I returned yesterday following another whirlwind trip to the one place in America I genuinely believe is rooted in evil enterprise, Washington DC. What I found there was similar to prior visits yet there are some structural and cultural changes afoot that are visible if you know what to look for.
First, the level of opposition to Donald Trump is bigger than in term-1, way bigger. The hatred is likely a magnitude of three times as strong against President Trump and what/who he represents. The opposition sentiment, now three times more vitriolic, is held by around 90% of the inhabitants of the region, perhaps more but I am trying to be gracious.
Somewhere are 90% of every thought, word, deed and action, as well as tone therein, is bitterly against President Trump’s perspectives, policies and intentions for government reform. In term-1 and prior visits that percentage was likely around 75%. The current scale of opposition is actually stunning albeit not surprising. However, it does give you an idea of how impossible it is for a MAGA-minded political official to live, work and even breathe in the environment.
This is why so many elected officials we count on collapse after only a few weeks/months of effort. The hatred they face is like a flea looking into a furnace, and unfortunately when put into that kind of battle geography only those who carry the purest armor of God are going to keep stable footing. Everyone from the 7-11 attendant to the pizza delivery guy and beyond, will openly hate you if you even suspect you are Trumpy minded or even MAGA adjacent.
There is pure evil deep within the Washington DC hatred, and it emanates, vibrates like a frequency you can physically feel and mentally sense. This is not America, not even close. In the last two decades this place of “fundamental transformation” has become something else entirely. I will note there is approximately 30% more office space for lease today than prior visits. Perhaps DC is shrinking.
The various independent American survivors trying to cope within the region live like French resistance forces under Nazi occupation rules. Secret meetings, safe venues, careful transit, eye signals, questioning glances, knowing nods, stunning nervousness and other identifying survival tradecraft are very visible. This is a putrid and horrid place. In its modern form it is much worse than most can fathom, and you would be safer on the streets of Mogadishu.
Inside the security perimeter where the illusion of democracy is maintained for tourists’ things are safer; however, getting there requires a very deliberate effort to keep your head down, walk briskly through the safari zone and stay on very narrow paths carefully avoiding eye-contact lest you be suspected as an outsider. Yeah, I dislike this place immensely.
My favorite question, and I’m very careful about how I ask it, is: “when was the last time you encountered joy?” Try asking that question in Washington DC and you’ll need more than a Snickers as you await a reply.
We need to emphasize this context because this is the place where President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have to operate in order to carry out their official duties.
It is absolutely no surprise why President Trump and First Lady Melania try to exit the region frequently in order to breathe.
As an apex predator and warrior Donald Trump has keen survival skills, but the scale of the opposition is intense.
I often think about the level of mental fortitude it would take to exist in this environment of constant probing attacks because it helps to remind me how strong President Donald J Trump really is. [I have my wrist stopwatch timed to spend 47 minutes in focused prayer and thankfulness each evening before bed, for exactly that reason.]
Overall, my objective was successful, and I am confident President Trump has people earnestly trying to bring reform that could change the direction of our national journey.
From my perspective the problem isn’t the motive of the people trying to get things done; the biggest problem they face is their ability given the scale of the problem.
There is a big difference between what the problems look like and what the problems actually are, and the business system inside Washington DC operates on maintenance of the former, while the latter is never addressed. President Trump has this challenge in part because the American people have a different view of the core problem. I digress.
♦ Prioritization.
Think of what President Trump is attempting. In an average day President Trump has to support his cabinet efforts, take phone calls from global interests, address surfacing crisis, negotiate how to keep people moving forward, maintain a focus on national economic benefit, try and bring an end to expensive conflict, coordinate with legislative allies, respond to questions, defend the advances and stabilize the ramparts against inbound attacks.
In the big picture, President Trump is a dealmaker for material benefits that deliver substantive financial benefits to the American people who go about their daily lives trying to do the best they can for themselves and their family. MAGAnomics is at the core of the effort, whether through trade, tax policy, energy policy, resource development, deregulation or just trying to convince multinationals that prosperity in America is in their best interest.
There are only 24 hours in a day and President Trump works in a more focused manner on that priority than any modern president before him.
Everything else falls into a second tier of prioritization. Yes, the Silo reform efforts are critically important, but at the same time priorities have to be made if the biggest impacts are going to be felt.
So, President Trump provides the greatest opportunities for the second tier to succeed by appointing the best people he knows are available and supporting everything they ask of him in return as they go about their endeavors. However, President Trump cannot reasonably micromanage the daily tasks within each of the silo reform efforts. That’s what cabinet level ministers are appointed to achieve, and the absence of progress is where we find the majority of the frustration expressed by the MAGA-supporting American electorate.
Yes, ultimately the buck stops with the desk in the Oval Office, and it is not supportive of the mission objective to avoid that reality. However, cabinet members have a role and responsibility to deliver on the expectations and turning fire toward President Trump, regardless of the merit of the frustration underpinning the fire, is also not going to change the responsibility dynamic.
The leaders of the various cabinet agencies are responsible for the executive decision-making within a governmental reform effort.
President Trump’s apex priority focus is on the economic stuff that touches every American life. On those issues he doesn’t delegate the potential for success, he directly ensures success is achieved. Then, for the lesser, albeit also incredibly important – but not the apex stuff, Trump provides the opportunity for the greatest success but cannot micromanage every nuance. There’s just not enough time in a day.
What we may be noticing, via the absence of the success or progress many people desire, is not a disinterest by Trump to achieve the goals of silo reform amid some of the most historically challenging agencies (DOJ, FBI, etc.), but rather the inability or incompetence of the best option Trump had to get it done. I do not assign or target frustration toward President Trump; I direct my ire toward the cabinet officials and their decision-making.
