Thursday • May 22 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XXI
Manchester, N.H.
Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial “beginning” of summer and the day we honor our war dead. It is deeply meaningful, especially in the lead-up to choosing a commander-in-chief, so we thought it an excellent time to run our first 2024 pre-primary presidential poll.
The “turnout” was decent, with over 20,000 votes cast for one of the ten names on our list of Republican Primary hopefuls.
As I noted in a previous update, Chris Sununu took an early lead – dominating the first few hours and the first few thousand votes, but it would not last. Vivek Ramaswamy surpassed him by Saturday morning and never looked back. Trump held on to second place for a while but was eventually eclipsed by Ron DeSantis.
No one else broke one percent.
We want to thank everyone who participated during the holiday weekend. There will be future polls to compare to this one as the political season heats up with the summer. Until then, here are the final results from our Memorial Day Weekend Presidential primary poll*.
*This is not a scientific poll.
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In the face of an impending impeachment vote, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton symbolizes unwavering conservatism and a relentless fighter for our values. The allegations and articles of impeachment brought against him by a politically motivated committee led by a handful of Republicans cannot overshadow his exceptional track record and dedication to upholding conservative principles.
Upholding Conservative Principles
Attorney General Ken Paxton has built a legacy based on his unwavering commitment to conservative principles. He has fearlessly taken on the grave issue of voter fraud, defending Texas against the federal government overreach and the foundation of our Republic. The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, which documents 730 cases of voter fraud in Texas since 1979, attests to the importance of Paxton’s tireless efforts in safeguarding the electoral process. By prosecuting these cases, he ensures that every lawful vote counts and that our democratic values remain intact.
Children’s rights
Paxton’s office stance on categorizing sex-change operations and puberty blockers as “child abuse” under Texas law demonstrates his unwavering commitment to protecting our children. By advocating for responsible decision-making and safeguarding their innocence, he upholds the rights prioritizing parental rights and the well-being of our most vulnerable. As Texans, we must support Paxton in his efforts to defend our children and ensure their future is filled with hope, happiness, and the chance to grow into the individuals they were meant to be.
Unyielding Opposition to Federal Overreach
Attorney General Paxton’s well-publicized feuds with the federal government, both under the Obama and Biden administrations, epitomize his unwavering commitment to keeping Texans safe. He is one of the most dynamic of the states’ attorneys general in opposing the unconstitutional overreach of the Biden administration. Paxton has boldly challenged policies that overstep the bounds of federal authority. His involvement in legal battles to scrutinize the 2020 presidential election results reflects his unwavering dedication to upholding the principles of democracy and ensuring that every legal vote is counted.
A person of his outstanding principles is urgently needed to continue the fight against Washington’s open border policy and unconstitutional vaccine mandates.
Unmasking the Motivations:
However, it is disheartening to witness a few unhinged Republicans spearheading this impeachment effort against Paxton. It raises questions about their true motivation and threatens to undermine the credibility of the Texas House. Are they blinded by personal vendettas or politically motivated? It is crucial to remember that the consequences of this deceitful impeachment attempt reach far beyond Paxton’s tenure. They taint the reputation of the Republican Party and cast doubt on its commitment to traditional values.
A Call to Action
In the face of these phony allegations, witch hunts, and innuendoes, let us not falter in supporting Attorney General Ken Paxton. Voters must rise to the occasion in defense of Ken Paxton. We, the Texans, elected him not once, not twice, but three times amidst these challenging times.
A Few Questions to Ask of Ourselves:
Is it not crucial to ensure that our pursuit of justice remains untainted by partisan interests? Will this sham of impeachment lose the credibility and unity of the Texas House and the Republican Party? Should we value the representation of these important perspectives outside our party? Can we afford to lose a strong advocate who has fearlessly fought against unconstitutional policies that threaten our liberties?
It is now imperative that we, true conservatives, pause and deeply reflect upon these probing questions. We must rise above the clamor of partisan politics and engage in thoughtful introspection. Let us explore the significance of these inquiries and seek the truth beneath the surface. Doing so can reaffirm our commitment to justice, integrity, and the law.
Conclusion:
The impeachment attempt against him, led by fellow Republicans, is a testament to the misguided actions of some within our party. We must rally behind Paxton, highlighting his exemplary record. As the impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton loom, a glaring truth emerges: this is another politically motivated fraud reminiscent of the baseless impeachment attempts against former President Trump. It is no coincidence that Paxton, hailed as one of the most conservative Attorney Generals Texas has ever seen, finds himself in the crosshairs of fellow Republicans who are determined to silence his unwavering support for President Trump. Tomorrow, they plan to orchestrate this impeachment charade. We ask the lawmakers to say no to this sham impeachment.
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Must read article at RealClearPolitics: A Lot Has To Change Quickly For Republicans To Have A Chance in 2024. Not what you want to hear, but you need to … AND TO “CHANGE QUICKLY” … if you don’t want 2024 to be a repeat of 2022 and 2020. Some highlights:
IGNORE THE POLLS because they grossly overstate GOP strength. Here is why:
Republican operatives … just assume that everyone knows their view of the news: that President Joe Biden is “cognitively challenged”; the economy is in decline; the border is flooded daily by undocumented immigrants; that crime is destroying the nation’s once great and revered cities; that the U.S. appears weak and unprepared for future aggressions by major foes. … But the average voter doesn’t [because of media and big-tech bias and censorship].
Polls asking voters about issues provide conservatives with the appearance that their issues are important to voters as well as the foibles of Democrats. But most issue-oriented polling questionnaires assume that their respondents are aware and have an opinion on the matter. And respondents rarely want to confess that they haven’t a clue. Put that same respondent in an unaided survey where they must articulate the issues of the day and one will find that those opinions on most issues dissolve into a mishmash of general concepts and less definitive answers.
So, while the NHGOP blithely assumes most parents have been closely following the parental rights issue, the reality is that most only know what WMUR, NHPR, etc. have told them, which is heavily biased in favor of the Communists … oh! Sorry! Meant “Democrats.”
ELECTIONS SINCE 2020 HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE BALLOT-HARVESTING OR BALLOT-CHASING CONTESTS. The problem is that the GOP will NOT accept this reality:
The failure of the GOP to flood nursing homes, bingo halls, and mortuaries (OK, that one is a joke, of a sort) in search of voters willing to cast early ballots remains, as of today, unaddressed, And it really is an “existential threat” to the Republican leaders. They must come to understand that in our post-COVID era, the rules for who votes when and where, and under the aegis of “voter outreach,” has changed forever. Democrats know how to spend buckets of money to advance what could best be termed “selective democracy.” They know just how to bump against the line of what is allowed and what is not, should anyone with any authority and objectivity care.
While we do not have early voting in New Hampshire, there is no intelligent GOTV by the NHGOP. Sending a glossy mailer of Sun-King Sununu standing next to candidate-X is the equivalent of throwing money out the window, expect it’s worse than that … the money goes to some grifter operative.
There is a lot more to the article than I have highlighted. Definitely worth the few minutes it takes to read it.
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. Take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and almost certainly a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Speaking of humor, two videos skewering the Covid narrative with comedy.
Why Weren’t We Allowed To Question The Covid Vaccines?
CNN Admits LYING About Joe Rogan & Ivermectin!
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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The question is not about stopping talking about it. It’s how to fix it, when the system itself has a vested interest in it not being fixed.
