Saturday • January 11 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.II
Manchester, N.H.
Recently, I was having a conversation in which I had occasion to bring up RSA 193-H:2, which says:
Schools shall ensure that all pupils are performing at the proficient level or above on the statewide assessment as established in RSA 193-C.
Note that it says shall ensure, not shall try, or shall hope.
Note that it says all pupils, not just some of them — the ones who don’t have special needs or suffer from test anxiety.
People are usually surprised to hear that this law exists. I know I was when I first came across it. In this case, one of them asked:
Okay, but who has standing to sue the schools over this?
On the one hand, I think any resident taxpayer in a district has standing to sue that district, given the recent upgrade to Part 1, Article 8 of the state constitution:
[A]ny individual taxpayer eligible to vote in the State, shall have standing to petition the Superior Court to declare whether the State or political subdivision in which the taxpayer resides has spent, or has approved spending, public funds in violation of a law, ordinance, or constitutional provision. In such a case, the taxpayer shall not have to demonstrate that his or her personal rights were impaired or prejudiced beyond his or her status as a taxpayer.
But on the other hand, a lawsuit seems like a strange way to handle statutory violations. For one thing, even in the case of a successful suit against a school or district, you’d just have the taxpayers awarding their own money to themselves.
Statutes are supposed to be criminal, not civil.
Short of sending wayward administrators to jail, the State Department of Education has options for responding to these flagrant and ongoing violations of the law.
It can close schools, rescind accreditations and certifications, demand that administrators be replaced, and who knows what else.
It hasn’t pursued any of these options because no one has pushed for them. The taxpayers have given up, and the parents are more concerned about things like pornography and transgender sports.
But that could change. It should change.
Suppose the Department started receiving dozens or even hundreds of inquiries every day from people who were sick and tired of these violations.
While I can’t say for sure, I think that the current Commissioner would actually welcome a showing of public pressure to motivate and validate actions by the Department to bring these scofflaw schools to justice.
So, how do we get those cards and letters going?
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What do I mean by “the Bald B-Team?” Let it be known that their moniker was inspired by the Red Sox’s “Killer Bs.” I’m referring to RINO Reps Bordes and Boyd, both well-known monkey wrenches and Sununu water carriers, who do their part as members of the House’s R-Team.
The same way that Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi, and Jackie Bradley Jr once did in the outfield while together at Fenway Park. The question is important because of the current and fluctuating composition of the House. Keep in mind that there are two special elections coming up that I sadly predict won’t go well. Just look where they are. (Newington and Portsmouth, yeah, good luck with that!)
Bordes, a card-carrying member of the Lang Gang, and Boyd, whose record also speaks for itself, are not new on the minds of those who have been paying attention. Here’s the situation, as I see it, based on how SB 272 came out of House Education last spring. Thanks to our esteemed Speaker, that committee is a 10/10. What that means is that HB 1093 (prohibiting mandatory mask policies in schools) is sadly likely to have no committee recommendation to the whole House instead of the deserved Ought to Pass (OTP).
The hearing was yesterday, and I watched its Livestream, which is now archived here, starting at 4:11:41. Note my commie reps, Mr & Mrs Newman, taking a seat in the audience while frequent Grok Op-Ed contributor Rep. Arlene Quaratiello was finishing up at the mic.
Go figure!
So, the B-Team, who often do His Excellency’s bidding, need to be reminded by the voters that it is an election year and that the Damn Emperor’s recent antics are NOT a desirable thing for candidates to attach themselves down-ballot incumbent or not.
Remember my recent impromptu encounter with former Nashua Republican City Committee chair Chris Buda? Two years ago, when His Excellency eschewed a run against Maggie and instead opted to extend the “NH Reign of Terror” another two years, he made comments about his intention to veto the (2022)Parental Bill of Rights, which he never had to get his hands dirty doing. He got his House water carriers to do his bidding.
Bordes was one of them.
If Chris Buda is correct, the Damn Emperor is in the “quiet phase” and building a 2028 candidate profile for the Oval Office and can’t stand the thought of signing any bill prohibiting mandatory mask policies in schools. Do you see where I’m going with this? What better way to disguise his own “taking a walk” than to get Reps like Bordes and Boyd to play the monkey wrench in a House that must fight for every “butt in seat” roll call vote.
Time to listen to some Steely Dan.
Will Bordes and Boyd “take a walk,” vote the wrong way, or do the right thing? Hopefully, it will be the latter. Meanwhile, I am still trying to find out if Jackie Bradley Jr’s middle name begins with E.
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One thing you can say about the left is that they do not squander their majorities with concerns about how the electorate (or their respective bureaucratic states) will view their priorities. They just do it.
The Green Mountain State (which now refers to the growing pile of new taxes) passed a law allowing municipalities to permit underage voting in local elections, which is illegal to my inexpert reading of their State Constitution.
QUALIFICATIONS OF FREEMEN AND FREEWOMEN
§ 42. [Voter’s qualifications and oath]
Every person of the full age of eighteen years who is a citizen of the United States, having resided in this State for the period established by the General Assembly and who is of a quiet and peaceable behavior, and will take the following oath or affirmation, shall be entitled to all the privileges of a voter of this state:
You solemnly swear (or affirm) that whenever you give your vote or suffrage, touching any matter that concerns the State of Vermont, you will do it so as in your conscience you shall judge will most conduce to the best good of the same, as established by the Constitution, without fear or favor of any person.
Every person who will attain the full age of eighteen years by the date of the general election who is a citizen of the United States, having resided in this State for the period established by the General Assembly, and who is of a quiet and peaceable behavior, and will take the oath or affirmation set forth in this section, shall be entitled to vote in the primary election.
To vote, you must be 18 years old, a citizen, and polite and orderly, which means most Democrats are invalidated, so clearly, there is room for exceptions. But why does this not invalidate the underage voting law in Brattleboro (or Burlington’s non-citizen local election voting ordinance)? Being either 16 or 17 is not the full age of 18 unless we’ve decided that calendar age is another social construct.
Math being racist, that possibility is not beyond the pale.
