I hope everyone is living their best life despite the created chaos intended to destabilize us. Several people have inquired about my not writing extensive research articles lately. Here’s what’s up…
There is actually a confluence of merging events that requires me to pause and think long and hard about whether the next step is correct for our CTH community in general, and specifically for me personally. It’s also very hard to write about this stuff without sounding like a braggadocious nut.
Here’s the problem that 360 million+ people do not comprehend.
♦ I need you to think about the person you are familiar with who you believe has a solid grasp of the scale of the problem in DC. This person doesn’t need to solve it, they just need to understand how massive the problem is. Who is the person you would say understands the root and essential core problem that creates the corruption in DC? Does that person in your mind, the person who really understands at a granular level what this corrupt enterprise is really all about and how it works, does that person look like Donald Trump, or Devin Nunes, or Kash Patel, or Ric Grenell?
Who would you assign that competency skillset to? Seriously, no joke – honest question, who understands the scale of the problem?
Here’s the hard pill to swallow, it doesn’t matter what name you put down, you are wrong. None of the aforementioned names, or any others, have a total picture of the problem from both a macro and micro view. None of them do.
The silo system in DC creates impenetrable barriers. I have not found a single person who knows how it all works and connects as a corrosive cancer buried deep inside our U.S. political system.
Factually, and I mean this with no joke at all, if you have been reading here for a while you have a better grasp on the problem than any elected politician. This is not a disposable line. I’m deadly serious. I have not found a single person inside the system who understands the dynamic that creates what they claim to stand against, not a single person.
So how can they fix it? Short answer, they can’t.
The only people qualified to fix this mess are the people who understand it.
Again, do you know who that is?
It’s YOU!
♦ After 12 years of stewardship over our conversation, literally 24/7/365, I also admitted I was not following my own advice. As Dr. Stephen Covey would say, “I was not sharpening the saw.”
I did not write for 3 days over the Memorial Day holiday of 2011, but other than that (and time spent in Hurricane recovery) every day I have researched, written and worked on this labor of love we call the Treehouse.
As time continued, the network of the Treehouse resources grew. We now have the ability to contact and review just about every facet of that previously described corrupt system.
I spend more time in contact with those resources now, answering their questions and raising a few more nuanced points for my own inquires. This, along with travel to educate myself, is how I can assert with confidence that no one understands the problem better than, well, us.
However, when you spend time facing down this corrupt system, it starts to gnaw at you… bigly. I am a person with strong central disposition, not easily knocked off mission and certainly not ever destabilized by the professional liars. But dealing with them, writing about their schemes, putting the sunlight on them (not what they would have us see) while constantly monitoring their moves, is exhausting.
♦ At the same time as the above came into clarity, I was also planning for the 2024 election year. Y’all know it’s going to be ugly… the scale of government institutions that are going to align against Donald Trump is going to make 2016 seem like a stroll in the park.
Part of that planning included the potential to launch a twice weekly recap podcast. Literally a mechanism to distill CTH articles and analysis into 30-minute, no extra words, straight talk about events. Twice a week (Sat/Wed). Self-hosted and only viewed here on CTH as the originating platform.
Everything at CTH stays the same, but every Saturday and Wednesday there would be a recap video on the more challenging stuff. Many people have asked, but there are a lot of issues that need to be worked out before such an endeavor is considered.
I discussed the technical issues with our server and data processing group, they feel confident they could handle the traffic. However, that’s the same thing they said right before the unique CTH issue of ‘simultaneous users’ surprised them.
Put it all together and I decided to sit still and pray about the next steps.
It is true that something has to change, something or someone needs to break through the nonsense and pretending. It is also true that continuing to do the same thing while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
I made a promise to pause, think, study, learn and pray before making any decision. And I needed the break.
I’m right here with you.
Love to all, steadfast!
~ Sundance
Hang in there, SD – from ‘down under’ I read (but seldom comment, these days) your sterling work.
It is truly appreciated as a window into what some of us that were once “in the system” (but are now long outside of it) could see – but could only so much about.
Long retired and living in a quiet rural area allows one to ponder various things one sees and hears and to see & understand so many things with greater clarity.
And, the fight never stops.
Godspeed!
Ditto
Another ditto.
Almighty Father,
I/we Thank you for the precious gift of Sundance’s enduring friendship and for placing Sundance in my/our lives
I/we want to lift Sundance up to you, asking for your encouragement and strength to fill his beautiful heart and soul.
Life’s challenges can be overwhelming, but with your guidance O Father , we find hope and courage.
I pray that you fill Sundance’s days with joy and his nights with peace.
Remind Sundance of his worth and purpose, even amid adversity
In Christ’s Name
Amen
Was that baby they put in the oven to slowly cook in front of his mother in the palm of his hand?
yes
That baby’s soul was saved through God’s grace. Our bodies, our earthly lives are temporary by design.
Good.
Welcome back Sundance.
I was concened for you.
Sidney Powell knows.
I knew some people that knew but they all mysteriously committed suicide.
Rich Higgins. Read his memo. He spilled quite a bit.
He died of what, Covid, blood clot, after an organ transplant. Sure he did.
If I am correct and God is using Trump then nothing they have done or will do can avail them.
Now there you go!
I believe that, too. And I think Trump knows it.
God does not solve this by one person. He uses all of us and empowers us to work together and create the solution. If we focus on one person only then why do we need God?
Sometimes God uses ONE PERSON to be the leader and inspiration of a movement. Look at Saul turned to Paul. God needed a warrior to lead, motivate, fight, and continue to fight despite being imprisoned.
From your 👄 lips to……🙏
The Trump Bible that he held when he walked out to the church outside the White House that had been vandalized:
Thank You, Tom! Had seen this before but had never saved or shared it. It is even more meaningful now.
That is an amazing story!!!
So that Bible Trump held up wasn’t just a photo op prop.
That MEANT something.
“If we just had some people who Knew what the “Wind” was for.”
Maybe I need to pray harder.
What Trump accomplished was the exposure of the evil …. We see it now.
God exposed the evil in leadership. Now he is exposing it in the people!
This is bigger and uglier.
We know who the enemy is
And we know the One who understands quite well how bad and how big ; the macro and the micro of the
Corruption in DC and in the peoples of the world.
Good to know you are okay. Wasn’t sure if it wasn’t more serious. I understand how it can be a grind, just reading it can be.
I find it unbelievable that those names don’t understand the issues and problem at hand. I would believe they are reading it here AND they have insider knowledge. They have experienced it, lived it and dug part of it up. That’s experience many of us don’t have. I know there are a lot here that do have some of that experience.
wishing for the best, living my best life in the meantime. Thank you!
Sidney Powell does, she’s in the cross hairs. She wrote License to Lie? and was at President Trump’s side. She used to read CTH.
What the hell happened there? Why would President Trump call her a whack job or whatever the term was? Or was his comment about her a media invention?
Look at all the good people that are being sidelined….
The one’s speaking truth can not continue speaking under a one world government. I do not believe that government will come to pass, they have made far too many mistakes, but we are all in a fight to prevent it that will be horrific.
She still reads CTH and frequently posts leads to articles on her X.
That doesn’t give any confidence at all.
Just what good will expanding the reach of Sundance’s wisdom do if all that does is make more Sydneys?
It is that very spread of knowledge that is the hedge against tyranny.
“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error… They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only… If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.” – Thomas Jefferson
You can not open a mind to a thought if they never hear it.
