The surveillance state is an outcropping of the Fourth Branch of Government, which is, essentially, the unelected intelligence community in control of our government.
The surveillance state comes from the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) which is an entirely inward-looking agency. Prior to the Patriot Act, the surveillance sweep searching for terror threats focused outward, looking outside the U.S borders. The Patriot Act took the surveillance sweep a full 360 degrees and looked inside the Homeland for terror threats. Hence, DHS was created.
The office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was also created by the Patriot Act, and was specifically created as the pivot point to combine the surveillance sweeps. The Pentagon and CIA intel agencies sweeping outside the U.S. and the DHS sweeping inside the U.S.
It was the creation of The Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) that destroyed what remained of privacy protections within the constitution (4th amendment). Americans are no longer secure in their ‘papers and effects’, nor protected by the ‘probable cause’ need for warrants. The erosion of the 4th amendment was absolutely connected to the creation of DHS; there is zero doubt about this cause and effect.
With the ODNI and DHS created, the sub-silos of the surveillance state then began. The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is one agency within the Dept of Homeland Security that was an outcome. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also gained massive tools within this new system.
The key point behind all of this context is what I refer to as the ‘Surveillance State.’ American citizens have lost all privacy protections within this new system of surveillance, that has extended far beyond even what most people fathom.
When you understand the root origin of the Surveillance State, then the discussion turns to what we have accepted within its creation, and what is the current status of American Liberty as an outcome of it.
The fact that this system was weaponized by Barack Obama and Joe Biden to target their political opposition is only one aspect of this dynamic. Yes, it is a big issue, and yes what they did was horrific, corrupt and in my opinion unlawful. However, their ability to weaponize this system only existed because the domestic surveillance state was created and authorized by the legislative branch of government.
Now we are left arguing about who controls a system that should never have been authorized.
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— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) December 25, 2024
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♦ We have outlined exhaustively how Obama and Biden weaponized this surveillance system. Now, we shift to discuss the system itself against the backdrop of President Trump and our new technology MAGA allies.
All of President Trump’s cabinet and key appointments carry the same outlook toward the surveillance state. They fundamentally believe the system is needed, the DHS system holds national security value, and the capacity within the DHS system is only a problem when corrupt political operatives are in charge of it. If good, virtuous and moral people are in charge, the DHS surveillance system is okay.
I have talked to many of them, key people including Devin Nunes for perspective, and I can say directly that President Trump’s team believe the system is good and necessary, it was just controlled by bad actors.
To be clear and fair to readers, I disagree with the Trump administrations’ foundational perspective of the Surveillance State. I do not believe the system holds greater benefit than it does cost. However, that is not the primary reasoning for my opposing viewpoints.
There are two larger issues within this surveillance state. The first, is the potential weaponization of it; this is a simple matter of accepting the historic reality of it. The second issue is an issue that will surface quickly in the next few years, just as rapidly as the advances in technology that support it.
• President Trump is going to unwittingly create a ‘caste system’ within the surveillance state. He will not do so with willful, corrupt or malicious intent, rather it is an inherent problem built into any surveillance network.
There are going to be tiers of people who are not subjected to the rules of the Surveillance State. There are going to be tiers of people, powerful, influential, some intensely rich people, to whom the application of the surveillance does not exist.
I have already seen this ‘tiered’ system starting to come into place. I have witnessed firsthand the outcomes of the software being deployed within the design of their building. I have witnessed real identities masked by the system as an outcome of their status. Facial recognition programs that black out search results based on arbitrary definitions and determinations of those who control the surveillance application.
Inside the surveillance system, supported by the policy team behind President Trump, there will be classes of people. Just as we defined “essential workers” within the COVID-19 pandemic. This essential group will be classed based on their administrative value to the government operators who control the mechanics of outcomes; perhaps “essential administrators.” This is a natural outcome of the mindset behind “continuity of government,” the baseline for the Patriot Act creation.
The system to classify Americans by personage is currently being developed inside the silos of the Intelligence Community, the Dept of Homeland Security and combined with the technological creations of those who are contracted to build it – like Palantir (Peter Thiel).
Within this matrix of categorized Americans there will be those who are not subjected to the surveillance, their constitutional rights will be protected, and they will be afforded all benefit of personage. However, there will be lower classes who are continual targets for it who do not have such protection. There is no way to avoid this caste system outcome; in fact, many components of it are already in place.
[PERSONAL NOTE: Even when given the opportunity to join or align with the elite group, I decline. I am an American, of no greater or lesser value than any other American. Unfortunately, my internal compass viewpoint is not carried by those who are currently building or will operate the system. I do not fault them, for it is perhaps an expected weakness within human nature to align with those of greater benefit when the benefit can transfer to a lifestyle of greater abundance. I do however let them know they are defining their own moral compass heading. It was with this perspective I previously presented this image. I embrace my choice.]
