Steve Bannon’s “WAR ROOM” co-host and correspondent Natalie Winters broke a story this week that implicates sitting RNC Committee Chairman and Treasurer as colluding with the Chinese Communist Party regarding “campaign strategies” for Republican candidates.

An annual event titled The U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue has seen former and now current RNC officials being flown to China for all-expenses-paid trips to discuss pro-CCP positions brought home to the U.S. at odds with the America First (re: MAGA) policies of Donald Trump and fellow America first Republicans.

Citing an apparent “national security threat,” the article implicates former and current RNC leaders who participated, including Former Chairman Ed Gillespie, Former RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson, Former RNC Treasurer Anthony Parker, and Former RNC Chairman Robert Duncan.

“Additionally, brochures obtained from the 2016 edition of the U.S.-China High-Level Political Party Leaders Dialogue reveal that the then-RNC-Treasurer Tony Parker attended to “discuss campaign strategies and prospects for U.S.-China relations under the new Trump administration.”

As the documents recount:

‘Following the CPC dialogue with the bipartisan U.S. delegation, the EastWest Institute also facilitated meetings for the CPC with senior Republican officials—former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Mike Duncan, current RNC treasurer Tony Parker and United States Economic and Security Review Commissioner Dan Slane—to further discuss campaign strategies and prospects for U.S.-China relations under the new Trump administration.’

(See full article here)

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

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

 

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Volinsky’s Anti-Israel Org. Wants NH Dems To Write In ‘Ceasefire’ on FITN Ballots – NH Journal

Democrat.  Of course.

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

Repeating, from prior posts, these two links of good info sources:

HOME | Israel War Portal (warinisrael.org)

Full disclosure: run by a friend of mine – one of the co-owners of My Tree in Israel.  Here’s one of their recipes:

 

 

And:

Take Back The Narrative

 

TOP OF THE FOLD

The Manipulation of Innocence | Frontpage Mag

Understand that they target the schools, in particular elementary schools, because most kids have neither the mental defenses nor the background information to counter what they’re shown.  As a famous Socialist once said:

 

 

So to the natural question of “Where did all this Jew hate come from”?  Look to the schools… and the teachers… pouring Jew hate (and many other things) into the minds of the young.  Children do not have the background or cynicism to resist this carefully-curated information flow.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/shapiro-on-unmasked-jew-hate.mp4

 

I run hot and cold about Shapiro, but here I think he’s spot on.

Look at the millions of dollars – untold millions – poured into “educational materials” by the Arab states over decades.  From elementary schools:

‘CALIPHORNIA’ 30 Jewish families transfer their children out of the Oakland public school district after pro-Hamas teachers participated in an anti-Israel ‘teach-in’ (barenakedislam.com)

How U.S. Public Schools Teach Jew-Hatred – Geller Report

To universities:

 

Viral I A Student’s Speech at UPenn Breaks The Internet I Israel I Palestine I Hamas I Gaza I Jews

 

 

Just curious if these parents are reconsidering their “D” voting pattern:

 

 

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Israel’s long war | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

And this is an excellent video – the Gaza that could have been:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/the-gaza-that-could-have-been.mp4

 

 

I keep asking: how do you “make peace and coexist” with people who openly hate you?

Arab media antisemitism is off the charts ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

How I grew up respecting all people, then came to Israel and learned not to trust Arabs (Judean Rose) ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

Image below from the second link above:

 

 

Not your garden-variety refugee camp: Israeli reporter’s insight after 100 days in Ga (ynetnews.com)

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Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism – American Thinker

Golda Meir noted something profound – on my Rumble channel:

Golda Meir – short interview (rumble.com)

Everyone has the right to self-determination except we.

The Dreyfus Affair, Zola’s J’accuse!, and Antisemitism: Some Things Never Change – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Things never change.

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David Wurmser: US Treating Israel Like It Is Not A Sovereign Country | The Caroline Glick Show

 

 

And this is one reason why I want to see Israel weaned from American largess: if Israel – or ANY COUNTRY – wants to see itself as independent, it cannot be dependent on any outside agent or country. This applies to EVERY recipient of American aid.

Now, my understanding – incomplete – of the aid the US gives to Israel is that some, and I don’t know the percent, was given “in perpetuity” as a sweetener incentivizing Israel to return the Sinai to Egypt. This needs to be accommodated and somehow a phase-out negotiated. The same for all aid to any country.  In the case of Israel specifically, I have seen several “man on the street” interviews and many seem to support this idea – of course, I don’t know the sample size or actual data.  Also note that, at least insofar as military aid goes, Israel is required to spend… 80 percent?… back in America buying weapons.

Again, this needs to be true of every country America gives money to. Increasingly, any foreign aid is becoming clear as nothing more than money laundering back to US politicians.

It should be a matter of national pride to stand on one’s own. That doesn’t mean to avoid alliances, nor does it mean countries don’t help each other. But Israel – and many other nations – are client states of the US because of that ongoing aid; NATO’s strength is largely because of America’s defense budget that too many NATO members sloughed off on supporting. That needs to stop, for the sake of those countries addicted to American money, and for the American taxpayer too.

 

 

WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

Antisemites create their own version of Canary Mission trying to shame Zionists with their lies ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

While there are of course Zionists who say things that are unacceptable, this example shows that, unlike Canary Mission which goes out of its way to show full context for every one of its entries, the “Raven Mission” exists only to slander.

It’s an information war as much as anything, at least outside of Israel. —

 

A: “Five people, might be children on the soccer field here. Approve us to hold fire”

B: “Don’t strike, hold fire”

That’s the IDF

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hold-fire.mp4

 

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Tet offensive analogy:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/analogies-to-the-tet-offensive.mp4

 

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Why didn’t they stand with Yemen when the Houthis and Saudi Arabia killed 377,000 Yemenis in the last 10 years?

 

 

They stand with the “latest thing”… so yes, why are they unconcerned about what happened in Yemen just scant years ago?  Not Jews, so not news.

 

 

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Over 2,600 terror attacks in Judea and Samaria since Oct. 7 – JNS.org

Wow.  Enemy within.  Related:

No Israeli would ever be safe amid capitulation to Sinwar (ynetnews.com)

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An Egyptian Highlights What Most Palestinians, and Other Arabs, Refuse to Recognize (jihadwatch.org)

Understanding reality.

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

Sarah Idan’s Fateful Selfie | Frontpage Mag

Idan still has some learning to do about the full malignancy of Islam. She may be held back from fully comprehending the ideology because of familial piety, her love for her parents and other family members, who, I am assuming, think of themselves as Muslims but are so only in a cultural sense. Eventually, as Idan realizes how many Muslims all over the world are cheering on not just Hamas, but also Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the PFLP, and so many more murderous groups, when she studies the calls for violence in the Qur’an, and the Qur’anic description of non-Muslims as “the most vile of created beings,” Sarah Idan should experience a salutary shock.

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A fatwa shows that only Israeli strength deters Arab genocide against Jews ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

While the world is in an uproar over Israel’s response, the Arab world understands it. This is their language, and like it or not, it is the only effective response for anyone who truly wants peace.

One of the enormous things Israel – and worldwide Jews – face is the lack of understanding of Arab culture.  Only strength is respected.  Related is this piece about a 2020 speech: Lebanese Preacher: Jews Planting Trees To Hide From Muslims| MEMRI And some background: ‘Gharqad’, the Tree of the Jews – Christians for Israel International (c4israel.org) —

Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh: Donations to Gaza Are Not “Humanitarian Aid” but “Financial Jihad” – Geller Report

Of course.

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From this Telegram channel:

Running on the Arab network – tons of humanitarian aid to Gazans turned out to be expired and was sent to the trash.

That’s how the Arab world really cares about them….

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/aid-trucks-with-expired-food.mp4

 

From the same channel:

PLEASE READ THIS
Roy Yanovski: 100 days of reserve service officially ended yesterday. Some initial insights:

1. Gaza is seen as a backward area, the “most densely populated in the world” which has been under Israeli “siege” for years. There is no bigger lie than this. Gaza is a modern, beautiful and developed city – with large and well-equipped houses, wide boulevards, public spaces, a promenade by the sea and parks. Looks much better than any other Arab city from the Jordan to the sea, much more similar to Tel Aviv than Kfar Qasim or Umm Al Fahem. And of course it is very far from being “the densest in the world”.

2. If it’s a siege, let me live in a siege – the houses are bursting with goods and food from all the countries of the Middle East, the latest furniture, advanced electrical equipment and what not. There are also luxury estates that would not embarrass Savion and Kfar Shmariahu. There is absolutely no shortage of wealth in Gaza. In general, most of the houses I’ve been in were much bigger than the apartment I live in in Tel Aviv. The sentence “If only they had a chance for a good life, they wouldn’t fight in Israel” is simply not relevant to Gaza.

3. The most common thing in the homes of the Gaza Strip: the map of Israel – under the heading “Map of Palestine”. There is no mention of Israel or Israeli settlements in general.
And it is found in almost every home, in every school and in every public institution, the goal of erasing the State of Israel is neither hidden nor restrained, it is almost everywhere. The historical distortion of this map, which is taught from the age of 0 (mandatory borders of territories that were never all designated for an Arab state) is a topic for another discussion that only emphasizes the distorted perception of reality by the residents of Gaza.

