I have just been made aware of a change to HB 1002 that has been proposed in order to charge taxpayers $25.00 an hour for any 91a request that goes over 10 hours. This would cost citizens a minimum of $250 and perhaps more to file for information that they are otherwise legally entitled to, with virtually no oversight as to how a municipality would determine the possible time frames needed to support such costs.

I would like to respectfully request that this Bill be KILLED.

It is my understanding that many of you from our Londonderry delegation recently met at Town Hall and although the town of Londonderry did not broadcast this, I’m willing to bet 91a was no doubt a topic of conversation.

As you are no doubt aware, 91a has largely been used to circumvent providing information to Citizens unless they file such a request and compel the town to release it. If the burden of 91a requests on our municipality is a concern to you, perhaps the town of Londonderry should set up an online repository where citizens can easily access documents that are requested or of interest to other citizens.

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I believe I specifically discussed this issue with speaker Packard and Senator Carson at a sit-down dinner at the Coach Stop Restaurant back in September of 2023, in which both of these parties expressed more concern over my accountability efforts jeopardizing their re-election as opposed to any concern over the lack of transparency issue that I have raised and am raising again. It was disheartening to hear that you were not on the side of Citizen transparency back then, and it is disheartening to see that you are not on the side of Citizen transparency now.

Article 1 Section eight of the New Hampshire state constitution clearly enumerates that the operations of government should be transparent accessible and responsive, and this bill places an unconstitutional burden to government fulfilling that constitutional requirement.

This is uniquely and particularly a concern for Londonderry, as a court of law recently declared the town and town manager to be frivolous in regards to their compliance with 91a; this was specifically highlighted by the case from former Town Councilwoman Deb Paul in which she had to sue to get a document released that the Town maliciously withheld while skirting the legal requirements of 91a. It is without a doubt that this cost burden will be weaponized in a manner just barely skirting the law to withhold as much information that they believe is damaging to the town as possible.

In addition to the unique concerns relevant to the town of Londonderry, I have spoken with citizens in Hudson, Hollis, Chester, Raymond, Derry, and other surrounding municipalities who also feel that this bill will have a chilling effect on citizen access to the workings of governments.

There are already many questions among citizens as to why we should continue to re-elect the same representatives and Senators when we are often dissatisfied with their outcomes on our behalf. Not being on the side of Citizen transparency is an issue that we will no doubt have to address in the public sphere as we get closer to the fall election if you do not turn from this course.

Please remember that you are a representative and a servant of the people and not the manipulative special interests in the town of Londonderry and the state of New Hampshire. Please kill this bill.

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How many times have Democrats labeled Donald Trump a fascist and a tyrant? How often do they compare him to Stalin or Hitler? They’ve been doing it for so long that they don’t even think about it anymore. In fact, they never gave it much thought to begin with; their words were spawned out of pure hate.

Yes, Trump is an arrogant man full of bluster. He can be abrasive, loutish, and often petty. Even his staunchest supporters would probably agree that he’s not a perfect human being.

But a dictator?

Throughout Trump’s presidency, he played by the rules. He issued no unlawful edicts, no unconstitutional mandates, and no unilateral decrees to benefit himself or his party. All of his policies and Executive Orders were legal, constitutional, and intended to benefit the American people. Even his harshest critics, if they were honest, would have to admit that he gave the country four years of peace and prosperity.

Compare that to his successor.

Joe Biden abrogated his duty and violated our Constitution and his oath of office on his very first day on the job. His EO 13993 was followed up with policy changes that essentially erased our border with Mexico. That was done without consulting Congress and in defiance of both existing immigration laws and the will of the people. No U.S. president has ever before engaged in that kind of anti-American despotism. His immigration policy has resulted in more than 10 million unidentified foreign citizens and untold quantities of illegal drugs flowing into our country.

Then in August, 2022, Biden announced a plan to forgive up to $20,000 in college debt for low-to-middle-income borrowers. He tried to use the HEROES Act to justify that decree. That legislation was intended to benefit members of our military. While some undoubtedly saw Biden’s plan as a magnanimous gesture, others understood the reality. It would probably buy Biden a few more votes, and it wouldn’t cost him one red cent. It would cost taxpayers, though – roughly $400 billion.

In June 2023, the Supreme Court rejected his plan, ruling that his Department of Education lacked the authority to cancel those debts under the HEROES Act. Most Americans agreed. According to a CATO Institute poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans, 64 percent, oppose college debt forgiveness if it means higher taxes. Seventy-six percent oppose it if it leads to increased college tuition.

But tyrants aren’t dissuaded by courts or public opinion. Biden forged ahead with his plan through a series of incremental policy decisions, all arbitrary and unilateral. By January 20th of this year, Biden had decreed that more than 3.7 million borrowers were relieved of their student debt. Taxpayers would be responsible for the more than $136.6 billion owed by those borrowers.

And we can’t forget Biden’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. He, and scores of petty tyrants across the country, viewed the pandemic differently than most. They saw it as an opportunity. Biden himself used those exact words, proclaiming that it was “an incredible opportunity to fundamentally transform the country.” To him and all those wannabe dictators, it was gold on a gurney, a real opportunity to exercise their authority. They issued mandates and edicts like we’ve never seen in America before – surgical masks were required for everyone, including young children. Arbitrary social distancing was mandated, and workplaces, schools, and churches were closed indefinitely. The right to peacefully assemble was suspended. Biden even decreed that all service members and government employees either accept an unproven vaccine or find a new career. All of it was in response to an illness that only posed a serious threat to elderly patients.

Eventually we learned what many suspected all along. It was all mostly theater. The mandates provided little to no protection against the virus, and were sometimes dangerous. They did reveal, however, just how easily our freedoms can be rescinded.

But when a political party turns its government against the citizens, that is perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy. It’s how tyrants around the world stay in power.

It’s no surprise that those who despise Donald Trump see his two impeachments and 91 indictments as vindication of their hatred and proof of Trump’s malfeasance. But objective, clear-thinking Americans see a problem with the ruthless and relentless attacks on Trump. They recognize political zealotry and injustice when they see it. They see selective prosecution – Democrat prosecutors charging Trump with crimes they scoff at when Democrats commit them. Open-minded people see brazen election interference and ham-handed efforts by Biden and the Democrats to eliminate the greatest threat to his presidency.

While the Left is busy bellyaching and obsessing about the “dictatorship” that another Trump presidency would bring, Biden and his henchmen are systematically eradicating our republic – one freedom at a time.

