Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 2, 2021 | Sundance | 354 Comments
Just a short note of something rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things….
We are told by the powers that be – that approximately 6,000 to 7,000 American citizens were rescued by daring efforts of the U.S. State Department and U.S. military in evacuations from Kabul airport. Okay, fair enough… that’s a good outcome. Happy to hear it; we can debate the other 116,000 at a later time.
However, it seems a little odd now that there’s no videos of the survivors of the Afghan crisis arriving at airports. No crowds or families greeting the extracted American residents; no human interest stories and local broadcasted news coverage of relieved Americans, husbands, wives, daughters or sons arriving back in their hometown…. nothing.
Six to seven thousand Americans saved from the clutches of the Taliban, and not a single story of those Americans arriving home to the waiting arms of their loving family.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 2, 2021 | Sundance | 176 Comments
In order for left-wing ideologues to continue advancing their ideological belief system, a system built upon intentional fraud, they must pretend not to know things. This truism is the inherent core of their hypocrisy.
For the past several years the ultra-progressive left have been selling a ridiculous narrative that multiple genders exist. Within that multi-gender worldview, men can get to compete in women’s sports and also get pregnant. They even changed the language of mother and father to “birthing person”. Wokeism and cultural Marxism are deployed against anyone who does not accept this assertion in society. When you challenge the progressive orthodoxy with intellectual argument, the response is always an emotional attack in defense of their unsustainable position. A case study in this exact outcome happened today during Jen Psaki’s press briefing.
The White House spokesperson accidentally (and very forcefully) took the public position today, that only two genders exist. WATCH:
Other revelations today include:
“My body my choice,” except forced vaccinations against you are okay.
Also, “my health status is dependent on your medical condition,” so, it’s okay to slap the cheeseburger out of your vaccinated hand – right?
Fear is at the core of modern liberalism, and love/trust is at the core of conservatism. Modern liberalism, most commonly evolved to leftism, is about control. Conservatism is about self-empowerment.
Control is a reaction to fear. Think in terms or politics and society – the fear behind liberalism is the fear that someone might withhold things (opportunities, money, whatever) from me, fear that if you live your life in a way I dislike that it might affect my life, fear that if you get that job, there will be nothing left for me. Fear that if you make tons of money, it’s means there’s less money out there for me. So people who believe in leftist ideologies seek control as a means of trying to create guarantees and safeguards against those circumstances they fear.
Modern “liberals”, leftists, try to control the world and people to enable their comfort and happiness. Which, as we know, is an endless quest. Trying to control others does nothing in the way of making oneself happy. By extension, voting in this mindset so that government can try to control others will also – shocking – not lead to a happier, more comfortable life.
The conservative (and moderate, independent, but for the sake of expediency, the conservative), on the other hand, relies on himself to meet his own needs. And the trade off of being free to live his life as he wishes is also understanding that he has to make peace with how you live yours. By extension, aware that he wants to be able to hold onto this liberty and freedom forever, the conservative votes accordingly, so that everyone can remain free and in charge of his or her own life.
But here’s the crucial difference, perhaps, particularly where misery on the left stems: The conservative does not worry, so to speak, about you. The conservative knows that you were born with the same access to self-love, self-empowerment, self-determination and self-reliance that we all were, no matter the circumstances into which you were born. (Think about the millions of people this country has allowed to crawl up from poverty into prosperity – the conservative KNOWS this is possible.) And the conservative believes that if you want prosperity, or a good job, or a good education, you can make it happen – but you have to work hard.
The conservative hopes and intends that the free markets bring you all of the affordable and positive opportunities and resources that you need. The conservative also knows that on the other side of that hard work is great reward – material and, more importantly, emotional, spiritual and mental.
The conservative understands that not only is it a waste of time to try to control you, it’s actually impossible. Humans were born to be free. And if we put a roadblock in front of you, you’ll find another way around it. So, we see attempts at control as a waste of resources, energy and time at best, and at worst, creating detrimental results that serve to hinder people’s upward mobility or teach dependence. We see much more efficiency, as well as endless opportunity, in leaving you to your own devices. And we want the same in return.
This is where modern democrats mis-view conservatives as heartless. But really, the conservative believes that there is one and one path only to sustainable success and independence – and that is self-empowerment. All other avenues – welfare, affirmative action, housing loans you can’t actually afford – ultimately risk doing a disservice to people as they teach dependence on special circumstances, the govt, or arbitrary assistance (that can disappear tomorrow). And the real danger – they will ALWAYS backfire, and leave the recipient in equally or more dire circumstances. Any false improvement will always expire.
