Friday • December 5 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XLIX
Manchester, N.H.
Anxiety, a prevalent mental health issue affecting millions worldwide, can be debilitating. However, advancements in alternative medicine have introduced unique methods to combat anxiety, including the use of fly agaric (Amanita muscaria). This article explores six ways to calm anxiety, with a focus on innovative and natural approaches.
1. Microdosing Fly Agaric (Amanita Muscaria)Recent scientific research has shed light on the potential benefits of microdosing certain mushroom species, particularly Amanita muscaria. Microdosing involves consuming small, sub-perceptual amounts of a substance to experience its benefits without significant psychoactive effects. The OM.SHROOM company, a pioneer in this field, offers Amanita muscaria in various forms, including dried caps, powder, and capsules. These products are carefully prepared to ensure safety and consistency, providing a novel way to alleviate anxiety symptoms.
2. Regular Physical ExerciseEngaging in regular physical exercise is a well-known method to reduce anxiety. Physical activity releases endorphins, natural mood lifters, and helps in maintaining a balanced mental state. Activities like jogging, yoga, or even brisk walking can significantly lessen the intensity of anxiety symptoms.
3. Mindfulness and MeditationPracticing mindfulness and meditation can significantly calm the mind and reduce anxiety. These practices help in focusing on the present moment and in reducing the overthinking that often accompanies anxiety. Techniques like deep breathing, guided imagery, and mindfulness meditation are effective in managing stress and anxiety levels.
4. Balanced Diet and HydrationA balanced diet plays a crucial role in mental health. Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, like salmon and walnuts, and those high in antioxidants, such as berries and leafy greens, can enhance brain health and mitigate anxiety. Staying hydrated is also essential, as dehydration can worsen anxiety symptoms.
5. Adequate SleepPoor sleep patterns are closely linked to increased anxiety. Ensuring a regular sleep schedule and creating a calming bedtime routine can significantly improve sleep quality. Practices like limiting screen time before bed and creating a comfortable sleep environment can foster better sleep, thus reducing anxiety.
6. Professional CounselingSeeking professional help is vital, especially for chronic or severe anxiety. Therapists and counselors can provide personalized strategies and support. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is particularly effective in treating anxiety by changing negative thought patterns.
In conclusion, while traditional methods like exercise, diet, and sleep are foundational in managing anxiety, emerging approaches such as microdosing Amanita muscaria offer new hope. The OM.SHROOM company provides a range of products, including dried caps, powder, and capsules, for those interested in exploring this option. For those considering this route, it’s worth noting that fly agaric for sale are available at mushroomholistic.com, ensuring accessibility and convenience. Remember, addressing anxiety is a multifaceted approach, and what works for one individual may differ for another. Always consult healthcare professionals before starting any new treatment.
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Yes, I am still in “semi-retirement” and not writing much, having to take care of TMEW, the Grandson, and the Granddaughter’s needs in a variety of very time-consuming ways. However, I am quite happy to report that one of “Life’s familial responsibilities” has just come to a good end:
Case DISMISSED
So Ordered
I believe that I had a good-sized hand in this decision due to the nature of my testimonies. No, I can’t repeat what I said other than to say look at some of what I have publicly written here on the ‘Grok concerning DCYF before the hearings started. Then there were other things that I cannot say, due to the nature of Family Court restrictions, that will go unwritten here. However, I laid out the reasoning why this was important to me (“Are Schools Flagging DCYF to Intimidate Parents who Get “Too Involved” In Their Child’s Education?“); I wrote this:
School Districts may be sending bogus “tips” to DCYF against parents who have, shall we say, become TOO involved in their child’s education and letting their Elected Representatives (aka, School Board members) know how wrongheaded they are. You know, the kinds of Parents that the Federal Department of Justice called “Domestic Terrorists” at the behest of the (now disgraced and broke) National School Board Association?
About that DT charge – a reminder: only ONE of the five members of my School Board was brave enough to tell me, upon asking them all, said I wasn’t a Domestic Terrorist. I think the others were frightened that I asked it during a School Board meeting and didn’t have the courage to tell me what they really thought about me at the time…anyways:
Let’s say that the phrase “We’ll teach them who is in charge and who is the Boss” keeps ringing in my head. After all, there can be no dissent from the otherwise “lovely” school districts’ Narratives, eh (see here if you don’t believe me)? That schools shouldn’t be held accountable for what they are doing (like screwing and grinding up academic rigor like wheat in a mill) but demanding that students and staff must always know and practice the latest politically-made-up pronouns are, who is oppressing the oppressed, and learn all the micro-aggressions, right?
The Berlin, NH, DCFY office is going after a two-veteran family (prior Marine and Navy) that has been holding their SAU accountable. DCYF is claiming that they lock their daughter in a bedroom – when there’s no door at all?
And off to the races it started. With all that said again, however, the news came last night from the Eldest that his DCYF case was thrown out of court with the above-bolded words (“DISMISSED”). I don’t know how many times this similar action has been taken by Districts (I started a project on that months ago and it is still on my plate) but I will be looking to find out how many of the cases that DCYF believes to be legit and takes to court end up being tossed out on their ears. Right now, this is only One (reformatted, emphasis mine, and redacted info that might get me into trouble for printing it) and its logical ending point:
RSA 169-C:3, XIX (b) defines a neglected child as one
“who is without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for the child’s physical, mental, or emotional health, when it is established that the child’s health has suffered or is likely to suffer serious impairment…”
DCYF’s theory appears to be that <redacted> is neglected as she is not receiving the parental care she requires due to her behaviors.
DCYF has not proven by a preponderance of the evidence that <redacted> caused the <redacted> or the <redacted> while providing discipline. Moreover, DCYF has not proven that even if the <redacted> were caused during…discipline, that the child is without proper parental care or control or that the child’s health has suffered or is likely to suffer serious impairment. Following the 2-day hearing, and after consideration of all the evidence presented and the credibility of the witnesses, the Court finds the evidence does not substantiate the petition.
Case DISMISSED.
So Ordered.
Ayup. Now, TMEW and I, as the placement Foster Parents, still have our Granddaughter due to the Daughter-in-Law’s case, but that might not last much longer due to this dismissal. You see, DCYF tried to get both of them but had to downgrade his charge (they finally figured out “we got nuttin”), and now his case has totally evaporated on them. And hers was predicated, in part, on his charge being proven, which wasn’t. Thus, DCYF’s case against her is now teetering on its brink of doom and on appeal/re-opening/reconsideration/another plea, may get wiped out as well.
