World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently complained about the citizens who are skeptical about ceding national sovereignties and individual rights to his global agency under the pending expansion of WHO powers through a revised Pandemic Treaty and accused them of spreading disinformation.

This rings hollow because such a valid legal concern should be a top concern for all of humanity following the botched WHO response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Yet an even greater hollowness echoes behind such claims—the shocking sexual predation of vulnerable women under Mr. Ghebreyesus’s authority in Congo during the Ebola crisis, for which there has been no meaningful response.

Reports about rape and sex trafficking in Congo originated from The New Humanitarian, an independent non-profit news organization initially created by the United Nations; Congo’s 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, and the pernicious sexual exploitation of vulnerable women by WHO workers, display a complete failure of any such accountability by the WHO.

Shocking WHO Sex Abuses

WHO’s failures in Congo are epic: it did not train workers to avoid sexual exploitation; of 80 cases of sexual abuse reported in an independent investigation, 21 involved WHO employees.  Women reported being exploited with bribes or threats of retaliation, plied with alcohol, or paid for sex.  Nine victims reported being raped, including a 13-year-old girl.  Twenty-two women were impregnated and delivered their babies; others were forced by their abusers to abort.  Perpetrators refused to use protection during intercourse, infecting women and spreading STDs.  (So much for the agency’s disease prevention response!)

Investigations have shown that WHO staff were well aware of these allegations by early May 2019 but did nothing to initiate an investigation until October 2020—after an article was published exposing the abuse.  Similar abuses were reported during the WHO-directed response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak between 2014 and 2016, yet by 2020, Ghebreyesus had done nothing.

Shielding Alleged Rapists Instead of Victims

The independent commission that established the latest abuses did not investigate higher-level involvement by WHO leadership.  WHO promises of “internal investigations” have yielded nothing.  Four people were fired, but some of the worst offenders (especially Doctor Boubacar Diallo, who “often bragged about his connections to … Tedros”)  simply deny their DNA-provable criminality with impunity.  According to internal emails reported by the Associated Press:

Over 2018 and 2019, three Ebola experts, including two who worked for WHO at the time, told the AP they raised concerns about sex abuse in general, and Diallo in particular, with senior managers. But they said they were told that controlling the Ebola outbreak was more important, and two said Diallo was considered ‘untouchable’ because of his relationship with Tedros.

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Two WHO officials with knowledge of the situation said the agency investigated complaints that Diallo acted unprofessionally, including an alleged sexual assault, and there was insufficient evidence to corroborate the charges. But investigators failed to interview any of the women involved or the whistleblowers who flagged the harassment claims, according to a senior WHO official who didn’t want to be identified for fear of losing his job.

A Corrupt Response

The story that emerges is that the WHO disregarded these women’s complaints, no rapists or abusers have been held to criminal account, WHO leadership has failed at every turn, and nothing has changed.  The independent commission pointedly observed that the WHO was “completely unprepared to deal with the risks/incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse” during the Congo Ebola emergency.  The WHO’s “pandemic response” in Congo ignored background checks, punished whistleblowers, empowered unaccountable sexual predators over marginalized victims, and then let them off scott-free.  It now seeks to scale up its operations and powers.

In a press conference acknowledging the abuses, Ghebreyesus apologized to victims, stating:

What happened to you should never happen to anyone. It is inexcusable. It is my top priority to ensure that the perpetrators are not excused, but are held to account. As the Director-General, I take ultimate responsibility for the behaviour [sic] of the people we employ, and for any failings in our systems that allowed this behaviour [sic]. And I will take personal responsibility for making whatever changes we need to make to prevent this happening in future. The commission has done outstanding work to get the voices of victims and survivors heard. But the investigation is not complete, and will require further work.

Congo’s sex-trafficking victims are not persuaded.  The WHO issued $250 payments to some claimants, and according to one victim, “soap, underwear, and a bucket for use for the bathroom.”  Ironically, the WHO boasts a $50 million budget “for the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.”  Ghebreyesus acknowledged the Congo abuses were a “sickening betrayal” of the people they ostensibly serve, even calling the revelations “a dark day for WHO.” He also promised “severe consequences” for the perpetrators and accountability for “all leaders” who failed to act, yet no one appears to have been criminally charged in all this violence and chaos, and internal WHO “investigations” have yielded no announcements of any accountability, by anyone.

It is hard to imagine a more dramatic breach of trust than WHO’s Congo conduct.  No safeguards to ensure such grotesque abuses do not recur have been provided.  Indeed, WHO’s Kafkaesque bureaucratic deceptions and foot-dragging reveal what an incompetent, unaccountable, crony criminal operation it has become.

Globalist Predators Unloosed?

Recent revelations that UN workers in Gaza participated in attacks against Israel mirror the same pattern of ineptly permitting the infiltration of relief operations by criminal actors as was committed in Congo—and also in Haiti, where more than 100 UN workers were implicated in a child sex ring which operated over a ten-year period.  The WHO and its parent UN have proven that they are clumsy bureaucratic juggernauts with no credibility.

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus now strives to dramatically expand WHO powers over the entire world’s children for pandemic response and scoffs at anyone who asks sensible questions about the protection of individual liberties.  If the WHO dispatches teams of sexual predators to third-world countries as a “pandemic response” and then covers for them, it can hardly be trusted to protect the world’s children from Pfizer, China, or other actors for whom it may simply be a proxy.

Perhaps the WHO should be defunded instead of American police—the savings could be used to hire detectives to prosecute the WHO’s child rapists and paid sex traffickers in the absence of any hope for justice otherwise.

 

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

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I’m not sure what Putin is playing at here, but it will twist a lot of Democrat panties. Vlad just announced that he’d rather have Joe Biden as the American President. Talk about putting a hitch in the Left’s Trump-Russia Collusion step.

JUST IN: Putin endorses Biden for 2024.

“He’s a more experienced and predictable person and a politician of the old school.”

“But we will work with any U.S. leader entrusted by the American people.”

Putin thinks Biden is better for Russia than Trump. pic.twitter.com/PBj6WEoo6i

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 15, 2024

This is obviously – and I’m playing left-Wing Devil’s Advocate here – Election interference by Putin in favor of Trump. By saying he prefers Biden, he is sending a signal to MAGA country that he (wink-wink) wants Trump to win. Or something.

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We learned from the Governor’s last State of the State address that New Hampshire ranks highly in many areas and has implemented programs that are being copied in other states. He lauded the legislature’s many accomplishments and complimented agency heads for their work.

Democrats in the audience sat stoned-faced as he touted the success of the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program and how school choice is helping so many children in the Granite State.

He opened his speech with an amusing “fourth term, don’t care” joke and reminded us this was his last term as Governor… to which someone clapped. He chuckled and then said, “the filing period to run doesn’t expire until June, so you never know,” followed with, “Councilor Warmington almost fell out of her chair right now. Just kidding, Cinde!”

Perhaps the Governor is also contemplating doing stand-up comedy after his term is up.

After the joint session and Governor’s speech, which ended around 2 pm, we learned that it took us until 6:15 pm to get through 16 bills as we bounced back and forth with reconsideration motions and then defeat of key wins that the Republican caucus had earned earlier in the day. Between people leaving early and a handful of “Republicans” voting like Democrats, we unfortunately lost some key bills. Read below, and you’ll see what I mean.

We learned that HB1212, which will cost NH taxpayers over $50 million to implement, is a free school lunch eligibility bill. Here’s proof that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Initially, the OTP was defeated 188-187, and it was ITL’d 188-187 as well. There was a call for Reconsideration, which passed 187-181, and then ITL’d again 187-181. Later on in the day, when Republican numbers dwindled, there was another call for Reconsideration, which passed, and a vote to Indefinitely Postpone the bill, which failed, and then a final motion to OTP, which passed 193-175. The bill will now proceed to Finance. So this will come back to the House when they are done with it.

We also learned that HB1419 had a worse fate than HB1212. HB1419 would have prohibited obscene or harmful sexual material in schools. I cannot wrap my head around how anyone would condone pornographic, violent, and absolutely inappropriate materials in our school libraries or curriculum … however, Democrats fought tooth and nail to keep this in our schools and make this stuff available to k-12 students.

Here’s how it went down: First we passed a committee amendment 2024-0391h (that clarified what is meant by harmful and offensive material) with a vote of 188-185. We then defeated a floor amendment that would have gutted the bill and replaced it with an ineffective watered-down bill, with a vote of 358-17. Then as we heard floor speeches on the OTP/A motion, Rep. Glenn Cordelli (R-Tuftonboro) began to read excerpts from two books: “Here and Queer,” from the Hillsboro-Deering School District and “Speak” from the Dover Middle School library.

One passage described a violent rape. At this point, House Democrats objected to such obscene and inappropriate language being used on our House floor!!! The Democrats began to get up and leave (see photo above) because they were so appalled at what he was reading, despite knowing that this material is found in our schools!!! At which point Rep. Lucy Weber (D-Walpole) made a motion to silence Rep. Coredelli’s speech! Imagine the hypocrisy!! Here, the Democrats are saying Republicans are trying to ban books and suppress free speech… and yet they would not allow Rep. Cordelli to speak!!! Can you be more clearly hypocritical???

A roll call vote ensued on whether to allow Rep. Cordelli to continue, which ended up in 201 YES -173 NO. Rep. Cordelli continued, and when he was done, several colleagues were given the opportunity to ask a question. Rep. Michael Vose (R- Epping) pointedly asked, “If material is inappropriate to read on the House floor, wouldn’t that automatically make it inappropriate to present to k-12 students?”

You Think???

