CTH 2.0 Update, Specifically Commenting and Notification Issues


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 5, 2020 by Sundance

Here is some background information about why people are having trouble commenting and/or seeing comments.  Please, please, p.l.e.a.s.e, book mark this post and share it because some people do not read the site updates and just go into the comments when the solutions and/or explanations are being provided.

Many people are complaining about not being able to see the totality of comments. Others are complaining their comments are not refreshing with the page.  There appears to be a very simple explanation and easy solution for this issue.

CTH 2.0 does not have any tracking software initiated to recognize the user in the comment system.  THERE ARE NO COOKIES deployed to track you.  There is no system in place by CTH to monitor you or recognize you.  This is part of our current privacy position.

What that means is you must initiate a process where YOU request to be recognized in the community.  We are not asking your permission to recognize you (ie. cookies) as with 99 percent of websites; you must intentionally engage the commenting system to say you are expressly desiring of recognition.

How do you achieve this status?  When you fill out the comment box there is a place for your user name, email address and then it asks you if you wish the site to: “Save my name, email and website in this browser for the next time I comment.”  It is a checkbox.

If you check that box [√] you are, in essence, applying a cookie to yourself.  You will then be recognized by the commenting software system and see the totality of the commenting conversation.  You will see all comments.

If you do not check that box [ ] you are not requesting to be recognized again, and you are dropping an isolated comment into the system.  You likely will not see the totality of the comments.  You will see only comments attributed to your comment or reply.

Think of it like walking up to the conversation on a porch:

If you affirmatively check [“save my name, email and website in this browser for the next time I comment”] you are saying to the audience, I have something to say and I am sticking around to hear all the other voices.

If you do not affirmatively check [“save my name, email and website in this browser for the next time I comment”] you are saying to the audience, I have something to say, but I am not sticking around to join the conversation or hear other voices.

It appears the software is designed such that if you are not affirming intent, the commenting system doesn’t anticipate your engagement in all the other comments. Ergo other comments do not appear and/or they are not populated in your experience.

This is a privacy and tracking issue.  CTH 2.0, as an independent website, is currently not tracking or applying any host generated tracking data of the participants.

Most websites do apply some version of tracking via “cookies” to make your engagement part of an active tracking system (make user experience easier); and/or use those cookies to deliver you targeted advertising.  CTH 2.0 has no advertising and no need for a system of targeting.

Due to the scale of emails complaining about this specific issue (approximately 400 today alone), the tech team is recommending that I switch to Disqus for the commenting program.  However, if we do that: (A) the same company that targeted us, Automattic, owns Disqus; and (B) without a doubt Disqus tracks users for tracking and targeting.

Some people do not care if they are comment tracked; others don’t care if Disqus is used because they are familiar with it from other websites.   However, for me that is an option of last resort and I will not deploy the free version of Disqus because I don’t want to open another door where a third party can start monitoring the conversation.  Especially when Automattic has already used the targeting of the original CTH to shut down our voice.

So, with all of that said.  Keep this solution in mind.  If you want to see all the comments, then check the [box] that says: “save my name, email and website in this browser for the next time I comment”, and hopefully that will eliminate the frustration you are encountering.  Fingers crossed.

All other commenting solutions encompass some form of server/host recognition and tracking of the user in the comments section.  The current system allows you to make that active decision; any other comment system will make that decision without your input.

Lastly, on the email notifications.  Again, we explain that currently we do not have an active email notification system for new posts in place.  The reason for the delay is again a matter of privacy.  An email auto-notification system is done by a third-party provider.

[…] One of our priorities right now is establishing an email notification system where you can subscribe to automatic notifications of new posts etc.  As with almost all systems of this type (there are many) it involves the use of a third party email transmission process. Y’all are aware that privacy is a CTH priority, so we are being very careful about vetting the service and setting up this notification system to protect CTH users.

CTH does not compile user information, does not engage in the manufacture of processes that assemble lists of users or any user data. We are working to ensure we do not end up creating an external list of subscribers that would be vulnerable to exploitation.  Your privacy in all matters related to CTH engagement is my priority.  (read more)

We received well over 100 emails today alone asking us: “where is the email notification system”?  The short answer is: we are working on it as a #1 priority.

Be of good cheer, all will be ok.

We cherish you.