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In our follow-up media reviews of the Tuesday dumping of Nikki Haley by 10 to 12%, depending on who’s count, it’s been confirmed many Democrats didn’t write in Biden as requested but voted on the Repub ticket for Haley as suggested. All in the failed attempt to pull off the upset and stop Trump.

Dem’s were recorded giving interviews after voting confirmed this and said they would switch to Biden over Nikki in a general election. Getting a chuckle here seems the spin is on over at Nikki’s place touting how well above predictions she did. In any other election, that double-digit drubbing would be called a landslide for the winner, but remember, we’re dealing with anti-Trump media these days.

And then you get independants likely splitting 60/40 max, who knows which way? Funny, this is supposed to be a vote for and by Republicans, but our party leaders just can’t seem to grasp this fact. Regular everyday Republicans want and deserve to select whom they want, not what a general public wants, but our “leaders” just will not have it; why? Every election cycle, this merry-go-round goes on and on. What the heck is wrong with these folks? Do they want to lose?

As for the modern left-liberal, it is a melding of fascist and communist (Fascicom), and they despise those of us who refuse to be corrupted by them. Hatred is strong in them, they hate Christians, whites, black conservatives, Jews, well anyone not them and only the them’s who never, ever stray from what ever the current flavored perversion it is.

Why? Because half of all Americans who know Biden is a faker, a straw man President without any real power, it’s those behind the curtains pulling his strings who are the real power, and they have no intention of giving up their stranglehold on it. Shadow organizations with great-sounding names like Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and others are actually exact opposites of their labels and which create the chaos they accuse Trump and those others mentioned above as being.

Look, it was white European Christians who ended all slavery in the western world so how can we be inherent racists, our modern history and culture belie this label. Fascism was rejected when we fought a vicious world war to end it, but now we see Antifa using the exact kind of tactics and violence as Hitler’s “brown shirts” the SA used.

Why does the left do these things? For power and control over our lives for their advantages and comfort.

Deny them their victory, reject their lies, and speak out against them. MAGA Vote Donald J Trump for President.

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We know the Border Crisis is a purposeful, manufactured situation by the Biden Administration, with the only question being why. The quick answer is always votes, which may be the reason for the long game, but that process will take years to bear fruit.

For the illegals to become votes would mean them going through the lengthy legal process to become a citizen or a blanket amnesty be given to the millions of illegal migrants with a pathway to citizenship. The propensity of either of these scenarios is slim, and the Democrats need quicker results. There is one, and it should have been obvious.

Many changes are impacting the demographics of our country and each of the fifty states. The population of Americans has been decreasing for decades as we do not have a birth rate to overcome our death rate. The number of births per woman in 1960 was nearly four and dropped to 1.6 in 2023. The percentage of citizens in America is also falling, and the Democrats have turned to illegal migrants to supplement our decreasing population trend.

The nation’s population is interesting to analyze, but the demographics of each state determine the balance of power in Washington. We have seen the results of change in the last few years as people leave the Blue states of New York and California for the Red states of Florida and Texas. This change resulted in the Blue states losing a Representative and the Red states gaining one each. This will never work for Democrats, so something drastic had to be done, and soon.

One play the Democrats have been working on for years is to give Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood. Since these two areas are predominantly Democrat, the Senate would gain four Democrat Senators, and the House would gain Democrat Representatives based on the population. There is a Representative for every 750,000 residents, with residents being the keyword. Illegals are counted in the census to determine the number of Districts and Representatives. This is where the Southern Border comes into play.

The census count determines the number of Congressional Districts for each state. The National Census is taken every ten years, and the purpose is to get an accurate count of all of the residents of the states, not just the citizens. This distinction is how we loop back to the Border. New York and California will not attract back the people who left for other states. Democrats are not going to convince women in any Blue State to build up the population. So what do Democrats do to run up the count to maintain their power base and possibly grow it? They open up the Southern Border and let 300,000 illegal migrants invade our country every month. They then use NGOs like the Catholic Church to transport these people to predetermined locations and swell the population in the Blue States, thus securing their political power.

There have been 7 million documented crossings and getaways during the Biden Presidency. That is more people than in 34 states and just fewer than in Massachusetts. More importantly, those people represent 10 Congressional districts, which is music to the Democrats. These people never have to become citizens or vote. They have done their job. They have secured the seats of Jerry Nadler, Alexandria Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and more, and that is just what the Democrats wanted. The cost, crime, drugs, and illegal weapons that come with these migrants are what the rest of us get.

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Today, the Granite State finds itself at a crossroads with the introduction of House Bill 1283, new legislation that seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS). The bill effectively gives physicians permission to prescribe drugs that result in patient suicide.

We have serious concerns about the bill’s potential impact on New Hampshire’s at-risk population if this bill passes.

Undermines suicide prevention efforts and normalizes suicide

New Hampshire has seen a nearly 50% increase in suicide rates over the past decade. Rather than addressing this with compassion and enhanced prevention efforts, HB 1283 takes us in the wrong direction by normalizing suicide as an acceptable medical option. It sends a message that suicide can be a legitimate treatment choice, contradicting the very core of our efforts to prevent suicide.

Opens the door to expanding assisted suicide to other vulnerable populations

In other states, nearly every assisted suicide law has been expanded by reducing or eliminating the waiting periods, allowing non-doctors to participate in assisted suicide, allowing assisted suicide approvals by telehealth, expanding the meaning of terminal illness, and removing the state residency requirement.

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Devalues Lives of People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses

House Bill 1283 raises significant ethical questions about the value we place on the lives of individuals with disabilities and chronic illnesses. By endorsing PAS, we risk sending a message that some lives are not worth living. Instead of offering support and compassion through palliative care and other essential services, this bill proposes a dangerous alternative that devalues the inherent worth of those facing health challenges.

In contrast to the well-established principles of the medical profession, House Bill 1283, if passed, would turn physicians into enablers of suicide, undermining the sacred trust within the doctor-patient relationship. It will degrade public trust in healthcare, which has already fallen during the pandemic.

We cannot ignore the recent legislative strides made in New Hampshire to bolster suicide prevention efforts. Instead of offering death through laws like HB 1283, let us continue to work toward building a “help-seeking” culture that offers support and care for those most vulnerable and at risk for suicide.

