Wednesday • May 8 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XIX
Manchester, N.H.
A recent post argued that NH taxpayers shouldn’t be ‘forced to fund irreversible surgeries for gender-confused kids.’
While I agree with that, I would note that Article 3 of the state constitution says that NH taxpayers can’t be forced to fund anything that doesn’t directly protect the rights of the people paying the taxes.
Look through the state and municipal budgets and see how much falls into that category. Very little. So why complain about these surgeries specifically?
If the GOP took Article 3 seriously and started working to defund everything that violates it, things like these surgeries would be defunded as a matter of course… along with DEI/CRT indoctrination centers, Title IX sports, porn in public schools and libraries, and a lot of other sources of agitation.
But to say, essentially, We like these violations but not those violations seems disingenuous.
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Joe Biden was on a three-city tour of Pennsylvania this week. He started in his hometown of Scranton, though I am not sure many in Scranton want to claim Joe as one of their own. You see, for all Joe says he is doing for his homeys, his lousy policies are costing the good people of Scranton over $800 per month to maintain their lifestyle from 2020. These folks, Joe, are not making $10,000 a year to cover your Bidenomics, but apparently, that has been scrapped. We are not supposed to mention your dynamic economic plan that proves each month that it is not worth the napkin you wrote it on. Tell us that good one about the bottom up and the middle out as those people are driving up their credit card balances to keep up with the rising cost of everything. The busiest person at the local gas station is the one raising the prices each day on the marquis. People in grocery stores take items out of their shopping baskets at the checkout to afford their orders. You are not raising all boats, Joe. You are sinking the middle class. It is painful to watch and experience.
Your green initiative to get us all driving battery-operated cars is a bust. No demand exists for these overpriced vehicles, even with us subsidizing the costs. There are images of vast parking lots of abandoned EVs in China. Tesla and Rivian both announced layoffs, Rivian for the third time in twelve months. The recharging stations you bragged about are not being built, so where did the billions go to fund them?
Your plan to forgive student loans is having a devastating impact on tuition rates. As colleges and universities see you passing tuition costs onto taxpayers, they seize the opportunity to blow the top off tuition rates. Nearly a dozen schools have posted tuition rates over $90,000, and dozens more work toward that number. What income will graduates need to justify a $400,000 student loan package?
Credit card debt is at a record high, and with interest rates over 30%, most people living on plastic will never see a zero balance. Your solution was to attack late fees. That $10 savings will go a long toward paying off the interest! Who is advising you on these weak, ineffective policy decisions? Karina Jean-Pierre?
The fact that you are spending so much time in Pennsylvania, a state you should have a lock on, tells us you know you are in trouble. Working overtime to put Trump in jail and to defame RFK Jr is not working for you. Your media ads focusing on your acuity prove you have lost a step or two mentally, and trotting out the Kennedy clan to back you and throw their cousin under the Biden Train was low. RFK will give Michigan to Trump and, thus, the election.
You are showing age and weakness at a time when America is looking for energy and strength. They are finding what they need in Trump. Seeing him outside the courtroom each day shows how you have weaponized your Justice Department to eliminate your opponent. It didn’t work, Joe. Your Justice Department, like the rest of your administration, is proving to be more WOKE than competent. With the Supreme Court braced to take the wind out of the January 6 sails, it will kill one of your most potent arguments against Trump. Your house of cards is crumbling, and no help from Obama, Clinton, or the Kennedys will keep it from crashing in November. Watching you go down will be fun and satisfying.
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Quick reminder that tomorrow (Wed @ 10am) is the Senate Committee hearing for HB1283, a bill to legalize assisted suicide. It will be in NH’s Legislative Office Building, room 103 (note room change from earlier).
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You have several opportunities to stand up for the vulnerable among us by helping to defeat HB1283:
1) Pray that the Senate HHS committee and the NH Senate as a whole would vote down this bill
2) Register your opposition to HB1283 through the Gencourt website by 8am tomorrow morning (select Senate Health and Human Services, select HB1283, tell them “I Oppose this Bill”, and click “Continue”).
3) Email the Senate HHS Committee to tell them that you oppose HB1283. Their email addresses are: Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us, Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us, Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us, Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us, Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us, cameron.lapine@leg.state.nh.us
4) Testify in person if you are available tomorrow @ 10am in NH’s Legislative Office Building (33 N State St, Concord, NH), room 103.
If you do come in person, please do not wear yellow, as many of the pro-suicide community uses that to identify themselves.
5) Contact your own Senator: It’s not too early to call or email your own Senator, and let them know that you oppose state-sanctioned suicide. You can find their contact info here.
For Life,
Jason Hennessey
President, NH Right to Life
Key talking points on HB1283:
Points that may resonate more with Democrats:
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It is unusual for a Democrat or uniparty stooge to say the quiet part out loud, but this isn’t new to Massachusetts. David Ismay, Charlie Baker’s undersecretary for Climate change (can’t be much of a ‘republican’ Gov. if you have one of those – and he wasn’t), said openly that they need to put the screws to everyone in the name of climate change.
He didn’t survive the heat (ironically, given his gig). Will this Masshole do the same?
It is Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt.
Using frank language rarely heard on Beacon Hill, Tibbits-Nutt weighed in on a series of major policy issues. She talked about how she would raise more money for transportation, with one option being the installation of toll gantries at the state’s borders with neighboring states. She promised to do more to address traffic fatalities by urging law enforcement to issue more speeding citations. And she said she would not support a layover facility for commuter rail trains as part of the I-90 Allston multimodal project, handing neighborhood activists a major victory.
Toll booths at the border is a great idea. One more reason not to go to Massachusetts. It’ll piss off all the commuters who live in New Hampshire but work in the Bay State, but that could be good for New Hampshire too. Incentivize working here instead. They’ll save on gas, tolls, speed trap tickets, T rate hikes (if you are brave enough to take the T). In other words, they need more money, and there’s nothing they are not willing to do you to get it.
“This [task force] is actually different because we’re not censoring it,” she said. “I’m going to talk about tolling. I’m going to talk about charging TNCs [transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft] more. I’m going to talk about potentially charging more for package deliveries, charging more for payroll tax — basically going after everybody who has money. And when I’m talking tolling, I’m talking at the borders. I’m not talking within Massachusetts.”
She added: “We’re going after all the people who should be giving us money to make our transportation better and our communities better.”
As if the Government could do any such thing. There’s no evidence of it. None. Higher taxes to pad school budgets have produced dumber kids. Milking trillions from Americans in the name of Climate change has only made electricity more expensive and less reliable (and the weather is still the same). The police budget has nothing to do with public safety. Voting for Joe Biden created division (inflation, joblessness, war) and not the promised unity. Nor has any sum of your dollars yet managed to solve transportation infrastructure issues. They spend it all, and things stay the same or get worse.