Well, apparently, Democrats don’t think so. Democrats motioned to Table the bill on a roll call vote resulting in 192-181, and then there was a roll call vote to print the remarks in the permanent House Journal of the entire discussion 291-84. This bill sat on the Table until later in the day, specifically at 5:25 pm, when Democrats moved to take it off the Table 308-40. They then defeated an OTP motion 187 NO-162 YES and ultimately killed the bill with an Indefinite Postponement motion 187-162. So there you have the absolutely disgusting and disgraceful actions of Democrats in our chamber who feel that it is OK to expose violent, pornographic, and inappropriate materials to NH children in their schools.

So next time these people tell us, “It’s for the children,” ask them exactly how explicit pornography and depictions of acts of violence or self-harm are any good for any child or teenage minor.

Additionally, we learned that HB1524, allowing parents of special education students to observe in a classroom setting, passed with a vote of OTP 187 YES-185 NO. That was a win.

We learned that HB1642, the establishment of Local Education Freedom Accounts and a local school board enabling bill, ultimately died ITL 194 YES-179 NO.

We also learned that HB1677, a bill that would have allowed children to participate in the EFA program, regardless of family income, if their school proficiency scores were in the bottom 25% of schools or districts. So here again, Democrats would deny a child be able to leave a poorly performing school to pursue a better education. So don’t tell me, “It’s for the kids”. The truth is they demonstrated today that they do not care about anyone’s kids.

We further learned that Democrats want to classify themselves as “employees of the state” so they can gain benefits from federal programs. With HB1000, which would have elected officials to be classified as state employees so that they can be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs, Democrats demonstrated that they are only interested in personal gain. Rep. Ellen Read (D-Newmarket) felt the need to pass this bill in order to attract younger people to run for office because there are just too many old people in the State House.

She’d like to see personal benefits offered by the federal and state governments for their employees, handed also to elected officials. These are benefits that any of our own constituents do not have access to! Rep. Michael Costable (R-Freedom) said we were elected officials and not employees of the state. We are a volunteer part-time legislature, not full-time employees, and we should not be getting personal benefits for serving the people of this state. The Roll called vote on ITL was 184 YES-174 NO. Thankfully, this died, but a subsequent bill, HB1363, which would allow members of the General Court to participate in Health and Human Services employee assistance programs, passed 184-168. It now goes to Finance. This will come back to the House another day.

We also learned that HB154, a leftover bill from 2023, came to us from the Senate. It was originally a bill about municipal health ordinances and was gutted by the Senate and turned into a bill allowing the use of new voting machines. House members received angry emails from constituents annoyed with the bait-and-switch aspect of this bill and this addition of a non-germane amendment. No Committee of Conference will take place, and the bill was “Concurred” on a Voice Vote. I, for one, was not happy with how this turned out, and I was a co-sponsor of the original bill!

Finally, we learned again that Republicans need to show up and stay to vote on these key bills. Numbers count. For some of the ones we lost today, we will have other opportunities to defeat them. But, we have absolutely seen the agenda of the Left… to keep kids in failing schools and give them pornography and violent reading material while they are there. And then they wonder why parents are pulling their kids out, applying for the EFA program, and looking elsewhere for a better education for their kids. Meanwhile, the Democrats (and a bunch of RINOs) expect taxpayers to dump millions more dollars into failing school programs and curricula and abandon innovative educational programs while claiming that they are trying to lower your property taxes while seeking to raise taxes elsewhere (like an income tax or sales tax). For the record, we are funding education with more money than ever before… so it truly is not about the money.  Shouldn’t we be asking, “what exactly is it that we are trying to accomplish in our schools???”  Seems to me it has become less about reading, writing and arithmetic and more about funding other things that truly do not belong in school. Just look at the kinds of bills the Democrats seek to pass.

There’s much more to come next week as we have 44 bills scheduled – next Thursday is going to be a looooong day!

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Most readers are already familiar with the RTK Tax bill, aka HB 1002. If anyone needs to see its legislative history, click on this link. And there are several published articles about HB 1002 listed here.

And that doesn’t include the plethora of non-Grok pieces.  Grab a shovel and start digging in if you like.  There are also videos of discussion and comments.  One of them can be found here, which is the 1/17/24 hearing in House Judiciary.



It should be noted that Judge Lynn happens to be the House Judiciary Committee chair.  I call him “Judge Lynn” because he was the “Judge Roberts of NH.”  We all know what a national disappointment Roberts was when Obamacare was in litigation and ultimately called a tax.

HB1002 is also a tax, and Judge Lynn, now aged out of the court into retirement and governmentally reincarnated as a Windham state rep, is aggressively pushing for this horrible bill.

You can watch him at the Reps Hall podium several times in the 2/8/24 House video here:



But I’m focusing on his little freshman quisling, also from Windham.  That’s HB 1002’s sponsor, Rep Katelyn Kuttab. Rep. Kuttab thinks she works for annoyed and inconvenienced government employees rather than the Granite State citizenry.

I’ve received unconfirmed word (a non-germane sidenote as context) that she’s a covidiot.  Yeah, that’s right, “wear your mask and roll up your sleeve,” but let’s talk about this bill she’s pushing (HB1002) with Judge Lynn’s blessing and advocacy.

Kuttab, a member of the Uniparty elite inner circle, has responded to an email from one of my locals, whose identity will not be shared.  I’ll first direct all readers outside of Nashua to refer to the multitude of articles by Laurie Ortolano and Laura Colquhoun (L&L), which you can use the Grok search tool to find.  They clearly establish what an RTK hellhole Nashua really is.  Here is an email from the private citizen addressing the whole committee:

“Dear Sirs and Madams:

I am writing today regarding  HB1002, a bill that would add a $25 hourly fee for right-to-know requests. I implore you to  OPPOSE HB1002.

The primary purpose of government is to protect our rights. The justification for taxation is the shared cost of the protection of rights. We have a right to public records. We do not pay fees for rights. This is as absurd as having to pay a fee for the right to the Second Amendment because the government sometimes has to prosecute gun crimes.

NH has no other mechanism for transparency like some other states do. The real purpose of this bill seems to be cutting down the amount of RTK requests. In other words, the real purpose is to put barriers in the way of government transparency. We need more transparency, and we do not need to make it a burden to citizen taxpayers to exercise their rights.
Blessings,(a Nashua private citizen)”

And Kuttab’s reply was as follows:

“Good Morning M(the emailer),
Thank you for your email. While I absolutely agree fully on the importance of transparency, I think there has to be reasonableness. Taxpayers also have a right to keep their hard earned money and not throw it away on requests that even the requestor doesn’t really want, or are for the financial gain of out of state commercial entities. This is not just for state agencies, it’s municipals and school districts too.
Certain requests require redactions at $400 an hour from a contract attorney, not a public employee, because we also have a right to privacy and not all information is public. The right is to not be “unreasonably restricted”, so this bill is an attempt to create balance, with 10 hours of records from a body for free in a month, and beyond that is up to $25 an hour. We are looking into amending, but I do think some fee is needed for extensive requests, as it’s fiscally irresponsible for taxpayers to be footing $10k bills a request on requests which are often never even picked up. Do you have any suggestions on how to balance it to be reasonable? I am happy to discuss this constructively to come up with a solution that most can agree on, if you have some ideas you’d like to share.

Best,

– Katelyn Kuttab”

Now don’t be fooled, dear readers, by the politeness of her reply.  I would compare it to the friendly grandmotherly behavior of Mrs Newman, who is known to smile and wave and warmly greet you by name all while still practicing her Marxism with her roll call votes.

If you see Kuttab in Concord or Windham, I suggest you greet her with a modified version of the way my reps should be greeted.  Seinfeld will show you how it’s done.

I am calling on Ken Eyring & Co and the good folks of Windham to recruit and support some viable candidates to flush out the two bad actors(Kuttab and Judge Lynn) in the primary.  We need them to do this for the good of all of NH.

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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  My last “normal” meme post.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.

Note that these posts do not repeat information – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts.  Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you.  In reverse chronological order:

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

 

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Biden gives Israel deadline to submit human rights report, conditions military aid | World Israel News

Yet again, supporting my argument that Israel needs to wean itself from US support.  NO NATION that wants to call itself a free and sovereign state can afford to be dependent like this.  And Israel should learn the lesson of Vietnam, where the US promised to replace bullet for bullet, etc., to South Vietnam… and the Democrats cancelled that.  Democrats also undermined other efforts; Democrats also abandoned not just Afghanistan, but left billions in weapons there for the Taliban.

Any nation that depends on the US, particularly under Democrats, is making a potentially grave mistake.  And there is no question that, currently, Israel is very dependent on the US, which is not a good thing seeing as the Democrats are increasingly dependent on the Islamic vote.

Team Biden Turning Against Israel To Win Michigan (legalinsurrection.com)

Stabbed in the Back: Biden Aide tells Muslims No ‘Confidence’ in Israeli Government (breitbart.com)

Biden Regime Again Shows Which Side It’s On, and It’s Not on Israel’s | Frontpage Mag

Biden can’t have it both ways on the Gaza war – JNS.org

Biden Sends Delegation to Meet With Hamas Supporter (jihadwatch.org)

Backstabbers | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

 

 

 

Related:

Jew-hating Muslims in America threaten NOT to vote for Joe Biden so Biden threatens to withdraw support for Israel as well as sales of advanced weaponry, fighter jets, and missile defense systems that Israel needs to destroy Hamas (barenakedislam.com)

‘DEARBORNISTAN’ Muslims say, “Nothing Joe Biden does now re: Israel’s retaliatory war against Hamas can win back our support” (barenakedislam.com)

A tragic destiny? – JNS.org (bolding added):

A few days ago, it all hit me. First, it took the form of practical terrors: Israel is fighting with strong U.S. support, but how long will it be before the Biden administration snaps? Polls indicate that the Muslim-American community is largely fine with Hamas’s atrocities. The Democratic Party is leaning into the burgeoning genocidal antisemitism of its progressive base and the professoriate regime that created and empowers it. Younger voters appear to be perfectly sanguine about this. Killing Jews has become trendy—just another way to get likes on TikTok and Instagram. With Biden running for reelection, none of this bodes well for us.