When you try to get too cute by half, this is what can happen. However, whatever may happen means, for me, one thing – more Right To Know’s to be written. Because even if the participants believe it is over…
…it ain’t. Except this one part of it which, as DCYF just found out, some families refuse to lay down and give up. As one wise DCYF worker was heard to have said:
“I think we picked on the wrong family”.
Ayup.
I already have two sent into the Colebrook School District to post, with a bunch more running around in my head. I also have more for DCYF as well – both the “investigator” and the lawyer. And the Laconia Child Advocacy Center.
That all should keep me focused on something other than watching TV for now.
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“What is the Executive Council?” was the title of a routine column written by the late Bernie Streeter about 30+ years ago for the 1590 Broadcaster, a now-defunct free newspaper in Nashua. Bernie Streeter was one of Dave Wheeler’s predecessors and held office in the early 90s before becoming the mayor.
As a young adult, I was too busy living in my own little world to pay attention to whatever he was saying. I just showed up to vote in every election for the Republican because I didn’t want the Democrat to be elected, and the office of Executive Councilor was no exception.
The Executive Council is a five member-elected body that shares power with the governor. To borrow content from former Rep Melissa Blasek’s presentation, NH is unique and arguably has the weakest governor among the 49 others. The EC is kind of like the last firewall protection against a tyrant governor. That’s why who its five members are is so important, especially as of late.
Unfortunately, the EC had been derelict in its duty of representing the Granite Staters who elected them and rather just rubber-stamping the governor’s wants and desires. This is also another reason why State of Emergency reform is so badly needed. More on that in a moment.
I will embed the following link for the reader’s reference on the EC, of which some parts are not always up to date, particularly the meeting calendars and with that disclosure out of the way, let’s discuss the responsibilities of that body.
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The EC must approve all appointments by the governor. They include judges, cabinet members, and lower-level bureaucrats. Keep in mind that these are UNELECTED government positions. Again, you don’t get to vote those out in the next election. That is why it’s so important to get the EC to block bad picks so they don’t have a lifetime appointment.
I use the word “lifetime” because the only positions that I’m aware of with an expiration date are supreme court judges on their 70th birthdays. There is currently a vacancy created by the outgoing Judge Hicks and a nomination in the pipeline for Judge Countway (or whatever last name she is most currently using or will use).
Gordon MacDonald was a rogue attorney general, and Sununu nominated him to the bench. Many of us aggressively implored Councilor Wheeler et al. to reject the nomination for a variety of reasons that would make for another article. Anyway, the EC at the time, which is the same five people we have today, defied the will of the constituency and rubber-stamped him into office. He is currently 62, so there’s a light at the end of the tunnel less than eight years away, pending the outcome of a recent bill changing that 70 to 75 years of age.
Anne Edwards, another Sununu appointee, was rubber-stamped onto the bench despite solid reasons made known for not confirming her.
And look at the Department of Insurance. DJ Bettencourt, a long-time friend of the state Royal Family, was recently rubber-stamped into his commissionership despite his less-than-noble character.
Another part of the EC’s duties is approving contracts and spending that involves more than $10,000. I will let someone else discuss what’s wrong with just handing out wasteful sweetheart deals without any oversight to out-of-state businesses. Remember St A’s on 9/29/21 and the arrests on 10/13/21? Of course, you do! A big agenda item was accepting millions of federal dollars with unreasonable strings attached. The rest of that was history. There are, however, all kinds of smaller tag items, but they do add up and put NH over a barrel and dependent on federal money, which is a big part of what makes NH secession so desirable to many.
Keep in mind that federal money is YOUR income tax revenue. There’s a great Thomas Sowell quote about the government quietly stealing your money while giving some of it back to you flamboyantly. If you don’t know Sowell, look him up.
As to the State of Emergency (SoE) issue, we are all by now familiar with Chris Sununu’s Executive Order (EO) madness. It started almost four years ago with over 80 COVID-related EOs, some of the most egregious ones being decreed shortly AFTER his reelection! But there’s a quieter part of the SoE that receives much less attention from Adam Sexton and his peers. It involves bypassing the legislature. Since I am not a constitutional scholar by any stretch of the imagination, I will refer the readers to Daniel Richard with detailed questions that might arise, but simply put, our governor misused the Executive Council to move larger parcels of money around that would, outside of the SoE, require approval from the legislature.
Remember, it is the House and the Senate that make law, NOT the governor. That means the EC can’t make law either. But this monkey wrench of an umbrella, the SoE, has allowed our governor to enhance his tyranny with millions of dollars at his disposal that otherwise would not be so easily available.
In the fall of 2021, an injunction against accepting that federal money was petitioned for and rejected by Judge David Ruoff, the same Maggie-appointed judge that recently ruled the wrong way on the “Claremont 2.0” school funding suit. That judge was UNANIMOUSLY ushered into office, and 2 of those ECs (Wheeler and Kenney) are still in office today!
Who sits on the EC matters! And so does SoE reform!
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Between 1931 and 1944, we got Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, the Son of Frankenstein, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, and House of Frankenstein. A name pronounced incorrectly for decades until Gene Wilder straightened us out in Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein.
It’s Frahn-ken-Steen.”
When it comes to the serialization of the horror show called Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Chaos, and the Crashing Climate, pronunciation hardly matters as long as you are saying the right words and following the bouncing ball of consensus, which changes all the time with only one common thread. It’s your fault, and they’ll be taking your money to pay their “friends” to fix it.
Scientists posing as journalists, wait – I’ve got that reversed, are in on the scheme and are forever coming to the rescue of this or that flailing narrative about global warming. The issue, or should I say back issue, is that they’ve not gotten all their Winston Smiths in a row. Rewriting history happens but not on a scale necessary to ensure the latest lie isn’t trampled on by some unearthed previous truth.
If you recall, the wonky jetstream is your fault, except it’s not. Without relitigating it, grand solar minimum decreased solar energy and weakened jet stream equals wonkiness. The science and journalism, or do I have that backward, argues that you’ve gone and done it—you and your gas-powered leaf blowers and string trimmers and combustion engines and white privilege. You broke the planet, you murderer!
