Saturday • November 23 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVII
Manchester, N.H.
This response from Di Lothrop concerns a Letter to the Editor from former NH Supreme Court Justice, Chuck Douglas. Both are reproduced below. -Skip
To the Editor: The only irrational obsession about Donald Trump is coming from Chuck Douglas (N.H. Sunday News, Dec. 18, 2022). It’s pretty sad that Mr. Douglas can’t seem to let go of his Trump Derangement Syndrome even during this festive season of goodwill to all men. His delusional little scenario about a Peruvian dictator makes as much sense as having an ice cream cone in the middle of a New Hampshire winter, when comparing the disinformation and lies about Trump terminating the U.S. Constitution.
President Trump has no authority to “terminate” the Constitution. Mr. Douglas should know that, given his judicial background. Then again, facts tend to get in the way of clouded judgments. Trump was responding to the report of former Twitter officials, Big Tech, FBI, and their Democratic National Committee cohorts to limit the spread of posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop and collude to throw the 2020 election in favor of Biden.
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Trump’s words were taken out of context and, as usual, manipulated by the usual “news” organizations forcing their opinionated and false narratives onto the uninformed public. The disinformation was hungrily absorbed by their liberal, Trump-hating devotees.
Don’t worry, Chuck, New Hampshire Republicans are moving on from your establishmentarianism, old-boy network style of politics. Just like another dinosaur, U.S. Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. There is no room for the old ways anymore. McConnell and his ilk do not represent the NEW Republican Party of working-class American voters.
Change is coming.
Chuck Douglas’s LtE:
Why not President for Life Trump?
USING THE Peru governance model, former President Donald Trump on Dec. 3 called for “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” because his fragile ego cannot admit he lost an election. The Constitution Terminator might have inspired President Pedro Castillo of Peru three days later to address his country by telling Peruvians he would dissolve its Congress and then rule by decree until a new constitution was drafted.
Luckily, Peruvians declined the honor of a dictatorship and hours later Castillo was impeached by a vote of 101 to 29 and promptly removed from office.
Donald Trump’s plan for a coup to reinstall him by terminating the U.S. Constitution is all anyone with a three-digit I.Q. needs to see that he remains morbidly fixated on the 2020 election.
How is that 7,000,000-vote loss to Joe Biden going to motivate independents to vote for election denier GOP candidates? Apparently not at all. Senate candidates Don Bolduc, Mehmet Oz, Herschel Walker, etc., each won their primary because of Trump’s backing and then blew their election because most people in the country think Biden won, not stole, the 2020 election.
Republicans in New Hampshire need to move on once and for all from our self-proclaimed “greatest President.” The 40% of the voters here and nationally who are not enrolled in either major political party have clearly put him in their rearview mirrors. In Pennsylvania 58% of independents voted against election denier Oz and in our state 54% voted for Maggie Hassan to enable her to win over Bolduc.
What is amazing is how the Trump endorsed candidates here and around the country lost when only 44% of the electorate has a favorable opinion of the Democratic party, Biden is unpopular and we have 8% inflation. The dead weight? Donald Trump’s obsession with his loss forced his endorsed candidates to ride the Great Stolen Election bandwagon in the face of no evidence and over 60 court rulings against such fraud claims.
To broaden his appeal among White supremacists, and further alienate most of the rest of the country, is the famous dinner at Mar-A-Lago last month. “I like Hitler,” Kanye West and the “Holocaust-never-happened” Nick Fuentes were actually allowed to have dinner with a presidential candidate who should know better. Last spring, at a right-wing conference, Fuentes asked the crowd to give a round of applause for Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. In December, Fuentes said the Taliban represented “ideal” government with its policies toward women, who should not be able to vote here either according to Fuentes.
Can you think of any president since Jefferson Davis who would dine with such whackos?
To cap off his broad appeal to haters and rioters Trump told a group helping to pay for the Jan. 6 rioters’ legal defense that the country “was going communist” and that if re-elected he would issue pardons and apologies to those who beat the police and threatened harm to elected officials.
No wonder he does not believe in enforcing riot laws and that he should be re-installed as president after the constitution is suspended.
If Peru is not quite Trump’s model for governance we can reach back in time to Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti, who at age 19 became president for life in 1957. The plus for Baby Doc Duvalier was that you can’t lose elections if you never have them.
Trump should have “terminated” the constitution when he was still president, and then declared that he was president for life. Having missed that opportunity, the Republican Party should not give him the chance again to lose and rain havoc down on the ticket of Republicans like he did to the Senate this year.
The anti-Semitic and White nationalist stench of Mar-A-Lago is not the tradition of the Party of Lincoln, nor should it become one.
We are not losing elections because of RINO’s, but because of Donald Trump. It is time to move on to new faces who believe in our U.S. Constitution.
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Over at Ed’s “And Yet They Claim They’re NOT The Reason There Was No Red Wave …“, Commenter James “Vito” Lanese had a longish comment that caught my eye that I thought was worthwhile to promote to the ‘Grok Front page to cast a bit more light on it:
Before the election on the tube, I saw Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell say he didn’t think the Republicans would take the Senate because of the quality of the Republican candidates. This was a blatant rebuke of all the Trump endorsed senate candidates.
A few days after that statement on Newsmax Dick Morris said that what McConnell is trying to do is destroy all of the Trump endorsed America First candidates, the reasoning being he would rather be Senate Minority Leader than Senate Majority Leader because that majority might have the vote to remove him as leader and give it to Rick Scott-R-FL. When the red wave didn’t happen, McConnell trashed the MAGA candidates again.