The conservative believes in abundance. The liberal believes in scarcity.
The conservative believes man is born free and will be who he is, no matter what arbitrary limitations or rules are put on him. The leftist believes man is perfectible, and by extension, believes a society at large is perfectible, and command and control is justified in the quest to a “perfect” utopian society. (Sounds familiar!)
The conservative tends to be more faithful – and not necessarily in God, but in the ability of the individual to find great strength in himself (or from his God) to get what he needs and to be successful. Therefore, the conservative has an outlet for his fear and disappointment – trust and faith in something bigger.
The leftist believes the system must be perfected in order to enable success. Therefore, disappointment is channeled as anger and blame at the system. Voids are left to be filled by faith in the govt, which they surely then want to come in and “fix” things.
And therein lies the roots of love and fear respectively. For the conservative, when life presents great struggles, he knows he has the power to surmount them. Happiness stems from internal strength and perseverance. For the modern leftist, when life presents great struggles, the system failed, therefore they were at the mercy of a faulty system, and they believe that only when the system is fixed can their life improve. Happiness is built on systemic contingencies, which they will then seek to control or expect someone else to.
One blames himself. The other blames anyone and everyone but himself.
And there it is. There’s where the meanness comes from. The leftist ideology causes that person to cast anger at the world when things go wrong or appear “unfair.” He constantly chooses only to see the “injustices” – and that makes for a very miserable, mean, blame-casting existence.
One last point that we have seen over and over and over with many (not all) of our leftist friends: Extreme stinginess and cheapness.
In our conservative community growing up, we were always taught that you give when people are in need – make donations to the Red Cross when there’s an earthquake, donate to charity when you can afford it, etc. Even if it’s just $50 here and there – it’s the right thing to do. Conservatives see this as the responsibility that comes with gaining from the capitalistic system; if you happen to benefit greatly from the system, it’s your duty to give back.
The liberal, on the other hand, does not seem to share this same viewpoint, at least not in my experience. And perhaps I think this is linked to believing in scarcity, and that your dollar comes at the cost of mine. So it seems that liberals, on some level of consciousness, feel guilty about not being voluntarily charitable. Therefore, to write off their guilt, they outsource their “generosity” to the government by voting for wealth re-distributive policies. Thus, the liberal cheats himself of the joy and addictiveness of direct generosity. (Not to mention – re distributive policies ALWAYS end up dis-empowering those who they’re meant to help.)
However each of us got here, it’s probably a fact that we have the turmoil of those storms in common, perhaps some unease that we could share and always, we also find fresh ground to cover from day to day. We’re developing valuable relationships as we trust one another in our community in the woods. The chatting in the branches encourages, strengthens and equips for some serious walking.
We think the Treehouse is a good armory for those who doing long distance walking for the sake of our nation. We hope you’ll think so, too. Find yourself a good branch….or just pull up a rock to the campfire.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 2, 2021 | Sundance | 135 Comments
A free-range citizen made it through the filtration process and appeared on livestream before the Dallas City Council. His rigorous advocacy for the totalitarian mandates and forced vaccines was welcome amid the tribe…. until he started helping them a little too much. WATCH:
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 2, 2021 | Sundance | 225 Comments
People wonder why they should be paying attention to what happens in Australia. Well, quite simply, if you can identify where the test facility is for technology to merge with totalitarian objectives, it becomes valuable to follow what they do – and then predict what the future might look like for you. Australia and New Zealand are testing the parameters of merging the objectives of the control state with technology and citizen compliance.
A year ago, the leftists in U.S. media were cheering the COVID responsibility of Kiwis and Aussies. However, things are starting to take a very dark turn now. Even the ultra-far-left Atlantic Magazine is starting to become aware, and what they are seeing is becoming worrisome.
[T]he government of South Australia, one of the country’s six states, developed and is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in the free world to enforce its quarantine rules. People in South Australia will be forced to download an app that combines facial recognition and geolocation. The state will text them at random times, and thereafter they will have 15 minutes to take a picture of their face in the location where they are supposed to be. Should they fail, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person. “We don’t tell them how often or when, on a random basis they have to reply within 15 minutes,” Premier Steven Marshall explained. “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.” (read more)
The South Australian directorate is merely following the path of what already exists in Western Australia and Tasmania. The state government is monitoring COVID compliance via cell phones, geolocation and random inquires to check the status of citizen compliance. Yes, there’s now an app for that. An “app”? The term sounds so innocuous; and they are proud, publicly proud, of the system they are putting in place.
