What happens when PROGRESSIVE Socialist Government refuses to “stay in its own lane” and destroys and absorbs its functions after decades of effort? We become its target.

Emphasis mine:

One seldom finds a clear definition of the political. . . The equation state = politics becomes erroneous and deceptive at exactly the moment when state and society penetrate each other. What had been up to that point affairs of state become thereby social matters, and, vice versa, what had been purely social matters become affairs of state—as must necessarily occur in a democratically organized unit. Heretofore ostensibly neutral domains—religion, culture, education, the economy—then cease to be neutral in the sense that they do not pertain to state and to politics.

As a polemical concept against such neutralizations and depoliticalizations of important domains appears the total state, which potentially embraces every domain. This results in the identity of state and society. In such a state, therefore, everything is at least potentially political, and in referring to the state it is no longer possible to assert for it a specifically political characteristic. . . The state’s form thus becomes increasingly questionable and its radius of power ever broader. – Carl Schmitt (The Concept of the Political)

Steven Hayward at Powerline adds this:

…his description of the absorption of more and more social (by which we’d understand as largely private) domains sounds an awful lot like progressive government in the U.S. today.

Like I said, our government has all but eliminated Civil Society where we set our own norms and traditions. What we have seen, however, that that Power hungry lawmakers and bureacrats have been predisposed to continue their march well beyond anything wildly foreseen by our Founders and have co-opted almost everything and making everything political.

EVERYTHING. Go ahead, name me one thing that is no longer political or into which Government has stayed out of.

I dare you even to try.

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The public ed industrial complex, in cahoots with the Gender transitionists, is recruiting an army of mentally unstable people, some of whom are taking a false “they hate you” narrative and using it to commit suicide by cop after shooting up schools and churches.

Planned or executed, the number of these incidents will rise, and that’s the point. Chaos is the vehicle to control, beginning and ending with gun control. The progressive’s paradisical utopian police state cannot rise until they get the guns. What better way than to destabilize American youth with unnecessary drugs or surgery in parallel with the endless message of division?

Does anyone want to ask why those in power who insist transgenders are reviled would go out of their way to make you one of them? Hey, a majority of people hate these people, and we think you should be one of them. But being mentally unstable, on drugs that might kill you, and enduring surgeries you can’t reverse will make you feel better about yourself.

And when it doesn’t, maybe you acquire some firearms and exact your revenge. We’ll use your death to take guns from law-abiding citizens.

So yeah, there is a public health connection. The Dems and Progs and Libs (Oh, My!) may be farming a generation of potential mass shooters and using it to grab your guns. Look, a public health crisis! The cure for that is to stop transing kids and filling their heads with hate. But you can’t get the guns that way, and no one who matters makes any money on the ride.

There are, of course, serious problems with the “mass shootings are a public health emergency” narrative. They are the same problems found in the cloudy gray areas defined as hate speech. The right to keep and bear arms and freedom of speech, the press, and association (as well as religion) are protected constitutional rights. There’s no right to transing kiddies nor any provision for abrogating rights based on the perception of a public health crisis.

Yes, the response to COVID demonstrated to our self-proclaimed betters that many of us would willingly accept their boot on our neck if they jacked the fear up high enough. And while things appear normal these days with folks abandoning – with few exceptions – the so-called necessary precautions, I’m not convinced the majority would not leap down that same rabbit hole if prompted.

The American Middle-Class is still content to leave things alone under the pretense that they are being left alone. Not enough of them have been activated by the actions of their government and its army of bureaucrats to abandon the safety of anonymity. They may feel concerned but not in a measure meaningful enough to get them off the rhetorical couch. It is an itch they can reach but won’t scratch.

Maybe a judge will scratch it for them, and they can keep turning a blind eye to the deteriorating mansion of what was once American greatness. What they fail to realize is that the political left will never leave them alone. It will never stop milking them of their livelihoods, robbing them of their future, or depriving them of individual rights. The progressive movement is James Cameron’s Terminator.

Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, …”

It is a notion understood by the founders and eloquently echoed by President Ronald Reagan.

 

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Freedom is rarer and more precious than life. It is also that thing that keeps Democrat Socialists from achieving the sort of government for which they pine. One that begins when they get the guns. You can’t have a modern tyranny without guns, but neither can you have freedom. Both are messy, but the latter has a thriving middle class that can choose to be more while the latter does not.

If you want to be left alone, regardless of what the gun grabbers say or how you feel about firearms, you have to fight for the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.

And if this helps, there is no mental health crisis worse than an entire nation shackled to the will of a one-party state.

 

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While WOKE employees are busy destroying companies and their products, there are so many ways that we could be celebrating the accomplishments of women in America. Has anyone heard of Tamia Potter?

Tamia Potter just made history as Vanderbilt’s first-ever black woman neurosurgeon resident in 148 years. Bravo to you, Dr. Potter. Job well done.

 

How about Dejah Woods? Dejah Woods is a 24-year-old from DeLand, Florida, and made history as the first black female firefighter in her city. Congratulations Dejah!!

Nationwide, women make up only 4 percent of all career firefighters, and Black people only 8 percent of all firefighters.

“If I can be that person so that little girls know that there is a possibility that you could be wearing this suit too, that is definitely something I want to do,” Woods said.

 

These young women represent hard work and real accomplishments. Had the marketing department at Anheuser-Busch chosen either one of these women instead of the biological male Dylan Mulvaney, this marketing disaster would never have happened.

Lesson learned hopefully by all corporate executives, NEVER EVER EVER hire woke employees.

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow.  Also don’t forget both complementary parts of my Survival Sunday feature: PREP edition and SITREP edition.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

There is, apparently, a NH Beef Producers Association.  Give them some feedback about the possibility of mRNA in our NH cows.  Be firm, but polite.