4. In all the neighborhoods we were in, there are ready-made Hamas combat compounds – weapons, tunnels, charges, launching compounds, all inside residential houses, some of which are also prepared with openings in the walls for passing between buildings and what not. The residents of the Gaza Strip who live in the combat zones know this, they have received countless notices to evacuate. Long before the IDF entered. The Israel Defense Forces’ announcements are still there everywhere. Those who decided to stay in the fighting areas are either Hamas members in various positions or people who consciously decided to stay in the areas used by Hamas for fighting, their consideration is with them.

5. Hamas members rarely go around armed. They are neither stupid nor suckers. They know they won’t be shot if they go in “civilian” guise. They prepare the IDF ahead of time at the entrances to the buildings and arm themselves just a moment before they attack. That is why the fighting is much more complex than any other arena and anyone who tries to judge from the outside why soldiers shot X or didn’t shoot Y should go into Gaza for a week or two and come back with insights.

6. The circle that enables the activity of Hamas is much larger than its tens of thousands of terrorists. The ideology of Hamas is found in almost every home, in pictures, in propaganda materials. Hamas in Gaza is like Messi in Argentina.

7. The strengthening of Hamas at this level requires the active assistance of the population. There is no way that the residents of the compounds where we located rockets and weapons did not know that the place is used as a launching compound where they try to massacre Israelis every day. And I find it hard to believe that the parents in the kindergarten where there was a tunnel shaft in one of which we were in do not know this. Who chooses to send their children to a kindergarten that serves as a terrorist infrastructure?

8. Hamas’s strongest weapon is lies and propaganda. It’s his fuel. This is how you will maintain the “siege” lie for years, this is how they are doing now with the photos of the innocent victims and the killing of the “journalists” who turn out to be terrorist operatives.

and

Gaza is the only place in the world where 500 dead are reported half an hour after an explosion. Even in earthquakes and heavy disasters, it takes the rescue forces several days to identify and estimate the number of dead, but the Palestinian Ministry of Health knows already a minute after the explosion what the damage is. This is ridiculous and the world media quoting the numbers as living words of God is pathetic.

I would attribute the same level of credibility to the reports this week about “hunger” in Rafah.

Meanwhile, Hamas seizes aid trucks:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hamas-seizes-aid-trucks.mp4

 

I’ll take a guess these are the in-date goods trucks.  Related:

Another story of Gazans ripping each other off ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/difference-between-israeli-and-palestinian-mothers.mp4

 

One mother wants life, the other embraces death.

 

 

ATROCITIES

New Islamic terrorists bodycam footage from October 7th released countering ‘Holocaust denial-like phenomenon’ – Geller Report

And there are people who think this is CGI / AI creation.  Don’t share it selectively.  Share it widely.  Israel needs to publicize this for all to see.

A Lesson on Human Suffering from a Kibbutz | TIME

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Documentation from the Saturday night of October 7th, piles of Israeli bodies collected from the music festival where hundreds of innocent civilians were murdered by Hamas terrorists. This is what genocide looks like! This is what The Hague and the whole world should investigate and condemn, not us who are defending ourselves from this terrorism!

Disturbing.  Link only.

Bodies from the music festival.

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Even more disturbing images from October 7, all links only.  NOT for the squeamish.

Oct 7 image 1

Oct 7 image 2

Oct 7 image 3

Oct 7 image 4

Oct 7 image 5

Oct 7 image 6

Oct 7 image 7

Oct 7 image 8

Oct 7 image 9

And from Nir Oz – a Hamas terrorist using his knife to saw off victims’ heads (not as graphic as the above images, but…):

Beheading 1

Beheading 2

Speaking of beheading:

HAMAS BARBARIANS tried to sell Israeli’s soldier’s decapitated head for $10,000 by Hamas barbarians (barenakedislam.com)

His heartbroken father, David Tahar, overcome with grief, was forced to bury his son’s mutilated body before vowing to do everything in his power to bring Adir’s head home and give him ‘peace of mind and body’. After a gruelling two and a half months, IDF soldiers finally recovered the 19-year-old’s head inside a duffel bag filled with tennis balls in a freezer in Gaza, David said.

The IDF later told him that after an interrogation of two Hamas terrorists, it emerged that one of them had tried to sell Adir’s head for $10,000 in Gaza. ‘It’s insanely barbaric,’ David said, as the father detailed how in the depths of his despair he had found a video online showing his son’s decapitated body.

 

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Israel’s first responders struggling to heal 100 days on from October 7 – POLITICO

“When we tried picking up the bones, the bones turned to ash,” he recalls. “You’re talking about bodies and bodies and bodies — on the highways, in homes and out in the fields,” he says.

Remembered images of murdered women play in his mind. Many “had blood all over their legs and you understood that something went on more than just a quick shooting,” he tells POLITICO.

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Many are of the scenes he witnessed in the kibbutzim attacked by Hamas. “We collected parts of bodies, the heads and arms and legs even of children blasted by grenades, and beheaded bodies. In house after house, people were slaughtered. People were cut to pieces. I remember seeing elderly people and sick people lying murdered in their beds. There were knives, hammers, axes and screwdrivers around splashed with blood,” he recalls.

Speaking of responses:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/give-me-a-sign-of-life.mp4

 

First military to arrive at the Nova Festival area finds dozens of dead bodies in the bar area.

“Give me a sign of life!” He yells.  Nobody answers.

These are civilians.  This was not done by an errant bomb.  This was up close and personal murder.

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

Saira Rao, Jew-Hating Lunatic | Frontpage Mag

And reading about what this woman does for a living… screaming Leftie.  And some interesting anecdotes about Gaza leaders who got medical treatment in… Israel, of course.

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‘Genocide’: The Population of Gaza Tripled Under Israeli Occupation | Frontpage Mag

If this is genocide, Israel really sucks at it.  Related:

Netanyahu: ‘We fight terrorists, and we fight lies. Israel is accused of genocide while it is fighting genocide.’ (jihadwatch.org)

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Judea and Samaria towns reject Palestinian Arab labor | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

They’re still letting Arabs in???

 

 

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‘The left has become Hamas’s useful idiots’ – spiked (spiked-online.com)

Interview.

 

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Born to Hate Jews

 

 

And a follow-up:

The Pakistani man who was ‘Born to Hate Jews’ – YouTube

 

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PALLYWOOD & MEDIA IN GENERAL

The starvation meme ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

Really?

After Air Strikes, Hamas Supporters Chant “US, UK Go To Hell” in Times Square | Frontpage Magterr

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/trucks-entering-gaza.mp4

 

Hananya Naftali: Dear pro-Israel activists – this one is for you – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

Recently, with a group of foreign journalists, I was invited to visit the Kerem Shalom border crossing, where Israel is transferring truckloads of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Despite seeing the same things and observing the same facts, when they wrote their stories, some filtered the reality that we both saw so that it matched their outlet’s agenda. Instead of saying that Israel has increased the number of humanitarian aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, they said, “It is not enough.” And guess what? It’s never enough when it’s about Israel.

Round-about related:

Israel’s First Lady gives info on Israel’s humanitarian efforts (rumble.com)

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Gaza Health Ministry says at least 23,469 Palestinians killed in war (scrippsnews.com)

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said Thursday that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire and airstrikes has risen to at least 23,469 since the latest war erupted on Oct. 7.

The count does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

It never ceases to amaze me how credulous the West is.  On that:

The Hostages: Killed by IDF Airstrikes or Murdered? (jihadwatch.org)

It sounds as if the IDF was being careful to avoid hitting the building where the three hostages were being kept, and presumably it would also have taken extreme care not to attack anyone, hostages or kidnappers, as they were being moved — “relocated” — to another place.

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From this Telegram channel:

Prime Minister Netanyahu responds to accusations against his statement comparing Hamas to ‘Amalek’ at the ICJ:

Among the absurdities levelled against Israel at the Hague was the charge that after the October 7th massacre Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu incited genocide by quoting the biblical phrase “remember what Amalek did to you.”

This false and preposterous charge reflects a deep historical ignorance.

The Amalekites mercilessly attacked the Children of Israel after the Exodus from Egypt. The comparison to Amalek has been used throughout the ages to designate those who seek to eradicate the Jewish people, most recently the Nazis.

That is why the words on a banner in a permanent exhibit at Yad Vashem, Israel’s famed Holocaust Museum, urge visitors to “remember what Amalek did to you.” This same phrase appears in the Hague at the memorial for Dutch Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Obviously neither reference is an incitement to genocide of the German people.

So too Prime Minister Netanyahu’s reference to Amalek was not an incitement to genocide of Palestinians, but a description of the utterly evil actions perpetrated by the genocidal terrorists of Hamas on October 7th and the need to confront them.

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Pre-October 7th terror attack on Israel by Hamas, Palestinian Arabs and their useful idiots in the West accused Israel of turning Gaza into a “concentration camp” a.k.a. “the world’s largest open air prison” (barenakedislam.com)

Wow, some “concentration camp”.  Some videos a repeat from the last post.  But really… surgery to create dimples is even a thing?  Let alone popular in the “open air prison”?

 

 

 

TERROR COMING HERE?  TO THE WEST?