(ABC NEWS Australia) […] “I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”
The Premier said South Australia will report results back to National Cabinet in the coming weeks. … “We just use it to verify that people are where they said they were going to be during the home-based quarantine.”
Once a system is built where government is permitted the use of technology to advance their goals under the auspices of “public safety”, it only takes a few more nudges until that system is then used for control, not safety. The term “safety” then shifts from the deployment of a government process to protect the citizens, to the use of that same process to protect the government from the citizen…..
Eventually, people forget why they are taking off their shoes at an airport and given a full body scan. Eventually, the COVID monitoring app shows up on every cell phone without even being requested. The compliance becomes easier to permeate.
In many ways the predictable Skynet is being built in front of our eyes, and yet so many people cannot follow these nudges to their logical conclusion. Indeed, as we have noted for the past eighteen months, there are many seemingly intellectual people who cannot look up long enough to see exactly where following the feeder pellets are leading them:
Posted originally on the Conservative tree House on September 2, 2021 | Sundance | 168 Comments
Against the backdrop of COVID compliance and the totalitarian efforts of various world leaders, it does not seem coincidental that Australia and New Zealand are two partners within the “five-eyes” intelligence apparatus; Canada, the U.K. and U.S. are the remaining three. Indeed, an argument can be made that Aussies and Kiwis are the test populations for the objectives of the western alliance.
Recently, a mash-up of statements was released highlighting Comrade Premier Gladys Berejiklian, the leader of the Australian New South Wales Directorate, showcasing the mindset and outlook of regional officials toward any formerly ‘free range’ citizen who might challenge the dictates of the regime. WATCH:
The remix is somewhattongue in cheek. However, given the actual rules imposed by the COVID compliance divisions within Australia, the message is not far away from where the ultimate end-game of the governing authority is heading. Last week, the New South Wales Ministry of COVID Compliance announced locked-down citizens will be permitted to get married again; however, only five persons of ideological alignment will be permitted to witness any formal union or celebration.
During the announcement (video below, first six minutes), NSW COVID Compliance Health Minister Brad Hazzard, also announced various government officials have reviewed the potential social impacts from an absence of procreation; and determined that without further breeding the ministerial ruling-class could lose the workforce they need for ongoing services. It is therefore in the best interests of the state for the regional ministry to approve a restart for the institution of marriage.
The restart of state approval for the institution of marriage is welcome news, and was made while contrasting sad news of two citizens who recently died from the Coronavirus. Both formerly free-range citizens were females, one in her 70’s and one in her 80’s, and they are latest victims of COVID-19; which is a warning for the entire population of several million about the severity of risk.
In case you missed it…. a few days prior to this, the Premier of the New South Wales directorate announced citizens would be permitted one hour of exercise outside the home, as long as the newly regulated and authorized activity takes place within open hours during the ongoing lockdown. A curfew remains in effect from 9pm to 5am daily. The new hour of outside exercise is permitted between 5am to 9pm, and –just like prison yard time– the time will be carefully monitored by state compliance officers.
Non-compliant citizens, who may be tempted to exceed the permitted hour of exercise time, should remember the state can monitor free-range activity via geolocation from cell phones (portable transponder). Most Australian citizens located outdoors are required to keep their electronic medical identification available for review by authorities at checkpoints as well as their essential worker permits. To ensure the public health, citizens must also scan QR codes at designated monitoring locations.
The state appreciates compliant citizens who monitor their neighbors for wrong thinking, and use the national alert hotline to notify authorities of any rebellious individual who may exceed their approved outdoor recreation time limit, or any rogue citizen spotted attempting to exercise outside of the approved times of day. [New South Wales Article] – [Queensland Article]
♦ The Premier of the New South Wales directorate (Sydney area) is Comrade Premier Gladys Berejiklian. She has announced a magnanimous position to relieve the stress upon the year-long lockdowns.