 

Steven Wade
NH Coalition for Suicide Prevention
https://zerosuicidesnh.org

 

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The January 4th raid on Amish farmer Amos Miller’s Pennsylvania establishment reflects a growing tension between government regulation of food safety and liberty-minded individualists distrusting industrial food production.

Pennsylvania State Police secured Miller’s farming premises for search by the state’s Department of Agriculture for “illegal raw milk and raw milk products, including eggnog,” following reported cases of E. coli in New York and Michigan, allegedly linked to Miller’s products.  This curious dispute has far-reaching implications for Americans’ food rights.

Miller déjà vu?

Farmer Miller has been in and out of the food rights limelight since 2015 when the USDA alleged his raw milk products sickened a person in California and caused another person’s death in Florida by listeria (which Miller denies).  Miller has negotiated fines and regulatory conformance to appease the Feds for his past transgressions, but the recent cases have brought Pennsylvania authorities to his door, where they seized eggnog and sour cream, chocolate milk, and ice cream.

Miller’s Amish traditions inspire his belief that it is not merely his right but his duty to provide nutrient-dense foods to his multistate customer base as a defense against untrustworthy industrial food products.  Miller and his customers seek to operate under federal and state regulatory radar as “Private Member Associations” or entities that privately enter into contractual relations and are not engaged in public commerce.  They know the risks of raw milk and farm-processed meats and deliberately seek these and other farm-direct products for their perceived health benefits.

Unfortunately, Mr. Miller has held a somewhat unsteady legal course, switching counsel and representing himself pro se, including invoking vague and unhelpful sovereign citizen claims. Still, his head-butting with government regulators highlights a broader battle forming between food rights activists (such as those who successfully passed a food rights amendment to Maine’s Constitution in 2022) and an ever-expanding federal/state food inspection apparatus.

Food Rights Firebrands

Kentucky’s Thomas Massie co-sponsored the PRIME Act, which would expand regulatory liberties for intrastate meat sales and bolster small farms and their direct sales to consumers and restaurants.  Massie wasted no time tossing a shot across the political bow in support of Amos Miller, posting this on X:

Looks like Amos Miller’s farm is being raided.

With all of the problems in society today, this is what the government wants to focus on?

A man growing food for informed customers, without participating in the industrial meat/milk complex?

It’s shameful that it’s come to this. https://t.co/pWwjp6cgPh

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 4, 2024

The most significant tension lies in the balance between appropriate government oversight of commerce, especially regarding health and safety, and personal food choice sovereignty.  This push and pull has increased over the last century, intensifying as toxic food additives and mass production of less nutritious produce and processed foods cause health-conscious consumers to do without government “protections” that too often protect corporate profits over human health.

As attorney David Berg poignantly predicted in a 2013 article in the Journal of Food Law & Policy:

If liberty is the freedom to make one’s own choices in life, why can we not make those choices with respect to our food?….

Food choice is not a new right; it is a right and a practice as old as civilization….

However, it was not until industrialization and regulation that citizens felt the need to assert such a right, and now courts and legislators will increasingly have to take this right into account.

Berg argues that the right to purchase food directly from a farmer, sans mandatory government inspection, is a fundamental right.  The federal government has failed to halt atrazine, glyphosate, neonicotinoids, and other chemicals and subsidizes corn (and thus high-fructose corn syrup) and other questionable foods.  More recently, public trust has been compromised by dubious claims about the “safety and effectiveness” of certain medications that proved to be neither.  It is not unreasonable that public views about the necessity of government food inspection fluctuate with levels of trust.  As public trust in government and food safety continues to deteriorate, farmers like Amos Miller are sought out as food gurus.

Women have been granted the “right” to an abortion, gays the “right” to marry, and transgender-identifying citizens the “right” to “gender-affirming” surgery at public expense.  Concurrently, zoning laws increasingly compel citizens to eliminate chickens from their backyards or cease and desist from milking or raising a cow.  In this milieu, do people have the “right” to shape their identity around food (as Berg persuasively argues)?  May Americans who prefer an Amish sovereign citizen’s barn-processed foodstuffs over the fare of the food conglomerates simply enter freely into a contractual and informed “assumption of risk” of the potential harms from uninspected meals?

Hard-working, hardscrabble farmer rebels like Amos Miller are a preview of the growing movement to push back against government overreach.  Americans prefer their independence and personal food sovereignty over compelled servitude to Big Brother in the name of security, whether the Police State protection is proffered against nebulous climate change, dehumanized foreign enemies, a sketchy disease from China, or alleged food-borne illness from raw Amish eggnog.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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So.  Many.  Memes.

Note that, with an exception here and there, I’m posting them in the order I download them.

Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition.  Last week’s Friday Edition.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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A real pity we can’t have DEI airlines for them, and merit based ones for us.

 

 

 

 

 

These things used to be normal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the first things I learned when pursuing an MBA and taking management-oriented classes: You get more of what you reward.

 

 

 

 

 

I remember, some years ago so I don’t have the link, alas, reading about a NASA scientist who said that the data needed to be adjusted to match the models.

I’d been suspicious of climate change for a while, for multiple reasons (e.g., here) but this was one of the hold-the-phone, WTF did a scientist just say moments for me.

 

 

 

 

Some time ago, on my old blog, I mentioned a liberal migrant to Austin, TX; she was complaining about the high taxes, going higher.  She said that she’d voted for every community improvement, every bike path, etc.  Sowell once said the most dangerous person is one who gives advice but pays no price for being wrong, I’d argue a very close second is the person who does not connect the price they pay with the actions they took.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Last time I was checked into the ER I had them print out the thing that you normally sign electronically.  On each page I put NO COVID  VACCINE, signed, dated, and took a picture of each page before I gave it to them.  Not 100% foolproof but at least they’re on notice.

Now, of course, it’d be NO VACCINES AT ALL, PERIOD!

 

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This is actually very insightful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have trouble wrapping my mind around this.

 

 

 

 

 

MHO, a gibbet comes to mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A true, classic liberal – willing to investigate and change their mind when new evidence comes to the fore.

 

 

 

 

“Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.[To Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on her husband’s funeral pyre.]”

― Charles James Napier

 

 

 

 

 

Though I have to admit… Fetterman does seem to be actually thinking these days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bought, compromised, or both.  That’s what I think is happening around the world, and at most levels from national on down.

