Thursday • December 12 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.L
Manchester, N.H.
We can debate 232 years later whether accepting Vermont into the union was a good idea, but there have been a few positives, Calvin Coolidge being one of them. But recent decades have seen a significant decline as the Democrat Socialists have turned it into a Right-Coast California without the coast.
Related: More of Our Coverage on the Decline and Fall of Vermont
If there’s a stupid left-wing idea, they are all ears, eyes, and your wallet, eager to waste other people’s money in its pursuit without regard to the cost.
Jonathan Lesser’s commentary at VT Digger on the state’s climate plan encapsulates this. To summarize, Vermont’s global emissions are minuscule. China or India erase any alleged ‘reductions’ in the blink of an eye. You could do more for the planet for a lot less if that were the goal by influencing them or any number of third-world countries that need fossil fuels to claw their way out of poverty.
Help them reduce emissions instead of pretending you’ve done it by offshoring yours.
But it is easier to lie to guilty liberals and tell them that kneecapping western prosperity is the answer, and that’s Vermont. Their plan would spend 15 billion, costing Vermonters a Billion (assuming other costs are covered by the DC fiat-money tree). Estimated benefits and savings are as suspect as the need, but the details needed to prove anything, either way, are not available.
One might think that before imposing the Climate Action Plan on Vermonters and asking them to spend over $1 billion of their money, getting answers to these basic questions and allowing the public to independently review the assumptions and conclusions would be reasonable.
Except it’s not. …
The Ethan Allen Institute’s recent open records request to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources turned up nothing. According to the agency, the data used for all of the modeling and the detailed results were not part of the “deliverables” from the consultants who wrote the action plan. Thus no independent review of the costs and supposed benefits is possible.
The Climate Cult’s Pharisees expect you to take it all on faith that it is necessary, that it will work, and that you’ll barely feel a thing. None of which appears to be the case.
[T]he action plan calls for installing over 96,000 residential heat pumps by 2025 — two years from now — and more than 177,000 by 2030. The action plan claims these installations cost $4,000 “plus or minus about $1,000 depending on the house layout and other particulars.” Where is that number from? Who knows?
A 2021 study by Diversified Energy Specialists in Massachusetts looked at the actual costs of installing residential heat pumps in that state between 2019 and 2021. The median cost for whole-house retrofits was $20,000, four times larger than what the action plan claims.
Like everything related to Climate Cult Dogma, the fairy tale threat is the least of our worries. The solutions do more damage and are incapable of delivering on a lie that Democrats in New Hampshire are eager to embrace.
Sometimes Republican Governor Chris Sununu never met a bag of federal money he didn’t like, but much like the climate threat and the supposed solutions, the money is fake too. What’s real is the damage going “green” will cause to the planet and whoever embraces it. The only thing we’ll pass down to our posterity is generational debt to pay for an elitist money-laundering scheme.
Calvin Coolidge would have never let it happen. Vermont – which can’t print its own money – is ready to put its children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in hock to the Feds for a ‘solution’ to a non-problem that solves nothing even if the problem were real. Something progressives in both parties on both sides of the Connecticut river will embrace for no other reason than “free money.”
But it’s not just not free and not real; the costs to our economies and quality of life are so significant we might never escape them. Not as a state or a nation.
How about we not do that?
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I want the messiest, meanest, most arduous Presidential primary imaginable … because I want, and the GOP needs if it is going to win in 2024, a political-killer for the nominee. The idea that … THAT’S JUST HELPING THE DEMOCRATS, IF WE TEAR EACH OTHER APART …is, at best, hopelessly naive.
No matter who the nominee is, the Left will declare him or her the next incarnation of Hitler and, by implication, anyone who would vote for this next Hitler a Nazi.
I want, and the GOP needs, a Presidential candidate who can deal with all the sh*t the legacy media, Big-Tech, the RINOs and the rest of the Left is going to fling. And the way you locate that person is by having a truly competitive primary.
Stated somewhat differently, not having Trump run in the primary makes it much more likely that the nominee will be, at best, unprepared for the general election and, at worst, some milquetoast, groveling mediocrity … another Romney or McCain.
It is extreme hubris to, at this point in time, declare either that DeSantis should defer to Trump or that Trump should make way for DeSantis. Let them go head to head, and let the voters decide.
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Gender-bending is all the rage. Sure, it’s unhealthy, causes depression, increases the odds of suicide, and the drug therapy can kill you, but prog groomers would HAND THEM OUT at Halloween if we let them. Do you know what’s not safe for tweens?
Facebook, and I can’t disagree. Social media is the cliff off which the culture has fallen (and it can’t get up). So why the contradiction? It is the primary driver of a culture that leads to gender dysphoria directly through the child or Muchhauseon by proxy via their parent(s). Why would Sloppy Joe’s Surgeon General open his yap and cut this cord?
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy believes children 13 years old are too young to join social media platforms, citing kids are still “developing their identity,” and such engagement can create a distorted sense of themselves. …
“It’s a time, you know, early adolescence, where kids are developing their identity, their sense of self,” Murthy said. “It’s a time where it’s really important for us to be thoughtful about what’s going into how they think about their own self-worth and their relationships, and the skewed and often distorted environment of social media often does a disservice to many of those children.”
Again, no arguments from me on the age limitation. Might I suggest 18? The world could be significantly improved absent its influence. And that is what strikes me as odd. Did Dr. Murthy have clearance to land this? It undermines the reprogramming regiment. Are the recruitment numbers coming out of the government schools that good? Are they meeting quota by converting so many of your kids to the cause that there was room to pinch this vector in the bud?
“Our findings suggest that checking behaviors on social media in early adolescence may tune the brain’s sensitivity to potential social rewards and punishments,” Dr. Eva Telzer, co-author of the study and a professor in developmental psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said. …
“It tells our brains to keep using that,” Stacey said. “For teenagers in particular, this part of their brain is actually hyperactive compared to adults. They can’t get motivated to do anything else.”
Ah, I see. They are afraid they won’t vote Democrat or pursue a gender studies degree. That makes sense.
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In late 2021, school officials in Brattleboro, Vermont, hosted a clinic at which the COVID vaccine was administered to a 6-year-old child against his parents’ expressed wishes. Last month, a judge dismissed the family’s lawsuit against the school district and the State of Vermont.
Why? Because no one is responsible. In this case, the federal PREP Act offered blanket amnesty to everyone involved.
The official message is, “We can vaccinate your child against your wishes, and NO ONE IS RESPONSIBLE.”
Unfortunately, the Brattleboro incident was not an isolated event. These kinds of things are continuing to happen. If you’d like to help put a stop to it, read further.
In 2022, we heard about an incident in a Nashua public school where a 7-year-old student was given the flu vaccine without parental consent. In testimony before a legislative study committee, NH state epidemiologist Benjamin Chan referred to this as a “never event.” That’s a medical term of art describing situations that should simply never, ever happen, like amputating the wrong limb, operating on the wrong patient, or leaving a surgical sponge inside a patient following surgery.
We were assured that this was an isolated incident and that NH health officials were doing everything in their power to make sure it didn’t happen again.
Except that it DID happen again.
Just a few weeks after Dr. Chan’s testimony, it happened at another school-based vaccine clinic in Rochester, NH. In this case, the parent made it overwhelmingly clear that she did NOT want her child to get the flu vaccine. Nevertheless, it happened.
These are just the cases that we know about.
If public health officials can vaccinate your children at school without your consent, and if no one is responsible for screw-ups, then what’s a parent to do?
I have spoken to numerous parents who recommend keeping a child home on days when vaccine clinics are scheduled to take place at their school. I can’t necessarily disagree with that advice, but there is a better solution: Let’s eliminate the possibility that these “never events” can occur at all.
House Bill 539 would prohibit K-12 public schools in our state from hosting vaccination clinics on school property during school hours. If a school chooses to host a clinic outside of school hours, the bill would require that a parent or guardian be present with their child.
The House Education Committee will hold a hearing on HB539 next Tuesday at 1:45 PM in LOB Room 205-207.
Here’s how you can help:
SPREAD THE WORD! If you know someone who cares about informed consent, share this article with them.
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Damn, I hope so. If you live long enough, you see many social phases come on strong, only to fade away to make room for the next fad. Fifty years ago, when I was walking the corridors of my high school, transgender was a word decades away from being invented, and even gay was a rarity.
Back in the late sixties and early seventies, being a hippie or flower child was on its way out, and grunge had not yet taken hold. Back then, we had the pressures of the war in Vietnam and social unrest at home. One thing we did have going in our favor was we still had face-to-face interaction and the support of friends we could see and touch. Fifty years is a long time, but I am not sure we have progressed in some areas, and interpersonal relationships may be failing us.
We have become a plugged-in society. iPads, iPhones, Androids, and earbuds have replaced conversation. See someone walking their dog and talking to the dog? Nope, they are on their cell. See two people sitting in a restaurant having a quiet moment? Nope, they are both texting. Cards and letters have been replaced by SMS or DMs. We are slaves to our electronics, and our best friend is now a touchscreen. It is sad, but it is also taking a toll, and that is with our children.