Live your best life….  Remember, it’s the only one you will ever have.

Love to all,

~ Sundance

AWKWARD, Georgia Patriots Shout “Fight For Trump”, GOPe Senate Candidates Exit Quickly


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 5, 2020 by Sundance

President Trump gave Georgia senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue an opportunity to address the crowd at today’s Valdosta MAGA rally.  Senator Kelly Loeffler gave some wet noodle soundbites to a tepid audience response. However, when the ever-entitled Senator David Perdue attempted to address the crowd, well, the patriots were just done listening to the elitist duplicity and started chanting: “Fight For Trump!”  WATCH:

The look on the face of the ‘People’s President’ says it all.

President Trump knows.

President Trump appreciates.

President Trump is fully aware he alone is uniquely connected to the heartbeat of American patriots.

President Trump MAGA Victory Rally in Valdosta Georgia – 7:00pm Livestream


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 5, 2020 by Sundance

Despite the intransigence and unwillingness of Republican leadership to support him, tonight the people’s president heads to Valdosta, GA to hold a victory rally supporting Senator David Perdue, Senator Kelly Loeffler, and other Republicans.  The anticipated start time for President Trump is 7:00pm ET  [Livestream Links Below]

Trump Campaign Livestream – RSBN Livestream Link – Alternate Livestream Link

The Precarious Duplicity of the Republican Apparatus in Georgia, and Here Comes Trump


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 5, 2020 by Sundance

To quote from a movie line: “they kill them with their love”… An unfortunate metaphor for how Mitch McConnell and the republican regime, Decepticons, stay in power.

Essentially, Georgia voters are presented with a hostile scenario.  A Machiavellian republican apparatus that will not fight against voter fraud on behalf of the voters because GOPe leadership are in alignment with UniParty (Big Club) political interests.

“If you love what remains of your country you will support us”… says the abuser. “If you don’t, you will speed your own destruction”….. “and don’t blame me”, the message continues.

As an outcome Georgia Governor Brian Kemp does nothing but talk about the horrors of the 2020 election fraud, and does nothing.  Meanwhile Kemp says everything must be done to protect the two republican Senate candidates.

  • December 7th – Final Day for Georgia Voter Registration
  • December 14th – Three weeks of early in-person voting begins
  • January 5th – Election day (Polls close 7pm)

MAGA-minded patriots are facing an option where they do not want to support the duplicity of a transparently corrupt GOPe apparatus; yet if they do not show up en masse to support party candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler they will be turning over control of the U.S. Senate to democrats. 

This dynamic is an all too familiar position within the cycle of abuse. A dynamic that has kept Senate Leader Mitch McConnell in power.

Yes, the establishment Republican apparatus knows exactly how to play this game and constitutional conservatives are once again in that exact same situation.

Into this foray comes President Donald Trump today…  Both Loeffler and Perdue are counting on the enthusiasm of outsider President Trump to pull them to victory.  Yet at the same time those two candidates refuse to mount an attack against a state election system that ended with a transparently fraudulent result.

In essence Perdue and Loeffler are counting on the citizen outsider to get them inside a system that rebukes the ideological independence of a citizen outsider.  FUBAR:

The Republican National Committee will host a Victory Rally in Valdosta, Georgia today at 7:00 PM EST. This MAGA rally will feature remarks from President Donald J. Trump, Senator David Perdue, Senator Kelly Loeffler, candidate for Public Service Commissioner Lauren “Bubba” McDonald, and other Republicans.

Apparently Kemp doesn’t realize that he is governor and can execute an executive order and call-up a special legislative session…. or something. [/SARC]

If Democrats win control of the U.S. senate they will eliminate the 60 vote threshold for legislative passage, likely pack the Supreme Court with additional justices, and most certainly change parliamentary rules to fully execute a massive and widespread regulatory agenda.

With Democrats holding power, Republicans will happily change the color of the flag atop the Senate spire and drop back to their all too familiar process of sending out fundraising calls promising to reverse all of the damage if voters will just fatten their checkbooks.

Thus the cycle of battered conservative syndrome continues.

As CTH has said since inception, there is only one way out of this mess.  Accept the UniParty as a functional one-party apparatus within Washington DC, and start getting serious about a genuine Second Party.

