The Manchester Free Press

Friday • May 17 • 2024

Vol.XVI • No.XX

Manchester, N.H.

The Challenges Human Resource Executives Face Working in Philippine Online Casino

Granite Grok - Sat, 2022-11-19 17:08 +0000

Human resource executives in any sector face numerous challenges. From attracting and retaining the best talent, managing complex relationships, and embracing change and diversity in workplaces among other issues, their task is cut out.

It is even more challenging when you think about the current work environments. Workplaces such as the online casino philippines using gcash, as Houston G. O’Keefe points out, present unique challenges to human resource executives.  The fact that majority of the employees will be working remotely where they will be solving players’ issues such as casino deposits that do not reflect, the welcome bonus which cannot be fully claimed, and failure of the system to release the player’s casino winnings among others, makes it hard for the human resource executives bring everything together. In this article, we will be exploring the challenges that online casino Philippines and other jurisdictions face as they try to bring together a dynamic field.

Managing a spread-out workforce

With the COVID-19 situation, the workplace environment changed. People were working remotely since there were strict requirements to social distance as one way of curbing the spread of infections. This has now become the new normal. Some sectors have never gone back to pre-COVID times. They have fully embraced remote working, designing their human resource in a way that managed workers remotely. 

This can be a big challenge, especially for an industry that had only known physical workplaces. Luckily, for PH online casinos and other jurisdictions, the operators had embraced remote working, where workers did not have to be in one place to offer the required services. However, this comes with its challenges. Sometimes managing people who are spread out in different regions and timelines can be a herculean task. Online casinos employ people from different countries, some speaking different languages. Others are located in different timelines, such that when some are reporting for work, others are leaving for the evening. 

As a human resource executive, this can be a challenge especially if you have not mastered these differences. At a time, you may be seeking a report from an employee who is in Indonesia and you want him or her to liaise with a colleague in New York. If you do not synchronize their times properly, the report may be delayed affecting several aspects of the company. To succeed in the management of employees who are located in different regions, you need to use programs that recognize these differences and also keep yourself updated on what is happening around you.

Optimization of new talents

The competition in the online casino industry is stiff. Operators are looking for ways to attract and retain players or customers. To achieve this, they need workers who are not only motivated but also skillful. They have to attract the best if they are to keep up with the competition. 

Human resource executives have a responsibility to ensure that the workforce they are hiring live up to the dream of the online casino operator and at the same time stay motivated to keep the players coming. It is also crucial to hire employees who are familiar with the complicated software and hardware that are found in online casino platforms. With the scarcity of such a workforce in the market, it is not an easy task for HR executives to meet these expectations. They have to be smart, use effective strategies to attract talent, and optimize it for the attraction and retention of the players.

Managing relocation

With online casino operators having multiple locations where they operate in different countries, at one time or another, there will be the need for staff relocation. This is one of the challenging aspects for employees. Some may be required to relocate to a foreign country where they will encounter the following aspect

  • New culture 
  • New ways of doing things
  • New people
  • And a different working format

It is the responsibility of the human resource executive to handle relocation. If it is not done well, it can affect staff productivity and the entire organization. A human resource executive working in an online casino space can find it hard to manage relocation if it involves moving to a location where gambling is not embraced positively. They need to prepare the employee for all possible scenarios to allow them to cope in a new environment. Failure to handle some aspects such as expectations may lead to disastrous results.

Embracing change

They say change is inevitable but those who bear the greatest brunt are the people who are supposed to midwife the change process. And these are none other than the human resource executives. An online casino and Philippines economy, for instance, may not be doing well and the operators are forced to downsize the business. 

It will be the role of the human resource to identify those who will be affected. It is not an easy task, breaking the news of changes including job losses to people who have been serving for years. Human resources executives are normally in a position that not many would envy, sometimes they even become victims of their success.

Human resource executives face numerous challenges and these are more pronounced in workplaces that embrace remote working such as online casinos. Coping with these challenges requires a great level of training, experience, and embracing teamwork.

 

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FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, Stanford, Silicon Valley, Michele Dauber, Brock Turner and The Hunting Ground

Granite Grok - Sat, 2022-11-19 16:00 +0000

Did you know that FTX has offices in Derry, New Hampshire, at 84 W BROADWAY, STE 200, Derry, NH, 03038, USA?

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That the “Not Alone” White House Task Force is strategically tied to the NHCADSV and UNH New Hampshire. Soteria Solutions Inc ties these two organizations together to train “Bystander” and “Know Your Power” funded by grants from the Department of Justice. Soteria Solutions is a non-profit/for-profit organization that was recognized for entrepreneurship using federal grants. It shares the same logo with Soteria Mutual/Finance in London, UK, which appears to deal in Bitcoin and BlockChain. That may be coincidental.

That Michele Dauber campaigned with several of the organizations mentioned in this article, as well as the NHCADSV and Congresswoman Ann Kuster, to block ABC Good Morning America from airing an interview with Owen Labrie in July 2019. The same organizations that signed the Women’s March Letter supporting Amber Heard; the same organizations that are tied to the ACLU who created the #MeToo Op-Ed for Amber Heard, which is central to the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard defamation suit.

Ponzi Schemes, Pyramid Schemes, Propaganda, Criminal Trials and Elections

Sam Bankman Fried, who founded FTX, appears to be about to go down in history as the new Bernie Madoff. The bankruptcy papers for FTX can be viewed here. This is apparently worse than Enron:

The World Economic Forum heavily endorsed FTX. Now it is hiding its ties:

The scandal is far-reaching, and it specifically implicates Stanford & ties it together with the Democratic Party, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood talent agency powerhouse CAA, where the Obamas, Joe Biden, Valerie Jarrett (“Not Alone,” “Civic Nation”), Arne Duncan (US Ed, Emerson Collective) and Tina Tchen (“Times Up,” NWLC, Obama Foundation) are all signed up:

According to The Information, Bankman-Fried entities invested $200 million in Sequoia Capital, including $100 million to Sequoia Heritage, its wealth management fund; plus $300 million in K5 Global, a fund run by Michael Kives, reportedly an adviser to Bankman-Fried.

Michael Kives is an alum of Stanford, worked at CAA and worked for the Clintons:

Sam Bankman-Fried is the son of Barbara Fried and Joseph Bankman of Stanford Law, where Michele Dauber is a tenured professor and a feminist activist who campaigned for Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. She is also on the Silicon Valley Democratic Committee and started the Enough Voter Movement.

Barbara Fried founded “Mind The Gap” with Paul Brest (also Stanford). She also wrote an article about why feminism is for everyone in October 2017 at the start of the run-up to the midterm elections.

 

Inside the secretive Silicon Valley group that has funneled over $20 million to Democrats

 

“When asked about her role in Mind the Gap, Fried, who has no campaign experience, “downplayed the organization” as “merely” a “pro-bono donor advisor to people who are interested in evidence-driven decision making.” She told Vox Media’s Recode:

Our aim is to evaluate the efficacy of different forms of political and civic engagement, and provide our conclusions free to individual, interested donors so they can make more educated decisions about where their money would be most effectively spent

Paul Brest also helped to launch Stanford’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.

Regina K Scully (Executive Producer: “The Hunting Ground,” co-founder of Artemis Rising Foundation, which is credited on the film) is given a full page at Stanford’s Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society.

She is married to John Scully, who used to be on the board of trustees at Stanford.

Artemis Rising’s form 990s suggests the organization put $1.25 million or more into “The Hunting Ground,” which premiered at the Sundance film festival on January 23rd, 2015. Its premiere was sandwiched between Brock Turner’s arrest by Stanford police on 19th January and the announcement of charges with a mugshot photo in The Mercury News on January 27th.

The alleged victim in the Brock Turner case, Emily Doe (later known as Chanel Miller), was a family friend of Michele Dauber’s and had come to campus where she met Turner at a frat party. He was 19. She was 22 and not a student. (For an in-depth look at the case versus how it was portrayed by media, Michele Dauber and activists, read “Collateral Damage: A Candid Look at the Brock Turner Case and the Recall of Judge Persky”)

A digital newspaper called “The Fountain Hopper,” founded by the Russian Stanford undergraduate Ilya Mouzykantskii in September 2014, took a single line in a police report and blew it up into the sensationalist and false case against Brock Turner, which led to the recall of Judge Persky, changes in California minimum sentencing laws and the launch of the bipartisan workforce to combat domestic & sexual violence introduced by Rep Ann Kuster (NH-D) and Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-D).

https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/stanfords-21st-century-muckraker/61546/

The founding of “The Fountain Hopper” coincided with the launch of the White House-backed non-profit “Its On Us” in September 2014. Press releases for the film referred heavily to “It’s On Us.” “Its On Us” is backed by Civic Nation, which is headed by Obama’s senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett (also a Stanford alum).

A month after “The Hunting Ground” was announced in October 2014, Rolling Stone Magazine published “A Rape on Campus.” The story turned out to be false leading to the defamation suit: Eramo v Rolling Stone. Exhibits from the trial indicate that The White House “Not Alone” task force, also headed by Valerie Jarrett, was behind the creation of the story and the media strategy to publish it.

The Hunting Ground” also got debunked, but the White House “Not Alone” task force endorsed it.

Close scrutiny of the film’s financing and distribution indicates it was wholly created as a piece of propaganda for the Democratic Party and that Silicon Valley and Stanford Democrats were heavily involved. Jennifer Siebel Newsom (another Stanford alum and wife of current California Governor Gavin Newsom) also received an executive producer credit. The Weinstein Company and CNN (where Valerie Jarrett’s daughter works) distributed it. Disgraced attorney Tom Girardi received a special thanks.

