Saturday • April 19 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XVI
Manchester, N.H.
China is building coal plants faster than a Democrat can stuff a ballot box, earning it the glorious distinction of being the world’s leader in CO2 and air pollution emissions.
But the usual suspects aren’t losing their minds. Greta has never protested there, and extinction rebellion is extinct.
China owns most of the mines, digging up rare earth metals to make the graven green idols of the new energy left. China is also a leader in ocean pollution and ocean plastic, but bringing any of that is Asian hate speech. A problem Cult stenographers at Reuters are addressing head-on. Yeah, China emits a lot of CO2, but it’s different.
It makes sense from an economic and geopolitical perspective to power China’s vehicle fleet using domestic electricity rather than imported crude oil.
The question is then whether China can meet its climate goals by switching increasingly to NEVs, which will be powered by a coal-heavy electricity grid for decades to come.
China used coal for about 63% of its electricity generation in 2022, with hydropower coming in second at 14%, and other renewable energies such as wind generating 9% and solar 5%.
China is also the world’s biggest installer of renewable power sources and is expanding its nuclear fleet as well, but coal is expected to remain the bedrock of electricity production, even as its share of generation gradually decreases.
But even using a predominantly coal-fired grid to charge NEVs is better from a climate perspective, insofar as an electric vehicle powered by a 60% coal-fired grid will produce lower lifecycle emissions that a similar ICE vehicle.
The author is crazy excited about China doing whatever it takes to reduce oil imports, even if it means burning tons of dirty coal. They’ve even done the math for us. An E need only drive 79,000 miles, even on coal, for the profile to reduce emissions. They then promise these vehicles will last to 170,000, so ta-dah, coal is better, and isn’t China wonderful?
As I understand it, China doesn’t use or require stack scrubbers. The author does not calculate the carbon cost of replacing the lithium pack, which will never make it to 170,000 miles and may even need ot be replaced twice to achieve that. There is no calculation for other realities like power loss, bleed, declining range, and how EVs are easily “totaled” from even the simplest of auto collisions.
Or that China will likely never shoot itself in the face by demanding EV embrace or anything approaching the electric future envisioned by Western progressives.
What it is doing is burning coal to shore up its military-industrial complex and commercial global dominance and using cheap, abundant energy to advance its global political agenda while selling the rope to the West with which its elites have chosen to hang us all.
And if you complain about that, I can only assume you’ll be called a racist, even though Democrats hate Asians almost as much as white Europeans.
HT | Real Climate Science
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The second GOP debate for the 2024 primary will take place this Wednesday, and not only will there be fewer people on the stage, but there will be a different sense of urgency about them.
The six candidates likely to be on stage are Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, U.S. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, biotech investor Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. To many, myself included, Ron DeSantis has been a surprise and disappointment. Perhaps the distraction of running a state and doing it very well has taken his eye off the prize, or maybe our expectations of his presence on the national stage were set too high.
He came into the race in a solid second place, only behind former President Trump, but has not connected with the folks of Iowa and New Hampshire and has dropped steadily in the rankings. Maybe not at the point of desperation yet, but DeSantis has to have a monumental night on Wednesday. His policies are sound, but his likeability numbers are dragging him down. He has to come out and convince viewers and voters that he is as Presidential as Gavin Newsom. There was talk of a made-for-TV debate between DeSantis and Newsom, and I think that testosterone-driven event would speed his decline.
Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy have been steady, and Vivek has moved into second in some polls. The others need to show why they are even in the game. Being in the single digits at this point should convince you that you may want the job, but America does not see you in the Oval Office. Pence and Scott are good men and have a message of hope and unity, but that message alone is not loud enough to make a difference. Chris Christie is not a good man, and his only purpose to be in the race is personal. He hates Donald Trump and wants to denigrate him at every opportunity. Many have tried that approach, asking the entire Democrat Party how that is working for them, but nothing seems to drag the polling numbers down; it only seems to bolster them.
In reality, do these debates have any importance in the 2024 Race? I think not. Unless the Democrats can find a way to legally keep Trump off the ballot and force Biden to the sidelines, it appears that America wants a rematch or a re-do. This scenario will be as ugly as an Ali vs. Frazier rematch. I do not think you will see Biden threaten to take Trump behind the barn this time unless it is to write initials in the snow. One thing that will be obvious if these two men stand on the debate stage together is what many of us have been saying for months: it is not age but acuity, and Trump will make Biden look like the feeble older man he is.
The debate will happen this week, and there will be more to come, but these sessions are not even an audition for a second spot on the ticket. If Trump is successful in surviving politically until the main event, I think he will snub all of the established possibilities for a running mate and surprise the world. I have no idea who it might be, but it will be worth tuning in for and probably more interesting than the debate.
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Black Democrat Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced he was switching to the Republican Party. It is a bold move in a city like Dallas, and if nothing else, the Democrat party is pissed, so at least one good thing came out of it.
But I’m not sure how a party jump will accomplish anything unless the goal is to prove a Republican mayor can oversee a crime-riddled urban plantation like Dallas. Look!, It’s not just Democrats wrecking American cities.
