If you didn’t know, I have extensive experience with how razor-thin the margins are in the restaurant business. Food, equipment, people – thin lines – and many years making it work and showing a profit. I’ve run a business, a few of them.

I’ve been out of that business for a few decades, but when I hear stories about Marxists thinking they can make another manifestation of the communitarian cafe work, it catches my attention.

We’ve seen a few of them come and go from workplaces that start folks at double the prevailing wage to the show up when you want schedules to this “anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop, and radical community space on stolen land.”

The stupid, it burns.

 

A Toronto cafe for anti-capitalists, “The Anarchist,” is permanently shuttering after just 12 months in business after following a “pay-when-you-can” business model.

 

Communists and anarchists often fall into the same trap. Their version of a thing that has never worked will overcome human nature. It’ll be fantastic. It never is.

With Marxism, the destruction of everything is a requirement, but in practice, the only things ruined are those that keep the select few from absolute power and anything that attempts to challenge it once they have it. Ruin follows along with misery, and it stays that way except for the Party leaders who hand out favors, but no one is ever safe, and the police state required to sustain that model is unpredictable and ever-present.

With anarchy, destruction happens because there is nothing to prevent it. We become the zombie apocalypse until a select few scrape a bit of order out of the chaos. An order you are not encouraged to challenge, which becomes a police state little different from other Fascist/Marxist forms of rule.

The two are sketched on opposite sides of someone’s political spectrum, but they are fraternal twins without a difference, doomed to similar ends. Despotism.

Gabriel Sims-Fewer, the former owner of the no longer (if it ever were) viable Anarchist cafe, thought he could run an entire business as the have-a-penny-give-a-penny, need-a-penny-take-a-penny dish on the counter at your local gas station or convenience mart.

Mr. “F*ck the rich. F*ck the police. Fuck the state” somehow managed to keep the thing above water for a year, so props for that, but it appears to be the life cycle of these misguided communitarian concerns. They last for about a year, ignoring that if you let people steal from you without consequence, they will.

And I’m not sure why they can’t see what is at the core of their outrage. People are why the rich, the police, or the state sucks – if that’s your schtick. Why, then, would you believe they’d be any different absent the money, the uniform, or the office? We know it’s not true. Especially under the umbrella of the secular humanist pantheon of empty space that dominates cults of personality upon which the proprietors of these establishments are metaphorical card-carrying members.

Without any THING greater than themselves to rein them in (real or imagined), people can be complete and utter bastards, and you can’t expect to keep a business open with them as your customer base. They will take until there is nothing left, and unlike Congress, you can’t pass the cost or consequences down to other people’s grandchildren.

And yes, plenty of people who believe in something greater than themselves will use that to be complete and utter bastards because they are people.

Hate faith or government all you like, but there are things about human nature you can’t deny. First, everyone has a godless vacuum. Filling it with crap doesn’t mean it’s not there. Second, free-market capitalism based on the founding American Experiment isn’t perfect because neither are we, but it is better than all the other economic systems. It offers us – with a few guardrails and a bit of morally managed expectation of human decency – proof that, given the opportunity, people can and will lift themselves out of poverty. They will decide what that means and define their success.

We know it works, but people being people are doing everything they can to ruin it with their own anarchist/communitarian system for inevitable failure. The US Federal Government is operating a pay-when-you-can system on steroids. It is spending trillions on things that won’t be when the people (not yet born) who will have to pay for it and the interest get the bill.

Much like the Anarchist cafe’ it too will go out of business, but not before putting a lot of other people (who tried to do it right) out of business to feed that beast.

 

 

HT | NewsWars

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Very interesting analysis of the 2022 midterms at Real Clear Politics. In a nutshell, all the reasons we have been given for the anticipated “red wave” turning into a red ripple … e.g., “bad candidates,” “Trump,” “abortion,” blah, blah, blah are bullish*t.

What really happened is the Democrats successfully targeted eight States … INCLUDING NEW HAMPSHIRE … which acted as “breakwater” transforming the wave into a ripple:

The Breakwater Theory contends that (1) national conditions and public opinion provided a strong basis for the development of a formidable red wave; (2) the red wave had formed with strong Republican prospects in both congressional and state elections; and (3) the expected red wave was not realized because Democrats constructed a breakwater preventing the full force of the red wave from hitting shore. The construction of the Democrats’ breakwater was the result of the confluence of the Democrats’ means, motives, and opportunities.

And here is what I find key:

Finally, the means. Two factors combined to provide Democrats with the means to exploit these opportunities. The first was the prevalence of Democrat-friendly easy and early mail-in voting rules in the Breakwater States. The second was the enormous amount of financial support available to Democrats to fund extensive mobilization campaigns in these states – boosting the turnout of Democratic voters who likely would otherwise not vote. The already in-place candidate, party, and supporting organizations, important to earlier Democratic electoral success in these states, also likely contributed an important platform for mounting this mobilization effort.

The article acknowledges that New Hampshire does NOT have the same “early mail-in voting rules” as other “breakwater States” … WHICH MEANS THAT the NH-Communists (aka NH-Democrats) advantage in mobilizing voters was why the State remained solidly BLUE (sorry, bitter-clingers but I do not consider Sun-King Sununu a real Republican … he’s actually a Democrat who is heretical on a few issues).

In other words, this article is saying what I have been saying … 2022 was a disaster for NH-Republicans because Democrats worked SMARTER and worked HARDER than they did. AND, tragically, the NH-GOP Establishment has learned NOTHING from the shellacking … case in point: “Leader” Jason Osborne continues to bloviate how “top of the ticket” is all that matters.

AND … in the interest of completeness … what also likely contributed to the debacle in 2022 was Sun-King Sununu’s COVID-tyranny and embrace of WOKE causing an exodus of Red voters and an influx of Blue voters.

 

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The Durham report and its repercussions; there is no longer any doubt that there will be no penalties for anyone involved, including Adam Schiff; could/should Trump have appointed a special counsel against Hilary? comparisons to and lessons from President Eisenhower warning against unaccountable bureaucrats; comparing Desantis as a leader vs. Trump; is trump making a mistake fighting Desantis on the 6-week abortion limit? Is America self-sorting -- with the Guardian telling gays not to move to Florida; the Miller Lite marketing fiasco; some background for the ruling of a Judge that restricting 18–20-year-olds from purchasing firearms is unconstitutional.

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New Hampshire Senate Bill 272 (SB272) is coming up for a vote in the NH House this week and probably tomorrow, Thursday, May  18th. It is the Parental Rights Bill. Legislation that the following School Board Members want them to vote down.

These elected school board members don’t want parents to have rights over their own children in the public schools for which these parents pay. It’s insulting to parents, guardians, and caregivers.

They are, of course, entitled to their opinion, and you are entitled to know theirs.

The following list was sent to me via email. Please take a moment to read it.

If you plan to contact your legislator(s) before tomorrow morning to let them know that you support parents’ rights, please be brief and polite.

 

School Board Members opposed to the Parental Rights Bill – resorted alphabetically by town.

