The fun thing about the Democrat Dictionary, as infrequent as the installments are, is that no matter what the word is, it only ever means what Democrats think it means when they think it. The word Democracy is an excellent example of this.

They can’t shut up about it, Democracy. Defending it, saving it, honoring and protecting it, by which they mean their definition of it, not actual Democracy.

Democracy to Democrats is about people having the freedom to choose from a pool of candidates the Democrats allow, with the winner being whom they decide if the voters choose the wrong one (ask a Bernie supporter if I’m wrong).

So powerful is the Democrat commitment to their definition of Democracy that it also applies to the Republican Party, of which none of them are members and who would never be allowed to pick the Democrat’s nominee. While Democrats will go out of their way to pretend to be Republicans (for voting purposes) to pick the Democrat’s opponent, hoping that their candidate will win more easily.

They’ve gotten so keen on picking both nominees that in states where Democrats hold offices and power over elections, they have moved repeatedly to prevent the Republican party, a private organization, from deciding which of its candidates can be on its primary ballot – using government power over the voting process (printing of ballots) to enforce their will upon Republicans to limit whom they may choose for a candidate for President.

This is about as honest an example of what Democracy means to Democrats as you’ll ever find.

Democracy is not about Democracy; it is about using the government to get whatever it is Democrats want, whenever they want it.

And yes, we do live in a constitutional republic, which doesn’t work for Democrats, so they call it a Democracy. That and they love mobs, and there’s nothing quite like making 49.9% of the people do something because you’ve demonstrated – by fact of fiction – that you’ve convinced 50.1% to let the government do it to you.

 

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Hawaii is Blue. If not for California, it would likely be the progressive poster child for failed policy. It is run by statists who appoint statist judges, but in an odd twist, the State’s Supreme Court has discovered federalism … as an excuse to deny an individual right.

In a February 7th ruling, the high court announced that it did not have to listen to the US Supreme Court or any precedent related to its interpretation of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.

Christopher Wilson was arrested seven years ago for carrying a handgun for protection while hiking. Being in Hawaii, he was charged with multiple firearms violations and introduced to the tedious and expensive court system. Hawaii does not allow you to carry outside “the home if you are able to get permission to carry at all. Seven years later the State’s highest court has ruled against Wilson.

“We reject Wilson’s constitutional challenges. Conventional interpretive modalities and [Hawaii’s] historical tradition of firearm regulation rule out an individual right to keep and bear arms under the [Hawaii] Constitution.”

Jacob Sullum, writing at Reason, observes (with reference to  District of Columbia v. Heller,  McDonald v. Chicago, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, that,

 

The Hawaii Supreme Court thinks all of those cases were wrongly decided. In a ruling issued on Wednesday, the court sides with the Heller dissenters by embracing the view that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms”—unlike “the right of the people peaceably to assemble” (protected by the First Amendment), “the right of the people” to be secure from “unreasonable searches and seizures” (protected by the Fourth Amendment), and the unspecified rights “retained by the people” under the Ninth Amendment—does not refer to an individual right. Rather, the Hawaii Supreme Court says, the Second Amendment involves a “collective right” that is relevant only in the context of militia service.

It appears to me that Hawaii’s “historical” tradition is to selectively acknowledge rights as individual or collective based on partisan political interest. The very reason why we have a Federal Constitution, which Hawaii accepted as the highest law of the land when it joined the nation. And yes, we can have endless conversations about courts and constitutions and not following those words or these words or the vagaries of time and definitions, and it’s all legitimate grist for that mill. But at its simplest, you shouldn’t either see all the natural rights as an individual or none of them and make that case to the people so they can vote accordingly.

That’s not how any of it works because while there is some ground-level momentum toward collectivism in regard to rights like free speech, we still have some way to go to see the whole stable subdued by the creeping Marxists who love the word federalism if they can use it to deny people rights.

You can find a lot of inside baseball and background on State v. Wilson here if you like getting into the weeds.

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Touting a supposed “new study,” mainstream media is advocating globalist prescriptions for climate change that would utilize existing public school lunch programs to compel children to eat unhealthy processed vegetarian alternatives to wholesome grass-fed meats or fresh local foods. The audacity and misinformation of these proposals reflect elitist disconnect from basic nutrition and soil health.

This supposedly salvific solution to the world’s carbon problems is less a “study” and more of a globalist New World Order propaganda plug. The proposal is that school lunches “may be the key to changing our food systems worldwide.” How is this to be achieved? – by sourcing artificial meats manufactured profitably by the new would-be food purveyors from chemical-saturated, environmentally-destructive agricultural production of soy and other GMO plants, to thereby wean children from having a palate for meats.

As MSN.com proclaimed:

“Offering more plant-based protein such as vegan burgers and nuggets, and also beans and soy products like tofu could help to “shift social norms around meat consumption,” reads the report. ….The shift would help to reduce heat-trapping gases and pollution generated by factory farms which produce most of the meat on the planet. Livestock farming accounts for 8% of these gases, the report notes.”

The sins of factory farms are here employed to throw the cows out with the formaldehyde hoof-bath. Shifting farm critters back to rotational grazing would sequester more carbon than all the EV cars, solar panels, and soy-burgers combined. As Joel Salatin explains in The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer:

“If every farmer in America practiced this prehistoric system, in fewer than ten years we would sequester all the carbon that’s been emitted since the beginning of the industrial age. ….One of the most environmentally-enhancing things that you can do is to eat grass-finished beef. That sequesters more carbon than soybeans or corn or any other annual.” (p. 28).

The so-called “study,” created by a biased ally of the World Economic Forum, claims this beneficent shift in diet to vat-hatched meats would avoid compulsion by simply altering what kids desire:

“According to Mark Meldrum from Systemiq and co-author of the report, none of the recommended shifts are about banning the old ways.

“They are about supporting and lifting the new, to help them be as competitive and attractive as possible,” he says. “So we get to a place where we don’t need a ban, because everyone wants the new thing anyway.” ”

How un-scientific can a con-job get? Using public funds to process soy into fake-burger allocates profits to patent holders like Bill Gates, while soaking kids’ guts with microbiome-killing glyphosate. Soy farming depends not just on GMOs (and thus glyphosate) but upon synthetic fertilizers and massive amounts of fossil fuels. Allowing cows to roam grasslands is organic, and uses far less energy. And grass-fed meats are healthy for children.

Bellies of the Rich Swell Further on the Back of Hunger

The January 19, 2023 “study” carries the cutesy think-tank title “The Breakthrough Effect”:

“The three super-leverage points are: mandates for the sale of electric vehicles, mandates requiring “green ammonia” to be used in the manufacturing of agricultural fertilisers, and public procurement of plant-based proteins. These changes could trigger a cascade of tipping points, leading to cheaper batteries to help solar and wind scale-up in the electricity sector, cheaper hydrogen opening up decarbonisation for the shipping and steel industries, and reduced pressure for deforestation.”

“Systemiq” is a “partner” of the WEF, together with hundreds of bad corporate actors determined to profit from food at the expense of human and ecological health. Bayer, Syngenta, Dow and Cargill all boast their involvement.

The proposed “New World Food Order” is in plain-if-shameless sight: “Reducing emissions to net-zero by 2050 is possible if the right technologies are brought to commercial scale within the next decade.” These “right technologies” can’t compete without government compulsion. Never mind that the majority of the world’s food is provided by local peasant agriculture – more chemicals and magical (patented) technologies of the would-be corporate food-masters are proposed as the only way to save humanity.