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If they’re starting payouts, MHO is that they’re not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. They’re trying to set a precedent that they’ll pay you something to avoid actual lawsuits that would lead to discovery going through everything they knew, and when. Do not doubt me when I say that receiving any payout from something like this has an iron-clad You can’t sue statement. For example:
A Pfizer Document the FDA Tried to Hide Shows LNPs from COVID-19 Vaccine Travel Everywhere in the Body (substack.com)
As I read this, the data that the LNPs biodistribute was known in a document dated November 9, 2020. This is before ANY EUA was issued. Yet they openly claimed:
“Most of the mRNA vaccine stayed in the injection site muscle—where you get the shot.”
This constitutes fraud. Blatant fraud. Fraud vitiates everything. All liability protections? Poof. So they need to get people to accept breadcrumbs and table scraps ASAP to forestall the lawsuits. Remember where, among other places, the LNPs go: the OVARIES.
Could your ovaries… be deadvaries?
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Memorial Day Tribute – “Thank You”
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And thus the logical conclusion will be “Why buy a car at all”? Which I suspect is the point.
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What Is Intersectionality?
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Virtue Bullying
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Pick of the post:
My kids are well aware that even though we have a piece of paper called a DEED that says we own our property… in reality, due to property taxes, we only rent it from the state government.
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Monday Musical Memory:
Ozzy Osbourne – Bark at the Moon (Official Music Video)
Saw him in concert once. High energy show! No bats though.
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Palate Cleansers:
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The minimum wage costs jobs, especially entry-level positions that help teach the young and unskilled about working for a living, having pocket money, an income, basic personal budgets, spending, and even paying taxes.
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Instapundit Teaser:
The push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in both Minneapolis and St. Paul has successfully boosted the average worker’s hourly pay in both cities, but it has also led to sharp drops in the numbers of available jobs and hours worked, new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has found. Many economists have reached similar conclusions about minimum wage increases in the past. Still, the size of the impacts the researchers measured — by comparing Minneapolis and St. Paul to data culled from other Minnesota cities from 2017 through 2021 — were eye-popping, especially in low-wage industries.
Ayup, just consider it Government picking winners and losers. And, of COURSE, “low-wage industries” were hit – those ARE the entry-level jobs that require little in the way of knowledge or training. They are low-wage because the economic output (e.g., the resulting product or service) is low-cost, needing only the lowest-skilled workers. I’m not an economist, but I can do the math – if a job costs an employer more than the economic output of that job, that job isn’t going to stick around very long.
MinnPost Abstract:
A couple of lines caught my eye:
“Somebody who loses their job because of a minimum wage increase is going to find another job,” said UC Berkeley economist Michael Reich. “Probably not right away, they’re going to work fewer weeks per year — but they’re not going to be permanently unemployed.”
Well, that’s some condescending solace for the guy or gal that gets a pink slip – a lower standard of living. You’ll be working but poorer for it. And, of course, the economic ideological illiteracy is strong in this one:
“We need to always make sure the workers … are being paid wages that ensure their families can thrive,” said the AFL-CIO’s Burnham, “which is why we continue to be champions for raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation across the state.”
Excepting for the moment a severe recession or depression when any job is a boat in a roiling sea (been there, done that), minimum wages were NEVER supposed to “support a family”, especially with just one wage earner. Remember, it’s a floor, not a ceiling. Upskill yourself – sure, hard work to make it work, but help is there.
I am against minimum wage demands by Government. Look around, still, and see all the employers looking for workers. I doubt, as I drive around seeing help-wanted signs at the burger joints (for instance), anyone is offering minimum wage wages. The Free Market, built on supply and demand, has shot wages for even burger flippers past the old SEIU “Fight for $15” – the lowest I see is $16 and up (generally more up than $16).
The government, via the Pandemic’s policy of “getting paid to stay home,” ignited that “minimum wage by other means,” and it is still going strong for those who want the jobs. But there is a limit.
(H/T: MinnPost via Instapundit)
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We honor the brave men and women that gave their lives to protect our freedom. May we always be vigilant and worthy of their sacrifice?
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Please watch this video: A 100-Year-Old WWII Vet Issues Shocking WARNING To America:
Is he right? Should he worry? I believe in America, and I refuse to believe its people are less resilient than those that came before them. However, we must all commit ourselves to live up to the promise of the American ideal. Never give up! The best way to honor our fallen heroes is to carry the torch of freedom from one generation to the next. Our heroes DID NOT die in vain.
35 Years in AmericaOn May 11, 35 years ago, I left Communist China and arrived in Austin, TX. After a 23-hour trip with two stops, and after having gone through years of tyranny, poverty, oppression, and indoctrination, I was very excited and happy I finally made it to America, “The Land of Free, The Home of Brave.”
I did not have much when I arrived. I was skinny and weighed only 98 pounds. I had few possessions and only $100 in my pocket that I borrowed from friends and over $1200 in debt to my US sponsor for air ticket and graduate school fees. I could not speak English fluently, but I was determined to work hard to achieve my American Dream.
Today, I am living the American dream: I have a loving husband (whom I met on the first day), three great kids, and three home businesses, and I live in the Granite State and travel around the world.
I am so blessed in this country, and I am forever grateful. I think America still holds the same promise for people who come here for freedom!
Here is a picture of me arriving at Austin’s airport on Twitter:
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Target is having a Bud Light moment. The Media’s response claimed queer gear was removed because of threats to Target employees from the right. That was a lie, but this isn’t—at least one LGBT extremist has made bomb threats.
At least five Targets in multiple states received bomb threats Friday over company executives pulling the Pride collection section because of mounting boycotts, leading to multiple stores being evacuated as police and the FBI searched for explosive devices. …
One shopper told 19 News, “I know a lot of people around here are not a fan of LGBT that kind of stuff me personally I mean it’s whatever. I never thought someone would go as far as a bomb threat.”
In Utah, local media outlet KUTV said, “Bomb threats were made to Target stores in Layton, Salt Lake, Taylorsville, and Provo.“
Our position has been that consenting adults are free to live their lives as long as non-consenting adults have the same freedom. If you are going to go around saying ‘Be You,’ that applies to everyone, not just folks who agree with your worldview or bend to it. Coming for the kids, however, is a red line for many people, including many members of the LGBTQ.
Along the same line of thought, Target can offer whatever products it chooses, and shoppers are welcome not to shop there if they disapprove. Target “targeted” kids with queer gear, and whether they’ve always done it or not, someone noticed, and people are exercising choice.
Execs at Target chose to try and save their bottom line by moving or removing products, and the media blamed it on crazy right-wingers threatening employees, not loss of sales or rapidly declining stock price for which we have hard evidence.
The media made a choice, and now it has come to bite them in the partisan ass. There is tangible evidence of an unhinged LGBTQ activist threatening to blow up Target Stores.
Image Care of ZeroHedge
LGBT means Let’s Go Blowup Target!
Yeah, it’s one person, so the media will do something else it does. Dismiss it as a lone wolf crank if they cover it at all when we know that the original accusation of intolerant right-wingers threatening Target employees, if true at all, was likely a similar situation but with a difference. All five of these facilities had to be evacuated and searched.
And depending on how it was conducted, Target employees and their customers – including any who were LGBTQ! – were actually at increased risk of injury during any evacuation.
Excellent work, corporate media. You got a prediction half right and mostly left. Target employees were put at risk by one of your own.
As for Target, who is left that they haven’t pissed off?
HT | ZeroHedge
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is arguably the most conservative, most effective attorney general in America. So the majority-GOP Texas House just impeached him … for that very reason. It’s the illusion of GOP control, the illusion that it’s Rs versus Ds.
