Digital transformation is a thrilling opportunity to revolutionize the way we conduct business. Despite the difficulties posed by the pandemic, its acceleration has been a topic of discussion. It’s wonderful that there are numerous ways to define and approach it because it allows for flexibility and customization. If you attempt it, you may wind up benefiting yourself, your team, and your customers.

It is fascinating to observe how digital transformation is interpreted differently by various individuals. And honestly, that’s entirely acceptable! Even if the precise definition is unclear, it presents an opportunity for investigation and discovery.

In this article, we explore what digital transformation is, why flexibility is essential for every business, and the most effective digital transformation strategies for businesses.

Discover the Art of Digital Transformation 

The technology journey of digital transformation began decades ago, even beyond the enterprise. The term “digital transformation” became so ubiquitous that it began to create ambiguity for some. The rapid pace of digital transformation during the pandemic left many business leaders and their customers grappling with the question, “What exactly is digital transformation?”

Digital transformation is when you use digital services and people’s expertise to solve a problem you have now or might have in the future. To change effectively, you need to consider both technology and people.

Here is some more detailed information on how businesses can be more adaptable to changing market conditions and strategies which help with digital transformation.

Why Flexibility Is Important in Digital Transformation

Flexibility enables businesses to respond swiftly to fluctuating market conditions. In a digital environment, disruptions may occur at any moment, and organizations must be prepared to respond. ChatGPT is a prime example; it has 200 million users in just two months and is already causing major disruption in many different fields. Flexible companies can rapidly alter their strategies and processes to meet new challenges and capitalize on emergent opportunities. This is particularly useful in areas where innovation and disruption are prevalent, such as technology and healthcare.

Flexibility can also assist businesses in innovating more quickly. By employing agile development methodologies, businesses can test and iterate new concepts more rapidly, thereby reducing the time required to bring new products and services to market. Typically, startups and small businesses have an advantage over large enterprise organizations in this regard. They are more flexible and open to market changes, though they are often more risk-averse and may lack the financial resources to incorporate the latest technologies.

Additionally, flexibility can contribute to the development of an innovative and experimental culture. By encouraging employees to take risks and attempt new things, businesses can foster a culture of continuous learning and development. This can stimulate creativity and innovation, resulting in new products, services, and business models that can set the company apart from other businesses.

Despite the advantages of flexibility, businesses must be aware of certain potential hazards. Traditional hierarchical structures and processes can be an obstacle to mobility because they frequently prioritize stability and predictability over flexibility and adaptability, which is typical of large organizations. To combat this, businesses must reconsider their organizational structures and adopt new modes of operation that place a premium on collaboration, experimentation, and learning.

For this reason, flexibility necessitates a strong focus on customer requirements and a willingness to listen to and act on feedback. This can be particularly difficult in industries where consumer requirements are complex or constantly changing, such as healthcare and finance. To cope with this difficulty, businesses must invest in feedback processes that enable them to remain in sync with their customers’ shifting preferences by maintaining a constant connection with them, even if they migrate to new channels such as the metaverse.

Ultimately, business flexibility necessitates a concentration on culture and the mentality of talent, particularly leadership. The organizational transformation will require more than new technology. It requires developing a management system that places flexibility at the center of its objective, establishing a healthy amount of confidence in leadership (so they don’t falter during difficult times), and ensuring that everyone accurately understands what flexibility entails. Each has its challenges, but it is possible to attain business flexibility.

Strategies for Constructing a Flexible Company

Developing a culture that prioritizes flexibility is the first and most important stage in establishing a flexible organization. Leadership must embrace new ways of working, foster experimentation and learning, and cultivate a customer-centric, collaborative, and data-driven culture. Leaders must provide the necessary support, assets, and tools for success for their teams to be adaptable.

Creating cross-functional teams that collaborate to accomplish common objectives is an efficient method of fostering a culture that is flexible. With an emphasis on promptly and consistently providing value to consumers, these teams should be given the freedom to make choices and take responsibility for their work. Teams utilizing agile methodologies, DevOps, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools should prioritize interaction and teamwork for promoting a smooth process.

According to the research by McKinsey, prioritizing talent and technology is another strategy for creating a flexible business. This requires recruiting and training employees who are adaptable, and capable to work in a fast-paced, constantly changing workplace. The technology and infrastructure required to support a flexible culture, such as cloud computing, automation, and data analytics tools, should be invested in flexible organizations. In addition, businesses should cultivate a culture of innovation and experimentation, encouraging workers to attempt new things and learn from their mistakes.

Moreover, flexible companies should prioritize continuous learning and enhancement. This entails providing employees with opportunities for continuous education and growth, preferably with a concentration on emergent technologies tailored to the employees’ individual levels of expertise and areas of interest.

Building a flexible company necessitates a dedication to change management since flexible transformations can be disruptive and difficult. To ensure a successful transition, it is essential to have a well-defined roadmap and change management plan in place. This includes identifying and resolving potential roadblocks, effectively communicating changes to employees, and monitoring progress to ensure desired results are obtained.

To Sum Up

It is crucial for all businesses to adhere to the steps of digital transformation. This helps optimize and accelerate all company processes. By creating an environment that is customer-oriented, interactive, and data-driven, forming cross-functional teams, investing in talent and technology, encouraging continuous development and growth, and employing effective change management strategies, organizations can create a culture that can adapt to rapidly changing market conditions and continue to provide value to customers.

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The Left’s systemic guilt over how badly they continue to treat people of color has driven them to the only obvious solution. Make you pay for it. And that makes sense. Using people to advance their agenda is inherent in the ideology, and buying people off gets things done.

The Left is also good at lying about their intentions and mistreating the people they claim to champion. And much like Islamofascists, nothing is offensive if done in the name of the supreme agenda. There can be no sin or crime if the cause is (in their mind) just.

It explains the Liberal destruction of the black family, kneecapping their education opportunities and trapping them on crime-ridden Democrat-infested urban plantations. The same can be said of women the Left has been warring with for years while claiming to champion their rights.

So, yeah – there is much over which to feign guilt.

California has concocted a relief package (reparations) to assuage its liberal guilt. It looks more like a lottery win for millions who were never slaves, paid for by people who never owned one – whose relatives never owned a slave. Paid to people, many of whose distant relatives were never slaves.

It is the latest Democrat virtue signal, and Boston has one too. The city hired 35-year-old George Washington Williams as their Reparations Task Force project coordinator, but George has been something of a problem child.

 

According to a police report, city employees say that throughout May, they have had difficulties “with him trespassing in the building after hours, and at times becoming aggressive and threatening other staff members inside of City Hall.”

