I’ve been quiet, because I’ve been angry. The political events of the past four days have made me seriously reconsider options for correction. The politically motivated arrest of U.S. President Donald Trump is a line crossed I never thought we would experience in our lifetime.
We have watched international politics with a semi-detached view; at least, I will admit that I have. Watching, looking at arrests of political opponents from the safety of our devices and the comfort of reference points that always seemed distant, over there, certainly not here.
Perhaps, just perhaps, globalism has hit that metastatic phase where every cell and every organ in our global world is now being attacked by a virus no longer contained at origin; I don’t know. What I do know is that our landscape has changed; where we stand as a nation is entirely different, yet we seemingly never moved an inch.
It’s almost like we are standing on a stage and the backdrop changed behind us. If we take a national selfie, everything looks completely different. When I look at the resulting picture, I do not like this image of myself, this place, this perspective, and yet… I am exactly the same.
Life has taught me the best thing to do when I feel a sense of rage is to get quiet. Prudence and wisdom teach you to lower the blood flow, evaluate the external and proceed with caution, because the action that flows from the rage mindset generates collateral damage. Serious collateral damage. So, I shut down, walk away, turn my eyes to the truest of all true things, and pray.
There was a time when mules were of great value in the creation of what sustains all human community life. Mules that pulled ploughshares were evaluated with a level of discernment that would rival modern NFL drafts.
Entire communities, often spread miles apart, knew the strength of each other person’s mules. Auctions would bring people from great distances, and there were quiet men of great knowledge who understood the invisible traits that qualified the best mules.
The best, the absolute best, were held with a regard even more valuable than the land they walked. The remarkable thing about these mules was their diversity in physical appearance. Ultimately, what made the great mules of such value was the part that could not be seen, the part the quiet men looked for.
Those mules were like the men who recognized them, and the crowd would whisper to each other in muted tones as they watched the subtle yet deliberate movement of the quiet men with great intensity. Words would be spoken of a silent language that would take place between the quiet men and the mules afore them. There was something invisible being measured and evaluated. Eventually, decisions were made.
The hands behind the plows were ultimately the beneficiaries of the advice from the quiet men, and those calloused hands would become quiet men themselves in later years.
When the collar reached the shoulder, the best mules did not need instruction, they knew what came next. The silent language that transferred from the auction to the destination continued. Over time, the hands atop the plow and the mule became of one purpose. This is when the legends of some mules began.
The best mules had something within them that resolved to the task at hand. The scale and scope of the topsoil was the canvas, but the raw and often harsh task at hand was the real challenge. For some lesser mules the effort required in new ground was too much, but for the best it was just another day; although perhaps a day of week, or month when the bone structure formed the shape of the collar.
The hands upon the plow tested the ability of the mule. It had to be done dispassionately if the family was to achieve success, and ultimately if the community were to thrive.
When the blade was moved a degree deeper, the collar pulled just that much tighter – deeper. The best mules knew what those sensations implied. There were times for looking forward, but when the resistance was the strongest, these were not those times. At these times the mules looked down at only the two feet in front of them, and they focused on those two feet, and then the next, and then the next…. until they felt the pressure subside. Then it was time to turn.
There were lands where no mules could succeed – miles of square acres containing buried rock and dirt compacted over centuries, long before humans started apportioning it. However, there were some mules who had the capability to move that soil, plow through those rocks, and with nothing more than brute force create the opportunity for harvest. This is what the quiet men were looking for. These were the silent questions exchanged.
I think about those quiet mules returning to their stables as the sun dropped, and the feeling of the straps being scraped across the back as they are removed. I think about that silent message as the farmers hand touches the side of the neck with great appreciation. I wonder if the approval connects to the determination that will follow at sunrise. Is this the trait the quiet men were looking for? Is determination the invisible language within that interview, an auction now long in the past? I think it was.
The events of the past several weeks have shown us there are harsh landscapes ahead. We are traveling to places that have never been contemplated. We are witnessing things accepted that were always out of bounds. There are no boundaries in this new place. This land is hard, and it will take quiet men with callouses to guide us through it.