1/x What is happening to @KenPaxtonTX is a travesty.
For the last nine years, Ken has been the strongest conservative AG in the country. Bar none. No attorney general has battled the abuses of the Biden admin more ferociously—and more effectively—than has Paxton.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 27, 2023
Statement on Paxton Impeachment Proceedings from Chairman @MattRinaldiTX#txlege pic.twitter.com/jePm4Z9WS3
— Texas GOP (@TexasGOP) May 26, 2023
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has led the fight against the corrupt Biden Administration, defended Texas election integrity, protected the lives of the unborn, and tirelessly fights to secure the southern border.
This Texas House led impeachment is a witch hunt.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) May 27, 2023
Texas House Republicans just voted overwhelmingly to impeach Trump-endorsed Attorney General Ken Paxton after he took on Biden, Big Pharma, and our country’s Open Borders
Looks like the RINO Swamp in Texas may be deeper than the Swamp in DC
Texas voters deserve so much better
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) May 27, 2023
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I was chatting with Skip about ticks (arachnids and Democrats), and he mentioned having a severe problem (in his yard) with the former. It got me thinking. Last year we had it bad where I live (Southern NH). This year – few to none.
Skip lives in the Lakes Region, a little over an hour away, so location and environment have a lot to do with it, even in the same state; the caterwauling of attention-seeking climate cultists, not so much. But Lyme disease is a nasty business, easy to treat in dogs but not so much in people. The threat of it serves the political left as an opportunity to rob people blind by blaming it on climate change: ticks, Lyme, everything.
I’m not immune to Lyme Disease (no, I don’t have it), but I am immune to the hyperbolic caterwauling of the Dems and progs that snap like twigs every time the weather changes. This is New England. Climate change could be every five minutes – in which direction is anyone’s guess. Yes, it changes, and so far, not in any way your climate models predicted.
Half the time, you can’t get next week’s weather right.
I also, as you likely know, have a shorthaired white Labrador (American Yellow Lab) who does everything in his power to wander everywhere in my yard he might find ticks. As such, he sets the baseline for the tick-related observations in my neck of the woods.
He’s on preventatives, so he’s not in danger. We are not, so we check him, dare I say religiously, and he likes the attention.
Last April, we picked two to four off the dog every time we went outside. That added up to – on some days – maybe a dozen a day. Every day. This year we saw a few a week—nothing like last year. The month of May has been a bit more frequent but nothing exceptional—one a day over one week, but fewer in any of the others.
It has been nothing like 2022.
Skip, on the other hand, appears to have had a lot of ticks in April but likely few, if any, in May – he treated his yard.
Absent the chemistry, there is no right or wrong rhyme or reason to it. Activity depends on many things in the biosphere, and none of them have anything to do with your corrupt Western lifestyle unless, by a tick, we mean a Democrat. Your comfort offends them, but that’s not the topic today.
Here’s another point of interest that I find interesting. Unlike previous years we have had few to no black flies. In a typical April/May, I can’t step outdoors without being swarmed. We’ve seen very few this year, and I’m not complaining. Black flies are a plague on all our houses. But I don’t know why we’ve had fewer this year by a large margin than any other year I can recall. Wait, Climate Change!
And while I’m at it, the mosquito menace is also less daunting this spring than in previous years.
That’s been my experience. Yours might be different.
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Where Canada goes, Vermont follows – remember, they did try to join Canada way back when – so it seems logical to wonder about this. For $700.00, a funeral home in Quebec offer “a space for assisted dying, providing care to the family and handling the body afterward.”
“It was a very nice room,” said Savoie. “It allowed us the time we needed to do what we had to do to say goodbye. Let him get comfortable.”
And who doesn’t want to be comfortable when someone they love commits suicide? Well, lots of people, I suppose. Suicide is not uncommon, but unless you are a friend of the Clintons, it is typically a private affair and often unexpected or inexplicable. Tragic.
The government killing people is not new and quite common, accelerating the further to the left you go on the political spectrum.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), an invention of the political left, is not new but has evolved. It remains illegal in most places but has found progressive friends, which should concern people, especially when the practice finds commercial acceptance.
It starts with a room, a view, and soft music, and you might ask, why shouldn’t the soon-to-be departed have any or all options for their planned departure? Vegas- like Show Girls, a live band, The Canadian equivalent of the Blue Angels, maybe even sell tickets so people can watch you die.
Stream it all on Instagram. Hear emoji – we’ll miss you! And there are no apparent laws against that, so at least one funeral director thought it “was a natural step for the family-owned business, which has several locations in southern Quebec’s Brome-Missisquoi and Haut-Richelieu regions.”
The company has long strived to provide customized care that meets clients’ needs, he said. But meeting those needs is not easy, especially when it involves medically assisted death.
“There are a lot of emotions,” Baker said. “The person who made the decision is usually very convinced, but the kids, the siblings, or other family members aren’t necessarily on the same page.”
That’s a fair enough point, but the people deciding what things are legal and illegal had a mixed response.
Sarah Bigras, a spokesperson for Quebec’s minister responsible for seniors, said the minister is looking into the legality of offering assisted dying services in a funeral home.
“Several questions may arise, and we will take the time to validate,” she said in an emailed response to CBC’s questions.
“The important thing is to put people’s wishes first, while ensuring that the proposals are not part of a monetization of the practice.”
What’s not to like? Your euthanasia plan gets more normalized; everyone involved has a moment, and someone gets more followers on Instagram. And at some point, because your chosen form of government can’t afford not to kill people or make money on the practice when possible, I can charge the business hosting an event tax, a transfer tax, a profits tax, or even a carbon footprint or emissions tax if there are cremations, all passed down to the family, of course, as insurance companies modify the actuary tables to account for costs. Discounts are available if you are an organ donor and volunteer your remains to fertilize a tree.
Much like MAiD, it won’t happen in Canada overnight. It’ll need to be as ubiquitous as Tim Horton’s, and until then,
The public health authority for the region south of Montreal, CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre, said in a statement that it is not involved in any assisted dying services at funeral homes.
“This is a process that belongs to the person and the decision of the doctor who agrees to administer medical assistance in dying,” said Chantal Vallée, spokesperson for the CISSS. …
“Some people do not want to receive MAID at home, and some place should be made available,” Nguyen said. “I think it should be made available in the public health-care system.”
When everyone is on board, MAiD will become big business (Like Coronaviruses or COVID-19 Vaccines), as death always must among progressives. And reasons for allowing it will grow.
Researchers in Canada have already suggested MAiD for the poor. That will take some time to get wind beneath its wings, but it will. Mental Health experts will begin to adopt diagnoses that result in incarceration, which will strain the public health budget. It’s a great way to deal with people who won’t shut up about the corrupt, unaccountable murderous government.
No Show Girls or fighter jets or comfy couches for friends and family. People will disappear in the night.
Wait, sorry – this socialism is different. That’ll never happen … again.
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Out of the six common air pollutants, particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns [1/30 of a human hair – Skip] or smaller in diameter, or PM2.5, is accepted as the most harmful to human health. This is due to its prevalence in the atmosphere and the broad range of adverse health effects associated with its exposure, such as heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases.
With that context in mind, this visualization from Visual Capitalist’s Selin Oğuz and Miranda Smith uses IQAir’s World Air Quality Report to map out the 2022 average PM2.5 concentrations in select major cities around the globe, expressed in micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m³).