Gloria Allred, who has a close connection to both Tom Girardi and the White House “Not Alone” task force, is apparently also being investigated.

Michele Dauber once stated that the issue of sexual violence brought women out to vote “in droves.” She also told Amy Goodman in an interview on “Democracy Now” that she gave the Emily Doe Victim Impact statement from the Brock Turner sentencing to filmmakers of “The Hunting Ground” to leak it to the media before it was read in court.

A 2019 FOIA reveals that Michele Dauber worked behind the scenes of the Turner trial with the DA’s office, not only creating the Emily Doe statement but also using the sentencing to cause the recall of Judge Aaron Persky.

Michele-Dauber-SCC-District-Attorney-Email

Whistleblowers from Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accused Ken and Michele Dauber of social media manipulation in 2016. How much was Stanford involved? John Hennessy, President of Stanford from 2000 to 2016 was one of the founders of Google and remained on its board even during his 16 years tenure as Stanford’s president. He is now Chair of Alphabet Inc, its parent company. He has been nicknamed “The godfather of Silicon Valley” while Ilya Mouzykantskii’s father “Dr. Boris” has earned the nickname “godfather of ad-technology”.

When you read The Women’s March letter supporting Amber Heard (signed by Michele Dauber and supported by non-profits NWLC, Know Your IX) and you see all the other non-profits listed at the bottom of the page, you start to look into Michele Dauber, the Bankman-Frieds, Stanford, “Mind the Gap” and the comments about “Gaming the System.”

The ACLU (whose Executive Director also comes out of Stanford Law) created the op-ed for Amber Heard, which led to Johnny Depp’s lawsuit against her for defamation and even tried to file an amicus brief. When Depp’s legal counsel demanded discovery from the ACLU, there was resistance because the ACLU didn’t want to disclose its other business relationships. The organizations endorsing the Women’s March Letter in support of Amber Heard must be those business relationships. Some of them also happen to be business relationships for Civic Nation and The White House “Not Alone” task force headed by Valerie Jarrett and “Times Up,” founded by Tina Tchen.

There is one paragraph in the Washington Post Op-Ed which specifically relates to Title IX and campus sexual assault. Amber Heard never went to college. That paragraph was created for the benefit of the NWLC and Know Your IX, who endorsed The Women’s March Letter. The ACLU and Know Your IX went on to sue Betsy DeVos over due process in Title IX and lost. But the damage to Johnny Depp’s Hollywood career was done.

Roberta Kaplan of NWLC abruptly quit Amber Heard’s team when the ACLU’s involvement in the op-ed became known. No reason was given but it would appear that there was a conflict of interests.

Stanford Law Professor Barbara Fried wrote the following article in 2017 “Feminism is for Everyone” — Perspectives for a Feminist Class Politics.”

Much of 2018 was peppered with events and campaigns tied to promoting the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act or promoting female democrat candidates for the midterms. Michele Dauber was running the “Enough Voter Movement” with Amber Heard as a spokesperson.

Brock Turner’s appeals were denied in August 2018, largely because his trial lawyer had failed to object on a close to a hundred occasions and thus left a record on which most appeals couldn’t be brought. The moment of his arrest to the moment of his trial coincided with the release of “The Hunting Ground” to its Oscar win for best song “Till It Happens to You,” performed by CAA’s client Lady Gaga and produced by Stanford’s Regina K Scully.

The FBI is supposedly about to wrap up “Operation Mystery Dinner,” which will hopefully expose years of secret dinners and other activities involving judges, prosecutors and local journalists colluding behind the scenes of Silicon Valley trials taking place in the very court where Brock Turner was tried and turned into a national punching bag via Dem Caucus rep Michele Dauber on the Silicon Valley Democratic Committee.

FTX was a hoax. “The Hunting Ground” was a hoax. Rolling Stone’s UVA “A Rape On Campus” was a hoax, but they were all used, just as the manipulated People v Brock Turner was used, to engage voters for the Democratic Party under a false premise.

This Associated Press article from June 11, 2016, following the dissemination of the Emily Doe victim impact statement to Congress, which led to the bipartisan workforce against domestic and sexual violence, is disturbing:

— June 2, 2016 — Judge Aaron Persky sentences Turner to six months in jail and orders him to register as a sex offender for life. Turner is taken into custody and placed in protective custody because of his notoriety. He is scheduled to be released on Sept. 2. The sentence touches off an emotional national debate about leniency and campus sexual assault. Critics begin to collect signatures in an attempt to remove Persky from the bench.

How heavily embedded is Stanford in promulgating a defamatory narrative on campus sexual assault via “The Hunting Ground” and the “People v Brock Turner” for Democratic fundraising purposes?

What was really going on at “Mind the Gap,” founded by Sam Bankman Fried’s mother and Paul Brest? And how intertwined was this with Michele Dauber’s Enough Voter Movement and Google/Alphabet Inc?

Is the crucifying of a 19-year-old Olympic hopeful swimmer, Brock Turner, the acceptable standard for Stanford’s and Silicon Valley’s Democratic Donors and propaganda funders?

Is it really just about how much money can be raised on a knowingly false narrative? How much is Stanford willing to support lies and plagiarism for Democratic party purposes?

Why do Stanford, The White House & the Silicon Valley Democratic Committee care less about students and their lives than they do about covering up white collar crime that endangers student lives?

Schleifer, Theodore. “How a crypto billionaire decided to become one of Biden’s biggest donors.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenehrlich/2021/10/06/the-richest-under-30-in-the-world-all-thanks-to-crypto/?sh=167393903f4d

Medium | Claire Best

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Doc Reccomends Vitamin D – FTC Says he Commited Fraud: Sues Him for 500 Billion (That’s with a “B”)

Granite Grok - Sat, 2022-11-19 14:30 +0000

The Federal Trade Commission, invoking the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act, claims a Missouri doctor committed fraud when he claimed that Vitamine D3 and Zinc help your immune system because “no published studies prove Vitamin D protects against, treats, or prevents COVID-19.”

Related: Tell COVID Karen What She Needs is More Vitamin D3

Dr. Eric Nepute is a St. Louis chiropractor who marketed and sold “Wellness Warrior Vita D,” and according to the FTC,

“Starting no later than June 2020, [Nepute] began advertising a protocol that customers should follow to protect against, prevent, or treat COVID-19. This protocol, which has varied over time, advises consumers to take [daily] substantial quantities of emulsified Vitamin D3 and zinc,” found in the Wellness Warrior products, the complaint stated.

My first thought after reading that was, when is the FTC going to sue Pfizer, Moderna, Joe Biden, the FDA, the CDC, Governors, Public Health Officials, Hospitals, Doctors, and every politician who pushed the COVID-19 vaccines on people when there were not only “no published studies” that proved any of the COVID-19 “vaccines” worked, significant data was being hidden that suggested they did not; that they could make people more susceptible; that they would likely be COVID carriers after injection, and or suffer from a wide range of dangerous or potentially fatal side effects?

How about employers who threatened to fire employees who refused to get The Jab, or is that too far outside their preview, as if that mattered?

The information withheld is required when issuing an emergency use authorization for a pharmaceutical product so that healthcare professionals and patients can exercise informed consent. Not only were they denied that right nearly everyone applied pressure in favor of blind compliance. At the same time, anyone who dared ask a question was labeled a science or vaccine denier, including doctors, nurses, and pharmacists whose employment or license to practice was threatened if they dared to report what they saw in their COVID-Vaccinated patients.

Where is the Federal Trade Commission or anyone claiming oversight authority to protect “consumers?”

Nowhere, and they are suing this guy to collect the fines to which they claim the Government is entitled because “… defendants are selling their products by disseminating information, exploiting fears [amid] a pandemic, and posting a significant risk to public health and safety.”

That is precisely how the Government promoted the EUA COVID Jabs. And now they are suing Dr. Eric Nepute for suggesting that Vitamin D3 and Zinc support natural immunity, which (Surprise!) they damn well do!

 

Frontline attorney Tom Renz of Ohio is Nepute’s advisory counsel in the case.

“The problem with this is wrongful prosecution, in my opinion,” Renz said, “because [Nepute] didn’t lie. He didn’t commit fraud. He said this would bolster your immune system, and it’s true. Both [vitamin D and zinc] are well-known mechanisms for bolstering your immune system. “This is simply going after him because he was outspoken about using vitamin D and zinc, and he didn’t like the jab—that’s all it is. He had a big following, and they wanted to make an example out of him,” Renz told The Epoch Times.

 

The Government loves to make examples, it’s how they shut people down, but could this backfire? If the case is not dismissed as “wrongful prosecution,” as the defendants claim, it will go into discovery, and the US Government (everyone on the pro-Vaxx side) has a lot to answer for if such truths are revealed in open court.

COVID-19 is the flu. A bolstered immune system helps fend off viral infection. Vitamin D and Zinc are so well known for having these powers Dr. Fauci admits to using Vitamin D for that reason, and he’s not alone.

The Experimental vaccines, on the other hand, are known for many things, but preventing infection or transmission of COVID-19 has long since passed its shelf-life even in the media, which has, by the way, gone to war against Vitamin D in time to cover the FTC charges against Dr. Nepute.

Maybe Dr. Nepute needs to lead a class action lawsuit against the FTC for gross negligence and fraud, which might nix the immunity deal behind which every one of the liars has been hiding.

I can dream.

 

 

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Notable Quote – Fear Progressivism/Socialism FAR More than Populism

Granite Grok - Sat, 2022-11-19 13:00 +0000

A two-fer:

SHOT:  Prof Thomas Sowell (Knowledge and Decisions)

It is not the source or the ruthlessness of power alone which defines totalitarianism, but the unprecedented scope of the activities subjected to political control.

