President Donald J Trump seeks optimal solutions for all challenges. Internally he has his own set of standards and crystal-clear understanding of what he would want in any given situation; this is not difficult for a clear brain to accomplish.
However, in the world of multi-interests and larger group needs, in this case an entire nation of individuals and groups, President Trump knows that optimal solutions are best found closest to the work, closest to the source of the individual hearts. Pragmatic leadership is often about optimal solutions. WATCH:
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He/We will win.
They are increasingly desperate. The need for control is a reaction to fear. The next week to 10 days is critical.
I have much to share with our fellowship. You will journey with me.
Ok. Tell us.
Why are the next week to 10 days so critical ?
In due time my friend.
“Patriots Do Not Flinch”
SD said he will share.
tick tock lol
Do you tell your enemy your plans?
Should Sundance roll out a red carpet for them on the way to the open door of the SCIF?
hmmm…
what’s happening soon?
https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/04/09/heres-why-the-gop-is-delaying-the-alejandro-mayorkas-impeachment/
schumer is delaying it
Gathering dust between his ears?
That implies McConnell and Thune WANT the Majorkas Impeacent to go forward (they DON’T!) and Schumer is blocking or delaying it, and thats not accurate.
McConnell, Thune and the Decepticons in leadership in the Senate, Cornyn, Rubio, Cruz, Blackburn, Grassley, etc. want everything Schumer, Durbin etc. want.
The UNIparty are UNIted in wanting to destroy PDJT and MAGA, the Constitution and America.
True dutchman and one of the main reasons I do not share sundance optimism about Trump and us winning. It’s bad enough the entire media, democrat plantation and government is against him but his own party is too! And even if he wins how can he govern? I certainly hope I’m wrong.
Weak attempt 👻
Another “Tick Tock”, “Some people are getting verrrry nervous”, and “Cold Anger”?
You trying to ridicule Sundance?
Because that’s what it looks like.
as much as we love Sundance and the material he provides,
some of us can take a joke
and, might I say, blind faith is reserved for our Lord
A good comedian knows his audience. I didn’t see the humor either. It sounded very cynical to me.
Cynicism in this world is a very appropriate. How many “heroes” have already disappointed us?
But has Sundance, yet?
Nice try.
Everything Zen – I don’t think so!
Is BUSH involved?
Touche. 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
If so, let’s do Glycerine.
“Blind faith is reserved for our Lord”- Thank you! And that has to be applied to PDJT as well.
Exactly!
Illurion had the privilege of leading off this thread and he came across as a shallow thinker whereas
Dan Patterson was downright mean.
This is not a “sense of humor” or “take a joke” post by Sundance and that should be apparent to long-time Treepers.
Nailed it. It’s all up and down the comment section already.
Doom and gloom; and weak attempts to belittle Sundance and his upcoming messages/revelations.
“Desperate attempts” = reactions to fear!
It is not doom and gloom. It is reality. I hope for the best and expect the worst.
Yes, this. By their words you will know their hearts.
Glad to hear from you SD. Thanks.
Cheers, I just signed in after getting the dog out and then feeding him.
Then on to a couple of important ( to me readings)
and then on to TCTH.
A gracious heart beat as I opened this latest post.
Then “ a few of the comments “ 😏 why any negativity?
President Trump always pragmatic, and always upbeat.😎
Children please, enough.
I find it so baffling how some people interject “humor” at just the wrong moment. We are THIS CLOSE to going to battle and some people mock Sundance with a “tick tock” comment as though SD is as dense as Hannity or QAnon and other stupid people.
Sundance hosts this site and …
I am at a loss for words. I haven’t even had my first cup of tea and I see these insulting “jokes”.
I believe if I’m not mistake April 19th is the deadline date for the Title 1 surveillance renewal etc. I may be wrong but I know April 19 has something to do with something important.
Patriots Day. Sundance has mentioned it several times. April 19…
isn’t Patriot’s Day the 15th? 3rd Monday in April
“FISA brings down the house.””
Lexington and concord- April 19th – just saying
I believe [April 19] the original Patriots Day is the day the Supreme Court will respond to Kari Lake’s petition for A Writ of Certtiorari in her election integrity case vs Adrian Fontes Arizona Secretary of State , et al. The Georgia Republican Party submitted its Amicus yesterday.
https://state-of-denial.com/supreme-court/
Today in NYS, Cara Castronuevo is representing herself, against the State R party run by Ed Cox, a RINO that puts Rinos in office and blocks MAGA, in a court case challenging the signature requirement to get on the primary ballot.
Details at TGP.
President Trump just came out asking Congress to kill FISA.
That is close to a 180 from the position he took on the previous renewal.
It is a BIG DEAL, IMHO.
No. kidding, allows them to spy on citizens, totally Un constitutional.
Patience, grasshopper, patience.
So, I know who Patience is, often posts “is this true?” memes, but who is this “grasshopper” you are addressing? lol…
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Patience…is this meme true?
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A day and a half 🙂
Does size matter? 🤓
It does if you’re only getting half.
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I believe it is referencing Grasshopper from the Kung Fu TV show back in the 70s.
Yep.
For some things you gotta be old.
I qualify!
There some big primary states voting in the next couple of weeks.
It takes time to write things up, time to wrap your head around a complex issue, time to think. Consider how much time we spend reading here and other places in an attempt to gain sufficient information to make decisions (or not!). For the most part, we are not the ones actually gathering the information, rather we consume it from the ease and comfort of a screen.
We live in interesting times and those times may demand something from us. An analogy for those of us who live in the country: cutting brush is better in the spring when you can see where all the brambles actually start. If you take out the root system the rest is much easier. Let’s find out where those roots are…
Every red blooded American who loves this country needs to wake up. Stop watching that idiot box that’s sitting in your living room where the finely dressed talkers have no idea what fundamental changes are turning our country into.
The goal of the evils doers is to cause Americans to shut up; obey our masters; and stop being educated. Evil has replaced education about our history and our great nation that has worked through flaws and allowed millions to prosper. They, our enemy, wants to control us and you can see that control happening now with how this web site is having to communicate with its readers. WAKE UP. Shut up and listen to the silence.
I CUT THE CORD in 2005. Freedom!!
Yeah. Get married, have babies, and worship God, day-in and day-out!
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Wtl1 has provided what I beleive to be an answer. The (what 402 maybe?) Fisa is expiring. The surveillance of President Trumps campaign is currently ongoing under this statute. I do not know what Sundance is hinting at, but this is one of the things happening in the given timeframe. And it’s important.
They have been setting up, and now are ramping up, a new phase in their survellence state.
Recall what they did prior to 2020, and assume THIS time will be ‘worse’ or more; they kicked the sitting POTUS OFF of twitter.
They tried to shut down CTH, by kicking off wordpress with little notice.
They had Dominion threaten “election deniars” with Billion $ lawsuits, if they didn’t self censor on 2020 election and Covid.
They are desperate, they are scared,…and they have no conscionce.
Hell, they dropped a bioweopon virus and vax in the World, just to win an election, clearly demonstrating they will do anything to hold on to control.
The bio weapon was to avoid the fiscal collapse of the US that had begun in sept/Oct of 2019 and to depopulate the western world, especially holders of SS and pensions, because the money for these was sdolen.
The stolen election and installation of Biden was just gravy to cover congress s treasons.
Hold your horses!
All in good time.
What a blast to my past. My parents said that all the time to us kids !!!
have patience, young Jedi
I’m guessing that the news is the release of these concert dates.
https://www.a1a-live.com/#/
There are a lot of things coming to a head this month. Various Trump cases, Ukraine, FISA reauthorization, etc. Democrats have a Biden problem. A lot of people think they’ll pull him at the convention, but I’ve always believed they needed to do it by Apr/May.
The flood of doom and gloom polling in the media for Biden is starting to boil over. If SCOTUS agrees that Trump has immunity, the meltdown is going to be epic. Potentially “George Floyd” in intensity.
The Trump video he shared is telling. Trump is running a very smart campaign. By taking away Roe as a national campaign issue he has forced the regime to take the position that abortions aren’t just a right…they’re a requirement. Trump is staking out the sane position. The LIFE position. Thanking each SCOTUS member is good optics.
The Party of Death (see also: Ukraine, Gaza, illegals, fentanyl/China, forced vaccinations, and illegals) is having a hard time competing. We are, literally, on the side where if you join us, more people live.