Carrie Neil, Barrington

Andrea Cambell, Bedford
Kara LaMarche, Bedford

Erin Talcott, Bethlehem

Whitney Skillen, Claremont
Jennifer Gallagher, Claremont

Jonathan Weinberg, Concord

Danielle Palmer, Deerfield
Nate Oxnard, Deerfield
Ellen O’Donnell, Deerfield
Kendra Cohen, Deerfield

Cairnie Pokorney, Derry

Michelle Clancy, Dover

Patrick O’Day, Exeter
Patty Surette, Exeter
Heather Ikemire, Exeter

Laurie Cass, Franklin
Liz Cote, Franklin

Shane Rozamus, Goffstown
Nicole Bump, Goffstown

Desiree Potter, Hampton Falls

Norm Goupil, Hopkinton

Julie Turner, Manchester
Chris Potter, Manchester
Jason Monilla, Manchester

Jessica Wheeler Russell, Merrimack Valley School District

Heather Raymond, Nashua
Regan Lamphier, Nashua

Amy Manzelli, Pembroke

Cynthia Diane Foss, Wilton
Brianne Lavalle, Wilton and Lydenborough

 

Note: This list is not exhaustive. It is still possible and likely that other board members not listed have contacted their legislator(s) in opposition to parental rights and SB 272. 

 

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Businesses, social media influencers, and website owners are in a constant battle for attention and visibility online. Standing out among the sea of competitors can be a daunting task, but with the right strategy, you can thrive and ride out the many challenges that come with running a business online.

One of the most underrated strategies is keyword research. More than the branding, the pretty Instagram photos, and the perfect products, keywords are a powerful tool that holds the key to unlocking your online success. In this blog post, we will explore the importance of keyword research and how it can transform your business, amplify your social media presence, and optimize your website for greater visibility.

Understand the Essence of Keyword Research

Keyword research is the foundation upon which effective online marketing strategies are built. It involves identifying the words and phrases that your target audience uses when searching for products, services, or information online. By understanding these keywords, you can tailor your content and marketing efforts to align with user intent, ensuring you reach the right people at the right time.

Enhance Business Performance

In the fiercely competitive digital marketplace, keyword research plays a pivotal role in driving business success. By identifying high-value keywords related to your industry, you can optimize your website content, product descriptions, and advertising campaigns to increase your visibility in search engine results. This heightened visibility translates into higher organic traffic, improved brand exposure, and ultimately, more conversions and sales.

Dominate Third-Party App Marketplaces

In addition to your website, leveraging third-party app marketplaces like Amazon or Etsy can significantly expand your reach and customer base. Keyword research plays a crucial role in optimizing your product listings within these platforms. By identifying the most relevant and high-converting keywords, you can ensure that your products appear in relevant search results and stand out among competitors. By strategically incorporating these keywords into your product titles, descriptions, and tags, you increase the visibility of your offerings, attract more potential customers, and drive sales.

Unleash Advertising Potential

Paid advertising on platforms like Amazon or Etsy can be a game-changer for businesses. However, to maximize the return on your advertising investment, keyword research is vital. Some of the best Amazon keyword research tools help you identify the most effective keywords for your ads and products, ensuring that they align with the search queries of your target audience. This enables you to create highly relevant and targeted ads that drive qualified traffic to your product listings, leading to higher conversion rates and increased sales.

Adapt to Changing Consumer Behavior

Consumer behavior is constantly evolving, and keyword research helps you stay attuned to these changes. By monitoring and analyzing keyword data within third-party app marketplaces, you can identify emerging trends, shifts in customer preferences, and new keyword opportunities. This insight allows you to adapt your product offerings, marketing strategies, and keyword optimization techniques to meet the evolving needs of your target audience. By staying ahead of these trends, you can maintain a competitive edge, attract more customers, and drive business growth.

Maximize Social Media Impact

Social media has become an integral part of our daily lives, and businesses have quickly recognized its potential as a marketing powerhouse. By conducting thorough keyword research, you can uncover the trending topics and popular hashtags within your industry. This knowledge allows you to create engaging, targeted content that resonates with your audience, increases social media engagement, and ultimately drives traffic to your website or online store.

Unlock Website Optimization

Your website is the digital storefront of your business, and optimizing it for search engines is crucial to attracting organic traffic. Keyword research helps you understand the terms and phrases your potential customers use to find the products or services you offer. By strategically incorporating these keywords into your website’s meta tags, headings, and content, you can improve your search engine rankings, increase website visibility, and attract more qualified visitors.

Stay Ahead of the Curve

The online landscape is constantly evolving, with new trends, technologies, and competitors emerging regularly. Keyword research is not a one-time activity; it requires continuous monitoring and adaptation to stay ahead of the curve. By analyzing keyword data, tracking industry changes, and keeping an eye on your competitors’ strategies, you can adjust your content and marketing efforts accordingly, ensuring your business remains relevant and competitive.

Conclusion

In the age of digital dominance, keyword research has become a necessary tool for businesses, social media influencers, and website owners alike. By harnessing the power of keyword research, you can propel your business to new heights, amplify your social media impact, and optimize your website for greater visibility.

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Everyone, just relax. Islam is badly misunderstood. The negative stereotype of Islam is the usual evil-doings of Zionists in America and their foolish fellow travelers, fundamentalist Christians. Please don’t listen to what these hatemongers say about Islam and hear us out; so implies the nationally-launched campaign of Muslim organizations in the United States.

Ads are popping up in newspapers and magazines proclaiming the magnificence of Islam and aiming to refute the “false allegations” of Islam’s ill-wishers.

Huge billboards are festooning major highways, such as the one along Highway 101 and Tully Road in San Jose, California, with crafty messages. Bold letters on the billboard proclaim Islam You Deserve to Know. A toll-free number, 1-877-WhyIslam, and a website, Why Islam.org beckon the public to get the real scoop about the religion of peace.

The billboard sneakily reminds the viewers about their kinship with Muslims. “Islam: The message of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad.”

Well folks—Christians and Jews—the overwhelming majority of the people in the United States, you need to relax about Islam. Muslims are family. They are your kindred through your shared progenitor, Abraham.

Having Abraham as an ancestor would demand that the “children” be loving siblings. That’s the message the American Muslims try to convey. And that’s the way they aim to keep us in the deadly slumber of complacency and the delusion of multiculturalism.

For one, multiculturalism and multi-religionism are not interchangeable and are not one and the same. Muslims and their frequently well-paid apologists use the multiculturalism umbrella only in non-Islamic lands to shield themselves from the torrent of legitimate criticisms that those who know Islam better shower on this cult of violence peddled as the religion of peace.

Don’t listen to me and don’t listen to these conniving dissimulators. Find out for yourself. See if the euphemism of multiculturalism is ever even mentioned by any Islamic leader, ever printed in the Islamic press, or ever appears in any form anywhere in Muslim countries. This multiculturalism gambit is Islam-manufactured wool to pull over the eyes of the non-Muslims while the Muslims carry on with their unrelenting campaign of eradicating anything or anyone non-Islamic anywhere in the world.

Those of us, through reason and tremendous acts of will, who have freed ourselves from the enslaving yoke of Islam placed around our necks from birth, know about all the heinous inside dirt of this plague of humanity. We hardly need to call a toll-free number to hear a phony canned message of deceptions and lies.

We have experienced Islam first-hand and up close from the inside. We have studied the Quran, the Hadith, and the Sunna. We have seen Islam in action where it wields sway. Some of us even tried desperately to cling to this security blanket that was wrapped around us from birth. Yet, the more we studied and the more we experienced Islam, the more our effort to remain in the fold became untenable.