 

 

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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: Antisemites taunt Jewish man describing murders of family members by Hamas at San Francisco meeting

More on that:

Brave San Francisco Jewish Man Whose Family Was Murdered/Kidnapped on Oct. 7 Met With Pig Noises, Jeers, “LIAR!” at San Francisco Board of Supervisors – Geller Report

Grunts and Oinks: San Francisco leftists jeer Jewish man who spoke out about his family’s experience on October 7 – American Thinker

Rather than let the man say his piece and then reply with their own pieces, as reasonable people in civil society do, they tried to shout him down with pig noises.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/NYC-protest-we-want-48.mp4

 

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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF: Harvard University in the 1930’s was pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish; Today, Harvard is pro-IslamoNazi and anti-Jewish (barenakedislam.com)

Harvard to host summer course at Palestinian university that declared ‘glory for martyrs’ after Hamas’ October 7 massacre | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

Remember – before WWII it was the Left that were “kissing cousins” to the rising Fascists.  They’re reverting to type.

The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

And fighting back:

Jewish Students Sue Harvard; MIT Up Next | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

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U.S. Intelligence Officials Issue Warning About Potential Hezbollah Terrorist Attack on American Soil (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

VIDEO: Illegal Alien African Muslims Pray to Mecca After Crossing Joe Biden’s Open US Border in Lukeville, Arizona | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

In my mind there is no question they have sleeper cells here.

After Air Strikes, Hamas Supporters Chant “US, UK Go To Hell” in Times Square | Frontpage Mag

How soon before “somebody does something”?

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Germany: Muslim sexually harasses 11-year-old girl, says ‘a real man’ doesn’t ask a woman for long, but grabs her (jihadwatch.org)

GERMANY: Muslim high school students operating as self-appointed Islamic Sharia Patrols unleash wave of intimidation, extremism, and radicalism in their school (barenakedislam.com)

India: Hindu women held captive by Muslim family, gang-raped; sons converted to Islam (jihadwatch.org)

Montreal: Muslim accused of beating daughter, threatening to kill her and rape corpse for refusing arranged marriage (jihadwatch.org)

Hey, let’s import them by the metric f*ckton.  More – video:

Horrific footage is going viral in France as Muslims beat and strip a young girl naked, taunting her as they go: “On Allah you will see! On the Koran of Mecca if I hear that you have filed a complaint”

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/french-girl-being-attacked.mp4

 

How the living Hell can Jews (or anyone) want more of these people?  Whether in America or Europe.  “Welcome the stranger” is not a suicide pact.

 

 

London Imam says only solution is jihad:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/only-solution-is-jihad-london-imam.mp4

 

You Won’t Believe What This Wisconsin Imam Preached — On Second Thought, You Probably Will (jihadwatch.org)

Already here!

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Mohammed el-Kurd: ‘Normalize the massacres as the status-quo’ – Israel News – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

Mohammed El Kurd at the pro-terror rally in London today: “We must normalize massacres as the status quo”…

Normalize massacres.  And “Team Humanity” people think they can go and hold hands and sing Kum Ba Ya with these people.  Related:

ISIS calls on Muslims to carry out jihad massacres of ‘Jews, Christians, or their allies on the streets of America’ (jihadwatch.org)

 

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

American Jews Enabling Anti-Semitism | Frontpage Mag

The failure of Jewish communal institutions and their leadership to counter the anti-Semitic onslaught goes beyond addressing anti-Jewish bigotry in academia. Consider the political arena: One reads daily of warnings to President Biden from Democrat party strategists that his support for Israel in its campaign to dismantle Hamas and derail its genocidal agenda will cost the President votes of progressives and of the young in the coming election. Muslim Americans – a majority of whom, according to opinion polls, support Hamas in the wake of its October massacre – openly demonstrate against Israel, verbally attack the President, and threaten to deny him their ballots in November. And there is evidence that the Administration is applying pressure on Israel in various ways to assuage anti-Israel, anti-Jewish constituencies. Once more, where is the pushback? How many articles have there been about Jewish leaders pointing out that Jewish voters – long predominantly Democrat voters – cannot be taken for granted when they see elements of the party leadership willing to sacrifice Israel’s, and the Jewish community’s, well-being to placate anti-Jewish blocs? And why would those party operatives who advocate such abandonment of the Jews and of Israel rethink their course when there appears to be no downside to their continuing in the same course.

We’ve systematically failed to take the threat seriously, whether on the actual battlefield or in America.  And note the demographic trends.

 

 

There’s a reason the Left is kissing her feet.  Related:

Liberal Jews feel abandoned by the Left – opinion – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

The “October 8 Jew,” as Bret Stephens coined it, recognizes their home as a centrist. The October 8 Jew knows that the extreme left, like the extreme right before it, is no political home. The October 8 Jew is united in the mission to fight the enemies of America, who always come first for the Jews. “Never again” must be backed by action and Jewish unity.

First, no more blind voting for Democrats or Republicans for the sake of historical precedent. All Jews, including liberal Jews, must adopt a litmus test for candidates and support only those determined to fight antisemitism and support the US-Israel alliance.

More:

Concerning data: 1,753% increase in far-left antisemitism | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

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Soros funneled $15 M-plus to groups rallying for Hamas (nypost.com)

Wait, isn’t Soros a Left saint?

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Biden Calls Opponents Nazis As Dems Riot For Jewish Genocide (thefederalist.com) (link in the original):

While Democrat voters riot in streets and state legislatures to support terrorists whose actual position is ethnic cleansing of all Jews, Joe Biden and his propaganda army will be telling us that the real Nazis are grandmas wearing MAGA hats who stood peacefully on Capitol grounds three years ago. What’s more, millions of people will believe it because they saw it on the teevee.

Control the information flow, and control what people believe.

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There’s a special place in Hell for self-loathing Jewish communists like Senator Bernie Sanders who keeps stabbing Israel in the back (barenakedislam.com)

Any Jew that votes for this putz again needs to have his / her head smacked – and hard.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pat-condell-on-jews.mp4

 

Pat nails it.

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‘IDF lookouts’ warnings on Gaza border were ignored’ | World Israel News

I don’t want to call this unimportant… there are a LOT of indications that, in the most innocent of explanations, the system failed.  I’ve seen testimony from multiple people involved in border security that “a bird” can’t come to the fence without a call being made.  So the allegations in the article are very serious indeed.  And people need to be called to account.

After the war.

There’s an old Klingon proverb that applies:

Only fools fight in a burning house.

 

 

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

NYC synagogue slapped with vacate order after discovery of secret tunnel (nypost.com)

I need to address this.

While there are some possibly-innocent explanations for this, at the very least this looks exceedingly bad.  Especially when stained mattresses and high chairs are found – from what I’ve read including blood and fecal stains.  Also, too, the entire thing is to be entombed in cement; that’s very fast.  This is, potentially, a crime scene.  A thorough investigation must be done.  And if it turns out that the worst fears are true, people tried, convicted, and sent to jail.

It was decades of pedo abuse of children in the Catholic Church that finally drew enough attention for something to be done.  The same, possibly, must be done here.  I have been read in, and been told by, multiple sources that there is a substantial child abuse problem especially among the ultra-Orthodox.  That remains to be seen and proven.  But this cannot be glibly explained away, IMHO, as I’ve seen some attempt to do.  To do so simply reinforces the mindset of people who hate us: we must police our own.

There’s a proverb in a book I got for my Bar Mitzvah (paraphrased):

One must never cheat a fellow Jew, for that is self-harm within our community.  But it is even more important to never cheat a non-Jew, for that harms our reputation in the world.

Important words that we need to take to heart.

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This has been my plan for some time. I do NOT want a “unity” ticket … if “unity” means a veep who is a tool of the donor class, darling of the Regime-Media, grifter. Stated more succinctly, I do NOT want Nikki on the ticket.

Last night (1/15), after coming in THIRD in Iowa, Nikki gave a long … much too long … victory speech in which she claimed that Trump and Biden have much in common. Actually, donor-puppet Nikki has much more in common with Biden than Trump has with Biden.

For one thing, Nikki and Biden both believe in forever wars to finance the military-industrial complex. For another thing, Nikki’s and Biden’s tough talk on China is belied by their actions. And third, Nikki is NOT going to secure the border because her donors support open borders.

I plan on voting for the GOP nominee. Unless Nikki Haley is within 1000 miles of the ticket. I can hold my nose and vote for a lot of turds. But that human being is openly hostile to my beliefs.

I’ll leave it blank or vote for RFK.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 15, 2024

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It’s déjà vu all over again!  The November 3, 2020, General Election in Windham produced the largest numerical discrepancy in the history of NH between election day results and the subsequent hand recount.

That led to the RARE CORRECTIVE ACTION by the NH Attorney General and Secretary of State to appoint an election monitor to oversee Windham’s next federal election, which took place on September 13, 2022.

Unfortunately, that appointed election monitor did not prevent Windham election officials from producing YET ANOTHER FLAWED ELECTION – as documented by the Government Integrity Project’s Ken Eyring and Tom Murray in their complaint that was filed with the NH Attorney General on December 21, 2022.

Eyring and Murray’s complaint regarding the September 13, 2022 was filed on December 21, 2022, The complaint identified 33 issues with dozens of links to official election documentation that were produced by Windham’s election officials.  The AG took more than a year to respond.

