Congressman Ken Buck (Republican-CO 4th), when resigning early from Congress, has let the cat out of the bag. There is the Demolitioncrat/Uniparty plan for your children and grandchildren.

Buck claims that three more Republican Representatives (now Mike Gallager of Wisconsin has resigned) will soon exit the House of Representatives. That would flip the House majority to Democrats, and Hakeem Jeffries would become Speaker of the House.

That would flip all the Chairpersons of House Committees to Demolitioncrats, who would shut down all House investigations into the Biden bribery scandals. Why would I suspect that former Speaker McCarthy is sabotaging Republican control of the House?

If living in 2024 has taught anyone to pay attention to anything, it is that conspiracies are real and, as Steve Bannon of “War Room” fame says, there are no coincidences!

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Buck’s resignation has also forced an election to replace him in Colorado 4th at the same time as Republican Lauren Boebert is running in a primary for that seat in the House. Boebert would have to resign her current seat in Colorado 3rd to run in the election to replace the traitor Buck in Colorado 4th. To her credit, Boebert refuses to resign because of the current slim majority in the House. Does anyone smell an odor of McCarthy sabotage?

As for the Electoral College, the invasion of 15 million illegal aliens added to the Census will likely result in an additional thirteen Demolitioncrat seats in the House of Representatives. Recent polls show that 57% of Demolitioncrats would support the House refusing to confirm Trump’s 2024 election. Demolitioncrat strategist Marc Elias’ plan is to retain control of the House and refuse to confirm Trump’s election as the 47th POTUS.

Psychics tell us Demolitioncrats, helped by Mitch McConnell RINOS, who promulgated the J6 2021 insurrection lie, will cause the same on J6 2025.

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Neutering children is all the rage in Western democracies, or it was. A few weeks ago, the UK banned the public health service from allowing gender transition drugs (and therefore surgeries) on minors, following a four-year study that showed the practice had no mental health benefit or made matters worse.

This announcement came on the heels of an undercover report featuring internal communications from doctors who prescribed hormone blockers and who mutilate children for money, admitting the drugs are dangerous, leading to cancer or death. In other words, they are neither safe nor effective, an opinion shared by regulators in France, who “want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine.”

Thus the title.

The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it claims are indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology under the sway of experienced trans-activist associations.

The report, which cites a “tense scientific and medical debate”, accuses such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors via intense propaganda campaigns on social media.

Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, an LR senator who led the working group behind the report, concluded that “fashion plays a big role” in the rise of gender reassignment treatments.

The French Senate report warns that diagnosing children with “gender dysphoria” results in the premature medicalization of their anxiety

— “The diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria,’ as shaped by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), seems to accelerate the… pic.twitter.com/1Y7O9djBvq

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 24, 2024

European nations are taking a serious look at the benefit-to-harm ratio as well as the bullying from gender warriors.

The French report explicitly points to the militant ideology promoting gender reassignment surgeries.

The report, which is detailed and well-argued, points to a number of abuses by health professionals, indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology and subject to the influence of experienced trans activist associations. The report’s authors accuse these associations of unreasonably encouraging gender transition in minors via an intense propaganda campaign on social media.

The scandal has been brewing for several months, thanks to the mobilisation of psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, and parents, who have denounced the ravages of this militant ideology among fragile and suffering young people, to whom gender transition is proposed as a miracle solution to the psychological problems they may be experiencing.

Someone call Dartmouth Medical. The French are revolting against the preferred ideology.

Do not expect the American gender mills to go quietly into that goodnight. There is money, power, and influence in the gender-transition laundromat, much like abortion (which is also knee-deep in this scam). Almost no one thinks on earth it is reasonable to end a pregnancy after 24 weeks, even in extenuating circumstances, except the American left. Most of Europe and the world prohibit the sort of thing Democrats demand – conception to live-birth abortion.

Gender transition strikes me as a little different, and that door has been open long enough for them to realize the benefits of their agenda: indoctrination, sterilization, depopulation, and the medical industrial complex to campaign coffers laundromat. Europe’s position on abortion is in line with a supermajority of Republicans and independents, so it’s wrong, so their opinions about hormone therapy and surgery on minors won’t (likely) move the needle either.

You and I will need to do that with help from the UK, France, and a growing number of countries across Europe.

