it didn’t just start now. And these people and institutions didn’t suddenly become this way.

Then it all went from there–

My eyes opened wider and wider to the reality that nothing was as I had thought.

But it also opened up my heart for prayer like never before.

Better late than never:) I think I first realized we were being lied to when I went to my first Trump rally and saw all those people streaming in to hear this man. There were all kinds of people: young, old, middle-aged, and all along the income spectrum, it appeared. Compare that to the Biden “rallies”. Then, we got covid early in the game (Jan-Feb 2020) and suddenly natural immunity wasn’t a thing anymore. Somewhere along the way I was exposed to CTH and the scales totally came off.

This is a very interesting question for me to contemplate. Where did it all start for me and the progression it to over decades if rather profound (at least to me) to contemplate because it feels like spinning a stone across a smooth lake and the rock only touches down at intervals until it sinks.

It began November 22, 1963. I was 14, shocked like my parents, who were staunch MA republicans. I didn’t understand and the explanation never settled the issue for me. I still have the Life magazine covering the event.

Then came April 4 and June 6, 1968 MLK & RFK assassinations. I forever remember watching the one tv in my college dorm as they covered the MLK assassination, pondering, what is going on in the country. Then, again, my memory was seared with the death images of RFK. These events made me know things were right in the country/government, but I didn’t know what was wrong.

I graduated college, married my college sweetheart upon his graduating from law school. In time he entered politics and I remember the fight we had as I wanted to register R, and he was running as a D. I felt it would be grounds for him to divorce me if I didn’t register D, so I did so, but the inevitable happened when I painfully concluded there was something drastically wrong with that lifestyle and I could get out early or stay in for decades but the end result was inevitable. I left early. I knew there was something drastically wrong with politics, our government, that life and I didn’t want to be the trophy wife standing by her man. I didn’t want to be in it, but I still didn’t know what was all wrong/ I just knew it sucked good people in to a bad life. I bailed.

When J Edgar Hoover died, I distinctly remember saying it was a good thing that his grip on the FIB was over and that he had done bad things. Little did I know, but that gnawing feeling that things were wrong.

Decades passed. I was just living my life, had no involvement or interest in politics particularly other than what I’d catch on the nightly news. I returned to my R roots and supported Rs. The next time my life stone touched the pond water was when I heard Bush 1 say “new world order”. That was a huge red flag. Something was definitely wrong.

The stone lost contact with the water, sailing upward and onward through the air. Life went on.

911 was a wake up call that USA was in trouble, but I had no idea what the source was. Bush 2 kept us going forward strongly, or so I thought, but why did he was lie about WMD? More searing death photos – Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Chris Stevens. At this point events raised high level red flags, but I still had no definitive answers. All I knew all my life was what Walter Cronkite and the rest of the msm said, which I accepted to some degree, but my internal meter said things weren’t right.

Then, the stone touched down on the pond again. For a tad moment in time only. Obama became president. Literally, I turned the tv off. There was some drastically wrong. I wasn’t buying in to the msm mantra. Nothing made sense. Why was he opposing all things this country stood for? I checked out and decided I would never vote again. My stone was sailing through the air…got rid of the tv, and ignored it all, the best I could.

June 16, 2015. My life stone touched down on the water again. I was curious. I watched Donald and Melania Trump come down the elevator. I listened to his words. I was all in. I wasn’t sailing through life trying to ignore the bad things I couldn’t change anymore. I fully engaged. After ditching my tv, I had been live streaming and did not read msm anymore. So I had to find my own news outlets. I had to know everything Donald Trump was doing so I had to dig into internet outlets. That’s when I found CTH. All other sites dropped off my radar. This is when I began to get answers and the unbelievable facts, including the phenomenal comments, that told me what was happening in my county, how it really worked (basically didn’t). It was both shocking and relieving to know my gut feeling that gnawed away for five decades was correct. I read every post and the comments also. I was astounded at how much people knew and figured out.