Has there been any challenge to this, or are we waiting for a 17-year-old to vote in an election so that someone over 18 has standing to sue? The Constitution seems straightforward, but no one can press the issue.
But, But … Taxes!Advocates of underage voting also insist that since these “kids” are working and pay taxes, they should have a voice, but as I pointed out here,
If being taxed justifies the right to vote because of all that taxation without representation business, then no state should legally be able to tax anyone who is not represented in that state’s legislature. [But] … states tax out-of-state residents who work in their states but [then] do not allow them to vote in that state.
It must therefore be legal and reasonable to deny the right to vote without regard to taxation.
Federally, the government has run up more than 30 trillion in federal debt, upon which there will be tens of trillions more in interest payments for debt service (more taxes), paid for by people who are not yet alive to work or be taxed. They did not vote for anyone who spent that money or for the spending but must shoulder a tax burden decades before they have the shoulders to bear it. As I’ve been prone to add: talk about a voting rights issue.
Perhaps the taxed should have a voice, in which case everyone gets to vote, even babies not yet born, which presents an interesting problem for Democrats and the abortion lobby. Does that include lumps of cells in Democrat wombs, and can they vote without acknowledging their personhood? Vote or die could be vote then die.
Would the mere intention to get pregnant qualify (I’m expecting I’ll be behaving triplets) given that multiple as yet-born generations already have a tax burden thanks to uniparty debt spending?
As you can see, the tax argument also makes no sense, but neither does the underage voting ordinance. These kids can’t buy beer, enter into contracts, get married, buy or own firearms, or purchase Vape of Tobacco, and according to the State constitution (I think), it would be illegal to allow them to vote.
But they could vote for those things.
And Think of all the good they could do to Brattleboro, or even Vermont if they just got organized and suddenly started voting… Republican.
Would it be unconstitutional, then?
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The world of power tools can be overwhelming, especially for first-time buyers.expand_more With countless options, technical jargon, and varying needs, choosing the right tool can feel like deciphering a foreign language. Fear not, DIY enthusiasts and professionals alike! This comprehensive guide will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to select the perfect power tool for any project.
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The Democrat Party has selected three spokespeople to focus their message and stay consistent. I realize the Democrat bench is not well stocked with political talent, but to choose Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Deborah Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is tantamount to a bad joke or SNL skit.
If you are going to use people to attack the character and credibility of a person, wouldn’t you find people with high morals and solid reputation? Maybe the Dems were unable to find anyone matching that description, so these three are the best of a bad basket of apples. These three stooges are charged with finding a way to get Trump disqualified for the Presidency under the 14th Amendment.
Eric Swalwell should have been recalled and booted from the House when it was discovered that he was having an extramarital affair with a Chinese Spy. The affair was bad enough, but he tipped her off and shipped her back to China before she could be taken into custody by the FBI. Being on the Intelligence Committee, Swalwell was privy to a plethora of sensitive intel, and we do not know how much he relayed while two heads were sharing his pillows. We will never know since Swalwell helped the spy escape interrogation and incarceration.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz ran into trouble years ago. Schultz was head of the DNC from 2004 until she resigned in 2016. Schultz said she would step down after the convention. She was forced to step aside after a leak of internal DNC emails showed officials actively favoring Hillary Clinton during the presidential primary and plotting against Clinton’s rival, Bernie Sanders. She used her position to pick winners.
Jamie Raskin would be my poster child for slimy lawyers. I don’t say that lightly. Raskin is a pathological liar and can spin an alternative to reality in a heartbeat. This talent makes him popular on the legacy for sound bites. When you hear opposing summaries or read transcripts, you wonder why the media gives Raskin a forum.
While Raskin’s wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, was under consideration for a position on the Federal Reserve, a complaint filed by the Center for Renewing America highlighted possible violations of federal financial disclosure laws by Raskin, who waited too long to report stock shares that his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, received for her work at a Colorado-based financial technology company.
These three have a sufficient number of skeletons in their closets that they should never point an accusing finger at anyone, especially a former President and candidate for the Presidency. They are shameless. Their past be damned, they will push on to slow down or stop the Trump campaign.
Switch over to CNN or MSNBC at any time of day, and chances are good you will see one of these three attacking Trump. They are also attacking the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. This movement started after the overturn of Roe v Wade when the angst was aimed only at the Conservative justices. The solution was to increase the number of justices on the High Court and pack those new spots with Liberals. With a 9-0 vote shooting down the Colorado decision, the Left must go after their own, and now the claim is the Supreme Court is unconstitutional. MSNBC called the ruling against Colorado as using a technicality in the Constitution. No, they used Amendments. Maybe the next thing the three stooges should do is read the document. It is the most perfect blueprint for government in history.
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My name is Wesley Smallidge and I am running for the school board in the governor Wentworth regional school district because we need to do better. As a Kingswood graduate and lifelong Wolfeboro resident, I am concerned about what I see happening with our schools. We need to do better as a community because our children are falling behind academically.
You will not hear that at any school board meeting, and if you attended the Tuftonboro Candidate’s Night, all you heard were excuses.
Why is it that district proficiency has fallen in English/reading from 54% of students being proficient in 2019 to 51% in 2023? Is it acceptable that 57% of district students are not proficient in math and 63% are not proficient in science? Why are 67% of Tuftonboro Central students proficient in reading with only 58% at Crescent Lake and 29% at Ossipee Central? Why does the new district Strategic Plan wait until 2027-28 to increase proficiency rates, placing academics as the last priority?
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Governor Wentworth Regional School District spends over $22,000 per pupil, and according to information provided to the state, 60% of that is spent on classroom instruction. More than half of our property taxes are spent on education funding, yet we hear that more money is needed for our schools to improve. Every year the budget increases as enrollment and proficiency decrease.
NH has a constitutional duty to fund and provide an adequate education; the school board has a duty to ensure it is provided. I do not have all the answers, but I guarantee that I will ask the necessary questions to get those answers. And parents, you will not have to file right-to-know requests to get answers. Call me, and I will get you the answers.
The status quo will be a thing of the past if you elect me to the school board.