Williams, who has been arrested for multiple drug offenses in the past, according to Massachusetts-based outlet TB Daily News, was allegedly found non-verbal in an off-limits room while sage burned Thursday evening. How did he get there? Well, he allegedly chased off a custodian to gain access to the room.

 

Here’s another report on Williams’ hijinks and arrest.

 

Director of Municipal Protective Services, Steven Tankle, told Boston officers that his team had been having issues with Williams for three weeks, “with him trespassing in the building after hours, and at times becoming aggressive and threatening other staff members inside of City Hall,” the report stated.

Williams had allegedly been found on multiple occasions sleeping in office rooms that didn’t belong to him after bypassing metal detectors and security. The police report indicated that Williams “often became verbally aggressive and refused to leave.”

Municipal officers also reportedly grew concerned about Williams’ behavior of “burning sage inside of the building in small spaces” due to the fire hazard it posed.

 

This doesn’t say much about their vetting process, or maybe George is the perfect candidate and was taking his reparations in advance even though The Daily Wire reminds us that slavery has been illegal in Massachusetts since 1787.

 

Nonetheless, the task force will also be engaging “the community throughout the process to include input from lived experience” and then provide recommendations “for reparative justice solutions for Black residents.”

 

It’s been 236 years since anyone in the city or state had any legal connection to the African slave trade. But here we are, looking at reparations in the cradle of liberty, and I have a question. Is anyone on the reparations task force going to interview George Williams? He’s a black man who got arrested and did a bit of time, even if just overnight. And now the city of Boston has fired him.

I think he could offer some insight into that lived experience stuff.

 

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Red States are a lot less RED than the “Republicans” in those States would have you believe. In SOUTH DAKOTA, a supposedly GOP State, the “Republicans” in order to serve their donor class are allowing a “private business” to use eminent domain to seize farmland in order to supposedly save the climate, which is a lovely euphemism for pad their pockets:

What I am about to tell you should be the most important story in America but no national media is talking about it. Read this entire tweet.

One of the biggest invasions of property rights in American history is currently happening in South Dakota to expand green energy.

This… pic.twitter.com/li1ErwsdTy

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 31, 2023

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At some point in the hopefully not-so-distant future, what is at present a meme will become an adage. The question is not why children should attend drag shows; it is why drag queens want to perform for children. The same could be said of Furries.

The Furrie (furry) world is marketed as folks who like to dress up in elaborate animal costumes and do stuff everyone else does. What it is is a fringe sexual fetish thing, and while not everyone who gets involved may necessarily be meeting to add contacts to their little furry black books (or share a litter box), more than a few have to be predators using Fursonas to break the ice with kids.

They will, after all, do anything to gain access to their prey which is the problem we’ve always had with allowing men pretending to be women into women’s safe spaces.

Due to recent efforts to normalize this and similar antics, states like Florida passed laws to prohibit children from exposure to adult performances. A law that has forced a rules change at an upcoming “furry convention” in Orlando.

 

Many have raised concerns about recent changes in Florida legislation. After reviewing Florida SB 1438 it has been decided that for legal reasons and protection of our attendees, our venue, and the overall convention, Megaplex 2023 attendees must be 18 years of age at the time of registration pickup.

Megaplex has welcomed younger fandom members and their families since its inception and making this change was very difficult. The Code of Conduct has been updated to reflect this change and emails are going out to those affected.

While this change impacts the 2023 convention, it is unsure if this will have to continue for future years. It is our hope that this change is temporary and that we can welcome members of all ages back next year. With this in mind, the public decorum portion of the Code of Conduct as well as standards for programming, attire, and behavior in convention space will not be changing and will continue to be enforced as has been in the past.

 

The Florida Furries have to make do with the changes, which brings me back to the opening. The question is not why children would attend a furry convention with life-sized animal “friends.” It is why adult furries need access to children.

Remember, this is not just cosplay. Furries can have demands just like any other sexual splinter group. Lots of red flags, not the least of which is the corporate media running cover. That’s always suspicious. Oh, and the fact the convention has banned anyone under eighteen.

And there are other conventions in places that do not have the Protection of Children Act. There are any number of liberal-run destinations where the goal is the opposite. Putting children in psycho-sexual situations for which they are neither mentally nor physically prepared is a priority. Another red flag, but when they run the State’s so-called child protection agency, you can’t expect them to step up and intervene in cases of child risk for sexual abuse because some Dems made it legal or would like that – with or without the elaborate animal persona.

Minor-attracted persons are pedophiles. Predators dressing up as cute animals should be no less offensive than if they were dressed as Santa Clause, a Guidance Counselor, a garish caricature of a woman, or a Parish Priest.

And someone at Megaplex is concerned enough about the content to prohibit kids from attending.

Another red flag.

 

HT | The Gateway Pundit

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We have evolved to a place where everything is either Black or White. Our side is right, and their side is wrong. We want less government, and they want more. We believe in sovereignty, and they want to erase our borders. It may be as basic as we believe in God, and they no longer do. There is no gray any longer. It is me versus you. This thinking, this way of existing together, is not sustainable. This way of looking at each other as black or white only widens the valley between us, and it may already be too wide a chasm to bridge.

When did this happen to us? When did we lose our power, or even our will, to compromise, to find some middle ground? I think we had a common purpose and were more unified than we had been in some time after 9/11. We had been attacked, and regardless of party or belief, we looked out for one another and had a common purpose. We were against the terrorists who wanted us exterminated, and we stood together to ensure that would not happen. Unfortunately, that unity was short-lived, and patriotism became an ugly term quickly

I believe the movement towards the opposite corners started with Obama. Not that it had anything to do with race, but Barack Obama was the first President in my lifetime, and I dare say in our history, who did not love and honor the United States of America. Obama’s worldwide apology tour offended many of us who genuinely love this country and embrace our history. These negative feelings were especially true for anyone who served in World War II or had someone in their life who did. No other country in history has done more to protect freedom and democracy worldwide, without being imperialistic, than the United States, and we had nothing to apologize for to anyone or any country. But there was our President, the leader of the free world, bowing to foreign leaders. We never saw that in our lifetimes, and it did not sit well with us.

It was not just the “tour,” but the beginning of a movement in this country away from Capitalism and towards Socialism. Obama showed us with Obamacare that government control was superior to individual rights in his world. Obama was the Godfather of The Squad and the Progressive Wing of the Democrat Party. He spawned and promoted the anti-American belief and worked tirelessly to dispel the thought of us being the greatest country on Earth. He introduced the One World thinking to our youth and the America Second philosophy that we hear from Tlaib and Omar. It is poisonous, and it spreads like weeds. These people, even Obama, are the product of our corrupt and dangerous educational system. These are the first elected people who graduated from our system of indoctrination, not education, and proof that the system started by educators over one hundred years ago to fundamentally change America worked.

