Abandoned by his father to a troubled single mother; eventually raised by grandparents. He is then recruited from an Ivy league law school by shadow figures, a specific billionaire and a network of interests. He changes his name, writes a book about his life story, and with the support of the aforementioned – who eventually pays for a strategic campaign, becomes a Senator for 2 years before being quickly elevated into position in the White House.
Many people reading that paragraph are familiar with the life story of Barack Hussien Obama. However, that paragraph is not describing Obama, that paragraph describes James Donald Bowman, aka J.D. Vance.
On one side, we have an emotionally constructed political figure for the left. On the other side, we see an emotionally constructed political figure for the right. Each person, each emotional narrative, carrying the specific nuances to appeal to their audience; both follow the same playbook.
J.D. Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio (August 2, 1984). He then changed his name to James David Bowman. He then changed his name to James David Hamel. Eventually, in 2014, notably after Yale Law School (class of 2013, and after marrying his wife Usha, now age 30, he changed his name to write a book.
It was 2014, that’s when J.D. Vance was born.
Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy was published by Rupert Murdoch’s publishing house, Harper Collins in 2016. The book was made into a Netflix movie, [Reed Hastings] created by Imagine Entertainment and directed by Ron Howard (2020).
However, the interesting background on J.D. Vance goes back to Yale, and the Obamaesque tap on the shoulder that comes from a billionaire most are familiar with, Peter Thiel (PayPal and Palantir).
Thiel first recruited Vance into his circle while Vance was still a student at Yale Law School. Shortly thereafter, Vance joined Thiel’s investment firm Mithril Capital, where he worked for two years before joining Revolution Ventures. Vance played a major role in Revolution’s “Rise of the Rest” seed fund whose major investors included Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. {Citation}
J.D. Vance then launched his own venture capital firm Narya Capital in 2020, using startup money from both Peter Thiel and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
From this timeline, we can see how J.D. Vance went from no money (student loans) in 2013, to big money in 2020. Everything came via Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt, but mostly Thiel.
To understand J.D. Vance as an Ohio Senator, we visit the inflection points in 2013 and the subsequent relationship with billionaire Peter Thiel (Palantir Technologies). The timeline from 2013 to now becomes important.
Billionaires Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel are key members of the steering committee of the controversial, closed-door, and overtly globalist Bilderberg conference. Newsweek once called Schmidt and Thiel the two most influential figures at Bilderberg.
Peter Thiel’s company, Palantir Tech, is the driving force of a global surveillance system using artificial intelligence (AI).
Palantir has massive contract interests in U.S. military and intelligence communities.
Keep in mind, Palantir is the current company creating the tech mechanisms for the U.S. government to conduct foreign and domestic surveillance.
The actual technology needed by the Deep State, to advance their interests, is provided by Peter Thiel. {Citation}
According to the popular narrative, J.D. Vance opposes the Intelligence Community deep surveillance state, while simultaneously being the political front for the interests of Peter Thiel and Palantir Technology. This doesn’t reconcile.
Peter Thiel was the money and network behind the 2022 Ohio Senate race between J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan.
It was Peter Thiel who took J.D. Vance to meet President Trump in Mar-a-Lago to get the needed endorsement to launch Vance into the U.S. Senate. Without Peter Thiel there is no Senator J.D. Vance.
It is also important to remember that prior to 2018, prior to Peter Thiel becoming aligned with the FBI as a confidential human source, and prior to Vance needing the Trump endorsement, J.D. Vance was a staunch never-Trumper.
J.D. Vance went from calling President Trump “a literal Hitler,” to appreciating Trump’s incredible leadership – a remarkable shift in opinion. To his strategic credit, Peter Thiel was successful in gaining both the Trump endorsement and the winning outcome of the 2022 Ohio Senate race. That success was now Senator J.D. Vance.
Within the Thiel network, you will note the aligned interests of another key financial friend and big federal contractor, Elon Musk. Together, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel form the core of a very wealthy group of modern tech political influence agents, including another Yale Law School graduate and J.D. Vance supporter, Vivek Ramaswamy.
J.D. Vance named one of his three children Vivek. Suffice to say, they are close.
What you have read so far is the background of how a billionaire, Peter Thiel, deeply enmeshed in the surveillance state, creates the process for the advancement of his interests. A few dozen millions are a worthy investment if the investment creates and supports the objectives of the billionaire (Palantir Technology).
As an outcome of an influence network in 2006, Senator Barack Obama was successfully installed. As an outcome of an influence network in 2022, Senator J.D. Vance was successfully installed.
Both Barry Sotero (Obama) and James Bowman (Vance) are mirror images of each other; the playbooks used to create both are identical. One went through the path of community activism, the other through the military. Both paths have a target audience.
We have long discussed the UniParty operation in Washington DC. What was once a radical concept and controversial, is now accepted as reality.
We have also outlined the how the Fourth Branch of Government was created under Obama. What was once conspiracy theory is now accepted as the truth.
Once we accept how both wings of the UniParty operate, we then see how the system works. The Obama network ultimately led to the modern IC surveillance state. The Vance network now appears to be positioned to benefit from it.
Unfortunately, much like an abuser toward the abused, our ideological enemy uses our virtues of love and trust as weapons. We are in an abusive relationship with government.
♦ STRATEGIC OPTIMISM – In everything that happens, the geopolitical power players -including the Intelligence Community- have what are called “strategic interests.” Meaning, they plan out their future position based on current events (data), pathways and predictions.
Some of these power structures are, putting it mildly, not good. In fact, they are eroding liberty, freedom and making us serfs, while creating a system of political elites. We feel it daily.
In order to best weaken, or make them more vulnerable, the best strategy is to put them into a position where they cannot plan for the future because they cannot predict the waypoints in their path.
Having a known 2028 U.S. presidential nominee gives them the ability to plan for it. They are able to make moves to get beyond the 2024 to 2028 challenges they face; they look toward who they will be faced with as an opponent in ’28.
From that position, they conduct enemy operations against Trump’s strategy…. they essentially plan to outlast him, ignore him, put on a mask when they talk to him, etc.
President Trump, making it known who will be the ’28 nominee, gives his opposition power. Essentially making Trump’s position less strong.
Had Trump selected a “one-term” running mate (I don’t care who it would have been), the opposition would not know what to expect in 2028. They would be forced to focus every day on what Trump is doing. The opposition cannot look forward (proactive) beyond Trump. They are forced to react. They are kept vulnerable.
Do you want your enemies planning, or do you want them reacting to the unknown variables?
Do you want them focused on your attack, or do you want them brushing you off as irrelevant in the longer term?
Do you want them on their heels each day/week as they try to figure out what you are doing…. or do you want them to know the destination ahead, regardless of the daily or weekly policy moves?
By selecting a VP nominee that will be the 2028 presidential nominee (what 90% of short-sighted people wanted), Trump would give greater power to the ideological enemy.
For the next 3.5 years, to achieve the maximum benefit from President Trump, the deep state at home and geopolitical enemy abroad must not know what they will face in the future.
From that position of potential vulnerability, they are forced to focus on daily events and counterstrategies, while unable -by design- to compromise the future opponent.