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Londonderry has become a land where the people in power know better, whine if you challenge them or call them out, and then – get a load of this – are indifferent to the laws used to go after the outspoken few.
If you missed it, someone in town reported Londerry Times publisher Deb Paul over improperly marked political ads. In most instances, this sort of thing goes unnoticed or unreported because everyone knows these are political ads unless you’re out to ruin those who won’t back down—the few who keep shining big flashlights on the hijinks of the local leadership. Dep Paul doesn’t back down, so she had to endure a series of court dates and ongoing abuse from the aforementioned faction.
Related: There is a disturbing trend at the Public Meetings of the Town Council …
The law is, after all, the law unless you have exempted yourself.
Both the State of New Hampshire and the Town of Londonderry have rules regulating placement and requirements for political signs. Two incumbents running for office in Londonderry have chosen to disregards those rules. The Town Council remains silent on the issue.
When confronted, see the video below, Town Councilor Jim Butler appears dismissive, making it clear he was not about to buy new signs and “heaven forbid there are other people who have made the same mistakes.”
Heaven forbid!
He then asks for forgiveness, which is not something anyone was willing to offer Deb Paul over a murky issue that may well have been the fault of those placing the ad. But she paid the price. The law Butler violated is not murky at all, and if he is using the same signs as his last run for office, he’s been in violation at least twice.
Related: Is Public Comment a Joke in Londonderry?
Town Clerk Sherry Farrell was likewise called out for a violation of a town ordinance that prohibits campaign signs on town property. She is reported to have had them visible on or in her car in the parking lot (where she works) at Town Hall. No regard for that either, so we are clear. Forgiveness at your discretion, with the understanding that if you cross some of the people running the town they’ll have none for you.
The AG Office did contact Mr. Butler, who told them that “he will be adding the required information to his signs.” I have my doubts, but one thing we can count on: there are residents who will be checking. I hope they remember to take pictures.
For more evidence of how Jim puts the “Butt” in Butler, check out this, or this, or this, or this, or… there’s more.
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Years ago, I wrote about how
traditional public schools are to be judged by their ideals and intentions — their best possible outcomes — rather than by their actual performance;
while the alternatives (e.g., charter schools, private schools, Extended Learning Opportunities, the Children’s Scholarship Fund, Learn Everywhere, and now EFAs and even home education) are to be judged according to their worst possible outcomes,
even when their actual performance exceeds that of public schools.
I was reminded of this yesterday while watching testimony on HB1610, where about 500 angry parents showed up to oppose one of the stupidest bills I’ve seen in my 17 years in New Hampshire.
There was a lot of talk about how home-educated children are required to put together portfolios to show that they’ve actually learned something.
And it occurred to me: Why aren’t students in public schools required to do the same? Right now, they get ‘grades’ that tell you almost nothing, and they are socially promoted by being given ‘course credits’ for courses in which they may have learned nothing at all.
Not so long ago, I had a conversation with the child of an acquaintance who had obtained two-course credits in algebra but who couldn’t tell me what a variable is. This is not, in my experience, an uncommon kind of occurrence. Nor is it only a recent one. Forty years ago, I was tutoring college chemistry students who didn’t know what an electron is.
There’s a striking disconnect here: Only kids outside of the public school system are expected to prove that they’re learning something, while kids inside the public school system are excused from that requirement.
If you set out to intentionally create the kind of system we have now — where more than 9 out of 10 students get diplomas, but fewer than half of them can read — setting up double standards like these would be a great way to do that, wouldn’t it?
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Rewilding is a progressive approach to conservation. It’s about letting nature take care of itself, enabling natural processes to shape land and sea, repair damaged ecosystems, and restore degraded landscapes. Through rewilding, wildlife’s natural rhythms create wilder, more biodiverse habitats.
Move over Mutual of Omaha, there’s a new show in town.
On a small scale, you see this in towns where people rewild their lawns into a bug utopia. The bigger picture is to let farms go wild and force people to live in 15-minute cities and out of rural areas. Turn farm lands back into wild spaces.
Check out our neighbors to the south and the urban project MBTA-C act and Citizens Housing and Planning Assn. (CHAPA) for multi-zoning communities. They are taking over single-family homes to make way for multi-family units along the T.
Forcing people into 15-minute cities and eating bugs is not as far away as you may believe. In Dover, New Hampshire, there’s a group pushing “Smart Cities.” On the surface, they want to make roads safer for pedestrians, put artwork on and along roads, and eliminate downtown roads to traffic. But when you peel back the hype, it goes far deeper.
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Urban renewal with a twist. You will not own cars and walk to all services. Big Brother will monitor all your data, add digital currency, and voila!
Smart Cities claim for data capture on their website should make you wonder about all the “data” they are collecting, its clear they are talking about you (data), and them “government”!?” Then, re-wilding the outlying areas. Their claims and reasoning are unfounded and full of bunk. Yet, there are some who believe the hype!
The WHO, WEF and globalist believe traditional farming is causing water shortages, poisoning the oceans with toxic runoff, nitrogen increases and CO2 emissions causing global warming. Their answer to feed us is bugs and “soil-less” hydroponics and drop irrigation, aka vertical farming. Much of their claims about farming are false, but they are a determined bunch, and we minions have to eat.
Vertical farming can only effectively produce limited leafy green and berry crops. To date, cannot replace tall field crops and other protein dense plants. They use exponentially more resources per crop than traditional farming. Northern climates require a huge amount of heat. They use artificial light. Both require a large amount of fuel and electricity. Vertical crops are still venerable to pests and disease. The energy required to grow food has shown more carbon emissions combined with the plant’s CO2 than traditional farming, including shipping crops to market. But they are not discouraged and are determined to replace traditional dirt farming!
