Sunday • May 5 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
Typically, after an election and the bigger it is, the more likely, things will slow down a bit. I hinted at this here. The days after, win or lose, are for the election hangover, a few days in detox, or a week of me-time.
ICYMI: Is Someone Trying to Undermine the Integrity of NH’s Committee on Voter Confidence
We get fewer emails and less site traffic, and it looked like that trend would hold until it didn’t.
The red wave that wasn’t has become a call for action in the Republican party from the roots to the tips to the recipient and donor lists of the RSC and NRSC. Failure was an option, and she’s come calling, and introspection, win or lose, is a good thing. We have an opportunity to use what we learn to do better. But be careful about signing on the blame trump coalition, not because of any complicity in the epidemic underperformance, but because his enemies think they can finally be rid of him.
Electile DysfunctionThere are plenty of reasons why Republicans lose elections. Raheem Kassam has a great piece about all of this on his substack. For example,
Democrats run “better” campaigns, mostly because they’re allowed to, which in turn is because they dominate in positions that exert pressure – in politics, media, and culture. It’s easier for Democrats to rip down Republican yard signs without recompense. It’s also easier for left leaning activists to get away with violence or intimidation. Their talking heads are rarely challenged when they lie. They use Chinese Communist-owned platforms like TikTok to radicalise impressionable young voters and they use issues like abortion and student loans to do it. We recognise all of this as immoral. But elections aren’t conducted by Marquess of Queensbury rules. Republicans play touch football and call it smashmouth. Democrats play smashmouth and call it kiss chase.
GraniteGrok plays by Democrat rules. When they hit, you hit back twice as hard. When they change the subject, pull them back. When they demand apologies, drag them in their dirt and demand apologies from them. A practice we apply to everyone regardless of party registration. A thing for which we are frequently scolded by “real” Republicans as if we care.
These are the same folks who ride sidesaddle with the Democrats poo-pooing Donald Trump’s mean tweets, which has become a metaphor for playing by Democrat rules from the right. Trump won the primary in 2016 because he played the Left’s game. He won the general election because the Dems didn’t think he could beat Hillary and Donald Trump ran on things that mattered to regular Americans. And except for clearing the swamp, he did a damn good job of keeping those promises but needed more time, and Democrats didn’t make the same mistake in 2020 or 2022, but it looks like Republicans did.
More from Raheem.
The GOP ‘McLeadership’ must change. If you accept that Republicans should have done better in this cycle, you have to go to the source of where the decisions are made and how the money is spent. That’s in the hands of people like Kevin McCarthy, Tom Emmer, Mitch McConnell, and Ronna Romney McDaniel. Trump isn’t a “party leader” in a European political sense. He wasn’t on the ballot this year. He doesn’t control the purse strings, nor the hires inside the GOP. His philosophy is ultimately beholden to centralised implementation.
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DeSantis has a big and bright future. But it cannot come at a cost to the MAGA movement. Even those surrounding and supportive of the victorious Florida governor accept that DeSantis is closer to the GOP comfort zone – including the neoconservatives – than Trump is.
You can read the rest here because I have one more thing to share.
The Machine wants to sell a story that divides the GOP and alienates Trump and his supporters no more or less than on any other day of the year. It’s all a distraction to protect the ruling class, which is the real problem with the Republican Party.
I’ll close with this from Jack Posobiec.
“There is a power vacuum right now caused by these vote delays and the DC Uniparty is using it to try to institute a MAGA Civil War” pic.twitter.com/LGgW2RIdmI
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) November 12, 2022
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Here are what polls predicted for the Nevada Senate race versus the actual results. The disparity is explained by “ballot harvesting.”
All registered voters in Nevada receive a ballot by mail … even if they are dead, moved to another State, or are totally disinterested in voting … then the Democrat Party apparatus in Nevada gets to work on “harvesting” these ballots.
NEVADA –
Trafalgar: (R) Laxalt +5
Insider Advantage: Laxalt +6
Rasmussen: Laxalt +5
Emerson: Laxalt +5
Data For Progress: (D) Laxalt +2
Susquehanna: Laxalt +5
Suffolk: Cortez Masto +1Current Count: Cortez Masto +.05https://t.co/BBJ47OD4AD https://t.co/6NcjTu9WEl pic.twitter.com/dieR6zvRxb
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) November 13, 2022
And the really bad news for Republicans in New Hampshire is that Democrats cannot similarly “ballot-harvest” here … yet they won by much, much bigger margins than in Nevada.
The post What Ballot-Harvesting Looks Like appeared first on Granite Grok.
I am not an election denier, but I am an election cynic. The events of this past week should be embarrassing to all Americans. But the fact it does not seem to concern the Left might be because it is their design.
Related: Here are a Few Potential Problems in NH That are Undermining Voter Confidence
It is not a case of bending or breaking the law but about formulating the law to ensure a favorable outcome., COVID brought some extenuating circumstances to the process. Now that the Pandemic is behind us, we should put these provisions into mothballs. The provisions are too beneficial to Democrats for them to let them revert to pre-pandemic policies. Extended voting hours, mail-in ballots, and ballot harvesting favor the Left.
The Democrats continue to fight Voter ID mandates as racist and a burden to minorities. Contending that it is difficult for minorities to obtain an ID is condescending and more racist than the mandate itself. This ID policy is essential to ensure a one-person, one-vote election. The ID is also a concern, with some states allowing non-resident college students to use their college ID as proof of domicile and the ability to vote in all local elections. Many issues with this. The non-residents are, by definition, not residing in a voting district. They can obtain an absentee ballot from their home if they would like to vote, and there is no control that they haven’t, which would mean multiple voting instances. This is fraud and a possible felony.
There were many situations where Democrat candidates refused to debate, agreed to only one debate, or scheduled the debate late in the season. This was critical in the Pennsylvania Senate race, where all three situations happened. John Fetterman suffered a stroke in the spring and refused to drop out of the race. His cognitive skills were obviously impaired to the point where he could not complete sentences and required a teleprompter to communicate. He tried to avoid any debate but finally consented to one in the closing weeks. There were 1.4 million mail-in votes cast in Pennsylvania, and most before voters could witness Fetterman’s dismal performance in the lone debate with Mehmet Oz. Fetterman went on to win the seat and may not be mentally able to perform the job.
The following two are somewhat similar. Ranked voting defies logic. The election is supposed to be your vote for your best choice for the job. What is the purpose of ranking the four or five people in a given race? When no candidate attains over 50% of the votes, the second choice votes are added, and so on, until a candidate hits the 50% minimum. This method of election is coming into play in Alaska and Maine. It is possible that the candidate who got the most votes initially may not win the election. A run-off election is also being held in Georgia because no candidate hit the 50% mark. In a race with as many as five candidates, one candidate getting more than 50% of the votes is statistically improbable.
The last two situations happened in New Hampshire. Millions of dollars were spent by the Democrat Party on Republican candidates in the primaries. The purpose is to influence the election and to get a softer candidate into the general election against their candidate. This is nothing short of election tampering. And finally, we have to get methods to verify vote counts. Senator Maggie Hassan received over 1,100 votes in the town of Columbia. Not a lot of votes but nearly twice the actual population of Columbia. How does a town of 695 cast a total of 1,300 votes? I can guarantee you will not see an explanation from Hassan.
We are too good and sophisticated a country for our election process to be this questionable. I am not for federalizing state elections, but fine-tuning must be done. We are a week since the election, and we have some races where all votes have yet to be counted. At best, this is feckless. At least, it is embarrassing, and someone needs to lose a job in these situations.
The post Let’s Look at the Election Process appeared first on Granite Grok.
There is a post up with NHGOP Committeeman Chris Ager’s thoughts about the 2022 election. A quick response. First, stop sugarcoating it.