Time will tell, but Eric Johnson has sounded all the proper alarms and is saying the right things.
“The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism,” Johnson wrote. “Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.”
He added: “In other words, American cities need Republicans—and Republicans need American cities.”
Johnson’s announcement makes him the only Republican among the mayors of the 10 most populous cities in the US.
The ten most populous cities in the US account for the majority of poverty, crime, and illiteracy, and Mayor Johnson (snicker) was elected as a Democrat with 98% of the vote, according to CNN. Needless to say (this is where we repeat it anyway), the Texas Democrat Party is not amused.
“[T]he voters of Dallas deserved to know where he stood before he ran for reelection as Mayor,” the chair and vice-chair of the party said. “He wasn’t honest with his constituents, and knew he would lose to a Democrat if he flipped before the election.”
“This feeble excuse for democratic representation will fit right in with Republicans — and we are grateful that he can no longer tarnish the brand and values of the Texas Democratic Party,” they added.
The voters of Dallas deserve peace and prosperity, even if they can’t figure out how to vote for some of that.
Violent crime in Dallas is nearly double that of Texas and more than double the national median rate. Property crime is also roughly double that of the US average, with total crimes averaging 150 per square mile, 5.6 times greater than the US average. The poverty rate in Dallas is close to 18%. It’s everything you’d expect from systemic Democrat rule, but what can be done?
Mayor Johnson is saying the right things, but Dallas is a captured franchise of the Democrat political machine. Every office and every position of leadership is controlled by the (now) opposing party or its union representative. Nothing moves unless you move it yourself, which would begin with exercising whatever executive authority you have as Mayor to remove and replace people in key positions.
Can you? Wcritical you? And is there enough time to show progress before discovering how your party primaries you out when it is time for re-election? And remember that they will bring thugs to Dallas to make things look bad or worse. Antifa and BLM riots. General chaos and Mayhem.
The Left will set Dallas on fire to smoke you out of office, and being a black man will not protect you.
Having said all that, good on you for daring to stand up for the people of Dallas or at least saying things that need to be said. The Democrat party has destroyed America’s cities and stranded millions on their new urban plantation of crime, drug abuse, poverty, homelessness, and disease. But you have to do more than say you are a Republican.
We’ve got plenty of those already and they aren’t helping anyone but themselves.
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I would add to what Rand says that we need to protect our own border. The situation at our Southern border reeks Uniparty corruption just as much as funding the corruptocracy called Ukraine. The GOP wants an open-border because the donor-class wants cheap labor. The Democrats want an open-border because they want votes (Democrats are as happy to have … indeed probably prefer … illegal votes to legal votes) and to “transform” America. As a result, a population the size of Kentucky has crossed illegally into the United States. They’re not coming here because they want to be Americans. They’re radically different from legal immigrants (generally).
They’re coming here not to assimilate but to continue being Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Cameroonians, Ethiopians, etc., etc. etc.. … while taking advantage of all the “free stuff” the Biden-Regime is providing to juice illegal immigration. The Woke-Left sees everything through the prism of woke. They practice the latest iteration of Socialism … Socialism based on woke, as opposed to class (Marx) or race (Hitler). To the race-obsessed Woke-Left, an America that is less White is a better America.
Convince a majority that they are part of some “marginalized,” “discriminated against,” etc., etc. etc. group and that their only hope of ending the discrimination, hate, marginalization, etc., etc., etc., is to give Democrats political power … eventually permanent political power. It’s evil and un-American. And yet the GOP is willing to look the other way because their donor-class can profit off of America’s “transformation.”
Do not be deceived by Zelensky, Rand Paul (@RandPaul) says, Ukraine is corrupt: "They’ve canceled the elections ..They banned the political parties, they’ve invaded churches, they’ve arrested priests, so no, it isn’t a democracy, it’s a corrupt regime."pic.twitter.com/EWUDsa4TKt
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 21, 2023
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When a Democrat promises unity, they mean division. When they say transparent, they mean opaque, obscured, hidden. So, when the Biden Administration suggested it would be the most transparent, they meant what they said by their own understanding.
Short of a court order, and even with one, getting details is a tough row to hoe, especially regarding informed consent for the much-beloved covid “family” of vaccines*. The idea that you’ve been provided – as required by law – any risk factors associated with The Jab is absurd. But why should the Bidenistas try to meet any standard but their own? Millions accepted the injections based on the tagline “safe and effective.” Any question or deviation from the approved narrative was met with institutional resistance.
COVID ushered in a political public health police state, and the skeeving bastards couldn’t get enough. Dr. Roberty Malone, speaking to the problem in Canada, reminds us that,
What few are aware of is that this thoughtcrime punishment is being visited on many other Ontario physicians who had the temerity to provide early treatment for COVID disease, particularly those administering the forbidden treatments of Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc and other inexpensive, off patent repurposed drugs or over-the-counter supplements.
