Thursday • April 3 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XIV
Manchester, N.H.
The Big Debate of 2024. When did you last see such an anticipated event that wasn’t a Patriot’s Super Bowl? The pregame dissection of the debate was fascinating to watch and made it clear which talking head was backing which candidate.
The one thing that was over the top was all of the legacy media talking in unison, attacking the character of Donald Trump—the most despicable display of self-importance and disrespect for the former president was Kassie Hunt of CNN. With her nose up in the air in a condescending fashion, she asked her guest if Joe Biden would shake Donald Trump’s hand. She went on to say that Donald Trump was not worthy of a Joe Biden’s handshake. The two men did not shake hands, but Joe Biden shook many heads on Thursday night, and by Friday morning, watching MSNBC and CNN was more like observing a state funeral than a Presidential debate.
There seemed to be shock and surprise at CNN and MSNBC, which leads me to an obvious question. Were these supposedly political experts really at a loss for Biden’s condition and performance, or were they caught in the big lie perpetrated by the White House and supported entirely by the legacy media? What the world saw of Joe Biden on Thursday is what we on the Right have been pointing to since 2021. If the former is true, these supposed experts are worse at their jobs than we could imagine. If the latter is true, these people should be relieved of their duties. They are not fit to be dispersing expert analysis of a debate, campaign, or candidate. They can also be charged with election interference by knowingly misrepresenting the facts. You know this would never happen. The media is protected as long as they keep supporting the Left.
These folks have drunk more Kool-Aid than a kid’s summer camp, especially since they lost all sense of credibility and fell in love with Barack Obama. This has created an era of unprecedented media bias favoring the Left. You only need to look at the biggest lies created by the Left and supported unequivocally by the legacy media:
Russia, Russia, Russia
The Hilary Clinton Fake Dosier
The Trump/Ukraine Phonecall
The Hunter Biden Laptop
January 6th Insurrection
Randi Weingarten/DOJ Connection
The 51 Intelligence Official Letter
In all of these instances, the media walked hand in hand with the hosts and was totally unified and in sync with the Democrat talking points. All of these stories were. Combine this with identity politics, and you have the current dilemma facing the Democrats. They want to replace Joe Biden and Kamala Harris but face three significant obstacles-Joe Biden, Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris. I contend the two ladies would be the most challenging obstacles. Removing the sitting Vice President, who happens to be a Black female, will be impossible. Jill Biden is a power-hungry individual and a wretched wife. She should have thrown the towel in for Joe years ago. These two women are immovable and remember one more factor. Joe Biden promised during the 2020 election he would be a one-term President. I guess that was just another Joe Biden lie!
The post It Is Not About The Debate But The Gaslighting appeared first on Granite Grok.
Octogenarians of the world … UNITE. Actually, I have no idea if Kathy Sullivan is an octogenarian or just plays one on WMUR, aka NH-Democrat-TV. But she looks like she’s not in much better shape than BidenX, so I am going to help her out by amplifying her message.
This post goes out to all the weak, feckless, leaf-eating beta-males in the NH-Democrat Party … you have your orders! Begin goose-stepping NOW. Heil victory!
At Biden HQ in Manchester @NHKathySullivan delivers a stern message to Democrats engaging in anonymous quote hand-wringing over the @JoeBiden debate performance: “Suck it up, buttercup.” #NHPolitics #FITN #WMUR pic.twitter.com/lWCF2pluAv
— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) June 28, 2024
The post NH-“Democrats” … The Party Of Angry, Shrill Women And Weak, Beta-Males appeared first on Granite Grok.
When the G7 met a few weeks ago in Italy, Joe Biden had the highest approval rating of any head of state in attendance. This summit was the most significant meeting of the least popular politicians in the world. These politicians cannot accept the fact that their policies have failed the common man, and people wanted a change from the progressive left ideology.
They are so caught up in their self-importance that reality is beyond their grasp. How sad to think that Joe Biden won Mr. Popularity with a 38% approval rating. This meeting began the slide of doom for President Joe Biden.
France held their elections on Sunday, and the young progressive Emmanuel Macron took an absolute beating. The outcome was expected, but the swing back to the Right was significant and sent a message to every other country led by a progressive Left leader. That message is that we drank the Kool-Aid and gave you a chance to prove your way was better than that of a conservative centrist, and you failed. We were far better off living in the middle ground.
The far-right National Rally Party narrowly missed a majority. If it can expand its lead in the second round of voting on July 7, it could form the country’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Bardella as prime minister, and replace Macron’s pro-Europe agenda with its populist and anti-immigration platform.
Macron did not acknowledge defeat. In a statement, he hailed the unusually high vote turnout and called for the same in the second round. But the projected results suggested that his gamble in calling for the elections had backfired spectacularly and that his influence over French politics was rapidly waning.
Macron said he would not resign and could stay on until his term expires in 2027, but he would face majority opposition with little recourse. The results of this election have sent shockwaves throughout Europe. Many other European leaders suffer from the same poor approval ratings as Macron and will probably face the same outcome when their voters go to the polls. France is the second-largest economy in the E.U. and a force in E.U. affairs.
Another concern is whether the French far-right might undermine Europe’s support for Ukraine and its stance on Russia. The National Party leaders are already challenging Macron’s hold on French foreign policy and defense, suggesting the president play a more honorary role as armed forces commander in chief.
Macron was the first fringe candidate to be elected outside the more traditional center-left and center-right parties that had dominated French politics for decades. Many in Europe feel that this move away from the more progressive policies will continue on both sides of the Atlantic. The Progressive parties have had years to prove their policies work, but they have failed across the globe.
The time it takes for the National Party to win a majority may require more rounds of elections, putting France in a stalemate position. There may be many changes in candidates before the second round, including many far-left candidates dropping out. This would leave many races with just two parties- the National Party and the New Popular Front coalition.
What is happening in France and across Europe is reflective of our American race and does not look favorable on a successful Biden bid for reelection. This is one time we Americans who live on the right hope that France is right.
The post France: Macron Takes an Electoral Beating: Which Globalist World Leader is Next? appeared first on Granite Grok.
And it’s that time of the week again.
Last week’s Friday Edition.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, definitely off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
Am I “in the fight”? Yes. But I’ll be disappointed if that’s really the reason I was born.
>>>>>=====<<<<<
Special Post Debate Section:
20 Biggest Lies Biden Told During His Debate With Trump (thefederalist.com)
82% don’t think Biden should run for president: NYPost poll
Biden’s Favorite News Show, MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe,’ Calls for Him to Step Down – Slay News
How Biden could be replaced as the Democratic nominee – Washington Examiner
Biden today, tell me what is good and bad about this new photo and FLOTUS is doing all she could, I commend her, but it is OVER! 95%, inside people tell me Biden WILL NOT be on the ticket November (substack.com)
Desperate Biden hits back at NY Times after it told him to drop out of race – as Democratic donors float ‘intervention’ led by Obama to get president to see sense after debate | Daily Mail Online
Biden campaign official stops voters from talking to press after they blast debate performance – Washington Times
OOF! Even Reliable Lefty Jon Stewart Mocked Joe Biden Over the Debate: ‘Resting 25th Amendment Face’ (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance
The entire New York Times homepage right now is 10 different articles trying to get Biden to drop out (citizenwatchreport.com)
Uh Oh… More Bad News for Democrats: Biden Cannot be Replaced on Ballot in Three Swing States, Except for Death or 25th Amendment | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
Can Democrats Dump Biden And Move On? It’s Not That Simple (thefederalist.com)
And that’s what I predicted on Friday: he’ll get retired, soon, on a gurney with a toe tag.
As if they didn’t know from meeting him over the last few years, or seeing him at conferences / summits. But the kid has screamed at the emperor “He’s naked”, so now everyone is safe saying so.
World Officials Say They’ve Seen Warning Signs of Biden’s Mental Fitness (breitbart.com)
Beautiful… Leftists Eating Their Own: Furious Keith Olbermann Calls for CNN Be Literally Burned Down for Not Assisting Biden During Disastrous Debate Performance (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
Excellent one!
Joe Biden’s Replacement Announced? * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah
>>>>>=====<<<<<
And so it begins:
ROFL! “Common cold”? C’mon, man…
I agree, with a few rather notable exceptions. For them, the sooner the better.
As I’ve said, understanding that there really is a war on white people has been one of the single bitterest red pills I’ve taken.
Only reason I ever listen to NPR.
If the Dems “retire” The Potato somehow, even money says she’ll be slipped in as an epic 2016 rematch. But that will happen after the second debate, so there will be no more debates.
