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Zimbabwe is looking to capitalize on the West’s Green Energy “Future.” Citing its Base Minerals Export Control Act if you want to move lithium out of the country, you’ll need first to process it in Zimbabwe*. Otherwise, no joy.

 

On December 20, Zimbabwe’s ministry of Mines and Mining Development in a directive published under the nation’s Base Minerals Export Control Act said that the move was made to “ensure that the vision of the president to see the country becoming an upper-middle income economy has been realized.”

Winston Chitando following the export ban said: “No lithium-bearing ores, or unbeneficiated lithium whatsoever, shall be exported from Zimbabwe to another country except under the written permit of the minister.”

 

China, which has spent the past decade making mineral arrangments with second and third-world countries, is exempt.

 

According to Reuters, Chinese mining giants and lithium ion battery material manufacturers Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, Sinomine Resource Group and Chengxin Lithium Group acquired several lithium mine and have bagged projects worth a combined $678 million in Zimbabwe and are at various stages of developing mines and processing plants. These companies are exempted from the ban.

 

China will also (very likely) be capitalizing on the wealth of minerals and natural resources available in Afghanistan but let’s not get distracted by that.

China, China, China, and the UK have secured mineral rights and are presumably prepared to meet the nation’s expectations. Create jobs here to process material and build batteries in Zimbabwe. And it’s a smart move. They’ve got a lot of lithium, and as noted elsewhere on our pages, there are not enough known reserves of it and other rare earth metals to achieve the West’s fairy-tale promise of Net-Zero using current technology.

The price has skyrocketed in recent years and could make Zimbabwe a very wealthy nation though to date, that’s primarily meant making a few people rich while the balance of the people remains at or near poverty. That may be what happens here, though we can’t say.

We can say that while America appears committed to the road, they are not doing a great job of clearing a path for it.

 

 

HT | News18.com

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 MERRY CHRISTMAS!  Thus, this is not as long as normal.  See you later for Monday Memes.  And this is late, both because of Comcast being down and my having bought Monopoly for the kids.  I’d forgotten how loooooong that game goes.

 

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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.  I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource.  Read or skip sections depending on your interests.

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:

1. Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
2. Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.

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, which is a good site to check out in general.

FYI, here’s a link to the last Survival Sunday – SITREP Edition.

 

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Not my idea of a vacation, but… useful to know.

 

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Top of the fold:

 

Just… it’s coming.

 

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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)

The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World

Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice

Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid

Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)

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:

Christmas in Venezuela – The Organic Prepper

Learn from the experiences of others.  Related:

Mentally Prepare Yourself for the EPIC Economic SHTF That’s Coming (theorganicprepper.com)

Emergency Binders: What Should Preppers Put in Them? (mind4survival.com)

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Why Should Preppers Care About Mass Formation Psychosis? (theorganicprepper.com)

Many warning signs today.

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Rechargeable Emergency Items To Always Have In The House (askaprepper.com)

Depends on your ability to get power.  Realistically, if the power goes out for a year – Hashem forbid – most people will be dead.

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5 Insanely Delicious Thrifty Things to Make with Crushed Tomatoes (thefrugalite.com)

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Related to Spicy Time:

Aim Small, Miss Small – According To Hoyt

We are in a strange place and no mistake. I mean, it’s been said for a long time that we’re in that awkward space when it’s too late to vote them out, but too early to start shooting.

It used to be amusing. Not laughing right now.

Added to that no sane person wants to start shooting, because we know if it ever starts it will make the French Terror look like a teddy bear picnic. And that the left isn’t sane and in their all-consuming lust for power they don’t realize the rest of us aren’t merely holding the worst back, but we are the worst that we’re holding back. And good men tested to the limits of their self-control can break: When tired, when sick, when despairing, when their children cry with hunger.

 

 

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The Chicago bottleneck

Ideas.  Strictly as an intellectual exercise, of course.

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Interesting thoughts on field and fighting gear from a Ukraine veteran

What’s useful and what’s useless.

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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:

1. When does it start?
2. How bad will it get?
3. How long will it last?
4. What will the aftermath look like?

 

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https://youtu.be/01aFP88qfQs

 

Fascinating.  But at the end he goes off into man made climate change.  Still, a lot of info I didn’t know – or at least not to the level of detail that I do now.

 

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Foraging:

 

I just started a FORAGING group on Gab.