The WEF’s Orwellian, earth-saving moniker is the “First Movers Coalition”: corporations offering to be the saviors from their own pollution:

“The First Movers Coalition’s unique approach assembles ambitious corporate purchasing pledges across the heavy industry and long-distance transport sectors responsible for a third of global emissions. For these sectors to decarbonize at the speed needed to keep the planet on a 1.5-degree pathway, they require low-carbon technologies that are not yet competitive with current carbon-intensive solutions but must reach commercial scale by 2030 to achieve net-zero emissions globally by 2050.”

A better plan would be to reduce “heavy industry and long-distance transport sectors” by sourcing food locally and regeneratively. A better plan would employ cows to rebuild soils, sequester carbon, avoid synthetic fertilizers and chemicals, disperse profits equitably to local producers, and feed children food that doesn’t cause cancer, obesity, diabetes, and endocrine disruption.

Instead, the proposal is to increase dependency on corporate food provision using government compulsion and citizen tax dollars. The name coined to summarize this Shwabian malarkey is “agritech”:

““Agritech” is a natural evolution of precision agriculture, realized through the automated analysis of data collected from the field via equipment sensors and other sources. An emerging set of smart technologies, coupled with new digital skills and enhanced data control, can help foster more forward-looking decision making and positively shape the future direction of the value chains connecting farmers to consumers. This new paradigm calls for a comprehensive evolution from traditional to digital systems, in order to reduce costs, increase efficient production, and inject greater environmental and social sustainability into agricultural activity.”

Ah, the utopian promises of those who don’t read their own Kool-aid recipes! Technomystical faith in Big Ag to “feed the world” is the folly that has created the agricultural and health quagmire in which humanity is embroiled: now the same failed systems are paraded as cure. This will surely compound corporate hegemony, food insecurity, soil erosion, water depletion, and declining human health – all in the name of “data control,” “digital skills,” “automated analysis,” and “social sustainability.”

This is labeled a “new paradigm,” but it is just old glyphosate in shiny new globalist vessels, “evolving” in a forward-profit-looking fraud that will negatively shape humanity’s future. This is the expected product of “the views of a wide range of experts from the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network and is curated in partnership with the Smart AgriFood Observatory.”

Readers are told that this corrupt path will save the planet, and that it has been fashioned by philanthropic stakeholders who only seek the public good for meat-loving youngsters:

““Cooperation in a fragmented world” was chosen as the theme of the gathering of the great and the good at Davos this year. ….EU policies should not simply be aimed at securing access, but also at minimising critical raw material needs. They must examine ways to decrease the use of all materials, improve resilience and minimise the negative environmental, health and social impacts associated with the extraction, use and end of life of these resources.”

What would most minimize critical raw material needs would be to nurture local regenerative agricultural production, not increase scale, corporate domination, and long-distance transport. Minimizing glyphosate, synthetic fertilizers, and confinement feed operations would decrease toxic raw material use. Nothing would do that more than by restoring cows and other animals to rotational grazing. (And then there is the “end of life” of solar panels and EV cars….)

Janez Potocnik, partner at Systemiq, ironically observes:

“….too few policymakers take the time to examine the root causes of a problem and to address the drivers and pressures behind it. They fail too often to see how our current system does not incentivise sustainable resource use, but encourages quite the opposite.”

Ain’t that the truth! How about the world stops subsidizing destructive monocultures like soy and corn production; stops feeding children high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated fats; and stops calling such barbaric and demonstrably harmful practices enlightened and world-saving?

Instead, these miscreants advise children to gobble more chemicals at school lunch tables. This is the “key to changing our food systems worldwide” …for the worse.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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State Senator Kevin Avard was a guest on Rock, Paper Hand Grenades, and the topic of the Diestch list raised its amusing little head. If you missed it, former state Senator Jeanne Dietsch had been compiling a list of New Hampshire residents labeled as anti-democracy extremists (with the help of your ‘neighbors’).

We were alerted to it and made a copy before our report inspired Dietsch to ditch the list, by which I mean make it private (it had been publicly accessible as a Google Doc). Be that as it may, the current list presents opportunities for ridicule and our amusement, but when it came up on the podcast, Sen. Avard suggested that it was akin to doxxing, and he imagines that non-public citizens on the list could do a class action lawsuit against Dietsch.

That would be interesting.

Here’s the clip.

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I’m not a lawyer and do not play one on the internet, but if you are on the list and not a public person and like talking to your lawyer, get their opinion. You might have a case.

 

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The “special counsel” report, although it is being treated as a bombshell, did NOT tell us anything that we did not already know. Biden, OBVIOUSLY, does not have and for some time now (I would say well BEFORE he became the Democrat nominee in 2020) has not had the capacity to function as President.

So why is nobody asking the obvious question … WHO IS ACTUALLY RUNNING THE BIDEN-REGIME?

I believe it is Obama … albeit indirectly … through the “advisors,” “etceteras,” surrounding Biden. Your thoughts? The CIA? The WEF?

Another obvious question: Why did NeverTrump Republicans … Sununu, Mikey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, Mitch McConnell, etc., etc., etc., go along with the ruse for so long; indeed, until the “special counsel” report made it virtually impossible to continue the ruse? Perhaps Mikey Graham would like to explain to us why, despite Biden claiming he has been talking with long-dead European leaders, it took the “special counsel” report to get him to acknowledge that Biden is unfit.

And an extremely obvious conclusion: Those who continue to support the ruse … the Ray Buckleys, the Kathy Sullivans, Shaheen, Hassan, Pappas, etc., etc. etc. … neither care about America nor about “democracy.”

They care about maintaining/expanding their power and their grifts.

 

 

 

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If you’d forgotten, the State of Florida impaneled a Grand Jury to determine “whether pharmaceutical companies and other medical organizations engaged in criminal activity or wrongdoing’ in their participation in the rollout of COVID-19 “vaccines.” They’ve released their first interim report.

We don’t have details on any criminal activity by big pharma yet, but don’t be surprised if further reports find a connection. The most recent release tells us that based on the Grand Jury Investigation, most, if not all, of the things you’ve been saying, reporting, or sharing about masks, distancing, lockdowns, and hospitalization are true.

We knew you knew, and we also know the folks clinging bitterly to their non-pharmaceutical interventions will say something like, this is from Florida, so it doesn’t matter. It does. The report makes time to address the makeup of the Grand Jury (random selection, like any jury) and explain their approach and process. Let’s say it appears they were more thorough than the FDA.

For reporting context, they explain cooperation issues, safety, efficiency, and the five levels of risk, including infection, hospitalization, and death. The report discusses pandemic modeling and pharmaceutical interventions, the problems with lockdowns, masks, and distancing. There’s a good bit of actual science in there, so our more progressive lurkers might want to stay away. It could damage your pandemic paradigm.

You should read it, but to generalize, lockdowns appear to have done more harm than good (surprise!). Masks, almost impossible to be worn correctly by the average Jane or Joe, did not prevent infection or spread (sort of like the COVID-19 vaccine, eh?), and while N95s were capable of some good, multiple potentials for failure likely made them useless. If you recall, we reported on OSHA rules that required training for mandating N95 and K95 masks in a workplace (ignored, of course) and how, even then, the avenues for failure were enormous.