We broke away from Islamic slavery and found it to be our solemn duty to expose this fraud of a religion, help other Muslims to free themselves from it, and warn the good-hearted and gullible non-Muslims against falling prey to it.

The Muslim organizations in America, generously financed by the oil-rich Muslim government and sheiks, are directed to sell Islam Lite for long enough until the cult runs deep roots and the Real Islam is introduced. One can see how the scheme played out in Europe. Much of Europe is already past the stage of Islam Lite and knee-deep into the quagmire of Real Islam. And that’s exactly where things are headed in America.

For a starter, remember the Somali Muslim cabbies of the Minneapolis airport and their refusal of blind fares with seeing-eye dogs, because dogs are unclean according to their belief? The same cabbies that had a virtual monopoly at the airport also rejected passengers who had alcoholic beverages in their possession. And the recent campaign of Muslims in New York to force the city to officially recognize Islamic holidays. These chosen people of Allah have more holidays than working days. No wonder they are among the most backward and unproductive in the world.

These “annoyances” aside, one has to be more than daft not to see for himself and not be sickened by the horrors Muslims in power and Muslim governments commit wherever they reign in the world. Their barbaric acts are not isolated behaviors of some deranged individuals that one can find within any group. They are, in fact, mandated by the authoritative teachings of Islam, and those who practice them proudly proclaim their actions as an implementation of Islamic teachings.

And they are correct in this claim. Let’s just see a sampling of the Islamic teachings that mandate the beastly treatment of women, human slaves, and all non-Muslims, including those that the Islamic Softsell in the West aims to bunch itself with as kin—Jews and Christians.

Quran 4.34 Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to others and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey, you take no further action against them. Allah is high, supreme.

Q uran16.75 Allah sets forth a parable: (consider) a slave, the property of another, (who) has no power over anything, and one whom We have granted from ourselves goodly sustenance so he spends from it secretly and openly; are the two alike? (All) praise is due to Allah!

Quran 5:51 O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guides not a people unjust.

You may say that you know Muslims and you find them to be decent people, family people, hard-working people who are no different than any other group of people. However, these people are Bad Muslims. Why so? Because they do not live the life, the Quran commands them to lead. It is the Good Muslims that you don’t ever want to meet. These are the diehard jihadists, the terrible killers who spare no torture on infidels before decapitating them or hanging them while intoning Allah’s praise. These are the ones that don’t show the slightest mercy to their very own people who fail to toe the line.

These Real Muslims viciously and repeatedly rape women, and even men are arrested without arrest warrants. One “lucky” victim who managed to escape the claws of these evils is Maryam Sabri (and so many others), arrested on phony charges and repeatedly raped in Iran’s Evin prison.

Acts of horrors committed in Islamic lands aside, it is disturbing to see Muslims dissimulate, sweet-talk, and use any and all means in free non-Islamic societies to convert people to their cult. Yet, if a Muslim, on his own free will decides to leave Islam he is condemned as apostate and automatically sentenced to death. And right here in America, the suffocating tentacles of Islamic bigotry are beginning to reach out to people. Just the other day, for instance, a teenage girl had to run away from her Muslim family fearing being killed by her own father for having become Christian.

This Islamic Softsell is a replay of Muhammad’s own life example. He was peaceful and humble in Mecca among his powerful detractors. Once in Medina and with power, Muhammad slaughtered the Jews of Medina as easily as if they were sheep, plundered their belongings, and took the “sellable” women and children as slaves.

It is said that truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues. Islam not only condones, it encourages lying and dissimulation— taqiyya in dealing with non-Muslims. Hence the ads, the billboards, and the claims of these liars are little more than packs of crafty propaganda.

No, there is no misunderstanding. No, it is not the Zionists and fundamentalist Christians who are misrepresenting Islam. It is Muslims and Muslim organizations who are guilty of dissimulation and fraud. Muslims act meekly when they lack sufficient power. Once in power, Real Islam emerges from its shell of dissimulation and puts free people and their way of life to the sword.

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When you have a legislature willing to help you advance your agenda, you do it. Democrats know this, and so does Ron DeSantis. Regardless of what you think about him as a presidential contender, the guy isn’t a wallflower afraid of offending the donor class by doing something…Republican.

Is that a problem for him, and does it matter?

There are several theories out there suggesting this is for show. That DeSantis is the not so republican Republican Governors Association (RGA) candidate, and the wallflower Republicans like Sununu (thinking about running), Nikki Haley (Trump Deserter), or Asa Hutchinson (announced, but so what) are only there to make him DeSantis look better and to bash Trump.

It makes no sense to me. Why water the field down? Let DeSantis go head-to-head with Trump, let the media bash Trump, and may the best man win the nomination.

Maybe I’m reading that wrong, but that’s my thinking.

My other issue is that Republicans (the RGA, in this example) can’t be criminal masterminds and blundering idiots in the same breath. It’s the same problem I had when Democrats suggested George Bush had coordinated 9/11. Until then, and almost every moment after it, Bush was a moron who couldn’t even pronounce nuclear. But suddenly, he was Moriarty, coordinating a complicated act of terrorism on US soil.

And if he wanted to help his oil buddies (as many still contend), he could have worked to open up domestic production and skipped the Middle-Eastern BS. Trump did it. We were energy independent for about five minutes until Whoever is Running the Biden Administration slammed that door.

I like both (Trump and DeSantis), but Trump still has the outsider advantage. I think he needs to come clean about his pandemic errors in a big way and explain how he’d avoid that in the future. As for DeSantis, he’s doing stuff Republicans like and want. Loudly and proudly like it’s some big middle finger to the Left’s agenda, and what’s not to like about that?

 

In addition to defunding DEI projects, the law also bars public colleges from infusing critical race theory and related grievance politics ideologies into curricula for general education courses. Those classes “may not distort significant historical events or include a curriculum that teaches identity politics” stemming from “theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities,” according to the law.

“If you look at the way this has actually been implemented across the country, DEI is better viewed as standing for discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination,” DeSantis said at a press conference at New College of Florida in Sarasota. “And that has no place in our public institutions. This bill says the whole experiment with DEI is coming to an end in the state of Florida.”

 

Yeah, team! Get er done! Now we’re cooking with fire! Pick your pithy phrase, one-liner, quip, witticism, or sound bite. How about ‘never back down’? It’s the definitive rule when dealing with the cage rattlers on the Left. But it dares to challenge the soft underbelly of the go-along-get-along aisle-crossers in the big tent party.

It sounds good on TV and works great when the whole government is in your corner, but as I’ve mentioned before, what happens when everyone else is against you, and you can’t get anything you want without a few of them? Does stepping sideways count as never backing down?

Reagan was great, but even he gave away some things we’d like back, and after Biden, we can’t afford to give up anything else. We need to take some back, and Ron DeSantis is doing that in Florida. But would it translate to the big stage?

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Are you constantly dreaming of investing in a new luxury car? Are you bored of the car that you already have? If this is the case, here are some of the top steps that you should take when you have luxury cars on your radar and are imagining whizzing around in a totally new model.