I was speaking with a close friend over the weekend. He is a high school teacher, and I drive a high school bus. The conversation got around to the number of trans students, and I was shocked when he replied that it was a number far higher than you could fathom. He felt that though these kids were in various stages in the process, they all had one thing in common. They were “fringe” kids. They were not into sports or extracurricular activities. They were loners who lacked a support group. They doubted themselves and were seeking their true identity. What a mess. These kids need help.
I asked about the motivation of teachers or counselors to get involved to coach these kids but cut the parents out of the loop. He felt their motives were sincere, and they were not doing it out of power but compassion. I listened and wanted to understand because this did not align with my thinking. He was convincing and may have changed my perception.
My concern, however, goes to school boards taking the initiative to shield school personnel from parents. There appears to be a movement to encourage the process, which in many cases, leads kids to seek body-changing surgery without parental consent. These are minors for whom schools cannot administer aspirin without consent but are now aiding in the sexual mutilation of minor children. Who can justify this?
Well, apparently, a group of teachers and counselors in Midcoast Maine can. When Amber Levigne discovered a breast binder in her 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom, her daughter divulged it was given to her by teachers at her school. Amber’s daughter told these educators that she was meant to be a boy. They agreed to help her transition but insisted that the young girl not inform her mother of the efforts to grant her wish to become a boy. The Maine legislature is acting on the matter but not in the way they should.
Maine is prepared to adopt a state law that protects teachers and counselors against legal repercussions and allows them to keep these situations secret from the parents. The State of Maine is complicit in these vile acts against minor children. They are driving a wedge between children and parents. To what end and for what motivation? It does not matter. These people, and now the government, must be stopped.
There will be much more to come regarding the school or state’s role, but logic and moral compass support the parents in this battle. We must force this issue and win battles, and the war, on our children. There can be no more important reason to fight back.
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The Wall Street Journal has an editorial that may, if that is possible, wake Americans up! Amazingly, the title is “THE US CONSUMER IS FREAKING OUT!”. Here is a brief summary of the major points that the WSJ editorial board makes about the coming catastrophic calamity known as the Demolitioncrat Biden economy:
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In addition, Mark Spitznagel, a famous hedge fund manager, sees a financial “ Mega-Tinderbox Timebomb” on the horizon.
Finally, according to Steve Cortes, an esteemed economist and former Trump advisor, a tsunami of two million US households have had their electric or gas power shut off in 2022.
Welcome to the Wonder World of Demolitioncrats and Joeflation Biden!
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When I taught English as an adjunct college instructor, one literary genre that I considered extremely interesting was that of the slave narrative. Hundreds of slaves, overcoming unimaginable obstacles, not only learned how to read but also wrote down their stories which revealed the truth about the horrors of slavery.
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The publication of these inspiring testaments hastened the end of this egregious institution. Frederick Douglass, famous for saying, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free,” wrote the best-known slave narrative, The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass. In my classes, I highlighted the theme he conveyed of literacy providing a pathway to freedom not only literally for slaves but figuratively for all human beings. The truth of this theme revealed in slave narratives is timeless and needs to be appreciated by all students. That is why I was dismayed when I learned that many educators are now uncomfortable teaching about slave narratives, slavery, and many other race-related historical topics because they fear that by doing so, they will break the law and be fired.
As a member of the State Legislature’s House Education Committee, I recently had the opportunity to hear the testimony provided by dozens of teachers regarding HB61, a bill which would, if it were passed, repeal the “Anti-discrimination Law” (RSA 193:40) currently in effect. Although the emotional testimony I heard seemed sincere and heartfelt, it was ultimately misguided because the law, which HB61 seeks to repeal, does not prevent teachers from covering the topics they fear teaching. Several times, testifiers were asked how RSA193:40 would prevent a teacher from covering historical topics related to race, but no one seemed able to provide a satisfying answer citing the legal text. Surprisingly, it appeared likely that some of those who spoke in support of the bill had an inadequate understanding of the law that HB61 seeks to repeal.
If you read the text of RSA193:40, you will find that it simply prohibits teaching that one’s inherent characteristics (sex, race, religion, national origin, etc.) make a person inherently superior or inferior. Many of those who testified against this law criticized its “vagueness” that led to their discomfort in the classroom, but the New Hampshire Department of Education has provided clear guidelines available on its website which define what is prohibited under this statute and what is not. The NH-DOE asserts, “Nothing prohibits the teaching of historical subjects” (and even goes on to say, “Nor does anything prohibit discussions related to current events”). It further clarifies that the intent of the law is to prohibit schools “from teaching that one identified group…is inherently superior or inferior to people of another identified group.”
Therefore, teachers can say, “Slave owners abused slaves.” They can describe the horrors of the institution of slavery and have discussions in which students share their thoughts about this topic. Teachers cannot, however, insinuate that students in their classrooms belonging to a particular racial group should somehow feel guilt and shame over these events of the past which were in no remote way their fault. To put it bluntly, a teacher cannot imply that “white people oppressed black people.” Considering that numerous people who happened to be white helped slaves learn to read and get their stories published, the latter statement would be historically inaccurate.
What is prohibited by RSA193:40, the law that HB61 seeks to repeal, is stereotyping based on skin color or any other inherent characteristic such as sex, religion, or national origin. For this reason, the aptly named “Anti-discrimination Law” should never be repealed. Please contact the members of the Education Committee (see https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/links.aspx?x=2&id=1 ) and urge them to oppose HB61.
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A gender-fluid boy and his friends who identify as furries are being allowed to use the girls’ facilities at Milford Middle School. They are leering at girls in the locker room and exposing themselves in the restroom.
Related: NH School Boards Association Transgender Policy is Harming Girls in School
A mother testified at the New Hampshire State House Thursday that school administrators are doing nothing to stop them- because of their transgender policies.
Samia DeMarco told the NH House Judiciary Committee:
Our young girls were exposed in the locker room when this transgender individual and their friends, some of who also identify as animals, came in and watched them inappropriately, then over the following weeks, continued to bully them and make rude comments about their bodies in retaliation for these victims making a complaint to the school’s administration.
DeMarco was testifying for HB 396, which, If signed into law, would recognize biological reality and allow public facilities to differentiate between the two sexes in athletic competitions, prisons, locker rooms, and restrooms.
DeMarco said the young man claims he’s gender-fluid but usually identifies as a girl.
“The same transgender student was urinating in the girls’ bathroom with the stall door open when my daughter and her friend entered the bathroom, but their complaints to the guidance office were brushed off,” DeMarco said. Although she told her daughter to use the unisex bathroom and to advise her friends to do the same.
I’m struggling greatly with the idea that once again I have to tell my daughter that she needs to change her behavior to protect her innocence and modesty.
We are exposing other little girls to potential danger or discomfort. Our state needs clear guidance that addresses genitalia, not gender identity. If you have male body parts, you should utilize the male facilities or an available unisex bathroom. We can’t expect an entire female student population to use a couple of single-stall bathrooms also shared with the teaching staff while a small group of kids have free reign of the other facilities.
A victim of sexual trauma herself, DeMarco said she has “deep empathy for anyone struggling with self-loathing and suicidal thoughts.” And though she respects freedom of choice, “I strongly believe that your rights should not infringe on anyone else’s rights or safety.”
She’s concerned not only about exposing children to danger, but also that the Milford School District is sending the girls the message that their collective comfort and safety comes second to helping trans-identifying boys feel affirmed.
By allowing this to continue, we are telling our little girls that their bodies aren’t sacred, there are no repercussions for these offenses, and we won’t be doing anything to ensure their safety and comfort. Please consider the damage this is doing to our pubescent daughters’ already fragile self, and work to put something in place that makes all of our students feel safe at school.
Watch Samia’s testimony:
Watch the entire hearing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3Dk18hml0&t=27535s.
Send your testimony in support of HB396 to the House Judiciary Committee at mailto:HouseJudiciaryCommittee@leg.state.nh.us. They are scheduled to vote on the bill on February 8.
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In an earlier piece on charter schools, I suggested that we need to start asking school districts: How much is enough?
That is, if we want to get 100% of our educable students to proficiency in reading and math, how much would it cost?
If $15,000 per student isn’t enough, how about $20,000? Or $40,000? Or $100,000?
Last year I learned that the district wasn’t interested in spending less money to ensure an adequate education for Croydon’s kids. So I thought maybe it would be interested in spending more money to do that.
So last night, at a budget hearing held by the Croydon school board, I took my own advice. I asked the superintendent of the Croydon Village School (CVS) how much it would take to get all of the kids there reading at proficiency.
Here’s how I asked it:
If you were offered a budget of $1 million per student, you’d be able to teach all of the kids at CVS to read, right? So somewhere between the $30,000 we’re spending now, and $1 million, there’s some smallest number that would let you get the job done. What is that number? What would it cost to get the job done?
I wasn’t really prepared for his answer, which was that $1 million wouldn’t be enough.