New Hampshire has neither ballot-harvesting (mail-in voting) nor early-voting … yet candidates for federal office did far worse than GOP candidates in States that have one or both of these mechanisms. And there is only the illusion of GOP control in the New Hampshire House because of all the RINOs. And the leader of the GOP in the State Senate would in any real swing state be considered a Democrat.
Second, ask yourself why Sun-King Sununu performed as well as the Democrats and yet had no coattails. I already covered this in prior posts such as my post-mortem on the election. But to save you some time … it’s largely a combination of (1) he is perceived … correctly … by Democrat voters as with them on most issues, so they vote for him and then “come home” on down-ballot races an (2) he is a lazy campaigner and indifferent to any race but his own.
Third, maybe just save some time and admit what is obvious … that New Hampshire is and has been for some time a BLUE state … and rebuild from the ground-up. That is, shift the focus to winning school board and other local races and develop a cadre of candidates who can then run for higher office.
The post A Quick Response to Committeman Ager’s Thoughts appeared first on Granite Grok.
After a years of parents pleading with Superintendent David Ryan and the SAU16 school board to focus on improving academics, only to have those efforts fall on deaf ears, several parents and residents decided to open a Hillsdale Charter School.
Seacoast Classical Academy will be opening up soon, and offering students a quality classical education. Hillsdale is known for their rich classical curriculum focused on literacy and academic excellence.
Where one public school has failed, some of the parents and residents stepped up to the plate to make sure no more children fell through the cracks. The WOKE agenda flourishing in the SAU16 schools will not be found in any Hillsdale Charter School. Instead Seacoast Classical Academy will focus on the three important factors that make a school successful:
1) Academic excellence
2) Safe learning environment
3) Parental engagement and respect
As you can see, this recipe is not difficult –it’s really quite simple. Home-school parents can tell your Superintendent earning a 6-figure salary what curriculum to use. For instance, the math offered at Seacoast Classical Academy is far superior than what you will find in SAU16, or many of the other public schools around New Hampshire.
If you want to give your child a shot at engineering, mathematics, science, medicine, or any other field, Seacoast Classical Academy will help prepare them. It will be up to the student to take advantage of all that is offered. Dumbing down the core subjects is not an option, the bar will be raised, but raised in a way that is attainable. The roadblocks that come through the dumbed down Common Core and Next Generation Science curriculum will be removed. Your child will have far more opportunities now. They will learn real math instead of convoluted math.
Dr. Terrence Moore, Professor at Hillsdale College explains here, how Common Core destroys the minds and souls of children. Instead of ignoring these warnings like so many Superintendents have done, the founders of Seacoast Classical Academy want something better for your children. Knowledge is power, it is power to open doors so your children can rise to any level they want to achieve.
It’s not about political indoctrination, it’s about a content-rich curriculum that will allow your children to move into any direction they choose. It’s about educating children so they can succeed in college, career, and in life. All paths will be open to them.
SAU16’s failures created a desire by parents to do something to help children. They saw their own children suffer under the current regime that is more focused on WOKE ideology, then offering children a quality academic education. These people say they are social justice warriors, but they are the ones failing to provide a quality academic education for marginalized children, and the rest of the student body.
If you are looking for true social justice for marginalized children, you found an answer, Seacoast Classical Academy. They are not going to push any radical agenda on your kids, they are simply going to provide the best academic education your child needs to succeed in life.
Parents around the area who know that their children are not getting the best in their public school, now have another option. I would certainly choose this school for my children. You can do the parenting, and they will make sure that they stay on task, and focus on academics.
Many Charter Schools fail children too because they fall victim to the numerous fads in education. You can feel comfortable knowing that Hillsdale schools aren’t interested in the next fad that does nothing to help your children. They are going to use what has a track record of success.
It’s too bad that those tasked with the important job of educating children in SAU16 did not humble themselves to really listen to the parents who were fighting to save their school. These were parents who wanted nothing more than to make their school the best in the state. The ones who wanted the school open, where children go to learn, in a joyful environment. Those are the parents who will fight for you, instead of against you when you are truly committed to providing a quality public education.
Now they have something to fight for.
“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.” ~ Miguel de Cervantes
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On election night Republicans were all doom and gloom as they watched their hopes of a red tsunami crash. And while the historic precedent existed for such a victory and every poll had predicated it, looking back, the wreckage isn’t as devastating as Republicans perceived it.
Republicans likely took the House, and gained in the senate. Red states got redder. Blue states got bluer. This is likely due to a shifting of the electorate caused by Covid policies. Historic swing states like NH did not experience a loss or a gain, they simply reflected 2020. We can see this clearly in NH: federal races went Democrat, all state level bodies went Republican, just like in 2020.
Why were the polls so wrong? I was on the ground knocking doors in 2020 and in 2022 and I felt the red wave coming. Swing voters in 2020 shut the door in my face because they hated Trump, but the same doors in 2022 said they were voting straight Republican. So what happened?
Republicans campaigned with an archaic playbook. We were out spent and out maneuvered at every turn. Looking back, we were so cute coming up with our little messages for our mailers targeted at likely swing voters, while Democrats operated on an entirely new level that we are only just beginning to understand. In a general election, Republicans target those registered voters who typically vote, but who swing back and forth. We send them our message through mailers, door knockers, and ads. And that worked. Those likely swing voters, did break for us as predicted through the polls. And for those people, the economy was the number one issue, just as the polls predicted.
But you can’t poll people who have never voted before or who are unlikely to vote. Somehow the Democrats found an entirely new set of voters and their singular message was: Republicans want to ban abortion. They want to take away your freedom and control you. And they heard that message relentlessly without any counter narrative. Gen Z showed up to vote and Republicans didn’t even know where to find them. This is a generation who 1. Don’t have bills to pay yet 2. Were raised to believe that abortion is equal to contraception and 3. Who only care about social issues. Democrats found them through sophisticated algorithms, social media influencers, and other technological means I don’t understand. Considering the Democrats essentially control Big Tech, it is no wonder we lost a game we didn’t know existed.
In NH, same day registrations were incredibly high. My personal experience at the polls in Merrimack is by 3 pm, the same day registration line was out the door, filled with young people, most of whom had moved into recently built apartments in town. And they were angry, telling us we had banned abortion and calling us liars when we tried to correct them. If I were to guess, I would say that Democrats probably knocked the doors of these new apartments a few weeks ago, fed them their message, and then knocked again throughout election day to get them to the polls. These voters aren’t Democrats or Republicans- they are low information voters who are easily manipulated and deceived. But Republicans ignored them, so we never had a chance.
Campaigns take money. The Dobbs decisions was damaging for Republicans in many ways, but mostly because it became the fundraising gift that kept giving. On the Republican side, Trump and DeSantis are the fundraising work horses. DeSantis used his money to support and lead his entire state to a decisive victory, while Trump horded his treasure chest. McConnell and McCarthy also had plenty of money, but instead of using it to build their teams, they strategically used it for their own power. That left Don Bolduc with 3 million to spend vs Maggie Hassan who had 38 million to spend. Everything else was downstream of that race.
At the state level, we ended up with the same makeup as 2020, yet we lost 10 seats in the House. I attribute this to Republican infighting. It’s no secret to the political junkies of NH that I vocally fought for state of emergency reform and the Governor and I butted heads over this issue, one that the electorate doesn’t even care about, but it certainly made me an enemy. A PAC supported by Sununu attacked me in the primary and supported my Republican opponent in the general election. The Governor also interfered in Gunstock, where both sides dug their heels in so hard, that we lost Republican seats in Belknap County where we had held every seat in 2020. These are just a few examples of numerous infighting issues that occurred throughout the state that cost us seats. Let’s contrast the NH with FL, where Governor DeSantis often has disagreements with his Legislature over policy, but when it came to this election, he equally supported the entire team to victory.