But… but… but we’ve been assured by our intellectual and moral superiors that the Great Replacement is a myth. More:
I don’t treat my lawn with anything. Love those dandelions as a reserve of greens. Same with a few other forage-worthy plants in my yard and property. At least my blackberry bushes seem to be bearing more than a few token berries this year. Very disappointed that some of the other seeds I’ve planted haven’t taken off.
By law you cannot own a natural thing.
The fact that she did this – openly-admitted deceit – should make anything that comes from that deceit the “fruit of the poisoned tree”…
Seen this before, but it’s evergreen.
If I can ever afford a flagpole, the only one going up is Old Glory. MAYBE the Gadsden flag below it.
>>>>>=====<<<<<
PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
We have to remember: Most people have a price. For The Jab. For “climate scientists”. For dietitians who “found” that fat was bad and sugar OK. And, MHO as I don’t know amounts, I suspect the price is remarkably cheap. Speaking of diet, this is a fantastic book.
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
The enormity of the “purchasing” of dietary science staggers…
The Food Pyramid Is Based on Flawed Science and Bad Policy | PragerU
How the Government Made You Fat | PragerU
>>>>>=====<<<<<
All about protecting The Narrative.
I still hope it does. Humping through the woods in Spicy Time with supplies and guns and ammo, plus kids in tow, is not my vision of a future I want. Though, honestly, it’s the future I expect.
Just another slush fund, like the Clinton Foundation. I personally suspect most politician-related “charities” are exactly that, whether Left or Right.
Again and again I’ll state that while I don’t advocate for or encourage violence, were the doctors and hospital admins who permitted – encouraged! – this to develop cases of high velocity lead poisoning, and I were on the jury, I’d accept the Southern Defense as a valid reason to vote Not Guilty.
Yeah.
You can only rally solely on hating The Other for so long.
I’ve asked a couple of Argentines I know about this. One likes his economic policies but not so much his desire to support Ukraine, nor to take the Falkland Islands.
Tell me you hate your own people, without telling me you hate your own people.
>>>>>=====<<<<<
Link section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):
Tyranny / Globalists:
Klaus Schwab Tells WEF Elites: ‘We Must Force’ Humanity into ‘Collaboration’ with Globalist Agenda – Slay News
Forced collaboration. Understand this fully that the velvet glove is coming off. Especially as they “fall short” of targets:
Only 17% of targets to improve life around the world are likely to be reached by 2030, UN reports – ABC News (go.com)
The “One Health” Agenda ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Every Leftist Cause Begins as Humanitarianism and Ends as Terrorism – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org
—
World War 3 Watch:
Putin says Russia should produce previously banned missiles – Insider Paper
EU bureaucrats ‘want war with Russia’ – Orban — RT World News
Not just in Ukraine, but globally.
Taiwan urges citizens to avoid travel to China, Hong Kong and Macao following Beijing threats – ABC News (go.com)
The World’s Most Dangerous Delusion: Biden Thinks China Wants Stability :: Gatestone Institute
More:
Iranian official says reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liner Saeed Jalili heading to a runoff presidential election – ABC News (go.com)
“Reformist” my ass. At least, that’s my initial take.
Iran Mullahs Drastically Speed Up Their Nuclear Program, US Administration Sits Idly By :: Gatestone Institute
Obama and Biden paved the way to a nuclear-armed Iran – JNS.org
Who Gave the Order to Threaten Nuclear War Last Week? – Flopping Aces
Seven Hairy Hells. We’re going to tit-for-tat our way to WW3.
—
In response to this GG piece:
Night Cap: In Need of Founding Beliefs – Granite Grok
I want to put up an old essay of mine, Ethic Foods and Elections, as a complement to the above post.
E Ethnic Food and Elections
—
Jab / vaccines / medical:
Australian Government Has Been Hiding Deadly Covid Shot Side Effects since 2021 – Slay News
Stroke Risk: COVID Shots 200 Times More Likely to Cause Blood Clots in Brain • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
RFK Jr. Leaves Dr. Phil Stunned As He Explains Huge Kickbacks Fauci and NIH Have Earned From Moderna Vaccines (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Ben Kew
Pfizer Pro Quo: more evidence emerges that drugmakers cut deal to help Biden win election (dossier.today)
CDC: “Vaccines work, even when they don’t.” – STAND FOR HEALTH FREEDOM
They’re going to keep doing this.
Sadly, many will fail.
Intended Consequences: mRNA ‘Vaccines’ were Designed to Cause Severe Disease and Be Resistant to Antibodies (substack.com)
June 2024 COVID-19 And mRNA Vaccine Article Reference List – Fatherly Advice and Rants
JUST IN: Mainstream Media 7News Australia Airs Groundbreaking Segment highlighting COVID Vaccine Reactions (aussie17.com)
‘Impossible’: FDA’s Fast Review of Pfizer Vaccine Sparks Debate on Thoroughness • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
Crazy Objects Found in Blood of the Vaccinated & In Vaccine Vials (deeprootsathome.com)
Kansas Attorney General Report – by Carl Heneghan (substack.com)
Long with a lot of info. Sue them for their livers and kidneys. The problem here is that the bigwigs who made these decisions will likely skate with a fine – thus legal, for a price – but the company itself might crash. But as this comes out, more and more, more parents will hear about subclinical myocarditis, have their kids thoroughly checked, and learn just how deep that betrayal by the medical industrial complex has gone.
General:
Vaccine Injury Cover-up? Emails suggests BCCDC withheld COVID jab adverse reaction data (youtube.com)
12 minutes.
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi – Myocarditis, Pfizer & Moderna and the Causal Link (rumble.com)
Two-odd hours!
Dr. David Martin Exposing COVID as a Biological Warfare Crime (rumble.com)
21 minutes.
Allergy Shots Contain Toxic Carbolic Acid, Human Albumin & Aluminum (deeprootsathome.com)
My son went through part of a series of allergy shots. Oy!
—
Western Civilization Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Decadence – HotAir
Yes.
—
Economy:
Bidenomics Causes Independence Day BBQ Costs to Soar – The Lid (lidblog.com)
—
Culture wars:
EXCLUSIVE: Miss Maryland Contestants Dispute Male Winner (dailysignal.com)
“I was shocked,” one contestant told The Daily Signal as she described how she found out that she was competing against a man. This contestant, who asked to remain anonymous to protect her privacy, will be identified as Contestant A. “I had mixed feelings. I started to think that the winner might be predetermined.”
“A transgender woman gets crowned during first day of transgender Pride Month?” she asked. “It did not seem like a coincidence. Especially when owner of the pageant is a transgender woman herself. I was feeling like neither myself nor my fellow contestants had a fair opportunity from the beginning.”
Pushback. More:
Idaho Pride event diminished after 2023 protest (massresistance.org)
Josh Hammer: How Conservatives Can Finally Get Judicial Nominations Right | The Patriot Post
But… but… but playing to win would cost them invites to the “beautiful people cocktail parties”.
Modesty Empowers Women…and 4 Reasons Nudity Doesn’t (deeprootsathome.com)
I thought this was so important that I put it into my journal for my kids. Both for the girl to understand that “sexy” (let alone nudes, or even worse porn) is not empowering but cheapening.
And for the boy to grasp that a woman who uses exposed skin to garner attention is detracting from the more fundamental attraction of shared values and goals in life. As Heston said in the Ten Commandments, He is the light of eternal mind. That’s the basis for marriage, not rutting.
Tractor Supply Changes Their Woke Mind After Boycotts Began – Clever Journeys
Woke, seeing consequences. Meanwhile, in the UK:
—
FLASHBACK: CIA Official Admits ‘Biden World Asked For’ Letter from 51 Intel Officials Blasting Hunter’s Hard Drive as Russian Propaganda. (thenationalpulse.com)
Corrupt. Corrupt. Corrupt. More fetid corruption:
Rep. James Comer: Bidens, China may have had 11 additional deals (nypost.com)
—
Border / migration:
Trump Says Biden’s Open Border Taking Job Opportunities Away from Black Americans (breitbart.com)
79,000 DACA Recipients Were Approved Despite Arrest Records, Some Arrested 10x or More | The Gateway Pundit | by Jack Davis, The Western Journal
Biden’s Border Chief Claims Power to Admit More Illegals (breitbart.com)
>>>>>=====<<<<<
Pick of the post:
On trusting Democrats:
On trusting Democrats Bumper Sticker | Zazzle
>>>>>=====<<<<<
Palate Cleansers:
—
—
>>>>>=====<<<<<
Come back Wednesday for another edition. Same Meme Time. Same Meme channel.
