At Christmas,one of the grandkids brought up Taylor Swift.I said,Oh I can’t stand her,ugh,,so they wanted to know why,It was Christmas and I didn’t want to :start:so I just said why should people listen to her about anything,her personnel life is a mess.I had just seen the fake video of her telling her dad,she had to do something about the upcoming presidential election,,,
Fake meaning it was rehearsed..so now I know really what that was all about.

But the way I combat the lies,is I keep bopping them on the head with the truth,and when they keep seeing over time that it was the truth,eventually they get it.

I don’t care if they like what I say,I don’t care if they think I am crazy,cause I am crazy right,hahaha,,and really the people around me know it.

Taylor Swift is like the harlots at the temples of the false gods,standing outside enticing people in,,,that is exactly what she is,and they,like as through time,they fall for it.

Sundance, bless you!
Some of the most prescient, concise and CRITICAL advice and information for the entire populace!
STOP PRETENDING!
SPEAK THE TRUTH!

There is a cavernous difference between a constitutional conservationist and a provincial. The latter is a species of parlor monkey doing the biddings of its organ grinder.

Except inside the Beltway the peanuts they feed on to often include nuggets of someone else’s gold.

♦ What is the average knowledge of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?

Family knowledge is far above average. Many friends are catching up, but not where our family is. (I’m the only family Treeper, but some siblings and in-laws are reading here now). Community is catching on. I’d assess the larger community is in various stages of awakening, its deep sleep is over. A few are still in denial or shock, including one who is a candidate for the House of Representatives.

♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past several years?

Family was always first in perceptions and independent thought. We often challenged each other, and it was rough at times making sense of events. I include myself here. Friends, including those who bought into the Covid bullshit, were a mixed bag. Denial and a sense of supreme (not superior) knowledge held some back from awakening. It was tough for them to admit being duped. Their lives were more miserable than those starting to see the light. Their misery was not getting the level of company it once did. The larger community were very much like our friends. Misery looking for company and affirmation. Holding on to old paradigms. Being influenced by propaganda and unable or unwilling to see things are they were/are.

♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?

Here are a few ideas:

Face-to-face communications work very well, especially in small groups. I’ve had some recent successes in getting group members to spread the word to their networks. Then, we hit another topic. For instance, we’ve talked about the Uniparty and the illusion of choice. People are understanding that there is no substantive difference between establishment dems and RINOs.

Visual aids: Simple timelines and charts also work well in defining root causes of issues like inflation, crimes against property and persons and for the more advanced people, excess deaths of people 18 -45 years of age. Also, that ‘there are more of us than them’.

Catchy, short phrases such as: “Speedy trials are the rights of defendants, not prosecutors.” “Frauds works both ways – either too good to be true or too bad to be true”. “There are only two genders. All others are imaginary (or fake).” “No college loan forgiveness without mandatory service in the armed forces.”

Always let people know they’re welcome to our happy existence, even if they show up late.

Sundance, I agree with you. There are people who are awake and do their research such as the Treepers, others are starting to come out of their slumber, and those who are oblivious to what is going on. They are more concerned about the Super Bowl and Taylor Swift, what’s on Netflix, posting on Facebook and Instagram, and keeping up with the Joneses. I still see people walking around in masks. The DS is afraid of We The People doing the research and educating ourselves. We need a Great Awakening AND a Spiritual Revival.

Oh my.

The problem I see is that people don’t know what truth is. They think “my truth” is the truth.

So, how do you know what is true? I simply investigate the information. It’s either true or false or some combination of both.

For instance, the first lie I heard about President Trump was after he declared his candidacy in 2015. CNN and the rest said he was, “anti-immigration and is a racist.” But, I heard him say he was anti-ILLEGAL immigration and he was fine about immigration as long as it was lawful. That doesn’t sound racist.

So, I looked up his speech to cross and compare. I was right and CNN was lying.

Mal, Dis, Mis does not alter the truth. In fact, usually those words are used to deceive people from knowing the truth. Those buzz words are expressions of disagreement about any given information, but that same information could very well be true.

Lifted up egos, pride, haughtiness, stiffneckedness and the fear of being wrong is the problem I see. They just don’t know what truth is and don’t care about knowing it.

Additionally, people around me are very comfortable with good jobs and money. So, it hasn’t affected their lives enough to motivate them to look deeper. But, I do have a couple of good friends who mostly get it. And why?

Because they care about the truth.

The reason people don’t understand the world they live in is due to two things: age and time. Older people (35+) generally have settled down and may choose to be inquisitive of the world around them. People who have LOTS of time aren’t just inquisitive, they’re fully engaged and have integrated their worldview into their identity’s. They have time to dig thru the rabbit hole – most younger people don’t have that time – not even close. And some people never have a middle age enlightenment, they simply don’t care.

Idk what the percentages are, but it’s safe to say that we are the minority. These machinations working against us are predicated on the fact that the overwhelming majority can be manipulated bc they don’t care. And that overwhelming majority is influential – it dictates what we can and can’t say in public. I myself have noted several times I bit my tongue and held back my true feelings, my true position.

Petersen was astonishingly inspirational and actually outshined tuckers very decent speech. Petersen was right, the power we have lost can be reclaimed if we simply speak the truth and say what we mean. We aren’t in high school – we shouldn’t care if our truth makes us unpopular or offends someone.

