The absolute #1 feedback CTH receives both publicly and privately, even by those who hold tremendous influence amid what we would call the body politic, is something akin to … “I need to be honest with you, I thought you were nuts, but wow, you were right!” – or some version or iteration therein.
That said, there is a great urgency needed in our communication with our family, friends, loved ones and overall community.
There are many conservative ushers, many paid for their job in the business theater of politics, who would prefer we do not question our seating assignment – let alone challenge the scripted performance we are told to watch on the stage. Understanding this facet is going to become increasingly important, as the specific people who control the mechanisms of power become ever more exposed.
A comment by Gemstone is well timed, and actually aligns with a current communication question I am seeking to solve. I also remind myself that when I find difficulty in solution, you guys – the smartest and most aware group of our nation – always have exceptional insight that can help me. Here’s the comment:
…”Sundance, When I attempt to inform the not so informed around me with the information that I read every morning on your pages I receive looks of “no way”, “seriously”, and “why is this the first time that I am hearing about this corruption”. I don’t know how people can be so ill informed. Well, we know as it is easier for Americans to keep this corruption at arm’s length until if finally slaps them upside the head.”… [link]
My questions:
♦ What is the average knowledge of the scale of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?
♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past few years? Why?
♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?
Trust me when I say this discussion, while extremely important now, is going to become even more important in the next 12 months.
I am distinctly aware, perhaps uniquely aware of the information control actions that will take place in 2024.
They will be very intense and very targeted.
In 2020, they locked down voters to create the mechanism of control (ballots). In 2024, I can already see the control approach looming; they will lock down voices. Very specific voices.
If you are a regular reader of this site, you are generally a person who engages in intellectual discussion on daily events and more than likely a root cause thinker. Meaning, you are able to grasp events at their cause and not at their consequence.
The challenge is getting those who understand the big picture dynamics to stop being comfortable and sticking their heads in the sand about “motive”. Most people are still clinging to beliefs around a principle of ‘rule of law’ that applies to national leadership writ large. We need to change that thinking quickly – or we will be left explaining ‘what happened’ far too late.
There is also a major issue with conservative “ushers” guiding the audience into a state of tactical numbness. A willful blindness within part of the American electorate, a chosen refusal to acknowledge the implications of the unAmerican and unconstititional actions we are seeing on a daily basis.
It can no longer be presumed to be a matter of, “I can’t see what’s happening”, because a whole lot of normal Americans really are clean and articulate. “I can’t see it”, just doesn’t cut it.
It’s more along the lines of, “I see what’s happening, but it’s scary and complicated and confusing, and if I admit that I see it, I will become responsible in a way that I am not if I keep pretending; I can’t see it or hear it, or maybe I don’t understand it.”
Why don’t we dare say what is so? Are we a bit afraid that if we give up the willful blindness we will perhaps start screaming and not be able to stop? Do we think we have so little courage? Do we really believe that we have no resources to bring to the battle? Or nothing more to contribute to the turning of the battle?
There are patriots who some might say resemble one of those slightly mad orchestra conductors who keep yelling, “More trumpet! More TRUMPET!” Many of you are such slightly mad orchestra leaders. Do not be alarmed by some of the strange looks you are getting these days.
My questions:
♦ What is the average knowledge of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?
♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past several years?
♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?
Trust me when I say this discussion, while extremely important now, is going to become even more important in the next 12 months.
If you are going to enter this battle, believe me – no one is going to get to avoid this one; you are going to need to fight like the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s ark, and brother, it’s starting to rain!
The media is controlled by the elites, all forms of media. Areas of control like the education system, workplace, government are run by ‘progressives’. This occurred over a long period of time. In retrospect President Trump winning the last 2 elections is astonishing. No wonder they are ticked off, they control everything and lost. We need him back and we need to dismantle this nightmare that has evolved. Tear it down.
A very timely inquiry, Sundance.
“I’m beginning to think maybe you were right,”
“Well, I thought you were making it up.”
Both in the last month, both triggered by news reports seen in the mainstream news. Both the result of a continual drip drip drip by me for years and years. Not my doing, as I see it, but God’s, in the end. Most importantly, both able to absorb that little piece of reality without fracturing.
In general, average knowledge of government corruption, about 20 percent of what actually exists, perhaps, and much of that disregarded as “It is just how it is. And Trump!!”
The doctors still trust the FDA and think the FDA would not approve a dangerous drug for crying out loud. How ignorant can you be? Really, really ignorant. So ignorant you can’t be educated – because where to even start?
Degree of awakening- mine is so far and so wide that walking down the street was for a long time a horrific experience of psychological dissociation between the fake world Matrix everyone else was in and the reality I could see behind every movie, every magazine cover, every mainstream news story, every masked face.
Ontological shock. It is very real, and I would suggest, both a hurdle and a potential trap for the weak. Dr. Malone has a great post on his Substack about it. I think the key thing to help someone survive ontological shock is just for that person to hear that someone else has been through it and understands where your head is, and yes the world is a terribly evil place right now but God woke you up for a reason and no, don’t take the easy way out because that’s just the path to Hell and another trick of the Devil.
(And now you know part of the reason for the euthanasia Narrative push).
In “Hoaxed” there is a clip of a discussion with Jordan Peterson on the same phenomenon – when your mental map of how the world functions is destroyed in a sudden fashion, putting those pieces back together is a very real psychological crisis at the foundational level. Why do people shove down or shove away their thoughts that things aren’t adding up or that something isn’t right? It is a protective mechanism, both of their “in-group” status (to speak up would be to lose the safety of the group), and of their basic ability to navigate a world they understand.
That could be the person next to you in the grocery line, or at church. It would be nice if there were some sort of psychological life raft for them. The Treehouse has served that function for many of us, I suspect.
For those around me, the degree of awareness varies. You can get most folks going off about gas stoves, some are awake to jabs injuries, a few really get the existence of Narrative, but almost all are still unaware of the depth and breadth of the ways in which our political class is completely compromised by our globalist enemies and geopolitical competitors alike and has sold out everything down to the steel in our ships and airplanes.