Additional speech- thought- and medical practice crimes include failure to properly employ worthless cloth or paper dust masks to prevent coronaviral transmission, as well as granting medical and religious exemptions from receipt of toxic COVID “vaccines” which an abundance of data indicate are neither safe nor effective at preventing infection, replication, spread, hospitalization or death from disease associated with SARS-CoV-2 positive PCR tests.
Canada has proven everything wrong anyone had to say about the pre-socialization onramp of American medicine under Obamacare: the death panels are real and growing in number from local public health boards to their root at the FDA and CDC, which admits to having but is refusing to release, new details on vaccine-induced myocarditis.
Asked for more current data, the spokesman acknowledged the agency has it but is not making it public. “When appropriate, the updated safety data will be published,” the spokesman told The Epoch Times in an email. He did not answer when asked why the meeting was not an appropriate time.
“The CDC has acknowledged that heart inflammation is a complication of mRNA COVID-19 shots and, yet, the only published data released by CDC officials about that complication is a seven week study that ended on Oct. 23, 2022. Where is more specific myocarditis/pericarditis data related to bivalent COVID shots for the past 10 months?” Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, told The Epoch Times via email.
Right out of the gate, that data can’t be good. If it were, it would have leaked to the media PR departments at CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, and Washington Post. We’d never hear the end of it. So, it’s bad and needs massaging, like everything else about this public health emergency.
And the bivalents? That was more voodoo and sleight of hand, like Comirnaty – a rebranding sold as an approved reformulation, but it was the same old whore in a new dress. And the side effects continue, regardless of the packaging; many are dangerous and life-altering, unreported or under-reported by design. Reporting is discouraged. An intentional dearth of information that is then used as evidence that the data is too incomplete to base policy.
Deliberate data deficiency to prevent transparency and accountability.
The covid vaccine Death Hockeystick was about as blatant a safety signal as you could find but not obvious enough to stop the chemical slaughter, suggesting the purpose was not to save lives but to end them. Hiding vaccine-induced heart damage is just part of the program.
And now we’ve got The Jab 3.0 (or is it 4.0?). Original, Comirnaty (same thing, new name), Bivalent, and now this: reformulated, we are told, to address the rapidly evolving mutations of new variant-offspring of Omicron, effective the way an untended net stops goals from being scored or perhaps the goalie gets credit for the assist.
A new variant offspring of the pharmaceuticals whose introduction spiked vaccine deaths and resulted in a swelling of cases of myocarditis whose numbers the CDC and FDA have but are unwilling to share with the people they insist line up for the next round of treatment.
If you express concern for your patients in Canada, you could be sent to a medical re-education camp and forced to sign a loyalty letter promising to do what you are told, whether or not you think it is in your patient’s best interest.
Doctors must be bureaucrats first and caregivers last, by order of the all-powerful state – and in an assisted suicide-crazy place like Canada, that can’t be good for Canadians.
Who needs death camps when public health care becomes an enforcement arm of a political regime that need not answer to anyone about anything?
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In prior installments of this series, state and national standardized test scores in New Hampshire and Vermont contradict the current narrative that the COVID pandemic shutdown caused children to suffer “learning loss.” Instead, the data reveals that the test scores have been deplorable for more than two decades and that they were in decline well in advance of the pandemic shutdown.
As elementary schools are tasked with teaching children how to read, we’ve looked at several in our region to assess both their scores and how they teach reading. Our reports on the Croydon Village School and Killington Elementary School reveal that there’s little, if any, evidence of “pandemic learning loss.” The Washington Elementary School seems to have been negatively affected by the pandemic shutdown. We were unable to determine whether or not the Albert Bridge School in Windsor was affected as Vermont won’t report its school-specific scores due to the school’s small size.
We now look at the Grantham Village School (GVS) in Grantham, NH.
Sydney Leggett has been the superintendent of the Grantham School District for six years. GVS houses Pre-K through grade 6. With 275 students, it has one class for Pre-K and two classes per grade beyond that, with an average of 18 students per class. The school has 14 classroom teachers, 4 specialists (music, art, library media specialist, physical education/health), two education case managers, one reading specialist and one reading and math interventionist.
Superintendent Leggett said they have not noticed a change in student achievement since the pandemic. The New Hampshire Student Assessment System (NHSAS) data supports her statement. The NHSAS is administered yearly to students attending traditional public and charter schools in grades 3-8.
The Grantham NHSAS Reading chart (below) shows that 84% of GVS students scored proficient or above in reading in 2017. That percentage fell to 76% in 2019. In 2021 it rose to 77%, declining very slightly to 76% in 2022. Clearly, GVS’ scores weren’t affected by the pandemic shutdown. Still, though GVS students are significantly outperforming NH’s statewide reading scores, one out of 4 students aren’t reading at grade level.
Leggett said this performance is the result of the community working strongly together to focus on student needs. The school held an expanded summer program for two years in a row, for those who didn’t normally attend summer school, so they could keep building skills. Paraprofessionals had individual contact with students for a year and a half during the pandemic period.