Politics is downstream of culture, and culture is decidedly pro-choice. Until the hearts and minds are changed, abortion as a political policy is a liability. We were winning on the bodily autonomy issue with vaccine mandates until Dobbs, and then we ran scared from the entire issue instead of going hard in, branding ourselves as truly being the party of “my body my choice”.
Trump lost NH in 2016 and 2020, but we continue to run candidates at the federal level who compete for being the most MAGA. Maybe MAGA doesn’t work in NH. MAGA doesn’t equal conservative. In fact, it doesn’t translate to candidates as being anything other than supportive of Trump, who frankly, has become a distraction and an impediment in NH.
I don’t have all the answers, and I’m sure my analysis will anger parts of the party, but if we as a Republican party don’t take a cold, hard look in the mirror and throw out the antiquated playbook, a red wave will never come again.
The post Postmortem Analysis of the Red Puddle appeared first on Granite Grok.
To defeat your enemy you must know your enemy, and know yourself … said Sun Tzu. The NHGOP, however, doesn’t appear to even recognize that the enemy is the enemy and not the “loyal opposition,” “our colleagues on the other side of the aisle” blah, blah, blah. More specifically, dear NHGOP, Matt Wilhelm … who may very well draw enough RINOs to become the next Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives … is the enemy.
Consider the following tweet:
Tonight @RepWilhelm, a contender to lead @NHHouseDems, says he's open to bipartisan cooperation but he thinks Granite Staters sent a message in Tuesday's election "…which is that they don't like the idea of right-wing extremists running the State House." #NHPolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/Ij8MJ58gxj
— Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) November 10, 2022
You may laugh at the idea of Sherm Packard … a RINOs’ RINO … and his team being called “right-wing extremists,” but Wilhelm believes it. He shares NONE of our values. NONE. Let me repeat that: WILHELM SHARES NONE OF OUR VALUES.
A rather obvious example is that he doesn’t believe in free-speech in the sense we do. Rather, free-speech only includes speech that he and his ilk do not deem “disinformation” or “hate speech.” So in his mind there is nothing inconsistent at all with saying that he supports free-speech and that he also supports censoring “disinformation” and “hate-speech.”
Another example is that Wilhelm and his ilk see nothing inconsistent about saying “your body, your choice” to rationalize unrestricted abortion, while at the same time supporting vaccine and mask mandates and lockdowns.
To cut to the chase, what underlies the values of Wilhelm and his ilk is the notion that the good of the collective overrides the individual AND … and this is the most important part … the belief that Wilhelm and his ilk, and only Wilhelm and his ilk, know what the good of the collective is. That is why, to them, democracy is not a process, but an outcome.
These beliefs about the good of the collective or the common good, or however, you want to phrase it, and who gets to decide what that “good” looks like are the same beliefs that underlay Fascism, Stalinism, Naziism, Maoism, and Pol-Pot’s implementation of Marxism, to name some examples.
Am I getting through to you, NHGOP?
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I broke ground on this early today with a piece about what might be an effort to undermine an independent, bipartisan committee charged with cataloging voter confidence issues in New Hampshire. The committee’s job is to document testimony and deliver that to the Secretary of State.
Related: Is Someone Trying to Undermine the Integrity of NH’s Committee on Voter Confidence
In that piece, I said that I would invite those who testified to seek me out to discuss what they presented. I have my first “taker.”
Brenda Towne delivered a small mountain of research to the committee on voter confidence – compiled using publicly available information.
Like what?
…utilizing the USPS permanent move request data base between January 2018- October 1 2020, we were able to find an incredible 3,300+ votes cast by people who permanently moved to another state and an additional 5600+ votes cast by people who moved out of their town and elsewhere in New Hampshire.
One more point before you watch the interview. There is a concerted effort to silence Brenda and those working with her and to ignore or hide the data they’ve reported to the Committee on Voter Confidence. (You can scroll down to find some of the evidence we discussed in the interview).
Note 2: A small portion of the interview was edited out that included my house phone ringing in the background while I was speaking. No context was lost by removing it.
Here is the spreadsheet of people Brenda mentioned who moved out of state but had votes cast in their names in the 2020 election.
NH Election Integrity Slide Deck Presentation
Brenda Towne committee for voter confidence slide deck
Note 3: If you testified or submitted evidence to the committee you would like to share, please email me at steve@granitegrok.com
Note 4: And apologies for repeatedly changing the title. Just trying to get it right.
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I try to make my Sunday Spotlight a positive, upbeat article, but this has not been a very uplifting week. This week’s Spotlight is on the United States Postal Service.
The topic for this week came to me when I saw a sign on the door of our local Post Office apologizing that they could no longer deliver the services that we looked to them for.
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” have long been associated with the American postal worker. Though not an official creed or motto of the United States Postal Service, it acknowledges it as an informal motto along with Charles W. Eliot’s poem “The Letter.” Ah, those were the days of yesteryear. The new catchphrase you will see when you enter our local Post Office is, “We will be closing every day from 2-4 because we have no staff.” We do not have mail delivered two or three days a week. There is mail for us, but when we inquire with the local Postmaster, he sheepishly says we don’t have coverage on your route daily. That is the unfortunate saga of today’s Postal Service.
I listen to the media commercials and wonder why they are wasting their advertising budget. Then I hear the claim that they are the only mail service that can deliver to every address in the country. Then I hear the response from the Postmaster in Maine that says. “Oh, we don’t deliver to that area.” Guess we will not get the mail this summer! Thank God for the email.
I will admit that I have often pondered how the U.S. Postal Service can deliver a first-class envelope from Los Angeles to Exeter, NH, for only $.60. It seems foolishly low, but that is the price they have set, so it is up to them to fulfill their service. Unfortunately, it does not often happen, which is why we find alternative communication methods. There were over 300,000 mail-in ballots delivered to polling places in Arizona on Election Day. When asked why the massive drop of ballots, officials claimed it was because of a lack of confidence in the Post Office.
We have come a long way since Benjamin Franklin was named the first Postmaster General in 1775. It was elevated to a cabinet-level agency from 1872 until 1970, when it was redesignated as an independent agency. It enjoys a monopoly for mail delivery in the United States.
The USPS has operated at a loss since 2007. From 2008 to 2018, it reported $69 billion in losses. For the 2019 fiscal year, it lost $8.8 billion on $71.1 billion of operating revenue. The Post Office has received various subsidies from the government amounting to billions of dollars, but it never is enough to turn the profitability picture around.
It is unfortunate to report on the demise of such a long-standing institution, but it is a reality. Either the business plan needs to get realistic, or we can publicize the mail delivery system and stop the bleeding. I cannot wait to see who in Washington is bold enough to see that through.
I promise next week will get back to a more positive, upbeat topic.
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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well.
FYI, links to my last two Survival Sundays:
Sunday Survival – November 6, 2022
Sunday Survival – October 30, 2022
And two posts about the midterms:
A Few Quick After-Action Election Thoughts – Granite Grok
Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow – Granite Grok
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Top of the fold:
When the Music Stops | Gates of Vienna
Just read it.
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https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/760/431/playable/0fcbe824cd660e1e.mp4
The level of evil to do this to children is beyond staggering. And clearly, a lot of thought and effort and money went into this hidden compartment. This is not a fly-by-night thing. Related, what are they angry about again???
Leftists Attack Musk As ‘FAR RIGHT’ For Promising Better Protection On Twitter For Kids Against Pedophiles – Summit News
Angry about trying to protect kids from predation?
Wood chipper therapy. Stat.
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
Winter Is Coming! Don’t Forget To Do This – Ask a Prepper
Essential Cold-Weather Basics – Western Rifle Shooters Association
At least here in the northern hemisphere in the short term.