Climate Deniers. Write that down because Science News ran a rather lengthy bit about global cooling in March of 1975, the year before America’s bicentennial. Some thoughts about planning for the potential ice age. It’s quite the thing—three successive pages of dense text and two visual aids. The average internet mind would never even consider trying to read it. Like the dog-eared paperback copies of Great Expectations you were supposed to read in Middle School. Lots of tiny words, close together – offensive handwritten notes in the almost non-existent margins. Forget it; where’s the Cliffs Notes (no internet back then)?
The article does not slay the current narrative because of how wrong the cooling science was then – though it should – the problem is the presence of inconvenient science for the current crop of wonky jetstream alarmists.
It looks like this,
Which looks a lot like this nearly 50 years later.
The text explaining the top drawing (and the bottom) is an even more significant problem for the Warmist Cult.
The cause of this increased variability can best be seen by examining upper atmosphere wind patterns that accompany cooler climate. During warm periods a “zonal circulation” predominates in which the prevailing westerly winds of the temperate zones are swept over long distances by a few powerful high and low pressure centers. The result is a more evenly distributed pattern of weather, varying relatively little from month to month or season to season.
During cooler climatic periods, however, the high-altitude winds are broken up into irregular cells by weaker and more plentiful pressure centers, causing formation of a “meridional circulation” pattern. These small, weak cells may stagnate over vast areas for many months, bringing unseasonably cold weather on one side and unseasonably warm weather on the other. Droughts and floods become more frequent and may alternate season to season, as they did last year in India. Thus, while the hemisphere as a whole is cooler, individual areas may alternately break temperature and precipitation records at both extremes.
A cooling climate causes Jetstream variability—a cooler atmosphere. I’m no expert, but I’ve got at least a passable handle on the English language. If cooling causes variability and we’re in a grand solar minimum (reduced solar energy), warming can’t drive it, too, regardless of where that warming is from. And especially since at least 1975, a warmer atmosphere has been credited with a stable jetstream.
I realize that the climate change consensus crowd will change the consensus to make the narrative fit the observation because that is what the word change in Climate change means. The expectation is that the peasants are too stupid to catch on, even after the self-proclaimed experts have been wrong about everything.
And I’m not here to give the peasants more credit than we are due. Too few are interested enough to realize what it all means. The misery they are experiencing is a direct result of a man-made money crisis created to fund the real climate chaos. The funding of a transition to a failed system incapable of powering our 20th-century needs, forget the 21st century.
Theirs is an undeniable hypothesis more in keeping with fundamentalist faith than science. Secular demi-gods capable of changing the weather and the world, but only if you will part with everything you worked to achieve while they part with nothing.
A wind that needs to change.
The monster of Climate Change dogma is the only thing we need to fear: that and its never-ending sequels.
HT | RCSB
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Parents in every School district are losing parental consent over their children. School Boards are revising changes to the EHAB and JLCF policies, which deal with DATA GOVERNANCE SECURITY and WELLNESS, respectively.
They are allowing parental consent per se, but personally identifiable information (PII) still could be captured by third-party vendors because the schools are leaving that fine print up to you to figure out. They are also adding wording to include Mental Health and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), where Wellness was once limited to Nutritional and Physical Health. Learn more on SEL at this link.
Some kids need help, but not all, yet they are applying this to all.
These changes seem harmless and wonderful on the surface, but the devil is in the details. PII includes many things i.e., phone number, address, age, sex, social security and license number, even parent’s information, and so on. If you don’t consent, your child loses out on education that could be beneficial.
Ask the district to protect your child’s PII in all cases, with no exceptions. Gaming companies are now gathering PII also. And if school district SAU4 Newfound can suffer a ransomware attack, then maybe your child’s data is not safe at all.
You heard the saying Cash is King. Well, Data is King in this new world, and it’s better than cash; it’s gold to them.
Adding Mental Health, SEL, and using Medicaid to pay for these services is usurping parental consent. The Wellness policy affects All children, including yours. School surveys and assessments on your child are infringing on their and your private personal information by the questions they ask.
Search Pros and Cons of SEL, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Schools now keep a database of information on your child, and some schools are sharing it with outside sources.
NH Constitution, Part 1, [Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.
Protect your rights or lose them forever!
Representative John Sellers
Grafton District 18
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A group called Campus Voter Project is encouraging out-of-state college students to vote in the college town in which they happen to be on election day. Not by absentee or mail-in ballot where the tuition bill or their tax refund would go.
No, they want you voting in the town your college or university is in – (as if it needs more Democrat votes).
Register at School or HomeStudents have a decision about where to register to vote.
You have a right to register to vote at the address you consider the place where you live, whether that is your family’s home or the place where you attend school. You should update your registration anytime this home address changes.
You may only be registered and vote in one location.
Tuition Status
Being deemed out-of-state for tuition purposes does not prevent you from choosing to register to vote in your campus community.
It fascinates me how a state (New Hampshire has been like this for nearly two decades) can allow universities to discriminate against students in this manner. They give them the right to decide ballot measures, how other people will be taxed (or how much freedom they’ll have – depending on who gets elected with those votes) but demand the student pay two to three times as much for the same education as resident students who pay in-state tuition.
It almost sounds like an education poll tax because we know from recent history that requiring them to get a state ID or driver’s license is an undue financial burden. That’s what the folks who want out-of-state students voting in local elections often claim.
What to do?
The New Hampshire legislature tried it at least once: pass a bill to grant any student who registers and votes in the state of NH in-state tuition rates. Vermont won’t even give such an idea the time of day, but the Granite State should consider it again. Call it the Economic Equity in Education bill. Suppose a student feels like they live in New Hampshire for voting purposes, regardless of their in-state-rate ineligibility on any other (typically dozen or so) criteria. In that case, they get a refund for the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition and pay in-state rates as long as they remain registered and on the NH voter rolls.
An aging population that needs young blood would benefit from the increase in youth and inexperience that the more affordable education provides. We could lower the total student debt burden, which, in New Hampshire, is significant, saving taxpayers money when the folks who want non-residents voting here promise to bail them out.
Students from poorer states who might not otherwise seek to vote in a state where they don’t live might be able to afford higher learning right here, in New Hampshire (including students who were planning to attend a school in Vermont).
Call a representative wherever they may live (Democrats have elected non-resident students to the NH Legislature) and ask them to support an Economic Equity in Education Bill.
Stop overcharging non-resident voters for the same education.
Stop discriminating against “voters” whose only sin is living outside the state.
It’s the right thing to do!
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Former US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has decided to become a former Congressman To spend time with family? – No. He has said nothing specific about how he will fill his “free” time, but intends to work to get Republicans elected, especially in the seats of Republicans who voted to remove him as Speaker.