That is why there is such intense hatred of Donald Trump; he was a threat to the Progressive Movement. He saw it as dangerous and made progress in four short years to tear it down and renew our love of America. It also is why it was so important to elect Biden. Joe Biden is a feckless individual who the Obamas and Clintons can control. He is a puppet of the Progressives

I believe all these theories and can logically see how it all transpired. I can also see how impossible a task it will be to slow or reverse the trend. The momentum is strong, and the number of believers is too great to overcome. I fear it will take something as catastrophic as 9/11 to give us a reason to come together. Unfortunately, if history were to repeat itself, too many of us might think we deserve what we got and turn the other cheek.

Ben Franklin warned us that this system would work if we could hold onto it. We may be at the point of the rope breaking, but I hope we still have enough to hold onto the short end.

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Dartmouth Health recognized Psychologist Alisa Hurwitz with an Ongoing Commitment Social Justice Award for her role in medically transitioning youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Hurwitz provides psychotherapeutic care related to pediatric and adolescent endocrinology in Dartmouth Health’s Trangender Health Program, with a focus on individuals on the autism spectrum. According to a Dartmouth Health article about the May 18 award ceremony, “she began to see many transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse patients and recognizes the need for therapists able to work with trans populations.”

Related: Trans or Die: The Ideological Blindness of a Dartmouth Health Endocrinologist

The high incidence of ASD among trans-identified youth would have come as no surprise to the authors of the 2011 and 2014 Dutch studies which serve as the foundation for the practice of moving children from puberty blockers to hormones.  Those researchers screened out children with depression, anxiety, and especially autism because they recognized that gender confusion is a stage that children usually outgrow.

The researchers noted that “It can be complicated to disentangle whether the gender dysphoria evolves from a general feeling of being just ‘different’ or whether a true ‘core’ cross-identity exists in adolescents who suffer from an autistic spectrum disorder.”

The high rates of trans-identified ASD children wouldn’t surprise health policy experts in England, either. They shut down Tavistock, the world’s largest youth gender clinic after learning that most of the children receiving irreversible medical treatment had mental health disorders and a third had moderate to severe autism even though it occurred at 2% in the general population.

In an  article in The Daily Mail, autism expert Dr. Sally Powis is quoted as saying that autistic teenagers who are searching for a reason why they don’t fit in could fixate on the idea they were born into the wrong body.

Powis said that teenage girls on the spectrum who bind their breasts might simply be trying to express the feeling that “I’m anxious about all this stuff happening to my body, and I don’t know how to handle it.”

Although England, Finland, Norway, and Sweden see the rate of children with ASD being medically transitioned as alarming evidence of dysfunction, Dartmouth Health celebrates it as a triumph of health equity. In a video that accompanied the award ceremony, Hurwitz proclaimed that “This isn’t just medical care, this isn’t just mental health care, this is serving a community that is marginalized and being actively attacked.”

Dartmouth Health’s practice of transitioning ASD youth raises the question as to whether they can understand the consequences and give informed consent to these irreversible medical treatments. It’s not even clear that Hurwitz herself understands the ramifications of gender medicine. Last year she asserted that puberty blockers are completely reversible and that opposite-sex hormones are mostly reversible. 

But  Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Organization for Transgender Health, said children who take puberty blockers at Tanner Stage 2 (ages 9-11) and move on to opposite-sex hormones will never experience sexual satisfaction as adults. Jeremi Carswell, head of Boston Children’s Hospital’s gender clinic, said that children who start on puberty blockers at age 12 or 13 will be sterile. Puberty blockers also cause low bone density, which can lead to osteoporosis. 

John Turco, MD, who heads Dartmouth Health’s Transgender Health program, said Dartmouth Health gives puberty blockers to children as young as 10.  Turco received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ceremony.

 

Watch my conversation last summer with Alisa Hurwitz about her work with autistic kids:

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If you were born and raised in New Hampshire, you might have seen decades of cars pass through the state, and you might be aware of the trends that have always been evident in the state. Then, if you want to know more about the future of cars in New Hampshire and how you can keep up with this, read on.

What will the Best Cars for New Hampshire be?

When you are buying a car in New Hampshire, you may be worried about whether the car that you invest in will suit your life in New Hampshire. Many car owners are concerned about the climate in New Hampshire and how this relates to their vehicles. The weather in New Hampshire in winter is harsh, with lots of snow and storms making their way into the state. Rather than investing in a car that cannot withstand these elements, you should look around for cars that are safe and sturdy even in the face of bitter weather. These models include the Chevrolet Tahoe and the Subaru Forester.

There are also many new and used car trends that are changing all the time in New Hampshire, and it is important that you stay aware of these to make sure that you are able to invest in a car that can stay on-trend for many years to come. For instance, Nissan Rogues are extremely popular and are likely to remain popular as they are reliable over long distances. If you live in New Hampshire, it is important that you do not invest in simply the first car that you come across.

What Tech Can Make Driving in New Hampshire Easier?

Driving in New Hampshire is not always easy due to its climate and terrain. However, there is a lot of recently developed technology and still developing technology that can help you with this. For instance, automatic braking systems can ensure that you always stop in time and that you can stay safe while you are in your vehicle. In contrast, electric vehicles are now becoming popular because they are better for the environment and because you do not have to find a gas station to keep them charged. You might also consider investing in cars with in-built GPS and parking technology, as this will help you to navigate the roads and your routes better. At the same time, augmented reality (AR) windshields can ensure that all the information that you need can be easily displayed.

How to Propel Yourself into the Future?

If you want to invest in a car that will set you up for the future and that will contain all the tech that you want, you should consider selling the car that you have. It is possible to get a quote for your car and sell it quickly online. For instance, you might find a company through which you can sell my Ferrari 458.

This will allow you to get the money that you need to invest in a new luxury model which you can have for many years to come and that contains all of the latest advances and technologies. This will make driving in New Hampshire a lot simpler for you.

You should not hesitate to look for cars that might be the future popular models in New Hampshire and beyond, and that will allow you to drive in New Hampshire without any issues. You are then likely to have a better experience when driving in New Hampshire.

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“Healthcare” has become the perfect guise for the Deep State’s desire to control the people. Senator Kennedy introduced his plan for socialized medicine in the 1960s. Since then, government concern for all things relating to our health has been made law.

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Today, the WHO advances its quest to give us the ultimate prescription to root out liberty: The WHO’s Pandemic Treaty.