The report also does a great job on two other points. A full review of infection and hospitalization data suggests inflation on both counts. In other words, as you suspected, the data was so incomplete as to be incapable of meaning. This problem also plagued the data on the risk to children, who were never at risk, as was often reported based solely on the skewed data provided by states. You could see it but somehow they could not.

To summarize, this is another repudiation of the experts who ignored their own science in nearly every respect.

As for their effect on overall SARS-CoV-2 risk, we cannot ignore the fact that these NPIs were not administered based on the best available scientific data. In fact, many public health recommendations and their attendant mandates departed significantly from scientific research that was contemporaneously available to everyone: Individuals, scientists, corporations, and governments alike. Often, this research was ignored by institutional policymakers. Occasionally it was even attacked. It is a sad state of affairs when something as simple as following the science constitutes an act of heresy, but here we are. Importantly, while some of these NPIs may have shifted risk to later in time or from one group to another or had some speculative efficacy against viral spread when used in perfect laboratory conditions, comparative evidence suggests they did not significantly change the overall risk profile presented by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in terms of excess death, especially once collateral consequences are taken into consideration.

The Grand Jury will release additional reports as investigations develop or are completed.

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After watching the various townsfolk berate Select Board member Lannie Collins for speaking in opposition to fellow board member Ally Tufinkjian’s praising the Drag Queen Story Hour that was attempted to be held in downtown White River Junction, it was incumbent upon me to defend Mr. Collins.

Professor Wilfred C. Reilly of Kentucky State University has chronicled over three hundred hate crime hoaxes since the turn of the century (2000) in his book Hate Crime Hoaxes: How the Left Is Selling a Fake Race War.  The critical piece of his discovery?  The supposed victims are the ones committing the hate crimes against themselves.

This practice has come to be known as “stochastic terrorism,” which is a random type of terrorism perpetrated by those in the leftist movement to either scare or, conversely, curry sympathy and favor from those outside of it. For what it’s worth, Professor Reilly is black, which is why he speaks out against groups like Black Lives Matter for using minorities as easily manipulated pawns in their Marxist culture war game.

Also chronicling fake hate crimes is the aptly named fakehatecrimes.org website. Here, you can find nearly five hundred reported hate crime hoaxes and who ultimately perpetrated them. Some examples include a black woman who wrote threatening notes and painted KKK on houses in her neighborhood; activist group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) falsely tweeted out a man was struck by a car of Israelis yelling “kill all Palestinians” when in fact he’d been beaten by his brother; BLM and Antifa activists committing arson while trying to frame the Proud Boys for it; LGBTQ activists on MIT campus hoaxing hatred to counter the school’s free speech policy; gay man found throwing bricks at a gay bar in the act of revenge rather than an anti-LGBTQ hate crime as reported.

The list goes on and on and on…

Many of us in independent media have known about these tactics now for years, however the good people of Hartford tend to live quiet lives and likely don’t take the time to investigate these things, nor are they particularly suspicious in general. Despite the activists in town pushing for Hartford to become more “inclusive” and “accepting,” I don’t know anyone in Hartford who wasn’t exactly both of those, hence the need to speak up. It may be the perfect small Vermont town for them to run their agenda for this very reason.

Which is why the bomb hoax that was obscured by an encrypted Russian server from whom the hoax emails came needed to be addressed. It very well could have been someone opposed to drag queens reading to children (and Target’s Pride Month controversy); however, the assumption that it was, which led to people bashing Mr. Collins as “insensitive” and using “poor timing,” needed to be addressed given the data.  The opposite was more likely the case – someone sympathetic to DQSH employed the terror tactic to manipulate allies in town to clutch their pearls and make a blanket accusation against anyone willing to voice their disapproval of men dressed as hyper-sexualized women reading to children.

Collins’s simple rejoinder to Tufinkjian, “Not everyone in town thought it was a positive experience,” didn’t even denounce the event but merely stated a fact.  Tufinkjian reveals her activism per children on her personal website with quotes like “disrupt them” and her commitment to “reflexive praxis,” which is a woke term for essentially programming children into Marxism, parents’ wishes be damned. Of course, she considered it positive.

However, events that elicit bomb threats are obviously not going to be viewed universally as positive, even for those not choosing a side. Yet the activist class seizes on these opportunities to usurp “righteousness” and flip the denunciations on anyone who may object.  In this case, it was Mr. Collins who was verbally abused by the townsfolk for the mere act of speaking on behalf of other town members equally concerned for children. I told them they owed him an apology.  They still do.

As for the drag queens, I shared photographic evidence of them presenting themselves online almost exclusively in a sexual context.  Emoji Nightmare’s YouTube channel includes a burlesque version of “Boot Scootin’ Boogy,” where Katniss and another woman either partially disrobe or otherwise offer sexually suggestive takes.  Another video from Emoji is simply titled “Pictures of your d**k”.  Virtually none of their online content is child-friendly, in fact it’s the opposite.  The parents in Hartford need to be made aware, given children are now becoming a predator class across the pond in the UK, where DQSH is also popular.

Furthermore, based on the Sexual Grooming Model presented by Psychology Today, it categorically is sexual grooming of children. To wit:

Stage 2: Gaining Access and Isolation

• Involved in youth-serving organizations (i.e., schools, youth groups, scouts, sports).
• Manipulates the family to gain access to minors.

Stage 3: Trust Development

• Appears charming/nice/likable.
• Has insider status/good reputation/”pillar of the community.”
• Is affectionate/loving with a minor.
• Gives the minor attention.
• Engages in childlike activities (e.g., stories, games, sports, music).

Stage 4: Desensitization to Sexual Content and Physical Contact

• Ask questions about the minor’s sexual experience/relationships.
• Uses inappropriate sexual language/dirty jokes. (see their social media)
• Use of accidental touching/distraction while touching.
• Exposes their own naked body to the minor (i.e., changing/showering). (see their social media)
• Seemingly innocent/non-sexual contact (i.e., tickling/hugging/sitting on lap).

Lastly, the activists in town trotted out the term “hate speech” both in person and on the town’s Facebook page.  This, of course, satisfies the narrative that people want to bomb them and silence an innocent group simply trying to engage children to read. I felt it necessary to remind the town that hate speech is constitutionally protected in our country and, in fact, needed. No doubt people in the room have felt comfortable voicing their hatred for Donald Trump, the war in Ukraine, anti-semitism or what-have-you.  I’m sure if someone proposed a Nazi Story Hour or Wife Beaters Story Hour, the requisite voices of denunciation would emerge faster than you could stuff a ballot box.

So, in the spirit of protected hate speech, I offered to them the things I hate as they related to the matter.  They are:

• I hate people who practice deception
• I hate the sexual exploitation of children
• I hate it when the good citizens of my town are lied to by activists
• And I hate our tax dollars being used to fund programs that unfairly malign the good people of this town as bigots

I know for a fact I am not alone in the town of Hartford for hating these vile practices.  New Select Board members will be voted in this March 5th, which can’t come soon enough.

(To watch my comments to the board, click the link to the video here.)

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Now that Joe has been publicly deemed unfit for testimony – making him unfit for office (which I think was deliberate) – the crat is out of the bag. Everyone can accept that the plan was to replace Joe before the November Election. It’s not a hard guess to make, honestly.

