I know that many here also visit the Treehouse.
I have been following (and lightly contributing to) that site for almost 12 years. I’ve found the commentaries by Sundance to be one of my most consistant and valuable resources. I may not always agree with him, but over the years he’s seldom steered me wrong. The daily comment section has been top-notch with level-headed discussions, insights, humor and mutual respect.
However . . . in recent weeks the site has taken a turn to the dark. Sundance’s commentaries are increasingly negative to the Trump team causing fighting and division among the posters. He seems to have taken some kind of perverse glee at the potential of Canadian suffering at the hands of the USA.
This morning during a discussion a few of us made note of this. (This was in todays Sundance attack on Patel and Bongino.) I made a light-hearted comment along the lines of “Something here is off. Sundance . . . blink three times if you need help!”
The short discussion between 3 or 4 of us has since vanished. I made a follow-up post this afternoon, again non-inflammatory, but it appears that I have now been banned from the site.
My worry: Sundance has either been psyops all along. Or he has been replaced. Something is terribly off. Can anyone here either confirm or deny my observations?
I can confirm. Been a longtime reader of Sundance going back at least a decade, and I especially his work during the first Trump term as he was one of the only conservative commentators to fully appreciate the nuance of DJT's foreign policy and international trade.
But I've noticed in the past 24 months on X that there's been a slow but noticeable trend towards discord that sometimes veers into outright antagonism. I don't know the man so I can't claim to know why. Perhaps problems in his personal life as that's usually where my mind goes when someone's personality changes for the negative.
As Maclaren/Watson said "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."