 

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I was forwarded the below statement on Rep. Annie Kuster’s “retirement” by a journalist who had been investigating the framing of Justin Fairfax, who was “MeToo’d” in Virginia.

At the same time, it is now becoming apparent that Charlotte Bennett, one of former NY Andrew Cuomo’s accusers, is also a fraud who has a history as “Sally Smith,” a false accuser at Hamilton College who got successfully sued by a John Doe that was framed by her and other mean girls.

Rep. Annie Kuster spent a fair amount of the last 12 years pretending to be pro-women, standing up for “survivors,” claiming to be a “survivor” herself. It was always a lie.  Political propaganda always relies on short-term memories. Before Kuster announced she was not going to run for re-election, someone spent a fair amount of time disabling inconvenient links to articles on her Wikipedia Page. Among these were articles about her work as a lobbyist for Rohypnol and statements she had made after women begged for it to be made into a class-A drug because they had been gang-raped under its influence.  She discredited their testimony because she was trying to keep the contracts and revenue for the drug maker which was paying her handsomely for her lobby efforts.

Another article that had its link disabled was one about Rep. Annie Kuster as an “Angel” lawyer in adoption cases.  Kids in New Hampshire end up being adopted after being put in foster care. They end up in foster care after DCYF removes them from their parents without due process – something that has come to light in the most recent hearings held by a committee convened as a result of the decades of failures by DCYF.

There are records and testimonies of parents who have had their children taken from them, never to see them again. Parents who have paid into child support only to find out that the State never gave the child support to the other parent to look after the children because the State didn’t bother to go looking for the children.  Rep. Annie Kuster had a nice business between pharmaceutical lobbying and adoption law.  Let’s not forget that New Hampshire is one of the worst states in the nation for drugging kids in care with opioids and similar.

For all the money Kuster made in private practice as a lawyer, she couldn’t find the time or resources to pay her property taxes on time. Had she not run for Congress in 2012, one wonders if she would have gotten away with it for longer.

It wasn’t until 2014 that Rep. Annie Kuster decided she was going to stand up for campus sexual assault survivors. Why? Because there was a ton of money to be had under the Violence Against Women Act and Susan Carbon, who’d been on Governor John Lynch’s Domestic Violence Commission, had been appointed by Obama to oversee a handout from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women. Hundreds of millions of dollars were there on offer. All you had to do was create an excuse to get them. Create “survivors”.

Thus, Kuster stood up on the house floor in September 2016 to declare Chessy Prout “a survivor”. She took her to Capitol Hill in January 2017. Chessy Prout showed her a documentary about sexual assault in school called “Audrie & Daisy,” which aired on Netflix and was sponsored by PAVE, for which Chessy was an “ambassador.”

She took Chessy Prout to UNH in April 2017. She wrote the introduction to Chessy’s book in March 2018 and that book was promoted by Dan Hill – A Government Affairs PR representative whose company boasts the use of stealth and special ops tactics to secure Government Contracts.  The book compared Owen Labrie, a scholarship student at St Paul’s School who should have gone to Harvard on a full ride, to an “Al Qaeda terrorist” and “Donald Trump.”  It was all sensationalist and absurd political propaganda.

Kuster was nearly caught out in July 2019 by ABC/GMA who interviewed Owen Labrie. He was finally going to have the chance to speak for himself on national TV with Amy Robach, who flew with a team to Burlington, Vermont, to interview him on July 15, 2019.  A copy of the program was sent to the Prout family representatives for comment. The program never aired because Dem Caucus Rep Amanda Grady Sexton and the NHCADSV launched a social media campaign called #SurvivorsOverRatings to block it, and her pal Rep. Annie Kuster had her office contact ABC/GMA to block it from airing.

What was at stake, apart from the exposure of corruption in which Rep. Annie Kuster had been complicit? $14 million to be sucked out of Dartmouth College, of which $2.865 million was on the line to go to the NHCADSV to pour into new lobbies to support the Every Voice Matters coalition, which is part of Its On Us and thus part of Civic Nation.