How could this be? A republican that didn’t want to take the Senate and put a halt to the Biden agenda, with the biggest reason that being Biden would not be able to get judicial nominees, federal and supreme court thru the Senate. Was there a conspiracy between the Democrats and McConnell? The Democrats funded several MAGA candidates in the primaries with the hope that they could beat them in the general by labeling them extremists. Now all the swamp creatures are coming out to say it was Trump’s fault and that his candidates lost the Senate. Really?
McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund had over 100 million dollars to help Republican senate candidates get elected. So, what did he do with the money? Let’s start with Arizona. McConnell gave zero dollars to Blake Masters. Masters was outspent by 64 million dollars. Kelly 73 million Masters 9 million. In Pennsylvania OZ was outspent by 15 million dollars. Fetterman 52 million OZ 37 million. In Nevada Laxalt was outspent by 34 million dollars. Cortez Masto 46 million Laxalt 12 million. In Georgia Walker was out spent by 43 million dollars. Warnock 75 million Walker 32 million. In New Hampshire Bolduc was out spent by 34 million dollars Hassen 36 million Bolduc 2 million. McConnell stopped sending money to Bolduc after he was endorsed by Trump. Republican governor and rino Chris Sununu won election by a wide margin but didn’t lift a finger to help Bolduc. McConnell gave ZERO dollars to Vermont’s Gerald Malloy who also was endorsed by Trump. Now we get to Alaska where the Alaskan Republicans censured Lisa Murkowski. Then Murkowski’s friends put in ranked choice voting to make sure that Sara Palin and Kelly Tshibaca both Trump endorsed candidates would be stopped because Murkowski couldn’t win in a straight up election. McConnell funded Murkowski because she would vote for him as minority leader. This is even after Murkowski said she would be voting for Democrats. Murkowski had six times the funding of Tshibaca.
Now the Trump trashing starts. It was the election deniers. It was abortion. We have to go in a new direction. Trump’s time is passed. His candidates can’t get elected. Why? It’s because they fear Trump. He is a threat to people like Mitch McConnell’s and the Uni-Party’s power. If you recall when he was elected in 2016, he had to rely on the Republican establishment’s recommendations to fill White House and cabinet positions, FBI, CIA, etc. And they made sure they put people around him to weaken his authority. Not so this time. If he should get elected again, he will be able to drain the swamp by coming in with his own staff, cabinet and appointees that will greatly diminish their power. Tucker Carlson’s interview with former congressman Steve King from Iowa King said Paul Ryan did everything he could to thwart funding for the border wall.
When I was a correction officer, an old timer told me when an inmate asks you for something or tells you something always ask yourself why. What’s their angle? So what is the Republicans angle?
And the “money quote, IMHO:
The angle is the Republicans are using conservatives like the Democrats use Blacks. They only come around when it’s time to vote.
They never give us what we want. Is it time for a new Constitutional Party?
So, what do you think of this conclusion? It certainly is backed up by what happened a decade ago when, after dragging the GOP over the finish lines in 2008/2010, the TEA Party movement which was majority Republican leaning, started to demand seats at the GOP Tables That Counted. Then the GOP Establishment turned on them and adopted the language of the Democrats of the time. Win? Sure. Share Power? You TEA PARTIER you! Extremists!
And now we hear the same thing against as the GOP Establishment Republicans have adopted the Democrat label like “EXTREMISTS! FREE STATERS!“. How not to share power. Just ask Doug Lambert and Jade Wood how they helped the Democrat PAC Citizens for Belknap for sounding like Democrats.
And let’s not forget about that other Big Guy (who will never be 1/2 the politician of his father) Chris Sununu who is using the same tactics. From Landrigan’s State House Dome: (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Sununu, House GOP feud
Sununu didn’t hide his displeasure with Packard’s decision to reappoint Rep. Ken Weyler, R-Kingston, to chair the House Finance Committee. Packard asked for and got Weyler to step aside in October 2021 after Weyler shared misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
And of course, Tyrant Baby Huey is crazy ticked that someone DARED to disobey his wishes (like when he lashed out at other Republicans during the Primary in his infamous Letter calling them extremists simply because they called him out:
“It’s a terrible move,” Sununu told Chris Ryan of New Hampshire Today. “We drove him off the committee a year ago.”
But I did enjoy reading the retort aimed back at Sununu, especially as it looks like he’s got delusions of 2024 grandeur:
Weyler isn’t backing down. He’s vowed to continue to question vaccines and said he left in 2021 because of the “Democratic smear machine.”
“He is an unreasonable egoist,” Weyler told the New Hampshire Bulletin about Sununu. “Everything has to be his own way.”
Dare I type the word “narcissist”? Well, sure I can! Shoe fits, and all. He used to be an affable person – no longer. Hubristic is an applicable term nowadays. L’Enfant Terrible?
Heh! Sununu forgets that the Internet is forever and the oppo research guys for the other “I can be President, too!” guys are going to have a field day rummaging through the NH stories.
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A TWOFER! From Amil’s post “We No Longer Have a Country“, Commenter Jamie nails who really is the “invader” against our traditional and Normal American Society (emphasis mine):
If the Democrats weren’t anti-Constitutional enough, now we have the “Woke Supremacists“.
A most SPLENDID new category in my estimation! There is just SO much future usage of that phrase! And I bet they haven’t the foggiest idea that is what the Left has become – ripe for ridicule.
After all, they share one most important characteristic of other “supremacists” – the absolutely determined and self-righteous image that they are better than any other mortals. They also share the same sense that everyone else should bow down to them when it comes to any kind of debate (translation: SHUT UP, she said).
But worst of all, they seek to divide and demonize anyone “not them” and have no idea what the outcome will be. In this, this movement of and for “marginalized communities” don’t understand that in advocating for their “mission” become exactly what they are complaining about. They are so wrapped up in themselves, in their collective group, they have the self-awareness of a gnat in what they are doing.
