September 19th is a critical special election for the seat that will determine the balance in the New Hampshire House.

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This past year with the New Hampshire House was essentially tied between both major parties, and we have seen an effective stalemate when it comes to policy decisions. This virtual tie has led to numerous good bills dying in the House. In fact, this past year, 57 of the 199 roll call votes were decided by less than 5 people sitting in the chamber, so every vote counts!

This is where you can help! The former Rep. from Northwood and Nottingham has resigned, and there is a special election to fill his seat. This former rep only showed up once, and therefore, this is our one opportunity to pick up a seat with a candidate who cares about protecting medical freedom, education freedom, and parental rights.

RebuildNH wants to let the voters in Northwood and Nottingham know about this special election: First, please contact your friends and family in Northwood and Nottingham and encourage them to vote in the special election September 19th.

We reached out to both candidates and the other candidate refused to fill out survey which could be an indicator that they are hostile to our issues.

Jim Guzofski, a former selectman and school board member, turned in an almost perfect survey and cares about the rights we work to protect.

Additionally, we have set a fundraising goal of $2,500 so we can mail some postcards into the district talking about Jim Guzofski. Please consider contributing.
Donate Here

Towards Liberty,

Melissa Blasek
Executive Director, RebuildNH

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The Black, Brown, and Red communities have been programmed for generations to support the Democrat Party. They have been gaslighted to believe that Democrats have their backs and are the Party to protect and serve the little guy. They listen to their President talk about racism and the poison of White Supremacy.

They talk about the white threats on people of color as the biggest threat to Democracy. There is no proof of White Supremacy or systemic racism in America. People like Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Al Sharpton have made careers on the backs of minorities, and the only way their cash flow continues is to stir the ashes to keep the flames of racism burning. They are using the ghost of slavery to keep people of color enslaved in the Democrat mantra. People of color are seeing through the lies and recognize they have been giving away their votes to the Mighty D and getting nothing in return. People of color are realizing they are more Conservative than they knew. They love God, the Nuclear Family, and the Country, and these are not the concerns of Democrats. Democrats have abandoned these people and all people in the middle class.

Look at the inner cities and the rampant crime and deplorable housing conditions. These cities have been abandoned, and as the Left calls to defund the Police, they become increasingly more dangerous.

Schools are failing all Americans, but specifically children of color. The falling grades are crucial, but so is the constant message of racism, oppression, and lack of opportunities for students of color. Absenteeism and dropout rates are skyrocketing for minorities. The future looks bleak without an education, making gangs’ attraction stronger.

The influx of millions of illegals will pressure low-skill/paying jobs, hurting minorities disproportionately. This labor pool will keep wages down, making Biden inflation more painful. There is not much in the Democrat platform that will retain the minority vote, which is indicative in the latest polls. Trump attracted 8% of the minority vote, but the latest polls show a rise to over 20%. This is huge for Democrats who feel they never had to work hard for this vote. Not so, any longer. The Democrats have taken this voting block for granted and will now pay the price.

Minorities, especially the Black voters, have awakened. They have heard enough of racism and want a fair shake. They see this from the Republicans. They do not want to hear about Equity and want an equal opportunity. They want to secure the borders and end this scourge of illegal immigrants moving into every city and absorbing much of the resources normally used for the low and middle-class.

Ironically, they see the head of the Democrat Party is an 80-year-old white man. They see the diversity of the Republican Party, which not only has a plan for the country and the cities but better reflects the look of today’s America.

Right now, it is talk, but in 2024, these folks will take their voices to the ballot box, and if the polls are accurate, the Democrats will be disappointed with the results. They should not be disappointed as they are getting what they deserve. We Conservatives welcome these minority groups and ask them what took them so long to cross over.

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Pediatricians who aren’t on board with pronouns, puberty blockers, and hormones are guilty of “transphobia” and need help, according to Dartmouth Health staff. They suggest pediatricians reflect on their “implicit bias” and that they “do some personal work in understanding how biases negatively affect the care they provide.”

In their American Academy of Pediatrics article, endocrinologist Frances Lim-Liberty and Jessica Smith, nurse practitioner and program coordinator for the Dartmouth Health Pediatric and Adolescent Transgender program, claim that pediatricians who “lack knowledge” may default to the “watch and wait” approach to see whether children will outgrow their confusion without affirmation and medicalization. “This method is outdated and harmful, denying resources needed to explore gender identity.” Never mind that research consistently shows that about 80% of children will outgrow their gender dysphoria if their identities aren’t affirmed.

They try to coerce physicians with The Trevor Project’s trans-or-die myth. “When youth are not affirmed, there is a significant increase in depression, anxiety, risky behaviors, and suicide.”

Lim-Liberty and Smith seem to be ignorant of developments in European nations, where national health services and medical associations have restricted access to puberty blockers or issued stark warnings.  They make no mention of the July 14 letter to the Wall Street Journal, “The Evidence of Gender Transition for Youth,” in which 21 clinicians and researchers from nine countries, including Finland’s leading expert, Riittakerttu Kaltiala, challenged Endocrine Society President Stephen Hammes’ claim that gender-affirming care improves well-being and reduces suicide.

Related: Experts: Child Transing Doesn’t Reduce Suicide

These international experts emphasized that “There is no reliable evidence to suggest that hormonal transition is an effective suicide prevention measure.” They implore US medical societies “to align their recommendations with the best evidence, rather than exaggerating the benefits and minimizing the risks.” These risks “are significant and include sterility, lifelong dependence on medication, and the anguish of regret.”

Anyone who’s set foot in a high school knows that transgenderism is a craze. Physician and researcher Lisa Littman hypothesized that transgenderism spread among teens as a social contagion. She coined the phrase Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) to describe girls who suddenly identified after being influenced by peers and social media stars.

But Lim-Liberty and Smith dismiss ROGD in language better suited to an advocacy group’s newsletter than a medical journal: “fictitious phenomenon,” “distinctly biased,” “anti-trans agenda,” “talking points,” “insidiously undermine.” They seem unaware that concerns  about ROGD led to the closure of Tavistock in England, the world’s largest children’s gender clinic, as documented in BBC Journalist Hannah Barnes’ book “Time to Think.”  In 10 years the number of girls seeking sex-trait modification at that clinic had increased by a mind-boggling  5,337%.

The Dartmouth staff’s article serves as a warning about how deeply Dartmouth Health is invested in an ideology that teaches that boys and girls are born with gender identities, and if these identities don’t match their bodies, they need to be turned into life-long medical patients.  

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Did you know that the four totally bogus indictments of President Trump are actually part of a Democrat plan to make him the GOP nominee? Of course, you did NOT. At least not until Mikey Graham over at NH-NeverTrump Journal told you. You see … GOP voters are dumb … really, really, really dumb … because they stopped marching in lockstep with their “leaders” in 2016. Or at least that’s Mikey’s take.

According to Mikey, ANY Republican, except Trump, would beat Biden. The Democrats, as long as the GOP voters do NOT choose Trump as the nominee, would stop ballot-harvesting. Zuckerberg and his ilk would stop their takeover of local election offices (to use them as Democrat GOTV operations). Big-Tech and the Regime-media would stop censoring and whitewashing all the Biden malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance. The Deep State would stop interfering in elections.

If only you stupid, ignorant, really, really, really dumb voters would listen to Mikey and the other high-intellect GOP-“leaders” it would be morning in America again:

Here’s the irony: Democrats want Trump on the ballot. If there were a real chance Republicans would abandon him for an unindicted, non-Trump alternative, they would be the first to panic. There is only one Republican in the field that Joe Biden can beat. And based on the latest polls, Biden could even lose to Trump, too.

Here’s the REAL IRONY: If you believe a word off Mikey’s propaganda/conspiracy-theory masquerading as “analysis” then you are as really, really, really dumb as Mikey believes most GOP voters are.

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The NH Supreme Court has taken my election law case for review. I just filed my Sur-reply to the State’s Brief. Oral arguments are next. The new SCOTUS decision from June 27, 2023, in Moore v. Harper (N.C. redistricting case) will now be tested in NH Highest Court. See attached copy of my Sur-reply why I believe this new case law will affect my case and ensure a positive outcome.

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT

No. 2023-0097

Daniel Richard

v.

Christopher Sununu, et al.

______________________________________________________________________________

PLAINTIFF’S SURREPLY TO THE

DEFENDANTS BREIF

________________________________________________________________________

This is a case of first impression. This involves new national standards of review under recent U.S. Supreme Court case rulings regarding Constitutional standards applied to state legislative statutes including the June 2023, Moore v. Harper, 600 U.S.___ (decided June 27, 2023) [hereinafter, “Moore”] and New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc., et al. v. Bruen [hereinafter, “Bruen”] No. 20-843 (U.S. Supreme Court, June 23, 2022) These rulings are applicable precedent and call for the reversal in this case.

