Wednesday • December 11 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.L
Manchester, N.H.
Here is the latest gaffe by the next Progressive letting us know that they hate America as it is, hate most Americans even more that refuse to bow down to them, and utterly despise our Constitution.
From a post from John Hawkins at Culturecide:
17) “Get your fictional hateful Bible stories and your fake fictional religious bullsh*t out of our f***ing lives. F*** you!” — Billy Eichner
16) “White people turn violent when they don’t politically get their way all the damn time in this country. It is what they do.” — Elie Mystal
14) “This country is a racist transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, ableist, classist, Islamophobic, misogynistic, dumpster fire. As such, seeing the American flag makes me want to vomit.” — Sara Rao
10) “Healthy communities do not need police.” — LA Mayoral Candidate Gina Viola
5) “The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of white supremacy.” — Taylor Dysart in the Washington Post.
4) “It has become necessary to dissolve the Supreme Court of the United States.” – Keith Olbermann
So, we on the Left HATE your religious beliefs, we can’t control our emotions (even as the Left believes they shouldn’t have to control their sexual urges but certainly flaunt them in public, there’s nothing good about America but we are all so good that police are not required (sure, splice that cognitive dissonance for me), that freedom can only be provided by Government (only government gives out entitlements) instead of being protected by Government (its first and Proper Role – see the Declaration of Independence), and that along with no police, no one should be held responsible by a judge.
Get all that? Can you think of the ABSOLUTE UTOPIA those, if combined, would yield? Yet, they want us to trust them in going down this rabbit hole…
So if you hear of another Progressive saying or doing stupid stuff, email me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com so I can add to the list!
Previous installments (lots of them!) over at the Main Page here. In the mean time, why have I assembled all these quotes? Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal sums up these micro-totalitarians, perfect examples of the Progressive philosophy:
“The essence of modern Democratic Progressivism is: You will participate in what we have created for you, and you will comply with the law’s demands.”
One used to believe that before pen was set to legislative paper, our elected officials WOULD contemplate “is this Constitutional?“. This is the elitism of the Democrat Party and other Progressives (including Republican ones) on stage and it lines up with their ideology of collectivism and control. THIS, my friends, is Totalitarianism written kinda slow.
And here are a few choice examples of how some elected Progressives view Government, to create what they will force you to comply with, plus some unelected and unaccountable Progressives (re: Bureaucrats) that share the same outlook. That they matter and you are looked at as just getting in their way of remaking society in their own image should be horrifying.
Many more over at the Main Page:
Non-NH based Progressives:
We have the Right:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Our public schools are a mess (allowing anything to be taught), and our school boards are failing us, but only we are to blame because we voted them in and don’t hold them accountable.
We want to thank Rep. John Sellers for this Contribution – Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
These kids will one day be our leaders and need to know how to think, reason, read and solve math problems. It is our moral responsibility to these kids so they can live life to the fullest.
By now, many, if all of you know, there are books in many of our schools that are pornographic and even demonic. Many say no big deal, while others say let them read that junk at home if they must, just not at a public school. Is this a big deal? Yes, because even if a kid cannot read, they still learn from pictures. As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and these books provide lots of pictures.
There are three problems with our schools; 1, kids are not learning to think/reason/read or do the math; 2, pornographic/demonic and inappropriate age reading material (maybe even illegal, the case against Dover schools in court now) are available to them and 3, parents are not watching what enters our kid’s minds that the schools are allowing. Did you know schools believe they know what’s best for your kid better than you do? They are indoctrinating and grooming your kid/s starting at the elementary grades. Public schools are the Pied Piper of the 21st century. If we stand idle and do nothing, our kids will lose, and we lose everything we once held dearly.
We need our kids to think, reason and read for themselves and if our kids can read, they can learn anything. I will do all I can at the State House to stop this non-sense, but you must get involved NOW, run for School Board, sign-up is in January and then campaign hard for the next couple months. One person and one vote can make a difference.
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Whoever is Running the Biden Administration (WRBA) has released new restrictions on travel from China. “The White House announced Wednesday it will require travelers from China to test negative for COVID-19 prior to arrival in the U.S.”
It’s a good idea. Italy began testing planeloads of travelers from China, and so far, half have tested positive for COVID.
“On the first flight, out of 92 passengers 35 (38%) are positive. On the second, out of 120 passengers 62 (52%) are positive,” Lombardy regional councilor for welfare Guido Bertolaso said at a news conference, as quoted by Sky News.
Italian Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said mandatory testing for Chinese travelers is “essential to ensure surveillance and detection of possible variants of the virus in order to protect the Italian population.”
Given past fearmongering, “casualties,” and outrage, this classifies as a biological and psychological act of war or something. China has been on a COVID-Zero roll for a while, only recently opening the doors a bit. And since the Chinese don’t just go someplace with China allowing it, letting them leave without testing them seems like a deliberate act. But even if it’s not, Joe Biden’s administration expects them to test negative before being allowed in, which, if we hop into the Wayback machine sounds, well, let’s let Joe tell you for himself.
We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) February 1, 2020
It’s “hysteria, xenophobia, and fearmongering.”
For the record, I have the same thoughts about Trump’s and Biden’s decisions, but Biden’s got a new problem. He’s tripped over his rhetoric to do something sensible while letting millions of non-residents swarm across the southern border untested.
And while China may be trying to stoke a new pandemic cloud of fear – most certainly a political move – how does Whoever is Running the Biden Administration explain the inbound restriction on people entering the country legally ‘cuz CORONA but not for those pouring in illegally with CORONA and a manifold of other second and third world diseases?
That sounds like an excellent question for your Democrat Congressmanpersonthing.
Let us know what sort of form letter you get back talking around the hypocrisy.
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I read a truly terrifying article yesterday. It’s about the “youth vote.” I prefer the term “TikTok voters.” But the voters I am referring to are typically under 30 and live in a completely different world … and therefore have completely different values … than prior generations. For example:
Consider this: Younger voter are seven times more likely to get their political news on TikTok than on cable news.
These TikTok voters do NOT believe in any of the values that made America America. To them “democracy” means their … as in the Democrat … candidates win. Republicans are not the loyal opposition or even the opposition. Republicans are the enemy … fascists, Nazis, EVIL. Free speech means censorship of “misinformation” and “hate speech,” i.e. speech their tribal leaders disagree with. Freedom means abortion without restriction. Equality means favoring certain “groups” over other “groups,” i.e. whites, especially heterosexual white males. Immigration means open borders.
These views are baked in. That is, TikTok voters are NOT persuadable:
[TikTok voters] … solidifying their political ideology at a much earlier age than previous generations – thus becoming increasingly harder to influence as they get older.
According to this article, TikTok voters are the primary reason why there was no “red wave” in the 2022 midterms:
In the Pennsylvania Senate race, for example, John Fetterman received 70% of votes from those under 30 years of age. In New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan received 74% of younger votes. And in Arizona, Mark Kelly received more than three out of four votes cast by someone under 30. Republicans lost the battle for the Senate thanks to younger voters.
The numbers of TikTok voters are growing, while the numbers of voters who still hold American values is shrinking because the latter are older voters, who are dying off:
Millennials and Gen-Z are now the largest voting bloc, with Gen-Z the largest and most diverse segment in history and their impact increasing.
The author’s “solution” is to pander to these voters. For example:
… having a legitimate plan for issues younger voters care most about, like climate change
To me that is not a solution. It’s surrender. If the price of winning is pretending that late-terms abortions are NOT the equivalent of infanticide, ignoring the human rights abuses rampant in Africa to obtain cobalt for our “green economy,” redefining equality to mean that biological males get to compete on girls school sports teams, etc., etc., etc., then the price is too high.
The only solution is to … and maybe just for the short term … balkanize. Move to Red States and make them even redder and use local government to protect you from the onslaught. The long term solution, sadly, may come down to expatriation. The battle for America has been lost. TikTok, the WEF and the globalists have won.
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…Either the wall was intended to keep government out of the church, or it was intended to keep the church out of the government.