They do nothing, in their sense of Wokeness, of accomplishing much except for ticking everyone else off.
See: Woke School Board members turning their Districts upside down in mandating sexuality be THE identifying characteristic that people should be known for. Instead of what their job really is supposed to be: maximizing student academic achievement. But you know, pronouns, dress, and bathroom usage trumps that. And let’s not forget about Critical Race Theory, either.
It seems that these missionaries are bound and determined to turn Society into a collective of emotion driven useless people who can squeal “Woke!!!” but can’t do rudimentary math, writing, or know basic Civics.
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The Marxists want to make sure you see them as the higher power, so happy holidays. That’s from JP Sears, who has an important ‘holiday’ corruption update for you.
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Lindsey Graham is a Democrat who cross-dresses as a Republican …who thinks voters are too stupid to figure that out … and who may be right about that, because the voters keep returning him to the Senate. The latest from this warmonger fraud … courtesy of FoxNews, the propaganda-arm of the GOP octogenarian old-guard, endless wars, open borders Establishment … is that he cares about our wide-open Southern border:
Lindsey Graham torches Biden's 'unconscionable' disregard of border crisis: 'He doesn't give a d—' https://t.co/1LbqdjotHW
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 24, 2022
Yet Lindsey Graham and 17 of his fellow Senate swamp-rat “GOP” Senators voted for a $1.7 trillion “omnibus” that did NOTHING for border security. Actually, that’s not true … it sends plenty to help other countries secure their borders. But NOTHING that would actually close our wide-open Southern border.
Worse, this $1.7 trillion “omnibus” destroys any leverage the incoming GOP House would have had to force Biden to secure the Southern border.
Yet this fraud, this Democrat cross-dresser, and the other 17 Senate Democrats who cross-dress as Republicans, want us to believe they want to secure the Southern border. It’s a LIE. A total LIE.
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It is a complicated time for Americans this Christmas season. For the first time in three years, we can celebrate without the oppression of government mandates. COVID is still around and may be with us in some form forever, but it no longer controls us. We lost many to this evil disease from China, but we have won. We have survived the Pandemic of our lifetime. The masks are gone, except for those who sleep with a security blanket. Six feet of separation is history, and you can hug your family and friends again. Life has returned to normal, and it feels good.
Some are grasping their power and still threatening us with masks and mandates, but the people will not hear of it this time. We gave up over two years of our lives and will no longer accept being controlled. We have decided to surround ourselves with friends and family and embrace life. This year we will celebrate, gather, and party like it’s 2019
Joe Biden is doing his best to be the Grinch that steals our Christmas. He has stymied our economy, made some choose between food and fuel, and has made the country less safe by destroying our Southern Border. The American people are resilient and are absorbing his punches. Biden and his band of fools are doing their best to bring our country to its knees, but he does not have the power he thinks he has. The people are still standing tall as we always have when faced with adversity.
The gifts we exchange and the merriment we enjoy is nothing compared to the time we spend together. So count your blessings, gather your loved ones, and remember those no longer with us. Remember, the loved one who occupied that empty seat is still with us, smiling down upon us today and every day—Shed not a tear. But smile at the memories. For two years, we were kept from those closest to us. We can pray that it never happens again, but it gave us an appreciation for the precious time we share.
We prayed a great deal during these last few trips around the sun. Though we all may not be religious, we found a comforting spirituality. Let that stay with us; maybe that force will miraculously pull us together and show us we have more in common than we think.
If there is one gift I wish for everyone this Christmas is that the family and friendships that have drifted apart come back together. There are far more essential things for which we must unite than those that divide us. May harmony, understanding, and love encircle your holiday table today and remain with you into a happy and prosperous New Year.
God Bless you and keep you safe and sound. Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas! And yes, posting could be light today, and not just because a chunk of our authors lost power yesterday and may not have it back yet. It’s Christmas, and we wish you all a Merry One.
To help, here’s three hours of piano/instrumental Christmas music.
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Sam Brinton was always controversial. The Bidenary non-binary US nuclear energy official wanted to be fabulous. Part of that process involved stealing women’s luggage at the airport.
Related: Luggage-Stealing Non-Binary Cross-Dressing Nuclear Energy Official Sam Brinton Has Been Fired
And while the Bidenistas could probably care less about that – stealing comes with the territory – it might have dawned on someone that the “nuclear” football is luggage. Sam might decide to steal it, and Biden’s got enough problems without that.
Sam lost his job and is in detention pending trial. He’ll probably have to do some time where he’ll likely be very popular with the other “ladies” (in the men’s or women’s prison). Perhaps the only Democrat connected to Biden to do hard time we can name.
While we wait for the verdict a bit of parody from Benny Johnson. “How Joe Biden’s Grinch Stole Baggage.”
Language Warning.
The original tweet can be found here.
Merry Christmas!
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The People’s Republic of Trudeauistan (formerly doing business as Canada), is banning guns. No guns for you ‘cuz mass shootings or violence or something. We know, in truth, it’s because citizens with guns have this habit of preventing despotism from flourishing.
Canada is well on its way, and while trucks have not yet been banned (truck protests have – can you say, like, insurrection, eh?), the general slope of this once free-ish western “democracy” is in free fall.
Part of that descent into stupidity included a “weapon” called the Butt-Master. There’s only one known in existence. It’s 23 years old. But Canada’s government decided it should be banned because someone might try to use the one-shot .22 pen gun to commit a mass casualty incident.
Tucker Carlson had the “inventor” and owner of the only known Butt-Master on his program, and everyone laughed.
And now – if you missed it – you can too.
A gun called the Butt Master is on Trudeau’s list of banned terrorist guns. The issue is there is only 1 Butt Master in the world, made 23 years ago, and the guy that made it still owns it, in Texas.