1. Sell Your Old One

When you have a new luxury car in mind and find that you cannot get it out of your head, you might decide to sell your current car. By selling your current luxury car, you will often have most of the money that you need to buy a new one, especially if you go through a reputable dealer and car company. There are many car companies that specialize in selling specific car brands. For instance, you can sell your pre-owned BMW to We Buy Exotics for a good price. This will enable you to get rid of your old car and make way for the new one, as it will help you obtain the funding that you need to invest in a new model. You should not wait too long to sell your current car, though, as the value of cars decreases quickly. If you are not keen on selling your old car, you should consider renting it out for a while so that you are able to make money from it without having to completely replace it. However, do remember with that route, when the time does come to sell it, the price will have dropped even lower, and it may have even sustained damage during this time.

2. Look at the New Options

You should not rush into buying a new luxury car. Instead, you should look around at the many different options on the market. This can allow you to see the full range of what is on offer. Even if there is already a car that you adore, you might find one that you love more when you start to look around and visit showrooms. You might also decide to look at blogs and articles that can allow you to see the latest car trends and the cars that can boost your style and status the most. This will ensure that you have a good idea of what you want and whether it is worth buying a new luxury car.

3. Research the Car

Once you have chosen a specific car to invest in, you should consider researching this car in-depth. By thinking long and hard about your purchase and finding out all you need to know about it, you will be able to ensure that you are investing in the right car for you and that you do not come across any surprises. You can research the car online and in car magazines and journals. You might also consider speaking to a car professional or enthusiast about the car in question and chatting to someone who already owns the car that you are thinking about investing in.

4. Go to Car Showrooms

When you are buying a new luxury car, you should also consider going to car showrooms. Car showrooms will allow you to see a range of cars in-person, meaning that you will not have to make your choice from grainy or doctored images on the internet. Car showrooms will also give you the opportunity to speak to people who know all about the specific cars that you are interested in. You may also be able to immediately buy the car that takes your fancy in the color you want, and car companies may also offer you extensive warranties and maintenance and repair deals that can help you keep your car in good shape. You should also think about attending car events, which may give you a chance to see the cars that you are thinking about buying on the go and in person.

5. Look at Your Savings

To make sure that you can finance your luxury car, you should look at your savings and see whether you are able to purchase your car from these. By saving up for your luxury car, you will be ensuring that this new car does not leave you out of pocket. However, you should also always make sure that you have enough money for any repair or maintenance tasks that may need performing, or else you may find that you have enough money to buy, but not to care for, the car in question. If you do not have enough money to buy your car from your savings only, you should look at the different car loans that are out there, as there may be one that is able to suit your situation and enable you to fund your purchase even if you do not have to exact amount that you need in the bank.

6. Check Insurance Policies

You do not want to purchase a car without the right insurance. All but one state requires you to take out car insurance on your car, meaning that failing to do so will not only leave you financially drained but on the wrong side of the law too. Make sure to look around for comprehensive car insurance policies that have the coverage you need and can support you in the event of a collision, theft, or vandalism. You should look at the reviews for the insurance company in question before you take out a policy with them, though, and get a quote from them to ensure they are both reliable and affordable for you.

Wanting a new luxury car can be a pain, especially if you do not think you will be able to afford a new one without selling the one you already own. However, by researching the different options, saving up, and selling your car through a reputable company, you will soon be well on your way to purchasing the new luxury car of your dreams. This will ensure that you can be happy whenever you drive your car around and that you are always keen to show off the vehicle in question.

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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  Fairly certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.

Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:

Survival Sunday – Sunday PREP Edition – Granite Grok

Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok

Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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Is There Really a Cultural War?

 

 

Breitbart knew: POLITICS IS DOWNSTREAM FROM CULTURE.

 

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Look at the temperatures vs. colors.  Funny, to me, how the more recent – and lower – temperatures get a graphic that implies hotter temperatures.  Why, it’s almost as though there’s a deliberate attempt to fool people into thinking the climate is in crisis mode.

“Almost”.

Related:

 

 

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This is a powerful lesson…

 

A high school class is learning about the Salem Witch Trials. Their teacher told them they were going to play a game.

“I’m going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you’re a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a witch in it. At the end, any group found to include a witch gets a failing grade.”

The teens dove into grilling each other. One fairly large group formed, but most of the students broke into small, exclusive groups, turning away anyone they thought gave off even a hint of guilt.

“Okay,” the teacher said. “You’ve got your groups. Time to find out which ones fail. All witches, please raise your hands.”

No one raised a hand.

The kids were confused and told the teacher he’d messed up the game. “Did I?” He asked.

“Was anyone in Salem an actual witch? Or did everyone just believe what they’d been told?”

And that is how you show kids how easy it is to divide a Community.

Shunning, scapegoating, placing blame and dividing will each destroy far more than they will protect.

Don’t allow fear to cloud your decisions. Use your own discernment. Trust your heart…and your gut.

The best teachers will show you where to look, but they won’t tell you what to see.

~Unknown

 

 

Do not, also, forget the lesson from the made-for-TV movie:

The Wave: A Short Movie about a 1967 Classroom Experiment – Granite Grok

 

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Add in the welfare from all the new illegals.  Cloward Piven about to be realized.  Chaos will be unleashed, society will collapse.  We are now about to enter the “suddenly” phase of Hemingway’s famous quote.  But remember, Socialistopia needs to be built, and the foundation is being planned right now.

 

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Beware the man who just wanted to be left alone.  Beware the man who had “enough” and was content… who had it taken from him… and now wants to find the ones who did that to him.

 

 

My cartoons.

 

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Neil Oliver – ‘…it’s time to think the unthinkable!’

 

 

Related:

 

It’s Worse Than We Thought! (THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!)

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Persistence pays off, or in this case, costs the casually woke or indifferent. Bud is still scrambling to distance itself from an alleged third-party marketing mistake named Mulvaney, as the Wrath of Can begins to impact more than just Bud Light sales.

 

BUD Stock past five days

 

BUD stock has crept downward, and while it is not unfamiliar territory…

 

BUD Price close of day 5-16-23 (5 yr)

 

…it is headed that way.

The distributors are in an uproar as inventory climbs and sales fall.

 

lmaooo not even jokin bud light on clearance at florida cvs & not a single one has moved pic.twitter.com/y3GvtJxKeD

— Baked Alaska (@bakedalaska) May 11, 2023

 

That’s not necessarily a sign of doom for the brand, but the short, medium, and long-term investor outlook for the stock is poor as the Dylan Mulvaney detonation sends shrapnel into other Budweiser brands.

 

The company’s flagship Budweiser brand took an 11.4% sales hit for the week ended April 29.

Sales of Bud’s Michelob Ultra brand — the third-biggest-selling in the US behind No. 1 Bud Light and No. 2 Modelo Especial — were down 4.4%, according to Bump Williams data.

“It’s not just a Bud Light issue,” said Bump Williams, chief executive of the consultancy.

“It’s an Anheuser-Busch portfolio problem now.”

 

A former chief creative officer at Anheuser-Busch (InBev fired him when they took over in 2009) says,

 

“It’s a complete lack of corporate oversight, and it’s been that way since (InBev) took the company over,” he said.

He said the lords of marketing don’t understand the people who drink Anheuser-Busch’s beer, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

“None of these marketing folks has ever been to a NASCAR race, none has been to a football game or a rodeo,” he said. “hat’s insanity. That’s marketing incompetence.”

