Remember when everyone who was anyone said the COVID-19 “vaccines” would prevent infection and spread? We needed them to return to normal, which – as it turns out meant making excuses for why they didn’t do that. And they have run out of excuses.

While the approved narrative on The Jab continues to include the words “prevents severe disease, hospitalization or death,” (another lie) outside forces continue to press the CDC to admit the error of their ways.  Any error in any way.

The agency’s response? Redefine what a vaccine is or does. Nothing. Vaccines don’t have to do anything to get EUA approval.

 

Vaccines don’t have to prevent infection or transmission to be cleared in the United States, the country’s top regulatory agency said in a new document.

“It is important to note that FDA’s authorization and licensure standards for vaccines do not require demonstration of the prevention of infection or transmission,” Dr. Peter Marks, a top official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said in the document.

 

Is this a bad time to point out that the CDC’s full and proper name is The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?

Is it, not a good time to remind everyone that Section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act only allows the issuing of an emergency use authorization if four criteria were met, one of which was that “There is no adequate, approved, and available alternative. Among other reasons, an alternative may be considered unavailable if there are insufficient supplies of the approved alternative to fully meet the emergent need or if the agent is or may become resistant to approved and available alternative products.”

If “vaccines” don’t need to prevent infection or transmission, neither the CDC nor the FDA can issue another EUA ever because there will always be innumerable alternatives that do nothing to prevent infection or transmission.

One ironic example; the Public Health Industrial Complex has insisted for years that neither Hydroxychloroquine nor Ivermectin is effective in preventing the transmission or spread of COVID. We know that’s not true but were COVID to start today, assuming their expert opinion was unchanged, they could not issue a legal EUA because we already have treatments that are ineffective against COVID so Section 564 prohibits emergency use authorization.

And then we have the more obvious problem. If flu vaccines don’t need to prevent infection or spread why does anyone need them, given that public health watchdogs already changed the definition of informed consent to lie, hide, obfuscate, redirect, and blamestorm?

The only things the CDC is trying to prevent are interruptions in kickback operations for green-lighting injections they reserve the power to mandate whose only benefit is kickbacks to “experts” working at the CDC.

 

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The GOP, by and large, refuses to accept that elections since 2016 are NOT a battle of ideas. They are trapped in the past … we will release “white paper” after “white paper” defending the free market! so-and-so has a new talk radio show where he can preach the free market to the choir each and every day! Etc., etc., etc..

The Communists aka the Democrats … unlike the GOP … are living in the real world. Consider the following:

I Have To Be Honest With You

Right now, Joe Biden is on his way to re-election. If Republicans plan to only vote on Election Day in 2024, we will lose — like when 30% of Maricopa County, AZ, polling locations had machine errors on one day.

My vote in the presidential primary…

— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) April 25, 2023

Everyone talking about these dorks being paid operatives.

1. You didn’t know that?

2. Why isn’t the GOP doing this? The is the stuff that moves culture. Moving culture is often cringe and lame. But it’s necessary. pic.twitter.com/KW67j7pkz1

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 29, 2023

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On Saturday, April 29th, we shared news about a local American Legion post that had scheduled a Drag Queen event on July 8th. As of this morning, two days later, that event and any future Drag shows the Sweeney Post leadership had planned have been canceled.

If you missed the original story, “The American Legion Henry J Sweeney Post #2 in Manchester, NH, has a surprise for Veterans and family members of all ages. They are the location for “the newest show in New Hampshire drag entertainment!”

Available for all ages.

I was contacted by at least one Veteran who is a member of Sweeney Post #2. We had an in-person chat not long after that, and he named a few names. Liberals in leadership whom he believed (probably) couldn’t help themselves. We’ll refrain from sharing names for the moment, but they know who they are, as do the Veterans who called them after we published the story.

Those Vets expressed their concern about the decision to host drag queen shows at their American Legion Henry J Sweeney Post #2 in Manchester, NH, and it seems to have made an impression. The original post went up at 8 am Saturday. By 8 am Monday, I was told they had backed off not just the July 8th show but any plans for additional Drag Queen events.

On the bright side, the “newest show in New Hampshire Drag Entertainment” title is up for grabs.

Surprise!

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In a post that dealt more with Musk’s talking about a Swedish story about Transgender transitioning doesn’t lower the risk of suicide and that child sexual-organ mutilation is wrong, there was this:

“[By the way], I regard cisgender as a slur,” he added.

I agree – wholeheartedly. I can deal with being called “straight” just fine but technically, I’m a heterosexual (and it’s binary relationship of male or female and not Heinz gazillions).  However, the LGBT lobby (as opposed to the gun lobby) has gone all out to make heterosexuality and heteronormative to be slurs. Oh DARE you ancients and conservatives reject our new words that set the stage that “trans” is the word of most importance (even as its percentage in the general population is <1%). How DARE you take away our ability to control the language in order to control our mindset.

So they couldn’t just leave us well enough alone and created “cisgender” and use it incessantly in order to drive it in our language patterns.

Like “assault weapon”, it is a made-up political term simply to forward a sexual-political agenda. They are calling us names.

Time to tell them, every time we see or hear it, “shove it”.

I’ve had enough of this nonsense and so should you. Otherwise, the Left (of which the LGBT Lobby) will continue to 1984 us right out of our Freedom. Orwell’s book made it clear that it could happen and the Left knows and is taking advantage of it.

 

(H/T: Breitbart Politics)

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United States Supreme Court Justice gave a remarkable interview to the Wall Street Journal. Among other things, he said that he “had a pretty good idea” who leaked the draft abortion-decision, but didn’t have the level of proof needed to name names. Clearly, he believes that the leaker was one or more of the “liberals”:

“It was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft . . . from becoming the decision of the court. And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.”