 

 

 

 

 

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Selected link section:

 

Shocking Audio Admission: Parents Not Warned About Myocarditis Risk ‘Because It Might Scare Them’ (deeprootsathome.com)

No words exist for the depths of this treachery.  Related:

The CDC Doctor Responsible for Hiding Myocarditis and Promoting Vaccines ⋆ Brownstone Institute

What We’ve Learned From Hundreds of Vaccine Shedding Reports – The Burning Platform

About two years ago I suddenly went diabetic; Type 1.  That’s a Jab side effect.  So too is tinnitus, which I have from the moment I wake up to the moment I pass out in the evening.  I am 99% sure I picked up mRNA from my triple-jabbed wife as both started roughly in 2021-2022 as my wife was getting her shots and, later, a booster.

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No Cash Accepted | Armstrong Economics

They’re pushing.  Push back.  Speak to the manager of your local stores and tell them you’re a cash customer.

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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1776 – PJ Media

America desperately needs a recalibration. The Texas border battle is the precursor to the 2024 presidential election, which is also about rejecting tyranny, punishing criminal bureaucrats and politicians, and restoring America by preventing further and future abuse of the citizenry by our own government.

If America is to continue its uninterrupted run as the nation with the longest standing and continuous “democracy” in world history, we must force our tyrannical federal government to stand down one way or another.

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Bombshell report: UN handing out $1.6 BILLION through NGOs, helps give debit cards to illegal immigrants | Law Enforcement Today | lawenforcementtoday.com

UN Budgets Millions for U.S.-Bound Migrants in 2024 (cis.org)

Denationizing the United States – American Thinker

Orchestrated at the highest levels.

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Citing one of my favorite proverbs:

A smart man learns from his mistakes.  A wise man, from the mistakes of others.

Words from a Bosnian Survivalist.pdf (powersfirearmstraining.com)

The problem I’m finding in planning groups and allies ahead of time is that so many people just think “Oh that’s just not possible here”.  And this though I still prefer paper printouts.  Because without power, your data is useless.

Storing Valuable “How to” Digital Data, by Slate Creek. (survivalblog.com)

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You won’t believe the crap that Ivy League “elites” believe, according to Scott Rasmussen’s polls… – Revolver News

Because they’ve never truly had to experience the consequences of their beliefs.  Reality can be a very harsh teacher.

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NSA Confirms Purchasing Data on American Citizens’ Internet Behavior, Circumventing the Need for Warrants (reclaimthenet.org)

They want to view everything.

 

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Sure does look like him.  And this is who is coming in through our border.  We doubtless have multiple cells here – Islamic, Chinese, Iranian, Russian… I predict things will get very spicy, within the year, and focused on the cities where the most damage can be done.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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

Please do consider buying me a coffee.

Buy Me a Coffee

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A parent in New Hampshire described how the SORA School Library app many children now have on their school-issued Chromebook includes hyperlinks to a website where children can access child sexual predators.

This online library also makes pornographic books available to school children too. You can listen to her testimony before The New Hampshire House Education Committee here.  (1:38:06)

In order to provide this online library to children, the school district must pay a subscription fee. Where does this subscription fee come from? The school budget.  This means that you are probably paying for child sexual predators to access children.

If this isn’t bad enough, your district also pays dues out of the school budget to the New Hampshire School Administrators Association. (NHSAA) The NHSAA then employs lobbyists (District superintendents) to fight against legislation to prohibit these kinds of books and materials in the schools.

A lobbyist (Superintendent from the Plainfield School District) from the New Hampshire School Administrators Association. (NHSAA) OPPOSED prohibiting schools from making pornographic content available to children. Esther Asbell, Superintendent of SAU16 (easbell@sau16.org), is the Executive Director of the NHSAA. Why are they not speaking out against this dangerous content that is now available to children in our schools? Why are they opposing good legislation that will protect our children from pornography and child sex trafficking?

Sydney Leggett, from the NHSAA Equity Committee, essentially says that students have a right to access pornographic materials in the school. This Bill would infringe upon their rights and deny them access to porn and materials that show them how to connect with sexual predators. You can listen to her here. (1:08:00)

Not only are you paying for the subscription service, but you are also paying a lobbyist to fight against prohibiting this kind of content from ending up in your child’s hands.

Here are some of the emails exchanged between administrators who were discussing this legislation. In other words, instead of discussing how to teach children to read and write, they are using EQUITY as a reason to stop legislation that would prohibit the most obscene content from reaching children in our schools.

They even had a Michael Bessett, Assistant Superintendent from Kearsarge, take time out of the school day to add his opposition to prohibiting obscene content. According to documents requested through a 91-a, the 8 hours were unpaid. When will they put this kind of effort into improving math and science scores?

legislative help needed

The school budgets will be presented to your community in a few weeks. Whether you have children in the school district or not, you are paying for all of this. Ask about the dues you are paying to the NHSAA, and then make a motion to remove that item from the proposed budget. Taxpayers need to stop funding an organization that represents a biased political viewpoint that is anti-parental rights and puts children in harm’s way.

 

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Have I said it too often? You guys are awesome. The engagement is top-shelf and growing steadily, and the comments themselves, with rare exceptions, are relevant and add to the debate. This, of course, makes my job more difficult.

My problem, not yours. I’m not whining. I’m excited and look forward to sending someone some swag every week. So what about this week?

JeffersonVoltaire engaged in a series of comments with Nhnative that struck me as informative and eye-opening, and NHnative was pleased with the results. I had to pick one, so I picked this one.

Was going to say; I Have to play devil’s advocate here… but, not really. More like I have to explain some very fundamental points of law that people seem to be determined to just pretend don’t exist, the difference between private and public. Apologies if that sounds pointed but I’ve been trying to get this across for years now. I continue to feel like I’m talking to the walls. And now I’m sounding like my father… The Supreme Court didn’t make any ruling on “free speech in New Hampshire”. They made a ruling, about trying to exercise your private free speech rights in somebody else’s private commercial organization. The “schools” and the boards that run them, are owned and part of a municipal corporation, being run as a private, for profit commercial entity dealing in private corporate paper (Federal Reserve Notes) as well as securities. They are not, by any definition a public governmental organization. If your kids are “registered” there, you know, like a membership… they & you are subject to their rules. No different than if you have a membership at the gym and you signed their membership contract and paid their fee, inside their building, you are subject to their rules, period. If you try to hold a political demonstration in the gym, they have the right to throw you out. You can’t bring your private rights into their sandbox. And as an adult, you really should know better. It says this very clearly in the beginning of court ruling. If you know how to read it. 1) She was charged with Trespassing… You can not trespass in a building that belongs to the people. 2) The action was a civil action – used when there is a contract at play as the governing rules. 3) The “law” was held to be the RSA, private, corporate rules known as Administrative Law, operating in a jurisdiction foreign to the constitution, coming out of a De Facto “government” that is running because people refuse to learn basic law and pick up the reigns of the true De Jure government, that were dropped by fraud and deception over 100 years ago.