The Californian pledged to “serve America in new ways. I know my work is only getting started.”
“I will continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office,” he continued. “The Republican Party is expanding every day, and I am committed to lending my experience to support the next generation of leaders.”
The GOP is barely functional when they have a majority. His departure will start the new year by making what there is of the current majority even thinner. It begs the question: why get different Republicans elected if there’s no impetus to advance so-called Republican priorities now?
Were you as Speaker, the most important priority? Seems like it. We have to assume those are the sorts of Republicans you’d back. Does that mean they will also, like you, help Biden advance his agenda or sit on their hands instead of doing anything meaningful (political theater doesn’t count) to address corruption, budget process, or using that soapbox to excoriate Dems for defending the Biden Crime Family, going to war with parents, and building on already unsustainable generational debt?
Whatever McCarthy has planned, he knows what it is and is making himself available. Being in Congress was somehow an obstacle. By stepping aside, regardless of the lost vote or promises to replace himself with more later, he can do whatever that new thing is.
So, what is it?
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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. So many memes it’s not funny any more. And yes there will be a Friday edition too.
Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
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I would always prefer to use a peaceful means to solve problems. To quote Mr. Miyagi: “Fighting not good… someone always get hurt”. But on the flip side of that is another sage piece of movie advice that applies to life: “Y’see, some men, you just can’t reach…” And cap that off with this quote from sci-fi literature:
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I wish I could have more. But not with my Jabbed wife, and I’m getting kind of long in the tooth to be a parent. Not that, if Hashem willed it, I wouldn’t try.
Which reminds me I need to get my kids back to the range.
Control the information flow, and control what people believe.
And probably have plugged a lot of the holes in the system too.
I’d buy that for a dollar.
What amazes me is how many people don’t see a problem with this.
IMHO there’s no fire in Hell hot enough…
All on the US taxpayer dime.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
This is an uncomfortable topic as a lead-in to a bigger one, but people who share pictures and videos online need to be made aware of this:
The unstoppable rise of deepfake PORN: Experts reveal explosion in AI sites and apps that stitch faces of ANYONE with photos online onto naked bodies, as victims tell of their horror after police say there is NOTHING they can do | Daily Mail Online
So. About two years ago, give or take, I clicked on a “clickbait” link and was taken to what – on the face of it – was an utterly convincing short clip of a mainstream actress that I like. This actress has, to my knowledge, never done such films. Topless, I believe (I’ll take the search engine’s word for it, I haven’t looked for it), but not in actual porn. But setting aside disbelief, it was a fairly convincing portrayal of her in a hard-core scene.
Now, the link above. This is a specific and very harmful example of deep fake / AI editing technology. We can literally not believe our eyes any more. We can’t even believe video any more. And in this specific instance the damage that can be done to someone online through such technology is unlimited. Often one doesn’t even know that one’s image has been so compromised until someone tells them. Incredibly insidious.
Now, the bigger picture. First, it was said that “Seeing is believing”. Then, as people became aware of how pictures and video clips can be selectively printed without context, or edited / trimmed, to distort the actual reality, the sage wisdom that you can’t believe half of what you see came forth. Nowadays, you can’t believe anything. Not anything. FedGov now has an exobyte computer and where there’s one that we know of, not only are there others, but what do we NOT know of? What kind of fakery could that create? What was an information-enabling technology – photos and even more, videos, has – through the ability to edit or outright forge or create through computing technology (another enabling technology) – become something that now shrinks our circle of trusted information to either what we see with our own eyes, or have reported to us through people we trust in person as we become aware of what’s possible.
And now that FedGov is hoovering up Trump’s likes, followers, etc., and doubtless I and other are “on lists”… and if you are reading this I suspect you are too… with all that computing power and fakery possible, imagine what they might do in a very individual-tailored fashion to shut you up, or shut you into a cell on – quite literally – AI-fabricated evidence.
I think there are only one or two pictures of me floating around – stills – not that I expect anyone to attempt to graft my mug onto someone else. And about one of the women in the article – imagine being on a job interview and someone, for some reason, not liking you or wanting you to be employed there. Such faked material would be a perfect way to say “Hey boss, I just found this video of the person you interviewed yesterday…” Or blackmail of a coworker.
But whether porn, or just deep fake videos or stills, or whatever… the open sharing of pictures and videos is becoming increasingly dangerous. If you can, time to start taking down what you can. And to be cognizant that even if there’s video… you can’t believe what you see. Whether about a person or anything else.
Time to dial the Skepticism knob to “11” on everything.
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I remember arguing once for the idea that to get benefits you need to have implanted birth control. And was called… of course… a raaaaaacist.
And 100 years from now The Narrative created by this fraudulent statue will be the Truth in the minds of most.
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Pick of the Post:
This simple fact about the nature of government cannot be grasped by too many people. And a tie:
It’s not cowardice. It’s wanting to suck the last morsel from the FedGov trough before it all crashes. Traitors, every last one of them.
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Palate cleansers:
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Come back on Friday for more memes. Same meme time. Same meme channel.
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I have several readers who send me news-related articles on a daily basis. Some of them funny, many of them concerning the shifting political winds and typically all of them bent toward conservatism.
WaPo Image of Trump-Caesar
Rarely am I sent something that is alarming, that is, until yesterday. An article from the Conservative Tree House referenced a Washington Post Op-Ed referenced on Twitter/X by Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz with the comment: “They’re obviously green-lighting assassination.”
One may recall Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Trump, where he casually suggested as much to the former president himself. Reasoning backward from the logical conclusion, Carlson recounted the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach the D.C. uni-party had attempted thus far to dismantle and destroy the former president. Here is a quick recap:
As anyone can tell the powers that be in D.C. appear to be willing to do just about anything to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. Even murder, though?
Enter “neo-con” Robert Kagan. Kagan is a foreign policy wonk from the Brookings Institution with the preferred deep state pedigree: Yale, Harvard, and American University degrees; lifetime political mouth-piece; aggressive foreign policy positions; spouse (Victoria Nuland) in the State Department; pro-military industrial complex personality disorder.
Kagan’s piece for the Post is a lengthy screed-like plea to anyone who will listen inside or outside the beltway. Donald Trump is an existential threat to our liberal democracy, and a second Trump presidency will be a dictatorship unlike anything we’ve seen since Stalin, Hitler…Napoleon… or even Julius Caesar.