It is time for the old mules to revisit the legend of their kin.
It is time for the counsel of quiet men.
It is a time to remember the purpose of that old collar hanging on the wall.
It is a time for that unspoken language to be understood.
It is time for the old mules to take lead and plow the terrain.
For the nervous insta-selfie readership who are not quite sure what comes next, find an old mule and ask them,…
….”What comes after Amen?”.
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We won’t win this fight without a little backing from some allies. We need a friendly bank for one who will not de-bank us for being conservative Trump supporters. Imagine how strong that bank could be if it got the support that the Bud Light boycott brought in reverse. A hostile takeover of a media outlet like CNN would help. There are rich folks with the ability to do this with far fewer billions than Musk wasted on Twitter. I think Gannett sold for only a couple of billion a few years back and they were the largest newspaper chain in America.
We have millions of potential investors on our side for many of these type of takeovers for some of those who might be willing to come forward to become our Founding Fathers ver 2.0.
Why wait for a bank to present itself.
Observe the lesson of the Templars, and create your own banking system.
Thank you Sundance for words of wisdom. There is something very wrong in this country and the Biden Crime Family is nothing more than face of the Obama Regime operating without qualms to remove every facet of the US Constitution.
I have been traveling over the last couple weeks. I looked on it as doing all my air travel in 2 weekends for the year. I hate to fly, back in my 30’s & 40’s I traveled almost every week for months on end. Never in all of those times did I ever have a checked bag inspected by TSA. Strangely, my bag was inspected every single flight. First they broke the locks and pulls on my small bag. This bag had the universal lock that TSA has the codes to unlock without damaging the bag. So I had to revert to a stand alone lock I’d used in the past which is also TSA approved. They destroyed that too. I finally stopped locking my bag, their mission was accomplished.
I read this morning about a 100% disabled veteran in Dallas who needed to use a restroom was laughed at by the Dallas PD for having peed in his pants.
I also read this morning where another 100% disabled veteran in Henderson, TN (my state) was murdered by the FBI with a 6am raid where they arrived full battle rattle and murdered him and destroyed his house. His family said he had no weapons.
Yes, we are in an out of control police state. The Regime thinks arresting President Trump will cow the American people. Yes, there will be many or most who will be cowed or sheeple. But I do believe there will a larger number than the Regime understands will not be. The worst issue is we cannot trust even local police/sheriffs. They will just follow orders, as will the military. The rare few who do not will just be fired or relieved of duty.
Dark times need us to be strong.
We are headed to a great dissolution in this land of ours. We the People have had it to easy over the past 100 years or so and that piper wants paid. We have allowed election cheating to occur in every level of government. We have allowed bureaucratic positions to become more powerful than our Constitution. We have allowed our rights to be taken from us and our Constitution to be wrecked by judges who believe it to be an outdated document that should be changed as the wind changes direction. I fear for the future of my grandchildren.
Thanks, Sundance. Interesting post.
Note my username, haha.
I’m in it to win it with President Trump and all the MAGA base, and continually try to recruit more.
Experience tells us the cornered animal is the most dangerous. Likewise, the man fighting to protect his Rights, family and land is also the most dangerous. The forces of darkness have brought us to this place and time. Freedom is cornered. So be it. Current times remind me of the quote carved into a rock on Lexington Green. We owe this to our ancestors all over the world who came here at some point for Freedom.
To do less for them and our desendants is to admit defeat. You may kill me, but you will never win and I will do my best to deplete your ranks before that time comes.
Interesting post Sundance! I have come to the same conclusion. We are the Man In The arena now. Love that word….DETERMINATION! Combining determination with the realization is we have to turn into ourselves and calloused hand men who understand what we do. We can come out of this alive but at great cost. We are under assault….by our government, by the media, by Big Pharma and on and on. We are not looking forward to it but are unafraid. We were made for this time. All the hardships, sacrifices, failures, successes and lessons of life are going to be needed for us to guide ourselves, our families and those that have eyes to see and ears to hear that are wintin our reach that we are about to experience the Greatest Battle man has faced in centuries.