They still seek refuge in “When did you get a medical license?” or “Nobody (they read) has reported that.” or, the old favorite, “But Trump.” Somehow a mention of Oppenheimer being a communist spy turned into an accusation of being pro-Franco. Go figure that neural pathway!
These days I end any conversation at “But Trump.” That brain is a dead end. I’m trying to steer things more towards whether a push or a viewpoint is pro-human or anti-human. It avoids some of the pre-bunking that has been installed in their heads.
Communication tools. I strongly agree with the idea of billboards. Certain key pieces of true but censored information can do the trick. All it takes is the first crack in that one way mirror and the whole thing will eventually shatter.
– “Did you know the Moderna booster causes heart damage in 1 of every 35 recipients? Were you boosted? Get screened for heart damage now!” Over a large picture of a person being wheeled into the ER –
Seen by 15000 people a day somewhere on Rte I-95 or 66, that could be highly impactful.
I also know that McRaven and the whole censorship industrial complex have this Wizard of Oz operation down to a pretty fine T, but the way the sausage has been made, from Stanford to CISA to Twitter, has now been exposed to sunlight, for those following the breadcrumbs. These demons didn’t get hauled into that sunlight by accident. I trust that there have been people who understand this moment in time, this key opportunity to keep throwing rocks at the Giant Projection Screen, and are making use of opportunities to make those revelations unavoidable by the public. Biden leads to Obama leads to Clinton leads to Hansjyorg Weiss leads to Leon Black and Larry Fink and CAA and on and on and on through the spiderweb.
I think the pinnacle of the opportunity to splinter it all into 1,000 pieces will come very soon, when the economy hits the rotating oscillator.
I think many, many, many people know very well that the election was stolen, but they were either completely good with it because of TDS or they were just trying to live their lives and it didn’t seem to matter. Once it hits the pocketbook, the willingness to see that it mattered – and in a life or death kind of way – will thin those protective mental shields dramatically.
I do worry about those in what I would categorize as the highly fragile mind. The one that is so brainwashed, so tightly functional within the current Matrix, that it actually cannot handle the Truth.
I am careful, then, not to pile on those whose minds are just Awakening. “The jab is injuring people” is one small realization. “Did you know that Fauci was funding experiments sewing aborted baby scalps onto rodents at the University of Pittsburgh?” is going to be too much truth to follow on with, at least for a while. The mind will just bounce, and the opportunity to build credibility will be lost.
So, gentle persistence with a high degree of discretion and a lot of Socratic questions thrown in is my best suggestion.
Thank you Alex. Very well said..
I love your idea about billboards – tell it in Meme’s and pictures! Memes are very effective; especially humorous ones. People accept them; less resistance and once they take one step, they can take the next.
A lot of truth and reality in this post. I have lost contact with a close friend, not because we had words but because as Alex points out everyone but I in her group of very wealthy, social people is either unaware of what is happening or okay with the Marxist entity because they are insulated from it, at least for now. I am distant with other acquaintances because of their broken brain…but Trump.
I bet the vast majority of people who read and post on ‘Treehouse’ have gone through similar ‘distancing’ from their friends, acquaintances, and relatives, that you have, Yy4u, and this is what makes it so hard to pass on information or discuss certain situations.
Sometimes, I just send them enlightening videos and links to vital information anyway, suspecting they will never look at it, but hoping so much that this time ( as it is so desperately important) they will watch that video or read, what is to them obviously that boring-looking article. However, they never really respond, they just reply with superficial chit chat, if that. They do not want know. They are brainwashed.
I will continue to annoy them with videos and pod casts etc. You never know… maybe this time?
I agree about the use of billboards; a touch of humor, a hint of mystery, let’s get creative.
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Billboards are a great idea.
I also like the idea of using Pro-Human or Anti-Human as it doesn’t immediately bring religion into it but makes a huge statement that, yes, has not been wonked up.
Fantastic post.
In my circle, yes, they think they are aware. Many deny, however, when I confront them with hard evidence of government rot and actions with the express intent of harming us citizens.
Take, for example, the scamdemic and The Jab. Released from a lab? No! Shots that accelerate the onset of heart disease and cancer? No way! JFK killed by the CIA and the mob? No, it was LHO!
And, of course, my liberal friends think think the corruption is 100% on “The Right”. The Dems are as pure as the driven snow. Always. Cuz they say so.
Living in 80% “Trump country”. Many folk are very well aware of what is going on. The overwhelming sense is “but what can we do about it?”
My wife, whilst pretty solid conservative, finds it depressing and usually changes the subject.
My elder son (millennial) is very vocal and in agreement, but feels his best option is to ride the storm.
Biggest hope is my younger son (gen Z) is very receptive and starts considering what can be done.
Personally I have been aware of political corruption for 40 or so years, finding this place was a “breath of fresh air”and yes you SD have provided a very illuminating account which helped me put it all together.
Going forward I feel communication will be very difficult, as everything is monitored, the only secure means is snail mail.
Snail mail doesn’t scale. You need digital scale to reach the largest audience possible
Where I am from GA/AL/MS/TN most folks are awake & know what is coming down the pike. They are the “shotguns in the hallway” folks, & even those in our stores & community services are wide awake. Folks of all races are awake & those that aren’t awake by now will remain sheep.
I find it’s mostly those in the big city areas we have to worry about. Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery Nashville & so forth. That is where most the fraud will take place. Just like in Fulton county(Atlanta area), GA, and I can say with complete assurance they cheated in the 2016 & 2020 election. The left managed to get 120% of the vote. This is outrageous & no one in power questions it.
Those that are not awake are too comfortable & won’t awaken until they feel the pain. Pain is an amazing teacher & I just pray it won’t be to late. Folks are not programmed to leave their comfort zone and they enjoy being part of a flock, but most of us here understand the price we will pay if we don’t take this thing head on. Those still in their comfort zone just don’t want to rock the boat.
What we truly need to work on now is how to KEEP OUR VOICES HEARD! We know we will be silenced as the months move forward and I for one do not like being told to sit down and shut up…I’m to old for that.
