Wednesday • October 15 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XLII
Manchester, N.H.
The Biden Administration has had a credibility issue from day one. Its problem with the truth and transparency is rooted in the President. It has become Standard Operating Procedure with every member of the Administration, right down to Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s Press Secretary.
The last couple of weeks since the initial terrorist acts inflicted on Israel by Hamas. When the country and world needed facts and truth from a strong United States President, they got Joe Biden and a package of indecisive actions, questionable information, and lies. In actuality, we got what we should have expected, for this is who Joe Biden has been for the half-century he has been in Washington. What has always been explained as Biden gaffes are actually lies.
Before we recap history, let’s discuss the interview on 60 Minutes on Sunday evening.
Compound these mistruths with those about the Economy, bad investments in Green Energy companies, the banning of countless gas appliances we rely on, his numerous lies about his interactions with his son, Hunter, and how he has weaponized his Justice Department and Intelligence Agencies.
Joe Biden promised the most transparent Administration in history, which was the first lie. After the first, all subsequent lies are easy. We can believe nothing from the White House and must rely on our eyes, ears, and research. When you cannot trust your leader, you have none.
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When it comes to Israel, the unofficial position of the political left is they hate it. Western Jews are encouraged to do that too and to facilitate the hate, they perpetuate myths.
Ben Shapiro has quick some thoughts to share about history, facts, truth, and the lies the left stands on to justify murder. Feel free, as always, to agree, disagree, or agree to disagree below in the comments.
You’re Being Lied To About Israel And Palestine
pic.twitter.com/yqZDZM8eL8— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 15, 2023
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Mao’s Agrarian reform growing into Klaus Swab’s WEF, Great Reset and the UN Agenda 30 plans will control every aspect of our lives. The Harold Ware Communist Party Cell planted in the Agriculture Department in 1933 sprouted the American “War on The Farmers.”
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Soviet agent Alger Hiss started his career of espionage there, later becoming Roosevelt’s Advisor at YALTA and co-authoring the UN Charter. Hiss’ policy of paying farmers not to grow crops puts farmers on welfare, which has far-reaching consequences to this day.
Today, the war on the food supply is on steroids, with our farmers feeling the impact of Karl Marx’s plan to destroy private property. Forced property surrendered under the banner of eminent domain is authorizing Carbon Capture pipelines to ruin countless acres of rich agriculture in the heartland. A few days ago, the John Birch Society (JBS) Leadership Conference in Des Moines, Iowa (see link below), revealed an international scam called “Carbon Capture.” Navigator CO2’s application to implement a Carbon Capture pipeline was denied by the South Dakota Public Utilities, thanks to the JBS. Several weeks before, Summit Carbon Solutions’ application for the pipeline was also denied by the North Dakota Public Service Commission.
In contrast, a public hearing before the Iowa Utilities Board to investigate a similar process in Iowa was met with a kangaroo court atmosphere. Officials simply did not listen to the opposition. The pipeline company even hired security personnel to intimidate and harass the opposition. Why would other states deny these applications to infringe on private rights while Iowa’s process ruled against the farmers? Because members of the Iowa Utilities Boards are appointed by the governor. Other states continue to prove the power of the people is superior to governors appointing bureaucrats who promote job security with no vested interest in protecting personal property rights.
Usurpation of power by governors appointing commissions to destroy property rights must be stopped! This scheme is based on fraudulent science that claims the opposite of our Creator’s balance in nature. Digging ditches all over America’s heartland to store carbon below the earth amounts to promoting doom and gloom environmentalism for profit.
While power and money cabals hype up their cause to save the earth, don’t forget that all the foundation pillars that have made America great are at stake. Environmentalist utopia is control over every aspect of your life. Don’t let them take your property! Biden’s Green Power Executive Order has usurped congressional power. Don’t let them continue to cower in silence while the “Great Reset, Build Back Better, Karl Marx’s dream” destroys our liberty. Demand your Senators and Representatives stand up and do their job.
See the complete JBS event that covers aspects of this imminent tyranny creeping, now swiftly upon us, at JBS.org/DesMoines2023. Warning: Google doesn’t like the truth! Download DuckDuckGo to reach this link.
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If you’re a Middle-Class American who feels like life is getting harder. You are correct. Middle-class Americans are worse off today than they were 20 years ago. That is the finding of a new study. What does this mean for the future of this country?
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The new study comes from researchers at USC and Columbia. Together, they released a study showing average Americans near retirement are worse off today than 20 years ago. They started with this question: How are people doing in this country in terms of their economic and physical well-being? Of particular interest were people who were “middle class” and getting close to retirement.