Alito also called out … as best a sitting Justice can … the Bar for not defending the Supreme Court from the obviously planned and coordinated attacks by the Left:

“We are being hammered daily and I think quite unfairly in a lot of instances. And nobody, practically nobody, is defending us. The idea has always been that judges are not supposed to respond to criticisms, but if the courts are being unfairly attacked, the organized bar will come to their defense,” Alito said, adding, “If anything, they’ve participated to some degree in these attacks.”

Bar organizations, at this point, are every bit as controlled by the Left as practically all our other institutions. The GOP needs to step into the breach to defend the last bastion of constitutional government … the United States Supreme Court (Biden is well on his way to packing the lower courts with the jurisprudential equivalent of Mao’s Red Guard).

Yet the GOP is AWOL on this issue as it is on the other issues that really matter … grooming, DEI, “gender affirming care” for children, the border. Instead, the Uni-Party-GOP is all about Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine and taxes, taxes, taxes.

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With certain markets expected to decline in 2023, many people are curious to know …

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Bolder and stupider, this guy gets. Yes, that gay guy that has made millions from endorsements (for “celebrating 365 of womanhood”) from corporations seeking to up their ESG (Equity, Social, Governance) score. 

All to mollify Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street as the LGBT Ruler known as the Human Rights Campaign and its CEI score (Nice corporation you got there – pity if we did something happened to it).

Yep, for having written the title of this post and the previous two sentences, that hollow-chested transvestite would have me arrested and put in jail for doing what the LGBT believes is a law already: misgendering.  Make no mistake, there are a lot of LBGT groups that wish it were so, and no small number of school districts to boot.

 

Dylan Mulvaney, a biological man who uses she/her pronouns, is making headlines once again for comments made in a TikTok video titled “Adult Bullies” from October 2022 as a launch for his “Days of Girlhood” podcast. The resurfaced clip, tweeted by Oli London and shared by Matt Walsh, has millions of views and features the activist expressing that “I feel like that should be illegal” to misgender him.

"I understand freedom of speech, but…"

Trans activist Dylan Mulvaney wants jail time for journalists who misgender him, and rails against "conservative news stations and transphobes" who post his videos. pic.twitter.com/MRkxEC4HkO

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 28, 2023

From RedState, Bonchie gets right to the heart of this. These people are mentally ill in believing that they are the centers of everyone else’s universe and what WE think, especially of folks like Mulvaney, should be kept to ourselves.  Yeah, that ain’t happening (reformatted, emphasis mine):

 

That’s not surprising because at the center of transgender ideology is the beating heart of authoritarianism. We are so far past the “we just want to be left alone” framing used during the gay marriage debate that it seems like an eternity ago. Transgender ideology is a completely different animal that demands absolute subservience and affirmation from everyone who interacts with it…the demand is that you must actively participate in promoting the lie that men can become women, women can become men, and that some have no gender at all. Never mind all the other nonsensical “genders” being claimed as reality.

 

And here is the blunderbuss of the truth of it all: 2+2 cannot equal 5, or 10, or -1,235.

 

The truth is, those calling Dylan Mulvaney a man are not “misgendering” him. They are gendering him based on an accurate reading of objective reality. Yet, we are quickly approaching the point where speaking the simple truth risks criminal liability. That’s already happening in places like the United Kingdom, and it’s just a matter of time before the scourge of criminalization reaches American shores.

 

Like I’ve said for a little while now: Trans-authoritarianism. And it’s clear that anyone that says anything against him, it is bullying:

 

“They believe that their bullying actually is the right thing to do, and I’m the one to blame when I’m just over here trying to live my best life.”

No, it’s opinion and we are all entitled to have such. And it’s predictable that the immediate response is to grab tight to victimhood. “Trying to live my best life” – I’m blameless in all this!  Why are you picking on me?

Where do I begin? Sorry, clueless one, but most of us have seen you as just another missionary in moving the Overton Window to the Left  one Bud Light at a time. Your movement, and make no mistake that you have become the WomanFace for it by your own hand, is telling us what we MUST do and what you are seeing is a rejection of it. Saying over and over again that you are a woman DOESN’T make you one. And yes, I’m a biologist.

Maybe “Chicks on the Right” are correct – he’s out of control. And the corporations funding him are enabling it:

Anyone else sick of him yet?  I mean, I have been sick of him since “Day 1 of girlhood,” or whatever the heck he called it.  Honestly, I didn’t even know who he was until like 2 seconds ago and now I can’t get his face out of my feed on socials.

If making money and getting all the endorsements off of pretending to be a teenage girl and making fun of women isn’t enough, he now wants it to be illegal for you to misgender him.  If Dylan was in charge, I would be arrested for this post.

Yeah, you can find me in the cell right next door. However, the more he yammers on, the longer his Streisand Effect will go on and not in the attention whoring manner he wants.

 

(H/T: Townhall, The Blaze, PJ Media, Hot Air)

 

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Time and again, we are told by the politically correct “experts” not to worry about Islam posing a threat to our way of life. We are repeatedly lectured that only a very small minority of Muslims are troublemakers who are giving the peaceful masses of Muslims a bad name.

We are also informed that the terrorists, who happened to be Muslims, are disaffected and young. And not to worry, since as the fire of youth turns to ashes of old age, the rebellious will mellow, as they always have.

With heavy assurances like this, coming from so many know-it-all authoritative figures, we can sleep soundly without the aid of sleeping pills. After all, people reason that these pundits are “experts” whose job is to know and tell it like it is. Those who voice contrary views must be a bunch of racists and alarmist hatemongers. Who is right?