The result of the complaint is an UNPRECEDENTED APPOINTMENT of yet ANOTHER ELECTION MONITOR for next Tuesday’s First In The Nation Primary election in Windham. Back to Back election monitors in two consecutive federal elections.

That’s Einstein’s definition of insanity!

There’s much more to be disturbed about… and Eyring and Murray brought the receipts while appearing on Neil Johnson’s Lumberjack Logic podcast. If you care about election integrity, this video is a must-see!

 

After viewing the podcast, if you are not satisfied with the NH Attorney General and his recurring “solution” to this recurring problem… feel free to contact his office and respectfully let him know how you feel:

Phone: 603-271-3658
Email: attorneygeneral@doj.nh.gov

The Windham Town Clerk and Election Moderator can be reached here:

Phone: 603-434-5075
Email: townclerk@WindhamNh.gov

There’s more to this story… stay tuned…

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Two weeks ago, I wrote an article laying out the political class’s struggle to preserve its legitimacy by fighting to regain control over the digital information space. The piece built on Martin Gurri’s thesis that the wide adoption of the internet has caused an information revolution that, similar to the adoption of the printing press, has allowed dissent to grow and spread beyond the control of the ruling classes.

The results have been political shocks like the Arab Spring, the passage of Brexit, and the election of Donald Trump.

If the twenty-first century has been a war to preserve the establishment’s legitimacy, the current battle in the United States is the 2024 presidential election.

There’s truth to the familiar cliché that the next election is always the most important in history. As the federal government grows, spends more of our money, and intrudes more in our daily lives, the stakes of elections get higher and higher.

That still holds true for 2024, but there is much more going on. In Anatomy of the State, after defining the state as the “organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area,” Murray Rothbard dedicates a chapter to how states preserve themselves.

In Rothbard’s words:

While force is [the ruling class’s] modus operandi, their basic and long-run problem is ideological. For in order to continue in office, any government (not simply a “democratic” government) must have the support of the majority of its subjects. This support, it must be noted, need not be active enthusiasm; it may well be passive resignation as if to an inevitable law of nature. . . . Therefore, the chief task of the rulers is always to secure the active or resigned acceptance of the majority of the citizens.

In the United States, the political establishment has for many years evoked democracy to legitimize its actions in the eyes of the public. Doing so transforms any action they take into an embodiment of the people’s will and any opposition into a selfish denial of everyone else’s wishes.

But the internet allowed the public to see that many views and beliefs that had been presented as fringe were in fact popular—often even more popular than so-called mainstream ideas.

That revelation bolstered the antiestablishment movements of the 2010s—Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, the Ron Paul Revolution, and Trump’s 2016 campaign. And it sent the political establishment into a crisis of legitimacy.

Tens of millions of Americans sent Donald Trump to the White House in one of the biggest repudiations of the established political class in American history. In response, instead of reflecting on why so many Americans were so fed up with them, the establishment decided to frame Trump as the root cause of all the nastiness and hostility aimed their way. According to them, one man was corrupting America with hate, greed, and Russian propaganda.

That thinking has culminated in years of establishment attempts to remove Trump from power and later to bar him from ever holding office again. First, there was discussion of ousting him using the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. Then came the attempt to tie him to Russian intelligence. Next, they tried to impeach him twice. Finally, they charged him with felonies. Now, some states are attempting to remove him from the 2024 ballot for a crime he hasn’t even been charged with.

The establishment is unwilling to admit that they are the reason Trump was elected. But, ironically, by attempting to disqualify him from participating in the election, they undermine the illusion of democracy—their main source of legitimacy in the eyes of many Americans. It’s hard to see how that will go well for them.

 

Connor O’Keeffe (@ConnorMOKeeffe) produces media and content at the Mises Institute. He has a master’s in economics and a bachelor’s in geology.

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“Bidenomics is working!”

At least that’s what Joe Biden and his administration tell us every chance they get, citing cherry-picked statistics to prove their point. They tout the most recent inflation figure of 3.4 percent and compare it to last year, when the inflation rate was a crippling 6.5 percent.

That sure makes it look like Bidenomics is working. That is until you look at the rate of inflation just before Biden took office. In 2020, it was 1.4 percent.

They tell us that last year, gas prices averaged $3.70 a gallon. Now, they average $3.05. That sounds pretty good, but they never mention that in 2020, around the time they took office, gas prices were at $1.74 per gallon.

The reality is that Bidenomics is an abysmal failure, and most people know it.

Joe Biden seems guided by a four-point strategy – something he probably picked up during his 50 years in the Washington swamp:

1. If it’s not broken, break it.
2. Blame your predecessor for the problem you created.
3. Apply political spin to make things appear better than they are.
4. Credit your policies for any perceived improvement.

Of course, failed politicians always try to make their disastrous policies look more appealing. They gussy them up with carefully chosen statistics, distorted truths, semantics, and sometimes audacious lies. In politics, it’s often said they’re trying to put lipstick on a pig (PLOP).

This administration has used that same strategy to spin the critical situation on our southern border. No one can PLOP better than DHS Secretary Mayorkas. He thought that calling it a “challenge” would help eliminate any concerns the public may have about the utter chaos caused by Biden’s policies. “Chaos” has such negative overtones, after all. Coupled with the brazen lie that “the border is secure,” Mayorkas did everything he could – not to solve the problem, but to make it look better than it actually is. He’s now facing impeachment for repeating that very same lie to Congress.

He’s not the only one in this administration who tries to put lipstick on a pig. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, put together a silly propaganda video touting the marvels of electric vehicles. That was before nearly 4,000 car dealers wrote to Joe Biden expressing deep concerns about the lack of demand for EVs. Now, Hertz announced that it will replace 20,000 electric cars with gas-powered vehicles.

It all suggests that the people on Biden’s team were selected based on two criteria: their minority status and their willingness to PLOP on demand.

Bill Clinton famously said, “I feel your pain.” These people don’t even pretend to feel it. But they do know how to inflict it. And they seem utterly unfazed by the hardships they’ve created in our economy, on our border, on our streets, and in the world. They’ve shown no interest whatsoever in fixing any of these problems. Maybe the best they can do is try to make them appear less disastrous.

Biden’s dismal approval numbers tell us that most voters have caught on to his four-point strategy. We’ll know soon enough if the country is finally finished with the deception, diversion, and dishonesty. Maybe they’re ready to elect a president – any president – whose policies don’t have to be embellished, adorned, decorated, or disguised just to make them seem more palatable. Maybe the agenda of our next president will actually benefit the American people.

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The Write-In Joe Biden Campaign will likely result in a Biden “win.” There isn’t anyone else on the ballot to attract votes away from him, and New Hampshire Democrats are good little socialist doobies as long as Bernie isn’t a choice— so, dear leader or bust. But that’s less interesting than this.

It is, in true Democrat party/policy fashion, virtue signaling. A Biden win in New Hampshire doesn’t mean anything. The DNC doesn’t recognize it. The party won’t seat any delegates. So, the effort is smoke and mirrors—PR for a political dead animal—a mirage. And good on them for trying and wasting money on it. Anytime you can get Democrats to waste their money is a good day.

The budget for the main write-in campaign is somewhere around $70,000 — a comically paltry sum in modern presidential campaigns — which is mainly going toward printing signs explaining the write-in process and covering the cost of one staffer and one part-time consultant.

An affiliated super PAC would not disclose its budget. But a source familiar with the effort said it had raised roughly $500,000 by mid-December. That’s enough to pay for some mailers and some digital advertisements, but not enough to run television ads or staff a real field operation.

It is true that if Biden had an actual campaign and primary in the Granite State and had actual challengers, he’d have had to spend more than the $570,000, give or take, raised to write in his name, meaning it might not be the great gift of wasted money my headline implies. But it is an empty waste of money. Nothing that is gained is real. A cheap trick meant to fool the gullible into believing what happened in New Hampshire had meaning beyond reality. People who would typically be hobnobbing with national party and media elites across the state, including perhaps the man himself, found themselves with too much free time they are trying to fill.

Related: Why NH Democrats Should Be Proud to Lose Their Primary

The write-in campaign is busy work – speaking of which. If I’m not mistaken, any ballot with a write-in must be hand-counted because the machine can’t tell whose name is in the space. Poll workers might be busy working longer hours to count them, having any number of machine-counted ballots turned into hand-counted paper ballots at every polling place in the state.

Isn’t that a threat to Democracy or something? I thought Democrats were opposed to that sort of thing. Or is it okay when it’s Democrats? And how is this not the epitome of current Democrat politics? A void without meaning, onto which Obama’s faithful water carriers scribble, Joe Biden.

That describes his entire presidency—a blank space filled in by the people placed around him.

 

 

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Jill Biden has some explaining to do about her behavior and enabling of Joe to run for reelection, but instead, she takes shots at anyone who criticizes her stepson, Hunter. Jill was recently interviewed by MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host, Mika Brzezinski.

Mika is not the person you would turn to if you want an in-depth questioning of someone, and in the case of her interview with the First Lady, Mika was in her usual form. This interview was an exercise in throwing softball questions instead of queries that would get answers to what is really happening in the Biden White House and within the First Family. The interview was an embarrassment and showed a lack of journalistic integrity. The First Lady took full advantage of the situation. She used the session to garner sympathy for her beleaguered stepson and give her spin on how valuable Joe’s age and experience are for the American people. It was more of a campaign spot than a news interview.