Canada is such a retarded country. pic.twitter.com/hN1RSRF6ho— Bushels Per Acre (@BushelsPerAcre) December 23, 2022
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Well, my friends, I hate to break the news. After carefully studying the latest Twitter materials, I realized we no longer have a country. Yes, that is what I said. Why? In large part because:
1) Democrats, of course, are and have been openly against the Constitution, individual liberty, and freedom for quite some time now, along with complicit media.
2) Republicans (the GOP establishment) pretend to oppose Democrats, but ironically, only fight those who elected them into office and loot the country alongside their best friends and colleagues, the Democrats.
3) We are tired of being stabbed in the back over and over again by those we elected into public office and claim to stand with us only to arrive in the halls of power, in DC, and reward us by turning their collective backs on us.
Let us be honest, no one, including Trump, ever claimed that he was a savvy politician or a constitutional conservative. Or, for that matter, he never claimed to be George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or Thomas Jefferson either. He often times is rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. But still, he is the people’s choice of the Republican Party. NO ONE can refute it or disallow us from making that choice. Newt Gingrich also notes, “You don’t have to run around and defend Donald Trump. That is his job. You also do not have to abandon him. There is no alternative at a practical level. He is the nominee.”
Moving from a general description to something more personal, this country has a limited amount of time until it collapses. The current GOP establishment and what constitutes the Democrat Party of today, have literally removed electoral politics from having any effect on policy and we have no time to argue.
At this point in time, Donald Trump is our one and only hope and chance to stop this spiral into oblivion. I am calling on you, the individual freedom-loving person, to play your part in the defense of freedom, and stop voter fraud by the Democrats, not only for your own sake but also for mine and all others who cherish this precious blessing of life and liberty.
To conclude: We Americans greatly cherish freedom, perhaps a bit more than other nations; and we will not stand and watch the destruction of America. We will fight and keep in mind that freedom is not free. Anyone or any party that promises otherwise is either a fool or a charlatan.
God Bless America,
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The religious fascists in the Taliban have taken a break from shining all the weapons Joe left in Afghanistan to do what we said they’d do. Be the Taliban.
Related: Projection: Democrat Calls Republicans #Taliban After His Democrat Turns 19 Million Women Into Slaves
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have banned university education for women nationwide, as they continue to crush rights to education and freedom.
Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women’s lives, ignoring international outrage.
The country’s Minister for Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, issued a letter to all government and private universities instructing for the rule to be enforced.
The nation includes approximately 19 million women who can no longer aspire to a higher education. Sorry – they can no longer even aspire to secondary education.
Young girls were also excluded from returning to secondary school , severely limiting university intake. … Even funfairs and gyms have become no-go areas for women due to the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s rights. …
Many teenage girls have been married off early – often to much older men of their father’s choice.
Women have been pushed out of many government jobs – or are being paid a slashed salary to stay at home.
They are also barred from travelling without a male relative, and must cover up outside of the home, ideally with a burqa.
Related: The Taliban Get “The Band” Back Together … Bring Out Your Dead, Edition
All because Joe pulled out early. But Whoever is Running the Biden Administration State Department issued a strongly worded statement.
The Taliban should expect that this decision, which is in contravention to the commitments they have made repeatedly and publicly to their own people, will carry concrete costs for them,’ State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters in Washington.
Taliban returns to cleaning and loading weapons left by Biden. Picks teeth with a knife.
Yeah, whatever.
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What Happened This Year (2022)? When I scan the horizon, I am not looking for particulars. I am always trying to look behind the scenes. And since I don’t have a viewer to take me there, I rely on guessing what’s going on.
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Not very satisfactory, but for me it’s always the important thing: What are the Big Planners getting up to? Are they worried that we dissidents are outing them? Who are the deciders? Are they stalled by disagreement with one another?
The following 2002 happenings made the mainstream news (that is, in the English language which is the only language I can read): war in Ukraine, big protests in Brazil and Sri Lanka, warnings of financial collapse and food shortages (blamed on Covid), an uptick in talk of further need for flu shots, and a lot of violent crime in US including a school shooting in Uvalde. Much money was allocated to alleviate climate change. There was constant rehashing the event known as the “Jan 6” invasion of the Capitol in 2021, and excitement about New York state’s prosecution of a former President for tax fraud. Millions of immigrants arrived, with apparent blessing of the government.
Simultaneously, the dissident press was revealing what it could about the pandemic, such as the illegality of the mandates, the concealment by media of thousands of deaths from vaccines, and the amazing arrival of dictatorship in Canada and Australia as part of the Covid scene. In the conservative press, there was quite an uproar about the FBI deeming parents “terrorists,” for arguing at school board meetings. There was also opposition to teaching “critical race theory” in school. The intervention to help Ukrainians was seen as a US war-stoking move. A movie entitled “2000 Mules” was said to prove the rigging of the 2020 election.
It is worth noting that the two levels are operating on parallel (the mainstream and the dissidents) and each has quite a different picture of reality. For the mainstream, “climate change” is mentioned as if it is settled science. For the dissidents, climate change is a hoax — the planet is cooling, not warming up. For the mainstream, most folks who invaded the Capitol, on Jan 6 did so in hopes of preventing the inauguration of Joe Biden on Jan 20. Dissidents see the Invasion as a performance designed by Insiders, aimed at discrediting Republicans and causing Americans to believe the end of democracy has now occurred.
InvestigatingI suppose the conflicting realities could be subjected to honest investigations — e.g., climate change, the origin of Covid, and what the Jan 6 participants were actually doing. However, the right to “investigate” is widely considered the prerogative of government. Thus, the mainstream side of the aforementioned arguments can find itself “proven” by investigations, while the ideas put out by dissidents are spoken of as fanciful.