Leggett commended the many parents who created an environment in their homes to help students learn.
One parent, who spoke with me on the condition of anonymity, said that many parents in this wealthy community were hiring tutors or paying for online supplements to help their children learn to read before the pandemic; something common in affluent communities across the country. This is also supported by the podcast series “Sold A Story” (cited below) as being a regular occurrence. The pandemic shutdown caused more parents to engage outside services.
It is well known that when parents are involved in their children’s learning, they perform better in school, although hiring tutors isn’t what people usually think of when they say “involved.” This may account for the above average performance of GVS students on the NHSAS.
For reading instruction, GVS started using the Fountas & Pinnell (F&P) “cueing” curriculum about 7 years ago. The idea behind “Cueing Theory” is that it’s easier for children to learn to read if they start with whole stories and whole sentences and do not try to read individual words. Teachers cover up words in a story and tell students to look at the picture, look at the first letter, and think of a word that makes sense. The theory says that by practicing this approach, children can figure out how to read on their own.
The science of reading research indicates that this isn’t how good readers learn to read, but rather how poor readers try to compensate for not being able to read. The science of reading research is summarized in an engaging podcast series called “Sold a Story,” produced by Emily Hanford, an investigative education journalist at American Public Media.
Leggett said they realized, after a few years, that the F&P program was not providing students with foundational early reading skills. They now supplement it with other programming that focuses on decoding and phonological awareness. The science of reading supports teaching early readers how to decode and learn the sounds that letters make. It also found that, if cueing is the main approach, students still may not learn to read fluently.
Grantham Village School is still trying to improve student literacy. The majority of the staff took the NH Department of Education intensive LETRS training last year — Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling. LETRS helps teachers understand the science of reading in order to help them teach better.
While the science of reading has shown that the cueing approach is misguided and might harm children, even if used with other methods, Leggett said that GVS continues to use Fountas & Pinnell for the parts they think are worthwhile.
The school now also uses FUNdations, which follows the science of reading. Leggett said that FUNdations has been working well for them. It uses the MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Support) program to measure reading, math and social-emotion learning. Instructional teams meet with their interventionist regularly to group students by their needs, according to the data.
Superintendent Leggett said it’s not always about the program, it’s about the instruction.
— This story is part of a series in which we show how the pandemic shutdowns in Vermont and New Hampshire affected student performance on state and national standardized tests. We’re also taking a look at how some elementary schools in our area teach reading. Next, we’ll present the final installment in this series, which will include conclusions based on the data. Prior installments in this series were published in the Eagle Times on September 9, 12, 14, 16, 19 and 21.
This article was originally published by the Eagle Times. It has been edited slightly.
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Lt Gov. Mark Robinson is back. We featured his inspired remarks a few days ago (if you missed them). He’s been getting about, standing on his principles, and making waves. But he is not splitting hairs or mincing words, and in this clip, he says there are only two genders.
He says it, and then he explains it in a way in which the Left will lose their collective mind. So, yes, it’s a great way to start your Monday morning!
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The GOP lost another special election. It wasn’t just the candidate, it wasn’t Trump. It was the GOP establishment that lost the election. The Committee to Elect House Republicans (GOP in NH) created the candidate’s web page. The Issues section is so bland it could have been written about a Democrat.
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“Serving our community priorities and Interests, Protecting our Constitutional Rights, Restoring the NH Way of Life, Supporting our Emergency Responders and Veterans, Lowering the cost of living.”
If I am a voter, this tells me nothing. It has no specifics, no reason to choose this candidate vs. the other guy.
The Republican State Leadership Committee (GOP in DC) ran a Facebook ad that screamed, “Don’t let Democrats take the State House!” but again gave voters no reason to support our guy. To anyone who took the effort to look closely, it complains about Illegal Immigration. Really? Is that what the DC GOP thinks is the biggest issue in NH?
The Committee to Elect House Republicans ran a Facebook ad urging voters to “Elect proven leader our guy” and “the other guy is a Radical.” It closed by saying that our guy is “committed to putting communities first, defending constitutional rights, and supporting emergency responders and veterans.”
Again, nothing but Motherhood and Apple Pie. Just another politician of the UniParty saying nothing.
By contrast, the Democrat’s Facebook page had specifics: He is for “lower property taxes, supporting public schools and teachers, trusting women to make decisions for their own reproductive health, protecting our environment and natural resources.” He does NOT want “to take away your guns, gas stoves, gas engine cars and trucks, or your rights” or “defunding the police or emergency services.”
And as icing on the cake, the Democrat and his wife have homeschooled their kids.
The GOP had no message. The Democrat had a message. We can’t fight something with nothing.
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Anti-marriage propaganda is all over TikTok right now. The formula of the videos is almost always the same. A woman contemplating marriage and a family has a vision of the future in which she realizes that her husband will be simultaneously controlling and checked out. She sees the “burdens” this life could bring as children come into the mix and, ultimately, chooses to run away.
It’s meant to make marriage-aged women hate men and condition them to think their lives will still be lonely and loveless, even with a husband.