At CTH we see things as they are, not as we would wish them to be.
♦ Recently a thought exercise via the Twitter was presented around the issue of assigned trust then and now. I modify that a little bit to hit more on the expectation equation. What competency or effectiveness was expected, versus what we are seeing.
Harmeet Dhillon: 15% effectiveness expected / 20% effectiveness now visible. The only DOJ-CRD change was the elimination of Disparate Impact, that caused around 200 people to leave because they no longer had anything to do. According to her public promotion tour, Dhillon is now reviewing ‘Consent Decrees.’
Kash Patel: 15% then / 15% now. The guy is unchanged because expectations were/are low to begin with. Current FBI people within the agency openly admit their director is in over his head and state he has no idea what is actually happening in the agency he leads. He is fed busy-work to keep him occupied, and he likes the indulgences afforded by the position.
Dan Bongino: 50% then / 25% now. The Stephen Jensen promotion rollout is an example of non-leadership. If Bongino and Kash Patel were going to be earnest, and if what they claimed recently is true, they should have been visibly open about making the FBI’s lead J6 attack dog a whistleblower and then promoting him. Unfortunately, they view sunlight as against their institutional interests. The DC Silo system loves that approach.
Marco Rubio: 25% then / 70% now. Remarkably his confrontation with the Senate, with USAID, with VISAs, and calling Ukraine a “USA proxy war” were big jumps in the effectiveness and competency versus what was expected. Still watching for direct IC confrontation with his move to NatSec Advisor, but I totally understand why President Trump is supporting him with more authority.
Pam Bondi: 10% then / 10% now. Her entire value is keeping Main Justice pro-Trump. Pam Bondi is keeping the internal lawfare operatives inside the DOJ from targeting the office of the president. She’s doing that well, but that’s the sum total of what we expected. Bottom line, she’s a fibber, a user and a socialite climber.
RFK Jr: 25% then / 40% now. Vaccine removals/confrontation, Rx advertising stopped, and Food Safety reform are still outstanding issues. But to be fair, he seems to be leaning in.
Tom Homan: 100% then / 100% now. Mr consistency.
Mike Waltz: 5% then / 0% now. CTH said Waltz would be the first one gone, and he was. Mike Waltz was/is the Nikki Haley of Term 2.
Kristi Noem: 25% then / 50% now. Considerably exceeding expectations. Big border support gains and her honest evaluation of a “totally corrupt FBI” were big steps forward in sunlight; but lots remain to be done.
Tulsi Gabbard: 25% then / 50% now. Biggest jump was from removing National Intelligence Council (NIC) from the CIA. That was a huge and proactive move that likely headed off a major effort by the IC to undermine President Trump. But again, the ultimate IC confrontation and declassification stuff remains. [I somewhat suspect Gabbard will shift from DNI to NatSec Advisor]
Howard Lutnick: 50% then / 75% now. Solid support for MAGAnomics, Trump tariff approach and more.
Kevin Hassett: 80% then / 90% now. Solid on tax effort, trade assists and structural domestic MAGAnomics. Last 10% = Results, and the USMCA issues.
USTR Greer: 25% then / 75% now. Excellent confrontation of EU, ASEAN and China on trade. He’s exceeding expectations by following the lead of President Donald Trump. Greer also didn’t flinch when Trump hit the tariff hammer during his congressional testimony. Impressive.
Scott Bessent: 50% then / 75% now. Making the whistleblowers part of the audit group was a good move. Trade and MAGAnomics policy advancement are very solid. Strong supportive MAGAnomic understanding and excellent follow-through.
John Ratcliffe: 25% then / 25% now. The CIA still appears to be operating albeit without the conduit of USAID. The Qatari stuff is annoying and the CIA operations in Ukraine are unchanged. With CIA operations in EU continuing as before, the status of the CIA operating as a shadow government cannot be seen as improving. Tulsi Gabbard intercepted the NIC issue, but for the NIC to be plotting while Ratcliffe is Director, well… meh.
Like I said, AG Pam Bondi appears to have one job, keep main justice from Lawfare operations against the White House. She seems to have her hands around that now. Meanwhile these guys are doing the heavy lifting regionally (Blanche), at the Supreme Court (Sauer) and within the silo investigative stuff everyone wants to see lead to accountability (Martin). We are all waiting for results.
The DC Sundance describes is it the same in northeast cities like NYC, Boston, Providence, Hartford? Does the “putrid and horrid place” extend northeast, places where leftists with TDS dominate??? Or is DC uniquely positioned? Just wondering?
It’s bad in Seattle and the statehouse in Olympia. But not as bad as sd describes DC.
You should witness the level of Trump Deranged Syndrome in Ireland and Britain – it’s off the clock.
Btw _- Sundance thank you for this brilliant analysis.
Have you any comment on the useless Senators and the ‘other lot’ who seem to have done nothing in support of their President?
He has to govern by EO’s
Ireland and GB are rapidly becoming of NO value to the world except supporting those who wish to destroy civilization!
The sun is setting quickly on Ireland and Britain. Especially Britain. They are both of no consequence at the moment, but Ireland if the men of Ireland act quickly it may survive. I hope so.
With all due respect, you say “of no consequence”, but let me remind you where the power of the Empire emanates from. You look at DC, its a circus distraction, not a very pleasant one to work in for sure, but a distraction where power seems to operate from. Take that which holds DC in its place out of the equation and DC would change its environment.
Who controls the Supreme Court? a thorn in the side of the US
Who controls the “corporate structure”? a thorn in the side of the western world.