Report: Biden Admin Set to Reward Palestinians For October 7 Massacre With a State and East Jerusalem as Capital (legalinsurrection.com) So, basically, The Potato is going to attempt to force Israel to give up to give the Palis what they want.  Which tells every terrorist group around the world how to act now.  Plus, again, cementing that America is – at best – an uncertain ally.  (See my comment below on Trump talking about American foreign aid.)

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TOP OF THE FOLD

File under Know your enemy.  From here:

 

 

These are the faces of evil.

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, climbed the ranks not for killing Jews or planning attacks against the IDF, but because he killed Palestinians. For years, Sinwar was known as “the butcher of Khan Yunis.”

In 1989, at just 27, Yahya Sinwar was convicted and imprisoned in an Israeli jail for the murder of dozens of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel.

His brutality in killing innocent Palestinians was horrific. Some were killed because he suspected they collaborated with Israel, while others because they behaved in ways he deemed contrary to Islam.

During his interrogation, he confessed to some of the killings, describing in detail what he did to each of those Palestinians. Here are some quotes from the interrogation transcript:

“He admitted to being in contact with Israeli intelligence… and also admitted to bringing girls to his shop and engaging with them. I decided to kill him,” he said. According to him, they took that Palestinian in a car to the cemetery. “On the way, I tied his eyes with a cloth so he wouldn’t see. I put him in a large grave, strangled him with a chokehold I had. After I strangled him, I wrapped him in a white cloth with a blanket and closed the grave. I was convinced that Rasmi (the collaborator) deserved to die.”

In other cases, Yahya Sinwar personally killed more Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel or behaving in ways he deemed contrary to Islam. One Palestinian was beaten to death with punches, another was strangled with a chokehold, and another Palestinian was shot dead.

In an especially appalling case, he forced a Palestinian from Khan Yunis to bring his brother, whom he suspected of collaborating with Israel, to dig a grave and bury him alive, even though the Palestinian denied collaborating.

An Israeli Shin Bet investigator who interrogated Yahya Sinwar said that Sinwar confessed to these killings with cold-bloodedness, recounting them without flinching.

According to him, it seemed like Yahya Sinwar enjoyed carrying out these killings. In addition to Palestinians Sinwar killed himself, he ordered and sent other Hamas operatives to kill many more Palestinians.

Even within the Israeli prison, Sinwar showed cruelty to prisoners who did not find favor in his eyes.

Yahya Sinwar was born in Gaza, raised in Khan Yunis, and his family lived in a house owned by the UN, and he studied in one of the UN schools in Gaza. “The butcher of Khan Yunis” became such a radical Islamic terrorist within the UN education system, like most terrorists in Gaza.

It wasn’t long after Sinwar was released from prison and returned to Gaza that he became the leader of Hamas in Gaza.

Under Sinwar’s leadership in Gaza, protests and opposition to Hamas were violently suppressed, Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel were brutally murdered, and Gazans who behaved contrary to Islam were also identified as collaborators and murdered. All under the control of Yahya Sinwar and often under his explicit orders.

For years under Sinwar’s rule, Hamas took all the aid money that entered Gaza and built terror tunnels and infrastructure within the civilian population to maximize civilian casualties during war to pressure for a ceasefire.

Yahya Sinwar planned the October 7th attack and sent thousands of Hamas terrorists to brutally murder Israeli civilians.

This is the man whom those calling for a ceasefire want to allow to continue to rule Gaza, the man who, if there is a ceasefire, will continue to kill Jews and behave with such cruelty to Gaza’s Palestinian residents.

These are the faces of evil.

(Ori Miller on X)

 

 

Yes and no.  How about this view of Gaza from 2010?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Gaza-mall-2010.mp4

 

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Gaza death count ‘systematically manipulated’ by Hamas, report shows | World Israel News

“Although thousands of Palestinian noncombatants, including military-age males, have undoubtedly been killed in the Hamas-initiated conflict, the world must also recognize that the group has manipulated and exploited civilian fatality claims for its strategic benefit, in an attempt to truncate Israel’s air and ground operations and stir international outrage,” the report’s author, researcher Gabriel Epstein, wrote.

There’s a reason I coined the term CAMERA FODDER.  Remember, WAR IS DECEIT. The media are running cover for Hamas; they’ve always run cover for Hamas.  This image is from 2018.  And yet the media accept, at face value, what Hamas says – that all the people dead are “civilians”.

 

 

About casualties:

Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News: Biden parrots Hamas casualty numbers

More: No, Jenny Leong, There is No ‘Occupation’ of Gaza (jihadwatch.org) —

Countering ‘Pro-Palestine’ Propaganda Part 2: Israel is a Settler-colonial State – A.J. Caschetta (jewishworldreview.com)

Yet another overlooked component to the simplistic claim that “the Jews took the Arabs’ land” is that many hectares of land in Israel were purchased by Jews from Arabs. As Robert Spencer points out, Jews who returned to Israel “in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries didn’t come as armed marauders, seizing land from its owners by force. They obtained the land in a far more conventional and prosaic way: they bought it.” Spencer quotes one British government report from 1930 that smugly notes they overpaid for it.

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From the “You just can’t make this stuff up” file (barenakedislam.com)

A small tidbit about Sinwar.  He was treated for cancer in an Israeli hospital.

 

 

WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

America and Britain Cross a Treacherous Red Line – The Jewish Voice

How’d that whole “Give the Sudetenland to Germany” thing work out?

EU PUSSIES, living in fear of their own exploding Muslim migrant populations, are demanding that Israel surrender to Hamas (barenakedislam.com)

This is not a war about LAND.  It is a RELIGIOUS WAR.  A reminder – Jew hate is hard-coded into the Koran:

Islamic Jew-Hatred – a religious mandate – Geller Report

Antisemitism in the Qur’an – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)

“I was born a Muslim and I am telling you that most of the anti-Semitism in the West is coming from Islam” (barenakedislam.com)

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Israeli Uncovers Hamas Server Farm and Tunnel Complex Beneath UNRWA’s Gaza HQ (legalinsurrection.com)

 

 

 

And, of course, silence about this from the media:

ABC, CBS, NBC Omit Israel Unearthing Hamas Data Center Under U.N. UNRWA Facility (newsbusters.org)

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The question is WHY they can’t agree to co-exist.  2:191.  Take back what they took.  I.e., reconquer what infidels took from Islam.

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Why do we need absolute victory? Just listen to Nasrallah, right now: “It is very important that Israel emerges from this war defeated and deterred,” the Hezbollah Secretary General clarifies.

Yes, even in Beirut’s Hezbollah stronghold, the Dahaiah, you can clearly hear the defeatist discourse of “sometimes the victory is in the understanding that there is no victory” (copyright: Nahum Barnea, an Israeli journalist), and there they understand very well that they have a historical opportunity to undermine the very existence of the State of Israel.

This is what is at stake, no less. Nasrallah understands it, Khamenei understands it, Sinwar understands it; And those who insist on not understanding it and continue spouting October 6 clichés simply will not be able to survive here. period.

(Tamir Morag on X)

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Forget the Two-State “Solution” | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

When liberals demand a cease-fire from Israel, my answer is, “So, has Hamas surrendered then?” To be honest, though, even if Hamas should in the end try, desperately, to surrender, Israel should finish the job. And continue to ignore the idiocy that proceeds from western liberals.

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

You voted for them (Hamas) the first time, and all polls indicate that you would vote for them again (barenakedislam.com)

Understand the enemy.  Related:

Hamas member says goal is not just to destroy Israel, but to spread Islam everywhere (jihadwatch.org)

World wide Islam is always their goal.

To Understand the IDF and Hamas, Look at Their Military Texts | HonestReporting

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What Michigan Democrat Congressmuslim Rashida Tlaib won’t tell you about the so-called “Palestinian NAKBA” (catastrophe) of 1948 (barenakedislam.com)

Video.

 

 

ATROCITIES

Israel releases graphic video of Hamas terror attacks as part of “narrative battle” over war in Gaza – CBS News

I’ve seen a four-minute video sampling.  How can anyone look at this footage, mostly shot by the terrorists themselves, and still condemn Israel for its response?  Related:

Spencer Video: The Cry-Bully Tactic Against Truthtellers About Islam | Jamie Glazov Productions

As I understand it from people like Bill Warner and Robert Spencer (above link) and others, this was a tactic Mohammed himself used – provoke, provoke, provoke, and then scream They’re attacking us! when the natural reaction finally came.  This is not new.

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Compare and contrast this image (Syria civil war):

 

 

And this:

 

 

With the image and joyful cries by this crowd on Oct. 7.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/crowd-screams-allahu-ackbar.mp4

 

And these images.  Three hard-to-look-at images of children Hamas murdered on Oct. 7 (links only):

Child 1

Child 2

Child 3

And some other images – again, links only – to keep your memory alive of what Hamas did.