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One-up articles

6 Backyard Plants You Can Turn Into Bread – Ask a Prepper

I keep an eye out for crabgrass specifically, and make mental notes of the location.  If it weren’t for the wife I’d just seed the whole backyard with it.  Musing: Assuming we’re still around in society next year, I’ll harvest some crabgrass and seed some vacant lots around as an off-site reservoir.

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Foraging (permanent feature):

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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Shortages (broadly):

 

 

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‘Tripledemic’ Leading to Shortage of Children’s Pain Medications (legalinsurrection.com)

Had a hard time finding both cough syrup and cough drops the other day too.

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Fire Breaks Out at Saginaw County Grain Elevator – Fire Could Burn for Another Week – Latest Fire at a Food Processing Plant (thegatewaypundit.com)

 

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Gardening, Canning, and Other Food Preservation:

Canning Lemons ~ Three Ways (practicalselfreliance.com)

Interesting that, with all that acid, heat is still recommended.  I can understand sealing it, but…

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How To Make Survival Dandelion Jelly with 2 Years Shelf Life – Ask a Prepper

Just remember to get your dandelions from pesticide-free areas.  From the same site:

10 Long Shelf-Life Canned Foods Every Prepper Should Consider Stockpiling – Ask a Prepper

When opening cans, listen for the hiss.  If you don’t hear that vacuum-breaking hiss, MHO, not fit for human consumption.  Now, you can dump it outside – if in a suitable environment – to feed the animals… and then harvest those animals.  On that:

How To Craft A Deadly Slingshot – Ask a Prepper

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20 Ways To Preserve Eggs – Ask a Prepper

From the above:

How To Pickle Eggs – Ask a Prepper

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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)

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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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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:

Burglar Climbs Through Bedroom Window, Homeowner Shoots Him Dead

Taxpayer relief shot IMHO.

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5 Freedom-Based Solutions to Mass Shootings – American Thinker

IMHO – the riskier you make it for the perp, the less likely they are to try.

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SCOTUS says you can carry a gun. NJ says says ‘Go ahead and try’…

Got to know the state laws.  I was talking with someone the other day who does competitive shooting tournaments.  He said that despite there being a federal law that if guns are legal in the state where you started and to where you are going, there are some states that will nail you anyway.  E.g., when he drives to the Midwest to compete it’s pucker-factor through all of New York state.

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BARR: Banks Might Start Closing Accounts Of Customers Who Buy Too Many Guns Or Too Much Ammo | The Daily Caller

It’s not illegal when private companies do it.  So if this starts – understand that banks are limiting your purchasing of a legal product.

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Concealed Carry Mistakes You Have To Avoid At All Costs (askaprepper.com)

All good advice.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

 

Simply – Merry Christmas to you Christians, a brilliant last night of Chanukah to all Jews, and in general may the coming year be one of revelation and victory of good.

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here.  Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.

 

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In early December, we reported on Old Glory Bank. Not #Woke, no ESG, and no BS. Banking for ordinary people. Well, the idea’s been catching. Based in Dallas, Texas, but available worldwide, ProLife Bank would “honor God’s wealth and inspire change in our world.”

Related: Say Hello to Old Glory Bank. It’s not #Woke, No ESG, and No BS.

‘A bank for everyone, banking God’s purpose.’

 

Honoring God first, serving people, and always choosing to support life…ALL life.

ProLifeBank [PROPOSED] is an alternative to the legacy banking systems who, for years, have been unaccountable for their support of the largest abortion provider and other organizations that oppose God’s moral laws. ProLifeBank [PROPOSED] is creating and stewarding a movement in banking that is secure, uncancellable, and abiding to the will of God. We’re standing firm in the wake of woke financial systems with a heart to serve the Lord.

 

Like Old Glory, it is still in its planning stages, and like with the announcement of Old Glory, I must ask the same question. Given that they are trying to operate off the plantation, “the other banks and the regulators will be on them like white on rice. Especially the federal regulators. It’s what they do, and with the encouragement of the existing banking system, I’m sure they will be appropriately motivated.”