Please do consider buying me a coffee.
Buy Me a Coffee
>>>>>=====<<<<<
The post MONDAY MEMES appeared first on Granite Grok.
The Democrats broke new ground when the White House coordinated with DAs and DOJ to bring multiple prosecutions against former president and current Candidate Donald Trump. When asked about Constitutionality, SCOTUS responded with a decidedly constitutional response.
Emphasis, mine.
A federal grand jury indicted former President Donald J. Trump on four counts for conduct that occurred during his Presidency following the November 2020 election. The indictment alleged that after losing that election, Trump conspired to overturn it by spreading knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the collecting, counting, and certifying of the election results. Trump moved to dismiss the indictment based on Presidential immunity, arguing that a President has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions performed within the outer perimeter of his official responsibilities, and that the indictment’s allegations fell within the core of his official duties. The District Court denied Trump’s motion to dismiss, holding that former Presidents do not possess federal criminal immunity for any acts. The D. C. Circuit affirmed. Both the District Court and the D. C. Circuit declined to decide whether the indicted conduct involved official acts.
Held: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts. Pp. 5–43.
(a) This case is the first criminal prosecution in our Nation’s history of a former President for actions taken during his Presidency. Determining whether and under what circumstances such a prosecution may proceed requires careful assessment of the scope of Presidential power under the Constitution. The nature of that power requires that a former President have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office. At least with respect to the President’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute. As for his remaining official actions, he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity. Pp. 5–15.
I need to read the rest of the decision, but that seems to make it clear enough. Trump (Obama, Clinton, and Biden) has extensive immunity protection for actions while in office. Unofficial acts are not immune.
Decided 6-3 (Kagen, Sotomayor, and Jackson Dissenting – which really means they want Clinton and Obama left Open to prosecution: Biden is incompetent to stand trial so he’s safe).
The post Breaking: SCOTUS Decision Drops on Trump Presidential Immunity … appeared first on Granite Grok.
A Jaffrey, NH detransitioner is suing the local clinicians who brushed aside concerns about her autism and severe mental health disorders and pushed her down a path of testosterone and harmful, unnecessary surgeries.
The plaintiff, Amanda Stewart, 39, suffers from physical deformities, chronic pain, bone weakness, and heart problems, as well as life-long regret. “She lives in daily pain from the effects of the unnecessary surgeries and years of taking enormous amounts of cross-sex hormones,” the suit states.
“They also took the natural beauty I possessed, so I lost any chance I could ever have with men,” Amanda said. “Then they took my fertility through surgery. Most men want a family and for their wife to at least look decently presentable and normal.”
“They prey on autistic people,” she said of gender clinicians. “I felt experimented upon to the point of financial and social ruination so that doctors, hospitals, and the pharmaceutical companies could get rich.”
The suit makes the following allegations:
Related: Is Dartmouth Health’s Pediatric Gender Clinic Destroying Kids’ Sexual Function?
Other defendants in the lawsuit are Dartmouth Health, St. Joseph Hospital, Cheshire Medical Center, and Monadnock Family Services. Specific allegations are medical malpractice and negligence, civil conspiracy, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Amanda is represented by Concord NH Attorney Roy S. McCandless on behalf of Campbell Miller Payne, a law firm specializing in justice for detransitioners.
Image Credit:
The post New Hampshire Woman Sues Doctors for Gruesome “Gender Affirming Care” appeared first on Granite Grok.
There has been much speculation about the lengths to which the Left-Led Bordeau-sipping, uniparty ruling-class political supremacists might go to keep Donald Trump from ever setting foot in the Oval Office again. Would they, could they, have him killed? Surprise, they have a similar problem with Joe Biden.
The long-game speculation from myself and many others has been that this Democrat primary business was all a charade, and the donor class and the people running the DNC (and even a few folks inside the Biden administration) had a plan B. Politically abort Joe for medical reasons and replace him with someone viable.
Who that someone is has been of equal interest with names including Whitmer, Newsom, Michelle Obama, and even Hillary Clinton (who has apparently raised her hand and said, hey coach, put me in). But the party of death has a problem. Whoever runs the Biden administration is as wont to cling to the power they’ve got (and why not? Everyone will blame Joe for their mistakes) as any other cabal of oligarchs managing their puppet deposit.
We like our high-paying, perk-loaded jobs, and look, we get to “run” the country (into the ground), and we won’t get any blame. That’s on Joe, who can’t count to ten anymore without help. Some other Democrat might push us out the door or off to some less high-profile posting. Joe stays, we stay.
But, but, but, that debate thing, you say. It was a disaster. Months of media lies were unmasked, the way you might rip off a bandaid, but it feels like it was pulled off slowly instead, tearing every hair along with it. But Team Biden, whatever that means, isn’t interested in stepping aside, down, or anywhere else. They are in it to lose it come what may, and that has piled additional dismay onto the shit-wagon of worries after Thursday’s expose on the mental state of President Joseph R. Biden.
The liar-in-chief is now claiming he doesn’t debate well, as if that explains what we saw.
Sorry, but a few cans short of a six-pack doesn’t begin to approach what America witnessed, and the Media can no longer deny it. CNN didn’t deep fake that. Joe Biden is the single most significant negative to the outcome up and down the November ticket.
Millions of registered Democrats aren’t all-in on abortion at birth, or open borders, so some may be willing to sit November out or vote the other way (‘cuz the economy, crime, etc.). Some of them were thinking about voting Red Instead of Blue.
Are they legitimate swing voters now, no longer under any allusion about the state of their Commander and Chief? Is he the threat to national security his opponents have long claimed? It seems so, and there’s no hiding that, so all the Left has left is to insist Trump is a liar, cheat, fraud (in other words, He’s Joe Biden), and a dictator even though he never was in his first term.
You can’t vote for that! He’s mean, a liar, and a despot. Just ask anyone who agrees with us.
Oh, and Joe is the other choice.
Actually, RFK Jr. is the other choice, and he may benefit from this inescapable public turn of events, but we’ll have to wait on larger polls to see how that needle moved. If it did, it wouldn’t be good for Joe, who, as we’ve said, isn’t getting out of the race.
There is speculation that it is too late, anyway. What if there is no way to “replace” him short of a 25th amendment action that leaves them with President Kamala, which, believe it or not, Democrats probably view as worse? It’s quite the pickle, so here’s another question. Would the Dems resort to regicide to clear the way? They’d have to remove both Biden and Kamala and then blame it on right-wing extremists. I wouldn’t put it past the Clintons or the Obamas, but they have motivation. A Republican president following the abuses of the Biden administration might feel inclined to use its precedents to send prosecutors after Bill, Hillary, Barack, or any number of higher-ranking left-lead uniparty scions.
It’s all speculative theory, of course. I don’t want anyone assassinating anyone, and in this bizarre expiration of theory, both men have Secret Service details, so add the internal political chess match required to overcome that into the calculus. But the rabid dog of the left just painted itself into a corner, and we know it does not want to relinquish power. What will it do?
Anything is possible, including starting WWIII and declaring martial law. Let’s hope Joe can’t remember the launch codes and whoever has them doesn’t want to burn the world to keep Trump out of office. But, you have to wonder. Would they rather destroy America than give even a little of it back?
The post Would They Kill Him if They Had Too? appeared first on Granite Grok.
The old TreeHugger site, that batch of green on the outside but red on the inside Eco-Socialists, is gone forever. All of the DISQUS comments have been wiped out, and most of the more fun (e.g., combative) posts have also been deleted, including those by Lloyd Alter, who, I thought, was always on a Greenie track (with a socialist kicker of “Eat the Rich”).
Steve had voluntarily created a nice logo for me to you as the “Featured Image” (the images you see at the top of all of our posts – Steve makes sure that EVERY post has one for SEO purposes):
I thought it was MARVELOUS! And he’s much better than I am at this (my sad sack for Lloyd above – I make no bones about it that I almost failed stick figures in Junior High art class. That said, I am trying to figure out how to use AI to create some images for me, as I certainly can’t.
Thankfully, from the standpoint of creating content fodder, he is now “blogging” / writing at Substack: Carbon Upfront! (thus, “Substack Comments” instead of “DISQUS Comments,” where he concentrates on eliminating the use of carbon in building anything as it is killing us all and the planet. Funny, however, he never answers my questions about WHO is going to control/mandate/police that whole process (but it does give me leave to poke fun at him for his socialist/communist ways as he knows that I know that he knows there’s only one way to do it – MASSIVE Govt).