The government position is parroted by the media. Indeed, the media appears to work for the government. Thanks to television, the media enters most homes every day, for hours. If the government wants something to be conveyed, it will appear on the six o’clock news, for free. If it’s a cultural matter, it may also appear on the front cover of magazines sold near the check-out counter at supermarkets, or be conveyed through comedy shows or the words of songs.
At this point let’s ask: What are other ways (non-government, non-media) that the matters in controversy could be investigated? Please believe me when I say that in my youth in the 1950 and ’60s, it was absolutely normal to look at institutions other than government to investigate, or at least offer an authoritative opinion on, any matter about which there was major disagreement.
Here are six such institutions: science, academia, religion, civil rights groups, professional societies, and media itself, when it was called journalism — proudly labelled The Fourth Estate. Of course, we were also happy to submit a problem to Congress or the courts. Additionally, the population would listen respectfully to a public intellectual, a person whose rationality and humanity had been established in a previous case or two.
In short, the outcome of an investigation, in the olden days, couldn’t be dead-sure predicted, as it can today. I judge that the very predictability of outcomes, when matters are put to Congress or the courts, should alert us to the fact that those two groups are not doing their jobs!
Those Other InstitutionsMaybe we could bring those six groups back to a position of trustworthiness. If they were able to turn out a good product in the 1960s, who’s to say that they can’t do so again in the near future? First, the membership of those groups would have to clean out the infiltrators, the traitors, the bribed, and the many individuals who seem mentally unable to reason. (There are necessarily a lot of those, as children in the last one or two generations did not get trained to reason, as part of their education!)
What of science? Most people graduating with a science degree in US, who want to make a career of it, must connect to a salary. That means industry or academia. If asked to solve a controversy, it is only natural that they will have one eye on the likely reaction of their employer. They will self-censor. I self-censor a lot myself — “you hafta.” If the scientist works in research, she will need to bring in the grants. But, as she well knows, grants are mainly given where government or industry want certain results. Does she want to demonstrate that the climate is cooling, not warming? The grant office will not respond.
What of academia? In 1999, I was conducting a survey of the persons (including myself) who had made submissions to the Australian Senate as to the question “Should we sign the MAI?” (Multilateral Agreement on Investment). That was a treaty that would have handed a lot of power to globalists. If I recall correctly, at least 98% of the submissions gave arguments for NOT joining such a treaty. Surprisingly, one of the pro-treaty submissions came from the Association of Vice Chancellors. (Australian term for university presidents). The only reason I could think of was that Australian universities get major income from foreign students, so maybe that gives them a pro-globalist sentiment. But maybe that’s not the reason. Anyway, Australia typically accepts a UN’s recommendation, regardless of whether Aussies want it.
What about religion? Of the three most populous religions in the US at the moment, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, none seem to be “for the people.” None have made a stink about the creeping totalitarianism. They seem to say “Render everything to Caesar because, hey, everything is Caesar’s anyway, isn’t it?” If you are looking for an easy, bribery-type explanation, you might say that the churches, synagogues, and mosques need to maintain the value of their real estate by not losing their tax-exemption on land. But I think it is weirder than that. I think the religious bosses are mind-controlled. Referring, again, to the Olden Days, oh those halcyon olden days, a preacher put “principles first.” Nothing less would do. Ay-men.
What about Civil Rights Groups? Oh dear. A group that has the word “rights” in it, no longer fights for people’s rights? There were two groups you could go to and truly expect results: the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International. If they joined a lawsuit as amicus curiae, the court had better pay attention: the ACLU or AI would lay out the law. Who lays out the law today? Not them. Anyway, they can dodge by not taking cases that would require them to, say, question the official story of 9-11. And if a prisoner has been suffering for decades, on an unfair conviction, it used to be AI’s role to spring him. Not now. Especially if he is a “terrorist” imprisoned on a provably bogus charge. “Let’s not go there. It could harm national security.”
What about professional societies? The two most famous professional societies, the AMA and the ABA, are doomed from the start. They claim in their mission statements that they are the upholders of medicine and the law — two great gifts to mankind. Yet they are also a guild for their members. If a conflict of interest arises, which principle will prevail — the good of mankind or the good of the members? Clearly the latter. “It goes without saying,” right? But even aside from that, there is the somewhat hidden fact that it is government that controls those two professions. If Caesar lost that control, lawyers and doctors would be able to do great things. Their hands are tied by, respectively, the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association. The AMA has achieved its dominance over every physician in the US by using a state-by-state method to win control both of licensing boards and medical schools. The ABA gets to squash mankind-minded lawyers by tricky wording in the Higher Education Opportunity Act. Although I implied that the four institutions above (science, academia, religions, and civil rights organizations) can make a comeback, there is no hope for ABA and AMA. Off with their heads! They ruin the two professions, structurally.
What about journalism? Finally, to the Fourth Estate. The thing a journalist needs most is free speech. How do humans mainly differ from animals? They can talk. Hence, they can exchange knowledge. (“This river has rhinos in it.”) They can en-lighten one another and en-courage one another. After a while, Homo sapiens invented writing. From that point, it became possible to teach widely, to think by rules of logic, and to develop ideas imaginatively. Debate flourished in books and papers. As we all know, along came Rupert Murdoch (so to speak), and that was the end of journalism. Media became a propaganda tool par excellence. Quite possibly it has actually altered our brains. But this can be corrected. Journalism is self-correcting, isn’t it?
Free Speech, Anyone?Recall my dividing the events of 2022 into those seen by one side and those seen by the other. I claimed that media-government has acquired new reign over America (to our very great detriment, I believe). I pointed to the problem whereby if some people observe a wrong, and want the matter investigated, the media and government will speak una voce in their interpretation of facts (“Trump’s election deniers got violent on Jan 6”), and also in their solutions (“Imprison those white supremacists now”).