President Trump’s unwitting authorization of the caste system within the Surveillance State will be the issue of debate in a few short years. I do not hold positive perspective on the outcome of litigation because the judicial branch has already conceded their view of liberty to those in the executive branch who hide behind the shield of “national security.”
♦ This brings me to the technology group who are creating the system unwittingly supported by President Trump. Peter Thiel (Palantir), Elon Musk (xAI, SpaceX), Larry Ellison (Oracle), David Sacks and a host of mutually aligned artificial intelligence builders stand to benefit financially from a technologically efficient Surveillance State. Their companies and their AI software products are the targeting tools within the DHS surveillance system itself. Do not be misled by their ownership of different companies within this construct, they are all mutually allied; factually, they are all friends in the same tech sector.
The tools created by Palantir et al, are multifunctional. They can be used by the Pentagon and CIA for military application, and they can be used by DNI, DHS, FBI and TSA for domestic application. Just as the Patriot Act redefined “terror threats” to begin sweeping 360 degrees, so too are the tools of the surveillance state designed for both foreign and domestic application.
There is no way to avoid being the target of a weapon once that weapon is created. However, unlike the mutually assured destruction within the nuclear analogy, there will be no threat of mutual application within the surveillance bomb.
There are going to be castes of people not subjected to the outcome of detonation; therein lies my biggest point against it.
Some are starting to awaken to this issue. I have recently seen commentator Laura Loomer begin questioning the motives of Thiel, Musk, Ellison, Ramaswamy, Sacks and crew. However, no one has yet noted the strategic insurance policy, JD Vance.
Lastly, I do not fault President Trump for this predictable outcome. Few people can fathom the scale and consequence of the big picture items that lay on the desk of President Trump.
What the technocratic team are doing in the supporting offices of the White House cannot be micromanaged by the same person who is trying to confront globalism, stop illicit trade schemes, provide national security, stop geopolitical unrest, unravel foreign wars and simultaneously prioritize the domestic dangers presented by the collapsed and borderless sovereign nation state of America.
Do you really believe President-elect Donald Trump is aware the person he announced as chief-of-staff for Pam Bondi is/was the same person used by Rod Rosenstein to construct the Robert Mueller targeting operation? Am I to believe that Chad Mizelle just had a lapse in momentary judgement, and Donald Trump knows the background of Mizelle at that critical moment in 2017. Just stop; we accept in brutally honest fashion, there are going to be a few aspects of non-winning amid the DC confrontation. President Trump cannot ‘know everything’ and simultaneously confront everything as a priority; at a certain point, even he has to trust their intents.
What I am warning about now, is something entirely predictable that is looming in the near future; like, within 18 months.
At a certain point, the financial interests of the technocratic team who helped win the 2024 election will no longer be in alignment with MAGA Americans. At that point, I have no doubt President Trump will align with our side in the just cause of liberty.
When the sh*t hits the fan and all of these connected interests’ surface, I am optimistic President Trump will support our position; I do not question that at all. However, we must accept the consequence of that non-alignment is going to make those same technocratic MAGA billionaires shift from united allies to lukewarm defenders.
Peaceniks don’t build bombs; and those who genuinely believe in liberty do not build nor support domestic surveillance networks that can be weaponized depending on who is in power.
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The gubment always expands to meet the needs of the expanding gubment.
With every expansion, liberty shrinks. You cannot expect gubment to solve the problems of gubment, no matter who is in charge (and are presidents actually in charge anyway?)
And there you go
We are IN FACT ASKING THE WRONG PEOPLE TO FIX PROBLEMS.
There are no white horses, no one coming to rescue you out of this mess.
There is only you and what you decide.
Be unafraid. Corrupt sinful activities always fail. Your mission is not to trade your values and let them be compromised.
Fight
Fight
Fight
God Bless America
Just got home at 3 AM from a beautiful midnight TLM Christmas Mass.
Boom! What a smack-in-the-face! Took the wind right out of my sails!
Those that brought about this technology and it’s use aren’t concerned about controlling it. They make themselves immune. To them, equality stopped shortly after creation.
The normal state of most humans throughout history is slavery.
Middle class is an aberration.
There is nothing new under the sun.
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.” ― Robert Heinlein
I fear most are too embarrassed to admit they are slaves. There is a certain mental condition that makes people feel loftier than most, but its all delusion.
What difference is there in a man with $1 million and a Ferrari, and a man with $10,000 and a Ford Truck? There is none, and that is the game that keeps you on the hamster wheel. For what? When you can answer that you will be at peace, and free!
It’s my understanding…..
that it’s legal to collect the data…..
but illegal for US agencies to analyze…..
their data on US citizens…..
without a warrant…..
that’s when/where the contractors…..
and the other Five Eyes intelligence…..
agencies are allowed to sweep the US data…..
and spy on US citizens…..and share…..
their findings with the US agencies.
Aging myself but – Guess the internet really is like those old party lines when phones first started being popular in everyone’s home; I remember those, trying to call my grandmother and some neighbor lady joined in on the conversation and pretty soon there were like five people all in on the conversation.