That makes perfect sense.

The Libs running the government telling you how to live your life don’t know anybody who is not like them, and if you dare to exist outside the bag of cats that passes for their brain case, you are an [insert epithet here].

Even if you want to be left alone, they can’t help themselves. They are Stimpy looking at the big red button he’s not supposed to push. They have to push it, which is ironic because, in the cartoon, it is the history eraser button.

The progs are pushing that thing like a chimpanzee on crack, and we’re all supposed to love whatever they say happens, even when we know they are not doing it for us. They are doing it to impress each other. The Mulvaney stunt was peddled to attract new customers, but that’s nonsense. It was only about impressing progressives and disconnected left-wing activist groups like the Human Rights Council (and their corporate wokeness score).

A woke marketing team was looking for a virtue-signal merit badge, and we know that to be true because their initial response to the pushback by customers they’ve never met whom they disdain was to insult them.

How’s that working out for you now, eh?

InBev and BUD are scrambling to get out from under the fallout, which has expanded beyond the Mulvaney Blight.

All of which is fine and good. Conservatives have managed to sustain a boycott with some degree of success that could if they can keep it up through the summer, send a much-needed message to the indifference of corporate boards. Not everything the woke coastal elites think is cool is cool. But beating up one brand is not enough, even as big as Bud.

The nation needs to understand that in the progressive future, you won’t be allowed to boycott Bud over a prancing dufus like Mulvaney. That the demise of Budweiser (if it could ever devolve into that) would not be considered a loss to the Left. Heck, the demise of Mulvaney would mean nothing to Democrats.

Meddling in everything is the goal; collateral damage is a given, and they do not care what they destroy as long as they stand over the smoldering ruin. It’s something they have in common with Jihadis, absent the promises of eternal peace in heaven and 72 virgin Mulvaneys.

 

 

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Each year, thousands of people in the US are diagnosed with dysphagia. While most of the people diagnosed are elderly, this condition can occur at any age. If you want to learn about dysphagia and what to do if you’ve recently been diagnosed, check out the simple guide below.

What is Dysphagia?

It is a medical condition. A person with dysphagia finds it difficult to swallow some foods or liquids, which can result in them going down the windpipe. Dysphagia is not a disease. It is a condition that occurs due to a disorder, illness, or disease. It can be caused by several things, including Motor Neurone Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia, mouth or throat cancer, or a stroke.

Signs of Dysphagia

Here are some of the most common signs of dysphagia:

• Pocketing food in the side of the mouth.
• Drooling
• Difficulty controlling food in the mouth.
• Coughing or choking before, during, or after consuming food or drink.
• Weight loss when there is no other reason.
• Feeling like food is stuck in the throat.
• Frequent chest infections.
• Struggling to breathe when eating and drinking.
• Gurgly or wet-sounding voice.
• Weak voluntary cough
• Needing to clear the throat frequently when eating or drinking.
• Slurred speech.

Can Dysphagia Be Cured?

Not everyone who is diagnosed with dysphagia will have it for life. Some people only have this condition briefly before it clears up. However, the majority of people with a swallowing disorder have it long-term. This means that they have to learn to live with the condition.

Treating Dysphagia

Treatment for dysphagia will usually depend on the cause. Most instances of dysphagia can be improved with treatment; however, a cure isn’t always possible. Some of the treatments for dysphagia include:

• Visiting a speech and language therapist – a speech and language therapist can teach you different swallowing techniques.
• Changing the consistency of food – it is now possible to purchase a food and drink thickener such as the SimplyThick thickener for dysphagia. These thickeners make it easier and safer for you to swallow food.
• Alternative forms of feeding – if speech and language therapy and changing food consistency do not work, you may have to look at alternative forms of feeding. For example, tube feeding through the stomach or nose.
• Surgery – surgery is the most invasive treatment option, but it has a high success rate. Surgery for dysphagia involves widening the esophagus by inserting a plastic or metal tube and stretching it.

Complications of Dysphagia

If dysphagia is left untreated, you may experience further problems. One of the most common problems is choking or coughing when food gets into your windpipe. If this happens often, you may avoid eating, which can lead to malnutrition and dehydration.

Many people struggle to come to terms with a diagnosis of dysphagia. They worry that it will prevent them from doing things such as going out for meals with friends. However, while dysphagia isn’t a pleasant condition to live with, it can be managed, meaning people with this condition can live a long, happy, and healthy life.

 

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After looking through the extensively documented and verified communications, pictures and overt commissions on the Hunter Biden laptop, as presented in the Marco Polo report, the magnitude of the Biden crime family is as global as it is unnerving.  The amount of criminal activity in the United States alone is enough for Hunter, his dad and uncles to all serve lengthy prison sentences from which they should emerge penniless.  Instead they remain free to continue to live above the law with almost no serious scrutiny of their activities, with Joe sitting in power over the very Department of Justice sworn to keep people like he and his family from fleecing the American public.

Several storylines emerge from this report that raise questions we as a nation need to ask ourselves.  How has a family like this been able to fly under the radar for so long and with so little accountability?  Why haven’t the applicable agencies done their jobs when given the evidence of crimes?  Why does it seem like there is a separate set of laws for the American elite versus the average citizen?  What does it say about us as a nation that we allow a family like this to rule over us with impunity?  When will we have had enough of being intimidated and embarrassed by our fellow countrymen?

The answer to the first question comes back to both the establishment in D.C. and the establishment in the media.  Thankfully the internet and social media have caused the rapid spread of news that, for years, was being suppressed.  This new connectivity is why we know about Jeffrey Epstein and the menagerie of elite who benefited from his services, including another president who repeatedly lies to us, Bill Clinton.  Epstein was also in tight enough at Harvard and M.I.T. that he had an office and was on a first name basis with law professor Alan Dershowitz, already accused by one Epstein victim, and the otherwise avuncular socialist and linguistic expert Noam Chomsky. Included in Epstein’s flight log was Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a banker, who can be seen pictured with Hillary Clinton whom she supported as a political candidate.  Oddly we don’t find the Biden’s in Epstien’s black book despite their obvious proclivity to enjoy the same lifestyle.  However both groups were protected by a media either lax in its duties or suppressed by those off camera quietly running the show.  Were we to name names this article would be prohibitively long, however these people are indicative of the establishment.  If you have to ask who is in the establishment that simply means you aren’t in it.  The Biden’s are.

The establishment includes the carefully selected power players who ascend to the high positions in the agencies sworn to uphold the laws.  Having double-minded men and women administering two-standards of justices is nothing new in American politics.  There is more than enough evidence that J. Edgar Hoover operated in similar fashion thanks to the exhaustive research done by Whitney Webb in her two-part series titled One Nation Under Blackmail.  In it she chronicles the apparent beginnings of utilitarian relationship between federal law enforcement and the mafia.  Again, Webb names too many players to attempt to list them here however the mechanics of the establishment are well worn even as early as the 1960s, a decade made famous by the assassination of those who would push back against those in power.  That one decade saw courageous men like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy and his brother and sitting president John F. Kennedy, who we believed to be the most powerful man in the world, all taken down with relative ease and with little public outcry about the guns that brought them down.  Such cryptic synonyms as Donald Trump’s “Deep State”, Thomas Sowell’s “the anointed” or the legendary “Illuminati” imply the hidden hand of global control.  However they are more than happy to work right out in the open, especially if the goal is to intimidate those who would push back against them.  The Biden’s clearly are built to benefit by playing along.  Joe Biden is a career politician who is loyal to the system for which he now serves as a figurehead, replete with cue cards and instructions.  His brothers, sons, daughter and other family members have all participated willfully to enjoy the corrupt largesse.