My, my, even with that, he actually invited me to his new digs so I promptly started to do what I did over at TH – come at his ideas from a different point of view than his academic/cultural bubble had. So, during my “semi-retirement,” I built up a few “comment posts-to-be” there, and it’s now time to start using them.
One of his recent posts is labeled “Cars need design for disassembly and repairability,” where he’s rather upset that Tesla, in its mantra of squeezing out every unneeded cost it can, violates his sensibilities that everything must be made repairable. Regardless, it raises the upfront cost of a product (including the expensive Teslas). To wit: Tesla’s adoption of “Gigacasting,” in which a lot of the Tesla body is now going to be made of one piece:
And then we have Tesla. According to energy and transport analyst Michael Sura, Tesla is “gigacasting” bigger and bigger pieces of their cars. While high-pressure die casting (HPDC) has been used to make complex parts for years, Tesla is making bigger and bigger parts. Sura writes on Linkedin:
“Traditionally, car manufacturers integrate numerous stamped, forged, extruded, and cast elements of their vehicle structures, connecting, welding, and gluing these components together in the production process. During the gig casting process, a molten liquid aluminum alloy is pressed into a mold under high pressure, resulting in the formation of large three-dimensional shapes with a relatively high level of precision. A large single gigacasted component can replace 50, 70, or even more individual parts.”
Lloyd is having hissy fits because unlike his old, old VW Bug, a Tesla (and Volvos and other manufacturers doing the same things) if something breaks, we all can’t fix it. Instead, we will have to buy that one HUGE piece if it gets crushed even a little (instead of one of the smaller pieces that formerly required multiple steps during the manufacturing process and added cost). It may even mean that a car gets totaled for what used to be a smallish repair.
Lloyd forgets that even running into a curbstone sidewalk with an EV could result in the battery bank getting bumped badly and the car getting totaled—after all, the battery is on that now huge structure, and any deformation of that is VERY likely to damage it. Can you say “S’mores on the highway” when it goes blooey?
So I decided to comment that EVs and their gig casting may not be as big of a problem as he thinks and from a different perspective than what he wanted:
Meanwhile, in other VW news: “Fossil Fuels Remain The Future. VW To Invest 60 Billion Euros In Combustion Engines!
In a surprising move, Volkswagen announced it plans to invest 60 billion euros in the development of new combustion engines as confidence in electric mobility plummets in Germany and elsewhere.
“This change in strategy shows that the transition to electromobility is progressing more slowly than expected,” reports Germany’s Blackout News here. “Just last year, Volkswagen assumed that electric cars would account for 80 percent of annual sales in Europe by the end of the decade. However, the lukewarm reception for its own ID models is forcing the company to adjust its strategy.” Also see (motor1: 07.06.24).
As German sales of electric vehicles fall way short of government targets due to their unpopularity and high costs, manufacturers are seeing the writing on the wall: Electric mobility still has a long way to go.
Reality check…” https://open.substack.com/pub/lloydalter/p/cars-need-design-for-disassembly
Remember, Lloyd hates, Hates, HATES cars. Gas-powered FAR more than EVs but hates ALL cars. He wants Rack’em and Stack’em dense cities that are “walkable,” and if you have to go anywhere, use public transportation, walk, or bike. So telling him that the lesser of cars aren’t turning out the way he will at least put up with (’cause it ain’t a carbon emitter) was the way to go.
However, another transplant from TH, Bob Baal, a New Zealander, decided to answer the above with rose-colored glasses supporting the EV viewpoint. Funny that he had to pick on what here in the States is a luxury car that few can afford:
BMW seems to have a different opinion
“BERLIN, Jan 10 (Reuters) – BMW (BMWG.DE), opens new tab is investing 650 million euros ($711 million) to convert its main plant in Munich to exclusively produce EVs from the end of 2027, the carmaker said on Wednesday, a major stepping stone in the transition to the electric age.”
“”The tipping point for combustion engines was last year,” declared BMW’s Chief Financial Officer, Walter Mertl, effectively drawing a line under the era of unbridled ICE growth. “
“Meanwhile, BMW’s electrified fleet is experiencing a record-breaking surge. Sales of electric BMWs, Minis, and Rolls-Royces rocketed 74.4 percent in 2023, propelling EVs to a 15 percent share of the company’s 2.56 million-unit total output.
This momentum is set to continue, with BMW aiming to ramp up EV share to 33 per cent by 2026 and a staggering 50 per cent by the end of the decade.”
Or from VW itself
“EVs are the future, but combustion era ‘is not over,’ VW CFO says”
?Of the €180 billion ($196 billion) set aside in 2023 for research and development, the German brand said it would use more than two-thirds on “electrification and digitalization.”?
So lots of EV and PHEV from VW. Hardly the abandonment of EV’s.
“As German sales of GERMAN electric vehicles fall way short of GERMAN government targets due to their unpopularity and high costs, GERMAN manufacturers are seeing the writing on the wall as NON-GERMAN EV sales mushroom.
Fixed that for you.
Sales of PHEV and BV are online to be 1 in 12 of new cars in 2024. For every BEV sold this month in 2020 4 are being sold now.
I went contrarian to show that the rosy glasses seem to be getting darker and darker as we hoi polloi aren’t buying what’s being sold, literally:
Ford and GM are cutting back on EV investment and production (Ford losing $132K USD for each EV). Fisker just went Chapter 11 bankruptcy. So did Lordstown. Rivian isn’t doing well either.
So, President Biden had $7 billion USD to build EV chargers all over the country. $7 Billion.
8…count them…8 sites have been built thus far. And folks wonder why I’m a government skeptic – and loudly proclaim that this is not a Constitutionally permitted activity by the Federal government (States, however, are a different beast – they can if they want).
Much of the private charging sites (Tesla mostly excluded) are hit or miss on whether they work or not (mostly not).
And now my local TV station has been running clips on how range is much diminished with EVs in the heat (batteries are being drained in keeping the batteries cool; nice tech but it doesn’t help in getting where you want to go). This is in addition to the clips this past winter about the same problem.
Gotta keep’em warm, too!
And more than a few on EV school buses, costing twice to three times the price of gas/diesel ones, not being able to be used in the northern part of the US. Mountainous areas? Forgettabout it!
Let’s see how BMW goes.
I didn’t say abandon but we’re seeing the aftereffects of the over-exuberance of EV Future. IMHO, after the frenzied & large scale rollout, now that early adopters and virtue-signalers, the market is certainly pulling back – resale prices on used EVs is crashing. Almost half of EV users (https://www.eenews.net/articles/46-of-american-ev-drivers-want-to-go-back-to-gas-cars-report/) are looking to go back to gas powered cars.
Bottom line is that I’m agnostic to either EV or ICE as long as it gets me to where I want to go in hauling the people and stuff that needs to go with me without worrying about range and reliability. What I am NOT agnostic about is having govt ramming it down my throat via laws or biasing regulations in forcing its choice upon me.
Funny, nobody has taken that on yet.
Anyway, more to come as I have lots on my stack of stuff!
The post EVs, ICEVs, Repairability, and Outrage appeared first on Granite Grok.
The “Democrat” Party … the party of angry, shrill women and weak, feckless, leaf-eating beta-males. Perhaps no State better exemplifies that than New Hampshire.
Here is State Senate candidate Ben Ming, who is going to bring diversity to the State Senate by regurgitating the Left’s abortion is “reproductive healthcare” trope while reminding us that he is Asian. Hey, beta-boy, abortion is the antithesis of reproduction.
The post Night Cap: Vote For Me … I’m Asian And I Want More Abortions appeared first on Granite Grok.
It was astonishing to hear that, after neglecting the Ship of State for a solid week for debate “training,” Joe Biden failed at both execution and plan. The plan included repeating his stock lies, including:
– The “very fine people” hoax that Snopes finally debunked just this week
– The “losers and suckers” lie that even John Bolton had denied
The electorate does not know for sure who is telling the truth and who is lying — especially when CNN, following Alinsky (“Look in the mirror and call your enemy the worst thing you see”), blogs the debate punctuated with “Facts matter”. The electorate especially does not know for sure what economic policies will be successful and which will backfire. Luckily, they can sniff out character — vitality versus dotage.
But there is one chronic Biden lie that every Grok reader ought to learn to rebut: that Trump “cut taxes for billionaires.”
We want to thank Spike for this Contribution – Please direct yours to Steve@GraniteGrok.com.