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The Importance of Silence After the SHTF – The Organic Prepper
If it’s truly SHTF, my generator goes OFF. A roaring generator means power. Power means someone who thought ahead, and that person may have food, etc. It’ll go on, randomly, because we have a well. But not on long. Besides, for the first week or so, just about everyone will have theirs on so I’ll be a small fish. It’s a month or so in that it becomes very dangerous.
And in that article are important points about having lookouts, and keeping a firearm with you. And being situationally aware even when you’re doing something. Related to generators specifically:
How To Soundproof A Portable Generator – Workshopedia
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A Day in the Life of an Urban Prepper – The Organic Prepper
The more people around you, the less secure you are. But I understand that many cannot be rural. Heck, I can’t be rural… marital reasons. But at least I’m not IN a big city.
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Here Are Some Ways to Make Your Own Power – The Organic Prepper
Having the luxury of time and money… but good to know.
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WaPo & Bloomberg Peevishly Admit “The Preppers Were Right” – The Organic Prepper
The WaPo and Bloomberg writers admit we’re right, but they’re not going to prep anyway because they trust things will get better. I’m not a eugenicist but… given the level of stupidity from here, and the US election (even with the cheating), the human gene pool needs some chlorine.
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9 Items To Stock Up On Before Hyperinflation Hits – Ask a Prepper
Yes, but again… you can only do what is in your limits, whether financial or other.
My one comment about meat in a freezer? You’re betting that you have steady electricity.
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Bug In Mistakes That Could Turn Out Deadly – Ask a Prepper
I have a hard-mounted generator. If things go down and it looks like closer-to-SHTF, it’ll be on like anyone else’s around here. But then I will shut it down. Even if I can cobble together a sound muffler, people will hear it and be drawn to it. See just above.
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Related to Spicy Time:
Democrats Are Not Going To Relinquish Power Peacefully (thefederalist.com)
They are MISSIONARIES to create a perfect world, a paradise-on-Earth. We are evil because we stand in their way. They will not, they literally cannot, accept a Conservative victory because they are good, noble, virtuous, intelligent, educated, etc. (Just ask them, they’ll tell you.) Thus any defeat they experience CANNOT BE legitimate.
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WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS: HOW AMERICA’S CITIES MAY EXPLODE IN VIOLENCE – American Partisan
Read it all. Then read it again.
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Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.” Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform. Then Samson prayed to the Lord, “Sovereign Lord, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.” Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
Judges 16: 26-30
If you’re going to go… make it count for something.
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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. No luck on getting the group open. Will continue to work on this.
Foraging: One-up articles
None found this week.
Foraging: Permanent sites:
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
From this article:
What? No bugs on the menu @ COP 27? – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)
Comes this image of the please-order-ahead menu at COP 27, about green house gas emission reductions:
And:
Report: More Than 400 Private Jets Flew In For UN Climate Conference…
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State Department Gives Intelligence Agencies Unrestricted Access to Personal Data of US Citizens
Whaaaaaat? Related:
New Europol Rules Expand Police Powers, Reduce Rights Protections, And Allow Vast Data Collection
President Biden Revokes Executive Branch Rules Against Spying on American Citizens – Becker News
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National Security (specifically):
The Air Force Went Woke, Its Planes Won’t Fly – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
Calamity.
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Shortages (broadly):
“The Preppers Were Right All Along”
If you haven’t already done so, I can only urge you to make what preparations you can, even at this late hour. They probably won’t be adequate (unless you have very deep pockets and can afford to pay through the nose to buy and have delivered all that you’ll need), but they’ll be a lot better than nothing.
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‘Unprecedented’ global chip shortage pushing electric vehicle delays into years – National | Globalnews.ca
Reminds me of a joke Reagan told about buying a car in the USSR! From the same site:
Loblaw raising fees for suppliers in 2023 to offset higher supply chain costs – National | Globalnews.ca
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WHAT? Democrat Congressman says families should eat Chef Boyardee to cope with high inflation – Based Politics (based-politics.com)
Let them eat cake, eh?
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Ports Clogged With Containers As World Trade Stumbles | ZeroHedge
The latest Bloomberg Trade Tracker reveals an ominous outlook for world trade due to soaring interest rates, the war in Ukraine, a slowdown in the US economy, and zero Covid in China. A shortage of containers has entirely reversed into a glut as crashing shipping rates and canceled sails gain momentum during what is supposed to be the busiest shipping period of the year.
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On The Jab
Experimental-untested-Novel-Genetic-Therapy-Pushed-in-Pregnancy-11.10.2022.pdf (vladtepesblog.com)
Translation: it doesn’t work.
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My latest email to the CDC notifying them about the billboards
How many window shades will be drawn to block seeing this?
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2022 birth decline in Germany and Sweden explained by ‘vaccines’ (freewestmedia.com)
The seasonally adjusted monthly TFR of Germany dropped around 14 percent. In Sweden, the corresponding TFR dropped almost 10 percent. “There is no association of the fertility trends with changes in unemployment, infection rates, or Covid-19 deaths. However, there is a strong association between the onset of vaccination programmes and the fertility decline nine months after this onset.
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Inflation:
Hedge-fund giant Elliott warns looming hyperinflation could lead to ‘global societal collapse’ – MarketWatch
Yes. Remember, that’s the goal! Related:
The End Of World Dollar Hegemony: Turning The US Into Weimar Germany | ZeroHedge
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In bankrupt Lebanon, locals mine bitcoin and buy groceries with tether (cnbc.com)
Global. More:
Rent, Food Bills Pushing More Ottawa Families Into Debt
German Food and Energy Prices Push Inflation to New Highs in October
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Inflation hits 7.7% in October, government says (wnd.com)
“Transitory” – oh, and buy Chef Boyardee.
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Remember, it’s not what’s true. It’s what you can get people to believe is true.
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Know your enemy:
Keisha Lance Bottoms Says Misinformation on Social Media Stops People Seeing Biden’s Accomplishments
It’s not that the results of their policies suck, of course.
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Whoopi Goldberg Claims She’s Quitting Twitter Over Elon Musk: ‘I’m Out’
Uh huh. Kind of like how they promise to leave the US if <generic republican> wins.
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It is as difficult and as dangerous to try to liberate a people that wishes to live in slavery as it is to try to enslave a people that wishes to live in freedom.
Machiavelli
(HT Peter)
This applies to the sheeple who think they’re free under the Left, or who yearn for “beautiful true Communism” where human nature doesn’t apply.
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Founding Fathers Diversified
Disgusting. But it’s part of a Leftist-driven piece to destroy our knowledge of history. And understand something, as I wrote here, it doesn’t have to be an explicit top-driven command. If it can be spun on their side as a way to stick it to their enemy and advance The Cause, people will just do it on their own accord:
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Economy at large:
BIDEN ECONOMY: With Inflation at 40-Year Highs, 4.5 Million Americans Turn to Second Job (thegatewaypundit.com)
What’s that joke? The politician at a dinner brags about creating millions of jobs and the server thinks “Yeah, I have three of them”!
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Eurozone Heading to a Recession at the End of This Year, Brussels Says
World heading to a recession more like it.
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
Analyst Warns “There Probably Won’t be an Election” In 2024
I would tend to agree.
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What Invasion Looks Like: Video Shows Hundreds of Single Adults Calmly Marching Across the Border, Meeting No Resistance – The Political Insider
New Democrat voters flooding in.
