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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If we rise up, their game board will flip. President Trumps arrest has woken up communities none thought ever would. Everyone is seeing the elites plan playing out. A reckoning is coming.
So, this week has not been such a good one for the installed occupant in the White House (Maui; his crime family; etc.). Meanwhile, President Trump wins a debate without showing up and turns a fourth indictment and a photograph into a worldwide phenomenon.
And, today? Three shootings (links below). And guess which one gets covered — wall-to-wall.
Keep the faith folks…and your powder dry. And, the mules fed and watered.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/early-morning-shooting-boston-caribbean-festival-leaves-seven/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/one-dead-three-injured-shooting-oklahoma-high-school/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/developing-man-guns-down-multiple-people-near-dollar/
Christ knew the spiritual danger of material comfort.
Everything will be lost unless we understand that all must be given up and offered up.
We’ve waited too long hoping to make that deal to keep our comfort and our freedom.
No sir. It will not happen that way.
I have harnessed and plowed with both horses and mules. We learned perseverance together. Remember that in facing down the bunch of crooks around us.
Right now I’m carefully focused on the Polish example to keep my rage contained.
I’m neither a 100% disabled nor a veteran, so I’m not too worried about having the FBI thugs yet. I’m sure they fear my walker.
Hard times make for hard men and women.
Hard men and women make for easy times.
Easy times make for easy men and women.
Easy men and women make for hard times,…
WE are HERE,…and Hard times, and the resulting hard men and women, are a’coming.
Sadly, most people are complacent and want to be left alone to live their lives in peace while they are afraid of being punished publicly for defending the long-term American values.
They have no money to fund pushback.
They’ve been lied to by their government from Russia, Russia, Russia to C19.
They showed up by the millions in 2020 to vote to stop all the anti-American drivel and it didn’t matter as C19 was used to illegally change voting laws across many key states while Donation Mules were used all across America to illegally fund Democratic Communist campaigns and Ballot Mules illegally collected ballots while government clerks illegally turned their backs on signature verification counting millions of fraudulent votes to ensure the election of their chosen Trojan Horse and certain Congressional and Senate Campaigns.
They put the fear of God into the judicial system to thwart any lawsuit filed claiming election interference while judges were either afraid to take any of those cases out fear or to assist in the fraud themselves. Now any citizen, government official, candidate or even the highest law enforcement officer in the United States the President can not even claim election interference or hire any lawyer without fear of them losing their law licenses.
The ONLY recourse the free-citizens had was their sacred Right to vote and now even that has been taken away as stated above.
Democrats would have you believe that Biden is far more popular than Obama. Obama won 69,000,000 votes and was re-elected President. Trump is the first President in decades to grow his vote total 11,000,000 and received 74,000,000 and lost while Biden received 81,000,000 votes. So, Biden won 12,000,000 more votes than Obama.
Obama won a majority of votes in 873 counties across the United States, Trump won 2,497 and Biden won just 477 counties 393 counties less than Obama and he won – yea right!
Obama won 18 out of 19 bellwether States that have almost always picked the winner in the Presidential race. Trump also won 18 out of 19 bellwether States while Biden won 1 out of 19 and won the Presidency.
Campaigning and having 10’s of thousands show up no longer means anything while mass-mailing and collecting ballots does.
If peacefully voting no longer works then what will?
Your question has an answer, you all know what that is, but it cannot be mentioned here or in any other internet forum.
Yep, which is why the quiet men(and women I guess), will most likely lead down the road as this is most certainly not going to be resolved through perpetually stolen elections.
The current tryanny(at all levels) can only occur when “free and fair” elections no longer exist. I clearly remember when O’Biden told off that autoworker supporter and basically said I don’t care if you vote for me. That’s when I knew for sure the fix was locked in.
The unknown answer also includes when and where does _that_ phase start? In today’s linked world, action will spread like wildfire, consuming thousands in its opening phase.
Make it count.
I heard of some dude named something like Guy. I think it was Guy Otines. I remember now; this unemployed man named Guy Lee Otines who could address some of your grievances. Perhaps.
You have the wrong spelling. It’s Guillotine . Frenchman .
What will work is a small percentage of the 80 million Trump voters showing up for a walk outside of the homes and offices of the criminals to protest and demand resignations and trials. There are more trump supporters than the US army. the numbers show.ing up would be enough to cause police and soldiers to abandon the side of the criminals. Just show up in the millons for a walk
imagine ten percent of trump voters showing up for a walk, thats 4 million people.