Yes, the Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth suit (filed by the same attorneys who sued St. Paul’s School in the wake of NH v Owen Labrie) was in mediation when the ABC/GMA interview would have aired. Kuster had come out swinging to support Rapuano & Does against Dartmouth.  Times Up had put up the PR money for the plaintiffs. The Concord Monitor had covered it in favor of the plaintiffs and the settlement. Who didn’t cover the suicide of Professor David Bucci, who’d been smeared in the suit but denied the right to speak for himself? The Concord Monitor. The same paper that seems to be looking after Congresswoman Ann Kuster and Councilwoman Amanda Grady Sexton by disabling or deleting links that are now inconvenient to them on these matters.

DCCC Chair Statement on the Retirement of Rep. Annie Kuster

Today, DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene released the following statement upon the announcement that Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) will not seek re-election:

“Annie Kuster has been a tireless champion for the people of New Hampshire. During her time in Congress and as chair of the New Democrat Coalition, she’s been a beacon for common-sense solutions to create good jobs, fight the opioid epidemic, and expand access to mental health care. She’s a leading voice in Congress for survivors of sexual assault – fighting for legislation to support them and ensure that collectively our nation continues to have the important conversations that center the fight for the safety and wellbeing of survivors. 

“Her record of public service and delivering for New Hampshire is unmatched. I am constantly in awe of and inspired by her courage and will miss her as a colleague and friend. With her help, I’m confident that this seat will remain in Democratic hands so that Granite Staters can continue having a fighter for them in Congress.” 

For Immediate Release: March 27, 2024
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Usually, when you hire someone to do something, and they don’t or can’t do it, you do not then give them more responsibility or reward them with additional revenue. But let’s say you do, and they fail again and again. At what point do you stop rewarding failure?

In my town of Merrimack, the school system is swirling the drain. Proficiency scores are not great and, in some cases, not even good. The message here is simple. No matter how much money we spend, they cannot teach the kids to read. The other subjects aren’t doing any better, so what does the school do? It asks for more money to play therapist to your kids.

Social-emotional Learning is public school head-shrinking as an on-ramp to full-blown in-house mental health services.

This is a school with teachers who, after decades of practice and an exponential increase in fiscal resources, are less able to teach all the kids to read to grade level than they did with more students and less money. In what world does that justify more funding for anything, especially an expansion into mental health-related surveys, sessions, or actual one-on-one engagement?

None, and asking for it is looking in the wrong direction. Public Schools that don’t cherish teaching kids to read, write, add, and subtract have failed not just the children but also the parents and taxpayers funding them.

You can decide when academics stopped being a priority or even a function of public education, but the idea wasn’t born yesterday, and neither, I hope, were you.

Do not reward schools that can’t teach kids with new things they are even less capable of doing, especially when the odds are high that the only reason a child might need such services is because the school that wants to offer them screwed up your kid’s head in the first place.

 

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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

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Waste of the Day: Debt Held By The Public Will Be “Unsustainable” By 2050 | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor

IMHO this is an overly-optimistic appraisal of the situation.  We’re already at $100 trillion added every 100 days, and that’s a death spiral that can’t be stopped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is REAL privilege.

 

 

And yet, amazingly, there are people who just TRUST BLINDLY.  I had my own piece about that:

A Crisis of Trust – Urban Scoop

 

 

This is the cost of loose sex women (and men as well, let’s be fair).  It used to be that to gain access to sex – almost always through marriage – a man had to court a woman and demonstrate his suitability as a mate.  Now, it’s “swipe right” and off you go to date, with the deed almost expected on the first date, and practically mandatory by the third or fourth date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While I wish I had bought Bitcoin when it was less than a dollar, and envy those who did, I’m still skeptical.  First, it’s late in the game.  Second, to alter Arthur C. Clark’s rule, “Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from a brick when the power’s off”.  All those bitcoins are useless if we’ve been EMPed or otherwise had the grid go down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you f*cking kidding me?  PAIN BIAS?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I make a “spirited attempt” to keep kosher, so no pork for me and the family.  That doesn’t, alas, prevent my Covidian (not Jewish) wife from occasionally sneaking to let the kids buy something with bacon in it at a fast food place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IIRC it was a SCOTUS ruling that, because someone’s homegrown tomatoes could potentially impact interstate commerce, even in a marginal way, that the government gained power to regulate home gardens, etc.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Project 2025 and Republican Domination (aknextphase.com)

I don’t normally link to liberal bloggers, but this post rises to the very quote attributed to Nazi propaganda minister Goering: “Accuse others of that which you do”.