(H/T: ZeroHedge,
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Update: Presidential Primary Poll – With 7 Hours Left to Go, Ramaswamy, Leads, Followed by DeSantis, Trump, Sununu …
Our Memorial Day Weekend 2024 Republican presidential Primary poll ends in less than seven hours, so I thought I’d give you a recap/update of the results thus far.
Early on, Chris Sununu took the lead, but well into Saturday, Vivek Ramaswamy was on top and last night and had held the commanding lead. DeSantis replaced Trump in the number two spot between this morning and afternoon. Sununu is fourth, followed by Haley, with Scott, Hutchinson, and Noem tied. At the bottom are Mike Pence and Chris Christie.
Note: Since noon Sununu’s numbers have been rising steadily.
Here’s where they stand as of 4:30 ET today.
Ramaswamy – 41.59%
DeSantis – 24.14%
Trump -17.60%
Sununu – 16.29%
Haley – 0.12%
Scott – 0.07%
Hutchinson – 0.07%
Noem – 0.07%
Pence – 0.03%
Christie – 0.02%
There is still time to vote. The poll closes just before midnight tonight.
Vote here until 11:58 PM tonight, ET. – Results will be published tomorrow afternoon.
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This is a quite abbreviated as this week I’ve been swamped with work – drawings, drawings, drawings, and drawings. Each one is simple, but it’s meticulous work and I don’t want to have to go through a dozen rounds of revisions because I rushed and missed something.
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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:
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.
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The Lost Art of Electroculture, Frequencies, and Natural healing
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Top of the fold:
Bayou Renaissance Man: The cult of death is on our streets
This is of particular importance when it comes to our own safety and security. The presence of an active population of Santa Muerte devotees in or near your area is a guarantee that crime is on the increase there, and will almost certainly become more violent, predatory and vicious. Law enforcement professionals with whom I’ve recently spoken tell me that they can’t say this out loud, because it’s not politically correct in our “woke” day and age: but they all agree that they’ve encountered murders and torture scenes where the crime was specifically committed with reference to Santa Muerte (i.e. invoking her name, including carving it into the bodies of victims; chanting her praise while raping, torturing and killing victims; and taking body parts of the victims to decorate her shrines).
Folks, be on the lookout. This is a real and present danger to our security in our homes and neighborhoods. Santa Muerte’s devotees are violent, vicious and without remorse or compassion. If you see or hear any evidence that they’re active near your home, you should be “upping your game” to cope with that threat; and, if possible, you should remove yourselves from the danger zone. That’s your choice, of course. Just remember that if you live in an area controlled by “wokeness”, any effort to defend yourself against this cult and its followers may be used against you in a court of law.
Ah, diversity.
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Oddments – random thoughts on prepping:
Put a Fork in the Dollar, It’s Done
What do you have that, after the collapse, you can use to trade? Things, of course. And skills / knowledge. See “My Thoughts” from Area Ocho a little bit down.
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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)
Prepare, Survive, and Thrive (A SHTF Blog) (johnmannsurvival.blogspot.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:
17 Natural Remedies for Cough, Lung Infections and Bronchitis – Live Love Fruit
Oodles of interesting info!
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Dutch Oven Cooking – How to Use a Cast Iron Dutch Oven (commonsensehome.com)
And at the site, some good articles on restoring cast iron cookware.
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Related to Spicy Time:
Testing The Threshold – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
The threat is, then, cancel culture – if you fail to accede, they go after your job, etc. But that too can backfire. Threaten someone’s family, threaten their livelihood, and that can backfire… spectacularly.
And then things get very messy.
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My Thoughts – Area Ocho
So what can we do? What SHOULD we do? Exactly what we are doing, that’s what. Watch, make sure that you, your families, and your like minded neighbors are in as good a position for weathering the coming storm as you can be. Have food, water, and shelter taken care of. Make sure you have skills in as many fields as possible: know some medicine, how to grow food, how to repair things. Those skills you don’t have, make friends with those locally who do have them. Make sure you aren’t a freeloader- bring skills to the table that those others will need. Store your wealth in things that aren’t measured in dollars. In other words, don’t put all of your eggs in the stock market, in cash, or the bank. When the economy collapses, all of that will become worthless. Instead, own land, own tangible things that are useful like a home, precious metals, tools, ammunition, canning supplies, and other things that are useful in trade.
Related:
Ants at the Picnic, Part One, by Robert Gore | STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC
There will always be people who believe whatever the government and servile media dish out, but a graph of those institutions’ credibility the past few decades looks like the stock chart of a once dominant company gone bankrupt. The AM deserves much of the credit for that.
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Bayou Renaissance Man: Divemedic offers sage advice on your ammo stash
Think outside the box – and stash enough ammo and firearms that if all the rest of yours are no longer available, you’ll still be able to defend yourself and your loved ones.
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Related to Bushcraft specifically:
3 Methods For Starting Fires Using Friction (johnmannsurvival.blogspot.com)
Same guy has all this:
Prepare, Survive, and Thrive (A SHTF Blog) (johnmannsurvival.blogspot.com)
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10 WOOD STOVE MISTAKES That Cost You Money!
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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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Outsmarting the Giant Hornets: Beekeeper’s Innovative Method to Protect Honeybees
I wonder. If you catch several of these on a sheet… cut the sheet up, carefully, and put one hornet on a new sheet each. Then disperse. See if you can depopulate an entire area of the SOBs.
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I have a FORAGING group on Gab. I will check 2-3 times a week to see if people have asked to join.
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Foraging: One-up articles
Nothing this week.
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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):
Nothing this week.
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Gardening, Food Storage, Animals, Food Preservation, Health, and Related:
Dealing with Grazon Contamination | The Survival Gardener
Yikes!
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DIY Raised Bed Screens to Keep Pests Away From Vegetables (empressofdirt.net)
And chipmunks. A few years ago I had all – ALL – my cherry tomatoes denuded from my plants. And rabbits are why I have my grapes within a wire cage.
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Learning to Can Meats with the NC Cooperative Extension
And from the sidebar, links only:
PRESSURE CANNING FOR BEGINNERS – BEFORE YOUR FIRST CANNING SESSION – YouTube
4 Critical Prepper’s Recipes & Cooking Skills – YouTube
STOCKPILE THESE for Long Term Survival – YouTube
When America Goes Cashless you will need this! – YouTube
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Canning Milk and Dairy Products (modernsurvivalblog.com)
Long. Related to canning:
Steam Canning Basics: The Low Water Way to Preserve Your Food (morningchores.com)
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Gardening-specific videos (links only):
How to Identify Powdery Mildew on Squash, Zucchini and Cucumber Plants – MFG 2014 – YouTube
Composting for Beginners | A Market Gardener’s Guide – YouTube
Make Your Garden a Ladybug Paradise – YouTube
Grow Bigger Garlic! 10 Common Garlic Growing Mistakes To Avoid – YouTube
This SIMPLE Garden TIP Will Get You MORE CUCUMBERS! – YouTube
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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)
The Hidden Truth About Gun Control | SlowFacts (wordpress.com)
While I still have a voice, I say I disagree. What is good for Mayor Bloomberg is also good for us even though we don’t have a security detail of retired police officers. We are the thousands of honest citizens who will defend ourselves today. We are the one-out-of-a-dozen adults who are carrying concealed in public. Honest citizens like us are the defenders of our family, our friends, and our neighbors.