All trump supporters could take a day off work at the same time, see what happens then.
I have said it for 5 years now. The fact that MAGA only partied at Rallies and never bothered to organize Peaceful and legal redress of their government or even show actual presence support when Trump Policies were undermined, impeachments etc. proved to me that although I am MAGA, Trump voter x2 hope to be 3. The majority are sunshine patriots. If we had legally pushed back years ago the deepstate globalists would have paused and note our resistance. Others beyond MAGA would have noted we exist. There is strength in numbers and our founders gave us constitutional tools to freely speak and redress. Our cowardly act is why Jan 6 hoax was so easy to perpetrate . Now, it is almost too late. They are going to end your free speech so window is closing. We never truly had the Republic’s back, or DJT’s. I pray he can forgive us, I know the Republic will not as it falls into the abyss of totalitarianism.
Bring tractors. That has worked in other communist countries.
If peacefully voting no longer works then what will?
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Accuracy.
exactly. flying bullets.
Whatever your pushback method may be Use it WFO!
excellent. proves voting doesn’t matter anymore. Obama the devil. it over, its been over, nothing changing until bullets fly
“If peacefully voting no longer works then what will?”
Get involved to peacefully monitor the voting at the precinct level so it does not connect to internet for cheating.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” MM
As one GOP voter said, all my vote does is tell the Democrats how many votes they need to steal. We need to fight back by closing off the Communists’ paths to theft. Jay Valentine has demonstrated that voter rolls are riddled with dead people, fake people, people who have moved and non-citizens. The Communist’s know every one of those illegitimate voters and are happy to vote for them. They are also to happy to early vote for legitimate voters so when the suckers shows up on election day, they are forced to contest it and submit a provisional vote. Because there is no signature verification in many states, it is easy to pass off illegal votes as legitimate. In the last resort, they manufacture ballots out of thin air and inject them into the counting process in the dead of night and out of any GOP oversight.
GOP legislators at the state level set the rules for elections. In 2020, slimy lawyers like Mark Elias got corrupt judges to change the rules because of COVID. That’s how we got unsupervised drop boxes where Communist operatives could drop off millions of fake ballots. Many of those came from returned ballots at Post Offices where union operatives handed them off to Communist operatives to be filled out and stuffed into drop boxes.
If all else fails, Communist operatives hack the tabulating computers and flip the votes as required. This was blindingly obvious on election night in 2020 where Biden gained winning margins in the blink of an eye after most people had gone to bed.
Conservatives need to pressure their state representatives to close off some of the avenues the Communists use to cheat. The constitution gives the state representatives control over elections. Ideally, we want paper ballots cast on one day, signature verification, citizenship verification and counting while observed by representatives from both parties. Maybe we won’t achieve this ideal but that should be the objective.
Love you, MAGA Brother! Thank you for the deep thought and ACTION.
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” –
Samuel Adams
I thought that was John Adams??
Another one from Samuel:
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.
Samuel Adams
LOVE Samuel Adams! My kind of rabble-rouser!
That Sam Adams is a beer poster is a travesty against the man who was more a patriot than his cousin John.
JOHN WAS a LAWYER / BARRISTER Under the CROWN. ( that SAYS a LOT on SEVERAL Levels )
The Mini Series John Adams Shows the DIFFERENCE In the 2 Second Cousins and Tempers.
This is true. Time to plow. Hard times ahead. It must be this way or we don’t deserve to keep what we fight for. Get your mental estates in order. Be resilient. DO NOT BE AFRAID. God is ALWAYS with you. Waiting. For you to lend an ear to listen. Wisdom and the path of light awaits.
I too fail to get the analogy. I frequently puzzle at some of the commenters’thoughts and ideas. Perhaps I lack the religious views that many have, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t learn from and enjoy the variety of opinions on this site. I do love mules if that is any consolation.
Start with “I think of those quiet men returning to their stables…”. From there to the end should help. He actually explains the picture he’s painting.
Stick around, we are here to help
I discern it as an allegory
swissik, you’re not alone. I appreciate the power of analogies, but I admit I don’t always get them. Tonight is one of those times– and I’m not all that new to the branches of the Treehouse. The Old Mules post moved me to a deep sadness and also a sense I was missing the important meaning being conveyed.