Will turning farms into wild utopia work as they say it will? It’s well documented in New Hampshire, prior to 1600s, was heavily forested—even the indigenous cleared land for farming. Once a farm is not “farmed,” it will turn back into a forest within years. What will happen to land in NH that is “rewilded” after the forest grows in? Many predators kept at bay by farms and farmers will start to emerge. Many species of wild birds who nest in fields will lose their habitat. Predators will have no boundaries. A new ecosystem would emerge. According to the “rewild” Web site, they want predators back, not bunnies and butterflies. Ireland government said out loud in a public service video, “Ireland 2050” all farms will be rewilded as part of an effort to heal our planet. Don’t know about you but how is 60m bison ( roughly how many roamed the plains in 1700) flatulence different than 60m Cows flatulence? But I digress. This will save the world, according to the rewilding folks…
We have a new influx of dependents to care for; I suppose some of this makes sense. They have to live somewhere. But with this plan we are loosing our freedoms, to move about, eating choices and I’m sure rewilding will not be like our national parks where we are free to fresh air and nature, thus the predators roaming free and we’ll have no cars to get there.. I also believe this will do little for the sentient creatures like deer, rabbits and most prey animals. Eventually, survival of the fittest will prevail. But the million-dollar question is, what’s the plan for all the people?
Heck, just add bubble over the 15 minute cities and Sci-fi classic Logan’s Run doesn’t seem so Sci-fi…
Save a farm, buy local…
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We have two bits of excellent news for Granite Staters fighting the good fight – two bills you’ve all been battling have either died in committee or crawled out on their last legs, most certainly to die unless someone screws something up – always an option this session.
HB1002, an effort to attach a tax to requests for public documents (91a to us, RTKs, or FOIAs) to others, was resuscitated only to end its days this session in interim study. The committee equivalent of “we don’t have the votes; it’ll never pass, but we still want it,” so let’s set it over here and see about taking a deeper dive until the next session when numbers might be more favorable.
Overall, this is good news, but keep your eyes open. The advocates for making government transparency unaffordable really want this. They tried very hard to find a trigger that would squeak it through. We made more than a few very good cases on these pages about why it is a bad idea (if you need some for the eventual resurrection).
The other good news is HB1610, which (requires all students to participate in standardized statewide assessments) would hijack homeschooled and religious school kids and their curriculums. If you’d like a detailed look at why that’s a bad idea, Ann Marie Banfield has had a few things to say about it here. The short of it is, if you have to pass the assessment, you need to teach to that, and if it’s crap (it is), then crap is what gets taught. It also opens the door to more of the same until there are not many points in trying to save your kid’s ability to learn from the Education Industrial Complex and its freaky gender cult.
That’s the point. Find a backdoor to ruin school choice. And it’s not dead-dead. While HB1610 came out of committee Inexpedient to Legislate and landed on the consent calendar, it could be pulled off. Some debate and a floor vote later, and it’s still alive unless a motion to reconsider follows and that fails.
Democrats might try to save it, so Republicans need to stop that and then kill it for the rest of the session.
You can’t trust the Senate to do the hard work, and Governor Sununu is probably busy planning his 2028 run for President. Haley may have dropped out, but His Excellency kissed that campaign’s ass so hard that all of her RINO donors are sure to have taken notice (which I’m certain was what he was after all along).
And he might sign any number of bad bills to piss off Republicans, who’ve given him a hard time.
Kill it in the House.
As you were.
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Being in middle-management is the toes on the ledge postion in almost every company. They don’t want you to jump but at the earliest inconvince they’ll be happy to give you a push. The disposable income that is easy to dispense when bets need tightening.
In the case of Diversity officers, those are convenience positions. Corporate virtue signaling that ironically, many a business could afford when the racist supremacist Nazi Donald Trump was president but that after a handful of years under Mr.unity and diversity (Joe Biden) they caa no longer afford. Affectations that, when the budget is strained, can be easily relieved. And so they have.
My oldest, best friend runs a large, contrarian investment fund. One of his favorite techniques to identify his short-sale targets (i.e., betting the stock price will fall) is counting up the minutes of investor calls devoted to DEI. He swears there is an inverse relationship between the proportion of DEI chatter and future stock performance.
In other words, the more corporate officials talk about their awesome DEI programs, the more it seems like they’re trying to distract investors from problems with their fundamentals. I would add that the more time and attention top management devotes to DEI, the less time and attention it has to give its real mission, which should be delivering a superior product or service.
Maybe, and probably, but as someone who has found themselves the object of middling staff attrition when the economy goes sideways, any change in conversation is likely, as I noted above, a product of free cash flow evaporating thanks to other factors. It could be misguided management of external political forces driving up costs. Investors who are not losing money will forgive you for spending less time on who should use which restroom. They may not even notice if you leave it out. Related: DEI … DIEs at the University of Florida
It could also be lawsuits. Individuals and State’s Attorney General have taken to reminding the denizens of Wokistan that the tenets of Diversity Equity and inclusion, when put before the law, look like Discrimination, Exclusion, and Indoctrination. Critical Race Theory suffers from a similar ailment. Both center on targeting and bullying and when applied attract lawsuits the way shit attracts flies.
The quick embrace of hiring practices that look explicitly racist has become an anchor. With whistleblowers sharing internal communications that add bullying and intimidation as a policy to that, the big picture is ugly. With the economy on a downward slope despite the rosy narrative pitch of political partisans, declining futures make a great excuse for recruiting a few diversity officers and staff.
There is also the added benefit of an immediate morale boost.
No one likes living in a culture, corporate or otherwise, where you have to think about every word you write or say for fear that someone can and will try to take it the wrong way.
It’s bad for business, as are DEIs advocate.
We’re not out of the woods. This is more a breeze that tells of a coming storm, but it is several steps in the right direction.
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I just finished reading yesterday’s article on OATHS administered to those testifying at committee hearings. Kudos to Reps Leah Cushman and Sandra Panek. And shame on swamp rat Lucy Weber, an attorney, mind you, who objected. This reminded me of the OTHER oath, the one that doctors take, you know, the one to do no harm.
On 1/13/22, future Rep Kelley Potenza said, “Dr. Sherman, you took an oath, we know what it is, to do no harm,” which triggered the muzzled State Sen. Jeb Bradley to interrupt her at the SB 288 hearing (another vax bill), which can be found at 1:22:55 in this video.
That moment just stood still in time, and I remember it like it was yesterday.