Old Glory is based in Oklahoma. ProLife plans to set up shop in Texas, and here’s the deal. Those states must be prepared and willing to defend their right to operate on their terms. As former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts notes in this lengthy interview,

 

…, there is no Right vs Left.  There is no Trump vs Biden.  There is a machine in control of a spending machine that is financed with our taxes, and debt borrowed in our name, that is being sold into our pension funds and retirement accounts…

And (emphasis in the original),

The financial coup has reached a point where if you want sovereignty, the only person who can deliver that is your state governor and your legislature…

If you’ve got a great state AG, if you have great legislature, if you have a great governor, you better start supporting them.  They are the people that can protect your sovereignty.  You need governmental sovereignty if you are going to have individual sovereignty, and you better do it now.  You have no time to be entertained by Joe Biden, Trump and Hunter Biden.”

 

These new banks are great ideas, and it’s not just banks. Still, suppose your state, governor, and AG are not prepared to go to war on the issue of state sovereignty and their obligation to protect and defend your natural rights (the only reason governments are formed). In that case, you are dipping a tiny tow in a big pool. The beasties in the dark waters are going to take your leg.

I think you still have to try with the understanding that things might go sideways before you are ready.

And kudos to ProLife Bank and Old Glory for stepping up and pushing back. We all need to do more of that, I think.

 

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Dear Sununu-sycophants, Sununu-apologists and Sununu-cultists, please explain to me why State liquor stores are “essential,” but gyms and churches are not. You can’t, of course.

Yet you continue to blindly support everything the abortion-obsessed Sun-King says and does, including his failed stewardship of the State during COVID-mania. Americans, however, rejected the COVID-tyranny of the Sun-King and other COVID-tyrants like Charlie Baker, Gavin Newson and Andrew Cuomo.

The chart below, which is from the census shows domestic migration during the thick of COVID-mania. Notice that New Hampshire is NOT among the top ten for population growth:

What’s that you say? Its not fair to compare poor, little purple New Hampshire to big, bad red Florida and Texas? Well, here is domestic migration on a percentage basis and AGAIN no Granite State:

 

 

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Filtering your world through the absurd has become a fashionable hobby, especially for attendees of Indoctrination U (hundreds of franchise locations nationwide). And sure, some of them are just playing along to keep the mob off their heels, but many of these kids are aiding and abetting.

There’s plenty of evidence on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat, and … sense, as they say, is no longer common (or perhaps never was), but things have gotten out of hand.

 

Campus Reform’s Logan Dubil interviewed students at the University of Pittsburgh about the fact that the classic tune “Frosty the Snowman” assumes Frosty’s pronouns, and fails to consider the possibility of Frosty choosing to be non-binary or gender non-conforming.

“I haven’t thought of that, but I definitely do agree,” one student said.

Another told Dubil that “saying man versus woman can definitely exclude people.”

 

I’d be curious to hear the non-binary version of a classic Christmas song for kids. Wait, scratch that. I’ve seen what passes for children’s literature. No one could read the lyrics in public, so singing them would get you charged with obscenity. How about this instead?

 

Frosty, the groomer, was an SJW thug
With some porno books and an Ed degree
And some gender-affirming drugs
Frosty, the groomer, is as real as right folks claim
Says she’s white as snow, but the parents know
that he’ll maim their kids someday.

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One more point. I think Joe Biden needs to stop saying, “c’mon, man.” It’s not inclusive.

 

 

 

And in case you have to hear it.

 

 

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Title IX was signed into law in 1972 as part of the Education Amendment of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or other education program that receives funding from the federal government. It was designed to level the playing field for women in athletics and sports at all levels of education. It has provided the opportunity for many women to gain access to colleges and universities, especially for advanced degrees. It has also created an explosion in the number of women involved in interscholastic sports. Female participation at the high school level has grown by 1057 percent, and 614 percent at the college level. Sport-related scholarships have also increased proportionately, which has made it possible for more women to pursue college educations. By all accounts, Title IX was a tremendous success.

The Women’s Movement has also significantly impacted advancing women in academics, sports, and business. Things have happened dramatically in the last few years to destroy the advances made over the last five decades, and it makes one wonder where the politicians and women’s groups are in protecting women’s rights. As Title IX turns 50, it may be on life support or worse.

Women appear to be losing the battle with the LGBTQ community. Both are favorites of the Left, but the LGBTQ and WOKE are much stronger, and women are taking it on the chin. Transgender women have added a new level of complexity to the equality issue, with Progressives sitting on the fence. Not taking a stand is how the Progressives look to address the situation. They can hope it will go away, but that is futile thinking.