I never resign Trump to a failed position, as long as there is a way to turn a necessary decision into a winning and more powerful position.
The problem of Peter Thiel, his network, and the potential problem J.D. Vance represents can be dealt with.
President Donald J. Trump makes it very well known, and constantly reminds people for 3 years, that if J.D. Vance sucks, flinches, is inept or doesn’t follow orders, then J.D. Vance doesn’t get the 2028 endorsement.
Thankfully, we see indications of this beginning with President Trump’s acceptance speech at the RNC Convention and continuing throughout today – including during an interview this week on Fox and Friends, where Trump noted Marco Rubio would be a good option for 2028.
For Trump supporters and all supporters of the goal to deconstruct the worst and most toxic elements of the Deep State, we should support a tenuous 2028 endorsement message. After all, we are expecting Vice President J.D. Vance to uphold actionable policies against the interests of his benefactors.
Those benefactors, and the aligned Vance influence network, include Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Ackman, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jacob Helberg, Vivek Ramaswamy and of course, many more.
I don’t care about anything that happened prior to the 2013 inflection point, the tap on the shoulder at Yale.
James Donald Bowman, aka J.D. Vance’s background construct, as lived or as sold, is irrelevant to me. We do not have the time to be emotionally attached to any individual. We need actionable results.
We are not going to be battered conservatives, pushed yet again into the position of Charlie Brown to Lucy’s deep state, ‘trust the plan‘ football. The trust account of the American electorate is bankrupt. Corruption is running amok.
The threat to J.D. Vance’s political career must be actual, loud and repeated often to keep the toxic IC and domestic Silo operators guessing. While simultaneously, every righteous attack takes down a small IC silo segment like a bite out of an elephant.
We also accept that this rather deliberate approach is likely to make Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance and the entire Thiel/Musk network quite unhappy.
♦ SURVEILLANCE STATE – The research article positions the relationship between J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel as a serious challenge – here’s why.
Since his original endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016 (a good thing), billionaire tech executive Peter Thiel has expanded his company, Palantir Technology, to be the leading edge of an AI enhanced data-processing system.
The Palantir tech is designed to use artificial intelligence (AI) to crawl through massive sets of surveillance data, phone data, facial recognition data, metadata (writ large) etc.
In essence, Palantir Tech is receiving government contracts (Defense and Intel) to use the Palantir AI tools to analyze/filter a massive amount of electronic data, and take action based on results from the data, or what might be called SIGNIT (Signals Intelligence). There are billions at stake in this relationship.
In short, Thiel has a vested financial interest in providing AI surveillance filtration tools to the U.S. government.
Ok fine. That’s just a simple acceptance of what Thiel’s company does now. And Thiel recruited J.D. Vance, back in 2012/2013 while at Yale law school, and personally financed JD’s entry into the world of politics in 2020/2021.
Thiel leveraged his relationship with Donald Trump to get J.D. Vance the Ohio primary endorsement in 2022, and the rest is history. Fair enough. Nothing disputed.
Here’s where things get sticky….
Thiel’s company, Palantir Tech, provides the AI metadata analytic tools used by the U.S. government in their national security efforts. The government access to that metadata comes, in part, as an outcome of the legislative FISA authorization.
As a consequence, eliminating, say… FISA(702) surveillance processes, is against the financial interests of Peter Thiel. If the U.S. government cannot access the dataset, the U.S. govt doesn’t need Palantir’s AI filtration tech. That’s just the nature of the relationship.
Again, this is just a cold, factual acceptance of the situation.
Would J.D. Vance support the elimination of FISA(702), FISA Courts, or the National Security Division of the DOJ (something that forms the foundation of removing the worst elements of the Deep State), knowing that action would be adverse to the interests of his benefactor and mentor, Peter Thiel?
Again, just a question. Perhaps he would, perhaps not; however, a review of history shows the odds are not in our favor.
I mean, there is a reason why Thiel recruited, financed, supported and guided Vance to the position he is now in, correct?
Elon Musk’s entire business model, sans X (maybe) is contingent upon government contracts and policy.
Regardless of his altruistic disposition, or lack thereof, Musk’s enterprises, Tesla and Space-X, do not exist without direct government funding or indirect govt support via policy.
Peter Thiel is essentially in the same position with Palantir Tech, unless the U.S. Government gave him permission to sell his services to foreign adversaries. Not likely.
Many are looking at J.D. Vance as the guy, maybe one of the ‘guys’, who can finally confront the worst elements of the Deep State. However, the worst elements of the Deep State, the surveillance and control silos, are in a synergistic relationship with Vance’s benefactors.
Will Vance willingly tear apart the surveillance state that will create a negative financial outcome for those who put him into office? My note of caution is, ‘Don’t get your hopes up.’
I mean, seriously think about it. Musk puts up USG satellites that monitor stuff. The low-earth-orbit monitoring results (data signals) are returned to the USG. The data signals are then analyzed by AI tech created by Thiel.
Another way to look at it: Elon Musk puts the camera on your face; Peter Thiel tells the govt where you went.
♦ BIG PICTURE – Are the newest group of billionaire Silicon Valley tech leaders currently supporting MAGA Trump/Vance, really a modern assembly of the Green Dragon rebels in Boston, plotting the next Tea Party rebellion? Or are they simply just the other side of a new modern Technocratic control system, aligned with and dependent on government?
The Obama-era ‘Technocracy‘ was based on public-private partnerships with social media. This was the origin of the surveillance state that now scours, controls, filters, censors and ultimately monetizes your social media data profile. The operational and business model is cemented into the process now. Everyone accepts it. Terms and conditions apply, and if you don’t agree, you can’t use.
Is the pending Trump-era ‘Technocracy‘ a rebrand, pushing social media off to the side (that part is done) and bringing data processing control agents, artificial intelligence software designers, big money venture capitalists, banks and those who are creating digital id systems? Do Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Ackman, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Jacob Helberg and Vivek Ramaswamy, now occupy the empty chairs around the table of Technocracy?
Was the 5/10-year business model, in the mind of tech billionaire Peter Thiel, what led him to recruit J.D. Vance in 20? Was it a financial decision blended with ideology to guide, finance and support J.D .Vance all the way to 2022 and 2024? Was J.D. Vance an investment?
Truly, I suspect our gut knows the answer.
That’s why my approach is to say, “Here’s the factual data – trust your instincts.”
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Around this time someone will snark, saying my assembling this perspective indicates President Trump is an idiot, or something.
NO! President Trump is not stupid, or naïve!
CTH has painstakingly outlined how the silo process within the Deep State works. You have more information about that process. You have more knowledge about that process.
All of us, courtesy of dozens of brilliant researchers here and in lots of other places on the internet, have a far more comprehensive understanding of how the systems within the D.C. administrative state work than any subset of professional politicians or their staff.
Are you stupid or naïve? No. None of us are.
However, many of us are sick and tired of having the virtue of our patriotism weaponized against us. For reference, see DHS, ODNI, CISA, TSA, The Patriot Act, or any other of the myriads of crisis-created legislative solutions, later turned into tools by bad actors that inevitably diminish freedom.