The only community that benefits is the one that pays her nearly 200k/ year salary. Those in and around ‘The Government get fatter and happier, protecting the politicians who keep adding more parasites to feed on the host (which is you).
TruthMonica Tibbits-Nutt is using the pretension that she’s being brave when she says, “she will not spend any time making decisions with the goal of hanging on to her job”—which is an excuse to hide decades of poor management, which can only ever be resolved with more of your money.
And lucky you, thanks to inflation and the Biden Economy, they are going to need a lot more from you to do so much less.
Update: After this post was written and scheduled, contrary to Tibbits-Nutt’s contention that she had her back, Governor Maura Healy did not. Not exaclty.
(Boston Globe) Governor Maura Healey, appearing on WBUR’s Radio Boston, called state Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt’s recent comments about imposing tolls for drivers crossing into Massachusetts “a very poor choice of words.”
“It’s not how we do things,” Healey told Radio Boston host Tiziana Dearing on Tuesday. “It’s not how we operate.”
I didn’t click through to the full article, but “poor choice of words” isn’t a categorical no to border tolls, as Healey hints at a need for nuance. That’s not how we do things? Okay, so maybe border tolls are at the bottom of the list, but where’d Tibbits-Nutt-job get the idea if they didn’t come up at some point?
It’s on the list.
Be great if someone leaked that to the press.
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From the Editor: We’d like to welcome the Conservatarain Exchange and Liberty Block NH to Grok Podcasts!
Disney has won its battle in a proxy way to remain woke against outsiders; liberals keep fighting; conservatives often accept defeat as final; do establishment leaders in D.C. succumb to more than just peer pressure? threats? should republicans engage in issues such as “income equality”—turn the issue against liberal jurisdictions? Attacks on free speech in Scotland, Poland; if Americans don’t fight for free speech the “parchment guarantees” will never suffice; winner take all of electors vs. apportioning them by district (current situation in Nebraska); should we care if blue states ignore SCOTUS?
Trump should join Abbott of Texas in ignoring SCOTUS on the “invasion” issue; does an oath to support the constitution require support of all SCOTUS decisions? Attorneys afraid of taking suits on the right and/or being disbarred like Eastman; why aren’t banks treated legally as common carriers? Biden’s Easter transgender visibility proclamation? Is government our religion nowadays?
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The presidential campaign of 2008 marked a turning point in America.
Millions of voters were electrified by the prospect of the first African-American president. Even one of Barack Obama’s opposing candidates seemed mesmerized by the moment: “I mean, you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
I mean, that’s a story-book, man.” But then, Joe Biden has always viewed everything in terms of race.
Yes, the election of America’s first black president was a watershed moment. Some believe it took too long to get there, but it was an inevitability.
There was another watershed moment, though, that most voters failed to notice. It was the first time that Americans elected a president who, throughout his life, had been steeped in socialist, Communist, and anti-American ideologies – a man whose value system clearly contradicted traditional American values. Voters chose to ignore Obama’s background and the people who helped mold his values – people like Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, and Jeremaih Wright. Those anti-American diatribes by Jeremaih Wright? No matter.
And when that self-proclaimed “citizen of the world” vowed to fundamentally transform the country that most Americans cherished, they didn’t seem to care.
With the country behind him, Barack Obama succeeded in transforming our country in ways no one could have imagined.
Under Obama’s administration, America became more divided, especially along racial lines. And Americans lost some of their national pride. Prominent sports figures began disparaging our flag and our national anthem. Disdain for police agencies started growing. Many in our country began to reject our capitalist system and the idea of American exceptionalism while embracing socialist concepts like redistribution of wealth.
But that’s ancient history.
Now, more than seven years after Obama left office, the man who served as his vice president wants a second term in the White House and an opportunity to finish their disastrous transformation of America.
During his 2019 campaign, Joe Biden was touted as a moderate candidate with traditional American values, an elder statesman committed to unifying the country. He’s proven himself to be anything but.
Who knows why Biden took such a radical left turn after his election? Many believe that he’s doing China’s bidding, thoroughly compromised by the millions of dollars the CCP quietly paid his family. Others suggest that he’s nothing more than a figurehead, a marionette controlled by radical leftist puppeteers – among them, perhaps Barack Obama himself.
Polls confirm that Biden is an unpopular president. He’s widely perceived as weak, addled, incompetent, and corrupt. Surveys consistently show that his policies are taking our country in the wrong direction.
Yet paradoxically, in a head-to-head matchup with Donald Trump, other data suggest that Biden stands a fair chance of reelection in November. That’s mostly because the propaganda machine of the Democrat Party and the liberal news media managed to convince so many Americans that Donald Trump poses a genuine “threat to our Democracy,” a threat to our very survival. Incredibly enough, they’ve come to believe that Trump’s “America first” agenda is somehow un-American.
Consequently, many voters now believe that even Joe Biden is a better alternative.
Biden pontificates about fighting for the “soul of the nation.” But there was nothing wrong with America’s soul before he and Obama began tampering with it. National pride – patriotism – wasn’t derided. It was seen as the glue that holds this nation, any nation, together. It was once an unassailable American value.
Other values that were part of America’s soul included freedom, equality, the right to privacy, individualism, personal responsibility, personal property rights, and a competitive spirit. Topping the list was a fair justice system. The Biden Administration has been systematically extinguishing them all.
America also once had a conscience – an uncompromising sense of right and wrong. Today they’re replacing that conscience with contrived radical concepts like social justice, CRT, DEI, and gender-affirming care. They’re doing it in defiance of our Constitution, using subterfuge and deceit.
In fact, given his many abuses of power, Biden would certainly have been impeached and removed from office by now, were it not for the blind support of congressional Democrats, his loyal apparatchiks.
That leaves it to the voters. Will they continue to blindly follow a path they know leads to self-destruction? Or will they finally say “enough”?
For the greatest threat to the Biden Administration is not Donald Trump. It’s an informed electorate, endowed with common sense and the ability to think independently.
Yes, the economy, immigration, the border, abortion, and national security are all important issues in this election. But in November, voters will have to decide who we are as a nation. They will decide whether to preserve the soul of America or extinguish it forever.
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Democrats in the State House were parading around this week with a banner insisting, “If you make a mess, you clean it up!” Yeah! Big talk! They think this should apply to oil companies regarding climate change (another story I’ll get to soon), but apply that message to themselves regarding the colossal property tax tsunami of a mess they’ve made for us. Well, not so much.