Wouldn’t be more prudent to let the facts settle the matter rather than blindly accepting either position? Of course, it would, except for one huge problem. In the face of threats, people tend to go to the mind’s medicine cabinet and take a few denial and rationalization pills, in the same way that it is the aspirin bottle they turn to when a headache strikes. Why not? We are the Easy Species. We love effortless, quick, and simple solutions. And that’s not invariably bad. It has given us all kinds of labor and time-saving devices.

Yet, the Islam problem is very real and deadly. Neither the pronouncements of the experts nor the tranquilizing pills of the mind can make it go away. It is here, and it shows every sign of imposing itself on us. Let us look at some of the facts.

* Not every Muslim wears an explosive vest ready to detonate in the midst of a crowd of innocent civilians, yet there are more volunteers for the mission than there are explosive vests. The Islamic Republic of Iran, for instance, hasn’t even officially joined this form of jihad. Yet, by its own admission, it has over 10,000 volunteers trained and ready to be deployed and thousands more queuing to join in. This time around, the jihadists heading for Allah’s heaven might come fitted with nice little suitcases of dirty bombs instead of the bulky explosive vests. Recall that it took only 19 of these killers to launch the aerial mass murder of 9/11 that killed 3,000 people, shattered our open trusting way of life, and cost us billions of dollars.

* The jihadists are not confined to a minority of disaffected Muslim youth. How young are Bin Laden, his deputy doctor of death Al Zawahiri, Mullah Omar of the Taliban, Khamenei, and Rafsanjani of Iran, just to name a few? How disaffected are they? Muhammad Ata, leader of the 19 airborne thugs and the decapitator of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl was somewhat younger yet well-healed and Western-educated.

* Just coin some terms such as the “Melting Pot” or “Multiculturalism” and you have the problem solved? Roll out the red carpet for the immigrant Muslims, treat them as you would your own citizens, give them stipends, medical care, and free education, and they will integrate seamlessly into society. No such thing at all. The idea of a Melting Pot may work with people who come from different lands to make the new country their home. The Islamists, on the other hand, come with the belief that they already own the place and want to make it part of the Ummah. Some forty percent of second and third-generation Muslim Britons reject British democracy, express their allegiance to Islam, and want to live under Sharia. So much for the Melting Pot comfort pill.

* The new Islamist arrivals take advantage of the provisions of the most benign system known to humanity, democracy, to implode it from within. Muslims, by sheer numbers, will soon be in a position to vote out democracy in many countries. They are already doing that in bits and pieces. They are imposing many of their values in a number of societies, even while they are in the minority. Politicians, hungry for votes and devoted to the practice of political correctness, bend backward to accede to Islamists’ demands.

* As for Multiculturalism, it is even more of a delusion than the Melting Pot myth. It is a second-generation Comfort Pill. Since the Melting Pot proved to be worse than a placebo, the politically correct gave us the new pill. A glance at Europe shows how Multiculturalism in fact has served as the incubator of Islamism in no time at all. Europe’s Multiculturalism is rapidly birthing a Uniculturalism, if the Islamists’ medieval way of life can be dignified as a culture.

* Respect for diversity, separation of religion and state, and freedom of belief and expression, are pillars of democracy, yet anathema to Islam. In no Islamic land do you find an ecumenical organization? It is only in non-Islamic countries that the shameless duplicitous Muslim, be he an imam, a mullah, or a regular run-of-the-mill faithful of Allah, meekly participates in ecumenical feel-good gatherings.

* To Muslims, no other religion is deemed worthy of recognition, much less accommodation. There is no church, synagogue, or Buddhist temple in all of Saudi Arabia. They are barred. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s raft of genocidal pogroms includes the heinous practice of bulldozing even the cemeteries of its Baha’i religious minority. The Islamic tyranny of the mullahs imprisons Christian Iranians for celebrating Christmas. Egypt denies its own citizens’ identity cards for refusing to lie and fake their religious beliefs or disbelief. The ID cards are required for education, securing work, receiving medical care, and just about every right of citizenship. Without it, a citizen is literally subjected to a slow death.

* In Islam only Muslim men and, to a lesser extent, Muslim women are entitled to certain rights. All non-Muslims, including the so-called people of the book, namely Christians and Jews, are at best second-class subjects, subjects who must pay the back-breaking Jizya, poll tax, for their “sin” of not converting to Islam. So, as Islam makes its inroads in new lands, as its membership swells through explosive birth and conversion, secular democracies will be inevitably replaced by Islamism with its stone-age Sharia laws. The best offer that Islam will make is to spare the non-Muslim’s life if he puts on the heavy yoke of Jizya for the rest of his living days.

* Not to worry about the horrific things that are happening on the other side of the world? If Muslims act heinously toward non-Muslims, it is just how things are in those countries and are hardly any of our business. This is the same attitude that set the Islamization of Europe on a seemingly irreversible track. One European country after another is rapidly buckling under the weight of Islamism.

* Most importantly, not to worry about the Islamization of our country? After all, Muslims are about 6-7 million in a population of nearly 300 million, you reason? That even a smaller number of these Muslims are hothead radicals, while the majority is just like everyone else? But small minorities can overwhelm the majority by use of coercion and deadly force. Islamists are notorious for their dedication to the use of force for achieving their aims. The Taliban were a very small minority in Afghanistan, the Islamists were a tiny faction in the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran. Both overwhelmed the masses and imposed their reign of terror. The terrorist Hamas is also a “minority” in number, yet it rules the Palestinian Territory. Hezbollah of Lebanon is a minority, yet it has taken the country to the verge of destruction.