Joe was a mess in 2020. Kamala was a strategic choice to keep the DNC from replacing him sooner. But her political shelf-life expired then and there, which might be the one good thing the Bidens did for America. Harris will not be on the November ticket either, so who is? How will it happen? Who will get anointed, and when?

The J6 commission was a Hollywood-produced, made-for-TV miniseries with less credibility than most -so-called reality television. The DNC Convention will be much the same—a performance written by Hollywood writers and producers, directed like a major motion picture. The wise leader will pass the torch to someone else after his adoring fans anoint him (the appearance of choice) because of (mental) health reasons. He’s just too old for this anymore.

I would not be surprised if they rolled Joe out in a wheelchair with a male nurse.

But the Dems have to overcome a host of hurdles (messes) left behind by Biden and the Obama minions who created it, and the White House Social Behavioral and Science Team (The Nudge Unit) is likely hard at work sculpting the appearance of choice for Democrats and America that will be easy to swallow. Some say Newsom is likely a replacement, and more recently, it will be Michelle Obama. Despite her hatred of DC, she will take one for the team and finish what Barry started.

Whatever the decision, Democrat leadership never planned to make a change before the Convention (if it could be helped), and they will do everything they can to keep Joe upright for fear of a President Kamala. Harris would be worse for the Presidential election and every down-ticket seat. It would be a wipeout.

Joe could die, and they would say he was in a coma. Arrange prayer vigils as if depopulation secular humanists pray for life. Obama’s minions would continue to ruin the country while Kamal was locked down and kept out of the public eye as much as possible. Taped, highly scripted, and edited messages might be workable until the Convention.

Not that this will be a problem. I think Joe will make it to his finish line—the DNC convention, after which he will be expected to do very little as a degenerating lame duck. Eat ice cream. Sniff children. Take naps. His replacement will get all the attention.

Michelle Obama could put a fire under Democrats and might stop the electoral bleeding among black voters, but almost no one else will like the choice. The Obama years were not economically promising, and the economy is the biggest issue, so the left has a problem. Not to replace Biden but with whom. There are no Democrats who have a good record on the economy. And success will depend not so much on the person as the story. And it might not be one where Joe’s replacement can “take up Joe’s legacy.” His legacy sucks.

So, here’s where you come in. Who does the DNC choose and why? And while we are speculating, who does the new Democrat candidate pick as a running mate?

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I have been writing about the illegal Chinese Pot Farms in Central Maine for months. I have been trying to raise awareness of this dangerous situation in our backyard. These Chinese Cartel operations not only involve drugs but possibly human and sex trafficking.

I commend The Maine Wire, which has been at the forefront of this assault by Chinese nationals buying Maine properties to operate illegal drug operations not only to grow but also to export marijuana to Canada and other parts of the United States. They have been ringing the bell loudly and forcing other media outlets in the Pine Tree State to get on board. The problem has gotten worse, and maybe this will be the element that will get Mainers angry enough to demand action. The Maine Wire discovered and first reported that many properties owned by the Chinese Cartel were bought with money from a U.S. government program to assist foreign nationals to purchase property or start a business in America. To bottom line that statement, our tax dollars are funding the Chinese Pot Growers.

This Chinese operation is not unique to Maine. It is known that over 3,000 Chinese owned marijuana farms exist in California, Washington, Oklahoma, and Maine. Other states may be involved, but these are the hot spots today. Over 300 sites have been identified in Maine. Maine has liberal marijuana laws that allow the sale and use of marijuana for adult recreational purposes. This blurs the line on what is and isn’t legal, takes the attention of law enforcement away from marijuana, and places it more on Fentanyl and other narcotics. The four members of Maine’s federal delegation have been pleading for help from Merrick Garland and the Justice Department, but their pleas remain unanswered.

The Maine Wire has discovered a source for some of the funds used to purchase these Maine properties, and nobody should be pleased with their findings. Many property records indicated the funding originated from the Quontic Bank, a New York-based CDFI. Two Quontic loan officers, Steven Ho and Yang-Chan Weng, handled many of the Maine and Oklahoma transactions. These two targeted the Chinese immigrant community. CDFI was initially created by Congress in 1994 to help low-income immigrants access financing to purchase homes. COVID-19 saw the CDFI program enhanced with additional funds, and that money was used to finance homes in Maine that have become pot farms. That is U.S. taxpayer funds used to finance foreign-owned and operated illegal drug operations. Seventy of the Maine properties identified were financed using CDFI funding.

This is a very complex issue that many levels of government and agencies have facilitated. Maine made recreational use of marijuana legal, which changed the focus of law enforcement on pot usage. The Treasury Department made money available for banks to finance a substantial percentage of these illegal properties, and the Justice Department, Merrick Garland, and DHS have turned a blind eye to Maine’s issue. This complex issue will require Mainers to rise and demand the eradication of these illegal operations and the accountability they deserve from those involved.

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In 2023, HB 44 was a defeated bill that threatened to turn certain single-family-zoned neighborhoods into rental nightmares. However, this year comes an even worse bill, HB 1291, to be heard by a House ‘Special’ Committee on Housing on February 16.

What is the reason this bill is not being heard by the normal House Municipal Committee? Doesn’t it seem suspicious that somehow, this newly created House ‘Special’ Committee on Housing’s ten members include seven of the eight sponsors of HB 1291? Would we be wrong to think that 7 of the 10 members are already necessarily biased?

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There is NO way this bill will get a fair hearing. This kind of manipulation (forming special taxpayer-funded lobbying groups and committees) is typical of Sununu and his developer cronies after they fail to pass unsavory bills the normal way.

Please help us stop the the eradication of NHs SF-zoned neighborhoods. It’s not only an attack on the middle class but an attack on the family.

Voters should contact the committee before 2/16 using the House portal expressing OPPOSITION to this bill. If the date of the hearing has passed, email the full committee.

 

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On Tuesday, Joe Biden went to the podium and blamed the failure of the flawed Senate border bill on Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. The man who erased our border on day one of his Presidency with nearly one hundred executive orders that reversed the policies of Donald Trump that had made the border the most secure in decades claims this bill must be passed for the security of America. He says give me the money and power, and he will close the border.

Biden started his speech by saying the bill will not even get to the floor of the Senate because of one thing: Donald Trump. That shows how weak this President and this bill are if a man who is not even in a government position can bring it to a screeching stop.Here he is using the failure of the bill to attack his 2024 opponent, and then saying that Donald Trump wants the bill to fail so he can use the issue against Biden. What is that about calling the pot black?

Biden could not have it more wrong. He said he would remind the American people every day until Election Day that the border is in crisis because of Trump and his MAGA Pals. He challenged Republicans in Congress to grow a spine and stick up to Trump. He is living in a parallel universe. What we need is for Democrats to get their heads out of their butts and call out Biden on the damage he is doing to America. Millions of unvetted illegal migrants spread throughout America. We know there are terrorists among them who were undetected in the masses as they came out of the swift Rio Grande River.

You have to ask who let him walk, if you call that walking, to the podium armed with that, excuse me, crap. A week ago, Biden and his feckless DHS Secretary, Mayorkas, claimed till they were blue in the face, the border was closed and secure. We knew they were lying. They knew they were lying, but now that he wants to blame Trump, the border is in a crisis.

He says he needs money to secure the flow of humanity, yet he continues to take Abbott and Texas to court for taking care of their sovereignty. They put floats in the Rio Grande, and Biden sued them to remove them. Texas puts up barriers and concertina wire, and Biden sues to have it cut and removed. Arizona put freight boxes along the border to secure it, only to be sued by Biden to remove them. Does that sound like a man who is concerned with border security or a treasonous bastard who is hell-bent on destroying America?