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Forza Meloni! Italy Closes Ports to Migrant Ships in Defiance of the Globalist European Union (thegatewaypundit.com)
HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Now, start deporting. Ditto for France, if they could ever find a set:
France Sliding toward Barbarity and Chaos :: Gatestone Institute
Generally related to migration:
People ‘Afraid to Walk the Streets’ as One-Fifth of Irish Town Now Migrants
2 Out of 3 Crimes in France Committed by People With Immigration Background, Says French Historian
Diversity is a strength. Our intellectual and moral superiors have assured us so. Related:
The Shock Troops of the Great Replacement | Gates of Vienna
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“Give Kremlin a Warning”: US ‘Nuclear Apocalypse’ Submarine Enters Mediterranean Sea
Seven Hair Hells. If, somehow, it gets to the Black Sea that’s frightening. Is there anyone with three brain cells capable of firing at once in charge? Related:
AP: Not Good – Western Rifle Shooters Association
Closer and closer to The Button being pushed.
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TikTok’s Chinese Platform Enriches Kids While US Version Dumbs Them Down: Report
Not surprised. At all. The Chinese do think multi-dimensionally when it comes to warfare. On China and war:
Xi Jinping tells China’s military to prepare for war, ‘fight and win’ it (americanmilitarynews.com)
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Specific to energy:
Gas and Electricity Bills ‘Nearly Double in All EU Capitals’, New Data Reveals
People can’t take this.
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Vietnam Gas Stations Start to Close Due to Widespread Shortages
Pakistan “Has No Option But To Ration” Nat Gas Supply This Winter | ZeroHedge
Worldwide.
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Biden Promises To Destroy U.S. Energy Production. Believe Him. (thefederalist.com)
He states, clearly, what he intends.
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Drought Forces One of Spain’s Largest Hydro-Power Plants to Halt – BNN Bloomberg
Very convenient. IMHO, and I’m getting paranoid here… a little too convenient.
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Gardening, animals, food preservation, overall health, etc.:
Malabar Spinach Plants – How To Grow Malabar Spinach (gardeningknowhow.com)
Zone 7 and higher from what I read. Also, Jerusalem artichokes (though the tubers apparently make you gassy – just what I need!). And:
Are Hosta Shoots Edible? How to Grow Hostas for Eating (balconygardenweb.com)
Zone 3 to 8. One of my goals – assuming we’re not smoked meat – is to plant plants that aren’t necessarily recognizable as edibles. The above. Purslane. If you have unused wild fields nearby, perhaps throw some seeds or plant some tubers there too as an off-site growing location.
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Gurney’s: Find Your USDA Hardiness Zone with our Zone Map (gurneys.com)
This looks useful.
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
If you see others, tell me in the comments.
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Big Tech in general:
Global Digital IDs Are Coming To America and Nobody Is Allowed to Talk About It – News Punch
Enslavement in the name of convenience. The problem is that when I talk with people, 9+ people out of 10, and say that your ability to purchase ANYTHING can be controlled by people deciding whether to allow you to do so… the response is either “Oh, but that can’t happen” or “I’ve done nothing wrong, so it won’t apply to me”. Related:
German MEP: EU’s Proposed AI Regulations Will “Open the Door for Biometric Mass Surveillance in Public Spaces”
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Heroic Veteran Researcher Warns Evidence Shows Google Still Interfering to Help Democrats Win Elections
Did you really think they’d behave?
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Humanoid robots are getting close to reality | The Economist
Why does this give me the screaming willies?
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
12 More Incidents in Which Lawful Gun Owners Stopped Criminals
In a case called New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Supreme Court in June struck down concealed carry permitting frameworks in several states that effectively prohibited ordinary Americans from carrying firearms in public for self-defense.
Since then, residents of those states have applied for concealed carry permits in droves, showing just how willing many of them always have been to exercise their Second Amendment rights when the government no longer prohibits it.
In the best of all possible worlds, it’d be Constitutional Carry everywhere.
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sandy-hook-promise-video.mp4
Gag. Retch. Look at the emotional heart-string agitprop they’re doing now.
Now, having said that, yes there are lots of things to do. Teaching kids how to react for one. I’ve told my kids to BREAK WINDOWS and GET OUT. Run. Lone kids dashing for the woods while zig-zagging will be, IMHO, far less likely targets than a room full of quiet kids hiding in closets.
But you know what will come next: gun control law proposals. Take a look at the mental / verbal Mobius strip logic:
California’s standard capacity magazine ban shows their (evil) path forward
In one case the judge ruled against an injunction because “The clear reading of the second amendment does not protect the right to manufacture firearms”. In this case the Judge and the state are arguing that the plaintiffs must provide some sort of historical reference showing that the text and traditions of the second amendment support the manufacture of firearms.
The actual opinion says that the government must show that there is a gun control law that banned or limited the manufacturing of firearms by individuals in 1791. Thus the Judge has turned the argument upside down. They have again made it so the plaintiff must prove that the constitution covers their claim via text and tradition.
In California they are doing the same thing. The state has stated that since the second amendment doesn’t mention magazines and because magazines are not required for a firearm to function that they are ok to ban magazines.
So basically, they’re playing a semantics game that YES, you’re allowed to own, but NO, nobody has the right to manufacture. Do not be surprised if they also try YES, you’re allowed to KEEP ARMS, but not to actually own them… so they’re now deemed to be on loan from The State.
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Biden’s FBI Announces that Certain Gun Purchases Will Be Delayed Starting Next Week (thegatewaypundit.com)
So the Biden Administration doesn’t want US citizens to own guns. They blame all crimes committed using guns as the fault of the guns and not the individuals using the guns. This recent legislation relates to younger Americans who want to own guns. This has been their right for centuries until this bill was signed by Biden.
Anti-gun activists are willing to take away gun owners’ rights one bite at a time.
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School Board Vote Will INFURIATE Anti-2A Activists – Prepared Gun Owners
Iowa school.
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Armed Good Samaritan Stops Child Abduction Outside Walmart! – Tactical Sh*t
It happened in the early afternoon on Sunday. Police say 67-year-old Haimnarine Doobay threw the juvenile to the ground and began choking the child. A good guy with a gun interrupted the attack and held Doobay at gunpoint until 5-0 could arrive.
Personally I’d have cheered if a “taxpayer relief shot” had been administered. “He moved.”
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Imaginary Stuff: Things Gun Controllers Think Exist | The Zelman Partisans
Funny.
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Gun Crime is now gone in Oregon.
Something that requires a permit is not a right.
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The Home Gunsmith
Not quite as detailed as I thought. Hmmm… CAD project for me, I think.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Climate Justice Ten Commandments
On my old blog I had an essay, Hardwired for Faith, and I truly believe that He made mankind with a predisposition, indeed a need, to believe in something bigger than one’s own self. Absent a conscious faith in Him, our soul quests for something to grasp onto. And it’s climate. It’s Socialism. It’s The Jab. That’s why, whether it’s Climate-tards, Socialists, or Covidians, they’re impervious to anything. This is their cult, their faith, their reason for being that connects them to something bigger. Just like The Jab itself is a Rite of Passage.
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1 in 6 Hiring Managers Have Been Told to Stop Hiring White Men – ResumeBuilder.com
I want to relate my own experience. Back in college my GPA was above 3.7/4.0. Engineering. But as I’ve oft related, I’m pasty white; absent my kippa, which I only started to wear perhaps ten years ago as my faith returned and swept past its prior high-water mark, I could easily walk into a KKK rally without a second glance.
Now granted, I was a typical introvert engineer at the time. Socially awkward, but again, that’s engineering student SOP. I couldn’t find a job for love or money. But others did – women, minorities, etc. One woman got five offers in the space of a week. I had better grades than they did, better experience than they did, and I knew this because I helped many of them write their resumes. The first time I went to the career center the guy asked me who I’d had do my resume; it was truly “professionally done”. I did it. Me, myself, and I.
Finally, after I graduated and was living at home again, I got a job – only because my former boss contacted someone they knew networking-style.
It was then that I realized there really was reverse discrimination.
Consider that a Thought Splinter.