Now, this is a guy who makes about $80,000 per year for one to two days of work per week. This translates to a full-time salary of at least $200,000, making him one of the highest-paid superintendents in the state — who, nonetheless, is running a school where half of the kids are below proficiency in reading and math.
And he’s not just a superintendent but a special education coordinator as well. So presumably, he knows a little about things like individualized instruction.
In trying to get him to come up with a number, I was very clear that the $1 million didn’t have to be spent during the course of regular school days. It could be used for programs outside of school. It could be used to teach each a kid’s parents to read if that was necessary. It would be enough to hire a reading specialist to live at a kid’s home if that’s what it would take.
But he admitted, in a public forum, that he wouldn’t be able, for $1 million per student, to teach the 21 students in CVS to read.
This all happened, by the way, just a few minutes after he had described himself as a ‘big idea guy.’ But apparently, the idea of teaching every kid to read is too big an idea, even for him. (By ‘big idea,’ he seems to mean things like getting a federal grant to buy violins and snowshoes for use by kids at the school or spending a few thousand dollars on a new reading assessment program that is already in wide use throughout the state.)
Sadly, the principal of the school agreed that it couldn’t be done for $1 million per student. As did a former member of the school board, whom I’ve written about before.
Now, what makes all this especially interesting is that RSA 193-H:2 says that,
Schools shall ensure that all pupils are performing at the proficient level or above on the statewide assessment.
So in a sense, I was just asking him: What would we have to spend to get you to stop breaking the law?
Now, maybe I’m being unfair, but I have trouble seeing any significant difference between $1 million isn’t enough money to teach a kid to read, and I don’t know how to teach a kid to read.
If you’re wondering why school costs keep going up and why that will never stop, here’s a big part of your answer right there. There is no amount of money so large that the people who are supposed to be teaching kids to be literate, numerate, and rational will not hide behind excuses for why they can’t really be expected to do that job.
District Meeting season is almost upon us. I hope some of you will try asking the same question at your budget hearings and annual meetings and report back with the answers you receive.
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The first and only NHRSC Annual Meeting I attended was in 2021 via ZOOM…and as they say, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all’, which is what I’ll leave you’ll with about that ZOOM Meeting!
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That said, I was very excited about the opportunity to attend the 2023 meeting this past Saturday, January 28th, in person and was looking forward to voting for myself for Region 3 Vice Chair. I had done my due diligence to gather information about the agenda, but more importantly about Meeting Rules.
So “armed and ready,” I spent hours and hours, as all 400+ State Committee Members did, listening, participating, and waiting! (Side note: Pres. Trump was even more hysterical than usual IMO!!) Finally, by mid-afternoon came the vote for the 5 Region Vice Chair Positions. Never could I have imagined or anticipated the noise level, but more mind-blowing, the chaos and mayhem that ensued as we all attempted to navigate this vote!
I reside in Hillsborough County which, along with Manchester and Nashua, is Region 3. I knew the voting rules, but to my surprise and chagrin, not one of the rules was followed for our Region.
Please note below the meeting rules (in part) that apply to ALL candidates to be elected during the Annual Meeting…
So, though we in Region 3 did have 2 candidates for the Vice Chair position, Chris Buda and myself, neither of us nor the folks that nominated us, were able to speak for the time allotted per the meeting rules. But even more egregious and disturbing was the fact that the Region 3 voters were NOT permitted/offered the ability to vote by paper ballot as per the meeting rules…but only by a hand/voice vote!
I have since been specifically told in confidence that as a consequence of the political Swamp eyes, expectations, and pressure, a number of State Committee Members did not vote for me due to the open voice/hand-counted vote. In addition, because the vote was clearly rushed through, again NOT following the meeting rules which allow Candidates and the folks nominating them the allotted time to speak, I was unable to speak to the Region Members, most of whom do not know me.
But what was really most disheartening, and so disturbingly appalling, was that decades-long entrenched (R)s, like Ray Chadwick and Chris Buda, both knowing full well the rules, said nothing as the young woman facilitating this vote attempted to navigate this crapshow by herself.
In closing, and on a personal note, I must share that Saturday was an amazing learning experience for me, but also that it was further confirmation that the proverbial ‘Establishment Swamp Rot’ is alive and well in New Hampshire!!
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What is WRONG with the Left in trying to excuse any of their tax increases by simply stating “it’s for the common good” and “what’s fair”? And we go “How MUCH is fair?”. And we never get an answer – well, except for one person.
Our Constitutional Republic (and NOT “our democracy” as the Left keeps saying – because they DO want America to be turned into a direct democracy (otherwise known as a mobocracy). There are Four Pillars to our Republic:
Which side of the political aisle is always denigrating and chipping away at ALL of them? Yeah, not us.
Right to Private Property; when we taunt the Left with the phrase “Taxation is Theft”, there’s more than a little truth in that. We understand that government costs us in a number of ways including the taking of our Property from us (our wealth, our money, IS our Property) via taxation. What the Left hates is we reminding them, via that phrase, that our increasing and seemingly UNlimited Government is taking more and more of our money (either directly from us or via higher prices on goods from producers that factor THEIR taxes into their cost of materials for their product).
Sidenote: so NEVER believe Politicians when they say they are going to ONLY tax businesses – the latter will always pass that tax onto us. They know it, the businesses know it, but only the economically literate amongst us realize it. And Politicians are COUNTING that there are a lot of economic illiterates out there.
Right, Bernie Sanders?
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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. Certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.
Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:
Survival Sunday – Sunday PREP Edition – Granite Grok
Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
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Neil Oliver: ‘We are sleepwalking into a ZERO TRUST new world
Found here, and worth reading that too.
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Are. You. Kidding. Me?
They’re scared of instability and torches & pitchforks??? This kind of “we are above accountability” is how you get torches & pitchforks. And gallows. Or, in a more modern form, multiple-hundred-yard thoracic surgery on politicians. Note that I’m not advocating this – but the more pols separate themselves from The People and declare themselves as exempt from the laws they impose on others, the more likely such things are going to become.
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Apparently, according to a video I saw with Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi speaking, when he gave a presentation to the Thai government the representatives were very excited – and not in a good way for Pfizer – about the revelations he gave them. Expect Pfizer to fight this tooth and nail, for if this fraud judgment stands, it will increase pressure on other governments.
Dr. Bhakdi is Working to Nullify Thailand’s Pfizer mRNA Vax Contracts (rumble.com)
And through Telegram:
“ We weren’t required to make a SAFE & EFFECTIVE PRODUCT”!!
See / listen to video at the link below:
Pfizer’s defense in the whistleblower case that most didn’t see coming: "We weren’t required to make a safe & effective product.”https://t.co/Uim7HFXKPc pic.twitter.com/74uxAtXaE1
— neil by mouth (@nbreavington) February 1, 2023
I’m seeing lots of Jab regretters on Telegram. Their stories, and how they trusted the government / authorities and now – never again. Remember, this is a one-way flow of people. Like the flow of people Cuba to Florida in makeshift rafts, this is a one-way direction of intellectual shifting. More importantly, once a person realizes government lies to them on ONE thing, the more open-minded they will be to considering they’ve been lied to on other things. Heh.
And, in parallel, expect other governments to exert pressure on Thailand to not move forward with this. “For stability”. More on whistleblowers:
I don’t want guilty pleas. I don’t want fines. I want f*cking hangings.
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GENIUS – and I LOLed:
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/126/267/180/playable/4c659ebc1c8da3f1.mp4
Right in front of the Pfizer HQ. You can’t do this any better!!!! They need a contribution IMHO.
Project Veritas
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Pick of the post:
The Thai revelation on Covid, above, is important, but this was an eye-opener. I remember, back in my Macroeconomics class as I studied for my MBA, how enthusiastic my professor was for getting off the gold standard. And given the – in retrospect one-sided – arguments, I agreed at the time. Could it really be possible that the drivers for this – the real drivers for getting off gold – had nothing to do with what I was told which was just a camouflage for the real reason, which was to create the system we have today where it’s backed by the “full faith and credit” of the various governments and nothing but? A system intentionally set up to drive debasement of the currency? This is something that, until the last few years, I would have dismissed utterly. Now… I don’t want to believe it, but I’m coming to that viewpoint of this being intentional.
To quote a line from a sci-fi book “Only Begotten Daughter”… The data are compelling.
Now, I think we need currency backed by something. It should include gold, probably silver, perhaps other things as well. But tangible assets, not something that can get inflated to infinity. Because as I look at the world and the debt that’s been created out of thin air… I see a house of cards that’s going to flatten to nothing when – WHEN – it goes.
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Chocolate Foosball!
You have to admire the planning, let alone sheer skill, shown here and in other videos by this guy. Incredible. Skill and creativity plus planning.
On the flip side… can you imagine what commissioning something like this costs? This is wealth to the point of decadence. Now don’t get me wrong – whoever paid for it, that’s their money, they can do what they want with it. I’m not going to screech about how many people that money could have fed or some such. Rather, merely point out that IMHO we are approaching the Romans in decline where the Elites supped on dainties even as the empire collapsed.