Those who have the power to silence us with the “flip of a switch” are not called the “Masters Of The Universe for nothing. They can shut us all down so we need some old school tactics. We need hackers who can push a message over the waves. Truckers with CBs, shortwave, Am & even FM. Internet Hackers as well.
If we don’t become tactical, I see no other way. What will be left to us is word of mouth and the need to push like crazy NOW to get as much info out there as possible… and save, save, save everything! Cause when they shut us down, our current history will die as well.
♦ What is the average knowledge of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?
I am fortunate to live in a deep red state in a lovely town filled with God fearing, hard working, common sense people. I would say the knowledge of government corruption is high in my community and neighborhood, especially among those over 30.
My husband and I are very well informed and very aware. In our extended family we just have a few who cannot see the corruption. They only watch mainstream media, hate Trump, and I believe still get boosted even though they have all had Covid.
♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past several years?
Absolutely. Since Trump was elected, the craziness has continued to escalate. I think the Covid mess, especially the vaccine mandates Biden tried to enforce really opened people’s eyes. Getting a good look at what was happening in public schools also helped people connect some dots.
♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of.
Memes and cartoons can really catch peoples attention.
Quotes from historical figures about freedom, dictators, the holocaust, ect. are helpful ways to make a point on social media.
Links to factual information sources
Data based fact sheets showing the failures and corruption of the Biden administration.
I have used many of the above items that I first found here on the Treehouse to support my viewpoints.
I have found people ripe for learning the truth are more receptive to source material from places they perceive to be middle of the road. WSJ, Tablet as opposed to the Treehouse or a 1960’s quote from JFK about government censorship as opposed to a quote from current conservative politicians saying the same thing.
Well said, Barb, well said!
Thank you, again, Sundance, for your incredible work.
Re: the questions:
1. Zero. My extended family (especially) and friends (except one) are seriously leftist and fully aligned with the state narrative. My sense of neighbors / community is similar – rainbow flags flying, for example. My clients, for the most part, seem to be at home with the narrative as well. I am committed to responding truthfully if the subject comes up – but it almost never does! Everyone I know avoids talking to me about it – sensing or knowing I am one of those crazy conspiracy theorists. Plus it is very difficult – and useless, it seems – to try to discuss these things unless the hearer is already open.
2. I have been aware of the situation since Obama ran for the presidency the first time – but without the detail time & events provide, or your excellent research. Since then my understanding and perspective have deepened greatly, as have my husband’s, even though he doesn’t read your work.
3. I think the Dilley viral video, ‘If I Were the Deep State’ is an example of the kind of communication that is going to be really effective going forward. He broke through the dividing line between the two paradigms (us / them); everyone talked about it. It was like a bullet of truth – a short, sharp, focused, engaging message that before ignorance could defend itself, had gotten in.
More of that would be really powerful. And I see it happening too – citizen reporters, videos of people, just regular people, sending a message. I just saw one, a black man saying, ‘Hey black people, wake up…’ (I couldn’t find it now though!). It seems, more and more, that We the People are taking to the microphone and camera to shoot these bullets of truth into the collective consciousness, and I think we will get better at it. I think there is a surge of truth rising up that has been building for a long time; it just Is and will prevail. Not to say we don’t each have to say Yes to truth and the actions to which we are called! Not at all. We do.
This seems pertinent: here’s Paul Harvey’s ‘If I Were the Devil’ 1965
Bring up Newsom and DeSantis having a solo 1 on 1 presidential debate.
it Short circuits Sleeper’s brains. they think huh Newsom???? isnt Biden the candidate. Short Ciccuit… then they think huh DeSantis debating him.. SHORT CIRCUIT.
i don’t know why or how, but it destroys the Matrix
Family: my generation mostly awakening now, though all vaxxed despite my constant urging not to…pretty much all feel helpless to stop what is proceeding. Lots of complaining within their homes ….
Neighbors: Most are retirees, again All vaxxed despite our urging to hold up. They see what’s happening but are afraid. Ask us why we are reading so much? Have you watched this show or that show? Really good.. blah, blah….
Geographic area: sadly they ‘say’ I live in Blue area…but I really wonder.
New friends: awake, sharing knowledge, planning contingencies… (and that includes you Treepers😊). God bless you all and SD! I’ve learned so much from all my ‘reading’
Forgot to mention re:family. Next generation completely clueless…believe all they are being told. What’s next? 🤷♀️
All you need to do is call this website “The Liberal Treehouse” for a week and they will come.
Exact same articles and they’d read them.
I work in Oregon a good bit and these people are walking zombies. They’re not radical liberals. They’d never burn down buildings for the cause or riot in the streets.
These are ordinary liberals who are brain washed every day by the news they listen to and read.
They don’t have a clue our economy is about ready to collapse.
Ask them how business is and “it’s very slow” but it will get better.
Tell them they’re trying to have an economy with just wind and solar and they ask you what’s wrong with that.
Explain that doing away with the gas pipelines and drilling for oil has caused high gas prices and they’ll tell you it doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Ask how 18 wheelers are going to possibly get goods to you in an electric vehicle and they’ll tell you it will just take twice as long to receive anything while the trucks charge.
Tell them the news they’re reading is made up government approved propaganda and they’ll ask how you know yours isn’t too.
They are brain dead….as in dead as a doornail.
Its actually like visiting another planet when I’m around these people.
These are store owners, managers who get up and go to work every day.
They’re literally going to freak out when their fake mental bubble collapses.
I’m serious when I say some of them might need to enter mental institutions at that time.
They will not be able to cope with reality.
<All you need to do is call this website “The Liberal Treehouse” for a week and they will come.>
LOL!
How about inviting everyone: ‘The American Treehouse’
The Diverse and Inclusive Treehouse?