The truth is, Jefferson’s wall of separation was meant to protect every individual’s freedom of religious practice and expression without fear of penalty or retaliation from the government or any private party.
* For those who seek to review a transcript of the video, click on Watch on YouTube, then click on the three dots in the upper right hand corner beside the Share button, then click on Show Transcript.
From my standpoint and understanding, our Constitution IS our social contract. The Bill of Rights, the key to its adoption by the now free colonies smarting sharply from the failure of the Articles of Confederation, has as the first item in the First Amendment was that Congress WAS NEVER to create a law that would restrict or devolve the importance of peoples’ style of belief or worship:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
There was never to be a State sanctioned church or religion like the Anglican Church in England was at that time (hearing current stories about it, I do wonder if it is a church at all as it continues to drop the Biblical precepts it claims to believe in out of a castle tower’s windows into the moat below).
Here in the US, Obama really wanted to re-write the Constitution and set that into motion by deliberately misquoting it often:
Yeah – this is why he is always misquoting the First Amendment.
It is NOT the freedom of worship but the free expression thereof. But he knows that – and there can only be one reason why he refuses to declare the plain simple words written therein. True religious expression in the public square was the intent of the Founders – not relegated to a house of worship or at home. Marx made it quite clear that Religion, the nuclear family, and a strong middle class were objects to be destroyed and not valued. The State was to be the economic arbitrator, the head of the household, and yes, your god. And for Progressives, he is their Prophet.
Doubt me? How many people on the Right insist that worship and expression are to be kept in a building? None that I know of – only the Left. After all, it is an obstacle to their end game – when Government is worshiped and from which all blessings SHOULD flow. Not God and not from the hearts of believers.
(H/T: Instapundit)
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(Edited after publication. Got behind the curve today!)
Forewarned is forearmed. Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming. Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple.
Please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
For prep materials, please see:
Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok
And the last meme post:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
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ALL PARENTS MUST WATCH THIS!
Biotech Analyst Karen Kingston is urging parents to be cautious when following the childhood immunization schedule.
Mainly because vaccine manufacturers may be changing their traditional vaccines to MRNA.
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/mzHT7mhJjq
— The Absolute Truth with Emerald Robinson (@AbsoluteWithE) December 23, 2022
In general, all my life I have been an advocate of vaccinations. No longer. Not one more needle in my kids’ arms if I can help it. Not one more for me either.
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Top of the fold:
What Could Go Wrong? Startup Releases Particles into The Atmosphere to Stop “Climate Change”
Insanity. But remember – many of these people TRULY BELIEVE that if humanity is not stopped in its CO2 emissions, all life on earth will end. If you truly believed this, what would you NOT do to stop that?
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Pentagon admits to 46 US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, claims they were for ‘improving public health’ — Puppet Masters — Sott.net
Slowly, slowly, the truth drips out.
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Should We Boycott the 2024 Election? › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
A damned good question. My view, at least as of now… yes, I will vote in 2024 assuming I’m alive (if I vote D I’m not) and there’s an election. But unless the system itself is fixed I expect nothing but more fakery.
Added as I compile – a very good friend of mine, former military, pointed out that the utter crushing of Kari Lake in AZ means 2024 is a bust. State officials commit perjury and nothing happens. So what happens if nothing happens?
TINVOWOOT. Prepare yourself.
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
WEF Proposes Surveillance Tech to Track Individuals’ Climate Impact
Fanatics. Related:
1969 Memo of Tyrannical Population Control Ideas That Are Now in Place – Slay News
They’ve been thinking about this for decades – more likely at least a century.
(Image source)
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Video: D.C. Whole Foods Imposes QR Code System To Shop (infowars.com)
“And none may buy or sell save they have the mark…”
This is not voluntary. This is mandatory to shop there.
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UN Seeks to Delete ‘Human Rights’ from World Health Regime – The New American
Proposed amendments to the United Nations World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations (IHR) would delete the requirement that public-health policy be implemented with respect for individual freedoms, dignity, and human rights, warned independent investigative journalist James Roguski in this interview on Conversations That Matter with Alex Newman for The New American magazine. That is just one of the major red flags. Another: a plan to impose a global health and vaccine ID passport for everyone on Earth.
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Protecting Children:
Lone Star Parson: Drag Queen Story Hour Satan
Satan walks openly, and none question it. Related:
EVIL: School Social Worker in Maine Pressured Teen Girl to Flatten Her Breasts and Not Tell Her Parents (VIDEO)
NOT that I’m advocating anything, but… if this person developed a long-distance case of high-velocity lead poisoning, and the shooter were caught, I’d accept the “They needed a little killing” defense.
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CONTENT WARNING!!!! Presented informationally, but nasty, nasty stuff. Understand what’s in your schools’ libraries.
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Target – The Latest Addition to New Hampshire’s Adult Toy Store Scene – Granite Grok
Astonishingly bold.
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National Security (specifically):
DEA Seized Enough Fentanyl To Kill Every American In 2022…
OMG.
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Biden Amps Up Spying on Israel | Frontpage Mag
One can debate Israel’s status as an ally, but that’s not my goal here (obviously I believe them to be an ally). The concluding point is simple: all countries spy on all other countries, the question is motivation. In this case it’s to keep tabs on Israel on behalf of Iran.
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Shortages (broadly):
Geoengineering Startup Begins Releasing Sulfur Particles Into Atmosphere In Attempt To ‘Stop Climate Change’
There are already food shortages. This will accelerate that famine. Note the quote – about the moral necessity of doing this. This is how we slip-slide to Hell faster.
Slip-Sliding Towards Hell with a Good Conscience – Granite Grok
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On The Jab (and Covid)
Suddenly in Norway
It’s a complete mystery.
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Masks Still Don’t Work | City Journal (city-journal.org)
They never did.
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(READ) FDA records: ‘significant’ number of test rats given Covid vaccine born with skeletal deformations | Sharyl Attkisson
Surak just emailed me confirming that there is a new charity started for children born without feet. I wonder why that might be needed all of a sudden. Related to harms:
The Spike Protein FUNCTIONS AS A “MICROTUMOR”: Instantaneous “Micrometastases”: Induction of Tumor Microenvironment: LONG COVID! (substack.com)
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Why Does Peter Hotez Think We Are Mass Murderers? (substack.com)
Because the Jabbed increase their paychecks. IIRC, in many countries, doctors are given bonuses for each Jab.
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Inflation:
Food Prices
I need to drink a lot of water, and for some reason I just can’t get into drinking non-carbonated water. At the local supermarket their two-liter bottles have gone up 20%.
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EPA Finalizes Rules to Decimate US Trucking Industry and Send Consumer Goods Prices Soaring (thegatewaypundit.com)
Higher prices and outright shortages. Want to eat? Eat the bugs and indoor-farmed genetically-engineered Frankenfood.
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Enemedia:
Most Americans Don’t Know How Bad the Border Crisis Is | Frontpage Mag
Control the information flow, control what people believe.
But perhaps just as extraordinary has been the decision by many major media organizations that what is happening on the border is no big deal. In particular, major television news networks, with the notable exception of Fox News, have virtually pretended that the crisis was not happening. Recently Fox’s Bill Melugin, who has covered the current crisis close-up since it began, was asked about coverage on the national networks. “I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve seen them down here in my 19 months of covering this,” Melugin said.
Now, we are seeing what happens when so many in the media ignore a story. A new Harvard-Harris poll shows that Americans have no idea how bad the crisis is. When asked how many illegal crossers are entering the United States, they grossly underestimate the number. They are, in short, in the dark about what is happening on the border.
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Remember again that the correct answer is about 3 million. All told, 87% of those surveyed underestimated the number of illegal border crossers each year. Significant groups of Americans really underestimated the number — about one-third believed fewer than 250,000 crossers are coming each year, which is a remarkably uninformed opinion. More than half believe less than 500,000 are coming, another remarkably uninformed opinion.
How is it that so many people are so ignorant of what is happening? Might the answer have something to do with the fact that so many news organizations have ignored the problem? Ignore the story and you’ll have ignorant viewers.
