It’s one thing to support a candidate, but New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is just embarrassing himself. He’s drunk on the attention and has lost control of himself. Haley seriously underperformed in Iowa and lost by more than ten points in New Hampshire. And now she’s shedding donors.

Rich Democrat funder Reid Hoffman has derailed his money train to Haley, and he’s not alone. With no path to the nomination anywhere in sight, Sununu’s Haley fan club is going to have to do more than yap about how great he thinks she is. There’s no path. It’s Haley or Trump, and Trump’s base won’t vote for her. Neither will a bunch of primary-meddling Democrats who’d never vote for her in general (yes, we heard a few more stories about NH Dems trying to vote for Haley), and even on his worst day, Biden beats a Republican nominee elected by Democrats.

But wait, there’s more.

A Republican fundraiser told CNBC on Wednesday that three clients who each helped Haley raise up to $100,000 for her campaign are now opting out of assisting the former U.N. ambassador.

Others explained that while they plan to speak out publicly in support of Haley, they aren’t convinced they’ll be able to raise much money for her campaign since she’s winless so far in the primary season. -CNBC

Winless and unlikely to win anytime soon. She isn’t on the ballot in the Nevada Caucus, and South Carolina loves Trump. Nationally, Haley is down by as many as 63 points, which means at least 20 points and probably 40, even if Democrats meddle in other states. That’s a “yuge” gap, and on those terms, the calls for her to get out now so the party can focus on November seem justified.

So what value is left, other than to spend a pile of cash against Trump that could be directed at Dem opponents?

There are – I eyeballed it, so this might not be exact – just over twenty mixed or open Republican primaries, of which New Hampshire is one. I’ve heard from insiders and outsiders alike who were not all that keen on the recent effort to close the primary in New Hampshire. The zeal to encourage Democrats to meddle in their election has helped them turn a corner.  They are willing to talk about and support a closed Republican primary.

In a state that is 40% registered independent, it will force fence-sitters to pick a side to have a voice in those contests. Some will continue to argue that closing the primary is not fair, but if that’s true, then no private organization should be allowed to decide who votes on their leadership, priorities, principles, or direction. That’s what the primary is, and a small number of Republicans have gone too far to undermine it in their quest to slow Trump’s train.

That’s politics, and it’s part of the process, but so are the side effects.

Regardless of your thoughts about him or her, Chris Sununu has been a great advocate for Haley. But as he serves his last year as governor and transitions to whatever comes after that, it may have cost him the respect of many in his own political party. I should say more, he’d already lost much from many. And for what?

A candidate that can’t beat an opponent for whom he has said he would vote.

 

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Car exhausts have chemicals in the fumes, as we all know, as do any fossil fuels being burned, including planes. So even without specific chemicals being injected into the Contrail, it is still technically a Chem Trail.

They are called Condensation Trails or Contrails; this is the same effect of a car warming up in the extreme cold. When Planes fly at altitude from 20,000 to 40,000 feet it is Extremely cold at that altitude. Thus creating condensation in their exhaust fumes.

Also, dispersal at those altitudes could go a long way before coming down. If they were trying to spray chemicals on us, they should be at lower altitudes. And since the prevailing winds up there are east to west, spraying NH at altitude would end up over the ocean.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t trust the government, never got jabbed and never will, will not wear a mask again; I avoided the mask as much as possible during the Govid (Government Virus Disease) B.S., do not believe Oswald acted alone, well he thought he acted alone, but was set up, and still not 100% on the 1st moon landing.

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I need good scientific proof of this Cloud Seeding, Weather Modifications, or the intentional injection of pollutants into the air. And Yes, I know all about HB1700; just wonder exactly how they plan on enforcing it, tracking planes to their home bases, and handing them tickets.

I do not believe the cost analysis of the bill is anywhere near the real cost.

Then, the Karens, complaining about Wood or Pellet smoke next and how the bill is written, the NH DOE will have to investigate. I had heard that the Smokehouse in Ossipee was forced to fix their exhaust so you would not see smoke rising from the little piggy. I did not doubt the story.

I am here and ready to learn, but please, scientific sites only. I have no energy to research all this myself; I have enough conspiracy theories to defend as it is.

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A group of New Hampshire Democrats have introduced a bill that is so blatantly unconstitutional that you’d think even they would know better. There is no chance of that. Oppressing speech feels right, especially if your bill allows you to accuse people of a crime without evidence of one.

They even added a special section prohibiting protected speech 90 days before an election (ala McCain Feingold).

HB1500 is an act relative to prohibiting the unlawful distribution of misleading synthetic media – where synthetic media is defined as “any form of media including text, image, video, or sound, fully or partially created or modified through the use of artificial intelligence algorithms.”

Without venturing down the “your side does this more than anyone rabbit hole,” what exactly were they thinking? You can’t require the consent of the object of your ridicule (for example), especially politicians, as we near an election. But that’s not the most dangerous feature of this smoldering crap wagon of words.