Another anti marriage propaganda Tiktok pic.twitter.com/1HbmbBy67D
— Nugs (@Nugjokes) September 19, 2023
But that, of course, isn’t real life. A husband is everything. He is the base on which a woman gets to build her life. Yes, a lousy husband creates a terrible home and a hurting wife. But a good husband is a blessing. Together, they create a home filled with passion and love. Not every marriage is a barren wasteland. Most are loving and filled with laughter.
If women want joyful marriages, they should look for men who understand that their purpose is to love and protect the family — first his wife and later his children too. He should want to keep his wife safe and treasured, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually. Any attack on her is an attack on him. Marriages built like this last until that poetic last breath.
Women want to feel safe, but a husband is not some security accessory to have in case of a scary situation. They have just as important a role as men in keeping the divine balance of marriage. The wrong woman can cause the same destruction in a relationship as an abusive man. Honorable men deserve to be loved and cherished by their wives. (RELATED: ROOKE: Women Aren’t That Complex)
When women ignore their nature, it causes discontent. Denying that women are emotional creatures is disrespectful. This emotion is the greatest gift we bring into this world. We have the ability to deeply care for our friends, children, and husbands. When looking for a husband, a woman should choose a man who sees the value her emotions could bring to his family.
this is trending on tik tok
pretty crazy how mass adopted the psy ops are pic.twitter.com/YTPZnkFkp8
— GC (j/acc) (@GRITCULT) August 10, 2023
The key is the willingness of the husband to protect and the wife to honor. Marriage isn’t 50/50. There is no such thing as meeting halfway or only giving it 50 percent of your effort. Selfish people who value their “independence” can’t fathom the bond that forms when both of you give every ounce of yourself to creating a strong marriage.
A good man doesn’t want to enslave his wife. He supports her in the home so that her role is fulfilling. Protecting the family has its own hardships. Still, motherhood is the most critical and taxing job women perform. A husband who appreciates her will work to aid her on the hard days, like when all the kids are sick and the house is burning down around her. He sees the cracks forming and immediately goes to work fortifying her, loving her amid the chaos.
No, it’s not easy. Nothing worthwhile comes without hard work. But, gosh, it is a beautiful way to live your life. When the other option is empty sex and soul-crushing corporate culture, a messy house with loud children sounds like heaven. These videos want women to return to their lonely apartments like it’s some triumph over men. But it really only serves to destroy the path for women to find true happiness through a husband who adores her and children to nurture.
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Democrats cheat. Just ask Bernie Sanders. They’ve robbed him at least twice, and what did he get for it? Bernie Bros didn’t feel the Bern. Not at all. They moved on, embracing similar tactics to help the guy who robbed Bernie win an election. Tactics used by Democrats against another Democrat in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The current mayor, Joe Ganim, has been in office since 1991. A felon, Ganim went on a seven-year hiatus beginning in 2003 to serve time in a federal correctional institution after being convicted of a slew of corruption charges. But in December 2015, he was sworn back into the mayor’s office.
Ganim is currently running for reelection to his eighth term as Bridgeport mayor. One week ago, in the Democrat mayoral primary, he eked out a win over challenger John Gomes by 251 votes. A few days later, the Gomes campaign released a video showing a Ganim supporter making numerous pre-dawn trips to the ballot box outside the Bridgeport government center:
(source) The video, which was posted to the Gomes campaign Facebook page, shows a woman dropping stacks of papers into an absentee ballot box outside the government center in Bridgeport, where the city’s registrar of voters office is located.
I’m not sure there’s anything here to see. After all, numerous examples of thoroughly documented Democrat mules stuffing ballot drop boxes in Dinesh D’Souza ‘s documentary didn’t mean anything. If you look up 2000 mules, Wikipedia, the Democrat’s online encyclopedia, says,
The film falsely claims unnamed nonprofit organizations supposedly associated with the Democratic Party paid “mules” to illegally collect and deposit ballots into drop boxes in the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin during the 2020 presidential election.
A Democrat mule stuffing a ballot box in Bridgeport, CT, can’t be true either, certainly not to progressives who are beholden to the approved narrative on such matters, even if they’ve captured it on film. But here’s the Gomes campaign stepping off the Democrat plantation to suggest that a woman “recommended for criminal charges following an investigation into complaints about absentee ballot handling in Ganim’s tight 2019 primary against Sen. Marilyn Moore,” has illegally stuffed another ballot drop box.
BREAKING: Democrat Mayoral candidate John Gomes of Bridgeport, Connecticut has filed a lawsuit challenging his party’s primary results after a bombshell video showed a Democrat clerk inserting illegal ballots into a drop box
“On primary night our campaign was victorious at the… pic.twitter.com/vF8Yi2vBTR
— George (@BehizyTweets) September 18, 2023
Good luck with that; just remember what Democrats do to people (including Democrats) who dare to disapprove of their tactics. They treat them like Republicans.