Bongino thinks they offered her a plea bargain because they don’t want a trial that could lead to discovery.
She praised Judge Emet Sullivan in that book and during an interview with Mark Levin to promote the book she wrote.
Thanks for all you do. I totally agree and have tried to apply the knowledge that I learn here. I am chair of county GOP. It is extremely difficult to explain and few have much patience before they roll their eyes.
You speak of things which are not evident inside “Their” solo.
The more you speak, the less evidence they can find “inside” to validate your “Contrarian” view of the “Outside”.
They soon tire and go back to the “acceptable”…
Back to their version of a comfortable and predictable …”Truman’s World”.
And the wheels on the bus go round and round.
I’ve experienced much the same..
Sorry to say.
Carl Jung, whom Trump has read as many know, identified this as the “suppressant reaction.”
The late Walter Weston in his long career as a United Methodist parish minister whom God had endowed with the gift of healing, encountered it with distressing frequency and has written insightfully about it, especially in his book, Praywell.
He describes how “The glazing over of the eyes and the amnesia occur with regularity among skeptics…caused by the mind’s intense denial of the reality of an unexplainable event..”* And notes that a person “may be forced into an altered state of consciousness like hypnosis or trance.”
*within their own frame of reference
IMHO the full frontal approach is rarely successful, and prayer has a much better chance of success. As Wayne Dyer was fond of noting, “If you change the way you look at things, the thing you look at changes.”
A Course in Miracles is based on the same idea.
As always, prayers and thanks for your life and work.
I’m right here
Pausing and taking a re-look at “what works” — and what doesn’t — is always a good idea.
(In addition to resting and relaxing into fresh perspectives.) It’s about smelling roses and all that.
Most things “visual” are tending to take precedence over the written word, these daze, elegant and cogent though they may be. Feels “right” to mix things up and consider a multi-pronged appr0ach to distillation of a “state of the state,” so-to-speak.
Being all consumed by the greater world (and most the idjiots claiming to run it) 24/7 is not conductive to “living one’s best life.”
Perhaps, going forward, spending some time “visioning” a world we would like to live in, would help us get there. Blessings.
You are so accurate to describe today with “daze.” So very correct.
It is so very difficult to read of current events and recognize that our government has never been what it seemed to be and the depth and breadth of corruption is unfathomable. Amidst the chaos that passes for news today, seeing a path forward is fuzzy at best for both myself and the nation. I keep returning to my limited control over my environment and my family and working to their welfare. Recognizing that what is out there today may soon be at my doorstep.
I’ll be praying for you. This is a huge undertaking. I will pray that God’s will be done for you and your quest to inform and educate.
We ALL have to pray for ourselves. For digging deep to get the courage we all have to face this DC behemoth.
Prayers for ALL Treepers.
With gratitude.
I will be praying for God’s wisdom to be on you and your decisions.
Well good morning just the same. Hard truths are vital to survival; short-term the human tendency is ignore the problem so it will fix itself. The evidence is overwhelming such an approach is no longer an option for the US.
Best to you and yours.
Just a simple thank you for your efforts.
I was more than worried and I appreciate the update. These are “trying times” and I am glad you are still by our side.
Thanks, I am a better person because of you and staff at Treehouse. Everything happens for a reason, and I’m not in charge. It’s what I believe along with I don’t pretend. God bless everyone this Monday morning, go forth, prosper and sprinkle sand when you can.
do what you have to do to sharpen the saw. we are 100% plus 3% behind you . SD youre the sharpest pencil in the drawer. No need to explain the need for rest. Youve more than earned it 100 times over
“’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. ‘” — Jeremiah 29:11.
Mr. Sundance, your words made me cry. Today is the 25th “anniversary” — for lack of a more appropriate word — of my husband’s passing. I have sorely missed his wisdom and frank counsel these many years. He would have loved this site and been a most vocal contributor:) Thank you so much for providing a place of Grace for those of us who see beyond the pretending. Because of this site, I have prepared as much as I can on my own for the “all at once” that is surely coming our way. God bless you and fellow steadfast treepers.
God Bless you and yours! What a beautiful testimony.
Thank you Sundance for all you do and all you’ve done! You have been a breath of fresh air in a polluted environment for me! The silo scenario was the red flag event for me! That explained what was transpiring and why certain individuals were ignorant of the truth. As I believe in reincarnation, I often wonder where you fit in into this matrix! I fully believe the “Hand of God” has touched you! You sir (Ma’am) are the good Shepard tending the flock! I would hope to help you in any way I could, but in my retirement I am quite limited in my support! Your words and encouragement are my guiding light in this moment of my life, again, thank you for all you do and all you’ve done! You’ve touched many an individual!!!
President Trump made many drop their masks – Sundance explained to us why they were wearing them!
We need them both immensely… God Bless!!
Considering your work ethic, you look very much at peace and at ease in that photo. And I have to say that projected sense of serenity is highly contagious. It’s a whole new take on what it means to be a peacemaker. May God continue to bless you and us.
No “hills” like that in FL, I suspect that is not SD, just a metaphor for his contemplative state. just my impression.
I based my remarks on this little tidbit that appears when you click on the photo:
sundance-photo-1.jpg (720×1280) (theconservativetreehouse.com)
My bad, I assumed you were referring to the end cap photo of a person on “hills.” I failed to recall that other photo and indeed, could be Dear Leader.!! Apologies.
No need to apologize. We’ve got a nation to save.
At first I thought it was Julian Assange.
Yes, right there to the left it says, “It’s You!”
Definitely it is a high probability, Boss.
Sundance is an amazing and courageous person!!!
I am very relieved that you are ok. Been very concerned about your health and/or potential legal status.
Whatever your epiphany may be, I’m on pins and needles to see what you have concluded and the details that you will present.
I will be patient and vigilant until then.
May His protection, guidance and inspiration continue to be with you.
I also pray that my general premise has been incorrect and our common problem can be repaired.
Bless you, as always.
Sundance outgrew the word “conservative” in Conservative Treehouse long ago. When I think of a conservative, I recall Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater trying to hold back the leftist tide.
What Sundance provides here is Holy Spirit-inspired, unvarnished truth. He’s willing to go places that the so-called conservatives in our public sphere are afraid to tread. It is revolutionary, in the way Jesus calling out the Pharisees was upsetting to people who thought they were on the inside track.
While we are not Him, we are called to be like Him by picking up our cross daily. When Sundance went to the Capital at personal risk to his safety to confront the machine with his research, I caught a glimpse of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on the donkey. Sundance’s decision was not made out of passion but a need to share The Truth and bear the consequences of the same.
Lastly, this has all been done in humility. Most people, if they were able to build a platform of this magnitude, would feel a tug to come out of anonymity and be recognized. I’m not advising on what Sundance should do going forward, just acknowledging what has been done so far is tremendous and worthy of praise and gratitude.
May I say that your second paragraph was, in and of itself, “Holy Spirit inspired.” Actually, your entire post was:)
Thank you. This is really a great community.
Conservative to me is the conservation of the true liberal, not “Liberal” which has nothing liberal about it, principles of the Founding Fathers and documentation of their works and finding of common ground with extremely LIMITED government.
A government that was created by the States creating the federal government with the Constitution.
The “answer” has always been simple.
It is the action that must precipitate.
One can not clean the stalls without exerting effort.
Nope, not even close! God is with His children all the time; He doesn’t come and go based on our need (or behavior either for that matter).
“But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” 1 Cor. 6:17
As true as your point is….