Megyn Kelly blasted Mika and called the effort a failure. “She did not ask her any hard questions. And it’s like if you’re gonna sit there and tee it up for the First Lady to say, ‘This is cruel what they’re doing to my son,’ then you better – if you actually consider yourself a journalist who criticizes other journalists – get ready for a couple of tough follow-ups, madam,” Kelly explained, referencing the topic of Hunter Biden’s indictment, which Jill and Mika touched on.

Jill Biden says the candidate’s children should be off limits. That was certainly not the case with any of Trump’s children, and the media assaulted all of them, from Barron to Don Jr. The difference here is that Hunter Biden is under criminal indictment. The facts we have paint an ugly career of using his father’s political career to shake down foreign companies and governments for millions as he enriched the Biden Cartel.

Hunter Biden has done little to keep a low profile and has put himself in the spotlight and hot seat. It was Hunter who posted his porn videos on PornHub and boasted about his career as an artist, where he sold child-like pieces of art to his father’s wealthy donors for millions. Hunter is a self-proclaimed sex and alcohol addict and deserves no easy treatment from Congress or the media. He deserves all the scrutiny and then some.

Jill was asked about Joe’s age and gave her well rehearsed answer. Joe’s age is not a negative but a tremendous advantage. She claims he knows every player on the international stage, and his 50 years of experience makes him the right person to be President today. “Joe has lived history,” said Mrs. Biden. The problem for America is he may have lived it but cannot remember it.

To anyone paying attention, the Bidens have much to answer for, all four of them. Joe, Jill, Hunter, and First Brother Jim are the key players in the Biden Cartel and the sophisticated con job being played on Americans. Many say Jill’s actions, or inactions, in pushing Joe to pursue another term is tantamount to elder abuse. The three Biden men are orchestrating the manipulation of banks and money to hide millions from the law and Congress.

Hunter is in contempt of Congress by refusing to appear for a scheduled deposition. Under threat of penalty, he has changed his mind and will appear. The Democrats will do their best to protect the Biden’s. The Republicans are chomping at the bit to get Hunter and Jim under oath. One thing is guaranteed: Jordan and Comer, will have much tougher questions than Mika.

 

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Since his abrupt departure from FOX News, Tucker Carlson has become more popular than ever. He’s got his Twitter thing and now the Tucker Carlson Network. He has many avenues for content, his opinion, and interviews, and he has a few thoughts about Iowa, Necon Nikki Haley, and my Governor, Chris Sununu.

Sununu endorsed Haley and has been a relentless advocate to the point of nausea, and I continue to insist that had he wanted to hurt Trump in New Hampshire, Sununu should have endorsed him instead. Haley is bad for a list of reasons. Tucker covers a few in the full clip, like war profiteers, illegal alien invasions, and liberal donors, which should raise even moderate Republican eyebrows. She’s also bad on free speech, among other matters.

Tucker Carlson Uncensored

The entire thing is worth a watch (17 min). Tucker lists a number of problems with Haley, both past and present, donors and policies, that should cause independents to run screaming toward any other candidate. For our purposes, we’ve clipped the bit in the middle that includes  Governor Chris Sununu. History. Archive. Posterity. Remeniscing. “Hey, you remember that time Tucker Carlson said, “Nikki Haley is a committed neo-liberal just like her creepy little friend Chris Sununu?” Good times.

We’ve been calling out Sununu for longer than he’s been governor, so, yes, and we’ve got the receipts. Sure, he’s been good on taxes and guns, and he will veto a lot of liberal garbage from either side, but he’s a social liberal, and given a chance to do the right thing for liberty, he took a pass or kicked it n the ass.

I’m not going to say we can do better, but if you aren’t willing to try, why bother getting up in the morning? It’s only human liberty and natural rights.

Here’s the clip. The entire piece is available here.

 

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There’s a therapeutic technique called reframing, which is a fancy name for changing your behavior by finding a new way to look at an old situation.  Often, it consists of simply replacing a habitual question with a more insightful one.

When we think about majorities, we tend to ask questions like, How many people should have to agree on something before they can get their way?

Usually, that’s anything over one-half.  But for some more ‘serious’ questions (usually involving taxes or constitutional amendments), it may be higher: three-fifths, two-thirds, three-fourths.

(To amend the federal constitution, you need two-thirds in both houses of Congress and three-fourths of the state legislatures. I don’t know of any situations that require more than a three-fourths majority.)

But if we look — as we frequently should — at the Declaration of Independence, it says that government gets its just power to act from the consent of the governed.

Now, you may be thinking something like: It’s through voting that the people express their consent.

But the thing is, in your heart, you know that isn’t true. And you can prove it to yourself by pondering a simple question:

Assuming you want to keep both your kidneys, how many people in your town (or county, or state, or country) would have to vote to take one of them before you would consider that expressing your consent?  What kind of majority would suffice?  Three-fourths?  Nine-tenths?  Ninety-nine percent?  Everyone but you?

The people who wrote our founding documents also knew that a majority vote can’t express consent. If you have doubts, look at Article V of the federal constitution, which says that no state can be deprived of equal suffrage in the Senate without its consent.  If forty-nine other states wanted New Hampshire to give up one of its senators, it wouldn’t be enough.

That’s what consent means.

To put that another way, if you have consent, you don’t need to vote. If you’re voting, it’s because you want to deprive some person or group of consent.

I think one way that we can move back towards government by consent would be to change the question that has so insidiously led us away from it.

That is, instead of always asking

How many people should we need, to get what we want?

we should instead get into the habit of asking

How many people are we willing to screw over, to get what we want?

The answer to the first question tends to be some arbitrary percentage. But the answer to the second question — at least, in a civilized society — is zero.

This isn’t a new idea. It’s been around forever.

Remember Hippocrates?  First do no harm.

Remember the Golden Rule?  What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow man.

Remember the adage that we’ve told to countless generations of kids?  The ends don’t justify the means.

If the number of people we’re willing to screw over to get what we want is not zero, then we’re basically saying that our theory of government is might makes right.

And if that’s the case, then we should be completely open about it… and be ready to accept the consequences (in any caliber) without complaining.

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Thanks to everyone for the pig pile of content I’ve received recently. I promise I am not ignoring you, but there are only so many hours in a day and so much material that it makes sense to share in any given 24-hour period. I’m working to get it all out there, especially if it is NH Primary-related.

The drop dead date for that is fast approaching.

I am adding extra content in the early hours of the day and as late as Midnight to catch up, so keep it coming. I will need a lot of content for Monday and Tuesday as I will be in Manchester from Sunday until Tuesday afternoon, reporting with the 603 Alliance from Radio Row. I can blog from there, but it helps if I have help. And I’ve been bumping my content to make space for the influx.

I’d also like to encourage all of you who suddenly have so much to say to keep saying it. Don’t let the passing of the primary end your writing or reading activism. It is nice to have traffic spikes around high political holidays like the FITN primary, but as you know, the news and opinion happen every day all year round, and it all matters.

Not everyone can write an op-ed or a political piece. If you can, don’t stop. We’ll help. And as things calm down, we’ll need the content.

We’ll share your op-eds without judgment. We have had Pro-Vivek, Anti-Chrisite (no one liked him much), pro-Nikki, NeverNikki, pro-Trump, not-so-Trump, and while I’ve tried to get more DeSantis input, most of it in both directions has come from … me. It’s not my fault we didn’t share more DeSantis Rah-Rah; almost no one sent me any, but I made it clear early that we’re not taking sides in this primary, and your voice matters even if it’s not mine or Ed’s or Ray’s or Aaron’s or anyone else.

I’m not sharing Dem drivel, but just about anything else that is reasonable will get ‘Ink’ on our pages. We want to create a space for debate, and you help us do that, so thank you.

Don’t stop. Please keep it coming, especially after the primary fog of war moves away from the Granite State.

Remember, the Left never rests, so neither can we.

On an unrelated note, I think I’ve decided on a new tagline inspired by my Memoriam to Ed Nail and Jon Irish – whom I am very much missing this week.

“Liberty Is More Precious Than Life, and Tyranny Never Rests – So Neither Shall We.”

Criticism is, as always, welcome.

 

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A felony hit and run is a serious crime with severe consequences. It happens when someone leaves the scene of an accident without providing proper identification or assisting those who might be injured. This crime can turn a simple traffic accident into a complicated legal issue.

This crime can lead to severe consequences. In this article, we’ll talk about what can happen if you commit a felony hit and run.

Sentencing, Fines, and Probation

One big consequence of a felony hit-and-run is jail time. Depending on the state and the damages, you could spend a number of years in prison.

Another consequence is fines. The law can make you pay a lot of money for running away from an accident.

You could also be put on probation. This means you’ll have to follow strict rules to stay out of jail. These penalties can change your life.

Permanent Criminal Record

A felony hit and run can result in a permanent criminal record. This record can follow you for life and affect many parts of your future. It can make it harder to get a job because employers often check criminal histories.

Renting a home can be challenging too, as landlords may not want to rent to a felon. It’s essential to understand this consequence before making any decision.

Hiring an auto attorney can guide us in understanding the effects of a criminal record. You can view here for more reasons to hire an auto accident attorney. They are experienced in accident cases and are always ready to assist you.