So here we are, two years later, with ANOTHER doctor in the room, NH’s top unelected bureaucrat, Dr Chan. Yeah, it is assumed that he took the same oath as Dr. Sherman, but he was not under oath to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” when he took to the mic at 4:29:15 for about 8 minutes on 1/10/24 during the SB 319 hearing.
When he finished objecting to the bill, my senator asked some questions about vax effectiveness and informed consent.
Rather than produce a transcript to read here, it would be easier for the reader just to watch the video of that Q&A. That State Senator then left the room and talked to Nurse Terese out in the hall about the (lack of) truthfulness of what Dr Chan had just said.
So, MY follow-up question is this. Would Dr. Chan have said the same words had he been under BOTH OATHS? And that question is equally relevant to any other time Dr. Chan spoke to ANY committee, House or Senate.
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If you like hockey and school choice, there’s a charity event this Saturday, March 9th, to support the Children’s Scholarship Fund of New Hampshire. It is the third annual Libertarians vs. Republicans hockey game.
Here’s the press release – press contact info has been moved to the end. You can also scroll down for the promo video!
THIRD ANNUAL LIBERTARIANS VS. REPUBLICANS
CHARITY HOCKEY GAME
Amateur and Former Professional Players Take to the Ice to Support a Good Cause
March 9th, 2024
JFK Memorial Coliseum, Manchester, NH
MANCHESTER, February 26, 2024 – The Annual Libertarians vs. Republicans Charity Hockey Game returns to JFK Memorial Coliseum on March 9th. The event was started in 2022 by Manchester resident Mari Fontaine, as a fundraising event benefitting the Children’s Scholarship Fund of New Hampshire. As one of the most effective school choice programs in the country, Children’s Scholarship Fund is a joint interest of both Libertarians and Republicans.
“I was noticing a lot of tension and division in 2022 with so many difficult things happening in the world,” said event founder Mari Fontaine, “I wanted the game to be something fun for people to focus on and to remember that we don’t have to agree on everything, but we can still share good times together while supporting a great charitable cause.”
The series is now tied at 1-1, so this third game in the series will be the tiebreaker. “I think the Republicans have more talent on paper,” says Libertarian Team Captain Adam Lans, “but we have the chemistry, and hockey is a team game.” Lans is a Manchester business owner and member of New Hampshire’s Power Play Hockey League. The Republican Team is led by Team Captain Stephen Mathieu, a business owner from Plymouth. “Our team has a blend of the old and the young,” said Mathieu, “if not for some great goaltending last year, we would’ve been toast!” Libertarian defenseman, Kevin Flynn says, “I think we will see a lot of talent on both teams again, with of course the occasional pylon in both lineups.”
Neither team will have formal practices together, but most of the players play hockey regularly, and both teams are retaining many of their players from the previous years. “We have been playing together in a scattered fashion at West Side Arena in the mornings,” said Lans, “Some of us play Friday night pick-up, and some play in the Sunday night Men’s League.”
This family-friendly event will start with tailgating in the JFK Arena parking lot one hour before the 4pm game. After the game, the attendees are invited to take to the ice for an open skate. “We love the energy, buzz of the game, and cheering for our team,” says Manchester resident, Viviana Mullin.
ABOUT THE TEAMS
Team Captain for the Republicans is Stephen Mathieu. Players on the Republican Roster include: Stephen Mathieu (Manchester Rams, Beer League), Jonny Mathieu (East Coast Minutemen/Junior B), Jim Matthew (Manchester Over 40 League), Tom Simon (Beer League), Chris Maidment (Beer League), Griffin Connor (Gallasta IK, European League), Jeremy Duhamel (Bow High School, Beer League), Tim Brand (Manchester Rams, Beer League), Tim Schaller (Milwaukee Admirals/AHL) [and five seasons in the NHL with the Bruins, Canucks, and Kings], Doug Platt (Manchester Rams, Beer League), Cooper Roy (Manchester Rams, Beer League), Steve Drouin (Beer League), and James Killeen (Stonehill College, Beer League), and Goalie, Rene Couture (Central High School, Manchester Rams).
Team Captain for the Libertarians is Adam Lans. Players on the Libertarian Roster include: Adam Lans (New Rochelle High School), Donovan Hoy (Pick-up Men’s Hockey), Jakob Smith (FHL, Sweden D2), Gavin Burwell (Pinkerton Academy, Seacoast Spartans), Andrew Schatz (Boys Latin School High School), Robert Lombardo (North Haven High School), Jeff Berlin (Endicott College), Kevin Flynn (Power Play Hockey Men’s League C), Tyler Brown (Power Play Hockey Men’s League D), Gregg Neuendorf (Binghamton University Division 3), Lee Sutherland (Power Play Hockey Men’s League B), Marc Izquierdo (Men’s League C), Colin Going (University of Delaware Division 1), Owen McNulty (Nashua South High School), and Goalie, Jamie Schatz (New Hampton School, Manchester Flames U16).
ABOUT THE EVENT
The third annual charity hockey game benefits the NH Children’s Scholarship Fund. The event includes a tailgate in the parking lot one hour before the game. The hockey game, featuring local players, will start around 4 pm and will consist of the usual three periods, plus overtime if needed. After the game, there will be an open skate for all attendees, with skate rentals available.
CALENDAR EDITORS, PLEASE NOTE:
Libertarians vs. Republicans Charity Hockey Game
WHO: Libertarian and Republican Hockey Teams
WHAT: The Third Annual Libertarians vs. Republicans Charity Hockey Game, Tailgate, and Open Skate
WHEN: Saturday, March 9th, 2024. Tailgate at 3PM, Game at 4PM, Open Skate following the game
WHERE: JFK Memorial Coliseum, 303 Beech St, Manchester, NH 03103
TICKETS: $10 General Admission; Kids 12 and under are free
To purchase tickets, visit libertyhockey.com.
For More Information about the Libertarians vs Republicans Charity Hockey Game, visit libertyhockey.com or facebook.com/charity.hockey.
To learn more about Children’s Scholarship Fund, visit nh.scholarshipfund.org/.