“The Old Mules post moved me to a deep sadness”
Just the opposite for me.I still enjoy stories of the old west.
One point it makes: some mules, the ones only the wise men recognized at the auctions, had a stronger will than others. These were the mules who put their heads down when they sensed it would take all they had to pull the plow through rock-laden soil. They didn’t pull up.
Both those kinds of mules and the kind of men who could recognize such mules are the kind of people needed right now.
Thanks TL
I too fail to get the analogy…
But I read a lot about mules today.
Maybe, it was just a break from politics.
Aw, what a sweet, loving mule. Thanks for the photo 🙂
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If only enough people will finally realize we have to “look for the old mules,” the steady hands and the experienced and those with the strength to guide the rest of us, with our help, through the hard ground. I hope we can find some of the old mules and soon.
Excellent thoughts SD. Thank you.
Cjzak, I don’t what it is…
But every time I see your name, I get this sudden urge to play Scrabble 🙂
27 points in only 5 letters…Wow!
Of course, WORDMAN hauls a whopping 76 points easily not counting double and triple letters!
Yes, it’s all in the tactics~ Hidden in plain site, that which we are looking for! Those Navajo’s were on to something…>”)
We need those retired flag officers & generals purged by Obama, 2012-2015. They are mules. They are patriots. We need Erik Prince, Chris Miller, et al.
and Col. Douglas McGregor
YESSSSS.
you have already done enough. but your republic needs more of you.
Retired Magistrate here: Talk about a tough old mule. My brother, a Viet Nam Navy vet, has ALS from exposure to Agent Orange. Just talked to his wife and he is currently stable and holding his own. He has survived 7 bouts of pneumonia, a staff infection, several cardiac events, etc. and is still hanging in there. He is on a feeding tube and a trach. Sometimes he is able to talk, usually not. He has such a will to survive. My brother is a huge Trump supporter and was involved in local Northern California politics until he was diagnosed with ALS.
Whenever I start to get depressed about the way things are going in this country, I think about my brother, his sacrifice for this country and his great will to live.
May God Bless you and your courageous brother Marcia.
Without the guidance from a few Vietnam vets in my later teens… I would still be a snot nosed brat.
Well, hold your brother and your family and you in our prayers, may God bless you all.
Sending prayers for your brother. What a courageous man.
God bless your brother! Praying for him.
Military brat in a multigenerational military family. Prayers up!
Marcia I will be lifting him up in prayer.
What come after Amen?
Verily and lots of it
Possibly best Sundance quote ever.
What comes after Amen indeed.
Everybody leaves the church and goes home to live their secular life for the next six days?
The hard work that God ask each and everyone of US to do. After prayer of course🤞🏾🫸🏿😇
Pray as though it all depends on God above and then work as though it all depends on you.
That is what Amen means.
What comes after AMEN
Work and lots of it, Toil until you cant move, getup do it again. We have to out work out think and out fight these sons of bitches. It is as it always was the enemy cannot be reasoned with he must be defeated.
FJB F them all
Their problem is much larger than DJT. For want of a better description, DJT is the archangel confronting the internationalists working hard to make America the same as all other mediocre nations. They believe that if they end DJT, they end opposition to their plan.
Their problem is in 3 parts: 1) the internet, 2) Vivek, and 3) the exploding cross-racial understanding Trump delivers to the street. Without going too deep, DJT and Vivek are opening 3 generations of multi-racial Constitutionalists, completely opposed and counterintuitive to both the RNC and DNC. These multi-racial Americans and “nerds” are seeing and understanding what gave rise to the American nation, how it has benefitted them and how their own personal liberty will be taken away by the RNC-DNC junta in the FBI and DOJ. They are seeing this, they can not move and are not stupid
Trump and Vivek are the end of the DNC and RNC.
Let’s hope so. However, Vivek took money from Soros for law school, and paid wikipedia to erase that info (or so I am told – could be info planted to bury Vivek).
It may be disappeared on the wiki but just use internet search engine Brave and type vivek soros and it comes right up!
https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/vivek-ramaswamy
This is from Ramaswamy’s Wikipedia page, more than halfway down under Campaign.
In May 2023, Ramaswamy’s campaign admitted that he had paid an editor to alter his Wikipedia biography before announcing his candidacy but denied that the payment for edits was politically motivated.