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Lobbying firm paid ABC’s Kristen Hentschel for political hit pieces (nypost.com)
An ABC producer used her credentials to create fake hit pieces on local politicians in Florida while pocketing thousands from a political lobbying firm, a report said.
Who watches the watchers?
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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic Enemy:
The Persistence of the Left | Frontpage Mag (bolding added):
RTWT, but:
Another modification of Leftism is its therapeutic thrust: its sentimental privileging of the suffering masses and victims of American global depredations; and its smug displays of “conspicuous compassion,” as Allan Bloom called it. Hence the therapeutic Leftist opposes free-market capitalism because it creates winners and losers and so hurts people’s feelings, not to mention besmirching the environment. He feels bad about all the unjust suffering in the world, but he practices what Charles Dickens called “telescopic philanthropy,” the conspicuous display of sensitivity to suffering, but from a safe distance.
How does this compare with this transcription of a seminal speech by Evan Sayet (bolding added; italics replace by underlining):
What I discovered is that the Modern Liberal looks back on 50,000 years, 100,000 years of human civilization, and knows only one thing for sure: that none of the ideas that mankind has come up with–none of the religions, none of the philosophies, none of the ideologies, none of the forms of government–have succeeded in creating a world devoid of war, poverty, crime, and injustice. So they’re convinced that since all of these ideas of man have proved to be wrong, the real cause of war, poverty, crime, and injustice must be found–can only be found–in the attempt to be right.
If nobody ever thought they were right, what would we disagree about? If we didn’t disagree, surely we wouldn’t fight. If we didn’t fight, of course we wouldn’t go to war. Without war, there would be no poverty; without poverty, there would be no crime; without crime, there would be no injustice. It’s a utopian vision, and all that’s required to usher in this utopia is the rejection of all fact, reason, evidence, logic, truth, morality, and decency–all the tools that you and I use in our attempts to be better people, to make the world more right by trying to be right, by siding with right, by recognizing what is right and moving toward it.
I am firmly of the belief that He made man with faith hard-wired in. But… absent faith in Him, we latch onto something else. Thus my absolute belief that Leftism is a faith in and of itself – a faith that believes, truly believes, they can create utopia on earth with enough effort and sacrifice. Thus we have A Conflict of Visions.
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Many Conservatives Won’t Be With Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas | Frontpage Mag
I have not spoken to one of my-generation cousins in years because of politics. We text occasionally, but that’s it. To another I’m persona non grata and never hear from her; her brother and I are stiffly polite during the occasional phone call. And while I’m not sure it’s politics per se, two of my nephews are incommunicado. A follow-up:
Leftists defend shutting out conservative grandparents (wnd.com)
Remember, Leftists are MISSIONARIES and those who question the Lord Marx and their Marxianic faith are heretics. And reading the Leftist comments included in the article, I can only think PROJECT MUCH?
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Left Wants to Rotate Supreme Court Justices Every Administration | Frontpage Mag
I have to give the Left credit – they’re dynamic, inventive, and constantly trying new tactics. Related:
Credentialism, Crisis and Censorship: How the Left Eliminated Debate | Frontpage Mag
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Christmas Time: When the West Appeases and Islam Slaughters | Frontpage Mag
Trying to please your enemies does not turn them into friends.
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Why Did the FBI Want Joe Biden to Become President? – American Thinker
This leads one to an obvious conclusion: the FBI has become the American Stasi. As of today, I have become very distrustful and afraid of my own government. I halfway expect my house to be raided and my own arrest coming for the crime of speaking truth to power.
Only one word accurately describes the crime the FBI has committed, and that word is treason.
May the punishment fit the crime.
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Hot Take: The Electoral College Is A Threat To Democracy
ANYTHING that is a threat to Democrat forever-rule is a threat. Related:
Democrats Rolled a New Election Law Into the $1.7 Trillion Omnibus – Truth Press
AT BEST this is stupidity.
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Another example of why I own guns
They really do hate you:
An activist who’s also a licensed therapist based in Philadelphia shared this video on IG stories which calls for violence against political opponents pic.twitter.com/qmie5Zx2eL
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 23, 2022
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Mitch McConnell Wants to Lose and Stay in the Minority – PJ Media (bolding added):
However interesting Trump’s theory may be, I have a completely different idea about why McConnell is so awful: being in the minority means he can always use that as an excuse for never doing anything meaningful or good for Republican voters.
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While leading the minority party, the bare minimum that McConnell has to do is stomp his foot and play spoiler every once in a great while so he can have something to point to when we conservatives take him to task. He still gets to wield power over his Republican colleagues in the Senate. At this point, that appears to be all he wants to do.
That and further enrich himself as the country falls and burns.
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Migration / Immigration:
You’ll Never Guess Whom Kamala Harris Blames for the Border Crisis | Frontpage Mag
What the remaining sane Americans see as a border crisis, Kamala Harris and her cohorts see as a fine state of affairs. The only border crisis they see is that the dastardly Republicans, those threats to Our Democracy, won’t immediately grant American citizenship to everyone on the face of the planet. So of course she blames the Republicans for the border crisis. There would be no border crisis if they were just socialist internationalists like everyone else, intent on erasing the very idea of a nation-state. If it weren’t for them, our blissful socialist utopia may already have dawned.
These peoples’ anthem is “Imagine”…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
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Arizona Border Hospital Hit With $20 Million Bill For Treating Illegal Migrants – ‘It’s Unsustainable’ (thegatewaypundit.com)
Cloward Piven.
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Is anyone surprised that nearly 70% of Muslims now living in the UK refuse to sing the national anthem? (barenakedislam.com)
You cannot import people who hate your country and civilization. Or you will collapse. Which is the Globalists’ goal. Related, a five-minute video:
John O’ looney, the real reason for foreign migrants into the UK 5min* (rumble.com)
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Suspect In Paris Shooting ‘Had Pathological Hatred Of Foreigners’
I don’t approve of the blanket hatred of foreigners. But increasingly, I understand it.
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Suicidal Sweden: Woman Gang-Raped in a Park by Five Teenage Syrian Muslim Migrants – RAIR (rairfoundation.com)
Pro-migration people. This is on you. And I’m looking at my fellow Jews on this in particular:
An Open Letter to Pro-Migration / SJW Jews – Urban Scoop
You are tikkun olam fetishists who are using our faith to mask your liberalism.
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Analysis: Billions Sent to Ukraine Could Have Built Seven 450-Mile Border Walls Along U.S.-Mexico Border (breitbart.com)
But that would have stopped the flow of new voters.
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Economy at large:
10 Expenses You Need to Cut Now for the Upcoming Economic Depression – Ask a Prepper
Waste not, want not.
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Hot Flash: Newton’s Third Law Still In Effect! – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
Make something more expensive, you get less of it. Duh. And then you have more unemployed people… and more impetus for UBI. And more impetus for Socialism / Communism.
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
FTX’s SBF Out of Jail and Off to Parents Mansion in California – Judge Jeanine Says His Chances of Going to Trial Are Slim to None (thegatewaypundit.com)
I keep saying this over and over: Rome collapsed when the average Roman finally grasped how utterly corrupt the Rome he believed in had become… and ceased being willing to fight for it.
This not just cheated people out of their money, he was a primary money laundering conduit. The stench is unfathomable, and yes – we’ll never see justice. That’s assuming he doesn’t get Epsteined. Related, broadly:
SBF Case Moved to Clinton Appointed Judge Lewis Kaplan Who’s Allowed Garbage Trump Rape Case to Continue and Oversaw Prince Andrew Case Too
FBI Office Probing Hunter Requested Pre-Election Censorship (thefederalist.com)
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Anti-LGBTQ hate thrives online, spurs fears of more violence (italics replaced by underlining):
Gee, I wonder why….. could it be because 2% of the population shoved their lifestyle into the faces of the other 98% and demanded that we not only accept it, but we and our children embrace it?
I’m a Live and Let Live kind of guy. I don’t care one bit about your sexuality, but don’t shove it in my face and demand that I embrace it. Sh*t, I don’t want anything shoved in my face, sexual or not.