I was sitting at dinner with a good person, who happened to be the head, the tipy-top, of one of the most connected IC silos in Washington DC, and that person laughed recalling situations where they walked into their office many days and frustratingly shouted at their staff, “Who the f**k is leaking information to this guy,” meaning me. No one was leaking anything, and the entire organization was just as surprised as the leader of it.
My point is that many ordinary Americans know far more about the interconnectedness of DC silo operations, than the people within the individual silos can fathom. They are stuck inside a created system of compartmentalization; we are not.
The overwhelming odds are that you know more than your federal representative. That fact doesn’t make you smarter than President Donald J. Trump, it just means you have a different set of researched datapoints that create a different understanding.
Additionally, President Trump doesn’t “vet” anyone; someone else does the “vetting” for him. That vetting helps him to make decisions, it doesn’t exclusively determine the final decision.
No one is stupid in this discussion. No one knows all the information. The fact-finding is a process of information assembly, that permits guidance to decision making. That’s it.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) might have been a good decision at the time, until it starts getting weaponized later on.
Given the nature of the political landscape, Senator J.D. Vance was a good selection for Veep. A candidate for the office of the vice presidency that positioned President Trump, and the people around him, to be able to start putting countermeasures into place to stop government weaponization, a seemingly out of control surveillance state.
Senator J.D. Vance helped to unite the various Republican clans.
Perhaps more valuable, his selection reduced the possibility of the Silicon Valley Technocrats working against OUR interests – as we look to control THEIR influence.
More importantly, Senator J.D. Vance made winning in November of 2024 slightly more likely. That was the key value in his personage.
Perhaps Vance is a technocratic tool; perhaps he’s a MAGA ally; who really knows?
The bottom line is we must understand the context of everything that comes with Vance, nothing more.
Trust God, and for everyone else – watch them like a hawk, while you live your best life.
We won in November. We have an opportunity to start putting countermeasures and guardrails into place that will seemingly impede the efforts of the bad operators within each IC silo. Simultaneously, we need to identify who each bad actor is. We can see DNI Tulsi Gabbard working earnestly on this effort.
This larger mission is the reversal of weaponization, and a restoration of representation that believes in freedom. I am both optimistic and clear-eyed about the nature of the challenges we face.
“Pray for a good winter, but plant lots of cabbages.”
They need “trauma”… for control… which is the impetus for Social Emotional Learning.
This play book used by radicals in politics… is nested deep in your school systems. The dissolution of the federal DOE did nothing but create 50 little cancers.
It’s no surprise when you give your children to Ceasar that they come back little Romans.
Vance is a construct. Obama a construct.
How did President Trump not know this when he chose JD Vance as his VP?
Do you want Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Mayor Pete or JD Vance in 2028?
That’s your choice and your only choice!
Yep! It will be interesting to see who is his running mate. I’d like to see Gabbard, but don’t think she would be acceptable to the Uniparty.
As of now, I’m thinking the dems will run Newsom/Moore.
No it is not, the lesser of two evils is still evil, is it not?
Yale Law.
The delegates vote on the VP and that’s how they get the part.
It’s how Indiana got screwed with our current Lt Governor. We had a MAGA woman on the Braun ticket – but the delegates did an end-run and INSTALLED a Project 2025 – Charlie Kirk schill – in Micah Beckwith. Beckwith was forced on Braun after Beckwith was denied by Indiana voters time and again.
Beckwith lost to Victoria Spartz
Beckwith climbed the coat tails of former Attorney General (accused woman assaulter) Curtis Hill
Hill tried to to play the “race bait card” and Indiana voters gave him so bad a loss – the local media wouldn’t even reveal the numbers – because Hill came in dead last
So the RINOS did an end-run and Beckwith started campaigning amongst the “installed” delegates (I know they were installed because I was asked to run for a delegate seat because many delegate seats are left unfilled and thus the party has to install people).
Then Beckwith bumped Braun’s running mate and took the seat against the Indiana public’s voting preference.
The Party picks the Veep.
People are “selected” not elected and we should be cautious when we are given the dillusion of “choice”
I was told the Party picks the Veep. Told amongst some high end politicians who, yes… gave you Pence, elevated RFK Jr, and Vivek Ramaswam(p)y here in Central Indiana. 200 most affluent influential families in Indiana pushing these RINO-cons. The Republicans WANTED DeSantis – not Trump. But Trump is the only guy who can hold the 2A crowd at bay. But only for his 4 years.
Look out, Ohio. You need to keep Vivek out of the seat of power there. The governors are the key to our country now – because they are running by committee – and are looking to knee-cap the President as the ultimate authority.
Not many possibilities from here.
Either:
A. – Trump is sold on J.D. as an important disciple of MAGA.
or
B. – The “party” assigned J.D. to the ticket (like Pence) in exchange for concessions unknown. For now.
Obama was constructed by communists and foreigners. He never had a real job before becoming Senator.
Vance was raised in the USA, became a US Marine, was mentored by American capitalists, and had a real job before being elected Senator. Some pretty substantive differences.
Heartily agree.
Differences between the two men couldn’t be more stark. Obama’s rearing and schooling are clothed in mystery. Neither teachers nor students recall having met him at Columbia. All records surrounding those years are sealed. To say nothing of questions about his birthright and citizenship. He spent several years living abroad during his formative years, with no adult model to instill love of our Country. He has no military record. Had a ghost writer author his best seller and there are numerous first-person accounts of his drug taking and homosexuality. He is of mixed race, showing no respect or loyalty to his white grandparents once he entered politics. His religious affiliation is vague as he closely aligns with the Islamic community; he’s certainly not a committed Christian in any sense of the word.
How does any of this jibe with Vance’s bio?
Every event of Vance’s life is clear public record. Nothing was handed to him in his rise out of poverty, a broken home and juvenile petty crime. After a successful stint in the marines, he finished his undergraduate work in 2 years with honors and was accepted into Yale. Both academic efforts bankrolled by his military service. Where is there need for suspicion about that? He penned his own best-selling memoir and never turned his back on his mother as she struggled with addiction. He’s a devout Catholic.
Thiel may have given him his lift into politics, but now Vance is under the wing of President Trump. Whose influence and endorsement will be more lasting and important? I’m betting it will be our President’s.
The Social Emotional Learning is truly “a thing” that as far as I know was being advanced as the latest – greatest theory for education in the public schools. The 50 little cancers are alive and well in each state but so is each school board a cancer in those 50 states. Communism is local for certain.
No disrespect, but we have heard this same story about JD Vance from you previously. What is the point of repeating it once again?
Let me answer for S: It needs repeating. 🕶️
Why?
All it does is give the Left some nice talking points.
The left doesn’t highlight it because they want it to happen.
It bears repeating so we know not to weaken off of a few good clips of this fraud.
How do you not grasp what SD is trying to convey?
Or is it that you don’t want to?
Bingo!
Why do you think the Left hasn’t pushed for any impeachment hearings for President Trump?
They’re smart. They know Vance could be 100x worse.