As the Australian news is reporting:
(Via NINE NEWS) […] “From September 13, households living in the NSW government’s LGAs of concern will be allowed to spend an additional hour of recreation outdoors, as long as all adults in the household are fully vaccinated. This is on top of the already-permitted hour of exercise, meaning households will be able to visit a park, Ms Berejiklian said. However, people must take this hour within the current and ongoing curfew hours, which will continue.” [9pm to 5am]
“Outside the LGAs of concern, through the rest of Greater Sydney and regional NSW, five people will be allowed to gather outdoors, as long as all adults are fully vaccinated.”
“People who live alone can nominate one designated family member or friend to visit for companionship. However, “Singles bubbles” will be required to be registered on nsw.gov.au” (read more)
Masks are mandatory everywhere outside the home except when exercising. However, authorized workers must carry a New South Wales essential workers permit and present their papers at each checkpoint during travel or transit.
♦ Moving slightly north to the Queensland Directorate, they are proud to announce a new COVID Quarantine Camp being built to the West of Brisbane in a place near Toowoomba.
The nearest hospital is two hours away, but that didn’t stop Queensland’s Comrade Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk from signing a lease on the remote area to build a 1,000 bed involuntary quarantine camp for persons who test positive for COVID-19.
Comrade Annastacia Palaszczuk said construction has begun on Thursday for a dedicated regional quarantine facility at Wellcamp Airport near Toowoomba following months of discussion. The premier said the fit-for-purpose facility will be ready by the end of the year, and will eventually have the capacity for 1,000 beds.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday the facility does not meet national guidelines, but wished the state “every success” as they build the involuntary containment and quarantine facility.
The federal government has previously said it was not in favor of a quarantine facility at Wellcamp, because it did not meet the criteria of being within easy access of a passenger airport terminal or tertiary hospital.
BRISBANE TIMES – […] “The facility, near Toowoomba, would be almost a two-hour drive from the nearest tertiary hospital in Brisbane but could accommodate international passenger flights along with the limited overseas freight that already lands at the site.
Positive patients would be transported either by ambulance or airlifted to Brisbane’s existing COVID hospitals.
Asked if the Prime Minister knew about the announcement, the Premier said, “I’m quite sure he does now,” confirming she had not spoken to him and federal approval was still needed for such flights to be redirected to Wellcamp, which she hoped would come once the “heat” was out of the issue.
“We can bus people from Brisbane up here if we have to,” Ms Palaszczuk said. “If you build it, they will come.” (read more)
This is urgent.
We are in a race against the highly contagious Delta variant and we don't know what's next.
Construction on the Wellcamp regional quarantine facility has started today.@Wagner_Corp expects the first stage to be delivered for use by the end of 2021.
Following months of speculation, a regional COVID-19 quarantine facility is now firmly on the cards to be built near Toowoomba.
500 beds will be available by the end of the year, with a total capacity of 1000 beds to become available by March 2022. #Covid19Qldpic.twitter.com/oDEl05i7bs
— 10 News First Queensland (@10NewsFirstQLD) August 26, 2021
We must walk though the Darkness before we see the light
It’s dark and gloomy because too many totalitarian-minded tyrannical politicians are having a field day telling the western world what to do. They’ve replace our freedoms with what I call ‘safetyism.’ All it takes is a handful of covid cases for the politicians to lock up and terrorize millions of citizens. It’s as if we have our own Taliban threatening us with force and violence if we do not agree with them.
Australia is getting the worst treatment, but New Zealand is suffering, too. Trudeau in Canada and Macron in France are getting their jollies by mandating vaccine passports. The evil-minded in America such as Biden, Pelosi, and her nephew—California Governor Gavin Newsom–want the same. (Newsom is sometimes referred to as ‘Hairdo.’)
How do we stop these dark forces? Voting may not be the answer. The Democrats stole our presidential election and the same means can be used to keep Newsom from being recalled.
No matter what happens, we should not participate in our own demise. Do not take their poisonous jabs. RESIST!
We are winning. The elections in September around the world are going to be critical. It would be so fantastic if Canadians stopped voting for these small parties and ban together to overthrow Trudeau once and for all. Overthrowing these politicians who have lined their pockets against the people and the future of their own countries, will be a major signal to this Gates-Schwab-Soros leadership behind the Great Reset.
Trudeau has been dropping like a stone in the polls but the Canadian Press is desperately pulling the same stunt the US press did against Trump and what they did against BREXIT. The two major parties are both on board with the tyranny and COVID oppression. A new party is rising and if the Canadian want to get their country back, they need to boot Trudeau out. Otherwise, we will see the separatist movement rise and we may even see the province of BC split joining Alberta.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house September 1, 2021 | Sundance | 154 Comments
There is an argument to be made that U.S. policy specifically, perhaps intentionally, culminated in delivering a mechanized national army for the Muslim Brotherhood to use in Afghanistan. Earlier today, the Taliban held a celebratory parade including U.S. military assets we left for the Afghan army.