It’s ok to have a different view and frankly the view many of us share is like Tucker said: normal. We aren’t the extremists, so quit acting like we are and be proud of our views.

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knowledge of government corruption goes way back in my family. at the local level we knew and my grandparents knew how certain men got their jobs on the county road crew. FDR and his ugly wife were known to us as communists. First thing we knew about JFK was the stolen election, his dad was crooked and the government had him killed. no question about those things. just general knowing. my family never bothered to vote and Grandad would quote Mark Twain (I think) “If voting made any difference we wouldn’t be allowed to vote.” but back then government did not have such an impact on every day life. it was just a joke.

My family refuses to acknowledge that there is any corruption in the government. To them, Biden is a nice man, a gentle soul with a speech impediment. There is a little inflation, but they aren’t really affected by it because they just buy what they want when they want it and don’t really care if it costs a little more. They aren’t worried about immigration because they think the US is quite capable of offering unlimited help to “those in need from other lands”. They are quite isolated in their enclaves. Wars – oh well – we’ve always had wars going on, but we’ll get an AR-15 in case the Russians invade the US. They only watch MSNBC news and have gotten every Covid booster, children and adults, and take pride in how protected they are.

Politics to them is a waste of time because their minds are made up and they don’t want to discuss anything about it. They work long days and relax last thing at night with a Roku movie from Amazon. They raise a lot of their own food because it is more healthy. Most of them are vegetarian, low carb, low fat, mostly no sugar diets, eat disgusting weird food because it is supposedly better for you to eat spinach-carrot-strawberry smoothies, kale salad, squash soup, and gluten-free garlic bread than to eat roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans seasoned with ham, cornbread with butter and a slice of lemon pound cake.

Their mail is full of Democrat scare literature because they occasionally donate. They make sly (subtle as a tank) digs at President Trump whom they consider a scary clown figure.

I know of no way to wake them up. I have tried and get ridiculed and lectured for the little bit of trying that I have done.

I think all our troubles boil down to one word: fear. I advise others not to be fearful. I point them instead towards God, who *always* has our six.

Evil thrives on our fears and exploits them to lead us away from God. Fearful people can’t act. They can’t think. They freeze like deer in the headlights. And that’s why they succumb so quickly to those with evil intent. We simply cannot live our best lives in fear.

Something in me always skips past the fear part and goes straight to righteous anger. I’ve always been guided by spirit. Even as a child, fear had no place in me.

The only thing that concerns me is accomplishing what I was born to do. I don’t want to let myself and God down.

I am guided to places like this Treehouse. There are like minds here. We guard the perimeter and defend the weak. The world needs more of us now.

To answer Sundance’s questions: My family, friends and community notice something is amiss. But being firmly ensconced within the matrix, they don’t know exactly what, nor do they really understand the stakes.

They rely on fake news. They watch football games. They talk about Harry and Meghan. What else is there to say.. matrix matrix matrix!

Yes, I believe our perceptions are more awakened of late. I’m not sure why that is, but it may be a world consciousness shift. Something akin to a spiritual awakening is taking place in our time.

My main ‘communication tool’ is prayer. Sometimes I even wake up praying. I get a lot of assistance from the spiritual world. This has been a true blessing, a calling, in fact.

Those who rely strictly on outside media sources, whatever they happen to be, are invariably led astray. This is because the news we receive from outside is at best subjective and thus a distortion of truth. At worst, it is propaganda and deception.

People need to plug in to the *source* of all knowledge, what I call the information superhighway.
The only roadmap I know of is faith.

We live in a country where millions could care less. Additional millions vote Democrat because someone told them if they did they would be considered a “good person”. You can’t fix stupid. Saved for last are the millions who believe the story book tale that we are a nation of laws. We have been going into the third world nation status for many many decades. Just the last thirty years where we are still under eight years of Clinton judges, eight years of the Bushie/Cheney cartel, eight years of the “transforming America clown, and now O’Biden. If, you wanted to see a disgraceful destruction of our Judiciary just watch Little Dickey Durbin and his gang of fellow America haters as they place judges into the Federal Judiciary. Some have no clue that there is a Constitution.

Government employee unions allowed after 1962, created this buffer between the people and their government.
Unionized government workers took control of all government services and caused the death of community volunteerism.

Try to do something in your community, and you are immediately stopped because even if you want to pull weeds in your public part you are told NO!, YOU ARE TAKING AWAY A UNION JOB!!

That is how you destroy the heart, blood and soul of a community – put a layer of government employee unions with vested interests in only their candidates winning elections, all elections. This has reduced community ownership by the people, whose only role now is to keep these 22 million government employees today flush with cash.

The more I talk to people the more concerned I get because it seems virtually no one has a clue what is happening. I tell my family and they say yea I know but in reality when pressed they really don’t. Folks I meet that are worried don’t know why they are worried they just feel SOMETHING isn’t right. I try and ask probing questions to see what they know and basically get vague answers. They don’t know where to turn for accurate information, don’t know who to trust or where to turn. There really are a LOT of lost sheep out there that will be like lambs to the slaughter when the SHTF. I spread the word about Treehouse and tell them to read it every day. Many now do and have thanked me. I have been “prepping” since Obamas first term and see where it is headed, and I am convinced it will have to get a lot worse before people wake up.

