Thursday • May 16 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
His Excellency, Governor Groomer, has been harsh regarding US Senate candidate Don Bolduc. Unsupportive. He took sides until his guy (Chuck Morse) lost the primary to the General. So what’s changed?
Typically, when Granite Staters choose the wrong Republican, the money people fold up their checkbooks and disappear in the mist. They’d rather have the Democrat than that Republican. It happens almost every year. So, what’s changed?
Sununu suddenly thinks Bolduc is a great guy.
“We’re going to be having a good time in early November. Senator Hassan is going to lose, no question. She’s one of the most unliked, with the lowest favorability ratings Senators in the country. General Bolduc won a tough fought primary with very little money,” Sununu said. “Now he’s raising some money, he’s getting some national attention, he’s an amazing individual with this war hero background that just wants to stand up and serve.”
Is it Bolduc or the NH GOPe?
Bolduc got endorsed by the best US ambassador to the UN in my lifetime (part-time turncoat), Nikki Haley (R-GOPe). Now, Sununu is saying nice things. Tom Cotton, who isn’t supposed to be a GOPe guy, supports Bolduc. So, what gives?
Did Don’s flip on the election legitimacy thing unlock the hearts and minds of the Republican Donor class?
Whatever the change in climate, someone told Chris Sununu it was okay to like Don Bolduc, and I’d like to know who.
His dad. That’d be my guess. Sununu Sr., former Bush white house chief of staff and connected GOPe insider, has a lot of influence with the RINO caucus, Never-Trumpers, and such. Did he pop the cork on this, or has Don impressed them with his ability to jump on a different flank, and they feel confident he can be massaged when needed?
Dean Spiliotes, SNHU Civic Scholar and founder of NH Political Capital, said it’s likely a bid for party unity going into November.
“This doesn’t mean that Sununu has changed his opinion of Bolduc. It’s simply your typical party unity play, and perhaps a way for Sununu to remove a potential distraction from his own reelection bid,” Spiliotes said.
I’m impressed by your credentials, Dean, and hey, appearances on NHPR and CSPAN, good for you, but I’ve been in the NH political weeds for almost 15 years, and I can count the times the GOPe backed a non-GOPe candidate for office. The number is very close to one.
And while I would love to believe that they understand that this moment in time is more critical than their good-old-boy/gurl club bullsh!t, that would be like asking a blowfish to make a baked Alaska. It’s not in their nature.
I am suspicious.
I want Don to win, but I’m not ready to commit to any theory about why the left on the right is suddenly supportive. Is it all talk and no checks? I didn’t look.
I know that Gen. Bolduc is a seasoned warfighter and knows a thing or two about misdirection in the battlespace. And while I can’t say it for a fact, I would feel a lot better if this was all a tactic to get what he needs to get elected so he can vote based on how he ran for office up to the day before the primary.
The way he answered questions for us in his two-hour GrokGauntlet.
I’m voting for Don no matter what and still holding out hope that is the guy we’ll send to DC if he displaces Margret Wood (Hassan!), but you have to admit, this sudden outpouring of enthusiasm has to make you a bit suspicious.
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In the ensuing 233 years, many Americans have lost their fear of a tyrannical authority. Indeed, some of our ‘elite’ seem to love such authority, which they hope to control for their own tyrannical purposes, and these elites have lately gotten into the habit of using the phrase ‘our democracy’ as if there were a consensus agreement in favor of the nebulous concept this phrase is meant to express. Specifically, the elites who endlessly blather on about ‘our democracy’ claim that it is threatened by Donald Trump and his supporters, so that ‘our democracy’ can only be safe if 74 million voters are effectively disenfranchised.
In other words, ‘our democracy’ requires the suppression of dissent, which certainly is not what most Americans think of as democracy.”
-Stacy McCain (Historic Thoughts on ‘Our Democracy’)
Added by Glen Reynolds: “When Democrats talk about “our democracy,” what they really mean is their democracy. Your votes don’t count.”
And these people who want the rest of us to believe that the United States is a democracy really are totalitarians trying to redefine what the US is. We are a Constitutional/Representative Republic that uses democratic processes to elect those representatives and NOT a Democracy. Our Founding Fathers studied history and saw that almost every democracy fell into totalitarianism in one fashion or another. By instituting a set of checks and balances
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Over the past two years, Chris Sununu has shown his true colors. Shortly after Lord Fauci called for lockdowns in the name of corona-fascism, Sununu shut down the legislature and promoted himself to dictator.
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The women’s volleyball match between Duke University and Brigham Young University had ended, but the turmoil had just begun. A black Duke player complained that every time she served, a fan heckled her using the N-word.
The response was immediate. The perpetrator was identified and declared guilty. He was immediately banned from any future Brigham Young sports events, and apologies from the University were issued. The Duke player was featured on mainstream media and cable news TV, heralded as a brave example for the rest of us to learn from.
The University of South Carolina announced it would no longer honor its commitment to play BYU in basketball. It was all wound up into a tight ball until someone noticed no other person had heard any of the slurs {including any of the other players}. An extensive investigation of the incident was then undertaken. Many primary source witnesses were interviewed, and large amounts of real-time digital video were examined. And no evidence was found that anyone used the slur.
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The Duke player had perpetrated another vicious progressive “Woke Hoax.”
Brigham Young University reversed its decision and reinstated the falsely accused person’s sporting event privileges. From the NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS there were crickets. Duke stood behind the disgraced volleyball player, and the University of South Carolina had no comment.
All too often, innocent people are falsely smeared by members of Progressive-protected, so-called marginalized populations. The “Woke Hoax” is their preferred Modus Operandi. Jesse Smollett, The Duke lacrosse scandal, the UVA Rolling Stone Scandal, and perhaps the worst example, the confirmation hearing for Judge Kavanaugh, come to mind.
In Kavanaugh’s case, three women placed horrible sexual misconduct accusations against Kavanaugh, of which none was substantiated {Two have recanted, and Christine Blasey Ford hides behind her “repressed memory” version of events}. This is not to mention the FBI tips line that lit up with hundreds of bogus claims against the Judge. The list of false accusers goes on and on, with one common denominator: Nothing happens to the progressive-protected accusers, and in many cases, they are glorified {think Christine Blasey Ford and the Duke volleyball player}.
Where does this heinous progressive “Woke Hoax” behavior come from?
Elite progressives have developed a religious-like fanaticism that America is systemically racist, homophobic, and misogynistic. And these beliefs have led to the progressive condoned malicious use of the “Woke Hoax.” The “Hoaxes” are not just confined to individuals advancing their agenda by falsely accusing non-progressives of vile behavior. Fabricated narratives {Hoaxes} are essential for progressives to successfully {think George Soros} bend America to their socialistic will.