Anyway, I have no idea what Sundance was referring to, and the cryptic posts can be annoying at times. That being said, it does seem like April could be an impactful month.
The Russians haven’t responded to the terror attack yet, and like the Nordstream pipeline, a lot of people believe the USA was behind it. Then you have Israel insanely bombing an embassy. Iran has been a global pariah for 45 years because of what they did to the US embassy in 1979.
So, take your pick.
Roe was leaked ahead of time. Don’t be surprised if we get a SCOTUS leak about the Trump case. Judge Cannon down in Miami seems poised to kill the documents case, and may only be waiting for SCOTUS to give her top cover.
As far as abortion politics goes, the Arizona supreme court ruling that a 160 year old law that was recently discovered and dusted off, has been made the law of the Arizona land, has the smell of election year politics. They know that nothing else will energize the left’s base more than a ban on abortion.
The timing of this decision, right after President Trump’s pragmatic statement on abortion, where it is a state issue and not a federal one gives the left more fuel for their base to make it a federal one. I would not be surprised if more swing states are now looking thru the dusty archives for a similar law.
Play the long war, our enemies do.
You need to understand their strategies too.
I do. What I can’t help is that too many people on our side assumed that ending Roe would settle things and they let the Left ram through various bills.
The majority of the public wants two things: abortion and never, ever to be asked to talk about it. Ever. Anything to get those shrill harpies to stop screaming about their uterus is worth it. Nails on a chalkboard.
“Oh no! Some AZ court did something that will energize Democrats!”
I have no sympathy for Republican voters who aren’t similarly energized to stop Democrats. Seriously, WTF?
The sad truth is that a lot of Republicans don’t care about abortion because it’s not something they’ll use. Or, they’re just tired of being screamed at and if it shuts the harpy death cult up, the peace and quiet is worth it.
You’re basically conceding that we’re the minority opinion.
And there you have the fallacy of relying on the courts to protect you. The 1864 law was undoubtedly the opinion of AZ voters at that time and probably continued up to the imposition of Roe v Wade. At that point the Left didn’t bother to try to get it repealed since the Supremes had spoken. Sadly, the Right is making exactly the same mistake re the 2A. All while a bunch of states are nullifying Bruen and getting away with it. At some point the Supremes will change their mind and then we are left holding the bag.
Good point.
60 years ago, when R vs Wade was ‘decided’ and so became the “law of the land” it superceded any State laws in place at the time.
However, State Legislatures did not bother to rescind those laws, which therefore remained ‘on the books’.
I am puzzled how Az. following this proceedure is characterised; they are “going back to” the law, as it was before R v W.
WHAT else would you expect them to do?
Yep; same in WI. Unfortunately the law is being ignored and 2 abortuaries have opened up and nothing being done legally to stop them from operating.
Words can not describe how much I trust Sundance. I have been reading here for many years (15 or so) and only started commenting when the password protected posts started. I will leave it to Sundance to explain what he meant. Once again, I trust him explicitly.
The trolls are becoming more common on the Treehouse. They are usually easy to spot. I am also noticing a little more negativity in the comments. My wife is a retired kindergarten teacher and one of her most spoken phrases was: Play nice children.
I think maybe this is in the same folder as “Trust the Plan”.
Well, you thought wrong. Again!!!!
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Since Sundance has been mocking the Trusty Planners and the Tick Tockers for, oh, a decode or so now, you may have filed this incorrectly.
Knowingly and willfully I am certain.
Chill!
How bout the house flipping? Being done in by the rinos!!!
Don’t get me started on those traitors, which I know they ALL are!!!
So what? MAGA did NOT control the House in 2016, the Uniparty did.
And, after the 2018 midterms, the Uniparty still controlled the House.
The Uniparty controlled the House before “9 days to select a Speaker” when McCarthy was installed, and when replacing him with Mike same old whine, brand new bottle McJohnson was installed, and WE will most definetly NO “Lose the House” as you can not possibly lose something you never had!
STOP PRETENDING
Thank you. Sometimes we tend to forget how treacherous the republican party is.
I cannot wait to see what you have uncovered lately. 😇
I look so forward to your reporting, it’s the only real news and information out there.
May God continue to bless and watch over the magnificent Treehouse.
Sundance… my ONLY source of REAL news🙏🏻❤️
Thank you, Sir 🫡.
Actually it is all of us. Sundance is the Great Facilitator.
Yes, because he’s so right so often and way ahead of the curve.
Amen! I read this site daily. Only site I trust.
This is the only news source I follow anymore. All others regurgitate what comes down the wire and we all know how unreliable that shi-er-stuff is. I might miss out on a lot of non-political news but who needs it anyway? If it’s important I’ll hear about it sooner or later.
Exactly what I told my wife the other day when was telling me about something she saw on the TV,which I never watch,
” Reply to Southern girl
This is the only news source I follow anymore. All others regurgitate what comes down the wire and we all know how unreliable that shi-er-stuff is. I might miss out on a lot of non-political news but who needs it anyway? If it’s important I’ll hear about it sooner or later.”
April 19 approaches.
I remember. Thought maybe sooner. Time draws nigh.
We will see.
Many have been waiting on that moment for years now.
A focus on particular dates has been a guaranteed miss, except for the 8’s, so far. In an information war, every side may have a reason to fix attention here on this date, and not there, on that one.
We just have to be ready for whatever may come.
And if the next ten days are relatively uneventful, I won’t be excoriating Sundance with “tik tok” either- because we don’t see what might change in the landscape through the creation of the unmet expectations, as the enemy adjusts or backs off.
Hold the line.
Mark 4:23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
May God bless Sundance & family, the Treehouse, and Treepers!
Have not heard much from you the past several days Sundance.
I figured you went down a few rabbit holes and I am eagerly waiting to hear what you found down those rabbit holes.
He may have found a rabbit….silly rabbit, Trix are for kids
He knows that powerful enemy sympathizers want him silenced. He is changing tactics and his thoughts that you love to read are being kept from his readers because he speaks the truth. We are all going to be hunkered down in rabbit holes before the evil doers are done. Freedom is the reason.
When is the last time that a young person who has taken the wrong direction was saved? Our military used to be a place where discipline and respect for law and order helped to change our youth into productive citizens. Who joins the military anymore? Our schools and military have been at the top of the list that evil doers want to destroy and we, the people, have let this happen to us. WAKE UP.
Standing by awaiting the journey, thx
Win?
The definition of winning does not include the left first diluting, then polluting, the Constitution with the support and applause of the opposing party!
Winning does not include reducing the traditional American family to a faded memory, one now sneered and ridiculed by pop culture.
Winning does not include an unfathomable budget crisis and fiat currency.
Winning the invasion war?
Winning the education destruction war?
Trump and his (possibly) coming administration is not the salvation, his popularity does not extend into the reaches of the left where it would do the most good. It might be he becomes the next POTUS, and that is a good thing for all of us. But it is NOT the win many of us need. That one comes later if at all.
The left is winning at every turn. Yes they are.
The institutions that once made America great are gone, and they are not coming back. Neither is your childhood. Something has to take the place of what was. Maybe (maybe??) that can happen, but it won’t happen with one election.
Professional politicians are steadily at work ruining the nation, the UniParty is the enemy and the enemy will not retreat over one election, or even dozens.
And save your “God’s Got This” lectures. The intervention of Jesus placed our fate with our own decisions, there will be no further intervention. Yes, God has your heart and your soul and those are your personal battles, this culture war and national security one is on us.
Take your doom and gloom to a group of people that it may work on.
And your seeming lack of faith and misapplication of the teachings of Jesus and scriptures.
Jesus grants grace to all who accept him. HIS fate, not ours.
And He said he would come again. When is the only question. And you claim no further intervention, ever?
Who are YOU to dictate what Jesus will do or not do? And contradict what He promised?
God never promised sunshine and rainbows to his followers. In fact, he said we would be persecuted. So….
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Winston Churchill
…the “apparently overwhelming might” of the enemy.
That’s exactly the sentiment I first heard expressed by Col Allen West at a Tea Party rally in Indian River County years ago, when he described it as the wartime tactic of “perception management”, aka gaslighting.
Nothing new under the sun.
Trust God. Fear not.
Truth is so precious that she must often be attended by a bodyguard of lies. W.Churchill.