You can review our ‘Op-Ed Guidelines‘ on the FAQ Page.
1. “Billionaire” and so on are measures of wealth. What we tax is income; the government takes a portion of each year’s new production. We are lucky that government doesn’t try to tax wealth. Wealth would flee the US, at the speed of mouse clicks, in search of safety, and there would quickly be no capital to build buildings, create jobs, and buy machines to improve productivity, which is the only systemwide way that pay goes up.
2. Trump’s signature Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 did indeed cut tax rates on high-earners. This is because it cut tax rates on everyone. High-earners pay the lion’s share of US income taxes — and they paid a GREATER share after the Act lowered their rates. There is no way to pass a general tax cut without also benefitting “people who don’t need it.” The only individuals who did not benefit are high-earners in Democrat states who pay high state and local taxes and lost their ability to recoup some of them on Form 1040.
3. US income-tax revenue, even adjusted for inflation, is so much larger than before the Act that by now the Act clearly “paid for itself.” Most cuts in tax rates do pay for themselves, whenever we get a President wise enough to propose them (JFK and Reagan), because most rates are still on the far edge of the Laffer Curve, where the main effect of a rate increase is not more government revenue but serious harm to the economy resulting in less revenue. This will not undo Congress’s rule that any future tax-rate cut must be accompanied by new damage in order to “pay for it,” based on the false assumption that people don’t change their behavior when you repeal punishing taxes.
4. Biden’s lie to the contrary is stock demagoguery, which unfortunately continues to work well, many voters believing that they will benefit if government confines itself to harming classes of people we dislike. It is a variation on Obama’s and Clinton’s theme that certain classes “won’t see a dime of new taxes.” In fact, everyone will pay them, and it would be much more healthy if we did see them!
5. Biden’s drumbeat that “the rich [sic] don’t pay their fair share” is blind to history. The Tax Code has clawbacks of tax breaks, arcane rules for specific groups of taxpayers, and a complete second income tax (the 26%-28% Alternative Minimum Tax) to target people supposedly paying too little under the first one. Obamacare included a burdensome investor surtax (the 3.8% NIIT) having nothing to do with health care but only Obama’s own class hatred. He even proposed what was essentially a third tax system to “catch” those people we all hate but didn’t catch with the second one. In fact, every law-abiding taxpayer is paying his fair share. Some pay low taxes because they do what Congress has asked them to do, such as invest in depressed zones or buy low-interest government bonds. They have earned their low tax rate. Some, like Warren Buffett, pay low taxes by deferring the sale of stock; they have low tax on income because they have foregone their income. Of course, Biden, Sanders, and Warren are proposing to tax even gains that you don’t receive. This is a variation on the belief of “Gollum” that, if I can conceive of it, it should be mine.
6. There is no measurement of when a high-income taxpayer has paid what Biden thinks is his “fair share.” That is, if Biden got everything he is asking for, he could and would continue to use this line and demand a further solution to this supposed problem. The result is unconstrained government; this is a much bigger problem than the notion that someone made “too much money.”
The biggest positive of the Biden term is his inability to repeal the 2017 tax law, and it is the reason the US economy is resisting recession even as Biden continually wages war with investment, innovation, and entire industries. However, Republicans had to lower the “cost” of the Act to avoid a Democrat filibuster, so the personal tax cuts expire at the end of 2025 — and Biden has vowed that they will “stay expired” if he is re-elected. No matter the damage.
My perennial tax proposal is that, at the start of the next year, the US enact a law that any money you make for the rest of that year, above the amount you made this year, is taxed at a rate of 0%. No one loses. Take a moment to imagine how hard you would work! Everyone else would too. Explosive new productivity is worth whatever it would “cost” the Parasite Sector.
The post Trump Cut Taxes for Billionaires? appeared first on Granite Grok.
Elections Have Consequences: Let’s play, Spot the Difference … #CCP #Biden #Trump
!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u359331"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");
Rumble("play", {"video":"v51jqzr","div":"rumble_v51jqzr"});
The post Elections Have Consequences: Let’s play, Spot the Difference … #CCP #Biden #Trump appeared first on Granite Grok.
Hurricane Season is finally perking up a notch. We’ve gone from a few tropical depressions to one named tropical storm to one actual hurricane. Beryl is currently a Category 3, north of French Guiana and Suriname.
Its current track, unfortunately for the fearmongering media, will take it across Grenada, just south of Jamaica, where it begins to lose strength. Beryl’s projection ends at the Yucatan Peninsula as a Cat 1. – no US landfall.
But it’s a hurricane, damn it. It took the entire month of June, but we’ve got one with two other depressions percolating, one of them with a high probability of needing a name itself (perhaps my other brother, Beryl?). The promise of an active season is upon us, but you know that. We’ve been reporting it for months. That’s not what this is about. We’re here to talk about the media filter of said hurricane.
Not just a Cat 3 or Cat 4 hurricane but a, Very, Extremely Dangerous version of those. As if that were not ever the case before?
The hyperbole is, I suppose, expected; they have, after all, been forced to wait nearly four weeks for anything remotely capable of earning the words very this or that. It’s all very amusing. Not the hurricane, of course; those things can get nasty, but the hutspah. As if they’re so good at climate and prediction in general, we should all drop our tea and shout, good heavens!
Beryl is now only the third Category 3 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic in June, following Audrey in 1957 and Alma in 1966, hurricane specialist and storm surge expert Michael Lowry said.
What was the atmospheric concentration of CO2 in 1957 or 1966? It’s not a concern or even on their radar, which is of no consequence and unworthy of mention, especially since, OMG! Beryl is the first Cat 4 in that region ever recorded. All that means is that there could have been one before records were kept. It’s like that hottest hotness ever problem. Aside from almost never being true, it is an impossible lie to defend. We know the earth has been hotter and for longer just not as part of the modern or satellite record.
Related: Inconvenient Science – Warming Leads to Fewer Hurricane Landfalls
You might as well say yours is the biggest penis you’ve ever seen, having never seen any other. Or, maybe you have, but it’s been ninety years, and we are meant to 1) believe you and 2) believe it means what you say.
The storm has already set the record for the easternmost hurricane to form in the Tropical Atlantic in June, beating a previous record set in 1933.
I think, as a courtesy, the SeeOhTwoasauraus should be required to report how much carbon dioxide is in the “air” when they do crap like this. It was around 250 ppm in 1933 which suggests the trigger isn’t what they will continue to claim. It’s something else and there are a lot of somethings at play.
The other thing missing from the hyperbolic “very” headlines is how very likely it is that Beryl might be a Cat 1 before it reaches the Yucatan. I couldn’t find that anywhere. As in, “very uncommon Hurricane projected to lose almost all of its energy before it reaches Mexico.” Or, “Beryl is strong now but likely to lose a lot of punch before landfall.”
Well, heck, why bother to even read about that? Nothing to see here unless you live in Grenada or Jamaica.
We don’t know if that’s how it will pan out or if Beryl will stick to its current trajectory (maybe reach Cat5?) because the prediction game is precarious a few days out, which—again—begs us to wonder how they can feel so certain about anything ten, twenty, or fifty years along. They can’t. But there is a lot of money and much in the way of political advantage in anything that sustains the hysteria.
Another problem they invented. An irrefutable hypothesis that is justified by everything because that’s the only way to keep the green rolling in and the fear rolling out,
None predicted yet, but we’ve got four months, which, as you know, leaves us plenty of time for more hysteria absent any context. And there’s a tropical depression right behind and plenty of potential behind that.
It’s a big year for hurricanes. just remember, we’ve been quiet for a very long time. This was due.
The post Hurricane Beryl Getting Rave Reviews from Fearmongering Media appeared first on Granite Grok.
Alissandra Murray … who appears more interested in representing Hamas than the people in Manchester she is supposed to represent … has turned down an invitation to the White House because “a genocide is still actively supported by it,” referring to Gaza. Alissandra, however, apparently has no problem with the genocide in Ukraine … where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have died fighting Biden’s proxy-war against Russia.
It is fair to ask if Alissandra even knows about the situation in Ukraine and how it came to be … the Biden-regime saber-rattling about admitting Ukraine into NATO and dispatching Boris Johnson to scuttle a peace-plan Ukraine and Russia had agreed to at the outset of the conflict. It is fair to ask because Alissandra appears to be the quintessential Woke-Commy-bot marching in goose-step and never asking why or where,
The post Slavic Lives Don’t Matter To Alissandra Murray appeared first on Granite Grok.