Burned Oct 7 1

Blood trail Oct 7 1

Bodies laid out Oct 7 1

Burned Oct 7 2

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According to the tests at the hospital for the abductees who were released last night – the abductees did not receive the medication that the State of Israel gave them in the deal with Hamas almost a month ago. There is no better proof than this of the violation of the agreement – that we took our step and delivered to them entire trucks with medicines that probably also helped treat wounded terrorists and they did not take the small step of bringing the individual medicines to our abductees. After slaughtering, raping, torturing and kidnapping they continue with their terror and now we also got proof that they lied… Hamas must be destroyed!

(Yosef Haddad)

I am certainly not an international law expert.  But my understanding is that denying POWs needed medicine – assuming it’s available, which in this case it was – is a war crime.  So when will all the bleeding-hearts criticize Hamas.  (I know: half-past never.)

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

 

 

 

PALLYWOOD & MEDIA IN GENERAL

Israeli Arabs and Druze Fighting For Israel | Frontpage Mag

But… but… but apartheid!  Related:

 

 

And:

EoZ posters for “Apartheid Week” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

Great images here!  Here’s one.  Last time I checked, South Africa in its apartheid years had no blacks as judges.  Certainly not over whites.

 

 

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Media Reframe Israel’s Dramatic Rescue of Gaza Hostages | HonestReporting

And this is an amusing cartoon on the media playing a role:

 

 

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Videos and comments/text from here:

What is happening in Gaza’s Rafah city looks like a horror movie. As you can see in this video that went viral on social media, dozens cameramen standing at the entrance of a medical center in Gaza. They start running to the entrance along with a boy who seems to be carrying his little brother. Instead of leaving the camera and helping him they just film the whole scenario.

Fortunately, the doctor quickly removes the bandage that someone tied on the child’s head before the cameras started rolling. As you can see with your own eyes, there was no injury under the bandage.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/pallywood-1.mp4

 

Too many camera crews, it’s supposed to be a hospital, isn’t it? This woman has certainly not been treated by a doctor. There is no reason to put a bandage on a Hijab. If these two really had head injuries, I doubt they would be able to go wild like that in front of the camera crews.

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/pallywood-2.mp4

 

The Palestinians know they can’t win militarily.  Just like the Vietnamese knew they couldn’t win militarily.  So they “win” in the minds and hearts of the West.  The problem is that the media, and all the “useful idiots”, just eat it up.

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This is a video from a few years back, not sure how many – holiday shopping in Gaza.  The humanitarian “concentration camp” horror of it all!  Oh, the humanity!

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/shopping-in-gaza.mp4

 

And Gaza in general.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Thank-You-Hamas.mp4

 

You know, that doesn’t look bad at all!  Also on my Rumble channel:

Video – “Thank you Hamas” – from a few years ago (rumble.com)

 

 

TERROR COMING HERE?  TO THE WEST?

Hamas Rape Deniers Disrupt Columbia University Event on Preventing Sexual Assault in War (legalinsurrection.com)

Here already.

MIAMI ISLAMIC HATE PREACHER says, “We won’t kill you, but when Muslims become the majority here, we will implement sharia law (barenakedislam.com)

Is Dearborn really America’s jihad capital? – The Jewish Voice

Indeed, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any hate in the article. It was just all coming from the other side. Stalinsky’s article notes that “a local headline describing an Oct. 10 event at the Ford Performing Arts Center read ‘Michigan rally cheers Hamas attack.’” He shows Imam Imran Salha of the Islamic Center of Detroit in Dearborn calling for the “demise” of Israel, which, if it ever happened, would result in the murders of millions of Israelis.

Stalinsky also points out that another Dearborn-area imam, Usama Abdulghani, “called Oct. 7 ‘one of the days of Allah’ and a ‘miracle come true.’ He described the attackers as ‘honorable.’ He said they were ‘lions’ defending ‘the entire nation of Muhammad the messenger.’” Also, “the Islamic Center of America, a leading Dearborn mosque, held a memorial service on Dec. 30 for a Hezbollah operative killed in an Israeli airstrike.

Yes.

The Truth About the Jihad in Dearborn | Frontpage Mag

And more.

Anti-Israel protesters take over library at Cornell, police called in | The College Fix

The last time I was in Dearborn, c. 2008, it was like I stepped into a whole different country.

Jew-Hating Jihad Lynch Mob Target, Attack Mount Sinai Hospital – Geller Report

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Also in Europe:

Germany: Muslim migrants terrorize residents with robberies, drugs and rape (jihadwatch.org)

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Biden Protects ‘Palestinian’ Illegal Aliens From Deportation | Frontpage Mag

So if they manage to get here, they’re a protected class.

 

 

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TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

 

 

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US Should Be ’Stupid’ No More: Trump Calls for End to ‘No Strings’ Foreign Aid – The Jewish Voice

I’ve said it before: long-term Israel needs to voluntarily wean itself off the US.  Not only because aid to Israel engenders animosity in the US, but it makes Israel a client state of the US.  And thus subject to the whims of US politics.

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360 Degrees of Hostility: The Biden Administration and Israel – The Jewish Voice

As the weeks and months passed, it turned out that the latter had it right. The administration has never let Israel alone to win the war whose outcome will determine whether the Jewish state can long survive. At every turn, in every quarter, the United States is constraining, undermining, subverting and coercing Israel to make moves that, as Shahar said, are “against the interests of the citizens of Israel.”

Anger at Biden’s attempting to leverage American aid to Israel grows.  Long with a lot of content.

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Biden Commits to Jordan’s King to Continue Ban on Christian, Jewish Worship on Jerusalem’s Holy Temple Mount (breitbart.com)

Hey Jewish voters – still think Biden’s with Israel?

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

UNEXPECTED ALLIES AND WELL KNOWN ENEMIES

Very linky post.  Related to enemies:

Israelis refuse to be erased – JNS.org

Echoed in this quote:

The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

Golda Meir

Another quote by her:

 

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/people-of-iran-have-a-message-for-israel.mp4

 

Both Israel and most average Persians are the enemies of the mullahs.

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What Have You Done For Us Lately, Israel? | Frontpage Mag

Mostly good.  The whole 3-D printed meat, for example… not so much.

 

 

GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL

You can’t go wrong with a donation here:

Connections Israel

And please share this post far and wide.  There’s a lot of info here that many people don’t know.  Post it, email it, share widely.  If you can please donate to this year’s Purim drive.

PURIM | connectionsisrael

This is a unit I sponsored to get gifts in a prior year:

 

 

Also, if you’re willing:

Buy Me a Coffee

 

 

A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

Why are there still Palestinian refugees after 75 long years? – JNS.org

From its very founding – and fundamentally different standards / nature than the other refugee-oriented policies and agency – this clearly was set up to perpetuate as an eternal grievance against Israel.

So, as an open question… WHY would Israel be singled out like this?

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The NHGOP gubernatorial primary looks more like a coronation … of Kelly Ayotte … than a primary. Ayotte regularly rolls out endorsements from establishment-officeholders and focuses on the Democrats, while Chuck Morse runs the traditional NHGOP-establishmentarian lose-gracefully campaign.

The only chance that Morse has of “massing up” Ayotte’s coronation is to talk about the proverbial elephant-in-the-room. The on-appeal education funding decision that as a practical matter, orders the Legislature and Governor to raise state taxes by half a BILLION dollars. More specifically, Morse’s only chance of “massing up” the coronation is to unequivocally state that he will NOT comply if the Supreme Court upholds the trial court.

This is the last thing that Ayotte wants to talk about because at the end of the day her position is not any different than her Democrat rivals. That is, she will comply if the Supreme Court upholds the trial court. The only difference will be what tax or mix of taxes she supports versus what her Democrat rivals would support.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for Morse to call out Ayotte in this manner. It’s not happening … because he is an empty suit. Ask him what he would do if the Supreme Court upheld the trial court, and you’ll get the standard stump pablum about his strong support for education freedom accounts and local control of education.

I’d almost bet that Chuck’s campaign already has his concession speech written.

(I, of course, understand that Governor Ayotte’s response would be, “We need a constitutional amendment, blah, blah, blah.” But without super-GOP-majorities in the House and Senate … which is inconceivable … it will be impossible to pass an amendment that does not include enormous concessions to the Democrats. So, calling for an amendment is essentially a way of saying, “I will comply.”)

 

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Confirmation bias is something we all need to be wary of. We all tend to look for things that support our presupposed notions. It’s a dangerous psychological trap that it takes some intellectual discipline to combat. It requires listening to and understanding counterarguments. This is not a discipline practiced very often – if ever – in our State House these days.

Case in point happened on February 8th in the Ways & Means Committee when Cristobal Young from the Cornell Department of Sociology was called in to testify about his book, The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight, in a flagrant attempt to provide some confirmation bias to the committee’s desire to pass a “millionaire’s tax” – a 3 percent surcharge on Vermonters’ incomes over $500,000 (H.828).

Young’s presentation, in a nutshell, was that, yes, high taxes will chase away some high earners, but it’s an insignificant number. So, go for it! At his conclusion, committee chair Emily Kornheiser (D-Brattleboro) gushed, “Thank you very much, you’ve made an incredibly, I don’t want to say compelling case because you’re just sharing the research with us, but I really appreciate your sharing the data with us …. I think in our work it’s really hard to separate anecdote from data, and you have laid out the data incredibly well.”

Yeah. About that. Here’s the problem with the research and the data….

Young’s book was published in 2017, before Covid lockdowns and the explosion of remote work options. And, before the 2017 federal tax reform law that ended State & Local Tax (SALT) deductions for federal taxes, effectively raising taxes on wealthy individuals in high tax states – like Vermont – and cutting them in low tax states like Florida, Texas, New Hampshire. The SALT reform forces those who choose to live in high tax states to bear the cost of that tax burden themselves rather than pass it on to federal taxpayers across the country.