Thanks to all those who refuse to listen to the “resistance is futile” group invading CTH today.
The attack is constant and unremitting, and they try to be like ocean waves, slowly eroding a shoreline.
The approach may change with the current events, but it never relents.
As more trolls show up on the Treehouse, it seems that Sundance is becoming more effective.
I worry about his personal safety, along with President Trump.
Hence our daily prayers for both.
We are so blessed here, and there are indeed a vast number of troublemakers nipping at our heels here.
Every journey starts with the first step. If not now, when?
The system has become a bloated monster, so big that much is required of all, which includes incorporating the deeper values of our childhoods, to the current mess we are ALL in.
The ink was not dry on the Declaration of Independence, when there was plotting to twist it for ones own ideology, or ‘dogma’.
Time creates change and it is how we pragmatically adapt to the change that time has wrought.
If not Trump, then who? If not us, then who?
Powerful nations have risen up and want to destroy our way of life. Look at a map and you will see that compared to the epicenters of evil, the United States looks as small as Israel. Think hard and then WAKE UP!
Maybe that was the problem…the ever expanding U.S. military and C.I.A. interventions.
That only benefited politicians and corporations.
Cheers!
Good points. Agreed.
The spiritual cannot “fix” the physical.
Never underestimate the enemy, they may appear stupid, but they are not. They are clever, cunning, conniving and evil, with absolutely no moral compass. Yet “they” think their Malthusian cult mission is “good for humanity”
Question: If you fix the spiritual in a man, will he manifest it physically? You will be known by your fruits…
In most cases, yes. The Malthusian cult – I doubt it is possible, look at their antics at Bohemian Grove,
who knows what they get up to in Davos. The town fills up with expensive “ladies” before they arrive, which gives a clue.
“I am the Lord thy God. There is none else.” None Else. In the degree we understand that we will see God’s kingdom come on earth and indeed the “spiritual” can “fix” the “physical.” But it is not magic. It is not blind faith in God or in Jesus. We must grow in grace and have the Mind that was also in Christ Jesus as Scripture says. We must pray ‘Open Thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.’ Having come to this point of spiritual growth and understanding, we can then ‘stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord.’ When the Council of Nicea turned the simple, but profound (and demanding) spiritual teachings of Christ Jesus into its present mutilated doctrinal platform they did an enormous disservice to mankind. We have sown to the wind because of it and are now reaping the whirlwind. Go back to the Bible. Read it prayerfully, with an open mind. Ask God to tell you its meaning. It will open your eyes.
Mutilated doctrinal platform? And you’re qualified to make that assessment, how exactly?
Christian doctrine, as brought to the world by the Council of Nicea, teaches what those ‘learned men’ thought about Jesus. Almost every Christian church today teaches ABOUT Jesus, as they see it. It is rare to find a church that teaches what Jesus actually taught. That is all I’m saying. He told us that we should be doing the works that he did “and greater works than these.” Why do we not do them? Because we believe in Christian doctrine, instituted from the minds of men. We have not learned the lessons Jesus himself taught us. Again, go to your Bible, read it with an open mind, and ask God to tell you its meaning — particularly the words of Christ Jesus. Those are Jesus’ teachings we ought to be following.
The spiritual has to ‘fix’ the physical.
To get to one’s heart, one’s mind must be in the right frame.
Never underestimate God, for with Him all things are possible.
Try reading the book of Ephesians, which focuses on the body, then the book of Colossians, which focuses on the head.
Trust God. Fear not.
Kinda like Hillary suggesting the ‘deplorables’ need to undergo “formal deprogramming”, when the Truth is, that she and her ilk need to undergo an ‘informal programming’.
Trust God. Fear not.
Yes! It is renewing, not fixing. We need a new birth (born again) to become a new creature, a new nature.
Actually, they are stupid.
“These people are stupid.”
Fact check: true
Their own arrogance and narcissism has undone them.
You’ve given up, so sorry. I’ll pray for you. It’s best not to spread your gloom, you cheapen your soul
The internet has given the weirdo’s a good reason to get real weird. We live today where there are cameras EVERYWHERE. Everyone is taping EVERYTHING. They can not wait to post ALL their weirdo clips on all the on line services provided. We must remember these providers did not exist a few years back. More people have door cams, tree cams and drones, and other devices than ever before. NONE OF THIS WERID CRAP SURPRISES ME! I think it is funny.
You are tiresome and tedious Dan Patterson.
Thankfully in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus said, “God’s got this.”
No. Actually, Christ SUFFERED GREATLY for us in the Garden of Gethsemane. He actually sweat blood! It was not sunshine and rainbows, and people who think that cheapen His GREAT GIFT!!!
Ha! I just used that same phrase above “sunshine and rainbows”
God took a sorry-ass people, a nation of slaves, and made of them a great nation. While they honored and worshipped God, they prospered. When they turned to idols in order to fit in with the nations around them, they died.
I see it with this nation. We’ve been trying to do it all ourselves with God relegated to the sidelines if He is acknowledged at all. Now, I think, people are digging down to the faith of their fathers, dusting off their Bibles, and turning their hearts back to God. It is slow, but it is happening.
This return to God MUST happen for any kinetic effort to succeed.
AMEN!!!
God does have this, but he often intentionally partners with man to achieve things.
The Bible is full of examples where God partners with man…Sampson, David, Moses, etc. Prayer is powerful and God can do this alone, but often he chooses to use us.
The apathy in our culture is overwhelming. Lucifer, that old Devil, will not give up. In God’s time, Satan will be confined to Hell along with those who rebel against the Creator of all that is and is to come. I find comfort in the spiritual blessings of the New Covenant instituted by Jesus Christ. I also honor the orthodoxy of the millions of the Saints who have gone before and who have offered their lives as a living sacrifice to the triune God. I can do no better. The apathy in many of my fellow human beings saddens me. I will be more aggressive in my actions toward the present apathy and confront it at every opportunity, hoping to awaken some from the death and sleep of sin.
Gucala
Better go back to Sunday School or read or reread the Bible.
Work on your reading comprehension.
Who is THIS Dan Patterson that places his stench upon this hallowed site???? Be GONE TROLL!!!
Sounds like a sunshine patriot to me…….(look it up if you dont know)
and take your brain minions without critical thinking with you……..
So, how long, exactly, has this been happening? This is very much a culture war, and thank heaven PDJT has, and still is, EXPOSING all the rot! Now it’s up to us to pray, fast, get married, have babies, and make our entire culture Christian again!!!
I restored this comment. I don’t agree with much of it, but I am tired of seeing people delete comments they just don’t like. Disagree, debate, discuss. Don’t be a coward and flag someone just because you don’t like what they say.
This is a forum for discussion, not a pre-teen clubhouse.
Thanks Menagerie.
The answer to bad speech is more speech.
We sharpen our minds through practice. It just so happens this is on the equivalent of a wooden sword on the other side 😉
What points did I make that were bad, that you disagree with?
Win?
The definition of winning does not include the left first diluting, then polluting, the Constitution with the support and applause of the opposing party!
Winning does not include reducing the traditional American family to a faded memory, one now sneered and ridiculed by pop culture.
Winning does not include an unfathomable budget crisis and fiat currency.
Winning the invasion war?
Winning the education destruction war?
Trump and his (possibly) coming administration is not the salvation, his popularity does not extend into the reaches of the left where it would do the most good. It might be he becomes the next POTUS, and that is a good thing for all of us. But it is NOT the win many of us need. That one comes later if at all.
The left is winning at every turn. Yes they are.
You set up a false dichotomy. All these things are indeed being done by the left, and they are effective. That doesn’t not mean they are winning and we are losing, or even the reverse. What it means is that citizens throughout the world, and especially Americans, have been fat and lazy and we let all this happen. It means we have an urgent need to get involved, to work, to educate ourselves, family, friends, and especially our kids.
I don’t believe the most ardent Trump supporter, even Sundance, would call President Trump our salvation. In politics and culture, we are our salvation, or we lose. Everything. One man alone cannot save us, and only the “trust the plan” crew ever thought that.
At what point during the Revolutionary War, up until perhaps the last months, would you have said we were winning? When in WWII would you have picked the Allies?