1. Now comes, Appellant Daniel Richard, pro se, submitting this Sur-reply in response to the state Appellees’ Answering Brief.
2. The Appellant claims that his right to remedy of certain voting right violations was summarily and improperly denied without hearing on the merits in this case where he seeks both remedy and redress for violations of his State and Federal voting rights, under the Constitution of New Hampshire [hereinafter “Const. N.H.”] and the Constitution of the United States. Article 1. Section 2 and the 17th Amendment, [hereinafter U.S. Const. & 17th Am.”].
3. The Attorney General has intentionally mis-represented constitutionally relevant facts presented by Appellant and ignored case law in its response to illegitimately support flawed arguments in opposition. Further, it filed no response regarding the new national controlling case law on this topic. This gaslighting of the public and the Appellant has created a deceptive factually and procedurally faux-excuse to overlook and ignore state officials’ illegitimate behaviors to enact material alteration of the constitutional voting process in a manner that is otherwise unable to be corrected. The harm is significant, irreparable, and ongoing.
4. For example, state absentee voting for the election years 2014, 2016, 2018, averaged 4%. But for the 2020 election, absentee voting under new election voting expansion practices–without oversight and improperly and inconsistently applied at a local level–improperly expanded non-constitutional absentee voting to 32%. 260,217 illegal absentee ballots (wrongly printed, distributed, and processed) were counted using ‘Vote Counting Devices’. This Expansion of an unconstitutional voting process in violation of the State Constitution represents a hidden political manipulation of process to avoid the safeguards of the State Constitution to wrongfully expand a create new unauthorized classes of unverified and ineligible voters not qualified by Constitutional standards.
5. Un-Constitutional Ballot Counting Devices Appellant states in his amended complaint on pg. 16, Items 58 and 59 that the moderator (and/or asst. moderator) failed to perform their mandatory duty, required by the Const. N.H. Part II, art. 32. This violation is a substantive due process violation as the moderator is constitutionally mandated (“shall”) to “sort,” verify signatures and affidavits, and count the absentee ballots – as well as other ballots now having been cast by a significant number of non-constitutional voters. Appellees sanctioned the unlawful discretionary use of Ballot Counting Devices and enhanced absentee balloting at the local level, perversely employing and distorting NH RSA 656:40, [which allows some towns, cities, or other political subdivisions of the State to use Ballot Counting Devices or not] in a political process/system which circumvents to violate the State Constitution, thereby depriving the Appellant of a fair, equal and uniform voting process throughout the State. These illegitimate state-actor practices are ongoing, and officials flaunt their abuse of power, while distorting the facts and moving to dismiss any review, and public trial of the issue. The “manner” in which this complex and multi-tiered “statutory-scheme” of improper vote-generating activity was instigated and enacted by various state officials acting under color of law – is unconstitutional and unlawful for the reasons re-stated herein.
6. These state practices are an infringement of Appellant’s Equal Protection Rights

(a). NH RSA 656:40 impermissibly infringes on the Appellant’s State equal protection rights (Const. N.H. Part I, art. 11.);

(b). NH RSA 656:40 also impermissibly infringes on the Appellant’s equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Const [hereinafter 14th Am;]

(c). Meanwhile, NH RSA 656:40 impermissibly shifts the state burden of proof for review onto the Appellant to prove that he is harmed by the Appellees’ statutory scheme to “amend” the constitutional duties of the moderator, (i.e., the manner in which votes were not verified yet were counted, and by the initiation and use of Ballot Counting Devices); (d). Appellees failed to show a historical analogue burdening the right of the Appellant to the equal application of the law in State and Federal elections;

(e). NH RSA 656:40 impermissibly infringes on the constitutional manner (Const. N.H. Part II, art. 32) where the moderator is required to “sort,” verify, and count the votes; this constitutional mandate was improperly and illegally altered by (removed) statute and practice. The inhabitants of this State are deprived of the exercise of their informed consent (Const. N.H. Part I, art. 1.) by the changes to amend the Const. N.H. secretly through legislative sophistry, in direct violation of the due process clause of the Const. N.H. Part II, art. 100. This thereby deprived the inhabitants of this State (which the Appellant is one of) of fundamental right to due process required by Const. N.H. Part II, art. 100 – which requires an open voter amendment process to alter any terms of the Const. N.H. This also violates the due process protection of the Const. N.H. Part I, art. 1, art. 15 and the due process clause of the 14th Am. to the U.S. Const. as recently decided in Moore. The legislative scheme is ongoing harm against lawful voters.

7.The Un-constitutional Expansion of Absentee Voting by State Officials (a) NH RSA Chapter 657 impermissibly infringes on the Const. N.H. Part I, art. 11 (The Qualified Absentee Voter Clause), and The Voter Qualification Clause of the U.S. Const. Article 1, Section 2 and the 17th Am;

(b) Further, NH RSA Chapter 657 has impermissibly shifted the burden of proof onto Appellant to prove that he was harmed by Appellees statutory scheme (progressively implemented) to impermissibly alter the constitutional language in order to surreptitiously expand absentee voting “rights” (thereby increasing illegitimate ballots cast and counted) without the consent of the voters and outside of the Constitutional safeguards and requirements provided in the Const. N.H.;

(c) NH RSA Chapter 657 violates the Const. N.H. (The Qualified Absentee Voter Clause), and The U.S. Voter Qualification Clause. The Const. N.H. Part I, art. 11, only authorizes those –

“…who are absent from the city or town of which they are inhabitants, or

who by reason of physical disability are unable to vote in person;”

(d) The Appellant was disenfranchised by this scheme and his vote diluted, as his State and federal voting rights, are violated by depriving the Appellant of the fair and equal election process established by each Constitution. The illegitimate government alteration of the constitutional election process by sophistry and sleight-of-hand alterations in various legislative (i.e., political) manipulations of the constitutional language – in order to artificially create more votes, without submitting their “scheme” to significantly alter the constitutional “manner” to create an exponential number of new-sub-par votes – is both an abrogation of the valid constitutional amendment process and overall integrity of the vote casting process reasonably expected by citizens, including Appellant. The unfair increase in constitutional voting by the additional tabulation of various non-constitutional absentee, legislative and political manipulations is largely hidden from common and public observation, and represents voter fraud of the worst kind, the dilution of proper votes cast using bogus unconstitutional votes new politically manufactured and processed as valid votes under color of law. It alters the entire landscape of bona fide voting process – by creating and allowing a calculated and artificial dilution of votes using expanded and unverified “absentee” and other processes that lacks constitutional validity. (e) The inhabitants of this State are deprived informed consent (Const. N.H.) by what is an illegal expansion of “new” votes that avoid the mandatory process required to amend the Const. N.H. This scheme deprives will continue to deprive the inhabitants of this State of the fundamental due process required and essential for voting under Const. N.H. Part II, art. 100. It also violates the due process protection of the Const. N.H. Part I, art. 1, art. 15, and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Const., Moore.

As established by Moore, state officials may not duck and or ignore its responsibility to review the state’s impermissible voter-interference practices(In Moore that state practice to substantively alter election outcomes was gerrymandering.)In this case, officials similarly claim that ballot counting devices and absentee ballot processing are non-justiciable issues for this Appellant in this case. Here, absentee balloting is the new gerrymandering.

8. Legislature improperly passed an unconstitutional statute permitting so- called Resident Aliens the Right to Vote without a Constitutional Amendment

(a) “N.H. Const. pt. I, art. 11. By the article’s plain language, an individual must be an inhabitant of this State,” Fisher. (a). NH RSA 21:6, RSA 21:6 (a) impermissibly infringes on the Const. N.H. Part I, art. 11 (Voter Qualification Clause) and The Voter Qualification Clause of the U.S. Const. Article 1. Section 2. and the 17th Am;

(b) NH RSA 21:6 impermissibly shifts the burden of proof onto this Appellant for him to prove that he is harmed by this statutory scheme to amend the Constitutional definition of a qualified voter without following Constitutional Amendment requirements, which specifically require the consent of “the inhabitants” of N.H; (c). NH RSA 21:6 is a state statute that allows resident aliens the right to vote in N.H. in direct violation of both State and Federal Constitutional requirements.

(d). Under state and federal Constitutions, the Appellant was disenfranchised, and his vote diluted by this non-constitutional statutory scheme practiced by state election officials. The depravation and harm to a constitutionally fair and equal election process will continue.

(e). The inhabitants of this State have been deprived informed consent (Const. N.H.) about the illegitimate statutory process that alters constitutional voting using a series of legislative changes that expand voting to include ‘new’ unqualified votes and voters. This expansion of new voter classes is not allowed by definition in the State Constitution. These back-door alterations of the State Constitution occurred by the implementation of new ‘laws’ promoted by government officials over a period of time – each which circumvents the definition of those permitted to vote defined in the Constitution, thereby depriving the inhabitants of this State the due process required before amendment. Const. N.H. Part I, art. 1, art. 15 and Part II, art. 100 and Federal due process, 14th Am. Moore.