Tough questions SD.
People who have the knowledge want and except it ,not many know or follow as much as we do .

Others may know somethings wrong ,but listen to the news , and they follow the propaganda box narrative.

Others just don’t care ,they’ll never care till it’s way too late .

Tools ,I am lost here .
People generally aren’t interested in politics.

I’ve helped a few people with COVID shots (ways to opt out), and got people to never take them again . totally turned maybe one person completely around ,to make them like us .

It’s a rough world out there . most people aware are generally engaged ,but maybe not on our level.

It’s kinda exhausting to keep up ,ya know 🤔

cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/4673/stop-pretending-speak-truth

One question: Instead of the third monkey, why not fight like the first or second monkey, who made it aboard the ark?

Now to answer yours:

1) Knowledge of government corruption in my …
a. family … An older relative seems to be coming around, and didn’t even fight back today when I told her that based on something she said, she agreed with President Trump. As for my siblings, one yelled, screamed, and hung up the phone on me when I cheerfully shared that I had attended a Trump rally … this was months ago now, we haven’t discussed politics since, and frankly, not much else either. Another sibling favored Vivek, that’s about all I know, might vote for Trump since Vivek is out. And another sibling? Who knows … doesn’t say a word about politics, seems to just wear an intentionally blank look when the topic comes up at a family gathering.

b. friends … After Covid, friends are hard to come by. Currently, I have people who seem to like me for being an artist or who like me for keeping culture alive by dancing in the pow wow or who will chat amiably enough at a gathering focused on shared interests, or pretend friends from church groups, but just plain friends … maybe someday, unless I really just am the solitary artist type.

c. community … While I live in a blue county, many in Northeast Ohio are Trump supporters who listen to Oliver Anthony on the radio or smile at you in agreement if you’re brave enough to actually say “Trump 2024” in public.

2) As for heightened perception, I personally was pretty much raised a Conservative from birth. If people are becoming more awakened, they seem pretty quiet about it.

3) What communication tools would help? Seems to me, the tools that people are trying their best to censor. And yes, even the communication tool of us living our best lives. There is a certain person at work who tends to be very negative and who sometimes comments on my seeing the good in life … Now if only this person would try seeing the good in life instead of apparently being jealous and continuing on the gloomy/doomy path of least resistance. When you get down to it, this is a spiritual battle.

Politics follows culture. It is our job to change the culture, by speaking up and pushing back. It is not Trump’s job. He is just there to pick up were we the people leave off.

I remain unsure of what communication tools are needed. We have so much available, we need to be sure the most important messages do not get lost  … and also…. 

Twitter /X is becoming less and less accessible to those of us who have been suspended or do not have accounts. In years past, I could access, search, read and copy the link to any post.

My second account was suspended in 2023. Since that time, I first could access from any devise and any browser. Then, I could access ONLY from the browser where I was ‘signed in’ (auto sign in from when account was active). Then I could only access during certain times of the day (which were not consistent). Yesterday, I could not access at all. Today, I could access for about 1 hour and one account (Last Refuge) before being blacked out again.  I just tried, this moment, and I can access again, for now. So go figure.     
                   
Twitter / X does allow us to read posts with direct links that have been shared in an articles, blog post (like here) and Truth or other social media.
The average knowledge of government corruption, within my circle of family and friends, continues to increase, but, in some areas there is still much scary room for improvement.

Regarding level of awareness: The closer to urban areas or people of influence, the more willingly blind they are. For some, it means accepting that those they’ve known and trusted for decades do not have our country’s best interest in mind. For another, it is ‘playing nice’ and not wanting to possibly disagree with their liberal, woke neighbors. I’m not sure WHAT it will take. Ignorance is bliss. I see this mostly in GA and worst in the Atlanta suburbs.

“The closer you get to the laundromat”, as Sundance puts it, the more skeptical and, IMO, the more aware people are.  All pretenses are removed.  The outcomes of the corruption are felt daily.. in wallets and in the number of people addicted and dying from drug overdose or suicide.

Outside of those directly involved in local politics who are all over it, my circle of friends in FL is more aware, but I fear too many are tuning it out because they are sick of it all. Some were all in for Desantis for President and have been forced to accept he is not the person we once thought. This has only added to their frustration so they choose to ignore it all. Seeing Jacksonville ‘turn blue’ didn’t help – BUT too few people got involved during the primary and now they wonder how it happened.

I’m one who still has hope for change at the grass-roots level … BUT, too few ‘conservatives’ bother to pay attention who is running in their primaries – the very election where we have the chance to replace those in office who are not listening to us. Even county commissioners are being funded by PAC money and passing laws to benefit their donors and not their constituents. We must have local action to increase education and awareness and fight back against ‘the candidate with the most money’

“It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done.”

To your questions Sundance:

♦ What is the average knowledge of the scale of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?

Family? In-laws are very conservative Trump supporters from the time he came down the escalator, and are incredibly tuned into what is happening to him. Yes, they see the corruption, but are not aware of the details of who the players are. Covid very much opened their eyes. Very anti-vax, anti-mandate of any kind. In fact, my FiL had the police called on him by a fast food chain because he refused to wear a mask. After he got his order, he went outside and sat down on the curb to eat, and they called the cops anyway. No arrest.
Wife/son: Both DeSantis supporters initially. My wife supported him because of my son. Both are somewhat caught up in the media lies about how anything Trump does is bad. My son does not like his tariffs regardless of what facts are provided. I blame a certain online influencer who claims to be conservative and has a certain following among young people. As far as I am concerned, the online influencer has not made much of an impact anywhere other than speaking engagements or other activities that only contribute to his ongoing existence.