* Islamists are Islam’s locomotive that takes the wrecking-ball Islamic train on its demolition course. Islam and democracy are incompatible. As democracies practice their magnificent accommodating belief, they knowingly or unknowingly lay the track for the advancing wrecking train of Islam. We, in the United States of America, must resist Islam while it is still gathering momentum unless we wish to end up in the same fix as the Europeans.

* We, in the United States, further need to embark on a comprehensive legal, educational, and social campaign to eradicate the deadly plague of Islam. By effective action, we even save those peaceful Muslims from their own affliction. I am not hatemongering. I would love to see all Muslims become ex-Muslims and full-fledged members of a diverse tolerant democratic society. It is a statement of fact about what Islam is. Islam is a highly communicable pandemic-violent disease that demands urgent and serious containment.

Europe is already badly infected with Islamism. It is the coal miners’ canary. It is telling us that the next stop is America. We must act and act now. We must not sacrifice our cherished way of life and our children’s lives at the altar of political correctness: the incubator of Islamofascism.

 

Originally published in 2007

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To Vietnamese Americans, April is called “Black April Month” because millions of Vietnamese people have died due to the fall of Saigon since April 1975.  American troops withdrew in 1973 after the 1973 Paris Peace Accords were signed.

South Vietnam was on its own, while North communist Vietnam was backed militarily and financially by Chinese and Russian communists.

North Communist Vietnam took over South Vietnam by military force on April 30, 1975.  Hundred thousands of Vietnamese people fled the country, and millions of Vietnamese people both from North and South Vietnam died in the communist prisons as prisoners of war and while trying to cross borders by boat, on foot through jungles known as “boat people” as a general term.

Countless cases of people being robbed, raped and killed, and gone missing till this day, and their families have no closing. It is unimaginable for people to comprehend how horrible the persecution and life were for the people who used to serve in the South Vietnam government and all agencies, including professors, artists, and all of their families too.

My father was a combative Marine Captain who fought alongside American soldiers to defend the freedom and democracy of South Vietnam and was on duty in Saigon until the last moment of the Vietnam War.  He was imprisoned as a prisoner of war (POW) by the Việt Cộng (Vietnamese communist = VC) for seven years in a hard labor prison.  He never got to see his family for this whole time, and that is the classic case for the majority of us.

My dad survived the prison, and thanks to President Ronald Reagan, who signed the Special Release Reeducation Center Detainee Resettlement Program that allows these communist prison camp survivors and their families to come to America as political refugees.

As a tradition, Vietnamese Americans from all over the world always commemorate Black April Month to remember the sacrifice of Vietnamese and American fallen heroes who paid the ultimate price for our freedom and democracy. To mourn the sufferings and death of all prisoners of war who were tortured and killed by the Viet Cong. To mourn the death and share the pain of millions of innocent civilians who died on the way seeking freedom and democracy.

It is a very emotional month for most of our Vietnamese Americans.  A small group of Vietnamese Americans always shows up every year on April 30 at the Boston City Hall Plaza to commemorate the Fall of Saigon right at 12pm, even during the shutdown time due to China Virus.

Editors Note: By the time I got to this email the event was underway -we regret not having this posted in time for those who would have wanted to attend.

All freedom and democracy lovers are invited to join us, and for your information, we always salute the American flag and the South Vietnam flag, which is the yellow flag with three horizontal red stripes.  The Viet Cong flag is the red flag with a yellow star, and Vietnamese Americans despise the sight of it just as the Jews do the NAZI flag.

Thank you for caring and sharing the information!

Here are some photos (below) from the Trump rally on Thursday so you can see the American flag and South Vietnam flag on our banners, signs, and T-shirts.  I just designed it for our special Trump rally event that occurred in Black April Month.

There is a deep meaning behind this: the South Vietnam flag is a symbol of freedom and democracy for the Vietnamese people, and lost the country to the Vietnamese communists backed by China and Russia. If we, the American people, do not exercise our civic duties and take necessary actions, our American flag could be a symbol of the past freedom and democracy that Americans know once the American communists who are backed by China and the New World Order forces complete their take over from the inside out.  I cry just thinking about that possibility because I know what it is like to lose your country:  you will LOSE EVERYTHING.

 

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So NH-NeverTrump Journal is tweeting about the rainbow-bureaucracy sexualizing children in Hanover. We have a supposedly REPUBLICAN Governor and supposedly REPUBLICAN appointees running the State’s Department of Education and Attorney General’s office. And, apparently, NONE of them … not Sununu, not Edelblut, not Johnny-Woke Formella are doing anything about it.

I’m sure they would say …. our hands are tied, local control, local control, local control.  GASLIGHTING … if a school district were having children draw pictures of crosses instead of penises, Sununu would be screaming his outrage and Johnny-Woke would have already filed lawsuits.

I’m sure our NHGOP “leaders” would say they’re on it … Parental Bill of Rights! Parental Bill of Rights! Parental Bill of Rights! What LOSERS. The NHGOP controls the Department of Education and the Attorney General’s office … there is no reason to wait for the POSSIBLE passage of a Parental Bill of Rights to protect the children in Hanover.

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HB 408 would make it so that the families of foster children would not be mandated to be fully vaccinated to the ACIP schedule without exemptions (current requirement for fostering a child under the age of 6). The bill was supposed to be voted on in committee last week but was pushed off to this week.

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Government-run education, like everything else with that designation, wastes vast sums of money for negligible output. And cutting corners is a no-go if it means fewer union teachers, no matter what the cuts.

So, spending gets out of hand quickly and annually. If you dared ask for austerity on any front, the Left would say you wanted to end sports, chorus, band, or extracurricular activity. Given that the institution’s original purpose was to teach math, reading, and a bit of history, these are likely targets. Intangibles. But, “How dare you,” to borrow from not-so-muppet Greta Thunberg, take away the things that round out future generations.