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Hunting & Fishing:
Nothing this week.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
War – NATO Beaten By “A Restaurant Owner & A Bunch Of Convicts”? | ZeroHedge
So what will NATO do now? They will double down, and then again. And at the end of the “doubling down road” lie nuclear weapons. Not Russian nukes, because as my friend Wayne wrote the other day, their high-precision hypersonic missiles make nukes look crude and primitive, Middle Ages territory. But NATO/US never developed such weapons. They spent 10+ times as much money on weapons, still do, and -comparatively – ended up with bows and arrows.
Nuclear bombs are good only to create widespread panic and destruction. But that includes your own destruction, because of Mutually Assured Destruction protocols. Which also go back almost as far as the bow and arrow. If you fire a nuclear missile, one very much like it will land on your head a few minutes later. End of story, end of you.
I have maintained for a while now that the Globalists see the Jab Narrative falling, as it had to sooner or later. And thus, what better way to hide the effects of the Jab on lowering birth rates, increasing death rates, etc., than to start a world war? On which all these effects will be blamed.
Incoming.
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Fighting Back
Is Trump perfect? Far from it. But the man has a set, and he fights back… and fights back with vigor!
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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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The Vermont Library Association recently published a release titled “Vermont Library Association Statement on Critical Race Theory” (CRT). There are some good things in it, but having been written by some progressive stooge with Left-Wing narrative tunnel vision, there is plenty with which to make sport.
The gist is that blocking CRT “restricts or impedes any education on Racism, “Divisive” Concepts, Racial Injustice, Black American History, and Diversity Education in libraries and educational institutions.”
VLA is committed to upholding intellectual freedom in all of our libraries: Public Libraries, School Libraries, Special Libraries, and Academic Libraries. People must be able to access information without censorship and without fear that their intellectual inquiries are illegal. It is only through the vigorous upholding of freedoms of speech and inquiry that we can truly be a democratic nation that strives not only to understand its history, but to learn and become better from it.
I agree. Intellectual freedom is important, as is having as many views or versions of every topic. It is, therefore, critically important that the library includes titles that explain and show how Critical Race Theory teaches racism.
White students in classrooms where CRT is permitted are labeled with the original white sin of racism for things neither they nor their parents, grandparents, or perhaps anyone in their family ever played a part—a sin for which CRT does not permit them to be forgiven. I hope the VLA is committed to protecting intellectual freedom and diversity on this point.
We also assume that because CRT targets white Western civilization absent the context of the even longer and more brutal history of black-on-black slavery, VLA members make a point of having material that balances these historical facts against those offered by Critical Race Theory literature.
We know that CRT is divisive because it is racist. It is not anti-racist; it is not racial justice. It is racism. Anyone truly interested in history should have unlimited access to material that explain this.
The Library Statement has other issues. The author(s) note that Critical thinking and civil discourse for all points of view must be protected and encouraged in a democracy. Bravo, except that we do not live in a democracy. We live in a constitutional Republic.
The words democracy or democratic appears four times in the few hundred words of their statement. Nowhere is it used in a proper context.
There is also a line of support for the American Library Association’s Statement on Book Censorship. It, too, has some very lofty and admirable goals.
We are committed to defending the constitutional rights of all individuals, of all ages, to use the resources and services of libraries. We champion and defend the freedom to speak, the freedom to publish, and the freedom to read, as promised by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
We stand opposed to censorship and any effort to coerce belief, suppress opinion, or punish those whose expression does not conform to what is deemed to be orthodox in history, politics, or belief. The unfettered exchange of ideas is essential to the preservation of a free and democratic society.
The freedom to read is something to which we can all agree and aspire, and I look forward to hearing how library associations and librarians are fighting for that freedom online, where unpopular opinions or speakers are often blocked, deleted, and filtered without any presumption that this metering of content is censorship or banning. I get a sense that this commitment lacks visibility when the topics or speakers diverge from what can only be described as a partisan progressive interpretation.
The VLA and the American Library Association could do much to address the question of their increasingly apparent viewpoint discrimination by objecting to this virtual equivalency of online book burning.
We should also note that while the VLA and other libraries and associations claim to hold a commitment to securing access to as many titles, authors, and opinions as possible, the absence of such material or public objection to content that is not age appropriate is not book-banning or censorship. Titles of authors readily available through a book store or bookseller, bricks and mortar or online, and whose purchase is not prohibited by law are not banned or censored.
Perhaps a statement of clarity on this fact would clear the air and affirm to everyone that you are not misleading or misinforming the public or aiding and abetting those who use terms like censorship and book banning to partisan advantage while censoring or banning opposing opinions on racism, sex, gender, abortion, climate, and a host of other pressing matters.
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Republicans are more prone to advocate for Free Markets, Libertarians more so, and Democrats not at all. Yes, Republicans are sometimes better than Democrats, but they always seem to want Government to have a hand in things. That we are not able to decide for ourselves.
They say the right things but turn around and do the wrong things.
Most of us know that the Biden Administration (all of the Leftists, Eco-Socialists, and outright Communists) believe that they have the Neo-Right-of-Kings to rule us all. Not govern, not be representatives, but rulers. Especially the unaccountable minions at the EPA that are dishing out regulation after regulation that has one aim:
Make the rest of us miserable.
What rulings or regulations has HELPED us and made Government leave us alone? None that I can see – if we use something in our everyday lives (cars, appliances), they are working hard to make them work worse and be more expensive (hey, will you like going back to handwashing all your dishes?? It’s “community-building force on you and your spouse – just thank Government for the opportunities they are “giving” you).
In this, Katie Pavlich at Townhall has the right of it. These bureaucratic tyrants use the euphemism of “Electrify Everything to save the Planet” as cover for their plans for us and that includes the phasing out of one of the most important freedom inventions ever – the gas-powered car (emphasis mine):
Civilization will crumble without oil and gas, so why are the Biden administration and their globalist, elite allies trying to accelerate the collapse? If U.S. infrastructure isn’t capable of handling the switch to electric, and Americans can’t afford to buy electric cars, how is this new and alternative utopia going to come to fruition?
To critically thinking people, these facts don’t logically add up to a good faith effort to save the environment. Instead, it raises red flags about the true intention of the rapid shift. This is especially true given those who are pushing the shift most aggressively. John Kerry and Bill Gates, for example, aren’t changing their own habits of private jet use, SUVs and luxury, living in mansions or ornate government buildings. So what’s going on here?
Catastrophes enable government control. Look no further than the recent COVID-19 pandemic, which was extended for years by bureaucrats and politicians interested in exercising power over the population as long as possible, for proof. The coming government-inflicted mobility crisis will be similar to the pandemic response, with directives about who can work, when, how long, where they can travel, whether you really need to travel to church and much more. A lack of gas-powered vehicles means forced reliance on public transportation. It will cripple life in rural America, forcing moves into the cities. Social credit scores regarding travel, like the ones we’re already seeing when purchasing airline tickets, will certainly be implemented.
The government-mandated move to electric vehicles has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with the left’s vision for America: tyrannical government control. Time will tell if the country is willing to go along with it.
Electing Democrats will keep their accelerator pedal aimed towards that goal. Loser Republicans just don’t press down as hard thinking that they can “manage it better” but we still end up in the same place.
2024 will be here soon even as the Presidential Campaigns are moving into their second phase (scooping up money, endorsements, staff, and volunteers). Uppermost in our minds should be this: WHICH Republican candidate has that gleam in the eye and the fire in the belly to take on the Deep State for REAL?
SCOTUS has been issuing decisions that are driving the Left to manic proportions as rulings are slapping down overreach and more overreach by the Federal bureaucracy (I’m looking at you, EPA). Which candidate will be best suited to put on that flameproof, bombproof, scandal proof, and “stare them down” visor in your opinion? If no clue for names, go here.