Both wife/son will vote for Trump. The only impact I had on either was in describing some of the Lawfare targeting of Trump, how that could happen to anyone, and how no other candidate is saying anything at all against that corruption.

Daughter? Quite indifferent to politics in general until I explained why her paycheck was so little, and where the taxes are going. She is very conservative, but just not into politics much at all.

Community? Many can see the unjust targeting of Trump. You can tell some are aware of more details than others.

♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past few years? Why?

For all mentioned above, I think they are as aware of conservatives/Republicans being targeted by the left as they ever were. Also for all, Covid and targeting of kids in schools very much opened their eyes, along with very spirited conversations with the in-laws. Concessions are never easily made.

♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?

Short write-ups of the key players such as Mary McCord like the one you provided recently explaining in detail every little corrupt act she has been involved in, but shorter still.

EXAMPLE: Mary McCord, went to White House with Yates specifically to take out Flynn. More detail here.
Mary McCord appointed amicus curae to the FISA court during X, more detail here.
Mary McCord in the background on Kavanaugh, more detail here.

REPEAT THESE POSTINGS!!!!!

I tried searching recently for what McCord had been involved in just to clarify what I remembered, and it took some searching before finding the right article.

Same with Pompeo, Esper and Milley and what they did in Syria. Again, it took some searching to find the right article. Short facts of what they were involved in enough to interest the reader, and a link to more details in a longer article if the reader is interested.

I think part of the problem with many unconverted people are short attention spans. Unless they get interested in something very early, they glaze over and skip reading articles, particularly if they are long.

Put the bottom line facts at the top, with details in the article below to back up the facts. This might make it easier sharing these with others such as on social media.

Get their attention with short facts, and they will follow the links to more details.

Rumble videos with slideshows of these facts with video snippets cut in.

Example: McCord again. Slideshow of facts of what she has been involved in, with video snippets of her in the news spewing her narrative.

Same with any other topic. Short facts in a slideshow followed up with video and audio.

Podcasting is popular. Do a podcast with the same topics as your articles. Make it a video podcast to show the same slideshows and video as mentioned above. Podcasts can get noticed quickly by others who can help spread the message.

I’m a systems/process auditor & analyst.

I find it incredibly effective to ask “why” until the person I’m talking to arrives at an answer. “5 Why’s ” sometimes takes “10 or more why’s”

Patience is key here.

Communicating/messaging? I stole this from Bongino… “sound bites & snapshots.” That’s what generates interest/curiosity & draws people in to hear/learn more.

I’ve never been much for pretense & pretending but I have moderated my speech in the workplace. That’s how I settled on asking why as many times as it takes.

Thank you Sundance.

2024 is really for all the marbles. its time to fight or flight .

If you get your information from MSNBC, CBS, ABC.. and you accept what they are telling you as gospel then you would think a Treeper is a lunatic

In listening to family and neighbors it seems they are becoming more aware that something is very wrong.

They notice the symptoms but are trusting
“the experts” taking another booster!

Some are blaming big business and the rich while defending the leaders of their party. Always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth!

Why are we different? Did we become conservative? Or did we only have that word attached to what we always were? And we have found others who “get”us.

Victoria Nuland
Mary McCord
51 Intelligence Officials
Keep adding…

The picture is clear. The enemy is defined. The mission is in front of us. My family and friends are a mixed bag still of those who are awakening and those who still refuse to look and believe the truth. There are some who have been onto the truth since Obama and see it even more clearly now. Communication is desperately needed and a media company who delivers the truth with clout would be ideal. Keep fighting. We see, we know, we act.

Thanks SD for a great analysis as usual.

If the MSM had shown any of what was happening on the border for the last twenty years people would have objected, but it has been studiously hidden. Now there are stations which are starting to let it be seen.

If the American people are not wised up by the images of the world’s hordes streaming across our borders then there is no hope for them.

For many the pretending isn’t just about things being scary, it’s about denying their complicity in what’s gone before. There are millions of quislings who gleefully joined in the efforts to make us disappear. The “good Americans” are still there and they know what they did. It isn’t just the jabs or the lockdowns or the election steal. Far more, it’s their willingness to join the mob, to pile on against anyone who defied the approved narrative on any issue.

Censorship, shouting down our voices, denying our right to an opinion didn’t happen overnight and the ones who joined that effort have not atoned in any way. The pretending starts and ends with them atoning for what they’ve done. Not for what they “believed”, but for what they did. NOBODY honestly believed that doing evil results in good. Nobody believed that censorship leads to free speech. Nobody believed that racism in hiring, admissions or any other endeavor leads to less racial tension. Nobody believed that burning cities is peaceful protest. Nobody believed that stalking soccer moms for having the audacity to speak out against pedophiles in the schools is just or decent.

Until millions of good Americans openly acknowledge that they participated in horrific behavior, until they accept their errors and make effort to atone, nothing will change.