And it works.

The budget is saved, as are the union jobs, as scholarly output continues to decline. But a School Director in Washington State has taken a different approach. It is looking to cut its budget, but one director has flipped the narrative. He has targeted a once-blessed music program for the cutting block because he says it could “inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and cause significant institutional violence.”

He does not mean violence by so-called under-represented minorities trapped in Democrat-Run cities rebelling at the advice of their progressive masters.

 

“We’re a school district that lives in … is entrenched in … is surrounded by white supremacy culture. And that’s a real thing,” Clifthorne told parents.

“There’s nothing about strings or wind instrumental music that is intrinsically white supremacist,” he said. “However, the ways in which it is and the ways in which all of our institutions, not just schools — local government, state government, churches or neighborhoods — inculcate and allow white supremacy culture to continue to be propagated and cause significant institutional violence are things that we have to think about carefully as a community.”

Put another way, when the mismanagement inherent in socialist systems becomes untenable, and you have no choice but to cut, label something as racist, and it would be racist to object to its excision.

 

“This is actually par for the course. The issue is we are having such a catastrophic budget crisis right now that they’re having to cut programs. And so what has happened is this program has been deemed ‘inequitable.’ And in a previous comment, the director of elementary education stated that not only is this program ‘inequitable,’ but when she heard the word ‘tradition of excellence,’ which was used to describe our music programs, she said that the word ‘tradition’ actually translated to her to mean systemic discrimination.”

 

Again, not new. With math and reading scores in decline, the solution from the ed experts is to label them as examples of discrimination or inequity. It is the high-minded white culture of European colonialists forced on students of color (for example). It has become the go-to excuse of those unable to do anything but waste other people’s money on the only thing they care about – indoctrination.

We see the example of this process in Democrat-Run cities crowded with minorities forced to do with less, surrounded by more crime, despite being shepherded for decades by Democrats committed to their welfare and safety.

Right is Left, Down is Up, forward is backward.

But don’t socialist societies need intellectually agile minds to do great things for the People’s Government? No worries. The children of wealthy or connected progressive party members continue to attend private schools, top-rated secondary schools, and institutions of higher learning. These elites of the future (the American aristocracy) will manage the dolts whose fate was decided by their forefathers to ensure a two-class communist society Democrat-socialism. Rulers and workers.

The children of elites learn math and how to read and write despite its white racist roots. They will participate in music and culture (regardless of the inequity and discrimination); travel in fuel-powered cars and jets and eat protein-rich meats (that are killing the planet); and accumulate and manage whatever is left of value even though being rich has always been the biggest sin of all.

Warm, housed, and protected by people with guns.

It is called Liberal Privilege, and as we descend Marx’s slippery slope, it will be invoked for everything we once had that only they can get. That is because the Middle Class the Left has long said it supports and protects is more white supremacy, and the truth behind the equity and inclusion movement will finally be realized. When they said we all deserved to be included and equal, they meant in misery, and they never meant to join us.

Fourth Graders losing out on music lessons might seem trivial, but it used to be a sacred cow. A few years along, and it’s systemic racism. Not because it is but because it needs to be. A label they will place on anything their system can no longer sustain, including transportation, clean water, electricity, clothing, and even food, EBT, affirmative action, and human rights.

The ruling apparatus and its infrastructure inevitably consume everything, and the government is the only thing worth saving.

 

HT | Daily Wire

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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”.  Please vet & check on your own.  Caveat emptor.  Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple.  IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.

Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday.

 

NOTE: This one is not as “full” as I’d like.  Work demands.

 

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Mental Exercise…5 years into another GREAT DEPRESSION…What to stock…What will we be wanting?

 

 

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Top of the fold:

The ONE REASON America Can Have Another Civil War – Flopping Aces

Some good points, but… I disagree that The Potato won’t fight.  He – well more precisely his puppeteers – won’t fight America’s actual enemies, but instead they WILL fight red-state Americans on terms that would, from here, “make Genghis Khan blush.”

 

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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:

The only thing I can think of in this last-minute dash to get this posted is this: I’ve found a couple dozen short pieces of steel rebar by the road and have been judiciously sprinkling them in the woods we own.

Have fun with the metal detector, Fedbois.

 

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Prepper Site URLS:

Most have daily articles; revisit daily.  Please recommend others in the comments.

Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news

Mother Earth News

The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper

SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.

SHTF Blog – Modern Survival

Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive

Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style

Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City

Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness

Gray Wolf survival

Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com)

And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:

TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS

The 50 Best Survival Blogs

Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News

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Specific, one-up articles:

DIY EMP-Proof Truck – Ask a Prepper

I need more money, dammit!

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Related to Spicy Time:

 

 

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SOUTH AFRICA AT WAR WITH ITSELF – Lay Of The Land

Spicy time, achieved.  Coming sooner than you think to America:

Murder rates jump another 10% in the biggest US cities since 2021: Memphis crowned homicide capital | Daily Mail Online

More:

The disturbing reality of America’s future (grayzoneactivity.com)

The unsettling reality is that America in the not-too-distant future is going to have a lot in common with partial-collapse societies of Eastern Europe and Latin America where gangs have more power and influence than the government; where politicians pass the laws but gangs enforce the rules.

This is the Gray Zone America you should be preparing for — not quite collapsed, but not quite standing.

Related:

What happens when enough people lose all trust in the cops and the system?

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Biden Provoking A Nuclear War With China And Russia (allnewspipeline.com)

My reply to this post on Gab:

What better way to hide the looming “died suddenly” tsunami (and birth dearth) than to mask it with a nuclear war? When radiation is flying, society has collapsed with smoldering cities, and plague, hunger, and death stalk the land… who will notice the death spirals and people who don’t wake up?