The sentiment expressed in the meme happens because the individual is moving in the flesh, not focused on God who so often becomes evident because we oftern won’t seek Him until we are at the end of our fleshly rope.
Very nice. I am going to comment on the nitpicking criticism comment that about “God is with us all of the time” rather than just enjoy the sentiment of the quote.
Oftentimes, WE sinners stray from God, turn our backs on God and rely upon ourselves, or do not fully commit to God’s power. So, yes, God is being pushed away by US. He is being ignored. In a sense, He “shows up” because we finally break, admit defeat of our own power, realize the depths of the problems, and realize that we need His strength.
He was there all of the time but He will wait for us to acknowledge Him.
Yes, many people need trying times to allow themselves to see that God was there all along and we were just ignoring Him.
It’s not “nitpicking criticism” when you are refuting a lie with the TRUTH. God never leaves us or forgets us, and He never gives up on us. His Spirit within us is always, always, ALWAYS speaking to us–even when we are astray.
Oh, and by the way, I’m not a sinner. I’m a saint who sometimes sins. God through Paul called all believers “saints,” so I’ll go with that (and because identify is based on birth–spiritual birth–not on behavior).
There’s always somebody, heh…
Godspeed, Sundance. I only grasp a fraction of what you know, and it boggles my mind.
Ironically, some working class Latinos get it. When I describe our corruption, one remarked, “Yes, this is how they do it in my country [rig elections].”
I believe there were multiple layers of rigging in 2020, and 2024 will only be worse. VDH and Colonel Douglass McGregor warn of our impossible debt loads and interest payments.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson has said if Trump loses in 2024, all bets are off… anything can happen.
I pray for your and our search for wisdom. I hope that you or a colleague are effective at verbal communication – delivery, tone, brevity, and even a sense of humor in dark times. Tell em what you’re gonna tell em; tell them; tell them what you told them.
I’m reminded of a hip, young gal a few years back who was so eloquent, humorous, and to the point.
P.S. Might you alternate hosts? It might bring in fresh air and viewers. Just a thought.
Aggiegirl, Can you imagine the percentage of grade schoolers today that can recite our Preamble? Our age classrooms began the school day with recitation. And, Lordy, we were given 12″ wooden rulers imprinted with the Golden Rule.
I didn’t “read” your post, I actually sang it in my head with the Schoolhouse Rock voice.
Thanks for the update. You have been a crucial teacher and reporter to me in my journey of gaining understanding. What you do has been my inspiration for creating my new website http://www.ConcernedCitizen.io
i have listed nearly 90 news sites (featuring this one), 92 organizations that people can participate in and a directory for events to bring people together.
I agree with you that we need to spread the knowledge of what is going on far and wide to as many citizens as possible, as soon as possible. By the way everything is free.
Please help me get this site off the ground and widely shared
Like Ol’ Ben said, “We must all hang together , or we will surely hand separately.” Sundance, you are blest with a strong power of discernment, aided by the Holy Spirit. You are fortified by the prayers of those who love you!
Sadly, there is an answer to this question: who you believe has a solid grasp of the scale of the problem in DC. And the answer would be those who actually instituted the problem and put it in place. Like Obama. Eric Holder. Etc. Of course, they have no intention of ‘fixing’ this. And the ‘silo’ system would indicate that you would need a comprehensive committee, rather than an individual, where the Kash Patels, Devin Nuneses, etc., deal with their specific expertise, all under the umbrella of one leader (Trump) who may not know the individual silos, but understands the problem and result needed. Trump was unable to effect any of this during his first presidency, coming into the situation totally naive and following the advice of those who wished to protect the system as it is. Hopefully he has learned more, learned who is trustworthy, etc.,so that he is able to form a committee where each silo is addressed. Just my opinion.
President Trump Won! President Trump Will Win Again!
But will he be sworn in again ?
That is the question .
No
The point is yes, he won, but in 2016, coming into the presidency with no political history, he often followed the recommendations of people that did not have ‘MAGA’ in mind, and were actually opposed to it, giving Trump poor advice. My point is that he needs a committee of trustworthy people, each of which is specialized in a particular silo.
I can see the merit in your suggestion; I can also see the pitfalls. When dealing with the ‘expert’ of any particular silo you are also confronted with the realities of the human behind that expertise. It is extremely rare to find someone who is truly altruistic and unless you do you will confront ego, agenda, vision, and scope. How will each member react when a part of their solution isn’t accepted? Will they take a step back and trust, not likely. Most of the time the member is offended and will work to undermine the path chosen. It rarely takes the shape of open confrontation; rather it manifests as grumblings, whispers and shadow manipulations.
If we take your response as the underlying truth, then we might as well forget about doing anything, no? We can even question the intention behind your post, the intention of Donald Trump, the intention of Sundance. At some point, trust must enter into any human relationship, whether in your family, marriage, work, research, etc., etc.
Not at all, in a situation as bad as our government currently you only have one option….clean house. The error was trying to work within the system. I understand he may not have understood the depth of the depravity, but many, many cried for him to fire them all!
Smoke bomb a lot of the silos, close them up , defund then, and send the vermin who scuttle out home, or maybe jail.
Much of the federal behemoth is usele ir else makes bad policy and shoves it down our throat .
Defund much of DC and you’re on the right track. Defund the FBI and audit everyone who has worked for a rino. You’ll fix a lot by just doing that .
Yes, Trump won but Biden was inaugurated.
I believe you are 100% correct.
I had a mentor once, as I was building a complex business e-commerce website. When I was frustrated that he didn’t have the answer to a question, he told me NO ONE PERSON has all the knowledge of programming, coding, or website design and administration necessary for the task.
There is just too much for one person to know, as fast as it changes. He said the most important thing to have was a NETWORK of people, each with their own “silo” of information and expertise, to use Sundance’s word.
Trump is the best positioned to be the head of a group of subject matter experts, each of whom specializing in knowing everything about their particular silo. He can then use this information to dismantle the silos for good.
For Sundance:
I think a podcast is a great idea. Not everyone reads news. Some people need to be able to listen while they drive or work.
Thank God you are here, Sundance. We would NEVER uncover as much corruption on our own as you have through the work of this magnificent Treehouse.
I knew in my gut you had to be pondering on something very important. I admit I did not give enough thought to just how exhausting your job must be. May God continue to hold you up and strengthen you for this fight. May He give you the words and deeds needed.
We are here for you, whatever direction you decide to go. We love you Sundance. No matter what happens.
I’m going to go out and say there are things I still don’t “understand” because frankly, I think you (Sundance) use words that I find difficult to work with. For example, STOP saying “silo.” That doesn’t make sense to my brain at all. When I think of “silo” I think of a storage place. If you substituted “warehouse” what you are saying STILL doesn’t make sense. People do not work in “silos” as far as I know, but they work in warehouses. But I do understand the notion of “functional units” in terms of manufacturing.
I’m not clear on your use of the term silo and every time I see it here, I get LOST.
What I understand comes from having been in the military and later at the start of DHS (and how those two things are VASTLY different in terms of the people attracted to the jobs) And to answer “who is attracted to elected jobs in government?” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104114/ I imagine this is a relevant entertainment piece that speaks a lot of truth. They are in it for the money and the power but mainly the money.
But this type of system doesn’t exist driven by money alone. It is driven by those who crave pure power. This is why, I believe, the IC hasn’t remained within the IC and sends its people INTO political offices and into high levels of government employment and, as we see, into positions within MEDIA and more recently BIG TECH.