Instead of treating these people as the criminals they are, we have the NY Mayor giving them loaded debit cards. We have these criminals kicking and beating cops in New York City and DA Bragg, who won’t charge them but sets them free without bail. It is easy to say that the Democrats have turned the world upside down, but the truth is this is a planned destruction of America using criminal migrants as a weapon. It is sick, inhumane, and un-American, but it is pure Democrat. Now, which Democrat is going to grow a spine and tell Joe Biden the game is over?

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You might be asking yourself, how exactly might a dead person change their gender, and I have the answer. If they were a boy pretending to be a girl, and their bones got dug up some years from now, they’d be identified as male. We wouldn’t need an act of law for that, of course, just nature – so this headline is about something else.

UK Labour MP Charlotte Nichols is concerned that people who’ve been pretending to be some sex other than the one mom and dad saddled them with at birth might be misremembered if the death certificate says what they were and not what they claimed to be. I know this is from the UK (Ungendered Kingdom?), but most of this crap starts in one place, and the next thing you know, every progressive on the planet has to have it, too, lest their own ideological brethren brand them as bigots.

‘The genesis of the petition was the murder of my constituent Brianna Ghey, whose life was brutally cut short before she was old enough to have formal legal recognition of who she was and how she will be remembered by her family, friends and our community.’

Nichols, who might be remembered as a redhead or a mousy brunette (she is pretending to be one but, based on photos, appears to be the other), seems overly concerned about this non-problem. And it is, as she has articulated it, a non-problem. None of “Brianna’s” family or friends are likely ever to see her death certificate, let alone refer to it before “remembering” who she was. We knew her better than anyone, but what’s Her Majesty’s (Sorry, His Majestys) coroner got to say? Well, call me late for Tea; Brianna was a guy!

No. They will speak of them as they knew them, not as the coroner has scientifically documented. As in real life, you can pretend as much as you like about nearly anything, and if anyone goes along, that’s what they’ll remember. Social media, recollections, written words, pictures, and videos are the things that define the memories of people whose lives were stolen by misguided government health meddling, socialized medicine, neither safe nor effective “vaccine” mandates, or flawed non-pharmaceutical interventions.

When disarmed neighbors are deprived of their belongings by hooligans trapped in the welfare state who then stab them to avoid being identified, what you’ll recall is not a grossly incompetent national policy on the right to self-defense. You’ll remember that time you could see the embarrassing bulge of her man parts through the yoga pants you told her not to wear without some sort of long billowy top.

You’ll remember them however you want, Government be damned. This suggests that Labour MP Charlotte Nichols drew the short (paper) straw to advance another sparkling facet of the transgender agenda, only to be smacked down by Equalities Minister Stuart Andrew – yes, they have one of those – who said the said Government did not have plans to amend the Act in question, or Sir Liam Fox (the MP for North Somerset), who said,

‘It is patently absurd, factually inaccurate and a statistical distortion.

‘We should not be encouraging the idea that people can simply choose to change their biological status nor should we bend truth to accommodate an ever more extreme and dangerous ideology.’

I bet he’s the bigot, yes – talking about biology and science. How dare he. The next thing he’ll be asking people if they know what a woman is, to which his correct answer might be the bird who does your laundry, not the girl with the bulging man parts in her yoga pants, which, by the way, will be long gone when the archeologist discovers the remains before they are moved to make way for another new mosque in the Islamic Republic of England.

As in, you’ve got bigger problems than this.

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The mass immigration of 3rd world country populations into Western countries currently happening across the world has to stop and must be reversed.
Case in point: Reportedly, the most popular first name in the UK right now for baby boys is Mohamad, and the world is supposed to celebrate this in the name of diversity and all the “advantages” it supposedly brings.

The reality of this situation is far different than what is being presented and supported. Populations of people that have worked to build a country for millennia (as represented by France or the UK) or centuries (like the USA) are supposed to celebrate an invasion of folks from 3rd world countries who now change the entire demographic, take control, and reap the rewards from the progress and accomplishments of generations.

Even worse, the existing citizens, whose ancestors built the country and whose societal mores align with those who built the society, are vilified and labeled as selfish racists, all while crime (fentanyl, sex trafficking, and violence) and disease (measles and leprosy) are imported, and resources are expended on those who hate them but want their advantages. It is ludicrous for populations to accept this, especially while no vetting procedures, no health checks, and no assimilation processes are implemented.

I don’t advocate for the selfish hoarding of the fruits of the progress brought about by Western civilization. I wish to prevent the demise of that progress and offer the sharing of it to societies that want to learn from it and build it themselves. The United States’ geography isn’t the only one in the world to possess advantages in resources. Africa is a powerhouse of agricultural possibilities and mineral resources, including diamonds, copper, gold, oil, and natural gas. In spite of these resources being available, the societies in Africa have not advanced as have Western societies. The advances of modern society consistently originate from Western civilization, where freedom and individualism have flourished. Invention, which leads to improvements in quality of life, is prolific, where individuals are allowed to think and act freely within the boundaries of acceptable behavior.

Advances, not just technological but also societal (including the abolition of slavery and the concept of individual rights), originated from and are allowed to flourish in Western societies. When the populations of these advanced societies are diluted with people from societies that don’t have these values, the advanced society becomes unsustainable. The result won’t be the raising of the entire world to 1st World levels, it will lower the bar so that 1st World becomes 2nd World, and down to 3rd. Just look at the current condition of many US cities as an example of this drastic decline.

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What is the solution? First, to protect humanity from this inevitable decline, persons allowed to immigrate to places like the USA need to go through a process that involves:

1. Vetting to ensure that they are not criminals in their country of origin and/or enemies of their new country.
2. Medical testing to prevent the import of diseases that, for all intents and purposes, had been irradicated.
3. Education regarding the values and practical workings of the culture and government of the destination country so that they can assimilate into THAT COUNTRY’S society.
4. Most importantly, they must be LIMITED IN NUMBER so that the mores of the new society won’t be diluted to the point that that society regresses from all that they have achieved.

This is not a racist or selfish concept. A simple look at history will show that where freedom has been allowed to flourish and where governments have evolved away from totalitarianism and dictatorships, quality of life improves, not in a moment, but over time. Humanity in these areas adjusts, and their way of thinking evolves with societal growth.

This leads to the second way to improve the quality of life of humanity worldwide. Take it to the source. Simply moving populations from one location, where quality-of-life is sub-optimal or even abysmal, to a better one won’t fix the problem. The root cause needs to be addressed. Governments (and the people under them) need to decide to improve the lives of their citizens. Western Societies can’t force this progress. I’m not sure how to accomplish it since so many evil actors exist in this world who do not want to change the status quo, but I do believe that it can’t be done through military domination. Societies have to go willingly.

Still, the destruction of the advances and advantages in Western societies is not the answer. Importing the 3rd World way of thinking into Western societies will only make matters worse here without helping the people there. We need to stop the destruction of our way of life, help those who we can, and be an example as a way to encourage the rest of the world to join us in prosperity. Our resources didn’t get Western civilization to where it is. Our way of thinking did. Once other societies understand this and change, their quality of life will improve the same way it did in Western societies. They can then enjoy the life that they seek where they are. This won’t take them as long as it did the West. We’ve already laid the groundwork. I say, “Come on in, the water’s fine. Just do it for yourselves without demanding, taking, and eventually destroying what we have worked for millennia to build.”