Many readers are already familiar with that Nashua flagpole matter, which I said I would share updates on, and there are a few worth mentioning. I sent in my 91A request early on the morning of June 7 and received a reply on June 12, telling me how voluminous my request was and that I would receive another response “on or before June 25.”
Given my previous RTK experience and subsequent litigation against the City, I didn’t have the highest of hopes.
I sent a polite follow-up email on June 24, reminding city hall that I would like to have the material I requested “available for public inspection no later than” the next day. City hall closes at 4:30 p.m., so I sent a 3:45 p.m. email requesting that they make good before closing up for the day. 4:30 came and went, but a surprise arrived at 5:05 p.m., which local Grokster Laura Colquhoun said was their modus operandi.
Part of my surprise was that a city hall employee would be on duty after hours, but I was glad to see what at least appears on the surface as a good-faith effort. The email was accompanied by two files. One of them was a cover letter saying that my request was so voluminous that they would reply again on or before July 19 with the remainder of the responsive material. The other file was a 172 page pdf of older flag pole requests, like 2017-2021, which I have since shared with Damien Fisher of NH Journal and Beth Scaer. I am very interested in viewing the more recent material, so stay tuned.
Meanwhile, on June 25, I was in the early stages of preparing for what to do in the event that the City played hardball, as they are known to do. Because there was a good chance that they would either blow me off completely or stall me again with another delay, I decided to explore the possibility of using the ombudsman’s services.
I emailed Mr Kehr (and ONLY him) at 10:35 am on Tuesday, June 25, inquiring when it would be a good time, THE NEXT DAY, to come to his office to discuss using his services. It’s important to point out that I asked about coming in on Wednesday, June 26, because I was going to Concord anyway for the last meeting of the executive council before their summer recess. Also important is that I enclosed all the information he might find relevant in discussing my situation. I did that by forwarding him a copy of my June 24 email to city hall(and its scrollable cascade of previous emails). Big mistake!
While it has since been clarified to me that the ombudsman does not give advice, I will explain why sharing the details of my situation via email was a mistake. Mr. Kehr cannot be trusted any more than one can trust the nearest blabbermouth. I did not include anyone in City Hall in my email to him. Mr. Kehr was the ONLY recipient, and there were no “copy to” recipients, yet he decided to “school me” publicly in front of city hall, albeit cyber-style. Now Attorney Bolton and all his ilk know everything I said to Mr. Kehr in my email to him because he copied them in his reply to me!
I will also add that his response also arrived yesterday(Thursday) afternoon with an opening lip service sentence saying, “My apologies for not responding sooner.”
I don’t know how many emails this $100,000/year government employee receives per day, but he either doesn’t check his inbox daily or was completely clueless that I was expecting his reply to my morning email later that same day.
According to NH Bulletin’s Annmarie Timmins, Mr. Kehr was nominated by the Damn Emperor in December 2022, and he is an attorney. While I’m aware that I have no attorney-client privilege with him, I find his indiscretion disappointing, in addition to his insensitivity to timeliness. When his appointment expires, I do plan to tell the next executive council about this, assuming that our next governor renominates him.
The post A Disappointing First Contact With The New Ombudsman appeared first on Granite Grok.
The story, if you’ve not heard, is that the US Department of Defense, at the urging of then Sec Def Mark Esper, authorized a psy-op to make Asians afraid of China’s COVID vaccines.
These were actual vaccines made in the old-school way, and the DoD is alleged to have created or paid proxies and influencers on social media to get locals to protest China’s Jab.
Reuters: Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
Nice headline you got there. So, you’re telling me that the US Department of Defense was running an anti-vaxxer campaign in Asia to down-sell local vaccines so they could then offer to upsell mRNA gene therapies?
Did Pfizer or Moderna promise a commission from the sales if it worked? Were you planning to use that to offset the costs to US taxpayers to run the op?
That’s sarcasm, but why is the United States Federal Government using military and surveillance state assets to create the same sort of networks it used to overthrow the democratically elected Ukrainian president in 2014? The sorts of programs and assets it uses domestically against American citizens. This is, after all, South East Asia, and what’s it to you if they are using what we have to assume – in the DOD’s opinion or that of its handlers – is an inferior product?
Old school vaccines, Pishaw. What 20th century nonsense.
Why would you care if millions of Chinese got COVID or died because they didn’t have access to your (cough-cough) wonder drug?
The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.
Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.
So, while you were being canceled for calling it the China Virus or daring to question the safety or effectiveness of what Pfizer and Moderna (and the US DOD) were peddling, your government was running an anti-vaxxer campaign and accusing China of being the virus.
To do what? Sell more mRNA for Pfizer and Moderna.
The post The US DoD’s Secret Anti-Vaxxer Campaign appeared first on Granite Grok.
Hello, Friends of Freedom. I hope your summer is amazing! Let’s continue our look at the Declaration’s signers. Richard Stockton was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey and was perhaps the one who suffered the most for doing so. He was captured by the British and tortured severely in prison.
He was born into affluence in New Jersey, where his father founded the College of New Jersey.
He had a brilliant intellect. After graduating from Samuel Finley’s Academy of Nottingham, he studied law under David Ogden, the most prominent lawyer of his time.
He received the degree of Sergeant of Law ( the highest law degree of his era).
He married the poet Ann Boudinot and had six children.
He was a trustee at Princeton University for 26 years. He was not known to like politics and shied away from involvement until he requested some time away from Princeton and made a trip to Europe. While in England, he engaged King George III on behalf of the University regarding the Stamp Act. The King liked him a lot, as did other Parliament Leaders who at the time were not hostile to the Colonies.
We want to thank Pastor Allen Cook for this Contribution – Please direct yours to Steve@GraniteGrok.com.
You can review our ‘Op-Ed Guidelines‘ on the FAQ Page.
After returning home, his reputation only enlarged, and he was regarded as a man of immense wisdom and sound advice.
He also became very outspoken about the British and their treatment of the citizens of the Colonies of America, and as a result, he was asked to be a delegate to the Continental Congress.
He was captured by the British while visiting friends as he was on his way home from Philadelphia after signing the Declaration of Independence.
He was deprived of food ( intentional starvation) and subjected to freezing cold.
He was offered a pardon, and some say that it was in exchange for recanting his signing of the Declaration of Independence. There is no factual evidence of this recanting, and other scholars believe that George Washington was involved in negotiating his release.
He had an incredible faith, as is exemplified by his knowledge of and reference to the scriptures in so many of his writings.
A few faith statements are as follows:
I subscribe to the entire belief of the great leading doctrines of the Christian religion, such as:
*the being of God: (Genesis 1:1)
*the universal defection and depravity of human nature: (Romans 3:23)
*the Divinity of the person (John 1:14) and the completeness of the redemption purchased by the blessed Savior (Ephesians 1:7)
*I exhort and charge my children that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10)
*The way of life that is held up in the Christian system is calculated for the most complete happiness that can be enjoyed in this mortal state and that all occasions of vice and immorality is injurious either immediately or consequentially in this life.
He was a founding father who lost everything of earthly value but maintained his faith! *****(thanks again to Dave Barton’s info of his quotes out of his great book, The American Story.)
Until next time….
The post Pulpit Polity: Richard Stockton appeared first on Granite Grok.
According to retired nephrologist Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the black population has a disproportionate number of people with chronic kidney failure. Goldfarb is the chairman of Do No Harm, which opposes DEI admissions and hiring and unnecessary gender surgery on children, as well as systemic race-based trends in medical practice that they claim could cause unnecessary harm.
“A new rule, which is aimed at increasing kidney transplants for black Americans,” proposed by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, captured its attention.
Someone in the government has decided that since “the black population has a disproportionate number of people with chronic kidney failure,” it should direct taxpayer funds to figuring out how to convince doctors to convince black Americans to trust the Public Health Industrial complex. Goldfarb agrees that there is a need to help more Blacks suffering from Kidney disease to seek treatment, including transplants, but that this probably isn’t the best way to get there from here. You are welcome to wade into the details if you like, but my first thought was, why does the Black population in America have a “disproportionate number of people with chronic kidney failure”?
Racism!
I’d say white supremacy, but that’s not actually it, either. It is probably systemic Democrat rule.
Goldfarb stated that one such factor is the issue that frequently black people do not seek treatment for kidney disease until it is in an advanced stage. Some contributors to this problem include a lack of access to healthcare, a distrust of the medical community, and a lower level of health literacy. Additionally, they may not receive as much preventive care, testing, or medical supervision as people in other demographics. As a result, by the time a black person seeks treatment, their chances of success are much lower, and they may not be able to undergo the necessary surgery and regimen of medications.