Contact 1 — NHBPA

Or

infonhbpa@gmail.com

85 Palmer Road
Francestown, NH 03043

 

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It’s no secret that I’m Jewish – duh, read my profile – and make a “spirited attempt” to keep kosher.  But I live in a non-Jewish country and it is absolutely not my place to insist, when going out to a restaurant, that they call up a Rabbi to supervise as the entire place is scrubbed and blessed.  I’d like to buy kosher meats, and while some few stores do carry a bit of a selection, that’s not really a thing, at least not where I live.  (For the Jews reading here, there’s KOLFOODS; I’m concerned about mRNA in my beef so I only buy organic, kosher or not.)

The majority in this country is, and has been, Christian.  Many things that go on in my world are on Saturday – my holy day.  It is not my place to insist that they be rescheduled to accommodate my beliefs.  I adjust to the fact that my beliefs are not in the mainstream.

Hijra – Islamic conquest by migration – is very real.

You searched for hijra – Political Islam

I recall a video – wish I’d saved it – of an Imam preaching in Europe about how Europe would be theirs someday.  Right on cue, every parent that had an infant or small child held that child up.  They know.

 

WARNING: Muslim Scholar Says We Will Conquer and Enslave you in 40-50 Years

 

 

These are people that think and plan in terms of generations upon generations.  Also, from here:

“One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere to go to the northern hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give the victory”.

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Muslim-Demographics_360p.mp4

 

 

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Another troubling report and why our country is dying…The collapse is speeding up…Hang on.

 

 

Bumpy times coming.  And it’s by design.

 

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A few years ago, waaaay early in Trump’s tenure, I got into it with a lib on LinkedIn who said that Newsom was being groomed for a run even then.  Prediction seems to be confirmed.  Look for his record, as above, to be increasingly “spun” by the enemedia.

 

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Xaviaer DuRousseau: How I Accidentally Red-Pilled Myself

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Am I saying that every Ukrainian soldier is like this?  No.  Am I saying I applaud the use of force by Putin?  No.  But… to those who flat-out deny that there are actual Nazis in the Ukraine, all I can say is…

 

AWKWARD!!!

 

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The Safety Cult

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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“If you sometimes wonder how a party whose ideas are so awful can remain electorally competitive, this helps answer the question:” And at the same time, keep in mind the phrase “Democrats are the Party of Government” in that:

• Democrats love Bigger Government and the further removed from voters, the better (e.g., forget local and State politics – move everything to the Federal level)
• Democrats ARE the Party IN Government or in an NGO / PAC / Social organization / Media – and that revolving door among them all but all centered on “being” Government to force the rest of us to bend to their will.

Powerline has a Twitter thread by Bill Glahn that can be summarized thusly: “we’re amateurs and the Dems are full-time pros. We play and they play for keeps.” The difference isn’t just the money and the staffing but the INTENSITY, especially here in NH.  For example, the NH GOP announces its staffing levels and we all know that if it wasn’t for the RNC, staffing would be nil. Doubt me? They can hardly have a staff during the out years.  Meanwhile, there’s Ray Buckley touting staffing levels an order magnitude (if not more) all the time.

But read it here:

There are Republican Billionaires and multi-millionaires. It just seems that they aren’t all that willing to play the game.  Do I have any specific remedies?

Not really except to add one observation. It’s called an organization.

Not that I know all that many rich people – and I’m not part of that club to begin with. But it is clear that a lot of the Democrat dark money is funneled through a bunch of organizations that contact these folks and act as a funnel to “gift out” that money for Progressive / Leftists political groups – layers upon levels upon layers…you get the idea. Discover The Networks is one organization on the Right that attempts to watch them. Capital Research Center is another kind of tracker that concentrates on money flows.

Other than the Koch Brothers (now just a single brother now that David pased away in 2019), I am not familiar with any others (not that I’ve actually looked for any). However, the Left’s model should be looked at, evaluated, and see if that model could be adapted for the Right. It’s called “Playing for Keeps”.

I’ve often said that Republicans only play using the Marquis of Queensbury boxing rules while the Left does Mixed Martial Arts. It’s a difference between too many rules, being too gentlemanly, and going for the win. It’s the difference between “losing gracefully” and “refusing to lose at all”.

And that’s what Glahn is trying to say: like it or not, until we realize how the playing field has changed, and then REALLY adapt to it, we’re toast.  It’s part of the reason we’re losing here in NH – the old tactics are working.  Thinking that something is smart that actually plays into their domain AND THEN TRYING TO PUT THEIR PLAN INTO ACTION FOR THEM. Which is to make it easier to sign up voters for them. Like this: (reformatted, emphasis mine):

House Election Laws Committee Chairman Ross Berry, R-Merrimack, proposed Tuesday to graft this proposal onto a Senate-passed bill (SB 70) to create a voter information portal that would permit citizens online to more easily register to vote, update their information or request absentee ballots.

The state Senate earlier killed separate legislation (SB 73) to permit the use of Help America Vote Act (HAVA) money for voting machines while Berry’s House committee decided to retain its own legislation on the topic (HB 447) until early in 2024.

Berry said he was hoping his gambit could permit both these ideas to become a reality.

“We know our colleagues on the other side of the wall really love the portal,” Berry said. “Let’s marry the two and have our cake and eat it too; that’s what the bill does.”

Except it isn’t your cake that will be eaten. Or, eaten a way that you haven’t wargamed out. They are salivating over eating your seed corn.

Is signing up to vote in your place of domicile all that difficult?  No, it’s rather easy regardless of the screaming of the Democrats “VOTER SUPPRESSION”.  Trust me, especially here in NH, if you want to vote, it’s not hard to register.  In person. With documentation. If someone can’t take 30 minutes to live up to their civic responsibility ONCE while they are in a given place, why should we give into their laziness?