License Suspension and Revocation

License suspension or revocation is a big result of a felony hit and run. Your driver’s license might be taken away for a while. If you’re caught driving without it, you’ll get into more trouble.

This can make life difficult, especially if you rely on driving to work or get necessities. It’s not just a short-term problem, either. Getting your license back can be tough, with long processes and tests.

Impact on Auto Insurance

A felony hit and run can also have a major impact on your auto insurance. Upon conviction, your insurance company may view you as a high-risk driver. This usually results in a substantial increase in your insurance premiums.

Mental and Emotional Turmoil

A felony hit and run can cause a lot of stress and worry. You might feel guilty for what you did. You might be scared about the future, too.

It can be hard to sleep or focus on your daily tasks. You may feel alone or like no one understands you. This is what we call mental and emotional turmoil.

It’s important to get help if you feel this way. You could talk to a counselor or a trusted friend. Remember, it’s okay to ask for help when you’re feeling down.

The Lasting Effects of a Felony Hit and Run

A felony hit and run is a serious crime with a lasting impact. From heavy fines and jail time, a permanent criminal record, to license suspension and emotional distress, its consequences are far-reaching. The act doesn’t only change the victim’s life but also that of the perpetrator.

Remember, the repercussions of a felony hit and run extend beyond the immediate, affecting every aspect of life. Thus, it’s crucial to realize the long-term effects and avoid such actions. It’s always better to face the situation responsibly than to flee and face harsher consequences later.

If you find this article helpful, you may visit our blog for more content.

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Memes, I gots memes!  Here are the ones from Monday.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

 

Coming sooner than you fear, I fear.

 

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I have an idea.  Let’s let people like this in by the metric f*ckton.

 

 

 

 

 

It was hammered into me in my youth how dangerous butter and cream and fat were.  Margarine – made, IIRC, from bubbling hydrogen through oil at high temperature (hence the term “hydrogenated”) – was considered healthy.  Eggs were – at the time – also restricted.  Recommend this book highly:

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If this can be proven, he needs to hang.

 

 

Control the information flow, control what people believe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Everyone has physical “preferences”… but there’s no factory cranking out idealized partners.  (Long story and many details omitted, my then-obsession with specific aspects of female appearance made me overlook someone who, in retrospect, really liked me.  What might have been…) Related, to me:

 

 

IMHO, these two go together.

It was thanks to the movie SE7EN that I got “turned onto” the Catholic concept of the Seven Deadly Sins (and, in parallel, the Seven Cardinal Virtues).  What I see in our society is a devolution towards sin in general, with so much of society having vanity as a lead-in.  A reminder:

 

 

And IMHO this corruption of our society is deliberate.

 

 

MassResistance is a good group fighting this.

 

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Gazans fleeing after having been warned to evacuate.

 

 

 

Amnesty? What? Let me Dr. Paul Alexander be as clear as I can be Dr. Emily Oster & all you INSANE illogical Branch COVIDian MADMEN & WOMEN; there must be no fuck*ng forgiveness, EVER, for fake COVID! (substack.com)

Magnificent rant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t want to live that long.

 

 

And you still live there because…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting… apparently built to be able to switch?

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

A moment of anticipation and happiness:

 

 

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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I suspect this is like a horoscope; you look for things that you want to apply to you.  Still, I hit just about every one of these.

 

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Come back on Friday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

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Ambidextrous by birth, professional baseball player Pat Venditte was able to pitch about equally well with either hand.

And he had a special six-fingered glove that he could use to catch with using either hand.

This gave him an advantage in that he could switch his pitching hand depending on the handedness of whatever hitter he was facing.

All other things being equal, a right-handed batter would prefer to face a left-handed pitcher, and a left-handed batter would prefer to face a right-handed pitcher.

So when facing a right-handed batter, Venditte would pitch right-handed. When facing a left-handed batter, he would pitch left-handed.

He was the game’s first ‘switch pitcher.’

This was never an issue until a game in 2008. Venditte was on the mound when switch hitter Ralph Henriquez came up to bat.  Over the course of several minutes, Henriquez kept switching between the two batter’s boxes, and Venditte kept switching between his two pitching hands, each trying to get an advantage over the other.

After several more minutes of discussion, during which it became clear that the Rules of Baseball — baseball’s version of the Constitution — did not have anything to say about the situation, the officials made a decision:  They made Henriquez choose a box to bat from, and then Venditte could choose a hand to pitch with.  And the game was able to continue.

Many people were amazed that in a game as old and as popular as baseball, it could be possible to come up with a situation that no one had ever seen before.

But to me, the most remarkable thing about the situation is that the ruling by the officials did not create a rule that any other officials were bound to follow.  It was left to the Rules Committee — baseball’s version of Congress — to decide how this kind of situation should be handled in the future.

(That committee, by the way, came up with a rule that differed from the ruling on the field.  From now on, they said, it’s the pitcher who has to choose a hand to pitch with before the at-bat begins, and then the batter can react accordingly.  This gives the advantage to the batter. It would be more fair, I think, to make them play rock-paper-scissors before each at-bat, but it’s not up to me.)

And it’s remarkable because it provides such a perfect model for how judges should act in our courts.

Consider the case of Francois Momolu Khalil, who was convicted of raping a woman in Minnesota. On appeal, the Minnesota Supreme Court found that, for technical reasons, while Khalil’s actions were reprehensible, they were not consistent with the statutory definition of rape, so his conviction was overturned.

The outcry was immediate. Almost everyone seemed to think that the conviction should stand because, obviously, the legislature meant for the definition of rape to cover Khalil’s actions, and so the court should have just declared that what the law meant was different from what it said.

But the Justices said that it wasn’t their job to rewrite statutes from the bench… especially when the words of the statute would remain unchanged.

Which is exactly how it should work. But it’s so rare for this to happen that it was shocking — bordering on incomprehensible —  to most people.

It’s clear to everyone in MLB that the rules committee has all rule-making power so that it can make rules.  On the other hand, the officials in a game have only the power to make rulings that apply at a particular moment. These rulings don’t set precedents. They aren’t binding on anyone. They just allow the current game to continue without affecting what happens in other games.

That is, it’s the job of the officials to see that, to as great an extent as possible, the game is played in accordance with the rules as they have been written down.

Contrast this with how our judges operate, especially in appeals courts. They may decide, for example, that limiting the number of rounds you can carry in a magazine is not an infringement on the right to keep and bear arms. From then on, that is the law, regardless of what the relevant constitutions — our government’s versions of the Rules of Baseball — have to say about it.

In a nutshell, the officials in baseball are there to enforce the rules as created by the rules committee, and to do that, they may issue rulings that do not become new rules.  n contrast, the judges in our courts believe they are there to make up new rules on the fly — even when those are in blatant conflict with the rules as written down in constitutions and statutes.

In particular, with the part of the Constitution that clearly and unambiguously assigns all legislative power to Congress… and no legislative power to the courts themselves.

All of which is to say, our courts should learn from our sports.

 

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Every presidential season, I tell myself I should save all the mailers and see how much I end up with when the primary ends, but I never do it. This year would have been epic, but with a week to the Primary, things appear to have gotten out of hand.

Today, in my mailbox were 13 items. Ten of these were political flyers. They all had Nikki Haley’s name on them, but contrary to her ads, none were from Trump. Only one was negative. The other nine were pro-Haley. SFA Fund Inc. paid for seven of them. AFP was responsible for the other two. The Anti-Nikki flyer was from Never Back Down.

SFA Fund, Inc. is a pro-Haley (No Sh!t, really?) Hybrid PAC, according to the SEC. It’s based in Houston, Texas, and the Treasurer is Katie Reid. It has raised over 18.7 million and spent only 1.64M of that (on mailers, perhaps). If you’d like to see who the donors are, Open Secrets and a nice list here – There are 348 records if you plan to scroll through them.

AFP, we’ve said our peace about them, so no more comment there.

Then there’s the one negative mailer for this day’s mail. Never Back Down focused on the sale of land to China, which is always troubling and more so now than ever, but they are going to have to be better than that if they want DeSantis to have a chance at grabbing some anyone-but-Trump independents away from Haley. They might see about convincing a few more Republicans as well. DeSantis was never more popular here than when he’d never been here, but since then, his polling has declined.

I saw him in person a few times. He says the right things and has great ideas, but something is missing. He doesn’t strike me as a great orator, and maybe that’s why he’s having more of a challenge despite the ideas on which he is running. It’s just a thought. I expect the DeSantis fans will be after me for it, but what else might the matter be? Substance doesn’t win elections, and that’s not a new problem.

I wish him the best, but he’s not selling America, and the polling shows it. He underperformed in Iowa and seems likely to do much worse here, which won’t bode well for the states that follow. But I hope he stays in the race. We need a not-Haley candidate who is also a not-Trump candidate, and he is it. And no, this wasn’t meant to start as a critique of DeSantis, but I had much higher hopes for him on this stage, and perhaps I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

And yes, I still think this is Trump’s to lose, and I expect him to walk away with it in a landslide short of an actual guilty verdict in court that doesn’t go his way, and even that might not stop the nomination train.