WaPo image of Trump-NapoleonDespite being a historian who has spent his life in American politics, Kagan seems to think a dictatorship in the U.S. is feasible. He labors at length to make his case, claiming Trump’s ability to wield power over anyone he wishes once enthroned with executive privilege, seemingly unaware of the checks and balances in place to limit as much. The tone of panic is palpable, and the call to action to do “the unthinkable” even at “the cost of career and family” is explicit.
As a concerned citizen, everyone should read this if for no other reason than to see this is the thinking of the career political elite. Kagan’s ability to project onto Trump the very things being done to him – maniacal desire to control, weaponized DOJ, myriad abuses of power, targeting political enemies – indicate a type of fantastical tone-deafness from someone sitting squarely at the bottom of public trust and favorability. Americans trust establishment media and political pundits almost as little as they do terrorists and Marxist school administrators with pedophilic tendencies.
Looking at Kagan’s bio in Wikipedia for context, he also shirks his “neo-con” label, calling himself a “progressive in the most American sense”. Whatever he means by that it comes as no surprise this is how he views himself. He and his wife both favor America’s power to manipulate politics globally and the notion of regime change to that end. Military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine are all projects both have worked to endorse whatever the cost to human life. Should we expect anything different from them if they feel threatened at home? The answer clearly is – no, we should not.
Rather than try to understand how the American populace could elect Trump in the first place, Kagan spends his time adding layer after grotesque layer to the image of Trump the insiders need to fear. To them, Trump is an outsider who refuses to acquiesce to establishment ways of running the country. Kagan takes liberties psychoanalyzing Trump and his real motivations, which are always selfish and faux-patriotic. This is projection at its finest. One need only look at Kagan and his ilk’s track record and writings to see through the charade.
It can’t possibly be the American people have had enough of a recalcitrant and even hostile government that over-promises and under-
WaPo image of Gen. Mike Flynn a la Kathy Griffindelivers on the taxpayer’s dime. No. People like Kagan are too busy running from echo chamber to echo-chamber, acquiring confirmation bias for their real problem, which invariably is Trump and the apparent idiots and racists who support him. Never mind, the complaints are from both sides of the aisle at this point and aimed at a uni-party who have gotten us $33 trillion dollars in debt, degraded our education system, flooded our cities with illegal “citizens,” co-opted billions to fight in Ukraine, and gaslight us all the while they cover-up obvious crimes from the Esptein Island-prison suicide sham to the Hunter Biden media scandal and mysterious cocaine in the White House or the magical cleaning of the streets of San Francisco for communist dictator Xi Jiangping.
None of this requires racism to generate vitriol from the people, which is why Trump’s numbers are soaring among blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, let alone trad-white-conservatives. The irony is lost on people like Kagan who can’t fathom the American people are not as stupid as they need them to be, and our support for Donald Trump is not evidence of atavistic racism but adults who are tired of being toyed with by those we literally pay to serve us and our best interests, not theirs.
Kagan writes for a political class that uses its delusion to justify political hit jobs on a daily basis, only now they’re calling for a real hit. Sadly for them we have the internet and enough common sense to see behind the curtain that was the once and powerful Oz of D.C. We’ve had enough, as had Donald Trump, which is why he’s our guy.
To stop him from becoming our next president, you’ll have to kill him, apparently, which seems to be on the table for these swamp creatures. They say so themselves, pictures included.
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Most Americans are appalled – disgusted may be a better word – by the vile antisemitic demonstrations spreading across our country today. Ostensibly intended to show support for the besieged Palestinian people, they more closely resemble Germany’s ugly, antisemitic riots just prior to World War II. There is no effort to hide the utter hatred for Israel.
But this is America – not Nazi Germany, and the exponential rise in antisemitism in this country, that massive pro-Palestine demonstration in Washington, would have been unimaginable just a couple of months ago.
This new antisemitism makes no sense, especially considering that it all started after the Israeli people were again victimized – savagely attacked by Hamas on October 7th. It was on that date that the terrorist organization launched a sickening assault on the people of Israel. More than 1,200 innocent men, women, children, and even babies were slaughtered. Hundreds were taken captive in that unprovoked attack.
Israel, of course, responded accordingly. And that justified response somehow spawned the despicable antisemitic demonstrations we’re witnessing today here and around the world.
Americans have a long history of protests and demonstrations. We’ve sparred over civil rights, abortion, religion, parental rights, Supreme Court decisions, and Executive Orders. There have been more than enough domestic controversies to keep our country divided.
But now, a conflict that’s been raging in the Middle East for centuries has been brought to this country. What is particularly shocking, though, is that so many Americans have taken a stance against Israel, one of America’s staunchest allies.
In recent years, Israel has been an invaluable partner in the war on terror. Beyond that, America has always been a friend to Israel because we share the same values. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. We’ve supported that country because it is a peace-loving nation surrounded by belligerent and aggressive neighbors. And in the aftermath of the October 7th atrocities, America, and all people of goodwill, sided with Israel because that country was defending itself from a terrorist organization that can only be described as the essence of evil. The unspeakable atrocities committed by Hamas were not acts of war. They were acts of barbarism that can never be justified. Yet somehow, today, we’re witnessing this inexplicable rise in antisemitism.
Most of the people engaged in today’s riots seem to fall into one or two categories.
They’re young people, filled with passion but void of facts. They’re born followers who don’t know and don’t want to know that Hamas is a terrorist organization that instigated the current conflict. They don’t care to know that Hamas is dedicated to the complete annihilation of the Jewish people. They’re certainly not aware that the Hamas Covenant of 1988 begins with this quote from Imam Hassan al-Banna: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it…” They probably don’t know that the Palestinian people elected that same hateful organization to lead their government in 2006. They’re likely unaware that Hamas deliberately targets innocent Israeli civilians and then cowers behind Palestinian schools and hospitals to deter retaliation.
Young and idealistic, the passion of those protestors comes straight from the teachings of their radical college professors or from Chinese-controlled TikTok, another purveyor of antisemitism.
Other rioters are themselves Arabs or Muslims, many of whom harbor an intrinsic hatred of Israel. Either they brought that hatred with them when they came to this country, or they learned it here from their parents or grandparents. They care nothing about the creed that’s supposed to unite Americans, E pluribus unum. The once-renowned concept of a melting pot means nothing to them. They, like those six million unchecked migrants flooding across Joe Biden’s open borders, are major contributors to the Balkanization of America.