😴😴😴😴😴! I can’t hear you!!! 😑
💁♀️
Extended circle of friends are all like minded. Various family is very different but all are now paying more attention. We made cash bets the 2020 election would be stolen from PDT and them having to pay up changed their perspectives. A few family members are really dumb and know when they start the MSM drool they’ve made a mistake. Have found just the confrontation of facts; border scam, energy prices and shoving the “we got him this time bs” right back at them has brought several around.
wanna illustrate it.
crowdsource fund a bumper sticker that says “We Will Get Them in 2028”
One thing I am trying to learn is to ask questions in a way that allows the person I’m talking with to internalize and come up with an answer that will prompt more thought on the subject. Too often I talk to the person and not with them.
A list of good questions would be appreciated. Like Ronald Reagan’s “are you better off now then you were four years ago”.
There should be a lot for Trump’s years on the border, economy, foreign relations, regulations, America first.
An area of misunderstanding is definitions. What does nationalism mean? What do you think America First means? (watching some black youtubers who were trying to figure things out I learned that to some “Make America Great Again” was threatening because they thought it meant to take America back to the slave days.
yes, this is good. the right question can plant a small seed whereas a full broadside just gets a shutdown.
I also try and throw out ironical comment, kind of a Rush Limbaugh approach of demonstrating absurdity by being absurd
I have thought of asking someone in the family this:
“Say, I was trying to recall, back in 1968 when you graduated from high school, why didn’t you enlist in the Army and go over to ‘Nam? ”
“Are you kidding? You know I was against that!”
“Well, that’s what I thought I remembered but you have been talking about supporting Ukraine since that started in 2022, you were very gung-ho for America getting involved, sending money, sending weapons and now Zelenskyy wants us to send troops. I have been trying to reconcile that with how you felt about going to ‘Nam.”
Sundance, you need to be interviewed by both Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan to broaden your readership audience. I share your newsletters on a bunch of conservative groups on both Facebook and MeWe.com. It is becoming more and more obvious that the “common” people are aware of the corruption in the DC swamp, and that the 2024 election is a fight for the survival of the USA as a sovereign nation and the survival of the US Constitution, by the masses of people attending Trump’s Rallies across the country.
PDJT just needs to call it out.
PT hinted over a year ago about not restricting ourselves to the constitution WISH I COULD REMEMBER RALLY.
He has also hinted that we the people need to act….reference….”Even third world countries would be picking up sticks and stones” What is wrong with the people of this country that we have not acted. I guess that is the reason for this article to find out why.
Bannon has asked Sundance for interview!
1. They all suspect some level of corruption but still naive
2. The last several years have awakened many around me and further awakened me. Part of this awakening I think is because it’s no longer as taboo to question what’s happening. Lies are being disproven soooo much more quickly.
3. I think we need to vocally push back on the ingrained thinking of right/left, Republican/Democrat and dare I say it conservative/liberal. Your web address literally drives away a large percentage of the population you are trying to reach. It’s American/Anti-American.
You should change your website/blog to the American Treehouse.
Thanks for all you do though. It’s very thought provoking and important.
I joke amongst my wife that I’m going to need to get my hands on an old fashioned printing press. Maybe one of those old hand crank models, in order that I might be able to print up some pamphlets or hand bills that can be passed around underground. I am at the point now where I would not put it past those in power to clamp down harder on the inter web. To completely shut it down to all without express government permission. Ideas and information are a threat to those currently in power, and they appear to be in full whatever it takes mode.
And a ham radio.
Typewriters, SOS, smoke signals, homing pigeons, and Uber drivers.
Get sticker paper and a good printer for arts and crafts.
Print memes. Do some street activism.
I post nearly all your articles because they ring true for me and you write in a way that the average person can grasp. I have 134 friends on Facebook, plus I’m in about 6 conservative groups locally and statewide on the site. I have about 1600 followers on Twitter (X), all from grassroot, no asking for followers. Most of my friends and family are acutely aware of what is happening and are very worried about the future. Most of them don’t read a fraction of what I do, but they understand the big picture. A few don’t want me to talk about politics or aches and pains at parties but they are strictly headline readers. I can visualize all the charts you provided of all the players in the Russia hoax and can identify them in the impeachments, etc. My sister tells me that she says to her husband that I told her something and months later, it proved to be true. I routinely call Congress members and Senators and occasionally my ignorant Democrat Rep. You’ve proven to be right and what you have warned about, has come to pass, in our faces. Thank you for your prescience.
warrior
Me, too, Sandra! I think my rep would recognize me if I showed up at his town hall just due to the correspondence I’ve sent him!
I have over 4,000 followers on Gab. I don’t post personal opinions, I simply share CTH, clips from videos, Steve Bannon’s shows, and others there. I have no clue where those people came from, but evidently the content resonates with them.
I also share on Truth Social and Gettr. Got kicked off Facebook and Twitter a long time ago.
Sorry I’m really not much help here. I have burned the bridges with Normie world long ago. Funny because I just told my good friend to interrogate his NPC brother. I am VERY curious about the question being asked in this post.
However I met with some coworkers earlier this week. They’re all city folk. They have a conservative bent to them anyway I suspect. I was shocked tho when my stereotypical blonde friend mentioned about the large financial institutions trying to bring the hammer down on us.
I know her pretty well tho and she’s security minded. She is at the range a lot getting training (probably for free lol) and has professionally trained guard dog as well. When she told me that Black Rock and Vanguard were trying to control the world I was impressed. Took it as a good sign.
Way too many of my neighbors do not want to, “Talk politics. ” They’re not interested 😒.
My family is the same. However, several friends are very aware and we have some awesome discussions.
It’s time everyone talks about this atmosphere of doom we have ruling us.
Very soon people won’t have to be told, The government is going to show them.
I think the heightened polarization across the body politic is important to be aware of. There are those deeply entrenched on both sides but many only being aware that the ‘atmosphere’ has changed and feel the push of the herd to each side. These ones may still be reachable. (Think of the parable of sheep and goats, a winnowing is taking place.)
Personally, I find at this point others tend to open the subjects. Recent example. What do you think of this latest indictment? My reply, “Trump is like Godzilla and everything they try to destroy him with makes him stronger and bigger than ever.” Now they have this image in their head of an unbeatable force that trampled Toyko in the movies.
