QOTD: WHEN DID YOU WAKE UP?

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Was there a particular event, news article or moment in your life that made you question what the hell is going on? or was it a gradual process?

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Anonymous
Anonymous
February 4, 2022 6:09 pm

JFK assassination
Did away with 90% Silver coinage
Viet Nam
Nixon
Carter
obama and obiden

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Anonymous
February 4, 2022 11:04 pm

JFK Add printing of US currency red seal notes ($2 & $5) backed by the US Treasury, not the Fed. Disaster awaits those who cheat the Rothschilds out of their usury. Ask Abe Lincoln who started that currency series.

Meg
Meg
February 4, 2022 6:37 pm

Reading Gary Kah’s En route to global occupation in 1993.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
February 4, 2022 6:58 pm

I grew up in Arkansas during the Clinton Administration so I’ve always known something was off with these people. Everybody knows a bunch of shady shit happens in Arkansas because of the Rockefellers, Clintons, and Hutchinsons. One of my first memories of politics was witnessing Clinton’s Lt. Gov. Jim Guy Tucker get convicted and go to jail. The Clinton’s melodrama of scandals heavily shaped my distrust of government and the media.

My first WTF moment came on 9/11 when I was a junior in high school. I remember watching the second plane hit the tower and both buildings fall down in my first period class. By my second period class the media in classic mockingbird fashion were all parroting the Osama Bin Laden narrative. They didn’t have the intel to stop the planes from hitting the towers but they knew with absolute certainty who planned the attacks an hour later? Never made any sense.

Rise Up
Rise Up
February 4, 2022 7:01 pm

Around 1999. I got caught up in the “tax freedom” movement lead by Robert Schulz. Woke up to the fraud of the 16th Amendment passage, Federal Reserve Act (1913), and other stuff like the UCC.

Cost me $186,000 in unpaid taxes and penalties over 5 years.

Once bitten twice shy.

So I became a federal contractor and pulled in over $1.5 million in 12 years (and paid income taxes on that, of course). So the gov ended paying me back a net $1.3+ million after the previous years tax bill. That doesn’t count what my employer’s take was, as they typically charge the government 50-80% over what you are paid.

I sleep well. But there’s plenty of other stuff that keeps me angry at the feds.

Nurse Ratched
Nurse Ratched
February 4, 2022 7:33 pm

I woke up just in time. Went thru nursing school and bought it all. We were in Canada for my husband’s schooling, and there was an interview of the author of the cookbook/food anthology: Fat, a much maligned ingredient (or something really close to that). I was shocked at what I was hearing about fat soluble nutrients. I noodled on it, checked out Good carbs Bad carbs, and decided THEY’VE BEEN LYING TO ME ABOUT EVERYTHING. Had my first baby the next year, by then I was a full-on antivaxxer, none of my four perfectly healthy children have had even one. Once you realize they’ll lie, you see it all as lies.

Anthro
Anthro
February 4, 2022 7:33 pm

Probably a combo of increasing awareness that the mainstream 9/11 narrative didn’t add up, the financial malpractice that the Feds were committing in response to the 07’crash and the incessant war mongering. So I’d say a process that began around 2010 had changed my worldview dramatically by 2012 or 13.
Oddly Alex Jones’ Bohemian Grove expose is something that sticks in my mind when I reflect on this even though he’s not my cup of tea. So I guess we can add my realizing that a sizable percentage of the “elite” are pedo/occultist weirdos.

Crawfisher
Crawfisher
February 4, 2022 7:44 pm

The Housing crises of 2008. That’s when I was old enough to reflect on my past and realize the US Govt could care less about their citizens.
I posted this on another article, but it was Ted Wheeler – Mayor of Portland, that caused me to go buy guns and ammo.

ram
ram
February 4, 2022 7:45 pm

The fake manned moon landings. Had friends whose parents worked on the “Lunar Landing Module”. Later in university when protests about the library being closed was presented by mainstream media as protests about the mass transit system. At that point, I realized the mass media ALWAYS lies, and was incapable to telling the truth even about the most minor happenings.

Jimbo
Jimbo
February 4, 2022 8:23 pm

For me it was George W. Bush. I thought he was going to get this country back to the Reagan days but he turned out to be the biggest globalist tool. The prick did the bidding of the dark side and ended with Satan’s spawn known as Obama.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 4, 2022 9:26 pm

JFK magic bullet

Leah
Leah
February 4, 2022 10:13 pm

My dad had bad vibes with the assassination of JFK. He woke up with the MK Ultra admissions. What that meant to me is that I was always somewhat awake. He always said question authority, and that was before South Park.