Right now, top three for me are Trump, DeSantis, and…..Ramaswamy (my dark horse candidate). First two have track records while Vivek is saying all the right things the Base wants to hear (implementation, however?).
The post Government’s Shove to EVs IS About Control – Controlling Us appeared first on Granite Grok.
So as not to slow your COVID Sunday roll, here is another expert with some bad news for the Public Health Industrial Complex. Dr. Marty Makary is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, and he has some words for the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.
Related: Dr. David Martin – Warp Speed Was a Lie: Pfizer Had Its First Spike Protein Vaccine Patent for Coronavirus Over Thirty Years
If you’d like to fight medical misinformation, start with the US Government.
And yes, it seems relevant, given the Memorial Day Weekend. We are honoring men and women who fought and died for a country that has been bought out by Big Pharma and turned the world into a test tube experiment. An important part of that fraud – I’d say it is essential – is to smear the truth and elevate the lies about both the threat and the cure, and they did that. Despite the odd backtrack or sideways ask for forgiveness, they are still doing it.
The folks who didn’t fail the test were pilloried as the Public Health Industrial Complex (Big Gov., Big Med, and Big Media) try to get the people to swallow another ‘poison pill’—the need for truth squads and ministries of truth doing their patriotic best to squash misinformation.
Funny thing: that’s what we’ve all been doing, and Dr. Marty Makary has more than one warning about the consequences.
Over and over again, we’ve seen something that goes far beyond using your best judgment with the information at hand. We’ve seen something that is unforgivable, and that is the weaponization of medical research itself. The CDC putting out their own shoddy studies, like their own study on natural immunity looking at one state for two months, when they had data for years on all 50 states. Why did they only report that one sliver of data? Why did the salami slice the giant database? Because it gave them the result they wanted.
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“The greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government”
-Dr. @MartyMakary pic.twitter.com/iONTlGBXbP
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) February 28, 2023
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So this is in response to the post They Cannot Discuss or Defend Reality:
“It is getting increasingly difficult to discuss current events with Liberal friends or relatives. It is frustrating to see how ignorant the Left is to current events, and when you try to engage on the facts, they have no choice but to deflect because they have no grasp of the details.”
Dude, your “Liberal friends or relatives” inhabit a different reality from you. Have you seen the Matrix movies? Your “Liberal friends or relatives” are essentially living in a simulation. It is impossible for you to communicate with them because they believe the simulation is reality.
What’s more, your “Liberal friends or relatives” CHOOSE to live in a simulation. They are TRIBAL. Whatever the TRIBE tells them is what they believe. If you think that they are any different than the crowds chanting Sieg Heil at the Nuremberg rallies or Mao’s Red Guards, then I have to tell you that you are lying to yourself. They are true believers… they are Communists. You are the enemy.
Let’s review how we got here. In 2016, powerful people IN BOTH PARTIES, inside and outside of government, REFUSED to accept the election results. And they spent the next four years conducting a soft coup against Donald Trump … to name but a few examples: Obama holdover Sally Yates refusing to defend the travel-ban; Obama judges issuing meritless nationwide injunctions to block Trump’s Executive Orders; Republican Senators, such as Richard Burr, enabling the Russia Hoax.
Part of this soft coup was the media, Big-Tech, NeverTrump-Republicans constructing a totally false narrative … a Matrix-style simulation … that the country was going to hell under Trump. Never mind that the economy was booming, that unemployment for all groups hit record lows, that real wages were finally climbing … it was MEAN TWEETS; Trump says Nazis are good people (a TOTAL LIE); Trump’s a Russian agent (another total lie), etc., etc., etc..
And then came COVID … and the system went full Matrix. All one had to do was to believe one’s own eyes to know there was no “pandemic” … the projections of deaths and hospitalizations were a fraction of what actually transpired, so the system “cooked the books” and called virtually every death a COVID casualty: drunk crashes his motorcycle – cause of death COVID. Yet the vast majority of Americans chose to believe the fictitious death and hospitalization counts … even though all they had to do was look around and see there were no piles of corpses in the streets.
The system used COVID to rig the election … changing the election laws and regulations, often illegally in order to favor Biden. Trump campaign rallies were “super-spreaders” … BAD, BAD, BAD, while Biden hiding in his basement to emerge for an amphetamine-fueled “interview” with fawning media was the new normal. Governors … including Sun-King Sununu … used COVID as an excuse to shut down the economy and deprive Trump of his most effective selling point.
The system censored any and all bad news for Biden … laptop? What laptop? … while smearing Trump with FAKE NEWS … Russian bounties! Russian bounties!
And now let’s fast-forward to the present. The system just shut down Tucker Carlson … the most powerful voice of resistance against the American-Matrix, against the simulation. And the most frightening thing is that he was shut down by the Right … or what passes for the Right. So now the 8:00 pm time slot on Fox is no longer fighting the simulation … it’s part of the simulation, telling us that somehow it matters that Mitch McConnell is Minority Leader, not Senate President when in reality there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between McConnell and Schumer.
America, as it existed prior to 2016, is no more. It has been replaced by a simulation. The left-of-center humans believe that they are better off than they were under Trump, even though all the facts, all the data says otherwise … while the right-of-center believe that the Republican Party is NOT controlled opposition, not part of the system, and that it’s still about the Rs versus the Ds.
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You’ll have heard of Dr. David E Martin. He became famous to most of us for exposing the lies behind the pandemic, beginning in the Plandemic movies. Dr. Martin is one of the Flutopian’s worst nightmares. He’s smart, and he arrives not with just bad news but receipts.
The patent history of things that governments and bureaucrats and pharmaceutical companies do and did. Facts he revealed most recently at a May 2023 COVID-19 Summit in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.
It’s not all new for many of us who have been following along since the spring of 2020, but I recommend you watch the whole thing – it is good to hear it or hear it again.
I have included the full transcript all thanks to Agent0fChange on Rumble – but first, a few points from his remarks to tease you.
The Public Health Industrial Complex isolated coronavirus in 1965. “The very first COV Coronavirus model was used as a transatlantic biological experiment in human manipulation.”
Pfizer filed its first patent for a Spike Protein Coronavirus vaccine in 1990, so warp speed was a marketing head-fake. They’ve had it for over 25 years and have been waiting for an excuse to stick it into people. Dr. Martin also notes that back in 1990, Pfizer knew, they all knew, vaccines don’t work on Coronavirus.
“It turns out that Coronavirus is a very malleable model. It transforms and it changes, and it mutates over time. As a matter of fact, every publication on vaccines for Coronavirus from 1990 until 2018, every single publication concluded that Coronavirus escapes the vaccine impulse because it modifies and mutates too quickly for vaccines to be effective.
And since 1990 to 2018, that is the published science ladies and gentlemen, that’s following the science, following the science is their own indictment of their own programs that said, it doesn’t work.
So, it was never going to be effective, and they knew it wasn’t safe, and the Pfizer/FDA doc dumps proved that and why they wanted kept hidden.
And there’s more bad news from Dr. Martin. SARS was a human-made-bio-engineered virus. “SARS is the research developed by humans weaponizing a life system model to actually attack human beings, and they patented it in 2002.” And the rest just keeps getting better or worse, depending on how you want to take it.
Again, not all new, but it’s new to someone, and our job is to find them and get them to listen and then do their own digging with the understanding that there are hundreds of billions of dollars working against the truth.
That’s your tease; here is the presentation – full transcript below.