Understand that a good 30-40 percent STILL BELIEVE The Potato in Thief is doing a good job.  Like Covidians vis a vis The Jab, like Warmists about the dangers of CO2, you can shower them – a la Yuri Bezmenov – with information and facts and statistics and logic, and they’ll slam their mental gates shut.  (See my newly-coined quotation at the end of this post too.)

Cue my three essays “Teflon Intellects” from my old blog:

 

E Teflon Intellects 1

 

 

E Teflon Intellects 2

 

 

E Teflon Intellects 3

 

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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Google and Meta Function as Extensions of the US Intelligence Community – Geller Report

Duh.

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Mike Benz: Deep State – Foreign Policy Establishment Could Go Full Authoritarian – “I Believe They Already Have” (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

James, Engoron Turning U.S. into ‘3rd World’ Nation, Commentary Warns | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor

Turning into?  No, IS.

Dirty Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson Upholds DC Law That Allows Non-Citizens – AND ILLEGAL ALIENS – to Vote in Municipal Elections | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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Enemies of the People | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

There’s a reason I call them the ENEMEDIA.  And an absolute majority agree with me.

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The Era of Informed Consent is Over ⋆ Brownstone Institute

For what the government considers “negligible risk” trials, there’s no need to inform the lab animals trial participants.  More:

FDA is trying to legalize its illegal approvals of COVID vaccines without human trials. Now one animal trial will do the trick to “prove” efficacy? (substack.com)

More FDA stuff:

LUPRON: dangers of this drug yet it persists! Lupron is linked to large increase in fatal heart attacks & diabetes & is even worse IMO than Statins; Lupron as a PUBERTY BLOCKER? IVF? GENDER CHANGE? (substack.com)

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War Correspondent Michael Yon Warns Russian Style Terror Attacks Coming to America (infowars.com)

Without a doubt.  I have hated going to local malls for years because of this possibility.

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Corrupt Chicago Democrats Suddenly Pull 10,000 Mail-In Ballots Out of Thin Air in DA Race – Clever Journeys

OMG.  Of course.  Not surprised.  The only thing that’s surprising is that anyone’s actually surprised.  And you really think you’re going to vote your way out of this?

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Tennessee lawmakers look to ban geoengineering; Critics argue bill ‘based on conspiracy theories’ (wkrn.com)

The measure was opposed by Nashville Rep. Justin Jones, who said a lot of the purported evidence for Fritts’ bill was “based on conspiracy theories.”

So if there’s no actual cost to the state to pass the bill, and no evidence that the threat actually exists, then where’s the problem with passing it, hmmm?

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While you were distracted by the “Where’s Princess Kate Conspiracy”, Deagel’s Depopulation Forecast was confirmed by Heavily Censored Pfizer Documents – The Expose (expose-news.com)

For the vast majority of Jabbed people in my circle, I’ll mourn.  For some few, I’ll celebrate, and for a selected subset of the latter, the sooner the better!

 

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The Potato is Barackus’ third term.  Anyone with three brain cells that talk with each other understands this.

 

 

 

 

“She”.

 

 

 

In every polling station.  As a condition of getting a ballot.  In addition to an ID of course.

 

 

NOTHING says “Trust the science” like a 148 page report with, literally, every word blanked out.

 

 

OOH, I’m sure he could use the support.  OTOH, is this a trap to ID people inclined to support him?

 

 

 

 

MHO, they’d start WWIII, globally, to prevent this.  AND to hide the accumulation of Jab effects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boycotts are appropriate.  But you need to let them know WHY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funny how research results often seem to align with the desires of who is paying for it.

 

 

I make beautiful, healthy hamburgers for the kids.  I make delicious air-fried, crispy breaded organic chicken for the kids.  I have all sorts of wonderful and healthy recipes… and what do they want?  Wendy’s, McDonalds, KFC, etc.  ARGH!  About my only consolation, at least for the boy, is that he’s bought hook, line, and sinker my telling him that adding greens like spinach is essential to the homemade meat sauce.  That, and the grated carrots add a dimension of flavor.

So far neither of them are aware I add “super-mushroom” powder to a number of the dishes I make for them.

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

Shot…

 

 

And chaser…

 

 

Say, Barackus has a house on Martha’s Vineyard.  What’s that maximum elevation?  311 feet.  That passes Tyson’s test.  Barackus paid almost $12 million for his house.  How high above sea level?