Many elites have been “hoaxed” from the moment they were born, groomed through “Woke” public/private high schools, and their elite colleges.
The author’s elite alma mater, Williams College, provides a good example. Over the last several decades, there have been two incidents where racial slurs were written on a building. One was quickly proven to be written by a black student, and the other had no final determination, but the only person seen near where the racial slur was found was a black female student activist. Common sense would dictate the truth about the racists’ hoaxes would come out, and life would go on, but that’s not what happened. Classes were canceled, making way for a campus-wide discussion {think indoctrination} of systemic racism.
To understand how absurd this is, a description of Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Williams College is required. The campus is located in the Northwest corner of Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains, and besides the affirmative action students and the “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity faculty,” there are minimal minorities. The Williams faculty has no Republican members. The student body mimics Harvard and probably graduates the same 4% of conservative students. Williamstown is one of the most privileged “Woke “places in America. After the George Floyd murder, the entire town was covered with Black Lives Matter signs, and gay pride flags were ubiquitous.
Within the described dystopian background, the next episode of the twilight zone at Williams commenced.
A Great progressive “Woke Hoax” was perpetrated. Despite having no demonstrable racism on campus, all the students had their preconceived ideas about systemic racism reinforced. And any students who were not previously enlightened were baptized into wokeness.
Sadly, these well-meaning woke-indoctrinated elite privileged mostly white students think they will enter the world as progressive Social Justice Warriors, but in reality, they were going to unwittingly participate in the greatest “Woke Hoax” of them all, that America is systemically bad and only the enlightened, such as themselves, can fix the problem.
For the last several generations, reoccurring indoctrination has infiltrated America. The progressive elites allow no discussion in the marketplace of ideas. Anything that’s contrary to their religious woke principles is a violation of their “safe space” and is not allowed. Violators are immediately punished. Freedom of speech is a casualty of the woke religion and they will do whatever is required {think Woke Hoax} to achieve their goals of destroying America’s traditional values, its religions, and even the idea of American exceptionalism.
The “Woke Hoax” mentality is spreading and causing severe harm. Its goal? To create a docile, subservient population that can be easily controlled.
Anywhere, suburban USA
The married mother has a very busy life. Between her job and her two children, a boy and a girl, she never seems to stop. In 2020 she and her husband voted for Joe Biden because everyone said Trump was a nasty person and shouldn’t be allowed to be President. At some level, she knew the country was doing very well under President Trump, but it didn’t matter. He had to go. The “Woke Hoax “of the 2020 Presidential election had succeeded.
Over the last 21 months, things have gotten really hard. The family grocery bills and energy costs are way up. The electricity bill doubled, and gas was still up a dollar and a half per gallon. Everything was now costing more. The young couple was thinking about buying a house, but the family 401(k) account and college education 529 accounts were down 20%. Mortgage rates were over 6%, their rent was up, and with massive inflation, they could not afford it. Biden said the economy was good. The “Woke Hoax” was destroying her family’s financial future.
She could no longer go into New York City because after the George Floyd riots and the defunded police. It wasn’t safe. It seemed like it was only a matter of time before the violence reached her neighborhood. Biden said diversity, inclusion, and equity would make things better. The “Woke Hoax” made her family less safe.
During the Covid shutdown, she was very disturbed to see and hear her children being indoctrinated with CRT, and by the news, her friend had lost a son to a fentanyl overdose. She knew sex traffickers and drugs were coming over the open southern border along with millions of illegal immigrants, but Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security said the border was secure. The “Woke Hoax” was destroying America from within.
The elections were coming up, and some of her girlfriends, who declined to have families, were outraged that the SCOTUS overturned Roe versus Wade. Many of these woke women had abortions of convenience, so they could stay on their professional track. She had always been a feminist, but something wasn’t quite right. Nothing had changed. Abortion was still readily available, and rape and incest, along with the physical health of the mother, were carved out. She knew a young man who was born at 26 weeks and was doing well. As she looked into his eyes, she wondered, how could anyone say terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks wasn’t taking a life? The “Woke Hoax” was falling apart.
During his college time, another friend’s son had been accused by a female student of sexual inappropriateness. The boy was thrown out of school, but in a court of law, he was finally given due process and was vindicated. She knew this type of injustice had been stopped during the Trump administration but now Biden was bringing it back. The “Woke Hoax” had hurt her friend’s son and someday could hurt hers.
She loved watching her daughter play soccer, but now transgender boys made the competition unfair. And they wanted access to her girl’s bathroom and showers. The “Woke Hoax” was actively harming her daughter.
Her children had done well in school, but she wondered why standardized tests were being abandoned and why teachers were no longer grading on achievement but instead were promoting diversity and equity ahead of hard work and merit. She wondered why children were being put to the back of the line because of the color of their skin. The “Woke Hoax” was stealing her children’s future.
It is time for Americans to see through the deceitful fog of the “Woke Hoaxes” and act. And there is only one way to drive a stake through the heart of the hoaxsters who want to control our lives.
Vote like your family’s, and your country’s survival depend on it! Because it does!!
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Yes, for those on the Right, I agree, we don’t need more NEA dues paying teachers that then go to the NEA (similarly, AFT) to then go political against our childrens’ best interest. That said, I think that this Powerline post on Public School Bloat is spot on: Bush’s No Administrator Left Behind Act. Don’t forget, either absolutely idiotic highly paid DIE poo-bahs (or as the Edu-Industrial Complex calls them “Diversity, Equity, and Diversity” “administrators”) that have been hired at a rabbit speed rate makes student achievement increases look like slugs.
Here’s the chart that makes me right:
Yep, those DIE guys and gals are in that 88% increase. And unless you hold that Wokeness IQ is going to make some elementary student smarter in academic rigor, it’s absolutely worthless in being able to quote hundreds or thousands of “preferred pronoun” sets.
Not enough parents are asking the hard questions of “what is the ROI of these slots in terms of achievement vs my taxes?”. They should. No more auto-pilot.
My question, for years when I was on our town’s budget committee, was “what is the ratio of direct to non-direct labor”? How many “heads” that were overhead (administrators, support staff) versus those doing the work that schools are tasked in doing (teachers) in terms of head count? In terms of aggregate costs (salaries and bennies)? Per capita?
Until more parents start asking that AND GETTING ANSWERS, that Admin Staff line isn’t going to decrease any time soon.
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So there were elections in Italy yesterday. And the winning party has been nearly universally described by the Western press as “right-wing”, “far-right,” blah, blah, blah. Well … try thinking for yourself.
Actually listen to Giorgia Meloni talk about faith, family, and country … and then you’ll understand exactly what the elites mean by these labels:
This is Italy’s new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
I’ve never heard any politician so perfectly explain what we’re up against and why we fight.