A MAGA inspired party would not be a literal third party because there is currently only one party in Washington DC.  Thankfully, a larger portion of the American electorate is now awake to a situation that has existed since long before Donald Trump entered the political arena.  Heck, THAT REALITY of a singular globalist/Wall Street ideology is the entire reason why Donald Trump ran for office in the first place.

As of this writing the indefatigable leader of the MAGA movement gathered 74 million votes for his re-election, and still climbing. Subtract the fraudulent and manipulated ‘mail-in’ ballots from the Biden operation and you have a reality of 74 million MAGA army members staring toward an opposition front containing battalions of cardboard cutouts.

No amount of media spin is going to change the reality of that political landscape.

Regardless of whether Donald Trump’s legal arsenal is able to overcome the entrenched media operations drum-beating a deafening noise to distract from the 2020 fraud, that MAGA army is solidly behind our leader.

If President Trump takes that army into a new political party of his choosing, that new party is structurally set to lay waste to any candidate within both wings of the Democrat and Republican assembly.  A Trump inspired new political party can wipe out the illusion of the Democrat/Republican two-party system; specifically because much of the Trump movement consists of former democrats and brand new voters.

The MAGA coalition is the most diverse, widest and deepest part of the entire American electorate. President Trump’s Main Street army consists of every creed, color, race, gender, ethnicity and orientation. It is a truly color-blind coalition of middle America patriots and middle-class voters that cuts through the political special interest groups.

Quite simply Trump’s MAGA army is the ultimate political splitter party.

No Republican will ever hold office in the next decade without the blessing of President Trump; and there is absolutely no reason to believe President Trump will not lay waste to the system if the GOP acquiesces to the transparent fraud that exists behind the Biden-Harris sham.

Beyond the politics… this 74 million vote assembly are consumers of products, goods and services generated by the same elites that hold them in contempt.  If President Trump transfers and directs that energy corporations can be wiped out.

There is no precedent here.  Seventy-four to one-hundred million angry Americans resolved to a common objective is not something to be trifled with.

We do not yet know where this current political crisis and ongoing battle is going to end; but we do know that 74,000,000+ Americans will not accept the outcome of a political process transparently filled with fraud and manipulation. That makes President Trump a very dangerous entity to the DC system, regardless of whether they admit what surrounds them.

There is no reference point for a hundred-million Americans being disenfranchised by Wall Street, bribery, corporations, media and big tech. That army is fuel for a stunning and cataclysmic shift in the American landscape.

MAGA, Bitches… Trump because F**K YOU, is a very powerful force!

… and the rebel alliance is ready.

Revolutions


Armstrong Economics Blog/Revolution Re-Posted Dec 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

Despondent LA Restaurant Owner Cries Out For Help, While Choking Amid The Hypocrisy


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 4, 2020 by Sundance

Angela Marsden is an owner of the Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill since 2011.  They are barely hanging-on to their business amid the insufferable COVID compliance dictates from LA Mayor Garcetti, the municipal COVID compliance officers, and arbitrary COVID decrees devoid of any scientific merit.  Today the weight of it all became too much:

The Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill has a website [SEE HERE] and a contact page where you can show your support. Amid these challenging times fellowship and a spirit of community within the common sense rebel alliance is critical. Make sure you do not allow people to think they are ‘on their own’.

Twelve Years Later, Rick Santelli Nails It Again


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 4, 2020 by Sundance

Many people may not remember the February 2009 famous rant by CNBC financial pundit Rick Santelli that captured the heart of the Tea Party movement in response to massive announced bailouts of Wall Street institutions.  There are trillions at stake.

Wall Street pundit Rick Santelli was originally responding to the famous TARP,  Auto-bailouts, Porkulous, Omnibus, QE1, QE2 and ultimately the American Recovery and Restoration Act (ARRA ie. stimulus ‘shovel ready jobs‘), all of which were financial bailouts and payments for politically connected financial interests and unions. None of these programs assisted Main Street USA with a dime.

Fast forward twelve years later and here we are again. The same voices, with the same playbook, with the same insufferable political manipulation under the guise of COVID compliance mandates.  The ‘never let a crisis go to waste crowd‘; and the soon-to-follow massive state spending bailouts; for which COVID is the purposeful cover story.

COVID-19 has more purposefully weaponized political arrows than any previously used financial quiver. However, if you step-back and compare the agenda – there is a brutal amount of similarity… all of the exact same benefactors…. and Main Street collapses.