They went way over the line though when they involved the kids, especially grade school age or younger. It is not their place to teach our kids about sexuality, gay or straight – that’s the parent’s responsibility, not theirs.
What he said. No, I don’t condone violence… and IMHO what consenting adults do in private is none of my business… but I understand the desire to do it as I am increasingly becoming prone to being of the opinion that you involve kids, you deserve what you get. Not for nothing do I routinely comment “Wood chipper therapy. Stat”.
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BREAKING: Judge Dismisses Kari Lake’s Election Lawsuit on Christmas Eve – Lake to Appeal Ruling (thegatewaypundit.com)
Physical evidence of fraud that cannot be accidental. And still dismissed. TINVOWOOT. Plan accordingly.
Related to AZ:
EXCLUSIVE: “They Had To Sabotage It, And We Believe We Can Prove That In A Court Of Law” – Kari Lake Discusses Her Stolen Election Lawsuit and Wednesday’s HISTORIC Trial With TGP (thegatewaypundit.com)
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SELF-DESTRUCTION: Judge Says San Francisco Can’t Clear Homeless Camps (thegatewaypundit.com)
“The people vote for what they want in government, and deserve to get it good and hard”. – HL Mencken
Related:
Mom Shot in the Head While Walking to Grocery Store in NYC — One Day After Christmas (thegatewaypundit.com)
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The Great Re-Sort: New, National Survey Indicates Political Migration Will Soar
People will move. And America will break up.
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Evidence in Nord Stream Sabotage Doesn’t Point to Russia: Washington Post
While there remains consensus that the explosions were indeed the result of a deliberate act of sabotage, numerous officials in the West now say the evidence is not pointing to Russia.
Related:
On The Precipice of World War III? – A Son of the New American Revolution (sonar21.com)
Not content with provoking Russia into invading Ukraine, the West, with the United States and the United Kingdom as the biggest instigators, is stirring the pot in Serbia and encouraging Kosovo to open a new front in hopes of diverting Moscow from completing its Special Military Operation in Ukraine. This is not the first time that the Balkans plays a bit role in lighting the fuse that detonates a conflagration in Europe.
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In for a Pound – by William Schryver – imetatronink (substack.com)
Russia is in it to win it, and will settle for nothing less.
Echoes other things I’ve read.
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China denies report it is developing reefs and cays in the South China Sea — Radio Free Asia (rfa.org)
Channeling Bismark:
(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy)
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The Demographic and Cultural Demise of the West | Frontpage Mag
A civilization – not just individual countries – in massive decline.
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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
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Specific to energy:
Germany’s Energy Crisis Is A Cue To Chop Wood And Stock Up
Smart man described here. Doubtless his home will be raided because others failed to think similarly. And as his hard-saved food and fuel walk out the door he will be lectured that “we’re all in this together”.
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Oil rises as China lifts Covid restrictions — RT Business News
Demand goes up, price goes up.
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Biden Admin Plots to Ban Gas Stoves | Frontpage Mag
Don’t forget the war on wood stoves too.
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Big Tech in general:
Technology Advances While the Mind Retreats › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
A few years ago I was in China on a business trip. One of the people I was with had an app where you held your phone up, camera and program on, to anything in Chinese and it would automatically translate it. From a pure technological standpoint, how cool is that?
But it increases dependence. And while, per a Man-Kzin Wars character, while a sword extends the warrior’s capability and reach, the basic skill stays with the warrior. In this case though, no it doesn’t. It’s one of the reasons I’m studying Hebrew and Spanish. I want to have the skill, not to be reliant on tech.
The same for a similar program that looks at an algebra equation and gives you the answer.
We are outsourcing our mental capability to the machines. From such comes the Butlerian Jihad. Or the Matrix:
“… as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization.”
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Facial Recognition Denied Mom Entrance to NYC Rockettes Show With Daughter Because of Her Employer (legalinsurrection.com)
I’m concerned about the article. I’m even more concerned about the system’s ability to target individuals. Related to faces:
She was so excited about the convenience of face-scan payment in China…no card or phone needed …
Wait until the govt decides your social credit score is too low for not doing what they tell you. No water for you until you receive your 4th booster.
sound … pic.twitter.com/XJ9dCKkukk
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) December 26, 2022
Enthusiastically embracing slavery and digital everything. Until the prison door slams shut. Or the power goes out. Or the government turns you off for wrongthink.
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Please just stop. Virtually zero chance these will end up being used for anything but nefarious purposes. https://t.co/EHkk4g34tR
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 26, 2022
OK, who is funding this? So when do they change their name to CYBERDYNE?
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The Manufactured
Not commenting on Shapiro specifically (IMHO he’s got plusses and minuses), but in general: at this point in time I think it’s safe to assume anything on SM is fake, whether in content or popularity.
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Authorities Worldwide Repurpose COVID-19 Surveillance Tech – PJ Media
Once government is given power, it is never relinquished.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Sean Hannity Testifies He ‘Did Not Believe For One Second’ That the 2020 Election Was Stolen
Sean, Sean, Sean. You’re useful, but you’re an idiot.
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The War on Merit Takes a Bizarre Turn | City Journal (city-journal.org)
When ideology hurts kids. This is tragic, and IMHO is worthy of mega-lawsuits.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
Interfaith…Dialogue? – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
My wife is – nominally – a Sunni Muslim (really an atheist). But she agreed to raise the kids as Jews, we’ve converted them, and I’m doing my best. Anyway, before they came along we joined a local Shul and one day there was an organized “interfaith” event. In comes a local Imam flanked by two women in hijabs (one in just that, the other also in the robes (face visible)). My wife said “Those poor women”. Aside: one day her sister back in Kazakhstan said she was thinking about wearing a hijab, and my wife exploded: “We’re Kazakhs; we don’t wear that Arab sh*t”! Or at least that what she said she was screaming after the fact.
During the discussion the Imam said something that I think only I picked up. He said that America’s problems were due to secular law. So I put down my question on the 3×5 card and turned it in. “You said ‘secular law’ was the root of America’s problems. What’s your solution? Sharia law”?
My Rabbi was the screener for that. IIRC he looked at me – knowing even then I wasn’t one of the Leftist herd – and did not ask it. Too bad. It’d have been nice to pin that guy down.
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Palate cleansers:
ROFL. Definitely.
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Nice to see that animated GIFs work.
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Matt Walsh is famous for his question, “What is a Woman?” after new SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson infamously stated that she couldn’t state what a woman was because she wasn’t a biologist.
So much for getting answers about abortion and the uncivil Culture War (e.g., transgenderism) that the Left has unleashed upon us all.
Sidenote: Yes, I have a biology degree so I am happy to instruct anyone that asks me, “what is a woman.” Sometimes, depending on who is doing the asking, VERY happy and delighted to inform that person!
This clip is the Q&A from Walsh’s talk at UC Berkeley.
While the sponsoring organization was YAF (Young Americans for Freedom), it took place at that bastion of socialism, UC Berkley.
This post’s title comes from the first person that came to the mic: What should the next question be after “What is a woman?” and Walsh’s answer is quite revealing: What is the difference between gender and personality?
Think about that for a bit. Historically, gender and sex were synonyms for each other – and both are tied to biology which is binary in nature. Either you are male or you are female. Each has different physical characteristics from the genetic level to the sexual differentiation that is, in the vast majority of cases, physically observable during and after puberty (let’s leave the extremely small percentage of those suffering from hermaphroditism or other development malfunction of gene expression for being the outliers they are).
The Left has made it clear that they have cleaved those definitions – sex is physical and gender is made up (how else can one keep up with the ever-growing “new” genders every day other than it seems to be a weird sexuality arms-race to think up the next “gender category” almost as if its a case of “I WIN” contest). So Walsh’s question is a good one – and really hard to quantifiably answer. After all, your personality can be that malleable part of someone. Why CAN’T it be a personality issue and not a “gender issue”? Can’t personality / psychological makeup be sufficient to explain this all? After all, a “dysphoria” (as in “gender dysphoria”) is an aspect of someone thinking or emotions – but not of biology alone.
I’ll throw this out to you in the comments – have at Walsh’s “second” question.