So why is Berry looking to help them (and why is Senator Grey in on this, too)?

Slippery Slope – let’s just ALL vote online NOW?  What could POSSIBLY go wrong…

 

 

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Dylan Mulvaney may have been excited to share the news about the deal with Bid Light, but the brand has had a little hiccup. Anheuser Bush Market Cap has declined about 3%, which doesn’t sound like much until you realize that equals 4 billion dollars.

 

On March 31, Anheuser Busch had a $132.38 billion market cap

As of today, it’s now $128.4 billion

You know what that means?

The Woke Bud Light campaign has already shaved off nearly **$4 BILLION** in company value

Don’t let Dems lie to you – Conservative Boycotts WORK pic.twitter.com/xLGbs6F1MV

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 10, 2023

Now 4 billion is next to nothing for a company that size, and no one is ringing alarm bells or battening hatches. But the stock price had been on a six-month rise, up over 40%.

Since the end of March, BUD has declined a wee bit.

 

 

It might all be a coincidence. In Dec of 2016, BUD peaked at 131.40 per share. I didn’t check to see if they did a stock split, but it hasn’t gotten anywhere near there since, but before the beginning of April, it had been rising for six months straight.

 

 

In other words, much like the climate, there are many moving pieces. It’s much too early to tell if BUD will “go broke after going woke.” And by broke, we mean paying a meaningful price for the virtue signal like Gillette. They lost 8 billion before someone at P&G picked up the phone and said, no mas!

As for BUD, one Twitter reply said they’d need to lose 100 billion in Market Cap before anyone blinked, but that’s ridiculous. No one bats an eye until you’ve lost 75% of its value; what businesses did you run?

I guess the question is this, and I will leave it to you to debate. How black of an eye is required before, if ever, the #wokefolks at Anheuser Busch discover that the people who pay for the fuel in the private jets on twelve-pack at a time are not interested in the transgender agenda?

 

 

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If you’re an adult (and I’m saying that loosely in some cases) and you want to mutilate your body in some fashion, be my guest. Just don’t make me pay for it or be on bended knee “affirming” delusions that these modifications make you look or feel better.

And yes, I’m talking primarily about gender dysphoria, where a tiny fraction of our population believes they can be something that they can never be but go all Trans-Authoritarian on the rest of us by demanding that we treat them in ways THEY tell us to do and that we can only use certain words in referring to them.

And the good Lord above help them when we call “gender-affirming surgery” for what it really is – sexual mutilation of perfectly good organs.  And it is sexual mutilation upon children who have no idea of what they want and can’t consent to anything pushed upon them by ideological misfits or parents that refuse to BE parents and do the right things by their children (no, you’re too young to do that – wait 20 years and see if you still think that’s such a great idea). And God help those little children when witless certain parents have no idea of what is “good” for their children in the first place.

Imagine the parents that condoned this simply because little Johnny knew better than they did what was best for him for the rest of his life…?

Our country has lost its mind and morality due to the chaos that has been shoved down our throats and demanding it is filet mignon. While the above is a bit of satire (barely, given the atmosphere going on in Public Schools), would DCYF sanction this, as well as breast removal and genital mutilation, because of transgenderism?

At this point, I can’t say that they could if the reasoning was for “mental health issues of the child” by a child that can’t understand or comprehend what the ramifications of making such a decision would cost him or her.

Yet, schools do with transgenderism all the time. How much further, given we’ve developed into a “Slippery Slide / Anything Goes” culture, would schools be willing to generalize transgenderism? After all, some schools are fine with kids being furries, right?

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Trading binary options can be a great way to earn in the stock market, but like any other form of investing, it is important to stay up-to-date with market trends. Knowing which stocks are going up or down and when is key to successful trading. Here are some tips for trend spotting in binary options trading to help you identify and ride market trends to become a pro trader.

Analyze market trends

Analyzing market trends is essential for success when it comes to binary options trading. To identify and ride market trends, traders must first understand the basics of technical analysis. Technical analysis involves studying past price movements to predict future price movements. This can be done by looking at charts and indicators such as moving averages, support and resistance levels, trend lines, and other chart patterns. Once a trader has identified a potential market trend, they should look for confirmation signals that the trend is likely to continue. These signals could include an increase in volume or a break of a critical support or resistance level. Once these signals are present, traders can enter into trades with confidence that the trend will continue in their favor. It’s important to remember that no matter how strong a trend may appear, there is always the possibility of it reversing direction at any time, so traders should always use risk management techniques when entering into trades based on market trends.

Use technical analysis tools

The technical analysis is the process of analyzing an asset’s price movements over time, utilizing charts and indicators to spot patterns that could be employed to predict future price movements. By comprehending how prices fluctuate, traders can make informed decisions about when to enter or exit a trade. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator is one of the most commonly used technical analysis tools. This indicator employs two Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) to measure momentum and detect potential trend reversals. The MACD line is calculated by subtracting the 26-day EMA from the 12-day EMA, while the signal line is calculated by taking a 9-day EMA of the MACD line. When these two lines intersect, it indicates a possible change in trend direction. Other popular technical analysis tools include support and resistance levels, Fibonacci retracements, Bollinger bands, and candlestick patterns.

Set stop losses

Stop losses are predetermined points at which you will exit a trade if it moves against your position. By setting stop losses, you can ensure that your potential losses will be limited no matter what happens in the market. Setting stop loss points can be done manually or automatically, depending on your trading platform. When setting manual stops, traders should consider factors such as volatility levels and recent price movements to determine where their stop loss point should be set. Automated stops allow traders to set predetermined levels at which they will exit a trade if the market reaches them without having to monitor their positions themselves constantly. No matter how they are set up, stop-loss orders are an essential tool for managing risk in binary options trading and should always be used when entering trades.