The fiasco of women’s collegiate swimming will be looked upon as the point that Title IX went into the intensive care unit. University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title after finishing first in the women’s 500-yard freestyle event In March. Lia Thomas used to go by the name William Thomas. That was before the male swimmer opted to identify as a female and compete as a women swimmer on the U of Penn Women’s swim team. William was an average swimmer on the men’s team but a champion on the women’s team. Lia Thomas is depriving women of scholarships and more by competing unfairly to make champions losers.

Colleges are not the only level to feel the pain of the WOKE Progressives. High schools are dealing with boys identifying as women and being allowed to use the women’s (girls’) locker rooms. This is setting up an unsafe situation for the biological girls, but schools and school boards are so far giving the nod to those born as boys but identifying as girls. Parents who complain are shut down, and the situation is becoming more common with the lack of decisive action to shut down this nonsense.

Women are by no means weak, but they need our protection from men who think they can put on a women’s bathing suit and declare themself a woman. Men have no place in a woman’s locker room or a woman’s team, period. Women who were denied a victory or record by a male competitor need to be made whole. The NCAA needs to get control of this situation, stop yielding to the WOKE, and preserve women’s athletics.

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The Cloward-Pivening of America continues as the Democrats stress the economy, banks, international relations, supply chains, and people’s patience. Oh, and then there are the estimated 5 million illegals who have “joined us” since Biden hit the Oval Office less than two years ago.

Southern border states (or popular destinations for illegal border crossers) have been sending them on planes or busses to New York, DC, and now near VP Kamal Harris’ residence.

Three buses full of ‘migrants’ were migrated to her “lawn” (not far from, at least) on Christmas Eve, promptly put on another bus, and relocated faster than you get an illegal off Martha’s Vineyard.

 

#HappeningNow the second bus of migrants has arrived here in D.C. near VP Kamala Harris’ home. They are boarding another bus taking them to a church. Was just told by someone helping bring them to the church that this bus came from Texas: pic.twitter.com/Sp4upqz1yB

— Christian Flores (@CFloresNews) December 25, 2022

 

No word on whether her majesty was at home, though I suspect not. I’m sure she had some cackling to do with “family” and “friends” back in California. I’ve no intel to prove that. The only place I can be sure we will not find Madam Vice President is anywhere near the Southern Border, overwhelmed as they’ve been for nearly two years straight.

 

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This response from Di Lothrop concerns a Letter to the Editor from former NH Supreme Court Justice, Chuck Douglas.  Both are reproduced below.  -Skip

To the Editor: The only irrational obsession about Donald Trump is coming from Chuck Douglas (N.H. Sunday News, Dec. 18, 2022). It’s pretty sad that Mr. Douglas can’t seem to let go of his Trump Derangement Syndrome even during this festive season of goodwill to all men. His delusional little scenario about a Peruvian dictator makes as much sense as having an ice cream cone in the middle of a New Hampshire winter, when comparing the disinformation and lies about Trump terminating the U.S. Constitution.

President Trump has no authority to “terminate” the Constitution. Mr. Douglas should know that, given his judicial background. Then again, facts tend to get in the way of clouded judgments. Trump was responding to the report of former Twitter officials, Big Tech, FBI, and their Democratic National Committee cohorts to limit the spread of posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop and collude to throw the 2020 election in favor of Biden.

We want to thank Di Lothrop for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Trump’s words were taken out of context and, as usual, manipulated by the usual “news” organizations forcing their opinionated and false narratives onto the uninformed public. The disinformation was hungrily absorbed by their liberal, Trump-hating devotees.

Don’t worry, Chuck, New Hampshire Republicans are moving on from your establishmentarianism, old-boy network style of politics. Just like another dinosaur, U.S. Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. There is no room for the old ways anymore. McConnell and his ilk do not represent the NEW Republican Party of working-class American voters.

Change is coming.

Chuck Douglas’s LtE:

Why not President for Life Trump?

USING THE Peru governance model, former President Donald Trump on Dec. 3 called for “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” because his fragile ego cannot admit he lost an election. The Constitution Terminator might have inspired President Pedro Castillo of Peru three days later to address his country by telling Peruvians he would dissolve its Congress and then rule by decree until a new constitution was drafted.

Luckily, Peruvians declined the honor of a dictatorship and hours later Castillo was impeached by a vote of 101 to 29 and promptly removed from office.