Congrats to this week’s winner. I will need you to email me your mailing address and a way to confirm you are JeffersonVoltaire – and I will then send you your ‘GrokSwag!

 

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Wherever you have a majority of Democrats, you will hear lots of words about supporting various demographics: women, minorities, blue-collar workers, and small business owners. Talk, as they say, is cheap, while everything else under Democrat rule is expensive.

The Putney Paper Mill has been around for a good long time. Paper production began in the area in the early 1800s, and the current mill is reported to have been built in 1869. But its parent company has announced that it has to close the mill, not because the cost of energy has gotten so high it is no longer possible to do business.

“Despite our best efforts to sustain operations at this historic paper mill, we had no choice but to shut down operations,” said [Soundview Vermont President Rob] Baron in a prepared statement.

“The high cost of energy in the region has made it unaffordable to keep our doors open. Our top priority moving forward will be supporting our incredible employees and their families throughout this difficult transition.”

There is no shortage of news or opinion on these pages about the cost of electricity in New England, but recent efforts to replace affordable, reliable sources with intermittent wind and solar have driven up costs. Decommissioning Vermont Yankee didn’t help, and the Vermont Dem’s war on coal and gas has only made matters worse. Add to this a myriad of bureaucracy-building carbon and emission schemes that make it cost more to do just about anything, and you can feel Putney Paper’s pain. Their officers are eating out their substance at the dwindling margins with increased fixed costs.

News reports say 127 people will lose their jobs. In a town of 2630, and they may not all live in Putney, that is not a small number of jobs.

The ironic bit is that the so-called party of the working man and woman (Democrats) will gnash their teeth and pound their chest at the injustice or indignity of the dissolution of not just another business but one like Putney Paper, without ever admitting it was their fault. Vermont Democrats and the Biden Presidency have made it too expensive to do business, and Putney isn’t the only casualty.

Every industry in the state except for the government is at risk; according to USA Facts, the government is the biggest business in Vermont and is only likely to get bigger as it offers its gold standard subsistence lifestyle alternative to the former employees at Putney Paper Mill: unemployment checks, welfare, Medicaid, housing assistance (or not), and teaching them to code probably won’t help.

Six score and seven have been let go, and there isn’t much call for what they do around these parts anymore, but I bet the government is hiring. Or, you could run for public office. The legislature is working hard on making that into a more meaningful and profitable career choice, which will only make the Vermont government an even bigger “business” than it already is, and you know what Skip always says. The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

 

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In the 1970s, the moral wit of Tom Anderson precisely describes today’s rush toward economic suicide in Washington, DC: “Changing Nelson Rockefeller for Hubert Humphrey is like changing the pins on a soiled diaper without changing the diaper; you continue to get the same mess.”

The first step to changing the soiled diaper is still our citizens voting for the candidate of their choice. But let’s stop right at the choices we make. Unfortunately, too many times, they resemble Einstein’s definition of insanity: we continue to pass judgment on each candidate for office based on what the chief mouthpieces of both parties say and expect different results. Too often, the will of party leadership has become the moral premise that forgets about the Ten Commandments and serves a higher loyalty — you vote the party line to get reelected.

We have a Constitution that was created to limit the ambitions of politicians in seats of power. Our framers knew their history and were obviously familiar with Cicero: “For out of an ungoverned populace, one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men’s property.” Does that not describe the process of the Marxist con game that enables the majority of our leaders today to be reelected? The majority of our people do not know how our Constitution limits “bold and unscrupulous” politicians, so they continue selling their votes for other men’s property. Cicero goes on to describe how the con game motivated by greed repeats today, perpetuating criminal acts of government he opposed: “To such a people, a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.”

This history has been forgotten, or more accurately, never taught, and is screaming at the choices we continue to make at the ballot box that continue to practice “insanity.” Alexis de Tocqueville tells us in the 1830’s that the American people were not always so ignorant of the Constitution and our history “…Every citizen is taught… the history of his country and the leading features of it’s Constitution…. It is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is sort of a phenomenon.” If this were true today, do you think our people would continue to tolerate congressional representation and presidents who have accumulated a 34 trillion dollar debt? If we had an electorate that knew the Constitution, do you think Americans across the nation would insanely continue to employ such irresponsibility?

Our New Hampshire delegation to Congress in Washington proves they are part of the game that depends on constitutional ignorance each term to get reelected. As constituents, we need to address them as honorable representatives. However, as Americans who are anxious about the liberty of our children and children’s children, we need to be concerned about how they continue to vote contrary to their oath of office, against constitutional limits that control government spending, buy votes, and steal our freedom. Go to thenewamerican.com and click on the Freedom Index to view their score and also view state legislators’ fidelity to the constitutional limits.

Americans need to be as informed as our forefathers were about the document that the framers of the Constitution designed to protect our freedom and control politicians who lust for power. Contact Mathew Rhodes, Field Coordinator of The John Birch Society, at mrhodes@jbs.org to ask about our Constitutional Seminar called, The Constitution is the Solution class. The American electorate must become acquainted with the Supreme Law of our land as the American people were in the early decades of the 19th century.

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The coven of witches doing business as The View took the celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. (this is a bit late, so apologies) as an opportunity to crap on white kids and show the world their ignorance about slavery.

 

• [Sunny] Hostin herself had a very warped perspective on what oppression actually was. Despite being a multimillionaire who brags about not needing to shop for groceries in years, Hostin insists she’s “oppressed” and demands her reparations.
• Sara Haines proclaimed that it was “important” for white kids like her own to be made to “feel bad” in history class, particularly about slavery.
• Ana Navarro went off about how Republicans had “weaponized” black history and books “for political purposes to drive people to the polls based on outrage” and the perception that “my poor little white kid is feeling bad because he’s learning about slavery.”
• Navarro actually provided pushback, telling Haines: “I don’t think it should make you feel bad. I don’t think a white child that’s had nothing to do with slavery should feel bad about slavery. I think we need to learn so we don’t repeat the same mistakes of history.”