 

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Leaked intelligence documents show that pretty much everything the UniParty and the Regime-Media have been telling us about the war in Ukraine are LIES. From John Davidson at the Federalist:

… the war has not been an unbroken chain of brilliant underdog battlefield victories for Ukraine and crushing Russian defeats, as the corporate media and the Washington political establishment have led us to believe. It rather seems like chaotic and indecisive butchery on both sides, with weapons and cash pouring in not just from the U.S. but from all over the world to sustain a large-scale war of attrition with no end in sight.

And the only reason that a stalemate has been achieved is that the UniParty has poured a staggering $80 billion into Ukraine. To  give you an idea of the order of magnitude, aid to Israel was only $3.3 billion in 2020.

And what has the UniParty achieved? The needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians (the West prevented a negotiated settlement from being reached after Russia invaded) …  … an anti-American coalition of nations led by China … the depletion of our weapons stockpiles … and more national debt.

The warmongers in both Parties should be ashamed.

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Stumbling, stuttering, mumblin’ Joe did his supporters proud the other day when he attempted to say the word young as part of a complete sentence, with the understanding that a complete sentence for Joe is not exactly the same as for you or me.

 

WATCH: President Biden delivers remarks in Ireland.

It appears our incredibly eloquent President had a teleprompter malfunction… pic.twitter.com/nVoXcTGNKg

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 12, 2023

The leader of the free world – who hates the free world, showering glory on the photocopiers that elected him – by repeating himself. Talk about a subtle shout-out. Th-Th-Th – that’s not all, folks? When Biden speaks, people listen and then go to the White House transcript to see what he was supposed to say. Or they make fun of him on Twitter.

 

Says it all pic.twitter.com/vYvHPNtpAb

— Jessica Chase (@Chase_2100) April 12, 2023

AOC as Dorothy is a nice touch.

 

HT | IJR

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CONCORD, NH (April 13, 2023) – The NH Senate today upheld the basic human dignity of its citizens by rejecting two bills, HB88 and HB224. Both votes were 14-10, with all Republicans voting to reject the bills, and all Democrats voting in support of the bills.

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HB224 would have effectively legalized abortion through birth.
HB88 would have said that certain people (preborn children) have no rights.

“By rejecting HB224 today, the Senate upheld our humanity by protecting mothers and their ready-to-be-born children from dangerous late term abortions. Overwhelmingly, NH citizens agree that a healthy baby at 8 months deserves a chance at life, even if mom needs to leave them at the hospital under the Safe Haven law.” said Jason Hennessey, President of NH Right to Life.

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NH’s Fetal Life Protection Act (the FLPA, RSA 329:43-50) protects viable, preborn babies at about 6 months (24 weeks), with exceptions for the life and health of the mother, as well as fatal fetal anomalies. Thus, the only abortions it prohibits are late-term elective abortions.

NH Right to Life is New Hampshire’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to the pro-life cause.

 

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Throwback to 1991 … one of the very few good things George H.W. Bush did was nominate Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court. Thomas terrified … and continues to terrify the Democrat Party elite because … well you can hear him tell you why himself. Note the arrogance, the annoyance of the rich, White, liberals like Ted Chappaquiddick Kennedy and Joe Biden.

And the attitude of the Democrat Party elite has NOT changed one bit. Recall Andru Volinsky declaring it was “tokenism” when Eddie Edwards was nominated to the licensing board … the “you’re not really Black unless you think the way rich, White liberals tell you to” mindset.

Clarence Thomas “high tech” lynching speech to Senate Judiciary Committee after Democrats tried to smear him with bogus allegations. Just as true today as it was in 1991. By more than 2-1 margin, men and women believed Clarence Thomas. From film Created Equal pic.twitter.com/VlfJC9XBZ7

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) April 12, 2023

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It is time to formalize the previously informal series on behalf of NH Governor Chris Sununu to keep himself from making a total fool of himself, and yes, he can drive further down that road – plenty of asphalt in front of him. Remember, it’s not deliberate sarcasm on my part.

I just want to keep reminding him that HE set the bar for who should and who should not run for the Republican nomination in this Presidential election cycle.

After all, he’s a man of his word, right?

Hangover: An “Evergreen” statement by Sununu himself on low-rated wannabes:

Mr. Sununu also warned minor candidates not to carve up the field.

“I think there’s a lot of hope and opportunity for good candidates to get in, drive the message where it needs to be,” he said. “But the discipline is getting out, too. The discipline and saying, ‘Look, you’re only polling at 5%, you got to get out.’ We don’t want a crowded field here.”

So I’ve been following his status since he first set that benchmark “for the field,” so he can follow his own words, yes?

Thus, I’ll help remind him as I know that even if HE doesn’t read GraniteGrok, someone in his office or his friends do (and I know his political enemies read the ‘Grok). And while there are a lot of polling websites, I’m going to stick with RealClearPolitics‘s aggregate polling average:

 

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Even Vivek Ramaswamy has a higher average, 0.9, than Sununu: 0.5 (his column is 2nd from the right).

Vivek just arrived on the political scene – Sununu and his family have been an NH dynasty over the decades.

Scoring a pathetic 0.5% over nine national polls isn’t good.

 

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Where are the Absentee Voter Affidavits required by New Hampshire Law, codified in statute RSA 659:30? The current N.H. voting statute RSA 659:30 establishes that affidavits required by election statutes must be sworn before any person authorized by law to administer an oath.

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Every absentee ballot must be accompanied by an affidavit sworn before an official authorized by law to administer an oath, which currently does not happen. The witness signature line for a public official to certify the election law requirements has been removed. Why?