As far as property tax relief for Vermonters goes, the banner reads, “If you make a mess, create a ‘task force’ of usual suspects to ‘look into it’, keep the money flowing to your political cronies, and hope the voters have short memories and deep pockets.” Hey, it’s worked in the past! But I’m getting the feeling it’s not going to work as well this time. They’ve been successfully boiling the frog (us) for a long time but got greedy, turned up the heat too fast, and the taxpayers are ready to jump out of the pot.
Vermonters worried we are about to be taxed out of our homes come July are now being told not to expect any sort of relief for at least three years while they study the issue. News flash: we can’t afford the bill this year! Fix your mess NOW.
Vermont’s current property tax explosion/crisis is driven by the fact that we spend more money per public school student than almost every other state in the Union by a long shot. After this year’s spending spree, we might just be number one. The official “weighted student average” is $23,299, but if you divide the total $2.5 billion education budget by the 80,000 pre-k to 12 kids in the system, the number is over $30,000.
This latest $200 million budget gap that is the reason for the 20 percent year-over-year average property tax (and/or other taxes) increase is primarily the result of overspending on:
What’s the solution? Here’s my proposal:
Short term, cap individuals’ property tax increases to a level no greater than inflation (currently 3.5%). If what that generates plus the other revenue streams to the Education fund (100% of the sales & use tax, 25% of the rooms & meals tax, lottery, etc.) doesn’t cover the cost of school budgets, the delta should be made up through cuts to other programs – unfunded education mandates such as the $30 million free meals programs or cuts to general fund programs with the revenue shifted to education. I’d suggest starting with all those programs that use taxpayer dollars to subsidize EV purchases, solar panel installations, etc. Those are luxury programs, not basic government services.
No new taxes! We are taxed enough already, and taking even more of our money just out of different pockets – as the Democrats are doing — is not tax relief. It’s making the mess that much bigger.
Long term, restructure the system to first establish an education budget amount and a tax rate Vermonters can afford, and then figure out how to spend that amount in the most efficient and cost-effective way to achieve superior student outcomes. Every other state in the Union, bar one, has figured out how to spend less on education than we do, and a lot of them are getting better student outcomes to boot. Every independent school in Vermont operates this way, and they get better results for less money. How about we learn from them instead of trying to shut them down?
A big reason we are in this mess is because our lawmakers created a public education financing system in which we throw everything the special interests say they want into the shopping cart and then tell the taxpayers to pay for whatever the cash register rings up. This dynamic has to end. Unfortunately, it is the dynamic that Democrats in Montpelier, under the influence of the VTNEA, Superintendents Association, and Principals’ Association, are doubling down on.
The multi-year study process they are opting for in lieu of meaningful reform is not being set up to control costs and provide property tax relief. It is going to “figure out the policy, vision and the system of where we are going and then how do we fund it….” That’s no different from what we are doing now. It’s the problem. It’s the reason for the mess. Clean it up.
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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I just thought of something: how about testing when starting school? Then Some kids may start in 1st grade and some may start in 2nd grade or even third. Then every year they take their “Proficiency Test” as long as they test to the next grade off they go, if not they get held back. If they test ahead of their class again, they could skip a grade again if the parents agree.
And to be honest, the grade levels do not have to be too difficult, just a wide field for each grade as a general test of that average grade level. I believe a lot of children would end up skipping grades, saving funding for everyone.
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If a student starts getting held back, then the school would work with the parents for tutoring, or if the student has medical or mental issues, then they could be set to “Special Needs,” and each county could have one school set as “Special Needs.”
I see a lot of issues with this for sure, but I believe it could work. With the battle going on with public, charter, Religious, and private schools, this could be a viable option.
Every Change Starts With The First Step, and we need to take the first step before it is too late.
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If you’ve driven through any part of Goffstown or Pinardville, you may have seen the “Hate has no home in Goffstown” signs. At first glance, they seem well-intentioned and a wonderful idea. But upon further investigation, they are actually breeding much hate and division within the community.
The signs were originally designed after a neo-Nazi group from outside the community placed literature in a few residents’ driveways. It appeared to be completely random and an act that every member of the Goffstown community condemned.
The extreme leftists in our town, who never let a virtue-signaling opportunity pass them by, designed these signs immediately and sold them to whoever wanted to jump into the narrative that our town now has a hate problem because of this random act.
If hate truly has no home in Goffstown, then why was a complaint made to the zoning board after a fiscally conservative resident spoke up and presented a tax cap at the town’s deliberative session? Immediately following that meeting, an extreme leftist filed a complaint to the zoning board about the conservative resident’s chickens and coop (that have been in place for five years with no issues) and that resident is now having to go through the arduous and tedious process of fighting with the town for a variance.
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Some of the folks with a “no hate sign” in their yard were the first to announce that any parent or resident who stood up at a School Board meeting against inappropriate sexual materials on a Middle School library whiteboard should be put on a ‘public town wall of shame.’
Recently a parent spoke up at another School Board meeting about the fact that her son was not drinking water all day to avoid using the boys’ bathroom. He was doing this because he felt uncomfortable that a young girl, who now identifies as a boy, was now using the same boys’ school bathroom. Immediately following the meeting a complaint was made to that boy’s parent’s place of employment.
44 people in our town signed a petition for a tax cap warrant article. Once the extreme leftists got a hold of that information, all 44 of those names and their addresses were released on a Facebook group with the intent to get people to harass and shame those specific residents.
Two conservatives recently ran for Library Board of Trustees in our local election. This really bothered and triggered another extreme leftist, who happens to be our Select Board Vice Chair’s wife, and she requested the candidates’ actual library cards from the library. After receiving them from the Library Director, she proceeded to display them (including their patron codes) publicly online in order to intimidate and call them out.
Doesn’t seem very kind, caring or inclusive to me. It sounds more like when you don’t fall in line, you will publicly pay the price.
The most recent incident of the ‘no hate’ movement in Goffstown happened when a local veteran-owned business received a visit from a member of the local LGBTQ+ group. This person entered the business during working hours to demand (in front of customers) that the business owner hang an LGBTQ+ flag and stickers in his shop window during the month of June (Pride month). When the business owner politely declined (not wanting to be political and cause any discomfort to the many different views and beliefs of his wide range of customers), he was then called hostile and berated as being part of the problem in our town. She said that thanks to him, she and her wife are unable to walk the streets of Goffstown safely. Oh, those vicious Goffstown streets. It’s a tough town to grow up in. With our beautiful town square, the resident-only Glen Lake, beautiful rock water features, friendly waves from local shop owners, drivers stopping so you can cross the street, even when you’re not on the crosswalk… it’s a wonder any of us survive here.
Hate has no home in Goffstown unless you disagree with the vocal minority. Then hate is acceptable and even encouraged.
Someone make it make sense.