9. Bruen (2022) – A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, Bruen further articulated a two-step analysis for determining whether a law or regulation of constitutionally protected conduct is unconstitutional (as is claimed in this case). First, courts must determine whether any enumerated right (plain text) covers an individual’s conduct. Bruen.
10. If so, then the “Constitution presumptively protects that conduct,” and the Government must justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition regulating the right in question. Only then may a court conclude that the individual’s conduct falls outside the enumerated right’s unqualified command.
11. In the instant case, the plain text of the State Constitution uses the specific word “inhabitant” 25 times, which underlies the Appellant’s claims because he is an inhabitant of N.H. Therefore, the burden falls on the Appellees to justify the law showing that it is consistent with State and Federal constitutions and election laws written pursuant thereof. Here, the plain text word “inhabitant” has been dropped, and new words substituted to expand the classes of who-is eligible-to vote. By altering the plain text meaning to now include whole new groups and classes of voters not included in the original language, the legislature improperly impinged on the Constitutional authority. New groups of voters include out-of-state students, and out-of-state residents, and a plethora of others who, under expanded and redefined words, do not qualify to vote under the plain text language meaning of the State Constitution.
12. Appellees cited no relevant authority to amend the Const. N.H. without the consent of her inhabitants as mandated by the state constitution (Part I, art. 1). Appellees needed to and failed to show some historical analogue relating to: (a). Discretionary Ballot Counting Devices; (b). Statutory expansion of absentee voting; (c). Legislative or other legitimate authority for sua sponte, granting resident aliens voting rights, notwithstanding the Constitution; (d). and must point to some “historical precedent from before, during, and even after the founding [that] evince a comparable tradition of regulation.” Bruen.
13. The Lynch Pin is the depravation of due process by state actors who altered the State Constitution by using new legislative terms and “voting processes” to improperly expand the number of new voters (and ballots counted) without first properly submitting the proposed changes to the inhabitants for approval or disapproval, as required under state and federal law. Legislative fiat was used to promote and enact the constitutional requirements necessary for these and other voter-enhancement changes to occur.
14. All of the new specific statutory voting schemes (including widespread absentee balloting manipulations and the extensive use of Ballot Counting Devices) complained of in this case are novel issues to the court, but each is a type of bureaucratic manipulation to improperly and illegitimately expand the votes counted.
15. Appellees rely on their materially flawed argument of the 1976 Amendment, Question 8 (b). This political tactic was declared by this Court to be unconstitutional in Fischer v Governor 145 N.H. 28, 37 (2002). Resurrecting a political variation of the void argument and trying to apply it flawed reasoning represents legal misconduct.
16. Earlier decisive precedent/rulings at law, such as Fisher, were ignored by Appellees and the Court when dismissing the Appellant’s claims under Moore. The 1976 Question 8 amendment show the state has violated the Appellants substantive and procedural due process rights under both State and Federal Constitutions.
17. The lower Court and Appellees further evaded the historical facts and controlling 2000 state Court precedent of Fisher, which previously declared the 1976 Amendment Question 8 (b) – The Domicile Question – to be unconstitutional:

“It is clear, however, that the removal of the “proper qualifications” language from the voting provision did not conform to the scope of the amendment intended by the constitutional convention. Specifically, it did not relate to the four intended substantive changes regarding age, domicile, duties of the secretary of state, and absentee voting, and far exceeded the convention’s remaining intent to “simplify” the wording of Article 11. Indeed, as noted by the State, the ballot questionnaire submitted to the citizens for ratification of the 1974 amendment failed to alert the voters to any substantive change to the legislature’s authority to generally determine voter qualifications.” (Emphasis added) id.

18. This issue was pled as precedent in the Appellant’s lower court claim, which Judge Ruoff avoided, so is raised again for appeal.
19. Appellees’ “statements of facts and law” regarding discussion of Question 8 (re: the 1974 amendment) lack legitimacy, as Gerber v. King 107 N.H. 495, 225 A.2d 620 (1967) [hereinafter “Gerber”] forbids the comingling of five separate and distinct yes or no questions for one yes or no answer, as was done in the instant case on absentee ballots. The issue was resolved more than two decades ago by this court.
20. It is disingenuous now for Appellees (who represent the state’s highest elected political and legal officers) to claim in 2023, that the reason the 1976 Question 8 (a) was presented to voters was to reduce the voting age from 21 to 18. This and other “question-8-arguments” have already been briefed, but Appellee’s present response is intentionally obfuscation and misleading because the age-18-ballot question was moot long before the time it showed up on the ballot in question in 1976.
21. The voting age reduction/vote had already been completed and enrolled as law in 1974 – two years before it was placed on the 1976 ballot. The issue was void, although referenced by Appellees’ counsel as important “precedent” to dismiss this case. The earlier 1974 age-vote stemmed from a CACR proposed by the legislature to voters, who on November 5, 1974, voted 147,484 to 57,756 to reduce voter age. (See Exhibit E, New Hampshire Manual, cited at page 17, Appellant’s Brief).
22. It is disingenuous now for Appellees to aver that 1976 Question 8 (e) ballot somehow represents binding precedent allowing the use (in 2020, 2022, and thereafter) expanded multi-part legislative scheme to unconstitutionally expand voting to new classes, but without a constitutional amendment, since this court previously disallowed such tactics as void as far back as 1967 in Gerber.
23. The responses in opposition are stubbornly disingenuous, applying misstatements of fact and law, while omitting contemporary precedent, including Moore and Bruen. Gerber for example, upholds the common law, and prohibits comingling of multiple unrelated questions to voters with one yes or no choice; Gerber pointedly disallowed the voter to vote yes to part of one specific question and no to another part of the same question. The plain text of the last sentence of the 1784 Const. N.H. Part II, Art. 99, in 1792 states:

“Provided that no alteration shall be made in this constitution before the same shall be laid before the towns and unincorporated places, and approved by two thirds of the qualified voters present, and voting upon the “question.”” (Emphasis added) “[N]o alteration”, and “question” are singular terms, not plural.

24. In addition to other causes of action and complaints in the Appellant’s Brief, these and other fundamental voter-integrity issues, require review and reversal in 2023, under Moore and Bruen.
25. The Court is requested to schedule a review hearing with oral arguments on this matter at the earliest opportunity, as the issues raised are a matter of re occurring public harm through the improper dilution of each citizen’s vote in the 2020, 2022 and upcoming elections.
26. Following the hearing, this Honorable Court is requested to grant remedial, prospective, and other relief as appropriate.

August 29, 2023 Respectfully submitted,

 

/s/ Daniel Richard

Daniel Richard

xxxxx

xxxxxx

1danielrichard@protonmail.com

Certificate of service

I hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing was served through the Court’s e-filing system to all parties of record.

August 29, 2023 /s/ Daniel Richard

Daniel Richard

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Burning Man is an annual event that attracts some interesting people. It’s like an Elite-secular-cultist-hippy gathering (Vermont has a very progressive local version). Three days ago, traffic to the event was backed up because some elite hippy climate cultists had blocked a Nevada road on Tribal Land. The Native American Tribal Police responded.

You’ve likely seen the video. These indigenous peace officers were none too kind about the miles-long emissions-generating convoy of cars, trucks, and campers despoiling their native lands. But their response makes for an excellent example of how this sort of thing should be handled anywhere it happens.

 

This is how the police deal with climate protesters in Nevada. That’s how you do it. pic.twitter.com/y8Qy1nkG7H

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 28, 2023

 

Breitbart has more, including a video of the climate cult being confronted by displeased motorists, the traffic backup, and (of course) the clearing of the blockade by Tribal police.

There is no stopping to say “Excuse me sir or Mame,” just deliberate, decisive action.

 

 

#BREAKING: Nevada Rangers has rammed their truck through climate protesters as they attempted to shut down the Burning Man Arts and Music Festival

#Blackrock | #Nevada
⁰Climate activists attempted to halt a significant music and arts festival known as Burning Man, which is… pic.twitter.com/ormnHYIPgy

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 28, 2023

 

“The Rangers arrested the protesters for “trespassing on tribal land.”

 

That’s got to hurt. Elite Hippies and Native American police ganging up on Climate Cultists opposed to Burning Man’s assemblage using “private jets and single-use plastics, along with addressing various other environmental issues.”

More popcorn, please.

 

 

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Most politicians are clueless when it comes to education policies and research. Will Stewart, Democrat candidate for Mayor in Manchester, proved that with a recent post on his Facebook page.  Will Stewart is beating the drums to get kids into pre-school. He cites getting children ready to learn in Kindergarten so they can be reading by 3rd grade.