It’s been a full circle for me. It started out with the JFK assassination. I wanted to know the truth of who killed him in my lifetime. We the people deserved the truth. Now I know, but I still want to see the remaining documents they haven’t released, but, I think it’s all known already.

I am in my seventies and have no health issues and genetics is on my side, but God determines our last day. My stone is still moving onward, but I now am inundated with truths about my government. I have actually said to my sister that I am glad to have been born after WWII, during great growth and prosperity of the USA, but as I see that I have lived the majority of my life, so has my country. I give the current status about 10 years before a major overhaul occurs. I just pray that God will allow Donald J Trump to be president again so the country I grew up in will once again be reinstated to the best of his ability.

My stone will someday stop skipping on the pond as I believe this country will also have a major overhaul. There’s time but the projectile is obvious.

I am 61. The moment for me was when Ross Perot entered the Presidential race in 1992. I listened to what he said about good jobs leaving the USA as a result of NAFTA. “That giant sucking sound”. Clinton was a non-starter and Bush was an ex CIA Director. Perot was a businessman that got actual things done. That made sense to me.

Watergate scandal to remove Nixon and the disastrous Vietnam withdrawal. The 2016-2020 coup to remove DJT and the subsequent Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco feels like deja vu all over again.

When Christians Refuse to get engaged in “Dirty Politics” and use their GOD-GIVEN AUTHORITY over their own Nation that was formed and Created INTENTIONALLY for the PURPOSE of giving CHRISTIANS a Place to worship the ONE TRUE LIVING GOD – “because politics are dirty so you should stay out of it” – that is CHRISTIANS giving this Nation to the DEVIL and his servants – ON PURPOSE – and then BEMOANING the state of their own Personal EVIL RESULTS in the Halls of Government. Because they deliberately CEDED Govt Power to the minions of The Lost, and the Followers of the devil.
DESERTING the GOVT that was Created in the hands of CHRISTIANS – and leaving it to fall into the hands of the devil.
And not being Ashamed, but instead, they Rather are Proud of themselves for not “dirtying their hands” with Politics.

Wow!
 
I’d like to say I came out of the womb not trusting the powers that be but like most it was a journey. I was a proud Counter Culture creep Carter cured me. I became a proud Reagan supporter, I even supported Lucifer’s child NWO George HW Bush.
 
I owned a small manufacturing company then along came Ross Perot and he talked about that “giant sucking sound” if NAFTA was passed. This issue struck home as we were already feeling the pressure of China/Asia/Pacific. For me this is where I became a true believer in the concept of the uniparty and how these creeps didn’t represent We The people.
 
Though dubious, like a good little droid we slipped back into the matrix got on with life. But the door swung open in 2008, never to close when sleazy Barry Soerto and Mike where selected. The entire enemy MSM swooned over this no account creep and at the same time tore Sarah Palin from limb-to-limb and by extension free America.
 
For me to be wide awake was 2008. I found Big Hollywood and Andrew Breitbart never to waver and I first read “One Pissed off Dude” on Big Hollywood by: Gary Graham and onto CTH.       
 

Shortly after 9/11 for me. Everything about it was just too “convenient” for me. Trillions of dollars later…. I’ve been lurking around here for well over a decade. This is my Go-To site. I share it with others often also.

Started to see the “marionette strings” in 1980 as a novice political activist in Austin while picking up Michael Reagan at the airport for a Reagan rally. The key speaker, candidate Reagan, never showed up and the spin was that he had other plans but in reality the crowd was too small and the “optics” would be bad. Fast forward approximately 30 years of blindly living until one day I read Andrew Breitbart and my eyes opened up…then my buddy tells me about “The Conservative Treehouse” and my eyes become fully opened. Wow! Thank you Sundance, from the bottom of my heart, for all you do to awaken Americans to the “marionette strings”! May God bless you and protect you from the evil in this world!

It was a long time ago for me. I had actually voted for Jimmy Carter. His and the Democrat’s pack of lies to gain control left me feeling like the Party had left me. When the great Ranoldo Magnus, as Rush referred to Ronald Reagan, stated ” The problem with Democrats is they don’t know . . . what they don’t know”. I was forever hooked on freedom and conscientious capitalism.