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Southwest Airlines grew from a start-up carrier back in 1967 to become the number-one airline in 2018. From that famous line in their early commercials, “more champagne?” to their catchphrase today, “your flight has been canceled.”
They’ve come a long way, baby, but they lost their way. Southwest is in trouble.
Southwest suffers from a severe case of complacency. They enjoyed their success and forgot to plan for the future. They are short on pilots and staff, their planes are aging, and their computer system cannot satisfy their current demands. Even their telephone system is down because it is overloaded.
Southwest accounts for over 80% of the canceled flights since Christmas Eve, and you cannot get a Southwest flight for the next five days. Southwest customers are stranded in airports in every state, and many have no idea where their luggage has landed. With the breadth and magnitude of Southwest’s problems, this will not be a quick fix.
We are witnessing a corporate meltdown.
Joe Biden made some comments about the situation before he boarded a flight to St Croix for a holiday vacation. By the way, this is Biden’s 60th long weekend away from Washington in two years. Biden said he would insist on accountability.
Mayor Pete, AKA Pete Buttigieg, made the same claim. I am going to turn this back on Pete. You are the Secretary of Transportation. Why didn’t you see this meltdown coming? We demand accountability from you, Mayor Pete. Our demand is about the same as yours or Joe’s. They are all useless, for nobody is held accountable for anything today! You are not only untouchable for being Gay, but some people are foolish enough to think of Pete Buttigieg as a leading candidate for President in 2024. That is how low our standards have fallen.
Southwest Airlines was given $7 Billion of our tax dollars as part of the COVID PPP Program. That money was to shore up the company and heal the losses from the COVID shutdown. It was also to be used to improve the company infrastructure so it would be ready for the post-pandemic return to normalcy. Southwest used a good portion of the funds to thin its aging workforce through early retirements and lump-sum payouts. The company obviously felt its systems were adequate to handle its business level, which in retrospect, was a catastrophic mistake. Southwest’s internal phone system is so inadequate that pilots and crew are waiting hours to get to schedulers. Flights are canceled because the scheduled team was unaware of the assignment. We have a right to know how our money was spent; if necessary, some of it should be clawed back.
We should have accountability from Southwest and the entire airline industry to get explanations for the problems caused and what is being done to prepare for future demands. But, alongside the airline executives in front of Congress should sit Pete Buttigieg. He has shown his incompetence in handling the supply chain issues, the pending rail strike, and now the airline calamity. His inability to foresee and avoid these problems before they happen is apparent. We are not asking someone to look into a crystal ball and see the future. But we are looking for someone proactive to look at transportation industries and make sure they are taking steps to ensure safe, efficient travel for Americans. That person is not Mayor Pete, but we will never see him held accountable. Accountability is dead.
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“OTHER THAN A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO RACE BANNON, HE BRINGS NOTHING TO THE TABLE: Mike Pence would be a candidate without a constituency.
And let’s be honest, Race Bannon was always cut out to be a #2.”
Simply, a bit better-looking Mitt Romney but with the same charisma deficit as the RINO from Utah. As Guv, he had the chance to stand up and defend his base. When the Left and the Chamber of Commerce Blue MegaCorps turned on him when he signed into law a bill that protected the Religion Liberties of his electorate, he folded like a cheap paper-based suit. Looking for a fierce German Shephard, they got a daschund that rolled over to expose its belly. “Stop saying bad things about me, please. Please?”.
I have no use for him. Even as Trump seems to be self-immolating, I’d vote for him again before I’d vote for the ersatz Race.
(H/T: Instapundit)
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Dartmouth continues to shower New Hampshire in glory. They’ve decided that women and minorities are underrepresented in STEM fields, and the solution is one hundred million in scholarships which, at least for now, are not available to white men.
The initiative will include “an undergraduate scholarship program,” “curricular innovation,” and “enhanced career and graduate school advising,” all with the goal of “advanc[ing] STEM participation and leadership of underrepresented groups,” according to the university’s news release.
Just a few observations.
Who decides who gets into Dartmouth and for which programs since its founding? Dartmouth.
Who decides if someone is eligible for assistance from Dartmouth up to a free ride at Dartmouth? Dartmouth.
Who decides if women or people of color are even interested in STEM fields as opposed to (say) gender studies? Women and people of color and the education industrial complex that claims ownership of them.
Who decides if women or people of color have the educational foundation to advance to a STEM field at a school like Dartmouth – assuming they are interested? The public schools or education infrastructure provide the groundwork, though (I think) we can all agree that most of the applicants will come from private schools.
Who decides who gets into those private schools? The answer has to be white men, but it is increasingly women but none of this matters because Dartmouth spends federal money and cannot nullify Title IX sex discrimination and Title VI race discrimination law.
I’d also add that according to “Mark Perry, a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, … Dartmouth is promoting a “false narrative”… “women are overrepresented in many STEM fields, including biology, health sciences, medical schools, and veterinary medicine.”
By women, does he mean “women” or women with a penis? It’s all very confusing, and therein lies another conundrum. It would be incredibly #woke for Dartmouth to select any number of qualified “women” with penises for a STEM-X scholarship. But what if all the women who applied were born men?
Could Dartmouth get reamed by the SJW, or is this one of those identity politics paradoxes?
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Back in August of 2018, the “rage” was all the rage. We had HAD it with the way the Deli workers at Market Basket were placing the weight/price stickers on items from the Deli Counter (deli meats, cheeses, seafood, et al.).
The sticker has the weight and price of what you purchased, but it was (too often), adhered over the fold of the bag like this.
(Yes, we were having folks over for Christmas, and we all just wanted simple fare – not a regular feature at Chez Skip). The problem was when you got it home and then wanted whatever was inside it, you had to tear the sticker apart first. Note the image above shows it. Below shows that if you are CAREFUL and tear SLOWLY, you get what you want:
That is, the stickie torn but not the bag. The problem THEN was that when you tore the sticker in half to get it out of the way to open the bag, EVEN IF BEING CAREFUL and SLOW, you ended up with this:
Kevin Smith’s agitation had been building for months. The source was a simple, yet baffling, aspect of everyday life for many in New England:
The price sticker on Market Basket’s deli meat and cheese bags. Often sealed over the zipper, the sticker made the bag “nearly impossible” to open without tearing a hole in its thin plastic, says Smith, who is the town manager of Londonderry, New Hampshire, and a self-described loyal Market Basket customer. His frustration culminated earlier this month when he went home to make a sandwich for lunch and in the process of opening two deli meat bags, destroyed them both because of the sticker’s placement.
“I had finally had enough and did what any person in this day and age does when they’re frustrated with a company practice,” Smith told Boston.com. “I took to social media.”
Dear @MarketBasket, I love you. But PLEASE stop putting the price tag over the zipper part of the deli meat bag. It’s nearly impossible to open it without destroying the zip lock and bag, defeating the purpose of such. Sincerely, a loyal customer. pic.twitter.com/QHuRGSsFf8
— Kevin H. Smith (@NHkevinsmith) August 2, 2018
So, His Excellency reached out on social media as well and Market Basket said they’d change their policy. Yep, Sununu “fixed” it fer sure – see image #1. Long term fix. They’re back at it again. And I get to proudly say that both Kevin Smith and I now share the same problem. Again:
So, will he go “fix” it again?
Heh!
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Andrew T. Balcer was convicted of double murder after stabbing his parents and the family dog. At the time of the murder Balcer who is 6′ 1′, 245 pounds, claims they were not supportive of his desire to live as a woman.
Andrew Balcer, who goes also by the name Andrea, was one month shy of his eighteenth birthday when he murdered his mother, father, and family dog on Halloween night in 2016. According to reports at the time, Balcer had woken his mother and told her that he was having trouble sleeping. Alice Balcer asked her son if he was having a rough night and embraced him and, while she was attempting to soothe him, he stabbed her in the back nine times, killing her.
Balcer went on to murder his father, Antonio, and their pet chihuahua, Lily. The only member of the family Balcer spared was his older brother, whom he allowed to flee after telling him “it’s not your day.”