When you watch this video, you’ll quickly realize why the establishment is afraid of her.
pic.twitter.com/CswR8o3mjg— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 26, 2022
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The Left-coast has a radical notion. They can pretend they’ve achieved net zero emissions by offshoring emissions to foreign and third-world countries with less environmental regulation. A dirtier world, just not in their backyard.
Related: This Zero Emission Plan Doesn’t Zero Squat – It Offshores the Emissions to Other Countries
As we’ve noted before, when Democrats say Net Zero, it doesn’t mean emissions. It means choices. You get none. You will drive an electric vehicle, or you’ll not drive at all. To achieve that goal Gavin Nuisance and his pack of green jackals intends to fine automakers who don’t sell enough electric vehicles beginning in 2035.
California passed a new regulation on Aug. 25 that will require 100% of new cars sold in California by 2035 to be electric, up from the current 12%. Interim targets also require 35% of vehicles sold in the state by 2026 to produce zero emissions, rising to 68% by 2030.
California aims to enforce its rules by penalizing automakers up to $20,000 per vehicle if they fail to meet the state’s sales quotas.
Who among us understands that this meddling will result in fewer “automakers” selling vehicles (or at least fewer dealerships)? That means less competition for already expensive vehicles most people can’t afford (or charge).
California Democrats have also passed a law outlawing independent truckers. Drivers who refuse to be employees of the companies for whom they ship will have to pay 20,000.00 to California for permits and insurance. That’s bad, but it gets worse. California is also plotting to ban diesel trucks. You know, in the name of net zero.
The proposal would require medium and heavy-duty trucks entering ports and railyards to be fully electric by 2035, according to the report.
They believe that these emissions “disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities due to racist zoning policies.” Zoning policies in place for decades in Democrat-run urban toilets?
Blame the truckers while offshoring emissions in exchange for false EV prophets whose parts/manufacture happens to the detriment of people of color someplace else.
The mining, transportation, processing, and manufacture; maybe even assembly, using dirty coal, most likely, and emitting all sorts of things into the planet’s atmosphere.
That’s a great plan, Governor Nuisance. One quick question. If it’s called “global” warming, or Climate change, or whatever the name is this month, how is offshoring emissions to foreign and third-world countries with less environmental regulation better for the planet?
And if all your vehicles are electric, where do you plan to pilfer the nearly 8 billion a year you collect in gas taxes? And if no one can afford to buy the cars or to drive them and those that do can’t even charge their vehicles, how is a mileage tax going to replace all the revenue? And who is likely to be disproportionately affected by that? People who are trapped on the government dole, perhaps, and can’t afford food or electricity – not that California will have much of either, thanks to Democrats.
It’s just more planned destruction that Democrats in other states seek to emulate.
What if we got rid of Governor Nuisance and the Democrats running California and America? In every state, from sea to shining sea.
It’s THE only plan that can save America.
Net Zero Elected Democrats.
HT | Daily Caller
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Laser pointer, sharp bladed pointy things, and just pull the trigger. Not something that I’d want to have the north end of such a device pointing at me. Or as the post says: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should,”.
Actually, I’m kinda glad it was done: “impressively terrifying”.
Once you learn to hit a target with an arrow, hitting it again from varying angles and distances is relatively easy with some minor aim adjustments. That’s not the case when throwing knives. Added spin is needed to give the knife enough kinetic energy to embed itself into a target, with a specific number of rotations needed to ensure its sharp tip hits the target first, not the flat side or blunt handle. If you’ve ever been axe throwing, you’ll know what we’re talking about.
As with many other talented makers and hardware hackers on YouTube, Quint decided that brute force engineering was a better alternative to diligent practice, so they created a handheld launcher that uses high-performance servo motors, solenoids, custom 3D-printed components, and some heavy batteries to hurl throwing knives with the right amount of spin so they hit the mark and stick every single time. To allow the launcher to work from varying distances, the launcher even employs a LiDAR sensor that’s used to measure how far away the target is and adjust its green targeting laser appropriately.
Yeah, that’sadmirekills (hardware? What do I want with hardware??) but I do have admiration for folks that can do that kind of engineering.
(H/T: Gizmodo)
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NH Civics in New Hampshire includes this statement on its website: “To develop, nurture, and maintain an informed, engaged, and civil New Hampshire citizenry.” That doesn’t sound too bad.
And since we are desperate, as a nation, to educate children in the subject of Civics, it would make sense that any organization focused on Civics would be a welcome addition in this fight for Civics literacy.
Since Social Studies and Civics has become a political tug of war in the classroom, it would be nice to have a professional organization cut through the politics, and focus on quality academic content. We have an illiteracy problem in this country not a lack of illiterate activists. What we need is schools to ignore the political factions, and focus on good quality academic content so that graduates are literate in the subject of Civics.
One might think that NH Civics would be that kind of organization, but unfortunately when you peruse their website or look at their action items, you can see that they are trying to promote more activism for social justice causes. Social justice is anything but real justice….it’s a recipe for illiteracy.
NH Civics, on their Facebook page, called for action on pending federal legislation (Civics Secures Democracy Act CSDA) that would bribe states to push Critical Race Theory in the classroom.
Here is my comment I added to their post in case they delete or hide it:
Stanley Kurtz has exposed what this kind of federal legislation would do to our local schools, and the Civics Alliance opposed it here. The Civics Alliance said this of the pending legislation pushed by NH Civics:
In practice, the Civics Secures Democracy Act will enable the federal government to impose both Critical Race Theory and “Action Civics”—vocational training for ideologically partisan protest and lobbying—upon America’s schools.
and
…the Civics Secures Democracy Act would supercharge politicized education around the country, at precisely the moment when the public has rejected it.and
Under the pretense of supporting American civic education, this bill would fund education research and teaching initiatives with an unmistakable ideological agenda. The Biden administration made that clear when it issued priorities for American civics and history grants, guidelines which approvingly referenced The 1619 Project and the work of Ibram X. Kendi. The Biden administration history and civics grant guidelines amount to a call for Critical Race Theory in education, and the Civics Secures Democracy Act would fund it.
and
Lobbyists are now actively pushing a revised version of the Civics Secures Democracy Act, with the hope that these revisions will placate critics and garner more bipartisan support. This revised version, however, does nothing to change the ideological partisan nature of the bill.[1] The bill’s end result will be a civics education that divides Americans into mutually hostile factions, forfeiting the common ground that real civics aims to cultivate.
Now that we know NH Civics is actively engaging as a lobbyist for this legislation, they’ve exposed their partisan leftist agenda. This agenda is not to improve quality academic content in the classroom to improve literacy in Civics, it’s a recipe for further dumbing down the subject of Civics in favor of radical political activism.