We have ample historically documented accounts of the IC getting mixed up with media (project mockingbird for which law was created to stop and Barack Obama sought and succeeded to have removed). And we know the IC has been behind the medical experimentation on black people and I assume others.
All of this points to the IC and how it has expanded to infiltrate everything as crazy as it sounds even with all of the documented history of the IC doing EXACTLY that.
We often think about faceless and mindless bureaucrats doing their work and not knowing or caring or appreciating the damage they do. That would be reassuring, if that were the case. Instead what I observe are people employed by government who hate the people they “serve” and believe their jobs are for the people to serve them — EVEN IN THE POSTAL SERVICE. I have recounted my own shocking experience with a postal worker who insisted on parking in a certain way trying to “defend” parking spaces (not marked as reserved in any way) claiming they are “government” parking and that (and I quote) “Because I’m government.”
And when I started work for DHS, there were people attracted to the work because they assumed they would have some power over other people in some way which EXCITED them. It was that depth of darkness and evil thinking that made my blood run cold just being among them.
And later, when I went to work for a company in Rosslyn (Arlington, VA, just across the river from DC) the people I came across were incredibly entrenched in the industry of government and near-government employ (government contracting).
There isn’t specific training or indoctrination for people to become a working member of this evil “beast” of DC. They just have to be of a certain mindset (primarily sadistic!) and generally accepting of control signals (media).
The next gen processing (universities) and indoctrination centers are all run by indoctrinated people from early on infiltration of the IC and communism. They operate almost independently and somehow remain easily directed when called in for their roles (they are ANTIFA and BLM and PATRIOT FRONT and more) as evidenced by the train wreck of a show where their HATE of Israel and of Jewish people have horrifyingly come out to the people on FULL display!! All the while knowing that if the media called MAGA people “anti-Semitic racists” those same indoctrinated anti-semite racists would come out in droves to condemn the MAGA people while never once thinking “hey, they believe what we believe!” as thinking people might! No. They only see the division between “one of us” and “not one of us” and act accordingly.
All of this feeds on corrupted hearts and spirits. If you were raised by parents (plural) who actually loved you, you are probably less likely to be a “one of us” member. And doesn’t that help you to see the “farm” they have created? Starting at the welfare state to destroy families?
This has been a VERY long time in the making.
Although not the dictionary definition, “silo” has long been corporate speak for an isolated vertical structure inside an organization. I can’t think of a better word for the concept.
“isolated” being the operative word.
“vertical” the discriptive
Vertical meaning it is contained within a footprint that is a very defined sphere instead of being expansive over a wide range, thereby insuring its own continuation and consistency.
Imagine being on a “Sunday Drive” and you happen to notice a “Grain Silo” off in the middle of a corn field.
The entirety of the cosmos surrounds it, and yet, the kernels of corn would never have an inkling.
“…isolated vertical structure inside an organization…”
INDEED
Exactly. I see a stand-alone apparatus containing who knows what…you can’t tell from the outside.
Some stay “stove piped,” but I think silo works just as well.
But what do you think of the REST of the commentary? Seems you stopped at my confusion (and likely confusion of EVERYONE ELSE) due in large part by the use of an esoteric jargon term used when more plain language would better deliver an functional model of what’s going on.
Above, I attempted to create just such a functional model that also explains why the lefties came out SCREECHING in support of flipping TERRORISTS murdering children. They act is if the attack on Israel was somehow justified.
In the US American sense, it would make MUCH more sense if a “palestinian armed forces” were created and they set up border security to attack any Israeli invader and just waited for an Israeli invasion. Think of the US Revolution — did we invade England? Nope We simply declared independence and then fought THE INVADERS. But that’s not what the terrorists did is it?
We’ve got terrorists (not just terrorist sympathizers, but REAL genuine terrorists) among the left who are ready and excited to attack because of the directed ideology of the Intelligence Community. We know they do EXACTLY this in other countries but some imagine they’d never turn that weapon against the people of this country? They’ve already done this in the past to varying degrees. But now it feels like they are prepared to go full bore.
Hey Daniel.
Silos were a foreign concept to me until Sundance opened that bottle and poured the contents out over the table for us all to see.
Coming to grips with the consequences of Silos when paired with the IC structure that empowers evil and then places those people, on purpose, in our midsts is a place decent people don’t understand because they can’t imagine that level of desire for power that turns to unlimited evil.
Sundance is right that no one in Washington sees the beast that is our enemy because most of it is hidden from view. Even people away from DC aren’t willing to to connect the dots because they think the level of evil indicated is unreasonable.
Take Bill Barr as a prime example. He was installed with a Wall Street Journal editorial critical of Jeff Session’s handling of the Russia/Russia/Russia “probe”. Sundance has described him as spray paint to pretty up the Mueller mess but he was bigger. He was evil personified and the Stopper for Trump.
Barr pulled the rug out from PDJT over and over for the preservation of the Institution.
-Covid could not have been prosecuted like it was without the Justice Department blessing. Did Nancy Pelosi know what was coming from Whuhan when she declared Trump Wouldn’t be president again? Why did the Justice Department ignore the evidence of how and where it came from? Why were there no Prosecutions? Why are hospitals that killed thousands of people for $50k each in payments not Prosecuted?
-Epstein wasn’t murdered. Children weren’t raped and sacrificed. But Blackmailed participants still have their secrets being held by someone in the IC. Is John Roberts still at the Supreme Court because Barr quashed the investigation of what actually happened on a private island with a shower head over an alter and a drain in the floor ?
-Jan 6th was prepped with his blessing. The FIB can’t have “more CIs than they could count” if the Justice Department isn’t behind the plan to create a Fedsurrection.
Sundance taking time to pray and survey the landscape is important. Only with God in the midst can this evil be pushed back on it’s heals. We have to win the next election and They are committed to making sure there isn’t a transfer of power back to PDJT. Who wins? Only with David’s example of prayer and fasting before a battle does winning become possible.
The IC will do ANYTHING/ANYTHING/ANYTHING to make sure that doesn’t happen. The only force to oppose them is God with US.
The challenges are overwhelming without the Holy Spirt guiding each and every step..
In my distant childhood I climbed the inside ladder up to the top of a concrete grain silo (stupid and dangerous) attached to the barn across the road. So I have close up acquaintance with the nature of a silo and I agree with you that it is the best word for the concept. The silo is a round tightly enclosed vertical space that opens only in a small funnel at the top – there is no permeability throughout the structure.
Was just thinking that and yes, it is specifically in use a lot recently. Sometimes if one person does not “get” a term, it’s easy to assume everyone else does not; we all fall into that trap at times.
And about the “if the media called MAGA people anti-semites” — they’re calling us “white Christian nationalists” or just plain “white nationalists” with the idea that there is something evil about that (“white” has, for some time now, been used as a slur whenever it is in use as an adjective — or “whiteness,” for the noun. We can’t even imagine if “black” was automatically used as a slur, eh?)
Then there’s “nationalists” being substituted for “patriots” and therefore being looked at as a negative, rather than a positive, quality…
I think Silo is the perfect analogy. DC is a cluster of Silo’s that each contain their own work product. And they purposefully do not share their work with any of the adjacent Silo’s.
The ‘not sharing’ means that nobody knows what is going on in DC as a whole.