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The Virginia state senate just passed a bill essentially outlawing the AR-15 and similar firearms.

Now, anyone who’s familiar with the Bruen ruling and its two-part test knows that this bill simply ignores that ruling.

If the bill passes into law, gun rights groups will have to spend time, money, and effort going to court to have the law overturned. And while they’ll succeed, the same thing will just keep happening in other jurisdictions.  It’s a game of whack-a-mole.

It occurs to me that some enterprising state, controlled by conservatives, should do something like enact a law requiring prayer in school or something else that would drive progressives crazy.

Why?  Because progressives would start trotting out Supreme Court rulings:  You can’t have prayer in schools because of Bob v. Carol, Ted v. Alice, and so on!

To which the appropriate response would be:

Oh, we’re paying attention to Supreme Court rulings now?  Because, after looking at the gun control laws being passed in places like California and Virginia, we thought we were past that. If progressive states don’t have to listen to the Supreme Court, why should conservative states?

Hard to argue with that logic.

And it seems as though we have passed the point where the Supreme Court gets the final word on anything because state legislatures are learning to use the trick that the Court has been using almost since its inception:  If you just pretend that words that clearly say one thing actually mean something quite different, then you can claim that ‘the law’ is whatever you want it to be.

Which brings us full circle to the very first public comments I ever made, back in 2014, when I asked:

If legislatures are going to ignore the limits placed on them by their constitutions, why shouldn’t individuals ignore limits placed on them by those legislatures?

Substitute courts for constitutions (which many people believe is a reasonable thing to do), and you get another special case of a more fundamental question:

Does paying attention to what legislatures, and courts, and executive agencies say, bring us closer to the rule of law, or take us further away from it?

It’s getting harder to deny, I think, that the answer is further away.

That being the case, it’s probably time to scrap the whole system and go back to the drawing board, starting with the fundamental ideas of the Declaration of Independence.  (Which happen, by the way, to be the fundamental ideas of the GOP platform since the creation of the party — on paper, if not in practice.)  These are:

(1) people form governments to protect the rights they already have; and

(2) those governments get their just power to act from the consent of the governed.

Except, this time, we should actually take them seriously.

Or we could just start from the Golden Rule,

What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow man.

and restrict ourselves to laws of the form

Because I do not wish to have someone else do ________ to me, I consent to be punished if I do it, or try to do it, to someone else.

At heart, these are really the same thing.   And we don’t need layers of legal priests to interpret them for us.

Could we do this?  Well, there is certainly precedent for it.

Back when the Continental Congress met to amend the Articles of Confederation, they came out of the meeting with a completely new plan for government, to completely replace the existing one.

They didn’t ask for permission to do that.  They didn’t consider whether it was allowed by the current framework or try to work within that framework.  They just did it.

And we could do it again.   When will it be time for that?  Again, we can turn to the Declaration for the answer:

all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed

We’ll do it when the evils stop being sufferable.  Or, as many people have said when enough of us get sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Bill Maher is wrong about a lot of things, but he has never been afraid to say what he thinks, and given who his audience is, that means a lot when it comes to issues like free speech. It also makes us giggle (like a schoolgirl on hormone replacement therapy) when he smacks down Haley-Homer Chris Sununu.

The clip has been collecting in-box digital dust for a few days, so apologies for the delay (and thanks for the link), but it is something that – in my opinion – will never get old.

Chris Sununu is on Real Time with Bill Maher to continue to appeal to undecided voters and Democrats to pick the Republican nominee. That’s my guess. I can’t imagine any other reason why he’d be on or even invited.

And while we don’t have the whole interview or any surrounding context, the smackdown by Maher looks brutal (with a stylized ending by the X-poster that is smirk-worthy).

SEE IT: Bill Maher tells Governor Chris Sununu to his face to sh..t up and accept that Trump will be the GOP nominee. WATCH pic.twitter.com/QUrFeOAJDM

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) February 5, 2024

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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And then they wonder why we don’t trust the enemedia any more.

 

 

 

 

Remember my cartoon:

 

 

 

 

 

I have a crapton of Delta SkyMiles.  Guess I won’t be adding any more.

 

 

 

I can only hope.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wondering if I can get such a table, but with a lion or with a dragon…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why do I have the feeling I posted this one before…?

 

 

 

Or government.  Or medical professionals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Be on guard with the police.  They can lie to you.

 

LAWYER EXPLAINS: 12 Lies the Police Love to Use

 

 

 

LAWYER: 5 Ways to Outsmart the Police

 

 

This is another shattering of illusions moment for me, because – at least on the local level – I’ve always believed that I can trust the police.  Not so any more.

Lawyers may be expensive, but… better to get one than not.  You will never, ever talk yourself out of being a suspect, but you can blab your way into being arrested.  Or, worse, they can compile enough to even prosecute you.

 

ONLY 3 Things to Say to The Police!

 

 

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You and any descendants you have first.

Abstract question – who would win, a soldier arachnid (above) from Starship Troopers, or a Xenomorph from Alien?

 

 

Enemedia going batsh!t crazy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Links:

 

America’s Favorite Cookie Takes a Hard Left Turn (townhall.com)

Haven’t liked Oreos for decades.  No loss.  Kinda related, at least to me:

WATCH: Leaked Internal Footage of Senior Officials at Federal Aviation Administration Reveals Plan to Reduce Number of White Males in Aviation | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Woke is harmful and is going to prove deadly.

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The Feral Irishman: Perspective…

Bunch of links with commentary.  Prep stuff too. Related to prepping:

Don’t Be Misled by Propaganda: Banks Are Collapsing | NC Renegades

And from Surak:

Economic deception and collapse – Surak substack blog

Also:

The Social Security clock keeps ticking – American Thinker

Some years ago I read that between the public debt and the unfunded liabilities for various programs in the US, the money needed to repay the debt and fund these is north of $100 trillion.  Worldwide, debt and unfunded liabilities was north of $200 trillion.  The wealth to do this literally does not exist.  And related to financing on a specific product:

Bayou Renaissance Man: Rooftop solar panels: warning lights are flashing

And on solar in general:

Greens in Shock at Australia’s “Rally Against Reckless Renewables” – Watts Up With That?

The True Costs of Net Zero Are Becoming Impossible to Hide – MishTalk

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Full-Time Work Is Being Replaced by Part-Time Jobs as Americans and Businesses Struggle – Tennessee Star

“Wherever possible, businesses are eliminating full-time jobs and replacing them with part-time jobs to reduce costs,” E.J. Antoni, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Many firms are also conducting ‘quiet’ layoffs, according to multiple surveys. This involves eliminating a full-time position when the occupant either quits or is fired — the person simply isn’t replaced. The drop in payrolls is the same as if you laid off those people. Meanwhile, the sectors that are still hiring are predominantly bringing on people part-time.”

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Has The “Cancer Cure” Been Known For 42 Years? * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

As I understand it, cancer drugs are a huge industry.  Imagine if there was something simple that could cure cancer (or mostly).  There is an awful lot of incentive to quash therapies that don’t fit that model.

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Christian UPS driver confronts company over LGBT and woke agenda (massresistance.org)

A man fights back.