HT | PJ Media
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Do you remember Sun-King Sununu’s “Governor’s Economic Reopening Task Force”? A presumptuous and pretentious name for a bunch of political hacks who knew NOTHING about epidemiology, but issued all sort of “guidance” … a lovely euphemism for JUNK science … to “keep us safe from COVID.” For example, in May 2020 they recommended that Hampton Beach could “reopen” but parking lots could only operate at 50 percent capacity. There was and is no science behind that “guidance.” The 50 percent was a totally arbitrary number.
Another example is that walking on the beach was safe, but sunbathing was not. Restaurants could offer outdoor seating up to “50 percent” capacity … whatever the hell that means. I’m not kidding … check here if you think otherwise. Again … THERE WAS AND REMAINS NO SCIENCE behind any of the “Task Force” guidance … it was all an exercise in deception and control by Sun-King Sununu and his ilk.
Stated slightly differently, the “Task Force” intentionally deceived us … presenting their totally arbitrary and capricious recommendations as based in ‘the science.” All that the Sun-King’s COVID-scam accomplished was to hurt the local economy, drive real Republicans out of New Hampshire, attract Leftists to New Hampshire, AND … the ultimate purpose of it all … allow no-excuse absentee-voting in order to help Biden win the State’s electoral votes.
In a normal world, anyone who participated in this sham “Task Force” should be punished not rewarded. But New Hampshire is NOT a normal world. Instead, the Chair of the “Task Force,” D.J. Bettencourt, has been rewarded with a cushy government job. It pays … six-figures in fact … to have been one of the Sun-King’s COVID-hucksters.
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Extinction Rebellion is a well-funded left0Wing direct Action environmental movement. From street theater, to pondering public suicides, to gluing themselves to things, its advocates are some of the dumbest, sorry, I meant to say fringist Climate Cult activists out there. They also kill fish to make a point.
Activists from the Extinction Rebellion movement have been accused of killing fish in the river and fountains of a French town with a bright green dye that they poured in the water to protest against a toxic waste project.
Éric Straumann, the mayor of Colmar, an Alsatian town whose waterside district is known as Little Venice, said dozens of dead fish were found floating on the surface after the protesters dumped drums of fluorescein in the River Lauch at the weekend.
“I witnessed the impact on the aquatic wildlife of this dye, which was dispersed in bulk and remained visible for 24 hours,” Straumann said.
Hey, it’s not easy being green.
According to Straumann, several neighbors told him that after the dye was spilled, a good number of fish appeared floating dead in the Lauch River. The mayor himself shared a message on social media in disapproval of the event and showing one of the dead fish floating in green waters.
Haut-Rhin : le maire de #Colmar accuse les militants écologistes d’Extinction Rebellion d’avoir tué des poissons avec du colorant vert fluo, déversé dans les eaux de la Lauch pour protester contre l’enfouissement de déchets toxiques. pic.twitter.com/U4OWxrAvu2
— Infos Françaises (@InfosFrancaises) September 18, 2023
The activist is reported to have dumped large quantities of fluorescein into the water to make it look green. Flourescein’s side effects in humans include (citations removed),
“.. nausea, vomiting, hives, acute hypotension, anaphylaxis, and related anaphylactoid reaction, causing cardiac arrest and sudden death due to anaphylactic shock.
Intravenous use has the most reported adverse reactions, including sudden death, but this may reflect greater use rather than greater risk. Both oral and topical uses have been reported to cause anaphylaxis, including one case of anaphylaxis with cardiac arrest (resuscitated) following topical use in an eye drop.”
Sudden death in fish as well, it seems.
Anyone rebelling against extinction should consider reading the warnings on the label before engaging in this sort of direct action. Action over what? Ironically,
Extinction Rebellion shared the images on social media and explained that the act of vandalism was done to protest against the French government’s plan to store about 42,000 tons of toxic waste in the region. In an attempt to attract public attention, a man affiliated with the group poured several barrels of green dye into the Lauch River. He has since been arrested.
It was a mercy killing.
Rather than allow those poor fish to suffer a normal life with the looming possibility of slow poisoning from potentially leaky waste contamination, boom! Dead.
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Last year, punk rocker Johnny “Rotten” Lydon made waves when he was quoted saying, “I never thought I’d live to see the day when the right-wing would become the cool ones giving the middle finger to the establishment, and the left-wing becoming the sniveling self-righteous twatty ones going around shaming everyone.”
Elon Musk tweeted Rotten’s observation about contemporary politics. Conservative Twitter personality Robby Starbuck quickly emphasized the point by declaring, “The right is the new counter-culture now,” with numerous editorials since elucidating the idea.
If the right is the new counterculture, conservatives must embrace policies that enhance their ability to combat the entrenched establishment.
Historically, conservatives were instinctive institutionalists, emphasizing a desire to protect culture, traditions, and institutions. This was best personified by William F. Buckley’s ubiquitous description of a conservative as “someone who stands athwart history, yelling ‘Stop…’” Rebelling against this established order were the liberals raging against the machine.