Admittedly the octopus has many tentacles as the Crown has no fixed State, as it is seen as a whole that needs all its parts to operate. Fixing one part and not the rest only works short term, only a nuke with proportionate value distributed evenly will solve the issues of the 21 C in the US and elsewhere.
Ireland is indeed not lost….MIGA is growing and spreading:
DC is not unique…the entire East Coast is putrid with hatred for any one who is not a democrat with the worst of it being reserved for Trump
When you have an utterly and irreparably divided population that could easily form 3 different countries instead of pretending to be one country called the US, this is what happens
I would say “Urban areas” of the east coast. Go an hour north of NYC, or so, and people are more pro-trump. Unfortunately the government is run by politicians from the bigger cities within the state.
Just like here in NY. See my post above. I’m also in a union. Dont believe the leadership of any of them. Most members pro-trrump. Labor has long been fed up…
Absolutely agree… I live about an hour north of the city where the line begins to be drawn Pro Trump.
Haven’t been to NYC in years.
State legislature is heavily tilted Dem. Hochul is a puppet.
We live in Chester County, Pa. 45 minutes SWest from Center City Philadelphia. Surprisingly red here now, has been for approx last 8 – 9 years . Many less blue voters. I see to almost be 95% blue. Not anymore.
I live in Chester Co but work in Montgomery Co. There is a stark difference in how utterly blue the collar counties (Eastern Chester, DelCo, MontCo & Bucks) around Philadelphia are, vs western Chester, Lancaster, pretty much the interior of the state. It’s sad how many fled Philly and brought their top-down dictatorial high-tax policies with them.
Once we reign in mail-in-voting, I think we’ll see more of PA return to red.
Lancaster is in a sad state of affairs. We went for a wedding and bunked downtown last June. The downtown was overflowing with homeless and stunk of urine. We were originally from PA but moved 12 years ago to escape the taxes and poor government service to its citizens. And quite correctly, people from urban/suburban Philly have infected Lancaster. God bless the Amish.
Try Honolulu…
Honolulu is an over rated shit hole…
The growth in government extends even to small towns in America.
45% of all new jobs during Biden’s term were jobs in government.
A lot of folks get uncomfortable when you talk about downsizing gov’t.
I live in Austin. The leftists are more crazed but they don’t seem to be growing in number. The government employees, the teachers,the college professors and lunatic LGBTQ+ are protesting Tesla dealerships and vociferously spewing hatred towards President Trump and Elon, but I don’t think there are more of them. We have been traveling the past two weeks through New Mexico and Arizona and we talk with many folk from all over the country and the world. Overall they lean conservative and I’ve seen quite a bit of outward expression of support for MAGA. The exceptions to that are the natives of Santa Fe, Flagstaff, and Albuquerque. They are infected with TDS as much if not more than the liberals in Austin.
Albuquerque is the worst. It is a crime-ridden hell hole. Homeless drug addicts are in many parks and they can ride the busses for free. It’s also become an abortion destination city with thousands of Texas women traveling across the state line to kill their babies. The city has a very uncomfortable feeling about it. Creepy. My wife said no one seems to be “normal.”
If it’s an abortion destination city, I can well imagine it would have a creepy feeling. People may not believe it, but abortion literally draws the demons.
Minneapolis is like that, #SHITLIBS are a breed apart, nasty and SELF loathing…….
Harrisburg, PA differs very little from what our host describes in DC.
have been skiping treehouse the last few weeks,dont care what the sundays show say.i’m here for Sundance & the back & forth of commenters(who are some of the best on the internet).Bongino biggest disapointment.
61,000,000 thumbs up.
He’s like Trey Gowdy….all hat no cattle! Bongo!
Was he named #2 to prop Patel up?
CTH has issues and insights you won’t see anywhere else.
When I was younger,
I used to try to catch some of the Sunday shows. Sometimes they would make sense;
Sometimes they were too much ‘inside baseball’ for an outsider like me to really understand.
CTH isn’t like that.
Issues are explained, without any patronizing or condescending attitudes.
The ‘percentages’ on the various DJT appointees is a great way to compare your observations with those on the website.
I haven’t watch a Sunday ‘snooze’ show in a decade+.
No need to.
It’s all ‘narrative’.
If the truth ever escaped from one of those shows… it would be hunted down, ‘Dead or Alive’ – preferably dead… and buried.
He took the clot shot….just sayin’
And has said numerous times he regrets it.
Many folks in that boat.
I thought Dan was an odd pick for the FBI.
His experience is more protection than enforcement.
However, besides Bondi, I’m willing to give Trump’s cabinet a little more time to get their footing.
Time is a luxury PT and his cabinet don’t have
“Time is a luxury PT and his cabinet don’t have.”
I agree. IMHO it apprears that the GOP have decided to sabotage Trump by not pushing his agendas that Americans voted for through, even though they have the majority in Congress. They won’t even act on getting election integrity parameters in place. They know they are making MAGA voters really angry and they could care less, so it would appear the plan is for the GOP to lose the majority in the midterms. One assumes this is so the Democrats can impeach Trump. One also has to ask, why does the GOP want to give Democrats this opportunity? Could it be that the feckless GOP know no other role than to be “The Losers” in the Uniparty Kabuki theater?
IMHO they aren’t as daft and spineless as they would like us to think they are. IMHO the answer is more likely that they would like to dispense with Trump and get back to their usual business of getting their kickbacks and access to children from the Cartels, graft from the NGO’s, and resume the ability to empower the globalist NWO, WEF to destroy the US economically, militarily, and transfer power to their appointed new world power, China. This would all have happened 10 years ago if Hillary hadn’t lost to Trump, so from their perspective, they are behind schedule. And yes, all of them are Evil.