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As the 2024 election season gets underway in earnest (although it has actually been going on for quite some time already), it is probably useful to look behind the curtain of (a) political “consultants” and (b) political contributions through organized groups.
It seems to have become fairly standard and expected for political candidates in our state to hire a so-called political consultant, supposedly to assist in their campaigns. Some holding themselves out as political consultants are based in our state, while others may be based in Washington as if being based in Washington is some type of badge of honor when clearly it is not.
The usual arrangement with a political consultant typically takes the form of a written contract that is supposed to spell out the duties of the consultant as well as how the consultant is to be paid. The typical payment arrangement is for a monthly payment during the campaign, often with bonuses available if the candidate prevails in the primary and another in the general election.
Further, many consultant arrangements provide for the consultant to handle the candidate’s appearances, advertising, and handouts such as brochures, palm cards, signs, and the like. But there is often an insidious factor involved in which the consultant is able to mark up the charges from outside vendors and/or receive commissions from those vendors, all of which ends up coming out of the campaign coffers.
Does it really make sense to agree to such arrangements when there are vendors, some based in NH, such as Spectrum from Manchester, who can provide all printed materials, mailings, and signs without payment of commissions or markups? Many of those services come with sound political advice without extra charge.
Finally, it is amusing to read campaign news releases announcing that a particular political consultant has been hired for a campaign, especially when examining the history of campaigns in which the consultant has been previously engaged. Some of them have a long and well-known history of being the consultant for campaign after campaign in which the candidate lost, as if to say, in effect, that my history of handling many losing campaigns in the past makes me especially qualified to handle another losing campaign now.
The most successful campaigns seem to be ones in which the candidate is very hands-on without regard, resorting to so-called consultants who seem to exist simply to extract money from campaign coffers without producing wins.
That being said, because of the size of our state and with very limited conservative media outlets, the more successful larger races (i.e. other than for state rep) that are inherently expensive often end up relying on larger campaign contributions from out-of-state donors and groups, and if a so-called consultant can actually produce such contributions in a meaningful way, perhaps they might actually be worth something.
And so now, we turn to campaign contributions.
A famous Dem politician once reportedly said that money is the mother’s milk of politics. Unfortunately, how true!
Although state representative campaigns can be run effectively without huge expenditures, once the political stage moves into larger districts or statewide, whether for the state senate, the exec council, the governor, and our federal senators and reps, the required campaign expenses increase dramatically.
Anyone reading this has probably been solicited for campaign contributions by a variety of sources: some directly by the candidate campaigns and others by groups that seek to “bundle” the contributions and allocate them to who-knows-whom.
If you make a contribution directly to the campaign of a candidate you favor, you will have a pretty good idea of where your money is going. But if you contribute to a group, although the group may claim to be supportive of candidates you support, you lose effective control of where your money ends up.
And to further the problem, many of the groups soliciting contributions incur significant administrative expenses for staff, as well as, in some cases, payment of “commissions” to officials of the group who purportedly bring in contributions. It is not unusual to see at least 10% of a contribution go to payment of such a commission.
But some groups, including some political action committees, are run entirely by volunteers without any paid administrative staff.
So, if you are considering making a political contribution, keep in mind that your contribution will be most effective if you contribute directly to the campaign of your chosen candidate. However, if you choose to contribute to a group, before you make that contribution, inquire as to whether the group pays commissions to anyone and whether it manages to keep its administrative expenses very low.
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G.E.T. R.E.A.L. is a solemn promise and a positive path forward for our state by Vermont Republicans focused on improving the quality of life of our people. It is a prescription of policy proposals, and this is the fourth in a series of essays explaining the program.
Editors Note: While focused on Vermont, the G.E.T. R.E.A.L. agenda sets a standard I think could/should be duplicated in New Hampshire and – well, everywhere—a public Republican Party promise/platform itemizing its priorities ‘Contract with America’ Style.
Given the normal weather patterns in Vermont with all the freezing and thawing and the need for plenty of plowing, maintaining safe and comfortable roads and bridges is always going to be a challenge. Even more so if the trends of warmer, wetter winters and springs continue to bring us multiple mud seasons and more frequent floods. So, we really need to focus all of our transportation fund dollars on fixing and maintaining our transportation infrastructure.
While in years past, legislatures had done a good job of ending policies that robbed the Transportation Fund to pay for other projects, recently, we have seen a return to bad habits in this arena, particularly where taking out taxpayer money to subsidize electric vehicle purchases is concerned. For example, the current version of the Transportation Bill under debate right now contains $12 million in subsidies for EV incentives and in-home charging equipment.
First of all, that’s $12 million that’s not going to pave roads, fill potholes, expand culverts, or renovate bridges – all things we need to be doing more of, not less. In fact, the average age of Vermont’s bridges is 59 years, compared to the national average of 44 years. 75 of our bridges are classified as “structurally deficient,” up from 68 as recently as 2019, and, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, nearly a quarter of a million vehicles pass over just the twenty-five most traveled of those structurally deficient bridges every day. This should be a priority for transportation funds.
However, this sense of urgency is not shared by the supermajority controlling the purse strings in Montpelier today. In 2023, Governor Scott earmarked in his budget $9 million in general fund surplus money that could have been used to draw down triple that amount in federal matching funds for road repair. Democrats chose to spend that money elsewhere.
But even without these critical maintenance needs, it is highly questionable that it is the proper role of government to force some Vermonters to pay for the vehicle choices of other Vermonters, especially when those subsidies tend to flow regressively up the income ladder from lower-earning workers to upper-income car buyers. These “wealthfare” programs need to end.
Additionally, the state using tax dollars to subsidize more Vermonters’ choice to drive electric vehicles has an additional negative impact on fuel tax and, therefore, Transportation Fund revenues. Under the current system, if you’re not buying gas to use the roads, you’re not paying to help maintain them. One solution is to charge EV owners with a “road use surcharge” when they register, which is an idea under consideration. However, the Democrat leadership, under the influence of environmental lobbyists is insisting that money go not to road maintenance but to, you guessed it, more taxpayer-funded EV subsidies.
Think about this for a minute. The supermajority wants to pay people a subsidy to buy an electric vehicle, then hit those same people with a surcharge on that same electric vehicle in order to fund somebody else’s electric vehicle subsidy, which will also be penalized with a surcharge. That’s just ridiculous. More ridiculous is that they’re doing this while not sufficiently funding the maintenance of the roads that all of our vehicles need to drive on!
It’s yet another example of policy being driven by blind ideology and special interest politics at the expense of common sense and providing basic public services. This is exactly the kind of mindset we need to GET REAL about replacing in Montpelier!