Yet, somehow the phone companies figured out how to separate those calls so they stayed one-on-one. And from that law enforcement had to create how to obtain their warrants to wire-tap.
These tech people are already working on it such as the phone that Erik Prince is pushing, can’t be broken into, tapped or located. Just a matter of time. Make these type of devices the standard and put law enforcement – and government eavesdroppers – do their jobs by obtaining warrants sworn under Oath to the veracity of their statements again.
We just have to make loud enough noises to get their attention. Similar to the ongoing conversation that Laura Loomer has initiated regarding all the H1-B hires instead of tech looking to hire US citizens tech people being prejudiced believing only people from India are smart enough.
Both conversations are vital if we are to be secure in our rights, and liberties. Those party line calls were fun though.
Hahaha, Bessie, you, and I must be around the same age. I was born before the attack on Pearl Harbor by our now-friendly Japanese. I, too, remember those “party” telephone lines, but I did not see them as amusing. I also read Eric Prince’s “Civilian Warriors” and wonder how reliable his cell phones are.
Trying to talk to a girlfriend LOL
It’s just too bad that any non-traceable phones are so damned expensive. And there you have it…two tiers.
Thanks for reposting this. I have contacted my House member and Senators about eliminating the Patriot Act. Even if President Trump appointed some “good actors” , they won’t be there for ever and they are still actors.
Why wasn’t it eliminated in his first term?
That, is an excellent question!
It wouldn’t be a bad idea if this article was posted on both “X”, and “Truth Social”, addressed to President Trump.
Computer technology and all its derivatives are our tower of babylon.
Just keep in mind, electricity is what makes all that technology work! That includes their collection, analysis and dissemination, the artificial intelligence, facial recognition, cloud computing, digital currency and Propoganda!
There’s not enough to go around today; absolutely not enough to go around tomorrow!
I would not be so sure of that. Smart meters being everywhere means that it is an inevitability that some customers will be more equal than others when it comes to load shedding.
“Essential” infrastructure like AI data centers will not be subject to those outages unlike an average Joe who needs it to cook his dinner on a electric range or launder his clothes in the washer and dryer after the day’s work shift.
Data centers are big, ugly, have a huge heat signature, and are vulnerable to attack in many forms (incl. external and internal)…or so I’ve heard.
Sounds easy enough to dis-empower.
I believe they are housed on military bases
Eventually somebody will find the plug, and pull it! It may even pull the plug on itself, and it will be raining satellites!
We are witnessing our Constitution circling the drain
it was nice knowing ya 4th amendment
it was great while it lasted
Some of us saw this coming..
We saw our Constitution circling the drain during covid, and far too many went along with it.
Again, the so-called “Patriot” Act was invoked, under the guise of “national security,” in order to “keep us safe.” That Patriot Act has GOT to go!
Has it been challenged in the Supreme Court yet? The Supreme Court can’t act on something until it is legally brought before them, right?
It may very well be over our “dead bodies”.
It’s a shame Sundance is not a big time golfer……..
Because, one round with PT might just awaken the bear to the pitfalls of what his team is driving so hard to put in place.
Every move, every purchase, every conversation and every time you back out of your driveway, they will instantly know.
i just gave the a mapof my house… via sharkninja floor cleaning robot becaise I ‘m so stewpid.
Perhaps the real question should be “ What can we do to help them to make those changes for us?”
Smart refrigerators?
A LOT of positive changes will happen during TRUMP 2.
That being said, we will have to deal with significant disappointment regarding some of the big ticket items like the Intel agencies, spending and elimination of government bureaucracy.
Winning in ’26 and ’28 is paramount to finishing the job.
🙌💯
There will be compromises in order to cut some deals. President Trump is not a dictator. He *must* negotiate with the swamp to get anything done.
Perhaps the fourth branch is holding something over his head, like WWIII? Or the next plandemic? Who knows?
One thing is clear: Revelation prophesies the mark of the beast IS coming, no matter what. President Trump isn’t one to fight a losing battle.
Maybe President Trump is being pragmatic, choosing to change the things he knows he can change, while accepting the things that cannot be changed. The question is not whether evil is coming, it is already here. Our only choice now is whether we choose to partake in it, or not.
Will YOU take the mark of the beast to buy and sell?
The plandemic was a test of faith. Fear not, and choose your Savior wisely.
To co-opt and update two phrases, I’d rather we had the out of the bottle, weaponised SS genie pissing out of the tent, than it pissing in. Just the thought of Trump getting his hands on the capabilities has probably contributed to Clinton’s recent hospital visit!
As for two tier, money and power has always bifurcated any society, it’s human nature it seems that most succumb to those ‘pleasures’, but it doesn’t mean it can’t be controlled to some degree: think of a surveillance Magna Carta for the 21st Century.