The data presented in Young’s slide show was from 1999-2011, 2000-2003, 2005-2014 – when the internet was in its infancy. And, it was primarily focused on New Jersey, where working millionaires are largely tethered to the New York financial markets, and California with Silicon Valley and Hollywood. So, let’s just say that this forty-five minutes of committee time was, notwithstanding Chair Kornheiser’s early Valentine’s expressions of schoolgirl love, largely irrelevant. Except for the fact that it served as confirmation bias for the tax and spenders.

A more up to date study done in July 2023 by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth – hardly a bastion of right wing ideology – echoed some of Young’s conclusions that high earners tend to be more firmly rooted in the communities where they are generating their wealth (ie. New Jersey based Wall Street millionaires, who, not for nothing, are fleeing even higher taxes in New York City) and can’t realistically pull up stakes. Other factors that keep wealthy people in place and putting up with abusive tax policies are children in school, friends, family, and, let’s face it, moving is a hassle. All true.

However, they did note, “… the [2017 SALT] tax reform did not cause greater numbers of millionaires to migrate. But for those already moving anyway, tax reform played a role in where they moved. In other words, taxes do not affect the decision to move, but, conditional on moving, they do influence the choice of destination—making low-tax states incrementally more attractive.” Vermont is a “destination” state. Which begs the question, are the millionaires in Vermont people who make their money here and are “stuck”, or people who moved here with their money? Church Street not being Wall Street, I highly suspect it’s primarily the latter. And thus, by implementing a millionaire’s tax will we be discouraging wealthy retirees or now-free-to-be-remote working millionaires from choosing Vermont as a destination. This would be bad tax policy for us.

The Washington Center’s research also obliterates Young’s stale assumptions about the “stickiness of places” by pointing out, “the pandemic disrupted almost every socioeconomic factor that ties people to places. Offices and schools closed their doors and moved online. Urban amenities were shuttered. And face-to-face contact became a public health problem. Many homes and apartments felt too small for shelter-in-place orders. The pandemic was an occasion to rethink the geography of work and life, especially for top earners, who could work remotely from anywhere.” Uh, yeah. That.

Young also shared a state-by-state map of where millionaires are concentrated, and one of the states painted with a very light shade of green, a very low percentage of population, was Vermont. So, while it is true some, perhaps many, millionaires may be stuck in places with high taxes because the benefits of economic opportunity for them outweigh the costs, Vermont isn’t one of those places. A point entirely ignored by the presenter and the committee.

Lastly, Young advised lawmakers to stick it to older, wealthier taxpayers and focus on policies that attract young, mobile workers who will be the millionaires of tomorrow. All well and good regarding the young and productive, but, as CNBC points out in Young, rich workers are fleeing New York and California – here’s where they’re going, the states attracting these folks are places with tech and/or financial hubs, which Vermont does not have, and/or low/no income tax states like Florida, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Texas, which Vermont is not. Legislators can’t change that first factor, but they can change the latter! Or not.

So, if we don’t have a lot of millionaires to begin with in Vermont, they are less “stuck” here, and they already provide a disproportionately high proportion of our income tax revenue, how many can we really afford to lose? And how many can we afford to repel? We need good information to form good policy, and our elected representatives are not seeking that out. Too often they actively avoid it.

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.

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Here are some quick thoughts on  Tuesday’s (2/13) special election in New York: Maybe Republican voters were happy with George Santos and NOT happy that the GOP thinks that it can and should decide who may or may not represent them.

Maybe Republican voters were not motivated to go to the polls to vote for a RINO former Democrat?

Maybe Mitch McConnell is intentionally hurting the GOP’s chances in 2024 in order to prevent Trump from being elected and, if elected, from following America-First policies. More specifically, Mitch’s sell-out on the border was a win-win for the Democrats.

If it had passed, it would have legalized illegal immigration of 2 million per year and, in addition, gutted border security and destroyed Trump’s and the GOP’s top issue.

By forcing the House GOP to block “bipartisan (in-name-only) legislation,” it gave the Democrats political cover by enabling them to claim (falsely) that they wanted to secure the border, but the GOP did NOT.

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New Hampshire House Bill 1419, relative to prohibiting obscene or harmful sexual materials in schools, is on the floor of the NH House today, and it’s causing quite a stir. The bill prohibits material that is obscene or harmful to minors in schools and creates a procedure for removal and cause of action.

Republican Bill Boyd reportedly introduced a floor amendment to gut it. That amendment died a glorious death 358 – 17. Rep. Cordelli (Actual Republican)then used the opportunity that followed for debate to read graphic excerpts from a book found in NH Middle School.

Rep. Marjorie Smith (Democrat) objected. The vote to stop Rep. COrdlelli failed, after which Democrats, who want this crap in the schools, began walking out.

 

Dems object to the middle school. material being read from the well.

They all got up and left pic.twitter.com/Ab0tbP6LBw

— JR Hoell, NH State Rep (@JRHoell) February 15, 2024

 

The bill has since been tabled with the help of 7 Republican defectors (It can be pulled off the table at any time (when the majority thinks it has the voted to pass it or kill it, as the case may be).

 

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For most of our readers, this headline has something of the “Sky is blue” or “water is wet” feel to it. If there are no children around, you might just say No Sh!t. It’s that obvious, and we’ve known for a while, but the show was, until this week, speculation and good guessing.

Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellengerger have released two reports this week outlining how multiple sources confirm how the CIA started the Russia Collusion Hoax. It goes something like this.

Multiple credible sources say that in the run-up to the 2016 election, the CIA asked foreign intelligence agencies — specifically the “Five-Eyes” group of nations — to spy on a list of 26 Trump campaign members. It was a setup, so that the CIA could cleverly evade U.S. laws against domestic spying. Specifically, the CIA asked the other governments’ spooks to try to develop relationships and interactions — called “bumping them” in the spook business — with each of the 26 Trump officials. That gave the FBI a legal predicate to “monitor” the 26 Trump campaign members, since they were interacting with covert foreign intelligence agents, which brought the Trump team within FISA and allowed Obama’s DOJ to wiretap and spy on them.

Report: Deep state is scrambling to find a missing top-secret binder that shows how Obama’s CIA set up the Russia hoax @shellenberger @mtaibbi pic.twitter.com/oBvKRrqkkp

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) February 14, 2024

We had also postulated early on that the Mar-a-Lago raid was not about illegally retained classified documents in including files related to the nuclear umbrella, but a cover to search for something incriminating Obama (Clinton and Biden, among others). Trump still had his presidential security clearance months after the raid, so nothing in his possession was illegal or warranted an on-camera raid and months of lies peddled as speculation. They could have asked him what he had or if they could look for anything in particular, and he would likely have said, sure, but that doesn’t get what you’re after or add to the speculation of wrongdoing.

Is this a good time to remind you that many of the same CIA assets were likely on the list of names claiming the now-too-late-to-matter-verified Hunter Biden Laptop was a Russian disinformation operation? That was a lie as well, and more election meddling.

The very next Day,  Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi “claimed to have evidence that Joe Biden has been coordinating all the Trump criminal cases as part of the Crossfire Hurricane coverup. I don’t need to tell you how that could affect the Trump prosecutions.”

Bombshell new report says the US government is hiding documents that incriminate the deep state for spying on Trump and election interference, sources tell @mtaibbi and @shellenberger pic.twitter.com/qKBMNcDiei

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) February 15, 2024

There is much speculation about the missing binder or binders, but I have a feeling someone has them, and they are waiting for the right moment to lose the hounds. Given how the  Obama administration and its interlopers interfered with the 2016 election and the 2020 election, and hoe Biden (Obama’s puppet) is implicated in election interference vai federal lawsuits if the binder or binders were to go public before November, it would very much be a fair counter to eight years of illegal spying and interference by Obama Democrats.

It also suggests why they so very much can’t allow Trump to win.

He’d decalssify all of it on day one and send it to the press.

Some, if not most, of that is actual treason, and America still executes people for that – seizes their assets and property, blah blah blah.

 

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New Hampshire isn’t waiting to see where the on-again, off-again relationship between zealous gun grabbers and credit card merchant codes for guns and ammunition end up. They’ve advanced legislation that would prohibit Merchant Category codes for firearms-related anything.

House Bill 1186 prohibits the assigning of a specific merchant category code to the sale of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories, and provides a civil penalty for violations of this prohibition. This critical legislation protects gun-owners privacy and ensures that bad actors cannot use credit and debit card transactions to create a gun-registry or block cardholders from making gun-related purchases.

We’ve been following the story for a while. A few years ago, a handful of tightly sewn hoplophobic assholes (who all happened to -surprise – be Democrats) sent nastygrams to credit card companies suggesting they come up with specific codes for guns, and ammunition accessories purchased with a credit card. Data the government could request or demand providing it (or whichever third party mob they leaked them to) with dates, names, and addresses because we all know how “gun traffickers” like to use credit cards to buy firearms illegally (not!).

Within a few months, this blatant effort by states like New York and California was met with significant pushback by mostly Red State AGs.

“Americans are tired of seeing corporate leverage used to advance political goals that cannot muster basic democratic support,” reads a five-page letter sent to the CEOs of American Express, Mastercard, and Visa by the attorneys general of 24, mostly red, states. “The Second Amendment is a fundamental right, but it’s also a fundamental American value. Our financial institutions should stop lending their market power to those who wish to attack that value.”

Led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti along with Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and co-signed by the AGs of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming, and West Virginia, the letter say the monitoring and tracking of firearms purchases creates a “list of gun buyers” and the obvious risk that law-abiding consumers’ information will be obtained and misused by those who oppose Americans exercising their right to keep and bear arms.