Furthermore, according to Goldfarb, studies indicate that many black people are not interested in having a kidney transplant, and their family members may not want to become donors.
Lack of knowledge, understanding, education, information, access. We also have to consider politics and its policy influences on culture. Black Americans are not genetically predisposed to higher rates of kidney failure, so what inputs make this endemic to the community? Why aren’t they educated? What barriers exist to keep them from obtaining better medical information or access, and how does this play into their reluctance to seek help sooner rather than waiting until it might be too late?
Democrats have controlled most of the larger American cities for longer than anyone can remember. They spend more and talk more about serving these communities, but what evidence is there that this has been little more than a way to enrich themselves and their friends at everyone else’s expense?
The education budgets are enormous, but the kids can’t read or do math. You’ll find the same results across the entire budget. No matter what it is, they are spending more than anyone else for worse outcomes – unless you happen to be connected to the local political elite.
Spending other people’s money might fill the pockets of surgeons and hospitals in the nicer parts of town, but it will not cure what ails them. This applies to every poor or low-income community everywhere in America. They need schools that teach kids and a culture that encourages and rewards foundational learning. They need to encourage families to see welfare as a trap and parents who are willing to do with less so their kids can learn to earn more. Fathers who raise and protect their children from gangs, alcohol, and drug abuse on streets that are safer because that is a priority for everyone.
There is, as far as I can tell, no incentive for anyone in power to approach any of this seriously. More money has only resulted in declining outcomes. This won’t be any different. Advocates will point at it when talking to minorities as if they care when all they want is their vote.
The post Is Kidney Disease Racist? appeared first on Granite Grok.
Those who advocate for sweeping government power to reverse global warming assert it will lead to a “more prosperous” future. In fact, what we see is calls for a “preposterous future.” These measures will hurt rather than help the environment. We will be less prosperous while we pollute more.
To couch that in soaring language of salvation from doom is, indeed, preposterous — these plans are the doom.
Consider the $300,000,000 Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources estimates it will cost to resurface Rutland businesses under the “3-acre Rule,” a preposterous proposal to “help Rutland prosper” by imposing these costs on longstanding businesses. This plan mandates businesses retroactively install stormwater drains to protect Lake Champlain. Disrupting businesses and imposing a huge economic burden on owners will hurt sales and threaten productive jobs. But the state of Vermont extols the huge economic boon this will be for engineers and construction companies.
This is a short-term, non-productive waste. No goods sold just costs of goods sold. There is no economic growth, only a government-mandated payday for one group of businesses by way of economic hardship on others. But more — and this is key — what is the environmental cost of excavating all that square acreage? How much diesel will be burned, asphalt heated and relaid, plastic pipes manufactured and installed, and CO2 generated in the transition to improved surface-water management? Can we afford those costs? Have state agencies calculated those costs? Nope. And that’s preposterous.
Consider EV vehicles. Aside from the question of their reliability or long-term efficiency, are they not manufactured using fossil fuels? Is that manufacture carbon-neutral, as will be imposed on new business development under Act 250 in Vermont? These EV vehicles will not be manufactured in Vermont. So, these vehicles (like the diesel and equipment consumed resurfacing Rutland) will be produced outside of Vermont, a boon for those businesses: a massive loss of wealth and indirect consumption of fossil fuels in Vermont. Preposterous.
Solar panels. Ditto: manufactured using fossil fuels of dubious long-term efficiency; costs imposed on ratepayers in Vermont to support foreign industry; affordable for the wealthy and not the poor. Regressive, polluting, and zero economic benefits. Preposterous.
Mandating the re-insulation of buildings (as some have advocated) — how much petroleum would be involved in manufacturing, trucking, and installing these products in Vermont homes and businesses? Assuming this helped Vermont to achieve its fantastical and arbitrary “goals” of reducing 25% of our greenhouse gases by such-and-such imagined date — what are the externalized environmental costs of that production outside of Vermont? Have the “climate warriors” calculated those costs? Nope. The effect is a drag on the Vermont economy and an increase in net pollution. Preposterous.
What if Vermont imposed pollution-control requirements on lawnmowers? That would reduce emissions and impose the costs directly on those who mow lawns. Yes, this is a federal issue, but why don’t the climate warriors tackle things that would actually help the ecosystem? Why are they interested in the preposterous but not the sensible?
How about banning fireworks displays? Fireworks hurt the environment, depend 99% on Chinese manufacture, and are shipped long distances. They offer no economic benefits to Vermont or its ecosystem. Why not ban them? Because progressive legislators want to give judges and special-interest, out-of-state nonprofits the unilateral power to do that later, along with banning snowmobiles, ATVs, and pick-up trucks. They seek to do through the back door that which they could never accomplish through the front.
What of mandating composting while advertising (with our tax dollars) that such laws won’t be enforced? Car idling laws requiring police to time your idle and then ticket you $10 (instead of fighting opioid dealers)? How will the government ensure citizens don’t mow their lawns three times a week, burn a plastic bag in a fire, or pour used motor oil in the woods? Are more laws needed so Big Brother can hire car-driving enforcers to breathe down every neck? Preposterous.
Our forebears rightly opposed “taxation without representation.” Sweeping one-sided powers granted to the government and “renewable energy” initiatives that use more energy than they renew favor certain industries and are net pollution creators that help neither the economy nor the environment. These are totalitarian regulations masked in lies of prosperity and environmental benefit where neither exists.
“Regulation without representation” is “taxation without representation.” It’s time to revolt against this revolting subjugation of Vermonters. The answer to our problems is personal responsibility, not government rescue by corporations and special interests.
Republished from March 2020
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.The post Climate Change ‘Prosperity’: Who Benefits? appeared first on Granite Grok.
The reason why American History, particularly our Founding and its Founders, is longer a subject for learning since it’s possible that too many of its reference points would discount today’s revisionist beliefs. What then would be next; the return of law and order and limited governing?
The basic question this would ask is what our adversary fears the most; it worked back then, so why not now? In addition, the chances for a fact-based discourse on our Founding Era are taboo since such studies would also invoke a religious venue.
Instead of the normal curiosity arising from being informed, today’s rebuke strengthens this engrained ignorance and numbs our curious instincts. Another variant of what was stems from the debt incurred by our oversized government. Economists agree that with any economic example, tax revenues are limited from a ‘money in, money out’ scenario. Therefore, today’s debt-ridden budgeting is due to the miscreant’s reckless spending.
The bottom line with this economic reality is that many Americans were either complacent or had their hands extended for enrichment. This is the norm when electing a lesser caliber of what formally were ‘public servants!
Another factor in unwarranted governing is this ‘careerism’ notion that salary enrichments nurture and also belittles and/or corrupt the previous unselfish volunteerism of ‘public service. ‘ Therefore, today’s economic time bomb of debt is proportional to the irresponsible squandering of tax revenues, which now invest in and solidify re-elections!
Compare this blatant disregard to the earlier concerns of our Founders, whose original sacrifice, based upon a belief of living freely, carried their cause of our American experiment. Their sole concern was directed to their country’s free establishment and her lasting future.
Consider General George Washington’s words of commitment, “The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army – We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die…” This sealed America to whatever fate, or God, had in store. The fact that this rag-tag force would do combat with the world’s mightiest military should even astound today’s modern thinking, regarding a great generation.
Our second President, John Adams, ironically summed up today’s public quandary when stating, “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.” This is now validated with the current degradations of information. This recent ‘fake news’ tagline is a mild rendering of the depths to which our people, of whom many are devoid of any fundamental learning, have been and are being subjected.
Consequently, Thomas Jefferson added, “If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.” ‘Responsibility,’ is the weight which freedom places upon every American citizen. This denounces reading the hogwash of fakery by upping the effort for being properly informed with the soundness of what is being read. Such preemptive measures merely bolster one’s citizenship.
This truth-based content with our information is critically important, which is why our adversaries are so intent on reinventing what was our past and distorting our present. This was foreseen by James Madison when stating, “popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
Patrick Henry also warned about the need to, “Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.” This “jealous” protection is also particular to Thomas Paine’s warning that, “When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
This last point from so long ago, “the privilege of thinking,” connects with curiosity, questioning, and relying upon one’s personal instincts, which we all know at times act as a cautionary inner voice. Similar to today’s disappearance of public service, independent thoughts that counter the mainstream are becoming rare. Too many Americans have become so insecure and sensitive that seeking acceptance is now one’s priority!