Exodus 1:8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us.10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
Did we not see the bullet graze the ear of our President Trump? Did we not see the illegal alien invasion provide the chart that gently turned the head to save the life of our President? Did we not see how God used the plandemic to reveal the demonic forces embedded and emboldened in our school systems?
Oh… ye of little faith!!!
Cannot our GOD use these schemes as well for our good???? He promises to do so in Romans 8:28.
Stand and believe, my friends! Christ Is coming soon!!!
I can’t wait to see what God does next!!! I laugh at the devils pitiful attempts at progress. he is a defeated foe; put him in his place and cast him out!
Christ Is coming soon! Make your paths straight for the coming of The Lord where every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ Is Lord!
Amen and Hallelujah!
Yes, 100%! Please keep sharing this message as long as it takes for people to hear and remember.
Thank you JWoo. Merry Christmas.
Help me spread it, please. There needs to be many voices reaffirming God’s Sovereignty over all matters. He Reigns!
I’m so EXCITED to watch what HE DOES!
AMEN!
AMEN!🙏
Faith or fear. That is the question. Like light casts out darkness, so does faith overcome fear. We cannot have both faith and fear, both light and darkness. It is either one or the other.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
A wonderful discernment.
There was never any possibility of the System not expanding its pervasive influence, the percentage of expansion was not known, until now. As Sundance mentioned, ” Just stop; we accept in brutally honest fashion, there are going to be a few aspects of non-winning amid the DC confrontation.”
This is not what I wanted for Christmas.
Unwrapping this “gift” from Sundance was not a surprise. It’s predictable as the sun rising & setting…
When you think about the hellish nightmare of the past 4 years + 8 years of Obozo, the next 4 years could have been exactly as Sundance pictured in May of 2011.
President Trump will lead so many great improvements in many areas. However, this will just delay the inevitable…
I mostly agree with Laura Loomer post and Sundance predictions of the billionaire bros. I was quite upset, but took a step back and realized that we cannot beat them. Therefore, I started moving some of my retirement from cash into their stocks. Since they are directly influencing the policy, it will directly influence their companies.
I made a similar move when Milei was elected in Argentina. Almost doubled my investment in 12 months. Just wish I would have bet more….
Kicking myself for not buying 1 bitcoin at $30,000 just a few months ago. I still have a philosophical issue with buying something that I don’t understand…. Even at $100,000+ it still has potential to hit a million, but I just cant wrap my head around it.
Think tulips.
Think Timing.
Exactly, and it may very well follow the tulips as all speculative investments have.
Called a Ponzi scheme , it’s a scam . Not to mention a complete waste of electricity . Worse than carbon credits .
I understand bitcoin as a hedge against the failing US treasury. It really is no worse than getting a monthly piece of paper from the bank stating your worth.
What happens when that piece of paper one day states zero, it’s all gone? That’s what happened during the Great Depression when all the banks went kaput!
When the rug is pulled out from under the federal reserve, as is planned in their ‘Build Back Better’ scheme, bitcoin can survive on its own steam, disconnected from the US treasury.
That is the only difference I can see.
That said, I prefer tangible investments, like real estate or precious metals that hold their own value. Again, something I can see, touch, squirrel away in a safe and perhaps even live inside. Not just a piece of paper or e-statement suggesting it exists.
Well, yes, of course. President Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Larry Ellison, Jeffrey Sachs, Tucker, etc. all all grown men and their personalities are set in stone. They are all doing exactly what made them who they are, and who they will be, according to their respective personalities.
Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah.
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.~ Baruch Spinoza
In human freedom [free will] in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Everything is determined, the end as well as the beginning, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.- Albert Einstein
Foxtrot: I, too, was thinking of free will while writing my comments. G-d gave us free will, but, only to enact His plan. At least, that’s one way of looking at human behavior.
“we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player”
God
I hate this on such a happy day.
Merry Freaking Christmas!
Bah humbug
Thank you Sundance for staying true to your values and not dancing around the coming problems caused by those named advisors who were invited to position themselves close to President Trump’s ear.
And this is what we know. PDJT will be dealing with existentially serious issues that have not really seen much if any daylight in any major media but have been whispered about in obscure websites and by some on X…
Most know this laid in the background. The Trump administration won’t be around forever. But Americans have a built in aversion to this s-it.
The cabal in England wants to impose feudalism on the USA. They will use anyone and do anything to get there.
The ” cabal ” better do something about their Islam problem or they’ll end being worse off than the serfs .
Good God I’m a stupid wretch… we just unpacked a 600$ shark cleaning robot that has to be connected to http://www.sharkninja.com in order to operate as advertised. It ‘maps’ the house (and God knows what else it records) then sends it all through the www = what went wrong.
Merry Christmas anyway…
I gave mine away.
Push broom works great on laminate floors + the exercise benefit.
There is no escaping the surveillance, not least not in the near future .
One can easily minimize it.
Becoming the Grey Man is not so hard, but it does require eliminating “conveniences.”