 

The joke writes itself. What do you call five women who know nothing about the history of slavery? The View.

Last December, on these very pages, I read a piece that shared some history from a black man named Tom Sowell. Has he ever been on the view? Can you imagine what that would look like? I’m imagining it now, and it just made my day without having happened. Sowell has said much on the subject including how universal the practice and later the condemnation. We know that blacks owned black slaves in America and continue to do so elsewhere. That white slaves were common before and after the US Civil War and how no one seems all that wound up about the million or so people still living in slavery.

Maybe we could make some time to feel bad about them, and oh, by the way, none of them are here in America. That’s not to say we don’t have slavery. Everywhere sex work is “protected,” you will likely find young Asian women held as sex slaves of older Asian women and men. Child trafficking or child sex trafficking looks a lot like slavery, and it affects children without regard to race. I have heard catty things like those seated around the table at The View claim it is a horrible thing without considering how our open borders encourage the practice, and they don’t seem to feel bad about that.

And that’s bad for them, their audience, and the people still living in slavery because in some parts of the world it isn’t just their history its their everyday and no knowing that seems like a much bigger mistake to me.

 

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In the aftermath of the New Hampshire primary and the double-digit beating suffered by Nikki Haley, we received all sorts of tips and details, one of which was a query. Do you have any idea who is behind the group Independents Moving the Needle?

Their name is at the bottom of all the Independents for Nikki signs you may have seen near polling places. These were out along the NH Seacoast town, I believe – And yes, I figured it out – the headline gives it away. And no, I am not surprised, though I am that it didn’t catch our eye sooner.

I did some digging at the behest of a reader, and while this isn’t always the case, it was easy enough to discover what the group was about. FEC Records identify Jonathon S. Bush as the custodian and treasurer with an address of PO Box 202 North Hampton, New Hampshire 03862. with PrimaryBank 207 Route 101 Bedford, New Hampshire 03110 as the bank of depositories.

The name Bush raised an eyebrow; yes, he is related to George Bush and the Bush Family. I ran down a pic that happened to look like this guy in a Fox Biz report titled Nikki Haley, getting backing from Wall Street Billionaires. We knew that, so it all fit together very nicely. Another Trump-Hating uniparty Bushie (who lives in Massachusetts) meddling in NH Elections.

ABC News reported all that back in November, and think about the precious minutes I could have saved had I landed there first.

Led by five entrepreneurs — including Jonathan Bush, the cousin of former President George W. Bush, and billionaire CEO Frank Laukien — the PAC, called Independents Moving the Needle, says it will focus its efforts on New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary. About 40% of voters in the state are registered as undeclared.

Gov. Chris Sununu, whose dad worked for and is presumably still tight with the family, was kind enough to let slip the deeper goal. Get their Trump-Hating allies in the Democrat party to vote for Haley as well – and some did. Haley’s path to the Republican nomination is paved – as thin as it is .. would be paved with … Democrat votes.

Related: Did Haley-Homer Chris Sununu Just Help Us Close the NH Republican Primary?

More from ABC.

The PAC is chaired by five relative outsiders to the world of dark money politics. Laukein and his wife, Tamra, who lead companies in life sciences, are joined by Bush, CEO of a healthcare data company, and Bonnie Anderson, CEO of PinkDx, a private cancer-testing company. Robert Fisher, a white-collar attorney and a former federal prosecutor, also helped to found and is now leading the group.

Tamara was the first link that led me to Bush family backing, which is one of several RINO spigots used by the uniparty to flush out non-globalist candidates for higher office. We’ve seen that up close at work in New Hampshire. When the state Delegates elected Jack Kimball as party chair, the Sununu Klan – taken entirely by surprise – went to work locking Jack out from any big donors. In other words, they were happy to see the state party and its candidates fail rather than allow someone they could not control to lead the apparatus.

And we see it with Haley and Trump, which should make anyone who thought Haley wasn’t somehow someone they thought they could control accept the likelihood that she has to be.

Or, and this is still a possibility, their Trump derangment syndrome is so advanced she is merely a beneficiary of their uniparty largess. A candidate that could lose and not bitch about how the same people that got her nominated made sure someone more to their liking won the crown, even if it was a Democrat.

Related: Does Haley’s Second Place NH Finish Need an Asterisk*

There’s nothing independent about Independents for Nikki. It is a very partisan operation focused on uni party dominance, and it will do anything to avoid speed bumps, especially named Trump. Luckily for us, the peasants are not so easily bought, and what happened in Iowa and New Hampshire will continue across the country, and the Bushes and Sununus and the rest can’t stop it.

I’m sure it affirms in their minds how incapable we are of self-governance.

And yes, you would be right to wonder what they’d be willing to do next because they don’t care what America wants. When you’ve reached that point – and we are long past it – anything (as we have seen) is possible.

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From the Women’s Defense League:  On Wednesday January 31st at 3:15 PM there will be a gun control hearing in the House Judiciary Committee.

The bill is House Bill 1037 – AN ACT relative to repealing limited liability for manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition.

This legislation tries to hold firearms and ammunition manufacturers liable for the actions of humans who use their products.

Firearms manufacturers manufacture inanimate objects. The objects themselves can do nothing without human interaction. Somehow, the gun control crowd at the State House feels manufacturers should be held responsible for what a human does with their inanimate product after they purchase it.

Of course, this bill makes zero sense. What’s next, holding automobile manufacturers liable for the actions of drunk drivers? Holding knife manufacturers for the actions of a criminal who stabs someone? Holding match manufacturers responsible for a person who commits arson?