In recent years, however, the right has been the most ardent critic of the established order. As conservatives increasingly find themselves at odds with the orthodoxies of the federal government, the media, public health bureaucracy, and academia, conservatives need robust privacy protections that ensure their ability to challenge the left’s dominance in society’s key institutions.
When challenging the regime’s narratives, the establishment will often leverage its vast resources to crush dissenters. A few examples illustrate the point.
During the American Revolutionary Era, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a pamphlet articulating the case for American independence from Great Britain. Paine wrote under a pseudonym to protect his identity from royalists.
The revolutionary cause was still controversial as late as 1776, with many colonists still loyal to Great Britain. Divulging his identity in that polarizing climate would have threatened Paine’s revolutionary efforts and denied our Founding Fathers a powerful tool to shift public opinion towards independence.
Similarly, during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the Jim Crow South, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously repudiated the state of Alabama’s attempt to forcibly disclose donors and members of the state’s NAACP chapter, an effort intended to target people who funded the movement’s disruptive campaigns.
More recently, the Federal Election Commission long exempted the Socialist Workers Party from campaign finance disclosure requirements, because of Cold War era threats faced by their members. Acknowledging the hostility the party faced, the U.S. Supreme Court wrote, “We are not unmindful that the damage done by disclosure to the associational interests of the minor parties and their members and to supporters of independents could be significant… In some instances, fears of reprisal may deter contributions to the point where the movement cannot survive.”
Today, entrenched interests continue to take punitive actions against those who challenge the status quo. Last year, JPMorgan Chase closed the bank accounts of the National Committee for Religious Freedom and refused to restore access unless NCRF divulged their donors to the bank.
Fidelity Charitable, a division of Fidelity that advises clients on their philanthropic giving, blacklisted Alliance Defending Freedom, the religious liberties law firm that has secured several victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, refusing to refer donors to the organizations unless their giving is publicly disclosed.
When a fundraiser was launched to help support the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the crowdfunding app GoFundMe shut down the fundraiser, alleging an unspecified violation of its terms of service. Furthermore, those who were able to contribute were doxxed and faced harassment, including one Virginia law enforcement officer who was fired from his job for the offense of donating to the left’s most recent villain.
This is why Republicans in Congress must tread carefully when shining a light on the left’s use of nonprofit organizations: any response that empowers the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to take a more active role in policing the political activity of nonprofits would inevitably be used against conservatives seeking to disgorge entrenched power.
This was demonstrated when the IRS targeted Tea Party groups for extrajudicial scrutiny during the Obama administration, limiting the right’s ability to organize at the height of the 2012 presidential election.
Despite the various rationales for censorship given by the defenders of the status quo, the message is clear: if you dissent, you will be punished. Conservatives need to embrace all of what it means to be a countercultural force fighting against the status quo, which includes securing privacy protections that fuel the battle of ideas in this country.
As conservatives learn to rage against the machine, they will need all of the robust speech and privacy protections guaranteed by our Constitution because their opponents have many institutional tools at their disposal to weaponize against them.
Fortunately, the First Amendment exists to shield the counterculture from the censorious desires of the establishment.
Brian Hawkins is Senior Director of External Affairs of People for United Privacy.
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Given the direction of the culture, the next queen of England will probably be a man. Don’t scoff, it’s true. Until their foreign invaders take over, there is little to stop that trajectory; after all, the monarchy is just one more institution the communists need to undermine. Meanwhile, back in the colonies …
Oak Park High School students in Kansas City, Missouri just got sent a message loud and clear: boys are just better at things than girls are. Even at being a girl. Tristan Young, a male student who identifies as a female, was crowned the homecoming queen this week. He beat out four lovely female candidates because actually identifying as the gender that you are is like, sooo 2010.
It makes sense these days. A male dressed as a female (a transvestite) is colloquially referred to as a queen or drag queen. Who better to pick as your queen than a queen?
The students had four actual ladies (who never had a penis of their own) from which to choose, but they picked the guy because being the queen comes with a lot of responsibility so those big holders will help.
Actually, I suspect the majority was swayed by how it might feel if anyone found out they didn’t vote for the dude. What might the cultural Stasi do to you? There are plenty of examples of how non-conformists are treated. Wander off the plantation, and you get socially hobbled. Or was it a too many other choices thing? Had there been but one other girl to choose, she might have had a chance, the way the RGA pushed too many Republican governors into the ring to challenge Trump, and now they’ve bolloxed their scheme. Haley’s not winning South Carolina, Christie is not winning New Jersey, and even Ron DeSantis might not win Florida.
Somebody screwed up. Is that place run by teenagers or something?
Actual teenagers have to deal with being blamed for slavery, labeled as systemically racist and colonialist, and now they have to come home to a guy in a dress as your queen, or else!
It’s the new #MeToo stereotype—where women get screwed by men against their will, but this time by majority vote.
HT | LibTikTokk Tok
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Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona recently said that while he doesn’t have a problem with differences of opinion, he feels that things have changed regarding the tone of conversations about education. In the past, he says,
There was civility. We could disagree. We could have healthy conversations around what’s best for kids.