Mark Levin went through a whole list of statements Ramaswamy has made that contradict one another, even recent statements.
wikipedia is edited by leftist
I suggest staying far from that
I’m sorry , Vivek seems too good to be true. Could be another Judas Pence planted by the deep state as insurance policy.
Yes he is not worth promoting in any way
Vivek IS TIED TO BIG PHARMA and TRANS PACIFIC INTERESTS ( hence His ADVOCACY FOR the TPP )
Sorry Wilson. I don’t believe Vivek has contributed anything.
all of them. stop thinking about this in terms of one man or woman. one politician. one hero.
all of us will have to sacrifice. many will sacrifice all.
No need to be sorry for being absolutely correct.
I have met on the campaign trail. And watched closely He has the means,integrity,strong faith,love of country -to contribute greatly to our cause. To say otherwise is naive or a smear campaign. His love for this country is authentic as Trumps. Thankfully.
That is what he says “NOW”…just wait….
Watch this video posted above. It is the truth. I did a ton of research.
Please don’t put Vivek in with our great President Trump. That is so insulting.
Thank you for pointing that out.
Dear fellow treepers listen to your gut not fancy words to sway you from our ultimate goals
Vivek?
“Vivek Ramaswamy’s Voting Record Shows He is Not a Registered Republican, and Donated to Anti-Trump Democrat Candidate in 2016″
-WEF’s 2021 ‘Young Global Leader’ list published on March 10, 2021.
-Ramaswamy acknowledged that he made a statement encouraging people to buy masks out of personal responsibility
-Involvement in the Ohio COVID-19 Response Team
-Ties to NIH
Vivek Ramaswamy’s company, Datavant, partnered with the National Institutes of Health to create a database of patients’ personal medical information.
-Initially believing the 2020 election wasn’t stolen through ballot fraud
-Supporting former Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th
-Expressing interest in re-entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
-Advocating for “no cap” on educated immigrants
-Encouraging everyone to get vaccinated
“And just like magic, Vivek changed many of his positions…”
And then there’s that Soros money.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/vivek-ramaswamys-voting-records-show-he-is-not/
You lost me at Vivek.
Do not be deceived by the Hindu Obama. He is a big endorser of calling an Article V Convention of States which has been pushed for decades and would usher in a new US Constitution for the globalists. Please learn about the real Vivek.
If he gets in, I fear the foreign policy repercussions…
erase vivek from the picture
after enough research you know why
I’m not sure the question is what to do. I think the question is where to plow? I sense an unease. And to go with that unease, a sense that people are confused. History tells me that it is this period of confusion when the tyrants strike, and strike hard.
It is not time for anything other than a determination to not comply, and to not be fooled.
And, by all means, if someone in your circle mentions their fear that something is wrong. Tell them they are right.
Do not comply is a damn good start and maybe the entire answer. We all need to come together and stop complying. That may take many forms and they should all be peaceful for as long as possible anyway.
Resist much. Comply little. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
However, non compliance does not keep our this government from piling on our debt and enriching themselves through Ukraine. By the time countries used to figure out their defeated dictators have packed their bags and absconded with every cent belonging to the people in their countries,
it was a done deal. It’s happening right in the open here. They mean to leave us nothing.
Sundance, you know what’s going to happen. “IT’S GOING TO GET UGLY”
I have lived a good life. I have accomplished my objectives. I am prepared, and so are my brothers. In God we trust. Sit ludos incipere.
for those of you who have given so much and are satisfied with where you are… i honor YOU the most. YOU are the ones who can help the most… even if it is deeply unpleasant… for those of us who still want to go on and be sure there is more to come for our kith and kin.
Many have recently described our new, unrecognizable background as “we’re in uncharted waters.” And we are.
Well said Sundance, well said. I appreciate you, as all of the Treehouse does. God bless you.
Action. That’s what happens after Amen. Action
Or, as Winston Churchill used to put on his memos –
These current times are, I think, similar to the situation in the UK when Hitler was elected. in Germany. There was a powerful, traitourous ‘swamp’ which Churchill had to navigate his way around if the UK was to beat the Germans and survive.
Then the US could help pull our chestnuts out of the fire – who can do the same for the USA today? My money is on the
deplorables.
Amos 5 v 12-15
12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
George Washington took a great interest in the breeding of mules, hoping to improve the bloodlines for the benefit of his young country.
A difficult existence and distant frontiers formerly did the same for Americans.