Doubt it. They just know it won’t work again. They don’t have majorities. Period.
Actually, this is the first time I heard of OR did it register with me the parallel lives of Sotero and Bowman. Incredible.
Ditto!!
The deep state tried to throw President Trump in prison. The left uniparty are always attacking him.
President Trump took all of it and he still won.
We all must break the cycle of abuse from bad actors in our own Government.
We are stronger when we know the truth.
People need to know now that JD Vance is not the end of the rainbow; there are other MAGA candidates to consider for 2028. Imagine a Rubio/Gabbard ticket, for example.
How about a Gabbard/Rubio ticket. First Woman President. Massive political capital in that.
When people start digging through her past voting records and see that she cast votes for Leftist causes the virtue signallers will have heart attacks.
I think she realized the bigger picture is more important and explained that in an interview with the now self-sabotaged Tucker who looked like he was in love with her at the time.
I can’t count how many ridiculed Tulsi on this site a year ago… her marriage, her family, her political change. And much more. I have always seen a good patriotic American, when in agreement or not.
Little Marco is positioning himself to be a major contender for 2028. And I believe Trump will support him.
Rubio has been very impressive lately but don’t forget he was pals with Ryan. Bears watching.
Truly they all must be watched.
Was Citizen Trump ever friendly with Paul Ryan?
President Trump is not blackmailable; no unknown scandals in his past. President Trump is also not bribable; he’s got plenty of money of his own. He also had the favor of God when they tried to assassinate him. He remained unafraid.
You can’t say that about any of the possible candidates mentioned here – none of them.
President Trump is a one-in-a-trillion person. We won’t see his like again, imho.
The Left makes up talking points. They don’t need help. I think SD is reminding us to stay vigilant and focused on the long term big picture, IMHO.
Amen. It soaks in and then it is washed away in the daily flood of information. It takes a lot of repetition to get us on the same page. Especially us old codgers.
Exactly. This is an eye opening article from Sundance.
Sundance needs to post this again and again because Treepers know but most Americans don’t.
Share this with your family, friends and colleagues.
Can’t speak for anyone but myself. I appreciate the recap with the infusion of current day info.
because the voting public forgets fast when they hear a couple of good one liners on the news cycle.
At this point in the election cycle, and with other potential rivals like Rubio and Gabbard possibly in the running, all it does is detract from the good that JD Vance is trying to do under President Trump.
Why must we always look for the nefarious and overlook the positive in our Republican leaders?
I can understand why some call us “the stupid party”.
Don’t look now, but you’re showing….
AD rem,excellent observation.
When yer showing the glowing… 🪩
Glowing. Not that I could ever fix your statement 🙏
Do not worry as I doubt President Trump is being distracted by this in the least..
Now I understand. Troll alert!
Have you forgotten all the repeated warning signs against DeSantis back in the day that SD posted here, along with many others?
Can’t speak for you but I was raised to question everything. Literally everything.
If that makes me stupid in your 👀 then may your chains rest lightly upon you.
Love your inclusion of Samuel Adams — “may your chains rest lightly upon you.”
Each line of his patriotic words must be slowly read and absorbed, for each line clearly states he who loves the United States of America, and who will fight for her when and if the time comes.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you,
and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
And some voters only have a 4-6 political memory.
Actually meaning disrespect to you, Ron B, many newbies come here every day and desire the depth of this research. That’s why they are here.
We oldsters welcome reminding, especially when reminding comes along with clarity, depth and additional understandings.
Thank you, Sundance, for continuing to help all of us to free ourselves from all abusive relationships with our government(s)..
Honestly, I think SD’s writing gets better year after year. I’ve been here for quite a while (an oldster if you will) and appreciate his attention to detail.
Agree 100%
True Teresa….each new article seems to build upon all the knowledge of past articles. Sundance’s work is a master class in analysis and calculation.
Because those of us who care about our country repeatedly get this info to our friends and acquaintances.
Each time, people get back to me that they didn’t know this.
They can then tell their friends.
Its how we win a war.
To someone who has never understood that they were battered, this article sounds like science fiction. Once they have been personally knocked around a bit (which will happen given time) it will make them pause and consider. Every few months, more and more people are receptive to this info (and Sundance’s influence gets larger). It bears repeating for new eyes to see.
Sundance is continually attracting new readers to CTH. These new readers have no idea what Sundance said last month, last year, or even last week.
Sundance repeats his information because it is essential to get new Treepers up to speed on the non-pretending truth.
Not everyone has the vast amount of knowledge that you seem to have.
So true! I often post links to older truths that are relevant to the current discussion demonstrating how long ago Sundance had some governmental/political corruption or malfeasance figured out!!! Nobody exposes more truth than Sundance! JMO
Why? Consider it gaslighting armor.
New people are climbing onto branches every day. Refresher courses are a standard at CTH. It also serves as a tie in to current events.
Maybe the “point” is to discourage people from voting for Republicans?
OT: Who is the photo to the right of the President and Vice-President?
THANK YOU Sundance for belaboring this amazing subject.
Please don’t stop. 🤜✝️🤛
Hanging the Palantir albatross around JDV’s neck _now_ is good for MAGA, good for the nation, and potentially good for JDV. Threats to the 4th Amendment are very serious, and it’s thus not too early to begin airing out one of them – a potentially big one.
The Party picks the veep.
The select few people who own and control “The Party” pick the veep.
That is how Reagan was forced to take H. W. Bush. Geeze what a turd be turned out to be.
Am reminded that’s how we got Pence.
No, DJT Jr. pushed JD…he said he pretty much used ALL his political capital with his father to push it…so now begs the question, WHY?
Jr was used because he likes the glam life like his father and is easily persuaded by his fraternity brothers – the Charlie Kirk acolytes. Remember, Kirk in Greenland and Trump calling that entourage his advisors?
Don Jr was integral in installation – and now he is suddenly quite quiet. Nested up with his new installed RINO girlfriend after the former Mrs. Gavin Newsome Kimberly Guilfoyle was ousted. But Ivanka and Jared still attended Bezos’s wedding.
Charlie Kirk and his ilk are deeply invested in Project 2025. Remember Project 2025 that Trump said he claimed he knew nothing about?
That’s because Trump wasn’t supposed to live through Butler.
Many names were added to Project 2025 to give it “credibility” and were supposed to be the play book of the next-in-lines all in “Trump’s name” memorializing him. It was touted as Trump’s play book – but Trump never authored or sanctioned it. Because it wasn’t Trump’s play book. It was going to be used once Trump was removed.
But Trump survived. He wasn’t supposed to.
Ugh.
Don Jr wants inside . He would dearly love to be President someday.
He’s easy to con is probably the most accurate reason.
Little does he know that other than the hunters and fishermen, he’ll never get the votes to be president.
Secondly, taking on a new floozie a day is not a good look for the person leading our country.
Don Jr wants to be Eric but he will always be Fredo….
“I’m your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over! … It ain’t the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I’m smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… I’m smart and I want respect!”.
Great scene from the Godfather 😄
Another great line is, “Leave the gun, take the cannoli.”