Be Not Afraid.
What comes after AMEN ???
” Thy Will Be Done”
Yes.
I responded to incorrect person; now putting response comment where intended.
Vision. Think, feel, move toward that that is wanted… create.
Harrison Floyd is still in the Fulton County jail. Black. And no one cares. No demonstrations. No riots. Nothing. Add him to the J6ers who been languishing in filthy dangerous conditions for over two years. It will take a spark but so far this isn’t it. The criminals throughout government, politics and business don’t care so long as their status quo continues. “Let them eat cake.”
We’ll see how brazen they are Nov ’24. They’ll have to step it up a notch or two. The Mongolian Dominion computers will be on overload. Armed #BLM/Antifa roaches will surround selected cheating counting centers. Any disturbance to the contrary will be decried by Gov. Kemp or fill in the blank (this includes DeSantis eyeing another run in ’28) and the cheat counting will continue as soon as the area is cleared.
They’ve got to cheat to win….so that’s what they’ll do. Yes, trillions are at stake.
“We’ll see how brazen they are on Nov. 24.”
I know that already. You should too.
There have been precisely zero consequences for their brazen and traitorous actions. What encouragement have they had to change?
The Communists are not going to wake up some morning and say amongst themselves: “You know, we’ve been wrong about this whole world domination and subjugation of the citizens thing. We need to change our ways.”
“People” that believe they have the authority to use force to bend the citizen to their will know and understand only force. And acquiescence.
There is a GiveSendGo account for him and has gone beyond its goal. This is the official site I found some other ones scattered around but I would not donate there. They are hoping to get a bail hearing Monday;:
https://www.givesendgo.com/Official_Harrison_Fund
Official Legal Defense Fund for Harrison Floyd
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UPDATE: Harrison is very grateful for all of your overwhelming support. Yesterday, at Harrison’s initial hearing where no lawyer was present, the judge denied bond because she said he was a flight risk. We do not believe the judge was correct because Harrison voluntarily traveled from Maryland to Georgia to turn himself in. We will be filing pleadings on Monday to rectify this situation in front of the assigned judge, Judge Scott McAfee. Unfortunately, this caused us to revise our initial estimate of costs and we have increased our budget accordingly. I will be posting further updates and links on Monday so that you can follow progress and see what your generous donations have enabled us to do. I also intend to provide a disclosure for how the money is being spent on his case. Thank you all again.
I represented Harrison Floyd in the hoax J6 case brought by Jack Smith. In case you didn’t know, Harrison Floyd is one of 19 defendants who has been victimized by Fani Willis, a Democrat prosecutor bent on advancing her political career. Harrison voluntarily flew to Georgia and voluntarily turned himself in to the police. However, unlike all of the other Defendants, Harrison is the only black defendant and the only one who hasn’t been released. He couldn’t afford a Georgia attorney and when he asked he was denied a lawyer.
Harrison is also a veteran of America’s finest–the United States Marine Corp. He is a disabled vet and lives off that pension. For him to be treated this way is a travesty.
Fani will say he should have called her in advance to work out a bond. But that’s what these white Democrats want her to say. She is weak. She knows he’s a strong black man who was a Director of Black Voices for Trump. Harrison told me that if she were a strong black woman, “she’d try to lift up a strong black man, not tear him down.”
Harrison is innocent. There is no victim here in this fake case being brought by Fani. Harrison shouldn’t have to post any bond whatsoever. After all, how can he be a flight risk when he voluntarily turned himself in.
There’s a lot more to Harrison’s story and we’ll be posting more soon. Harrison does not have the resources to hire an attorney to fight a case such as this. Please help in any amount that you can to assist in his legal defense and get him out on bond. His wife and two year old daughter are very worried about him at the moment and want him home.