So here’s their methodology. They used a data set from the University of Michigan’s Health and Retirement Survey. This survey has over 20,000 Americans who are age 50 and older. They also used a microsimulation called the Future Elderly Model. The things included were: physical health, private income, housing, disability, and an estimated future life expectancy.
The researchers compared the data from today with comparable Americans from 20 years ago. What they found is not surprising to those who live it. Lower class and lower middle class Americans are largely worse off today than 20 years ago. They are living shorter lives, more sickly and filled with disability. The ailments include hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. Today if you are an average 60 year old American woman in the lower-middle class you will likely live to 84, but 40% of your remaining years will be lived with a disability. The percentage of life you live disabled has risen since 1994.
Researchers also found lower middle class Americans have flatlined in terms of financial health too. This is true in terms of income and housing. The gap between the wealthy and working class is getting wider with respect to home ownership. The gap has tripled in size as compared to 1994.
The researchers suggest we ought to increase the social safety net for these Americans. Do you think we can afford to pick up the slack with more Medicaid, housing vouchers and food stamps? Those are the findings and data coming to us from USC and Columbia Universities. The key takeaway is: For the average American, things are not good.
About two weeks ago, there was a young man named Oliver Anthony from Farmville, VA that had a song go viral. It’s called Rich Men North of Richmond a song about the rich men and politicians in Washington DC. As of Friday 8/25/23, Rich Men North of Richmond is the most played song in all of America… for good reason.
Oliver gives life to the pain and struggles of the average American of his generation and those of his parents and grandparents; the people included in this study out of USC and Columbia University. His songs are about being a factory worker, his struggle with addiction and obesity. He’s giving America a primal scream that things aren’t good, things aren’t right.
He makes you feel what this university data can only say. Predictably, the media turned it into a fight about Left vs Right. They call this young man racist and bigoted. What they’re saying is a crock of excrement. Listen to the song for yourself and you’ll hear that.
Oliver said in response to his sudden fame, “I appreciate the compliments, but … I’m not a good musician. I hardly know my way around the guitar. My singing’s OK. That’s not what made this song a success. It’s about you, and the struggles in your life. That’s what’s made this what it is.”
You can say things with facts and data. But the struggling of the average American you can now feel. Bill Clinton and Republicans in Congress absolutely gutted factory towns across the country when they allowed China into the World Trade Organization 20 years ago. Researchers at MIT and others have proven that.
NAFTA, now called USMCA, is doing much the same. Chinese companies are now planting themselves in Mexico to skirt tariffs and take advantage of us and our workers.
America’s social fabric is fraying. Data show that we’re less connected to each other now than we were 20 or 50 years ago There’s research on that stemming from the book Bowling Alone.
Our children are increasingly being raised in single families. This includes 49% of black children, 28% of Hispanic kids, and 21% of white children. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/children.html Compare that to data from 1960, when only 7% of kids lived with just one parent.
These facts and data show things are not ok in this country. We need to center our conversations on that topic. It is time to focus on what is true , not just what we feel. Maybe feelings have a place in the conversation. Maybe we need to scream that things aren’t ok through our music, through our tears, to our politicians.
So what do we do about this? What do we do with a country that is not well? When the working people in small towns and big cities are in trouble, in pain, are getting poorer and more desperate will we throw them an anchor like Bidenomics or a life preserver like a return to what made America once prosperous?
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They still do NOT understand WHY a majority of Republican VOTERS continue to support Donald Trump. This ad explains it. I’d add this: these voters understand that Nikki Haley, Chris Christie etc., etc., etc., have much, much, much more in common with the Biden regime than with Republican voters.
That nothing is really going to change by replacing the Biden regime with Haley et al. … that it is all talk designed to fool Republican voters yet again… that once Haley et al. get power, it would be “business as usual” just like Kevin McCarthy did.
Wow. Watch this. pic.twitter.com/cp5UOKW8xo
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) October 15, 2023
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This Bride and the Groomsmen show what they’d do to ANY challenge to “speak now or forever hold your peace” with their “pieces”.
Frequent commenter at GraniteGrok, Matt, sent this to me. I have no idea where it came from but DANG!, I thought it was really funny. Best of all is the expression on the bride’s face as her husband-to-be had no clue that she wasn’t fooling around in getting hitched…she was QUITE pleased with herself.
Gives “Enforcing the Peace” a whole new attitude, doesn’t it?
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RFK, Jr. has quit the Democrat party to run as an independent, and already, we’re seeing pundits on both sides of the political aisle grousing about how this will potentially impact the 2024 presidential election.
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Whether or not his third-party candidacy will pull more votes from Democrats or Republicans, thus changing the calculus of the Electoral College.