It is also very important to have brief but direct answers for people since nowadays folks seem to have the attention span of a gnat! Maybe it is because of social media but they seem frightened of 6 paragraphs let alone 6 pages. I enjoy research, appreciate footnotes and in-depth articles that connect the flipping DOTS. Evidently reading for 5 whole minutes is a challenge for some so we must remember to be kind.
Even those who say they hate all politics are waking up to the fact that this cannot be avoided, and the corruption is rampant. Mentally prepare your elevator speeches.
Most folks in my circle are awake and looking for a call to action. We are involved in local politics etc but grow weary of the truth being revealed yet no consequences. So we are starting to tune out. We need a leader and a plan of action besides VOTE.
Yes. THIS.
I have a Trump Trumpet, I kinda like it. I am feeling bullish on 2024.
For one thing this video of Klaus Schwab speaking needs to get out more.
Patience, I have kinda come to the opposite conclusion… I found that if i go straight into the depths of the evil that sits behind all of the more obvious stuff, people’s eyes glaze over. Not that its not important, but, let’ts call it a 300 or 400 level course.
pointing out how we are angrier and poorer is the 100 level stuff. Trump is really good at this, liek the other day when he starts by pointing out what a physical schithole DC is with the graffiti and the crime and trash… everyone gets it right away and then remembers when there was a time that was not the case. now you have a hook for the 200 level courses.
just my two cents as i was scrolling past this one.
Found in the bin… 🙁
That little video was from the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, surely if Barry was around he would’ve slobbed some Schwab Knob just like in the old days…
You think Black Knight is a ‘fed?’ He’s about the last person on here I would suspect.
You’re the newcomer targeting those of us who have expended effort to expose feds. Which makes you the fed.
try and let go, whatever happened.. get back to contributing your thoughts.
ain’t worth it.
contribute.
Are you going to accuse me of being a Fed too?
Now a petty insult. Flattering.
I am a fed too…fed up of you😉
1) Average knowledge of those around me re the chaos going on? My close circle, which is not overly large, is about 50/50 conservative awake and interested and those who are dug in with the govt. left and the rino factions who think the govt. is ok in doing what they are doing and it all will pretty much resolve itself with little they can do about it anyway. Then there are the few who are so blinded by TDS that they will never even allow a different opinion to be listened to.
2) For those in my circle who are paying attention the knowledge has increased as the negative events keep unfolding. We have all become much more aware of how bad things are and will get if it keeps going down the same road. For the leftist and TDS sufferers, no overt awareness has increased although I think that secretly they know things are pretty bad. They just refuse to admit it. Yet.
3)More media ways to reach the masses of people who only can use the msm channels for their news. Rival the NBC, ABC, CBS types of media orgs. More online sites easy to access run by recognizable people that the public would be drawn to. More ways to utilize social media EVERY SINGLE DAY to promote conservative views and common sense solutions to our problems. Just more ways to get in front of the citizens of this country. Constantly. Telling well researched truth and backed up with facts.
**As a lifelong member of the education system, I must add this is one area we HAVE to reform to keep the next generations open to our history and deprogram the indoctrination occurring for their 12 years of 7 hour days in that world. They are the future and if we do not change what and how they are learning, no one will remember what our real AMerica was like, nor will they want to preserve it.
I also live in a very blue state outside a very blue city which will not be changing in a very long time going forward.
It is impossible, IMHO, to sway those lefties who are stuck in the fly trap of media propaganda.
What is more disturbing to me, is how some of my conservative friends and acquaintances have been sucked in at the fringes.
Two topics in particular bear this out: the Ukraine war, and DeSantis.
I was shocked to discover that people who have been with me every step of the way, on every issue, didn’t get the memo, believed Ukraine was crushing it and that DeSantis is “Trump without the baggage”
On these two issues, I’m only able to convince maybe half, even though they are hardcore conservatives.
Emerald Robinson tweeted this today…she’s right: Emerald Robinson @EmeraldRobinson·1hI’ve had every election integrity expert on my TV show on a weekly basis for two years and my conclusion: there’s no plan.
Masters from The Conservative Treehouse (Jessica Chambers) PhD (Travon Martin) Continued research post PhD MAGA2016. My small town in the south does not drink Bud Light and we put Jason Andean #1 I do my best to spread the truth with 700 followers but am no influencer like the DeSims paid bots !! My Twitter is @robertbaudot – if we follow each other and everyone SD follows we speak truth to power and spread the powerful Sunlight we enjoy each and every day. They can shadow band 1, 2, 500 of us but can’t shut us all down!!! There are more of us then them!! #WeSeeTheStrings #LiveYourBestLife
Good luck with that approach in New England. There are many, many more conservatives in the northeast (and California) than most people realize, but they are living behind enemy lines.
Very few know and even care. The MSM does not mention it and people are not inquisitive.
Mine have never vanished. I am not sure what you are talking about. No denying there are infiltrators at times, but you make it sound like everything here is censored and blocked by federal agents. What proof do you have to show us? Maybe you are the federal agent trying to make us believe what you want us to and to turn against this site and SD. Taking this site down would be what the end goal is I believe. Why are you so adamant about what you are saying is for sure happening here? What proof?
Wear red, white and blue when you go out, people will want to talk. I think they don’t know where to look. Don’t be shy. God Bless America and let them know who you are. MAGA
In many areas of the country, wearing patriotic clothing or putting a bumper sticker on your car are an invitation to physical violence or destruction of personal property.
In those places, YOU will not be treated as a victim, but as an aggressor for exercising your first amendment rights.
Truly sad, but that’s our upside down world.
Where is that?
Weak sauce.
Most of the members of both of my families, blood and church, are very aware and openly discuss facts about our society. There is no pretending, just objective discussion. Our awareness of the breadth of the corruption is increasing because we double check stories we share and then share that knowledge. Twice I’ve used information from this site to bring awareness to my family and friends.
I think an effective communication strategy is for everyone to sing the same short tune when we encounter one of the skulls full of mush and they want to use their own “facts” in a discussion with us. A simple, initial response of; Sorry, but I’m done pretending. And walk away.