Donald Trump’s plan for a coup to reinstall him by terminating the U.S. Constitution is all anyone with a three-digit I.Q. needs to see that he remains morbidly fixated on the 2020 election.

How is that 7,000,000-vote loss to Joe Biden going to motivate independents to vote for election denier GOP candidates? Apparently not at all. Senate candidates Don Bolduc, Mehmet Oz, Herschel Walker, etc., each won their primary because of Trump’s backing and then blew their election because most people in the country think Biden won, not stole, the 2020 election.

Republicans in New Hampshire need to move on once and for all from our self-proclaimed “greatest President.” The 40% of the voters here and nationally who are not enrolled in either major political party have clearly put him in their rearview mirrors. In Pennsylvania 58% of independents voted against election denier Oz and in our state 54% voted for Maggie Hassan to enable her to win over Bolduc.

What is amazing is how the Trump endorsed candidates here and around the country lost when only 44% of the electorate has a favorable opinion of the Democratic party, Biden is unpopular and we have 8% inflation. The dead weight? Donald Trump’s obsession with his loss forced his endorsed candidates to ride the Great Stolen Election bandwagon in the face of no evidence and over 60 court rulings against such fraud claims.

To broaden his appeal among White supremacists, and further alienate most of the rest of the country, is the famous dinner at Mar-A-Lago last month. “I like Hitler,” Kanye West and the “Holocaust-never-happened” Nick Fuentes were actually allowed to have dinner with a presidential candidate who should know better. Last spring, at a right-wing conference, Fuentes asked the crowd to give a round of applause for Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. In December, Fuentes said the Taliban represented “ideal” government with its policies toward women, who should not be able to vote here either according to Fuentes.

Can you think of any president since Jefferson Davis who would dine with such whackos?
To cap off his broad appeal to haters and rioters Trump told a group helping to pay for the Jan. 6 rioters’ legal defense that the country “was going communist” and that if re-elected he would issue pardons and apologies to those who beat the police and threatened harm to elected officials.

No wonder he does not believe in enforcing riot laws and that he should be re-installed as president after the constitution is suspended.
If Peru is not quite Trump’s model for governance we can reach back in time to Jean-Claude Duvalier of Haiti, who at age 19 became president for life in 1957. The plus for Baby Doc Duvalier was that you can’t lose elections if you never have them.

Trump should have “terminated” the constitution when he was still president, and then declared that he was president for life. Having missed that opportunity, the Republican Party should not give him the chance again to lose and rain havoc down on the ticket of Republicans like he did to the Senate this year.

The anti-Semitic and White nationalist stench of Mar-A-Lago is not the tradition of the Party of Lincoln, nor should it become one.

We are not losing elections because of RINO’s, but because of Donald Trump. It is time to move on to new faces who believe in our U.S. Constitution.

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Over at Ed’s “And Yet They Claim They’re NOT The Reason There Was No Red Wave …“, Commenter James “Vito” Lanese had a longish comment that caught my eye that I thought was worthwhile to promote to the ‘Grok Front page to cast a bit more light on it:

Before the election on the tube, I saw Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell say he didn’t think the Republicans would take the Senate because of the quality of the Republican candidates. This was a blatant rebuke of all the Trump endorsed senate candidates.

A few days after that statement on Newsmax Dick Morris said that what McConnell is trying to do is destroy all of the Trump endorsed America First candidates, the reasoning being he would rather be Senate Minority Leader than Senate Majority Leader because that majority might have the vote to remove him as leader and give it to Rick Scott-R-FL. When the red wave didn’t happen, McConnell trashed the MAGA candidates again.

How could this be? A republican that didn’t want to take the Senate and put a halt to the Biden agenda, with the biggest reason that being Biden would not be able to get judicial nominees, federal and supreme court thru the Senate. Was there a conspiracy between the Democrats and McConnell? The Democrats funded several MAGA candidates in the primaries with the hope that they could beat them in the general by labeling them extremists. Now all the swamp creatures are coming out to say it was Trump’s fault and that his candidates lost the Senate. Really?