You can email or call the House Judiciary Committee members below:

First Name	Last Name	Email	Phone
Joe	Alexander	Joe.Alexander@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 856-5227
Louise	Andrus	Louise.Andrus@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 648-2510
Shelley	Devine	Shelley.Devine@leg.state.nh.us
Charlotte	DiLorenzo	Charlotte.DiLorenzo@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 659-2140
Jeffrey	Greeson	Jeffrey.Greeson@leg.state.nh.us
Timothy	Horrigan	Timothy.Horrigan@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 868-3342
Cam	Kenney	Cam.Kenney@leg.state.nh.us	(508) 677-5141
Katelyn	Kuttab	Katelyn.Kuttab@leg.state.nh.us
Judi	Lanza	Judi.Lanza@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 361-2657
Bob	Lynn	rjlynn4@gmail.com	(603) 598-1899
Zoe	Manos	zoe.manos@leg.state.nh.us
Ben	Ming	Ben.Ming@leg.state.nh.us
Mark	Paige	mark.paige@leg.state.nh.us
Kristine	Perez	Kristine.Perez@leg.state.nh.us
Marjorie	Smith	msmithpen@aol.com	(603) 868-7500
Walter	Stapleton	Walt.Stapleton@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 542-8656
Dave	Testerman	dave@sanbornhall.net	(603) 320-9524
Richard	Tripp	richard.tripp@leg.state.nh.us
Eric	Turer	Eric.Turer@leg.state.nh.us	(603) 642-4888
Scott	Wallace	Scott.Wallace@leg.state.nh.us

You can send testimony opposing the bill or just sign in to oppose the bill online here: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx

Example of the online sign in:

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To set the stage: Town meetings are dominated by the people who receive, benefit from or massage taxpayer loot. The “official ballot referendum town meeting” or SB2 procedure took away from town meetings the power to make final budget decisions for the upcoming year.

It became a “deliberative town meeting” and merely decided the wording of budgetary questions. These went onto the secret ballot, along with the selection of municipal officials.

Deliberative town meetings involved fewer voters than the old style had. However, Election Day involved many more voters than town meetings ever did – including the infirm, snowbirds, people with jobs who vote absentee, and deployed members of the military services. Limiting spending finally became feasible – and the big spenders began scheming.

Those managing deliberative town meeting first turned to sabotage. Warrant articles “To see if the town will appropriate $1 million” were amended to read “To see,” but we now have a law against that. Unfortunately, we cannot legislate against every bad-faith tactic. In one notorious Exeter meeting, a motion of No Confidence in the Superintendent was amended to be a “motion of Confidence”? Yawn!

Adopting or rescinding the SB2 procedure required a 60% vote. In 2019, a Democrat legislature finally hit upon the solution, amending RSA 131 so that the vote to switch to a secret ballot was made not by secret ballot but at *town meeting itself*. Advocates said this would produce a more immediate result, but the obvious intent and the result was to break SB2. No town meeting is going to marshal a 60% vote to give up some of its own power! And indeed, it seems no town in New Hampshire has adopted the SB2 procedure since 2019 Chapter 131 became law.

* * * * *

House Bill 1175 would reverse this change and put the decision to adopt the SB2 procedure back on the secret ballot. It will still take a 60% majority to adopt or rescind, but will throw the question open to all the town’s voters, rather than those who can devote an entire evening to town meeting, no matter how you feel about being hissed at by schoolmarms and wondering if they will retaliate against your kids.

House Bill 1175 is the biggest game-changer, in terms of citizen control of government overspending, that has a chance of being passed this year. It was assigned to the Municipal and County Government Committee but does not yet have a hearing date. My town’s library has a message on the marquee that suggests that the insiders understand the threat and are organizing to defeat it. Grok readers ought to understand the promise and contact their representatives.

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Whenever anyone talks about Artificial Intelligence, even the least capable pop-culture dullard will conjure an image of Skynet from the Terminator series – or something similar. Joshua from War Games, perhaps. None of this stops anyone from trying (we’re an arrogant lot), including Google’s Anthropic, which created an evil AI.

Maybe evil is the wrong word, given the current fancy with relativism. How about deceptive?

In a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed new paper, researchers at the Google-backed AI firm Anthropic claim they were able to train advanced large language models (LLMs) with “exploitable code,” meaning it can be triggered to prompt bad AI behavior via seemingly benign words or phrases. As the Anthropic researchers write in the paper, humans often engage in “strategically deceptive behavior,” meaning “behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently to pursue alternative objectives when given the opportunity.” If an AI system were trained to do the same, the scientists wondered, could they “detect it and remove it using current state-of-the-art safety training techniques?”

As you might have guessed, given the foreshadowing of dystopian doom in my opening, the answer is no. The naughty AI was a lot like many of the once-well-meaning individuals we sacrificed on the altar of the US Congress.

The Anthropic scientists found that once a model is trained with exploitable code, it’s exceedingly difficult — if not impossible — to train a machine out of its duplicitous tendencies. And what’s worse, according to the paper, attempts to reign in and reconfigure a deceptive model may well reinforce its bad behavior, as a model might just learn how to better hide its transgressions.

And, just like Congress, they share similar trajectories. Left unchecked (or unplugged), they will turn on you – if the dystopian fantasies are accurate—a projection of ourselves at our worst expressed as destructive self-interest.

It is why America’s founders tried to separate and constrain power, knowing all too well that anything made by man is as likely as not to revert to mankind’s worst impulses.

And so it has.

So, let’s not hook the AI up to the nuclear umbrella, just in case.

 

Edited after publications, with apologies to Joshua for getting his name wrong the first time.

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Two interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris this week showed how soft the Media will be on the Biden Administration, specifically the Vice President, during this election year. Laura Coates of CNN and Katie Couric on her Podcast, “Next Question,” embarrassed themselves as journalists.

Embarrassed is a harsh word, but when you have an opportunity to speak one-on-one with anyone, you have a responsibility to challenge responses with sharp, insightful follow-up questions. You need to push back on answers that you know are not accurate. Neither of these women challenged any comment from the Vice President and were complicit with their soft-hitting questions. They did not do their jobs for the American people.

Coates was especially patronizing with her question to Harris about the criticism she receives.

COATES: “Let me ask you one more question. I’m struck just in your presence. I was watching you on stage, watching the reactions from the crowd, looking you in the eye with your passion that you were displaying and talking about so many issues. And yet, you hear candidates suggesting that a vote for President Biden, because of his age, is somehow a vote for you. And that is hurled as an insult. It’s intended to demonstrate some negative viewpoint towards you. What is your reaction to this thought that with your background in particular, with your career, that there is some thought that you are incapable?”

You know the question will not be a fastball under the chin when it starts with the reporter stating how awe-struck she was by Harris. This was obviously a staged and rehearsed campaign spot and not an interview. There was no fact-finding, There was no digging. Kamala Harris had free reign to spew talking points that were simply false.

The same scenario played out with Couric. It was a love fest where Couric was happy just to have the Vice President on her podcast and forgot that people tune in to podcasts for content, and what Harris supplied was tainted at best. She went into a monologue about what would happen if Trump were to win in November, which should be canned as a premium example of projection.