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The First Thing You Need To Do During Civil War – Ask a Prepper

When it happens, it’ll be slowly… and then all of a sudden.

 

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DENIAL will make YOU a VICTIM

 

 

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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that).  But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF.  The only relevant questions are:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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What Would Happen In A Nuclear Exchange? (My Assessment & Interactive Map)

 

 

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I have a FORAGING group on Gab.  I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.

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Foraging: One-up articles

Nothing this week.  Time!

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Foraging (permanent feature):

Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)

Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)

Southern Appalachian Herbs

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Books (permanent feature):

Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)

The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)

The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS

 

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Shortages (broadly):

JB Hunt: Trucking is in a ‘freight recession’ | Transport Dive

Volumes plummet.

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Bidenconomy: A Return To Pandemic Hunger Levels – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Get used to the idea of double-plus-un-plenty.

 

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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:

 

Let’s Mound The Potatoes Growing In A Cardboard Box

 

 

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Related:

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/136/477/993/original/f1d473eff2606d84.mp4

 

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Soaking chicken feed to cut costs, enhance biosecurity and ensure all birds get fed.

 

 

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Growing Beans Indoors – Can You Keep An Indoor Bean Plant (gardeningknowhow.com)

Beans, beans, the magical fruit

The more you eat the more you toot

And the more you toot, the more you help global warming!  Bonus!  (Occasionally I’ll let one rip with the wife around – accidentally – and then will beam and say “Just doing my part to help global warming”!)

From the same site:

GKH’s Complete Guide To Growing Vegetables (gardeningknowhow.com)

Plant Incompatibility – What Plants Should Not Be Planted Together (gardeningknowhow.com)

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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):

Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:

Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)

USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)

Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)

Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)

Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University

National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)

Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)

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Topical Books (also permanent):

Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing

Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

The Prepper’s Canning Guide

Pickled Pantry

Fermented Vegetables

Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round

Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…

The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics

 

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Self-defense (broad):

 

 

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The Left’s Claim that ‘More Guns Means More Deaths’ Not Proved by Statistics – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Data.  Like a cross to a vampire.

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Stand Your Ground Law: 5 Things Every Prepper Should Know – Ask a Prepper

Know your laws.  And get a lawyer’s number just in case.

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Shooter Kills 5 To Get Guns Banned, Dems Are Happy To Oblige (thefederalist.com)

Just how f*cked up in the head do you have to be to go out and murder people to justify a push for gun control?  From the same source:

No, Gun Violence Isn’t The Leading Cause Of Death Among Children

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Gabby Giffords says the quiet part out loud – Bearing Arms

No matter what they say… they want them all.

 

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Hunting & fishing:

Nothing this week.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

Pandemic Report: Has Ageism Become the New Eugenics? – Everything Zoomer

A society has two orientations, to wit either the Individual is supreme, or the Collective (State).  America is founded on the former.  That’s being pushed towards the latter.  Remember (worth reading in its own right):

However, a disease that specifically targets old and sick people is a useful tool for a socialist country that has a surfeit of old and sick people burdening the medical and welfare systems. We already know that countries such as England routinely deny treatment to the very old or the very sick. They do this because they’re no longer contributing to the system. For that reason, they’re viewed as deadweight, and not worth saving.

Remember, in socialist societies, an individual’s worth is measured, not by being a unique person made in the image of God, but by that person’s utility to the state. If you’re no longer useful and, worse, if are an economic drain on society, you’ve got to go.

And more on this:

Pandemic Report: Has Ageism Become the New Eugenics? – Everything Zoomer

The Journal itself recently published a guide to rationing health care during COVID-19, and age factors into it. While the paper recommends ventilators should go first to those most likely to survive – regardless of age – it notes the decision should be based not just on saving a life but saving “the most life years,” meaning younger people with a longer life expectancy would have an advantage.

It’s society that matters, not the individual, to these people:

Dyck sees no malicious intent behind the agonizing triage decisions that loom, only that eugenic-like arguments are at work in deciding who is most valuable to society.

It was Ezekiel Emanuel who talked about only those productive being worth saving – the very young still need years of education and care are not, nor are the very old are on their way out anyway.

Life unworthy of life.  Somehow it sounds better in the original German.

 

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Delta Airlines recently introduced a special half-fare rate for wives accompanying their husbands on business trips.

Anticipating some valuable testimonials, the publicity department of the airline sent out letters to all the wives of businessmen who had used the special rates, asking how they enjoyed their trip.

Responses are still pouring in asking, “What trip?”

 

Followed, no doubt, by a boom in divorce attorney business.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

It took me a minute, but OMG.

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What did the fish say when it swam into a wall?

Dam.

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What do you call an apology written in dots and dashes?

Re-morse code.

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What happened when the clam went to the gym?

He pulled a mussel.

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If you’re American when you go into the bathroom and American when you come out of the bathroom, what are you when you are in the bathroom?

European.

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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They want you to believe that 2016 was not an inflection point. That everything is as it always was. That Fox News is on your side. That the politician with an R is good and the one with the D is bad … yeah! yeah! go team go!

Lie after lie after lie after lie. America is a corrupt Police-State. All of the major media are regime-mouthpieces. The election in 2024 will be rigged every bit as much … if not worse … than the 2020 election. And Establishment-mouthpieces like Mikey Graham will keep shilling and gaslighting … no evidence! no evidence! anti-vaxxer! election-denier, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Nothing to see here. Just ABC censoring a Presidential candidate. That’s just the American way … the post-2016 America, that is. Can’t risk another 2016 …. that would be too, too, too, … “undemocratic”.