Most politicians have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to teaching children how to read. He has no idea that pushing children to perform academically before they are cognitively ready can have a negative impact on young children.

 

 

Pre-school should be fun, but there is no need for children to go to pre-school. In fact, experts are telling parents the opposite of what Stewart is selling.

In an article in the Atlantic titled: The New Preschool Is Crushing Kids, they are saying, “Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.”  They go on to say:

A child who’s supposed to read by the end of kindergarten had better be getting ready in preschool. As a result, expectations that may arguably have been reasonable for 5- and 6-year-olds, such as being able to sit at a desk and complete a task using pencil and paper, are now directed at even younger children, who lack the motor skills and attention span to be successful.

They wisely point out that this attitude towards early childhood education is harming children, not helping them.

Much of this began after the release of the Common Core Standards. If Stewart actually read them, he would have noticed that the early childhood standards are developmentally inappropriate for young children.

A Joint Statement of Early Childhood Health and Education Professionals on the Common Core Standards Initiative
was issued by the Alliance for Childhood. www.allianceforchildhood.org  In the document they raised “GRAVE CONCERNS” about the Common Core Standards for young children.  They warned:

The draft standards made public in January conflict with compelling
new research in cognitive science, neuroscience, child development, and early childhood
education about how young children learn, what they need to learn, and how best to teach them
in kindergarten and the early grades.

And

There is little evidence that such standards for young children lead to later success. While an introduction to books in early childhood is vital, research on the links between the intensive teaching of discrete reading skills in kindergarten and later success is inconclusive at best.
Many of the countries with top-performing high-school students do not begin formal schooling until age six or seven.

There is science to back this up. Stanford researchers say we are sending children to school way too early.

A new study from Stanford University shows that Danish kids who postponed kindergarten for up to one year showed dramatically higher levels of self-control.

“We found that delaying kindergarten for one year reduced inattention and hyperactivity by 73% for an average child at age 11,” Thomas Dee, one of the co-authors and a Stanford Graduate School of Education professor, said in a release.

All of this was reported here.

Stewart isn’t taking into account any of the research that has been done on Common Core and its impact on young children. He hasn’t taken into account how children succeed in foreign countries when delaying the start of formal education.

If he really cares about children being able to read, then he should pay close attention to the reading programs used in our public schools. Many students are not receiving quality reading instruction. That’s where he should focus if he wants our kids to become good readers. Stewart’s vision includes policies and spending on programs that have been proven to harm children instead of helping them.

 

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The internet threw traditional news and media for a loop, a change that many have weathered but which has metastasized – or perhaps systematized is a better word – the media’s role as the propaganda arm of the Federal government. When we say The Media, we mean Pravda, and WashPo is as reliable a mouthpiece as it gets.

The Washington Post exists to be a stenographer for the inside-the-beltway-Georgetown-uniparty-deep-state message while clinging bitterly to a tagline it has worked hard to contradict. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

In its truest sense, Democracy to them means mob rule and WashPo (WP) may have begun its final descent.

In a recent piece in the technology section, WP bemoans a BLM-like decline in policing on platforms like Facebook and YouTube with X (pronounced “Twitter”) more than just a lost cause. Musk helped expose the government’s use of socials to suppress speech with which the Post disagrees. That webby, vaporous thing they call “misinformation,” whose proper spelling is “c-e-n-s-o-r-s-h-i–p.”

The Feds got busted silencing speech, and it has the information gatekeepers at The Washington Post wondering how they might get Adam and Eve back into the Garden where they can try to control their knowledge of good and evil. The act itself is evil, unconstitutional, and should be considered professional misconduct. But a modern American press quick to bemoan monopolies wants very much to secure one for itself.

The secret to saving Machine Media is to break as many of its competitors as possible by whatever means necessary. A cartel on information, knowledge, and ideas. To control what people think and believe. All the things the First Amendment exists to prevent and under whose rubric the Post operates its campaign for an information oligarchy that oversees acceptable speech. It’s all very Animal Farm as the corporate press feasting at Farmer Jones’ table, in his house, wearing his clothes, and pantomiming his mannerisms while squawking about how not all information is equal.

But what is it, this misinformation? No one knows (least of all the authors of the piece in WaPo), but I’d guess it is a lot like pornography to Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. They’ll know it when they see it, and if it falls outside the tunnels that already control its vision, they’ll be sure to consult sources inside the government for confirmation.

It is everything you ever wanted in a free press, just without the freedom.

I wonder if they do not grasp, like many of the factions on the fractious left, that the water they carry for them now will be used to waterboard them later. Maybe even drown them. The history is clear on how this goes, and it’s not even old. Mao was a few decades back with tactics not much different from those of Chavez when he wrecked Venezuela.

But I suppose they are too busy rewriting history or erasing it to take time to learn from it. Or they assume they’ll still be there after the Revolution, but then, that’s what they all think until someone puts them up against a wall.

 

 

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The Vermont Futures Project (VFP), a spinoff of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, is conducting a statewide tour of what they call “community conversations, and … strategic stakeholder visits in all fourteen counties” to gather input for their 2024 Economic Plan for Vermont.

(Side Note: I didn’t think I could loathe the term “stakeholder” any more than I do. It’s a nauseating euphemism for “special interest” used by special interests. But “strategic stakeholder” takes the prize.)

The prime objective of the VFP is to increase Vermont’s population from where it is now at 645,000 to 802,000 by 2035.

Are they serious?

I don’t say that to mock the objective. I am seriously asking if these people are serious about achieving such a goal. And, after looking through VFP’s recent presentations, videos, and press releases, sadly, my conclusion is NO, they are not serious. They are not serious because they are unwilling to identify and call out the root problem causing Vermont’s decades-long economic and population stagnation, which is our radical leftist political establishment and the policies they are putting into practice.

VFP boasts that it is data-driven. “How can we use data to support the evolution of Vermont’s economy toward a thriving future full of opportunity for all?” they ask. Well, as I have previously written (See: Vermont’s Legislature Is Blowing Big Bucks on Failed Experiments), there is plenty of data pointing to the fact that the states that are gaining the most population, such as Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, and Tennessee are Red States implementing low tax, entrepreneurially friendly policies that give their citizens more freedom to make their own decisions.

The data also shows that the states losing the most population, such as California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts, are Blue States that are raising taxes, driving up the cost of day-to-day living with expensive, nanny state regulations, and micromanaging every aspect of their citizens’ lives from telling them what kind of bags they’re allowed to use in the grocery store, to banning the kinds of vehicles they like to drive. These are states that look an awful lot like Vermont.

 

 

So, if you are truly data-driven, VFP, and are truly committed to increasing Vermont’s population with an eye toward building a healthy growing economy, how about pointing that out? Loudly.

Beyond the data, use your common sense.

VFP rightly notes that the biggest obstacle to population growth is a severe lack of any, let alone affordable, housing. If you can’t find or afford a place to live in a state, odds are you’re not going to live in it. So, what political party’s policies are making it difficult and expensive to build housing in Vermont? Hmmm….

Moreover, productive workers in their prime earning years are simply not going to choose to pay some of the highest property taxes in the country (on the property they can’t afford in the first place) when other states deliver more municipal services for a fraction of the cost. If they’re choosing between a state with a high-income tax plus a new payroll tax on their earnings versus one with low-income tax rates and no payroll tax, which one do you think they’re going to pick? A state that bans the kind of vehicle you need to do your job or one that doesn’t? A state that forces you to register and pay a fee to engage in your livelihood versus one that has no such requirement? One with abnormally high health insurance costs versus one with more affordable options? The list goes on and on.

So, instead of pussyfooting around the countryside saying stuff like, “I am looking at the Vermont Climate Action Plan, and seeing a bit of language that really stands out to me, which is Vermont needs to prioritize helping the people who will be most affected by climate change,” per Kevin Chu, VFP’s executive director (Seriously, BARF!), how about an aggressive campaign explaining that no young (or any age for that matter) worker is going to choose to migrate to state that has no affordable housing due primarily to that very climate change-oriented governing philosophy and document you just cited.

I understand and, to some degree, sympathize with members of the Vermont business community’s timidity in this regard. The Democrat/Progressive ruling class is vindictive, and they do, at present, control the game. The folks behind VFP have some very nice businesses, and it would be a shame if something were to, you know, happen to them. But at some point, if you want the bully to stop taking your lunch money, you’ve got to punch him in the nose.

VPF’s website says the next stops on its statewide info-gathering tour will be in Windsor County on September 13 and Caledonia County on September 21. Weirdly, they don’t say where or what time. But should that information ever come to light, I encourage readers to show up and give them an earful. In the meantime, they are asking for input via this survey. Take a minute to look at it and fill it out. Something along the lines of “time to grow a pair.”

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank.