And Haley, lots of flyers. Good Strategy. Younger, positive vision. And she might be the political Left’s favorite politician. Mary Rooke, whose work we often share, is reporting that Democrats in Iowa switched parties to vote for Haley in the Primary.

When you’re running to be the Republican Presidential nominee, the last people you expect to boost your ballot numbers are the ones actively hoping you and all your colleagues fail, but that’s precisely who propelled Haley to win the only county Trump lost in Monday’s Iowa primary race.

CBS News’ @tonydokoupil reports from a precinct in Johnston, Iowa, where some registered Democrats filled out forms to switch to the Republican Party to participate in the caucus: “They ran out of those forms.”

“This room was in favor of Nikki Haley.” pic.twitter.com/BapNjVGxdh

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 16, 2024

We had over 3000 Democrats switch to meddle in the Republican Primary in NH. It’s not enough to make a Yuge difference, but they must love all those mailers.

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Fani Willis, the political hack prosecutor in Georgia persecuting … not a typo: persecuting, not prosecuting Trump and his supporters for the “crimes” of complaining that the rigged 2020 election was rigged, has been accused, essentially, of using her office to launder money to her boyfriend.

Her response: I should be held to a different standard because of my skin color.

And … she is. If this were a white male prosecutor who had hired his girlfriend to prosecute Hunter Biden, the Regime-Media, Big-Tech, etcetera would have already crucified him. Fani, on the other hand, gets to play the victim.

NEW: FANI WILLIS speaks after allegations of paying lover to prosecute Trump:

“You cannot expect black women to be perfect. We need to be allowed to stumble. We need grace. We are all sinners…”pic.twitter.com/YpP6tYH8zw

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) January 14, 2024

Fani Willis wants you to believe having an affair with a man she gave $700,000 of taxpayer money too right after he divorced his wife so he could be her chief Trump prosecutor, is “doing the will of Jesus.” pic.twitter.com/uablaZeqmT

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) January 15, 2024

DA Fani Willis breaks her silence on the scandalous affair and improper use of taxpayer funds:

"You cannot expect black women to be perfect and save the world"

"We need to be allowed to stumble"

pic.twitter.com/FqRz0CGFav

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 14, 2024

Fani Willis, who allegedly broke up her boyfriend’s marriage & paid him $650k to investigate Trump, spoke at church today in Atlanta & broke her silence. “You cannot expect black woman to be perfect and save the world,” she said. This case is OVER. pic.twitter.com/XGrIsOzruJ

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 15, 2024

 

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Mary Maxwell: Hello ET, I have never interviewed an Extra-Terrestrial before. In fact, it’s difficult for me to believe that there are creatures out there who are somewhat like humans.

ET: Please feel free to express your doubts; that way, we might win over more readers.

Mary: To be honest, ET, I haven’t any desire to prove your real existence. I just want to tap your intellect.

ET: Shoot.

Mary: Let’s start by discussing overpopulation. What do you think is an ideal number of humans to be occupying the Earth at any given time?

ET: To answer that, I would need to know what kind of resources the Earth has. You humans eat food three times a day, right?

Mary: I eat three meals a day, but I live in a city where it has always been easy to get employment, and thus money to buy food. Elsewhere on the globe there are some very poor people who strive to get one meal a day.

ET: How much agricultural land does your planet have?

Mary: There is plenty of land space, but fertile soil is on the decline. A few decades ago, we switched from family farms to “Big Ag.” It looks to me that the big corporations lack planning for the future. They don’t take care of the soil.

ET: How do your three meals get from the farm to your dining table?

Mary: Long-distance transport is involved, usually by truck, so I am worried that a gasoline shortage may cause me to go hungry.

ET: What may cause the gasoline shortage?

Mary: I recall that in 1973, there were fights at the pumps, as gasoline was hard to get. This was explained by international decrees from OPEC — Oil and Petroleum Exporting Countries. Most of those were in the Middle East. Today, however, the decision to curtail supply might be made simply to cause starvation.

ET: Besides growing the food and delivering it to people, what else made you ask about overpopulation?

Mary: Well, I’d get ‘crowned’ for bringing it up — it’s politically incorrect. But here it is: I think we are not able to manage a huge population. We are not cut out for it. Humans need small or small-ish communities.

ET: Ah, I see I went off on a wrong track, responding to your query about an ideal population by treating it as resource-related.

Mary: No, wait. The resource problem will come back into it. I have in mind the way a large group breaks into two “enemies.” Probably, that happens because someone wants it to happen. Then, since we evolved for hostilities, our instinct takes over. You can see it all around you today. I think it is deliberate — it’s “policy.”

ET: Policy by whom? Wait. I can answer that myself in a general way: Policy by anyone who can gain from it.

Mary: Naturally, that is the correct answer. But now ask me what it is they will gain.

ET: I’m not stupid, Mary. I know that survival’s the thing. Those who are high enough to cause wars and to decide how the food will reach you are doing it so they can stay in the game.

Mary: Spot on, spot on. Most of my friends think the driving force is greed. But I feel sure the ones who have made it to a very high position know that the masses could turn on them. The poor buggers nowadays have to keep facing new challenges from below.

ET: I bet they face it with anything feasible to keep folks distressed. Disease, unemployment, and natural disasters.

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Mary: Yes, and war.

ET: Many wars are fought to keep the weapons makers in business. Or do you think that, too, is “policy.”

Mary: I think almost everything is policy. I also think the buggers are fairly unimaginative; if a policy has been successful for them in the past, they unashamedly use it again, despite a group of thinkers having outed them for it.

ET: I suppose you’d agree that when Group A is fighting Group B, the real instigator of the war is Mr C, who isn’t on either side.

Mary: Yes, but that’s hard for most people to see. I found out only in the 21st century that the so-called Cold War, which ran for most of my life, was fake insofar as the two Superpowers were in cahoots. It first came to my attention from Antony Sutton’s book “National Suicide.”

ET: It was a rather ingenious thing. The real bosses who ran both the US and the USSR were able to commit all sorts of violence in the Third World on the premise that “we, the good guys, had to prevent a takeover by Commies” or “by capitalists” if you were on the other side.

Mary: Perhaps even more ingenious is the ability of the “World Economic Forum” to infiltrate all parliaments. You will have heard Klaus Schwab say, on a microphone, that he is pleased to have put some ministers into Trudeau’s Cabinet.

ET: Probably the key to false wars In America is that Congress is so infiltrated, or the Reps are so intimidated by their handlers, that they refuse, outright, to follow the Constitution, which plainly says that only Congress, not a president, can declare war.

Mary: Oh yeah. I have filed two lawsuits against presidents for disobeying the rules, but the courts refuse to be the arbiter between the Legislature and the Executive.

ET: How is it not the Judiciary’s job to uphold the Constitution?

Mary: Beats me. Hmm. You could probably push me right over into saying that the judges work directly for the same bosses as do Congresspersons and the occupant of the White House.

ET: Shall we get back to the food issue?

Mary: Frankly, Sir, I get back to the food issue three times a day. Do you recall a few months ago that there was an “outbreak” of disasters at food-processing plants? The media managed to report each instance as unrelated to the others. We certainly did not see the government stepping in to thwart this trend. So, yes, there must be a plan in the works to put us all on a “diet.”

ET: Earlier, you hinted at a connection between the planned food shortage and our need to live in small-ish communities.

Mary: Think of it this way. In New Hampshire, where I live, the libertarians push the ideal of freedom. Who could disagree? To live life the way you choose is a great thing. Several generations back in New Hampshire, you’d be in a small community that could decide how to grow and sell food. But right now, in a city such as Concord, NH, or Manchester, people must get food from a supermarket. That entails kowtowing to BigAg, even if it’s not a visible kowtowing.

ET: So where is the ability of citizens to influence the government to change that?

Mary: It’s bigger than a breadbox, ET. Today, the folks shopping in a Manchester supermarket get their salary from a business that may also be hopelessly big. If I waved a magic wand and said, “Let those big companies collapse,” the Manchester folk might go foodless. That’s why I asked for your opinion about population size.

ET: So you don’t really mean “What Is Earth’s carrying capacity?” “How many people can be supported by Earth?”

Mary: Well, that too. We have been swept into modern life in, say, a mere four centuries since the Mayflower. And swept further into an economic whirlwind since the computer became widely used in the 1980s. As an individual, I enjoyed many benefits from that, including what I call “frequent-flyer syndrome. But I throw away plastic milk cartons that end up in the ocean, strangling fish. “My Type” is a heavy burden on the planet.

ET: Maybe you want me to calculate “What is the Earth’s carrying capacity for Your Type?”

Mary: Eeks! I try to avoid that morally distressing question. In 1976 I was studying environmentalism at Johns Hopkins and the teachers were excited about the September article by Nathan Keyfitz, in “The Scientific American.” I recall him noting that few people in India had washing machines, but if it came, that would be a big drawer of water (about 25 gallons per wash). I’m sure I hoped they wouldn’t get washing machines, despite it being a “must have” in my own dear life.

ET: India did then get washing machines. That also put paid to the occupation of the “dhobi’s” who did a sort of door-to-door laundry service, washing shirts in the river.

Mary: If you can focus on only one country, you could say, “The carrying capacity of India is such that a move towards washing machines should be curtailed.” Even the livelihood of the dhobis could be discussed by the community. But now we don’t have that sort of small economic community. In the US, it’s mostly Everyman for himself. This deprives us of a lot.