E.g., name a part of your life in which Government HASN’T intruded and you’ll begin to understand “unprecedented scope”. I’ve challenged people to name an area of their lives in which they try to claim there is no law, regulation, rule, or ordinance that isn’t staring right back at them.  I’ve always won that there already is such – they just didn’t realize it.

CHASER: Prof. Don Boudreaux:

Indeed. And in this way progressivism is an even graver threat to liberty than is populism, for progressives are far more intent than are populists at subjecting to political control as many activities as possible.

Please do not read into the previous paragraph any suggestion that populism is acceptable. Populism is deeply illiberal and much to be feared. It must be fought against and subdued if liberal civilization is to survive. But the enemy of my enemy is not thereby my friend.

Progressivism – if only because, compared to populism, the mask it wears is friendlier and the tones in which it speaks are more dulcet – is an even greater threat to liberal civilization than is populism. Embracing, or even tolerating, progressivism as a means of subduing populism – or simply because progressivism is currently the most practical political option to populism – is a foolish move for anyone wishing for a revival of true liberalism.

And that would be true Western Classical Liberalism (Individual Freedom and Liberties) and not what Democrats try to palm themselves off to be.

(H/T: Cafe Hayek)

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

COVID, People of Color, and Look How Well Ivermectin Worked In Africa!

Granite Grok - Sat, 2022-11-19 11:30 +0000

Few FDA-approved and licensed drugs have been badmouthed as hard and often as Ivermectin. Like a broken storm door in a hurricane, as they say. And an institutional blockade on anyone in many parts of the US who thought it was suitable for their patients.

Related: FLCCC Doctor Gives COMPELLING TESTIMONY to NH House Committee in SUPPORT of IVERMECTIN Dispensed Without a Prescription

This is where the Democrats are supposed to be so offended that the government came between a doctor and her female patient that they demand change we can believe in or something equally pithy. What we got was crickets with police powers threatening to revoke the licenses of doctors and pharmacists if they dared prescribe or fill orders for a drug people had been taking safely for decades.

Ivermectin.

It’s been off the radar absent a pressing progressive political need. But most of the lies the Left told about it live on, like Michale Brown’s Hands up don’t shoot, and almost everything they said about Trump. To their credit, they are good at lying and making them stick. But not everyone in the world will get campaign donations from Pfizer or be invited on a junket which, if I recall, was unethical if doctors did it.

And there are still a few nations with a vested interest in preserving public health instead of using it to control their subjects.

Ivermectin.

They faked studies funded by people who would lose money if Ivermectin worked. The FDA even lied on Twitter about it being for horses, not people. But in Africa, something like 25 nations made it widely available early on, or it was already in use, while about 13 countries did not. The result is a continent-wide unofficial drug study on the effectiveness of Ivermectin versus the Wuhan Flu.

Related: We Know Why The Public Health Industrial Complex Had to Discredit Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin

Hint: It doesn’t look good for the progs who tried to convince you it was dangerous to humans.

Hundreds of millions of humans probably took it regularly on a continent with over 1.4 billion people. Are US Dems, Progs, and Libs calling them names?

 

For the folks in the cheap seats, the blue line is nations that used or had ready access to Ivermectin as an anti-parasitic (for human beings), and the Yellowish/Gold one is those that did not. Johns Hopkins provided the data.

Compelling.

This graph should resolve any doubts if public health is indeed a concern. Ivermectin saved lives. It saves lives.

Keep that graph or a link to this post handy when the weasels start again about the horse dewormer or COVID and people of color, or whatever. You could also share this: What is Ivermectin or the Ivermectin Story? Or this: We Have Another Ivermectin Story to Feed to Your Horse Faced Horse-Paste Democrat Friends

Neither is as in-your-face and one snap-shot jaw-dropping as the graph above, but they all prove Ivermectin works.

So I guess we need to ask this. Is keeping Ivermectin out of the hands of people of color on this continent racist, given its tremendous success at saving lives in Africa?

It wouldn’t be the first time Democrats did something that hurt blacks in America. Wait, have they tried to scare them away from taking vitamin D? Yes, actually – they are working on that right now. “Vitamin D won’t protect you from Covid or respiratory infections, studies say.”

Studies say.

What’s next? Breathing is bad for you, or did they cover that with the mask-nonsense?

 

 

 

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A Few Thoughts About the Election Recounts in Nashua

Granite Grok - Sat, 2022-11-19 02:30 +0000

After the re-counts took place in Nashua and the GOP candidates each added approx 20+ votes. This was due to the tabulators not reading ballots with check marks, stars, or x’s, that people put down instead of filling in the ovals.

So in this instance, the tabulators worked as they should have, and it was the voters that let us down. The large number of undervotes (1221) was because people did not enter all the votes they could have.

About 75 ballots had no votes for any state reps at all, and many just had a vote for one candidate instead of three.

Believe it or not, before this election, Nashua had about the same number of registered DEMS vs. REPUBLICANS.

The straight vote ballots, all GOP or all DEM, came out 1651 DEM to 1310 GOP. That 341 DEM vs. GOP voter differential was the major reason the GOP side lost in Nashua.

The DEMs came out to vote (there were a lot of same-day registrations as well), with many of the GOPers apparently staying home, which is pretty incredible considering the current state of affairs.

Losing sucks, but this info will prove useful to me going forward if I decide to run for the NH House again in 2024.

IMO The GOP needs to:

1. Do a better job of getting out the vote.
2. Inform voters that they should be filling out the entire ballot and not leaving sections blank or voting for just one or two candidates when the total number you could pick it three.

As a side note, the Nashua teachers union and/or school administration decided to have training meetings with the teachers of each school on election day.
The teachers being there and taking up those 30+ parking spots all day did have a suppression effect on voting. People couldn’t find a place to park, so they circled a few times and then left w/o voting.

The teachers could have and should have met at either of the high schools as they were not used as polling places.

I find it hard to believe that he wasn’t done purposefully to frustrate people and keep them away from the polls.

 

 

Note: the Nashua registered voter data is from July and does not take into account any new registrations after that.

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Friday Open Thread – So, Has Everyone Calmed Down From Last Week? Or is “Cold Fury” Setting In?

Granite Grok - Sat, 2022-11-19 01:00 +0000

Anger – but rationally directed.  Not helpless, not a victim – but “self-righteous revenge” might work. The fury of “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore” setting in with a determination of “Molon Labe” mixed with a Gandalfian “You Shall Not Pass” ‘tude.

Or, is everything buttercups and fairy rainbows with you?

As always, this thread is yours – do with it as you wish!  I will leave you with this, however:

(Image H/T: Ebaum’s World)

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G20 Agrees to Global Vaccine Passports

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 23:30 +0000

Absent a government that pushed back, the twenty largest economies in the world have agreed to adopt vaccine passports “to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognizing digital and no digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations.”

 

 

And less developed nations will be bribed with fiat money to take up the program, at least in the name.

If you read down thread from the Twitter post above, you’ll find some very unpleasant business about global digital IDs and ESGs, but I confess this was my favorite.

 

 

And so very true. The globalists are using capitalism to confine us into a national-socialist box, and public health is their new concentration camp.

That’s the New World Order. Smiley faced Hitlerism. A one-party “state” with absolute control and little tolerance for dissent. And it’s no surprise the progs on the political left are doe-eyed about it all.

Except those who’ve had friends or family drop dead without any other explanation by the so-called ‘cure’ for COVID, for which (by the way), there is a documentary due out on the 21st of November (Trailer).

And resistance, real resistance, is not futile. Push back before you can’t. Soap Box, Ballot Box … but not that third thing. Not yet. And not just because THEY think that’s what they want.

There’s still time to save America, but I’ll understand if you disagree about the timing.

 

 

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Federal Tyrants Give Florida One More Reason To Secede

The Liberty Block - Fri, 2022-11-18 22:27 +0000

In The united states, the powers to make laws reside with the State governments. The US Constitution grants a few specific powers to the federal government; the power to have a navy, a Supreme Court, the power to coin money, and a select few others. Article 1, Section 8 outlines the powers delegated to the federal government. No part of the Constitution gives the federal government the power to control education

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2022 Election Cycle Leftovers

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 22:00 +0000

I have this habit, both good and bad depending on your point of view, of being a “tab hoarder”. I just don’t open up a few tabs for posts that I would LIKE to comment on – I have a lot. Right now, probably well over 800. I keep deluding myself that “I’ll get to them…someday”. Problem is, if all I ever did was use those, I wouldn’t have quite as many. Problem is, I’m doing exactly how I describe the writers/Groksters – we are all political activists that happen to have a blogsite. I get involved in local politics and report on them. After all, if it is happening in my town/area, it’s also happening in yours if well (even if the topic is a bit different – same kinds of people, same tactics).

So, this is an “aggregate” post so I can start devolving myself from bunches of stuff that were interesting to me at the time so you might as well. Or not. Almost all of them are going to be about folks who have written about the election results on the Republican side of things: what went wrong, who to hold accountable/blame, rant, observations, comment “rationally”, or something else. Of COURSE, we here at GraniteGrok have already “been at it” (especially Ed), so read/re-read them. Reformatted, emphasis mine:

  • SHOCKER! WaPo Update About Mar-A-Lago Raid Doesn’t Fit the Narrative

…Remember when the FBI raided Trump’s home supposedly looking for “nuclear secrets” a few months back? Guess how that turned out?