I agree except for one thing. The people setting up the incentive systems for each of the silos are the ‘control’ system. They are the ones who make sure the organizations have the ‘right’ objectives, hire the right people, and accomplish the objectives within each silo. An example of how it works is the ‘resistance’ during Trump’s 1st term. Separate people in separate silos all working in their individual areas to thwart Trump’s agenda. Everything from slow rolling requests to actively sabotaging initiatives (e.g. including language in an agency directive that is easily challenged in a court, then coordinating with outside counsel to bring a suit). We see plenty of evidence that the former Obama people who were out of government but are now back in were guiding the ‘resistance’ during Trump’s 1st term.
yes, not a conspiracy, just they all work the same agenda
It’s a farmed out conspiracy. Directed by ideology rather than by direct instruction.
not a conspiracy, just they all work the same agenda
“fellow travellers” is an apt term
Silo isn’t a slang I’m accustomed to. And it is a SLANG term and is not a globally understood slang like “groovy” or “cool.” And if you asked me, two words come to mind when I hear silo — missile and grain. That’s it. The analogy loses all meaning to people who are unfamiliar with a limited slang (AKA JARGON) like “silo” under this meaning.
If there were an analogy that fits and IS more universally understood, it would be “manufacturing warehouses making parts for a mostly unknown product.”
Good grief. You need to take a long drive out in rural America.
The only people who don’t know what silos are are city slickers with no appreciation for what lies beyond.
Silos are America.
Actually Baltimore’s city slickers understand “silos” because the very old massive grain silos built 100 years ago by the former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (now part of CSXT) directly by the huge merchant grain shipping piers in Locust Point – have been converted into luxury condominiums.
Ref. http://silopoint.com
Fan-dam-tastic! Thanks for enlightening us GB.
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silo: a storage device or building. That’s what I know and frankly it’s hard to think of that as a collection of people. Because that’s what this is — a collection of people with a common set of ideas, beliefs and motivations. When you hope to understand the things people are doing, you can’t “better understand” by referring to them in terms of BUILDINGS or things. That’s what the left does best — classify people into non-human categories so that we can hate them rather than understand them.
I used to find this to be easier and convenient. But as I get older, I find that to be less good and more evil.
I think “colloquialism” is a more accurate description, Daniel. “Slang” generally refers to a lower-level of intellectual articulation, that may or may not be used across the entire nation or all demographics. Slang is also generally more regional and demographical in usage, whereas colloquial expressions can be regional but are often used across the national language.
“Information silos” is also a term that might be described as “jargon” used in a context that is understood mostly by people engaged in multi-layered organization communications or in the study of same. Anyone who got a general business degree or a degree in communications more than likely learned the meaning and application of the expression “information silos”.
Sundance has very astutely used the term and also applied it to the area where more info silos exist than in any other area in our culture -the massive federal government, with all of its departments and agencies, not to mention the huge number of associated NGOs and contractors.
“Information is power” = the guiding rubric used by almost all those who seek higher position and who are willing to undermine anyone else in the organization who they think might be a competitor for that higher office or disapproving of the tactics used by the “ladder climbers.”
And many,many farms have clusters of linked silos (which IMO is even more apt for the scene in DC). But that doesn’t mean that there is any communication between or among them.
I will try with the few minutes I have to explain my understanding of SILO as I experience in my career.
Sundance is looking for a consolidated source of persons who merely understand the full magnitude of the forces of evil against this country (and world). This is to understand the reality, much less mount a force against it to eliminate the evil and restore power to the people. He sees none, because everything is broken into so many silos.
Silos are smaller self contained “Cells” or containers that operate by their own rules of survival, which minimize the amount of evil and good that can be accomplished. The three branches of government are intentional silos, designed to break up the amount of power one person or group of persons can have. As long as each silo is operating off principles of good, good will still result. Evil, in order to prevail, must reign over each silo.
Medicine and the purpose of the medical doctor is to bring wholistic health to and individual and population: physical, mental, social, and spiritual. In the old societies, the functions were rolled into the role of a priest (old testament, highly lined with God), or in another culture Shaman (highly aligned with the Great spirit). The greatest warriors are produced by Masters who incorporate highly disciplined and spiritualized training. The best warriors hone physical, mental, social, and spiritual effectiveness. A strong and deadly force, but purposed to do good and keep peace first.
Sundance references Steven Covey, whose Seven habits of highly effective people includes a daily sharpening of the saw: Daily attention to physical, mental, spiritual, and social health.
As a physician I specialized in Family Medicine. After the Flexner report and the war, medicine was broken into specialists, highly trained to apply science to each organ system. There arose a need for a “specialty” in general medicine. A personal primary care doctor, trained in the most common illnesses, but to teach, to provide continuity of care over a lifetime, provide preventive care, act as a coach to teach a patient and family to live a healthy life1style, and “quarterback” the medical care to other specialists or institutions as needed. Early in my career I saw ~25 patients a day in the office, 3-10 in the hospital, delivered by birth or c-section 5-.15 babies a month, caring for those moms for ~16 scheduled visits during the prenatal period and 10 well child visits in the first 5 years of each child. I saw my patients in the ER, in the home, and was often there as they died or with the family close to the time.
Medical care was expensive, so “Insurance” was created. Unions fought for really good insurance with “unlimited care”. Health care became a “right”. Government brought that “right” to the poor & the children through medicaid. To the elderly through Medicare. To the veterans through the VA. To the workers through employee funded health insurance. Medicare is now the largest business in the world.
Thus the money for health care is now “siloed” away from the doctor/patient (for the women, children, and elderly doncha know), and today 20% of the GDP of this country, 4 Trillion dollars, is the largest pool of money in the world available to anyone who can finagle a “doctors order” to get paid out of that pool. The creation of “silos”, intentional by specific design or by natural forces – is a result of the greed to get at that 4 Trillion dollars, just as the silos of government are a result of greed to get at the taxpayer money and economic wealth of this country. Rather than take it by violence, they take it the creation of little acts of violence – silos of pirrhanas and mosquitos that are hardly noticed but deadly none the less.
The silos of health care are
Insurance companies: Private and Public (MCR, Mcd, VA)
Pharmaceutical companies
Large hospital systems
Lawmakers for health care
Local pharmacies
Mail order pharmacies
Pharmacy benefit managers
Durable medical equipment
Nursing homes
Assisted living centers
Group homes
Government watchdog agencies
Electronic medical record companies
Quality monitoring agencies
Local pharmacies(Mail order pharmacies
Nurse practitioners 3-6 yr education 2 yrs clinical seeking to function as physicians
Physicians 11 yr education, 6 yrs clinical)
Physician assistants 3 year medical training
Specialists by organ systems
ER, hospitalists, nocturnists (hospital at night), SNFists (nursing home doc)
Insurance companies have more power than the patients over what health care is paid for. They have “siloed” the process of approval for referrals, hospitalizations, to separate organizations – many in offshore companies.
The number of administrators in health care has grown by 20 times, and the physician pool is shrinking. The quality of health care experience by graduating health care providers is dwindling.
Despite my training, I no longer deliver babies, see patients in the hospital, see patients in the ER. I no longer give immunizations in the office where I can see the reaction, have clear record, and record the reaction. No xray in the office, no labs int he office.
I am held responsible (my pay varies) for my patients health, their health habits, their filling of prescriptions, taking the right drugs, the patient satisfaction, the cost of their total medical care, 24/7 availability. My reimbursement has been cut 3 times in the last year with the promise of more pay for “quality measures”, but the amount of staff, and work required to be paid has quadrupled.