ET: It hasn’t deprived you of your frequent flyer hobby.

Mary: Pretty soon, I will lose such privileges. So, really, my question to you is: Can you help us come up with a plan for a more sensible life?

ET: Such a question! I suggest maybe you start by putting forth the issues you have named in a separate way (avoidance of war, provision of food, protection of the land), although caring citizens will soon see that they are connected.

Mary: Thank you. Yes, it would help to say: “Hey, what’s with the apparent plan to cause massive food shortages in the United States?” Or “Should our soldiers be rushing off to a war that Congress had no part in declaring?” But Congress stays away from such matters.

ET: This may be a good way to reveal the way Congress, the president, and judges, are not
loyal to the Constitution.

Mary: Definitely, that is a basic issue itself. In fact, if most members of government are not governing us per the parchment, then we don’t have a country. The existence of the US is the outcome of decisions made by the people precisely on the basis of that original agreement.

ET: This could be the year in which Congress largely changes hands. Steve Kirsch has laid out the “magnificent seven” members of Congress here.

Mary: Please, God, make it happen. Give peace a chance. And keep your humble servant’s three-times-a-day program in good repair. Gracias!

Editor’s Note: Mary Maxwell is on the New Hampshire Republican ballot for the 2024 presidential primary.

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You live in a strange world when existing laws regarding obscenity and age-appropriate material are ineffectual at preventing adults from exposing children to explicit sexual content. But that’s where we are. If you want to show porn to kids, work in a public school.

That’s a great loophole, given that the majority of pedophiles try to find work in public schools. That’s where the children are, by law, they have to be there, and in some states, they make it as difficult as possible to let them out of that paddock. Homeschools, private schools, and charter schools are constantly under attack from a government more interested in how it has deformed education than anything that amounts to learning.

And ironically, not all porn is allowed in schools, but that is not book banning.

Into this circus atmosphere comes HB 1419, an act “relative to prohibiting obscene or harmful sexual materials in schools.” [Public Hearing: 01/18/2024 09:30 am LOB 205-207] It defines and outlines things that are otherwise common sense definitions reiterated to make the educator-class understand that showing kids cartoons of sex (or descriptions of same) is inappropriate, mentally disturbing, and should be illegal (generalized for brevity).

Call to Action! – Keep reading past the video to see how you can help right now!

Again, why we have to do this is a question that can only be answered by groomers and pedos in the public schools and their political progressive defenders. The latter will be nearly universal in their opposition, which will make for good copy.

Democrats insist on exposing kids to sexually explicit content. Something that, outside the school room, gets you arrested. If you are unclear about the distinction, Allison Dyer of Nashua made time to frame that distinction in a recent video.

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And fear not, groomers and pedos, and those with Munchhaeus by proxy, you can still order these ‘books,’ just like 50 Shades of Gray, online, allowing you unfettered access in seconds (digitally) or a day or two (for hard copy fans). Just don’t go thinking you can walk up to some kid at random and share it with them. As Allison points out, that might get you arrested.

Now!

Would you like to help advance this bill? You can without leaving the comfort of wherever you feel comfortable using your phone, laptop, or desktop PC. Heck, you can do it if you’re uncomfortable or pleasantly indifferent to your current state.

• Click this link to go to the NH House calendar.
• Scroll down and select “Remote Sign In”
• Fill in the requested information, Name, Address, etc.
• On the Calendar below those fields select January 18th
• Scroll down and using the drop-down, choose the education committee.
• Choose Bill number HB1419.
• Identify yourself (as a member of the public unless you are one of the other selections).
• Select ‘I support the Bill” – then scroll to the bottom and click submit.

You don’t have to write or say anything, but we’d appreciate it if you would share this post or the link everywhere. A strong showing of support from NH Residents is essential to help move this legislation forward.

The Dems do this with a passion, so we must too. The Children need us to defend them. I hope you’ll help.

 

 

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A proposed constitutional amendment (CACR 12) has been put forward, which would amend Article 83 of the state constitution by replacing the word ‘cherish’ with the word ‘cherish.’

Say what?

The idea is that currently, the word means whatever it meant in 1784. And we need to replace it with whatever it means in 2024. That is, we would leave the word the same but change the meaning.

Which is what courts do all the time. (It says ‘fee’?  Well, it means ‘tax’. It says ‘shall not’? Well, it means ‘may sometimes, with our approval.’  And so on.)  So it’s clever. But too clever by half.

The amendment doesn’t specify a particular reference work for either definition. But if we look at the etymology of the word, we find that in the 14th century, it meant

hold as dear; treat with tenderness and affection

And in 2024, it means

to treat with affection and tenderness; hold dear

So unless the definition changed before 1784 and then changed back, the meaning has been constant, and there would be absolutely no significance to the proposed ‘change.’

Which means it fails even as an attempt at humor.

But it also completely misses the larger point, which is that we could change the word ‘cherish’ to a word that isn’t even a word, like ‘sorbelate’ or ‘presmonify’, and it wouldn’t really matter.  In the clause in question,

it shall be the duty of the legislators and magistrates, in all future periods of this government, to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries and public schools,

the crucial word is the word and, highlighted above.

That is, whatever ‘cherish’ — or ‘sorbelate’, or ‘presmonify’ — means, it must mean the same thing for both seminaries and public schools.

And it’s less important what you can do to cherish these institutions, than what you can’t do.

In particular, the state can’t fund, operate, or regulate a seminary. So it can’t do any of those things for public schools, either.

However, all three branches of government have been acting as if

A and B

means

B but not A

If we’re going to ‘fix’ Article 83 by either changing or affirming the definition of a word, then the word to focus on is and, rather than cherish.

And once we’ve straightened that out, we can look, in the same article,

Free and fair competition in the trades and industries is an inherent and essential right of the people and should be protected against all monopolies and conspiracies which tend to hinder or destroy it.

…at the word all — which, in any dictionary, would include the current government monopoly on schools.

 

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For an oldster like me, the current inner-city violence and destruction is only the next stage of an agenda that was underway even before my male-gender birth. Certain past highlights now stand out as former unnoticed signals yet have planted the formational seeds for today’s hateful attitudes and cultural cleansing.

One such event needs to be used as a comparative then versus now lesson. This was JFK’s memorable 1961 Inaugural Address in which he stated: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” This preceded his equally famous, “And so my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

WOW, sacrifice, God Bless America, and Mom’s apple pie flow throughout. However, this national pledge has grown some “maybes” and “what ifs,” which, in hindsight, were preparatory signs of today’s dysfunctional state.

Some who were elected have been impatient and have juiced up this agenda, yet it’s still the same dysfunctional cloud, regardless of its rate of speed. Past moments captured various officials, including Presidents, stating that the most solemn duty of the Oval Office is “having to send men off to war.” Given this acknowledgment, coupled with our Constitutional mandate for declaring war prior to that “most solemn duty,” past actions were either a general dysfunctional act(s) or were inherently criminal!

I fully accept that with today’s super sensitive atmosphere, neither term is welcomed, but being offended is not illegal and sometimes necessary. Since this topic involves many tens of thousands of lives, being offended is the least of our concerns, as it should be when the law is hanging in the balance.

This slice of American waywardness is but one example. It seems that policies are instituted until other priorities arise. This was perfectly clear when our support for a “friend” and our “oppose any foe” devotion faded from the pledge.

JFK’s “liberty” has now been recalculated to beachfront resorts on the China Sea, along with doing commerce with communist regimes. It just might be that the word “dysfunctional” is, in fact, too soft!

Concern should be directed to the government’s continuing dereliction of duty since it remains appropriate with today’s quagmires, all of which were fomented gradually as test cases at their intervening level of importance. Also, this issue of war, centering around the needless loss of American lives, ceased to be important when today’s volunteer military lessened both public interest and debate.

However, closer to home, this is not the case with today’s latest and highly publicized dysfunction. Supposedly, the dearest and most precious possession that brings us meaning with its joy and nurturing is the birth of our children. This is natural, desired, and, above all, a societal requirement. But not so today! Without getting into the dysfunctional corridors of selecting one’s gender, let’s just say again the word dysfunctional doesn’t do it justice.

I’ll wrap up this un-Godly nonsense by pointing to the current crop of dysfunctional parents who themselves have, in many cases, been similarly influenced in their youth through their own wayward rearing. As previously stated, for too long, all of this comes and goes quietly as “Joe Q Public” goes about his or her daily functions. This “let it be” attitude has become fundamental, one which, in all likelihood, was that communist singer’s intent. Nevertheless, it serves to weaken America’s resolve for all that is worth tackling.

Today, the tougher the chore, the less likely it’ll be addressed. Modern man and woman now choose to “let it be!” Our country wasn’t founded, nor did she gain freedom with easy tasks. Those Americans were proud, determined, and hardy. They made friends with the difficult since chopping wood determined warmth and dinner.

In contrast, our modern conveniences have brought an unhealthy degree of ease into our living. Such luxury often produces boredom, which in turn usually breeds either discontent, jealousy, immorality, hatred, or violence. What is missing is the inner peace and contentment derived from one’s pursuits of a purposeful, challenging, and fulfilling life, all while being guided by his or her faith.

 

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