Luckily there is such a thing as the alternative press. Admittedly, much of it is owned and occupied by You-know-whim — but not all of it. The Internet was open to dissidents from the medical profession (e.g., Peter McCullough), the clergy (Bishop Carlos Vigano), the legal profession (Serene Teffaha), academia (oops, I can’t think of one), and so forth.
Thanks to this, we are not in the Room 101 situation that Winston Smith was in, when Big Brother’s minion, O’Brien, was able to get Winston to give up all hope and switch off the reasoning portion of his brain. (“Do something for the sake of honor? Hey, not me, thanks.”)
Lately there is even the hint that new debate about free speech will arise, as it should. We have seen, just this week, that the DoJ gave Twitter the names of people it wanted blacklisted. This opens the question: what is Twitter, and more importantly, what the hell is the DoJ?
I conclude by suggesting that we look into the matter of the “lockout” of our investigatory tradition that has occurred via the marriage of media and government. We need search no further than the last four words of Amendment 10 in the Bill of Rights:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
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New Hampshire’s been rated number one for a lot of things. Public Safety, Quality of Life, Average Income, Low Crime, even (whatever I’ve forgotten), but roads?
That’s a new one for me, but here it is. Consumer Affairs asked residents about the roads, and Granite State managed to squeak out the top spot.
Click the link to see your states very brief report.
States with the best roadsThe states with the best roads frequently perform maintenance on their streets and have significant infrastructure budgets, as well as residents with good things to say about the roads they drive on each day.
Only about 3% of rural roads and 8% of urban roads in New Hampshire are considered poor, according to the International Roughness Index. …
More on that ina moment. First, what about the worst states?
Which states have the worst roads?
We chose the states with the worst roads based on the roughness of the pavement and highway maintenance and safety budgets. Scroll down to check out the full ranked list and see where your state lands.
What about New York State? Their roards are terrible and have been for decades. Massachusetts roads are reprehensible. Fear not, intrepid motorists, NY came in twelfth worst, with Massachusetts lagging a bit in the eighteen spot. This suggests, based on my limited experience, that Hawaii has terrible roads.
I don’t recall Rhode Island being all that bad, but I never spent much time there, so I’m not a good benchmark.
I have, however, driven all over southern New Hampshire. While driving part-time for UPS over several years I was on every sort of road the state had to offer. But I’m familiar with mud season, and unpaved roads are common. Though most are in very good shape until spring comes. If you like muddin’ then you might be in for a free-for-all, otherwise, getting stuck in mud is much worse and messier than snow.
By the way, the featured image is not, to the best of my knowledge, in New Hampshire.
HT | Consumer Affairs
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Hijacking an existing holiday to get some adherents for your new one is as old as time. And if you’ve no idea the exact date of the thing you are celebrating, then it makes sense to piggyback away. Eases the conversion process.
You can let the peeps pretend to participate in the new one while quietly revering the old, and at some point across time, the old one is “taught” or talked (or beaten) out of the culture.
Add to this Nancy Pelosi, who pretends to be a Catholic but ignores what it teaches, which – given how she dismisses her oath to the US Constitution – was easy enough to swing. She’s a piece of work whose stewardship in Congress has “left a dent” in America that we may not be able to pound back out.
She has (however), it’s rumored, been good to the liquor industry, and you’d be right to wonder if they were involved in this fiasco the way David DePape “was involved” in the assault on her husband. In her closing remarks before the House recessed for “The Holidays,” Nancy took a moment to ‘wish everyone a happy, healthy and safe new year, happy holidays, merry Christmas, happy Schwanza, happy Hanukkah… whatever it is you celebrate, be safe.’
A quick note to the Daily Mail. I believe the proper spelling is “Shwanzaa,” which may be a matter of editorial preference, like ignoring Pelosi’s wearing of the Kente Cloth scarf attributed to African slave traders in honor of George Floyd, a career criminal and drug addict who actually had a lot in common with the guy who invented Kwanzaa. A “secular, “nonreligious” pan-African holiday” created by then violent, deranged, radical black nationalist (and alleged FBI Informant), Maulana Karenga (See also Ron Karenga).
Hey, we’re not judging who you choose as your spiritual advisor, but George chose Fentanyl, and it killed him.
Crazy Ron, on the other hand, correctly planted his “celebration” around the same time as the Winter Solstice, Yule, Saturnalia, Hanukkah, and Christmas (to name a few) though I suspect Festivus, another secular “holiday” (also) created in 1966, is more popular.
Nancy (her again?) is required by the gods of social justice to mention Kwanzaa (not Festivus), which she failed to do, instead creating a new holiday called Shwanza (or Shwanzaa) which, if I’m not mistaken, is inspired by limousine-liberals, who worship 90 or better proof alcohols, lying, scheming, and the laundering of tax dollars (to name a few).
The more familiar term for that “celebration” is Congress but hey, Happy Shwanzaa, and may the Schwartz be with you!
HT | Daily Mail
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You likely can’t get one in time for the big day, or maybe you can (did you?), but think of all the sleep the anti-gun lefties will lose thinking about how to regulate them. Common sense flamethrower-drone laws. Moms for…something.
The video below has one used in China, which the video says can be repurposed to rescue people at sea. I think they spelled rescue wrong. Anyway, this one is burning wasp nests out of trees. Looks cool (in a hot way) with huge potential for public unrest applications.
I did some looking. There are flamethrower add-ons for certain types of drones (1499.00), then there’s the DJI M300.