It is by the grace of God that we still have the crumbs of a Republic left. Please continue to pray and ask for God’s Mercy to protect our POTUS and our country. May God help us all, Patriots. May God have Mercy upon us for letting Him and our ancestors down by squandering the freedom that they shed their blood and sacrificed their lives for.
I agreed, John. They all walked into a huge mess, probably larger than they thought. Takes time to sort things out. Trump moves at the speed of light, so we expect results lickety-split. I, too am willing to give them some time.
This is a whole new admin. with a totally different approach. In addition, every day something big happens that requires their immediate response. I say that 5 months is not really enough to see the big and small pictures. Just saying.
I’m certainly happy with Doge and their results, the tariffs, and the border. But, still and enormous amount of heavy lifting to be done.
Oh, yeah! I forgot. On the advice of his doctor, since he was dealing with cancer at the time, if I remember correctly.
Dan had cancer and took it in order to get treatment, according to him. He also claims it was the “biggest regret” of his life.
Great roundup and breakdown of what we have seen so far! God bless you, dear Sundance! And glad you survived the visti!
Outlaw Josey Wales…..
“Now remember, things look bad and it looks like you’re not gonna make it,
then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. ‘Cause if you lose
your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That’s just the
way it is.”
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Prophetic??
George Carlin was right back when he said “it’s a club and we ain’t in it!”
You are correct: “It is a club…”
George Carlin was wrong, when he said: “It’s a BIG club….”
It is by no means a “big” club!
In fact, it is a minuscule club with BIG CRIMINALS!
As in Communist or other kinds of dictatorships, a tiny group controls the 99.9% through threats and rigged elections, through imprisonment for Freedom of Speech or exercising other basic rights, through murder of the opposition, and through control of money.
The 12 years of MAObama and The Manchurian Marionette exposed a quasi-Communist coup d’etat of America.
It’s the big government unions – this stuff is very home grown. Stop deflecting.
If “this stuff” was in fact “home grown”, then McCarthy was absolutely correct.
I would submit there is a substantial network of Praetorians the minuscule club uses to keep the prols in line through fear.
Ashli Babbitt learned that personally on January 6, but by no means is alone, nor is the Praetorian network only in D.C.
They are all still out there vertical and breathing and many/most are still in positions of power and authority and qualified immunity. If they seem quiet right now, in my opinion don’t conflate that silence with any sort of change of heart or ideology.
I keep it simple. Anyone not my friend is a clear and exigent threat unless cleared and, decidedly, Praetorians are not my friends. Their colleagues in law enforcement have stood by while they had at the good citizens of the Republic. That cannot stand. Choices have consequences and with great power comes great responsibility.
I watched our convoy pretty much every day for months and saw the interactions all across the country, positive and negative. D.C. was the worst. I remember when a motorist died from the cops blocking off-ramps with snow plows. One driver ran into the plow and was killed. All to keep the convoy from leaving the freeway into the city.
Not an uplifting take. President Trump can only do so much. Even with three years plus remaining no one is going to fix what is wrong with Washington, DC, after all, it took over 50 years to get us where we are today. So, life after Trump, what’s that going to look like? And who will lead MAGA?
We won WWII, across two oceans, fighting 2 deadly foes in 3 years and 9 months
………… less than the 4 years that G.O.A.T. President Trump has to MakeAmericaGreatAgain.
……………… with his MAGA / America First movement that has the numerical, economic, moral, intellect and armed majorities in America and increasing those majorities every month.
You ask some good questions but they will be faced with our Constitutional Republic on a good footing, not from a disaster like we had going into 2025.
Have a great MAGA day!
We know. 47 will make an awesome consultant.
Would say a majority of us don’t want “uplifting takes” – but very much prefer the cold, hard facts be they good or bad. No pretending.
You’re correct, one can’t 100% fix DC in a single term, just as Rome wasn’t built in a single day.
However that most definitely does NOT mean that it won’t be significantly better when his term ends. One of the more important things PDJT has done and continues to do that many overlook is educating the ‘average’ American on the truth and showing them with stark contrast what many of the issues are. That is very important not only in regards to support for himself and his policies, but also in snapping America writ large out of their decades, nigh century, long slumber, as well as providing an example of ways to fight back.
It is because no single person in a single term can solve everything that those lessons and actions are so important – so that the people can continue the fight and continue the improvements. Expecting a single person to do it all is absurd and insane. It’s far past time for we the people to become willing to put our backs to the grindstone of improvement and quit waiting for a shining knight to come riding out of the darkness.
Instead of waiting for such a knight or another national leader, become a leader if only on a local level. Rally those you know, fight the battles at the local level where all power flows. True it may currently mostly flow to DC, but that isn’t its source no that which has the greatest effect on our day to day lives. Too, DC can and should be strongly fight from the state level where the Constitution imbues the majority of governmental power.
Remember too that there was a major reason that the tea party movement before and the maga movement now has been so vociferously attacked – those who are against our nations very existence and our liberty understand that ultimately it is the power of the people that overrides all others and can make – or break – any governmental endeavor, be it a positive or negative one. That’s also why the media is trying so extremely hard to portray things in a much more negative light and actually drive the people and the economy downward and into chaos.
DC hasn’t been American for a long, long time…
1962 – when JFK allowed government employees to unionize. That was the fatal turning point for America and the creation of thee Deep State.