Also slipped into this year’s Transportation Bill is a provision to move toward implementing a Clean Transportation Standard. This is the motor fuel companion to the home heating Clean Heat Standard, which is estimated to add 70 cents or more to every gallon of oil, propane, natural gas, and kerosene. Yes, the supermajority wants this same scale of carbon tax applied to gasoline and diesel. An additional dollar tax on a gallon of gas? We say, Get Real!
If this gas and diesel carbon tax ultimately passes (the only way to stop it is to Vote Republican in November) and is a crucial component of the supermajorities Global Warming Solutions Act law passed in 2020, again, the revenue would not be used for road maintenance but rather pet global warming projects. This would decrease fuel tax capacity for transportation infrastructure maintenance, likely requiring tax increases elsewhere to fill the gap.
The government is supposed to provide some basic, universal services, and maintaining the state’s roads, bridges, and other transportation infrastructure is one of them. Elect Republicans this November, and we’ll GET REAL about fixing our roads and bridges.
Bill Huff is the Orange County GOP Chair – on behalf of all GOP County Chairs
G: Global Warming Solutions Act Reform
E: Education Reform
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Here is a sure way to know when you have yet again been screwed by Congress. The corporate-media “covers” the screwing as “bipartisan” and UniParty-Republicans are “courageous” for ignoring the voters who put them there and instead “doing the right thing,” a lovely euphemism for what enriches the elites/globalists/corporatists/etc..
And yet, I am sure, that New Hampshire’s bitter-clingers will nonetheless “vote Republican” “up-and-down-the-ballot” to reelect the same grifters intent on outlawing single-family zoning in order stop the state income tax that isn’t coming from coming.
SIXTY BILLION MORE for that corruptocracy called Ukraine to stop the looming Russian takeover of Europe that all the grifters in DC know is total fiction. And as an added bonus … the TikTok “sale” gives the “intelligence community” yet another means to spy on Americans. Slava Ukraine! Vote Republican! Slava Ukraine!
JUST IN: Congress members wave Ukraine flags in the United States House after they approve another $61 *billion* in military aid for Ukraine.
The bill also gave $26 *billion* to Israel and another $8 *billion* for allies in the Indo-Pacific region bringing the grand total to… pic.twitter.com/SCKilm6nPr
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 20, 2024
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After decades of hard work and dedication, long term employees deserve special recognition and gifts upon their retirement. Coming up with retirement gift ideas for loyal, longtime workers can be challenging. Here are five incredible ideas to make your retiring employee feel valued and appreciated.
1. Personalised Photo AlbumA personalised photo album stuffed with pictures from company events, work friendships, and special memories made over the years is a thoughtful and meaningful gift. Make it a collaborative effort by asking coworkers to contribute their favourite photos and include handwritten messages to the retiree. This shows how much they’ll be missed by everyone. For an extra special touch, track down pictures of the retiree from when they first started at the company. This trip down memory lane is sure to spark joy and appreciation.
2. Custom PlaqueA personalised plaque serves as a meaningful memento for any long-term employee. Include the years they worked at the company and any major accomplishments. Consider making the plaque in the shape of the retiree’s home country for a unique gift. If they’re retiring from a management role, include a special message from their team about how much their leadership was valued. Local trophy shops can often customise plaques with engraving and special shapes.
3. Relaxing HolidayWhat better retirement gift could there be than a relaxing getaway to enjoy their newfound freedom? For retirees in the UK, consider gifting a holiday at a large holiday home Yorkshire with hot tub at Yellow Rush Lodge. Yorkshire is beloved for its dramatic landscapes and the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The lodge features five bedrooms to accommodate the whole family. With walking trails, fishing spots and cosy country pubs nearby, it’s a perfect homebase for exploring the quintessential English countryside. The outdoor hot tub overlooking the sweeping scenery provides the ultimate place to unwind. After so many years of work, a holiday focused on rest and relaxation is sure to delight.
4. Restaurant VouchersTreat the retiree to delicious dining experiences with restaurant vouchers. Focus on restaurants they’ve always wanted to try but never had the time or budget for before retirement. Splurging on a Michelin-starred restaurant or high tea at a 5-star hotel shows you want to help make long-held wishes come true. For retirees with a sweet tooth, gift cards for local bakeries, ice cream parlours and chocolate shops are tasty as well. Food is such a huge part of life and retirement is the perfect time to embark on gastronomic adventures. Restaurant vouchers open the door to culinary delight.
5. Luxury Item from Their Wish ListNothing says “thank you for your many years of service” like gifting a luxury item the retiree has always fantasised about. Maybe they’ve eyed a designer handbag, top-of-the-line golf clubs, or a fancy Montblanc pen. Ask the retiree’s spouse, family or closest work friend about that special luxury item they’ve dreamed of owning. Even better, get their wish list ahead of time. Fulfilling a long-held material desire is a blissful retirement gift. For devoted, hardworking long term employees, these luxuries are the perfect crowning achievement to celebrate their next chapter.
Retirement is a major life transition and frequently comes with complicated emotions. Unique, personalised gifts demonstrate your gratitude and well wishes for the next phase of life. These five incredible retirement gift ideas for loyal, longtime employees help express just how much you appreciate their years of dedication and service. With such thoughtful farewell gifts, you’re sure to see happy tears and create great memories.
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There is ample evidence throughout history, much of it recent, that claiming compassion to justify government-sanctioned suicide is a trap. Yes, chronic pain is terrible, but not nearly so much as the power of a State that inevitably sees it as a way to solve problems it created or just “problems.”
I’ve been over this more times than I can count, but HB1283 is on the verge of becoming law in New Hampshire, and just like socialism, we will not “get it right this time.” Vermont, Hawaii, Canada, and The Netherlands are all proof that the system fails to protect people who are not likely to die in six months. Once passed, ideological descendants of the original Progressive Eugenicists who inspired Hitler will, in successive legislative sessions, remove safeguards, lower barriers, and soften restrictions.
The future of HB1283 is laid bare before us. Compassion will shift from those “near death” to those with chronic but tolerable illness, to the autistic, the homeless, the economically advantaged, and inevitably, people who ask. (but never imprisoned murderers; that would be inhumane).
You can agree or disagree on religious grounds, human rights grounds, equity, or whatever motivation moves you – but what you need to fear is State power to manage the general terms of human demise.
If you can come up with an example where it worked out well, I’d be interested in hearing about it, but even more recent adventures in Western Politics succumb to the impulse to use assisted suicide to relieve cultural, social, and economic burdens.
Assisted suicide legislation expands state power and its influence over therpaists and doctors and will inevitably be abused. If you doubt me, look at so-called conversion therapy restrictions in NH or what happened during COVID. We will not do it better. The safest course of action is to assist in the suicide of HB1283.