So how do we reach them? I haven’t got a clue. Most seem willing to dig their delusional world deeper rather than admit what they’ve done. The pretending is their solution to never admit the evil of their behavior. Facing that is their real fear.

Satan is a communist.

I feel the weight of corruption to be crushing. I experience it daily. In local propositions to build a 160 million dollar hospital to be floated by those of us paying property taxes. In doctors trying to sell me, my mother, my friends on chemotherapy drugs that are killing. I see it in a Congress that just now pretends it’s going to impeach Mayorkas. I grew up in the 1970s, and even though I was a kid, I felt the toll of Vietnam (uncles who served) and I felt the corruption of Watergate (though I see that differently now) . It’s almost as if I can only talk to people who understand the same. Either that or everyone I know, knows. Democrats are another matter, of course. Some of the conservatives have bought into the pretending con and some are frozen into inaction. I urge everyone to act. I try to present actions to take. I myself take action. It is sort of like bringing your gun to the gunfight. You don’t want to play dead and hope they don’t shoot you–or if that is what you want to pretend that’s both cowardly and stupid.

Most of the people around me do not even know what Nikki Haley’s real name is.

When I explain that her name is Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley, was born on January 20, 1972, in Bamberg, South Carolina, to Sikh immigrants from Punjab, India, who were not U.S. citizens at that time, they are shocked. They don’t even know what “Sikh” means.

I believe it is unacceptable to consider voting for a candidate for president of the United States with no more information than most people know about her.

The only information you get from researching her is 4 pages of President Trump making fun of her name but not saying it correctly so those I speak with still do not know.

I think she’s another “zero”.

As far as my family is concerned, we can’t discuss politics. They are all dumba$$es.

We all just need to keep calling it out. God will use one or many of us for that pivotal moment. But we can’t wait for others. It’s like when we refused to wear masks. Let’s refuse to let them wear their figurative masks and lies. Pull them off.

It happened to me the other day at work. Co-worker says to me, ‘look, president’s don’t have any control over, do not control the gas prices…’ That was my ‘in’ and I responded in a manner consistent with facts and examples of the levels they can manipulate…Everyone reading this knows what followed in my answer and replies. I saw her dim liberal light begin to glow.

What is the average knowledge of the scale of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?

Most of the people I know are aware of major problems, but they are totally taken in by some media source somewhere and are convinced the problem is ‘them’ — and are content in a way to rail against ‘them’ without actually doing any specific work. On the other hand, I have gotten to know a number of whistleblowers through my work as an attorney. It’s absolutely amazing — there are some really sharp, astute powerful thinkers out there. What scares me is that most of them are playing defense — they are doing a great job of gathering information, sharing it, helping other people, building networks and leveraging resources — but that all came after they were targeted. Someone, somewhere, in management knew exactly whom to target and take out — and the competent, serious, capable and independent thinkers were all identified and targeted and chased out of the big institutions where they started when that was where the brightest folks went. For every 1 sharp guy building a self-reliant new world there are probably 10 sharp guys who never knew what hit them or why they were taken out — who blame themselves or cannot handle the wife’s anger at decline in living standards.

♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past few years? Why?

It’s easy to ignore stuff when you are comfortable. When it bites you personally, you start paying attention. Usually there is something fundamental, like basic honesty or safety regulations which get blatantly violated – and someone feels shaken, outraged — hey, you can’t mess with/lie about that — which wakes someone up.

♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?

Specific details. Every time I give details, people’s eyes glaze over and they say “well I haven’t read about any airplane accidents lately, so it must be okay …” Really ? So I tell them about the close calls and the proven maintenance fraud and the details of the one major carrier who had 4 hull losses (totally wrecked beyond repair) in 1 year ! A first for aviation. Because no one died the NTSB does not characterize it as an accident.

Note: They will not agree with you. They will never admit you are right, because then you might suggest they take action. Inertia rules. But they will think about it.

My family knows what’s going on because of both my brother-in-law and me.

But all of our “educated” friends, including doctors, computer scientists, physicists, mathematicians, accountants, and chemical engineers . . . are either Never Trumpers or Biden supporters. And none have stopped taking the injections. My best friend is on injection five.

I give my friends credit for never objecting to my never wearing a mask, nor have they ever excluded me for being “unvaccinated.” So . . . they aren’t ideologues, or maybe they have learned over the years to tolerate me.

I talk to them about what’s really happening, but they trust the television far more than me, though they admit “something or other in the wild things you say might be right, I just don’t know.”

All support war against Russia, all believe that we are helping the Ukrainian people. They were enthusiastic adopters of the vaccine passport. They make as many purchases as they can with their cellphones. They believe that illegal immigration “will change the country, but is needed because of our low birthrates.” They think that Biden is doing a “pretty good job” with the economy because there are many job openings, which they believe indicates a healthy economy for workers. The higher prices at the grocery store don’t concern them. They are relatively wealthy, and the stock market has been doing okay. They think the government did the best job that it could during covid.

I am honestly a little afraid of my friends at this point. I had no idea until the last few years that their minds were so influenced by “mainstream” news sources. I’m the only person telling them anything different. I’m the only “educated” person in their circle with these perspectives; so, I make no headway.

As for my community, there are “trans children rights” and “climate change action now” and “black lives matter” and “we see and accept you rainbow signs” throughout this high income area.