Sea Level Rise Dooms Obama’s New Martha’s Vineyard Mansion – Watts Up With That?

Eyeballing the contour map, it’s about 13 feet above sea level.  To quote Instapundit:

I’ll believe it’s a crisis when those who say it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis.

Leave us not forget eco-loon Leonardo DiCaprio’s real estate portfolio:

Leonardo DiCaprio Builds an Eco-Resort – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Blackadore Caye – while I can’t find an elevation on it, the pictures here are revealing as to its elevation above sea level.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Luxury Eco-Resort Blackadore Caye Proves an Impossible Dream – autoevolution

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

 

Assuming I’m feeling snarky, my favorite comeback to being told that I’m talking with myself is “Yes, and when I finally find someone intelligent to talk with, you butt in”.

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If you didn’t have the song pop into your head…

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One of many demotivational posters available at

Home of Demotivators® – The World’s Best Demotivational Posters (despair.com)

 

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

 

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I’m going to “mine” my old essays for some of the (hopefully worthwhile) quips and quotes I’ve coined.  And, currently, here’s a new one for you:

 

I would much prefer talking to a brick wall than the typical sheeple.  At least a brick wall doesn’t put on a preening air of intellectual, educational, and/or moral superiority as they ignore the evidence and logic I present them.

(c) 2024, NITZAKHON

 

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Congresswoman Ann Kuster has announced that she will not seek a seventh term in New Hampshire Congressional District Two (NH CD2).

WMUR

The six-term incumbent says she will leave Capitol Hill early next year at the end of the 118th Congress.

“This work has been many things — rewarding, frustrating, inspiring, and challenging. But, more than anything, it has been an honor,” Kuster said in a statement provided to WMUR. “I will continue serving the people of New Hampshire until the end of my term in January 2025. In the months ahead, I will use my time to help Congress build on the progress we have made and finish the job for the American people.”

Kuster said she will also continue to lead the New Democrat Coalition, a centrist, pro-business caucus that has played an increasingly pivotal role in a narrowly divided Congress.

Centrist?

There’s nothing centrist about Ann Kuster unless by the middle, you mean middle left, so this is obviously about money. The New Democrat Coalition is a group of 100 democrats pretending to be centrists to move Overton’s window further left.

I’m also not convinced this is not surprising to the NH Dems or that it is of much concern. An open congressional seat suggests the promise of change, which even Democrats in the district have been demanding for years. They were tired of Annie a long while back, but any Democrat will do, and we’ll get one or more in short order. Let’s see if they can manage a Democrat of color after the fallout from the 2024 Democrat Presidential primary debacle. Not just a primary candidate but the nominee. That would be a change.

What else might change is that Lily Williams, the only Republican running in CD2, should expect National Republicans to start looking to add another one. I love Lily, but the political machine and class have yet to show much interest in supporting her efforts, and an open seat in a swing state is not something they’ll ignore.

We’ll get a primary on the Republican side.

As for Kuster, I wish her well, but I won’t miss her.

My full statement to the people of New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District pic.twitter.com/HLQKyrs70J

— Ann McLane Kuster (@RepAnnieKuster) March 27, 2024

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I feel like a broken record in saying that criticism for one is not necessarily an endorsement for the other when discussing Chuck Morse and Kelly Ayotte, but keep in mind that the latter is a lawyer, after all.

Plus, I’ve come to think of it as a signature line, similar to when local treasure Allison Dyer finishes up her amazing video montages, which I encourage everyone to watch, with her famous parting comment, “And as always, my friends, elections have consequences.”

I’m putting Chuck on the hot seat again for something partly related to his 11/19/21 crime against NH. This crime was preventable if the executive council had stuck with their original 10/13/21 4-1 vote against taking the money and not quietly flipping it two weeks later.

Chuck posted on Facebook about his attendance at a law enforcement appreciation event in Keene yesterday and made another post about it today.

While it’s common, if not very popular, for candidates on our side to say “I back the blue,” both Chuck and Kelly need to go on record in answering the question “will you ever weaponize the green?”  Most local police wear blue uniforms, but the Gestapo, um I mean “state police,” wear green as do the game wardens.