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On August 25th, 2023, a group of approximately 100 gathered in Concord to demand a federal investigation into the cover-ups of abuse at the Youth Detention Center. They blamed the Attorneys General and others for the cover-ups. They are right.

Each Governor appoints the Attorney General, and each Attorney General has never addressed but covered up the misconduct of police and others who are involved in enabling, encouraging, and hiding the abuse. When David Meehan brought a class action lawsuit against the State on behalf of hundreds of abuse victims, the State, under AG Gordon MacDonald, with Geoffrey Ward as his Deputy and Jane Young as Assistant AG, dismissed them for “victim negligence.”

The US Attorney’s office has declined to state whether a federal investigation will take place. That US Attorney for New Hampshire is Jane Young. She was very likely involved in drafting the State’s “victim negligence” response to David Meehan’s class action suit. Her federal prosecutors are Geoffrey Ward (who was head of public integrity under Gordon MacDonald but failed to respond to emails from Rep. Susan Homola regarding police misconduct. This was after John Scippa of Police Standards & Training had forwarded my concerns to the AG’s office and after Jane Young had promised me that Geoffrey Ward would respond. We were ignored, and files got deleted, and then Jane Young and Geoffrey Ward got rewarded by failing upward to become US Attorney and federal prosecutor, respectively. The relationship between the NH AG’s office and the US Attorney’s office in New Hampshire makes it impossible for a transparent investigation to take place because everyone is complicit, whether passively or actively. It is the same pattern we saw in the cover-ups of the FRM Ponzi scheme, which also involved the AG’s office’s failures. That was over a decade ago, and nothing has happened. All the same, people preside over how the state’s business is run – it’s just musical chairs.

Even the current messaging requesting an investigation involves someone who might be compromised: Charles Glenn.

Charles Glenn is the former stepson of Thomas Grover. Thomas Grover was adopted by Patricia Grover of DCYF. He was a drug addict who was offered money (substantiated in statements) to accuse Father Gordon MacRae, who was framed by Police Detective James F McLaughlin, whose name was hidden on the Laurie List but known about by AG Gordon MacDonald.

“Reportedly (and I understand that the AG’s office has been aware of this since 2012), Charles Glenn once approached Father Gordon MacRae in Concord men’s prison library where Macrae was a clerk (around 2008 or so). ” He allegedly said to MacRae, “You know the case against you was bogus, right?”. MacRae allegedly told him that he did know this but wanted to know how Charles Glenn knew it. Charles Glenn told him that his mother, Trina Ghedoni, was married to Thomas Grover during the years that Charles Glenn was in the Youth Detention Center. Later, Charles Glenn allegedly approached a friend of Father Gordon MacRae’s – Edward Silva (deceased). Silva relayed that Charles Glenn had information that could undo the case against Father Gordon MacRae but that he wanted money to provide that information. MacRae told Silva that this would render the information useless, and so it went no further.

Jim Abbott- a former FBI special agent- who was investigating the case against Gordon MacRae, interviewed Trina Ghedoni five times. She told him that she and Thomas Grover were visiting Charles Glenn at the YDC. The case against Father Gordon MacRae had exploded in the local media by then so Charles Glenn was well aware that Thomas Grover was his primary accuser. During a later visit with Thomas Grover alone at YDC, Grover allegedly told Charles Glenn that Father Gordon MacRae had never actually touched him but that he was about to “get a lot of money for this story”. Trina Ghedoni told Jim Abbott that she learned of those conversations between Thomas Grover and her son only after she divorced Thomas Grover. She also told Jim Abbott that James F. McLaughlin and therapist Pauline Goupil (who motioned for Thomas Grover to cry during his testimony from the back of the courtroom observed by witnesses who wrote to the judge about it but were ignored) were Thomas Grover’s primary coaches as he developed this scam.

Trina Ghedoni told Jim Abbott that she would ask her son, Charles Glenn, to cooperate. By that time, her son was in the NH State Prison. Apparently, Charles Glenn was in constant trouble at the prison, and not long after his first conversations with Father Gordon MacRae, he ended up in punitive segregation. Jim Abbott visited him at least three times and was able to elicit a signed statement that Thomas Grover admitted on numerous occasions that his charges against MacRae were “a total fraud for money.”

This became the basis for the “new evidence” that put Father Gordon MacRae’s habeas corpus petition into state and federal courts in 2012. But the state courts declined any hearing. Charles Glenn’s and Trina Ghedoni’s statements were attached to the habeas corpus. While Charles Glenn languished in and out of punitive segregation, he tried to talk to Father Gordon MacRae, but the latter stopped him, advising him that it would be seen as witness tampering. When he ended up in segregation again, he was angry with his mother for some unknown reason. He wrote a letter to the NH AG (Michael Delaney at the time or Joseph Foster) in which he accused Jim Abbot of having an affair with his mother (baseless, I understand). He said that his prior signed statement was not true. He wanted to get out of segregation and start over somewhere else. Mysteriously he was moved to a Connecticut prison after revoking his exculpatory statement against Father Gordon MacRae. Charles Glenn is now back in New Hampshire’s state prison and told Father Gordon MacRae recently that he was cooperating in order to get a federal investigation going.

On 30th August 2018, AG Gordon MacDonald was noted in the Concord Monitor to have argued against the release of the Laurie List, which had James F. McLaughlin’s name added to it in June 2018 for crimes dating back to 1985.

The investigation into James F. McLaughlin is being dragged out. He’s working in DA Chris McLaughlin’s office currently, which raises questions as to why a DA would hire a dishonest police officer at all unless it is to be complicit in going through and deleting more files.

AG Gordon MacDonald claimed “victim negligence” when he rejected the class action lawsuit against the State & YDC. No. Gordon MacDonald is involved in a racket that involved the extortion of the Diocese of Manchester and cover-ups of other priests’ sexual misconduct and abuse of position off the back of James F McLaughlin’s framing of Father Gordon MacRae; the extortion of St Paul’s School and cover-ups of sexual abuse there off the framing of scholarship student Owen Labrie. That involved one of James F. McLaughlin’s proteges: Police Detective Julie Curtin and James F. McLaughlin himself, who Gordon MacDonald brought out of retirement.

Jane Young as US Attorney for New Hampshire, is never going to investigate Governors, AGs, local attorneys, or non-profits because she is a gatekeeper, not a truth seeker.

I wrote a petition over a year ago to seek an investigation from the Senate Ways & Means Committee and the US DOJ’s office regarding the Youth Detention Center. Maybe now there has been a protest and national news organizations are picking it up, this will gain some traction. You can read it and sign it here.

 

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Have you ever had a few things you thought were worth sharing but not worthy of, say, 600 words? I’m not saying I couldn’t write 600 words for each, but that would be wasting words, and I’d rather just share them together and save 1800 words (minus these).

First up, some hilarious pandemic 2.0 fearmongering pushback. “How about No!”

 



 

Next! Tucker Carlson delivers some remarks in Hungary, which are what you’d expect from a guy who is still hitting his stride. Watch the first few minutes and you’ll want to watch all of it.

 



 

And finally, we have shared cuts of Democrats as Election Denires. President Trump just shared one on Truth Social and now we’re sharing it with you.

 

 

 

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The President of the United States has been on vacation for most of the summer, and we have not had the pleasure of a Karine Jeanne-Pierre for two months. You would think that with that time off, KJP would have come to the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room with a loaded binder.

And the media reps would have done their homework and come up with meaty questions to which Americans want to hear the answers.

We were disappointed on both fronts.

One of the most profound questions for the hapless press secretary was regarding the ownership by China of all the panda bears in American zoos. With all of the issues on the Federal Government level, why are we wasting time on panda questions? Pandas are cute, but the person who asked that question should have their credentials taken back.

Peter Doocy asked a couple of questions and even snuck in some follow-up queries, but none warranted answers from Karine. Her job has evolved to deflecting and referring all questions to other departments. Why does her job exist? He threw her a softball question about the new guideline from the Alcohol Czar suggesting two beers a week. She knew nothing about it. He then pivoted to questions about Hunter’s art sales, home in Malibu, the Biden Brand, and Hunter’s selling access to the White House. She would not touch any of these and deflected to Hunter’s lawyers.

Doocy got her very flustered, and her subsequent few responses were disjointed. She did not and does not handle pressure well. If the answer is not in the binder, it does not exist in her head. For the Administration that claims to be the most transparent, they may be the most opaque. It is no wonder they keep a vice on Biden’s lips, but this country is getting no insight or answers from Biden and his team. It is also clear that the Biden campaign plan will be to minimize his appearances, no debates, no interviews, and let the corrupt Democrat machine do its job.

Americans deserve better than what we are getting from Biden. We can blame Joe, but much of the blame sits with the media. They must insist on access and, if denied, report on why. There is no digging. There is no one held accountable. There is no story that has legs unless it is negative about Donald Trump.