Do you trust unelected, unaccountable UN/WHO bureaucrats with your healthcare decisions? If this treaty is not stopped, the authors of the “Covid lockdown” will act to control us again with predetermined responses and mandatory preparedness by “edict” that will become legally binding. Not only will this treaty amend the International Health Regulations (IHR), it will legalize, subject to their discretion, the repeat of COVID medical tyranny with: “vaccine passports, expansion of mandatory quarantine power, and even the recommendation of “travel checks.”

This is not Americanism. This is climbing up the Marxist ladder just as Chancellor Hitler assumed illegal power through edicts.

The constitution requires two-thirds of the Senate to ratify treaties. President Biden is attempting to impose this treaty on the American people without ratification. The president is living up to Art Thompson’s description of his life: He’s a Water Boy for The New World Order. Check out Thompson’s book Benedict Biden at JBS.ORG.

How can this be stopped? This is first a priority for state governments to serve us, not their party leaders. Nullification of federal government power is their job. The power lies in the hands of the people. All concerned citizens should assert their authority by demanding state legislators, the governor, and the federal Congress to solve this overreach before their inaction gives us the ultimate tyrannical headache. Demand that they implement “state Nullification.”

Demand they watch the following lecture:

 

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Article VI of the U.S. Constitution is key: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof … shall be the supreme Law of the Land.” There is only one true interpretation of this language, it is unambiguous because it states that only laws that align with the Constitution are the supreme law of the United States and cannot be valid. The Failure to act in a concerted effort from all patriots will bring globalist control over every area of your life.

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We are used to recapping the shooting numbers in Chicago on Monday for the weekend. Sadly, it is tantamount to checking the weekend box scores. This Memorial Day weekend was no different in Chicago, as eleven were killed and 53 were shot, including two two-year-old children.

Former Mayor Lightfoot was the recipient of much of the blame, and deservedly so, for the last few years. There was hope in the recent election that Chicago was ready to move in a different direction when Lightfoot finished third and out of office. Unfortunately, Chicago did not change paths but instead went deeper into the rabbit hole. The voters chose a more Progressive candidate in Brandon Johnson, who is backed by and benefited from a sizable donation by the teacher’s union. Johnson will continue the passive approach to fighting crime, and many said this weekend would be Johnson’s first big test. Johnson failed miserably.

This weekend, Chicago was not the only hot spot; that is sad news for all Americans. In Hollywood, Florida, families scattered for safety on Monday as a fun-filled day at the beach turned into a nightmare when gunshots filled the air. Witnesses claimed the shooting started when an altercation between two groups of teens escalated to gunfire. When the shooting stopped, nine people, including four young children, had been injured by errant gunfire. This shooting occurred in an area that is not known for violence, which unfortunately drives home the fact that these stupid acts of violence can happen anywhere.

In San Clemente, California, two Marines were hit by debris from fireworks. When they asked the people shooting the fireworks to cease, over forty teens turned on the Marines, and a melee began. The Marines were grossly outnumbered and beaten severely. The Marines did not require hospitalization, and no arrests were made.

Gavin Newsom chose not to address this attack in his state but did go after Governor Ron DeSantis for the attack in Florida. No guns were involved in San Clemente, and Newsom saw a chance for more publicity attacking DeSantis and the gun-related attack in Hollywood. It was an ill-advised statement filled with misinformation regarding his reference to legislation that had yet to go into effect.

According to NBC News: Shootings across the U.S. left at least 16 people dead and dozens more injured over Memorial Day weekend.
The gun violence occurred at beaches, high schools, and motorcycle rallies, among other locations, across at least eight states. Those killed were teenagers to people in their 60s.

The variety of locations and states is disheartening. Until Police are restaffed after the Democrat-driven Defund the Police movement decimated the number of active Police, and we unseat liberal D.A.s, we do not have a chance of slowing this trend of violence. Democrats scream for new gun laws with each shooting, but they know new laws will have no impact. The perpetrators in these incidents have no regard for rules or laws, and these claims are simply an effort for more control of law-abiding citizens.

It is difficult not to change our habits and restrict where we go out of fear. To do so is to relent our freedoms to those without respect for us. That should not be an option in a free society.

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Democrats and the left are a fickle lot. It’s clear they’re determined to keep the country divided using the politics of victimization, but they can’t seem to decide where next to plant their seeds of discontent.

It was only a few years ago that the Me Too movement was in full swing. Democrats seized on a few high-profile cases of abused women, and the movement began. It quickly became a veritable war between the sexes, and at its height, Democrats were demanding that we “believe all women.” Today, they can’t even define what a woman is.

Then, in a series of unfortunate incidents, several young men died during confrontations with police. Their deaths would have gone virtually unnoticed if the parties involved were of the same race. But in those particular cases, the police were white and the men who died were black. Black Lives Matter was created, widespread rioting ensued, and Democrats saw another opportunity. They encouraged the riots, calling them peaceful protests, while issuing demands to “defund the police.” Today, they’re trying to claim that it’s Republicans who are anti-police.

Now they’ve found a new victim group, a new crusade, and a new battle cry. DEI – diversity, equity, and inclusion. Ostensibly, it’s supposed to protect all alleged victims of society, including the LGBQT community, from discrimination.

Their demands for diversity aren’t new. They’re a throwback to the controversial affirmative action initiatives which already diversified our country years ago. They also evoke one of those many vacuous liberal axioms: “Our strength is in our diversity.”

That sentiment may sound noble, even inspirational. But no one has ever really explained exactly how diversity strengthens anything. It’s true that fresh ideas coming from diverse minds often spark creativity and solutions to thorny problems. But that’s not what liberals are talking about. In fact, they adamantly reject the notion of diverse ideas. They’re talking about a regimented assortment of skin color, nationality, gender, sexual preference, and now, gender identity.

The fact is, most Americans openly accept diversity in the workforce, in schools, and in government. But when diversity becomes the primary objective, failure is inevitable. How can any organization realize its full potential when bureaucratic bean counters and liberal activists tell them who to appoint, hire, and promote?

Joe Biden is one man consumed by DEI ideology. His administration is filled with history-making appointees who have proven themselves to be utterly incompetent – or worse.

Take, for example, Sam Brinton, a flamboyant bisexual and trans activist who was somehow appointed to a covetous high-level position in Biden’s Department of Energy. That appointment prompted one DOE employee to submit a written complaint to the inspector general’s office. It questioned Brinton’s qualifications for the position and alleged that the appointment came via “undue political influence.” But it was Brinton’s penchant for women’s clothing, not the complaint, that brought him down. Facing three separate charges of luggage theft, the DOE had no option but to terminate him. Brinton’s brief experience with the DOE can only be attributed to another experiment in diversity.

And Deb Haaland became the very first Native American to serve in a cabinet position when Biden appointed her Secretary of the Interior. She had absolutely no qualifying experience, and her recent congressional testimony exposed her utter lack of knowledge and suitability for the job.

