Posted originally on the CTH on November 13, 2023 | Sundance 

I hope everyone is living their best life despite the created chaos intended to destabilize us. Several people have inquired about my not writing extensive research articles lately. Here’s what’s up…

There is actually a confluence of merging events that requires me to pause and think long and hard about whether the next step is correct for our CTH community in general, and specifically for me personally. It’s also very hard to write about this stuff without sounding like a braggadocious nut.

Here’s the problem that 360 million+ people do not comprehend.

♦ I need you to think about the person you are familiar with who you believe has a solid grasp of the scale of the problem in DC. This person doesn’t need to solve it, they just need to understand how massive the problem is. Who is the person you would say understands the root and essential core problem that creates the corruption in DC? Does that person in your mind, the person who really understands at a granular level what this corrupt enterprise is really all about and how it works, does that person look like Donald Trump, or Devin Nunes, or Kash Patel, or Ric Grennell?

Who would you assign that competency skillset to? Seriously, no joke – honest question, who understands the scale of the problem?

Here’s the hard pill to swallow, it doesn’t matter what name you put down, you are wrong. None of the aforementioned names, or any others, have a total picture of the problem from both a macro and micro view. None of them do.

The silo system in DC creates impenetrable barriers. I have not found a single person who knows how it all works and connects as a corrosive cancer buried deep inside our U.S. political system.

Factually, and I mean this with no joke at all, if you have been reading here for a while you have a better grasp on the problem than any elected politician. This is not a disposable line. I’m deadly serious. I have not found a single person inside the system who understands the dynamic that creates what they claim to stand against, not a single person.

So how can they fix it? Short answer, they can’t.

The only people qualified to fix this mess are the people who understand it.

Again, do you know who that is?

It’s YOU!

♦ After 12 years of stewardship over our conversation, literally 24/7/365, I also admitted I was not following my own advice. As Dr. Stephen Covey would say, “I was not sharpening the saw.”

I did not write for 3 days over the Memorial Day holiday of 2011, but other than that (and time spent in Hurricane recovery) every day I have researched, written and worked on this labor of love we call the Treehouse.

As time continued, the network of the Treehouse resources grew.  We now have the ability to contact and review just about every facet of that previously described corrupt system.

I spend more time in contact with those resources now, answering their questions and raising a few more nuanced points for my own inquires.   This, along with travel to educate myself, is how I can assert with confidence that no one understands the problem better than, well, us.

However, when you spend time facing down this corrupt system, it starts to gnaw at you… bigly.  I am a person with strong central disposition, not easily knocked off mission and certainly not ever destabilized by the professional liars.  But dealing with them, writing about their schemes, putting the sunlight on them (not what they would have us see) while constantly monitoring their moves, is exhausting.

♦ At the same time as the above came into clarity, I was also planning for the 2024 election year.  Y’all know it’s going to be ugly… the scale of government institutions that are going to align against Donald Trump is going to make 2016 seem like a stroll in the park.

Part of that planning included the potential to launch a twice weekly recap podcast. Literally a mechanism to distill CTH articles and analysis into 30-minute, no extra words, straight talk about events.  Twice a week (Sat/Wed).   Self-hosted and only viewed here on CTH as the originating platform.

Everything at CTH stays the same, but every Saturday and Wednesday there would be a recap video on the more challenging stuff.  Many people have asked, but there are a lot of issues that need to be worked out before such an endeavor is considered.

I discussed the technical issues with our server and data processing group, they feel confident they could handle the traffic.  However, that’s the same thing they said right before the unique CTH issue of ‘simultaneous users’ surprised them.

Put it all together and I decided to sit still and pray about the next steps.

It is true that something has to change, something or someone needs to break through the nonsense and pretending.  It is also true that continuing to do the same thing while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.

I made a promise to pause, think, study, learn and pray before making any decision.  And I needed the break.

I’m right here with you.

Love to all, steadfast!

~ Sundance