Reduxx has more details, including how Balcer bragged/laughed on his 911 call to the police about doing the deed.
He was convicted of the double murder, entering the corrections system as male, apparently their mistake. Balcer claimed “his family’s lack of support for his gender transition as a motive” and even announced (at some point) that his parents sexually abused him. The brother he let live and other relatives refuted these claims, which were not considered reliable.
“There was no hatred. There was no malice. There was no ill will. There was resignation to be sure but ultimately there was acceptance.
As for corrections, Maine seems to have made one. “While Balcer was initially recorded as “male” in the Maine Department of Corrections directory, he is now listed as a “female” inmate,” and “The alteration made to his legal sex suggests he is now being housed with the female inmates…”
Images care of Maine Wire.
And excellent of the peeps for perps to shoot a second photo of him her for the permanent “school” record. Andrea can also, at taxpayer expense, request a push-up bra to create the illusion of breasts. That doesn’t change the fact that she still has Andrew’s penis.
GraniteGrok has reported on a handful of stories involving men who identify as women housed with female inmates. They have a habit of ending up raped and/or pregnant, but that seems like it’s now part of their “rehabilitation.”
And you’d think there’d be more outrage from the Left. He did, after all, stab the family dog to death.
Nothing?
HT | The Maine Wire
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So yesterday, I went down to Concord for two meetings. The first was a luncheon meeting of the SDGA of NH: School District Governance Association. Think of it as a conservative alternative to the NHSBA (NH School Board Association) which trends from “liberal” to “militant Progressive”, especially concerning its Policies. Anyways, it was great to see everyone. And as to be expected with people who like to yak, the meeting went far longer than I thought it was going to last.
I had called Tom Kehr on Monday to touch base and ask if I could stop in and introduce myself to him. Unfortunately, I had to leave a voicemail for him.
Fortunately, he called back and he’d be happy to do so after my SDGA meeting. So after the long SDGA meeting, I strolled over to his office across from the State House, checked in with the Administrative Services Commissioner’s Assistant, and she brought me right up to his office. Surprisingly, he had been waiting patiently and we ended up having a good productive meeting.
Right now, the operative mission of the Right To Know Ombudsman is to fulfill the philosophy expressed by RSA 91-A and Article 8 – a Government that is Open and Transparent. The emphasis, while knowing that Requesters (those using RSA 91-A to get information from NH governmental entities) have the responsibility to use this tool correctly, is for those entities to do one thing: Follow The Law. If it isn’t under one of the stated Exceptions, that public body must give the Requestors what is being asked for. After all, Government is to serve the citizens.
However, he has to consider that not all Requesters are “good ones” (like a the story I heard of someone RTKing all the K-12 curriculum that took 3 months to assemble and she never picked it up), and certainly, as I have found out, not all Governmental agencies are not “good” either and believing that their Governmental records are THEIRS and not wanting to give those records to those “outside interlopers making their lives busier than necessary”. Thus, we both could come up with examples where that relationship was turned upside down. I had to be careful with my stories as they might end up as an instance that I’d have to bring before him to be adjudicated by his new office. He did enjoy how my Berlin School District story turned out (and how – see here).
So he has his work cut out for him – he is starting from scratch other than his experience and RSA 91-A. There is no structure, no process, no history, and no preconceived idea of how the office will work. That’s his job between now and the end of January when the Office is supposed to go live. During that time, he needs to construct everything to be able to intake new cases, hear them, talk with the Requesters and Government representatives, and deciding the merits of both sides.
The one thing that I took away from talking with him was that openness and transparency philosophy that kept coming up. He’s now thinking that perhaps a mix of informal and formal processes will be needed – quick talks versus longer hearings (but still within the 30-day limit specified in HB481 that created the Office). He has to figure out how to catalog the materials, build up a history file, manual vs automated systems, tracking processes, notification process – and everything else that will be needed.
So, given that we Citizens have the ability to influence and suggest, let’s do so, shall we?
If you have ideas, especially if you have done RTKs with both good and bad outcomes for you, leave them in the comments below. I’ll take groups of them and forward them to Tom Kehr.
We NEED to do this as you KNOW that Governmental agencies are going to be doing the same thing to “protect” their interests – I am fairly sure that the Municipal Association and the NH School Board Association and all of the other lobbying groups dealing with any number of government employees will be weighing in as well.
Let’s make sure our voices, and concerns, are heard.
So GET STARTED!
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When UNH created its Bias-freeLanguage Guide, we wrote stories that went national. Then UNH President Mark Huddleston made it disappear and talked about the University’s commitment to free and open speech.
Related: What did UNH Do with that Million Dollars from the Feds to Create Another Bias Awareness Guide?
The guide was gone, but the infrastructure that led to it remains in place to this day and on every campus, leading to repeated visits to this well.
Amherst College made news with theirs. UNH got a few buckets of your money from the Feds to create a new one, and I think the same program probably paid for this one at Stanford. The “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.”
The goal of the Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is to eliminate* many forms of harmful language, including racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language in Stanford websites and code.
Translation: Mind control through speech control. Resistance is futile. The guide also violates every rule of writing speech or editing; less is more. If one word will do. Being #woke means more words.
Some examples.
A few more…
They are sorted by categories like Ableist, Ageist, Colonialism, Culturally Appropriative, Gender, Imprecise Language, Institutionalized Racism, Person First, Violent, and an “other” for the loose ends like Hip-Hip Hooray, which was “…used by German citizens during the Holocaust as a rallying cry when they would hunt down Jewish citizens living in segregated neighborhoods.”
Being #woke must be exhausting. It’s a wonder they have the time or energy for all of this. Of course, it might be because they are all “neurodivergent.”
stanford language bias free guide
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It is worse than appeasement to negotiate a “deal” with the Islamic theocrats in occupied Iran because any deal struck with these mullahs is only another ruse for them to further their plans. The UN resolutions are nothing more than pieces of paper good for burning. They can pass them all they want, the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, proclaims belligerently.
These Islamists go by their 1400-year-old charter of Allah, the Qur’an, the same charter that they hold in one hand while slashing the throat of an innocent infidel and yelling joyously “Allah is the greatest” the whole time.
To the misguided “Supreme Guide,” mullah Ali Khamenei of Iran, a few words are in order.
The civilized Iranians, descendants of Cyrus the Great, find you, mullah Ali Khamenei, and your cabal of Islamists guilty of heinous crimes. A partial list of charges is given below.
Domestically* You do not represent the Iranian people.
* You are an Islamist terrorist.
*You are a usurper of power.
*You are guilty of transforming a noble nation into a world pariah.
• You are denying and violating a long-suffering people all its human rights.
• You are guilty of beating, imprisoning, torturing and murdering women who braved participating in a peaceful demonstration and pleading for equal family rights, and a compulsory Hijab.
*You systematically beat, rape, imprison, and torture all manner of citizens, from school teachers to students to union workers, for daring to raise their voices against the plight to which you have subjected them.
*You savagely beat and haul to your dungeons of torture and death over tens of thousands of teachers who had gathered in front of the parliament requesting nothing more than their back pay and living wages.
*In late 2009 and 2022, you ordered the Basij forces, revolutionary guards, plain-clothed and government forces to massacre thousands of innocent people in a mass popular uprising.
* You direct systematic genocidal measures against all non-Shi’a religious minorities in Kurdistan and the Baha’is as a prime target, and genocidal actions against political groups; support of international terrorism; demolition of religious sites and cemeteries; for rape, torture, and summary execution of prisoners of conscience; forgery of documents, acts of blackmail and fraud, and much more.
*You arrest some Christians; even your Quran calls “People of the Book,” for observing Christmas.
*You implement barbaric practices of stoning, hanging and amputations for those who are convicted of crimes in your kangaroo courts without due process. You even imprison those few lawyers who rise in the defense of the innocent.
*You plunder, mismanage and dole out Iran’s national wealth with the result that the great majority of the people are living in poverty. Iranian women are forced into prostitution to survive or simply sold as sex slaves in Persian Gulf states.