This is the progressive way to a Marxist economy.  We The People are collateral damage.

The real “green new deal”

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DNI John Ratcliffe States He Has Produced Thousands of Declassified Documents For Special Counsel John Durham to Use


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree house on December 4, 2020 by Sundance

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe explains the scale of declassified evidence he has produced to special counsel John Durham.

Whether Durham or AG Bill Barr does anything with the evidence is an unknown; however, according to Ratliffe there is enough detail in the evidence provided to show gross abuses of power by the FBI, DOJ and intelligence community under the Obama administration.  This aspect becomes important as you realize almost all of Joe Biden’s executive staff is from the identical pool of former Obama officials.

WASHINGTON DC – “Between my predecessor Richard Grenell in an acting capacity and myself, we have declassified most of the intelligence community documents that would be suitable for the public to see, that wouldn’t jeopardize sources and methods,” Ratcliffe said in a phone interview with the Washington Examiner on Thursday. “There are others, many many documents — I think it’s been out there that I’ve provided literally thousands of documents to John Durham, but many of those do contain sources and methods that we can’t make public for a number of reasons, including to jeopardize any investigation that’s going there. So I think the level of cooperation — I’ve given them everything that they’ve asked for.”

“There was an abuse of power and of legal authorities, and it’s not a question about whether those things took place — they did. I mean, there’s an FBI lawyer who is going to jail for counterfeiting evidence before the FISA court. And that after all of the Obama-Biden senior national security officials said the idea of illegal spying and abuse at the FISA court is a bunch of nonsense, and now, they’re sprinting the opposite direction,” Ratcliffe said. “I mean, literally, every one of them — Comey, McCabe, Yates — they’ve all said, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re shocked and had we only known.’ And so, again, the American people deserve an accounting, and I’ve certainly provided a lot of information to the now-special counsel to provide that accounting, and I’m counting, like all Americans, on him to talk about a lot of the things that I know that I can’t talk about.” (read more)

Taking Back America!


Posted original on GrrrGraphics.com DEC 3, 2020 AT 9:36 AM

Was this the Plan all along? Let them blatantly steal the election then expose them?

It doesn’t matter how much election fraud evidence piles up. Outrageous crimes against We The People and our right to vote were planned in advance and coldly executed late into election evening by Democrat operatives who colluded together to give Biden the lead.

The election of basement Biden defies reality. Sleepy Joe is a chronic liar and a demented pedophile who uses government to enrich himself and his family. He did badly in previous presidential primaries. Few attended his rallies when had them. Still, Biden was chosen by Democrat elitists. The primaries were rigged in his favor. Why? Because elitists such as Hillary and Obama knew Biden was corrupt to the bone marrow. He would do whatever the Swamp told him to do. Kamala Harris likewise. Biden knew it was pre-rigged in his favor. The aging old sniffer with his fake white teeth and bald head knew it would be stolen for him. Now he’s announcing a cabinet that will be packed with Deep State operatives. These are people who will do their best to expand the Swamp and most likely start new wars as they further strip from us our jobs, our liberty, and our dignity.

The Democrats will not admit any election wrong-doing whatsoever. They refuse to listen to witnesses who have signed sworn affidavits. The lying legacy media will not consider that election fraud occurred at all. They spew constant lies and tell us the election was clean as a whistle. They say Biden won. End of story. Deal with it. They say we all need to shut up and move on, even though massive voter fraud and a stolen election is staring at us all straight in the face. Even foreign countries were involved in the steal—most notably the communist Chinese.

We need to do more than simply point out the massive fraud. We need to reverse the steal. We need to return to Trump the states he rightfully won. If necessary, let’s vote again in the swing states. No computers. No mail-in ballots. Have paper ballots filled out by qualified voters in person. Make sure officials from all parties get to watch the votes tallied by hand—polling place by polling place, precinct by precinct, county by county, state by state. If that happens the truth will come out: Trump won by a landslide.

Get rid of the voting machines entirely. Drastically limit mail-in voting. Let’s give the American people our elections back. Let’s make sure Trump gets the second term that he has rightfully won.

—Ben Garrison

Austrian Supreme Court Has Ruled Against COVID Restrictions


Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted Dec 4, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

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