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Palate cleansers:
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Maybe we could get him into the election system. He, at least, knows how to count accurately.
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Tactical Sh!t News reports that the AFT has published their new pistol brace trap rule. If they think you have one that qualifies under the rule, you have 120 days to license it, which you can’t possibly do (as explained here), or you will be a felon.
Related: How to Make Felons Out of Millions of Law-Abiding Citizens with the Stroke of a Pen
Here are a few highlights from the previous piece if you missed them.
From Tactical Sh!t.
The new rule will be published in the Federal Register on January 31st for those who wear stabilizing braces. This officially begins the 120-day countdown to the effective date. Of course, this is assuming (you know how that goes) that it is not overturned in court.
*Yes, there are lawsuits.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the suit immediately after the ATF unveiled Tuesday’s new rule; see also here and here.
A group of military veterans is suing the Biden administration over a new gun rule that they say dramatically expands the definition of “rifle” to include certain pistols, putting millions of gun-owning Americans at risk of criminal liability, according to a complaint filed in federal court on Tuesday morning. …
The suit asked the court to block the new regulation, arguing that the ATF rule is “arbitrary, capricious,” and “invalid.”
New Hampshire has also passed HB1178, which prohibits any publicly funded state agencies or agents from helping the feds enforce such rules, but it also permits them to assist if a law is broken. This is not a law. It is a rule. And “not helping” is not the same as protecting and defending our rights, the only reason for which governments are instituted by men.
Yeah, I read that somewhere. And I think it’s a safe bet that the 120-day clock will get hung up while the case works through the courts. It might be years. But men with guns coming to deny the rights of men with guns has some history in America. It started a revolution a few years back.
Perhaps the Live Free or Die State and its allegedly pro-gun Governor could make some public statement about New Hampshire’s commitment to protecting the natural rights of law-abiding citizens from tyrannical federal overreach. Or something.
Or would it be a bad look for Chris Sununu when he runs for President?
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It seems that by publishing that first post on “NH GOP Annual Meeting Observations”, Pandora’s Box got opened – and keeps getting wider:
Hi Skip
I cannot agree more, with your comments on Maya Harvey’s role in choosing the press outlets covering the annual NH GOP mtg on Saturday. I sat in the front row (Strafford Co assigned section) and watched her prance around during the whole meeting (her dress left nothing to the imagination as it was skin tight. I had the distinct impression that she was a very favored person, to high-level folks in that auditorium, as she never stopped scampering along the front row with a very amateur-looking camera (compared to all those ‘officially there’)!
The other part I noticed (other than Sun-King not bothering to show up!) was that OAN was the only press group with any identification on their cameras. Was this done specifically so that we would not know who WAS or WASN’T there?
I responded to the question: “OAN mic flag – yes for a purpose – to advertise who they are. Wouldn’t read much into it – GraniteGrok has them as well.”
At the beginning of the meeting, Steve Stepanek announced the attendance (@415 there out of 475+ members)- there were empty seats in almost one whole back section and many near the front in ours. So, the room wasn’t full and we had no idea which press groups were/weren’t there. Had I known that GraniteGrok wasn’t welcome, I would have gone to Chris Ager and asked why…..the philosophy he shared in his acceptance comments implied that the NH GOP will be a big tent for all!!
Can he actually pull that off with so many RINOs working to keep us conservatives out of the party?? As a delegate as well, I will personally keep this front and center when we meet to vote on the platform later this year! I can tell you that all those in my circle are very conservative and we will NOT vote for watering down our NH Constitutional Rights!!
Thank you for All you do!!
I also have two more to post up. I also recorded a Skip’s Sauntering Snippets installment about the Meeting. No, I was not there but was watching for the “after actions” and folks called in as well.
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Not to keep beating this dead donkey, but we’ve got another cabal of misinformed Libs launching a strike in the name of the pandemic Narrative. And this time, it’s an actual strike.
Related: VAERS Shows 2-Year-Old NH Girl Died Within 24 Hours After Getting COVID Vaccine.
A group of liberal Hollywood celebrities are threatening a “massive, all-round Hollywood strike” until every last one of us is vaccinated. Describing Hollywood as “the base of the entire modern American culture”, the group also claims to be speaking on behalf of “humanity’s better nature.”
Rosie O’Donnell, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow and Gene Simmons are among the dozens of artists, entertainers, and activists who have attached their names to an effort calling for a month-long strike to encourage people they are calling “vaccine dodgers” to succumb to the jab.
In the wake of several very mainstream admissions that COVID death numbers were rigged, Minnesota Democrats are trying to strip a doctor of his license because he has, since April 2020, suggested (with proof) that they were rigged. It is not a conspiracy theory. They were rigged. These Hollywood liberals have a similar problem but with added dramatic irony. It is a well-known fact that The Jab does not prevent infection or stop transmission, making it as meaningless as a few dozen Hollywood celebrities going on strike until everyone gets juiced up.
Related: Satanists Require Proof of COVID Vaccination, and You Must Wear a Medical Face Mask
Good luck with that.
More recent admissions of inadequacy include its complicity in the rise of myocarditis, pericarditis, and stroke, as well as a long list of other difficulties, including death. Adding insult to vaccine injury, the CDC has acknowledged that they missed hundreds of safety signals from the vaccine harm reporting system they ignored.
Supervillain Bill Gates admits they don’t work, the UK has banned boosters for healthy people under 50, and kids can’t get jabbed because the risk outweighs any benefit. Oh, and Hollywood celebrities think we’ll be motivated to ignore all of that and more to get Jabbed so they can get back to work.
Bwahahahahaha!
Is this one of the most disconnected statements ever made, at least until you read this one?
Too much irony. I can’t take it anymore.
Kidding.
This is so amusing that it is absurd. Either Hollywood has a top-heavy hand in shaping culture, or culture has a hand in shaping Hollywood. Whichever you believe, can we agree it has already destroyed or at least caused severe damage to one the other or each to both? An indefinite strike might be precisely what we need. A void is quickly filled by existing or new online content creators to whom the un-entertained will flock if they are worthy.
Null effect on vaccine uptake, I’d guess, but a strike could affect a culture. The rich, entitled”ones with the power” and money will be fine, but the folks who work behind the scenes – the little people – could suffer severe financial harm, and I’d guess most or all of them are already vaccinated.
Your audiences do not serve you. You serve them. And that employs thousands who might be out of work if you go on a vaxx or abuse hiatus. So, do it, but I have to warn you. I do not need you for anything, nor does what you do exceed a desire to avoid myocarditis, stroke, or death from an intervention that doesn’t do any of the things promised, and I’m not alone.
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It’ll Cost You $95 to Hear Bernie Sanders Tell You Why Capitalism is Bad
Yeah, right. This is the guy that has always advocated for Government to be bigger and more intrusive, has said that if he had the power, he’d get rid of all charities (Government should do EVERYTHING), and honeymooned in Moscow. Oh, and did I mention that everything that Govt does should be free to you and me?
But the worst is that for years against millionaires and billionaires – until he became a millionaire by “serving his customers with his book”. That’s right – he filled a niche in the marketplace and sold enough to become one of those hated millionaires. His excuse was that ANYone could be a millionaire by selling a best seller as well. But don’t call it capitalism even as it IS the essence of capitalism – give people what they want and you can get rich. And there’s nothing wrong with that – he didn’t steal anything, he didn’t cheat anyone
Now he only rails against billionaires. Can a whole bunch of people buy his book (which now allows him to own three dachas!) to make him a billionaire and cause him to rail again…..no one as scapegoats?
Riding in on his white horse to save the left from itself — yet again! — is perma-candidate Bernie Sanders and his new, super-preachy book, entitled, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” The list price of the book is $28, and here’s what’s in store for those who are foolish enough to shell out their hard-earned cash to hear a pseudo-socialist, octogenarian millionaire pontificate on why capitalism is bad:
Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country’s failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans.
But wait, there’s more. Bernie is taking his act on the road! For a mere $95, you can hear Bernie Sanders, who’s never created a job in his life and has amassed a fortune on a government salary, preach to you about the evils of America — live and in person!
The evils of capitalism – as he uses capitalism in his own self-interest. Like AOC who sells her own merch but won’t agree that she’s participating in capitalism. Like BLM that wanted to tear down the system (these trained Marxists!) and end up buying multi-million dollar estates.
Yet, fools keep falling for this nonsense.
$95? SMH. More at the link.
(HT: RedState)
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This week, my committee met for two days of public hearings. HB 445, on the OPLC fund, was a request of the study committee on OPLC operations.
It keeps all license fees within the OPLC, rather than being lapsed into the general fund, and restricts anything above normal operating expenses to capital projects (software, most likely) and reducing license fees. The agency testified that the first effort on fees was to ensure that each board pays its own way, and then reducing the fees for the over-paying ones. After some discussion on how we were to ensure the OPLC did not use excess fees to build up its operations (the same way we do with any agency – budgeting, the fiscal committee, and the oversight committee), the committee voted to recommend the bill. A limit on the total amount in the fund was discussed, but we agreed the next committee would be better able to deal with it.