* Your fascist misrule of nearly three decades has driven millions of Iran’s best children to the four corners of the world. Hundreds of thousands of educated Iranians are compelled to continue the exodus, depriving Iran of sorely needed talents at home.
*You spend a fortune on the nuclear program that you claim is only aimed for peaceful purposes, while turning Iran into little more than a gas station nation, with its precious oil wealth squandered and its facilities on the verge of collapse through neglect.
*You have created a suffocating social atmosphere that has driven masses of people to the use of hard drugs as a way of numbing their pain.
Internationally* You look far and wide to support any and all terrorists. Your delusional theology mandates the creation of horrific conditions in the world so that your Hidden Imam is compelled to appear and establish his rule.
* You spare no efforts at sabotaging any settlement between the Palestinians and Israelis.
*You arm and train all Palestinian factions such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and any and all that come.
* You direct similar criminal schemes on your eastern flank, in Afghanistan. You consider any democratic system as the enemy of Islamofascism, and rightfully so.
*You work ceaselessly, expand Iran’s stolen funds, and do all you can in support of your Shi’a co-fascists Hezbollah in Lebanon.
* Your hands are dripping with the blood of thousands of Iraqis, victims of your bloodthirsty kin mercenaries aiming to kill a budding democracy in Iraq next door.
* You supplied your mercenaries with armor-piercing projectiles for killing and maiming the coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Your cowardly killing by proxy, using these roadside-planted bombs, has taken the lives of hundreds of Americans.
*You interpreted the highly-subdued reactions of the coalition to your savage actions as indications of weakness. So, you found it in yourself to venture into direct confrontation by capturing lightly armed British sailors and marines in Iraqi waters.
*You are responsible for helping Syrian forces slaughter seekers of freedom.
* You directly orchestrated an attack on the British embassy in Tehran last month and called the action of your “thugs,” “student protests.”
* You plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, Adel al-Jubeir, on US soil.
Time is of the essence; the clock is ticking and the window is closing on the Iranian people. Diplomacy cannot be open-ended.
To misguided advocates of negotiation with the devil (mullahs), beware. The mullahs are on an Allah-mandated mission. They are intoxicated with petrodollars and aim to settle for nothing less than complete domination of the world under the Islamic Ummah. The pressure, led by the vanguard of freedom, university students and notable women are gathering more force. The rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is crumbling. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei must be held accountable and tried in the international court for crimes against humanity.
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I recently had lunch with a group of people who are concerned about the problems that we’re having with public schools, and who wanted to discuss ways to do something about those problems.
Interestingly, the problem that they seemed most passionate about was the presence of pornographic books in school libraries.
It seems to me that having controversial books in a school library isn’t such a big deal if the kids in the school aren’t able to read the books anyway. Which, in a typical public school, is true for well over half the kids.
I didn’t get a chance to ask the following question, but I would be curious to hear how Grok readers would answer it:
Given a choice between
(1) a school in which 0.1% of the books in the library are pornographic, but in which more than 95% of the students are proficient in literacy and numeracy, or
(2) a school in which 0% of the books in the library are pornographic, but in which less than 40% of the students are proficient in literacy and numeracy,
which would you choose?
I wouldn’t hesitate to choose (1).
For me, the take-home message was that if the educational establishment wants to hide the fact (which is demonstrated by more than 50 years of data) that it has no idea how to actually teach kids to read, write, and reason, one of the most effective strategies available to it is to take controversial actions that will enrage — and thus engage, and ultimately distract — parents and citizens who want to ‘fix the schools’.
It’s a special case of the more general idea behind rope-a-dope politics.
That is, the establishment seduces parents and concerned citizens into wearing themselves out fighting over some fringe issues that affect a tiny number of students socially, while ignoring core issues that affect virtually every student academically.
Then, win or lose, the establishment gets to keep doing what it’s been doing — utterly failing to teach kids — while continuing to simultaneously escalate the costs to taxpayers and families, and the benefits to itself.
Once in a while, it may have to sacrifice a few administrative jobs (although far fewer than it’s gained), or amend a transgender policy that no one understood anyway, or remove a few books from a school library.
But so what? Those are just sacrificial pawns, more of which can be placed on the board at any time. The system itself — the one in which spending has more than tripled while achievement has flatlined — remains unthreatened.
As a strategy, it’s brilliantly simple, and devastatingly successful.
It’s not unlike the way some military planes, when under attack by heat-seeking missiles, release decoy flares. The heat of the flares attracts the missiles, leaving the planes and pilots intact and ready to fly another day.
The inclusion, in a school library, of a small number of possibly pornographic books is a decoy flare.
By giving activists a disposable issue to chase after, the plane and pilot — the educational establishment — remain intact and ready to fly another day.
How might things be different if the time, money, energy, and passion that are now being directed at questions like How are these books getting into school libraries? were directed instead at questions like Why aren’t these kids learning to read?
I hope someday we get a chance to find out.
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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.
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:
Survival Sunday (on Monday) – PREP Edition – Granite Grok
Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
If the best time to start prepping for the inevitable collapse was at least five years ago, then NOW is the second best time. Even having a couple of months of choke-it-down food, water, and a few other supplies will put you far and away better off than the vast majority of the asleeple sheeple who, when the groceries suddenly run out, will be desperate.
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I fear spicy time approaches. Because clearly VOTING isn’t doing squat – indeed, voting is IMHO completely moot at this point. They commit outright perjury and nothing happens – elections are still certified.
Nor do petitions, writing letters to editors or officials – nor protests.
(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy)
More on elections:
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What was it economist Milton Friedman said about governments running things?
Except IMHO he was wrong on one thing: motive. This level of economic and civilizational destruction cannot be anything but intentional.
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No, it’s a population replacement. Consider an exponential curve. Since 1965 we’ve been on this path. This, plus birthright citizenship, have been the means of electing a new population.
How the Left Wins Elections by Transforming Nations – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
I guarantee every female of child-bearing age is “engaged” with someone and there will be a birth explosion among the illegal population. That, and there will be the regularization / citizenship of these people before 2024. As if the system wasn’t rigged enough already. No, TINVOWOOT.
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Not The Pick, but… indicative of how corrupt the entire medical establishment has become.
Understand something. Up until very recently I’ve believed people to mostly be good. I cannot square that belief with the above – knowing that Run Death Is Near has a fatality rate of roughly 1/4. Every person who was involved in making this the standard – the only standard allowed – every person prescribing it and every person administering it HAS TO KNOW what the death rate is. And they do it anyway – even changing the name of what they’re giving to push it into people.
Just for the sake of argument… imagine if a nurse came up to your loved one in the hospital and played Russian Roulette with them. You’d be livid… if not arrested for assaulting the person trying it. That – one out of six – is a lower death rate than Run Death Is Near.
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Pick of the post:
I’ve been talking with my kids about taxes. How, every month, I write a check to the Infernal Reaming Service because I run my own business (about 25% of my gross). I’ve told them about Social Security & Medicare/Medicaid and the myth of “the employer pays half” when, in fact, that money could go to me – so really I’m paying it all anyway, about 14% on what I could have earned (and you’d be amazed at how many people still think they’re only paying half because they work for someone else). Property taxes on land I theoretically own – thus making it really owned by the state and I just pay rent. Gas taxes. Taxes on electricity, taxes on my heating oil, and on and on and on.
Both kids understand, at least in an arm-waving way, just how much gets taken from our household before we even see it. My older kid now says “Taxation is theft”! When both truly get it, my work will be mostly done.
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From here:
I want to point out all of the things one might do to turn the tide, but I’m no expert, no Svengali, I’m just some guy with some ideas as how to beat back the beast of oppression and tyranny. I don’t issue orders or demand accountability. I suggest, because I respect everyone’s own sense of right and wrong, moral and immoral and believe, largely, that folks are no less tuned-in and cognizant as myself.
It’s so EFFING simple. Laugh at them, they’re clowns.
Ridicule.
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Pushing two hours. Worth it. I’ve watched this several times.
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Palate cleansers:
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Or in my case, playing the new board game with the kids. Oof.