This organization has tried to present itself as a credible entity in New Hampshire to improve the quality of Civics education in our schools. However, this isn’t the first time they revealed their radical agenda.
Back in 2017, Joel Westheimer was one of the guest speakers for one of their events.
Who is Joel Westheimer? He wrote the book, “What Kind of Citizen…Educating our Children for the Common Good.” You can watch a chat session between Westheimer and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers here:
The common theme is action civics to promote leftist ideology versus quality academic content in Civics.
It was Biden’s Department of Education who released the text of a proposed new rule establishing priorities for grants in American History and Civics Education programs. That rule gives priority to grant “projects that incorporate racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives.” The rule goes on to cite and praise the New York Times’ “landmark” 1619 Project, as well as the work of Critical Race Theorist Ibram X. Kendi, as examples of radical political agenda the Biden administration wants to push in our schools.
American History and Civics Education programs can play an important role in this critical effort by supporting teaching and learning that reflects the breadth and depth of our Nation’s diverse history and the vital role of diversity in our Nation’s democracy. For example, there is growing acknowledgement of the importance of including, in the teaching and learning of our country’s history, both the consequences of slavery, and the significant contributions of Black Americans to our society. This acknowledgement is reflected, for example, in the New York Times’ landmark “1619 Project” and in the resources of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History.[2]
Accordingly, schools across the country are working to incorporate anti-racist practices into teaching and learning. As the scholar Ibram X. Kendi has expressed, “[a]n antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences—that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group. Antiracist ideas argue that racist policies are the cause of racial inequities.” [3] It is critical that the teaching of American history and civics creates learning experiences that validate and reflect the diversity, identities, histories, contributions, and experiences of all students.
Anti-racism IS the racist Critical Race Theory taught in classrooms around the country, and in many forms, violates our civil rights as Americans. So this is what NH Civics stands for?
I suppose it’s good to know who stands for quality public schools in New Hampshire and who stands for dumbed-down activism. If NH Civics is going to play an active role in Civics education in New Hampshire, at least you know what they mean by that.
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Actually, I thought this inspired rant by Jesse Watters was aimed more at the Democrat Wokesters that are ruining America – a blunderbuss of bits and pieces in showing how nutty their actions are:
Republicans have to meet Biden head-on. If they’re being called extreme, this is what you do:
Oh, you guys are calling US extreme? You guys want to talk about transgender sex education to six year olds? You want the six year olds listening to the sex talk with masks on? And, you’re telling the six year olds with the masks on that they’re also racists. And the School they’re going to is Abe Lincoln Elementary and he’s racist so we’re going to change the name of that and if the parents complain, we’re going to wiretap your phone.
Greg, they want to empty the prisons and open up the border and want to power the economy with windmills.
God’s looking down and laughing at them.He put the oil in the ground. He doesn’t want the wind to power; I mean, it’s stupid (Gutfield: I wouldn’t use that argument but go ahead.).
Wind is for birds not for power. OIl is for the energy.
And then he comes out and bribing liberals that went to law school with $10,000 checks. And they get out of law school, they can’t define what a woman is and then he just puts them on the Supreme Court.
Greg, this guy is insane. He just came out and said that Republicans are a threat to Democracy. This is the guy and the FBI that rigged the last election and then raided his political opponent’s house.
Trump got impeached for ASKING to investigate Joe Biden. Joe Biden is actually investigating Donald Trump. No one is talking about abuse of Power. No one is talking about it at all. Why aren’t they talking about it, Greg?
Because they are reading from a teleprompter at MSNBC.
-Jesse Watters (Fox News, The Five, 9/6/2022)
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and I will back-edit to include the link. And maybe there will be a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Don’t forget last Friday’s Meme Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons. Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.
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I know that some of these may be small. I tried making them bigger and it looks horrible layout-wise. So I suggest that for ones that are too small, right-click and embiggen yourself. You can also do CNTL-+ to zoom in on your screen. CNTL-0 (that’s a zero) will reset your screen back.
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I read a rumor – rumor! – that the pharma companies are now dumping mRNA into regular vaccines too.
What continually “gets” me is that, if true, how do people live with this on their consciences? I know there are some depopulationist ideologues, and some who need the paycheck or are getting bribed, but at some point should at least a few be stricken with conscience attacks?
I have heard on the radio discussions of research into using mRNA in conventional vaccines above-board as well.
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Seven Hairy Hells. What is this, amateur hour? Meanwhile the Left are hard-bitten missionaries bent on razing America to create their paradise.
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If she’s genuine – and I’ve seen accusations of “controlled opposition”, etc. – she’d better watch her back. Doubtless Italy’s Deep State will work to stymie her. Or take her out. Certainly Italy will get punished for their being uppity against the WEF.
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Alternative albeit harsher version. “You know, that’s really stupid. You must be Jabbed and boosted”.
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My choice for the best of the lot:
Not a funny one, though. This is a subway poster in NYC. It shows what you should do in the event of a “radiation emergency”. Really. It echoes a TV ad NYC had a few weeks ago about what to do should “something” happen.
Meanwhile, we keep pushing-pushing-pushing Russia into a corner. (See the WORLD STABILITY section in yesterday’s Survival Sunday.)
Note: Radioactive iodine has a half-life of about eight days. The single “best” plan is to flood your thyroid now; keep going through IMHO at least 40 days after an “event” to get to the point where the stuff’s decayed off to close-to-zero. The bigger danger, again, being an amateur, is Strontium 90 which has a half-life of 30-something years. Your body thinks it’s calcium and will stick it into your bones, next to your marrow stem cells… where, as an aggregate, it will last your entire lifetime.
But it boils down to this: NYC is now pushing “awareness” of the possibility of a nuclear attack. That’s double-plus ungood.
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Please do consider my bumper sticker:
And if you’re pro-Israel, this coffee mug:
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Palate Cleanser:
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Sheesh. I would have thought that with her illness starting to show up in late August, that would have been “pop news” and might have had a bit more recognition than normal from the younger (and ill-educated) set. Sigh, not so much.
Our form of government was meant for a serious people and these chuckleheads are about as unserious about what the REAL important stuff is. But, what do I know – why should I expect them to know where Queen Elizabeth was from when they have no idea what their own Governor’s name is, how many branches of Government there are (this was really bad when I watched it), or when was the War of 1812?
So, here’s another MitS segment that will make their Moms and Dads EVAH so proud of the tuition money they spent:
In a recent video, YouTuber James Klug set out on a journey to ask members of Gen Z basic questions about the United States, geography and world history, among other subjects. Some of the answers he received are incredibly discouraging.