The slow take-over of America’s institution by the unscrupulous elite is the work of over a century.  Originally a nation built on Judeo-Christian values we have slowly moved in the direction of a secular hedonistic culture, right to the top.  Epstein and the Biden’s epitomize this fact.  Not surprisingly we find the Biden’s connected to Hollywood, were American hedonism has been virtually perfected.  The now openly satanic rituals paraded in front of the cameras and crowds belie the ignorance of the celebrated class.

Whether they believe in the literal Satan or not, they are apparently unaware of the historic fate of people and cultures who give themselves over to the satanic values of wanton sexual gratification, tasteless debauchery, narcissism and greed.  As this class of people fills the halls of power the gears of government become sclerotic and slow.  Why?  Because narcissistic pleasure seekers can’t be bothered with doing their jobs competently.  They arrived on entitlement and excuses and will use them as they prove they are incompetent or criminal, which we’ve seen repeatedly with this administration.    Diversity hire Pete Buttigeig (Harvard) is laughably bad at running the transportation department where he is unqualified; deputy admin assistant for the office of nuclear energy, Sam Brinton (M.I.T.), wears his criminal evidence after stealing other people’s luggage; assistant health secretary Rachel Levine, formerly Richard (Harvard), doesn’t appear to be healthy by any physical or medical metric including psychological; Demetri Daskalakis (Harvard) seems more interested in worshiping satan via BDSM gear than solving the monkey pox problem unique to his diverse G-group.

What awful people these appear to be, but I’m reminded of Romans 2 where, after describing the same crowd of his time, Paul tells the reader:

“You therefore have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, far at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.” (Romans 2:1)

Really?  Yes, really.  Which is why we are being ruled by these reprobates.  We deserve the very leadership we have, no different than in the time of Judges when the Israelites lived among one another where “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.” (Judges 21:25)

We too have no king.  We have abandoned the one who offered to protect us and keep us from harm while blessing our faithfulness.  His title is on our money, yet we worship the dollar more than the deity.

Hunter Biden flat out rejects God.  In his own words he says to his fixer George Mesires:

“[God is]…just a fictional character from the imagination of the collective frightened.” (1/1/2019)

When you believe there is no God, suddenly the laws that bind us to respect one another have far less meaning and authority.  We “do as we see fit”.  In Hunter Biden’s case that means sleep with your dead brother’s wife, girls your daughter’s age, do crack with hookers in penthouses around the world and broker deals with international deep pockets using your dad’s last name, all the while lying about it to a public looking to trust you and your father.

The truth is I was just like Hunter Biden at one point in my life.  Just as debauched and godless and empty.  Like him I partied myself into a corner, only I didn’t have the inexhaustible funds of a politically connected dad to bail me out.  In fact it was my lack of father that likely catapulted me down that road.

Even after all of this the American people are forgiving.  I think we can even see a future where we forgive the Biden’s, but they have to come clean, and we have to hold them to account.

With this trust broken, the only recourse for the public is to speak to the power elite by dint of the laws that protect us from them, starting with the first amendment.  Otherwise the swamp will continue to produce more reptiles like the ones we suffer now.

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Even as Joe Biden proclaims, a la 1984 and Animal House, “Keep calm!  All is well!” most of us need only look at the difference between what goes into the grocery bag and what comes out of our wallets and know that things are not well.

And if we want to make things better, we dang well better not stay calm at all!

 

Look at the difference between Trump and Biden!

 

It is stark, the difference, yes? Bideninflation has stolen any kind of overall wage increases from the American people. As Powerline points out:

This is the chart that ought to terrify Democrats, as the question “are you better off than you were four years ago?” will be the killer question for the 2024 election.

Are you better off? I’m not.

And it should be terrifying for Dems – just look at all of their policies and point to me, just ten that are making our lives better. Heck, try five!

It shouldn’t have to be the Republicans that point this out all the time – we KNOW this every time we yank out our wallets and have to pay for something. And then the Government is taking more and more from us as it seems that every month and quarter, Government revenues rise. Yet they just can’t stop spending our money to make themselves feel as if they are doing something wonderful.

 

(H/T: Powerline)

 

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I touched on this topic recently, but it deserves a designated post because it was such an egregious act by the Great Unifier, Joe Biden. Biden is showing he does not understand American society.

He professed to be the gentleman in the White House. He claimed to be the one person who could heal the divide created by Donald Trump. Joe promised to be the President of all the people, not just the Democrats. Like everything else in the last 28 months, he has fallen short on all. Biden wants America to give him four more years to finish the job. We say no thanks, Joe. You have done enough damage for a lifetime.

With all those claims and promises in his history, Joe Biden went to Howard University, an all-Black university in Washington, D.C., and told the graduating class that the greatest terrorist threat to American Society is the scourge of White Supremacy. Ordinarily, President Biden points to Climate Change as the number one threat. Still, when standing in front of thousands of Black graduates, he patronizes and insults them with a tainted message. His message is an affront to every American.

Biden, and His fellow Democrat, Hank Johnson (D-GA), need a history refresher. Johnson insulted Republicans last week with disgusting rhetoric. He claimed that Republicans love seeing illegals lined up on the Border, identifying them as cheap labor, and Republicans would return to slavery if they had their way. This repugnant individual does not deserve a seat in the People’s House. He and Biden need to get their facts straight on which side of Slavery the Democrats stood.

It was the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, who took steps to abolish slavery in America. It is Republicans who see the damage this influx of illegal migrants from around the world will impart on the Black and Brown citizens of America. It is the Republicans who know the pressure these illegals will put on social services, housing, and schools. It is the Republicans who understand the economics and the impact this mass of humanity will have on wages and the cost of living.

It is Biden and his Democrat colleagues who stoke racism in speeches and on the floor of the House and Senate. It is the Left who supported the KKK, and it was Senator Robert Byrd who was a high-ranking member of the Klan and uttered the following words:

As late as 1946, Byrd wrote to the Klan’s Grand Wizard: “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.”

Biden is distorting history and truth, but what is working for him is the beauty of gaslighting. If you keep saying something, right or wrong, frequently and get the support of the media to repeat it for you, eventually, it is perceived as the truth. That is what Biden has created. He has the Left believing that the Radical MAGA Republicans, which in his world is everyone on the Right, are White Supremacists and a threat to people of color and all of America.

The only way we can shut down Biden and the Left in 2024 is by getting our word out to the public, who are being indoctrinated by the Left’s creed and protected by censorship of the words of the Right. We have to turn off the gas on Biden and offset his word with ours. We need to keep repeating the truth as often as feasible and use the infinite power of the internet to negate the mainstream media.

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I would have thought, given my background, that I would have taken much more interest in AI tech – which has sprung out onto the scene with ChatGPT, Bard, PaLM2, and updated Bing (Forbes has a lot of others listed here). Thus far, however, it has been a yawning “meh?”