What used to be a medical service delivered by me, and paid for by the patient or their insurance has been “siloed” into so many different silos or cells, that I can barley be present for my patient emotionally, physically, spiritually. Most of the work and presence that really makes a difference in someone’s life is unreimbursed and done at my own expense.
The suicide rate among physicians is higher than any other profession (Highest among ER doctors, hospitalists, and primary care) — a higher rate than war vets.
The “lobbying firms” who spend the most money in influencing government are health insurance companies, large hospital systems, Pharmaceuticals, the American Medical Association (which no longer represents physicians)
As a result of the “siloing” of health care. The money is diverted from health care, patient is worse off, the health care workers cannot recoup the value or cost of their education and training.
So to speak to Sundance’s quest for solution: It is We the People who must take action to change the the health care system and our government.
With your list of ‘silos’ I think you have diluted the metaphor beyond recognition, but that may be a problem with it anyway: it’s ‘silos all the way down’; they multiply like the tentacles of a giant cancer.
Sundance’s villain, the IC ‘community’, is the control center, the ‘brain’, of the Administrative State, which is the real problem, the ‘Fourth Branch of Government’ that has superceded the three Constitutional branches, and is effectively running the country.
In medicine, the cancer of administrative entities has a single, basic cause: third-party payment. Third-party payment means inevitably third-party management, and fourth-party management, and fifth-party management. . .
So with the Administrative State we have turned over management to third-party, extra-Constitutional entities (‘departments’, ‘agencies’, ‘programs’, etc., etc.) leaving the elected representatives of the People and their institutions effectively powerless–like doctors in the medical-administrative state.
I think President Trump has been listening to Nunez, Patel, and others who understand the existential problem created by the metasticizing Administrative State and its IC control centers, but do they have any way to stop and reverse their growth and influence? Is there a way to return to Constitutional government and the Republic as envisioned by the Founders?
FWIW, I have proposed a way to restore freedom to modern medicine, mainly by reducing the role of third parties:
https://walkingcreekworld.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/the-principles-of-freedom-and-medical-care/
Now let’s think about how to return government to the People and their representatives. Sundance has remarkably identified many of the problems. But what are the solutions? We need more than electing a White Knight—we need a program, or as it’s called in politics, a Platform.
You could more clearly say “manufacturing warehouse.” Silo is industry jargon.
Most of us have been able to understand “silo.” I am not seeing any reason to switch it. For me, when I see the word “silo,” I think of multiple structures of farm silos situated throughout DC. Each contained and separate and impenetrable by outsiders.
Ah, the poor writer, whose work is torn apart by the public. (Not that SD is upset, I’m sure; he knows he’s good — and right, heh.)
Warehouse and silo are two different terms used for two different construction types for two different purposes.
A warehouse does not usually follow a vertical theme, as does a silo. Warehouses are generally built horizontally to provide easy direct access to a wide variety of items stored within. Warehouses infrequently have multiple floors (more common in old warehouses from early 20th century). Modern warehouses are built for tall bulk racks and also for computer-automated storage & retrieval systems (ASRS).
Silos use gravity to dispense bulk small-particle product (grain, cement, sand, etc.) from the bottom, whereas they are filled from the top (using elevators or conveyors). The cylindrical shape of a silo is chosen for its structural integrity – a circular structure is much stronger in supporting load pressures from the inside than a square, rectangle, or any other shape.
yep silo is most accurate.
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Interesting, and I agree with you to some extent. My father was a physician for over forty years and recently retired.
The physicians have unfortunately contributed to this problem by allowing themselves to be bought out by large Hospital run clinics where the physician is far removed from the problems.
Why don’t more physicians go back into business themselves, offer a cash only business, and offer a small clinic and house visits to patients? Maybe offer a monthly preventative care model where a patient pays a monthly fee for so many health visits?In other words work around the problem which is the Administrative state.
I know I would pay for this service, and I would pay more than you think especially after Covid and what most Americans experienced. The small clinic from my hometown did very well because they offered Ivermectin and alternative treatments that the Hospitals and physicians refused.
Just a thought.
There are growing numbers of physicians and NP’s doing exactly that.
The difficulty arises when you are already paying for medical insurance through an employer, Obamacare, Medicare. You cannot easily opt out of your medical plan because it covers hospitalization, prescriptions, and exceedingly expensive treatments, that would bankrupt many or force some to opt to forgo some types of care.
I am insured through Medicare, but never file a claim.
I have a Rx drug plan, but take no Rx drugs.
I grudgingly pay for these things because even a brief, noncritical hospital visit costs tens of thousands of dollars. I had a brief “adventure” a number of years ago diagnosed as a TIA (meaning something weird happened they couldn’t explain via MRI and blood tests) and resulting in an overnight in the hospital costing over $30,000.
I would prefer to pay for services as needed at a “boutique” type Dr of my choosing and just carry insurance for critical care, but our “medical system” doesn’t accommodate that.
We are way more controlled by outside entities who have inserted themselves into, and taken control of, our lives than we can begin to understand.
Oh I get it, but someone has to provide an alternative especially if the elimination of Obamacare is still the goal.
I was only pointing out that the large Hospitals have been in bed with the government for a long time, and individual physicians could have fought back. One way is by not selling your practice to a large Hospital run clinic.
There are physicians opting out and returning to the way it was in their own practices.
Unfortunately, the majority of people can not afford them and even fewer can afford their current insurance and a doctor in his own practice.
My 80ish aunt is on medicare, doesn’t like her doctor, isn’t on medications, couldn’t afford additional insurance anyway. I like my primary and am on a handful of medications for a variety of conditions – some hereditary, some lifestyle, some both. I am also on medicare. I do my own eye care, dental care and one dermatologist medication on my own. I too am on limited funds. Since covid, I only see my doctor via virtual visits and I like them most of the time, but would really like an in person visit now. Frankly, I think Obamacare ruined healthcare in this country completely.
Excellent explanation of how silos get created and form new ones, each fighting for their share of power.
Thank you, Doctor, for your service. And for this insider look at one single silo, health care.
As a former farmer I can tell you that you can not see into or out of a silo. That is the main point of the metaphor.
Cheers All. Keep your powder dry.
Not sure when, but silo became a term used in spycraft. It is used in both historical and fictional works.
When you set up a spy network and everybody knows everybody else, it becomes easy for the enemy to take it down.
If instead the organization is highly compartment, with only connections to those immediately above and immediately below, then the damage from having a spy compromised is very limited. And the spy network is very difficult to roll up.
That is a siloed spy network.
The term also moved into the protection of secret information. And secret research. Limit who knows by restricting knowledge into carefully controlled silos.
They rolled so much into DHS that it isn’t surprising to learn that an employee is not aware of the concept. Or maybe it has different terms for that concept.
I know I write too much and for too long, but I think I covered how the IC creates these manufacturing warehouses and even infiltrates non-government entities to control and direct them as well.
Don’t the Communists call them cells?
Cells are groups of specific activists which have a specific handler contact through which they receive explicit orders OR have previously designated “trip wires” or “red lines” as a predicate to planned actions.
Among these activist warehouses are people with specific ideology who know how to act based on their ideology. This system is strong in the sense that when poll workers receive a bunch of ballots with Biden on them, they know to process them without question. They didn’t have to be told. They only needed to receive them and they knew what to do. But it fails when they’ve also been heavily indoctrinated anti-semite racists and they out themselves immediately and vehemently when Israel becomes victim of a horrifying terrorist assault.