Biden told us where he stood on the issue from the very beginning. By vowing to choose a black female as his running mate, he admitted that, to him, diversity was more important than merit.

It should be obvious that the best way for any organization to flourish is simply by hiring, promoting, and retaining the best of the best.

The second part of DEI is equity. It sounds reasonable. After all, the concept of equal opportunity for everyone is one of the hallmarks of the American Dream. Ah, but they’re not talking about equal opportunity, the idea that, with hard work, all American citizens have the same opportunity to succeed.

No, to them, equity means equal outcomes. That’s the socialist/communist principle that takes from those who produce and gives to those who don’t. DEI is intended to ensure that those who work hard wind up in exactly the same place as those who don’t. Kamala Harris expressed her vision of America in those exact words: “Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.”

What about inclusion? That sounds like it should be an American value, a basic right. It means that all those individuals who got to where they are through diversity programs also have a right to feel welcomed and included. The problem is, under DEI, the Left gets to choose which individuals to include. They’ve decided that men should be included in women’s sports events, and that drag queens should be included in children’s educational curriculum. But they’re absolutely determined to exclude conservative speakers from college campuses.

Sad to say, the DEI agenda seems to be catching on, especially with our young people. It may appear, on the surface, to represent American values. But DEI is a lie, intended to perpetuate racism, promote socialism/communism, normalize abnormal behavior, and keep our country divided.

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Jane Fonda is a Liberals Liberal. Far left would be a far cry from how far she is in that direction. She’s also a high priestess of the church of Mann-Made global warming, but she stopped binging on Goreos long enough to bless us with this wisdom.

 

“This is serious – we’ve got about seven, eight years to cut ourselves in half of what we use of fossil fuels, and unfortunately, the people that have the least responsibility for it are hit the hardest – Global South, people on islands, poor people of color,” the Barbarella star explained, insisting, “It’s a tragedy that we have to absolutely stop.” … 

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“There would be no climate crisis if there was no racism. There would be no climate crisis if there was no patriarchy. White men are the things that matter and then everything else [is] at the bottom.”

“If we solve the climate crisis, and we haven’t solved all those other things, we’re gonna be in trouble,”

Jane Fonda is … confused, but I get the sense she believes what she is saying. This is also the woman who, without a drop of irony, claimed that women would murder to protect abortion rights. No kidding, millions of times over decades.

As for the climate, if Jane believes we have seven or eight years left, she’s the fossil we need to lose. The current doomsday climate apocalypse calendar timebomb is not the first, nor will it be the last. It is a goalpost built to be moved. So, she is confused and gullible.

Next up, brown people. The climate cult icons who told you about the doomsday calendar are destroying the environments of people of color in Africa and Asia in pursuit of the so-called solution to the made-up problem of cataclysmic climate catastrophe. You seem to understand that and object to it. However, much like the same-skinned ancestors who sold their own into slavery (and some still do), the so-called rulers of these people of color are getting rich while the local environment is destroyed, and their citizens remain trapped in the second and third-world.

We can add a side-order of “there is no escape from this for them if we follow the climate cult’s new age energy agenda.”

In other words, the racists are not JUST the Captains of the Green Industry. China is top-heavy, with people of color wrecking the planet in the name of green, as are India and Africa. Most of the pollution, emissions, and plastic in the ocean (what of it there is) originate outside the Western world. From places where they profit from the rare-earth metals mining necessary to advance the green nightmare. Few, if any, of them are white, but many of them are rich and dirty.

Finally, what happens if these “men” declare themselves to be women? Gender is fluid (like doomsday climate apocalypse calendars) and shalt not be predicted. Anyone suspected of climate crimes, as determined by the Jane Fonda’s of the world, need only announce that they are a woman, and arresting them would be a crime: social justice and all that.

Climate Justice has a new problem that we can add to the old problem. Jane Fonda’s multiple homes and extra-large carbon-footprint lifestyle. A New Mexico Ranch. Mansion in LA. A loft in Atlanta. Flying around in private jets to get arrested at climate events.

Maybe you should stay in jail for the good of the planet?

 

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So, as regular readers know, I covered a lot of the “Gunstock Incident,” in which the Democrat founded, funded, and led the political action committee, Citizens for Belknap, tore asunder the Conservative Belknap County Delegation. Sadly, there were a number of Republicans that merrily joined in with that effort for a political purpose.

Sure, they disavowed, by word, that they were a part of that PAC, but they surely carried out the mission. Even after the Incident came to a conclusion, the CfB and its Republican allies (mostly RINOs, and I have the stats to back that up, including Mike “Hate Parental Rights” Bordes along with Travis O’Hara).

Harry Bean is certainly one of them, IMHO. He deliberately broke many of the friendships he once had as he “shifted” his political alliances for mere political gain (and complained when they would no longer talk with him – a self-made victim).  Then he decided to break our friendship in the Belknap County Superior Courthouse parking lot – the last in his string.

Fine, such as it is but in doing so, he became just another politician to me, as decisions have consequences. And he’s made a few whoppers with respect to those decisions, thus my filing of an Ethics complaint against him, with additional posts on the complaints here, as well as my oral testimony before the NH Legislative Ethics Committee hearing last Friday (my written testimony is here).

Harry Bean was called to speak next:

 



 

If you don’t have the time to listen to it (21 minutes), let me summarize this self-victimization by the Chair of the Belknap County Delegation:

• Right off the bat, he admits that he broke the Law as he laughed it off. Like I said in my testimony, isn’t deliberately breaking the Law unethical by definition? Even in his off-handed way, it was an admission of guilt. What will / what did the Committee think of that?
• My new name is “him”  (no big surprise).
• He perverts the meaning of his oath, which does NOT state that he represents the people. Here is that oath again:

“I, Harry Bean, do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me as STATE REPRESENTATIVE according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution and the laws of the state o New Hampshire. So help me, God.

It means that what he does is proscribed in Law. But, knowing Harry, I don’t think he give it much thought.

• Takes solace (and “blame deflection”) in that he’s a high school dropout and tries to use that as a chit.
• Then he referenced the Belknap County Attorney Andrew Livernois in trying to blame him for his “calling the Gunstock meeting” troubles. I submitted the email thread I had with Livernois concerning “that advice” to the Ethics Committee – it can mostly be seen here. where it was clear he deliberately left out the most important pieces of RSA 91-A and 24:9-d.  I had also told Harry about those missing pieces and repeated that during my testimony.
• Paraphrase: “I had to get something DONE” (re-opening Gunstock)
• A conflict of interest? From his testimony, now know that Bean’s personal attorney, Paul Fitzgerald, is also the attorney for the County when earlier, he refused to tell us.
• He admits to having “serial communications” with other Delegation members, thereby breaking RSA 91-A AGAIN; see 91-A:2-a Communications Outside Meetings:

I. Unless exempted from the definition of “meeting” under RSA 91-A:2, I, public bodies shall deliberate on matters over which they have supervision, control, jurisdiction, or advisory power only in meetings held pursuant to and in compliance with the provisions of RSA 91-A:2, II or III.
II. Communications outside a meeting, including, but not limited to, sequential communications among members of a public body, shall not be used to circumvent the spirit and purpose of this chapter as expressed in RSA 91-A:1.