Who, at the foot of the Cross, would have seen the spread of Christianity, and the survival of the religion of the Apostles, martyrs all but one? Who, watching Christians die under the shadow of the Egyptian obelisk at the Circus Maximus, would see that now as a symbol in the city at the very center of Christian longevity and heritage?
All that you say may well be accurate, but I don’t see it as truth. Just because it exists, just because they do it, that does not define or constitute a win.
Given that graciousness I asked to be re-read with an open mind, and to recall the many circumstances where we’ve all been primed and prompted (not only here; I meant no slander against the site or its contributors) for a victory “just over the horizon” and the many “we’ll get ’em next time” elections. All while we run toward destruction.
Hope is not a plan.
God gave us reason and logic for use on earth, use those to make a plan.
While there is always a positive grain in every silo, there is also no denying the facts. What POTUS offers is a platform for potential reform but there has to be down-ticket accumulation, a solid grass-roots upheaval, and success in policy implementation; don’t forget policies take time to bear fruit. The culture has moved far away from where many of us want it to be, the divide now is deeper and wider than in 1860. World events are trending toward conflict, and the US is far too weak to participate successfully.
Whatever reveal is coming through the Sundance contacts is important, but not so important as to pin your hopes on that as a rescue. Please stop doing that, please concentrate on success locally, then nationally. Yes your personal values are important, and yes you can make a difference to those in your close circle; but no you cannot bend the will of a tyrant through prayer any more than you can stop a bullet. Try arguing that point with the millions of ghosts murdered by starvation, gas, artillery, and any number of man-made methods of ending life.
Changing the trajectory of a nation is only accomplished by action, physical action supported by a humane and spiritually-based culture. Neither of those items is readily at hand in quantities enough to warrant celebration.
I, too, support Trump in the re-election effort and his platform is far superior to any coming from other sources.
I support President Trump. However, I have said, and will continue to say, that he could be better in building a strong coalition, and an organization and structure of people who can learn from and with him, and continue his gains into the future.
After the election was stolen, we were swamped with commenters who advised us to “trust the plan” and also those who believed God would never allow such injustice to stand. Neither of those is a shoe leather meets pavement solution, and telling someone to trust some anonymous, imagined plan is silly.
I am not saying that neither Trump nor the Lord have a plan. I am saying let’s stop sitting on our butts and waiting for rescue. We are the rescuers. Or we are lost.
So true!
We are saying the same thing.
I just took more words to ‘splain myself.
“There will be no further interventions”
LOL.
If you’ve ever walked with God, even once, you know He is intervening ALL THE TIME.
Even when you might not see it, and even when you do see it but the grip of the Holy Spirit turns out to be as uncomfortable as all get out, and frankly, you look crazy but you take the next step under His command, not yours.
God is with us. Emmanuel.
And, as Roseanne Barr said, He is pissed.
Missed my point entirely.
But thank you for the sentiment; I agree with it but not as it applies to winning this election and righting the ship electorally.
Yet, we have President Trump leading many forward.
Cheers!
i’m sure we all realize that saving this nation will be a marathon, not a sprint. We also realize that there is only one man who is capable of tackling such an immense task. It’s not going to be quick or easy but it has to start somewhere. And it requires that we remain positive. Defeatism is one of our biggest enemies.
RE: “The institutions that once made America great are gone”. I have to disagree with you here. The institutions were taken over and subverted by the left. The long march through the Institutions and all. but what that results in is those institutions fail under the mismanagement of the left. Then the disillusioned masses (who are not leftists) abandon the ruins and look for something else.
That is where we come in. We say hey, we know how to rebuild institutions that will meet our needs much better. And we lead that charge.
That is why this is an exciting and hopeful time. The left are big on promises of a bright future but they can’t deliver. But most people don’t realize that until they see the failure with their own eyes. Now we are at the point where the failure is obvious. This is our opportunity to come in with real solutions. Will it take time to rebuild? Sure! But what else should we be doing with our time and energy?
This font you are using indicates this was copied from some where else, add this to Black Knight’s reply to you.
You are mistaken.
Life is precious – it’s still a thing! We were not meant to be sacrificed because of the evil in the hearts of others.
Morals, Values!
IVF kills babies
And it usurps God’s role in creation. We are behaving like gods! It should be illegal! That’s what ADOPTION is for!!!
No matter how baby conceived, only a creation of God.
So get your state to outlaw it.
I happen to agree that IVF is an abomination tied to even worse abominations, but I know, very well, that the public consciousness is nowhere near seeing that fact.
We fight on the field of war that exists, not the one we wish existed.
Get the popcorn ready!
I was very annoyed with Scott Ritter’s comment today on Danny Haipong’s podcast with Garland Nixon, and Haipong asks Ritter about President Trump’s expected response (listen 1 x minute for the back drop 46:18 – 48.39 then paraphrases Trump).
Not happy Jan …
Ritter irritated me also. A starting point in negotiations seldom puts forward one’s “compromise” position. Odessa, for example: the Russians say no deal without Odessa in Russian hands. Trump can reply: OK. What does Trump offer in addition: NO NATO membership and Austrian style nuterality for Ukraine. Ritter, in this instance, fails to account for the flexibility that “unpredictability” offers Trump. Trump suffers from many weaknesses and makes for an imperfect weapon. But negotiations remain a strong point for Trump. Ritter’s comments betray a deeper dissatisfaction with Trump than unpredictability.
Ritter obviously has not read “Art of the Deal.”
In the grand scheme of things what Ritter thinks, or believes goes as far as an invitation for a podcast appearance.
Sorry , I never liked Ritter and still don’t – a resuscitated career – after his personal history – sorry , an acquired taste but not on my menu – –
just in case , not aware – look him up on Wiki – 2001 internet police sting /fake underage decoy girl – arrested got a pass /. 2009 same thing – trial and found guilty and served 2 or so years in prison , paroled in 2014 – a little like Anthony Weiner …
Judgmental? perhaps , but sources giving opinions etc – their background history is pertinent sometimes …
I don’t like Ritter, but the “the sting” was three letter strandard mo. Get ur info for some place better than wiki.
i don’t like Ritter because he talks out of his ass and he think he knows more than he does. His value factor is like zero.
Really ? He went to prison – and so he was a victim ? Local police sting infiltrated by CIA ( Bourne identity style ? Ok ). But Pretty naive for such a smart guy to fall for it TWICE, DYT ?- and how much was he trolling between the two arrests? – Get real / think Anthony Weiner – –
You can think he was set up / I can think he was doing it on his own – but if you like conspiracy /set ups as the explanation good for you , lets you sleep with one eye open ..
It was a beat dummy on video charge for the one he went to prison for. Pretty weak charges but hey, they got him. Doesn’t sound close to Weiner and more like the guy caught doing it on the Zoom call.
Not defending him. His comments are good enough to discredit him. I do think the first incident was a setup. Second was too, but just shows you how stupid he really is.
your First sentence -is that some sort of street slang ? no comprende – You should have been his lawyer – IDT he made the “ I was framed /set up “ claim – – btw he , like Weiner , sent pictures of his little friend the 2nd time- ( 2 setups -8 years apart -they must have really had in for him, I guess ? – get real ) -keep digging – I’m done
Fearless Leader,
I think I can speak for all or virtually all of us here on our branches, we await your information, analysis, that leads to our education/re-education.
My journey here started around 2015, but in so many aspects I still feel it is nascent, as I learn about new and different attempts at control every day.
I know I am far, far, from alone in my re-education.
Thanks Sundance, Menagerie, Adrem, and all other CTH crew members. I await further information and knowledge.
Some random vocabulary, dogma and pragmatic, to meditate upon….
“If you’re pragmatic, you’re practical. You’re living in the real world, wearing comfortable shoes. If you’re dogmatic, you follow the rules. You’re living in the world you want, and acting a little stuck up about it. Pragmatic people have their feet on the ground and their heads there, too”. (google, dictionary.com)
“living in the world you want and acting a little stuck up about it”….kind of like the libs?
Or another idea, libs are trying to change things, to a ‘dogma’ of their own making…pronouns?
Dogma……”a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.
“the rejection of political dogma”(google, dictionary.com)…
People commonly confuse dogmatic and pragmatic because they both refer to approaches to decision-making. Dogmatic refers to an approach that relies heavily on established beliefs and principles, while pragmatic refers to an approach that is practical and focused on tangible results.Jan 24, 2023 (google).