Federal agents and prosecutors have come to believe former president Donald Trump’s motive for allegedly taking and keeping classified documents was largely his ego and a desire to hold on to the materials as trophies or mementos, according to people familiar with the matter. In other words, Trump was keeping souvenirs, as everyone else does. That review has not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession, these people said. FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets.

  • Let the Blame Games Begin?

Who or what was responsible for the Republican nationwide collapse in the midterms? After all, pundits, politicos, and pollsters all predicted a “red tsunami.” Given such high Republican expectations, the blame game for the loss is as strident and confusing as was the election itself. Here are some of the most common targets of criticism.

  • Abolish ‘Voting Season’ and Bring Back Election Day

Returns are not counted for days. It is intolerable for a modern democracy to wait and wait for all sorts of ballots both cast and counted under radically different and sometimes dubious conditions. The Democrats – with overwhelming media and money advantages – have mastered these arts of massive and unprecedented early, mail-in, and absentee voting. Old-fashioned Republicans count on riling up their voters to show up on Election Day.  But it is far easier to finesse and control the mail-in ballots than to ‘get out the vote.’

  • Video: Kamala Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About The Voter Base That Won Them The Midterms

In the video clip, Harris says: “What else do we know about this population, 18 through 24? They are stupid. That is why we put them in dormitories. And they have a resident assistant. They make really bad decisions.” Kamala said the quiet part out loud.  She admitted that only stupid people can vote for their agenda!

When President Joe Biden touted the Democrats’ better-than-expected performance in the midterms, he had a special shout-out for young voters: “I especially want to thank the young people of this nation, who I’m told — I haven’t seen the numbers — voted in historic numbers again,” Biden said, “just as they did two years ago.” He wasn’t alone. Other Democrats have praised young voters for helping the party avoid being crushed by a “red wave.” The role of Gen Z and young millennials was crucial.

Young people, when they turn out, seem to strongly favor Democrats — making them a decisive voting bloc that can determine who wins in key races across the country.

  • Don’t Blame Gen Z for Voting Democrat, Blame the People Who Told Them To

Something uncharacteristic happened during the 2022 elections in that the youth actually put its money where its mouth was and turned out to vote. Historically, you could count on Gen Z to do a lot of screaming and yelling about politics but then absolutely fail to turn up at polling locations. This year, they switched it up and came out in force and one in three was voting Democrat.   According to pollster John Della Volpe noted, Gen Z was the dam that stopped the red wave.

  • DON SURBER:

Life after Trump. “We can talk about cheating and the fix being in and mail-in votes. We can go on and on about the deep state and the media. We can spend months in denial but the fact is, Americans do not want Donald John Trump to be their president. He did not save the Republican Party. He spent it. . . . I really wanted Trump to come back but I just don’t see it. He’s damaged goods, done in by Barack Obama and the FBI and the Washington media. Chuck Schumer warned Trump on TV two weeks before his inauguration, ‘You take on the intelligence community? They have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.’ That is evil. That is unfair. That is the world we live in, for like Sarah Palin, our enemies turned Trump into an albatross. He came so close to bringing Washington down that they now will destroy him, ruin his children and salt his fields because he threatened them.”

  • The biggest winner of election 2022 was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“The biggest winner of election 2022 was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Four years ago, he carried Florida 50%-49%, by just 32,000 votes, and he has been under repeated attack by the national press for his policies on COVID, concentrating on protecting the elderly and insisting on open schools and outdoor activities, and for a bill forbidding overt sexual material in kindergarten through third grade. His mettle was tested when Hurricane Ian attacked southwest Florida on Sept. 28 at a point not predicted by meteorologists (weather experts have improved greatly in recent decades but aren’t perfect). He got the Pine Island bridge repaired within three days and the Sanibel Island bridge repaired in three weeks rather than the predicted three months. He didn’t just promise to build things — he delivered. This year, DeSantis won reelection by 19 points, a 1,506,000-vote margin, in the state that George W. Bush carried in 2000 by a 537-vote margin after 35 days of recounts and litigation.”

  • This Explains the Lack of a Red Wave More Than Anything Else.

All the fundamentals were in the Republicans’ favor, yet while the GOP is still on track to win the majority in the House and maybe eke out a 51-seat majority in the Senate, the red wave many of us were expecting didn’t happen. There are many theories about why the elections played out as they have. Many believe it was a lack of quality candidates, or the issue of abortion, or even Donald Trump. But on Wednesday, Tucker Carlson of Fox News offered his explanation for the Republican Party’s dismal midterm election results despite a favorable environment — and it makes perfect sense.

[T]he mechanics of an election. They matter. In fact, they matter sometimes more than any individual running in the election. The way people vote makes a big difference to the outcome,” he explained.

Indeed – Getting voters to vote matters.  For decades the Democrats have their “constant campaign” and their year ’round Get Out The Vote efforts. I’ve complained to Republicans for over a decade that the Rs don’t.  This year, I’m blaming NH GOP Chair Stepanek and Tucker. Fall on your swords.  And your replacement better take note.  Same message to the subsidiary Committees (County, City, Town) as well. Well, let’s keep going – with the blunt Sara Hoyt:

We’ll open by quoting Wy Knot from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by way of an opening: Oh, you ROCKHEADS. You DESERVE TO STARVE!  I’ve been wanting to say that for a day and a half. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get something else out of the way.

So, I [Ian Bruene] think this is my distillation of lessons from the midterms (written as speaking to a generic audience):

  1. Iowa and Florida did the hard work to clean up voting. They had blowout victories.
  2. Guam doesn’t have voting power. Thus not worth frauding. They had a blowout victory.
  3. Iowa had tons of abortion, reeeeeee campaigning. The result was to turn redder.

From that we can make some conclusions:

  1. It’s the fraud. Anyone who is taking the abortion talking point can kindly stuff it.
  2. It’s the fraud. If you aren’t interested in doing the hard local work to clean it up, you aren’t interested in winning.
  3. We have a mild win. Why are y’all casting it as the defeat to end all defeats? I don’t care how much of a losing fetish you have. If you must indulge it hire a dominatrix and do it in private.

To this I’d add two notes: there are contests still undecided. By doing the normal GOP and GOPe bullshit of going “Oh, this is perfectly legit with just a bit of fraud” you are ensuring those contests are frauded dem. And that we lose the Senate.

  • Jen Psaki Casually Admits That Dems Peddle Socialism

After many polls had already closed on Tuesday night, former Biden administration press secretary Jen Psaki implied that Democrats support socialism. Democrats lost a huge amount of Latino support in Florida becausesocialism does not play there,” Psaki tweeted, saying “the Latino vote is not the same everywhere.”

We may not have this here in New Hampshire NOW but you wait – if the Dems take the NH House via recounts, you can be sure they will be trying to enact it:

  • Republicans need to figure out mail-in voting: It’s being used by Democrats to influence the course of elections.

What was the determinative fix in the 2022 midterm elections? Early, mostly mail-in, voting. It is perfectly legal. But it undermines a fair and open electoral process. Were I a Democrat, I might even say that it “threatens our democracy.” Why? Because it allows for the wholesale manipulation of the vote. It also dilutes the integrity of an election by transforming it from an event into a process.

I should add that “mail-in ballots” is an equivocal term. It can mean different things in different contexts and in different states. The practice is obviously open to more interference and manipulation than same-day voting is. So extra safeguards must be put in place and scrupulously followed if such interference and manipulation is to be avoided. Some states do this. Florida is a good example. Other states do not. Apparently, about 1.4 million people asked for mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. Around the same number voted early by mail in Arizona, compared to just shy of half a million on Election Day. Were all such ballots carefully checked to ascertain the identity and eligibility of the person casting the vote?

The real issue is that the wholesale practice of early or mail-in voting makes a mockery of elections.

Another Democrat trope just vanished – it was ALWAYS just a Democrat meme to get out their voters even as they KNEW it was a lie.

  • The Other Imaginary Red Wave

We have been through this hysteria before. Predictions of right-wing violence are now a standard feature of Democratic rhetoric. In the lead-up to January 6, 2022 (the one-year anniversary of the 2021 Capitol riot), the media, politicians, and the Biden national-security apparatus warned that “domestic violent extremists” were likely to strike again. Washington, D.C., was reportedly on edge in anticipation of the MAGA rebels. As it turned out, January 6, 2022, was notable only for the maudlin theatrics of newly patriotic Democrats, who softly sang “God Bless America” in a candlelight vigil on the Capitol steps, as calm engulfed them.

During the previous year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security had issued regular warnings about election-denying terrorism. The summer of 2021, August 2021, September 2021—all provoked a satisfying increase in alerts and in precautionary barricades and bollards. And still, the right-wing terrorists did not strike.

And we never do.

  • White House Report Card: National division is a win for Biden

This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden leading what now appears to be a permanently divided nation. Despite his promises of unity, voters this week stuck with their team, the Republicans unable to bring over enough independents and Democrats to prove that their message and that of MAGA are dominant and liberals holding on with the help of single women and younger voters.

  • IN OUR SYSTEM, YOU GOTTA GET THE VOTES WHERE YOU NEED THEM:

People didn’t show up where people needed to show up to flip races. Oh, they showed up elsewhere. You’ll hear about the “national popular vote,” the total number of votes cast for each party. Republicans received almost 52 million votes, Democrats only around 47 million. It’s an interesting stat that means absolutely nothing.

For the past few cycles, Democrats were roundly mocked by conservatives for citing how they’d won the NPV, as they should have been, so it can’t be a source of comfort now. Everyone knows where the votes are needed. If the candidates, campaigns, and party can’t work within that reality they deserve to lose.