I was aware the media and entertainment was left-leaning since 1980, but my in-your-face “aha moment” came on election night in 2008.

I was in the room when John McCain gave his concession speech. There was one pool reporter/media outlet (I believe it was Associated Press). When McCain said something about why he lost to Obama, the crowd started chanting, VERY LOUDLY, “Media. Tell the truth.”

I wanted to see how the loud chanting would sound on TV, so I stayed up to watch the coverage after leaving the event. When they got to the part I was waiting for, the sound had been changed to a crowd (probably from a campaign event) chanting, “John McCain, John McCain !”

I knew the media spun everything for Democrats, but I was shocked that they would actually replace the sound in the room. I remember talking to my mother about it the next morning and saying it was a dangerous thing. That it was the first time in my life I feared my government.

(That was back when my mother was still a pretty apolitical and reasonable person. She now watches MSNBC all day, thinks Trump is the root of all evil, has had multiple Covid boosters and even bought James Comey’s book.)

I started paying close attention and saw again, first-hand, at a TEA Party event, the local media crews actually re-recording footage to only include kooky-looking people when the vast majority of the crowd were regular people of all walks of life.

The local NBC affiliate actually changed their camera angle and re-recorded an interview with a woman because my (white) daughter was in the background of the original footage hugging (black) Lloyd Marcus after getting his autograph on her copy of his book.

I called into the Rush Limbaugh show about it the next day (Mark Steyn was guest hosting, so I didn’t get to talk to Rush). I have never watched the “news” the same way again.

Once you see it, you can never unsee it. It’s all propaganda.

After the 2020 election fraud when the few who questioned were ridiculed and mocked. I always listened to Rush but never made any significant connection. Only when I started reading TCT and Sundance did the puzzle begin to take shape. In my heart I know that you, Sundance, can see a broader picture than you are not telling us. Our movement seems to be so disjointed that I am discouraged. I need someone like you to tell me that there are forces moving in the right direction, I read the Gulag Archipelago and know that I will resist if they ever come for me, as will my friends. We are prepared and will fight for our eroding freedom.

It was 1968. I was 16. I remember my mother telling me that Francis, the black woman who came once a week to do laundry and cleaning, walked into the kitchen that morning and said, “Mrs. Smith, they are ruining our girls. They are paying them to have babies so they can sit on bar stools.” This was the Great Society of LBJ. Francis was illiterate, she signed her name with an X. But she was far smarter than all the Vista volunteers and bureaucrats who came to Cincinnati to “help” the black community. That’s when I knew our government was destroying the very people it purported to help.

Starting with the Clinton presidency, things didn’t make sense. Then 9/11 Benghazi really caught my attention. And things are so absurd now. I cannot believe people are putting up with it.

Spring of 1976. I was an Army Captain. All the rules of conduct, war planning, meritorious promotions, et al, were tossed aside for racial equity. I left service voluntarily after having my sights set on being a general officer. Since then, I’ve been able to see inside all the workings. And, I despise what I see.

OJ Simpson trial and the media circus. The whole charade was mind boggling and the POS got off.

I was sitting in Afghanistan, on my 7th deployment in 2019-2020. It was clear we failed, had been for 10 years, but no one said we had, so we hadn’t. This strange orange man was on the news, and as I’m sitting in the headquarters for the whole enterprise of the United States Military Industrial Complex behemoth in Kabul, this strange orange man was saying things that 14 years of military indoctrination, and 6 years of college in foreign affairs, told me was about to get my rear wind roasted.

We had just droned soullimini (if I cared how to spell it I’d have checked) and we had just received ballistic missle alerts from a neighboring country, that didn’t have a determined location (hit Iraq abandoned base). This same orange man came in the news again to say in his way, that was a warning, the next one your a parking lot.

What should have ensued was we all cease to exist, cause Iran bad and capable… what happened was peace broke out across the world. Suddenly china and N. Korea were docile. Russia had already been made docile, and now Iran was put under a boot… then covid.