We all would be better served by stepping back into history and giving thought to the words of those who demonstrated their own independent thought. Their service and sacrifice became their paid dues for those beliefs! We, at least, owe those gentlemen our thanks, but more importantly, we owe our children an equal effort to ensure their lives will not be as slaves!
The post Night Cap: In Need of Founding Beliefs appeared first on Granite Grok.
Trump was correct in demanding a drug test as BOTH TMEW (my non-political better half), and I couldn’t believe our ears and eyes at the beginning of the Debate. I have NEVER heard Biden talk so fast with “memorized” lines in my life—probably Joe’s life as well.
A minigun couldn’t have kept up with his fevered pitch. However, all for naught as while the 90 minutes droned on (and yes, I would have lost that bet that Biden could stand that long), he slowed down – not just his raspy voice but his brain and demeanor (except when he called Trump a liar and had the morality of an alley cat. However, the only cat that was present was the “cat out of the bag,” as the Narrative held to by the MSM dissolved, and they all did the 180 on Biden.
They proved again that we on the Right have been right and that all their calls about “CONSPIRACY!” just fell out of the sky on their skulls. We’ve been saying he’s been incompetent – now they are admitting we were right.
Trump, on the other hand, pretty much kept his cool, flashing his trademark smile, and got in a few zingers of his own. The best line of the night was:
BIDEN: *rambles incoherently about his failure to secure the border*
TRUMP: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.” pic.twitter.com/lxBpOVeTqJ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 28, 2024
Watch this next one to see the freezes, muddles, mumbles, and incoherence in a 30-second clip from last night. Seriously – “We finally beat Medicare”???
I watched the whole thing, just shaking my head.
It’s not like the MSM has covered itself with glory, again, turning away from its roots of “Who, what, when, where, why, and how” to become “Storytellers” and Narrative creators. In this case, sucking up to the Biden Administration and pushing the meme that in private he was sharp as the tack put on the teacher’s chair even as the Rightwing Racists kept harping on the video clips showing otherwise in public.
This morning, I started to go through my feeds (a LOT of them) to see how the Democrat talking heads were going to spin this.
It was so bad that right after the debate was over when people were supposed to be flowing into the “Spin Room” for amplifications and deflections, I guess the Dems truly were in a panic:
No surrogates for President Joe Biden appeared to be in the CNN spin room immediately following the presidential debate, prompting confusion from the press. “Dozens” of reporters were left waiting with only people from former President Donald Trump’s camp, Daily Caller correspondent Henry Rodgers posted on X, citing MSNBC coverage. While the Democrats’ team was seemingly absent, “endless Trump surrogates are on the spin room floor speaking to press,” Rodgers noted.
“The spin room is full of Trump surrogates,” said Axios reporter Alex Thompson. “No one from Biden’s camp we can see.”
Man, I was surprised! Other than Kamala, the Elder Abuser (Dr. Jill), and California Guv Gavin “My hair can refill our Strategic Oil Reserves,” Newsom said Biden held his own and that he won “on the merits,” almost every Democrat talking head, politician, and political operator all threw up their hands and admitted what most of us that follow politics have known for three years now – for Biden, there is no now anymore – he’s a walking husk. Anyone who took the time to watch…
SideNote: funny, I haven’t seen any results on how many people tuned into the debate…
…that knew this were already looking for the signs even as we knew he had been “enhanced” more than the former East German womens’ Olympic team. We were not surprised. However, any Normal and generally unpolitical types got a very rude awakening as to the kind of person who could fill in the nuke launch codes. Just during the first hour of the debate, the betting markets went nuts in declaring the winner of the election. Yes, Nov 5th, not the debate:
BREAKING: The odds of Donald Trump winning the 2024 Presidential Election surge to a new high of 63%.
Since the debate started, odds of Trump winning the election have surged by over 10%.
Odds of President Biden winning a second term have fallen from 48% to 37%.
Markets… pic.twitter.com/Y08GWO8oZu
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) June 28, 2024
BREAKING: The odds of Donald Trump winning the 2024 Presidential Election surge to a new high of 63%. Since the debate started, the odds of Trump winning the election have surged by over 10%. Odds of President Biden winning a second term have fallen from 48% to 37%. Markets believe Donald Trump will be our next president.
And GatewayPundit shows the Trump Campaign’s Fact-Checking along the way. How they ever did so is beyond me as, at times, if I were the deaf interpreter, I would have just walked off the stage.
Frankly, when all is said and done, other than for the dyed-in-the-wool Dems’ votes, Biden is toast. Almost every site has the question being asked, “How can we get him to resign now? How can we get him to NOT run and drop out of the race now?”. And more than a few “TV focus groups” had at least one person remarking, “Heck, can he actually last until November?”
Frankly, I didn’t take notes other than:
Frankly, I think it is more the latter than the former. A decent 3 paragraph summary at the Free Beacon will save 90 minutes of your life:
It was clear within the first few minutes that the presidential debate was not going to go well for President Joe Biden. His breath was heavy, his voice was raspy and faint, his physical bearing poor. When he wasn’t speaking, his mouth was agape. His answers rambled, and he was sometimes incoherent. Every so often, he coughed noticeably. He did not look well.
This wasn’t the hyped-up, partisan Biden who appeared at the State of the Union in March. This was the Biden who mumbled argle-bargle at the White House’s Juneteenth celebration.
The contrast with former president Donald Trump was apparent. Trump was confident, direct, and forceful. Unlike in 2020, he did not interrupt his opponent or the moderators. He followed the debate rules. He kept his facial expressions, and even his sarcasm, to a minimum. I have watched every Trump debate since he entered electoral politics in 2015. Thursday night was his best performance.
But you know that Biden and the Dems are in Big Trouble when you lose the NY Times. From their daily missive that I get (emphasis mine as I NEVER expected to read such):
After last night, many Democrats are panicked.
They hoped that President Biden, 81, could convince voters that his age was nothing to worry about. That he could counter Donald Trump’s wild accusations and relentless falsehoods with confidence. He didn’t.
Biden’s voice was hoarse and halting. His answers were often unclear, and he struggled to finish his thoughts. “Rather than dispel concerns about his age,” wrote my colleague Peter Baker, Biden “made it the central issue.”
Some Democrats are now pushing for him to drop out of the race. “Biden is about to face a crescendo of calls to step aside,” a Democratic strategist told Peter. “Joe had a deep well of affection among Democrats. It has run dry.”
NY Post had this headline: We just witnessed the end of Joe Biden’s presidency. And it seems that the shade of Donna Brazille (who infamously had given the Trump-Hillary debate questions to the Clinton campaign) rallied forth again with this admission from CNN’s Erin Burnett after the debate was over:
BOMBSHELL
CNN’s Erin Burnett on Joe Biden’s debate performance: “He goes through six days of preparation at camp David… They know the rules. He practices with the mics. He knows every one of these questions is coming and yet he couldn‘t fill the time.” pic.twitter.com/mwtAjHpOFz
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 28, 2024
“He knows every one of these questions is coming and yet he couldn‘t fill the time.”
There’s two ways to take what she meant: that his campaign HAD to know these types of question were going to be asked OR, once again, the MSM covered for him in cheating on the sake of “their team”. And who was the actual leaker if there was one?
But Joe has to ad-lib – and this one is a doozy:
Biden says we need abortion because “there’s a lot of women being raped by their brothers and sisters.” pic.twitter.com/uYghPRoHCe
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 28, 2024
But here’s the deal. There’s a lot of young women to be raped by their, by their in-laws, by their, by their spouses, brothers and sisters. It’s just, it’s just ridiculous, and they can do nothing about it,”
Seriously, sisters being raped by their brothers and sisters/sisters-in-law is the reason why abortion is needed. Hey, Planned Parenthood – you good with this?
Cringe doesn’t begin to scratch this surface. And terror from the Dems: McCaskill: VP Harris or Gavin Newsom Should Be at the Top of the Dem Ticket After Tonight
NO Democrat believes he’s fit for re-election. My thought is that if he can’t serve after November, he shouldn’t be serving now. Talk about a weak and incapable President; Steve is right in demanding who is really in charge of the Biden Administration’s actions and policies?
And? Our Federal Delegation and Guv hopefuls, Hassan, Shaheen, Pappas, Craig, and Warmington, aren’t talking much here in New Hampshire (NHJ).
The post Presidential Debate – CNNs 90-Minute Deep Fake (Or Is it Cheap Fake?) of Joe Biden appeared first on Granite Grok.