Well. Plus: “That being said, the real problem for Republicans was Lindsey Graham. The senior Senator from South Carolina, for reasons known only to him, decided to introduce a nationwide 15-week abortion ban in September. Think what you will of the concept, it was a stupid strategic move.”

Extremely so.  And it didn’t hurt for the Democrats having this TREMENDOUS “bait and switch” for the Gen Z-ers:

  • Biden’s illegal student-loan bailout bought off Gen Z — and staved off a red wave

Republicans are not so giddy, to say the least. When analyzing what went wrong, the GOP shouldn’t overlook how President Joe Biden blatantly bribed some young voters to save him from the red wave — and they don’t even need the cash.

That’s right: The kids actually did show up to vote this time around. Per the Edison Research National Election Pool’s exit polling, 27% of eligible voters aged 18 to 29 cast ballots. That makes this the second-highest youth turnout in a midterm in nearly 30 years. And Edison estimates that in key competitive states, the youth turnout was even higher, around 31%.

It’s amusing that the Democrats keep kvetching that low income Republican never vote their “self-interest” by voting for Democrats. What, getting your student debt wiped out ISN’T in their self-interest?  But the Dems lied – they knew it would never happen just like the “right-wing violence” they are always using to dupe voters. They knew that the court system would kill it – but as former US Senate President Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said about his lying from the Senate well that Romney didn’t pay his taxes during the Presidential race – “it worked” as planned (Romney, as if I had to remind you, lost to Obama).

You know, like GAC Commissioners Douglas Lambert and Jade Wood kept saying that Gunstock would close forever. They led the low information voters on, too, just like the Democrat Citizens for Belknap PAC wanted.

  • Rays of Hope (abstracted)
    • Gridlock in Washington.
    • Republicans drew many more votes than Democrats.
    • Republicans won every age group over 30. Of course, we got clobbered among young people. But at least we know where we need to concentrate our efforts.
    • Republicans made substantial gains with minorities.
    • The Democrats can’t get men to vote for them.
    • The Democrats can’t rely on abortion forever. Can they? I think it is fair to say that Dobbs, while correct, cost Republicans the election….
    • Goodbye, Trump.

In my view, the strangest thing about the midterm election is how rigidly it preserved the status quo.

  • Michael Savage Suggests ‘Enemy Within’ GOP Doomed Midterms with Timing of Roe Ruling

 

  • The Modern Electioneering Process of “Ballot Submission Assistance” is Taking Center Stage

If CTH had a small part in helping people to reset their reference points around modern electioneering, well, that’s a good thing. The difference between “ballots” and “votes” is previously explained {SEE HERE} and absolutely critical to understand before moving forward. Thankfully a large percentage of conservatives, intellectually honest independents and even some establishment republican donors have read our research and are now starting to have the ‘votes‘ vs ‘ballots‘ conversation.  That understanding is critical, because any conversation that does not accurately identify and accept the problem is futile.

  • “Candidate Quality”

In Senator Mitch McConnell’s infamous quote on candidate quality, Adam Laxalt, the GOP challenger to Catherine Cortez Masto still makes for a Trump-endorsed outlier. The fact is, he almost won, he could have won, and it proves he wasn’t a bad candidate, although I’m willing to argue Captain Sam Brown, who got fleeced in the primary, would have done better. And, Masto proponents knew it. Insiders know of instances where Democrats concerned with losing the vulnerable Masto seat re-registered as Republicans to cast votes for Laxalt in the primary, afraid to face Captain Sam Brown. I know it happened, I was told so as a boast by a contact close to Masto’s campaign. My response was, “Doesn’t that violate the spirit of the closed primary?” Of course, it does. They just don’t care.

 

  • There’s Plenty Of GOP Blame To Go Around, But One Person Deserves More Than Others

Well, that sucked. And the hits keep on coming. One of the favorite pastimes of the political class is finger-pointing – when a candidate bombs the fingers come out, mostly because the alternative would be to take some responsibility themselves. In the case of the 2022 election, there is plenty of blame to go around as there was a whole lot of feces hitting a very powerful fan. Pretty much everyone got hit with their share of splatter.  Trump supporters blame Mitch McConnell, and non-Trump supporters blame Trump. But where does most of the blame belong? Honestly, everywhere…That being said, the real problem for Republicans was Lindsey Graham

 

 

 

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Speaker Maxwell Re-names Herself Miss America

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 20:30 +0000

Ahem. On November 17, GraniteGrok published two articles of mine. The one on Karoline Leavitt has got all the attention, while the hotter-than-hot one slipped away. Here it is, it’s about me trying to become Speaker of the US House.

I suppose I shouldn’t have announced my running for Speaker of the House with reference to the British Westminster system (photo of Big Ben). So today I am trying a new approach to get your attention. I am calling myself Miss America. Let me explain. (And it’s got nothing to do with the swimsuit competition, K?)

I had sent the Grokkers a video of me announcing my availability for the job of Speaker of the House. The video was made on September 8, 2022, before Nancy Pelosi showed any sign of quitting. In a recent email, I asked Skip to give me his opinion of the video. Apparently, he did not know that I was asking him to discuss it with me, so he went ahead and published it.

I suddenly found myself very happy. No further hopping from foot to foot, trying to decide whether to “announce.” It’s out there now, and I’ve spent the last 24 hours play-acting the role of Speaker.

(Quick summary of my article: it is perfectly legal for the House members on January 3 to choose any human being as their Speaker. I offer my services. I will conduct the proceedings of the House with no partisanship whatsoever. The US Constitution does not recognize the creature known as Party.)

I picture myself answering questions from MSM interviewers regarding my “campaign” for the speakership. (Note: one can only campaign to the 435 members of the House of Reps.)
Sample:

CNN: People are worried about the price of gasoline. What will you do to help?

Mary Maxwell: Nothing.

PBS: In your book “Boston’s Marathon Bombing,” you say that the judge, in that case, should be impeached. Will you act on that when you become Speaker?

Mary Maxwell: Of course not.

CBS News: Will you be supporting the Trump “MAGA” idea?

Mary Maxwell: It doesn’t matter.

Associated Press: How do you feel about Mitch McConnell?

Mary Maxwell: It’s none of your business.

See, when I am Speaker of the House, I will be neutral on everything except the business aspects of running the day’s session of the legislature. Adjournments, amendments, debating time, roll call, asking the Sergeant at Arms to kick smokers out of the gallery, whatever is in my bailiwick. I can express no position on gasoline, abortion, or the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband. Although in real life, I’m a registered Republican, I will be party-less to the nth degree.

My goal is to stop the belief, which has developed only in the 21st century, that Congress is run by the party in power and, indeed, by the one leader of that Party. THAT’S the Westminster system. In a Westminster country, such as Australia, where I lived for more than 30 years, a Labor Party prime minister can enact a new law without parliamentary discussion since all MPs of his Party must obey him.

It’s a horrible joke on our Founding Fathers to imitate that here, and I say it can be gotten rid of in one fell swoop. I say the US House of Reps shouldn’t have a partisan Speaker. Goodbye, partisan Speaker, hello, open arguments on every subject. Remember relying on reason instead of on scoring points in the red/blue game? Huh? Remember that?

The New Miss America

So what’s with the Miss America title? you can blame Skip, editor of GranteGrok.com, who took me off guard by publishing the video. I could suddenly picture myself in this new role of neutrality, and what an unanticipated feeling of joy I got from it! I imagined myself shouting Americanism instead of Republicanism. I imagined people being able to come to me with their concerns and not expect to have to tiptoe around ideological doctrines.

Ideology — out!

Please know that I don’t oppose the contents of my Party’s doctrine. Have you read my newest book “Keep the Republic, Kill the Takeover”? It’s extremely American. Good American stuff, great American stuff. How unbelievably lucky we are to have the Constitution.

I was born in Boston in 1947. To our generation, the Baby boomers, American ideals were as real as the flora and fauna. They WERE the flora and fauna. I think they ARE the flora and fauna.

Law is the main thing. To have good law, and a huge nation of supporters of that law (we number 320 million at the moment) is the key to overcoming chaos, on the one hand, or regimentation by a dictator on the other.

The message we Baby boomers are holding for you is that it can be done because WE ALREADY SAW IT BEING DONE. Don’t let your old grandparents go until they’ve explained this to you. We had a fine system and there is no reason for it to go to the garbage can.

Many of us can see that it’s on its way to the garbage can, AND we know the particulars causes of that ridiculous journey. Sure, it’s hard to get the word out about that, since it entails criticism of individual power-holders, but we do have strength against that, in law. Furthermore, it IS THE FAULT OF ALL OF US to have let things proceed so far. Garbage-can city is nigh.

Ah, just as I was writing this (pre-noon Nov 18), a notification came in that Kamala Harris and Jeb Bush have each announced a 2024 run for the White House. Dear People, don’t allow media for the next two years to take up your time with “personality” elections. In fact, don’t allow them to take up your time at all. A new president is not the key to our survival. WE ARE THAT KEY.

Note: Before the 2020 primary, David Thistle of Texas offered to be the receiver of applications for the presidential job. Each person (age 35 and up, USA born) need only write a page as to his/her qualifications. Atta boy, Thistle. You tell ’em!

And a friend has just called me to say that a GETTR person is recruiting Trump for Speaker in 2023 (my job). Jeepers, I don’t think he has the necessary Miss America restraint, but at least it would start some chat on the subject.

Anyone wanting to blather about this, please show up at my humble abode on Sunday November 20 at 2pm. I need RSVP-ing: MaxwellMaryLLB@gmail.com. Also, please check back at this article’s Comments for any changes. I live at 175 Loudon Road, Apt 6, in, by the grace of God, Concord NH. It’s in the back row of buildings, on the far left. You can park behind it, or at Windmill Restaurant which closes Sundays at 3.