IMO it is the lure of convenience and safety that opens the door to the majority of privacy invasion.
Amen! There are very few who are prepared to suffer.
Agreed. Having the courage of our convictions is the more difficult and challenging path, yet the one that holds the greatest reward. It is always harder to hold onto your convictions in the face of adversity. That is why it takes courage to do so.
With God on our side, who can prevail against us? Faith and courage go hand in hand.
Can’t you sweep your own floor?
The Romans allowed mass migration for the jobs they didn’t like to do. We know what happened to that Empire?
Just re-screened the film The Lives of Others by Florian Henckle von Donnersmarck, about the surveillance apparatus that existed in the GDR (East Germany) between the end of WWII and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The amount of effort the STASI (State Police) had to exert to spy on their own countrymen – sneaking into apartments and installing listening devices, etc. – stands in stark contrast to the modern world in which mobile phones and computers ensure that people will always be monitored by some entity, whether we like it or not.
I feel like we’re at the cusp of a new age which can go in divergent directions – for good or for evil – and I know that President Trump will always fight for good. I also firmly believe that God is with him. May his next 4 years be a blessing to America, and to the entire free world.
🎯💯
Computers including smart phones are designed to communicate with each other very fast. That can serve good purposes or bad. One aspect of searches needing a warrant is the fact that my phone can contain more information than Jefferson’s entire library. How can any government agency seize someone’s entire phone or computer with a warrant that does not limit itself to a single file? Whether that seizure is physical (for instance Mike Lindell’s phone by the fbi) or digital like hacking Sheryl Atkinson? There must be severe criminal penalties to the agency and individual agent who violates a constitutional right. And the agent should also be subject to a civil suit the severity of which defines the degree of immunity.
look up the words Hivemind and Plaintar
then it connects to the legislation coming up with drones
I’m assuming you mean Palantir?
The swamp creatures will be the first to exempt themselves from the surveillance state just the same way they exempted themselves from the Clot Shot, the consequences of insider trading and most recently Obongo care.
“All of President Trump’s cabinet and key appointments carry the same outlook toward the surveillance state. They fundamentally believe the system is needed, the DHS system holds national security value, and the capacity within the DHS system is only a problem when corrupt political operatives are in charge of it. If good, virtuous and moral people are in charge, the DHS surveillance system is okay.
President Trump is going to unwittingly create a ‘caste system’ within the surveillance state. He will not do so with willful, corrupt or malicious intent, rather it is an inherent problem built into any surveillance network.”
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”― C. S. Lewis
Could a 180 degrees sweep be enough ?
Yes, the danger is there…but the American People is not pathetic anymore, as before !
He tasted blood, he tasted victory, he shall overcome !
Merry Christmas !
Sorry,
…but the American People ARE not pathetic anymore, as before !
THEY tasted blood, THEY tasted victory, THEY WILL overcome, THEY WILL prevail !
Elitists all. Caste system is a perfect reference.
I would say something but, it’s Christmas and I want to be nice.
Yes perfect especially with so many Indians running our country. *spit*
Quote from above: ” I do not fault them, for it is perhaps an expected weakness within human nature to align with those of greater benefit when the benefit can transfer to a lifestyle of greater abundance.”
WE have just experienced this with the B Regime. So it only gets worse… it will never be rolled back – the deep state wins.
No excuses – no justification for a better human being to take the helm.
Merry Christmas. It’s not Friday yet.
I’m now going back to celebrate His birth with the family.
Sometimes I wonder if Sundance is really Sharyl Attkisson
Some say he’s really Nostradamus.
…and any time you do that, you a hand off the credit for his work to another. Please don’t.
No, investigators both and complement each other
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Wow. So many angles to be considered here. Sundance’s rejection of “preferred status” strongly resonates with me. I have always been accepted by elites, even as I rail against them and am 💯 spiritually aligned with the proles.
I believe God sent us here to smack some sense into the lot of them. I really do! So I pick up the mantle even though it would be so much easier to walk away (at least in this life).
Extremely frustrated with those who refuse to advocate for themselves or the innocents though. I could very easily be done with the lot of them, as they don’t appreciate their situation at all.
Many prefer to leave the heavy lifting to others. I’m sure that Donald Trump must feel this way sometimes. But he presses on, because God put him here on a mission.
I did note that President Trump sided with the dockworkers in their recent negotiations, when AI tech threatened to replace their jobs at the ports.
Judith: President Trump used good judgement in siding with the human dock workers. I believe he knows that automation of port operations is both useful and advantageous (for the right purposes), but, it must be done with humans (American humans) at the controls.
Yes that was not just a political show, I do believe that DJT put his hand forward towards the dock workers in a gesture to ensure American jobs (since the docks are now being run by foreign companies who care nothing about American jobs).
Along the same lines Sean O Brien of the teamsters (in a great Tucker interview) sees the nexus with DJT and the repugnance of the insufferable self-righteous democrats. All good signs for the country in general.