Try it. You will be entertained by the looks you provoke.
Family of origin: Any discussion of current events including the bad economy quickly devolves into their irrational hatred of Pres Trump. All discussions seem to lead back to PDJT.
I almost did have a breakthrough with my EPA scientist brother who lives in Georgia. He and
his wife are well off but not super rich. At lunch back in October he asked me how my son was doing.
I said. “Well, he’s a little discouraged. Under President Trump he got his first raise in 8 years at his small company and was able to save quite a bit as gas and food and housing prices were very low. But his boss just called them all in the other day and said there would be no raises or bonuses, because the company relies on diesel fuel and that along with taxes and more regs has made us very cautious.”
I then told my brother that the working and middle classes were very much helped by Pres Trump.
It was the first time my Trump hating brother did not have a negative response.
I do not know if this little anecdote helps but I am reminded of the radical feminists’ strategy, “make the personal political.”
Nice work!!
Sundance, I’ve been thinking for a while about a few things.
1) we need to identify people’s roles (not everyone is a protester, but some are organizers, some are artists, some are funders, some are genuine MAGA politicians)
2) we need to develop propaganda tactics to fight propaganda (easily digested infographics, politics w/o the wonkery for people who are uninformed, billboards, street art, an army of bots to get topics trending to fight the bot army of the left)
3) we need unified forms of protest that will be of consequence to the ruling elites, in addition to standard sign carrying (bank runs, well funded and well vetted primary opponents, worker strikes, trucker protests)
to challenge your approach.
do you feel j6 is a bad event or term.
I think j6 should be framed as an event where the deep state did everything they could to tarnish our right to protest. I don’t see j6 as a bad event perse I see it as an event where a few bad apples (mainly feds) were used to justify political intimidation.
Most of my family lives in this world where they know that something is horribly wrong, but squeeze their eyes shut and chant the magic incantations to ward off the evil spirits. It’s like how people will ignore that cavity or suspicious mole hoping it will just go away on its own.
Some of my family gets the situation and they are clear eyed about it.
Among my family, only my wife and son are aware of the corruption going on. My daughter is a social justice warrior who is angry at the paternity and hence me. A friend at work actively tries to reject all recognition of the corruption around us because it is too depressing. He is like that guy in the movie The Matrix who chooses to live a good life in the matrix rather than oppose it. Most college professors with whom I work are loony leftists who at this point are totally committed to the state narrative. The community in which I live had a lot of trucks driving around with Trump flags before the last election. There were spontaneous rallies of cars with these flags and anyone else who wanted to tag along.
A week before Epstein was murdered he was reported to have attempted suicide–something Epstein denied. I remember looking at my son and saying that Epstein would likely be killed by the Clintons soon. Sure enough, he was murdered in the most obvious and ham-fisted way. That killing was something of a watershed moment when I realized that the intelligence community was up for political murders.
The 2020 election really bared the massive election fraud open for all to see. My son and I were both astonished. Looking back, it is clear that election fraud has been a feature of our elections for a very long time. In 2003 I did not doubt that the Patriot Act would never be misused by our trusted public servants. I held the FBI in high esteem back then. Now I know better.
The turning point was the behavior of the FBI by January of 2017. I didn’t really support Trump until I saw how mistreated he was by the IC. By two months into his administration I was writing him letters of support and he graciously wrote back. He is a great man.
Concerning communication tools, this will be a hard nut to crack. The MSM and internet barons have a stranglehold on information. We need about 1,000 Andrew Breitbarts to demolish the media as it exists. Then we need about 1,000 James O’Keefes to run them off. We need True the Vote times 1,000.
What we really need are companies of civilians who can disrupt all the voting drop boxes, rip into the secret vote “counting”, jam electronic communications around voting centers so that the corruptocrats can’t update their machines on election night. We need to act en mass so that our voices can be heard. If we scream loud enough, maybe the deep state will finally hear us. This requires organization, training and leadership. We need to make the news, not listen to it. We need to use the internet to organize into local companies of patriots with national plans of action.
Two more things. The federal agencies uncovered how corrupt they are during the Covid crisis. I supported vaccines before that. I’ll never get another vaccine of any kind now. (And no, I did not get the covid vax.)
Second, the Build Back Better platforms all around the world informed me that we are not dealing with a national evil but an international one. Biden is not his own man, but a marionette. We are led by a criminal gang that is international in scope.
I’m the most successful with the introduction of food and how it is connected to Big Ag, Big Grocery Store, Big Pharma and right on down the line. People listen bc they know we are an unhealthy people. No arguments from anyone on the political spectrum. In fact, food is my communality with any one.
I guess I am focusing more on people that have maybe tasted a red pill but have not swallowed. At least they might be reachable today. So many here around Garbageville / Riot-town are just mindless zombies as someone else mentioned. As of today it is hopeless to engage them.
I maybe mistakenly want things to get worse so more can be woken up.
It just always feels like we’re in a waiting limbo.
The red head woman just watching the tsunami coming in from offshore.
Print out Sundance article and hand it to people and say as you walk away “let me know what you think of this. Is it true?”
Then never mention it again.
A number of family members are stuck in the old paradigm. They are still watching the Fox affiliated stations, Mash at night, and talk to the kids as their daily grind.
I learned when President Trump was in office, when I declared the 2020 election to be stolen that a large number of them cannot be ‘told’ anything. They don’t want to believe our country is as far gone as it is. They still believe we are “safe” and everything is “politics as usual”. They don’t want to see.
I try and reach them where they are. If they are interested in food, I find articles, videos or some information from “scientists” or doctors, or some figure of authority they trust and send them information about the food supply, shortages, corruption, etc. and talk to them about prepping.
If they care about gasoline process, I send them information or bring up articles I’ve read about why there are shortages; the folly of replenishing our reserves when prices are so high; always from an authority.
I share with them where I get my information, and try not to overwhelm them. Granted this is a slower process, but some can be led and taught and some are dug in and won’t ever admit they have been wrong. I leave those alone and focus on the ones willing to look or read or hear.