Thought Splinters Part 1
Thought Splinters Part 2
Thought Splinters Part 3
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
In my last post, Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow (see the top of this post), I had a lengthy diatribe about the elections including how we’re starting the circular firing squad of blame. Consider, though:
It Wasn’t Abortion
It was not, IMHO, Trump. Just looking at the crowds at his rallies tells me this. No, it was a combination of swamp rats who would prefer to be in the minority – no real responsibility, just some power, and all that graft opportunity and cocktail parties wherein to hobnob:
Unfixed vote fraud:
For example (italics replaced by underlining, bolding added):
For a state where Republicans held both chambers at the legislature, the attorney general’s office, and the governor’s mansion, one would think that rectifying exploitable or corrupt practices would be easy — but you’d be dead wrong.
Below, you’ll find a few brief points worth noting about the overall sentiment of Republican leadership in Arizona:
First off, the Legislature has had two years to pass laws to reform and strengthen the election process. During the 2021 session (which began before Biden was even inaugurated), lawmakers completely ignored the issue; during the 2022 session, there were two attempts made: the first was killed by Republican Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers, and the second was indefinitely tabled by Republicans Senate President Karen Fann because she “didn’t have the votes” — ultimately the bill died when the session ended this past June. Concerned citizens demanded a floor vote to identify the dissenters, but Fann refused. The Swamp doesn’t rat on the Swamp. (You might recognize “Bowers” for his performance in front of the Jan. 6 Committee or his close friendship with Liz Cheney.)
A party – the GOP – that doesn’t believe its own message or have faith in the American people. A party that pre-emptively surrenders on all fronts.
Mitt Romney Says New Congress Must Lay Off “Pointless Investigations” of Joe Biden, Yet He Voted to Impeach Donald Trump Twice!
GOP Majewski: I Am a Republican Who Lost on Tuesday. It Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. It Was the Cowards in D.C.’s ‘McLeadership’ – Geller Report
A GOP that doesn’t believe its own platform:
Regardless Of Party, Pro-Gun Candidates Won Their Races This Week | ZeroHedge
Compared to an enemy that views itself as entitled to win BAMN over those – us – it sees as unremittingly evil.
A Democrat Miracle: GOP Wins Midterm Elections in Massive Blow-Out but Loses Every Single Toss-Up Seat Except One – Check Out Comparison to 2010 Results (thegatewaypundit.com)
THE STEAL: The Number of House Seats Continues to Dwindle As GOP Leaders Again Allow This to Happen
Maricopa County Election Judge Is Threatened by Supervisors After Speaking Out About Tabulation Errors – Geller Report
Cameras Go Dark At Vote Counting Facility In Key Nevada County – Geller Report
We face an enemy with no honor, no decency, no morality, no ethics, no love of America… just a slathering lust for power. And we think we’re going to VOTE them out? Understand, as I keep saying, I don’t want spicy time. But since voting is not working, voting is being *ss-raped with a rusty bayonet… what’s the alternative?
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LET’S GO BRANDON!
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Parents are starting to feel like public school is no longer a safe place for their children to go for an education. That’s what one New Hampshire parent told me recently. Enrollment continues to decline along with proficiency scores in the core academic subjects.
You would think that administrators and school board members would be concerned, but sadly many are not.
Recently a couple of parents in the Hillsboro Deering (SAU34) school district attended their school board meeting to discuss the reading material available to children in the district through the SORA app. (Click on November and listen at 49 minute mark, and then at 1:34 minutes they talk a little bit about the App and then again at 2:22 ) The SORA app offers children pornographic and obscene material to read.
If you look at the schools providing the SORA subscription service to children, you can see that many schools across New Hampshire now provide this service to children. You can also read and see some of the content provided in one of the pornographic books here: This Book Is Gay:
You get the idea. This book pushes sex on the child.
Parents are fed up across the country. In Idaho, there is pending legislation file criminal charges against the people working in the schools who disseminate “harmful materials” to children. It may be time for New Hampshire legislators to do the same. If administrators do not see the harm they are allowing to happen under their nose, it’s time for the people to take action.
Parents object to books assigned to their children for may reasons. This is why New Hampshire passed a law several years ago that allows parents to opt out of objectionable materials assigned to their children. But pornography or obscenity should never be offered to children. It’s one thing to object and replace materials that you don’t like, it’s another when the material is pornographic. We know that this kind of material should not be made available to children in school.
Child sexual predators sometimes work in public schools. In this recent story, Connecticut School Director Placed “On Leave” After Detailing Sexual Fantasies with Minor Students, reminds parents that any kind of sexualization of their children can help a child sexual predator working in the school.
Parents will have to go into the school to access the SORA app per Hillsboro Deering Superintendent Jennifer Crawford. So much for transparency. If you want to see the pornography your child can access, she expects you to make an appointment to come and see it. She’s ok with handing the porn to your children through the subscription to SORA.
She also referred children in middle school as “young adults,” and children in high school are now referred to “adults.” Pedophiles seeking to lower the age of consent must be thrilled by all of this. Some of them have tried to replace the term “pedophile” with “minor attracted persons.”
An English teacher at Franklin High School in El Paso, Texas instructed students to not judge someone just because they want to have sex with a 5 year old and told them to call them “minor Attracted Persons instead.
Is it easier to just pretend that these children are adults or nearing adulthood? What this Superintendent did by recategorizing children as adults or nearing adulthood should concern every parent who has children in the Hillsboro Deering school district.
According to medicine and psychology
The fields of medicine and psychology have their own unique views of what it means to be a young adult.
Psychology. One of the most influential psychologists on the topic of life stages, Erik Erikson, defined young adulthood as a crucial stage that happens after adolescence. It’s the point in life when a person emphasizes “identity formation.”
Based on Erikson’s research, most people reach this stage between the ages of 19 and 39. But because individuals reach this point at different ages, due to a number of factors, there’s no absolute timeline for young adulthood, according to Erikson.
Medicine. In the field of health, medicine, and human development, young adulthood is the time when a person is traditionally the most healthy. It’s the stage between adolescence and adulthood, which roughly falls between the ages of 15 and 29.
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics describes young adults as individuals aged 18-24.
So what does science have to say about young adulthood? With so many potential age ranges floating around, it seems like scientific study should be able to narrow down when, exactly, young adulthood actually occurs. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), young adulthood is generally defined as18 to 22 or 18 to 25.
I guess if you are pushing pornography on children, it helps to redefine these terms so it doesn’t appear as if you are pushing pornography on children. Redefining children as “young adults or adults,” removes the stigma. Who does that help? It will certainly help child sexual predators.
Listen to the school board meeting in Hillsboro Deering where the Superintendent calls a children in middle school young adults and high school students, adults. These people are setting up a pathway for sexual predators to access your children. Listen to how she avoids the real issue of the pornographic content your children can now access
Some may argue that children can access this information through the internet anyway. That may be true for some, but the public schools should never be a source for pornography or sexualizing children! Teens may also be having sex, but the schools should not provide a private room with a bed in it.
Public schools are there to teach children the academics, but sadly we can see that they are failing at that task. COVID didn’t help, which makes you think that they’d want to focus on improving academic outcomes.
In Hillsboro Deering, you can hear the parents describe the pornographic material that is found in a few of the books on the SORA app. What is extremely disturbing is how the Superintendent takes time to explain how the app works. No where does she describe the graphic nature of what’s presented in the books available to children. Maybe she can’t bring herself to admit publicly that these books are grooming and sexualizing the children in her school.
The book one parent references gives children graphic descriptions on how to have sex, and where to meet up with partners. This isn’t the biological facts that students learn when it comes to reproduction, it’s a detailed guide on how to give hand-jobs, and blow-jobs, etc. They are sexualizing children– there is no other way to describe it.
The frightening part of all of this is how the books promote hooking up, and how to do that with adult services. Match.com is one of those dating sites, but if you go to Match.com, they have an age restriction of 18 to access their services. Even Match.com knows this isn’t appropriate for children. It makes you wonder how this has become acceptable to administrators working in our public schools. So why provide that information to children, if not to help adults access minors?