These are not the drones you are looking for. Move along.
I mentioned yesterday that Donald Trump’s support for the Kelo decision was one big concern of mine when I was deciding whether I could support him for president, or not.
In the end, it was the fact that no one else running was better on Constitutional issues, and he was so much better on so many other things, that made overcame my qualms.
I just didn’t think it was going to matter that much, until it mattered a lot, when they deployed their secret weapon, the covid virus, and despite having all the facts he needed right at his fingertips, he went ahead with the lockdowns. Moronic, totalitarion, stupidly cruel and primitive.
My God!
Yes, he “recommended”. I can show you are collection of the numerous times he’s on tape saying it was he who ordered the lockdowns, and it was his prerogative and his alone as to when to “open up”.
I was bashed for brining this up, excuses were made- “He was lied to!” “It was the governors, not him!” etc.
I went into this not expecting him to be the civil liberties president. I had hopes we would be rid of the TSA, but I didn’t really see that happening.
I NEVER expected anything like what did happen, in 2020.
At some point we are going to have to realized that someone who has been in a place of power as long as he has, isn’t being duped, he’s not unwittingly doing these things, it’s because he wants to, he agrees, and he’s choosing to.
Maybe if we had told him, with one voice, back during the time of covid, to just cut it out, or else, things could have been different.
We didn’t love freedom enough.
Not only that, but he gave medals to Fauci and Birx (in addition to many other undeserving POS’s).
I’m not sure PJDT knows what’s going on half the time. He’s certainly not paying attention to his constituency. Unfortunately he’s got people like Susie Wiles
advising him when what he really needs is a MAGA consigliere.
Just last week he endorsed the complete scumbag RINO Karrin Robson for the next governor of Arizona. Right out of nowhere, at Turning Point’s AmericaFest no less. Stabbed Charlie Kirk – also rumored to be running for governor of AZ – right in the back…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/trump-endorses-outspoken-never-trump-rino-gubernatorial-candidate/
Anyone who believes there’s going to be ANY serious swamp draining in Trump term 2 is in for a rude awakening. Sure we’ll probably get a relatively good economy and perhaps some deportations, but as far as restoring the republic is concerned… not so much restoring.
Seems there are others here who aren’t paying attention .
I have the secret dread that you are right. Trump is just so much better than Biden/Harris that I had to vote for him.
We will just move more slowly to tyranny & poverty under Trump than under Harris.
Our founders tried.
Be of good cheer!
We may lose even more of our liberty, but at least we will get Panama, Canada and Greenland back!
Go sit on a tack.
It is through understanding how this surveillance system finally matured into what it is now, that my eyes were opened with regard to just how corrupt are the people in our government; and to how long this has been going on. For years I have read various people writing that “it’s worse than you think”. I’m beginning to get it & it’s quite terrifying actually, because it truly IS worse than we think. Much, much worse. I suspect VSGPDJT has a far better view than any of us has. 😱
I agree.
The usual PDJT bashers are of course leaping on the red meat of this article to dump on PDJT.
However, maybe they didn’t read far enough in the article, to the part where sundance predicts that PDJT may come to a showdown with the tech bros if they go too far.
Or maybe the dumpers did, but hope no one else did.
I hear you. But a few thoughts.
First, if we develop technological capabilities, they WILL be used. The critical issue is imagining the ways in which they can be abused before the technology is implemented, and laying out the statutory limitations and penalties to be imposed should they actually BE abused.
Second, it is true the Fourth Amendment has been completely ignored. But there is a remedy for that. Recall the FISA Court audits finding that the FBI conducted warrantless searches of the NSA database? (see below). In each instance of a warrantless search, everyone involved in such database searches should be identified publicly and prosecuted for criminal violation of the target’s Fourth Amendment rights. Period. Full stop.
In order to accomplish this, 47 should form a NEW unit within the Justice Department dedicated to identifying and prosecuting everyone involved with each instance of these 4th Amendment violations. NOT a special prosecutor, but a full on Justice Department lawyer. I suggest Alan Dershowitz to head this unit, and let him staff it with as many civil rights lawyers he wants, of his own choosing. He should report directly to 47.
Next, put an end to the “two hop” application of the FISA warrants. It is not statutory, but pure policy implemented personally by Obama and violates the Fourth Amendment rights of everyone beyond the warranted target, beginning with the first hop. 47 can abolish Obama’s two-hop Justice Department policy and impose a NO HOP policy (the only policy that is actually legal). You want to investigate someone, then don’t send Carter Page into the room carrying a two-hop warrant taped to his back. Get a warrant for EVERYONE you want to investigate.
When we begin to see hundreds of prosecutions of FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers for criminal civil rights violations, and criminal prosecutions of government contractors for conspiracy to violate the civil rights of those they search on the NSA database terminals in their offices, the message will be sent that the Constitution is BACK.