By the way, any other Harrison Floyd fund on GiveSendGo is not official and may be fraudulent. We are part of Harrison’s legal team in the Jack Smith J6 investigation but we are coordinating counsel in Georgia. I can guarantee these funds will go to help him with his bond and his legal defense in Georgia.
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Why is Harrison there still? I sent in donation as well as many others.
https://www.givesendgo.com/Official_Harrison_Fund
Harrison is still there because BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GO OFF THE DEMOCRATIC PLANTATION. Period.
Jest in case this is a DEM “parable” : https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/dead-donkey-animal-is-dead-corpse-jackass-isolated-vector-id688348528?k=6&m=688348528&s=170667a&w=0&h=Hj2e66Dtk4jzgmnDbBCPOdUvw59HtRQOmrQzCO9Fr2U=
Great allegory, Sundance. Thank you. I identify with the content and implication of your essay. (Been there, Done that, Bought the T-Shirt.)
Cowards die a thousand deaths, the final one on their knees.
I’d love to see all those who are sick and tired of the fraud and these broken systems to distance themselves from it. Start growing your own food. Start building new systems and businesses. Start trading goods/services with neighbors. Stop feeding the big chains. I’d really like to see all of us stop working in protest of everything wrong in this society. Break the economy while at the same time building a new one. Too many still searching for profit, too many still searching for a quick buck. Too many still whining about what they don’t have instead of making something new.
Long before 2016 I talked about breaking away from the GOPe but I keep getting hated for it. I’m told that we can’t do it ourselves.. that we have to take it back from them. I stopped arguing with them. You can’t lead the unwilling while they are surrounded and consumed by the lure of an easier path. Only pain will fix this.. and while the pain continues to grow… it seems that it’s still not enough yet.
All you who argue for a “new” party – did you learn nothing from the tea party?
If you can’t look beyond the party system and support what Trump is doing -creating a coalition of the people- then you should study what happened to the tea party.
Who said anything about parties? I love posting here.. always taking a word I use and spinning it into something I didn’t say.
CirclintheDrain, you did pick one thing and ignored the rest.
I heartily agree with stop feeding the big chains and creating new smaller family and community based units of production. That is what we are doing. I have a Jersey cow ready to drop a calf any day now and she will provide dairy products to several families.
Good for you!
My husband & I are way too old to do this, but I no longer send money to the GOP.
We don’t go to Chicago period. All of the entertainment is expensive and corrupt or funding our enemies.
I pray & try to help others.
Stop giving your money to communist leftist democrat cities. Do not go to events, do not shop, do not even drive their roads, and especially, stop going to major sporting events in these cities. There is NOTHING they have you can’t get somewhere else.
If you live or work there, make sure you pay the minimum for anything you use or do and head to the suburbs for your spending. Starve them of money and they will fall.
Old mules stick to the barn or yard with other old mules and have no reason to be in the city.
Exactly. I for one haven’t fed their systems in decades. I refuse to be part of any of their distractions and idol worship.
take it one step farther – patriots only shop 2 weeks per month – stock up and then buy nothing. will disrupt inventory muchly and not cause us too much pain – a little sand in the gears
Make that 2 days, a weekend.
Make lists, know where the items on the list are, go there, gather what’s needed, go home.
Let the cash registers sit silent for the next 12 days.
oh, and remember Athens Tenn, 1947.
Mules rise up.
Not sure if there are Winco’s nationwide, but they are employee owned, not owned by Kroger (Fred Myers), or Waltons (Walmart) and no one ever said a word to me about not masking. I think we should all be shopping there and buying in bulk.
Sigh. I tried. That one, turns out, is 300 miles away for the closest. Too many of us rural-dwellers are practically hand-cuffed to Wal-Marts without other choices. Sigh. There aren’t even farmers’ markets, as it’s pretty much all corporate-owned around here. Will keep seeing what else we can find.
At least masking was not/prob won’t be an issue at all throughout this part of the country (well, haven’t been to the cities, but….) — outside of medical offices, haha–you know, the ones you’d think would actually have the truthful knowledge about masks not working?
Love Winco’s.