HB 341, establishing a license for massage establishments (not the therapists; they are already licensed) had a lot of testimony about human trafficking. Apparently a massage business is easy to set up with trafficked (labor or sexual) workers, and they can re-establish a similar business almost immediately if one is shut down. Law enforcement – both federal homeland security, which has a trafficking task force set up in New Hampshire, and a detective from the Merrimack County Sheriff’s Office, who supports the smaller towns and has worked with the task force – testified that finding these businesses isn’t too hard, since they need to advertise somehow to bring in customers. The problem is getting evidence against the owners and traffickers rather than the trafficked victims. The OPLC testified that this is a regulatory control, rather than criminal, since with a facility license they can enter the business and inspect for licensing violations (including sanitation and fire code violations) rather than waiting for a problem. Many massage therapists in small, legitimate businesses are opposed to this license, since it’s an added cost and bother for them. I’m concerned that we’re burdening legitimate businesses simply to make it easier for law enforcement to convict the bad actors. The bill went to subcommittee for further analysis.
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HB 105, on registration of medical spas, had the hearing shortened when the sponsor declared she wanted to retain the bill in committee, to work on it through the year. The committee agreed, since the bill in its current form is opposed by much of the legitimate industry, and I do not believe it will solve the problems they identified as the need for regulation: mobile Botox vans, laser treatments in the back of beauty salons, etc.
HB 620, establishing a department of early childhood education, also had extensive testimony, much of it not very relevant to the bill. I never heard a good reason why they wanted to create a new department rather than allowing the department of education to deal with preschool, if it had to be a state function! I was also concerned that the bill created a pilot program, but there’s already one in process… The Manchester school board testified in favor, even though they have a preschool program that sounds (to me, at least) very like what this department is aiming to do. It was clear, though, that they wanted state funding. The bill went to subcommittee.
Thursday, we heard six pension bills, all intended to improve benefits for Group II (police, fire and corrections.) HB 250 doubles the accidental death benefit from 50% to 100% of salary. “Accidental” in this context means “work related” and in fact the retirement system lets the workers’ comp department determine if a death is “accidental.” This change would be fairly inexpensive, as right now only six beneficiaries are receiving this benefit. HB 571, granting a cost of living adjustment to Group II (only) retirees, gives a 5% increase to those retired 10 years, and 10% to those retired more than 20 years, on the first $50,000 of pension only. This is a true COLA, in that it is a permanent increase in their pension and it would be compounded if a future COLA were to be granted. Those testifying pointed out that Group I has received multiple COLAs in their social security payments, and Group II is not eligible for SS. These bills went to subcommittee for analysis.
HB 436, HB 449, HB 525, and HB 579 all changed, in slightly different ways, the transition provisions for Group II that were made in 2011, and affected employed but not vested employees. We heard a good number of GII employees testifying that the varying pension benefits are hurting employee morale and harming recruiting and retention efforts, with most of them emphasizing that these changes were made to what they believed was a contract with their employer, destroying their trust in the state. These bills are all costly, with a range up to several hundred million if paid for immediately, or a significant increase to employer payments if spread out over 20 years (as the legislature usually chooses to do!) We sent two bills (HB 436 & 449) to subcommittee to consider the ideas in all four bills, with the idea that one would be amended and sent on shortly, and the other retained for future work. HB 525 and 579 were killed because they duplicated so much of the content of the other two.
Representative Carol McGuire
carol@mcguire4house.com
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I need to stipulate that I am a supporter of President Donald Trump. I guess that makes me one of Biden’s enemies. I am a proud MAGA Republican.
If historians are honest, they will give him his just due and describe how effective Trump was as a one-term President. Despite unprecedented investigations by the Democrats, multiple impeachment hearings, a Pandemic, and a hostile media that did the bidding of the Democrats, he had a successful Presidency on many levels. Economic gains and the rebirth of respect on the Global Stage are but two of the highlights. He kept our adversaries at bay while being one of the first Presidents since WWII that did not engage America in new hostilities. He exposed the swamp that is Washington, D.C., and this is why he is public enemy number one for the likes of Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and the rest of the political establishments. He was the outsider that politicians feared, and he needed to be destroyed. Two years out of office and Trump’s MAGA followers are the greatest fear of Joe Biden.
With all of the good accomplished by Donald trump, I say today, as I have in the past, that I wish he would reconsider his quest to return to the White House. His campaign will further divide the country, and the negativity and investigations will engulf the country. This is not a generational statement, but it is time for Donald, Joe, Hillary, Pelosi, and Schumer to step aside and let a new generation step into the batter’s box and take a swing at directing the future of America.
The disparity in the depth of talent between the two parties could not be more obvious. The Left has Hakeem Jeffries at the top, and then there is a massive drop to the second tier. When you point to Kamala Harris and Alexandria Cortez as legitimate candidates for the Democrat nominee, you are not playing in the major leagues. And this is if you can convince Biden not to run for reelection. He is hell-bent on running, and only the document scandal or the Hunter Biden story exploding may persuade him otherwise. There is no way the American public will elect a man hiding at his beachfront property again. Fool me once, but never again.
The Republican bench is deep, and many have made it clear they want to sit in the Oval Office. Some have announced, like Trump and Nikki Haley, while others are hitting the talk show circuit testing the water. DeSantis is the early favorite but has not declared. Mike Pompeo, Mike Pence, Glenn Abbott, Glenn Youngkin, and Chris Sununu are hinting strongly. All are strong Conservatives, though Sununu may be more of a Centrist.
Trump made two appearances this weekend in New Hampshire and South Carolina. Reports are he may be lacking his old passion, but he made one statement that rubbed me wrong. He proclaimed that DeSantis would never be Governor without Trump’s support. He believes that De Santis, Haley, Pence, and Pompeo disrespect him by considering a run. He is out of line. Trump has no claim to the Presidency, and these others are worthy candidates. This is precisely the division the Party and country do not need. I do not see Trump playing fairly with the field, so I think it best for Trump to abandon his thoughts of running. This move would be in the best interest of Trump, Republicans, and America.
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As a traditional feminist and a female business owner who has long stood up for women’s rights, disability rights, and against racial discrimination in the film and TV industry, I am relieved that Time’s Up is over. I also feel duped and angered by the entire #MeToo movement and this organization.
Time’s Up was a global branding enterprise, falsely selling itself as a supporter of women when in fact, it was using women.
#MeToo was a hashtag that most likely only became viral with the help of bots (Bot Sentinel and Chris Bouzy perhaps?) to push its visibility.
Bouzy, who has been labeled “an expert” by journalists in several major newspapers, including the NY and LA Times, appears to actually create bots to support himself or his clients, thus manipulating social media and public perception. He came out of the New York Department of Education IT department and has a background in a crypto scam as well.
Meghan Markle is apparently one of his clients (he appears in the Netflix documentary series about Prince Harry & Meghan Markle).
She was an “ambassador” for Times Up/#MeToo in the February 2018 edition of Vogue Magazine. Her victimhood ignited in January 2020 when the World Economic Forum decided she was a victim of British media on their site. I checked the British media for 2019 and believe that this WEF narrative was entirely fabricated to make money off victimhood virtue-hoarding altruism.
Coincidentally recent news articles about executives departing Archewell mention that they were creating stories for the zeitgeist — now that #MeToo, Time’s Up & BLM have been exposed, they will be looking for a new bandwagon.
I was invited to an early meeting of Hollywood executives to meet about Time’s Up in the Spring of 2018. I quickly realized that this was an exercise to use us and our networks rather than to help anyone. My and others’ 20+ years of promoting women’s, disability, and minority rights were irrelevant because Time’s Up had arrived. Tina Tchen was running it, and it had a trademarked global brand name. It was political, and we were to be used as minions.
A global brand such as Time’s Up comes with a financial brand value, and this is why, I believe, the MSM has been defending Amber Heard and co. Protecting a lie is protecting a brand label. L’Oreal, for whom Amber Heard is an “ambassador,” is worth $32 billion. It has 17 ambassadors. It’s represented by SKDK who also represented “Time’s Up,” “NWLC,” “UN Women,” “It’s On Us” and “Vital Voices” for whom Amber Heard was a VIP guest at a special event.
The controversies surrounding “On The Record” documentary, are a clear indicator that propaganda for politics and global branding was really at the core of Time’s Up, #MeToo and #BLM. These are commercial ventures. Not philanthropic as the rest of us might have naively believed them to be.
“On The Record” came from the filmmakers of “The Hunting Ground”, one of whom — Amy Herdy — was involved in the documentary “Justice” — about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Doug Liman, the director of “Justice” stated that he financed the documentary himself but IMDB Pro lists CAA Media Financing. CAA is where Time’s Up started with Tina Tchen in January 2018….SKDK promoted Time’s Up. SKDK also represented Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s accuser. Who sponsors the Sundance documentary section where both “The Hunting Ground” and “Justice” premiered? George Soros’ Open Societies Foundation.