“We’ve all seen those videos showing how little Gen Z knows about literally everything, so today we’ve come to Los Angeles, California, and we’re gonna figure out if this is really the case,” Klug said at the beginning of the video. He then hit the streets to ask people his various questions.
he probably cheery picked footage of the very ignoran people , and decided not to include people who actually knew the answers
— Armando (@w1ll1a23) August 23, 2022
and this:
Oh, and that reference to pop culture? This proves it:
yet they did not hesitate to identify the three Kardashian sisters as “Khloe, Kim and Kourtney.”
And this was downright dispiriting:
For example, a group of women from Ireland were able to correctly identify the number of stars on the U.S. flag and the capital of the United States.
IRELAND!!! And Americans can’t? And the Teachers Unions are SO proud of the product they churn out?
But those American children certainly will know their pronouns and identify the Oppressors in society, amirite?
(H/T: IJR)
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If you maybe, sort of, kind of, need some motivation in your day, this might be it. It’s a song by Aaron Lewis, released back in October of 2021 (sorry, we missed it), but it’s no less relevant today and in need of hearing and sharing as we creep inexorably toward the next “most important election” in our history.
He asks a question we may ask ourselves and each other all the time. Am I the only one “Shakin’ my head and thinkin’ somethin’ ain’t right?” The answer is no, but some days it is difficult to believe it. People want to hide their heads in the sand while you, like Aaron, are wondering, “Is it just me? Am I losin’ my mind? Am I standin’ on the edge of the end of time?”
We try to ensure everyone knows they are not alone in this. If you are truly committed to defending and advancing conservatarianism, individual liberty, limited government, and natural rights, that have your back. And while we are content to stay in the fight 24/7/365, most of our folks, especially the folks we need in the middle, want to return to their lives.
Hey, we won; game over. But it’s never over. That evil never rests.
“The battle against tyranny is eternal, as is the desire for liberty but tyranny never rests, so – like them – neither shall we.”
But you’re not the only one.
Lyrics below the music video.
Am I the only one here tonight
Shakin’ my head and thinkin’ somethin’ ain’t right?
Is it just me? Am I losin’ my mind?
Am I standin’ on the edge of the end of time?
Am I the only one? Tell me I’m not
Who thinks they’re takin’ all the good we got
And turnin’ it bad? Hell, I’ll be damned
I think I’m turnin’ into my old man
Am I the only one willin’ to bleed
Or take a bullet for bein’ free
Screamin’, “What the fuck!” at my TV
For tellin’ me, yeah, are you tellin’ me?
That I’m the only one willin’ to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue, burnin’ on the ground?
Another statue comin’ down in a town near you
Watchin’ the threads of Old Glory come undone
Am I the only one not brainwashed
Makin’ my way through the land of the lost
Who still gives a shit and worries ’bout his kids
As they try to undo all the things he did?
Am I the only one who can’t take no more
Screamin’, “If you don’t like it, there’s the fuckin’ door!”
This ain’t the freedom we’ve been fightin’ for
It was somethin’ more, yeah, it was somethin’ more
Am I the only one willin’ to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue, burnin’ on the ground?
Another statue comin’ down in a town near you
Watchin’ the threads of Old Glory come undone
Not the only one
I can’t be the only one
Am I the only one who quits singin’ along
Every time they play a Springsteen song?
Am I the only one sittin’ here
Still holdin’ on, holdin’ back my tears
For the ones who paid with the lives they gave?
God bless the USA
I’m not the only one willin’ to fight
For my love of the red and white
And the blue, burnin’ on the ground
Another statue comin’ down in a town near you
Watchin’ the threads of Old Glory come undone
I’m not the only one
I can’t be the only one
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Just too much going on, and I’ve fallen behind, again, on putting education stuff up that I think is important. So, here’s a few more snippets, some reformating, emphasis mine/
Transgender Activists Manipulate Parents With Suicide Threats:
“Do you want a dead daughter or a live son?” This question, which is really a threat, is the central tenet of the campaign selling gender ideology to parents.
Parents are often told that they are putting their gender-nonconforming child at risk of suicide if they don’t medically “transition” him or her to appear as the opposite sex or at least treat their child as the sex he or she chooses. The child then internalizes this information and believes that suicide is an inevitable outcome without transition, as opposed to an unhealthy response to internal distress. The pernicious assumption behind this horrific question is that parents do not have the best interest of their children at heart and that the “experts” know better. Nothing could be further from the truth.
…Misguided advocates for so-called transition procedures may be familiar with the suicide-centered activist slogans that populate their social media feed and the materials distributed by the many professional associations captured by this ideology, but they definitely haven’t done the research to familiarize themselves with the irreversible damage that so many young people experience after transitioning to appear as the opposite sex.
That damage can include, according to a list compiled at The Federalist, “loss of bone density, increased risk of blood clots, premature brain aging and increased aggression, reduced capacity
…A recent analysis by Jay Greene of The Heritage Foundation found that “existing literature on this topic suffers from a series of weaknesses that prevent researchers from being able to draw credible causal conclusions about a relationship between medical interventions and suicide.” (The Daily Signal is the news and analysis site of The Heritage Foundation.)
I participated in a recent event discussing Greene’s conclusion that it is possible that “increasing minors’ access to cross-sex interventions is associated with a significant increase in the adolescent suicide rate.” The findings suggest that the “gender-affirming” policies and standards of care put in place in the name of protecting children from suicide must be reevaluated.
New Study, Experts Debunk Trans Activists’ Child Suicide Claims in Puberty Blocker Debate
…A panel of experts spoke on the dangers posed by that “either/or” dichotomy at an event, “The Effect of Access to Puberty Blockers and Cross-Sex Hormones on Youth Suicide Rates,” at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
The speakers discussed the significance of Heritage’s newly released, breakthrough study “Puberty Blockers, Cross-Sex Hormones, and Youth Suicide,” which examined the increased rate of youth suicide in states that allow gender-dysphoric minors to take cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers without parental consent.
The study’s findings on suicide rates among gender-dysphoric youths run counter to the narrative of the transgender activists.
…Gentles said that one of the most concerning aspects of the study’s findings is how the parents’ role in their child’s life is being usurped by medical, educational, and governmental institutions that actively conceal children’s health information from parents.
“Parents know that a risky regimen of puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries won’t bring their children the peace and joy they so desperately crave,” Gentles said. She added that the individuals making experimental but irreversible medical decisions for children in place of parents have insufficient knowledge to intervene.
Heritage’s study contradicts the narrative that “gender-affirming care” is necessary and “lifesaving” in many circumstances, finding that “increasing minors’ access to cross-sex interventions is associated with a significant increase in the adolescent suicide rate.”