Yummmmmmm…..cannoli! 😋
Agree 100%.
Don Jr is a lightweight. He credits himself with influencing the choice of JDV. I wonder who else wanted Vance?
The ones that aren’t attacking him which is out of form for them.
Mithril, narya, and Palantir are all lord of the rings names. Google those terms and the info spills out. Different people using lord of the rings (lotr) terms.
These items are all made by elves. Do they think of themselves as the most enlightened like elves? I am only a third through but there is pattern across different people. That means that they share the same mindset, same purpose.
Vivek came out of nowhere also. Very smooth. I watched a bunch of his campaigning. At old folks homes with about 10 of us hanging around. He had no support. Vivek turned failing drugs into marketing gems and then selling them off. Made a lot of money, no one was helped by the drugs.
He really whiffed on that Christmas Day H-1B fiasco, shining up the highly rigged H-1B system for dot-Indians as a 21st-century Sputnik; thus his return from the big show in DC to triple-A in Ohio. He did, however, expose Nimarata Randhawa Haley for the empty pantsuit that she is, so that was good.
Yes: H1B needs serious scaling back and reform. Trump’s businesses use H2B, a quite different system
He is really a snake…we need to watch him..he is about to ruin Ohio
Yes, “Palantir” is a Lord of the Rings name, referring to the magical palantíri (seeing stones) that allow users to communicate and view distant lands. The tech company Palantir Technologies, co-founded by Peter Thiel, took its name from these objects, drawing a parallel to its own software that provides customers with a wide-ranging, searchable database to find information.
And the seeing stones were all corrupted by the one
So, who came up with NVIDIA, another tech darling, and why?
In Latin, invidia is the sense of envy, a “looking upon” associated with the evil eye, from invidere, “to look against, to look in a hostile manner.” Invidia is one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christian belief.
alargate mal de ojo!
Before it was “The Princess Bride.”
Huh? I’m not getting that connection?
LOTR is also a Christian / Catholic allegory
Have never heard or noticed a parallel like that in 30+ readings of the LOTR trilogy over the years.
“Chronicles of Narnia,” by Tolkien’s good friend C.S. Lewis, is on the other hand, most certainly such an analogy.
“Pray For a Good Winter, but Plant Lots of Cabbages”
Rebecca Prout: I used to find enormous comfort translating Russian poetry.
Diane Chambers: I know.
Rebecca Prout: But no more. Even when I went back over my favorite, Karashnakov’s “Another Christmas of Agony,” it failed to soothe me. [Reciting poem] Mischa the dog lies dead in the bog. / The children cry over the carcass. / The mist chokes my heart, covers the mourners. / At least this year we eat.
Diane Chambers: Well, if that didn’t pick you up, I’m at a virtual loss.
Smith?
Cigarettes?
Thank you for a great thought provoking analysis. With the tools available now the Deep State can see anything and nose around. All of the Federal Government especially the IC elements need to be substantially smaller focussed on their specific job. Being smaller means there cannot be a lot of talent available to get into mischief.
Data about us is our data. We should be notified anytime someone looks at us or sells us to another user. The FISA court needs to go.
Forewarned is forearmed! Maybe?
I see something deeper at play. Yes, absolutely a surveillance state is upon us and control agents are and have been making moves for their own capitalization. Peter Thiel creates Vance to eventually own the presidency of the US, but Thiel, Musk etc don’t just want to control the US, they want to control the globe. Many older Christians have known about the “Mark of the Beast” and being unable to buy or sell without it. The underlying system of control of such a system obviously would require a personal digital ID and massive data processing and control. Still wondering where this personal digital identity ends up? I’m not wondering, been expecting it.
Exactly.
Nothing is as it appears.
It is… once you are enlightened to the slight-of-hand being used against you by the media, conservative “alt” media, and so-called “friendly” (seemingly pro-MAGA / pro-Trump) politicians.
Once enlightened (awakened) you then DO see the (previously invisible) demons, lies, the deliberate distractions, the agenda-driven positions and outward gestures, the corruption…….all woven into or behind so many outwardly friendly, seemingly supportive comments, words, gestures.
Or, at minimum, you are AWARE of the possibility that the politician may be being disingenuous despite his/her disarming pleasantness….
i know this is about Vance… but the other major alternative as of now….i think people are giving WAYYY too much credit to Rubio for his supposed “reformed ways” when he was just another McCain in a hispanic wrapper.
i am not convinced in the slightest that is SSCI days are behind him.
Living our best lives @ La Playa. Gulfo de México!
Gracias Dios!!
Gulfo de Mexico… is that anywhere near the Gulf of America?
Thank you for the excellent article. It’s a breath of fresh air to read, especially since so many other so called conservative websites give us shallow write-ups on the players like Musk, Thiel, Ackman et al. Much will happen in the next 3.5 years and your website cuts through the propaganda and gives the view that America needs.
Thank God for Sundance.
The so called conservatives Charlie Kirk, Graham Allen and many more are pushing for JD Vance big time for 2028.
This blog has been, and remains, one of my key “voices of reason” throughout the last several years. Thank you!
Then why… on this website… would it be encouraged to invest in Palantir stock? To ride the wave of its stratospheric growth and finance our demise?
So “we” could get something out of it on the way to the formal takeover?
Invest in it at your peril and that of your countrymen.
Maybe it’s as simple as me helping Treepers to offset the financial downsides of globalism and inflation.
keyword = Maybe.
It does not have the appearance of being a “widows and orphans” equity. It appears they do not pay a dividend.
Actually widows and orphans make the best sacrifices according to this Spiritual Warfare we are in. The meekest among us and the most vulnerable. Those vulnerable children of childhood trauma are enlisted and promised safety and security if they only sign on the dotted line and do as they’re told.
Benjamin Franklin said “Those who give up freedom for safety – deserve neither.” He was right.
Ark of Grace prophetic ministries just had an incredible podcast about the demons’ need for sacrifice right now to prepare for the 2026 mid term elections. They’re looking for high profile targets. Remember, the demonRats sacrificed children via abortion at their convention. This is reality.
Trump just had another crazy woman travel from New York to Washington DC claiming she wanted to disembowel him and tear out his trachea and sacrifice him. Where’s that in the news?
God protect Trump – and God needs to clean house and He Will in His Perfect Timing. 90% of our government is corrupt to the core.
HIGH ALERT: DARK ALTARS & TRUMP
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Yes… that’s the podcast. She and Julie Green Ministries have been proven right on many occasions.
Those who understand spiritual warfare know what we are up against.
Isn’t everything a Maybe until proven?
Maybe just plant lots of cabbages.
Thank you for doing that Sundance
Jesus seems to teach using the world’s financial system in God’s favor (and in your favor as well):
Matthew
“27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.”
Verse Context:
Matthew
14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
From my husband and myself thank you SD…
I almost invested in Palantir, but I couldn’t convince myself to do it. It was the moral issue that kept me from it. I do not regret the decision.
It will go up in value whether you invest in it or not.
Good enough for George Soros – good enough for us, right? It’s okay to “profit” off of those who are trying to enslave us?