But then, again, Harry admits he doesn’t read the Law that governs his behavior (and apparently, doesn’t listen, either). It is also clear that Harry looked at hearing from constituents not agreeing with him as “intimidation.”

• NH State Rep (and former NH State Supreme Court Justice) Bob Lynn asks Harry about the advice.  Did Lynn actually read the Law concerning Meetings?
• “Not my job” with respect to making sure that the Budget Subcommittee meetings were properly noticed.
• Dumped on Deb Schakett for not doing it.
• Dumped on Travis O’Hara for not seeing that those meetings weren’t properly noticed, and he dumped on her as well, even as the Law requires him to:

24:9-d Notice. – The clerk of the convention, or his or her designee, shall mail to each member of the convention a notice stating the time, place and purpose of further meetings at least 7 days before the day of the meeting and shall cause to be published a like notice at least 7 days before the day of the meeting in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Mailing such notice is not required during any session of the general court, if the notice is printed for 2 legislative days in the journal of the House of Representatives.

Not the County Administrator. The Clerk of the Delegation.  More on this later.

• Again, the “cabal” didn’t advise him in advance of the failed meeting notices (“I didn’t know” defense).
• Back to Gunstock’s illegal meeting – the end (300 people showed up) justifies breaking the law (political expediency). I enjoyed the revisionist history in that Harry didn’t correct the Ethics Committee when asked that he was NOT legally able to call the special (Aug 1) meeting and then happily stated that he had expected that the Delegation Chair Mike Sylvia was going to run the special meeting. Again, only Sylvia had the statute authority to call an emergency meeting not Harry. Mike Sylvia correctly saw that this was a manmade political event not rising to the level of an “emergency” and didn’t call it.
  Why would Harry then tell the Committee that he was surprised when Sylvia declined to go to a meeting that Sylvia didn’t call but that Harry did contra RSA 24:9-d’s plain words that it had to be a seven day notice?You know, if Harry had bothered to read the actual Law and not done a mashup of the two, I would have never filed the complaint containing the Gunstock Incident part. Simple as that.

Let me end with two things:

• Harry believes that I am part of some cabal that is just out to get him. He’s wrong – all I care about is that our elected representatives Follow The Law regardless if it is Friend or Foe. Screw up, and I’ll do something.
• He starts a common theme in his testimony that was followed by the Delegation Clerk, Travis O’Hara, and the person I can’t name due to Confidentiality strictures: I’m not responsible because I know nothing so I can’t be held accountable.

Years ago, when I started my third term on the Gilford Budget Committee, he was on it. He introduced himself as a [redneck] hillbilly. I objected to that a number of times that it was wrong, and I didn’t believe it. Do you know something years later? I was the one that was wrong about him being a hillbilly. He was right, after all.

 

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Sun-King Sunnu, as you may recall, was a big fan of BLM … DURING … the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020. Not surprisingly, Sun-King holds the same position as the LEFT on the disparate treatment of J6 protesters and BLM/Antifa rioters.

The former should rot in jail for decades, while the latter should get … at the most … a slap on the wrist. Sun-King Sununu stands out as garbage among garbage.

TAPPER: DeSantis said on day 1 as POTUS he would consider pardoning people convicted of crimes in connection with January 6. Is that disqualifying?

SUNUNU: No, it's not disqualifying … I think in this day and age there's nothing disqualifying for any candidate, unfortunately pic.twitter.com/g7DpQrULtV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 28, 2023

 

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Dear Richard Tracy,

I bring to your attention the following notice regarding Election Law Complaint Status for the period September 1, 2016-May 24, 2018.  It is signed by then AG Gordon MacDonald.

I also bring to your attention the following paragraph of RSA 15 in particular:

15:5 Prohibited Activities. –
I. Except as provided in paragraph II, no recipient of a grant or appropriation of state funds may use the state funds to lobby or attempt to influence legislation, participate in political activity, or contribute funds to any entity engaged in these activities.
II. Any recipient of a grant or appropriation of state funds that wishes to engage in any of the activities prohibited in paragraph I, or contribute funds to any entity engaged in these activities, shall segregate the state funds in such a manner that such funds are physically and financially separate from any non-state funds that may be used for any of these purposes. Mere bookkeeping separation of the state funds from other moneys shall not be sufficient.

It is documented and extraordinarily egregious that public officials in New Hampshire, whether elected or appointed, should ignore RSA 15 and not only fail to abide by several paragraphs of the Statute but undermine a criminal trial to promote their own lobby interests, fail to report these and then use the State witness in the criminal trial (Chessy Prout) to promote their next lobby interest: Marsy’s Law.

Let me be very clear – there are victims of these crimes whose lives have been lost and/or endangered, and whose rights have been deprived. The public has paid for these public officials to defraud the public for the enrichment and political goals of the public officials involved.

According to filings by Marsy’s Law for New Hampshire, several public officials and others received payments for Marsy’s Law in the first quarter of 2018, and yet, per the requirements under RSA 15, the recipients do not appear to have filed their lobby earnings to the State. Most noticeable among these is Amanda Grady Sexton of the City of Concord Council and NHCADSV, who filed a report for the first quarter of 2018 for $2339 relating to her work with the NHCADSV but not the $15,000 plus expenses she received in the same quarter for Marsy’s Law.

RSA 15 also stipulates the requirement for Ad Honorarium reporting. AG Gordon MacDonald appeared in a streaming/internet/TV ad to endorse Marsy’s Law. Amanda Grady Sexton then wrote an endorsement for Gordon MacDonald to become New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice. I see no record of this ad honorarium lobbying. Similarly, I see no reports for Debra Altschiller, whose family member Marina Altschiller was also paid for Marsy’s Law. I see no lobbying reports for other members of the NHCADSV (Lyn Schollett, for example) for Marsy’s Law payments—Ditto, Concord Mayor Jim Bouley, who was also paid.