Everyone welcome, including Demonrats.

“We are an equal-opportunity bunch of cockeyed optimists.” [Blame Skip! He started this!]

 

 

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Data Point – So Much for Russian Sanctions, eh?

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 19:00 +0000

And look at which European nations are trying to have it both ways:

(H/T: Powerline)

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Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 17:30 +0000

To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Memes and Meme Overflow.  Also don’t forget my Survival Sunday feature.

Here’s my latest essay – yes, GG, working on one for here – over at Tommy Robinson’s place.  I call out my Jewicidal Yidiot fellow Jews for their migrant-philia (and, peripherally, for ther SJW-dom in general):

An Open Letter to Pro-Migration / SJW Jews – Urban Scoop

 

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

 

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But that would require a sense of honor and decency and morality.  From the Left?  BWAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

 

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A thing cannot be A and NOT A simultaneously.  This is an exceedingly effective meme.

 

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My vote for execution method?  A dose of their own “medicine” every 15 minutes.  We could put betting pools on how fast, from the first injection, they have their heart attack and SADS.

 

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Pick of the post:

Out of all these, excellent one and all, I find this to be the most central: The State is about to test, and then doubtless implement, a way to track and keep a permanent record of every single financial transaction you have.  And what truly terrifies me, especially related to the future of liberty, is how few care.

 

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I was explaining property taxes to my kids and how, even if we have no mortgage and own our home outright, if we don’t pay property taxes every year the State can come in and take our property.  Both were outraged, my older one said Taxation is theft! (to which I smiled and thought “My work here is done”)… and said that we then don’t actually own the land.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

Time-lapse photography of the moon moving through Earth’s shadow on election day.

 

 

 

Persepolis, the capital of the Persian Empire.  Sacked by Alexander.  Been there, hope someday to go back.  Magnificent.

 

 

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Parents in SAU34 Calling On Superintendent and School Board to Stop Teaching Children to Have Sex With Adults

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 16:00 +0000

This post has gone viral in New Hampshire. Parents are fed up with schools grooming and sexualizing their children. This isn’t about a difference in opinions on a book. This is about sexually explicit material and photos being shared with children through the Sora App.

Parents in the school district are calling upon Jennifer Crawford and members of the School Board to stop teaching children how to have sex with adults. From the obscene and pornographic content available to children, there is no other way to describe this.

 

 

 

For more information: https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/11/nh-school-administrators-pimping-out-your-children-in-school

 

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In “Speech” About Post-Speaker Plans Pelosi “Admits” She is an Election Denier

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 14:30 +0000

Soon-to-again-be-former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the opportunity of being back in the minority to deliver a lengthy word salad about her plans moving forward. Blah, Blah, Blah, and oh, by the way, she admitted to being an election denier.

In the speech, she says,

 

But it has been my privilege to play a part in forging extraordinary progress for the American people.  I have enjoyed working with three Presidents, achieving:

Historic investments in clean energy with President George Bush.

[Applause]

Transformative health care reform with President Barack Obama.

[Applause]

And forging the future – from infrastructure to health care to climate action – with President Joe Biden.

[Applause]

 

Pelosi served under four presidents, and by leaving Donald Trump out, she reaffirms the Democrat’s long-running election denial street cred. He was not her president and not legitimate.

In other words, she denies that you elected him and has reaffirmed the party position – or at least hers – that she is still an election denier five years later.

Nancy Pelosi is an election denier and, having been reelected, will continue in some capacity that involves her mouth in front of a microphone and her face in front of a camera. After serving the People’s Republic of China for this long – or at least its agenda – we should not expect her to step away from the bright lights until whatever lord to whom she pretends to pray takes her from this earth.

Lucky us.

 

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November BCRC: General Members Only Meeting – Charges against Gunstock Area Commissioner Douglas Lambert (Misogynist Behavior)

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 13:00 +0000

In addition to charges brought against Gregg Hough by the Belknap County Republican Committee’s Executive Committee for “behavior unbecoming” (attempting to disrupt the October meeting by two now named men trying to get the Editor of the Weirs Times to cancel his invitation to be the keynote speaker to the BCRC at the last possible moment so as to cast disrepute upon the EC in an on-going action), there was a second issue concerning Gunstock Area Commissioner Douglas Lambert for “unwanted touching”, also during the October meeting – a criminal misdemeanor.  Which, if GraniteGrok hadn’t been there to report on the meeting, would have gone unnoticed – and that has made GraniteGrok a target (heh – “there can be no opposition allowed”).

Here is the ‘Grok’s reporting of the November meeting where Douglas Lambert was confronted with the charges:

The General Membership voted to remove Douglas’s BCRC General Membership status after viewing the embedded video from the three different camera angles.  Be warned – audio is very soft from the backward facing camera. The next two angles are far better.

I was sent an email accusing me, simply for providing the video of an assault (no matter how “slight” that’s what the Law has defined):

I don’t have to ruin anyone’s life – Douglas did a fine job of doing that to himself that fateful day 15 years ago – because of his own actions, done voluntarily, he had almost everything taken from him. I don’t have to destroy Douglas – his own words did it before and now his actions have done it again.  REMEMBER!  I defended him for all these years for calling Ray Buckley [the NH Democrat Party Chair] a faggot on the video stream I had constructed for our radio show on WEMJ when it was technically HARD to do so. And he threw it all away as he danced on the political high-wire when he did so. And the cancel crowd came for him with tar, feathers, and pitchforks when he fell off. They PULLED him off that wire and there was nothing I could do about it.

And now he has done it again:

  • I did not force him to get out of his chair at last month’s BCRC meeting – he did that voluntarily
  • I did not force him to go over and confront her – he did that voluntarily
  • I did not force him to reach to grab for her phone – he did that voluntarily
  • I did not force him to position himself in front of her to block/grab her view/phone – he did that voluntarily
  • I did not force him to look to his left and then to his right to ensure he was in position to do just that – he did that voluntarily
  • I did not force him to look back to his right to watch her move to get away from him to continue to do what she was doing – he did that voluntarily
  • I did not force him, upon him seeing her moving to his right, to dip his shoulder, flick out his right elbow, and physically initiate a contact that was impermissible – he did that voluntarily.

Much of my blogging is based on one premise – simply quote someone else’s words or write about their actions. Add some commentary. If people didn’t say stupid things or do stupid things, I’d have much, MUCH less to write about. Douglas just did both.

He was the one that ended our friendship – I don’t like getting screamed  (re: your pictures of Douglas showing his anger (and evil) that I pulled down once I found out they were your IP) for asking a simple question: why do the same to others what was done to you?  You were there – you most likely read my post and watched the video. That video and his behavioral told me that our friendship had just ended.

A simple answer would have sufficed – instead, he lost control of himself.  My friend made it clear that he wasn’t my friend any longer – he did that voluntarily. He voluntarily became just another politician. An inconsistent one.

The kind of one that put himself back up on his high-wire act again thinking he was invincible and he could do whatever he wanted to whomever he wanted. Why not – he had just destroyed two decent men, Ness and Strang, for simply being on the “other side” and to get what he wanted. He believed no one could now challenge him.  Been there, done that.

Remember, I already lived through this before – and had to suffer through the aftermath of what he had done.  I am not going to allow a lady to suffer the aftermath of an unwanted touching – an intimidation which was his INTENT.  The video that was presented to the BCRC showed that from 3 camera angles.

He did that voluntarily. I, like you do with your still photography, merely captured those moments in time. As you said earlier, YOU said that you respect me even if I’m on the other side at times – and I return that to you as well.

I also had prepared this for last week’s meeting – a bit more personal:

Enough of your JR High running for class president promising coke machines in every corner and ½ days for school, Douglas – your schtick is starting wear quite thin.

Once again, you’re on that political high wire that led you to fall off when you called NH DP Chair Ray Buckley a faggot at the end our Saturday show that was also his birthday and you received national condemnation. But that wasn’t the first time – nor, I bet, the last.

I am the son of an Irish drunk and the father of an addict (101st in Afghanistan) – I know how the addicted behave. Not that your’s is chemically induced but it IS Politically induced.

Remember your “Lug Nutz” remarks aimed at the Laconia fire Chief in your weekly column, Douglas, in the Sun? And others? And others during on Meet The New Press show? You lost everything and you retired telling me that you had to find your soul.

It took years for you to get to that point – and years of recovery from that fall. Now like all addicts falling off the wagon, you’re back to the same place but, like other addicts, it only took mere months to return to it.

I saw you cavorting and prancing at the Citizens for Belknap booth at Gilford Old Home day wearing that Democrat PAC’s T-shirt. You know, the Democrat PAC that called for Gregg Hough to be defeated? Gosh, you didn’t say much about that a couple meetings ago, did you, when you called GraniteGrok out for doing so – nor Sununu either? Yes, I saw you prancing around with that loopy, goofy smile that tells me you’re high on your politics.

You know, the same one that you had when you maneuvered the Gilford Selectmen to fire Evans Juris as Town Adminisrator? That same one as you writhed in laughter calling out Buckley?

The same one when you finally sat down from berating me for simply asking why have you were “canceling” both Ness and Strang even as it had been done to you, used your grandson as a political pawn, finally realized that you had lost control of yourself, and then sat down quite satisfied with yourself (video posted)?

BTW, Douglas, you said that local businesses would suffer if SoulFest didn’t happen this past summer (yet a political put up). NOW what are you going to tell them now that Tom Day’s months long legal efforts to break the SoulFest contract (I’ve posted the legal billing records) and there is no SoulFest at in the future? You never mentioned THAT effort, either, did you?