NEW – ABC News Censors Robert F. Kennedy Jr During His Primetime Interview, Citing 'False Claims' About Vaccines

"During our conversation Kennedy made false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines…We've used our editorial judgement and not included extended portions of that… pic.twitter.com/6cxCZV8QBk

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 28, 2023

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 1 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 10 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 3 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Of Interest	HB1	making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2024 and June 30, 2025.	Finance	Tue 5/2	6:00 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	No analysis needed.
Of Interest	HB2	relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.	Finance	Tue 5/2	6:00 PM	SH Room Reps Hall	See bill at state website.
Of Interest	HB269	relative to limiting the authority of New Hampshire delegates to policymaking conventions.	Rules and Enrolled Bills	Tue 5/2	9:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill: I. Establishes a procedure for the selection of delegates to an inter/intrastate policy-making convention. II. Limits the authority of delegates to policymaking conventions to only those granted by the New Hampshire legislature. III. Creates a procedure for recalling and replacing delegates to policymaking conventions who act outside of the scope of the authority granted to them by the New Hampshire legislature.

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Fox canceled Tucker Carlson’s show without notice. Since then, things have been looking good for Tucker – though, last I checked, he was still under contract with Fox News. As for Fox News, things are not as chipper over there in the wake of that change.

And Newsmax would like you to know about that.

 

After Tucker Carlson’s departure this week from Fox News, Fox’s ratings have tanked.

In fact, Fox’s ratings in the key 8pm ET hour have fallen by 59% as of this past Wednesday, according to Nielsen.

Meanwhile, Newsmax’s ratings are way up.

Please take a look at the massive increases below, with our 8pm slot with “Eric Bolling The Balance” up 261%!

Newsmax is on the rise, on TV,  on digital, on emails – everything.

 

 

 

As you may know, I have not watched TV news for years. Most of it is nonsense pretending to be entertainment, and for as long as “news” is a revenue stream first and something pretending to be accountability much further down the list, I’m not interested in the product, even when it attempts to be something else first.

Sharing clips to bracket a story on these pages is about as close as I got to watching even Tucker, so no, I’m not watching Newsmax or trying to promote their product. But this is not the first time Newsmax has benefitted from major media stumbles.

As for Tucker, his future is not in doubt. Wherever he goes, much of his audience will follow, assuming he can negotiate his way out of his contract with Fox News. Until then, his hands are tied, and that appears to be the point of this exercise. Keep him sidelined in the run-up to the 2024 Elections.

 



 

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December 2022 was my 45th anniversary since I made it to this blessed land, America. A land that I fell in love with.  Like many of my fellow Iranian compatriots, I never imagined extending my stay in the US beyond four years at the university. Let me remind you that Iranians are not beggars. We don’t ask for charity.

We are extremely proud people. Most of us never expect anything from the host country or demand any special privileges. Most of us have assimilated nicely. A major reason for the Iranian assimilation and success in the U.S. is the U.S. itself which provides an ambiance conducive to self-advancement, be it in science, business, or any other field of endeavor. Another reason is that Iranians inherently share and cherish the same values that America’s founding fathers enshrined in this nation’s charter of life.

Although the Islamic Revolution forced the removal of the Shah of Iran and the war with Iraq was imposed on our motherland, I was still determined to go back home. What deterred me from returning was my family.

Mother kept telling me that this is not the same Iran you left. This is a different Iran. She also warned me if I went back, the Islamic regime would immediately recruit me and send me to the front lines – the same war zone that took the lives of many of my high school friends. It was a terrifying feeling. The adrenalin was rushing through my veins, and fighting an enemy was all I could think of. I said, Mom, my friends lost their lives to defend their country. I find it my duty to come home and do the same. Please say no more. To no avail, she kept begging me not to come back and wait until the war ended. She continued Khomeini’s regime doesn’t care about Iran or the lives of Iranians. In fact, he despises Iran. She convinced me that I could do more for Iran in a free US than in a war zone where I would most likely not survive. I listened to her motherly advice and stayed while continuing with my higher education.

Fast Forward

Forty-four years have passed, and the Islamic Republic is still doing what it did forty-four years ago. Iran has been under the rule of Islam since 1979. The Iranian people have attempted numerous times to end the rule of the backward Islamic regime, but each time they were faced with the ruthless regime’s apparatus, and many of them were slaughtered while the world watched and did nothing.

In four decades of its existence, the Islamic Republic has managed, notably, to produce more hunger, anger, frustration, prostitution at a record pace, drug addiction beyond control, child executions without any regard for international human rights, and much more. There are many reports regarding cases of child sexual abuse and molestation reaching epidemic proportions.

Prosecution and imprisonment of the innocent and the systematic and illegal abuse of detainees, and hundreds of gruesome acts of torture and rape in the prisons have skyrocketed. Meanwhile, the United Nations did not even blink while European countries continued to expand their businesses with the Islamic regime.

On Sep 16, 2022, Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish girl, was taken into custody and killed by “morality” police for her “unacceptable” hijab.”  This was a spark that led to massive nationwide protests across Iran. Iran’s protests may well be the first time in history that women have been both the spark and engine for an attempted counter-revolution.  Anne O’Donnell, a Russia historian at New York University, said: Iran’s protests have been unique because, she said, “this is not just an upheaval involving women, it is an upheaval about women and women’s freedom, and that makes it very special.”

Although Mahsa Amini’s death sparked massive and widespread protests, these protests did not transpire spontaneously. They are a symptom of deep-seated and festering dissent. The list of grievances is sorely long.

The current movement – led and inspired by women – has united Iranians across generations in what is shaping up to be the biggest threat the regime has faced to date. As for the international community, it is now a crucially important time to show support to the brave Iranian protesters. Simultaneously, they need to recognize and support Prince Reza Pahlavi as the only alternative who is able to secure the people’s confidence to establish calm and peace during the transition.