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Making Sense of Disease Mortality Charts (substack.com)

Surak weighs in; very interesting data, e.g., on measles.  Sanitation, nutrition, and food hygiene.  Speaking of:

Sweden & Germany: We found No Deaths In Children Due to Covid, by Dr. Paul Alexander; we also found not one healthy child in America across 4 years got COVID infection, or severe illness or died, NONE (substack.com)

And more:

THE SPIKE PROTEIN OF SARS-CoV-2 BINDS HEMOGLOBIN, RELEASING IRON INTO THE CIRCULATION INDUCING ONCOGENIC, NEURODEGENERATIVE, INFLAMMATORY, IMMUNE AND VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS, SENESCENCE AND AGING – WMC Research

So it causes heart disease, causes / accelerates cancers, and all these other effects.  Who the living F developed this?

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Biden to send troops to STOP Texas from protecting border (wnd.com)

Treason.  Plain and simple – treason.

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UK’s “Online Safety Act” OFFICIALLY grants MSM permission to publish lies – OffGuardian (off-guardian.org)

Incredible.  And whether on the books officially or not, I suspect this is the same in most countries.

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How Empires Live and Die – Starving the Monkeys

RIP USMC – Starving the Monkeys

Wet Paper Tiger – Starving the Monkeys

Maf is Hard – Starving the Monkeys

Recently came across this blogger (Starving the Monkeys), and his insights on various military readiness issues (mostly involving Naval Warfare and/or Marines) were pretty amazing.  Some of these are long to read (and rather disheartening), but it paints the (fairly bleak) picture of how our military would fare in an actual peer to peer or near-peer conflict.

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African Nation Passes New Law For Surgical Castration Of Convicted Pedophiles * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

Madagascar just passed a law allowing judges to sentence pedophiles to surgical castration, as the “chemical castration” was not working, and criminals would “re-offend”.

 

 

Looks like it’s catching on.  Bring it to America.  Heck, for regular rape… three separate-incident convictions… the odds you’re innocent in all three are ZERO.  Bye bye boys.  Though for pedos and repeat rapists, I’d suggest that the equation BULLET + BRAIN might be cheaper, and possibly more effective as a deterrent.

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Moonbattery Leftists Threaten to Target Patriots in Homes and Churches – Moonbattery

So  what else is new?

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Thermal Earring feels its wearer’s heat – via their earlobe (newatlas.com)

Closing out – wearable monitors.  Remember what Yuval said?  Surveillance under your skin.

 

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Slammed on so many levels.

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After reading an account of a 1948 primary election that detailed a probability of criminality, which apparently continues to be relied upon, I am reminded of more youthful times when parents, after learning of or witnessing bad behavior, would correct their children with a spanking.

As stated, the tactics employed in the 1948 stunner were apparently still in play during the 2020 Presidential elections. While some question just how a 1948 primary contest can be connected with today, many others still close their eyes when singing the rhyme of, “Oh, that’s just good ole Uncle Joe, he’s harmless.”

Has anyone ever asked about the purpose of re-electing a “harmless” Senator? If he’s really so harmless, just what is the worth of his Senate seat, especially when, during his career, he’s never been right on any foreign policy issue? This distinction of such a difficult consistency is well known.

Returning to that 1948 Texas primary, think about the similarities that re-surfaced in 2020. In 1948, LBJ was the underdog to the popular former Texas Governor, Coke Stevenson. Then, too, in 1948, poll watchers were distanced from the action, late discoveries of large amounts of ballots appeared many days after Texas’s three-day extension, former residents of Texas, along with dead people, submitted ballots, and the necessary media was controlled by Johnson and the State Constitution was blatantly violated.

Not only will this pattern of past success probably resurface in 2024, but more importantly, this comparison establishes an MO, a ‘method of operation’ from the same culprit source, the Democrat Party, while answering the same need. Since that source and intent remain unchanged and are now also being fueled by their increased trepidation of the probable 2024 outcome, this cannot and should not be cavalierly dismissed.

This piece of writing is a “voter beware sign” as to what we could face again this November. Naturally, to the more liberal-minded, this info is automatically viewed as “more MAGA propaganda.” Well, not so quick. This information was taken from a 1977 audio recording, which was posted to the archival website of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum. MAGA wasn’t involved!

The twentieth century is loaded with examples that failed to spark any corrective proceedings, so this modern-day habit of inaction will not be a shocker, and neither will the results! What is needed is to appreciate and use this evidence against what has become a Democrat standard. Remember, to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

America needs to re-activate its law and order mechanisms without delay. The term “America” still means “we the people.” What is needed is to identify and then remove (spank) the undeserving at all levels of governing. It would require a diversion from our normal routines, but time and interest spent learning what these career politicians are really all about will bring unknown dividends. To paraphrase Dr. Ben Franklin when also explaining why education has ceased to educate properly, he believed that a nation that stays well informed “cannot be enslaved.”

Our “too busy” or “my vote won’t matter” refrains encourage these career undesirables and incompetents, and that is why their re-elections have become so routine. Both parties are busy grooming their own stable of controllable puppets; and it shows!

Spanking works, and judging from the lack of it, today’s youthful violence satisfies the democrat’s anti-American agenda. Without restraints and accountability, whether it be the child, the politician, or the rioter, their behavior will never change! Why would it?

Our people own the right and have the opportunity to correct and improve the country they love on each election day. It is the day when not only their voices are heard but finally listened to and obeyed! And since it appears that “we the people” are the only remaining contingent that cares, this solemn duty must be addressed. If not, then their abusive power, for which all governments are drawn, will continue, but more to the point, it will then reflect the truer caliber of our citizens!

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Last week, after a bill to charge citizens for access to public documents failed, I called the charge (fee, levy) a tax. Some boob took to X to tell me it was not a tax, as if the government taking money from citizens could be anything but. Later that day, a motion to reconsider was scheduled and reconsidered yesterday.

The vote to reconsider passed, but an effort to table it failed. HB1002 was eventually recommitted, which means it is still alive and back in committee where it was recommended as ought to pass the first time by a vote of 12-8. We’d like to see that change for many reasons, some of which we’ve shared on these pages already.

To facilitate this wind of change, you’ll have to reach out to the committee with many of the same points that helped get the reconsideration vote.

The original floor vote on HB1002 was 193-179. Seven votes the other way, and it fails. After the request to recommit, groups like the ACLU are alleged to have been working on the Democrat’s side in opposition to the legislation with as much enthusiasm as we were working on the Republican side. The vote to reconsider was 195-183. The vote to table it (kill it without killing it; someone can always ask for a vote to take it off the table) failed 126-254, after which it was recommitted.

It is back in the Judiciary Committee from which it originated, and at this point, our goal is to get the committee to vote it inexpedient to legislate, which will make it easier to kill come the next floor vote.

Advocates will do whatever they can to dress this thing up, but at the end of the day, it will be the same old whore in a new dress. A tax on access to public documents, which, as I noted here, “HB1002 will make the government less transparent, less accessible, and less accountable. Is that what you were elected to do in Concord, or was it the reverse?”

Please get in touch with the reps on the Judiciary Committee and politely offer your thoughts in opposition to the bill.

No new fees, fines, levies, or taxes for public documents unless they are against the towns/individuals, making them more difficult to access; we could support that.

 

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We learned that State Representative Matthew (Matt) Coker (R-Meredith) officially switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. The Republican Caucus welcomed him warmly and looks forward to working with him to serve his constituents with integrity and conviction.