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TRANSCRIPT Of Dr.David E.Martin’s Speech At The European Union Parliament MAY 2023
It is a, it is a particularly interesting location for B to be sitting today, given that over a decade ago I sat in this very chair right here in the European Union Parliament.
And at that time I warned the world of what was coming, during that conversation that was hosted at the time by the Green and EFA and a number of the other parties of the European Unions, of various representations.
We were having a conversation on whether Europe should adopt the United States policy of allowing for the patents on biologically derived materials.
And at the time I urged this body and I urged people around the world that the weaponization of nature against humanity had dire consequences.
Tragically, I sit here today, with that unfortunate line that I don’t like to say, which is “I told you so.”
But the fact of the matter is, we’re here not for a reprisal on past decisions. We’re here to actually, once again, come to the face of the human condition and ask the question, who do we want to be?
What do we want humanity to look like?
And rather than seeing this as an exercise in futility, which is very easy from time to time when you’re in the position I’m in, I actually see this not as an exercise in futility.
I see this as one of the greatest opportunities that faces us because we now have a public conversation, which is now front and center in people’s minds.
When this was an esoteric conversation about biological patents, nobody cared.
But when that conversation came home, then it became something people can care about.
So I’m actually quite grateful for this opportunity.
I thank the members of Parliament for hosting this.
I thank all of the translators who I apologize in advance.
I will use terminology that is probably very difficult to translate, so my apologies, and I’d also like to acknowledge the fact that many of you are aware of my involvement with this in large part due to the amazing work of my wonderful wife, Kim Martin, who encouraged me at the very early days of this pandemic to get on front of the camera and talk about all the information that I had been sharing among very small groups around the world.
And it was in fact her encouragement that put me in a place where many of you have heard what I have to say.
Ironically, the world that I came from that used to be very popular, my CNBC and Bloomberg presentations, which were televised on mainstream media around the world, was an audience that I lost.
I can confidently say Covid diminished my fame, but I can also confidently say that I’d rather stand among the people with whom I’m standing today than any of the folks that were part of that previous world.
So, this is a much better place to be.
My role today is to set the stage for this conversation in a historical context, because this did not come in the last three years.
This did not come in the last five or six years.
This actually is an ongoing question that probably began here in Europe in the early stages of the mid 19 hundreds, but certainly by 1913, 1914, this conversation started right here in Central Europe.
The pandemic that we alleged to have happened in the last few years also did not happen overnight.
In fact, the very specific pandemic using Coronavirus began in a very different time.
Most of you don’t know that Coronavirus as a model of a pathogen was isolated in 1965.
Coronavirus was identified in 1965 as one of the first infectious, replicatable viral models that could be used to modify a series of other experiences of human condition.
It was isolated once upon a time associated with the common cold.
But what’s particularly interesting about its isolation in 1965 was that it was immediately identified as a pathogen that could be used and modified for a whole host of reasons.
And you heard me correctly, that was 1965.
And by the way, these slides are public domain.
You’re welcome to look at every single reference.
Every comment that I made is based on published material.
So do make sure that you look at those references.
But in 1966, the very first COV Coronavirus model was used as a transatlantic biological experiment in human manipulation, and you heard the date 1966.
I hope you’re getting the point of what I’m saying.
This is not an overnight thing.
This is actually something that’s been long in the making.
A year before I was born, we had the first Trans-Atlantic coronavirus data sharing experiment between the United States and the United Kingdom.
And in 1967, the year I was born, we did the first human trials on inoculating people with modified Coronavirus.
Isn’t that amazing?
56 years ago, the overnight success of a pathogen that’s been 56 years in engineering, and I want that to chill with all of you.
Where were we when we actually allowed in violation of biological and chemical weapons treaties?
Where were we as a human civilization when we thought it was an acceptable thing to do to take a pathogen for the United States and infect the world with it?
Where was that conversation and what should have been that conversation in 1967?
That conversation wasn’t had. Ironically, the common cold was turned into a chimera in the 1970s, and in 1975, 1976 and 1977, we started figuring out how to modify Coronavirus by putting it into different animals.
Pigs and dogs.
And not surprisingly, by the time we got to 1990, we found out that Coronavirus as a infectious agent was an industrial problem for two primary industries, the industries of dogs and pigs.
Dog breeders and pigs found that Coronavirus created gastrointestinal problems, and that became the basis for Pfizer’s first spike protein vaccine.
Patent filed. Are you ready for this In 1990?
Did you hear what I just said?
1990.
Operation Warpspeed.
I’m sorry.
Where’s the warp and the speed?
Pfizer 1990.
The very first spike protein vaccine for Coronavirus.
Isn’t that fascinating?
Isn’t it fascinating that we were, we were told that, well, the spike protein is a new thing.
We just found out that that’s the problem.
No.
As a matter of fact, we didn’t just find out it was not just now.
Now the problem, we found that out in 1990 and filed the first patents on vaccines in 1990 for the spike protein of Coronavirus.
And who would’ve thought Pfizer?
Clearly the innocent organization that does nothing but promote human health.
Clearly, Pfizer, the organization that has not bought the votes in this chamber, in every chamber of every government around the world, not that Pfizer, certainly they wouldn’t have had anything to do with this, but oh yes, they did.
And in 1990 they found out that there was a problem with vaccines.
They didn’t work.
You know why they didn’t work?
It turns out that Coronavirus is a very malleable model.
It transforms and it changes, and it mutates over time.
As a matter of fact, every publication on vaccines for Coronavirus from 1990 until 2018, every single publication concluded that Coronavirus escapes the vaccine impulse because it modifies and mutates too quickly for vaccines to be effective.
And since 1990 to 2018, that is the published science ladies and gentlemen, that’s following the science, following the science is their own indictment of their own programs that said, it doesn’t work.
And there are thousands of publications to that effect, not a few hundred. And not paid for by pharmaceutical companies.
These are publications that are independent scientific research that shows unequivocally including efforts of the chimera modifications made by Ralph Bair in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
All of them show vaccines do not work on Coronavirus.
That’s the science, and that science has never been disputed.
But then we had an interesting development in 2002, and this date is most important because in 2002, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill patented, and I quote, an infectious replication defective clone of Coronavirus.
Listen to those words … Infectious replication, defective.
What does that phrase actually mean?
For those of you not familiar with language, let me unpack it for you.
Infectious replication.
Defective means a weapon.
It means something meant to target an individual but not have collateral damage to other individuals.
That’s what infectious replication defective means.
And that patent was filed in 2002 on work funded by NIAD’s Anthony Fauci from 1999 to 2002, and that work patented at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill mysteriously preceded SARS 1.0 by a year.
“Dave, are you suggesting that SARS 1.0 wasn’t from a wet market in Wuhan?”
“Are you suggesting it might have come from a laboratory in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill?”
No, I’m not suggesting it.
I’m telling you that’s the facts we engineered SARS.
SARS is not a naturally occurring phenomenon.
The naturally occurring phenomenon is called the common cold.
It’s called influenza-like illness.
It’s called gastroenteritis.
That’s the naturally occurring Coronavirus.
SARS is the research developed by humans weaponizing a life system model to actually attack human beings, and they patented it in 2002.
And in 2003, giant surprise, the CDC filed the patent on Coronavirus isolated from humans in violation once again of biological and chemical weapons, treaties and laws that we have in the United States, and I’m very, very precise on this.
United States likes to talk about its rights and everything else, and the rule of law and all the nonsense that we like to talk about, but we don’t ratify treaties about, I don’t know, defending humans.