Mules are bred as a cross between a horse and a donkey. Generally, the mules themselves don’t reproduce.
Donkeys can reproduce but, sadly, mules cannot.
“Washington had made several previous attempts to buy a donkey from Spain. The animals had an international reputation for being the best of their kind. His intention was to crossbreed a jack with his mares to produce a robust equine hybrid: the mule.”
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/royal-gift-donkey/
God bless and keep Donald Trump.
And you Sundance, especially with another storm headed to Florida.
” especially with another storm headed to Florida.”
bingo.
I thought the same thing.
Sundance is mentally preparing himself for the work ahead.
sundance is using his gift for writing.
Wow. That is some excellent writing, Sundance.
Wonderful writing, thank you.
I may be an Old Soul (Mule) living in a New World, but this New World is plastic, as are its patrons.
Mentorship has always been missing in my life save for a few brief periods, yet the Lord has blessed me as I’ve sought after Him.
I don’t blame the Old Mules for not whispering & mentoring me. My generation (late 40’s) is full is back-stabbers and surface dwellers. Their disappointment is palpable.
Let’s pray for those rare relationships to grow deep roots and for God’s divine appointments to occur among His chosen Mules.
It will be ok. We should do our best to protect those we love. These moments are temporal compared to the eternal. God bless you all in your struggles. Time is short. The great cataclysms are upon us in the solar system and are gigantic compare to the evils of this world. Find and unite in your community. Your survival depends on it. And getting ready will help you defeat the deep state at the same time.
at this point the only thing I can think of to do is to
1) send funds to those who are being persecuted by our corrupt government
2) not fund anyone who is not legitimately MAGA; no pretenders
3) not purchase products/services from those who fund our corrupt government
(those politician pretenders, globalist corporations and any entity that is
pursuing practices that may ruin our freedoms and way of life)
4) vote no matter what
5) pray
stop buying things – maybe we forgo Christmas all together…and say “Santa got Wuhan”
This seems like a wise move to starve the beast. In the process we will need yo find ways to feed ourselves and those who will be hungry. When my niece ran a small town shoe store, she commented that most of their yearly profits came in at Christmas.
Jehovahs Witnesses don’t do Christmas or birthdays, based on my interactions with them at a public school. I honor them for avoiding the materialist pressures of the holidays.
Visited an Amish community in Lancaster PA over the summer and was intrigued by their survival mechanisms.
Like Obama!, the Amish avoid relying on the grid, and use propane for cooking and refrigeration. They dry their clothing on clotheslines, and do homechurch in each other’s barns on a rotating basis every other week. Their Anabaptist forebears survived the insane wars and persecutions of Europe by self governing and avoiding the corrupt governments. We can learn a lot from them
We dry our clothes outside during the summer and by the wood stove during the winter.
Yes Forget the shallow, superficial, materialistic
Following the crowd to gain acceptance is a fools errand
Do not be hindered if they shun you, stay the course
Prepare for hard work and the unfamilar
Search and connect with worthwhile new trustworthy connections near and far
The purpose of life is to know and trust in the lord
Do not worship any people, places or things EVER
I have wee grandchildren. I have already bought their Christmas gifts. A book, pajamas, boots and a toy.
Maybe we should cur back and buy now. Then buy nothing for the month of November and December.
This post was poetic, deep, and full of imagery. The paragraph about going the “two feet in front of them…..and the next , and the next.” brought tears.
We are experiencing that to an extent now,and it will only get harder. We face an uncertain future, and I’m already weary from the frustration, anger, and fear.
We are going to need all of our resolve. Thank you so much. You are truly a treasure.
Anyone who has endured true hardship can understand putting your head down and concentrating on what is right in front of you and then continuing to do that day after day and year after year. We’re all stronger than we know until we are tested. I’ve been tested over and over. I’m old, but I will put my head down and do what I can.
Lindy, it appears from your description that you are an old mule, of which Sundance spoke. God bless you.
Throughout my life’s hardships, one lesson was learned: that God gave me the strength to come through.
There are several Old Mules out here that would benefit and be comforted by this post.
Some are meeting up in KS on this very day.
I shared your post with them to ease the burden on their shoulders just for a minute.
Thank you for posting this.
We liked our Percherons and then Belgians better than the mules we tried here (not looking for a fight), but I still enjoyed the imagery. I reread Animal Farm 100 times in sixth grade hoping Boxer wouldn’t die. Not sure exactly what we’re driving at here. Time seems short for subtlety.