McConnell’s Senate Leadership Fund had over 100 million dollars to help Republican senate candidates get elected. So, what did he do with the money? Let’s start with Arizona. McConnell gave zero dollars to Blake Masters. Masters was outspent by 64 million dollars. Kelly 73 million Masters 9 million. In Pennsylvania OZ was outspent by 15 million dollars. Fetterman 52 million OZ 37 million. In Nevada Laxalt was outspent by 34 million dollars. Cortez Masto 46 million Laxalt 12 million. In Georgia Walker was out spent by 43 million dollars. Warnock 75 million Walker 32 million. In New Hampshire Bolduc was out spent by 34 million dollars Hassen 36 million Bolduc 2 million. McConnell stopped sending money to Bolduc after he was endorsed by Trump. Republican governor and rino Chris Sununu won election by a wide margin but didn’t lift a finger to help Bolduc. McConnell gave ZERO dollars to Vermont’s Gerald Malloy who also was endorsed by Trump. Now we get to Alaska where the Alaskan Republicans censured Lisa Murkowski. Then Murkowski’s friends put in ranked choice voting to make sure that Sara Palin and Kelly Tshibaca both Trump endorsed candidates would be stopped because Murkowski couldn’t win in a straight up election. McConnell funded Murkowski because she would vote for him as minority leader. This is even after Murkowski said she would be voting for Democrats. Murkowski had six times the funding of Tshibaca.

Now the Trump trashing starts. It was the election deniers. It was abortion. We have to go in a new direction. Trump’s time is passed. His candidates can’t get elected. Why? It’s because they fear Trump. He is a threat to people like Mitch McConnell’s and the Uni-Party’s power. If you recall when he was elected in 2016, he had to rely on the Republican establishment’s recommendations to fill White House and cabinet positions, FBI, CIA, etc. And they made sure they put people around him to weaken his authority. Not so this time. If he should get elected again, he will be able to drain the swamp by coming in with his own staff, cabinet and appointees that will greatly diminish their power. Tucker Carlson’s interview with former congressman Steve King from Iowa King said Paul Ryan did everything he could to thwart funding for the border wall.

When I was a correction officer, an old timer told me when an inmate asks you for something or tells you something always ask yourself why. What’s their angle? So what is the Republicans angle?

And the “money quote, IMHO:

The angle is the Republicans are using conservatives like the Democrats use Blacks. They only come around when it’s time to vote.

They never give us what we want. Is it time for a new Constitutional Party?

So, what do you think of this conclusion?  It certainly is backed up by what happened a decade ago when, after dragging the GOP over the finish lines in 2008/2010, the TEA Party movement which was majority Republican leaning, started to demand seats at the GOP Tables That Counted.  Then the GOP Establishment turned on them and adopted the language of the Democrats of the time. Win? Sure. Share Power?  You TEA PARTIER you!  Extremists!

And now we hear the same thing against as the GOP Establishment Republicans have adopted the Democrat label like “EXTREMISTS!  FREE STATERS!“.  How not to share power.  Just ask Doug Lambert and Jade Wood how they helped the Democrat PAC Citizens for Belknap for sounding like Democrats.

And let’s not forget about that other Big Guy (who will never be 1/2 the politician of his father) Chris Sununu who is using the same tactics. From Landrigan’s State House Dome: (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Sununu, House GOP feud

Sununu didn’t hide his displeasure with Packard’s decision to reappoint Rep. Ken Weyler, R-Kingston, to chair the House Finance Committee. Packard asked for and got Weyler to step aside in October 2021 after Weyler shared misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

And of course, Tyrant Baby Huey is crazy ticked that someone DARED to disobey his wishes (like when he lashed out at other Republicans during the Primary in his infamous Letter calling them extremists simply because they called him out:

“It’s a terrible move,” Sununu told Chris Ryan of New Hampshire Today. “We drove him off the committee a year ago.”

But I did enjoy reading the retort aimed back at Sununu, especially as it looks like he’s got delusions of 2024 grandeur:

Weyler isn’t backing down. He’s vowed to continue to question vaccines and said he left in 2021 because of the “Democratic smear machine.”

“He is an unreasonable egoist,” Weyler told the New Hampshire Bulletin about Sununu. “Everything has to be his own way.”

Dare I type the word “narcissist”?  Well, sure I can!  Shoe fits, and all. He used to be an affable person – no longer. Hubristic is an applicable term nowadays.  L’Enfant Terrible?

Heh! Sununu forgets that the Internet is forever and the oppo research guys for the other “I can be President, too!” guys are going to have a field day rummaging through the NH stories.