The current N.H. voting law NH RSA 659:50 I. (b) requires that the moderator may only remove an absentee ballot from its envelope if there is a lawfully executed affidavit. An absentee ballot void of a supporting affidavit, must be declared defective for failure to execute a lawful affidavit. The state can call an absentee return envelope an affidavit all it wants, but an envelope signed by a person claiming to be voter without the certification of public official authorized by law to do so, is not lawful. Why is this happening?

Part II, article 32 of the Constitution of New Hampshire requires that the moderator …shall, in said meetings, in presence of the said selectmen, and of the town or city clerk sort and count the said votes, and make a public declaration thereof.

Failure of the moderator to declare an absentee ballot envelope defective for lack of a lawfully executed affidavit is malfeasance of office, as the law requires that it must be put aside as defective. The moderators of every town in this state, in the last 3 elections removed the absentee ballots from their envelopes, and put them into unconstitutional voting machines, why did they do this in direct violation of our election laws.

New Hampshire Election Law, RSA 666:2, defines malfeasance under section: I. A moderator, supervisor of the checklist, selectman or town clerk shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if at any election: He shall knowingly receive an illegal ballot void of an affidavit required by law. And, the moderators committed another crime by putting an illegal absentee ballots into the voting machine and mixing it with the legal votes cast, which violates NH RSA 666:2

VI: “He shall knowingly add any illegal vote to the number of legal votes cast;” Also, the moderator, the selectman or town clerk in the state are in violation of NH RSA 666:2 VI. If, He shall fraudulently declare the state of the vote in the election of any officer. And,

The cover up. Once an absentee ballot is separated from an application for an absentee ballot, the return envelope provided by the town or the Secretary of State, and then inserted into the voting machine becomes impossible to challenge the absentee ballots, nor can they be reconciled with the original absentee ballot envelope upon challenge, as the absentee ballot is now mixed with all the other ballots, making it impossible to verify the legality of any absentee ballot. As of today, all absentee ballots return envelopes used since the 2020 elections where illegal as there is no proof of a lawful execution an affidavit, as there is no signature line on them, therefore, no signature of any official authorized by law to do so.

According to former Secretary of State William Gardner the 2020 elections saw an increase in absentee votes from the previous elections of 2014, 2016, and 2018, which averaged 4%. The legislature passed HB 1266 in 2020, during the covid-19 lockdown, and the Governor signed it into law, which increased absentee voter turnout to 30.4%. How do we, the people, hold these public servants accountable? Here is the remedy provided by law.

The Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places require an Oath and a Bond, Title III, Chapter 37: Before entering upon the duties of his office, the town manager shall be sworn to the faithful and impartial performance thereof, and a certificate to that effect shall be filed with the town clerk; and he shall execute a bond in favor of the town for the faithful performance of his duties in such sum and with such surety or sureties as may be approved by the selectmen.

42:1 Oath Required. – Every town officer shall make and subscribe the Oath or declaration as prescribed by part 2, article 84 of the constitution of New Hampshire and any such person who violates said Oath after taking the same shall be forthwith dismissed from the office involved.

42:1-a Manner of Dismissal… –
I. The manner of dismissing a town officer who violates the OATH as set forth in RSA 42:1 shall be by petition to the superior court for the county in which the town is located.

666:3 Official Misconduct. –
I. (a) Any public officer upon whom a duty relating to elections is imposed who shall knowingly fail to perform such duty or who shall knowingly perform it in such a way as to hinder the objects thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if no other penalty is provided by law.

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Booster uptake has plummeted worldwide, but the public health mountebanks continue to hawk their COVID wares, aided by flamboyant charlatans in the media. The push to inject is still on, despite the lack of evidence any flu vaccine ever worked.

Dr. Sherry Tenpenney dug into the history of flu vaccines and unearthed some eye-opening data, like how it’s been known for about 60 years that flu vaccines don’t prevent flu.

 

“There is little evidence that recent vaccines have significantly prevented clinical illness, as well as equally little evidence to evaluate effects on mortality.” – The U.S. Public Health Service 1964

“flu shots are ineffective and possibly even harmful in the most highly targeted group, the elderly.” – NYT 2005

“The runaway 100 percent effectiveness that’s touted by proponents [of the flu shot] was nowhere to be seen,” said Dr. Thomas Jefferson – Lancet 2005

 

A review of recent data confirms the old consensus (outside the money-making halls of big pharma and those to whom they donate) that the ordinary flu vaccine is, at best, a placebo and, at worst chemical roulette.

 

I analyzed the data from the 1997/98 flu season up through the 2015/16 flu seasons. Here’s the table I created, showing that in any given flu season, only 15.34% of illness was caused by influenza viruses. That means the flu shot was worthless almost 85% of the time in preventing the flu; it’s even MORE worthless if the viruses in the positive samples don’t match the serotypes that are in that year’s flu shot!

 

I’ve shared my experience. The few times I’ve had a flu shot – not for many years now, thank you – I got the flu. The years I skipped it, no sign of or a very mild and brief head cold. When the COVID shot came along, the decision was not difficult. I skipped it.

Professor Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St Georges Hospital Medical School London, says you should skip it as well or – skip the boosters. It’s no news to us, but he says they worsen matters for you.

 

[T]he side effect profile is getting worse and broadening and I and many oncologists from around the world have been alarmed at the sudden increase in cancer relapses and new cancer growths, which only have a recent Covid booster vaccine in common.  …

Giving a booster vaccine for Covid is associated with T-cell suppression and a change in the type of antibody induced which, taken together, explains why the immune system is no longer able to control the cancers it was previously doing very well.