The DJI M300 drone flamethrower was developed based on DJI SDK. It is a split-type modular quick-release design, small size, and easy to assemble. It is controlled by OSDK link + APP, and the control distance is no longer limited, you can control the fire thrower launching as far as the drone flight, It is more efficient to use a high-pressure diaphragm pump. , energy-saving, increase the nozzle vector control function, improve the operation effect under special flight conditions.
The loudspeaker attachment looks regime ready. “Everyone, please return to your homes for donkey-fu lockdown.” That’s when you cruise in with your flamethrower version and engage in some of that public unrest I mentioned earlier (price not listed, call for a quote).
I’m sure there are other models available if your interest is piqued.
So here’s the one whacking wasps in China. It’s about $13,000.00
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We can expect someone like Chris Pappas, who has a rubber spine and weak knees, to vote online with his Progressive party, but the second sin is to remain unaccountable for what he did and tout his actions to the people of New Hampshire like he has our backs.
What is worse, a Congressman voting to pass a $1.7 Trillion, 4,000-plus page piece of legislation that he obviously did not read, or that the same Congressman sent an email bragging about how he served his constituents by doing so? I contend the latter is the more egregious. Mr. Pappas, there is virtually nothing in this bill that is good for New Hampshire.
Let’s look at how Chris Pappas gaslighted Granite Staters with his “accomplishments’ by signing this bill.
Today I helped pass a government funding package with key New Hampshire priorities that I secured including reducing energy costs, fighting fentanyl trafficking, supporting public safety, improving veteran care, and investing in our workforce.
How do you define New Hampshire’s priorities? We have always thrived for small government, balance budgets, and not harming the economy with legislation. The Omnibus bill you pat yourself on the back for signing satisfies none of the NH priorities. What you did is sign a bill that will dump nearly two trillion dollars into our economy, fueling inflation and pushing us toward recession.
Securing Funding for Community-Driven Projects
I secured funding through our community-driven process for 15 common-sense, local projects that will support our first responders and law enforcement, strengthen our manufacturing and skilled workforce, invest in our infrastructure, and help New Hampshire families and children. I worked closely with community leaders across the First District to deliver this funding for local priorities, and I look forward to seeing the wide range of benefits from economic growth to improving public safety.
There are infrastructure projects in this bill that are worthwhile, but why were they not addressed in the 2020 Infrastructure Bill? There are projects that define wasteful pork.
Community College System Of New Hampshire
This funding will be used to extend classrooms at the Susan Huard Advanced Technologies center to include an outdoor laboratory to better prepare graduates to meet the needs of a diversified workforce.
$1,000,000
What does an outside laboratory at $1 Million dollars have to do with diversity?
Saint Anselm College
This funding will be used to help create a state-of-the-art health care facility using cutting-edge technology to help create a path for students to build healthcare careers in New Hampshire.
$2,200,000
Saint A’s is a private institution. Why are the taxpayers of America funding a facility on a private institution’s property?
Support For Veterans
Three of my bipartisan veterans’ bills were included in this package. The VA Beneficiary Debt Collection Improvement Act will improve VA’s debt collection process and protect veterans from undue financial strain. The VA Supply Chain Resiliency Act will strengthen VA supply chains and ensure our veterans receive the best possible medical care. The Improving VA Accountability to Prevent Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Act will improve policies and oversight of how the VA addresses systemic issues of sexual harassment and discrimination. The inclusion of these bills helps fulfill our promise to ensure that our veterans receive the highest level of care and service.
In case you forgot, Chris. The purpose of our military is to protect the people and the sovereignty of our country. Did you give any consideration to increasing the pay level of our military? Maybe you can funnel some of the expense of illegal immigrants to keeping our active military above the poverty level and from future dependency on government support. You obviously are more concerned with equality and diversity than military readiness. Thank God you and your Progressive counterparts were not around in the forty’s, or we would be speaking German or Japanese.
Measures to Combat Drug Trafficking
Bipartisan legislation that I introduced alongside Congressman Newhouse extended emergency measures to address trafficking of fentanyl analogues through December 31, 2024 was also included in the package. This legislation will ensure that law enforcement retains the tools they need to seize fentanyl-related substances and combat drug trafficking. I’ll continue to work across the aisle and alongside law enforcement and public safety experts to keep our families and communities safe.
Instead of securing the barn door, you think seizure after the fact is the solution. Wrong again, as usual. You have never indicated concern for our open Border under Joe Biden. The Fentanyl crossing is killing 100,000 Americans a year. To put that number in context, it only took 166,000 votes to send you back to Congress. Always after-thinking. Is it too hard for Progressives to analyze a problem, think ahead, and formulate a solution? Or do feelings always have to get in the way of facts.
You are proud of your accomplishments, but half of New Hampshire is embarrassed by your foolish thinking and spending. Enjoy yourself this month as the Republicans will tighten the reigns next.
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In a mad race to be more despotic and manipulative than Australia or New Zealand, Canada has used ‘Mrs. Clause’ to get kids masked and Jabbed.
No good tyranny will work if you forget to get the kiddies, so Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Teresa Tam, pretends to call the North Pole for a health check, where she gets Mrs. Clause.
Santa’s main squeeze is very happy to see so many Canadian on the nice list (they got vaccinated and are up to date like Mr. and Mrs. Clause).
“It just warms my heart to see everyone in Canada, especially kids, working so hard to keep the holidays safe for all.”
“I always tell Santa to make a list and check it twice.
“One: stay up to date on your vaccinations.
“Two: wear a mask in crowded indoor places and make sure it’s nice and snug.
“Three: wash your hands to the tune of jingle bells, Jingle Bells …”
There is one important safety tip. While Mrs. Clause is a bit too Glee Club Perky (the cupcake house does lend itself to the sticky sweetness of it), Dr. Tam’s delivery is almost unbearable. No one is winning any awards for this performance unless it’s for agitprop.