They denounce Israel for the innocent Palestinians killed in the aftermath of October 7th but won’t even acknowledge the Israeli women and children specifically targeted by Hamas. When clear-thinking, open-minded people consider the atrocities committed by Hamas, any criticism of Israel fades away. Allegations of injustice and oppression become mute, and objective people understand that before anything else, this scourge must be eliminated. That’s exactly what Israel is trying to do while trying to minimize casualties among the Palestinian people.
Nothing can be more tragic than the loss of innocent lives, but Israel was provoked into this war. And as in all wars, civilian casualties are inevitable.
On December 7th, 82 years ago, our country was ruthlessly attacked without warning. More than 2,000 Americans died, and we responded quickly and decisively. Our entry into the conflagration that had already been raging in Europe resulted in a costly and bloody world war that killed an estimated 15 million combatants and 38 million civilians. But it saved the world from tyranny and rescued the Jewish people from extinction.
Today, the Jewish people are again threatened by a malevolent force determined to wipe them off the face of the earth. This time, they responded decisively. They’ve set out to eliminate that threat to their very existence. They must not and will not allow public opinion, protests, or weak-willed politicians in Washington to deter them.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a Climate Change Indicators page that we expect will be getting a rehab any day now. When yo select change in hot temperatures it produces a map that contradicts the others on the page.
From the CO2 Coalition.
As reported by EPA, only 19% of all weather stations report an increase in the number of hot days since 1948!
Below is an important chart that somehow slipped by EPA’s “consensus” censorship squad. It is a map of all 1,066 weather stations across the United States. The change in the number of hot days for that station are ID’d as increasing (red), stayed the same (blank) or decreasing (blue).
A total of 863 stations, or 81%, reported either a decrease or no change in the number of hot days! Any guesses on how long this map will remain up on their site?
The significant number of stations compromised by encroaching heat islands makes me wonder two things. Are all 19% of the stations showing an increase so encumbered, and how many of the others are as well?
That doesn’t change the public relations hitch this puts in the Climate Cults Global Warming Step. It’s inconveninet, but not devastating. They’ve survived all the apocalyptic predictions that never came to be while predicting more, so this can’t be much of a concern. But I do expect the map to change or the data to be tweaked so it presents a result aligned with the current dogma.
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So, even the advocates’ number crunchers looking at the Global Warming Solutions Act’s Clean Heat Standard have to admit that the costs Vermonters will have to cover to meet greenhouse gas reduction mandates exceed any potential benefits — by a lot — even after those advocates apply two and a half billion dollars in totally made-up benefits to the ledger via the bogus “Social Cost of Carbon.”
(Side Note: If you want an excellent if highly technical explanation of exactly how and why the Social Cost of Carbon numbers are completely fabricated, Roger Pielkey just posted this article where he describes SCC calculations as “Sneaky. Uncool. Not science.”)
Asking a clarifying question during the November 30 meeting of the Climate Council Cross Sector Mitigation Committee, TJ Poor of the Agency of Natural Resources pressed presenter David Hall about the cost/benefit dynamic, “The takeaway here is that [these measures] are not cost-effective under the societal test…. These measures are not cost-effective, is that right?”
After a little hemming and hawing, Hill stated clearly that, yes, “The net present value of the cost is greater than the net present value of the avoided fuel costs and the avoided social and economic damages.”
The delta between the costs and benefits for the most likely policy scenario, according to the report, is negative $1.33 billion. But, if you remove the fake $2.5 billion in “benefits” attributed to the Social Cost of Carbon from the equation, that number jumps to nearly negative $4 billion.
Digging into the full report, there are other red flags Vermonters should be aware of.
Readers will recall that there was much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth when ANR Secretary Julie Moore estimated the impact of the Clean Heat Standard on heating fuel prices would be around 70 cents per gallon. Well, the Thermal Analysis Final Report shows that number rising as high as $1.41 per gallon, albeit this doesn’t happen under their scenario until 2045.
In the near term, they predict a 4 cent per gallon addition in 2024, rising quickly to 25 cents per gallon by 2030, then taking off after that to 63 cents per gallon by 2035, $1.13 by 2040, and $1.41 by 2045. But I would say these estimates are low. Way low. And falsely backloaded.
First, the study admits, “Unlike the program costs, state administrative costs are not anticipated to be recovered through fuel prices or rates, but to be embedded in the state’s departmental operating budgets. A cap-and-invest program would generate revenue through the sale of allowances that can be used to fund administrative and program costs. Our analysis does not include an estimate of the size or use of such revenues [emphasis added].” So, the numbers outlined above do not include the likelihood that the substantial costs to administer the Clean Heat Standard program by the state will also be covered by the sale of Clean Heat carbon credits. They almost assuredly will be, but if not, another tax will have to be raised or created to pay for this.
Also not included in this analysis is the cost of any equity program designed to help low-income Vermonters who, for whatever reason (upfront costs, lack of desire, lack of infrastructure, lack of access to labor, etc.), don’t or can’t transition away from fossil fuels. The law promises such assistance (Act 18, § 8129 (a)), and it will be expensive. Where will the money come from to subsidize low-income fossil fuel users? Again, I’m guessing from the sale of Clean Heat, carbon credits added to the cost of heating fuel – a big number not reflected in the numbers of this report.
As for my assumption that they are falsely backloading the impact on prices, the report acknowledges that without aid subsidies to lower-income Vermonters, the Clean Heat Standard is regressive. “On the other hand,” it says, “LMI households can be prioritized for access to and benefits from clean heat measures, thereby lowering energy cost burdens for those customers who participate in the program. Such participation may result in increasing overall program costs, however [emphasis added].” Yes, indeed, this will raise the costs!
The report notes that the preferred way to help low and middle-income households is to massively subsidize their transition away from fossil fuels. “Our analyses incorporate the assumption,” says the report (p.14), “that low-income households would need financial incentives equal to 100% of the costs for the new technologies or for weatherization and moderate-income households receive an incentive equal to 75% of costs [emphasis added].”
Fully funding weatherization projects, electric panel upgrades, and installing heat pumps and heat pump hot water heaters, etc. for a large segment of the population is an incredibly expensive proposition. Those costs have to be raised “up-front” if the goal is to move the people who can’t afford this stuff (ie. have no money) to the front of the line. And again, the cost of doing this is not accounted for in the report’s numbers.