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-truth-about-george-soros-is-damning-enough/
“Tivadar Soros had his son George assume a non-Jewish identity — “Sandor Kiss” — and pose as the godson of a Hungarian agriculture ministry bureaucrat named Baumbach, whose job was taking inventory of Jewish properties confiscated by the Nazi occupiers. Soros accompanied Baumbach on one job, traveling to the estate of a wealthy Jewish aristocrat named Moric Kornfeld. What’s not disputed is that Soros hung around the estate while Baumbach did his work for the Nazi-occupying regime; what is disputed is what, if anything, Soros did while Baumbach took inventory.
That isn’t embracing the Nazi cause, and it’s difficult to argue that cooperating with taking inventory once in order to maintain a non-Jewish disguise constitutes an unforgivable sin while sitting in a country that ran Operation Paperclip to win the Space Race.
For what it’s worth, Soros did make his role sound more active in a 1998 interview with Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes.
There’s one other wrinkle: Tivadar Soros offered a similar account of the trip in his 1965 autobiography titled Masquerade: Dancing Around Death in Nazi Occupied Hungary, except he described Baumbach as “Baufluss” and made his son’s role sound more active:
Did young George Soros help with taking inventory of property seized from Jews? His father’s autobiography says yes
I seem to remember an interview with George Soros, in which he said, at the end of the talk of his help with confiscation of Jewish property after pointing Jews out to the ‘authorities’, that he said “If I wouldn’t have done it, someone else would have.” I may be mistaken, but I believe those were his very words. Which shocked me, that he was so callous as to even say that out loud.
Seems like buying Amazon, Alphabet and Apple would be a good bet, too, if JD is the chosen one!
They all appreciate the vast amounts of metadata we give them.
Once I saw how major sports organizations go to all college games (and probably high school) to scout for their future “money makers”, I realized that surely the political power players did the same.
What better way to get the young leaders while their political views and loyalties can still be guided to where you want them to be.
If they still have high school and college debate teams, I’ll bet most of the audience are political recruiters.
And you would win that bet probably. My grandson was a finalist in a national debate this past summer. He was informed when he joined his debate club that recruiters watched debate clubs closely.
IC massively recruited when I was in college. Many of those efforts are indelibly etched on my brain. I wanted nothing to do with them. Just me.
“Around this time someone will snark, saying my assembling this perspective indicates President Trump is an idiot, or something.”
Not to get too far out of line, but it doesn’t exactly seem to be a glowing tribute to President Trump’s high IQ, knowledge and wisdom. So I think forgiveness should be in order for those who might somehow get the wrong idea. Especially as I was almost one of them.
Has nothing to do with IQ. He did not have a choice. Use your knowledge and imagination to figure why it was not his choice.
I concur I see Rubio beeing tee-ed up for Prez. I like Vance but he’s a little too unproven for my tastes. Particularly his origin story (friends in high places).
Reading this and watching President Trump’s actions would seem to indicate that President Trump has a similar thought process. President Trump has never endorsed Vance for President. In fact, President Trump often sites Marco Rubio as a viable alternative. President Trump has often flirted with the idea of Trump 2028. President Trump has seeded his administration with many strong, viable prospects for President.
The writer has alluded to the fact that the march of this technology is inevitable. How to have a counter weight to this omnipresent monitoring may be impossible.
I’m watching Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio very closely.
They have to prove themselves to me. Both have a lot of past baggage, but I’m willing to look past that and concentrate on what their doing now.
The 2026 midterms must be a huge turnout for Republicans and
2028 is also an extremely important election.
Amen to that thanks Sundance buckets of HONEST information is what you have always been so generous with as a daily treepers all I can say is Blessings to you and yours be well my friend and take your own advice and live your best life
Much love and respect
R.D.
Where are Don Jr. and Eric in all of this?
Don Jr. is clueless. Very busy being a “celebrity.”
Eric seems to by a very smart young man, but he’s busy running Trump Inc.
Don’t forget that Trump was running Trump Inc. when he ran!
Eric’s wife, after her stint with the RNC, is eyeing a political run.
Eric is definitely the brains and spiritual wherewithal for this. He and his wife make a powerful team.
I was sad when she left the RNC because it needs a desperate cleaning.
Agree!
I believe Eric will be President one day!, and possibly very soon!
Excellent Article Sundance! Thank You!
“Trust God, and for everyone else – watch them like a hawk, while you live your best life.”
Sundance is, once again, absolutely correct in giving us the opportunity to see things as they really are and not just as we might wish them to be!
As my “old school” journalism prof told me in college, MANY decades ago, “If your mother tells you that she loves you, make sure you get two independent sources to back up that claim!”
I am not cynical, per se, BUT I am very much a realist and the simple fact of the matter, as Jesus Himself said, “Why do you call me good? There is NO ONE good but God alone!” (Mark 10:18 Emphasis mine)
Observe WHEN they were removed, I mean exited, PDJT inner circle.
Interesting background on Vance and his connections and something to be very aware of with him as you explained before. We have to be suspicious of any person in the higher plains of DC or we lose the war. However, somewhere we have to pray there are true and honest people at that level too, working for and with us to keep America whole, safe and free.
Personally, I have never trusted Tulsi although she has been terrific since coming onboard the campaign. Her background and family made me pause many times. RFK also raises mild alerts for me, although I have watched him for years in his quest against the medical and pharma cabals despite many arrows shot his way and being mocked and disowned by his family. I lend more credibility to him for the wars he’s been through and his steadfastness on improving American children’s health along with the rest of us. He has never wavered in his mission and looked to Pres. Trump to help him finally achieve it. There are several others too, like Rubio.
So yes, there is a never ending need for vigilance, awareness, investigation and skepticism when it comes to the politics and governance of the USA and the people involved at the highest levels. Who is real? Who owes who? Can we ever be sure what the truth is? What silo are we in today and what are they doing?
Keep on keeping on and as you say SD, live your best life but keep your eyes open and be prepared.
You have to watch RFK,jr too it seems J Woo has an idea he may not be what he says he is either.
RFK Jr has spoken openly in interviews that President Trump watched videos of his appointees to check their screen presence.
He needed “sales people” to sell his policies. I think it was the recent Tucker interview.. but Google it.
In the same interview.. RFK JR tells of himself… that these democrats were all his friends, that this is a way of life, and that he HAS NOT CHANGED and he is who HE ALWAYS WAS.
It’s “a thing” for politicians to jump parties when advantageous. Also “a thing” for Muslims to lie to get one over on infidels. These are not people playing board games… by the rules. Anything and everything goes to achieve their cause.
We’ve had the last two DOE heads in Indiana flip from R to D mid-term to continue their crime spree of indoctrination of our children.
When a person tells you who they are… you should believe them. When someone shows you who they FUND believe them… and no one gives anything without a quid pro quo.
Trump’s administration was RFK JRs only way in the door. He took the power given to him.
But I ask… are the jabs still a requirement for the military? (I’m not personally sure.) Yes, they were removed from infant vax requirements and pregnant moms… but they’re not GONE are they????