 

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A TWOFER! From Amil’s post “We No Longer Have a Country“, Commenter Jamie nails who really is the “invader” against our traditional and Normal American Society (emphasis mine):

If the Democrats weren’t anti-Constitutional enough, now we have the “Woke Supremacists“.

A most SPLENDID new category in my estimation! There is just SO much future usage of that phrase!  And I bet they haven’t the foggiest idea that is what the Left has become – ripe for ridicule.

After all, they share one most important characteristic of other “supremacists” – the absolutely determined and self-righteous image that they are better than any other mortals. They also share the same sense that everyone else should bow down to them when it comes to any kind of debate (translation: SHUT UP, she said).

But worst of all, they seek to divide and demonize anyone “not them” and have no idea what the outcome will be. In this, this movement of and for “marginalized communities” don’t understand that in advocating for their “mission” become exactly what they are complaining about. They are so wrapped up in themselves, in their collective group, they have the self-awareness of a gnat in what they are doing.

They do nothing, in their sense of Wokeness, of accomplishing much except for ticking everyone else off.

See: Woke School Board members turning their Districts upside down in mandating sexuality be THE identifying characteristic that people should be known for. Instead of what their job really is supposed to be: maximizing student academic achievement. But you know, pronouns, dress, and bathroom usage trumps that.  And let’s not forget about Critical Race Theory, either.

It seems that these missionaries are bound and determined to turn Society into a collective of emotion driven useless people who can squeal “Woke!!!” but can’t do rudimentary math, writing, or know basic Civics.

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The Marxists want to make sure you see them as the higher power, so happy holidays. That’s from JP Sears, who has an important ‘holiday’ corruption update for you.

 

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Lindsey Graham is a Democrat who cross-dresses as a Republican …who thinks voters are too stupid to figure that out … and who may be right about that, because the voters keep returning him to the Senate. The latest from this warmonger fraud … courtesy of FoxNews, the propaganda-arm of the GOP octogenarian old-guard, endless wars, open borders Establishment … is that he cares about our wide-open Southern border:

Lindsey Graham torches Biden's 'unconscionable' disregard of border crisis: 'He doesn't give a d—' https://t.co/1LbqdjotHW

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 24, 2022

Yet Lindsey Graham and 17 of his fellow Senate swamp-rat “GOP” Senators voted for a $1.7 trillion “omnibus” that did NOTHING for border security. Actually, that’s not true … it sends plenty to help other countries secure their borders. But NOTHING that would actually close our wide-open Southern border.

Worse, this $1.7 trillion “omnibus” destroys any leverage the incoming GOP House would have had to force Biden to secure the Southern border.

Yet this fraud, this Democrat cross-dresser, and the other 17 Senate Democrats who cross-dress as Republicans, want us to believe they want to secure the Southern border. It’s a LIE. A total LIE.

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It is a complicated time for Americans this Christmas season. For the first time in three years, we can celebrate without the oppression of government mandates. COVID is still around and may be with us in some form forever, but it no longer controls us. We lost many to this evil disease from China, but we have won. We have survived the Pandemic of our lifetime. The masks are gone, except for those who sleep with a security blanket. Six feet of separation is history, and you can hug your family and friends again. Life has returned to normal, and it feels good.

Some are grasping their power and still threatening us with masks and mandates, but the people will not hear of it this time. We gave up over two years of our lives and will no longer accept being controlled. We have decided to surround ourselves with friends and family and embrace life. This year we will celebrate, gather, and party like it’s 2019

Joe Biden is doing his best to be the Grinch that steals our Christmas. He has stymied our economy, made some choose between food and fuel, and has made the country less safe by destroying our Southern Border. The American people are resilient and are absorbing his punches. Biden and his band of fools are doing their best to bring our country to its knees, but he does not have the power he thinks he has. The people are still standing tall as we always have when faced with adversity.

The gifts we exchange and the merriment we enjoy is nothing compared to the time we spend together. So count your blessings, gather your loved ones, and remember those no longer with us. Remember, the loved one who occupied that empty seat is still with us, smiling down upon us today and every day—Shed not a tear. But smile at the memories. For two years, we were kept from those closest to us. We can pray that it never happens again, but it gave us an appreciation for the precious time we share.

We prayed a great deal during these last few trips around the sun. Though we all may not be religious, we found a comforting spirituality. Let that stay with us; maybe that force will miraculously pull us together and show us we have more in common than we think.