New laws would make it illegal to create these financial gun registries, which caused the major credit card companies to pause their consideration or implementation.  The problem of addressing another hodgepodge of rules in various states would be more of a headache than listening to Letitia James whine, and since the pause in April of 2023, more states, including New Hampshire, have proposed similar bills. I have not read the others, but ours includes teeth. Tiny teeth, but they are there.

Violators have 30 days to correct records and provide proof that they are no longer in violation of the statute, but failing that, the AG can file an injunction, pursue legal remedies, and recover costs resulting from that.

Much like the knowledge that almost anyone you encounter might be able to defend themself with a firearm can deter crime, HB1186 establishes a similar understanding.  With slim majorities in both chambers, New Hampshire should be able to pass this and get it into law so we never have to use it.

But it’s there if we need it.

 

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Anyone with an ounce of commonsense can see the disastrous situation caused by Joe Biden and his diverse but inept Administration. There is no longer a secure boundary between Americans and the criminal migrants streaming into the country from over 155 different countries worldwide.

Ordinarily, you do not label someone as a criminal until they have been charged and convicted for a crime. The people wading across the Rio Grande to come into America via the backdoor have committed a crime by their first action in America. There is no defense. These folks are not lost. They know exactly where they are going, where to cross, and what to say when they arrive. We know we have people on the terrorist watch list entering. Gang members, drug smugglers, people involved in sex/people trafficking, and people who are convicted felons in their homeland are among the migrants. We think we have seen it all, but two new byproducts of the Broken Biden Border were detailed this week.

Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 37,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended as they illegally crossed the border; that’s 50 times more than two years earlier. Many of the migrants say they made the journey to escape China’s increasingly repressive political climate and sluggish economy. We knew about the Chinese Fentanyl coming across the border, killing 100,000 Americans a year. Now we have over 35,000 illegal Chinese nationals, some of whom may be feeding the Chinese cartel-operated illegal Marijuana growing that is now a national problem. These farms are now in California, Maine, Oregon, Oklahoma, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Michigan and Nevada. This is a National security issue. The Maine Federal delegation has been trying since last sum3in vain to get the DOJ and DHS involved. It is almost a year of pleading, but it is met by apathy, which will solve nothing.

A very dangerous situation has been uncovered in Arizona. High school-age males are recruited to smuggle illegals across the border and transport them to the Phoenix area. These young men are paid up to $1,500 per person to traffic them into America. As many as ten bodies can be crammed into a car, which means $15,000 of dirty money for these adolescents who are now criminals, too. Transporting illegals across the border is dangerous enough, but they are dealing with the Mexican Cartel that has no respect for human life and will kill these young men in a heartbeat.

Joe Biden went to the microphone to congratulate the Senate for passing the Federal aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and Taiwan. At the same time, he blasted House Republican Leadership, who had already said the bill would not be brought to the floor for debate or vote. He went over the line when he declared anyone who opposes this bill as siding with Putin, a tyrant, and, like Trump, is against America. This President can make these obscene comments about the money to support Ukraine as it defends its borders, but he refuses to seal our border that has let in enough people since 2021 to be the 34th largest state in the country.

By Biden’s thinking, we should try Biden, Harris, and Mayorkas for tyranny.

I fear Biden doesn’t see my logic.

 

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I wasn’t one of them, but I’ve known my share of sporty kids. Up early, lots of practice, time after school, and traveling to games or meets. It’s a considerable commitment wasted when a boy who isn’t even very good at the sport decides he’s a girl and beats them all handily.

There are a handful of high-profile examples, but this story is about a kid from Kearsarge High School who couldn’t compete in boys’ track and field. He calls himself Maelle Jacques, and he recently beat every Girl competing in the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) indoor track and field championship.

Kearsarge Regional High School sophomore Maelle Jacques, a biological male, took first place in the Girl’s high jump competition on Sunday, beating every female in the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) indoor track and field championship.

As expected, Jacques dominated and finished with a 5’1″‘” mark, an inch better than any other athlete in the girls Division II competition. In the boy’s Division II, the lowest high jump was 5’8″‘,” and the winning jumpers hit 6’2″.”

The problem is that Maelle Jacques is welcome to whatever fantasy about his sexual disposition he can convince others to embrace. Riley Gaines framed the matter thusly.

How could the parents of this boy allow their son to cheat deserving women out of opportunities? And why don’t the parents of the girls stand up and say “no” for their daughters?

This country is full of failing, gutless mothers and fathers. https://t.co/qc39ygtWPT

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 5, 2024

“Maelle” presents himself as a girl, but he has physical advantages no girl will ever have and uses them to defeat them in athletic competitions he could never win by competing with boys.

There is no honor in that. It is not an accomplishment deserving of acclaim or reward. You are taller, faster, stronger, have better heart and lung capacity, muscle mass, and bone density, and were born that way.

They…were not.

It is true that some young women, through hard work, long hours, good coaching, and attention to the finest details of a sport, can compete and win against boys or men who have little or no skill whatsoever, most of the time. Not all of the time. In the case of the Girl’s division of the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) indoor track and field championship, Maelle wiped them out.

The girls, it seems, were born in the wrong body … to compete against boys. And they can’t even get testosterone treatments to try and bridge the gap … that would be cheating.

 

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January 1st, 2034, The Pacific Ocean somewhere near Hawaii: It had been ten years since Elon Musk realized colonizing Mars was not the answer to his deep concern regarding the survival of humanity. When his mind searched for an alternative answer, he took notice of how the people of Iceland had solved their energy problem.

Faced with a difficult climate and minimal natural resources, instead of looking to the radiant energy of the sun or trying to capture capricious wind energy, the Ice Landers looked underneath the ocean floor. The island’s waters were in a volcanic “Rift Zone,” and by drilling a few thousand meters below the ocean floor, the geo-environment was so hot that exposed water would immediately become superheated steam. If the rising steam was channeled through an electricity-producing turbine, carbon-free energy could be generated.

Inconsistent windmills or solar panels, which by definition are nonproductive 12 hours each day and useless on cloudy days, were not the answer to the need for dependable carbon-free energy—neither had the reliability or scalability to get the job done. Nuclear energy had the potential, but as Chornobyl and the war in Ukraine had demonstrated, nuclear power plants can, in the wrong hands, be a disaster.

Geothermal energy was the solution to Earth’s carbon-free energy need, but Musk saw the energy source as something more, the foundation on which answering the question of how to preserve humanity could be built.

Musk could not repeat his previous mistake. Tesla was a financial success, but Musk had put the cart in front of the horse. By not ensuring the availability of an unlimited carbon-free renewable energy source, mass production and use of affordable electric cars were limited.

To save humanity, Musk had to develop an alternative unlimited energy source, and Geothermal energy fit the bill. He leveraged all his experience, Tesla-derived AI, and formidable know-how to develop the new energy source. Billions in private investor money flowed and trillions in profits measured success.

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Almost the entire American West Coast seaboard ocean qualified as geothermal-rich “Rift Zones,” and these resources were developed. Musk became incalculably rich, and as renewable geothermal energy became readily available, his dream of affordable electric cars became a reality.

But it was at an undisclosed ocean-floor location near Hawaii that Musk’s vision of preserving humanity was being realized. During the same ten years Geothermal energy was developed, Musk had simultaneously worked with the American government to build a modern version of a seafloor Atlantis.

Hundreds of meters below the ocean’s surface, all the essentials needed to perpetuate life were readily available. Sea Water {H2O} was ubiquitous, and under Musk’s intense oversight, desalination had been perfected, thus providing water {H2O} for human consumption and multiple other essential purposes.

Other life-essential nutrients, Nitrogen, phosphorous, magnesium, and iron, were also readily available. In the absence of the sun’s life-giving energy rays, geothermal-produced energy was converted into sun-like energy waves. Plant roots were bathed in a soulless, nutrient-rich water-like soup, and the plants captured the geothermal-produced radiant energy by combining water {H2O} from the soup with carbon dioxide {CO2} to create energy-storing carbon-based molecules. As a side product, breathable oxygen {O2} was also produced. The plants used the captured energy to absorb other root soup nutrients and convert them into “amino acids”, the building blocks of protein. The essential amino acid lysine is not abundantly produced by plants, and without it, human life cannot be supported. This issue was addressed by harvesting edible fish and cultivating undersea chickens that laid lysine-rich eggs.

Humanity was sustained by consuming fish, plants, and eggs. The energy required for human growth was derived from using breathed in oxygen {O2} to, in effect, burn the food’s carbon molecules, creating the byproducts of water {H2O} and carbon dioxide {CO2}; Products green plants can again use to capture the Geothermal created sun-like energy rays and continue the cycle of life. To perpetuate the cycle all human and animal waste products were repurposed into the watery soup that provided the nutrients for Atlantis’s fruit and vegetable gardens.

Using Geothermal produced energy, water {H2O} was split into energy-storing hydrogen{H2} and oxygen{O2}. The energy-rich hydrogen was then used to make powerful carbon-free batteries, and the oxygen was harvested for human breathing.

If a super volcano eruption or a nuclear winter ever blotted out the life-giving rays of the sun, the new Atlantis would continue to thrive, and the ocean-floor Geothermal wells would continue to supply power to land-based survivors. Even a nuclear bomb electromagnetic pulse {EMP} would have no effect as the gamma rays and the harmful electronic particles would be absorbed by the sea. The threat of assault by foreign enemies had been addressed. The new Atlantis was protected by an impenetrable fleet of AI-programmed Hydrogen-battery-powered armed submersibles. Musk’s satellite-based ‘“Star Link” would preserve the internet and keep communication lines open.