Sunday night, on a whim, I wanted to see what they knew about GraniteGrok, and then about Rights, and then about Transgenderism and Rights.

There will be more on the latter in another set of posts about how both Google’s and Microsoft’s offerings are biased. Both said they weren’t “debating,” but either they haven’t been fed enough data for a 360-degree look at things, or they have but have been steered toward sticking their virtual thumbs on the virtual Culture scales.

As you all know, I’ve been writing about “Normals vs. Transgenders” for a while. You see, the Left decided to weaponize our children and decided that their battlefield was going to be in our taxpayer-funded Government schools. They saw that there were plenty of shock troops ready to take orders from those guiding the battlefield tactics as well as the ammo to use against unsuspecting parents who normally would be against what was being surreptitiously taught (Critical Race Theory, gender dysphoria).

Anyways, it was getting late, and I was starting to wind up my time at the keyboard when this email came in with a really good insight that I couldn’t ignore (emphasis mine):

—– Original Message ——
From <redacted>
To “Editor@granitegrok.com” <Editor@granitegrok.com>
Date 5/14/2023 11:17:44 PM
Subject Opinion

Today, young adults talk about rights and privileges but forty years ago, young adults talked about obligations and responsibilities.

NEWSFLASH KIDS: Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They are privileges and the “Bill of Privileges” gets shorter and shorter every year.

The writer is correct, you know. We hear all the time about a right to this and a right to that an a right to some other thing which tells you that they know nothing about what a real Right is all about. They probably can barely pronounce “entitlement” and most certainly can’t spell it without a spell-checker but it’s clear they confuse that with a Right.  Their version of a Right is “you need to GIVE me something (generally for free)” versus “it is something that is innately part of me at birth”.

It’s also true that with Rights come responsibilities – your Freedom of Speech is inherent and Government can’t stop you from your expression of ideas. There used to be respect for that in the general population that it applied in the Public Square as well. However, a lack thereof has been growing in that the Left believes in their Free Speech but not for yours – while they decry a “Power Imbalance” on our part, they depend on it to do what they do (‘YOU do as I say and I’ll ignore what I say to you for myself”).

My response:

Nailed it!

For whatever reason, I have stayed up too long debating Google’s AI product, Bard.  I will have to post my conversation with it over Rights (speech, transgender, preferred pronouns, being told I need to be respectful to transgenders. A quick example:

So I took the bolded part of our emailer’s concern, and just for grins and giggles, I put it in:

Me: Today, young adults talk about rights and privileges but forty years ago, young adults talked about obligations and responsibilities.Why is that?

I was surprised by the answer (emphasis mine and NOT Bard’s):

Bard:  There are a number of reasons why young adults today talk about rights and privileges more than obligations and responsibilities.

• The rise of individualism. In recent decades, there has been a growing emphasis on individualism in Western society. This has led to a focus on the rights and needs of the individual, rather than the group. This is reflected in the way that young adults talk about their lives.
• The decline of traditional values. Traditional values, such as hard work, self-reliance, and community service, have declined in recent decades. This has led to a sense of entitlement among young adults, who believe that they deserve certain things without having to work for them.
• The influence of the internet. The internet has made it easier for young adults to connect with others who share their values and beliefs.  This has created a sense of community and support, which can lead to a focus on rights and privileges.
• The changing economy. The economy has changed significantly in recent decades. The job market is more competitive, and it is harder for young adults to find good jobs. This has led to a sense of frustration and anger, which can manifest itself in a focus on rights and privileges.

It is important to note that not all young adults talk about rights and privileges more than obligations and responsibilities. There are still many young adults who are committed to their communities and who are willing to work hard to achieve their goals. However, the trends that I have mentioned are real, and they are having a significant impact on the way that young adults think about their lives.

The above emphasis is mine. It’s also not wrong. However, I did note that it didn’t bring up the start of it all (to a point) of the “self-esteem / participation trophy” craziness in schools that led to overblown “sense of myself” attitudes and “snowflakes”.

I do have to admit that the three issues Bard focused on are dead nuts on ESPECIALLY the second one.  By denigrating traditional American values, the Left set the stage for most of the shift in emphasis of what is important. Unfortunately, that shift was to what I consider “hollow” values – they serve well as talking or screaming points but there’s little substance behind them as when you question the young’uns (and not so young either), they end up regurgitating the same points as they have no depth or breadth of knowledge. It’s surface level stuff without the deep philosophical underpinnings that traditional values have (or is that now “had”?).

There is a bit of sad amusement in that while these mostly young Leftists concentrate on “Rights”, they are all about abusing those Founders that did the deep study, writing, debating, and discussing “Rights” that made them manifest in our Founding documents. Which the Left hates as well.

Talk about cognitive dissonance!

 

Note: the image above is an unofficial logo created by a Reddit commenter. I asked Bard, and it said that there is no official sponsored logo for it yet.

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On Saturday, June 3rd, author Elliot "Alu" Axelman will be meeting local readers in Manchester, discussing his book Presumed Guilty, and signing copies of his books. The event will be hosted by The Bookery, located at 844 Elm street in Manchester and will run from 4-6pm. The bookstore has been a staple of the community since 2018. The latter part of the event will feature a sneak-peek preview of his ninth book. 

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The triggering spark of evil is everywhere, while the victims remain in peril. Recently after purchasing bananas at a local supermarket in Merrimack, NH, I noticed a Disney label attached to the Dole sticker on the bananas.

Knowing that Mickey Mouse is not a friend of the family anymore, the sticker sparked a curiosity to do some research. Business enterprises offering good prices, quality, and service cannot overcome the harm that joining “woke corporate America” will do.

By giving the credibility of their marketing expertise to a woke, degenerative anti-family cause, these woke enterprises contaminate all who partner with them with a perverted mindset that targets the minds and hearts of innocent children for profit. Good public relations will not be gained by joining hands with the same satanic roots of moral decline that dominate our nation’s capitol that owe their immunity from law to the illegal power they possess. There is not a large enough blanket of deception, even with Mickey Mouse’s picture on it, that will cover the morally degenerate nature that Disney has become.

Below is a sample of their moral pollution aimed at the minds of your children: (i apologize for the obscene and blasphemous nature of this “tip of the iceberg” of moral pollution by Disney that follows)

“Little Demon” is a recent Disney cartoon show that openly MOCKS Jesus Christ while EXALTING two main characters: Satan and the Antichrist. Absolutely sick. But it gets worse.

The Antichrist is a 13-year-old middle schooler, Chrissy ( a profane wordplay on Christ); this is designed to draw young viewers. Chrissy is the child of a sexual union between Satan and Chrissy’s mother.

When Satan wants to claim her, all kinds of dark but supposedly “humorous” plot twists occur to pull in impressionable young viewers.

These include demons loudly demanding to have sex with corpses (chanting four letter words) and desiring to eat the brains of babies.” Do we as a civilized nation want to tolerate this moral degenerative pollution that just several decades ago violated laws and all moral decency to be passed on to our children as normal and acceptable?

Please consider this quote from The American Family Associations (afa.net), STAND magazine, how the “woke culture” is losing in the Corporate world: “Corporations such as Disney, Yahoo and Google announced company-wide layoffs in late 2022 and early 2023. Woke business is not good for business; even with Mickey Mouse on the side of this moral indecency, customers will not overlook the potential harm to their children. For Americans still believe the key pillar of Western Civilization is the Godly-ordained family and place the protection of their children as first priority.