We conspicuously avoid that we actually have a great track record of advocating for human rights and then denying them when it comes to actually being part of the international community, which is a slightly problematic thing.
But let’s get something very clear.
When the CDC, in April of 2003 filed the patent on SARS Coronavirus isolated from humans, what did they do?
They downloaded a sequence from China, and filed a patent on it in the United States.
Any of you familiar with biological and chemical weapons treaties knows that’s a violation.
That’s a crime.
That’s not an innocent, oops; that’s a crime.
And the United States Patent Office went as far as to reject that patent application on two occasions until the CDC decided to bribe the patent office to override the patent examiner to ultimately issue the patent in 2007 on SARS Coronavirus.
But let’s not let that get away from us, because it turns out that the RT PCR, which was the test that we allegedly were going to use to identify the risks associated with Coronavirus, was actually identified as a bioterrorism threat by me in the European Union sponsored events in 2002 and 2003, 20 years ago that happened here in Brussels and across Europe.
In 2005, this particular pathogen was specifically labelled as a bioterrorism and bioweapon platform technology, described as such.
That’s not my terminology that I’m applying to it.
It was actually described as a bioweapons platform technology in 2005.
And from 2005 onwards, it was actually a bio warfare enabling agent.
It’s official classification from 2005 forward.
I don’t know if that sounds like public health to you, does it?
Biological warfare enabling technology that feels like not public health, that feels like not medicine, that feels like a weapon, designed to take out humanity.
That’s what it feels like, and it feels like that because that’s exactly what it is.
We have been lured into believing that EcoHealth Alliance and DARPA and all of these organizations are what we should be pointing to.
But we’ve been specifically requested to ignore the facts that over $10 billion have been funnelled through black operations, through the check of Anthony Fauci and a side-by-side ledger where NIAD has a balance sheet, and next to it is a biodefense balance sheet.
Equivalent dollar for dollar matching that no one in the media talks about, and it’s been going on since 2005.
Our gain of function moratorium.
The moratorium that was supposed to freeze any efforts to do gain of function research.
Conveniently, in the fall of 2014, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill received a letter from NIAD saying that while the gain of function moratorium on Coronavirus in vivo should be suspended, because their grants had already been funded, they received an exemption.
Did you hear what I just said?
A biological weapons lab facility at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill received an exemption from the gain of function moratorium so that by 2016 we could publish the journal article that said SARS Coronavirus is poised for human emergence in 2016 and what, you might ask Dave, was the Coronavirus poised for human emergence?
It was WIV ONE.
Wuhan Institute of Virology Virus One.
Poised for human emergence in 2016 at the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, such that by the time we get to 2017 and 2018, the following phrase entered into common parlance among the community, there is going to be an accidental or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen.
The operative word, obviously in that phrase, the word release, does that sound like leak?
Does that sound like a bat and a Pangolin went into a bar in the Wuhan market and hung out and had sex?
And, and lo and behold, we got SARS Cov-2.
No accidental or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen was the terminology used.
And four times in April of 2019, seven months before the allegation of patient number one, four patent applications of Moderna were modified to include the term accidental or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen as the justification for making a vaccine for a thing that did not exist.
If you have not done so, please make sure that you make reference in every investigation to the premeditation nature of this, because it was in September of 2019 that the world was informed.
That we were going to have an accident or intentional release of a respiratory pathogen so that by September, 2020 there would be a worldwide acceptance of a universal vaccine template.
That’s their words right in front of you on the screen.
The intent was to get the world to accept a universal vaccine template, and the intent was to use Coronavirus to get there.
Let’s, let’s read this because we have to read this into the record everywhere I go.
“Until an infectious disease crisis is very real present and at the emergency threshold that is often largely ignored to sustain the funding base beyond the crisis.”
He said, “we need to increase the public understanding for the need for medical countermeasures, such as a pan influenza or pan coronavirus vaccine.”
“A key driver is the media and the economics will follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process.”
Sounds like public health.
Sounds like the best of humanity.
No.
Ladies and gentlemen, this was premeditated domestic terrorism stated at the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, published in front of them.
This is an act of biological and chemical warfare perpetrated on the human race, and it was admitted to in writing that this was a financial heist and a financial fraud.
“Investors will follow if they see profit at the end of the process.”
Let me conclude by making five very brief recommendations.
The last slide, nature was hijacked.
This whole story started in 1965 when we decided to hijack a natural model and decide to start manipulating it.
Science was hijacked when the only questions that could be asked were questions authorized under the patent protection of the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, and their equivalent organizations around the world.
We didn’t have independent science.
We had hijacked science, and unfortunately there was no moral oversight in violation of all of the codes that we stand for.
There was no independent, financially disinterested independent review board ever empanelled around Coronavirus.
Not once, not once, not since 1965.
We do not have a single independent IRB ever empanelled, around Coronavirus.
So, morality was suspended for medical countermeasures, and ultimately humanity was lost because we decided to allow it to happen.
Our job today is to say, no more gain of function research period.
No more weaponization of nature period.
And most importantly, no more corporate patronage of science for their own self-interest unless they assume 100% product liability for every injury and every death that they maintain.
Thank you very much.
Dr David E. Martin
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Over at Gizmodo, they put up two videos that have exactly that – square tires that actually work. The first is an adult-sized tricycle with square tires that go round ‘n round – but on a specially made track but unless you have that track, you aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
However, this video shows the real deal – square tires for the real world. It’s very disconcerting at first – at first blush, tires that “should” be turning aren’t, but the bicycle is moving forward as expected as the bicyclist is moving his legs in the proper fashion (yes, an ad is embedded in the front of the real content which shows the construction process):
It’s actually a cute bit of engineering to make the tread follow the outline of the “wheel.” So yes, square wheels do work with a lot of effort.
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Imagine the nightmare narrative taking place in the past if you knew what was going to happen before Pearl Harbor, or 911. Would you wake the town and tell the people, or cower in silence for fear everyone would call you a conspiracy nut? Such is my dilemma today.
Consider the Biden family’s longtime criminal collusion with Communist China in exchange for millions of dollars, even during his Vice Presidency. Underneath the honor owed the office of the presidency, there is an existing reality that poses the question: Does the president deserve to be called Benedict Biden?
Even after his Administration seems to be paying the Chinese back by inviting 6 million illegals to invade our borders, one wonders if he has ever done anything for the American people with his promotion of Agenda 30 to destroy our economy.
Maybe you wonder why The New American magazine has been taken down from YouTube. Truth is a “lonely warrior!” We cannot be surprised that coverage of The House Oversight Committee exposes the Biden Administration’s Deep State partnering and control of our federal Intelligence, policing, and security agencies. For these agencies have, over the past two Administrations, picked who are the criminal enemies of the state. It seems their premise of justice is based on the Communist principle of reversal: “Alway accuse your political enemies of what you are guilty of.” Today, President Trump is their target. Tomorrow, you will be added while the criminal activity of the Biden Administration is ignored.
As citizens of New Hampshire, we must act like we believe General John Starks famous cry for liberty:
“Live Free or Die.”
Don’t be “The summer soldier and sunshine patriot” that Tom Paine described.
This is Valley Forge time again.
As with our forefathers, we only need three % of the population to hear the truth and act. I challenge the reader to view the below video,14 minutes and 26 seconds of dynamite truth to counteract this criminal conspiracy that is the reason Biden rules as if the Chinese vote for him. Then contact local Sheriffs, State and local police, plus State and federal legislators. Volunteer to be a soldier in this “war for liberty.
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