I am greatly encouraged, however, by the community. I’ve attended a couple of meetings recently where 50 or 60 people were present and although the meeting was about local land rights, a large number of people expressed opinions and made statements that made me wonder if they read Sundance!
We need a news and entertainment platform to produce more films along the lines of the Sound of Freedom, to tell the story and make it real. We need more story-tellers and film-makers.
We are living in a novel about good against evil; and that story needs to be told (before it becomes history). People will become engaged when they can relate to the story being told and can digest it.
I’m amazed at the people who saw the Sound of Freedom and readily accepted what they saw. It’s as though they knew something was wrong, but when they saw the film, they understood better the dark undercurrents they never wanted to accept.
There are more and more people, strangers at the store, in the parking lot, that I’ve never met that bring up the situations we are in when given the opening. I think there are more of us awake now than we realize. We do need leaders to show the way to resist and fight back, because so many of us (myself included) are not sure about how to effectively fight back.
There is so much work to be done it’s hard to know where to start and how I can make a difference. But I do something every day.
“We need more story-tellers and film-makers. ”
THIS, times 1,000
Years of posting, sharing, emails, texts…It is effective to the degree of their awareness of change that is in the air.
Wonder if the message is getting out? – Look at the vehicles on the road around you. People are speaking with their bumper stickers, decals and outright car-wraps!!! I live at the NC/SC border by Charlotte which is now a boom town. People are coming from everywhere …BUT there is a strong base of former military in our area and they are solid. The folks in the surrounding areas are not to be trifled with. These folks are not like 90% of the city people. THEY ARE READY!!! Sooo…
I’m old, 72.
I used to be the only Democrat in the family, until 11 months after Obama took office. I had an amazing turnaround once I started digging in 2011.
My siblings, two sisters, and their spouses, are well aware and hate Democrats, supported Trump in 2016 and 2020, but have Florida roots now and love DeSantis. They are tired of Trump’s harsh remarks, especially when he doesn’t need to be harsh.
My three grown children and spouses, all brilliant, high IQ, college educated.
– Oldest son is more than well aware, and we discuss it all the time; he’s been one of your biggest fans for years, and turned me onto to you many years ago. He’ll vote Trump even if he has to do it as a write-in.
– Middle son and his wife are “too busy” and think Trump is too abrasive and harsh. They are devote Christians, and that plays a role. This son is more a Libertarian, and has voted that way a number of times. His wife may be a closet Democrat. She teaches at a private Christian school. They don’t watch news much. Their free time is raising 4 kids (3 in private Christian school) work, church and family. Expect they’ll love Vivek or DeSantis or Scott. Their kids have been converted to Democrats by peers when they were in public schools.
– Youngest, Daughter and her spouse are conservatives, busy raising 3 kids (kids in private Christian school), busy with work, vacations, and don’t watch much news; but son-in-law is well read, quick with all media on internet. Both think Trump is too harsh. They’d like prefer DeSantis or Vivek.
Not sure any of them get America First.
Only oldest son and I get the DC corruption, FBI, CIA, NSA, DoJ, State Department Color Revolutions, Election Stealing, 4th Branch of Government, SSCI, et al.
Hard to reach the other kids and even grandkids on these issues.
Getting out the message that has worked some were the movies 2000 Mules and Sound of Freedom…
If the 2020 (and 2022) election stealing could be proven; and if the Jan 6 protest, infiltrated by Feds and contractors, and driven from protest to riot by Feds could be proven, they’d all be converted. Period.
Other friends are mostly all conservatives and support Trump, but many of them think Trump is too harsh.
Among my family members, my grown children and their spouses mostly, I can’t open my mouth about anything. They don’t believe or value anything I say. I have given up trying to educate them on what i know. I don’t know what they know or believe because they won’t talk to me about anything. Anything political is taboo. It’s difficult, but I’ve come to accept it. My mouth can get me in trouble like you wouldn’t believe. I feel that from reading this site that I have a world of knowledge that I could give them but they will have to get it from someone else.
That is a tough spot to be in Nancy. I can relate. It stings. It’s easy to think it’s about their view of you and your credibility with them as a person, but in reality, it’s just the blinders they’ve had put on them.
A prophet is not welcome in his hometown.
So you’re in good company there.
Hang in there.
Additional communication tools? I keep wishing there were a cable tv alternative to FOX. Many people, especially those 60 and over, have cable on all day long . I know this because I can see my neighbors’ TVs from my bedroom. And friends – and even commenters here- constantly quote something some talking head on FOX said.
People don’t know how to access information on line. They can’t do more than Google searches for articles. Maybe Tiktok. Their computer skills are very low. I have to laugh every time someone said “I did my research” when they went out and got 2 shots and 5 boosters. Obviously, their so-called research was terribly limited, flawed and inadequate.
I know there is massive censorship but the alternatives are still available and yet many people could not or did not access alternatives. Why? Because they had already been brain-washed into thinking that any sources other than the MSM and Google, Facebook, etc. are full of quacks, so-called “conspiracy theorists”, and declasse and must be avoided.
At the bottom of this is the fact that they are status conscious and can’t discern for themselves so they choose to stay in what they have been told is the mainstream. The “experts.” “Science.” This is part of the psyops. As Mattias Desmet says, “Mass Formation”. (I realize he was talking about the pandemic and the shots but the concept of mass formation psychosis works with regard to the corruption and deep state, too.) If this is a mass formation psychosis for the US population, it will take a shock even greater than what we have seen so far to wake these people up.
I think the only thing that will wake people up is the crash of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. If BRICS announces after their August 22, 2023 meeting that they will be trading in let’s say yuan backed by a gold standard and Saudi Arabia announces they will only sell oil using yuan and not dollars, that will be a shot heard round the world.
People will only wake up if their finances or their lives are directly affected. Until then, they simply choose not to see.
My circle: half & half some including daughter & partner came over to MAGA after voting for Barry. Now fervent Trump supporters. A few are die hard libs( ie- Trump belongs in jail for whatever crimes). Son is more libertarian & believes election was fair.