The US in general (hollywood to be sure) and DC in particular was being “fundamentally transformed” long before JFK was born. In fact, some will argue the true beginning of the end of the USA happened in 1913 at a secluded little place called Jekyll island, just off the coast of Georgia; et voila! the ‘Fed’ was born.
G. Edward Griffin explains it all in his book “The Creature from Jekyll Island”. For those who’ve not read it and want a better understanding of the ‘origins of the ‘Fed’, this book is an easy read and explains the history well.
I wonder if that’s PJT’s ultimate plan, to rid the world of The Fed. If that’s done, everything else would follow!
Another book to read is “None Dare Call it Conspiracy” by Gary Allen. Written 1970?warning that if things do not start to change.. the US will be socialist in 50 years. So here we are.. Welcome to the 2020’s.
Ever since I read the literary masterpiece you cited, I’ve always thought our great nation was overthrown on Christmas Eve when The Federal Reserve Act was passed.
Did the Great Eagles have to come and exfil you afterwards, SD?…
…- I’d *Strongly* recommend a pressure-washer shower, with chlorine, UV light and sundry other disinfectants and detergents, after alla that…
…- *Be Well*, Amigo… – We’re all counting on you, here…
So: 90% of swamp dwellers hate Trump. By extension to his base, 90% of the Other People hate us too.
A person might want to be ready for the time when they act on their hate.
And that’s all I’m gonna say about that.
‘Just verifies what we already know. The place is corrupt to the core. I don’t think arresting a few folks for scratching Teslas, Few minor league players, are going to fix this issue. We don’t have the time or wherewithal to continue this way. We need an event of epic proportions, a Sodom and Gemorrah to resolve this evil.
Unfortunately, I don’t see another way.
And remember most, if not all, blue (democrat run) cities nationwide are just microcosms of the trash, coruptness and evil that emanates from the DC mother-ship. If a wide-spread shtf event actually happens, avoid cities, or be ‘well prepared’ if you can’t.
I will take your word for it. Wonder how long the late 20’s and 30 somethings keep their head above water. They have no clue their past accomplishments are hollow and were a rigged gig or how to do any real job.
Slurpee Heavens everywhere will be staffed up in no time. Hopefully Legal Aid too.
For those of us who saw what was happening around us for the past few decades – pre-kids (now in their 20s-30s) – we made the time to prepare them well, for most eventualities. Their STEM educations are paying off. They are and will be a-OK, along with their friends and peers. As for the body pierced blue-hair, mostly peaceful rioters, well, they will eventually learn their parents were selfish and their options are severely limited unless they learn to take responsibility for their actions and improve their own futures. All choices have consequences.
“…learn to take responsibility for their actions and improve their own futures. All choices have consequences.”
THAT is ultimately behind it all! Good v. Evil
Who would have been better than Kash Patel I wonder? Seems theres a shortage of GENUINE MAGA talent who have not been compromised or who is not weak in some way.
Bongino should have performed better. I read his book and was impressed. Not any more
Matt Gaetz.
I watched the Harmeet Dillon – Tucker Carlson interview. I thought Dillon was very impressive. She has an excellent knowledge of civil law and she obviously has a mind like a steel trap, able to instantly bring to mind cases, jurisdictions and facts. And she seems to possess a big dose of common sense, which was apparent when she was discussing Consent Decrees. However, when she recounted how lifelong civil attorneys within the DOJ had been holding “crying sessions” and half of them had quit over Trump’s election and her appointment, I thought OMG she really has her work cut out big time, with a big load of case management now on her shoulders on top of managing a DOJ division. However, with a mind like she has, she will triumph.
The context of everything in Washington DC is the overwhelming financial insolvency of America.
All of the hatred and evil on the Left cannot change the course of our ship heading full-speed ahead toward the gigantic iceberg.
Irresponsibility and wickedness will bring an inevitable reckoning and the scoundrels will live the horror of anarchy and a complete breakdown of civil society.
The elites may think they can party like there is no tomorrow but tomorrow will surely come.
Some will survive eating what they raise and grow themselves.
Many may be reduced to eating each other.
“Many may be reduced to eating each other.”
If it comes to that , and if I was either Chris Cristie or Pritzker, I would not accept any
invites to DC.
Take down Comey – it’ll change a LOT.
This looks right. I hate that we have to suffer low expectations in most positions – the positions that matter – but here we are. Marco is the overachiever and I don’t trust it. Thanks for breaking this down, Sundance. People needed to hear it. Trump certainly isn’t omnipotent. He’s focused on what he needs to be focused on. The problem from his first term remains, though. Hiring practices. I don’t know who is getting him to put these non-achievers in the positions. My guess is Susan. So the fact he’s listening to her is my problem with his hiring. Just list his deal with Turtle during his first term – judges for bills. The score didn’t come out even and we’re still suffering those judicial mistakes.
Voters need to put in a much stronger House and Senate. One person is not going to have that much latitude to change things. Congress must row together. Why ask one one man to do all this for you?
Trump needs to relocate the Capitol to Jackson, Mississippi (or Greenland) — disperse all feral agencies across and throughout the fruited plain — and as for The Swamp (if you don’t want to waste a nuke to be sure) after giving 72-hour notice:
. Destroy;
. Salt; and
. Scatter.
1,000 upvotes!!
Then use DC for a long-overdue tactical nuke test.
Reminds me of a line in Western I read. DC to a T. . . .
“Now, at night, it might have been any little western town, but it was not just any town. It was a town built on deceit and theft, a town corrupted by it’s own greed, a town that had arrived at this point without realizing how deep were the depths into which it descended.”