Besides, we don’t need it. Vermont has Vacation Suicide, as does Oregon. If you need to die that badly, they will be happy to help you.
The NH Senate is voting on it This week. Please reach out and politely ask them to vote no.
Blogified version of an email sent the entire NH State Senate
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Let me start by saying something nice about all three Senate Judiciary Republicans. They’re all nice people and presumably decent people in their personal lives. I’ve had pleasant encounters with them, some leading to pleasant talk, sometimes more than once.
One of them promptly and cheerfully returned my emails, though they were less about NH senate matters and more about an up-ballot endorsed candidate. The other two are even cat people, but so are Melanie and the Damn Emperor! I don’t want to start a pattern of referencing my ex, having already made a comment about him in a previous article, but he did make a professional comment as an electrical engineer when we were together. He said, “You are only as good as your most recent project,” and he also added that the worst thing an engineer can do is design a product that doesn’t work.
I’ll add a little sidenote that Senator Gray is an electrical engineer. What makes that little tidbit relevant is that the whole Senate has yet to vote on the RTK Tax (HB 1002).
Rochester people might consider what my ex said in convincing him to reject HB 1002 in the senate chamber, but let’s get back to the Naughty 3 in the Judiciary.
Short of possessing the gavel, Sharon Carson is the most powerful in the Senate. She did not get where she is by being stupid and she knows how influential her multifold power is. One of her power positions is Judiciary Chair. At 3:27:15 in the video from 4/18’s executive session, she moved OTP on HB 1002 with minimal lip service to Laurie Ortolano’s personal testimony, and the two men just obediently gave her the “yes, ma’am” without any thought. Extremely disappointing, considering that I’ve been emailing them for the past few months in addition to testifying myself at the hearing on 4/9. I’ll get to them in a moment, but I’m not the only Sharon critic. In addition to looking at her union sympathizing record, I suggest talking to JR or anyone else about how much Pfizer money she’s taken or Beth Scaer about her Cornerstone-related complaints.
I’m sure that Beth would be thrilled to death to go into further detail upon request, but let’s move on to the men of the Naughty three, now that I’ve followed with the “Ladies First” mantra.
Moving on to Senator Gannon, though he did sponsor SB 319, don’t let that distract you from his 2022 antics in Judiciary and in the senate chamber. A favorite constituent archetype is his “immunocompromised business owner,” which I observed him referencing in person, both at a hearing and from the senate gallery on 5/5/22,
which can be watched at 9:59:45 in the video of the HB 1210 debate. Jeb wanted his beloved CMS money and my senator is the only one of the 5 dissenters still in office today. He wasn’t taking any crap from Gannon, who you can see resorting to gaslighting at 10:13:40 in the same video right after another dissenter asked the whole body “at what price are you willing to sell your liberty?”
Senator Gannon is an establishment sheeple who did Jeb’s bidding that day and now Sharon’s on 4/18/24, when he voted to obstruct your Right to Know by levying a tax on it and creating a can of worms waiting to be opened.
Saving the younger lawyer for last, Daryl Abbas, who happens to be a Chuck Morse apologist occupying his old senate seat, walked out of the hearing while Laurie Ortolano was at the mic with several minutes left. One of his constituent apologists surmised that he had to use the restroom, but I rebutted with noting that he folded up his laptop and took it with him. While men often do have a thing for taking reading material into the bathroom, I reject the supposition. See for yourself at 1:08:40 in this video and that he does not reappear, even though there were two more speakers (also against HB 1002) after Laurie.
I’ll also note that Sharon let the NH Municipal Association lobbyist and his peers speak first once all the reps had their turn, even though I signed up first on the clipboard and Laurie Ortolano after myself, but that’s on Sharon, not Daryl Abbas. I ran into him earlier and we talked at length in the dining room. He KNEW why I was at the state house that day and that Laurie was going to speak. He KNEW about Laurie’s local RTK plight, and that hearing was his opportunity to ask questions. If he had a plausible reason for leaving early, which certainly could be a possibility, he could have asked Sharon to call Laurie to the mic first, but he was clearly uninterested and I’m calling him out on it. Every member of the legislature knows how much power, leeway, and discretion committee chairs have, and don’t let Daryl Abbas, being a freshman, fool you! He was promoted to the Senate from the House.
Inspired by words from the late Rep Mark Alliegro at the My Pillow Frankspeech Symposium almost three years ago, I am now getting down from the rant soapbox and offering a message of hope. The Senate is in recess this week, and that gives everyone more time to email their senators instructions to reject HB 1002. Remember that they work for YOU, not lobbyists or other government officials. Did you see any ordinary members of the public speaking at the hearing in favor of HB 1002? I didn’t.
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From the Editor: The phrase “elections have consequences” is not new, but Nashua resident Allison Dyer has made it her tagline, ending her Rumble videos with the words after sharing what can only be called evidence supporting the truth of those words.
So, I’ve decided to give her content on our podcast page the title of ‘”Elections Have Consequences.” I hope she likes it because I didn’t ask. But we have an open invitation to share it and we have shared some of her content in the past, but let’s consider this an introduction to sharing it as part of our expanded local podcast-sharing project.
Allison posts about local and national topics (the volume is a bit low on this one, so turn it up!).
Really, at this point in the game, they should all just say it out loud … “We support open borders for everyone, from anywhere, at any time, regardless of background, and we will use the American taxpayer dollars to fund all of it, forever.” #BidensAmerica
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The Republican majority of the New Hampshire Legislature is on the verge of doing what Democrats do. Punish everyone for the alleged bad behavior of a few. Assuming the few are truly being cantankerous in their pursuit of public records. It is reminiscent of most, if not all, Left-Wing gun-grabbing legislation.
Those misbehaving few—assuming they were not driven to some extreme by the culture of government itself (as is increasingly common these days)—are leveraged as an excuse to impose a punishment on everyone. Red Fag Laws, waiting periods, magazine size limitations, location restrictions, special licensing requirements, ad the rest do not prevent gun violence. They create burdens meant to make exercising a right less appealing while the same government does less to protect them in the void it created.
If you have money and means, none of that concerns you. You can afford to jump through the hoops or buy your way around them.
HB1002 is no different. Adding a fee (tax, fine, levy) to access some documents will have several immediate effects. The folks who control access to the documents will inevitably find it increasingly difficult to fill even the most basic request below the fee threshold (probably at the behest of their superiors). People who cannot afford a fee will not ask for public documents. Local government will become less transparent and, over time, more brazen, unanswerable, and corrupt. (Nashua has done this despite the lack of a fee; guess how much worse that gets with one).
It also creates (or at least risks creating) a two-class system of accountability—a government that only ever answers to people who can afford to hold it to account—a class of individuals or groups who often stand to profit from this relationship and might want barriers to access to those details.