But when you see it, it’s hard to not see it.
hence SCI – Sensitive Compartmented Information.
and SCIF – an SCI Facility
Jim and George Friend: I think you got the concept of silos boiled down simply: You can’t see into or out of a silo.
Instead of everyone knowing everyone else, everything is compartmentalized so that no data is widely known, and secrets can be better protected.
In old U.S. medical care a highly trained and experienced physician/Family doc was the coordinator of care and followed patient and family through all care through years, in the hospital, communicating with specialists. Hospitals had doctors on medical boards that ran the hospital, they communicated in local and national conferences, in the doctors lounge and with each other. Trends in communities were highly reviewed.
In a highly siloed (compartmentalized into cells with communication broken up) networking is lost. Sunlight is lost. Knowledge and observation of trends and inconsistencies is lost.
Medical decisions and compassion and hope need to be delivered by nurses and physicians to patients living in the same community with them. But they cannot deliver the care, because decision makers to pay for the care (hospital administrators, pharmacy benefit managers, approval companies have been siloed away from the nurses and physician and control decisions). Primary care docs cannot get the care they need for their patients because appointment schedulers in specialty clinic have been siloed between the specialists and will not get an appointment in time. We can’t be guaranteed care for our patients in the hospital, because the hospital has learned that if you hire ER doctors and hospitalists from other states to work short shifts away from the emotions and relationshps with the communities patients live in or relationships with the other doctors, they won’t give so much resistance against greedy decisions. (“I’m just doing what my boss told me”, “I’m just going by what the insurance company said”)
I can’t answer your call light because I have to do my charting
I can’t come home honey because I have to do my notes
I can’t get the tests you need because insurance will not allow it
We can’t do that test in the hospital because the hospital won’t allow it to be done until after discharge
I can’t get you in to a specialist for your abdominal pain for 7 months
Insurance will not cover that drug that is your last hope for setting this cancer back
Your grandma will likely die here in the hospital, but you can’t see her until she is almost dead
In summary, I can’t do the right thing for you, because someone else in control can’t make enough money doing it that way.
Treepers, I’m sorry I’m not developing the ideas more concisely, but this is all I have time for, yet trying to get the message out that Sundance is right.
We are not being killed, our property taken, our lives destroyed by bullets, gas chambers, bombs — but by silos, media, software that harnesses us, created and manipulated dependency, lies, and damn lies.
When they come door to door armed (if that is what we are waiting for) it will be too late. We will already be effectively dead, our children brainwashed and separated from us, our means of survival reduced to nothing unless we have property.
Daniel, as an analogy just think of a “Silo” as an Indian Tribe’s encampment as they went about their existence. Each tribe either co-existed with other tribes or they fought them… and then they began fighting with elements of the U. S. Government in the late 1800s.
I think Daniel is saying we need to use terms that our neighbors or co-workers would instinctively understand without a lot of explanation.
The terms we use will hopefully act to help people hold onto our message. We’re one big conversation here and I appreciate hearing a range of perspectives.
Silo makes perfect sense to me.
Probably generational situation where one born in the 1950’s (or earlier) has a completely different frame of reference than someone born in the 1970’s, or even 1990’s. Heck, when I was born televisions were rare in the neighborhood and party-line phones were a thing and can still remember the whole neighborhood standing outside, at night, looking up into the sky to see if we could catch a glimpse of Sputnik – now, strings of satellites circling the earth are the norm and trying to explain the fear of that USSR satellite crossing the earth would just bring rolling eyes from today’s youth.
I think Daniel is saying the the term “silos” prevents understanding. Especially with the Mueller investigation having parts 5 or 6 steps removed.
Silos requires a long discussion to get to understanding. The purpose of these processes is to be hidden from view unless someone gets right over the top. Maybe this discussion gives us better ammo for the next time.
I respectfully disagree. We all need to increase our vocabulary and not “dumb everything down to a vocabulary suited for the lowest common denominator”. Email and Texting has done more damage to the average person’s vocabulary than TV ever did. The average newspaper is only written for 8th grade reading ability, and these days that may be reaching….
Sundance uses the term quite accurately in context, and leaves it up to the reader to look up terms they don’t understand in context. Sundance rarely uses what I call “ten dollar words” that are mostly used by pompous academics in order to impress other academics in the same field.
I’m not sure how current Windows operating system or Android phones work, but on my Apple PC or iPhone I merely highlight the word or phrase, then right click (or tap) and select “look up” on a popup menu which then may give me a dictionary definition, or prompt me to “Look up on Web’ using Duck Duck Go (my default search engine). That latter option aways yields at least one result that provides the definition in the same context as used here.
Here is an entire article on the meaning of business and organization “silos.”
It is a common term and understanding in the world of organizational development.
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/silos-in-business
Excellent
I learned much about “silos” throughout my career in the 20th century.
It’s done for the main objective that the “leadership in power” so desires and people are hired according to their “ability” to work and be happy in their “silo”.
Sundance is absolutely on the mark when he writes daily. He’s not arrogant and he’s not crazy.
Take him for his written word.
Daniel, do you know what a silo IS?
Have you ever seen one?
You know – out in farmland?
Silos explained:
“Silos in business refer to separations in the business’s human resources123. In silos, certain employees, leaders or entire departments don’t share resources like information, funds or talent with other departments or employees1. Silos in business can slow down production and prevent growth by creating a more competitive environment1. The word silo originally referred to storage containers for grain or missiles, but it is now used as a metaphor for separate entities that stockpile information and effectively seal it in3.”
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/silos-in-business
Thanks for all you do… I’m still sitting out here on one of the CTH branches observing… what comes next IDK, but convinced it will be ugly….
Bless you for bringing the conversation back to the topic at hand and off SD’s use of a word…
Sharpening the saw is some that is needed, but easily back-burnered. We get so deep into the mission we tell ourselves if we could just get “x” to do “y” then we can get it done and take a break….but life doesn’t work that way. One has to make the cut and just do it.
I’m glad you did. We miss your logical posts, but in the long run we need a sharpened SD continue the mission.
We got your six. When you’re ready to come back, we’ll be here to cheer!
Yeah I get it. So much work, so much intensity, so much reading & podcasting to keep up with.
But I’ve thought often in the past 3 years about how things used to be simpler and more relaxed, when hours, days, weeks could be spent learning and researching.
Without all that old background knowledge, I don’t know where I’d be. If I were starting out in today’s world, with all its constant stimulation & quick attention span inputs, I’d never get anywhere, study and see patterns in the data.
Ah the old days of really reading & understanding with a long lonely evening or even all night with a musty book, and soul sesrching and prayer. Saw sharpening at its finest.
2 Chronicles 16:9a ESV “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. ”
Without going deeply into the Hebrew word study weeds, the sense is that the central essence of GOD continually searches the world like oars purposefully cutting through water or the wings of a bird flashing through the air in order to provide all His resources to a person who is seeking to serve Him with a humble and sincere heart. I think you, Sundance, and many who read this site fit that description.
(Full study on the above passage by Pastor Mike Atkins,
A beautiful visual of the bird flashing or the oars cutting in order to get His resources to Sundance. Thank you.
All credit to Pastor Mike ☺️
Thank you!
Those who cling to the Lord will find the strength to endure.
Book of Mathew, Chapter 6…(The words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount)
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Matt 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Luke 21: 31, 34-36: “So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near… But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
MAGA Brother! Sending LOVE and blessings to you!