 

The data confirming these truths continue to pile up, which is inevitable when your human test trial encompasses 70% of the global population. That extensive survey will produce outcomes nearly impossible to ignore though not for lack of trying. The misinformation folks continue to rely on bumper-sticker slogans like anti-vaxxer to label science they can’t explain or won’t. But their zealotry over COVID “vaccine” uptake has led to revelations about previous flu seasons, what the Public Health Industrial Complex calls cures or prophylactics, and their lack of efficacy.

The COVID-19 Panic over-reached, and while a majority of the injected population may not yet have discovered that governments and health experts or bureaucrats do not have their best interests at heart, the long shadow of the campaign to get a needle in every arm continues to accumulate casualties that will be harder to ignore.

The COVID apology tour wasn’t the breakthrough we expected. Still, it is evidence that there is a growing uneasiness among the literati as what they’ve labeled sudden adult death syndrome comes for people they know or love.

As I wrote in November of 2021, as part of an updated look at athletes dropping dead, who has to die? To which we add, and what are you prepared to do about it? Public Health has become little more than a revenue silo for the Pharma Oligarchy, and if that doesn’t change, you’ve no reason to believe anything they or your doctor tell you.

You can ask why, but you might not like the answer. The institution has been taken over by people who would rather you were dead but will happily make money from that on the way.

 

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Forewarned is forearmed.  Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming.  Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple.  Note that these compilations are catch-as-catch can, and presented as is.  I make no guarantee of accuracy or complete coverage of the world.

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

For prep materials, please see:

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.”

 

― Marcia Angell

 

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Top of the fold:

BOOM BOOM BOOM-ERANG INBOUND (bitchute.com)

Ted Cruz on the indictment.

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Youqin Wang, Chronicler of China’s Cultural Revolution | National Review

Those who do not learn from history…

 

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NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET

 

 

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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):

A World of Restrictions – In the Name of Climate Change (substack.com)

An Israeli journalist on the planned tyranny.

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Finally, Europeans May Be Rejecting The EV Kool-Aid | ZeroHedge

For all the good the populace can do.  Remember the hundreds of thousands protesting the Covid mandates?  How much good did that do?

 

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Protecting Children:

Report: School District In Maryland Makes LGBTQ Books Mandatory Reading – Summit News

Your kids WILL be taught it.

 

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National Security (specifically):

US has real UFO problem and it’s not Chinese spy balloons, says former Navy fighter pilot – Blazing Cat Fur

I again recommend the book IN PLAIN SIGHT.

 

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On The Jab (and Covid)

 

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/110/016/751/playable/ebb09267cb901359.mp4

 

Any other medical product would have been RECALLED at around 50 deaths, but the COVID vaccines are now CONSERVATIVELY at *40,000 deaths and rising exponentially by the day.”

 

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Inflation:

While Everyone’s Distracted, the Dollar Is Dying (theorganicprepper.com)

The only question is when it dies.

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March report shows ‘inflation is far from dead,’ whatever Biden says: Economist (wnd.com)

And it’ll get worse…

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Financial expert ANSWERS: Should you pay off your debt NOW?

 

 

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Tucker: They can’t keep this secret forever

 

 

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Enemedia:

Greenwald: Nashville Shooting Has Been Erased From Memory Due To Inconvenient Narrative – Summit News

Peoples’ attention spans are becoming very short.  That’s a feature, not a bug, for the Left.

 

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Pro-life:

I Did Hundreds of Abortions, But Now I’m a Pro-Life Doctor – LifeNews.com

Turnaround.  I’ve never seen a pro-life person, at least not in my experience, suddenly switch to being pro-abortion.

 

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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:

Global Elite Picked Obama 171 (americanfreepress.net)

Anecdotal and after the fact.  Still, worrying.

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They really do hate you this much.

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The Democrats’ (Alleged) Ginormous Money Laundering Scam – PJ Media

Understand something with crystal clarity.  We face an international Leftist enemy with no honor or decency or morality.  They consider it their missionary purpose to convert the earth to a one-world, depopulated, Socialist government.  This is a religious war, not purely an economic or political one.

 

 

 

 

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Immigration / Migration:

What you’re missing by watching Trump – Washington Times

That means about the same number of people that make up a division of the People’s Liberation Army could be squirreling away here in America, ready to take orders from their communist masters who seek global dominance.

Don’t forget that, FOR YEARS, we have been finding Islamic texts and even prayer rugs at crossing places.

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EXCLUSIVE shocking footage of UN-funded mass migration camp in Panama… (rumble.com)

Video.  This is an invasion.  No question.

 

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Economy at large:

Washington State Democrats Plan to Confiscate Your Money if They Think You’re Making Too Much – PJ Media

An economy grows and thrives on disposable income.

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Here’s How We’ll Have Labor Shortages And High Unemployment At The Same Time | ZeroHedge

An interesting explanation of the contradiction.

 

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Political War

CONFIRMED: The FBI Has Spies in Catholic Churches to Hunt for ‘Domestic Terrorism’ – PJ Media

Stasi.

 

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US Stability (broad catch-all):

Eric Trump Called It! Joe Biden Knew Everything – The Regime Worked with the FBI Prior to the Raid of President Trump’s Home (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Of course.

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Justice Perverted: We Need A New Magna Carta | ZeroHedge

An interesting argument.

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90 Miles From Tyranny : Democrats decide that a little bit of insurrection is good sometimes (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)

If Leftists didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any.

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Dems Inexplicably Pick A War Zone For The 2024 DNC…

I’m going to cynically opine that they know there isn’t going to be a 2024 election.  So, they announce it for here.

 

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World Stability (broad catch-all):

Russia Using Space Weapons In Ukraine: US General | ZeroHedge

If GPS is taken out, I pity all the people who have zero clue how to read maps.  Or those who, knowing they have GPS, don’t bother learning routes and their own neighborhoods.