The current 2 cent per gallon state surcharge on heating fuel raises about $5 million, so, roughly speaking, an additional 4 cents increase in 2024 would raise an estimated $10 million. This doesn’t even cover the report’s estimated administrative costs of the program between 2024 and 2030, which they say are “$11 million to $28 million above the BAU [Business as Usual] for 2024, from $31 to $53 million above BAU in 2030.” And FYI, they expect the cost of this bureaucracy to grow to be between $130 to $200 million per year by 2050, which our children and grandchildren will have to pay for. Fun!
And, last point, I mentioned in a previous article on the also admitted lack of cost-effectiveness in Vermont’s renewable energy policy that the Social Cost of Carbon is a “keleven” – “a fictitious number used by an incompetent or corrupt individual to balance accounting books.” As such, the keleven changes its value to fit the accounting needs of the corrupt and incompetent actor. So it should be of no surprise that the members of the Climate Council, upon hearing this report, immediately called for adopting a higher Social Cost of Carbon number to “balance” their books as a way to claim their whackadoo policy shouldn’t be scrapped. What a crock!
Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.
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Dispute between U.K. and Greece over artifacts (Elgin Marbles) that the British rescued years ago and now Greece wants back; should items/lands acquired legally per the norms of a prior period be returned? The riot in a High School in Queens, NY, presumably inspired by a Jewish teacher posting something pro-Israel on Facebook; are pro-Palestinian protesters all antisemitic? Is it OK for the US to support both sides of wars, such as sending supplies to Gaza while sending arms to Israel?
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In 2019, Daniel Jupp published A Gift for Treason: The Cultural Marxist Assault on Western Civilization. The book provides a traditionalist’s reading of the nature of modern civilization and the Cultural Marxist threat it currently faces. It tackles the issues surrounding Western identity and culture, explaining the key historical movements and political principles that define Western identity. It combines discussions of our cultural debts to Ancient Greece, Rome, and Christianity with descriptions of the ideology that seeks to destroy this intellectual and cultural heritage.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE – For the first time in the state’s recorded history, legislators in the New Hampshire House of Representatives have filed two bills aimed at giving voters the opportunity to vote on whether or not New Hampshire will peacefully secede from the United States of America.
State Representative Matthew Santonastaso (R – Cheshire 18) has sponsored a groundbreaking new bill that will force the creation of a Secession Study Committee in the Granite State. This comes on the heels of a bill filed recently by State Rep. Jason Gerhard (R – Merrimack 25) that if passed, would allow voters to amend the New Hampshire Constitution, declaring that the state will secede from the United States should the national debt reach a staggering $40 trillion.
The Secession Study Committee, as envisioned by the bill, won’t just be a cursory look into New Hampshire declaring its peaceful independence from the United States. It will delve into understanding the multifaceted implications, the potential benefits, and the challenges that New Hampshire might face if it were to consider seceding from the Union. This initiative underscores the urgency and importance of having a well-informed discussion on the subject.
Representative Santonastaso stated,“Given the current challenges at the federal level and potential unforeseen changes in the national landscape, it’s essential to study the feasibility of an independent New Hampshire. This effort is not about neglecting our shared history; it’s about proactive planning and ensuring our state shall persist under any circumstance.”
Carla Gericke, President Emeritus of New Hampshire’s Free State Project, weighed in on the matter, stating “The increase in the number of New Hampshireites, and now our legislators, who support peacefully exiting the Union, is indicative of the Biden admin’s complete and utter failure to represent the interests of our state. The federal government have nobody to thank but themselves for the inevitable result – more and more of us want to choose freedom.”
Matt Sabourin dit Choinière, the chairman of the New Hampshire Independence Political Action Committee, commented “The purpose of these bills is to get the tough questions relating to independence out on the table, and then get some answers to the public, it’s basically an outline for future grand national strategy. My father always said growing up that if a private business were to operate the same way as the government, they’d be locked in prison. It’s time to fire D.C.”
In the state’s 2022 legislative session, the House rejected a proposal that would give voters the opportunity to amend the New Hampshire constitution, allowing the state to peacefully declare independence from the United States. While opponents of New Hampshire’s secessionist movement have historically argued that the federal government is a net positive or at the least can be molded into one, proponents have argued that the federal government is too far gone – citing issues such as inflation, ongoing wars abroad, and healthcare. New Hampshire is one of approximately 25 states that pays more in taxes to the federal government than they receive in federal funding.
Once introduced, both bills will move to committee for further discussion and review. If passed, the Secession Study Committee would be comprised of members from both the House and Senate, as well as experts in economics, law, and governance. Their findings would be presented to the state legislature for consideration.
For the full press release see: https://nhipac.org/2023/10/18/684/
This weekend, New Hampshire independence supporters launched a weekly outreach booth in Keene’s Railroad Square. In addition to sharing the word of peaceful secession with passers-by, they also conducted an informal poll, with 16 people voting to stay in the Union and 13 voting that NH should leave! Despite a fresh nationwide poll showing over 25% supporting secession for their respective states, one supporter of the federal Empire stopped at the booth to tell us that she knows everyone in New Hampshire hates us. She said secession will never happen, before storming across Main St.
Then, she turned around and came back across Main St to say something else. That’s when I pulled out my phone and started recording:
Afterwards, she went back across Main St and made a phone call. Keene police showed up minutes later and affirmed our right to record video. They also identified the woman as Democrat activist Margaret Sawyer.
The results are in from the second poll in two years asking the people of New Hampshire about their views on declaring peaceful independence from the United States. Last year, the Foundation for NH Independence commissioned a detailed poll from Survey USA which had 625 respondents and asked a couple dozen questions which measured people’s frustrations with the federal government in addition to their thoughts about whether or not New Hampshire should become an independent nation. It having been about a year since the previous poll, we decided it was time to do it again, though this time we had the chance to hire the University of New Hampshire to include several questions in their monthly “Granite State Poll“.
The Granite State Poll is a highly respected scientific polling organization in New Hampshire, and the cost wasn’t cheap so we zeroed in on the most important questions to ask. We worked with UNH’s Survey Center on the wording, which was changed somewhat from Survey USA’s. Three key questions were asked again and we added a new question to measure awareness. The UNH survey had 1,105 respondents, 76% more than the Survey USA sample. Unfortunately, the results were down across the board, in some cases by about half. Thankfully it wasn’t a total decimation, but advocates of NH Exit have a lot of work to do to increase awareness and persuade people to support peaceful independence. You can read the full NH Independence survey results from UNH here (PDF), which include demographic breakdowns.