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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. And yes there will be a Friday edition too.
Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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Not just Do not resuscitate. Drive a silver stake through it’s heart, then burn it into ashes. Figuratively, of course.
Amazing how she, and so many others in power, seem to be able to get financial results unheard of by any other persons.
Called it last time!
Do the same for Chuck E Cheese Schumer and a camera.
“D” privilege.
D vs R, of course.
Never ask a question unless you’re prepared to hear an answer you might not like.
Where is that path intersection point? Southern Illinois.
That’s a killer meme right there.
After kids it will – is already starting – to be “zoophilia” as well. Call it “Interspecies Affection”. (Term coined here.)
Told you. How in the Seven Hairy Hells does a frickin’ traffic court judge have the pull to even try this?
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
There really is a strong movement to trans your kids.
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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):
Mask Droppings – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
When blacks act up,
Neighborhoods burn.
When whites act up,
Continents burn.
Spicy time is coming. On one cause:
CRISIS: Medicare and Social Security are Underfunded by $175 Trillion | NC Renegades
Speaking of Spicy Time:
There’s Only One Terrifying Reason for a Woke Indoctrinated Military and This Is It – PJ Media
Exactly right IMHO.
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The Left Demands Millions of Human Sacrifices to Appease the Gods of Climate Change – American Thinker
Germany’s Unstable Power Grid…Coal Plants Will Be Needed “For A Very Long Time – Climate- Science.press
It’s truly a cult.
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WARNING: Self-Spreading Vaccines Are Closer Than You Think (blacklistednews.com)
I have to wonder at the researchers who think this is a good idea. Related to vaccines and such:
Why would the Japanese Ministry of Health Increase its COVID mRNA technology Vaccine Health Damage Budget by a Staggering 110 Times vs Previous Estimates? What caused this? LIONESS OF JUDAH MINISTRY (substack.com)
An intriguing question.
Inadvertent Exposure to Pharmacologically Designed Lipid Nanoparticles Via Bodily Fluids: Biologic Plausibility and Potential Consequences (substack.com)
I have no evidence except what I’d call awfully-convenient timing, but I’m 99% convinced I picked up mRNA from the wife. Now if there’s ever a test developed, I’m all over that.
Pharma Stock ‘Mattered More Than the Price of a Life,’ Physician Tells Senate Roundtable • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
That’s become clear, not just with The Jab, but – for example – Merck and Viox.
The Century of Evidence That Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Deaths – Vigilant News Network
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Checklist of First Aid Supplies We’ll Need After The Collapse (collapsesurvivalsite.com)
So many things to get, so little money… but do what you can. Related:
Read This Before Buying Survival Food – Ask a Prepper
How to Hide Your Stockpile in Plain Sight – Ask a Prepper
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Democrats Want to Liquidate the Kulaks – Whatfinger News’ Choice Clips
Taking after their forebears. Liquidate you, and replace you. Or have their imported army do it:
Biden’s Border Invasion Will Inflate Democrats’ Electoral College Majority – Geller Report
TREASON: Biden Regime Admits Flying 320,000 Illegal Immigrants Secretly to at least 43 Airports in the U.S. to Lessen Border Crossing Numbers | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
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‘A War for Our Minds’: Journalists Warn of Vast Propaganda, Censorship Network Unlike Any Before in Human History • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
And it’s so effective that the vast majority of the sheeple won’t see it, even when you show them evidence. Paging Yuri Bezmenov. In part, IMHO many of the sheeple are convinced of their intellectual superiority. My working with prison inmates, and the training I got before I did, made it very clear that the cleverer you think you are, the more likely you can get conned.
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The Disturbing End of Our Modern ‘Me’ Culture – Intellectual Takeout
Common sense be damned, the message being sent by peak health bodies across the Western world is that the needs of children are of little consequence, so long as the adults in the picture are gratified.
A culture in a death spiral. Related:
Secret files show how international group pushes shocking experimental gender surgery for minors (nypost.com)
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Doritos Hires Transgender Who Fantasized about PedophiIa, Mocked Victims of Rape, Wants Destruction of Traditional Family – The Lid (lidblog.com)
Don’t just gnash your teeth.
Ramon Laguarta
PepsiCo
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY, 10577
UPDATE: Already been fired. Apparently (HAH!) they “didn’t vet him well enough”.
No.
NO COMPANY engages a person like this without a thorough checking-out. They just didn’t anticipate the sh*tstorm that came up. Like Trudope and that Nazi he invited. Like Bud Light.
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Will the Left want to live in the world they are creating? – American Thinker
I’ve said this before. There’s a scene towards the end of the original Planet of the Apes movie, in which the central character, Taylor, is about to set out to explore, and Dr. Zaius said “Don’t look for it Taylor… you may not like what you find”. The same applies to the Left. They aspire to their planned and prophesized paradise. They won’t like the reality of what they find.
Killing the Boer, American Style – American Thinker
All the good little Leftists and Globalists cheering for the end of the White race will definitely not like what they find.
Will the Left want to live in the world they are creating? – American Thinker
Related to White genocide:
British man sentenced to 2 years in jail over anti-immigration stickers | Human Events | humanevents.com
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Price of major food staple spikes 50% in EU — RT Business News
Happening all over. The constrictor squeeze tightens.
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Biden Goes To Court, Demanding Warrantless Surveillance Powers (reclaimthenet.org)
How… how… how do people still cheer this? Rhetorical question, I know. It assumes the Left has a sense of honor and decency.
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Electric cars release more toxic emissions than petrol-powered vehicles and are worse for the environment | Daily Mail Online
No surprise there. Related:
Scientists Raise Alarm over Bill Gates-Led Geoengineering Plans to ‘Reverse Global Warming’ – Slay News
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COVID-19 Protests Are Back – PJ Media
Let any Covidian that wants boosters and masks – have at it. Evolution in action.
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Everything But the Skirt — WaPo and NY Times in Helpful Cheerleader Mode for Biden’s SOTU – PJ Media
However much you hate the enemedia, it’s not enough.
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This multiple layer of justice, etc., is one reason why people lose faith in the system. Which is the point.