None of what I lay out may be what you intend—lord, I hope it is not—but it is that for which you may be remembered every time someone writes about how inaccessible local government has become. How people with means can open a door closed to them by bills like HB1002.
And if you think I am exaggerating, that this would never happen, or is unlikely, you have gotten too comfortable being in part of the government when you are elected to protect your constituents and their rights and interests from it.
Please vote no to HB1002. It is not your job to punish everyone for what may be the abuses of a few.
Blogified version of an email sent to the entire NH State Senate.
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Alright. Altogether now: Republicans … GOOD. Democrats … BAD. Republicans … GOOD. Democrats … Bad. Louder. Louder. Republicans … GOOD. Democrats … BAD. Republicans … GOOD. Democrats … Bad.
Sorry to have to tell you this, bitter-clingers … but the UniParty is real and in New Hampshire. Here is an excellent example, which I stumbled upon in writing my recent post The NHGOP Is Enabling And Funding DEI (That Lovely Euphemism For Anti-White Racism) … Why? which discussed how broadly and deeply anti-white racism (DEI) has been implemented in the public schools.
The Nixon Peabody law firm that receives a shout-out for fighting a law prohibiting students from being indoctrinated with CRT (“Critical Race Theory,” i.e., anti-white racism) … that would be the former firm of the present Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, Gordon MacDonald, nominated by “GOP” Governor Chris Sun-King Sununu and confirmed by a “GOP” majority Executive Council. Also, the firm of David Vicinanzo, hired by then-Speaker Bill O’Brien in 2012 to defend the GOP-crafted redistricting map.
And, apparently, the Nixon Peabody law firm is fighting the fight for CRT (anti-white racism) for free! Think about it: The fees paid to Nixon Peabody by then Speaker O’Brien are being used to subsidize the firm’s “fighting the good fight” to keep CRT in New Hampshire classrooms.
Is it Rs vs. Ds, bitter-clingers … or is it really just the elites versus everyone else?
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As the mother and primary caregiver for two adult sons with significant disability, the legally responsible daughter for my 87-yo mom suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s, and the widow to my husband, who lost his battle with pulmonary disease back in 2012, I’d like to give my perspective on HB 1283 Assisted Suicide.
This bill passed the House by only three votes last month and will be heard this Wednesday by the Senate HHS Committee. The sponsor’s argument is that everyone should have “death with dignity,” and this bill could only be used if two doctors agreed the individual had less than six months to live. Well, let’s dive into those arguments.
In 2002, my sons Ben and Sam were diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a fatal muscle-wasting genetic defect with no cure. Some would call it a fatal fetal anomaly. The Pediatric Neurologist at Boston Children’s told us to “take them home and love them because they won’t survive their childhood”. Ben and Sam are now 26 and almost 28. I’m sure glad we didn’t take that Boston doctor’s advice! Doctors are only human, and even with no ulterior motive or financial incentive, they are often wrong. Ben has a social work degree and works for a non-profit supporting young adults with cognitive disabilities. Sam is a talented writer, speaker, and artist. They live full, meaningful lives not despite their disability but because of it.
My husband died a difficult death at 53 from pulmonary disease. My daughter was only 12 at the time, and for many years, she struggled with mental health issues and was diagnosed with Bipolar II. As a teen, she experienced suicidal ideation and struggled with cutting and self-injury. Fast forward eight years, and she is now a happy, well-adjusted, independent 25-year-old college grad living on her own.
My Uncle, who was like a father to me, was diagnosed with bladder and prostate cancer in his early 80’s. I coordinated his medical care at Dana Farber for over two years. Those car rides to and from Boston are some of my most precious memories. Although he could never urinate normally after that and lived with a urostomy bag, he enjoyed several more good years of life. Life with dignity!
Much of my life has been caring for those with physical or mental health challenges. It has been more a blessing than a burden! I can tell you that State-Sanctioned Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. The right to die often becomes the duty to die. And insurance companies will take advantage of this bill because ending a person’s life is much less expensive than actually providing medical and home health care for them.
Ben and Sam know they are nearing the end of their battle with DMD. They have chosen to sign Do Not Resuscitate and Polst Forms, so no extraordinary measures will be taken when their time comes. But life and death should be in the hands of the One who created us, not in the hands of medical professionals or legislators. God’s Word tells us in Deuteronomy 30:19, “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life,”
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing.
Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition. Last week’s Friday Edition.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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First, we must face an uncomfortable truth: Democrats are no longer loyal to the US (were they ever; I think, at one time, yes but that’s MHO). They are now open, overt traitors.
But second, while I do hope there will be elections this fall, period, I have little faith we’ll win. The Left understands – they’re insane, not stupid – that Trump’s base has grown to include many that were former D voters that now grasp how the Left has betrayed the US, and them. People vote their self-interest, and that damage is becoming very clear to all but the True Believers.
The fraud will be dialed up even more to account for that.
I take little joy in saying this, but it will start to end when all the enthusiastic Left voters have their own kids raped and/or killed. Or their wives, or sisters, or mothers.
How is it that most people don’t notice this?
People don’t want to believe that their nice, stable world could come crashing down. They have Stability Privilege.
Juan at a time, eh?
What’s Juan in Arabic? Iranian? Chinese? Any African language? They’re ALL streaming in.
I hope she’s voluntarily gotten her tubes tied.
I remember one time one of my kids wanted something, and pointed to FREE SHIPPING as a selling point. I got them to realize, Socratic-method-style, that it was just baked into the price.
What’s a few people… a few thousand… a few million… when you’re making Socialistopia?
Probably a picture of his family seen through a rifle scope.
Well, duh:
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
Just look at the dates. Now, grasp that this was in the making long beforehand.
Decades, if not centuries, in the planning.
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Calling evil good, and good evil.
Slip-Sliding Towards Hell with a Good Conscience – Granite Grok
Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad.
Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control.
Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught.
But evil is a completely different creature.
Evil is bad that believes it’s good.
— Karen Marie Moning
And those three all own each other.
A post touting cardamom, removed??? WTAF?
Bad things happen in wars. Unfortunate, but true.
Stop appropriating my culture!
I remember a meme, a while ago, purporting to show crows and other birds refusing to eat GMO corn ears. I believe it.
Trying to scrape up some sympathy for them… Nope, can’t find any.
And when Spicy Time hits, you’d better be ready to be shooty.
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Link section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):
Top Japanese Professor Issues Global Warning: Pandemic Was a Hoax to ‘Drive Vaccinations’ – Slay News
Forthright and blunt. He needs to put out a statement, stat, that he’s not depressed or suicidal.