…The Heritage study released Monday found that 2020 saw 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 residents ages 12 to 23 in states that allow minors access to puberty blockers and other gender-reassignment procedures without parental consent. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)…
California Lawyers Train Teachers to Deceive Parents While Grooming Children
This story is a prime example showing why the label “groomer” is accurate. Public school teachers in Ventura County, California, received advice from a law firm to help them deceive parents of children who are experiencing symptoms of gender dysphoria or confusion about their sexuality.
Gender LCBQ published a blog post on Substack detailing the presentation the lawyers gave to the educators:
In November of 2021, the Ventura County Office of Education hosted a webinar over Zoom for area public school educators on “the legal and practical considerations for ‘affirming’ the identities of transgender and ‘gender diverse’ students” in school. This webinar offers a rare peek into how county offices of education in California are training staff on student gender changes. This webinar was comprehensive, lasting three hours, with 94 slides in the presentation.
The attorneys giving the webinar gave teachers a myriad of suggestions on how they can encourage young students to embrace a new gender identity without their parents finding out. Some of these include:
Encouraged to give students “get to know you” forms at the start of the school year to elicit students to declare their personal pronouns.
Encouraged to stop the use of gendered words like “mom and dad” and instead use gender-neutral terms like “parents” in the name of inclusivity.
Told that parents have the right to opt their children out of comprehensive sex education, but the opt out does not apply to LGBT-inclusive curriculum if it is taught outside of sex education.
Instructed that students have a right to privacy that trumps a parent’s right to know.
The lawyers also told educators that if they did not wish to obtain parents’ consent for their children to change their name or gender, they should refrain from keeping written records of discussions between the school and students. This is because parents have a right to view these documents.
…Another piece of advice from the attorneys suggested schools issue two different ID cards, one with the student’s legal name and another with their chosen name. This would allow them to trick their parents into believing nothing is going on. They also told educators they can use the child’s regular name when they send out mass emails to the families, and then change it back to their chosen name afterward.
Again, the entire purpose of the training was to help teachers cut parents out of the equation when it comes to instruction on sexuality and gender identity. The Gender Support Plan, in particular, when kept from the parents is a prime example of state-sponsored grooming. Sure, the teachers are not trying to have sexual relations with the students, but they are certainly grooming them to identify as transgender without their parents finding out. It is likely one of the reasons why there has been a 4,000 percent increase in young girls deciding to become transgender boys….
Colorado Mom Eviscerates School for Trying to Secretly Groom Her Daughter
… In the latest episode of “Progressives Are Full of Bovine Excrement,” a Colorado mom made headlines when she called out her 12-year-old daughter’s school for trying to push transgender identity on her child without her knowledge. Erin Lee says her child was “invited to an art club at school, only later to find it was a Gender and Sexualities Alliance about queer and transgender identity…When we picked her up from that program after school, we could see on her face that something was incredibly wrong,” she told New American magazine, Fox News Digital reported.
“It wasn’t art club, it was GSA, or Gender and Sexuality [Alliance] is what they’re calling it now,” she added.
The report continued:
The Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado where Lee’s daughter attended school told Fox News in a statement that GSAs were “established as safe spaces for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, allies, and any individual to come together with the goals of ensuring inclusivity, safety, and support. Discussions in GSAs may be confidential given that they can sometimes be sensitive in nature (i.e. a student may be “out” with specific friends but not with the community at large.)”
Can you say “keeping secrets from Mom and Dad with help from school staff”?
During the interview, Lee said her daughter’s homeroom teacher “invited her to stay after school for art club.” Lee gave her permission, but explained that “when she arrived in the classroom that day, she very quickly learned that it was actually GSA club.” They had invited an outside speaker to address the children in attendance.
…“She explained to my daughter that if she is not 100% comfortable in her female body, then she’s transgender,” Lee said. “She then told the kids that parents aren’t safe, and that it’s OK to lie to them about where they are in order to attend this meeting.”
Can you say “CRT (Critical Race Theory)? While Transgender Evangelism has taken the news top spot, CRT is still there under the surface:
New Jersey Parent Sues School for Curriculum That Allegedly Discriminates Against White Students
A parent is suing their child’s school district and its individual administrators in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, for teaching an educational curriculum that allegedly promotes “anti-racism” and discriminates against white students, according to legal documents.
The parent, listed as B.L. for privacy, is suing Mountain Lakes School District for certain parts of its curriculum put in place since the murder of George Floyd in 2020 that allegedly teach “racial political ideology” and create a “hostile educational environment” for white students, according to the lawsuit filed on June 6.
White students, and particularly one student listed as J.L. for privacy, have been allegedly discriminated against because of race, the lawsuit says.
Former Mountain Lakes High School Principal Frank Sanchez allegedly sent an email and a pamphlet to parents in June 2020 that said there was “institutionalized racism” within the school district, according to legal documents. Sanchez allegedly called the pamphlet a “curriculum post” he planned to refine by adding articles for parents on how to address “the lack of equity in America.”
Sanchez also allegedly encouraged students with a “call to arms” to attend Black Lives Matter protests, the suit claimed. White students, the suit said, were allegedly being taught about their “roles in perpetuating racism” and when the plaintiff brought concerns to the school, they were allegedly ignored.
Barr: Public Schools Are Now So Hostile To Christians, They’re Unconstitutional
…The West is facing its deepest civilizational crisis since Jesus Christ resurrected, and addressing the crisis requires removing militant secularists’ monopoly on education, former U.S. attorney general William Barr told a packed Christian conference in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday.
“We are going through a fateful crisis in western civilization. This is the deepest crisis we’ve faced in my mind since Christ,” Barr said. “That’s because our whole civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian tradition and that tradition is under sustained attack by increasingly militant secular forces.”
In a reprise of a 2019 speech at Notre Dame University that met massive corporate media backlash, Barr told the audience U.S. public schools have become hostile to traditional religion while wresting control of American children’s upbringing from their parents. This is a threat to the entire Western order, Barr said, because the unique American system of self-government cannot exist without a citizenry that is committed to traditional religion.
That’s because there are only two ways to restrain people from following disordered passions, Barr said: internal restraints, which are largely provided by one’s beliefs; and external restraints, which are typically provided by government. So in order to have a limited government, Barr noted in an explicit echo of the American Founders, citizens must practice self-restraint.