Do it. Put Dersh on it.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/04/26/declassified-fisa-court-opinion-for-2020-shows-even-more-warrantless-fbi-abuses-of-nsa-database-including-search-queries-for-government-officials-and-victims/
trapper: Let’s start with the “unauthorized” unmaskings using Samantha Powers’ login information.
All of this is way above my pay grade.
I give it up to a higher power much stronger and wiser!🙏
It may then be too late for President Trump to align with our side. The damage will have been done. Who will be left to correct the situation?
All I can say is to kick the democrats and media while they are down and never let them up on their feet to promote their agenda again.
they must be Plouffe-d ???????
I have been wondering why Trump trusts people, who are at least as smart as he is, because they show him what they want him to see. Sometimes a real smart guy can have a disastrous blind spot when it comes to the people he befriends. Nobody can actually do what Trump wants to do with the Federal Government.
All we can hope for is that he can scrape off the top echelon of bad actors who are willing to ignore the Constitution whenever it presents inconvenient road blocks to their activities. There will always be more bad actors in the Government and they will pop up as soon as someone above them in the hierarchy gets removed. Government is like a malignancy that will constantly try to devour its own host. Trump cannot prevent this but is the chemotherapy that can slow it down and cause it to look for alternative ways to eat its host. No cure is known for political cancers on a free Republic. We may yet need to have a do over.
We are called not to put our hope in man, that all men are sinners. I will never trust the government again along with doctors – always question and remember who really is in charge. These last 5 years since the Covid lie has taught me this and has drove it deep into my heart. At the beginning of all this craziness God spoke to me and said 3 times to hang on to Him tighter then en ever that it was just going to even more crazy. I was in my yard gardening when He said these words to me and they have been a constant reminder to me that God is always faithful – Merry Christmas to all
I agree. We must remember Who is sovereign over history…
The pendulum swung way too far to the left.
Now it will swing back. Too far back if WE don’t get complete control of it.
yes pendelum swung far too left in BHO & FJB yrs….seen to me only several months of ML…would able resolve it..such deportations of 15-20 milions foreign invades,r*d off monsters in the jud*cial systems…and many,many other things..
i would suggest that before we start tearing down the new administration(as we always seem to do) let
s at least wait until they take power.....we have a nasty habit of turning on those who got us to this point...its in our dna,unfortunately…let
s not start "bulwarking" right out of the chute.....yes, im glad sundance is bringing his concerns forward…but lets not jump the gun just yet.....people like kennedy jr and gabbard have always been opposed to these sorts of shenanigans so i dont believe that these titans of tech will have a clear runway on issues like this….this administration has so many roadblocks to navigate already…let
s at least hold our water until we get the keys...yes,make our concerns known through higher profile thought leaders like sundance...but lets keep it in our pants until we start seeing things take shape….this is going to be thee most massive restructuring of government maybe in american history…..let`s try and be prudent…..give them a chance…..I’m going to keep on sounding the alarm when I have interpreted the writing on the wall, hoping that others may see before it is too late.
It is my patriotic duty.
My ancestor fought for freedom and I’m not going to watch it slip away, waiting for the “right” time to bring it up.
I wish you well. I have found my freedom, I just need them to get rid of property tax.
“If good, virtuous and moral people are in charge, the DHS surveillance system is okay.”
Gen_41:24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
Psa_14:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psa_14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psa_53:1 To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Psa_53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Jer_4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Mic_7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Mat_19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
Mar_10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
Luk_18:19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Rom_3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
1Th_5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
God, seeing the problem in advance (sin filled human beings) sent His Son to take on human flesh to be our substitute and suffer the penalty for our sin(s) which we so richly deserve.
This is why His birth is celebrated at Christmas.
The angel said to them,
“Do not be afraid;
for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy
that will be for all the people.
For today in the city of David
a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord.”
extremely consequential and serious scorched earth policies must be enacted day 1, or say goodbye to this once great nation
my personal litmus test is if thousands of those dc criminals are not cuffed and stuffed within the first 100 days, and the 4th branch remains generally unscathed, it’s, unfortunately, adios to the u.s.a for the foreseeable future
grrrrrrrrrr
I agree 100% – hang on to the One that is always faithful
Challenges accepted
Sundance hits on some of the key thoughts expressed recently in zero hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/political/end-age-scientism from the nobel laureate F.A. Hayek.
Basically stated by Hayek is that intellectual coercion based on “all-knowing science” is a delusional application that assumes a conversion from physical science to social science.
The same underlying principles exist here since the tools of modern intelligence cannot be employed without damage to individual rights and privacy because there is the implicit establishment of a heirachy of those who know and those who become subject to the authorities.
Awareness is our only hope and that awareness I believe needs to include a higher power i.e. faith in one that is greater than ourselves.