So grateful for your fellowship, and teaching. God Bless. MAGA 👊👊🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
Glad you took a rest. All need one, to refresh our minds. Whatever you choose to do, I hope you never stop writing. I love reading your work. And yes, I agree, ONLY we the people understand it ALL! God bless you Sundance and thanks for all the informing.
Live your best life Sundance !! We have your back
Hang in there. Jesus knows
Bank
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God be with you Sundance. YOU are doing His work.
Relieved you are back, Sundance! Long-timer here on the lower branches looking up to you, your team and my fellow treepers! I am a regular “thumbs-upper”, as my trusted and intellectual treepers have the ability to articulate my views and broaden my understanding of world history and current events. After morning prayers, I come here for added strength and reassurance that I am not alone and that this is the best and most truthful source for information. I am so grateful for you, Sundance, and all of my fellow treepers!
We are the foot soldiers now. It is going to be a fierce battle ahead and I am so thankful I have the Lord and all of you with me!
Beautifully said. Yep, “added strength and reassurance that I am not alone” — and in these dark days, with blatant anti-semitism in the streets of America, it is good to come here and be among good people. Bless you all.
Sometimes, one trumpet blaring in the wilderness is not enough to rouse the people.
Like most here, I always vote in person. It is not enough to counter the agitated waves of restrictions forced in off-year elections.
In adition to knowing, this country needs a showing and it won’t happen until me, you and our associates start bringing like-minded people to the polls.
Some tips, some real stories, some successes from participants here could help build the counter-wave. Just remember, the opposxition has been at this over a 100 years to infiltrate all of our cultural institutions.
Thanks, Sundance, for being the starting point of awareness. We just need to get the CTH army mobilized.
Oh how I would love a distillation. Information fatigue is real. I just asked myself this morning about my confidence now that my news seems so sensored. It is hard to FIND real news. However, there are some really good sources. I just can’t sit through 3 hour podcasts and discussions. I would love a distilled one, and especially with a transcript. I am a visual learner not an auditory one.
I will pray you make the best decision for you, knowing how devoted you are to patriots as it will do well for us.
Am always elated to find a transcript. Not that I don’t enjoy videos, it’s just that reading is exponentially faster and for me it’s all about time.
That’s Rush said, he rather read it fast, than watch or listen. Saves time. I couldn’t listen to his show, but I read the transcript daily. It didn’t take 3 hrs, with no commercials and I skipped all the football/golf talk. I miss him.
He also said,”The Democrat party needs to be destroyed.” I’m sure he would say now after all the election ballot and RNS shenanigans at elections, “The UniParty needs to be destroyed.”
I can listen at up to double speed comfortably, and skipping commercial breaks helps too, but there’s still too much.
Long time reader. Only my 2nd comment ever! God bless you SD!
Reading used to be called fundamental. Now it looks like headphones are fundamental. A podcast would expand the audience.
Let’s roll!
& a voice behind the words.great idea SD.
Those of us who can read, and read a lot in a short time, should be glad of that skill which is fast disappearing…
We must also/adapt to the listening world. I recommend Raycon earbuds, they’ve served me well with my daily podcasts.
I would adore one from Sundance to listen to!
Thanks for the update. Keep well and safe.
And I with you my dear friends ,100 %.
May God be with you.
Thanks for this, SD. I was wondering what was up, and worried that something had happened to you.
I may not be as engaged here as I once was (due to time constraints-lonnng story) but I do read here multiple times a day
is there any way to sit down with DJT or Jr or Ric Grenell and tell them what you know. I would not know what I know without this place. I talk to people every day, many are as awake as me but some blow it off and simply live their life…..not knowing it is not their best life
Message received Sundance. Keep the Faith!
Gracias Sundance!! God uis in control. Please continue to spread the truths! You are awesome! Your team is awesomeness! Conservative Treehouse forever! Gracias Dios!
Sundance, if you do a podcast would it be set up so we could interact with others in real time to brainstorm, ask important questions, share the bits and pieces we find that connect with the info you have provided?
Something like a huge whiteboard is needed where facts, ideas, theories and questions can be visually displayed and added to as more info comes in.
…Something like the huge display board described by Isaac Asimov in his ‘Foundation’ trilogy. The equations that forecasted the reactions of entire societies to minute and galactic events were presented on the board, to be dissected, discussed, and modified by the psychohistory mathematicians. The body of Treepers are the mathematicians, and the vast store of our collective knowledge of what ails our country represents the equations. Led, of course, by the great Sundance in the role of Hari Selden.
For those that haven’t read Foundation, get ye to your paper or electronic purveyor of choice and set about to read it.
At least, this is what sprang to my mind when I read your comment.
Excellent series I read the 1st time in 7th or 8th grade & several other times my 7 decades plus on this planet. Loved Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” as well.
Still, only an egg am I.
I grok what you did there.
i am 75 and still see heilein as a god.
I don’t view him as positively as I did in my youth because of his obvious penchant for debauchery – he went over the edge occasionally.
I can say this after reading and re-reading everything he wrote – still own most of it, including the unexpurgated version of Stranger.
But that he was a visionary genius, no question whatsoever. The world gummint in Stranger is a model for what the 1%: The Powers That (Should Not) Be think they desire.
And by the way Heinlein presented it, he made it clear that didn’t think it was a good idea at all!
Well, there’s always Starship Troopers.
One of his best for sure.
My personal favorite is The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
Yes!
The board and the humans didn’t work right.
i thought of pearly things.
Is this the equivalent of form a committee?
To fix the problem go to the root. The root is money.
It is the love of money. Money in and of itself is inanimate and is not capable of being evil. It is the people using it unwisely or on purpose for bad intentions
Foundation is another brilliant fictional achievement.
At my fancy college (I was a scholarship kid) there was a science fiction class that was prevented from being a “gut” (easy) by the volume of work. We were assigned reading the entire Foundation trilogy and writing the weekly 15-page paper about it.
I can’t remember what drivel my young self wrote about it, but I do remember I read it all over a single night, fascinated by the mystery.
Asimov is a great writer and well worth diving into. But I now look back on the trilogy as representing the 1% sort of hubris in imagining that an individual could control the universe. And Asimov’s evident desire for an all-powerful world government surfaced in other of his stories…
But he also wrote a short story which hinted broadly at intelligent design (a subject that I would really love to learn more about). I will try to track that story down when I can dig through the old paperbacks…
well on my puter screen…this is a whiteboard 😛
Would you cross post to Rumble?
Ketchikan, one of the most beautiful places on earth. That’s where I’d catch a float plane ride to Kake, Klawock or Hydaburg nearly 50 years ago as an officer in USPHS. God’s country.
We Treepers might have to form out own subcommittees to deal with well defined, specific issues. I think the whole ball of wax is too big to deal with effectively. Remember Dr. Naomi Wolf’s team and her collaborative effort with Bannon’s Warroom Posse to dissect the Pfizer document dump regarding the c19 vaccine. The group worked independently on their batch of pages, but also as a whole to go through the dump in its entirety. They did awesome work! I wasn’t involved so I don’t know the software they used but certainly they proved it can be done and done well.
True!
I bought the book, but it is sadly missing what it most desperately needs – a formal index.
We simply did a form of crowdsourcing. Needs to be used for open source intel too. But that’s another forbidden topic.
Forbidden where or by whom? The danger of diversified research is creating silos…aka the deep state…so collaboration is key.