I feel isolated here in western Pennsylvania, and will be moving within the year to a new state.

Great Idea Sundance!!! In my circle of friends, and family at least 90% didnt buy into covid, clot shots, no fraud, or corruption. Through my media sources I knew on day 1, EVERYTHING covid, and shots were lies. I spread it links, and opinions relentlessly. In 2020 I was lucky if anybody defended me. Today its the vast majority!!!
People are doing the same as I did. Im a New Yorker, besides going on local politicians Facebook pages, I go on people like Georgias Kemp, and Illinois governor Pritzkers asking why they were at the World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland. Tons of people are! Ill be on Lindsays again, and Haley calling them warmongers! Its making a huge difference, check it out people!

I ask my other half this question for years. The reply is always 1. You try to convince me when you really need to influence me. Shoving these facts and data points down my throat will never make me swallow it no matter how true they are. 2. Many people are into self development so you have to reach them that way through influencing. Think Tony Robbins kind of influence peddling. Incorporate things like NLP to assist. 3. They can only digest in small chunks. I tend to overwhelm them with knowledge and details. It is too much for most people and they shut down when confronted with it. 4. Trump is loved or hated. For those willing to be on the fence about him he is too brash for them because MSM reports him that way. They think he is too harsh because MSM paints him like that. He doesn’t connect enough to his non base through middle points like say religious groups, unions, etc. he need better marketing in that area to appeal to people. 5. Many people have never experienced something like this before. People who lived through communism understand somewhat but we are so far past last world war that people are asleep and in disbelief. As history is erased so we are doomed to repeat.

the thruth? the bad guys arent going to tuck their tail beteen their legs, roll over and die even if we manage to get Trump elected in 2024. they dont want peace with us there is no way to live peacefully with them……unless we all just keep pretending. we’ve seen the evidence. there’s mountains of it. you need no more to reach conclusions. they are cruel and hateful and ruthless and want you and I gone. if they could kill us all with no consequence, there would be no hesitation. thats the truth. what is taking our people so long (decades)to realize this and when will we ever do anything real about it?

Average knowledge of government corruption: I am shocked by how cynical people around me are yet they don’t think there is anything to be done about it. C. S. Lewis said something very similar about fellow soldiers who didn’t believe anything their superiors in rank were saying about why they were doing what they were doing. Lewis did believe the superiors; if he hadn’t, he considered himself morally obligated to protest. Lewis’ reaction was that, if his fellow soldiers didn’t believe they were being sent into battle for a good reason, they were, as far as they knew, allowing an incredible level of evil to happen. On the other hand, these same soldiers did their duty admirably anyway, willingly risking their lives. So, Lewis said, this combination of actively doing good while not pushing back against perceived evil was why England would never be either very good or very bad.

The perception of those around me has changed greatly, let’s say it’s 5 times what it used to be. For me, though, it is 50 times what it used to be. And I would say the difference is that I believe a difference in understanding requires a difference in action. So for me one discovery has led to another as I have heard more people tie more things together that always bothered me a bit. But for those around me, they are trying to go on living life normally, and you can’t get too close to the realization that we are in a more morally polarized time than WWII, if you want to live life normally.

Communication tools: of course what we need is a megaphone like the mainstream media is, or at least was. But in my area I am trying to resurrect the idea of a phone tree, except by email. As in, I am sending out email to a bunch of people about things I am aware of that more people need to be aware of. And I’m writing it in such a way as to make it very copy-and-sendable. And I’m keeping my name out of it. So people can pass on what I send them to another level, but I don’t have to have contact with those people. And part of the information I’m putting out there is where they can find for themselves the kind of information I’m finding for them. So if “they” get to me, the people further down the chain can re-create what I’m doing with or without me and keep passing it on.

One liners, be a walking meme. Use them everywhere. Expand the conversation at every opportunity.
Here’s a start…
Haley’s mega donor was a frequent visitor on Epstein’s island.
Ukraine govenment officials are spending taxpayers money on luxury homes.

Do not lead with Trump always something about Globalists.
I notice a lot of people have become aware of the WEF the WHO, Davos and Schmidt’s plan to make us eat the bugs and also We will have nothing and be happy.
My suggestion is to talk about the Globalists as most people hate them. Then you can say ” you know the Globalists hate Trump because he is upsetting their plans.

Advertise. Trump gave us some tools….hats and T shirts with messages. Design your own. I see people who talk about their guns who are too afraid to wear a Trump cap.
Letters. Imagine 1000 letters arriving at your representatives office. Every one has to physically be opened. Start writing letters. They can ignore emails.
Second to letters are phone calls.

Do you remember Bubba Wallace? He is a race car driver who claimed there was a noose in the racetrack garage he was assigned. Like Jussie Smollet he does not like white people.
Guess who believed there was a noose in the Garage? Why that would be Nikki Haley. She lectured us about racism.

Question 1 Family 85% Friends 65% community 50%
Question 2 Yes – Because everything that is happening does not pass the common sense test
question 3 for you YES YOU Sundance to have a bigger wider broader more expansive voice in this BATTLE because it is your research i am using to change hearts and minds of those around me on a daily basis. I think maybe i should stop right there because you also have to live your best life. Sundance i truly hope you know and can feel how many treepers my self included keep you in our prayers on a daily basis . Be well my friend stay strong
much love and respect RED DOG

This is a challenge as there are at least three major forms of resistance. The first is a general resistance to change. People naturally want things to be “normal,” information to be trustworthy, prior norms to be in existence which few of those are in existence today. In the business world, change management is one of the most difficult to successfully implement.