I did a consulting gig in the DC area 18 yrs ago and it was tolerable, though peeps were morally bankrupt, elitist and evil even back then. Fast forward to 2025 and SD’s observation is spot on. My son lived in the Middle East / Dubai 18 yrs and decided to move his security company along w his wife 1yr ago to the VA/ DC region to grow his U. S. govt clientele. My son calls those he does business with self-righteous, satanic communists with an endless well of hatred for Christians and conservatives. They put their VA house on the market and are moving back overseas.
The DC collective serves a very dark master….
Was in DC in the Watergate years. That sleaze seems like a Sunday School picnic for restless teenagers compared to the swamp the unions like SEIU and the teachers unions turned DC into today
Ditto this old deplorable.
It seems to me that the “Wall Street Journal” truly endeavors to cater to the “Trump Derangement” sufferers.
Just today – in the “Mansions” section (because today is Friday and Friday is the day for the “Mansions” section) there was an article on the front page of that section:
“Quiet Wealth Meets Trump in Bedminster”
I read this as the basic plot for “Caddyshack”: Judge Elihu Smalls (Ted Knight) meets Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) at the Bushwood Country Club.
Perfect name, Bushwood Country Club! Brings to mind all the Bushies that have been mad at Donald J. Trump for denying Jeb Bush and the Bush Family the Presidency!
GHW Bush #41 – GW Bush #43 – Jeb Bush #45 – the Bush Family thought that made perfect sense!
Such people as the “Never Trumpers” seem to pride themselves as “above” Trump – and those of us who voted for him!
Their hatred is a poison which toxifies everything and would be our ruination.
President Trump has more class and more talent and brains in either one of his little fingers than any of the “Never Trumpers” . . . do you know why? Because he has a heart of gold, truly.
And all of us, the MAGA people, have been watching the parade of phony lazy butts who think nothing of launching a war to use our young beautiful people to go to the front lines and the Deep State being used to enable that instead of protecting us from these treasonous bastards who only want money and/or power but do not care about our nation’s well- being.
A heart of gold keeps us searching and we’re getting old.
We have been looking for a heart of gold and when you see it, you know it.
I rather imagine Neil Young would not appreciate having his great old song being used to express appreciation for President Trump . . .
but if Mr. Young would just sit down and think about it, he would see that President Trump is the first heart of gold we have seen, endeavoring to stop wars, working to get Americans healthy again with Bobby Kennedy at the point of THAT spear and taking care of business for the American people . . . maybe Mr. Young sees that as not helpful to Canadians but which Canadians do you care about, the politicians representing the Globalist interests, the World Economic Forum and all those cats but not the farmers and working people of Canada?
WSJ has been grotesquely and gratuitously TSD for far too long. Every single article now has some slur or dig, and often totally unrelated to the article topic.
There is NO editorial control with blue pencil to strike out those stupidTDS lines in every article; except in the most sinister fashion. I suspect there is a master blue pencil who keeps putting them in.
so true
Why are you buying it/subscribing?
My Mom subscribes to it – she reads it every day, Monday through Saturday, front to back – she lets me have the crossword puzzles and reminds me when it is Thursday and do I want to read Karl Rove’s latest op-ed or do I want to read Peggy Noonan’s latest. My mother is very wry and very dry and is up to date on what is being said, although she takes it all with a grain of salt and doesn’t “buy” most of it. I think she could hold her own at a real cocktail party, if those still happen . . . somewhere.
I hope Neil Young will remember: a southern man don’t need him around.
. . . anyhow.
“…miner for a heart of gold….that keep me searching for a heart of gold….and I’m getting old”….
Ya gotta look hard because there ain’t many left.
Sundance has one too.
WSJ now renamed “The Red Street Journal”
Nothing to add except great post!
One of your top ten posts Sir…stellar!!!!
It’s to be expected in a company town that the sheriff trying to downsize in number and in power that company will be hated, by the important and the not important and all others whose job/power/or status derives from the important and the non important.
The media in town exist only because of the company. The more more power has the company, the more important are those whose job it is to report on it.
Thank you Sundance for going in to the lions den and bringing us back the TRUTH as only you can . love you for that .
Blessings to you and yours
R.D.
And some people think I’m losing it when I have the thought pass my mind that perhaps we would all be better off if Tom Clancy’s Executive Orders novel became nonfiction during Biden’s last State of the Union address.
Nuke it………… along with the City of London, Brussels, et al, when the Patriots are home for tea, lol.
The question is, “what kind of Nuke is to be used”. DJT is doing a fair good job in the US along with his counterparts, but the resistance is not just in the US but all around the western field of play and needs upending on a major scale. It seems many think they can just wait DJT MAGA out and not deal with their own internal conflicts, as they see the conflict out there, even when the evidence is directly mirrored in front of them.
Where is Epstein?
Who runs the US Supreme Court?
To name 2 Nukes
There are to many to mention, I’m sure God has a Plan to work through Man.
I would prefer to go straight to the problem and deal with it at the root and shed the Light of Truth on it, I understand for many it is not as easy as flicking on the Light switch. Many prefer the dimmer switch.
DC is a place inhabited by those who exist by raping the rest of country. their livlihoods are only possible through peddling of washington corruption. Trump and MAGA take direct aim at their livlihoods, which is due. If Trump does not succeed, DC should he nuked. evac the innocent, then nuke it.
Great analysis! Very useful!
When does that get to 100% and turn into violence and open insurrection? The last time it was hidden behind the lies of quid pro quo, Russian collusion and lawfare when they tried unsuccessfully to use the government apparatus to defeat Trump. The left now knows that won’t work. The Democrats are in total disarray except for one thing, to eliminate President Trump any way possible.