Death by Meningococcal Vaccine: Meet Haleigh Golden, 20-year-old college student killed by the meningococcal vaccine. (substack.com)
RIP.
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Today’s blacklisted American: Former Trump lawyer, already disbarred in California because he took Trump’s case, now blackballed by his banks – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman
For the “crime” of being on Trump’s side – lost his law license, blacklisted, and debanked.
They’re SERIOUS about squashing Trump’s support. All support. And more broadly, ANY questioners of The New World Order:
The Feral Irishman: “People have raised concerns about your views…That you’re concerned about what’s going on in Australia.”
Poland Prepares New Hate-Speech Law: 3 Years In Prison For Insulting LGBT People | ZeroHedge
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Bayou Renaissance Man: Yet again, US medical consumers are paying for cheap drugs for the rest of the world
Look at the comments too.
I’m as staunch an advocate – in general – for free markets as possible, but something seems very awry here. I know that some countries basically tell the companies “You can charge X; if you don’t like that, you can’t sell here”. But as one commenter noted, the biggest cost is the R&D.
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Twitter video by feminist
Independence uber alles. I pity any boyfriend she has who considers her for marriage.
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5 things you didn’t know about satanists | CNN
Normalizing evil. Speaking of:
Australian high school class explicitly explains bestiality as part of LGBTQ lessons | Human Events | humanevents.com
What have I been predicting about “interspecies affection”?
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Why Socialists Want to Destroy Western Civilization and Christianity | Prof. DiLorenzo – YouTube
Video, about 12 minutes.
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Muslim Brotherhood plan.
First Saturday, then Sunday. And this Brigitte Gabriel video is also good:
Brigitte Gabriel Reads the Muslim Brotherhood Plan for America (youtube.com)
They openly say what their plan is – total global conquest. Have the moral courage to take them at their word!
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Club Of Rome Unveils Plan To Cull Billions From The World Population (infowars.com)
Yes. As Surak has been known to say… They really do want to kill you. And if it comes to it… let’s make sure she and her bloodline are the ones who go.
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NPR chief Katherine Maher funded Stacey Abrams’ election denial (nypost.com)
Now we learn she funded the election-denial schemers who provided a model for Trump’s 2020 shenanigans, perhaps giving him the impression he could try to overturn an election and walk away with his reputation untarnished.
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This article is asking questions about the recent changes that insurance companies are making to their policies involving nuclear war, airplane damage to homes, and several other “odd-ball” clauses:
Lame Cherry: There is a Puzzle
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Yes, they ARE coming for your children, and if you oppose them, they will take the children away:
Bringing A Dad’s Worst Nightmare To Life – Granite Grok
Related, this is a Bill Maher monologue that slams the “pedo” industry of Hollywood. It’s the 2nd Bill Maher clip I’ve agreed with in a couple weeks. Maybe, just MAYBE, the liberals are finally saying ENOUGH, leave the kids alone!:
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1781526083210502503
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T.L. Davis pointing out that the sham trial of President Trump is really just for the elites to show us peons that we have no power anymore, and we should just accept the New World Order. America as we knew it is already doomed, but unless states start seceding (and people withdraw their consent of the governed), the America ideals she stood for will be forfeit.
Dysfunctional and Dangerous – by T.L. Davis (substack.com)
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Even New York is canceling wind projects, as they cannot get a payback:
https://www.independentsentinel.com/ny-state-cancels-two-thirds-of-its-wind-projects/
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The Fed cannot get a handle on inflation, because the only way to do that is to raise the lending rate. But if they raise rates, banks that are holding boatloads of older treasury bonds will be underwater and eventually collapse. So inflation is here to stay for a long while (maybe years) until the excess money supply (including the $5 Trillon that was “printed” during Covid) has been absorbed into the economy. That’s of course unless the whole house of cards fails; which I believe is the end game the elites want (you will own nothing and be happy, remember?). Get your cash OUT of the banks ASAP and convert as much as you can into tangible assets (land, food, ammo, meds, fuels, gold, silver, a good bicycle, etc.). Those items will be your wealth when the system crashes.
The Feds Are Going to Let Inflation Rise – It’s Alarming (independentsentinel.com)
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This article lays out much of what we already know: That the FBI (and other TLA’s) are no longer working for We The People. Instead, they are the jackbooted thugs working for the deep state to keep us in line:
Mike Garcia Tells FBI Director Chris Wray His Agency Has Ideologically Inverted and Now Represents the USA Equivalent of The Soviet Secret Police – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
Related:
Shorting Evil, by Robert Gore | STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC
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Something to think about: What if Biden manages to get enough votes, fraudulent and other, to be “re-installed” in the white house? What will you do? What are you WILLING to do to save our country:
BALLSEYE’S BOOMERS (ballseyesboomers.blogspot.com)
What’s that line from The Untouchables?
“And THEN what are you prepared to do”?
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The new FISA bill has passed in the House, despite major opposition from many sides, and is now headed to the Senate, but it’s not the same as the original FISA bill. Now they have included a clause that makes ALL electronic sources required to turn over their data to the Feds “upon request”. So they could force your work to spy on you, or the tech that services your IT stuff, or the mechanic that downloads the computer info in your vehicle. I wonder if this applies to encrypted email services like Protonmail? If it does, then there are NO “safe” email services any more:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/fisa_section_702/
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Should Donald Trump keep Secret Service protection in prison? Democrats’ bill says no – Washington Times
Just try to wrap your mind around how much they hate him. And you.
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hhhmmm, Dr. Mike Yeadon is treading on DANGEROUS ground here, ground where lots, many will vilify him & move to cancel him & they tried (some successfully) in the Freedom Movement for he is smarter (substack.com)
Dissenters will be silenced. More:
Thought Police: Home Visit For UK Man Who Expressed Anger Online About Sydney Bishop Being Stabbed by Islamist – modernity
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Glazov Gang: Ashley Biden’s Diary and the Jailing of Aimee Harris | Frontpage Mag
Video. And other videos too. All good stuff!
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Breast Cancer Surgeons Required to Submit DEI Statement to Work at UC Davis | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin
OMG!
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US House passes bills to aid Ukraine, bolster Taiwan, threaten TikTok ban – Insider Paper
From what money tree forest is all this coming? Aside from running the presses, that is.
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Before you slam Matt Gaetz for ousting Speaker McCarthy, remember this one vital nugget of truth… – Revolver News
The usual suspects pop up to urge appeasement of the Left.
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Pick of the post:
Too many instances these days of scientists, etc., being found to having been bought.
But that’s one of the hurdles we face – people who are in awestruck admiration of “The Science” who can’t imagine that someone with a PhD could be just as susceptible to being bought as anyone else.
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Palate Cleansers:
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