A couple of videos below highlight the types of vehicles and weapons now in the hands of Taliban forces, and they are not exclusive to the Kabul area. Mavlave Abdul Ghafor, the Kandahar Commander of Taliban, congratulated Afghans on “great victory and success”.
Whether the Taliban forces have the systems, personnel and training to maintain and operate this equipment in the long-term is unknown. However, in the interim period they are well prepared to fight an internal civil war against any entity who would challenge their power.
The Taliban face the issue now of having to run a nation. In the Sky News segment below the question is asked: “Will the west have the stomach to help them?”
If we consider the ideological approach from the U.S. State Department; the larger elements of the American government who are aligned with an interventionist U.S. foreign policy; and the sympathetic sensibilities of the Foggy Bottom community who are well aligned with the goals and objectives of the Obama-era operatives; well, one can easily imagine a U.S. policy that gives the Taliban support from the United Nations.
It is a bizarre world Alice. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
Posted originally on the conservative Tree house on September 1, 2021 | Sundance | 433 Comments
According to the data provided by the U.S. State Department in the last few days, the total number of people evacuated from the Kabul airport was 122,000. Of those, 6,000 were American citizens (AmCits), and 116,000 were Afghan refugees.
Today the State Department admits the “majority” of the qualified Afghan people who assisted the U.S. during operations in Afghanistan, Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants, did not get evacuated. That admission begs the question: then who the heck are those 116,000 refugees?
It’s not just some NBC reporter relaying information, there are multiple reports of exactly the same dynamic. According to the Wall Street Journal, “The U.S. left behind the majority of Afghan interpreters and others who applied for visas to flee Afghanistan, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday, despite frantic efforts to evacuate those at risk of Taliban retribution in the final weeks of the airlift.”
[…] The U.S. still doesn’t have reliable data on who was evacuated, nor for what type of visas they may qualify, the official said, but initial assessments suggested most visa applicants didn’t make it through the crush at the airport. “I would say it’s the majority of them,” the official said. “Just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support.”
[…] The Biden administration has said that from the end of July, the U.S. and allied nations evacuated more than 122,000 thousand people from the country, most of whom were Afghans.
The State Department estimates that fewer than 200 Americans that wanted to leave Afghanistan have been left behind. Pentagon Press secretary John Kirby said on Friday, near the end of the evacuation effort, that the U.S. had been able to evacuate about 7,000 Special Immigrant Visa applicants by that point. (read more)
If 116,000 Afghans were evacuated, and 7,000 of them were valid SIV applicants, that means we have evacuated approximately 110,000 residents from Afghanistan who have an unknown ideological reason for their departure.
Sketchy…. all of it.
And don’t expect the U.S. Senate to lift a finger or look quizzically at any of this; the upper chamber of congress is 100% in alignment with this import, and the lower House chamber is in full defense of Biden.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house September 1, 2021 | Sundance | 151 Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics report on August jobs is anticipated Friday. However, the numbers from the private sector ADP payroll review [Data Here] were released today, and the results are far below what was predicted.
According to the ADP payroll review, businesses hired a total of 374,000 workers, compared to the expectation of 600,000+ from the financial media. The vast majority of jobs gained was in the ‘Service and Hospitality’ sector that added 201,000 jobs.
The total services sector added 329,000 jobs, while the goods-producing sector only gained 45,000 jobs. This result is reflective of an overall drop in consumer spending which has continually been identified in sales data from the past several months.
Consumers are being hit with massive inflation on food, fuel, energy and housing costs. As a result, they have pulled back from spending on durable goods, luxury products and other items now considered ‘non-essential.’
The service and hospitality sector shows job growth from new hires and returning workers as people start to travel, dine in restaurants and engage in other vacation activity. Simultaneously, those same consumers are spending less on retail purchases. This pattern has been very consistent throughout the summer.
(MSM) – […] Recent statements out of the central bank indicate that it likely will slow the pace of its monthly purchases of bonds so long as job growth continues at pace. Officials have been largely optimistic about the employment picture, though they note that about 6 million fewer workers are holding jobs now than before the pandemic. (more)
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