Thank you Aggiegirl. This is something I had not considered but find the perspective quite interesting.
Stubbornness is a survival skill.
🎯
I always enjoy your comments and replies, and the thoughts you have expressed today are no exception.
I hope you are feeling better and pray you will stay well.
SD & treepers, some of the best travel partners ever!
Let’s roll!
There’s two retaliation strikes coming. The first is for the atrocity committed against innocent civilians at the Crocus concert hall which most likely can be traced back to a certain three letter agency.
The second is coming from Iran for the international criminal act of attacking an embassy by Israel. Both retaliatory actions will be deemed unprovoked by western media and are going to be used to justify expanding either or both of these conflicts into something much larger.
Watch Mohammed Bin Salman –
The most important diplomatic force in the world today.
This isn’t going to go like MI6 and CIA predict.
If the Saudis and Iran decide to seriously curtail oil production by closing the gulf of Hormuz and Bin Salmon just closing the spigots America and the west’s economies would collapse. We have almost no Strategic Oil reserves left and Europe has already been cut off from cheap energy from Russia.
That would be my choice of retaliation if I were Iran
Glad to read from you again but please be careful in your locked club house. Sometimes when one thinks it’s the safest place only to find it becomes a chosen attack point.
I heard that Dominion and the other black box cheating machine makers are about to get a slapping heard round the world.
Yea. There have been a lot of bad outcomes for the mail in NPCs and the recent machine “tales” again
Saw that some media people were discussing how unsafe mail ins are? Ya think, they’re trying to get in front of something
Apparently, when the devil went down to Georgia, he was in a truck with 147 thousand ballots, all without signature verification. Any connection to the tractor trailer load delivered to Harrisburg, friends? Or Mr. H. Floyd’s saga of illegal wire-tapping?
Oh, THAT would just make my day!!!
Dominion = CIA
I’d expect, the things coming at this great man are beyond any normal comprehension. He/we must be stopped at all costs and the demons are in urgent mode which makes them dangerous, even lethal.
I’ve learned when President Trump has something to say, listen.
Be prepared, stay alert, keep God and family close.
Ultra-MAGA!
Pray and fast!!!
You know, while I enjoy your perspective on the world around us, this particular post is a great example of why I have stopped looking in on you on a regular basis. Your approach is rather condescending to those of us who make up your readership.
You might wish to tone that down in the future. After all, we are not stupid.
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What’s so condescending, specifically? Nothing!
Tone down what? Optimism? Hope?
Sounds like you don’t want hope for the future to abound to me. Hmm, I wonder why? 🤔 👀
You stopped looking in on a regular basis, but you’re here early in the morning? Yeah, right. Got it.
If you don’t like the message, then BYE!!!!
👁
I’ve read tons of your posts and you’re one of the reasons I no longer post here regularly. CTH has become a cult of Sundance worshipping sycophants with ANY questioning or reasoning disallowed. You are immediately attacked as being disloyal, anti Trump, or even “un Christian”. And I’ve been here almost since the beginning, and watched the evolution.
If Sundance is so weak he can’t take questioning, criticism, or input (he’s not) then his insight gets lost. And yes, Sundance IS condescending quite often, but I don’t believe in a malicious way, it’s just his style. Besides, I was teaching people to follow the money decades before CTH ever existed. It’s ALWAYS about the love of money. That’s NOT a revolutionary concept, and I’m grateful for how Sundance makes others aware who may not have my life experiences. Money is not intuitive to many people.
So have at it, attack me. I’m as appreciative of the info here as you. But I’ll not shame myself by outsourcing my brain to Sundance or anyone.
Just sayin’. And “bye yourself”, what a dick thing to say.
George, I agree, we need people who think for themselves. Sundance neither needs, nor wants, a cult. Logical defense of one’s position is great. Attacks on those who march outside the lines is juvenile, tiring, and we get an increasing number of complaints about it.
Not everyone who offers criticism or differing opinions is a troll. I am getting tired of the attacks, and the use of the flagging system to shut down commenters whose opinion is just not liked.
I am suggesting a number of commenters take a deep breath and re-evaluate their responses to other opinions. Disagree and debate all day. Insult and attack someone for just not agreeing, no.
We have enough to deal with here. Don’t add to the problem. My admin style excludes babysitting. I won’t do it.
Excellent post.. you are appreciated.
I have often,…one might even say consistently posted comments taking exception to, or in some way ‘disagreeing with’ Sundance, or some aspect of a position he has taken.
As an example, early on he took the position the DNC would replace Joe, and not run him in 2024, and I have consistently stated I think unless he is daid, they will run him.
point is, Sundance welcomes brainstorming and crowdsourcing and RESPECTFUL disagreements is what I want, as without outliers we end up in an info bubble, like the leftists and go down that road and you lose all contact with reality.
I have begun to take names and just pass the criticism posts cause they are too negative for my style, and when its constantly the same ole same ole it kinda puts me to sleep. I do love the posters that help contribute alot of good info that I just didnt catch on my travels around the internet. Kinda makes me wanta dig harder into alot of reasons why things are happening the way they are.
BTW, lets all give a shout out to the monitors on this site for keeping my presence here a comforting one, I want these last years of my life a smooth sail into heaven 😛
THANK YOU.
a gazillion likes, M.
spot on comment, and a wonderful example of how to converse without being disagreeable.
perhaps you could repost that at the top of every page….
and the middle….and the bottom….of every post….every day?😁😂
So sad when Patriots start to divide over silly things. Regardless of Sundance’s tone, wording or sentiments he has stepped out to resolve and find a pathway that we all have/can benefit(ed) from over the years. Just remember, they are trying to divide us at every turn. Ask yourself if you will allow it or just move on ….
Thanks Menagerie.
I could care less what you think about me, today, tomorrow or ever. Let that sink in deep to your core.
What some people with ‘delicate sensibilities’ regard as “condescending” is regarded by most as candidness. If you don’t like Sundance’s tone or style – deal with it or leave. No one makes you poor anyone else like him and his style.
And while you may not be aware, many of us know first hand, the efforts of professional infuencers and have been instrumental in exposing those efforts and individuals to the mods for removal. They are legion. Lost count.
Your deflection of attacking “questioning or reasoning” where neither exists says a lot. 👀
And your suggestion to self censor belies leftist tendencies to shame into such since you personally have no control to do that to me yourself.
If you can’t take the heat of deconstructing any argument I make with logic, facts or reasons just because you don’t like it or my tone is a personal problem. Professional help is available out there.
And being a ‘dick?’ And you do exactly what you claim I’m doing? A little projection, huh?
And as Sundance stated for when this time of serious matters would come to a head (and I am in complete agreement with): “Delciate sensibilities must be dispatched like a feather in a hurricane.”
There are trolls here today. Time for prayer and gardening.
Everyone who has a different opinion isn’t a troll.
Nor are they necessarily wrong. I’m tired of the herd thundering through here looking for wrongthink.
i see a lot of comments here daily that I don’t agree with. They get to have an opinion too.
AMEN KIM!
Sometimes this place resembles what I think a gender studies classroom at Harvard may sound like!
No dissent allowed!
Differing opinion wasn’t my observance. Attitude was. Good day.
Tried both this morning, the gardening didn’t work out so well in all this rain. My Siberian tomatoes are looking good . They have already survived two killing frosts ( 28 degrees). Been out since March 15th. Our last frost date is April 20th.
The prayer is like medicine for a tummy ache. It just makes me feel a lot better.
BK, dial yourself back right now. I am tired of your attacks on everyone. And before you jump back at me, let me say, I’ve put this conversation with you off too long. I have tried, as in my comment above, to let you and others know to look at your own boundaries.
I am not going to argue with you on this, you have super exceeded my patience. I’m done. Dial yourself back right now.
Disagree, discuss, debate. But you stop attacking people.
Amen. 🙏🏻
Thank you so much, Menagerie. So sick of it.
It’s “ Could NOT care less “.
Thank you! It irks me when people botch that phrase.
Well said, thank you.
Thank you George Jones! I agree 100%
Ive been reading here since probably 2015 or so and know what you mean.
I am all in for Trump again (even though he completely failed the COVID test) but this blind allegiance to Trump and worship of Sundance is just pathetic.
Come on, Dawg.
You know better than that.
No one has blind allegiance to President Trump, nor do they worship Sundance.