Support for Pahlavi isn’t limited to Iranians living abroad. Videos published on social media show Iranians in cities, such as Tehran and Izeh in southwestern Iran, shouting slogans like “Pahlavi, you are our representative” and “Pahlavi is our choice, the leader of our revolution.”

The brave Iranian women not stopping, nor will they any time soon. They are taking to the streets to cut their hair and burn their hijabs, indicating to the Islamic government that they will not stand for this totalitarian regime anymore. Mullahs must pack and leave. It is a do-or-die scenario. Nothing less than a subversion of this regime and recapture of Iran will stop these warriors.

 

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Steve Bannon thinks Kari Lake would make a great Vice Presidential Candidate, and he’s right. She’d be a blast on a national campaign, but the battle for Arizona continues as are musing she’d be up for a run at the US Senate. Given that possibility, Bannon brought up another idea.

 

Bannon noted that during his Q&A he said, “Somebody asked about Robert F. Kennedy and the great speech at Hillsdale, his opening speech, and what did I think about his prospects.”

And I said, “Look, I’m a Kari Lake person, but if Kari Lake becomes governor, as she should if this court case, or if not, she runs for the Senate. If she’s not available to be Trump’s VP that Bobby Kennedy would be, I think, be an excellent choice for President Trump to consider. There was a standing ovation and this was a very hardcore MAGA war room posse crowd,” Bannon explained.

 

Given the political divide, whoever wins the Republican nomination needs a massive lead that even the Democrats won’t have time to find enough ballots. Stop scoffing, they’ve been doing that for a lot longer than a few years, and given the challenge, you need more moderate Dems to vote for the GOP ticket. You could get some mileage out of a Tulsi Gabbard, but she left The Left, at least on paper. Kennedy is a Democrat, and while his stance on the Public Health Industrial Complex is anathem to progs, he’d bring his concerns to a national audience and…attract Democrats.

That’s not to say any GOP ticket wouldn’t. In 2020 Trump was sweeping them up at the polls, just not after hours. No one was blocking out windows, lying about the plumbing, or pulling suitcases full of “ballots” out from under tables for Trump. That’s going to happen again. You’ll need a strategy. And I get that Trump wants the GOP to ballot harvest everywhere it’s legal. Do unto the Dems as they do unto you. But it’s sketchy, and you have to plan for them to be better at it. So does Trump-Kennedy or DeSantis-Kennedy get it done?

We thought so. Four weeks ago, we shared an Op-Ed that suggested precisely that.

 

I’ve read recently that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed an interest in running for President.

In my opinion, you should reach out to him and engage him as your Vice Presidential running mate, make it public, and let James O’Keefe make the announcement.

This will explode a lot of heads and invigorate your base and instantly pull in the democrats that don’t like how far left Biden has taken their party and destroyed the country. These folks are in shock, and Kennedy will bring them to MAGA.

 

Is it a good idea, bad idea, or great idea, and not just because one of our readers thought of it or Steve Bannon suggested it? Kennedy has come around a bit, but he is still a Democrat. And he would be one heartbeat away, as they say. And before you answer, check out these clips from his Hillsdale speech, if you’ve not seen them or it.

Is he still a no?

 

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This week's (April 26) show topics included:

Tucker Carlson leaving Fox—how big a story is it? Was it because of his stance on the Ukraine war, the J6 story, Schumer’s call for his firing, his general dissidence? Will Tucker be bound by any non-disclosure or non-compete agreement?

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The Democrats hate him with a passion that is an order magnitude hotter than the surface of the Sun. They hated him when Joe Biden chaired the US Senate Judiciary Committee at the time and the heat has never stopped.

Now US Senator Angus King (I-ME but caucuses with Democrats) and Lisa Murkowski (Extreme RINO – AK) decided on an attempt to keep the political attacks going with a bill demanding that the Supreme Court institute a Code of Ethics:

Two U.S. senators will introduce a bipartisan bill on Wednesday requiring the Supreme Court to create a code of conduct for its justices following recent media questions concerning the full disclosure of some financial activities, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The bill being introduced by Angus King and Lisa Murkowski, called the Supreme Court Code of Conduct Act, would require the court to name an official in charge of reviewing any possible violations of the code or federal laws by Supreme Court justices, the newspaper said.

And as always, I have thoughts:



And WHERE does the US Senate have the Constitution Power to do this to a co-equal Branch of Government?  Nowhere!  Only in Article 1, Section 8:

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

meaning lower level court systems (appellate, circuit, district) and, of course, approve Presidential nominations to SCOTUS. However, there is nothing in the US Constitution itself that grants the Congress the Power to determine anything else concerning SCOTUS. However, with the Federal Judiciary Act (1789), Congress gave itself the Power to regulate, among other things, the number of Justices that would sit on the Court. However, there is nothing in that Act, nor in the 1866, 1869 ones changing the number of Justices, that gives Congress the ability to enforce a Code of Ethics.

As I have written before, been there, done that when then Town Administrator Evans Juris and Financial Director Debra Shackett tried to put a Code of Ethics in place that ALL elected Budget Committee would be forced to sign – it’s purpose was to shut me up as I aired the town’s dirty laundry which the CoE was meant to shut me up.  While I now know that they didn’t have the Power to do so, that effort was shut down when I discovered that, contra to their self-promotion of all their hard work on it, they had plagiarized it from the City of Sunnyvale, CA. That effort then disappeared in a heartbeat.

This effort by by King and Murkowski is no different in that it isn’t about “better government”, it is a Democrat political cudgel meant to further destroy Thomas.

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