Also… vax records appear on high school transcripts and they belong nowhere near them for one’s vaccine status has no bearings on ones ability to think or compute. So why put them on there? Would someone with political agenda discriminate on someone who chose the mRNA modification or not… you bet your bottom dollar they would!
And above all things… obamacare that holds numerous small entrepreneurs and their staff HOSTAGE is still there and intact and fully stealing the wealth of the lower and middle classes. Small business is the backbone of America and the insurance is killing that industry and robbing small business of talent. I know… I lost my own home over it. I am proof of the predatory nature of the not-so-affordable care act.
These sharks are all still swimming in the water. They’re just submerged until Trump leaves office.
The same…. except for the extreme poverty, oh, and the hunger. And maybe the drug/alcohol addiction. But yeah, let’s call it the same. I say similarities, but not the same.
Is the background real or created?
Anyone here remember President Trump’s noncommittal answer a couple of months ago when a reporter asked if he’d endorse aka JD to prez?
I do…
He may not do the “vetting” for other positions…
But that answer seemed to indicate that for this all important one (his endorsement) he’s paying very close attention and remains wary/unconvinced.
(…and just to reiterate, in spite of the effusive drooling over the benefits of AI, I am unsettled still. Call me a Luddite. But the malevolent portents which I am sensing aren’t getting any less.)
I agree with you about the AI issue. It creeps me out in so many ways and just seems poised to get out of hand really quickly.
I can’t reconcile my way out of it, my friend. The groundwork has been laid, and no one is in the middle of the road shouting “Stop!”
I have reconciled tech, all of it, as a tool to be mastered and used only for good. It is a tool, once mastered, to be placed in the back pocket or tool belt and to be pulled out only when needed, like other tools. We master it, not the other way around. We control it, not the other way around. Anything else is evil.
(Like my hammer, screwdrivers or shovels, if they every talk back to me, I will dispense of them quickly and not nicely – or if someone tries to use the tools for evil, the same should apply).
I am sceptical and unconvinced.
Define “We”.
Because in the end you have to ask who is in command of that tool.
Who writes the code, who installs it, and what biases are included. Just a few question marks among many.
For me those are variables none of us can define or identify at any one moment. If ever.
But the ultimate, existential question remains…
Who do you trust.
Again and for myself, I answer only Christ Himself.
No other.
Who holds the plug… to be plugged in… or unplugged… or who holds the switch… to be turned on… or off?
Think you have money in your account.. not anymore!
Notice all of our pictures and family history… digitized… and if the “cloud” erases? What then?
We will only have the memories they allow us to have, and they’ll decide who shares our memories and who doesn’t. Do you know who all has seen your digital clone? For that’s what they’re doing, digitally cloning you… to know all your likes, dislikes, preferences, opinions. Thus algorithms.
There’s a reason Tennessee passed laws against the stealing of images and likenesses.
For it seems Elvis can now reenter the building, sing you a new song, and make you think he loves you… and he’s been dead how long? But AI can use his likeness, his voice, to say and do anything.
What did folks used to say about one’s lying eyes? How do we trust anything anymore?
It’s the perfect crime. Don’t like someone, their opinions, their policies, their religion… show me the person and we will create the crime.
It’s not innocent until proven guilty anymore. It’s guilt struggling for truth.
No one knows all it and those who are developing it are capable of, dear friend. Or will be. Or how corrupted in purpose and execution it will be. Looking as far around corners as is possible, it is the reason every time I see AI produced memes, I feel a frisson of dis-ease. The slow, methodical indocrination of the masses by presenting it as innocuous and nothing more.
As for trust, a fragile thing easily broken, I know you and I feel the same and believe in one eternal Power. Such times, sis…
Then, I am also a Luddite….
🤔
And there is the answer to the question we’ve all asked or wondered about…
He’s inside the tent, Joe.
Bill Aldenberg…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/09/10/lou-dobbs-and-devin-nunes-discuss-ongoing-william-aldenberg-investigation/
You know, Ad rem, it is your ability to quickly dig through the extensive CTH archive to repost this that I remain forever grateful “all y’all” were able to preserve all of Sundance’s meticulous work.
Mind, I can’t remember when exactly it was all hands on deck to preserve the extensive archives and find another platform. Nevertheless, it doesn’t hurt to be reminded just how invaluable our Tree is…and becomes more so with each passing day. Cheers, girl 😘
’20 was an incredibly busy year for SD and the Treehouse. He traveled to DC where he met “many”-someday perhaps the story can be told.
“My Discussion With John Durham’s Lead Investigator, William Aldenberg…”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2020/08/22/my-discussion-with-john-durhams-lead-investigator-william-aldenberg/
Then, in late Aug/Sept, we found ourselves deplatformed. In little more than a week, SD and the engineers moved ten years worth of data- images, text, links, everything. Monumental.
Thank you for that.
Curious timing?
Nah…..
Yes, Joe Blow. I saw that too.
Peter Thiel pitching the Anti Christ and transhumanism….
https://notthebee.com/article/silicon-valley-tech-guru-and-trump-supporter-peter-thiel-is-giving-a-four-part-lecture-series-on-the-antichrist-this-fall-at-the-commonwealth-club
I just read in the COLO SPRINGS Gazette this past week that Peter Thiel and Palantir are headquartered in Colorado; didn’t say if he had a house or property here.
I do find it interesting that he and company are here where Dominion’s US headquarters are in Denver, close to our
gov/leg/all main state officers are Democrats.
Any connections to be researched?
Tina Peters is in prison in Colorado.
SD: You are warping my shallow opinions and observations of the world around me. Your article here is a beautiful piece of work. Thank you.
Somewhat related, and certainly worth noting — Peter Thiel will be holding a 4-part lecture series on the Antichrist, beginning mid-September. Tickets are already sold-out, so lets hope some video becomes available after the event is held.
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-weekly-voice-9xyr/20250822/282063398070246
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is set to deliver a four-part lecture series on the theme of the Antichrist at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, beginning 15 September.
The program, scheduled to run over several sessions, marks an unusual public foray by the PayPal co-founder and Palantir Technologies chair into theological discourse.
Thiel, known for his interest in transhumanism and longevity research, has previously used public lectures to articulate contrarian views on technology, politics and philosophy.
Recent interview about Thiel with ref to AC. He is mis-informed or misinforming.
Not impressed with Ross Douthat’s interviewing skills. He talks over his guest too many times; a few times Thiel was in the midst of a reply to a Douthat question, and was about to say something very substantive but Douthat, unable to restrain himself and so eager to inject his intellectual abilities ( /s ), stepped all over him.
Douthat is like an unattractive, bald version of Hannity. Douthat gets a grade of “F” from me on his interviewing acumen. I found myself yelling at the screen more than once, “Ross, please SHUT THE F*CK UP and let the man answer your question!” I did not watch the video to hear Ross Douthat’s views on these topics. But he was determined to insert them into the interview even at the expense of silencing Peter Thiel. Douthat turned it into a debate in the latter half, rather than an interview.