Such self-restraint is primarily developed through religious devotion, he said. But religious observance, the keystone of ordered liberty in the West, has been under systematic assault by anti-religious forces Barr called an “atheocracy,” his amalgam of the words “atheist theocracy.” These anti-religious forces now control the minds of American kids due to their monopoly on U.S. education institutions…
New K-12 standards bear similarity to higher ed claims that math is racist
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) recently published its second version of “Minnesota K–12 Academic Standards in Mathematics.” . The standards require students to “[s]olve problems connected to place, story, cultural practices, language and perspectives relevant to historical and contemporary Dakota and Anishinaabe communities.” The MDE document is a response to a 2021 Minnesota statute mandating that “[t]he commissioner [of education] must include the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities as related to the academic standards during the review and revision of the required academic standards.”
References to the Dakota and Anishinaabe communities, which are native to Minnesota, appear nearly 300 times across the 101-page MDE document.
This document aligns with the movement in higher education to label mathematics as “racist,” which Campus Reform has covered extensively…According to Angela Morabito, former spokeswoman for Campus Reform, this course reflected a trend in several schools across the United States infusing mathematics with a “social justice” agenda.
Loudoun County Public Schools hit with lawsuit for ‘moral corruption of children,’ parental ‘violations’
The lawsuit targets Loudoun County Public Schools for policies that ‘compel’ student speech, ‘pornographic books,’ and more
The conservative America First Legal (AFL), through its Center for Legal Equality, has filed a lawsuit against Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) “for the district’s systemic and egregious moral corruption of children and its deliberate, and almost gleeful, violations of parental rights to control the upbringing of their children.”
“Parents across the country should be shocked and horrified to see a once-respected school system systematically destroyed, all because LCPS believes that it has more of a right than parents to tell a captive audience of students what they MUST believe,” America First Legal said in a press release Tuesday. “Fortunately, as we have seen, there are no parents with more courage, more fight, and more rock-solid dedication to their children than in Loudoun County, Virginia.”
Some of the policies targeted in the America First Legal lawsuit, which the group noted was “on behalf of eleven courageous parents,” include Policy 8040 and Regulation 8040, which, the group said, “compels student speech, forces young children to use bathrooms and locker rooms with members of the opposite sex, and keeps parents in the dark when their children lead a double life as a different gender during school hours.”
The lawsuit also hits LCPS for “Filling classroom libraries with books that encourage children to question their gender as early as Kindergarten; Forcing students to publicly provide their ‘pronouns’ in front of class; Making it virtually impossible for parents to remove the pornographic books available to children in LCPS libraries;
But they won’t pass a Parents’ Bill of Rights, will they?
Jayapal, Cicilline, Newman, Takano, Torres Lead Members in Introducing the Trans Bill of Rights
U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), David Cicilline (RI-01), Marie Newman (IL-03), Mark Takano (CA-41), and Ritchie Torres (NY-15) led members of Congress in introducing a Trans Bill of Rights. This resolution provides a comprehensive framework to provide protections for transgender and nonbinary people, ensuring that they are not discriminated against or persecuted for their gender identity and expression. It comes shortly after the Supreme Court gutted Roe v. Wade, stripping many of their constitutional right to choose, and as the Court seems poised and willing to take on other hard-earned constitutional rights.
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It would be wrong to say that America is becoming a police state. America … under the Biden regime… is already a police state. The DOJ/FBI is routinely used to intimidate, silence, and even arrest Americans who oppose Herr Biden’s agenda.
Parents at school board meetings objecting to CRT labeled as domestic terrorists; America-First voters labeled by Herr Biden himself as semi-fascists; the ongoing persecution of January 6th protesters. If you are not a friend of the regime, is not a matter of if … but when … the Biden-regime sends the FBI for you.
The latest? Don’t believe me? The Biden-regime has unleashed the FBI on the pro-life movement:
Biden's Heavily Armed FBI RAIDS Pro-Life Activist's Home, Traumatizes Wife, Seven Young Children | Human Events | https://t.co/2RtP4Lj0dn https://t.co/SCkVKIVKya
— Jack Posobiec XLV (@JackPosobiec) September 25, 2022
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A New Hampshire Republican friend of mine said it best:
“I cannot believe so many people really do think the most important thing in life is to end it.”
Democrats have been on a voter registration tear since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. There’s just one problem for them – it’s the only issue they have! Their Party can’t run on Biden and Inflation.
A few of my fellow Republican candidates for state office in New Hampshire are afraid to bring up the abortion issue for fear of losing votes. I personally will not back off because I think it’s important to expose the Democrat lies. Democrat pro-choice people claim pro-lifers are criminalizing abortion. They claim Republicans are taking away women’s “freedom.” They are using a deceptive narrative heavy on emotions and light on facts.
We want to thank Di Lothrup for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
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It’s all they have in their arsenal. We need to remind voters that abortion is still legal and probably won’t ever go away; it just might be a little harder for some. But it will still be available.
To put it into perspective, say you or a family member, God forbid, had a medical problem that required special treatment or life-saving surgery. You go to your local hospital and find they cannot do the surgery so they send you to another hospital that can treat the condition. It could be 20 miles, 50 miles, or, perhaps, 100 miles away. This doesn’t mean you have lost your freedom to have it done where you want it. It just means that your choice was narrowed. But, the surgery is still available to you.
This negates the lie made by abortion advocates that women’s freedoms are taken away. They are not. They still have a choice to go somewhere else. It might be inconvenient to them, but hey, they’ll still have the opportunity to kill their baby.
Another misconception is that the pro-choice movement is “powerful.” If you’ll excuse the expression, that’s bull poo-poo. The Pro-Life Movement (including Democrats and Republicans) is huge. Check out Democrats for Life in America (DLFA) who are focused on ending the mass lethal injustice of abortion.
You don’t hear about those organizations because the Democrat-controlled media won’t promote them. They control the Narrative by keeping their dirty little secrets to themselves and instead, bombard the masses with pro-abortion lies.
I was pro-choice a hundred years ago until I discovered the horrific and violent practice of dismemberment abortions on viable preborn humans. I am happy I changed my views.
I especially abhor abortion when it is used as a contraception method. Abortion is one thing with a few exceptions as saving the life of a mother, which I support, but it is repugnant to see young women who have multiple pregnancies by multiple men use abortion as their own personal contraceptive.
It is the moral decadence of our society. If we don’t push back on abortion lies and we remain quiet, then we appear to condone it.
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Soon after Tim Scott became the junior Senator representing the great state of South Carolina, his grandfather made the trip to Washington D.C. It was an extraordinary journey for Scott’s Granddad as it was emblematic of a true American dream.
The elder had spent his entire life picking cotton in the hot fields of the Palmetto State, and in just two generations, the Scotts had journeyed from the cotton fields to the United States Capitol. Dreams to come true. And that story is why Tim Scott is my Sunday Spotlight.