Second, everyone possesses cognitive bias to some degree. There were many well-meaning doctors who encouraged the vaccine because they had faith in the integrity of the medical profession which was totally destroyed by Dr. Fauci et al. Likewise, many scientists trust fellow scientists even though science went woke decades ago even before the climate change nonsense. Devoted loyalty to political party falls into a similar category as willful blindness.

Finally, most people are conflict-avoiders. The path of least resistance is to go along with the crowd even if it appears to be going over a cliff. Refer to the Abilene Paradox.

Additionally, you include the proactive misinformation which, with the power of technology, is running rampant. We are now in the Disinformation Age or Age of Deception. There are powerful agencies that promote an agenda and care not whether it aligns with the truth. This is not surprising; it was predicted 2000 years ago.

This awareness entropy has eroded over time to where there’s now a huge gulf between reality and the perception of the populace. It’s going to take a paradigm shift in perspective for most people to see what is going on and few will have that immediate “aha” moment. I think Covey’s 5th Habit “Seek first to understand, then to be understood” is a worthwhile approach. Some are more clueless than others so one must first determine where the other person is in their thoughts, then try to guide them in the right direction. The current (p)resident in the White House is so bad, it’s not hard to start a discussion of a need for change–over 70% agree the country is going in the wrong direction. This helps open the door to explain why.

Jordan Peterson makes a good point. To accept the elites have complete control and there is nothing we peasants can do about it is a bald-faced lie and a cop out.

The moment you believe you CAN make a difference is the moment you are called to STEP UP – YOU MUST MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

This is the concept of CITIZENSHIP that many people have forgotten or want to forget in their COWARDICE and LAZINESS.

Of course the elites want us to believe THEY are in charge. They want us to believe we are powerless.

The United States of America, a republic founded by great minds, demands ACTIVE citizenship. We are NOT to be BYSTANDERS in our governance.

Too many posting on CTH has surrendered all hope and say we are doomed so WHY BOTHER?

Stop posting your hopeless cynicism. Keep your white flag folded under your jacket. We don’t want you in our foxhole as we battle.

Saying we are powerless is a cowardly conclusion without historic evidence.

The American presidential election of 2016 PROVED the peasants can change the world. The actual results infuriated the elites but we should never forget WE DID CHANGE THINGS when Trump was elected! The world’s elites’ anger towards Donald Trump is proof of a world-shaking event we the people accomplished.

Why accept it can never happen again?

The elites know our call to citizenship triggers an uprising against their tyranny to throw off our chains and escape the plantation of these slave masters.

In January 2017, I was hanging on the rail of a dive boat in the Andaman Sea. I’d just finished three days of 3 and 4 dives a day, and I had just enough energy left to behold the tropical sun splashing off the late morning waves. After a while, my divemaster guide, an Aussie, sidled up and we began some small talk.

He explained what life was like for a farang (the Thai term for westerner) in Thailand. He mentioned, among other tales of petty corruption, how the ruthlessly competitive dive companies in Phuket agreed to come together to approach Thai immigration authorities to agree on a price to keep them from harassing the numerous farangs employed in the dive business.

We ended the conversation with his acknowledgment, “I guess there’s corruption in the West, but we don’t see it.”

I numbly agreed, and was off thinking of remote examples almost as an abstract exercise.

It wasn’t until months later, I realized that I had somehow siloed away in my head things from my own life. My father had two particular stories he was fond of telling about corruption in our native Buffalo, NY. One was about the full-sized replica of Michelangelo’s David rendered in bronze and planted firmly on a marble plinth in Delaware Park. According to the story, it was once insured by the City for fire and theft, two of the most improbable perils possible.

His other favorite tale was about a mayor who was so stupid he took his graft in checks.

Once I realized how I’d siloed these stories and was unable to recall them when confronted with that “evil third world corruption” we all know so well, I began to marvel at the process that went on inside my own head that led me to see America and her foibles as something apart from the rest of the world.

I suppose there’s a fair amount of good old Yankee arrogance that keeps us from seeing things as they truly are. “We have met the enemy, and he is us”?

One final irony about the conversation with the Aussie, it took place about 11 PM EST January 20, 2017, Trump’s inauguration day. When I think of all I’ve learned of corruption in America from that day until this, I shudder!

>>> What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?

The Media Matrix MUST somehow be neutralized.

My wife and I recently had lunch with a dear old friend of ours. He is a Christian, he’s a Republican, he’s staunchly conservative, and just an excellent human being.

But.

When our after-lunch discussion turned to politics (we have always enjoyed talking politics with him), we discovered just how badly he’s been brainwashed by the Matrix.

When I mentioned, very matter of factly, that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Trump, he blanched.

We – he, my wife and I – didn’t argue. We each presented our views on this matter with respect and friendship.

But no amount of evidence of the theft could crack his belief that BIDEN won.

Why does he believe this so firmly? Because the Matrix has told him so, repeatedly, for years. The Matrix has also convinced him that Trump, well, sucks.

He mentioned Russia and Putin during our friendly debate. I voiced my opinion that the Matrix is, and has been, lying about both.