No one. No one will get in the way of me and my President should the communist left attempt to serve a prison sentence. That not only goes for me; it goes for everyone of my family members. Our tenacity shall prevail and we will represent a very small symbol counter to our country’s forbearance, for compliance sake. It will make January 6 look like a visit to a local child’s lemonade stand. No one attends for the taste of the sugar-ladened lemonade. They attend for the support and because it is the right thing to do for the next generation. We’ve been pushed to the edge, but we are not lemmings. It is near time to stand on our hill, our last stance, if you will. The Lord helps those who help themselves. He has prepared thee the way. God Bless the USA.
– one old mule
It was time for one of these thoughtful sundance posts to calm the anger and channel it into the best ways to fight the cruelty and corruption. President Trump seems to be a master at managing it.
I tried to contribute my experiences and thoughts to the article but I could not condense it down to a reasonable word count or avoid off topic references. The article resurrected many memories.
Note–Thanks to CTH for often leading the fight and keeping it on the right track.
I wonder, just out of curiosity, how many people here at this site know what a mule is without looking it up on wiki? I grew up on a ranch/farm operation and we often used mules where a tractor was not really a good idea. The land was pretty flat but there were bogs (some of them well hidden) and it could be dangerous but a mule was able to cope.
It would be interesting to have a headcount of the amount of people who actually know what a mule is, donchathink, Sundance?
It’s not a donkey, or ass. That’s a democrat.
Is a mule a cross between a donkey and a horse?
yes
Charles Darwin wrote: “The mule always appears to me a most surprising animal. That a hybrid should possess more reason, memory, obstinacy, social affection, powers of muscular endurance, and length of life, than either of its parents, seems to indicate that art has here outdone nature”
Darwin, Charles (1879). What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship ‘Beagle’
I was born and raised on a big self-staining farm; we had work horses, riding horses, ponies, mules, and donkeys…that was just the horses…not including the cows, bulls, chickens, turkeys, geese, meat rabbits, pigs, sheep, goats….and that’s just for starters…..forgot the stocked pond…creeks, hills, valleys….
That was a century ago….
I know only one other person over 100.
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A mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey. (Greybeard granddad and though we no longer had such; I’ve seen them and done lots of hard manual labor in my youth.)
The mug shot of Trump is the look of RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION and it binds us all together.
That’s not righteous indignation. That’s cold hard righteous anger.
That’s a “dont mess with me or my peeps” look.
Hope in Christ!
“It is a time to remember the purpose of that old collar hanging on the wall.”
It’s long past time a few people should have felt those old leather reins across their backside.
When you allow events that have no direct and consequential impact on you to get you mad or fearful, you are not using your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems to function as nature intended them to work.
You were not designed to react to politics by going into fight or flight mode. While in the long run politics can over time lead to some very bad personal outcomes, none of them in the near term amount to anything that justifies the release of hormones, the rise in blood pressure, the faster heart rate.
The “quiet men” maintain control of their sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. They do not allow either fear or anger to arise without a legitimate threat to their near term health.
Step back and take control of your thoughts. You will find yourself in a better place and when it really matters you will be stronger in handling the stress of a real and legitimate threat to you.
Gee Makes me wonder where we’d been today if George Washington took your advice
Onward Christian soldiers…..God Bless
The time has come
George Washington was in a real fight or flight situation. Duh.
“When you allow events that have no direct and consequential impact on you to get you mad or fearful, you are not using your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems to function as nature intended them to work.”
totally agreed.
but we must also, all of us, consider what is rational and meaningful for what we have left – and what we can give to others… whether it be with great joy or righteous anger… what comes after we act is what matters.
Sundance’s latest is sobering yet not surprising. Informed observers over these last decades could not help but come to the alarming conclusion that those AntiAmerican elements in politics and culture will not quit – the logical result of their agenda is either they win complete subjugation of our people, or they die trying.
Armed revolt is: 1) not likely (in which case they prevail); or 2) opens a Pandora’s box of uncertain future (in which case everything we would be fighting for and to protect may fall victim to chaotic forces).
In either case we are returned to that state of nature inhabited by the Gaelic Christians following first, their receipt of pure Apostolic Christianity direct from disciples during the first two centuries following Christ’s ministry, and second, the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th which saw the entirety of the West return to pagan barbarism – save for those islands of faith, knowledge and compassion that were the Gaelic Christian monasteries and abbeys in Ireland and Scotland.