I know you know better than that.
Well I just responded to a comment yesterday from someone who said do what Trump says, no matter what. That if he said to go clean Lindsey Grahams bathroom, to do it, or some nonsenset. I dont care what Trump says, I aint voting for LG again. And I’ve seen people make comments like “I cant imagine living without Sundance writing this blog”. Does that not sound like blind allegiance and hero worship to you?
It could sound that way if that’s the way I saw things in the first place.
You know how we hear a word and totally understand its meaning? But then someone else hears the same word and understands something totally different?
If someone said they “can’t imagine living without” popcorn what would you think? Maybe you’d think they were a little overly passionate about popcorn, but I can’t imagine you’d think they worshiped popcorn. They just enjoy eating buttery, salty, warm popcorn.
Lately there are a few very bossy people on here telling everyone else what’s wrong with them, what’s wrong with their posts, what’s wrong with their thinking and how they’d do everything way better than we do. Sounds like you might have had a run-in with one of them yesterday.
If that’s what happened, I’m sorry you had to go through that. It never feels good when someone belittles our opinion, especially when so little of conversation has to do with black letters on a white screen.
He’s made many long time readers that I’m in contact with not want to read comments any longer. He’s awful.
I concur with part of your statement,e.g. the first time I posted here many years ago, I was strongly censured by Sundance. He (She?) really took me apart. I was shocked. I did not then know the rules of this site, which preclude open discussion unless one is “on the reservation. I had read enough to know commentators here are very knowledgeable and I had asked a question I honestly thought someone could and would answer. I had stated that I was concerned about something Trump had said. I found out very quickly and painfully that there are such things as ‘concern trolls’ and I was being labeled as one just for asking a simple question about which I had an honest concern. Don’t get me wrong: I love President Trump and CTH is my go to site for trustworthy, in-depth reportage. Unlike other sites (such as Gateway Pundit and Breitbart) CTH does not publish clickbait headlines. However, it must be said, Sundance does publish the occasional teaser article such as the one we are all wondering about now.
My guesses
1 – He’s a never Trumper
2 – He’s peeved because his Youtube channel relies on Sundance’s info to earn money.
I found the use of the word “cult” and synchophant to be very revealingly curious.
Common phrase amongst DS/IC statements. Very DHSish.
Just sayin.
For my two cents – I agree “ cult” is the buzz word used a lot with respect to MAGA support for PDJT – for the non/, nevers -whatevers they can find no other reason for it ( duh )
But “shame myself by outsourcing my brain to Sundance “ An odd turn of a phrase -Not sure if that is a threat or a promise ? Anyway I’ve spent my 2 cents ….
It’s sycophant.
Not synchophant.
Looks like you could care less about BK ..
BTW I thought the latter was the plural for a whole group of of the former -my mistake – back to my Thesaurus
You’ve missed some key messaging then. Either you’re another quitter or cloaked concern troll.
“Your approach is rather condescending to those of us who make up your readership.”
Give me a break. That is so Karen. I come here several time a day. Contribute regularly, give a few dollars when I can. Cult? Sorry, when is a coffee shop a cult?
This site is validation of all the good things in my life experiences. Sorry if u don’t like it here. If anything, I think the change needs to be “more” condescending! , but we are too nice and proper.
Oh, and the value of all the poster’s information is a gold mine. I guess I have been trolled.
It seems like, if I can remember, the first time I read an article by Sundance there were only 10 or 12 comments. That’s been many years ago. I have noticed a trend lately of more acrimony between commenters, or so it seems. That has to be extremely frustrating to the moderators. They didn’t take this job to be babysitters or referees.
For years, I have read every comment, even the 1000 comment ones. But not lately, way too much bickering. I am an unabashed Sundance supporter, and agree with him on just about everything. Trying to think of something that I have disagreed with him on and can’t recall anything right now. I tell friends that I am trying to get to visit the treehouse that it’s amazing how spot on Sundance is.
I can not count the times that Sundance has given us a heads up and 3 or 4 months later, his heads up comes true.
Personally, I gave up certain electronic spaces for Lent. The Treehouse with SD, et al, was one of them! That was painful, but I’m better for the sacrifice.
Why do you bother if you find some people condescending, and you appear unable to learn from the different outlooks/situations?
After you said Sundance was “condescending” I went back to re-read the original post. I don’t see anything condescending. Maybe cryptic but not condescending. Maybe you just got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
Big egos have a problem with genius that doesn’t genuflect to them, so perhaps that’s his beef.
Then again, much as we want to take posters at face value as genuine honest individuals participating in a conversation that can be engaged as normal people with differing opinions, many are not that at all, but are agents of political outfits or genuine Derp State operatives, our own or writ global, and they have a bevy of “concerns” that are simply devilish efforts to impugn our host and PDJT and MAGA itself, and to sow dissension in our ranks.
This is the very first time ever I’ve seen “condescending” used to describe Sundance, and that “perception” is utterly alien to my own experiences in a dozen years here, which suggests this poster is indeed either a big ego’ed interloper, or a Derp, or both.
Me thinks that SD has some VERY valid and solid information that will be passed on —
IN DUE TIME…
I do not just read The Conservative Tree house but from other sources and there is too me a SLOW SIMMER OF THE FROG BOILING…There are way too many sleight of hand moves by the Xiden Administration…for example: Xiden remark on coming around on the “gun issue”…
“I promise you”
As they say, Trust The Plan…
Which Sundance has never said.
Conservatives are missing an opportunity with student debt cancellation. Lots of people aren’t starting families – including conservatives and people on their way to becoming conservatives – because they’re saddled with student loan debt they took on when they were too naive and ignorant to know what carrying debt really means and when they believed their teachers when they told them that no amount of debt is too much to take on to get a university degree, because the degree will pay for itself many times over. Conservatives should support student debt cancellation (or socialization if you prefer) on the condition that the conditions under which student loans are made available is radically reformed. No more student loans for useless woke degrees, for example, so that universities stop churning out brainwashed leftist activists. Also, make the amount borrowable linked directly to the economic value of the given degree program. Debt relief coupled with reforms like these and others will help boost fertility rates, particularly for the demographic that tends to vote conservative by middle age while at the same time taking away the economic means universities have used to transform themselves into leftist indoctrination centers that churn out activists with degrees that have negative economic and social value.
So your plan is to boost fertility rates while promoting the idea that people don’t need to pay off their debts themselves because everyone else will dig them out of their hole?
I totally disagree. Irresponsible parents raise irresponsible children. Tell me, how is that any better than what we have right now?
First off, such a “deal” would be just like the 1986(?)? Reagan Immigration “deal”; it would be SOLD AS in exchange for, but behind closed doors in “reconciliation negotiations” the RINOS would give away the store.
Recall IN EXCHANGE FOR a ONE TIME amnesty, “se” were supposed to get almost everything on our wish list, including mandatory e-verify, but then in reconciluation they made in optional.
Beyond that, the parents and the kids who fell for the CON of University education are emblematic of the sheep that use/are abused by credit, think “of COARSE you get Insurance!” and so fought to get to the head of the line, standing in the rain, to get the Vax.
Cause its the same mentality, and frankly play stupid games (like Simon says!) win stupid prizes.
The Titanic is sinking, and people are arguing about rearranging the deck chairs.
The issue is never the issue, the issue is the revolution.
Student debt cancellation is a tool of ‘their’ revolution. Another divisive social issue that will alienate trade workers, or any group, who have had to fund themselves for their learning and tools.
SD has often explained that national economic policy will ultimately determine monetary policy, fiscal policy and foreign policy. Economic policy is multidimensional.
The best way to increase the fertility rates is to totally change the national economic policy, to allow a return to ‘1 working parent’ families. To stop forcing parents to both having to work, and forcing them to outsource the parenting to daycare workers.
Has anyone here ever heard or read anything by President Trump decrying the loan forgiveness programs? I haven’t.
Well there is this, (cbs 2021)
“ As student debt continues to climb, President Donald Trump on Monday released a budget for 2021 that would slash many of the programs aimed at helping borrowers.
Student loan spending would be cut by $170B in Trump’s plan, titled “A Budget for America’s Future.” The reductions include “sensible annual and lifetime loan limits” for graduate students and parents and the end to subsidized loans, in which the government covers the interest for borrowers who are still in school or experiencing economic hardship.