The proposed legislation fails to explain how the target or an advocate can tell if the text, image, video, or sound is (for lack of a better word) analog or AI. So, when looking at a bunch of text, a meme, or a parody video – all protected speech under the First Amendment – how does one discern if it was crafted by human hands or artificial intelligence?

Let me give you an example. Which one of these images was “fully or partially created or modified through the use of artificial intelligence algorithms.”

     

 

The answer is neither and, therefore, both because the bill has no mechanism for preventing snowflakes (or paid activists) from using the law HB1500 would create to engage in malicious acts of lawfare.

HB1500 is also an entrapment law. Anyone sharing a screengrab second-or-third-hand of something whose source document turns out to violate the law has no way of knowing in advance they might be breaking it, which again, demonstrates the idiocy of what it pretends to do – protect constituents these legislators consider too stupid to make decisions about online content for themselves.

That’s not the actual goal. HB1500 exists to suppress political speech with an emphasis on quelching dissent in the weeks leading up to an election when we need it most! But if we were to pretend otherwise, what right does NH have to tell citizens they need to acquire and use technology to ensure that any expression they engage in is not derived in violation of HB1500?

The correct, undiplomatic response to legislators ignoring any or all of these problems involves the phrase “you and the horse you rode in on.”

I don’t use AI, but as written, the easily offended could accuse me of violating this bill were it to become law without any evidence or concern for the need – which is an all-star attribute of laws under Democrat Socialism. Dragging innocent citizens into the so-called legal system on a lark, if you like, which – in my opinion – is the point. This bill suppresses the rights of innocent citizens while fattening the pockets of lawyers (not to mention cluttering up court schedules) for charges that cannot be corroborated and are – literally – protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the NH Constitution.

[Art.] 22. [Free Speech; Liberty of the Press.] Free speech and Liberty of the press are essential to the security of Freedom in a State: They ought, therefore, to be inviolably preserved.

I missed the public hearing and had not heard about the bill until after the fact, but one thing is clear. Democrats, especially the bill’s sponsors, are at war with the Constitution and free expression, and this is just another flanking maneuver and a poorly written one, at that.

If you agree, please get in touch with the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety with some politely worded thoughts.

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  The inflow has accelerated – a good thing!  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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I go to sporting events for my kids and with my kids.  I am astonished at how many people do not stand or place their hand on their hearts when the Star Spangled Banner is played.  And I am very proud of my immigrant wife who dutifully not only places her hand on her heart, standing at attention, but makes sure our kids do too.

 

 

 

 

 

Reminds me of a guy at synagogue who said that he’d had three shots, still had caught Covid, but said exactly that: “Thank goodness I was vaccinated or it would have been worse”.  FFS.

 

 

 

 

Drip by drip the news is coming out.

 

 

Not to mention, from what I understand, booking every escort in or around Davos.

 

 

 

Late stage: They’ve been planning a One World government for at least a century.  Under their enlightened “philosopher king” rule.

 

 

 

 

I can’t say, in my book, that Trump is “squeaky clean”… but it speaks volumes that to get him they had to invent stuff.

 

 

 

Because it sounds so good in theory.

 

 

 

NOT incompetence.  Malice.

 

 

 

 

 

And yet everyone in America points to Canada as a “shining light” of government health care.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karma.

 

 

Heroes and heroines.  Related:

Prosecution for Americans Who Forged COVID Vaccine Cards — But ‘Pandemic Amnesty’ for the Powerful? • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

 

 

 

 

Meanwhile, they keep adding to the vaccine schedule.

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

This is, or should be, huge.  At this point, any location that doesn’t hand-count – with witnesses – the paper ballots is suspect.

 

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Gee, maybe people don’t want to see trannies or fat people in bikinis???

 

 

 

Keep pushing it, Leftists.  We’re getting close to reaching for the switch.  Alas.

 

 

Those who continue to push it should understand that – while this is an extreme example – there are a lot people on “our side” that can do this kind of shot from 500+ yards.

LONG WAY THERE: 4549 YARD RIFLE SHOT (ON VIDEO) – The Classic Woodsman (ericnestor.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know a sad number of “Conservatives” who think like this.  Look, the only person with whom I agree is myself, and sometimes not even then!   But really – don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her, Barackus, Pedo Pete, and a bunch  of others.  And not just from that side of the aisle.  Heck, raffle off chances to pull the lever and you’ll raise gobs of money.   Hell, throw in Daddy and whelp Soros, plus Barbara Spectre for good measure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Damn, that’ll leave a mark.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The UN is UNuseful and UNneeded.  Whether for Israel or anything else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To modify a quote from General Sherman:

“Migration is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”

‘Betrayal to our citizens’: Alderman warns Chicago is ‘not equipped’ to handle flood of illegal immigrants | Law Enforcement Today | lawenforcementtoday.com

 

 

 

 

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Link section; some from me, some from my Jarhead friend:

 

Bayou Renaissance Man: The COVID-19 scam is now plain to see – but the authorities worldwide continue to exploit it

And yet our government is still urging us to get booster shots, and those who refuse to contaminate themselves with a COVID-19 vaccine are still facing discrimination in many cities and states.