Crucibles of Civilization. Incubators of progress in every field of human endeavor. Christian by faith, proto democratic republics in politics and nascent corporations in commerce.
From these solid foundations tens of thousands over the centuries, of educated faithful journeyed into the abyss to deliver the light of love, language, liberty, literacy, knowledge and progress to a darkened world.
These gentle scholar/tradesmen demonstrated that wealth was more reliably created and sustained by peaceful pursuits than when seized by plunder.
They curated the knowledge of the ancients and changed the world. The Carolingian Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, Protestant Reformation, Scottish Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution followed.
1776 saw both the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and the Declaration of Independence – soon after fighting for freedom our Constitution – political, economic and religious freedom finally established on earth – and the subsequent rise of the human condition around the world to heights as unexpected as it was unprecedented.
The model of Christian faith, guiding a constitutional democratic republic with a capitalist economic system is proven. They are the Earthly Trinity.
But neither capitalism or a democratic republic deliver on its promises and avoid political or economic tyranny absent men and women operating with public morality, sustained only of private morality and born only of personal religious faith.
If we must live in a barbarous pagan world, we can concentrate on peace, progress and prosperity, and share the gift with others to change their hearts and our world.
It is the historically proven path for mankind.
Icolmkill.org
there is so…so… SO MUCH… we can do that is not violent or hurtful. but it will be VERY unpleasant for us all, because it invites that evil and violence upon US instead.
and yet it must be done, if we wish to ensure there is a future worth living for our brothers and sisters.
Certainly we can not be afraid to have tough conversations and to engage with people who believe they see things differently.
2 Chronicles 19:11 Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.
I read that for the first time in my life this morning. Good advice for the remainder of my time on this side of heaven. Keep on rockin’ y’all.
Wish you could elaborate…. at least a list
Move your feet….
31 Years After Ruby Ridge, the FBI Is Still Killing Americans with Impunity
It’s been 31 years since the beginning of the FBI’s murderous siege on the home of the Weaver family. The deadly incident prompted enough outrage to spur Congressional hearings, protests from across the political spectrum, several dramatized TV portrayals and a promise from the FBI and Department of Justice that they would revise the reckless tactics used at Ruby Ridge to avoid future tragedies (this was six months before the Waco massacre).
Fast forward to 2023, and the only difference in relation to federal law enforcement behavior is the disappearance of journalists and politicians willing to demand accountability from the FBI.
In a typical FBI related raid leading up to a shooting, federal agents make painstaking efforts to destroy any visible cameras on a targeted property, seldom wear body cameras, and refuse to inform family members why they felt they had to shoot their loved one or what they were suspected of. In some cases, the FBI will even refuse to confirm their involvement in a killing. In these controversial shoots, the Bureau has the laughable ability to investigate itself, which predictably, means that they rule every killing as justified. The FBI then cordons off the scene and bans the family from entering their own residence for days as staff is dispatched to collect evidence, providing them ample opportunity to tamper with or eliminate any evidence of malfeasance or error.
In virtually every case, an agent who shoots a suspect in a contentious encounter is granted the informal right to forever remain anonymous by both the media and government officials — a perk not extended to local police officers in similar circumstances.
In the most controversial of the recent shootings, that of a severely disabled 75-year-old Vietnam Veteran and National Rifle Association member in Utah named Craig Robertson, federal agents have asserted that the beloved church-going man with no notable criminal record who served as sole caretaker for his blind son was a dangerous white domestic terrorist who, upon being informed that he was under arrest, pointed his .357 Magnum at agents during an early morning raid.
Robertson was put under investigation in April for a series of threats made on his Truth Social account against Democratic politicians. He was obviously not physically capable of executing his threats, and despite being known to always answer the door armed, was approached by FBI agents and questioned about his threats prior to the raid on his home. He told the agents who arrived at his residence to question him that he had no plans to harm anyone and to come back with a warrant. The agents left without incident.
Days later, the FBI decided to mobilize their SWAT team to serve their warrant on the man in his humble Provo residence, using his collection of legally owned firearms and enthusiasm for the 2nd Amendment as justification for why a Navy SEALs type breach was necessary to apprehend the immobile senior citizen.