Got a good group of friends “the deplorables” all for Trump & know election was stolen by fraud. Others I know think 2020 was fair but they not talking about how Joe is destroying the US.
I was really awakened to the uni- party by Sundance some years back. The Covid plandemic plus kill shot push got me so mad. Voiced my thoughts & provided proof to my church back in 21-22 masks don’t work. Eventually they dropped the mask edict& more people returned. But they did close down for over year.
How to reach & awaken people. I don’t know the answer.
Bottom line – the government is not your friend.
My family is not at all awake. They are lifelong Democrats and will continue to vote that way. They hate Trump and see nothing wrong with Biden.
Friends. Well, I only talk to people like me and where I live that amounts to about 2 or 3 people.
Community. Either leftists or rural conservatives, many rural are Trump supporters but I am not sure how aware they are. There are many very much aware of child sex trafficking because there is some belief where they live is a major route for transporting the kids. Clinton foundation bought an old camp here with buildings so some suspicion there. There is a patriots group here which I am not involved with too much but those who can attend the meetings are fairly aware in some fashion but a segment is the QANON crowd which turns me off.
Now, today I met a person with TDS…very bad case and almost a caricature. Trump is evil and hates people. I threw some questions out to her which she ignored…when I finally walked away my conclusion was the hated him because he was a rich Republican so clearly he was evil and hated people; she was a lifelong Democrat; and her thinking was all balled up into stuff she heard or read somewhere and she lives somewhere where everyone thinks like her. For me, I have no interest in talking to people like them; they are lost causes…waste of time. Oh, I asked her how Biden became a millionaire as a congressman…no answer…no answer to anything I said to her that might disrupt her thinking….maybe later she might think about it but I doubt she has a functioning brain.
I have no idea how to reach someone like this. As Trump said recently, the Democrats automatically get 35% of the vote because of unions, etc….Those people are not reachable. I am open to any suggestions.
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. Matthew 10:14
Thanks for affirming how I feel.
Seems to me that the most effective points to make are tied to home economics. The totalitarian ideologies have led to higher gas prices, higher grocery prices, higher crime, lower punishment, more instability internationally, less freedom religiously, etc.
Those are good intro subjects for a discussion on the corruption and downfall of the republic.
My family and friends are very aware of the mad dash to the political left.
But when I go out in the community and mention anything about the current political corruption , I get two different responses.
One is they just ignore me or they say I don’t worry about it.
The other response is they first look around to see who is within ear shot and then they will whisper “ I Know “.
My wife and I have been awake for decades. And this makes it so much harder to go out and about because we know what all is coming down the pike.
Take for example our last outing. As we approached the checkouts, the first set of checkouts were all self- checkouts and they were all in use with long lines at each checkout.
We HATE self-checkouts , so I naturally looked on down to see if any were open and I spotted one with a light on way down from the self-checkouts. So off we went and to my amazement there stood a young lady twirling her thumps with nothing to do but check us out, because ALL the sheeple were standing in the self-checkout line.
We can see how easy it will be for the globalist to implement anything they desire ( cashless society, social credits, retinal scanning ).
We can tell by driving through a city if they have been influenced by Agenda 21.
We were aware of the corrupt media decades ago and stopped watching TV PROGAMING.
People go about their everyday lives on autopilot and never stop and ask why .
But I have to tell you Sundance, that article about the Justices sitting in on Trumps arraignment really got to me. That is corruption to its core and it’s in our face. None of my family or friends knew until I sent them your article.
If Trump doesn’t win, our options to right the hard left turn our politicians have taken our country on are very limited .
Retired LEO ( State Trooper ) . Have mentioned on several blog stacks that local retired LEO organization ( lg % retired LEO’s are max conservative ) needed. Keep them small community actions, but all over the state(s). Need a larger organizing group to provide direction to small groups.
work with local Sheriff’s, Police , D.A’s, Atty’s Assns. Set out base set of issues, planned response actions, hold local / state meetings. Crime & double standards ( lawfare ) are BIG issues, let alone getting my grandkids past the nuclear war threat!
Trump draws a crowd because he has a mssg people want to hear –
Very important topic.
Last question first: When I first came to CTH around 2015, I was getting my news from everywhere and the uniformity of stories (echoes) from MSM was completely at odds with many of the stories from the various conservative web sites which I followed. After reading CTH for a short while, I found the need for “cantcforest” was diminished as I seldom had to worry about “sources”. However, I still can’t see how to shut down the major impediment to getting my message out: MSM
The other major impediment is that I insist on using a hammer drill when humor would serve so much better.
The MSM is the biggest challenge our nation faces.
Maybe we should post teasers on electronic billboards. Remember Brylcreem signs?
Maybe 35% of my circle are aware of the extent of government/deepstate corruption. That is improving, but it is very alarming that only half of this group see the life or death choices rapidly approaching. Why can’t everyone see that the elitest are hell bent on keeping theirs and taking ours! Look at the number of Treepers who immediately suggest going to court or writing mean letters.
My acquaintances’ awareness of corruption and fraud has increased as my frequency of quoting Sundance, Dutchman, reitiger, et al has increased. Also Front Line Doctors.
Thank you Sundance for all you and your team do. God Bless you.
1.) Family and friends’ average knowledge of gov. corruption: Aware of quite alot.
2.) We have all become painfully aware of the “real evils” over the last 8 years. (Thank you, President Trump for bringing the TRUTH.) The few liberals that I know are brainwashed by TV and Facebook. I do know Fox-watchers that are only aware of what Fox is feeding them.
3.)Communication tools: A large topic! TV is still a powerful tool. Don’t have an answer to that one. Different learning styles must be considered. Some visual and kinesthetic learners are just never going to read. I experience it in my own family. Short videos work best with reaching these people.
Billboards are excellent, if the local approval is granted for them…..
Podcasts are effective for those that have the time to listen. Joe Rogan has awakened a TON of people!
I just found some interesting, pertinent info online. It was about retention of what people learn. Reading was 10%, audio/visual was 30%. But Discussion, Practice Doing, & Teaching Others were 50, 75, and 90%. Fellowship. That is what you always point to, Sundance.