It is only a matter of time before Geothermal energy becomes the world’s dominant energy source and an underwater city becomes a reality. The technology is already available, and the premise’s evidence-based logic carries an unstoppable inertia.

In the future, there is a very real possibility of a man-made Armageddon or a natural extinction event. In this piece, Elon Musk was highlighted as the person who could use innovation, modern technology, and Geothermal Energy to create a safe harbor from these catastrophic possibilities, a place where humanity would be preserved.

But if it is not Musk’s destiny to be the architect of this future, the world should hope the driving force to Geothermal Energy dominance and a new Atlantis is an entity with Musk-like intentions. If not, the world’s future will end up in the hands of elite socialists, totalitarian dictators, the world’s military-industrial complexes, the major fossil fuel companies, and the green energy conglomerates. None of which care about preserving even a shred of humanity, and all of which would populate their version of Atlantis with the worst this world could offer.

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Respect for the rule of law, as it is understood and practiced by civilized people, is an instrument of convenience to be used to advantage and to be violated when it is not for the Muslim. A Muslim believes in a different law—Sharia Law: a set of stone-age rules. Violation of the non-Muslim laws, therefore, is no violation at all to a Muslim.

Under Sharia Law, the very fabric of society unravels, giving rise to a nightmarish dystopia where chaos reigns supreme. The Muslim adherents of this archaic code would then wield an insidious influence that undermines the foundations of civilization. For them, the rule of law is not a guiding principle but a mere illusion to be manipulated at their convenience. The tentacles of Sharia Law would slowly extend into every facet of society, creating an environment of fear and uncertainty.

Within the twisted worldview of the Muslims, adherence to Sharia Law is not just a choice; it is a mandate provided by their God, ‘Allah,’ a dark covenant that binds them to an evil destiny. These stone-age rules, steeped in brutality and devoid of compassion, serve as the twisted backbone of their society. Any attempt to question or challenge Sharia Law is met with ruthless reprisals, as the Muslims view dissent as a threat to their oppressive regime.

In this nightmarish reality, the concept of justice becomes a grotesque parody. Courts of law are replaced by arbitrary tribunals where the whims of the Muslims dictate the fate of the accused. Trials, if they can be called that, are nothing more than kangaroo courts designed to legitimize the preordained outcomes. The innocent tremble in terror, knowing that any semblance of fairness has been banished from this warped legal system.

Under the ominous specter of Sharia Law, the populace lives in perpetual trepidation, for these Muslims recognize no bounds in their quest for dominance. The once-stable foundations of society crumble, replaced by a lawless abyss where the strong prey on the weak without consequence. The Muslims thrive on this anarchy, reveling in the chaos they sow as the very notion of order becomes a distant memory.

In this harrowing landscape, the international community watches in horror, realizing the contagion of Sharia Law threatens to spread beyond its borders. The ominous whispers of this dark ideology reach far and wide, casting a pall over the future of civilization. As Muslims continue to flaunt the conventions of decency and morality, the world teeters on the precipice of a global nightmare, where the rule of law is nothing more than a relic of a bygone era. The question that hangs ominously in the air is whether the forces of reason and justice can muster the strength to confront and extinguish the encroaching darkness before it consumes us all.

What is incredible is the gall and audacity of devout Muslims in demanding that Western and other democracies legalize Sharia in their societies. Countries such as Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, and other European countries, as well as Canada and the United States, with large populations of Muslims, mostly recent arrivals, and ironically, drawn by the allure of democratic freedoms, are experiencing the insistent demands by Muslims to have Sharia rule their Islamic communities.

Paradoxically, they seek to replace these very freedoms with the oppressive shackles of Sharia Law. The clamor for the legitimization of Sharia within Islamic communities is nothing less than chilling; it is a testament to the insatiable hunger for dominance that lies at the core of this ideological menace.

Therefore, the audacious push for the legalization of Sharia in Western democracies is nothing short of a bold attempt to subvert the very principles upon which these nations were built. The Muslims, driven by an unrelenting desire to impose their archaic worldview, are exploiting the freedoms and tolerance of these democracies to advance their sinister agenda. It is a Trojan horse of the most insidious kind, threatening to unleash a tsunami of darkness that would engulf the bedrock values of these societies.

The Muslims, seemingly emboldened by their growing numbers, exhibit an unwavering determination to impose Sharia not only within their communities but also on the broader societal landscape. The audacity lies not just in their requests for cultural accommodation but in the blatant disregard for the principles of pluralism and individual liberties that form the bedrock of democratic societies.

In the face of such audacious demands, division looms over these democratic nations. The fabric of multiculturalism, celebrated for fostering diversity and coexistence, now faces the dangerous threat of unraveling. The Muslims’ insistence on the legalization of Sharia stands as a stark challenge to the ideals of tolerance and mutual respect that have been carefully cultivated over decades.

As the Muslims persist in their brave attempts to normalize Sharia within Western democracies, a looming question arises: Will the foundations of these nations prove resilient enough to withstand this ideological onslaught, or are we witnessing the gradual erosion of the principles that have defined these societies for generations? The struggle for the soul of democracy intensifies, and the resilience of these nations will be tested in the crucible of cultural clashes as the Muslims unapologetically press forward with their audacious demands, threatening to reshape the very landscapes of freedom and justice.

This is just the beginning, and it may seem relatively harmless to the simpletons in our midst. Yet, once Sharia is recognized to any extent, it will reach out to rule not only on matters that concern Muslims but also those that may involve Muslims and non-Muslims. Under Sharia, a Muslim man married to a non-Muslim woman can divorce the woman at will, automatically have custody of the children, and toss the wife out of “his” home with just about no compensation.

Yes, mark my words – The seemingly innocuous beginnings of the push for Sharia’s recognition are nothing short of the opening gambit in a dangerous game that threatens to engulf entire societies in its suffocating grasp. To the unsuspecting, it may appear as a harmless accommodation to the cultural nuances of the Muslim community. However, this is a calculated maneuver, a strategic move on the grand chessboard of ideology, where the pawns are the fundamental principles of justice, equality, and individual rights.

Once Sharia gains even the slightest foothold, its insidious influence creeps beyond the confines of Muslim matters, insinuating itself into the lives of both Muslims and non-Muslims. The ominous implications unfold like a dark tapestry, weaving a narrative of subjugation and injustice transcending cultural boundaries.

Under the looming specter of Sharia, the very fabric of familial relationships is torn asunder. A Muslim man, married to a non-Muslim woman, becomes a pawn in a legal game where the rules are designed to favor one ideology over another. The perverse provisions of Sharia grant him the arbitrary power to sever marital ties at will, leaving his non-Muslim wife in a nightmarish limbo.

The repercussions extend far beyond the emotional turmoil of divorce. Sharia dictates that the Muslim man, by the stroke of a legal pen, automatically gains custody of the children, stripping the non-Muslim mother of her maternal rights. This heart-wrenching separation becomes not only a personal tragedy but a glaring example of the gross injustices perpetuated in the name of an antiquated legal code.

The insidious nature of Sharia is further laid bare when it comes to property rights. The Muslim man, armed with the weapon of Sharia, has the authority to unceremoniously cast his non-Muslim wife out of “his” home, leaving her with minimal recourse and virtually no compensation. The sanctity of the family home, once considered a haven, becomes a battleground where Sharia’s brutal tenets override the principles of fairness and equity.

The implications are increasingly dire. What may seem like a benign concession to cultural differences reveals itself as a sinister ploy, threatening to dismantle the foundations of justice, equality, and individual autonomy that are the cornerstones of a just society. The ominous reality is that once Sharia gains recognition, the erosion of fundamental rights will follow, casting a dark shadow over the very essence of a fair and equitable legal system.

This is the beginning and the prelude to a disturbing descent into an abyss of legal injustice and societal upheaval.

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There are a lot of things the Democrats did that interfered in the 2020 election. The truth about the Hunter Bidne Laptop would have moved an outcoming changing number of votes to Trump, but then so would the absence of vote-by-mail fraud, to which a significant number of voters has admitted.

The survey shows 17 percent of mail-in voters admitting to voting in a state where they are no longer permanent residents; 21 percent filling out ballots for others; 17 percent signing ballots for family members, possibly without consent, and 8 percent reporting offers of “pay” or “reward” for their vote.

What’s more, 10 percent of all respondents to the survey (carried on a representative sample of 1,085 likely voters) said they know a friend, family member, co-worker, or other acquaintance who said they cast a mail-in ballot in 2020 in a state other than their state of permanent residence.

That’s the admitted and likely fraud without any consideration for significant election irregularities involving suitcases, illegal election law changes, blocking observers, and other foolishness we’re not allowed to talk about. Add to this new research that uses what voters have admitted, and the 2020 outcome once again tips toward Trump.

“Had the 2020 election been conducted like every national election has been over the past two centuries, wherein the vast majority of voters cast ballots in-person rather than by mail, Donald Trump would have almost certainly been re-elected,” the report’s authors wrote.

It doesn’t mean much. You’re confirmation bias is happy. You can say that what didn’t seem right to you then was not a delusion. Things were, in fact, FUBAR, or at least not right. Your guy should have won. None of which amounts to much if the same process plays out again this November.

There is a significant presence both nationally and globally that sees growing populist support for a second Trump term as a threat to any number of agendas. The opposition crosses party lines and national borders and includes Allies and enemies. The money, influence, and political pressure to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office is enormous.

Nothing is off the table, which means the people, you, me, all y’all, need to turn out in such great numbers that stealing the election becomes impossible.

That’s a tall order, given how little has been done to protect election integrity from those who would undermine the outcome.

We can whine about it, but that won’t change a thing.