This shielding of America from the truth about the Biden Administration has been part of the game plan since 2019. The less Americans know about Biden, the easier it is to manipulate him and the public. Biden ran his campaign from his Delaware basement, and this mess our country is in was the result. We must change course and correct the mistakes of the Biden term. We have said it many times, but we have one chance to save this Republic: to replace Joe Biden with a solid Conservative Republican. It is time to let the adults drive the bus.

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Democrats are seeking to cement permanent control of America. The modus operandi is the criminalization of the political opposition while they are hard at work, crippling the authority to which the opposition might appeal in defense of its rights.

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Thomas Jefferson had words for this behavior.

• “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
• “Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.”
• “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
• “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

We are watching as American politics becomes a slow-motion car crash. Leftists in control of the Democrat party are attempting to criminalize their political opposition and weaponized the government against the people. We have Soviet-style show trials scheduled back to back to back, to back as they play“Show Me the Man, and I’ll Show You the Crime.”  Cases brought against not only Donald Trump but anyone who has surrounded him.

It is very dangerous to the rule of law when we start allowing lawyers to be charged for interactions with their clients.

These zealous prosecutors may have differing motives for twisting and reaching with the law to hang a defendant, but when they have to reach and twist to bring a prosecution, especially a political prosecution, they are nearly always wrong. Attacks on a former president, the current GOP front-runner, in the middle of his campaign for office is grandstanding.

These cases effectively criminalize seeking office by anyone who holds views contrary to the Uni-party. Frivolous and vengeful prosecutorial efforts are pursued in violation of laws, norms, and core principles of justice. But the message is clear, “You can go to jail if you disagree with us. If you threaten our power and privilege, there is a cost.”

Americans can longer be trusted to choose leaders within a narrow set of regime-approved bounds. The result is they must force their selections on us by whatever means, even though locking up the opposition has always been the definition of tyranny.

Jan. 6, 2021, served as a pretext to escalate the war and used to punish those with the “wrong” views. They were made political prisoners over questionable decisions made by unarmed citizens who have since been treated as hardened criminals.

The Justice Department tried to add terrorism enhancements to some Jan. 6 sentences, and “obstruction of an official proceeding” felony charges.  That’s preposterous. It had never before been applied to protesters. Now Special Counsel Jack Smith has thusly charged Trump.

This regime is threatening our most fundamental rights. When is enough too much, and how long will you stand for what’s going on?

 

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Just four and a half months since President Biden declared an end to the Covid “emergency,” the media is suddenly full of stories about the return of Covid. This time a new “variant” is being rolled out and the media, in collusion with big Pharma and the fear-industrial complex, are churning out stories about how forced masking is making a comeback.

Also, the “unvaccinated” are again to be denied basic human rights in the name of fighting a virus that the vaccine demonstrably does not protect against.

In short, they are desperately trying to revive the tyranny, insanity, and utter irrationality of the two-year Covid scare. And they are pretending none of us remembers how they destroyed society with their lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates. They are hoping that none of us will remember the suicides, lost jobs, broken marriages, increased alcoholism and drug abuse, and the rest of what went along with the world’s experiment with global lockdown.

Even Fauci himself is back – like a moth drawn to the light of publicity. Despite all the scientific evidence that the lockdowns were a disaster, that they did far more harm than good, Fauci has re-emerged with his trademark arrogance and claimed that they were the right thing to do and should be done again if that’s what it takes to force people to take the vaccine. A vaccine that does not work.

They won’t even allow us to mention the spike in all-around mortality or the millions who may have been vaccine-injured the first time around. They want us to think that 20-year-old world-class athletes have always just dropped dead of heart attacks out of the blue. It’s all normal! Don’t question it! What are you, some kind of conspiracy theorist? Are you a science-denier?

Yes, look for a renewal of all those old hollow phrases used to attack those of us who can see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears. Their slogans are meant to silence any debate. The same “experts” like Fauci who claimed “I am the science” are back and they shamelessly demand to silence us again.

The big question is…why? Why are they doing this and how do they think they can get away with it a second time? One reason they believe they can get away with it again is that no one has ever been punished for what they did the first time. The Federal Government made sure that the pharmaceutical companies would not be liable for vaccine damages.

The public figures who openly became monsters, demanding the unvaccinated be drummed out of society and maybe even off the face of the earth have not been shamed or shunned. Politicians who displayed cowardice and worse have not been voted out of office for their treachery.

Why are they coming back around for another round of Covid tyranny? Fear is a weapon to gain control. Last time around they generated fear to radically change how America voted. Suddenly everyone was mailed ballots. How closely were they checked? No one knew and no one dared ask. The people who did ask about the election are now facing jail terms.

They want us to shut up while they do it again. Will we?

 

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So I came across this. One of Sun-King Sununu’s minions boasting that His Majesty has a 91 percent approval rating among Republicans:

Yet the polls simultaneously show that President Trump … the anti-Sununu … is trouncing the field in FITN:

There are several explanations for these seemingly irreconcilable results. One is that UNH polling STINKS.

The other is that GOP voters in New Hampshire, to sort of paraphrase General Patton, really love a winner, and they see both Silver-Spoon-Sun-King and President Trump as winners.

Another explanation is that both of the above are true.

Whatever the explanation … the polling suggests that political cognitive dissonance is rampant in New Hampshire.

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The legal weed industry is in crisis. Black market competition is driving down prices, making it difficult for approved growers and dispensaries to maintain their profits. They say the market will collapse ” if common sense, practical reforms are not enacted urgently.”

 

According to Isaac Foster, co-founder of wholesaler Portland Cannabis Market, when legal sales in Oregon first started, a pound of marijuana would have cost $3,000 at wholesale, but today it might cost $100 to $150.

 

So weed was overpriced, and the free market works? That’s great news. Let’s try that with prescription drugs, energy, and – well, everything. Hundreds of billions of dollars would be freed up annually to find more productive uses in the real economy.

Granted, extra money in the hands of someone who is stoned is going to end up in the pocket of the nearest convenience store owner in exchange for Twinkies, Doritos, an Ice Cream Cake, cans of Chef Boyardee, skittles, and beer, but it expands the economy in legitimate ways.

 

According to a poll performed by Whitney’s consultancy company, Whitney Economics, only 24 percent of cannabis-related businesses nationwide are profitable, a significant decline from 42 percent last year.

 

I think you can guess what the preferred solution to that is—government subsidies, which is ridiculous. The folks in the black market are making money hand over fist. The problem isn’t the cost of production and delivery. It is – as it always is – government interference and regulation.

And this is not a call for blanket decriminalization or a wide open, unregulated market for weed, but as I noted here in 2019,

 

I could care less if you smoke pot. I have cared a great deal about the effort by various factions to get the state’s permission to grow or use the stuff. That was always going to come with strings and taxes. More government not less. A regulatory system, inspectors, and more enforcement. California is proving me right.

 

The government wrecks just about everything it touches, which is why we advocate limited government and free markets. Legal markets with limited oversight will always have hiccups, but they are the best way to match price with demand with some measure of safety and quality control.

Keep customers safe and happy, and they will return.

State legalization has nothing to do with compassion or caring or a libertarian tick. They saw it as a taxable cash cow to support profligate spending, in some cases taxing the product to such a degree, making the black market so successful that approved vendors couldn’t survive.

If legal weed dies, it is because of the government. Then where will they go to replace the taxes they’ve already spent, or will they price fix and tax you more to prop up the new cartel while increasing enforcement against the black market to protect the cartel?

Irony laert, anyone?

Legalization was supposed to reduce enforcement, but we already knew that wouldn’t work.

California’s dance with legal use presaged this problem. Illegal growers dominated , resulting in more policing, not less.

 

I’d like to believe that the legal-weed lobby was always after a smoke-em-if-you-got-em outcome. But I know better. It was always going to be a deal with the government devil. A trade-off. A tiny bit of liberty in exchange for a massive expansion of government. Which in California must include a larger enforcement mechanism.

 

What’s next?

 

[S]ome people in the sector are still holding out hope that the Biden administration will open the door to marijuana sales across states that have legalized the drug. They contend that would enable the West Coast to assist in supplying the rest of the nation due to its advantageous environment and inexpensive, clean hydropower for indoor cultivation, according to the outlet.

 

Sounds like weed utopia, but I can’t see the Feds giving in on any of that. The rise of “legal” weed at the state level gives them a mandate to disarm Americans who are violating federal law if they use marijuana and own or try to purchase firearms. They are far more likely to let states figure out the problem or not than give that up.

But the Feds might be more than happy to tap into a cartel for fun and profit while keeping the restriction on ownership of firearms.