Check out the woke status of corporations at the 1792 Exchange.  The future your children will inherit tomorrow depends on what we do today.

 

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I want to bring your attention to some recent tweets from Jesse Kelly because it should help you understand why the NHGOP are such LOSERS. In my words, not his … it’s because they either don’t know what we, the GOP voters, are up against or they do know, but they either (i) don’t care, (ii) don’t have the stomach for the fight or (iii) don’t know how to fight.

Whether it is because they believe it is a winning strategy or they have some pathetic, insatiable need for a pat on the head and an “attaboy” / “he’s one of the good ones,” they are always trying to make nice-nice with EVIL. And evil is NOT too strong a word for it … people who want to abort eight and nine month old unborn babies are evil; people who want to chemically-castrate pre-teens are evil; people who believe skin-color is everything are evil.

If you consider … or even don’t believe it, but just say it … that people like Matt Wilhelm and Rosemarie Rung are your “friends,” “colleagues,” blah, blah, blah, the you are taking a piss on GOP voters. Wilhelm, Rung and their ilk … i.e., the vast majority of NH-Democrat State Reps and State Senators … are COMMUNISTS. Unless and until the NHGOP understands that, accepts that, AND embraces that, the NHGOP is going to continue to lose.

The right fails to fight back correctly because it fails to get the right mindset and it fails to get the right mindset because it fails on language.

I still see a lot of “soft on crime DA” talk when I see them talk about Soros DAs.
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— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) May 12, 2023

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Amazing how Joe Biden takes credit for the decrease in Border crossings as he claims White Supremacy was America’s biggest threat when he addressed graduates at Howard University on Saturday. Usually, the number one threat is climate change, but when addressing an all-Black graduating class, you have to patronize them using the White Supremacy card. Biden has nothing to do with the decrease as he worked to end Title 42 and open our Border to the world. The reduction results from the work done by the State of Texas and its National Guard to fortify the Border and force illegal crossers to pass through a formal checkpoint.

It is amazing how Secretary Mayorkas, one of the most inept secretaries in Biden’s cabinet, was also taking credit for the same results. Sorry, Mr. Secretary, everything you have done has been to erase our Border and destroy our sovereignty. Mayorkas should be impeached and charged with treason for allowing drugs, gangs, and terrorists to enter our country without vetting. He should send a thank-you note to Governor Abbott for doing his job for him.

The videos do not lie. Yes, there are definitely families crossing the Border, but the shelters in Texas are filling up with single males. One shelter designed to hold 1,000 people currently houses over 6,000 single men. As the camera scans the scene, you see middle-aged men with no women or children in sight.

People in northern and western states are starting to fight back against the government’s policies for handling illegals. A hotel in Newburg, New York, is expelling homeless veterans to make room for illegal migrants. Black groups in Chicago are livid that the city is moving illegals ahead of homeless blacks for shelter space. New York and Chicago have declared a state of emergency with the increased number of illegals entering their cities, putting a massive burden on states and taxpayers. California has erased a $10 Billion surplus and now has a $30 Billion deficit partly due to a stream of taxpayers leaving the state while the benefits given to the illegals grow. This problem is basic math with more dollars spent versus fewer dollars collected.

People allowed into America receive notice-to-appear orders with dates for their hearings in 2026. That is three years of limbo for these people, far from the humanitarian way that the Biden Administration claims they are treating these new illegal residents. These people arrive here with no money, most owe money to the coyotes, and they only have the clothes on their backs. These people immediately become a burden to the social safety net in whatever city they land in.

This Border Crisis exposes Biden and his feckless team for mismanaging the Border and having no specific plan for the millions who will be granted access. In the meantime, the gangs are swelling, and the amount of Fentanyl confiscated at the Border \grows. The amount gathered is not a good story, as it also means an increased amount making it into the drug underworld. Biden may be taking a victory lap on his bicycle in Delaware, but cities and towns all over the country are preparing for the culture-changing impact this wave of migrants bring with them. This story has no chance of a happy ending for Biden or America, and it will battle with the economy for the top spot in the 2024 campaigns.

 

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Special Prosecutor John Durham has finally delivered the goods, and there’s not much there we did not already know. No knockout blows, but Democrats will need to decide how to spin another investigation exposing the FBI’s systemic confirmation bias.

And not in any way favorable to their long-standing narratives about Trump.

The Mueller Report fell flat. The Michael Horowitz report made the Mueller Report even less helpful. And now John Durham has arrived to tell us what Democrats still refused to believe. There was some there-there; the FBI broke the law, lied, coerced, and used its resources to attack a sitting president(and anyone close to him) because that’s what Democrats wanted. He doesn’t say that, but it’s obvious.

 

“We conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law.”

There is no smoking gun unless the confirmation of the politically partisan nature of investigations can be called one. The locus of the inquiry was Clinton oppo sold as fact while facts about Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified material (that we know was stolen by the Chinese) were overblown. A trend continued with the Hunter Biden Laptop story, among others.

 

I guess Hillary never pissed off “The Clintons” or “The Obamas” enough to warrant a proper public pillorying; I suspect Biden’s about to get his,  but only enough to get him to drop out of his reelection race. No one needs to dig too deep. There are other Party Leaders who have much to lose if implicated.

As for the Durham Report, I wonder if anyone will go back and fisk James Comey’s book now that it’s out?

 

“…based on the evidence gathered in the multiple exhaustive and costly federal investigations of these matters, including the instant investigation, neither the U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,”

 

Has the FBI become the single biggest threat to Democracy in America? We all know how vital The Democracy is to Democrats. Does this put a little hitch in their step?

Is that why Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten has suggested that teachers future-proof their social media feeds? “@AFTunion has partnered w/LifeBrand for a 25% discount off the cost of this powerful tool that scans your social media to catch forgotten posts that may not reflect who you are today,”

Weingarten probably thinks that there are a few woke grooming turds littering the virtual lawns of AFT dues-paying harpies, and as 2024 rolls up, it would be great if those were, you know, gone. But this latest embarrassment can’t be dismissed. While you are removing anything about genderizing other people’s kids, get rid of the Trump-Russia Collusion outrage too.

Is the DNC offering a discount to elected Dems? Will your state or local Democrat Party do something similar? There are millions of examples of Demcorats being wrong about many things (crime, cops, the climate, Trump), and the Durham report just made scrubbing those imperative.

Will Big Media use Winston Smith-like censors to correct the history and their part in the lie? Does anyone need to return any journalism awards?

I expect a purge, so get to screengrabbing as soon as possible, but if you miss out, no worries. And not just the social media feeds of your local Democrat scold. Do some searching in the local media as well for the sake of posterity. We can share them alongside all those failed predictions of climate doom.

And don’t worry about the Never-Trumpers. They won’t even think of it. Besides, removing lies about the former president could put their anti-Trump bona fides at risk and cost them an invite to a Georgetown mixer.

We wouldn’t want that to happen, now, would we?

As for the FBI, they are pretending to take this latest blow seriously.  “This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect,” it added.”

And this new FBI is expected to begin work when the seas rise and swallow up Obama’s gas-powered beachfront mansion?

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