The swing states have a few months left to secure the vote, and if that can’t be done, the people will have to send the strongest possible message with – as noted above- so many votes against the NWO, Deep-State Establishment order that it will be impossible to do anything but accept it.

That won’t stop them, but the alternative is an actual insurrection. we don’t want that.. but they’d love it.

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We already have three political parties. The Democrats, the Republicans who represent Republican voters, and the Republicans who do NOT represent Republican voters. Last night’s (2/12) Senate vote on “foreign aid” is illustrative of the split: 22 “Republicans” joined with the Democrats to continue funding that kleptocracy called Ukraine:

BREAKING: The senate just pulled an all nighter and officially passed their $95B foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan with nothing for the southern border

The final vote was 70-29 with 22 Republicans voting yes.

McConnell, Thune, Boozman, Capito, Cassidy, Collins,…

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 13, 2024

And the arrogance of these Senate Republicans who do not represent GOP voters is off the charts. They loathe the very voters who elected them. For example:

Sen. Thom Tillis: “Our base cannot possibly know what’s at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what’s at stake if Putin wins."

Stop voting for these people. They hate you and think their job is to rule you. pic.twitter.com/L97R9LkImx

— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) February 12, 2024

The problem, sadly, is the GOP voter who supports these Republicans who do not represent GOP voters. I do not know the details of Tillis’ primary. Maybe the other candidates were worse, or the good candidate(s) did not have the resources to compete, or Tillis is very good at “bringing home the bacon,” or some other reason or combination of reasons. What I do know is that GOP voters overwhelmingly supported a candidate who thinks very, very little of them and, therefore, does NOT believe he needs to actually represent them.

America does not need a third party. In McConnell, Tillis, Romney, Sununu, Haley, etc., etc., etc., America already has a third party. What America needs is GOP voters in Red States to wake up and start electing real Republicans.

 

 

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There is speech that is hateful, but the people who want to use that idea to silence other opinions hate speech. Intransitive Verb: ‘ To feel a strong dislike for or hostility toward.’ The laws they want or pass are about hating speech, not hateful speech. Free speech is what they hate.

If you had doubts, the Sumer of Love and the Censorhip Industrial Complex response during COVID would have cleared them up. On the one hand, we had the government colluding with speech platforms to control political and medical messaging, all of which – not surprisingly – turned out to be truth censored to protect lies. On the other, we had BLM mobs patrolling the streets of America’s cities, compelling their approved speech under threat.

They hate your speech and hate you for not aping their own, and this was not an exception. It is the rule.

You will be made to care the way they say and say it the way they want (or else!) because what they truly hate is liberty, and they won’t stop until they’ve taken yours.

 

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UPDATE: 

This post was updated at around 7:30 pm on 2/14 to reflect that the Sun-King, a/k/a Governor Chris Sununu, at some point today (unclear exactly when), had the woke-mind-virus “guidance” removed. While the Sun-King presumably thinks that he has put the issue to bed, he has NOT. Questions remain. Who hired the woke-mind-virus infected person who posted the guidance, and why has this person not been TERMINATED?  The original post follows    

First, tip of the hat to NH-NeverTrumpJournal for exposing another example of the woke-mind-virus taking over New Hampshire. Specifically, the “Department of Information Technology” – which I did not even know existed, has issued “guidance” called “Embracing Inclusive Language” for the State’s websites. One example is that “‘They’ is now considered a singular pronoun and should be used to replace ‘he or she’ or ‘his or her.’”

The New ‘N’ Word? Sununu Admin Says ‘Normal,’ ‘Elderly,’ ‘He/She’ Don’t Belong on State Websites https://t.co/tAtT2VHTXS@nhgop @nhdems #nhpolitics

— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) February 14, 2024

Read the linked article for more details on how the “Department of Woke-Speak” … oh! I’m sorry; I mean, the “Department of Information Technology” … is spreading the woke-mind virus. Rather than tell you here what you can read for yourself in the article, what I want to do is lament that we don’t have a Republican Governor and Republican legislature to address this. Oh, wait! We supposedly do.

Our esteemed Sun-King, a/k/a Governor Chris Sununu, could undo this “guidance” immediately and demand the resignation of everyone involved. The Republican legislature could and should defund the “Department of Woke-Speak” in the next budget. But I doubt anything of the sort will happen.

Because “that’s not the hill to die on! We have far more important fights … like eviscerating local zoning laws and building apartment buildings as far as the eye can see! And cutting taxes for rich people and businesses! Go, team-NHGOP, go!”

New Hampshire does NOT have a Republican Party. Its tombstone should read “died of fright of the woke-mind-virus.”

UPDATE:

From @GovChrisSununu on "Embracing Inclusive Language" guidelines from the NH Dept of Information Technology –>@NHGOP @NHDems pic.twitter.com/eBlNiTEWHA

— NH Journal (@NewHampJournal) February 14, 2024

 

 

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Recently here in the federal prison that I currently call “home,” there was a fight between two miserable, awful human beings known around the unit as the Nazi and the Swindler. Even more recently, Granite State Watch released a list of anti-democracy extremists; I am on that list, and it brought much joy to this, the eighth month of my eighteen month prison sentence, to know that I struck such a profound fear in them that even the rattling of my chains echoes in their minds. Of course, Granite State Watch is correct in their assessment; I am an anti-democracy extremist. When all the cards are laid on the table, it’s shown that they, too, are anti-democracy extremists. Most people are.

I don’t simply mean the Socialist and Communist leftists clamoring for a dictatorship of the proletariat, although, as they’re commonly used, “dictatorship’ and “democracy” would be mutually exclusive. I also don’t mean the anti-democracy representatives who voted against CACR32, thereby prohibiting New Hampshire voters from voting on a ballot question, although those state reps who voted against it, in literal terms, voted against democracy. Instead, I mean only to point out that anyone of reason who has been educated past the third grade is likely to be staunchly anti-democracy, because democracy is stupid.

No person of sense would poll the ignorant masses for a medical diagnosis, or help with any problem of significance. The average person is simply not educated or equipped to answer most specialized questions, but, because of the Dunning-Kruger Effect and sheer incompetent arrogance, they not only will give a terrible and incorrect answer, but will then vigorously defend that wrong answer when assailed by facts and logic. We saw this during the Covid-19 pandemic, when suddenly everyone was an expert virologist, biologist, and epidemiologist overnight, all without any education or training whatsoever. And nearly everyone among this hitherto unknown mass of doctors with their wildly differing “expert” opinions was willing to fight and defend whatever their dumbass opinion happened to be. The side calling me an anti-democracy extremist was, in fact, the side that coined the term “Covidiot” to describe such people.

It shouldn’t need to be pointed out, but the ones the left calls “Covidiots” vote, and one vote cast by an idiot cancels out entirely a vote cast by an intelligent person. Imagine some respectable citizen taking several hours from their busy life to contemplate and research the issues, reach an informed decision, learn about the candidates, and then proudly cast their vote in an election, only for it to be nullified by a slack-jawed yokel whose entire political ideology is “I ain’t wearin’ no face diaper!” So, yes, I must confess a substantial degree of disdain and contempt for any political system that, as a matter of foundational policy, weighs these two people and their opinions, and finds them to be equally worthy of consideration and application.

Further, it does not matter where one falls on the political compass; the most common perspective is that the opinion holder is correct and, as deviation from that opinion increases, so does the stupidity required to disagree with the first person’s obviously correct position. Someone who disagrees only slightly is “only a little stupid,” while someone who diametrically opposed is a mouth-breathing troglodyte unworthy of being considered human.

What does any of this have to do with the Nazi and the Swindler? It dawned on me, the day that I learned about Granite State Watch and their list, that the Nazi and the Swindler are the perfect symbol of presidential elections, especially in recent years. Here are the two absolutely worst human beings we can find. One is a large, old, overweight, vile, racist, homophobic bully who more or less prides himself on those characteristics, and he is fighting a smaller, older dementia patient who may or may not understand where he is and who may or may not be pooping his pants. As South Park said, it’s always a big, giant douche and a turd sandwich. It’s always a Nazi versus a Swindler.

All this said, the United States isn’t a democracy. It is a constitutional republic that uses the democratic means (e.g., voting) to ostensibly achieve its ends. Without the ability to Google things, I believe it was Winston Churchill who said something like, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for the others that have been tried.” Just as the constitutional republic was meant to be a “government that governs least,” because it was recognized that all government is evil and horrible (Yes, even the American government), democracy was never thought to be good, but was instead only the least terrible option available at the time. We shouldn’t be so enamored with our own supposed greatness that we lose perspective on how awful the system is.

Even with the much-touted “checks and balances” of the system, there has been created an invincible and virtually omnipotent administrative state, a government by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, and the supposedly powerful people, such as Senators and Presidents, are at best powerless figureheads who cannot effect change any more than a brave fool could use a paper fan to drive away a hurricane. Yet even the uselessness of the offices does not open them to the public at large; candidates are carefully screened and selected, only after after a lifetime of service and fervent loyalty to the system and the duopoly controlling it. Knowledge of this apparatus is so widespread that the most common response, when I secured the Republican nomination for sheriff of Cheshire County in New Hampshire in 2020, was, “How did this happen? Why didn’t the power structures that control candidate selection keep Aria out?”

When the average person praises democracy, they are expressing love and admiration for this nightmarish administrative leviathan that allows them to cast their vote, as equals to idiots, in a contest between a Nazi and a Swindler, when the outcome has no measurable impact anyway. To suggest that we only need “more informed” voters, better candidates, more transparency, or whatever other platitude one wants to toss out, is to suggest that we need only a better fan to divert the hurricane.