My full awakening was in the early 90s around the One World Order and the powers that want to be. I was about 22 at the time, so I came late. As a side job, I worked at a bookstore and spent my paychecks on those subjects. 9/11 was fishy. A year later, I met someone who also had those thoughts, plus doubted JFK and 9/11. It was refreshing to know that this wasn’t confirmation bias based on my dad’s thoughts. We discussed the 2008 crisis years before it happened. He introduced me to TBP, and I can’t thank him enough.

He along with this site has kept me sane around the covid madness I think I had a couple weeks when I thought it could be something. He and I researched it and quickly came to the conclusion that it was going to be a strong arm of the powers that want to be. They only have power if we allow it.

Thanks, Admin.

Jdog
Jdog
February 5, 2022 12:58 am

JFK,Vietnam, the USS liberty, Mỹ Lai, Operation Northwoods, and MK-Ultra, all taught me you cannot ever trust the government…. Not ever.
WMD’s taught me the Media no longer had any credibility, and could not be believed, or trusted as they were in the past.
2008 taught me the Financial markets and economy are fake and cannot be trusted.
Covid taught me I can no longer trust the Medical Establishment, especially after getting it, and spending a week in ICU.

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987

mileytheduchess
mileytheduchess
February 5, 2022 3:11 am

9/11, then the New Black Panthers in Philly being given a free pass in 2008/2009. It’s been rolling downhill since then, faster and faster.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 5, 2022 5:02 am

many of the basic principles seemed simply obvious even from a very young age. Then, the conclusion was that we’re totally fucked – a machine of death and domination is going to steamroll almost everything before it runs out of gas and crashes – and i planned to go live as a hermit and contemplate religion.
that was still at a single-digit age. Nobody i talked to (tirelessly with the enthusiasm and naivete of youth) seemed to understand or, if they did to some extent understand, seem to care.
As time went on it seemed imperative to try to stop the juggernaut, but then as more time went on it became clear that the juggernaut is self-destroying, and that our mission is to preserve some remnant, of people, and culture, and civilization, and knowledge, and wisdom, to make it through the destructive era of the juggernaut’s last gasp and the turmoil of collapse. The past 15 years have seriously narrowed down the timeline, and the past few years have shown that on the one side more people are waking up to whats going on (still a tiny minority and were still largely isolated from one another), to varying degrees of awareness, and that the juggernaut is indeed in its death throes (more dangerous than ever).
My personal plans for preparing a refuge to preserve a remnant, have gone poorly, crashed into such factors as a bad marriage and terrible luck with losing most of my savings before i got a chance to convert it into preps.. and i still dont find very many people in my immediate area to relate to, so my plan b for preserving a remnant is pretty weaksauce. im sure there will be many people making many attempts and only a handful of them will amount to something.. which is one more reason we must all try – we cant be sure someone else will carry the torch for us!

Falco
Falco
  Anonymous
February 5, 2022 5:20 am

If you have Gods favour, you will be ok despite the set backs. Reach out

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Falco
February 5, 2022 5:56 am

the scripture was a big help in accpeting what had happened in both of those big setbacks. the second of the two is still rather fresh and cut out a whole lot of options just as the S is starting to HTF.. still trying to work out what’s a viable plan going forward, asking god for guidance daily- and more than guidance, for the wisdom to recognize and understand it. im sure god has given us what we need, but it’s our own poor judgement or lack of understanding that leads us, much of the time, to pass it right on by without noticing.

flash
flash
February 5, 2022 6:10 am

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Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf
February 5, 2022 8:02 am

Yugoslav civil war and my deployment to Sarajevo in 95.

Clinton’s arms deal with the Bosnians flipped my switch to see what we were really doing there. MIC moves.

ZFG, out.

August
August
February 5, 2022 12:27 pm

Having been born and raised in South Carolina, I understood from an early age that the US federal government was one of, by, and for lying sacks of shit.

A more mature understanding of world affairs, and of the evil role that ‘my side’ was playing, came to me when the US began its Bombing for Peace campaign agaisnt the Serbs in 1999.

The US bombing was strictly for humanitarian reasons, of course; our foreign policy is like that, even today. To make the world a better place, for the right people.

VA Patriot
VA Patriot
February 5, 2022 6:23 pm

Ivy league schooled parents said community college was for garbage men. As a kid, that elitist attitude disgusted me and still does.

Also, reading En route to global occupation by Gary Kah in 1993. Highly recommend.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 5, 2022 6:50 pm

Two words: Global Warming.

Went from a full-bore cultist in 1998 upon receiving a Master’s in Environmental Policy, to recognizing that the entire thing was a scam with zero credible evidence to support it before the year 2000 arrived.

Of course, there was still a long process that took another decade before you could say I had fully woken up.