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BREAKING: LEAKED US DEFENSE DOCUMENTS SHOWS WESTERN FORCES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE! …And Countries ARE NAMED in Leaked Document! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Let’s assume – somehow – that these are genuine.  Closer and closer to the edge we get.

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WHO Confirms ‘Staggering’ One in Six People Have Fertility Issues (thenationalpulse.com)

Double plus ungood.  Related:

‘SPERMAGEDDON’: Humanity May be Functionality Infertile by 2050, New Study Warns. (thenationalpulse.com)

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The System is Down! – Contemplations on the Tree of Woe (substack.com)

Things are going to fall apart… slowly, then catastrophically quickly.  And we who have been warning about this for years and years – and who have been dismissed, derided, and mocked by our intellectual and moral superiors, will be turned on with a white-hot hatred because we – those unwashed deplorable hicks and foil-hat conspiracy theorists – saw that which their uber-suuuuupergenius selves did not.

 

 

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Suggests Government Seize Private Property To Quicken Climate Initiatives

 

 

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Specific to energy:

European Natural Gas Futures Signal Concern About Next Winter | ZeroHedge

Short term this sounds good, but the future?  Germany’s insane:

Germany to switch off last remaining nuclear plants – Insider Paper

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You Won’t Be Able To Sleep After Learning How Vulnerable We Are In ‘Grid Down, Power Up’ | The Daily Caller

VERY vulnerable.

 

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Big Tech in general:

AI could go ‘Terminator,’ gain upper hand over humans in Darwinian rules of evolution, report warns | Fox News

The Matrix and other such movies were fiction… right?  Right?  Related:

NYPD Robot Dog Added to Force — and More Cool Tech – NBC New York

 

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Catch-all miscellaneous:

LED lights can irreversibly damage the eyes, French health authority warns   | Daily Mail Online

Yet another example of doing something where the long-term effects aren’t studied.

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It’s Not Over – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)

We’re long past arguing with retards who still, despite all of the available evidence, insist that vaccines are safe or effective. If people prefer to reduce their life expectancies and render their children infertile rather than doubt the Narrative, so be it. The future belongs to those who show up for it.

The Jab is a religion.  And The Jab is their Rite of Passage.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

TINVOWOOT.  That is all.

 

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The Distractions are AMPING Up!

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Please check out my MEME collection.  Here’s the last one.

 

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It was very upsetting to read about Mayor Donchess being bullish on Nashua’s future. In reality, the Mayor is shoveling bull to the Nashua taxpayers.

Mayor Donchess’ attack on the Executive Council for halting plans to expand passenger rail to the Gate City was typical for a man who shoulders no responsibility. I, for one, thank Mr. Dave Wheeler for putting the brakes on this project. Mayor Donchess simply cannot understand that at $792 million to construct and another $17.27 million as operating and maintenance costs for the rail project are something that Nashua taxpayers cannot afford.

This Mayor is “project happy,” supporting every expensive project that rolls in.

It is even harder to understand that Mayor Donchess does not understand NH laws because if he did, he would stop blaming the “state-mandated, state-regulated and state-supervised” revaluation. If citizens check the City minutes, the Mayor, through his legal counsel, requested the DRA  conduct the full measure and List in 2022. Now that he is running for re-election, it is time to play the blame game. If the city did as the law required, this full revaluation would have been done years ago. The City of Nashua last did its last full revaluation back in the 1990s.

Mayor Donchess, put on your big boy pants, broaden your shoulders, and act like an adult. The position of Mayor requires leadership skills; try to develop some, please.

For Mayor Donchess to say, “Unfortunately, this revaluation pushed up property taxes for our homeowners,” and then say the revaluation does not collect more taxes. Instead, it reallocates taxes among property owners.”  Well, Mr. Mayor, the budget increased by over 5%, so more taxes were needed. When you have lied your whole life, it is challenging to speak the truth. It does not come naturally, does it? It seems that the Mayor has forgotten that he keeps increasing the budget, and therefore the taxpayers need to pay more every year.  The city had the following tax bills generated:

2020 – $231,355,273.

2021 – $236,156,163

2022 – $248,421,992

Maybe Mayor Donchess does not think an extra $12,265,829 in taxes is significant. However, that is not how the Nashua taxpayers feel. I did not see Mayor Donchess telling Nashua residents that the State of New Hampshire rates the 3 rd highest property taxes paid within the United States. However, the City of Nashua is #1 with the highest property taxes collected within the State of New Hampshire.  Residents know how the Mayor likes the City to be #1. Nashua property owners, buckle your wallets because Mayor Donchess will be going for the #1 spot as the highest property taxes in the United States.

I really appreciate the fact that Mayor Donchess keeps reminding residents that “Nashua is the 4th Best Run City In America”.  WalletHub states, “compared the operating efficiency of 150 of the largest U.S. cities.”  Please explain to me how Nashua, NH, with our 90,000 residents, compares to Los Angeles, CA, with 3,849,297 residents. Under the Safety tab, WalletHub states, “Our data set ranges from the percentage of residents who are fully vaccinated and assaults per capita to the unemployment rate and road quality. Does Nashua belong in this group? We all know the Mayor can buy his way into any survey.

The mayor finished up his speech by saying a lot of projects were finishing up. In fact, there are a lot of projects the Mayor is starting. Mayor Donchess forgot to tell the taxpayers how many more millions and millions of dollars these projects will cost the taxpayers and how much more the taxes are going up.

Hope you all love surprises as much as the Mayor does.

 

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“We believe that low taxes are the result of low spending; that government has a moral obligation to the people to be as cost-effective as possible, to always limit spending and growth of government, and to cut spending and cost of government at every possible turn.”