Although you might not be able to write a better story than that of the Scotts, it may be America that has a lot to be thankful for with Senator Tim Scott. Aside from the fact that Scott is the first Black Senator from South Carolina, he is the type of man we should strive to find to be one of the one hundred to sit in our Senate. He is the first Black to serve in both houses of Congress. He is the first Black Senator since Edward Brooke left in 1979. In the short time he has been in D.C., he has shown that there are higher spots for this statesman to strive.
Joe Biden once commented that if you are a Black American, you are obligated to vote Democrat. Scott grew up in poverty, and thanks to his Mom, who worked fourteen hours a day to care for Tim and his brother, they broke the cycle of poverty. His Mother raised Tim Scott with the solid American Conservative values that show why the President was so terribly wrong with that irresponsible line. And also why the Democrats can no longer count on the support of the Black vote.
Scott gained national attention when he was chosen to deliver the Republican response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech in April 2021. Scott is a gifted speaker with the delivery and charisma needed to make his listeners sit up and pay attention. Regardless of which Chamber he was in, he voted with consistency, common sense, and solid Conservative views.
Scott declared this would be his last term in the Senate but has a significant balance in his war chest leading many to believe his next move will be a run at the White House. During a recent interview on FOX News, Scott talked about two of his disappointments. “I failed four subjects my freshman year. World geography and civics. I always laugh because civics is about politics.” He also talked about escaping a potential life-ending situation as he recalled another “painful and miserable” setback in his younger years. The congressmen fell asleep driving down Interstate 26. “I went through the windshield. And to come out of that with just six weeks of missed football … And the rest of my life has been better because of that tragedy. That’s a blessing,” Scott said.
Growing up poor in a single-parent household, Scott used football as the “deliverance” out of poverty.
“That was my dream. And I think it’s the dream for so many young kids, especially those of us growing up in a single-parent household and in poverty – it’s to let this pigskin be our deliverance out of poverty – and most importantly, to buy mom a house.” Scott’s dream came true in 2007 when he bought that house he promised his mother.
“I failed in high school, but thank God for a second chance. I failed in business. I failed in politics. I think for all of us, our story of redemption is that we get a second chance. That’s not true in every country on Earth. We are the story of redemption.”
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They promoted Comirnaty as an FDA-approved mRNA COVID vaccine for one purpose. Get people to take the Emergency Use Authorized version. Comiranty never existed. You couldn’t get it. But the media, politicians, and public health officials pushed the lie that the “vaccines” were now approved. Go get one!
Related: We Were Right Again – “FDA Approved” Comirnaty Was a Hoax (Will Corporate Media Correct the Record?)
They also used the lie to push for more mandates and restrictions on the unvaccinated. But Comirnaty was never available in the US. The FDA approved a package insert and some graphics for a product Pfizer never made. And they just admitted it to what can only be called dead silence by the watchdog media.
“Pfizer received initial FDA BLA license on 8/23/2021 for its COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals 16 and older (COMIRNATY). At that time, the FDA published a BLA package insert that included the approved new COVID-19 vaccine tradename COMIRNATY and listed 2 new NDCs (0069-1000-03, 0069-1000-02) and images of labels with the new tradename. These NDCs will not be manufactured. Only NDCs for the subsequently BLA approved tris-sucrose formulation will be produced.”
If Apple or Amazon or any other big business did this, they’d be in court for fraud, but Pfizer had the blessing of the Government. And after all the lies we’ve seen, it’s not difficult to believe the FDA, CDC, and NIH knew this was a smokescreen to increase vaccine uptake.
Related: Start the New Year Right – Stop Lying to People about Their COVID19 Vaccine Being Approved.
How high the lie goes up the political food chain is unknown. And while that’s a problem that needs investigation, a more pressing threat looms. A new legally distinct tri-sucrose version of “Comirnaty” may become available soon, and there’s no evidence it has been put through any human trials (like the bivalent booster they are also promoting). Same old whore new dress.
Having the blessing of thieves and liars in the Government doesn’t make it safe or effective; it just means they have elevated the lie after getting away with all the others they’ve told.
We expect the usual suspects to support the new lies as they did the old ones.
HT | The Dossier
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By a four to one ratio, Wall Street’s contributions to Biden exceeded contributions to Trump … which is part of the reason that the Biden-Regime is maintaining a totally open Southern border: cheap labor to pay back the oligarch-class for their help.
Not the only reason, of course. Democrats cannot see beyond skin color. So they believe that all those Brown people’s children … reminder every child born in the United States is a citizen … will all vote Democrat … in other words: the Great Replacement.
Hat tip to Buck Sexton:
Wall Street gave Biden $75 million dollars in donations in 2020- almost 4X what they gave Trump.
“Scranton Joe” the working class hero is a 40+ year running fraud that elites foist on the easily fooled https://t.co/nB3xhPD9tm
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) September 6, 2022
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It was nearly thirty years ago when the Republican Party drafted the Contract with America. That plan led to a substantial Republican gain in the House of Representatives during the Clinton Presidency.
Essentially, the Contract with America was a nod to federalism, returning more power to the states and weakening federal authority. Federalism is the government practice of sharing power between the federal and state governments.
Joe Biden has been scoring points at all of his appearances, keying on his two primary topics. Abortion and MAGA Republicans are all he seems to have in his arsenal, and it is getting boring. When pressed, he insists that when he refers to MAGA, he is talking about the radical fringe. But when he is speaking, he refers to all Republicans as MAGA. A slip of the tongue? Not when it happens this frequently. He knows what he says is covered by all the media outlets and the retraction by none.
As for abortion, or reproductive rights as the Left erroneously calls it, the story is flat-out incorrect. Biden contends that a vote for a Republican is one for an all-out abortion ban. That is just not true. The Supreme Court sent abortion back to the states, where it always should have been. That is just fine for Republicans, and the issue is no longer to be debated in D.C.
What the Republicans have offered this week is a clear alternative to the Democrat platform we have been victim to for nearly two years. On the surface, it seems vague, but there are over one hundred and fifty specific initiatives that will support the overall plan.
The key elements are:
These are fundamental needs and wants for most Americans but we have drifted away from these core principles and have become more concerned with a WOKE society, climate change, and dumping money into the economy. Democrats were quick to call this new program radical and out of touch with mainstream America. They are quick to point out that there is no consideration for abortion in the new plan. That is because abortion is now a state issue and not the concern of Washington.
There is nothing radical in this plan. Transgender rights and CRT are radical, but it appears that the Democrats have redefined radical as they have with a secure border, inflation, and recession. The cards are now on the table. And it will be interesting to watch the Democrats to see if they pull away from the fear they are trying desperately to inject. They are in a bad situation with the poor Biden performance and have little to rave about. Abortion and fear should not win many races, and if it does, it proves we do not have an educated electorate. That would be unfortunate but not necessarily surprising.
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