Chessy Prout, the State witness in NH v Owen Labrie, appeared as the face of Marsy’s Law in New Hampshire. There are no reports of Chessy Prout or her family as lobbyists for New Hampshire State interests or those of the NHCADSV or Congresswoman Ann Kuster or Senator Jeanne Shaheen or Children’s Advocacy Centers or Concord Police. Yet there are very clear records from Chessy Prout herself that she was recruited several months pre the criminal trial in August 2015 and that Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin recommended Laura L Dunn of SurvJustice to her for the upcoming criminal trial.

Chessy Prout and her family flew to DC to meet with Laura L Dunn (who also has not filed lobby returns in New Hampshire to my knowledge), who introduced Steven J Kelly and her parents, according to her memoir “I have the Right To” with an introduction by Congresswoman Ann Kuster, “sorted out the details.” Those details I believe, involved bringing a team of attorneys, advisors, lobbyists, publicists, and journalists to the criminal trial of NH v Owen Labrie and training witnesses, and prosecutors for the trial, which was used to promote a product “Bystander” and “Know Your Power” training for the NHCADSV/UNH who’d received money for this product development from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.

Where is the lobby return from UNH/Sharyn Potter or NHCADSV for this? I do not see it.

Yet, the product was implemented at St Paul’s School immediately following the trial of NH v Owen Labrie (per a statement published on the day of the verdict in August 2015). UNH went on to create Soteria Solutions to trade the product and was recognized for entrepreneurship using a federal grant. Yet there has been no lobby return or ad honorarium lobby return relating to the use of NH v Owen Labrie to lobby for the product. Why not?

Where is Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s lobby return for her introduction to the memoir “I Have the Right to” used in order to get more VAWA funds for the State of New Hampshire ($2.3 million, I believe)? She took Chessy Prout to Capitol Hill in January 2017, discussed working with PAVE (for which Chessy Prout was an ambassador and her father, Alexander Prout, was on the board of directors), took Chessy Prout to UNH Franklin Pierce Law School in April 2017 as an ambassador for PAVE. A few days later, Owen Labrie’s retrial hearing was denied. This is not a coincidence.

According to Lyn Schollett, the NHCADSV lobbied AG Gordon MacDonald for a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School, which AG Gordon MacDonald ordered in July 2017 and completed in August 2018 involving Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin. The NHCADSV received a contract with St Paul’s School as a result. Where is the lobby return reflecting this? I do not see it.

Where is Concord Police Detective’s lobby return denoting gifts, kickbacks, etc., for her work in NH v Owen Labrie and “Justice for the victim”? She was rewarded by the NCVLI (who published the guide to pretrial publicity by Amanda Grady Sexton and Steve Kelly, who also happened to be a board member of NCVLI) – she wasn’t working for the benefit of the public. She was working for the benefit of the NHCADSV and Steven J Kelly and his lawsuit against St Paul’s School. Where is her lobby return?

Where is the return for the NHCADSV denoting the $2.865 million reward they got for Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth College – a reward they would not have gotten if they did not use social media and make phone calls to block ABC/GMA from airing an interview with Owen Labrie in July 2019 when the Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth was in mediation? It is a violation of the law for a publicly elected official to block a citizen’s right to free speech. It is a worse violation of the law when that public official seeks to block a program from airing because she knows it contains content that will expose the malfeasance of Concord Police Department; attempts to bribe a state defendant (Owen Labrie) while he was waiting for his appeals in return for access to exculpatory evidence including police evidence which the civil attorneys with whom Amanda Grady Sexton was colluding with were in possession. It is even worse when you consider that Amanda Grady Sexton is Chair of the City of Concord Public Safety Committee which approves the budget for police investigations and payments to witnesses.

Stonewalling, ignoring, and deleting files is not the answer. If New Hampshire public officials, including Gordon MacDonald, Amanda Grady Sexton, Congresswoman Ann Kuster, Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, Chuck Douglas (who also received payment for Marsy’s Law while he was also representing Chessy Prout who was the face of Marsy’s Law) then there is no point in having RSA 15 at all.

Why are public officials, guardians of the law, and guardians of law enforcement exempt from RSA 15?

 

Orignal Email above, dated May 27, 2023

From: Claire Best <claire@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: NH Public Officials Lobbying violations or RSA 15 for Marcy’s Law & NH v Owen Labrie
To: richard.c.tracy@doj.nh.gov <richard.c.tracy@doj.nh.gov>
CC: <5 recipients redacted>.

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Fairly certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.

Also, for those prepper-minded, my last Survival Sunday:

Survival Sunday – Unified – Granite Grok

Now, 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://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/139/124/327/original/ac964629eab3f409.mp4

 

“All this for a damned flag”.  The lip reading confirms.  And Barackus’ nod in agreement?

Do I think Clinton loved America?  No.  But then, on the flip side, I don’t think he despised it either – as Barackus and Michael clearly do.  He was – IMHO – the first President who loathed the country.

 

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Another place I don’t go often – and won’t again.  But that’s not the point.  It’s NOT ENOUGH to simply boycott.  They must know WHY their sales are dropping.  Explicitly.

And if you find an acceptable substitute, you need to tell THEM why you’re switching as well.  Positive reinforcement works as well as negative.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Still wonder why six states “spontaneously” stopped counting, all at about the same time?

 

 

Other 2020 / election memes:

 

 

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Gay Man Just Gave The Best Rant You’ll Hear Today

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Lily Tang Williams Announces Candidacy for US House — Brings Inspirational American Dream Story to New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District

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Weare, New Hampshire
May 31, 2023
Contact: lily4congress@lilytangwilliams.com

Lily Tang Williams, a passionate advocate for individual liberty, parental rights, free markets and free enterprise, has declared her candidacy for the United States Congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District. With a unique background that includes overcoming poverty and the horrors of communism in her native country China, Williams embodies the American dream and is ready to fight for the people of her district.

“I am living the American dream,” affirms Williams. “I have experienced firsthand the transformative power of freedom, opportunity, and hard work. The radical leftists rooted in Marxism who use identity politics to divide our people, destroy American values, weaponize our children through indoctrination remind me of the same tactics that Mao used when I was growing up. I fear the country I love is becoming like the country I left.”

Williams is a staunch defender of individual freedom and constitutional rights. Her own experiences have instilled in her a profound appreciation for the principles enshrined in the United States Constitution, including the protection of freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, equal protection under the law and the preservation of privacy rights. She is a true believer of the Granite State motto: LIVE FREE OR DIE.

Lily Tang Williams’s candidacy brings a unique perspective and an inspirational American dream story to the forefront of New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District and the national stage. Her unwavering commitment to freedom, prosperity, parental rights and her own firsthand experience of the struggles currently faced by many in our society make her a powerful advocate for positive change.

 

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Ross Berry is so NHGOP. Under the “leadership” of Berry and his faux-Republican ilk, the NHGOP LOST seats in the House in the 2022 midterms.