My Shul still recommends it to everyone.  I see job postings that I’m interested in but then, when I investigate, the company has “Must show proof of Covid Jab”…

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Milei lays it on the line at Davos – and the elite sneer

Smackdown.  But they don’t care.  Remember, they’re relentless – this is their FAITH.

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The West Should Stop Being Ashamed of Its Success And Stop Committing Cultural Suicide – Flopping Aces

Amen.  Western Civilization is the greatest, most exceptional civilization.  Or… was:

Heat Becomes Unaffordable In Germany… Seniors Struggle, Staying Warm At Public Heating Places… (notrickszone.com)

Germany and others used to be first-world countries.

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The Draft Comes Back – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)

I wonder if all those Swedes who were gung ho about Sweden joining NATO realize that their forced military service is a direct consequence of their foolish decision to join the military wing of Clown World. I also wonder how they’re going to square the logical circle about forcing young men to fight in defense of individual freedom and democracy.

Regardless, it appears the young men of the West are going to face a choice. Fight the clowns ruling your country or fight the combined military forces of China and Russia. Based on recent events in Ukraine, the former would appear to be a much better bet.

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Bayou Renaissance Man: The illegal alien migration corridor exposed

This is scary stuff.  Look at the scale of the operation!  Related:

BORDER SHOWDOWN: Texas Defies Feds — ‘We Will Continue to Deploy Razor Wire’ (breitbart.com)

G-d bless Texas!  I was listening this morning to talk radio – so when are the states that are supporting Texas sending troops to help out?

States standing with Texas as of January 25, 2024 (substack.com)

Military expert says Texas has constitutional right to defend itself (wnd.com)

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The Crisis In The Red Sea Threatens To Disrupt Global Supply Chains Even More Than The Pandemic Did ⋆ Conservative Firing Line

War is not just military.  For Islam (and any group that practices total war) war is economic, and resources, and moral…

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The Transgender Suicide Scam – American Thinker

I have read this multiple times – versions of “Would you rather have a live trans-boy or a dead girl (or vice versa).  And IMHO this is a clever bit of psychological twisting, done intentionally to get parents to go along.

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The Fix Is In – Trump Goes To Prison | Armstrong Economics

This article has some fairly compelling data showing that the Deep State already has plans to put President Trump in prison, no matter what “We The People” have to say.  Jail, or other plans:

Not Cool – Alex Soros Tweets: “Bullet Hole, 47” – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)

Alex Soros (the son of George Soros) just tweeted out a very interesting tweet, implying that he was paying to have #47 “bullet-holed”.  Interestingly, the bills shown in the photo are OLD, in fact one of the commenters (Dad’s Son, posting on January 22, 2024 @ 2:45) noted that from the signatures on the bills, these are all from 1963.  Gee what important event happened in Dallas in November 1963?  I seriously hope the Secret Service takes a good hard look at this, and at Alex Soros

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Minds To Think – by T.L. Davis – T.L.’s Posts and Podcasts (substack.com)

TL Davis with another “I can’t say he’s wrong” post.  Somewhat related:

WHO Blames ‘Fake News and Conspiracy Theories’ As Sovereign Nations Reject Pandemic Treaty – The People’s Voice (thepeoplesvoice.tv)

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More evidence that smart phones are destroying minds – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

Smartphones are causing children to have behavioral, as well as cognitive issues.  And from Bill Whittle (video, link only):

PJTV: Five Alarm Fire (youtube.com)

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Harvard Sinks Even Further, Med School Forced to Retract Multiple Papers After Data Falsification Probe (thefederalistpapers.org)

The more I observe, the more I am 100% convinced that the fraud in our society has run long, and penetrated deep.  In every field.

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

No.  Globalists and Islam are our twin threats.  Not the above.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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And related:

 

 

I feel this.  Actually, here, it’s worse.  We’ll be OUT of something, and then someone will complain we’re out of it, and I get blamed because I’m not a telepath.

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Last year, Vermont Democrats and Progressives put forward a bill (S.39) to raise legislative pay by over double, plus a generous benefits package that regular Vermonters working a similar part-time job would not qualify for. Governor Scott vetoed the bill, which passed the House 102-44 and the Senate 19-10 largely along party lines.

Needless to say, it was highly unpopular with We the People, and majority leadership decided not to challenge this veto with an override vote.