And in watching you demogoging the politically unsophisticated over and over with RESIGN! RESIGN! YOU HAVE VIOLATED YOUR OATHS! With same smile afterwards. Knowing that they didn’t know the foundations, the crowds had no clue, and you were using them as political tools.

The people here, however, are MUCH more politically aware and aren’t going to fall for that.

So here’s their Oaths both as stated in the NH Constitution and the GAC Bylaws – let me read them.

[Art.] 84. [Oath of Civil Officers.] Any person chosen governor, councilor, senator, or representative, military or civil officer, (town officers excepted) accepting the trust, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office, make and subscribe the following declaration, viz.

I, A.B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to the United States of America and the state of New Hampshire, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me God.

I, A.B. do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me as …………………………………………., according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution and laws of the state of New Hampshire. So help me God.

Any person having taken and subscribed the oath of allegiance, and the same being filed in the secretary’s office, he shall not be obliged to take said oath again.

Provided always, when any person chosen or appointed as aforesaid shall be of the denomination called Quakers, or shall be scrupulous of swearing, and shall decline taking the said oaths, such person shall take and subscribe them, omitting the word “swear,” and likewise the words “So help me God,” subjoining instead thereof, “This I do under the pains and penalties of perjury.”
June 2, 1784

Tell me, Douglas (and Jade Wood who did the same thing – HOW did they violate their Oaths of Office?  No, you don’t know – but you didn’t care, either.

IMHO, even if you are not officially part of the CfB, you certainly are in league with them – and being the student of Machiavelli, took advantage of the “opportunity” for your own personal benefit.

Congratulations – you learned EVAH so much for being on High Wire the first time, you just HAD to do it again.

Since you are the “Big Guy” behind the Bastion – who IS your money guy bankrolling it?  Who IS on the Steering Committee of the CfB that calls out others to be “transparent” but refuse to do so themselves?

That’s not what non-partisan groups do, right Douglas?

Oh, and there’s more but I’ll wait on that.

 

 

 

 

 

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Did The COP 27 Climate Cult Promise Indonesia 20 Billion so It Could Buy Coal from China?

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 11:30 +0000

I guess Indonesia has a thriving steel industry. I didn’t know that. What I do know is that you can’t make steel without coal. I also know – thanks to PJ Media – that the COP27 Green Junkies are offering Indonesia 20 billion to give up coal. Smiling, fingers crossed behind their back, Indonesia says 20 billion? Sure!

Related: Trying to Replace Fossil Fuels With Solar Will Require Burning a Sh!tload of Coal

I suspect the deal has as many holes in it as the Paris Climate Scam and almost as many players.

 

 According to the press release/fact sheet, a coalition of nations all signed on to the Just Energy Transition Partnership. Those nations include “the Government of the Republic of Indonesia (GOI) and the Governments of Japan, the United States of America, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, Norway, the Republic of Italy, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (together the “International Partners Group” or IPG).”

I don’t see Ukraine, where we’ve spent a good deal of taxpayers’ money increasing that nation’s carbon footprint under the color of a proxy war with Russia.

I guess that’s not a climate concern, but they have agreed that the net zero lie is so important that it must be achieved at any cost (they can make you and your ancestors pay). Part of that plan includes offering a buffet of ways to funnel 20 billion dollars to the Muslims in Indonesia to get them off their coal habit.

 

“To achieve these targets, this long-term partnership intends to mobilize an initial $20 billion in public and private financing over a three-to-five-year period, using a mix of grants, concessional loans, market-rate loans, guarantees, and private investments. “

 

 

It’s a lot of money, but not for Indonesia. Their Annual GDP is over 1 trillion, a large chunk of which is manufacturing, Construction, and mining. They’ll need coal. You can’t make steel without it – and that’s the actual steel. You also need the energy to fabricate what you made into something you can use. Is the 20 billion so they can start buying steel from China?

China is committed to opening more coal plants. They’ll need the energy to make all these solar panels and wind turbines the rest of the world is being told to buy. Maybe Indonesia can sell their coal to China – I didn’t read the agreement so maybe selling it is still okay- and then China can use it to make things they sell back to Indonesia.

China is the world leader in “emissions,” with few, if any, environmental limitations. And they’ve no plans to cop a feel for western enviro-elites appetitive for self-destruction.

That says a lot about their commitment to the greening of the planet. Or maybe it says China owns all these assh*les, who are happy to bilk their citizens for a dead-end transition whose result is a world run by China or like China, which would be ugly, dirty, nasty, and brutish.

Everyone would have to wear face masks.

On a bright note, one thing they can do – facemasks – is filter out more substantial particles in the air that would follow in a world run by China. Or one where hundreds of private jets travel to a climate conference to discuss offshoring taxpayers’ wealth to Marxists in exchange for …personal wealth from China.

If the elites are not careful, the new world order will look more like the French Revolution.

A world lit by candles where even the sheep figure it out they’ve been screwed over.

 

 

 

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The Power of Hate – George Orwell, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 02:30 +0000

Hate, one of the strongest human emotions, is a powerful societal force that has been effectively manipulated throughout history by evil leaders to increase their own power.

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Hate, which breeds divisiveness, polarization, and an egregiously toxic “us vs. them” attitude, is what led to the rise of such totalitarian leaders as Lenin, Hitler, and Mao Zedong.  While Lenin’s followers despised the “bourgeoisie” class of capitalists and Mao similarly blamed capitalism for all the world’s problems, Hitler claimed that the Jews were responsible for all that was wrong in society.

Once these infamous leaders successfully convinced their followers that allegiance to a corrupt regime would ensure prosperity and protection from their supposed adversaries, ultimate power was within their grasp as they created such real-world dystopias as Marxist Russia, Nazi Germany, and Communist China.

As if historical precedents are not enough to convince society today that the emergence of widespread baseless hatred is a warning against potential tyranny, dystopian literature also offers clear indications that the gratuitous stirring up of hatred is a fear-mongering tactic intended only to increase the power of tyrants.

The insidious power of hate is most clearly reflected in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, which portrays the regime of Oceania as being in a constant state of war with either Eastasia or Eurasia.  It really doesn’t matter which “superstate” is portrayed as the enemy as long as there is an adversary that can be hated, regardless of whether Oceania is actually at war with either one of these supposed enemies.

Julia, the female protagonist in the novel, suggests that the so-called war, scenes from which are constantly displayed on television screens, might actually be a false narrative created by the “Inner Party” (Oceania’s corrupt leaders) to stir up powerful feelings of hatred among the people. Julia believes that “the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ‘just to keep people frightened’.”.

Adding validity to this “false flag” belief is a forbidden book supposedly written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the contrived nemesis of Big Brother, in which he reveals that the goal of the Party is for society to be in “a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies.”

Goldstein’s book also points out that this “frenzy of hatred” would be fomented by the condemnation of “internal traitors.”  Goldstein himself becomes “the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party’s purity,” as the Inner Party has the brilliant idea to use a human face as an object of hate to emotionally stir up the people even more strongly.

There is no particular reason to hate this man who was actually “advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought.”  Nevertheless, he becomes the embodiment of all that society should despise as he is constantly portrayed by the media as the “Enemy of the People…the renegade and backslider who once…had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counterrevolutionary activities.”

This toxic and powerful emotion of hate is ritualized on a daily basis in Nineteen Eighty-Four during the “Two Minutes Hate” and further celebrated with an annual festival called “Hate Week.”  As the specific target of hate designated by the Inner Party to further its false narrative, the constant on-screen image of Goldstein effectively stirs up the negative emotions of the crowds of Outer Party members, motivating them to swear allegiance even more strongly to Oceania’s figurehead Big Brother. Their baseless hatred is a divisive force that ultimately increases the power of their current regime.

During the daily “Two Minutes Hate” ritual that takes place in the “Ministry of Truth” and throughout the state of Oceania, Goldstein is shown onscreen “delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party,” but the narrator goes on to explain that this is “an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.”  Thus, the reader is given the first indication that this media portrayal of Goldstein may be inaccurate.  The brainwashing tactics of the Inner Party are, nevertheless, highly effective, as the narrator goes on to observe that “the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically.”

The psychological control of the people that is accomplished through this ritual is obvious as Orwell writes, “The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was…that it was impossible to avoid joining in.” He goes on to describe the terrifying effects of this psychological manipulation: “A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion.”

As history has shown us, such visceral feelings circulating through unhinged mobs can be harnessed by totalitarian regimes to achieve their desired objectives.  This situation is reflected in Orwell’s novel as his protagonist, Winston Smith, despite his own hatred of Big Brother, succumbs during the daily Two Minutes Hate to “self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness” during which he “could not help sharing in the general delirium.”

While in his normal emotional state, he considered that Goldstein might actually be the “sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies,” during this strange workday break ritual, “he was at one with the people about him, and all that was said of Goldstein seemed to him to be true. At those moments, his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector” while Goldstein “seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.” Neither is Julia, who sometimes questioned the Inner Party’s narrative, immune to the effects of the Two Minutes Hate.  In fact, she shouts more loudly than anyone even though she “had only the dimmest idea of who Goldstein was and what doctrines he was supposed to represent.”

In addition to this powerful daily ritual, an annual Hate Week lies at the center of the Party’s agenda. Preparation for Hate Week includes the innocuous planning of “Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes” that makes this sound like any political event, but the narrator also observes more insidious preparatory activities, including “effigies built… rumors circulated, photographs faked” in order to ridicule and discredit Goldstein.