 

 

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U.S.-India relations present a complex tapestry woven from the threads of shared interests and divergent values. While the two nations may not align perfectly in terms of values, there are compelling reasons to collaborate on common interests. The U.S., a mature liberal democracy, contrasts with India, an emerging second-world nation, fostering a relationship marked by both cooperation and contention.

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India’s immense parliamentary body doesn’t guarantee equitable representation for all citizens, raising concerns about its commitment to pluralism. The nation’s ethno-nationalist tendencies have sparked human rights violations against its Muslim population, particularly near its border with Pakistan, warranting international attention.

India’s stance on global issues, like its silence on the Ukrainian crisis, raises eyebrows. Its reliance on Russian liquid natural gas does indirectly support Russia’s economy and its role in Ukraine. Furthermore, India’s participation in the BRICS banking system, alongside authoritarian regimes like Russia and China, potentially undermines the Western financial system’s stability.

While Western nations have shown cautious criticism of India, a more open and candid dialogue is imperative for cultivating a true alliance. Rather than condescension, the West should approach India with respectful advice, acknowledging India’s immense population and significance. However, India must also take steps to clarify its geopolitical stance, moving beyond neutrality towards a clear alignment with liberal democracies or authoritarian powers.

As both nations tread this intricate path, fostering friendly relations will require the U.S. to address India’s shortcomings while adjusting its communication style. India, on the other hand, needs to make a decisive choice, embracing a role that aligns with its aspirations rather than drifting in neutrality’s uncertain waters. The potential for a meaningful partnership is within reach, but it necessitates a delicate balance between shared interests and the pursuit of common values.

 

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/15-minute-interview-1.mp4

 

15 minute cities ghettos.  More on that – repeating the below video.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/chris-sky-on-toronto.mp4

 

Consider what he’s saying: they’ll tear down existing, presumably perfectly functioning buildings and replace them with new, custom-designed buildings that are a world-in-themselves.  That’s serious money, just for one city.  But don’t forget The Line (video).  That’s mega-serious money.  Around the world, we’ve gone to ludicrous speed (video) on how much money is being sunk into this rearrangement of all of human society.

And you seriously believe – with this level of money invested in this kind of thing, let alone the power it will give the Globalists – that you’re going to vote your way out?  Protest your way out?  Appeal to the better side of their nature to realize what they’re doing and repent?  Remember, these people truly believe they’re made from finer and purer clay than you.

 

 

If yes, you think you can get through this peacefully and change things – and please note, I am not advocating violence but merely observing I thing it’s inevitable (HT JFK Jr.) – I have some prime self-irrigated land in southern Louisiana to sell you.

 

 

I’d comment what I really think, but I’d get into trouble.  But… TINVOWOOT.  Time – past time – to find your inner steel.

Alas.

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Know your enemy on the Left.

 

 

 

That Biden is a child-abusing pedo is obvious to anyone with even three brain cells that talk with each other.  So understand something, down to your core:

To the TDS Left, their hatred of “Orange Man Bad” is so strong, they prefer a child predator to Trump.

 

 

Recall that one of six Democrats said that had they known the laptop was real, that’d have changed their vote.  Think about that.  It means that for five out of six, that level of fetid corruption, let alone the drugs and sex and pedo sex – with more being exposed daily – is not enough to make them rethink.  So assimilate this to your core as well:

To the TDS Left, a man who auctions off his influence to the highest foreign bidder is their guy, so long as he beats Trump.

I hate Barackus for what he’s done to my America.  The same for The Potato.  But I don’t lock up in a spit-producing rictus grimace; I’ve seen libs I know do precisely that when I say I’m a Republican (well, technically – at least on my voter registration).  We’ve called TV “programming” for decades; that, plus maybe things in the food and the water?  IMHO they’ve been clearly messed with psychologically.  Nobody truly sane locks up in near-quivering rage like I’ve seen people do at the mere mention of Trump’s name in a positive light.

We may share the appellation of “American”.  We share legal citizenship in the same nation.  We share land-mass of residence.  But I have precisely nothing in common with them aside from being of a common species.

 

 

Along these lines, read this – and then understand that to this day there are those on the Left who say Alger Hiss was innocent:

The hunt in Red August, 1948: The case of Alger Hiss, Soviet spy | The Hill

 

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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

— Winston Churchill

 

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On the climate scam:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/climate-scam.mp4

 

Related:

You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy: 14 U.S Cities Planning to Ban Meat, Dairy, Private Cars by 2030 (substack.com)

Get ready to be squeezed into a very small life.  See the above video, especially Chris Sky’s video.

The USDA’s War on Small Farms | Mises Wire

 

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I was born in the city.  My heart resonates with the above meme.  In my soul, I belong in the country.

 

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Specifically on Covid / medical – because it’s that important to highlight:

Vaccine mRNA-carrying lipid nanoparticles (LPNs) spread after injection throughout the body according to available animal studies & vaccine mRNA (naked or in LPNs or in natural exosomes) is found (substack.com)

This in particular reminds me of a conversation I had a couple of weeks ago with a Covidiot.  I walked them through biodistribution especially to ovaries & testes (citing the Japanese study among others), microclotting (referencing Dr. Charles Hoff), asking what they think happens to ovaries (specifically) when they are deprived of oxygen & nutrient flow; I also mentioned the Barnhardt talk about testes and his comment about a woman not choosing a vaccinated man for pregnancy.  I mentioned the declining birth rates globally.  How the immune system ruthlessly attacks cells that manufacture non-human proteins including how CD8 killer T-cells kill infected cells and causing inflammation (at the least) while doing so.  Everything was laid out step-by-step, in an easy to grasp logical progression.  And they refused the end conclusion – that the Jabs are dangerous (in the first three months of the Pfizer trials, 1,223 people died from 42,086 participants per Pfizer document 5.3.6 page 7), and that they may have sterilized their children, or at the least shortened their lives, while thinking they were doing good for them.  And they walked away from me furious at me.  Not curious at the very least.  Not angry even at the possibility that I could be right despite – to the hypothetical objective observer – my having facts, figures, data, citations, and logic behind me.  Not angry at those who may have done this to them or their children.  Angry at me… because I overwhelmed them with facts, citations, and logic to drive them to a conclusion they cannot accept.

 

 

You can’t save these people.  Maybe nibbling around the edges?  Yes.  Onesie-twosie, yes.  But in the main, they cannot – CANNOT – make that final step because then it would mean their consciously understanding:

1. Their superior intellects got massively bamboozled, and by people they trusted implicitly.
2. They’ve potentially done enormous harm to their children, and possibly ended their bloodline.
3. And – possibly the worst in their eyes – that we, the deplorable antivaxers, were not just right, but in point of fact were more educated, aware, informed, and perceptive than their super-genius selves.

And #3 is why, once circumstances truly dictate that they do actually grasp it, their greatest fury will be with us.  Because we’re going to live.  Because our children will have our grandchildren.

 

Wile E Coyote, Super Genius

 

 

 

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Shocking FOIA Results: $11 Million to Bribe OB-GYNs to Lie to Mothers About Safety of mRNA-Vaccines. – The Expose (expose-news.com)

Video interview with text loaded with good stuff.  Related:

Pfizer drip feeds data from its pregnancy trial of covid-19 vaccine (substack.com)

Even with the Lowest Distribution in 2023, COVID “Vaccines” are Still the Deadliest Vaccines Accounting for 70% of All Vaccine Deaths – Vaccine Impact

“VACCINES ARE SPREADING COVID-19” – Dr. Christina Parks Testimony For Michigan House Bill 4471 (rumble.com)

mRNA Vaccine Toxicity – Doctors for COVID Ethics (doctors4covidethics.org)

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CDC Now Refusing New COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports in Its V-Safe Program ⋆ Brownstone Institute

How convenient they turn this off right as they’re ramping up for another Jab-a-thon drive.

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Mask study published by NIH suggests N95 Covid masks may expose wearers to dangerous level of toxic compounds linked to seizures and cancer | Daily Mail Online

Don’t forget the fibers off the regular surgical masks getting into your lungs:

Study finds plastics found in masks present in patients’ lungs | Features | westernstandard.news

Understand that for the most part I view the kids – and obviously the small ones in particular – as innocents.  But I’d find it truly ironic, in a schadenfreude way, that in a few years those kids were having lung cancer from those inhaled chemicals.  And again, horrific for the kids and I’m certainly not wishing it on them, but can you imagine the faces and guilt the parents would have being told that it was the fibers and chemicals from the masks they made their kids wear that had done it?

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I can’t help but think this will be the case for The Jab.  There are those who have been Jabbed that I will miss.  Family.  Friends.  And some… not so much.