And it’s probably better in the original Russian.
Parents and Caregivers, I had a great chat with Mrs. Claus about things we can do to make this a happy and healthy holiday season. Here’s the scoop from the #NorthPole: pic.twitter.com/pgKY5NPEyV
— Dr. Theresa Tam (@CPHO_Canada) December 21, 2022
HT | The Burning Platform
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Unless you are a serious amateur or professional, you are using your smartphone to take photos or videos. I decided that for most GraniteGrok work, I decided to get a high end smartphone instead of a new prosumer video camera.
Thus far, I haven’t been disappointed.
And thus, I have noticed that I see very few “camera cameras” in peoples’ hands. And this chart shows why – call it a “camera cliff”?
Yes, that IS a cliff!
(H/T: Caveman Circus)
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No wonder Freedom of Information laws have had to be created in the past decade or so. So many elected officials have been hiding so many underhanded dealings that once could be expected to be uncovered by real reporters. Sadly, they are now few and far between. They used to keep those officials thinking about their lower inclinations far more than today. Well, don’t expect all to come out sparkling clean and shiny, nope, check this one.
Per (PatriotWise.com) It appears Gary Gensler, chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been caught removing events from the public version of his calendar with any mention of his meetings with Hillary Clinton and George Soros, and the essential information about those encounters.
It took a lawsuit by Energy Policy Advocates, a watchdog group, which had detected some glitches in the published calendar for them to get the internal documents ( the rest of the story).
As readers may know, the SEC has been getting some pushback for trying to get a climate disclosure rule requiring publicly traded companies to share carbon emissions data – as if SEC needed more power. The only possible reason SEC would want or need this rule would be to enforce more restrictions on fossil fuels as per the Biden agenda, even while having no reasonable replacement for those fuels and driving prices even higher for them.
The aforementioned meetings detail coverups that appeared to be regarding this power grab attempt by SEC. Energy Policy Advocates lawyer Chris Horner said it is “astonishing” that Soros received advice from the SEC chairman Gensler days before Soros wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal supporting the rule and on the mega-call donors for more SEC power.
We can make a pretty good guess now why the details of these meetings were scrubbed from the public record. Another underhanded plan to push the climate control scam, shown by any number of articles here at the ‘Grok,C02 emissions has not affected climate temperatures one bit. So unless those green “experts” can explain why it’s still cold out after CO2 levels are up, we can feel safe denying any more power to the SEC.
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In a Concord Monitor Op-Ed published on July 5, 2021, I explained why the Democrats were likely to eschew New Hampshire’s First in the Nation (FITN) Primary due to identity politics.
It was an easy prediction.
Joe Biden finished fifth in the 2020 N.H. Primary balloting and left the Granite State for South Carolina while votes were still being cast. That wasn’t very generous to all of Biden’s New Hampshire supporters who worked so hard for him, only to see him bug out on them while it was still daylight on Primary Day.
And Kamala Harris received all of 129 votes that February 11th. So one wouldn’t really expect either Biden or Harris to advocate for our FITN status. And Biden clearly made a deal with South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn to pick an African* American woman as a running mate. It now appears that Biden also agreed to advocate for South Carolina to replace N.H. as the first primary state.
Nice.
The knock on New Hampshire is that it is too old and too white and doesn’t reflect America. But South Carolina’s Democrat electorate is around 60% black—which perhaps doesn’t quite reflect America either.
One might characterize the sordid saga as simply reflecting “identity politics,” which has sadly become a mainstay of Dem political calculus.
Biden’s virtue-signaling ruled out 95% of possible VP candidates due to race and gender. Ponder the egregiousness of it all. So now we have a failing and incoherent eighty-year-old president and an unpopular and incompetent vice-president. American adversaries must chortle and cheer.
However, due to state law, New Hampshire will still have the FITN—even though Democrats will supposedly stay away. But unencumbered by identity politics, Republican presidential aspirants will still campaign here, and Granite Staters will still benefit from the associated spending and media coverage. Thank you, GOP!
But what about the Dems?
Don’t be misled by Biden’s claim that he’s running for a second term. He has to say that, lest he be reduced to ineffective lame duck status before the 118th Congress even convenes. But most Dems don’t want him to run—and he won’t. By July Biden will announce his “retirement.”
It’s another easy prediction.
It’s only the latest in an endless litany of lies, exaggerations, embellishments, misstatements, and plagiarism from our craven Commander-in-Chief.
But will subsequent Dem candidates show up in New Hampshire?
Yes.
Initially, surrogates will thump tubs for Dem contenders. But the surrogate campaigns will eventually yield to the real deals visiting us.
Welcome, Gavin Newsom!
The Democrat National Committee won’t sanction delegates from a “pirate” primary. But Dem candidates will still come, thumbing their noses at Biden and the DNC. They’ll want that all-important momentum (if not delegates) going into South Carolina and Nevada. Although not all will come. Afraid of “disrespecting” the South Carolina Dem electorate, some will stay away to pay homage to identity politics. It will be interesting—and fun—to see who comes and who doesn’t and how they all spin things.
Decades from now historians may look back at this era of American politics and wonder how our country detoured down so many dead-end roads marked by baffling signposts with jargon about identity politics, gender identification, climate emergencies, open borders, and more. Hopefully by then we’ll have put divisive and poisonous identity politics behind us. Perhaps by then we’ll be electing people to important positions based on their inherent merits and ethical qualities as opposed to their gender or ethnicity.
But in the shorter term, folks around here wonder if there will be a consequential New Hampshire Presidential Primary in 2024. I say, “Yes. There will be”
And that’s yet another easy prediction!
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A retired professor and former Marine Corps officer, State Rep. Mike Moffett of Loudon chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations.
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