Recently a screenshot from one of the pages in the book was posted on a Facebook page alerting parents to what their children can access through the SORA app. Facebook removed the post and suspended the account because of their “community standards.” Where are our community standards in our public schools?
This is a WIN for child sexual predators. The public schools are not only grooming and sexualizing children, but directing those children to adult websites so they can then hook up with pedophiles, and adults looking to sexually abuse your children. One parent rightfully called this …pimping out our kids. She said school administrators are essentially pimping out her kids with this kind of information.
These people shouldn’t be in charge of any institution where children are present, and yet they are in charge of our public schools.
Keep this up and you can expect more families to remove their children from the public schools. These people aren’t helping, they are destroying public education. If they cannot see the potential harm from this, how can they possibly protect your children?
Jennifer Crawford said that parents can “opt out” of the SORA app, but they will never take responsibility if a child ends up harmed. It’s kind of like offering access to Hustler magazine, and then telling parents that they can opt out.
As public schools try to remain relevant, we can see that decisions like these contribute to the mass exodus from the local public schools. With the expanding school choice programs in New Hampshire, parents will now have other options available to them. When the teachers union, New Hampshire School Boards Association, or School Administrators Association objects to offering school choice to New Hampshire families, they need to start talking to the people in charge who make such poor decisions for their schools. Instead of trying to force families to stay in these schools, start working on making them better so parents aren’t forced to remove their children.
When school administrators decide to go back to focusing on a quality public education, this is what will help public schools in New Hampshire. It’s not a difficult strategy to improving public education, so why is it so difficult for so many administrators in this state?
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In early October, we reported (twice) on the presence of online “news” outlets created by deep Left money guy David Brock. The second piece included a list of likely suspects. Did we find another one, and are they doing the Left’s dirty work?
Related: We have The List and Links to Democrat David Brock’s “Swing” State Fake News Sites.
Granite Memo.
The outlet is run by a career journalist and former USA Today Assitant Opinion editor named Steven Porter. On its face, it appears objective, and even if it is not, so what? It is still almost a free country. Whether Brock funds it or not, it has a right to write. And is it not all fun and games, even if used to meddle in local matters with a very partisan purpose?
About the Alleged MeddlingNew Hampshire has a Committee on Voter Confidence. Its objective has been to conduct interviews about election integrity and collect that into a report for the Secretary of State. It has one job. Provide an account of what interviewees claim has compromised voter confidence in New Hampshire Elections.
The Committee has been doing its job for months, and just as things wind down, Porter and Granite Memo have published a piece titled “Unvetted claims folded into NH voter confidence draft report.” The thrust of it is this.
The draft report doesn’t just outline the committee’s findings and recommendations. It also recites numerous election-related claims without regard for whether they are true or false.
The claims were made by members of the public during a series of meetings the committee held over the summer. The claims are listed in a roughly three-page summary that describes the public’s comments without adding any discussion or analysis.
The summary refers to “potentially serious concerns” found by “citizen audits,” alludes to “out-of-state people/students voting in NH elections” and conjures the image of “vote tabulations taking place un-monitored in the back of polling places,” according to a recent draft reviewed by Granite Memo and discussed during a public meeting Tuesday. The summary also notes that unnamed people have described “voting machines” as a “black box” and “old technology” with vulnerabilities.
That sounds like the Left’s stenographer-media narrative, and it’s not even subtle. But much like whether Granite Memo is another well-funded plant of the left-wing political machine or not, it doesn’t matter.
The Committee on Voter Confidence was not convened to act as a filter. Their job was to gather testimony from Granite Staters about what they feel undermines confidence in our elections and present it to the New Hampshire Secretary of State. Period.
And again, you might say – so what? A local online site no one reads that is somehow able to pay the salary and benefits of a career journalist wrote a partisan piece about undermining the integrity of the purpose of the Committee on Voter Confidence. What of it?
Someone sent that piece via email to members of the Committee unvetted (if you take my meaning). Was it to convince them to alter the three-page summary to exclude testimony that happens to offend the partisan Left?
Will it be a problem for the Committee if people whose concerns might be removed from the draft summary or the report itself reach out to me for an interview, and I share what they excluded?
Would the New Hampshire Secretary of State need to create a committee on the integrity of the Committee on voter confidence, and is that the point? To undermine election integrity and undercut efforts to identify those concerns and share them with the public and people in positions of authority?
And why go to all the trouble?
Wouldn’t it be easier to let it all come out and then continue making fun of the people and their concerns, over which the Left is already dismissive?
The Committee on Voter Confidence has one job. Collect election integrity concerns for the Secretary of State to review. There’s not much point in the exercise if it excludes what Steven Porter at Granite Memo decides is unvetted.
So, maybe someone should share this piece with the committee members for the sake of balance.
We’re not claiming to be independent like Granite Memo but believe more speech is the answer, especially if it is unvetted. Get it all out there and let the watchful public debate is as the Secretary of State reviews what the Committee has to share.
Update: Steven Porter reached out to indicate that Granite Memo is self-funded, and he is not supported by anyone but himself.
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November 10, 2022
State Committee members,
Thank you all for the selfless effort in supporting our candidates this cycle. You are the heart and soul of the Party. Our candidates and supporters put in the heroic effort that we can be proud of.
While I am as disappointed as anyone in our NH and national election results, there is reason for hope and optimism moving forward. In New Hampshire, we did retain the corner office, Senate (14-10), Executive Council (4-1) and House (203-197) pending recounts. At the national level, we are poised to retake Congress and provide a check on the disastrous policies of the Biden administration. We also know that we as a team could, and should, have done better.
We must start now to position ourselves to win in 2024 and beyond. My suggested way forward includes a methodical 4-step process:
As we develop plans we must continue to govern and support our legislators and Governor. While our messaging & tactics deserve critical scrutiny, we are on the same team and are well served by working together, communicating openly, and treating each other with dignity and respect.
I expect up to 30+ recounts starting Monday. If you would like to help, please let me know.
Thank you for your activism and support of the Party. Please let me know if there is any way I can help.
Chris Ager
RNC Committeeman, NH
NHCommitteeman@protonmail.com
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In 2021, the New Hampshire Department of Education partnered with Discovery Education, one of the world’s leading EdTech companies. Through this collaboration, we have provided teachers and students across the state with a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional learning resources.
These resources – at no cost to them – are facilitating incredible modern learning experiences, whether you are in a New Hampshire classroom or learning in a Home Education program, to the world beyond the proverbial schoolyard.
Discovery Education is taking New Hampshire children on virtual tours of Washington, D.C., which happens to be one of the most popular Discovery Education activities accessed in the Granite State, alongside an animal behavior video complete with a modern animal cam.
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Whether it is participating in a virtual field trip to Manitoba to learn about polar bears, creating an online store by writing code from scratch, or engaging in a conversation with the NBA to see how math comes to life through the game of basketball, Discovery Education is sparking curiosity and igniting wonder.
To date, educators across the state have used nearly 500,000 Discovery Education interactives, activities, videos, and more to unlock potential and engage students in their learning. When we review usage from last year compared to this year, the number of teachers incorporating these resources into their classroom (5,194) has grown by 77 percent, while the number of students introduced to the platform (23,290) has increased by 82 percent.
However, usage is only part of the story. Educators across the state report that their new digital resources are driving deeper student engagement in instruction and creating a passion to study and explore current events. The Merrimack School District is taking full advantage of the digital learning platform and has the highest number of teachers and students using Discovery Education content.
“These digital learning tools empower educators to create dynamic, immersive lessons that provide students the opportunity to see how what they are learning in the classroom connects to the outside world,” said Jessica Gott, a library media specialist at Merrimack High School and a frequent user of Discovery Education. “These resources have been game changers.”