Towards the end of the novel, as Winston is being tortured by Inner Party member O’Brien, he is asked what his true feelings are for Big Brother. Winston declares, “I hate him,” to which O’Brien responds, “Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.”  In this dystopian society, allegiance masquerades as love, and the only way for Big Brother to attain more of this finite resource is to increase the amount of hatred directed towards his opponent Emanual Goldstein

Hate is one of the most powerful human emotions and, as such, often defies logic.  In fact, it can sometimes be very difficult for those who hate someone to clearly explain the reasons for their antipathy.  This is especially true when it comes to a demonized political figure.  This lack of logic should therefore serve as a red flag revealing the manipulative psychological methods of corrupt leaders who value power over truth.

To avoid the totalitarian sort of state that Orwell warns us about, we should be most wary when hatred towards an oppositional political figure seems to have no logical basis. Is it fomented by vague bad feelings and references to egregious past actions on the part of the hated political figure that have not been proven to have actually happened?  If so, the most likely source of this hatred is the sort of brainwashing techniques utilized not only by the fictitious dystopian leaders portrayed in Nineteen Eighty-Four but also by numerous historical figures, including Lenin, Hitler, and Mao Zedong.

In order to avoid repeating the horrible mistakes of the past, we must learn from these historical and literary precedents and recognize that our current leaders are likely using the same tactics.

 

 

This article is the most recent by newly elected State Representative Arlene Quaratiello on her Substack newsletter “Nowhere? Lessons from Utopia and Dystopia” in which she shares “ideas from utopian and dystopian literature and film that can prevent America from becoming a dystopia and instead help our country to become ‘a more perfect union.'”

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On January 1st, 2023 Vermont Will Legislate Even More Jobs Out of Existence

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 01:00 +0000

Good news for New Hampshire. Vermont’s next mandatory minimum wage hike is set to go off on January 1st, 2023. That means fewer jobs and job creators across the river, a few of whom will consider jumping the border to set up shop in New Hampshire.

Related: Just in Time to Make Things Cost More…Vermont Hikes Minimum Wage.

That sword does, of course, have two edges. They might bring their politics with them. That’s been a problem for years. It is why the Left side of New Hampshire is more like Vermont. To Quote Woody from Toy Story, “someone poisoned the water hole.” It’s a fight we could lose – the 2022 midterms come to mind. But for now, the Blue Green Mountain State knows how much an hour of labor should cost, and you damn well better pay it.

 

VermontBiz The Vermont Department of Labor has announced an increase to the State’s minimum wage. Beginning January 1, 2023, the State’s minimum wage will become $13.18 per hour. This is an increase of $0.63 from the current minimum wage of $12.55.

This annual adjustment also impacts the minimum wage for tipped employees. The Basic Tipped Wage Rate for service, or “tipped employees,” equals 50% of the full minimum wage. On January 1, 2023, the tipped minimum wage will increase from $6.28 to $6.59 per hour.

 

It’s anyone’s guess how many jobs it will destroy in this economy or if there will be any small business casualties. We’ll have to make the time to look at the labor force participation compared to previous years.

 

 

Vermont’s labor force dropped nearly 7% in 2020 with the COVID lockouts (to 60.6%). It has only managed to scramble as high as 62.7%, with September numbers showing 61.6%.

With Bidenflation and an economy Democrats have treated like a rental car, things are not looking up financially anywhere but inside the Beltway. The added pressure of the increased minimum wage in Vermont could make matters worse.

Or?

There is a chance the hike could encourage a few folks off the couch. Vermont does not differ in need for workers. While Labor Force participation was in decline for years before the Corona mugging, there is still a good 5% of the workforce that was working before that hit. Maybe the wage hike helps (if it’s better than welfare), but it’s not likely. The minimum wage was created to suppress labor force participation by pricing unskilled workers out of the job market, and raising it won’t change the reality of that.

And Vermont is run by Democrats. They’ll increase the handouts before they encourage people to go make their own way. But it’s a great place to be a Democrat, and I encourage ours to move their

 

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The Best Type Of CBD Pills For Every Zodiac Sign

Granite Grok - Fri, 2022-11-18 00:30 +0000

Some people take astrology more seriously than others. Have you ever wondered which CBD pills correspond to your astrological sign? We were intrigued, so we searched for the best CBD pills that enhance each type of personality based on their horoscope sign.

Fortunately, with more emphasis on self-care, health, and wellness, many stress-management strategies are available, making it more practical than ever to find what works for you. CBD, which has become a primary ingredient in many restorative items such as shower and skin products, different kinds of tasty treats, and supplements, is unquestionably in the spotlight.

If you want to try CBD to improve your health, trial and error may be a component of the process. However, considering what you’ll enjoy most through the eyepiece of astrology can’t hurt. Here are the best CBD pills for each sign.

 

Which CBD pill Pairs Best With Your Zodiac Sign?

 

Aries (March 21 to April 19)

Aries is a self-starter. They’re all about blazing their trail and doing things their way. Because they are high-energy and rambunctious, they will benefit from a product that celebrates their fiery spirit while calming them down a little, so they don’t burn out.

As a result, we recommend a true classic for Aries: CBD Hemp capsules. It contains hemp-derived CBD that energizes the mind while soothing the body.

Taurus (April 20 – May 21) (April 20 – May 21)

Taurus appreciates the finer things in life, such as food, clothing, and comfort. Sensuality is also high on their list.

Being a Taurus, CBD Gel Capsules will lift your spirits and give you a magical sense of euphoria. Your body will tingle with excitement and be tickled with laughter. Taurus, resisting the joy and energy of this pill is pointless.

 

Gemini (May 22 – June 20) (May 22 – June 20)

Geminis enjoy a good debate. They have much energy and are very cerebral. Unsurprisingly, they jump from one activity to the next with little rest.

We recommend Full spectrum CBD Softgels for these social butterflies because it acts as a supportive friend. It will make Gemini feel euphoric, inspired, creative, relaxed, and possibly more talkative, which may be beneficial, especially if they are in the company of other Geminis!

 

Cancer (June 21 to July 22)

The family and the home are everything for Cancerians. Being around the people they care about is a source of nourishment for them. They also enjoy feeding others. Cancers, on the other hand, can be highly protective of both others and themselves.

CBD Oils Liquid Capsules is our recommendation for them because they will embrace their sensitive, compassionate, and empathetic heart. After consuming it, you will not feel emotionally overburdened or downright crabby and blue.

 

Leo (July 23 to August 22)

Leo is the life and soul of the party. They are appreciative, jubilant, generous, and dramatic. They usually consider themselves royalty and choose to be treated as such.

If Leo wishes to emphasize their fiery public persona, they should try CBD+CBG Broad Spectrum THC-Free Capsules, another classic product that offers historic fuel to one’s creative thinking and energy levels.

 

Virgo (August 23 to September 22)

Virgo is the bit of a control freak and the enslaved person’s sign. Their ultimate goal is mastery, so don’t be surprised if you come across a Virgo cannabis user who is a true connoisseur!

They may also be exact with their cannabis dosing. If this is the case, edible CBD pills such as CBD isolate tablets allow them to easily divide their servings, giving them more control over how intoxicated they become.

 

Libra (September 23 to October 22)

Libra seeks balance, especially in romantic relationships. They value their relationships with groups, friends, and romantic partners. They prefer to chill in a social or one-on-one setting rather than alone. They constantly seek the perfect balance of symmetry in their work and outerwear.

CBD Broad-Spectrum Capsules deliver an even balance of head and body effects for the sign that values balance. That will make the excellent Libra feel even more like themselves!

 

 

Scorpio (October 23 to November 21)

Scorpio is regarded as the zodiac’s most enigmatic sign. They are captivating, strong-willed, and susceptible – despite their mastery of hiding their emotions.

They won’t consume cannabis products with just anyone; they’ll only have it with people they like or want to have fun with. In light of this, we recommend Full spectrum liquid Softgels CBD capsules, a fairly stimulating pill that can help Scorpio get in the mood for chilling.

 

Sagittarius (November 22 to December 21)

Sagittarius is the sign of the adventurer, traveler, student, and philosopher. They’re all about broadening their horizons and searching for the ultimate meaning of life. And when they want something, they concentrate on it, aim carefully, and release the arrow.

As a result, Sagittarius has a wild side as well. For them, we recommend Full spectrum liquid Softgels CBD capsules. This will help to calm their body down.

 

Capricorn (December 22 to January 21)

Capricorns want to get things done. They’re ambitious and practical, never losing sight of their ultimate goal.

You have to admire that tenacity and grit. And, because we want Capricorn to keep doing what they’re doing, we recommend CBD+Melatonin Capsules to help them decompress because everyone needs to recharge their batteries.

 

Aquarius (January 22 to February 20)

Aquarius is the archetypal outside-the-box thinker. They enjoy making plans and exploring new possibilities, pushing the boundaries in everything they do, especially after a good bong rip.

Full spectrum liquid Softgels CBD capsules will provide you with a massive dose of inspiration before bringing you back down to earth so you can begin creating your first schematics! Also, there’s plenty of stuff on the net about how to make cbd vape oil.

 

Pisces (February 21 to March 20)

Pisces sometimes live in a fantasy world where they don’t need things like clocks or to-do lists. They are more concerned with removing all barriers and restrictions so they can sail freely and openly in the vast cosmic ocean of life. Simply put, they prefer to go with the flow.

CBD+CBG+CBN tablets will complement Pisces’ nature, help them relax even more, and keep them reasonably alert to remain in the physical dimension.

 

Conclusion

Different types of people are drawn to various CBD products. Also, if you’re adventurous and want to try something new, your Zodiac sign appears to be a great way to find a CBD pill that’s right for you.

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