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Applauding, even strong-arming, a nearly 20% increase in spending (more than a billion dollars)…when the last budget was allegedly more than we could spend (launder)?  I attend the Executive Council meetings and watch $47k for electronic ticketing at Cannon Mountain ski area change to be $1.4 million with no rationale or discussion?  We see the corruption! Now you are facilitating more of it?

Why?

You owe every Republican voter an apology for your blatant deception. This is NOT why people vote Republican down ballot.

Don’t tell me you’re playing “chess” to gloss over it, thinking we are too dumb and busy to call you out….this is a complete dumpster dive game of “Sorry.”

Politicians have to go, gang.

Join the grassroots real conservative movement at www.Wethepeoplenh.org or find us on Facebook.

 

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Pfizer’s ‘Got COVID Paxlovid‘ ad campaign has drifted away alongside traditional flu season, which seems odd. Thanks to Pfizer’s COVID Jab, Flu season can be all year round, but Paxlovid can’t help, and it says that on the package insert.

 

• PAXLOVID is not authorized for use as pre-exposure or post-exposure prophylaxis for prevention of COVID-19 …
• PAXLOVID is not approved for any use, including for use for the treatment of COVID-19.

 

It sounds a bit dishonest to suggest the best treatment for a COVID infection is Paxlovid when it has not been approved for that use. You can’t take it to prevent COVID. You can’t take it after you get COVID. And it is not approved for any use, including the treatment of COVID. But the Biden Administration pre-purchased billions of doses from Pfizer and leveraged their buy to get the FDA to issue a EUA, after which we discovered what Paxlovid could do. It could suppress symptoms but not clear the virus turning you into a COVID-Trojan Horse.

Paxlovid always became synonymous with COVID-rebound, which is a nice way of saying once you can no longer legally take it (The EUA restricts use to five days), your symptoms can return (rebound). You may even end up sicker than before you took it.

Billions of doses, no refund, and not many folks have lined up to get their free, not approved treatment. As in, not authorized. As in, emergency use, but what emergency and to what end?

 

Last year, the U.K. Daily Mail reported on a study that found Paxlovid can increase the risk of blood clots when taken with blood thinners and irregular heartbeat when taken with heart pain medications. Researchers also found it can cause liver toxicity when taken with statins. Do you really believe every doctor has made sure to take his patients off statins before prescribing this drug?

Remember, this drug is being dispensed in pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription as if it’s candy. Do we even know all its potential safety concerns? No, but we do know it’s contraindicated with many drugs. Also, keep in mind that technically Paxlovid was only accorded EUA status for high-risk patients – the very sorts of people who will largely be dependent upon drugs with such contraindications.

 

Paxlovid doesn’t work or play well with the very people for whom it was meant. And this, we are told, is the best medical science can manage, reinforcing our public health progression from ‘do no harm’ to “harm is good if it pays.”

 

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“Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a small set of urban areas …”

As it turns out, DEMOCRAT areas. Urban areas. Democrat cities. The ones with the harshest gun control laws.

How’s that working out for them?

That image above is correct – if you look at the summary numbers only.  But Dr. John Lott is a researcher and looks at the breakdown statistics.  If you do what he did, that 189th number is absolutely correct.  Despite how the media, in their roles of being Democrat Party ancillary mouthpieces and partisans (who generally don’t know the difference between a firing pin and a bobby pin), trumpets almost everything as a tragedy that can only be solved by More And Bigger Government, yammer constantly that our Right to Keep And Bear Arms must be demoted to mere cap guns.

Abstracted:

• Over 3,000 counties exist in the US
• Majority of US counties had ZERO murders (52%)
• WORST 1% of US counties (31) had 42% of all murders
• WORST 2% of US counties (62) had 56% of all murders

Firearm Ownership – inverse relationship to the rate of gun ownership and gun violence crime/murder

• Rural area gun ownership is 79% > than in urban areas
• Suburban areas gun ownership is 37.9% > urban areas
• Urban areas => lower gun ownership has higher run murder rates

“Correlation between politics and crime?” – The five U.S. cities with the highest per capita murder rates are:

• St. Louis (69.4 per 100,000 population)
• Baltimore (51.1)
• New Orleans (40.6)
• Detroit (39.7)
• Cleveland (33.7)

In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden (Democrat) got:

• 82 percent of the vote in St. Louis
• 87 percent in Baltimore
• 83 percent in New Orleans
• 94 percent in Detroit
• 80 percent in Cleveland.

In other words, the most dangerous cities in America are all Democratic Party strongholds.

It isn’t about the inanimate object – a gun. It isn’t about “violence” – it’s about crime. Who or what commits crimes?

People. Just not all people, just some. Actually, a very small number of people. In Democrat cities. Why those people, then?

Policies and culture.  Democrat-spawned policies that are never reviewed for inconsistencies and corrected when they are wrong. Policies that stem from ideological/racial bias and must be adhered to no matter what.

And culture. IMHO, while policies (like catch and release, no consequences applied to fit the crimes) determine much, it’s the culture. If life doesn’t matter, that crime doesn’t matter, that the tribalism exhibited by gangs and their turf wars over street corners and actions (various forms of vice and violent crimes). And tribalism yields crimes against the other tribes gangs in protecting their turf. The politicians keep the police from doing their jobs and we’ve seen that Democrat judicial system is just a rotating door – in you come and out you go.

And this is why the urban and national Democrats hate the more rural areas – we ARE better, with our culture, than they are.

(Image H/T: Powerline, H/T: American Spectator via Instapundit)

 

Wake me up when you want to talk about what kind of society you've created, where young people want to kill children. And don't know what gender is.

The last 70 years. Inexorable leftward cultural shift. And this is where we are.

— BullshitSquared (blue check) (@xenophonrocks) April 11, 2023

 

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