It would also reduce the number of repayment options for borrowers and nix the popular, if challenged, public service loan forgiveness program.
That program, signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007, allows not-for-profit and government employees to have their federal student loans canceled after 10 years of on-time payments. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that up to one-quarter of American workers are eligible.
“The Trump Administration already has a reputation of being anti-borrower,” said Mark Kantrowitz, a higher education policy expert. “This just takes it further.”
In all, Trump’s proposal would request $66.6 billion for the U.S. Department of Education, trimming the budget by $5.6 billion, or nearly 8%. The proposed cut is less steep than last year, when he called for a nearly 10% reduction in spending for the department.
Still, any cuts to student loan relief programs are unlikely to sit well with many voters.
Eighty percent of Americans agree that the government should make it easier for people with student debt to repay their loans, a study by The Pew Charitable Trusts found. Another poll found that nearly 60% of registered voters said they would support a plan to cancel all existing student loan debt.
Meanwhile, leading Democratic presidential candidates on the campaign trail are vowing to cancel the majority or all of the country’s outstanding student loan debt.”
Great info. Thanks.
NO! NO! NO!
You make your choices and you live with them.
I agree that many youth were suckered into excessive debt. But the other posters have good points about the moral hazard of loan forgiveness. The traditional solution to get out of debt troubles is bankruptcy. You are no longer obligated to pay but you also have to pay a price of several years of bad credit until you can rebuild your credit rating. Why not choose that solution which balances debt relief with consequences to encourage smarter future choices?
the solution is not debt forgiveness on the backs of the taxpayers but the alowance of student discharge in bankruptcy Court like it used to be. then reigning in the schools and lenders and students to reasonable future sums without gov backing.
April has an interesting history. Maybe I just notice things because my birthday is in April. Titanic, Lincoln assassination, MLK assassination, Hitler’s birthday, Earth Day and several school shootings beginning with Columbine.
Yes, the energy in April is very volatile. I’m always a little more “on guard” during this time.
DJT almost looks better than he did four years ago… Is that a sign? 😀
He looks fantastic ! I thought the same thing. Full of vigor.
he lost weight
The eclipse did Biden in, astrologically speaking.
Probably messed up his whole”sundowner” thing.
So then, we will pray, and be Daniel, and Nehemiah for this people. Seek God’s Mercy.
I am with you, Sundance!
I’m not sure where all of these Debbie Downers came from this morning, but I for one am eagerly anticipating reading your upcoming thoughts and am packing my bag for the journey ahead with you Sundance!
My guess is that SD puts up these posts to see who he triggers in the IC. They all swarm here to put in their snarky, doom/gloom, and other comments which only let Sundance know who they are. They are just dumb enough to not remain in their foxhole. Okay.
Let them expose themselves.
It is like catching fish in a barrel. If they can spider crawl all over this comment section then I assume that he can do the same back at them.
Me thinks The Donald may be firing a defense team or two. There can be no trial started before the Republican Convention in July. I heard it can buy him as much as 4 to 6 months reprieve.
Why would VSPDJT fire his lawyers? That would mean he would have to go to trial without them.
The Devil-spawn prosecutors would insist the trials go forward, and the judges would agree with them.
Thank you Sundance!
God bless you and God bless President Donald J. Trump..
..and God bless ALL of the Treehouse
If I am not mistaken, April 19th is the start of the American Revolution- battles of Lexington & Concord. It is also the anniversary of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
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Things get hot on that day?
Fahrenheit 419 . . .?
The American Civil War April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865
I would respectfully disagree that there is any pragmatic solution to the abortion issue.
President Trump did what was asked of him to the extent of his powers.
I think there are some people claiming to be Right to Life who wanted to use him and then toss him away like a piece of Kleenex.
Then there are Lindsey and Mitch.
Really, since R v w has been overturned, there is really NO reason for voters to CARE what a POTUS Candidates position on abortion is; thats the point.
Governors, and State legislators positions on abortion are relevent, BECAUSE they can and will shape the laws regarding abortion in there State, but the POTUS will have -0- impact.
I don’t know, I was waiting for Brietbart and look what happen. I was waiting for Assange and look what happen. I was waiting for Epstein and look what happen.
Maybe the Russians will blow the information war wide open.
I have no doubt that Trump has info on everyone. The deep state is deep.
Thanks Sundance
Facts?
Saw a couple of headlines on Fake News ( don’t read the articles ., headlines says enough/ rest just filler ) – “Biden Rips into Trump’s Abortion Stance -Biden team was ready and quickly reacted …” and “Trump’s abortion statement Angers conservatives and gives Biden a new target “
Naive me , PDJT’s statement sounded good, measured and reasonable to me -so wonder how they will lie and twist it ..
But , of course, they twisted his other statement about ultra violet light as possible treatment for lung inflammation caused by Covid ( I e.Bronco- Pneumonia ) ( I watched that press conference) – 5 minutes after it was over the Fake presstitudes were gleefully saying (. knowingly lying ) that PDJT said “People should drink bleach …to treat Covid “
Btw , of course there is research on that treatment approach – a YouTube video by a company developing it at the time – I saw it /was on point ~ was TAKEN down shortly after that News conference -Company said WTH ? Gee I wonder why ? S/
Great crusades start with prayer for guidance and resolve. Let’s pray.
AMEN!!! Fasting and Confession too!
Good Morning treepers PSALM 40:4 Blessed is the man that maketh the LORD his trust, and
respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
After the Arizona abortion time bomb went off yesterday, I like how Trump just steps in with this video, re-emphasizes his stance on life, (no apologies or backing down like Kari Lake did), with announcement of INV help. He just was not giving seed to the MSM talking points, of which there really is none since it should have been a STATE’S ISSUE all along.
Good to have you back SD!! Look forward to your upcoming insights.
For those slamming the moderators or SD, all I have to say is that I am a HUGE Trump supporter and read this site several times a day, not only for SD’s inside outlooks but also for the wealth of knowledge so many posters possess. That said, though a HUGE Trump fan and SD supporter, I CAN think for myself. Even though Trump touted ‘Operation Wrap Speed,’ while also telling us about Ivermectin and HCQ, I did not comply with the vax and after RESEARCH (<- key word here) on my own, decided to go the IV & HCQ route.
Information is like a plate of food you’ve never tried before in a distant country at a host’s house; try a fork full, roll it around in your mouth. Is it a new sensation that might invoke another fork full for a fuller definition or does it irritate your senses or sour your mouth enough to not take another bite? It’s your decision to politely push the plate away after tasting or dig in with gusto. What civilized people wouldn’t do is push a hissy fit at the table if not liking it and make yourself vomit up the unpalpable food all over your host’s table to get your point across, rather than just not taking another fork full.
I like and identify with your thoughts, Sophie. Methinks you have some of that pragmatic stuff in you. Thank you
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A Nefarious Intent – FISA 702 Authorization Will Be Extended Through April 19th Inside Bipartisan NDAA Agreement
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Me thinks it should be spelled buypartisan. That’s what’s really going on in DC. $$$
Oh,…i LIKE that, and hope you embrace the idea of this site, that anything is available for the taking, cause I want to use that!
Anything posted here is free to use!
Understood but still wanting to be repectful.
buypartisan, right up there with Big Harma,..
In the meantime we wrestle with frustration. However, when I cannot do anything to change the dynamics of the day, I will pray for patience, surety, wisdom, courage and kindness. Thank you, Sundance. Blessings.
I heard something that I think is very important, when it comes to the issue of abortion.
We on the Right want to change things RIGHT NOW.
The Left has embraced INCREMENTALISM.
In 1969, the Stonewall Riots initiated the incremental push for gay rights in America. Fifty-four years later, the gays can marry, adopt children, dance naked in the streets in parades, and wag their junk in front of children in bars.
The Left pushes forward three steps, gets confronted and withdraws two steps. They are happy they made the one step, and they just keep pushing. One step at a time, they went from the closet to the pervasive perversion we see today.
I am pro-life, period. But it took fifty years to overturn Roe v. Wade, and if we can’t get on board with Trump’s approach and the Demons remain in power, they will enshrine another free-for-all abortion law into the land. We will be right back at the beginning.
We have to embrace the incremental approach to abortion. Overturning Roe was three steps forward. Trump’s statement is two steps back. But we gained one step. Now we have to try to move three steps again. Eventually we will get to the ultimate goal of ending most, if not all, abortion.