In Henderson, Tennessee, a similar pre-dawn FBI paramilitary-style raid was conducted on the residence of another disabled veteran, Theodore Deschler, whose social media page had several references to right-wing ideas. According to Deschler’s mother, who was yanked out of the house and thrown into the back of a car without an explanation after answering the door on the day of the killing, the FBI began bombarding the home with tear gas and stun grenades, breaking all the windows, and suddenly, began shooting the property up when a startled Deschler emerged. Deschler’s mother said Theodore did not have access to any guns and it would’ve been physically impossible for an agent to have seen if he was armed due to several tall obstructions blocking their view as they opened fire. It is unlikely Deschler had any weapon in his hand, according to his mother, due to the presence of two bloody handprints he left on the wall.
https://www.unz.com/estriker/31-years-after-ruby-ridge-the-fbi-is-still-killing-americans-with-impunity/
Old mules have a garden in the back.
Old mules make their own sausage.
Old mules pick up pennies off the ground.
Old mules use coupons even though they can afford the item.
Old mules mow their own lawns.
old mules aren’t scared of a few bugs.
Old mules train the young mules.
Old mules always vote in every election no matter how small.
Old mules don’t do social media.
Old mules look you in the eye and say “how you doing?”
Old mules still can figure out how to move the stone.
Old mules keep their property up.
Old mules know when to slow down but still get the job done.
Old mules ask a lot of questions.
Old mules have secret clubs.(not social, but good solid wood)
Old mules don’t always attend church but they watch out for those that do.
Old mules gladly take on extra weight to pull.
Old mules always think it can be done.
Old mules never say no, but say “I’ll try”.
Old mules are the lifeblood of this nation.
Thanks Mike. Well done.
When I was growing up, almost everybody I knew had a vegatable garden. For most of my childhood, I never even considered a flower garden to be a thing. People in my neighborhood grew vegatables because they were poor and had to out of necessity. Anyway, I just wanted to post that to show that there are a lot of us white folks who weren’t born with a silver spoon and had no privilege of any kind. Heck, I used to think people who had an upstairs to their house were rich.
Everyone should start preparing themselves for the worst. President Trump may very well die in prison. Clinton and Obama will extract full revenge for the presidents’s “lock her up” demands.
I’m going to be brutally crass here and declare that the M’Fin mules get it done! Some have to tend the sheep and others have to fight off the wolves! These are uncertain American times, but not uncertain in the footnotes of world history. Folks… We are NOT going to be able to “vote” our way out of this. We are at stage two of Winston Churchill’s famous quote…
If you will not fight for the bright when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”
it is a time for bullets to fly
Excellent wisdom Sundance. This why I come here.
What comes after Amen? The world unfolds according to God’s eternal plan.
Old Mules, Sheepdogs, get your souls right with God. Pray for wisdom and courage. Know God is always in charge, do not fear, fear is a liar. The enemy is a liar.
God is Truth, Creator of the Universe, Light of the World. Trust in God. Pray.
January 6th wasn’t an insurrection. It was protest protected by the Constitution as free speech and assembly.
This is what a real insurrection looks like:
Easter Sunday 1916 Dublin Ireland. All the January 6th cases should be dismissed.
3:24-3:26
“What happens next time?”
“We won’t play by their rules, Harry. We’ll invent our own.”
What comes after, “AMEN’, is humility, perseverance and consecration of your entire being, heart, mind, body and soul to that ‘Truth’, followed by the never ending defence of it, unceasingly, to your last dying breath.
All the while, being so certain of it, that you are completely free for all of eternity. And once your mission of total submission and obedience has spent its earthly self, to its natural cause, you are finally joined to your purpose.
Fear nothing and bend your knees.
We are at war, and it is being waged against us, that includes the stupid people that vote for someone like Biden knowing full well he has dementia is a known liar and a corrupt pig. They think they will be left alone but a rational thinker knows war engulfs everyone equally before its over. They should look at the pictures of Germany just before the end of the war, you could not distinguished between left right nazis communists, they all were running for their lives or they were handed a weapon and told to go fight, some what like Ukraine is right now.
This war will be foisted upon us no matter what we do, vote don’t vote its does not matter. Look at how many people have been killed, fbi coming to someones home and we hear their dead. You see the first shots have already been fired. If the same regime that now runs this country makes in again 2024 it will be the beginning of troubles. I doubt the people will remain passive. No one can remain passive if you do, you’re dead!