Neither Time’s Up nor The Women’s March ever criticizes George Soros and his relationships with women who could be his granddaughters (and who physically hit him in court). Yet they are fast to criticize Johnny Depp for his age difference with Amber Heard. Soros was in his 80’s with a girlfriend in her 20’s, while Johnny Depp was in his 50’s with a wife in her 20’s. Sixty years age difference is fine. Twenty-five is not.
George Soros is the money spigot. Johnny Depp’s global value could be sucked from him in smear campaigns under social justice for George Soros’ political interests.
I was in DC and on Capitol Hill in September 2018, the week before the hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. I saw first hand how DC theatrics work. It’s high school — or middle school — or maybe even kindergarten in some cases. Members of Congress and Senators like having their photos taken with celebrities. Get a celebrity to make an impassioned speech (possibly scripted for them by lobbyists) that yields an opportunity for federal grants for a member of Congress and you’ll be celebrated. That’s not to say that members of Congress don’t care about real issues — they do. But the money game is real for their re-election, for their states and the federal grants are important. Story is everything, even if it’s not true. Major networks keep offices as close as possible to the White House — for a reason. It’s backscratching. NBC and CBS became particular friends to the #MeToo movement. Time’s Up did well out of CBS, but where did the money go?
George Soros is affiliated with Arabella Advisors as well as Open Societies. Connections can be found to various other organizations — one of which is the Narrative Initiative. How many #MeToo, Time’s Up, and BLM stories were created with its help?
Who created SKDK client Christine Blasey Ford’s letter? Early indications are that it was Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber. It could have been Narrative Initiative’s as well. Blasey Ford was not in the “Justice” documentary. I believe she was used, and abused for politics as others have been before and after her.
It smacks of an orchestrated political stunt. I’m not out to defend Brett Kavanaugh because I don’t think he should have made it to the Supreme Court, but I am critical of the use of media for mob justice which Time’s Up and its affiliates have used to push bills, change laws, extort and lead to life endangerment and suicides.
How many of the people questioning Kavanaugh (male & female) got up to the same kinds of sexual misconduct he did in the early 80s? If the Democrats can be so angry about Brett Kavanaugh, why are they so kind to Ketanji Brown for giving a lenient sentence for sexual abuse? None of it makes sense unless you follow the money. None of this is about equal rights, social justice, or black lives. It’s about money and politics. Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t be on the supreme court, but I’m not sure that Ketanji Brown should be either.
If we are going to get serious about addressing sexual assault, domestic violence and justice for all then we have to get rid of qualified immunity and police corruption. We have to ban the use of media to frame whoever the latest Salem witch trial target is. We have to stop seeing it as a partisan or one gender, religion or race issue.
It’s not and to pretend otherwise harms us all.
There are families involved, women involved, and children involved. Collateral consequences can be fatal. Federal tax dollars should simply not be going towards mob justice either directly or via federal grants that end up in PR companies or social justice non-profits.
We don’t have to like Brett Kavanaugh. We must respect his family’s right to safety and privacy, and that’s where I draw the line with “Justice” or the other films from these filmmakers who are out to incite hatred. I do not believe that Christine Blasey Ford would wish ill on Kavanaugh’s wife or children, and I do not believe that he would wish ill on her or her family. #MeToo activists care not about the real consequences to real lives in their activism.
Stanford Professor Michele Dauber (outspoken in the #MeToo movement and against Kavanaugh) and Gary Gensler (SEC) were both on the finance committee for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Gary Gensler has met several times with Sam Bankman-Fried in the last few years. Michele Dauber works in the same law department as SBF’s parents: feminist law professor Barbara Fried & tax law professor Joseph Bankman.
We should question everything to do with anybody connected to this crowd, including Time’s UP, MeToo, NWLC, BLM (whose leader, Patrice Cullors, was also represented by SKDK).
The Bankman-Frieds bought into (influenced) ProPublica, Vox, Semafor, and others. It’s highly unlikely that Sam Bankman-Fried and Gabriel Bankman-Fried did this alone — it is far more probable that they were part of a machine tied to Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the DNC. A machine that might even be tied to Jeffrey Epstein, who was preoccupied with cryptocurrency in 2017, per one report, and who donated to MIT’s Media Lab, which had a campus in Cyprus where SBF’s FTX EU opened in 2014. Epstein was a supporter of Time’s Up, and helped found the Clinton Foundation, which gave money to Hillary Clinton’s non-profit “Vital Voices” which started up in 1997 in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky Scandal.
In historical context, the founding of “Time’s Up” looks like a wash-rinse-repeat of “Vital Voices.” A piece of monetized crisis brand management 20 years later & also affiliated with the Clintons.
The Bankman-Fried family’s non-profit, which donated $5 million to ProPublica, was called “Building a Stronger Future.” Michele Dauber’s non-profit (registered to her home address but listed on the Stanford website) was called “Building a Better Legal Profession” — co-founded with Davida Brook (a student at Stanford Law School at the time), who went on to represent Amber Heard alongside Roberta Kaplan of Time’s Up/NWLC.
Barbara Fried co-founded “Mind The Gap” to “game the system” after she wrote a paper on using feminism in politics. Michele Dauber started the “Enough is Enough Voter Movement” specifically to target male candidates in the midterms. Justin Fairfax, who lost his race in Virginia, appears to be one of her and SKDK’s targets.
Some of the creditors for FTX are CAA-owned sports companies. Effective Altruism, Philanthrocapitalism, and Social Justice “Building….” are just branding labels. There is an integrated and orchestrated operation that violates multiple ethical lines between branches of government to influence, peddle and raise funds for political candidates while allowing the ring leaders to abscond with the funds raised to buy lavish real estate: SBF and his parents bought properties in the Bahamas. Michele Dauber bought a second home in Big Bear, California. Michael Kives of CAA (and also a Stanford alum and Clinton insider) borrowed $300 million from Alameda Research.
For a non-profit that had received something like $24 million in funds and spent most of it on rich salaries, luncheons in Martha’s vineyard, other celebrity events, PR, branding, and fees, there should be a transparent and federal inquiry into what went down with Times Up and the other organizations that are tied to it.
Why did Jeffrey Epstein support Time’s Up, and why did US AG Denise George get fired after filing a suit against JP Morgan for its role in Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking enterprise? Denise George is a black woman. DEI is irrelevant when Bill Gates and Joe Biden are vacationing in the US Virgin Islands, and JP Morgan is about to be on the world stage again for a pharmaceutical promotion week and the WEF.
Time’s Up couldn’t step up for Tara Reade, Alexia Norton-Jones or many other survivors but it was happy to provide a PR fund for a class action #MeToo suit against Dartmouth College which yielded a $14 million settlement and led to the suicide of a professor who was denied the right to speak for himself — he was described as a “casualty of scorched-earth #MeToo legal strategy”.
I disagree. Professor David Bucci was a targeted victim -the collateral consequence — of an extortion racket in which Time’s Up was complicit, an extortion racket in which NH Congresswoman Ann Kuster was also complicit — she supported the anonymity of the plaintiffs but not that of Bucci who was named 31 times in the suit — he was blamed for knowing of sexual misconduct in his department and denied the right to state that he was not aware of it. Her office called ABC/GMA in July 2019 to block Amy Robach’s interview with Owen Labrie, which would have exposed the extortion racket involving the attorneys who were suing Dartmouth, the same attorneys who sued St Paul’s School and who used publicity to leverage trials and suits in their favor with the help of the NHCADSV’s Amanda Grady Sexton who sat on NH Dem. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election campaign committee. Neither Shaheen, Kuster nor Grady Sexton stepped in to criticize then-Governor Maggie Hassan when her husband covered up the sexual assault of students at Phillips Exeter Academy because they wanted her to become Senator so there was a media blackout — courtesy, I suspect, of the NHCADSV and its media relations.
Congresswoman Kuster made the call to ABC when the Dartmouth suit was in mediation. Dartmouth gives to Kuster. She used to be a lobbyist for Dartmouth. Kuster wore white to the State of the Union in support of Time’s Up. It was all a political marketing facade. She went from being a lobbyist for Rohypnol when the millions she needed came from date-rape drug makers to one for the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.
When people give money to a non-profit with charitable tax-free status for what is advertised as a humanitarian and social justice cause that will help women or black lives, they deserve to know exactly how that money is being put to use. Funding a PR campaign so that attorneys can get rich off a class action suit while the plaintiffs get a tiny fraction and a professor is driven to suicide, is questionable.
The Dartmouth plaintiffs (some of them solicited) got $75K each while the attorneys got $4.9 million and the NHCADSV got $2.865 million which seems to have disappeared into “Every Voice Matters Coalition” — part of “It’s On Us” and therefore Civic Nation whose head is Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Chief of Staff.