There are some moments that can’t be undone and things unseen. I left the army after 14 years at that moment.

When the Holy Spirit begins the process of conviction, it’s complete. I won’t serve two masters.

What a question…can’t wait to read the answers. There are TOO MANY answers to put in one response.
So just a small sample…
Ruby Ridge, WACO (the US government actually burned children to death), the Clinton Crime syndicate, WMD lie, September 11, 2001, the Patriot Act (really weighed heavy on anti-liberty), the creation and installation of Osama Obama in 2008, Romney “throwing” the “election” to Osama Obama in 2012 (or was this one of the first “steals”), the destruction of our healthcare system by John Roberts and then John McCain…and everything leading up to the steal in 2020.
And of course, the entire covid lie.
Never before has the entire CONgress been so corrupt as to arrange for a candidate DULY elected by the people NOT to be inaugurated

Obama.

For me, the final straw was shortly after 9-11, when the massive Patriot Act was shoved through in record fashion.

Suddenly media pundits were all-in on erasing the fourth and fifth amendments without question. It was OK to spy openly on all Americans’ private communications.

I cannot count how many times I heard “welp, if you aren’t doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about”.

It was a crushing blow to finally admit to myself that our government had become thoroughly corrupt. And on that day, I first clearly saw BOTH wings on the same Uniparty Vulture.

The next big event was Obama’s installment. Part two of the Vulture Plan after spreading constant fear and uncertainty among the populace, was to sow seeds of doubt about religion in general. To separate people from God and have them look to government for safety and security.
ALSO necessary to the godless heathen globalists who are intent on wiping out Christianity across the world.

Whether to usher in a complete muslim take-over or worldwide communism I do not know; either scenario allows for the complete subjugation of the citizens.
The globalists ultimate goal.

During the G. Bush Administration. I only watched CNN and the hate for the man was obvious and I thought he seemed like a reasonable guy, but they must know things that I don’t, right?

Then one day for reasons I now forget, I turned on Fox and the difference in tone toward him was immediately noticeable.
I was actually hearing about good things he had done and they showed him respect when talking about him. I stayed with Fox until the election in 2020. Now there is no tv in my house.

That was my “moment”. I had assumed all the networks were telling the truth and Bush was actually a very bad man until hearing otherwise from a major network.

I’ve gone so far over to the other side that I trust nothing I see or hear on the news or from the government or from any authority. Discovering they were lying to me did it.

Before that moment I guess one other thing where I knew I was being lied to was with the whole global warming con game.
Being told to believe in a superstitious hypothesis that our existence is making the weather warmer ( since changed to more extremes in weather) is flat-earth thinking that can be demolished in an argument with common sense.
That’s just renewing the thinking from hundreds of years ago when they would accuse and kill someone for being a witch because the crops failed that year, or the Aztecs sacrificing a virgin into the volcano to ensure a good crop the next growing season.
The arguments from the proponents are just modernized versions of that old superstition.

I lived through a time in the 70s where I saw the government take away people’s rights without blinking an eye. Beat people in the streets for protesting peacefully while carry flags and signing the national anthem, carrying. I saw paramilitary police cover their badges, raid a private tavern, beat every patron who happened to be in there after work to near death and break every single piece of glass in the tavern and not make a single arrest. I saw them buy off people who could be bought off and threaten those who couldn’t be. Phones were tapped. Phony grand juries empaneled, threats of having children taken away made (they love to threaten parents with that). Death threats made. So, you might say I was awakened very young. Then with Reagan I thought we had turned a corner only to realize under Trump that the rot was deep and systemic. Their new tools make it so much worse.

For me, it was the runup to the second Gulf War.

I was in the military, and the whole thing disgusted me. Watching people I thought were on my side lying on national TV, day after day, to start a war over lies.

This is also the first time I noticed the media “piling on” to support the narrative, while completely ignoring the obvious lies and contradictions.

If you didn’t buy into all of it, you were branded as “un-American”

I know now that this isn’t when it started, but this is when it started for me.