Excellent thinking!
Fr. Frank Pavone provided an important statement on this issue in the Gateway Pundit. I, too, am pro-life, period, and I think that Father Pavone’s statement captures perfectly the wisdom of President Trump’s intentions.
Frank Pavone: President Trump’s Statement on Abortion Policy Paves Way for a Culture of Life in a Divided Nationhttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/favicon.icothegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/frank-pavone-president-trumps-statement-abortion-policy-paves/
Apr. 8, 2024 12:40 pFrank Pavone
Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
President Donald Trump today made his long-awaited statement on how he would pursue abortion policy once he is re-elected.
I was happy with the announcement because it was honest, it clears the way for a frank debate about abortion and I am confident it will ultimately – provided Americans return him to the White House – lead to abortion being abolished.
The statement was consistent with what he has been saying all along and what I have been saying: we will work for policies that will help women have their babies, we will expose the extremism of the Democrats on abortion, and we will continue to work with the American people to use the legislative process to set abortion policy.
As I said in my remarks recently at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump has been, and will be again, the most pro-life president our country has seen. He has not wavered on any of the pro-life positions or executive actions he has taken (including depriving the abortion industry of federal funds), or judges he has appointed, and we will again see such progress in a second term.
President Trump is rightly proud of his role in the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Roe blocked the American people from protecting the unborn. Now, we can protect them again, and are doing so.
By invoking ‘the will of the people,’ President Trump is pointing to the fact that courts are not here to impose a dogma of abortion-on-demand. Rather, the courts should step out of the way so that the people can have an open and honest debate about abortion. That’s what we will continue to do.
President Trump’s announcement today on Truth Social calls to mind the drafting of the U.S. Constitution at a time when slavery was still legal. The Founders understood they could not get the Constitution ratified if it contained an absolute anti-slavery position. They needed to get the nation started.
But with the Constitution they did adopt, they put in place the very mechanism by which slavery was in fact ultimately abolished.
We’re at that same moment now.
President Trump is taking a similar stance to the one taken by the Founders. They had to start a nation; we have to save the nation by winning this election. Right now we have a nation divided on abortion. But by saving the nation itself from destruction by the Democrats – by saving the Constitution, free and fair elections, freedom of speech and religion, and by stopping the extremism of the Democrats on abortion — we will in fact preserve the very mechanism by which we can continue to build a culture of life.
I thank the President for his statement but I don’t expect him to do my job; I expect him to do his. My job and the job of the pro-life movement is to lay out the moral absolute of the right to life, which does not admit of compromise. No abortion can ever be justified.
Pro-life leaders, meeting recently for strategic planning, issued this joint statement that reflects the pro-life work that needs to be done in the next seven months.
We look forward to continuing to work together with President Trump and countless citizens to leading our nation to ever greater fidelity to its founding principle that governments are instituted precisely to preserve the unalienable right to life.
Thx for posting this, Mary.
“No abortion can ever be justified.”
https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/the-remarkable-scientific-accuracy-of-psalm-139
On the one hand, I accept and agree with PDJT’S POLITICAL approach to threading the needle on abortion, and trying to not let the enemy Uniparty (both wings) try to hamstring him.
And sure, incrementalism.
Thing is, I believe life begins at conception, and a zygot is not a wart, because a wart can never develop into a human being, so no”clump of tissue” argument.
The law, flawed as it is, recognises an unborn baby IS a life; shoot a pregnant woman during a robbery, killing the “unborn baby” and you are charged with felony murder.
Medical training teaches when treating a pregnant woman, you have TWO patients, and must take that into account.
Radiologists will ask a woman the date of her last period, and may even require a pregnancy test, prior to x-raying her abdomen, for example.
So, its a life, and aborting it is killing for sure, and as its intentional, planned etc. isn’t it murder?
So, does that baby lose its life, because of rape or incest? No, to me its still murder.
As for States rights, there are few that are bigger champions of States rights than me,…I think one of the few areas the Federal Govt should supercede the State Governments, is on interceding when the State Government violates the rights of its citisens, trying to infringe on 1A, 2A etc.
As abortion is depriving a whole class of citisens of their right to LIFE, and therefore all other rights, I think the FEDERAL Govt. has a Constitutional obligation to intervene in States to prevent abortions.
Just as the Fed Govt. should intervene when a State restricts (unduly) 2A, or imposing Jim Crow laws, or the Lockdowns, etc.
THAT, to me is IDEALLY a main function/purpose of the FED Govt.; to intervene when State Govt.s intrude on the rights of their citisens, as layed out in the Constitution/Bill of rights.
However, I recognise, AS A PRAGMATIC MATTER, that we are SO VERY FAR AWAY from where I think we SHOULD be, and where our Founders intended, I can accept and support PDJT’s position, just as I can accept and support his position on the VAX.
“Its politics, Jake…..its POLITICS!”
I’m looking forward to reading what Sundance has to say, and I appreciate his insight. I am also very thankful that God is in control of history and that He will work all events for His purpose and His glory. Read the Book of Esther in the Bible to see how God intervenes in the affairs of man.
The Master Weaver is placing the threads of His tapestry exactly where he wants them. Faith, patience, and forbearance…and ample evidence of His work throughout the Bible…should assure us.
As it was it now and forever shall be.
And there are SOME of us, who can squint our eyes, use our imaginations and looking at the bare outline, we can see ‘in our minds eye’ the as yet unformed tapestry, and sometimes get glimpses of his hand at work.
And that is where hope comes in, dutch. Something we should cling tightly to, as well as our tiny mustard seeds when it starts to fade, as sometimes happens. Even when it seems He is silent as now, when we look back we will see where His needle has been and how events , for good or ill, have brought His plan to fruition.
As Corrie ten Boom wrote, we see the underside, He sees the upper.
“My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me.
I cannot choose the colors
He weaveth steadily.
Oft times He weaveth sorrow;
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I the underside.
Not ’til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the canvas
And reveal the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the Weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.
He knows, He loves, He cares;
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.”
Corrie ten Boom
Retired Magistrate here: All I know is “trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding and HE will direct your paths.”
That’s what my husband and I are doing right now. GOD is in control; we are not.
Supreme Court arguments/rulings coming up and start of NY farce trial in next week to 10 days. LOTS happening.
Welcome back. You were missed.
We are family, however, know that we are not your only family/friends.
Thank you
love in the Lord
First and Foremost – A very thoughtful video about life from President Trump and I do believe it comes from the heart. I guess my generation has more tolerance than the young ones cause I was always taught to respect others opinion whether I agreed with it or not. After all, isnt that what freedom of speech is all about. And not only the opinions but the beliefs and traditions (i guess its been termed ‘culture’ these days).
Then, I would like to suggest that you search your inner self and ask if you actually met one of us IRL would you say the same thing as you reply to any of the posters on this site. Remember your manners and try to play nice here cause you still will account for all that typing you do on the internet 😛
Finally I has a sad…One thing that really bothers me about alot of posts here is the questioning of Sundance’s presence every minute of everyday. Afterall the writers to this forum do NOT have to account to anyone of how their time is spent. GeeWhiz, the forum is setup to allow our thoughts also. So be kind, considerate, and mind your manners and I might just give you a thumbs up just cause you were nice 😛
Thank you. Sundance, like everyone here, has a life and responsibilities, and needs outside this Treehouse.
I’d like to know the optimal solution to getting rid of this corrupt judiciary, like Merchan, Engoron, Chutkan, etc. Jury selection for the Bragg case in NY starts on April 15. Merchan (the judge) daughter works directly with the DNC, Harris, Schiff, etc., but her father, the judge, does not see that as a conflict and refuses to recuse himself.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
Therefore, those who are immoral may require some other means of removal. The optimal solution may reside behind the sealed lips of others.
PDJT said, long ago, that he does not tell the enemy what he is about to do.
Oh, I’m sure he knows it’s a conflict. He just doesn’t care.
Trumps’s Virtues part 2 (8m video at the twitter link)
Can’t wait to find out what we need to do, and will gird up my loins for the journey — and, if necessary, the battle.
The election is today not November, if anyone cares to watch it.
FISA UP NEXT….will the weaponization
of surveillance against Americans continue?
However it plays out will be a harbinger of
what’s ahead in our battle.