“It’s On Us” has SKDK as its PR company and campaigned to block the Owen Labrie interview from airing — #SurvivorsOverRatings — really? That’s a joke. They had splashed Owen Labrie’s face and name all over NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox, CBS and in every national and international newspaper to get their ratings up but they blocked him from speaking for himself, claiming they shouldn’t have to see his face. I hope these actually understand the difference between an 18-year-old scholarship kid and an Isis terrorist, Congresswoman Ann Kuster — who endorsed the equation – included.
A survivor at Dartmouth who brought a lawsuit against the college for failure to deal with a nightime stranger intruder who threatened to rape her and her roommate told me that nothing has changed since the class action lawsuit. Dartmouth Title IX office did nothing. Her family had to sue to get any attention.
If you are sick of ever-increasing education fees for more useless and over-paid administrators and non-profits who don’t protect you child from anything, then join the club.
We are on our own and we are the majority (no matter our political affiliation, socio-economic status, religious, racial or ability/disability identity) except we don’t have the power of political PR companies using media and social media to raise funds for Government contracts.
Resources for sexual assault survivors at Dartmouth? You have to be a certain type — one that is politically useful. If you are the wrong type, you’ll get ignored.
Students at Dartmouth demanded due process for Maha Hasan Alshawi who accused a professor of sexual assault. The best Dartmouth could do was a preponderence of evidence finding that no misconduct had taken place. “Every Voice Matters” and “NHCADSV” nowhere to be found. Where did those millions go? I suspect into election campaigns. Did Kuster, Hassan, Grady Sexton or Shaheen come out in support of Maha Hasan Alshawi? Of course not — no political money to be made.
Anita Dunn of SKDK (“It’s On Us,” “Time’s Up,” “UN Women,” “Vital Voices”) is married to Bob Bauer who was a partner at Perkins Coie and Obama’s personal attorney. He is also Joe Biden’s attorney for matters relating to the stashes of classified documents that have been found in Biden’s Garage and elsewhere. Perkins Coie houses an office of the FBI, and Perkins Coie has represented Twitter, Google and brokered a deal for FTX US.
Apparently, using the front of Domestic Violence & Sexual Violence non-profits to raise money for elections is a trend, and engaging Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber — who also happens to be on the board of the Silicon Valley Democratic Committee — part of the strategy. It helps that her husband Ken Dauber is an early Google hire and an engineer who understands how AI and crowd reactions work.
ca-fair-political-practices-commission-complaint-and-initial-responseTimes Up, It’s On Us, and BLM are connected by the PR company SKDK. Monifa Bandele, who was tagged to run BLM after Patrice Cullors departed due to misappropriation of funds, was appointed to run Time’s Up after Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan stepped down following the Andrew Cuomo debacle.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion be damned — this is a profiteering insiders’ club of “social justice warriors” and money hoarders who all happen to be Democrats with no real desire to create “equal rights for all” but to spend the loot on second homes and glitzy events.
Anita Dunn of SKDK, who repped both Times Up & Patrice Cullors of BLM, is married to Bob Bauer, who was Obama’s personal attorney, is Joe Biden’s attorney for the current “classified documents” scandal, and was a partner at Perkins Coie which arranged a Delaware LLC for the ownership of a $6 million house for SKDK’s client Patrice Cullors. The house was obtained using BLM funds.
Meanwhile Anita Dunn had a stint as director of communications for the Obama White House, provided PR advice to Harvey Weinstein and was PR strategist for Biden, divesting of Google shares only when the conflicts of interest became public.
Google has contracts with Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, NBC, New York Times, among others. Google executives had strategy meetings with the Obama White House, while the FBI had meetings with Twitter and Facebook.
What’s the point of secret meetings for the FBI and big tech and the Government when you can short-circuit it all with pillow talk between Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer?
Google has been sued (again) for anti-trust.
It’s not hard to see how this little network could (and apparently did) weaponize and manipulate the public or turn a political crisis into a profiteering racket with a simple hashtag which they had the ability to turn viral.
#HeForShe (SKDK, UNWomen, The White House, Emma Watson) in 2014 was replaced with #MeToo (Alyssa Milano, Times Up, SKDK, DNC) in 2017. Tarana Burke who was eventually credited for #MeToo didn’t have a Wikipedia page before October 30th 2017 — almost two weeks after Alyssa Milano’s #MeToo tweet went viral. Did Tarana Burke get a Wikipedia page because #MeToo had an all too-white Hollywood appearance or because someone suddenly remembered her?
Professor Michele Dauber called the end of #MeToo in Spring 2020 when Tara Reade came forward to accuse Joe Biden of digital penetration. SKDK helped downplay the accusations and smear Tara Reade. The New York Times admitted to editing articles to paint Joe Biden in a more beneficial light. You can be a rapist as long as you are a friend of the DNC. And if you default on the money or you are a threat, they’ll turn the Gov Affairs PR machine with its ambassadors against you. Thus, Jennifer Siebel Newsom was Harvey Weinstein’s friend one day, executive producing his movie the next, getting Rose McGowan to back off him the next and then suddenly deciding that she would be Jane Doe number 4 claiming that nobody could say no to Harvey Weinstein. I disagree again. Plenty of women have said no to Harvey Weinstein. These women didn’t sleep with George Clooney before or marry Gavin Newsom after he’d had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife.
Michele Dauber had called the Emily Doe Victim Impact Statement from June 2016 “the #MeToo Manifesto”. Records indicate she wrote it herself and that she and her husband were manipulating social media in 2016 to stir public outrage to get support for the recall of Judge Aaron Persky.
I don’t believe that #MeToo was a naturally viral movement stemming from Alyssa Milano’s October 17th, 2017 tweet. My research into the timing of events has led me to a different conclusion about #MeToo and #Time’s Up — they were about election campaigns under the guise of social justice.
Barbara Fried and Gabriel Fried are apparently not cooperating with prosecutors in their investigations of FTX. Is this because Barbara Fried is safeguarding exposure of the entire #MeToo for politics scam too? She wrote “Feminism is for Everyone” — Perspectives for a Feminist Class Politics in October 2017. SBF opened Alameda Research in November 2017. Michele Dauber stated that sexual violence was going to be on the ballot for the 2018 midterms.
I walked in the Women’s March in January 2018. I didn’t think it was partisan, and I didn’t think much about why Planned Parenthood were sponsoring the event. How wrong I was: the PR company for Planned Parenthood is Precision Strategies which also represents the ACLU for whom Amber Heard, a #MeToo spokesperson who said she was “amplifying Michele Dauber’s voice, was an “ambassador.” The company was founded by Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s 2012 Deputy Campaign Manager.
2018 was all about getting women elected for the mid-terms. The Women’s March, Times Up & #MeToo were herding support for female candidates and for the renewal of the Violence Against Women, Act to keep the cash flowing to non-profits from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.
Precision Strategies represented Amber Heard until partway through the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard Virginia Trial when they turned their attention to the Dobbs Supreme Court leak, overturning Roe v Wade.
Stephanie Cutter had helped with politics and messaging for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee: Sonia Sotomayor. Josh Gerstein of Politico co-wrote the Dobbs leak story in an exclusive for Politico.
Like Cutter, he too had worked closely with the Obama administration in the very early days:
In this 2016 Politico article about the Supreme Court — co-authored by Josh Gerstein — Stephanie Cutter’s name appears with those of Valerie Jarrett, Tina Tchen and Anita Dunn. It’s a small club, and the same names come up over and over. They are paid millions in this fake gravy train profiteering off #MeToo, Time’s Up, BLM, and social justice.
#MeToo, #Times Up, #BLM and the Dobbs SCOTUS leak appear to be more about strategies for election campaign fundraising, not social justice:
Let’s go back a few years to understand the context and to follow the money — how it ran out and how it got replaced under social justice:
In 2015, there were reports that the Weinstein Company was being hit with lawsuits.
Then in 2017, there were reports that the Democratic Party was hard up for cash. Harvey Weinstein was an important fundraiser for the DNC and a close friend of both the Obamas and the Clintons.
Weinstein had been a close ally of Hollywood Talent Agency CAA, where Obama, Biden, Valerie Jarrett (Obama’s Chief of Staff), Tina Tchen (Michele Obama’s Chief of Staff), Arne Duncan (Education Secretary) signed up after the Obama administration.
Michele Obama invited Harvey Weinstein to the White House to give advice to young women who wanted to work in the entertainment industry in 2013.
Malia Obama interned for Harvey Weinstein in 2017, even going to the Sundance film festival with him just a month before Ronan Farrow’s NBC expose was shut down.
An outsized effort from the Obama administration had been devoted to influencing students on college campuses with campaigns using social media to target “rape culture.” Non-profits such as “Its On Us,” “Know Your IX,” “End Rape on Campus,” “SurvJustice,” “PAVE,” “RISE” and others thrived with full support of the White House which launched the “Not Alone” task force in 2014 headed by Valerie Jarrett.
It’s odd that with so much alleged commitment to ending campus sexual assault and to women’s rights issues that anyone in the Obama/Biden administration would sign up with CAA, an agency that didn’t have a single female or diverse board member and one which had hosted a sex themed party at Sundance in 2013 just as the campus survivor movement was ramping up to fever pitch.