One thing that the media hates about RFK, Jr. is that he holds some questionable beliefs, most notably surrounding vaccines in general (and the COVID-19 vaccine specifically), as well as the topics of autism, his father’s assassination, and that the 2004 presidential campaign is “stolen.”
Do a quick Google search, and top returns are, unsurprisingly, headed by the most far-left liberal rags attempting to downplay his legitimacy by casting him as a crackpot conspiracy theorist who’s unqualified to hold the office of the president.
As though an obviously cognitively-impaired, stumbling, bumbling, rambling buffoon in the current White House administration is a better alternative?
My point is this: our country allows everyone the right to not only hold a personal belief but to express that belief publicly. And unfortunately, in 2023, even stating simple facts can be frowned upon by liberals pushing an agenda. Yet free speech, no matter how unpopular, is integral to our founding as a nation and to a modern society based on liberty.
How telling it is, then, that one of my former favorite haunts online—TreeHugger.com—around 17 Sept 2023, went full draconian tyrant mode by eliminating the DISQUS commenting applet, thereby preventing any responses to their nauseatingly boring HGTV-lite articles that have become de rigueur since management axed Sami Grover, Lloyd Alter, and other editors from their payroll. The occasional non-milquetoast article, which could elicit comments of praise, inquiry, or ridicule, has proved to be too difficult a job for the website’s new taskmasters to police, and so they decided it would be easier to manage controversy simply by turning off all comments.
Against this backdrop, TreeHugger.com has been publishing what can only be described as boring-as-hell articles about gardening aesthetics, home decor, and other mind-numbingly dull topics. The benefit of Lloyd Alter and Sami Grover, among others, was that they did try their level best to bring cutting-edge news about advances in (shudder!) climate resiliency, energy efficiency, construction, and technology. It was entertaining, if nothing else, being able to ask legitimate questions about the costs associated with such technological advances, if for no other reason than to spar against ideologues who can’t see that the emperor has no clothes.
Such discourse, however, no longer exists. Free speech was too great a threat to TreeHugger.com’s bourgeoisie overlords because—heaven help them—someone might be offended by what Joe Q. Public might write in the comment section, especially if it didn’t remain lockstep with the progressive narrative heading up the editorial board. Who knows, they might be RFK Jr. operatives undermining the progressive narrative, and we can’t have that, can we?
Well, to state the obvious, anyone who knows anything about how the internet works could have foretold what would happen to TreeHugger.com’s readership as the last excuse for even visiting the website at all evaporated in their misguided attempt to improve the “readership experience.” And now that a new month is here, we have proof of the rats leaving the sinking ship in droves.
This past weekend, I wanted to check the website’s analytics as they reflect web traffic, but as I don’t have a subscription or ownership of the website, I had to skip Google Analytics and rely instead on an alternative, SimilarWeb. You can find the website traffic breakdown here.
What stands out for me from the information provided is this: traffic overall is down nearly 11%, and the average site length visit is just 51 seconds. More than three-quarters of all readers (76%) don’t even read past the home page before leaving the website, too. Further sleuthing reveals over the last three months, their global ranking online has decreased from #30,820 to #32,992 (translation: lower is better; thus, their “blogsite” stock valuation has decreased.) The abandonment continues unabated, but I suspect none of that matters to Dotdash Meredith, the parent company of TreeHugger.com, who in turn is part of IAC, Inc. As long as young people continue to click through just enough to pay the bills and do so without questioning the narratives pushed, then all is well.
Except it’s not. As we’ve seen over recent months, Bud Light, Target, and Disney all have gone full progressive mode with the sexual grooming of children and suffered mightily for their hubris. Bud Light lost $40 billion in market value and suffered a 27% decline in market capitalization, allowing Modelo to take its #1 spot. Target warned investors their quarterly losses were down over $4 billion exclusively because of the pushback against Rainbow Gestapo-inspired childwear. Disney continues to bleed dollars with every new woke remake of popular animated movies, and the belief that Bob Iger’s return would boost sagging revenue has evaporated more quickly than a drop of sweat falling from the brow of a Phoenician in July.
The common thread throughout all of these examples is that the more woke they’ve become—the less free they “allow” us as consumers to express our objections to progressive communism—the more their bottom line suffers.
IAC Inc. reported around August 22nd that they expect earnings to decline 17.4% per year for the next three years. One has to wonder how much more cash they can bleed before realizing the alienation of their customer base is not the pathway to profitability or sustainability.
Personally, the question is a rhetorical one, in my opinion. There are much bigger fiscal fish to fry that our elected leaders continue to ignore addressing—the Russia-Ukraine war, inflation, and immigration control, to name but three—but TreeHugger.com’s demonstrable decline is a case study in failure that the woke, anti-free speech brigade earned all on their own.
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