His reply? “Putin is the devil!” This is a direct quote.

Our debate concluded with hugs, and an agreement that we could all agree to disagree.

My point: The Media Matrix, in all it’s many forms, from large to small to obvious to subliminal, is all-powerful.

Guerilla news, such as the Treehouse, is a wonderful thing, and has likely opened millions of eyes (including mine) over the years.

But it’s not enough, in my opinion, considering the late hour.

I, like you, believe 2024 is for all the marbles.

I don’t know how, but IF the Matrix actually began telling the TRUTH, the message would immediately reach the people we desperately need to “convert.” We need critical mass, and we need it NOW.

An example: what if the Matrix actually began telling the TRUTH about the crimes against humanity (especially children) that are being committed every day, year after year, by some (many? most?) people in power?

Such crimes are shocking, and indefensible. The TRUTH of such atrocities, detailed on the nightly news while the Smiths and the Jones are having their supper with their kids, would instantly awaken them.

And then they would begin to question everything else they’ve been told for so many years.

Yes, We The People need THE TRUTH.

And we need it right NOW.

And it needs to hurt.

Again: I don’t know how to compel the Media Matrix to stop lying. I truly wish I did.

But it’s getting late, and I don’t know of another way for the massive “Aha!” that our country so desperately needs to happen in time.

Thanks for letting us Treepers weigh in.

~ EM

I have been following the crystallization process of both Tucker and Peterson for some time, most especially Peterson because of his ongoing search for meaning regarding the concepts of the “Logos.” Language and speech is in essence the focus and concentration of power, especially when it is pure “truth”. In Genesis 1, when God is described as being in the process of creating, creative power is always emphasized by the description, “and GOD said….” That is Logos at work. This is the “Word” at work, and His almighty power and will is the power of His Word. In the New Testament, John 1:1, “Logos” or the “Word” is the resounding truth of all truth that “In the beginning was the WORD (that creative intent and power of God in creating our reality, not a pretense or unreality), and the WORD was with GOD (because only the truth of reality and power and power and come from GOD), and the WORD was GOD (because GOD is TRUTH, not a pretense, not pretending to be reality, but the real truth of our reality as it exists)….” This is the real power of TRUTH when it is wielded with non-pretending reality, with an end goal of what is good, and precious, as seen through the eyes of GOD. It only follows, then, that if we are to be the image of GOD, we must, there is no other alternative, but to speak (LOGOS) to the TRUTH that is without pretending, without an intent to deceive or redirect its power.

Both Tucker and Peterson realize that this is the reality that the elite and powerful fear in Trump. He will reveal the lies, the deception, the abuses of power because he believes in the simple principles of speaking the truth, and letting it do its work for the betterment of all. People are empowered by it, and strengthened by it, and restored by it, and can defeat the lies of “pretending” that is being spewed through the media and cultural thought shapers behind the curtains of fraud and pretending so that their show goes on as they wish it to. That is Trump’s real strength, which is revealed in the historic parallel when the religious leaders and their adherents (pretenders) chose Barabbas over Jesus. (Please do not think I am making Trump a “Jesus” figure, but I am rather drawing upon what was at work in the choice made by the people, chief priest and the elders, who lied and pretended that Jesus was some kind of threat to them). They chose Barabbas because he was not a threat to their desired outcome. For them, it was better to let Jesus be crucified and end His LOGOS, or the power of His speaking the truth, when applied against their evil works and deeds in their pretenses of being righteous. They used the lawfare of the day to bury the truth on that day.

Interestingly, even Pilates wife saw what was happening here and which was closing in on her husband when she sent “word” (LOGOS) to him saying “Have nothing to do with that just man (Jesus), for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.” She recognized immediately the threat of so-called “cancel culture” and the power of the fabricated rumor mill that could bring her and her husband great damage. So she encouraged Pilate to “pretend” and go along with the demands of the crowd.

Both Tucker and Peterson have seen this, and Peterson is fighting it on a daily basis in his conflict with the Canadian government and all their sycophants.

These are challenging and fascinating times, which is going to test all of us as to where we stand with God, and the power of His Word, or Logos. To have real power, our speech, our Logos, must be in the image of Him who created all things that are real today with it’s power and purity.

We can no longer pretend that lies are acceptable. We must speak the truth as it is revealed to us all if we are to survive these trying times.

God bless all who speak the truth and stand for what is righteous, real and wholesome for all!

I have left out the scripture locations, but you can read it all in Matthew 27:15-25. Very powerful description of the events as they played out.

It is we, ordinary men walking in the street, as we, ordinary Christians immersed in the blood‑stream of society whom Our Lord wants to be saints and apostles; in the very midst of our work – professional or otherwise; sanctifying our job in life, sanctifying ourselves in it and, through it; helping others to sanctify themselves as well.

Be convinced that it is there that God awaits us, with all the love of a Father and Friend.

Consider too that, by doing our daily work well and responsibly, not only will we be supporting ourselves financially we will also be contributing in a very direct way to the development of society. We will be relieving the burdens of others and maintaining countless welfare projects, both local and international, on behalf of less privileged individuals and countries. There is no law against that, nor room for BS in that.

“Do not fix your heart on anything that passes away”
We move best through life as just one more, among men.

Excerpt Source : (Friends of God, 120-121)