But, alas, that was not the last to be heard from a particularly greedy cabal of entitled Senators led by Ruth Hardy (D-Addison), Becca White (D-Windsor), and Anne Watson (D/P-Washington), whose goal is to end Vermont’s tradition of a citizen legislature and replace it with an elite, political class of full-time politicians – a.k.a. themselves. (Seriously, just release the flying monkeys already.)  So, this year, they are trying again with a “more modest,” ostensibly lower-cost alternative, S.224 – An act relating to compensation and benefits for members of the Vermont General Assembly.

The principal “cost saving” measure in S.224 over S.39 is that it removes the nearly $2 million a year in healthcare benefits packages – for now anyway, as the bill retains the study committee that will recommend adding it back in a year.

According to the fiscal note, this new bill also lowers the overall annual expenditure on legislator salaries from S.39’s proposed $6,596,443 to $4,445,904. Great… BUT!!… this bill shifts the remaining money largely away from rank-and-file legislators and gives it to the “Speaker, Pro Tem, [Committee] Chairs, Majority, and Minority Leader” – all of whom coincidentally (with the exceptions of the two minority leaders and two committee chairs, one token in each chamber) are Democrats!

According to Seven Days Math, “The chairs currently earn about $16,867, only slightly more than rank-and-file members. Under the new system, the chairs would earn $23,790 during the session, plus a stipend and up to 20 days of off-season pay. That’s a total of $34,717, or about $17,850 more than they earn now — a 106 percent increase.” Rank and filers get a significant raise too from their current “$15,180. That would increase to $21,627. The 20 days of off-session pay would add $4,553 for a total of $26,180,” but not nearly as nice as the chairs.

This proposal, apart from just plain milking the taxpayers, creates some serious ethical and political problems. First, as alluded to above, the partisan dynamics of the legislature mean this is an especially big windfall for members of one particular party. It’s a partisan, Democrat money grab.

Currently, there are 23 Democrats out of 30 total senators, and there are 14 committees that need a chair. In the House there are 106 Democrats out of one hundred fifty total, and 17 committees that need chairs. So, of the 33 lawmakers, including the speaker and senate president pro tem, who would be receiving markedly higher salaries, 28 of them would be Democrats. That’s assuming that with nearly ten grand at stake for one of their own Democrat leadership would allow Senator Russ Ingalls (R-Essex) to keep his chair of the Institutions Committee or Representative Mike Marcotte (R-Coventry) his of Commerce and Economic Development.

This gets me to my next point: This would create a seriously unhealthy, feudal-like intra-caucus hierarchy and patronage system. The party in power controls all the big salaries and the leadership in that party controls who gets them. So, if you want that chairmanship and the big bucks that come with it, you better be loyal to the Speaker of the House or the Senate President Pro Tem as you smarm your way up that ladder. As a citizen, if you are concerned that our so-called elected representatives are too often doing the bidding of party leadership and not that of their constituents as it is, Katy, bar the door if S.224 becomes law!

It’s one thing to rhetorically twist someone’s arm to convince them to vote a certain way, refuse to sit with them in the cafeteria, or even threaten to take away the metaphorical paper hat that comes with a committee chairmanship, but it’s quite another to be able to threaten that person with a loss of $10,000 worth of income if they don’t play ball and do what you say. Or to bribe with such a cash payout for going along. As such, S.224 opens the door for some really corrupt back-room politics that do not serve the interests of truly representative democracy.

Supporters of this specifically bad bill supporting a generally bad idea are spinning it as a way to allow more moderate-income Vermonters to run for office. Nonsense. They see it as a way to give their incumbent selves the ability to campaign year-round at taxpayers’ expense, a way to consolidate and keep political power, and to further insulate themselves from having to have a real job and, though such experience perhaps better understand the real plights and problems of their constituents.

Campaign for Vermont did a poll at the beginning of this session and found that 77% of Vermont said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who voted to increase their own pay by 100%, 66% much less likely. Well, that’s pretty much every Democrat and Progressive in Montpelier! And it looks like they’re ready to do it twice! Let’s make sure voters remember this sentiment come November.

 

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

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If you set up a table with a few microphones almost anywhere, you never know who might sit down to talk with you. Do it at the DoubleTree in Manchester during the New Hampshire primary, and you might get to talk with Vermin Supreme.

And why not? He’s always a guaranteed great guest, so we were fortunate to catch him for a few minutes to talk about the circus of politics. WGBH described him as,

“…running on a platform that includes free ponies for all Americans, time travel research and using zombies to create energy by harnessing “the latest in hamster wheel technology.”

He also runs on a promise of mandatory toothbrushing laws, “because gingivitis has been eroding the country’s gum line for long enough and must be stopped.”

He took a few minutes to sit down and chat, and for folks who like short videos, this is perhaps our shortest interview of the weekend. Ha had a lot of people to meet, and making fun of politics is hard work but good work.

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