A key to this initiative’s success has been our efforts to teach educators how to use these innovative resources. Since July of 2022, there have been 47 professional learning sessions offered throughout New Hampshire that have provided educators with in-depth training on how to use Discovery Education tools in the classroom. They are also exposing teachers to a new suite of instructional strategies that will serve our students well now and in the future.
While Discovery Education is planning a special one-year celebration event this month in New Hampshire, it is our hope that more educators will be inspired to use its unique content and also participate in its professional learning geared to augment and improve student engagement.
Studying fossils, exploring the digestive system, or participating in the Young Scientist Challenge are a few of the ways that Discovery Education is helping students statewide understand real-world concepts and become effective learners. These digital resources and instructional materials, which are being used daily by New Hampshire educators, have become incredibly valuable to the state’s educational system by connecting youth to today and preparing them for tomorrow.
The New Hampshire Department of Education has put into place several initiatives that will not only recover lost learning from the pandemic but drive and accelerate improved academic achievement and innovation statewide. Offering unlimited Discovery Education content to teachers and students is providing them with another tool to assist their students.
Frank Edelblut
Commissioner of Education
New Hampshire Department of Education
Karen M. Beerer, Ed.D.
Senior Vice President, Teaching and Learning
Discovery Education
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Nearly two years ago, I joked about making a deal with Massachusetts to give them Nashua. After Tuesday’s election, they might just take it. Way out west, eastern and central Oregon residents are working on a different strategy. They are trying to leave and become part of Idaho.
Who can blame them? Republican counties make up most of the state, while the densely populated coastline counties packed with Marxists decide its political color and fortunes.
But most of the land mass has folks with very different values. Ideas about life and living that their left-coast political masters despise. Divorce for irreconcilable differences makes sense.
The idea is to move the border of Oregon and Idaho to benefit everyone. Liberals would free up millions used to care for parts of the state where they’d not be caught dead. Conservatives would be free from the Lefty nightmare. And Idaho would get a good deal larger.
WHY SHOULD COUNTIES WANT TO BECOME A PART OF IDAHO?
1. American Values: Oregon will continue to violate more and more American values and American freedoms because northwestern Oregon has 79% of Oregon’s population and voters. Fortunately, Boise has only 13% of Idaho’s population.
2. Law and Order: Oregon refuses to protect citizens from criminals, rioters, wildfire arsonists, illegals, and the homeless, but then infringes on your right to defend your family with firearms. Idaho enforces the law.
3. Low Tax: Idaho is the state with the 8th smallest tax burden, and Oregon ranks 33rd, according to https://taxfoundation.org/tax-freedom-day-2019 . Combining all taxes together, including sales tax, the average Idahoan paid $1722 less in taxes in 2019 than the average Oregonian. That’s averaging together every adult or child, employed, retired or unemployed. Oregon tax rates continue to go up due to a lack of willingness to control spending.
4. Safety: Idaho allows forests to be managed to prevent destruction of housing from huge wildfires.
5. Thriving Economy: Idaho has less regulation than any other state, leading to low unemployment and a much lower cost of living. Idaho’s approach to regulation and taxation would allow our rural industries to revive and employ us again.
6. Representation: The ruling party in the Oregon Legislature only has two representatives from a rural district or from eastern or southern Oregon. But our reps would be in the ruling party in Idaho, where our concerns and needs would be heard.
On Tuesday, two more counties voted to join the movement bringing the total to eleven. There are six more counties affected by the plan, one of which has scheduled a vote. And it got me thinking.
We’ve nowhere to go in New Hampshire, trapped as we are between Canada and Massachusetts with Blue Vermont and Bluing Maine on either side. Are there any red counties in either state wanting to be part of New Hampshire that we’d be willing to have?
If not, maybe we should vote to become part of Idaho. It might be the only way we’ll rid ourselves of an insufferable Democrat congressional delegation
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Imagine the cheek involved in some of the latest capers found in our undocumented immigrant’s paradise.
If you sneak into this country, you’re immediately covered by the local state, county, or municipality for every conceivable medical need for free, including those of your hundreds of close and not-so-close family members, far above that routinely offered to the real American peasants and veterans who are paying for this largesse.
In your spare time from dodging meaningful legal employment, from the schools you pay nothing to support, and far from the routine day-to-day business regimen of your favorite Democrat solons, all neck deep in the public trough, you decide to mosey on over to your local green space and duke it out with the police because you’re dissatisfied with the vast amount freebies you immediately qualified for combined with the need for a greater dollop of human respect to be ladled out from the tureens of those at work. And you do it because it’s time for the UN-approved, Raul Castro practicing, Schumer and Pelosi blessed international holidays dedicated to goading the local police with rocks, man-portable missiles, and yes, hurled epithets.
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But nowhere in your responsibilities are you expected to obey the lawful orders of the police, the controlling civil authority, to lift a phrase from our once supreme reigning heavyweight meteorological savant, private jet traveler, and seer, Al Gore, as you go about your lawless activities unless the police properly beg you to stop tossing your empty short dogs of booze, cobble rocks, short pieces of pipe, and bags of urine at them, in your proper native tongue. And, of course, the police can be taken to task for failing to adequately describe, in your native tongue, from Lithuanian to Urdu, the objects you’re throwing when they order you to cease your dissociative and criminal behavior.
Things have sure changed a lot thanks to politically correct behavior, the recognition of microaggressions, and the input garnered from the “liberal” media and our burgeoning social elite. I can actually remember when folks were more concerned about stopping the riots, slowing the destruction of private property, and rounding up the criminals than they were about the he, hims, and hers, used while goading them on.
It used to be that large roving packs of varlets tossing rocks, full cans of beer, railroad spikes, coiled balls of barbed wire, bullets,s and the like at you and your fellow citizens, were fair game for jail, our teetering legal system, and a good talking to in English from a judge possessing an ever so slight understanding our marvelous and unique Constitution.
But now you have to address everybody in their native tongue, using the proper pronouns, while you’re enduring this rain of missiles, waiting for their response, giving them a few minutes for the lawful orders to cease and desist to sink in, while enduring the continued rain of missiles, waiting a few more moments to see if they understood, while the rocks, bottles and associated jetsam hit you in the helmet and dirty your clean blue military pressed uniform, and then repeat the process until the boisterous gangrels, ne’er-do’wells, vagabonds, moochers, and lollygaggers disperse, should they care to. And if they do end up arrested and tossed in the can, their bail will be met by our nation’s President, Veep, and their staffs using Democrat donations garnered from ActBlue because they’ve been wronged sometime in their past, somewhere on this spinning planet and we, working Americans, owe them a great deal for their troubles.
Ah, America today, where Antifa, the BLM crowd, illegal aliens, assorted crooks, and rampaging agents of terror make outrageous public demands of the police, which are immediately taken up by the far-left liberal media and trumpeted worldwide by the UN as evidence of rogue US cops on another uncalled for rampage.
Sometimes I actually do long for the old days. Unemployment may have been higher, the Dow was lower, the NASDAQ free of Bernie Madoff, Adam-12 and Mannix were popular, fewer folks owned their own homes, automobiles, and telephones, we worked longer hours for less pay while American cars were riddled with tactile and audible defects, where rattling car doors often contained empty beer cans which in turn were partly filled with pebbles, a la the long studied Lordstown GMC UAW Local 1112 strike. But the chances of being killed by a gunman or murdered in a riot were far less than in 2020 and today.
But in those days of yore, there were a few responsibilities cops demanded of the criminal class – understanding and speaking English were two of them, combined with that modicum of civility.
But times have changed, thanks in part to President Obama, the decline of decorum, and the “defund the police” Democrats.
It’s tough out there for a cop.
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