Berry and his ilk supported a budget that makes the spending in DC look like fiscal discipline … to top that, they then failed to pass a parental rights bill … and then they had the arrogance to spin their failure to pass a parental rights bill as a “win.”

Yet … despite his record of LOSING and being hopelessly out-of-touch with GOP voters, he has been picked to head DeSantis’ major PAC:

Ross Berry, the state Republican Party’s former executive director, was named state director of the Never Back Down PAC, where he’ll run its ground-game operation for DeSantis and help secure the endorsements needed for a presidential campaign in the retail politics-focused state.

DeSantis is making it awfully hard to support him.

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The US Centers for Disease Control had a Klan bake at an Atlanta hotel last month. On the last day of the conference, several attendees informed the brass that they’d tested positive for COVID-19. In a surprising move, CDC turned it into a learning experience.

 

On April 27, the last day of the conference, several people notified organizers that they had tested positive for COVID-19. The CDC and the Georgia Department of Public Health worked together to survey attendees to try to figure out how many people had tested positive.

“The goals were to learn more about transmission that occurred and add to our understanding as we transition to the next phase of COVID-19 surveillance and response,” the CDC said in a May 26 statement. …

 

There were 1800 attendees, over 1400 of whom took the survey – 181 say they tested positive for COVID, and all were ‘Vaccinated.”  That means what? None of the COVID-positive participants in the CDC’s Super spreader event were unvaccinated, although most had received at least one shot.

So, what does the CDC think it learned?

 

The CDC said the survey results “underline the importance of vaccination for protecting individuals against severe illness and death related to COVID-19” because none of the people who said they tested positive reported going to a hospital. …

 

The only severe illness in this situation is where a known dangerous biologic treatment is continuously pimped as safer than a virus from which it continually fails to protect people.

The CDC even admits this indirectly. The people who got sick have had at least one or more shots of the magic elixir. No one was hospitalized for “severe disease.”  But job one for avoiding severe disease is not to get infected. The flawed Plandemic response was centered on restricting movement and access to do what? Prevent infection.

Your response to this clear signal?

 

The CDC said the survey results “underline the importance of vaccination for protecting individuals against severe illness and death related to COVID-19”

 

Sorry, I do not see that, but you be you. Leave me out of it.

 

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The most recent release from the federally funded Nation’s Report Card shows that 40 percent of eighth graders lack even a basic understanding of US history, while only 14 percent are proficient or advanced in history.

This score from 2022 showing so many students lack basic understanding is bad. It also indicates a continuation of a decline that started in 2018, the last time the score was previously reported.

This report should frighten everyone who wants to restore limited, constitutional government and a true free-market economy. Students who graduate high school without basic knowledge of how the government is supposed to work and why the drafters of the Constitution designed it the way they did, as well as the history of the US, are more likely to fall for the lies of authoritarian demagogues who promise economic and personal security in exchange for the people’s liberty.

Even scarier is the fact that many government schools have replaced history and civics with critical race theory, transgender ideology, and other forms of cultural Marxism. Contrary to claims of its defenders, opponents of critical race theory do not object to teaching students the truth about America’s racial history. Instead, critics object to teaching students that the free market is irredeemably racist and thus must be replaced by rule by the “woke.”

Similarly, critics of promoting transgender ideology in schools are not motivated by a desire to punish adults who decide they wish to identify as a different gender. Instead, the motivation is a desire to protect children from being exposed to these and similar topics at an inappropriate age. There are also legitimate concerns over allowing children to have life-altering gender reassignment medical treatments. How is it rational to tell a 13-year-old he cannot choose to have a beer but he can choose to alter his gender? And how is it rational or fair to allow boys to play on girls sports teams simply because the boys have switched pronouns?

The good news in all this madness is that it is encouraging more parents to look into alternatives to government schools such as homeschooling. I have long believed that future leaders of the liberty movement will come from the ranks of homeschoolers. This is a reason why I have started my own homeschool curriculum.

My Ron Paul Curriculum provides students with a well-rounded education that includes rigorous programs in history, mathematics, and the physical and natural sciences. The curriculum also provides instruction in personal finance. Students can develop superior communication skills via intensive writing and public speaking courses. Another feature of my curriculum is that it provides students the opportunity to create and run their own businesses.

The government and history sections of the curriculum emphasize free-market economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of liberty. However, unlike government schools, my curriculum never puts ideological indoctrination ahead of education.

Interactive forums ensure students are engaged in their education and that they have the opportunity to interact with their peers outside of a formal setting.

I encourage all parents looking at alternatives to government schools — alternatives that provide children with a well-rounded education that introduces them to the history and ideas of liberty without sacrificing education for indoctrination — to go to RonPaulCurriculum.com for more information about my homeschooling program.

 

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We have a volunteer military, and the men and women who opt to serve deserve our thanks, but so much more. Whether they choose the military as a career or put their job on pause while they spend a few years in service, we are all indebted to these special people who put their love of country above their personal goals. How, in this great country, can a person who served in the armed forces find themselves without adequate medical attention or a roof over their head? It is unconscionable and a scar on the soul of America.

There are over 630,000 homeless people in America. Sixty-seven thousand four hundred ninety-five are veterans. It amazes me that in today’s society, over 1 in 10 homeless people in America are veterans. They deserve better, and we should ensure every veteran is living in adequate housing before a dime is spent giving illegal immigrants a cell phone or free education.

The other serious condition facing our veterans is suicide. In 2020, there were 6,146 Veteran suicides, which averages to 16.8 Veterans dying by suicide every day. Additionally, in the two decades between 2001 and 2020, the prevalence of mental health or substance use disorder (SUD) among participants using Veterans Health Administration (VHA) rose from 27.9% to 41.9%. We need to do better with our VA Hospitals and counseling services for all veterans. We cannot have them defend us and our lives anywhere in the world, only to be forgotten and fall through the cracks when they leave the service. They deserve far better.

Finally, a huge thank-you to the Greatest Generation. Every day, memories of World War II—its sights and sounds, its terrors and triumphs—disappear. About 70 million people fought in World War II between 1939 and 1945. There were 16 million Americans who fought in the European or South Pacific theaters. Yielding to the inalterable process of aging, the men and women who fought and won the great conflict are now in their 90s or older. They are dying quickly—according to US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, 167,284 Americans who served in World War II were alive in 2022. We are losing 180 of these incredible men and women each day. At this rate, we will have none of these heroes with us by 2035. This is sad, but we still have time to thank them and honor their heroic efforts.

Regardless of the circumstances, our veterans deserve better. Whether it is active duty pay, housing, counseling, or medical treatment, our veterans deserve whatever they need. They sacrificed for us. It is our turn to do right by them.

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