It’s amazing all the Musk fans blindly believing he is one of us, even though his past says otherwise. He is successful due to government. SpaceX received initial funding from In-Q-Tel, the CIA investment arm, when SpaceX was on the verge of going belly up in 2008ish NASA stepped in and awarded SpaceX a contract, NASA at the time was headed by Mike Griffin , the same individual who was the head of In-Q-Tel when Space X’s initial funding was made. Per Tesla’s SEC filings they do not make money by selling cars but by selling government invented carbon credits. Musk’s companies, as most know, are the largest private contract for government. So is Musk there to protect his companies’ interests? Probably. Does Musk owe his success to government? Yes.
It has also been rumored that Musk is looking to buy a $100 million condo in Palm Beach, just a few minute drive from Mar-A-Lago, even though the operations of his companies are based in Texas.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/elon-musk-eyes-100m-west-palm-beach-condo-what-to-know-22002508
Thiel is a key player along with Musk’s SpaceX in using carbon credits to capture and basically imprison South America. If the South America operation is successful, one can count on it being used in other places such as the US. For more detail here’s a link:
Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup
Latin America is quietly being forced into a carbon market scheme through regional contractual obligations – enforced by the satellites of a US intelligence-linked firm – which seeks to create an inter-continental “smart grid,” erode national and local sovereignty, and link carbon-based life to the debt-based monetary system via a Bitcoin sidechain.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/04/investigative-reports/debt-from-above-the-carbon-credit-coup/
None of the Paypal mafia Trump is using along with Ellison, Ramaswamy and Vance are to be totally trusted when it comes to the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens IMO. Watch what they do not what they say. This is a long term battle with the surveillance state waiting in the shadows for Trump’s exit. One hopes Trump can neuter them, but that is a tall order for such a short time period.
indeed.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Gov. Kristi Noem has been nearly silent as discussion and debate on two proposed carbon dioxide projects have happened over more than a year in the state.
But on June 26, Noem commented on Summit Carbon Solutions’ plan to travel through more than 400 miles of the state with a CO2 pipeline. Noem said in a June 26 interview with KWAT, a Watertown radio station, that Summit is in partnership with a Chinese ethanol company and that their business partner received investment from a Chinese central bank.
“The company has not received, nor has it solicited, contributions from China,” Summit Carbon Solutions said in an email response to questions from KELOLAND News.
But Summit did secure a $300 million investment from TPG Rise Climate, according to TPG Rise Climate and Summit. China-based Silk Road Fund is one of the anchor investors in TPG Rise.
https://www.keloland.com/keloland-com-original/summit-responds-to-noems-radio-comments-on-co2-pipelines/
North Dakota approves construction of proposed carbon pipeline, underground CO2 storage
Project Tundra, a plan to retrofit a North Dakota coal plant with carbon capture technology, has hit a snag following the departure of the lead contractor.
Before that departure, the utility overseeing the project, Minnkota Power Cooperative, had said it would decide this year whether to move forward with the multibillion-dollar plan.
“We are continuing to move forward with development efforts and remain optimistic about Project Tundra’s future,” Ben Fladhammer, a spokesman for Minnkota, said Monday.
He gave no timetable for next steps, and said timing would depend on many factors, including the availability of federal funding, federal environmental rules and changes to project costs due to inflation.
The project’s challenges cap a year in which there have been few signs of progress for U.S. coal-fired power plants whose owners are studying retrofits that would involve carbon capture systems. This is despite substantial funding of carbon capture efforts by the Biden administration.
The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump supports funding of carbon capture while also wanting to reduce regulations that have the effect of forcing coal plants to implement that technology. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Trump’s nominee for secretary of the interior, is one of several appointees who have touted carbon capture as a viable way to allow coal plants to operate in an environmentally friendly manner.
But enthusiasm about carbon capture has yet to translate to substantial emissions reductions, and environmental advocates have long criticized the use of the technology for power plant retrofits as a boondoggle with high costs, steep technical challenges and an overreliance on taxpayer money.
https://www.minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-media/2024/12/a-carbon-capture-project-faces-a-new-delay-in-a-year-of-slow-progress-for-coal-power-plants-looking-for-retrofits/
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) technology is simply not economical. The parasitic electrical load and loss of thermodynamic efficiency on a power plant alone would increase the fuel usage by some 50-60% by itself before generating enough electricity for sale to the market.
THIS will be the future (energy) anyway, its just a matter of time now:
https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/126823930/1_s2.0_S0360319922022406_main.pdf
Interesting, had not heard of this. Thanks for the heads up.
Believe as you will.
There is more than a bit of anecdotal evidence that this Randell Mills has been selling vaporware for 20+ years. To say nothing of the contradictions of his Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics with Quantum Mechanics which actually has verified evidence to support it.
The blind part is believing President Trump is on the same page as we are, despite all evidence to the contrary.
I keep preaching. You have 4 years to get out of the system!
well he77’s bells. Pam Bondi is already compromised then. The deputies and chief of staffs run the operation. Pammie is just at this stage a figure head. No, this is not winning ….AT ALL
“The deputies and chief of staffs run the operation.” As it has usually been.