All these people who hate-hate-hate Western culture? Then… leave!
Look, if an ADULT wants to transition, that’s their business. I think they’re loony-tunes, but their business. NOT CHILDREN.
Add: That government has your best interest at heart.
Perspective of the victims as non-human is how every genocide in history works.
AMEN! And here’s an old essay I pulled up – finally – from my archives on my old blog about anchor babies / birthright citizenship (and related thoughts):
E Birthright Citizenship Immigration and Voting
Effective. In parallel, your dad is gonna kill the father.
A person in my peripheral social circle is multiply-Jabbed-and-boosted, and recovering from yet another bout of Covid. And is utterly grateful for the Jab, because… all together now… “Without the vaccine it could have been much worse”.
Actually, in my case, I stopped when I realized how utterly naïve they were on national defense.
I can’t say I like what he’s done, but he does have a point. And to quote the proverb, If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
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Pick of the Post:
And so Western Civilization falls.
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Palate cleansers:
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Come back on Friday for more memes. Same meme time. Same meme channel.
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I’ve been warning that the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program could eventually lead to a complete government take over of private and religious education in New Hampshire. HB1610 showed us that Democrats were even willing to go a step further and attempt to take over home-school education, too.
Many home-schoolers showed up to oppose HB1610, but relatively few private and religious school parents showed up to oppose this legislation. Do they not understand what this will look like if HB1610 is passed into law? Do they not understand the danger this is to all private and religious schools? I suspect many still don’t get it.
I also suspect that some administrators think that this legislation will not force their hand if it’s signed into law. Who cares if their students have to take the STATE standardized test? It will show how well their students are doing compared to students in the public schools. That’s wishful thinking.
HB1610 forces all students to take the STATE standardized test that is aligned to Common Core. That’s the first step. After that, they will then begin regulating these schools to remediate their students who are not scoring proficient on the assessment.
Academically that will mean that the private and religious schools will have to teach Common Core aligned curriculum. But it doesn’t stop there. It also means that the private and religious schools will have to teach beyond these academic flaws, and also teach the Common Core “skills” that are now included in the Common Core assessments. But what are the skills required of students subjected to Common Core? GOOD QUESTION.
As you can see in this video, after abandoning No Child Left Behind and shifting to the Every Student Succeeds Act, assessments changed. This means that students aren’t only assessed on the flawed Common Core Standards but on their attitudes, values, and beliefs too. Those are now the SKILLS that will be assessed. That’s explained in this 15-minute video:
This is also reported in this study “Redefining learning through social-emotional learning,” reported in the International journal of health sciences. In this study they report: (emphasis mine)
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL, 2003) defines SEL as “the process by which children, adolescents, and adults acquire and apply the necessary knowledge and skills to understand and manage emotions, set goals, show empathy for others, establish positive relationships, and make responsible decisions”. Further, the definition of SEL during recent times incorporates an equality approach, hinting strong connections irrespective of “race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, learning needs, and age”
(Srinivasan, 2019).
As SEL moves towards Transformative SEL, Social and Emotional Learning becomes more about social justice and political action, as we can see here in Second Step SEL.
This article explains how SEL will become Transformative SEL, and then emphasizes the trouble with Social and Emotional Learning:
Whether or not one chooses to call the set of related ideological impulses that CASEL has embraced “Critical Race Theory,” they are clearly not morally or politically neutral. Indeed, CASEL’s public documents and leadership statements suggest an open embrace of leveraging social and emotional learning toward political and ideological ends. In its “Roadmap to ReOpening,” CASEL defines “self-awareness” as “examining our implicit biases,” and defines “self-management” as “practicing anti-racism.” CASEL’s former CEO, Karen Niemi, declared “we believe that our work in Social and Emotional Learning must actively contribute to antiracism,” and that SEL can “help people move from anger, to agency, and then to action.” Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Anti-Racist, has declared that Critical Race Theory was foundational to his work. Work that openly calls for racial discrimination to redress past injustices: “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”
Given that CASEL sits atop the SEL ecosystem and has embraced a partisan political agenda, it is not unreasonable for parents to suspect that the burgeoning, near-billion-dollar sector is largely an ideological enterprise. Whether that is a reasonable assumption, or whether it paints with vastly too broad of a brush, is difficult to know for certain at this point. There are a variety of programs and vendors who take a variety of approaches. Overall assessment of the ideological character of SEL is further complicated by the presence of programs and practices that go beyond CASEL, in terms of ideology, that come with the SEL label. For example, Parents Defending Education has publicized an example of an elementary school teaching gender identity ideology under the name of “SEL.”
So what skills must a student posses in order to score proficient on the STATE standardized assessment? We can see what is expected in the Common Core State Standards for Math and English. But how will the STATE standardized assessment shift to grading “skills” in the future? What attitudes, values and beliefs must a student possess in order to pass the STATE standardized assessment?
SEL is to be incorporated throughout the curriculum in our public schools, which means public school students will eventually receive a healthy dose of social justice indoctrination. CASEL executives have stated quite clearly that their focus in transforming public education is no longer about academics–it’s about the schools raising your children with what they believe are the proper values, attitudes, and beliefs:
What happens when private, religious, and EFA students are forced to take these standardized assessments after the private and religious schools become reliant on public funds?
Even if just their EFA students have to take this assessment, it could have a big impact on how the religious and private schools teach their students. We saw religious schools in Ohio and Indiana begin to align to Common Core when their voucher students were forced to take the STATE Standardized assessment.
All of these changes come incrementally. First they force the assessment on students, then they force remediation if those students are not scoring proficient. Not only does that mean pushing Common Core on the religious and private schools, but “skills” too.
Private and religious parents better get off the couch and start showing up to these hearings to oppose this government takeover of their schools. What families once escaped will creep into their private and religious schools if they do not act now.
Contact your state representatives and senator and tell them NO STATE standardized testing requirements for religious/private/EFA/ or home-school students. NO STATE Standardized testing requirements for our religious and private schools.