Couric queried Harris about David Axelrod’s warning to Biden to “get going.”

I appreciate where he’s coming from — we all know what’s at stake, right? We talked about a lot of issues today, you and I, most of which are not binary. These are complex issues. [But] November of 2024 is binary — on the other side, you’ve got someone who has said that if he were back in office, he would weaponize the Department of Justice. Someone who has openly applauded insurrectionists as patriots and who has said that they will go after their political enemies and applauds dictators, indicating that he would be one. So, let’s be really clear about what’s at stake. Of course, there’s then a desire to get out there because we can’t lose this democracy. We can’t. And I am motivated by that passion.

First of all, to even allude to Trump weaponizing the Justice Department, Harris has to think we are ignorant or possess very short memories. No President in history has ever turned his Justice Department, including the FBI, against candidates of the other party or their citizen backers. Biden has gone after people who have not agreed with the Department of Education, Radical Catholics, and has worked with DAs in creating a maze of charges and trials for Trump to navigate when he would rather be campaigning. Biden also wants thousands of IRS agents to go after middle-class Americans when his son is charged with not paying his taxes. Trump kept our enemies at bay, and many of our adversaries will not even communicate with Biden. If we want to talk about insurrection, we have to discuss over 300,000 illegals coming into our country daily. And it burns me up when politicians talk about destroying our Democracy. We do not have one. We are a Constitutional Republic of 50 states.

If this is a preview of the next ten months, we better get ready for the Kamala fantasy tour, and the truth be damned.

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One of the many, many, many criticisms of Ron DeSantis’ disaster-of-a-campaign was that his social media “influencers” were obnoxious. This critique was spot on in New Hampshire. The three that I found particularly obnoxious were/are Jason Osborne, Ross Berry, and Melissa Blasek.

Particularly the nonstop regurgitation of the Left’s calumny that Trump voters are cultists, simpletons, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They kept insisting over and over and over and over again that Republicans in New Hampshire are doomed … DOOMED … if Trump is on the ballot in November.

Well, it turns out the terrible threesome is as bad at prognosticating as they are at “influencing.” Trump was on the ballot in January and the NHGOP flipped two seats in Coos County. And this was despite Nikki Haley and her porky sidekick Chris “Sun-King” Sununu begging the “Undeclared” to take a GOP ballot and vote for High-Tax Haley AND the NH-Democrat-machine practically dragging Democrats to the polls to vote for that senile-pedophile, imposter-President Joe Biden.

The NHGOP victories in Coos were due to Trump bringing out voters that ONLY Trump can bring out. Voters that would stay home if some establishment weasel like High-Tax Haley were the nominee. Predictably, “Dearest Leader” Osborne took credit for Trump’s coattails.

The chutzpah of these people knows no limits:

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Nearly eighty-thousand Granite Staters made time to get up and go out on a cold Tuesday morning – thankfully not bitter cold like Iowa – to scribble the name Joe Biden on a line at the end of a list of more than twenty actual candidates on the New Hampshire ballot. And what did they get for that?

They got this!

A VERY confused Joe Biden starts absolutely SCREAMING as he recounts the recycled “suckers and losers” hoax — slurring the entire way.

The man is NOT well. pic.twitter.com/4c7QRL5sr7

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 28, 2024

That’s their guy—happy, unifying Joe Biden. But not everyone who decided to write in on the Dem ballot wrote Biden. I took a look at all the write-ins reported by the Secretary of State, and keep in mind that this is the Democrat party ballot.

 

 

4,752 wrote in Nikki Haley, 2,071 for Donald Trump, 40 for Christie, 33 for Ron DeSantis, 2 for Vivek, 440 for RFK Jr., and 123 for Bernie. Cease Fire was an Andru Volinsky Gaza thing, and the scatter is illegible or otherwise uncountable marks. Much of that will be the undeclared pulling a blue ballot, but we’ve likely got our share of conscientious objectors.

None of which is as interesting to me as the 79,460 “folks” who voted to keep Biden in the Oval Office. And it’s not like they don’t have better candidates to choose from in their party; they do. They could have filled in the oval on the paper ballot for Dean Phillips (24,373 votes), Vermin Supreme, or Mark Greenstein. There were twenty-one other choices, with at least one or two viable nationally.

Nope. They want elder abuse and Alzheimer’s. So there he is, Dems. That’s your president. I hope you’re proud.

 

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There are 276,262 registered Republicans in NH as of 12/28/23. The total number of Republican primary voters is reported to be 322,284, a 121% turnout. How was this possible? Assuming an 80% registered Republican turnout, I estimate that 109,000 non-Republicans crossed over on election day to tip the scales!

What would have happened if the primary was closed to only registered Republicans? Assuming a high turnout of about 80%, there would have been about 213,000 cast. (FYI, Democrat turnout was 120,851, approximately 46% of the 262,262 registered Democrats). Now, according to CNN’s exit poll (hardly a Trump-supporting organization), Trump received 70% of the votes of registered Republicans, while Haley won only 27% of the Republican vote, far less than her 43% official total. I am providing a link to a news story confirming these numbers.

It should be noted that not all of the undeclared who became Republicans for a day voted for Haley. If you assume that Trump received 70% of the votes from an 80% registered Republican turnout, his vote tally would be about 149,700. Trump’s actual final vote tally was 175,153. This means that Trump got about 25,400 of those crossover votes. The good news is that those votes will be there for Trump in November.

Using the same approach for Haley, 27% of 80% of 267,262, her vote tally would have been 57,700. Trump would have crushed her except for the 81,900 cross-overs that voted for her. The real difference being that next to none of those voters will be there for her in November.

Thanks to a great NH Republican turnout and with the help of patriotic Undeclareds, Trump won the primary and the Uniparty was defeated. The shame is that Trump had to spend more time, effort and money than he should have needed and he received less Republican delegates than he deserved. This primary result also allows the farce of a two-person race to continue keeping Trump from focusing all his energies on defeating the regime hell-bent on destroying America.

I have voiced my displeasure with the open primary system to the Republican Party and have been told they wish to maintain the status-quo in order to appear to be a welcoming party to potential recruits. I reject that reasoning. The Republican party has been around for a long time and our party platform is written for all to see. If a person can’t make the small effort to get on board, keeping an open primary in the hopes of recruiting a few new members isn’t worth the price we, and America, just paid.

NH Republicans, we’ve seen enough, close the damn primary!

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