A House Republican press release stated, “Representative Coker’s transition to the Republican Party underscores the inclusive nature of the GOP, which prioritizes diversity of thought and welcomes individuals from all walks of life who share a common vision for a prosperous and vibrant New Hampshire.”   You could say they put out the “Welcome Matt.”

We learned that the Consulat général du Canada à Boston is celebrating its 75th Anniversary! And to celebrate, we had a visit and speech from Consul General Bernadette Jordan who spoke about our northern border, our trade relationship, and our working together. With her was Deputy Ambassador Arun Alexander. Speaker Packard presented the Consul General with a declaration recognizing the 75th anniversary. The Consul General even treated us to lunch in the cafeteria. Sadly, there was no poutine. However, they did leave us maple candies at each table.

We learned that a bill that passed on February 1st was brought back for reconsideration after Rep Lisa Smart (R-Meredith) filed a motion for reconsideration after the House session after voting on the prevailing side. HB1002 passed last week 193-179. This bill allows public bodies to charge $25 an hour for documents requested under the Right to Know law if it takes over 10 hours to gather said documents. Anyway, the motion to reconsider passed 195-183. Then, a motion to Table failed 126-254, after which the bill was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee on a voice vote. Let’s see what they do to it there. It seems to me this bill will be totally ineffective because people will merely submit these large requests in smaller chunks to get around paying a fee.

We also learned that the 3 high-profile bills of the day yielded two losses and one win for School Choice in NH, even as almost all members of the Republican caucus wore yellow scarves in support of School Choice. First was HB1561, which failed 197-185. HB1561, relative to qualifications for student eligibility in the Education Freedom Accounts program, would have allowed students who are having difficulties in their school to qualify for the Education Freedom Account program, no matter what the family income bracket is. Children of families outside of the income cap, who are in vulnerable student groups, apparently do not have a chance to succeed, according to 197 who voted NO on Ought To Pass. All Democrats and 10 Republicans would rather pour money into systems failing these kids instead of investing in alternatives to help these kids succeed.

Additionally, we learned that HB1634 failed with a vote of 194-186 against the OTP motion, which would have made EFA’s universal and removed the income cap completely. All Democrats and 7 Republicans kept this bill from passing. After taking a lunch break, we came back, and thankfully, the third time was the charm. HB1665 passed 190-189 with 1 Democrat voting Yes and 4 Republicans voting No. This bill will change the income cap for eligibility from 350% to 500% of the federal poverty level guidelines. All votes on these three bills were roll-called. It appears people vote better on a full stomach.

We learned that slavery was back in the bill docket as we voted on HB1580. That bill would have prevented government procurement of electric vehicles containing components created through the use of forced labor. The ITL motion passed 294-84 and the bill failed primarily because it can’t really be determined what components of an EV would have been produced by forced labor. The bill was well-meaning but just not workable… unless we ban anything produced in places like China, etc.…. And why just stop at EVs? What about other stuff the state buys that’s made in places that utilize forced labor, like China?

We learned that HB1116 passed 221-157. This bill updates current law to remove the restriction on the action of the rifle and adds the use of straight-walled pistol cartridges of .357 or greater. The majority of the Fish and Game committee agreed that the action of the rifle has a negligible impact on the ballistics or power of the pistol round fired. They also thought that adding more options for hunters allowed for greater accuracy and safety. Of course, Democrats, who are clueless about firearms in general, just couldn’t bear the thought of firearms expansion with this bill. I guess you could say they were gun-shy.

We learned that a bill (HB1662) that would have prohibited certain Health and Human Services department members from having simultaneous employment with adoption or child placement agencies failed to pass. The ITL motion passed 190-187. 183 Democrats and 7 Republicans did not think that any kind of conflict of interest could happen. Perhaps we can sell them a bridge too.

We also learned that HB1049 was not only killed, but was Indefinitely Postponed with a vote of 324-53. This bill would have allowed overnight mooring of houseboats on bodies of water held in public trust, otherwise known as inland waters over 10 acres in size. House members received hundreds of emails from people on Lake Winnipesaukee asking to kill this bill because they didn’t want people lingering overnight, polluting the lake with trash and sewage, or partying and making a nuisance. I was afraid that we might not have had the time to vote on this bill because, clearly, we were still reading all of the hundreds of emails sent to us.

We learned that HB1700 failed to move on after an ITL motion passed 315-58. This bill would have prohibited the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation into our skies. The bill included stiff penalties for violations. Now on its face it’s a good idea not to want to have all kinds of chemicals sprayed above us, but this bill identified a very wide range of items, some of which have not been proven to be harmful. Additionally, the reporting mechanism and enforcement were just not ready for prime time. That being said, my feeling is that in the near future, this issue should be something we should look at more closely for workable legislation and not just allow this to dissipate into thin air.

We learned that some people thought that HB1062 was a frivolous bill. It clarifies how “cover plates” on your vehicle can be used. It states that it is OK for you to use your cover plate on one end of your vehicle and your regular license plate on the other. It passed 198-177. So, frivolity wins!

Finally, we learned that a bill pulled off the Consent Calendar (HB1228) which was ITL’d in committee 15-2 was then summarily ITL’d 312-61 in the House. This bill had to do with establishing a fish and game guide committee to determine qualifications for fish and game guides. Apparently, folks are upset that applicants are failing licensure tests because they are having trouble due to learning styles and problems with the oral testing. This bill didn’t really address the issue, and perhaps it’s a better idea that instead of passing a new law, NH Fish and Game should collaborate with the Dept. of Education on how to do an effective evaluation of skills. At the end of the day, we don’t want to lower standards and allow people to pass these exams who cannot read maps or perform other necessary skills, so that we can fill positions.

There’s more to come next week…

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Nevada’s screwed-up primary/caucus has even the ordinarily well-informed scratching their heads after Tuesday’s primary with Haley, no Trump. Haley didn’t do well on Tuesday, losing to none of the above by over 30 points. The Caucus, held last night, appointed delegates, and Candidate Trump crushed it.

Trump was one of two candidates on the caucus ballot, along with pastor Ryan Binkley, who failed to secure a delegate in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. As of 11:02 p.m. ET, NBC News had called the race when Trump garnered 96.4 percent of the vote to Binkley’s 3.6 percent, with one percent reporting. …

As the state Republican Party pointed out, Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Doug Burgum (R-ND), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) had originally qualified for the caucus ballot but were removed after suspending their campaigns. Notably, all of the men but Christie have come out and voiced their support for Trump.

Trump, who flew to Nevada on Thursday afternoon, won the Virgin Islands Republican Caucuses as well on Thursday night.

Haley was actually on the ballot in the Virgin Islands, but Chris Sununu won’t likely be chasing microphones to tell us how vital this non-victory was to her campaign. Trump won it 74% to 26% – 182 to 64 votes. 4 Delegates were up for grabs.

Nevada offered up 26 delegates—a few. Trump has 63 delegates total, compared to Haley’s 17 (DeSantis has nine, Ramaswamy has three).

South Carolina is next (Super Tuesday, Feb 24), where Trump is polling at 68% to Haley’s 31% with 50 Delegates up for grabs. Michigan, Idaho, Missouri, DC, and North Dakota are the week after – March 5th is Super Tuesday, with 16 more states voting for a Republican Nominee.

 

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