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The 10 BIGGEST and Most Dangerous Lies (They’ve told since early 2020) (bitchute.com)

Dr. Vernon Coleman

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/masks-and-particle-size.mp4

 

 

 

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THEY LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING

They lied about the origins of Covid
They lied about covid death statistics
They lied that there was no treatment (go home and if you turn blue then go to hospital)
They lied about the ventilators & Remdesivir
They lied that the hospitals were overflowing (while they choreographed Tiktok dance routines)
They lied about the masks
They lied about the lockdowns
They lied to prevent family visiting dying relatives
They lied about outdoor transmission
They lied about Ivermectin, HCQ, Zinc & Vit D
They lied about the efficacy of the vaccines
They lied about the safety of the vaccines
They lied to try and hide their data for 75 years
They lied to hide the extent of the vaccine injuries
They lied by even calling the shots ‘vaccines’
They lied about the need for “vaccine passports”
They lied to try and justify human rights abusive vaccine mandates
They lied about the rates of myocarditis
They lied about the excess deaths

 

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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic”

— (Carl Sagan)

 

Reminds me of what I wrote here about the invention of writing allowing knowledge to accumulate.

 

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Microchip implants for payment becoming reality

 

 

Like so many things, sold as “convenient”.  Or “to fight crime”.

 

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Government Files About “Remote Mind Control” | The Vigilant Citizen

I don’t want to go totally foil hat, but many of my friends and e-friends have commented that it sure seems like there’s a spate of “conveniently timed” mass shootings when there’s a desired push for gun control.  Among other things.

 

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

 

Very honored to have her autographed picture on my wall at home.

 

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Collected links with commentary, no subjects (too much time in that):

Texas school tried to force mom to sign NDA to get on campus (nypost.com)

Wrap your mind around this.  I can’t.  And NDA to be able to visit your child’s school campus???  Maybe this kind of thing is why?

Radical “health” curriculum for all grades – coming to your school? (massresistance.org)

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German Cabinet passes bill to make ‘deadnaming’ trans-identified people a criminal offense, $10,800 penalty | Human Events | humanevents.com

Basically, making not honoring mental illness a criminal offense.  Brings to mind this quote:

“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

― Theodore Dalrymple

And also in Germany, a “fashion” show.  Warning: images are disturbing.  And let me make something crystal clear: I’m not a Christian, and I find this mocking of Christianity vile.

This 2023 Berlin Fashion Show Was All About Mocking Christianity in the Trashiest Way Possible | The Vigilant Citizen

And on this degeneracy in general:

EXCLUSIVE: Dildo ring toss, ‘pin the clit on the vulva,’ and ‘family friendly’ drag show featured at Ottawa’s Pride fest | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

What’s next?  “Family friendly” sex shows?

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Something Economically Is Terribly Off In America With Poverty Spreading As Quickly As Stores All Across The Nation Are Experiencing Record Shoplifting And It’s About To Get Worse – Gazetteller

Entirely predictable.  And what’s more:

 

 

As I wrote here, humans crave stability.  Even a miserable existence is often tolerated when it’s uniform and predictable.  Humans hate uncertainty.  It’s one of the lessons I learned when studying quality professionally: people are far, far more sensitive to variation in performance than in the actual level of it.

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U.S. Military Will Train Ukrainian Pilots to Fly F-16s at Arizona Base | The Gateway Pundit | by Anthony Scott

Pushing pushing pushing.  Sooner or later IT will start.  I can’t help but think that they’re pushing this hard to do two things:

First, hide the global corruption levels.  If cities are vaporizing nobody’s going to care about Biden’s bribes.  Or all the wealth that’s been siphoned off in general.

Second, hide the impending demographic collapse from the Jab.  Again, vaporizing cities takes precedence over “died suddenly” and “Susie can’t get pregnant”.  (And nukes, etc., plus the following privations, would be a handy excuse for both.)

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Lowest Burn Acreage Of The Millennium | Real Climate Science

Inconvenient data.  From the same site:

Contaminating Good Data With Bad | Real Climate Science

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Biden Allowed Major Donor to Hand Advanced Military Tech to China – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

Just like the Clintons.  See the book Year of the Rat.

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Free Speech Suppressed Everywhere You Turn — Manhattan Contrarian

Control the information flow, control what people believe.

 

 

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Full Gun Confiscation Illinois + NO Cash Bail September. Magazine Ban Loophole. ISP Registration.

 

 

 

How the ATF is Deceiving Media in their War on Gun Dealers (ammoland.com)

To this day I get asked why American Jews are so hostile to gun ownership.  This is a good answer:

The Shtetl Mentality (jpfo.org)

Part of it is that “the police will protect us”.  Uh huh.

 

 

Don’t forget how the police “protected” the kids at Uvalde.

And that American Jewish hostility towards guns is one lever for people to hate us.

 

 

But not all of us are Jewicidal Yidiots.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

And a few articles from there:

ATF’s director says the quiet part out loud and refers to inalienable rights as a ‘privilege’ (jpfo.org)

Lessons From The Ancients (jpfo.org)

Don’t forget:

Homepage | Jews Can Shoot

And from / through there:

Florida sheriff investigating racially-motivated Dollar General shooting challenges anti-gun narrative | Jews Can Shoot

The Torah and Self-Defense (Shmirat Ha Gouf) — David Kahn Krav Maga

The above reminded me of this paper by David Kopel:

The Torah and Self-defense (davekopel.org)

And lastly, on guns:

the munchkin wrangler.: why the gun is civilization.

This is a MUST READ.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m
looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only
persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid.

It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the
actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… And
that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Serious too, but I LOLed!  So I put it here.

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Come back Friday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

 

 

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There is a big difference between Governor DeSantis and Governor Sununu when it comes to improving public education.  Democrats will claim that Republicans do not care about public education because they are the party of tax and spend.

All of that spending hasn’t helped public education when you look at how the United States compares to the top-performing countries. You can scroll through the TIMSS results to see that.

What would it take to improve public education in America?

We know the recipe because we saw students in Massachusetts rise to the top of the nation when they developed high-quality academic standards and tests. That recipe also included teacher training that was focused on academic quality versus the low-quality training many teachers receive in professional development today.

All of that was done prior to the national movement during the Obama administration, where academic standards were dumbed down, and dumbed down workforce training began. (Competency Based Education)

Governor DeSantis took this failed model and turned it around. Not only did they develop higher quality academic standards in Florida, they also now use one of the best tests to determine if your child is learning quality academic content. This is how you improve public education. You don’t ignore what children are learning.

 

In New Hampshire, Governor Sununu was never in support of Common Core when he first ran. He even hired Commissioner Frank Edelblut to run the Department of Education. So what went wrong? Why, after Governor Sununu’s tenure, are we still saddled with Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards?  Why did Governor DeSantis prioritize public education while Governor Sununu ignored it? That’s a good question.

When Democrats in New Hampshire claim that Republicans do not care about our public schools, they have a point. How will Republicans claim they care about this important issue?

We did get some good legislation passed by some of our Republican legislators. Students must now pass a U.S. Civics test before they graduate high school. There was legislation highlighting the importance of cursive writing and multiplication tables. But all of this came from Republican legislators who were trying to do something while the Executive branch failed to prioritize the most important tasks in front of them. FIX the ACADEMIC STANDARDS and TESTS!

None of this is easy, but DeSantis got it done. DeSantis and the rest of the Republicans in Florida can make the argument that they care about the quality of education their students receive in their public schools.

Not only did Governor Sununu fail the kids in our public schools, but he also failed the rest of the Republicans in this state who could have taken those accomplishments and shown the rest of the country that the failing public schools created by Progressive policies were addressed and fixed.

I hope Republicans will learn a lesson from Governor DeSantis. He took a lot of hits on his education policies and legislation, but in the long run, he’s helping to return public schools to a focus on academic excellence versus dumbed-down indoctrination centers.

Republicans can take the issues in public education and WIN moms over across the country. They can make this issue a Republican success story. It takes leadership.

As Joan Jacobs wisely points out in her article, Death wish: Contempt for parents will destroy public ed: “Public schools are trouble. Trust is low. Enrollment is falling. Parents are embracing new alternatives.”

Democrats are now the party that is helping to destroy public schools across the country. They are the party that is hostile to parental rights. Their solution of funneling more tax dollars into a failed system has left us in trouble on the world’s stage.

When you have to wait months to see your doctor or your care in the hospital is of poor quality because there is a shortage of medical staff, remember who was okay with sticking with dumbed-down public schools and who fought to provide a better public education for those enrolled in our public schools.  We need highly educated graduates from our public schools, or we will suffer.  Don’t believe me? Jacobs also wrote in her article titled: The path to nursing starts in 9th grade: Girls from lower-income families all want to be nurses, the community college dean told me. Few make it. They fail the science and math pre-reqs.

The Democrats have been failing public schooled children for years. We now have an example of someone willing to fight those powerful forces to improve public education.  Hopefully, Republicans running for Governor in New Hampshire to replace Governor Sununu will learn from this failure. We already know that Democrats will do nothing to improve our public schools.

 

 

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