In case you didn’t already know, the Damn Emperor ordered the unlawful arrests of his peaceful critics on 10/13/21, and I don’t know why it took me this long to think of it as an important post-stumping question.  Granite Staters deserve answers and assurance that another tyrant won’t occupy the Corner Office.  I still plan to ask Chuck about his 11/19/21 vote, but the next person to encounter him, preferably in front of recording devices or a large audience of witnesses, please ask him if he will pledge to never do what His Excellency did.  Don’t ask just for me; ask for the nine people arrested by officers who were “just following orders” at the police academy on 10/13/21.

The victims were tormented with 20 months of lawfare following that day until the charges were quietly dropped.

The Damn Emperor wants that shameful part of history banished to the dustbin of irrelevance as he rides off into his personal sunset.  Don’t let it happen.  And don’t ever think that what happened to the NH 9 can’t happen to you!

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While I defended Tucker Carlson after his interview with Vladamir Putin, some of the other “Russia” coverage didn’t sit well. The trip to the supermarket reeked of propagandist posturing. It stank of Western elites and their love affair with Stalin’s Russia. Putin is a bad man. Look, groceries!

I think the interview was necessary, perhaps groundbreaking, and a great get for any journalist, especially for the ones who whined like babies because it wasn’t them. Many have interviewed strong men with violent reputations to the jealous applause of their peers, never working so hard to push them off a cliff afterward as they did Tucker Carlson.

He’s got the bigger audience, so that (no doubt) wrankles as well. An audience that lays claim to a sense of awareness about truth and media that others allegedly lack (but then don’t they all). And did they buy the supermarket schtick, or were they savvy enough to get it? Putin was never going to let Carlson report on post-Soviet-era living, poverty, police-state militarism, or any reality outside the one that would paint the best picture. This is Russia. Those vignettes were probably part of the deal. You will supplement the interview with reports from places the Russian government selected. You do this then we let you go home.

I’m sure many were savvy enough to see through it, including Tucker, though we never heard him say that (unless I missed it).

It is also safe to assume many were not savvy enough. To be fair, we’ve all tripped over or fallen for something. Wow, that is exactly what I wanted to hear: the affirmation, confirmation bias, and even edification—the desire to see reality align with one’s feelings or at least suspicions. Who doesn’t want that? It makes you smile a little at a time when cheer seems to be in short supply.

The corollary to that might be this hurts my political enemy, so it is my friend, the enemy being a person, project, party, idea, nation, or which way the toilet paper should scroll off the roll. Anyone who disagrees is trapped in an echo chamber.

Just be careful when talking about other people’s echo chambers that the sound you make is not coming from your own. There’s no avoiding this, by the way, but you can assure yourself if you are willing to admit it. On the opposite side, you don’t want to live your life trusting nothing and no one. That’s a tough row to hoe. It can make you bitter and resentful. Angry. It is best to be a happy warrior with a honed sense of skepticism about everything, including what you think you believe.

Did you buy the Russian Supermarket thing? Did you want to? Did you think there were hundreds of these sprawled across what passes for the once-oppressed Soviet landscape? Does it matter? You know there’s no democracy there. No Republic. Putin won the way Saddam Hussein did, and Ukraine is a lot like that now (or again), and regardless of the landscape, post-peace may stay that way.

Russia at least has fake elections; Ukraine doesn’t have any.

Is that a win for Putin or NATO? Was any of it? That depends on who you believe about the what, why, when, where, and how. The Ukrainian people didn’t win, though they might walk away, those that can still walk, with less territory but security concessions (and fewer secret CIA bases and Biolabs).

And maybe some Democracy, not that democracy is all that and a bag of chips. It’s a part of something better, but mob rule describes Russia and more than a few other places where freedom doesn’t exist as we understand it.

In the US, many of the same people whose meddling is responsible for the mess in Ukraine would like to get rid of Democracy here. They talk about it so much that you know they hate it. Democracy used to be about one person, one vote. These days, Democracy is about counting however many votes it takes to protect uniparty institutions and elevating them above the people so that when these same institutions have destroyed faith in Democracy, the people will look to them for some semblance of security and give up freedoms in the bargain. That’s a popular narrative in my echo chamber.