These schools are already required to test their students using an achievement test of their choice. Those results are all that’s needed to prove that they are educating their students in the core academic subjects. There is no need to force the flawed STATE standardized assessment on any student, school, or home-school family.
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After Super Tuesday, we can see why Vermont may never be a Red State again. Half of Vermont Republicans think Nikki Haley is what America needs, and 1.4% chose Chris Christie. The other Northeast Super Tuesday states went for Trump, as did every other state that voted yesterday.
One amusing machine media note: Rather than sorting the 14 state results alphabetically, as is typical, several I checked led with the only state Haley won: Vermont. That’s almost laugh-out-loud funny, even without Haley leaving the race.
But it doesn’t hide the delegate bloodshed. Trump has secured 1,057 to Haley’s 92. He needs 1,215 to secure the nomination.
All Results are Trump/Haley
Arkansas 77/19
Alabama 88/13
Alaska 88/12
California 79/18
Colorado 63/33
Massachusetts – Trump 60/37
Maine chose Trump 71/26
Minnesota 69/29
Oklahoma 82/16
Tennessee 77/20
Virgina 63/35
Texas 78/17
Utah 58/41
Vermont 46/50
As for Vermont, Haley also won Washington, DC. That’s not a resounding endorsement for the quality of the Republican party in the state to my left. It’s not hopeless. They could one day find their way, but you have to wonder how much better things could get if they escaped Democrat majority rule with a party majority that favors big-government surveillance state central planning Neocons like Haley or Christie.
Neither of whom are in the race. Yes, as noted above, Haley appears to be done.
Nikki Haley will suspend her presidential campaign Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday, according to people familiar with her decision, leaving Donald Trump as the last remaining major candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination.
Three people with direct knowledge who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly confirmed Haley’s decision ahead of an announcement scheduled for Wednesday morning.
As for Vermont, Calvin Coolidge is rolling over in his grave.
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There is a classic tale in which one man lends money to another. When the time comes to repay the loan, the debtor claims that no loan was ever made. They go to trial, and the lender says that the money was counted out on a large stone, which should be brought to court as a witness. The debtor says, ‘The stone will never be found, because I broke it into many pieces, which I dispersed to many places.’
Oops!
I was thinking about this tale the other day in Concord, where I gave testimony to the House Education Committee against HB1610, a bill whose title suggests that it is about accountability for recipients of Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs) but whose text makes it clear that its primary aim is to extend state control over home educated children, even those without EFAs.
(The bill requires home-educated students to take the state assessments regardless of whether they have EFAs, while at the same time exempting students in public schools whose parents don’t want them to take the tests.
Which is why about 500 home-educating parents showed up to oppose it.)
As I read my statement, I said:
The bill appears to be a thinly-disguised attempt to subject home-educated students to the kind of micro- and mismanagement that prompted their parents to keep them out of schools in the first place.
This interpretation can’t be dismissed out of hand. My husband has personally witnessed members of an activist group (which includes one of the bill’s sponsors) formulating plans to collect copies of the birth certificates of all the children born in New Hampshire in order to keep tabs on children whose parents keep them ‘out of the system.’
I was trying to be decorous in leaving the sponsor unnamed, but before I could continue, my testimony was interrupted by Rep. Hope Damon, who happens to be my state rep. and one of the leaders of the activist group Stand Up for Croydon Students. She said that she knew what I was talking about and that she wasn’t there.
Oops!
And I just mention all this because in almost every case where home education is mentioned in a bill, it’s because representatives like this are trying to get away with things like this.
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The Biden Campaign has been very slow out of the gate as they appear to be patiently waiting for the courts to beat Donald Trump for them. With the Monday 10 AM decision posted on the SCOTUS website, the Supreme Court said, no, they yelled to Joe Biden that it would not be doing the work for him.
With a 9-0 decision, the Court reversed the Colorado decision to remove Donald Trump from Presidential ballots in Primary or General elections. That ruling will also reverse any other state, such as Maine or Illinois, which used the Colorado State Supreme Decision as the basis for its action. That Colorado decision was 4-3 in a totally Democrat-appointed court.
This SCOTUS ruling makes it clear that the Court is not to be used as a Political tool by any Party, but in this case, the Democrat Party. The Justices had different ways to come to their decision, and maybe that was by design. They covered multiple avenues that the opponents of Trump may have employed to slow or bring him down. Nothing is more final or definitive than a 9-0 Supreme Court decision. That last point is supported by the Justices posting their ruling rather than appearing in the Court saying, in the words of Karina Jean-Pierre, “full stop.”
Except in New York City, where the courts are as politically focused and weaponized as possible, the Democrat use of the courts across the land is crashing to the Oval Office floor like a Jenga Game or a House of Cards. This crumbling of the legal battle will have a ripple effect on the Trump Campaign. Trump’s approval numbers ticked up with every indictment and are now moving further as each case goes in Trump’s way. Last week looked good for Trump in Georgia as Fany Willis is poised to be removed from the Trump case if not incarcerated herself. From fraud, misuse of state funds, and perjury, Willis has done the State wrong, and her disqualification could cause the case against Trump to collapse.
Unlike other cases, such as overturning Roe V Wade, where the decision was split, this 9-0 ruling does not give Biden the opportunity to blame the MAGA justices and the corrupted Court. The 9-0 ruling does not allow Chuck Schumer the opportunity to stand on the steps of the Court and call out the Conservative justices. That ship has sailed. The Liberal justices recognized their obligation to the Constitution above their allegiance to the Left.
The legacy media was apoplectic today with claims ranging from the Court is protecting Trump from his just due to the Court got it wrong. Really, 9-0, and the Court got it wrong. Nine justices all interpreted the Constitution incorrectly. The Supreme Court ruled exactly as anyone who has read the Constitution expected them to do. The Democrats hoped the Court would rule 5-4 in their favor so Biden could skate into a second term.
The clock struck twelve, and Donald Trump was still alive and well. Even SNL is mocking the Democrat lie that Biden is a robust human being. When you have lost SNL and Bill Maher, you are done. Close the curtain and dismantle the set. The show is over, and the guy from NY, make that Florida has a full house. Biden is holding a pair of deuces.
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