The Obamas had become close to Harvey Weinstein whose reputation as an aggressive and uncouth thug was so well known that when Malia Obama went to intern for him in 2017, Vanity Fair published an article to smooth over the rough edges. Was SKDK the PR company to orchestrate this? What kind of discovery did the Secret Service impart to the Obamas before their daughter went to work for Weinstein? If most of Hollywood knew of Harvey Weinstein’s reputation, why was the President sending his eldest daughter to work for him especially after the President had announced the “Its On Us” pledge to end sexual assault?
Given recent revelations involving the FBI and Russia, the FBI, DOJ and Larry Nassar’s cover up or the SEC and Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX, it’s becoming increasingly clear that our government has some appalling lapses when it comes to due diligence. Due diligence that any ordinary citizen could carry out without needing top security clearance. The records are mostly public — if only members of the mainstream media, FBI and Government would bother to look for them.
The failures are not by accident. They are deliberate because there are financial and political perks that rely on ethical alarm bells being ignored.
Even if Harvey Weinstein’s sexual perversions were not well known, his reputation as a bully who could be physically violent was. Why did stunningly beautiful women hang on his arm? One can only conclude that the relationships were transactional as perhaps Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s was if she were truly honest about it.
This does not excuse Harvey Weinstein for horrifically abusive behavior but he was able to continue because the Hollywood-DC-Wall Street machine (which included many women and first ladies) allowed him to continue. The men — Ken Arletta and Ronan Farrow- who tried to expose him, got shut down.
Harvey Weinstein was prominently featured in coverage of the Oscars broadcast by ABC, a division of Disney with PR representation from SKDK headed by Hillary Rosen & Anita Dunn — PR specialists for the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, and Weinstein himself. Disney had a long history of supporting Harvey Weinstein, dating to the early ’90s. Looking back at all those actors who claimed that “Harvey is God” or who wore gowns from Marchesa at the Oscars, it looks as though they were participating in one big marketing campaign for Harvey and therefore the DNC.
A division of The Weinstein Company released the White House-backed propaganda documentary “The Hunting Ground” (about campus sexual assault), which won an Oscar for Best Song, performed at the 2016 Academy Awards by Lady Gaga — “Till It Happens To You.” Jennifer Siebel Newsom (aka Jane Doe 4 in Harvey Weinstein’s LA criminal trial) was an executive producer, and so was Maria Cuomo Cole, sister of Andrew Cuomo and married to Kenneth Cole, who was tied up in the AmFar scandal with Weinstein.
In 2016, CAA acquired 50% of a Hong Kong-based Global Brand Management Company. In 2022 it acquired the remaining shares. Some quick research indicates that the brand company might have been bankrupt, owing Harvey Weinstein’s AmFar partner, Kenneth Cole, $6 million and hence (perhaps?) the reason for the secrecy over the purchase price in the LA Times.
In the summer of 2017 The Weinstein Company reportedly was burdened with many unpaid debts. Rumor had it that hopes were being pinned on “Tulip Fever” to become an Oscar hopeful but when it premiered at the Toronto, Telluride and Venice Film Festivals in late August/early September 2017, the reviews were bad. Two weeks later, with Malia Obama having left her internship and a freshman at Harvard, Harvey went to interview with Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey in the offices of the New York Times.
One of his attorneys, Roberta Kaplan (who would go on to join Time’s Up with Tina Tchen) went with him. Gloria Allred’s daughter, Lisa Bloom, was another attorney who sold herself to Harvey for her ability to understand and discredit his victims. The third attorney who worked with him was David Boies who admitted to arranging for Black Cube (Mossad) to go after Weinstein’s accusers. Jennifer Siebel Newsom worked with David Boies to try to get Rose McGowan to back off her accusations against Harvey Weinstein for a fee.
Jodi Kantor knew Valerie Jarrett from interviewing her for her biography of the Obamas. Someone was behind the New York Times Jodi Kantor/Meghan Twohey exposé of Harvey Weinstein. Could it be TPG who’d invested in CAA and were concerned that CAA’s clients were not getting paid by the Weinstein Company? Or could it be Valerie Jarrett, whose associate Maria Contreras-Sweet (and another Obama insider) put in a bid to buy the company in November 2017 before criminal charges were filed?
Maria Contreras-Sweet’s bid was endorsed by Gloria Allred, who was closely connected to Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan. These three were well-versed in creating propaganda to raise money for the Democratic Party.
It took the Obamas and Clintons almost a week to make a statement after the NYT article about Weinstein came out on October 5th, 2017.
They were caught in an embarrassing situation — CAA had been accused of being enablers of Weinstein, and the insiders of the Obama administration, which had gone to great pains to pretend it cared about sexual assault, were all signed up there.
Time for crisis management for the Obama entourage and CAA. They had everything they needed: Global Brand Management Group in Hong Kong, SKDK & Anita Dunn, Precision Strategies, and Stephanie Cutter, and if they came up with a hashtag they could make go viral, they could get public support. And thus, Alyssa Milano, married to a CAA agent, would come up with #MeToo (possibly plagiarized from Donald Barnat’s alleged comment under the NY Times article on October 10th, 2017, which has never been acknowledged):
Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan would start Times Up with a cash injection of $13 million from CAA, a registered trademark (courtesy of Global Brand Management, I suspect) would get global recognition if they used the 2018 awards season to make a dramatic splash at the Golden Globes and Oscars. Finish it up with some celebrities with couture gowns to push the brand, and voila — they transformed a political, image, and financial crisis into a massive global profiteering venture with brand tie-ins around the world.
The Google contracts with Facebook, Twitter et al. helped:
Only Rose McGowan was brave enough to call it as it was. For that, her career in Hollywood was essentially over.
“You are a fraud. This is about holding the media accountable. You go after Trump & Kavanaugh saying Believe Victims, you are a lie,” McGowan wrote at the time. “You have always been a lie. The corrupt DNC is in on the smear job of Tara Reade, so are you. SHAME.”
McGowan noted that she feels Milano is “gaslighting the public” by picking whom she’ll believe about sexual assault.
“I don’t like sacred cows. I don’t like people that are held up to be better than other people and I don’t like people that don’t really do the right thing and behind the scenes are aiding and abetting alleged criminals. I just don’t and I won’t stand for it,” she told the host.
Time’s Up didn’t help Tara Reade. SKDK helped smear her. The two organizations helped Andrew Cuomo against his accusers too — one or more of whom may have been fake anyway.
BLM raised a lot of money and spurred action on the streets, but as harmful as Times Up was to women, so was BLM to people of color. Both organizations were essentially fronts for raising money for the Democratic Party, paying through the roof for “activists” under the guise of social justice.
Who was it that said that “#MeToo is a revolution that can’t be stopped”? Roberta Kaplan, co-founder of Time’s Up — Harvey Weinstein’s and Amber Heard’s former attorney.
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Does Hiroo Onoda run the Democrat party in Minnesota? Stationed in the Philippines, this Japanese soldier famously followed orders until 1974. In 1944 was told to stand and fight and never surrender. Minnesota Dems appear to have the same orders.
They are NOW using Keith Ellison and the Attorney General’s Office to take away my Medical License – If this can happen to me it can happen to you! pic.twitter.com/JfmvQe8ZWy
— Scott Jensen (@drscottjensen) January 30, 2023
Dr. Scott Jensen, who is also a Minnesota State Senator, called foul early on in the everyone dies from the COVID scam. He may well be the guy who turned us on to it (or confirmed our suspicions) when we reported his concerns back on April 15, 2020. The CDC said when in doubt, it’s death by COVID. A story that has long since evolved from conspiracy theory to fact.
Feel like a stroll down memory hole lane?
That last piece isn’t even two weeks old. In it, Dr. Leana Wen, published in the Washington Post, demonstrates the flaws for the cheap seats. In The Washington Post.
Minnesota Democrats are after Dr. Jensen’s license. He’s guilty of misinformation. This will surprise Dr. Brix, who made it clear during one of the many task force briefings that “If someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.”
The war is over. Trump didn’t collude with Russia. There is no hotel pee tape. And it is not misinformation to claim that patients who died from something else had their cause of death listed as COVID. It happened. A lot.
It is not a conspiracy theory or disinformation. It is a reality.
(History) And so, after twenty-nine years diligently fighting the Second World War primarily against the farmers of Lubang Island, Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered. He handed over his Arisaka Type 99 bolt-action rifle, five hundred rounds of ammunition, his knife and his grenades. The wiry figure, still dressed in his tattered 1940s Japanese army uniform, boarded a plane to Manilla where he presented his sword to President Ferdinand Marcos.
Marcos accepted the soldier’s surrender and formally pardoned him. For Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, the war was finally over. He was the second to last Japanese soldier to surrender. The last man standing, Private Teruo Nakamura, would finally hand himself in on the 18th of December 1974.
Is it going to take thirty years for Minnesota Democrats to get the message?
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