On the other hand, I thought Thiel had some interesting and NOT self-indicting things to say…that is…until he got into transhumanism and the antichrist. Ugh. He completely misses ANY consideration of the human soul and the Holy Spirit within us. His is a totally technical, physical perspective that minimizes, almost dismissively, human beings’ ability to accept guidance by the Holy Spirit and respond to God’s desires. But he tried to expound on his views but was stepped on constantly by Douthat so we never got to hear Thiel’s expanded philosophy behind his views.
“However, many of us are sick and tired of having the virtue of our patriotism weaponized against us.” Theil reeling in and repackaging the heretic religious right that supported President Trump instead of the self-righteous, condescending, vote-only-for-party-sanctioned as godly, nevertrumpung Deep state.
How one can live when one must question everything. Is that mushroom good, or poisonous? Is that shady oak tree beautiful, or the weapon that will eventually fall and destroy my house? Is JD Vance an ally, or a Trojan horse? Did Marco Rubio really have an epiphany, or is this part of a more insidious plan? If Rubio seriously had an epiphany, is this possible for Vance?? We proceed with caution.
Clinton, in addition to Obama and Vance, changed his name. Rubio did not change his name.
Wasn’t Clinton adopted by his stepfather?
Vance was JD’s mother’s maiden name.
Obama – yeah, who knows who he really is, where he was born, or who was his father . . .
Kudos Sundance, as usual a very thoughtful post, however this one surely makes the Top 10 list.
Thanks for the reminders.
Rubio has always been establishment. A Rhino are we supposed to forget the gang of 8? I don’t see an upside of the Cuban Pence as a good option to replace Vance. Perhaps Rubio needs to be VP first. If it comes down to Vance VS Newsome I go Vance and so will the rest of you. I haven’t seen anything out of Vance that suggests he’s not team Trump.
Can the treehouse do a similar background on Rubio please. Do we need to revisit DeSantis at this point?
no we dont. DeSantis has one big disadvantage –wife is 9 on the HOT scale and 9 on the CRAZY scale.
Politics is a dirty game (old as dirt) and government is force, not friend, intent on keeping the serfs mollified. I view all through a cautious and skeptical lens. The pendulum swings. It’s wise to keep on thinking free. Thank you Sundance, very much, for the ever clear minded perspectives.
Did we really win in November? Or was Trump allowed to win to further the Technocrats long-term plan?
We were simply allowed to overcome the Democrats fraud!
Aw geez! You just had to plant those seeds of doubt….!!!! 🤣
Actually those are two good questions….
If Donald Trump had anything to say about it, it would be an emphatic “Yes” to the first question and an even more emphatic “No” to the second. The man hasn’t taken a dime of salary yet spent millions of his personal fortune while both in office and in-between his terms.
It’s estimated he’s made +$2.5 billion during his presidencies. Let’s not talk about financial sacrificies.
Estimated by whom?
PRAY. That’s all I have to say.
He’s a big old phony. They’ve been doing this a long time, look at Bill Clinton.
I, for one, will not be voting for him – I refuse to fall for the lesser of two evils again as they are both evil. Add to that, he’s a millennial. My generation has never had a president, and now we are supposed to vote for millennials – why should I?
So, there is now J. D. Vance, with a remarkable trajectory. Golden Lads have magical careers, because they have a rich Uncle paving the way for them. Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Kevin McCarthy, Vivek Ramaswamy: we are adding to a list already discussed. Great Expectations, they were given.
How about that Bill Barr? He sure is being obsequious, these days.
Bill Barr’s father was a total creep
From most hated source
“He was headmaster of the Dalton School from 1964 to 1974.[9] For a brief time, at the end of his tenure as headmaster, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was employed as a math teacher. It is unclear whether Barr hired Epstein.[10][11] In 1973, Barr published Space Relations, a science fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who engage in child sex slavery. It has been noted that the plot of the novel anticipates the crimes of Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.[12]”
I think JD is a fraud. He’s slippery, smooth-talking and it just grates on my nerves the way he speaks as if he’s just a good ole’ countryboy from Yale. Give me a break.
Writing a book as if he is a hillbilly is gross. It’s insulting to the people who actually dug/dig coal and come from Appalachia.
Some people from Ohio absolutely worship him.
I have learned one thing from a long life in investing and that is that the herd does control the market.
President Trump, like Reagan benefitted because the herd was hungry for a leader and Trump fit the bill. Like Reagan, he will have one shot at an endorsement and that person will probably win in 2028. Lets hope he does a better job than Reagan did. But to me, it looks like the CIA has already programmed the outcome.
Just as the CIA did when Reagan endorsed HW.
We are the beneficiaries of something the world has never seen before. Incomparable. Thank you and God bless you Sundance.
Tell me, who do you trust? That is the editorial use of the word you. Anyone care to take a shot at it?
From another “very old white guy,87”, I only trust God!
It’s interesting that Trump hasn’t really put Vance “in charge” of anything. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Pence was handling Covid….I can’t really picture Vance as a true (strong) leader. Someone who gets the input and then makes the decision (like Trump). Rubio is in the thick of it with Russia/Ukraine and now the Visa mess. He has a certain determination in his eyes that I don’t see in Vance’s eyes.
I notice that often, when Vance goes somewhere to make an appearance, others are sent out with him. Just the other day, Vance made an appearance but Stephen Miller did all the talking, that I saw on TV.
If you’ve Learned anything from Hisyory and Vice Presidents, it’s they have likely been put there for a reason. Think about Pence, Bush, Ford, the last 2 became Presidents. Is History set to Rhyme? I have always wondered about Vance, I judge most things on what happened during the Covid Fiasco and I didn’t see Vance as a Stand out anything at that time. I have a “we’ll See” approach, he’s going to have to prove himself.
I remember President Trump making the following comments but only once…
A: The CDC Covid-19 Death Count was a fraud.
B: Ukraine shouldn’t have picked a fight with a country ten times bigger.
C: We don’t need an investigation to know who blew-up the Nordstream Pipelines.
For some reason President Trump knows exactly what the frauds are but won’t head to head challenge the news media narratives because of their power!
JD Vance didn’t change his name. HIS MOTHER DID. He was just a little boy then and didn’t make adult decisions. Stop your hatred and propaganda against JD Vance!
He went to Yale without any help from anyone. Stop lying!
You are no different from the hateful left wing. Shame on you.
Ummm, he did change his name to Vance (his mother’s maiden name) before he graduated from Yale and published his book.
Thank you…Vance had a painful young life. Great seeing your understanding. Empathy. Grace. Respect. All needed here.
A few months ago President Trump was asked if JD Vance will be the 2028 presidential nominee on Fox News and President Trump said no. I can’t find the link, but I was shocked that he was so blunt.
Another example was the day before the Republican Iowa caucus Trump called Vivek Ramaswampy a fraud.
President Trump knows what’s going on.
Trump has the gift of picking up on authenticity, something not all of us possess, although a few do.
When I see and hear Vance, there seems to be an invisible wall surrounding him – forget his words.
Although he performs admirably, I still don’t connect to him. Trust your instinct.
down vote.
No bigger political whore have I ever seen. Do not trust him.
Maybe he’s just a lawyer. LOL