Buy lots of their stuff in bulk.
Decent prices as well.
The first thing now, is to STRONGLY destroy the “Masks & Mandates” nonsense. Do Not Comply!
Most of us won’t. But that won’t stop it because most of them will comply. It’s honestly a very dark place to go but the only way out is to let them lock themselves in with more boosters..
absolutely not – no masks or clot shots here
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00ps… your guy discarded the best in the ALL that IS of it. Dr. Joe Dispenza might give you some introductory clues, as may Dolores Cannon (deceased). Hope is a word/thought/feeling that manifests limited. Care how you feel. My most important question is where did I come from? Inner work, including What did I learn, leans toward a pro ascension journey in/on (the most challenging in the U.) Earth School where we do have free will.
Thanks for this posting, Sundance. When we are angry, we cannot make happy talk about the travesty we are witnessing. God gave us all of our emotions to help guide us in our thoughts.
As I read this article I had tears in my eyes because one of those quiet “mule whisperers” was my grandfather. He broke and trained mules for the farm trade before I was born, but explained to me all about it. A lot of people said that is one of the reasons I always had such good dogs, because I had learned to relate to animals from him. I farmed after him and my father for 55 yrs. I was a 5th generation cotton farmer here in Texas and the early work when I was old enough in the 50’s was really hard. The older men rose before daylight, milked and tended the stock and all of us were in the field by or shortly after daylight to do as much work as we could while it was still cool. It was mainly family, but in the busiest times we hired people to help. Some were Mexican and some were Black. It didn’t matter, we were right there beside them working, and Grandpa and Dad made sure that the family did the most work of anyone in the field. After I had farmed for about 20 yrs I got to know some of the bigger land owner farmers and their sons; that is when I discovered what my old folks called “buggy” or later “windshield” farmers. They rode around never doing any work themselves but designating what needed to be done to an overseer from the buggy seat or pickup truck. I think a lot of them became politicians….Cg
SD, that is a masterpiece. Thank you.
When does the time for the consequences of their vile actions begin?
I now understand why dictators kill their enemies. Because they are afraid. May God protect Trump and those who walk with him.
Long time reader handle change..
Talk about symbolic mules…suggest you read about the Battle of Kings Mountain during the Revolutionary War.
Those were real men, implementing a strategy that would serve us well in the upcoming unpleasantries.
I am surprised that you are surprised.
Ever since the night of the election in 2020 it has been clear as day that the US is a post-constitutional republic.
All bets are off!
Expecting the rule of law to be followed is a stretch at this point.
Barring an extraordinary revolution or some such, the thing to do is find lawful ways to disband the Union, let things devolve back to the States for a while, and they try again and this time do a better job. Much of the spirit of the original Constitution may be laudable – though it was the result of extremely difficult, closed-door negotiations which resulted in nobody being happy with the result – but clearly they weren’t able to prevent a kleptocracy from taking over. This has been the case for decades now but it’s finally too blatant to ignore.
Disband.
Regroup.
Breath.
Psalm 20:5-7
Now this I know: The Lord gives victory to his anointed. He answers from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses (maybe mules) but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
Oh boy. I’m definitely the quiet man… but I certainly am unsure of what comes next. My cold anger is starting to reflect outward though.
What comes after amen? ACTION, the deed you were praying about.
Amen is over.
It’s time.
“This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end-which you can never afford to lose-with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” – VADM James Stockdale, USN
How do you get someone to lie in court? Bankrupt and imprison until they crack. Like the 2020 fraud- they are doing this right out in the open.
Do old mules even exist? I have my doubts.
Maybe when we are being starved to death- at which point even the crustiest of old mules will do us no good.
Thank you Sundance
i am retired, but call me up, I am ready to come back and rejoin the fig.thank against evil
I meant fight against evil
The Uniparty knew they would swing by their neck if Trump was re-elected so they had nothing to lose. They attempted to steal the election and, much to their own surprise, they pulled it off. They will stop at nothing now.
Best article ever. Thank you. –€