Everyone from the 7-11 attendant to the pizza delivery guy and beyond, will openly hate you if you even suspect you are Trumpy minded or even MAGA adjacent. – Sundance
That is total bullshit and a wild exaggeration. I live in the suburbs west of DC and there isn’t this level of hate for PDJT and his MAGA supporters. Maybe in D.C. proper but not in the burbs. But remember D.C. proper is 70%+ blacks, and at least some of them like PDJT.
Said the same thing on page 2 of these comments and was told, by our host no less, that not only do I live in “filth and rot,” I “defend” it.
The quote you posted is comical it’s so bad. I feel like I’ve been let down by a friend.
When was the last time you took a stroll through a DC (proper) neighborhood?
So put a Trump bumper sticker on your car and drive into Washington DC.
You guys live in such a “Stockholm syndrome” world, that you cannot even hear yourself speak. I don’t live there; I am a visitor. What I convey is how a visitor senses the world around them when they visit.
You shout, that’s not accurate. No, yes, it is accurate; you have just lost perspective on life outside the bubble.
If the govt in DC disappeared tomorrow, could you still pay your mortgage?
In D.C. proper, perhaps…but you stated this:
The opposition sentiment, now three times more vitriolic, is held by around 90% of the inhabitants of the region, perhaps more but I am trying to be gracious.
That IS inaccurate and just a wild guess plucked out of the air. It’s flat-out wrong.
And what does “govt in DC disappearing” have anything to do with paying a mortgage? (which I don’t have, BTW)
I agree with much of your post, but you conflate things.
So could you pay your property taxes if the DC government disappeared tomorrow.? For how long?
I have been reading here since about 2012.
Sundance’s batting average is near perfect (it may actually be perfect because I cannot think of one time he turned out to be wrong.) And I am a contrarian by nature and find fault with everyone, but I have not been able to catch him in an error (except spelling and punctuation).
My wild guess is you are young and attractive and people treat you well for those reasons and you don’t realize it. Try wearing a MAGA hat or driving a Tesla.
And that irrational, extreme, over-the-top, radical and violent hate is bearing fruit:
I hope we are going to see some major news outlet do an in-depth news documentary, if you will, bringing together the long list now of horrible deadly acts by these demented left wing activists.
From driving their cars into crowds of people at parades, bombings, to now two deadly assassinations right out on major public streets in two of our biggest cities. Not to mention the fact that a great many of the mass shootings that have taken place over the last several years have all been from leftists who were radicalized online, in many cases by the whole lgbtq controversy.
All of the official endorsements and congratulations to the pro-palestine movement by the American left after the murder of the couple in DC need to be shown to the American people.
There needs to be a real national conversation and consensus built about the fact that the left is getting more and more and more dangerous and crazy. They need to be called out on it
I live in the DC Metro, at this time, asking a local when was the last time they encountered joy is a dumb question when every other person seems to have been DOGE’d from their job. Even some of the few MAGA career people working in the government have lost their job and to their credit they will say they still support Trump in what he’s doing but they’re afraid, they have families, looking for another job us difficult because the market is flooded with so many others who have lost their job. I think some of the current resentment might also come from the fact that some people who were very good at what they were doing, some even the “best,” and what they were doing was necessary, have been fired. Hopefully it will all be better in the end but do understand that it’s an anxious time for anyone who works in the government or related jobs … which is the majority here.
Give an example of a necessary functionary.
Those of us in the private sector have been dealing with layoffs, RIFs and company downsizing all our working lives. And when it eventually happens we get up go out and find another job – even if it means uprooting our families and moving across the state/country. Why should government employees, paid from tax dollars, not be expected to do the same?
There’s a new CIC in town and the writing is clearly on the wall. The status quo is no longer the norm. The smart and driven will rebound, just as we’ve all had to do at one time or another.
45% of Job growth during Biden was Government Jobs. A Government job counts twice when reflected in the GDP but it really is a negative because it only takes taxpayer money and doesn’t produce a product. Teaching might be a little different since some students will produce. But if most these students just go on to Starbucks or a job working for say Bureau of Land Management surveying fence lines the Country is doomed.
They were government bureaucrats and they were not doing what we the people want them to do any longer. They have no right to their jobs/salary/benefits. If their job is eliminated, they become as the British say, redundant. If they were in the private sector and their business closed their office, they would lose their jobs as well.
These are facts of life with which we all deal.
Thank you Sundance for doing the work.
I always tell my kids to “do the work” Great job.
I want to thank you and your team for providing us with your conclusions based on analysis of data.
And the CTH community.
My whole families lives have improved immensely since I have been reading your stuff. We have moved from
a wonderful place where we thought we were happy, to a place where we are.
To a state and city that loves us back. We have more money than we had before. We have a say in our community.
What we needed was honesty in order to make rational decisions. And you have given us that.
I was not here when you wrote about Tryvon Martin but looking back, it wasn’t too far after that.
Sometimes when things are better we forget how we got here. We forget how to be grateful and reflect on everything and everyone who assisted us in our journey.
What you and your team do cost money and although I have not committed to a monthly donation I have been able to make a couple bigger (for me) donations a year.
So I am reminding everyone to please donate to our treehouse.
The link is at the bottom of every article.
Sundance and team and community!
I still advocate to dismantle the physical DC apparatus. Send the department throughout the US. To have our government physically in one small space makes no sense in the real world. Send agriculture where agriculture happens. Send the FBI into the interior of the US. Move them out of DC. It made sense to do this I the 1700s and 1800s, but now with modern technology it does not. If they have to buy their coffee, attend their kids little league games, and buy groceries among us, maybe that’s the quickest way to effect change. In addition a nation continues to pray that President Trump and his team succeed.