If there is one gift I wish for everyone this Christmas is that the family and friendships that have drifted apart come back together. There are far more essential things for which we must unite than those that divide us. May harmony, understanding, and love encircle your holiday table today and remain with you into a happy and prosperous New Year.

God Bless you and keep you safe and sound. Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas! And yes, posting could be light today, and not just because a chunk of our authors lost power yesterday and may not have it back yet. It’s Christmas, and we wish you all a Merry One.

 

To help, here’s three hours of piano/instrumental Christmas music.

 

 

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Sam Brinton was always controversial. The Bidenary non-binary US nuclear energy official wanted to be fabulous. Part of that process involved stealing women’s luggage at the airport.

Related: Luggage-Stealing Non-Binary Cross-Dressing Nuclear Energy Official Sam Brinton Has Been Fired

And while the Bidenistas could probably care less about that – stealing comes with the territory – it might have dawned on someone that the “nuclear” football is luggage. Sam might decide to steal it, and Biden’s got enough problems without that.

Sam lost his job and is in detention pending trial. He’ll probably have to do some time where he’ll likely be very popular with the other “ladies” (in the men’s or women’s prison). Perhaps the only Democrat connected to Biden to do hard time we can name.

While we wait for the verdict a bit of parody from Benny Johnson. “How Joe Biden’s Grinch Stole Baggage.”

Language Warning.

The original tweet can be found here.

 

 

Merry Christmas!

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The People’s Republic of Trudeauistan (formerly doing business as Canada), is banning guns. No guns for you ‘cuz mass shootings or violence or something. We know, in truth, it’s because citizens with guns have this habit of preventing despotism from flourishing.

Canada is well on its way, and while trucks have not yet been banned (truck protests have – can you say, like, insurrection, eh?), the general slope of this once free-ish western “democracy” is in free fall.

Part of that descent into stupidity included a “weapon” called the Butt-Master. There’s only one known in existence. It’s 23 years old. But Canada’s government decided it should be banned because someone might try to use the one-shot .22 pen gun to commit a mass casualty incident.

Tucker Carlson had the “inventor” and owner of the only known Butt-Master on his program, and everyone laughed.

And now – if you missed it – you can too.

A gun called the Butt Master is on Trudeau’s list of banned terrorist guns. The issue is there is only 1 Butt Master in the world, made 23 years ago, and the guy that made it still owns it, in Texas.
Canada is such a retarded country. pic.twitter.com/hN1RSRF6ho

— Bushels Per Acre (@BushelsPerAcre) December 23, 2022

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Well, my friends, I hate to break the news. After carefully studying the latest Twitter materials, I realized we no longer have a country. Yes, that is what I said. Why? In large part because:

1) Democrats, of course, are and have been openly against the Constitution, individual liberty, and freedom for quite some time now, along with complicit media.

2) Republicans (the GOP establishment) pretend to oppose Democrats, but ironically, only fight those who elected them into office and loot the country alongside their best friends and colleagues, the Democrats.

3) We are tired of being stabbed in the back over and over again by those we elected into public office and claim to stand with us only to arrive in the halls of power, in DC, and reward us by turning their collective backs on us.

Let us be honest, no one, including Trump, ever claimed that he was a savvy politician or a constitutional conservative. Or, for that matter, he never claimed to be George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, or Thomas Jefferson either. He often times is rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. But still, he is the people’s choice of the Republican Party. NO ONE can refute it or disallow us from making that choice. Newt Gingrich also notes, “You don’t have to run around and defend Donald Trump. That is his job. You also do not have to abandon him. There is no alternative at a practical level. He is the nominee.”

Moving from a general description to something more personal, this country has a limited amount of time until it collapses. The current GOP establishment and what constitutes the Democrat Party of today, have literally removed electoral politics from having any effect on policy and we have no time to argue.

At this point in time, Donald Trump is our one and only hope and chance to stop this spiral into oblivion. I am calling on you, the individual freedom-loving person, to play your part in the defense of freedom, and stop voter fraud by the Democrats, not only for your own sake but also for mine and all others who cherish this precious blessing of life and liberty.

To conclude: We Americans greatly cherish freedom, perhaps a bit more than other nations; and we will not stand and watch the destruction of America. We will fight and keep in mind that freedom is not free. Anyone or any party that promises otherwise is either a fool or a charlatan.

God Bless America,

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