The urge to discard rights (usually someone else’s) in the interest of the appearance of stability is strong. Russia works that way. They have not shuffled off the totalitarian coil. So, Tucker’s sojourn looks like San Francisco before and after Xi came to town. A shithole spit-shined for a moment in time. Proof that the state can pretend to get things done for appearances but has no interest in it other than as a hobby. Tidying up for guests. It’s an illusion we can make into reality if we want to believe it badly enough.

Or is it a truth we refuse to believe? That’s the fun part—working out the difference while saddled with the likelihood that our stereotypes or echo chambers are filtering all of it to the detriment of further inquiry. And is that prejudice or discrimination? No, they are not the same thing.

 

Authors Note: When I started this, I had a different idea about where it was meant to go. It landed somewhere else, and not necessarily well, but I stopped trying to fix it. My apologies if I’ve left you wondering what my point was. There is some value in what’s here, just not the one I thought I was looking for, which, in the end, might be a better thing. 

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I previously posted about Manchester DemocratWoke-Communist Rep Damond Ford’s problem (and “problem” may understate) with Israel: State Rep Damond Ford … You CANNOT Be Progressive And Pro-Israel and about how the “honest history” he wants taught in schools is actually a Woke-Communist rewrite of history: State Rep Damond Ford Doesn’t Know Much About History.

My apologies to the NHGOP bitter-clingers who believe Woke-Communists like Damond Ford are their “colleagues,” but there is more.

Woke-Communism, like all manifestations of collectivism/socialism … e.g., Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism … is a religion. Adherents to Woke-Communism, like Damond Ford, are religious zealots. The Christian heaven, per Damond Ford, is really hell and vice-versa. Hence Ford would rather spend the afterlife in hell.

But, bitter-clingers, keep deluding yourselves about your “colleagues” like Damond Ford, Becky Whitley, Cinde Warmington, etc.. Keep telling yourselves that they are “good people … we just disagree on some issues.” Evil is right in front of your eyes, and you refuse to see it.

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Let’s focus on the Money money-grubbing medical Industry prescribing Antidepressants, Stimulants, and SSRIs with little or no supervision. The majority of school shootings are done by ‘children’ with Mental issues, and most were being “treated,” as best as I can tell from the lack of information due to HIPAA.

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If you read as much as you can on these incidents, 1+1=2. The biggest reason to hold the Medical industry and parents responsible is that these medications have warnings, finally showing Suicidal Tendencies and also Psychotic episodes.

Allowing these children to take these drugs without supervising them should be considered criminal, as with the mother found guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in the Michigan school shooting, and now the father is being charged and should also be found guilty.

Although this student showed mental issues, the parents never went for help, so it is possible a Good doctor could have avoided this, but as a rule of thumb, most likely would have changed nothing.

One statement certainly leads to the possibility one parent may have medicated him “but said he was given pills and told to “suck it up.”

Here are some warning labels for the common drugs prescribed to children:

PROZAC (fluoxetine delayed-release capsules) for oral use Initial U.S. Approval: 1987

And

Zoloft: WARNING: SUICIDAL THOUGHTS AND BEHAVIORS

*Antidepressants increased the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in pediatric and young adult patients

*Closely monitor for clinical worsening and emergence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

LUVOX CR® (Fluvoxamine Maleate) Extended-Release Capsules for oral administration Initial U.S. Approval: 2008

And

FLUVOXAMINE MALEATE Tablets for oral administration Initial U.S. Approval: 1994 WARNING: SUICIDALITY and ANTIDEPRESSANTS

*Increased risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents, and young adults taking antidepressants for major depressive disorder and other psychiatric disorders

 

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In the contest for NH Governor, my vote will go to Chuck Morse. Chuck Morris has been an excellent senator for over twenty years. His voting record and Senate leadership represent NH Values.

Kelly Ayotte was appointed by her sponsor, Governor Benson, and both have had only one term experience in NH. Ayotte had experience in the Washington Swamp following her single term in New Hampshire. What did Kelly accomplish as Attorney General of NH? Governor Benson became wealthier as an excellent entrepreneur in multiple fields.

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NH was a stepping stone for Ayotte to improve her wealth and exposure to the Washington Swamp.

Chuck Morris has built an excellent reputation in his 20 years following the NH constitution as an excellent member and president of the NH Senate. Who can list the accomplishments of Ayotte in her two years in NH.

Chuck Morris has many accomplishments, leading the NH Senate well for many years following the NH constitution. I will support Chuck Morris for Governor.

 

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