Hillary Clinton Calls on Liberals to Ruin Memorial Day Gatherings by Bashing Trump to “Friends, Neighbors, Cookout Attendees”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/hillary-clinton-calls-liberals-ruin-memorial-day-gatherings/
Saw that. SPIT!!!
I’m convinced Massachusetts has had voting corruption for a long time and there are more conservatives/moderates than are represented by the state and local government. George Washington and Governor Bradford would be appalled by DC and Boston.
This is the silent credo of the LEFT and I include RINOS:
Genesis 6:5
[5] And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Read on to see what He did about that through Noah.
He’s patient, far more patient than me,
but His patience only goes on for so long …
This time it’s going to be fire.
One should have a little perspective. After Bush , Clinton, and Bush the country was well on its way and it gave us two terms of the Hard Core Marxist Obama. At the end of his term can anyone point to any major part of society that wasn’t captured? “The Die is casted” and no amount of wishing that a savior can save us. Those who are evil want a revolution. Evil Hillary teams up with Tim. Look to Tim’s early years. Biden teams up with Kamala. What was her early years with a mother who was deep into the communist cult. Kamala teams up with another Tim. See the pattern. Congress is heavy on the DSA membership, Democrat Socialist of America.
“For such a time as this!”
One way to reduce the influence of the swamp would be to send Congress and the Senate home and have them telework remotely from their home district. COVID showed how this can be done. Imagine constituents having much greater access to them than the K-street lobbyists.
There is no need to have so much power/money flowing around DC. Move most of the governmental departments out to the hinterlands where they belong, for instance Department of Agriculture to Topeka, KS. I pray every morning for the safety of President Trump , his family, and his staff. Sundance’s take on the attitude there is scary.
The best part about Marco Rubio is that TPTB expected to get SSCI Senator Marco, but what they got was MAGA Marco. Seeing senator Van Hollen state openly that he regretted voting to confirm Marco was EPIC!
Van Hollen sucks! And he’s mine!!! SPIT!!!
I have no idea what is going on behind the scenes in the Swamp. I only get second hand information about some of it. I find I am reading diatribes being sold as investigative reporting in most places I find. I also thank God for CTH because I get a separation of truths and suspicions here.
Even so, I can tell that I am more informed about the truth than at least 90% of the voters I talk to. I completely don’t understand what the reasons are for that little factoid. Sundance usually clearly states whether his information is truth or the best he understands it.
Orange Beach, AL here – nearly all Trump supporters, prayer in schools, no homeless, solid Mayor, etc. Best place on the planet in my humble opinion. Trouble pops up once in a while, but is addressed quickly. Gulf of America merch sold in all our gas stations, lol. I came here from the sh-hole that is Louisville, KY.
Bill you escaped! My TDS daughter lives and works there. She thinks Andy Beshear is the best!
My personal observation.
Twitter suspended my account (for something someone else did) on Jan. 23rd. I didn’t get my account back until May 13th. During that time I missed out on most relevant news., especially from those I trusted. I read what I could from various websites, but nothing showed the discontent like being back on 𝕏 has.
Twitter used to be a fun place, even with the opposing views, it was still fun. Within two days I noticed the difference. A lot of the old, familiar voices hardly post now. My last day on X was the day after the election, and we all remember how happy and relived we all were. Now…not much.
I watch the news. After watching Shawn Ryan on Tucker (1:24 mark), how he answered the question about Trump. He was being honest about how he feels.
We see Patel, Bondi, Bongino and see the nothing happening that we need to see. Food prices are not going down. We love DJT but no one else.
This is what I see on X right now, people are disillusioned. There is nothing to cheer about.
Don’t be mad at me, I’m pointing out what I see. Trump needs to turn this around soon.
Odd, but my perceptions are different. I went grocery shopping today and ran into people whom I know to be MAGA. They are thrilled with everything that has happened since the inauguration and expressed the thought that PDJT has exceeded their wildest dreams. That’s the way I feel, too.
My point is I wonder if these differing perspectives say more about you and your glass half-empty or half-full personality that on what’s really happening.
TDS is a mass formation psyops. Yes, government criminals hate being exposed but this ‘illness’ is more than that, it is truly evil that controls them . I pray they break free from their hatred/evil illness.
the one place in America I genuinely believe is rooted in evil enterprise
Minneapolis could be your number two as far as evil. As an example, local KARE 11 announced a St George Floyd weekend with a new movie talking about the effect of GF’s murder. Not one comment about Liz Collins “The Fall of Minneapolis” movie where it is shown that the cabal prosecuting Derrick Chauvin lied. or how the city of Minneapolis paid the Floyd family(jury tainting) before the trial even had a verdict.
There was also no mention of the similarities between Derrick Chauvin indirectly causing GF’s death and Michael Byrd DIRECTLY causing Ashli Babbitt’s death(true murder).
I know this is a bit off topic but evil abounds in all the major cities of America and as Sundance motes, the many bureaucracies we are well aware of. It’s interesting that those noted as under-performing may be involved in the most evil of agencies.
Thank you Sundance. I found the expectation percentages interesting and a useful comparison to my observations. The brief reasoning you provided for each was also very useful. Hope you’ll update those evaluations at some point in the future. Thank you again.
Very insightful. Thanks for the update.
One for Sundance.
This Is Why God Removes Everyone Before He Blesses You!
Totally agree with your appraisal of Bongino and Rubio.
Trump is fantastic. The GOP…. the kindest thing I could say is not printable.