Call me old-fashioned, but as I understand it, civility implies an absence of violence or even the threat of violence.
What Cardona is saying is that as long as he gets to take your money — under the threat of violence if you don’t fork it over — and use it the way he and his friends think it should be used, it’s fine for you to disagree, but you should be polite about it.
That’s a ‘healthy conversation’. That’s ‘civility.’
This suggests that maybe we ought to revisit our statutes regarding robbery. If you wear a nice suit, speak politely, and give the person you’re robbing a chance to disagree about what’s best for the two of you (so long as you end up with his money), it’s not really a robbery.
It’s just the kind of civil, healthy conversation that our Secretary of Education says we should be engaging in.
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Would you be surprised to discover that a commission in Massachusetts might have devolved into a vindictive, self-enriching trainwreck with no transparency? Of course not; this is Massachusetts.
“Since its creation in 2017, The Cannabis Control Commission has faced what sometimes feels like an endless stream of scandals. The public deserves some accountability on why these issues have proven so hard to stamp out, and what long-term changes the agency is making to get its work done with more transparency and efficiency,” State Sen. Michael Moore said in a statement Monday.
The committee commissioner was suspended – but not for having “a pair of marijuana license cultivation applications, despite her position.” No one knows why she was put on paid leave, but she is still collecting her $182,000+/year salary.
Licensees have testified to legislative committees over retaliation by commission investigators and complained about transparency.
This reminds me of that time on GraniteGrok when I said letting the government control/manage the marijuana business might be a bad idea. How scrabbling for any semblance of permission to use cannabis would empower oppressive forces with an infusion of additional revenue. That it might not be worth the long-term pain and suffering, though you could – if needed – smoke some weed to try and forget about that for a while.
And as with all organs of the government, the apparent solution to whatever ails it is to request a massive budget increase.
“Considering the 23% funding increase the CCC requested during FY24 budget negotiations, it is now more critical than ever that we make sure this agency has a plan to right the ship. Millions of our tax dollars are at stake – I am hopeful the Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy will schedule a hearing to get answers from the top brass at the CCC,” Moore said.
If it makes anyone feel better, several members of the Massachusetts Legislature sent a letter to the joint committee overseeing the regulators on the cannabis commission. They are concerned about the problems, abuse, and secrecy. Maybe they are all just becoming paranoid. Marijuana can do that to you, and while I do think private citizens should be free to grow a little or have a little for their use without the state harassing them, so far, state management has not gone well.
The solution in Massachusetts will likely be another commission stuffed with connected, overpaid, make-work zombies to oversee the commission that oversees cannabis, and that’s what they should call it.
The Commission to Control the Cannabis Control Commission. And they, of course, will need some oversight as well. The Commission to Control the COmmission Controlling the Cannabis Control Commission. And you have to pay them more than the commissioners whom they oversee and give them larger budgets, and It’ll be glorious, comrade!
If you want to afford the cannabis you worked so hard to deregulate or decriminalize, you’ll have to buy it on the black market, which the state will then need to police to protect its monopoly.
Legal Weed as a path to a police state. And let’s not pretend we didn’t see that coming.
HT | Boston Herald
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Let’s start with what DeSantis needs to do next. Abandon New Hampshire … IMMEDIATELY. And say why … BECAUSE NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICANS ARE NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF REPUBLICANS NATIONALLY; they are much more liberal than Republicans nationally, and I am NOT a good fit. Then focus on Iowa and South Carolina … reducing expectations for both, AND … fix his dysfunctional campaign.
OBVIOUSLY, DeSantis was NOT a good fit for New Hampshire … one of the most pro-abortion, pro-woke, pro-COVID-authoritarianism States in the country. The idea that the face of anti-COVID-authoritarianism would resonate with New Hampshire’s lock-us-down, mask-us-up, vax-us-up voters was and remains IDIOTIC. But it is even worse than that.
DeSantis has been trying to simultaneously appeal to the donor class and Republican voters … which CANNOT BE DONE. In order to please the donor class, his campaign has tried to recast him as some Koch-fueled JUST “cut taxes,’ “cut regulations,” blah, blah, blah, focus on the fiscal issues… which he obviously is NOT.
The beginning of DeSantis’ demise was, in my opinion, when he chose to walk back the correct answer he gave Tucker about the War-in-Ukraine and spewed the same Putin-is-Hitler pablum as the Establishment IN ORDER TO PLACATE THE DONOR-CLASS. He looked weak and NOT his own man.
And it has gone from bad to worse as the campaign turned his descent into a free-fall. He is NOT a retail campaigner. He is NOT a Koch-bot. To use a sports analogy, the DeSantis campaign’s approach is like a coach telling Kevin McHale, one of the greatest post-up players in NBA history, to just shoot jump shots from the top of the key.
Just let DeSantis be DeSantis. And that starts with recognizing he has NO CHANCE in Blue Hampshire and pulling the plug on the Granite State.
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