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I’ve been badmouthing proposed commuter rail projects for New Hampshire for fifteen years. There’s no benefit. It will never make money, meaning it will cost all of us (equity) to have something few will use. But they keep trying.
Related: Did Dems Rain on Their Own Commuter Rail Parade
Commuter rail is on the progs bucket list, and cost is never an issue for Democrats. There is no amount of your money that they are not willing to spend. Thankfully, three of our five executive councilors were not railroaded by the “free federal money” BS and ended the latest effort at leaping into this bottomless pit.
The Republican-controlled council voted 3-2 on Wednesday not to approve an amendment to the nearly $5.5 million contract with an engineering firm, which is conducting a federally funded analysis of the project feasibility.
Council members who opposed the extension argued the project isn’t financially viable, and argued it would result in higher taxes for the state’s inflation-wary residents.
“I think it is time to stop the bleeding in this project,” Councilor David Wheeler, a Milford Republican, said ahead of the vote. “I don’t think this is going anywhere.”
NH DOT was seeking an extension so the consultants could get buy-in or details from cities like Manchester and Nashua, which is ridiculous. Both are run by choo-choo Dems. Donchess, in Nashua, frequently trips over himself in his rush to waste money on boondoggles. Manchester’s Joyce Craig is not much different, though I’m not as familiar with her thoughts on commuter rail. It could help her with her growing homeless problem. She could put them on a train and send them to Massachusetts, where the welfare is better. It’d be a kindness, really.
Or how about a commuter flight to Martha’s Vineyard? They are incredibly efficient at relocating people with no home.
It’s not like she’s managed a better idea, though it’s no reason to embrace the rail fail. Commuter rail in New Hampshire would never be more than a budget line item eating resources put to better use – like leaving them in the hands of the people who earned that money in the first place.
Crazy idea, right?
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Our US Constitution seems to be out to lunch, as they say. Some scholars may wish to fiddle with it in order to make it work better. But I shan’t try that, as I am pretty sure it would be a waste of time.
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That’s because the current Constitution puts most of the job of governing in the hands of politicians, who are not now willing to do the right thing. During our almost three years of Covid pandemic, I have hardly seen a legislator, president, attorney general, or judge do what the Constitution clearly instructs.
Each of those persons had a responsibility to act, but they were either afraid to act, or they are “working for the wrong boss.” This has brought the nation to an extreme crisis. You might say all government functions have advertised themselves as “not working.” We used to know what lever we could push if we needed something (even as simple as calling the police to get help when a robber is breaking in), but now we doubt that the relevant person will fulfill his/her role.
For the moment, I’m pretending that all the persons outside the government are mentally normal as they were in the 20th century and that all the ones inside the government have gone somewhat nut or become malicious. I don’t actually know that “ordinary citizens” are mentally OK or that officials aren’t, but I am trying to set up a scheme here that asks, “What can be done when a once-ethical government either goes missing or turns mafia?”
So I offer a fresh look at the relationship between people and government by plotting to send a bunch of emigrants to Mars, where they will have a constitution but no government. In short, I am saying that if a particular government is hopeless, folks may have to try to survive by direct “play” with one another.
A Biological ConstitutionFor the purposes of this article, “Mars” has many of the qualities of planet Earth — trees, water, soil, animals that can be cooked for dinner, and so forth. Humans on Mars will have a life somewhat like the life they were used to on Earth. Their kids will have sibling rivalry. Some artists will have the urge to sculpt or write poetry. Bar-room brawls will be common. Some men will channel their fight urge into competitive sports. There will be sexual jealousy. All that stuff.
The first fleet to arrive at Mars (don’t ask me how they get there, van Alan’s belt being in the way) will expect to have so-called individual freedom. But imagine that they have not worked out how they will deal up there.
In 1630, when John Winthrop was en route to America from England with other pilgrims, who did not have a contract, he wrote the following advice.
“Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke and to provide for our posterity is to followe the Counsell of Micah, to doe Justly, to love mercy, to walke humbly with our God, for this end, wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others necessities. [Greater good! Altruism!]
“Soe shall wee keepe the unitie of the spirit in the bond of peace, the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us…soe that wee shall see much more of his wisdome power goodnes and truthe then formerly wee have been eacquainted with. Therefore lett us choose life, that wee, and our Seede, may live; by obeyeing his voyce, and cleaveing to him, for hee is our life, and our prosperity.”
Wait! I think Winthrop has thereby saved me from composing a Constitution for Mars. He has got the gist from Micah, whose Book 6 is hereby quoted: “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Imagine if we did our daily work in the midst of a just and merciful society where it was everyone’s duty (enforced, enforced) to treat all others with fairness, kindness, and humility. My oh my.
EnforcementA friend who has read many of my articles told me the other day that the connecting thread in all my criticisms of our generation is the lack of enforcement of the Constitution against the powerful. This is clearly a big issue. By holding back, by being reticent about punishing wrongdoers if they have fancy titles, we commit the sin of impunity — that is, failure to punish.
Is this strictly a religious-type sin? No. It’s a federal crime! It got onto the books in 1948, thanks to Congress. (Ah, Congress. Remember Congress?) The wording at 18 USC 4 is:
“Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
Oughtta be a load of us paying fines or doing three years, eh? And instead, they concentrate on imprisoning Jan 6 protestors!
Now then, what I hope to expostulate is a way for humans to control their natural tendencies when these conflict with, say, the Golden Rule. The fact is, we do this all the time. All societies do it, as anthropologists found when they visited still-isolated tribes in the 19th century. With hardly any conscious effort, and certainly before writing was invented, groups of people knew the temptations: theft, violence, adultery, and lying. They labeled them the “don’t’s.”
EmotionGo back earlier, and we find that, in evolutionary times, many of our dear emotions developed to guard our individual interests. One emotion — anger — pretty much covers the reaction we should have toward persons who do the don’ts. If they steal from us, hit us, philander with our mate, or deceive us, we should either hit them smack in the kisser or use an acceptable substitute.
Please, please, People, don’t develop the belief that impunity is the new normal. That’s suicidal for society. Of course, there have been many times in history when naughtiness got out of hand. I am quoting the biblical Micah, again, from Chapter 7, Verses 2-4 (English standard version, per biblehub.com):
“The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net. Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.”
Micah, too, has emotions. He is unhappy with such miserable human performance. If Micah were here right now and was asked to conceive of a Martian constitution, I wonder what he would say. Maybe he would say, as Russian defector Yuri Besemov said (thank you, Yuri), “Start with the 3-year-olds.” For at least two generations, we have not been bothering to tell children that there are don’ts and what to do about them. No wonder we’re in chaos!
Punishing TrudeauI think we may be seeing a reawakening of the normal human emotion of anger when directed against someone who has tricked us and stolen from us. So far, most effort by Americans, including myself, has tended to the (rather foolish) effort to plead with officials to do the right thing. But today, I found a naughty cartoon made by Canadians about their leader.
It pretty much covers what Trudeau did wrong — he boasts about it — and then he gets his just deserts. (His “Justin deserts,” we might say). Please enjoy it, as I know you will:
I got it from the excellent “anti-vax” website, DrTrozzi.org. It runs for 3 minutes:
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More bad news, thanks to foreign pencil pushers. That’s where you have to get good data because our own government hides things from us (for 75 years if we let them). Were looking at Germany again, and there’s a clear death signal tied to COVID booster rates.
Related: After the Rollout of COVID-19 Injections, There Was a 1000% Increase in “Unexpected” Deaths
So, Germany provided data showing a SIGNIFICANT association of booster rates with excess mortality when broken down by region! What is interesting is that we have a same-ethnicity analysis for Germany. Unlike in country-by-country analyses, here we are not comparing Swedes with Bulgarians. We are comparing regions with ethnically the same people who speak the same language and follow the same German federal laws. And yet, much of the variation in mortality among German lands is explained by their booster rate!
More!
Igor Chudov does some more data crunching here if you want to take a look, but the pattern is consistent. There is a direct correlation between the number of boosters and excess mortality.
More data and graphs here (Igor’s source), see also:
Boosters are causing excess mortality by making people more susceptible to severe COVID-19 which I deduce from the following observations:
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