The most positive overall result was the 28% who said “definitely not” or “probably not” to this question, “If New Hampshire were not already part of the United States, would you want New Hampshire to join?” However, that was down from 37% on a similar question in last year’s poll, which read, “If New Hampshire were not already part of the United States, it would be beneficial for the state to join, and be governed by DC”. This year, 46% of republicans said they’d definitely or probably not want to join the US, compared to 30% of independents and 11% of democrats. The demographic most likely to oppose joining the US was 35-49, with 35% against joining.
28% Definitely or Probably Wouldn’t Join USA
The big question though, asking specifically if people are ready to peacefully secede from the United States, did not fare as well as last year, though the question changed significantly from last year’s which was, “I would prefer New Hampshire to govern itself as an independent country” which found 29% strongly or somewhat agreeing. This year’s question was more explicit: “Would you support or oppose New Hampshire peacefully seceding from the United States and governing itself as a separate country?”, to which only 16% strongly or somewhat supported, about one in six people. The language of this year’s question reflected the language of CACR 32 which was the proposed constitutional amendment that would have put the question to a vote last year, had it passed the legislature. Opposition to secession was very strong on this year’s question, with a full 70% strongly opposed and only 6% somewhat opposed to peaceful secession, compared to last year where it was 37% strongly disagreeing and 21% somewhat disagreeing with being an independent country.
Of course, it’s worth noting here that we are comparing apples to oranges somewhat as it’s not really fair to compare results to questions that were different, as everyone knows that the way questions are asked in a poll can have an effect on the results. Regardless, one thing that remained true across both polls on the independence question is that the most pro-independence demographic is people 35-49. Last time it was 27% of that demographic supporting independence and this time 24% supported peaceful secession. Republicans were more likely to support peaceful secession, with 31% strongly or somewhat supporting, compared to 21% of independents and 2% of democrats. UNH’s survey also asked respondents about their media consumption. Of the 59 respondents who identified as Joe Rogan listeners, 38% said this question didn’t matter / they were neutral – by far the largest segment of people who didn’t care about this question. Only 44% of Rogan listeners oppose peaceful secession, but bizarrely, 80% of Rogan listeners said they would support NH joining the union.
One in Six NH People Support Peaceful Secession, But 70% Strongly Opposed
The results were slightly better, as they were last year, for the question asking whether people support putting NH Independence to a vote. This year’s question was, “Would you support or oppose the idea of New Hampshire holding a vote to find out whether voters want New Hampshire to peacefully declare independence from the United States?” and 20% strongly or somewhat supported having a vote, down from last year’s 42% who said they strongly or somewhat supported the similarly worded, “Would you support or oppose the idea of New Hampshire holding a vote to find out whether voters want New Hampshire to peacefully separate from the US?” Again, republicans were more likely to support the vote with 31%, compared to 27% of independents and 8% of democrats. Ironic, considering all their talk about supporting democracy. Again, 35-49 year-olds were the strongest demographic supporting putting it to a vote, with 31% supporting. The next most supporting age demo was 50-64 at 22%.
One in Five Support Holding Vote on NH Independence
Again, curiously, Joe Rogan listeners stood out from the rest of the respondents with 33% support putting independence to a vote, while the second most supportive media group was conservative radio listeners at 24% support. Again, Rogan’s listeners were much more likely than any other media consumers to say that they were neutral or it didn’t matter to them – 42%! Rogan’s listeners were the only media group with an insignificant number of people strongly opposed to a vote, only 8%. Also, more of his listeners supported the vote than opposed it, 33% to 25%. Every other media group has massive opposition to a vote on independence, as you can see here from the below breakdown. Results go across left-to-right from Strongly Support, Somewhat Support, Neutral/Doesn’t Matter, Somewhat Oppose, Strongly Oppose, Don’t Know/Not Sure, and the total number of respondents that identified as that type of media consumer:
Media Consumption Breakdown on Vote Question
The new question on this year’s survey was regarding people’s awareness of the legislation last year: “In March of 2022, the N.H. House of Representatives rejected a proposed constitutional amendment calling for New Hampshire to peaceably declare independence from the United States and to govern itself as a separate country. How much do you recall hearing about this?” While barely anyone heard “a lot” about it, interestingly it was liberals whose awareness was higher on this than conservatives – 61% of liberals had heard something about it compared to 39% of conservatives, though liberals were far less likely to be supportive of independence, with only 1% of liberals supporting declaring peaceful independence compared to 26% of conservatives. Overall, 50% of survey respondents had heard nothing at all about the constitutional amendment last year.
Finally, UNH included a cross-tab graphic showing the relationship between opinions on secession and the theoretical question about joining the union. Excluding the obviously confused 1% who support secession but would also join the union, there are 15% who both support secession and wouldn’t join the US. There are another 9% who can see the wisdom of not joining the US, but are probably too afraid to leave the abusive federal gang:
15% Get it.
For the full demographic breakdowns, please see the full PDF provided by UNH that also lists the entire survey with all the month’s questions which also covered marijuana legalization, the debt ceiling, and immigration.
Did you notice some interesting things in the survey data that I missed in this article? Share your findings with the NH Exit community in our Matrix chat room (also on Telegram) or in the Forum.
Hopefully we’ll continue to perform polling on a yearly basis to see how beliefs change, especially as the federal oppression worsens under this administration and whichever tyrant gets elected in 2024. If a republican tyrant is elected in 2024, will the support for secession flip along R-D party lines?
On Wednesday morning, NHexit.US announced that local liberty activists in New Hampshire have hired a chartered airplane pilot to fly a pro-independence banner over the three largest cities in the state. Over the past few years, the calls for serious discussions on peaceful separation of New Hampshire from DC and the union have grown dramatically. New Hampshire is already home to the most influential liberty movement in the world.
Notable events since 2021 include:
This Saturday, an airplane banner could be added to that list. The tentative plan is for the banner to fly over Nashua, Manchester, and Concord. If you look up while in one of these cities, you just might be able to snap a photo or record a video of the banner. We encourage our readers to post their photos to social media with the tags #NHexit, #secession, and #NHpolitics.
Additionally, the question of secession will be asked by another highly reputable pollster. The University of New Hampshire is currently conducting a political survey that includes multiple questions related to New Hampshire independence. The results could be published within days or a few weeks.
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AI Biplane Over NH
On the advice of Daniel Miller of the Texas Nationalist Movement, who has been a big supporter of NH Independence, we’re hiring a pilot to tow a pro-secession banner over New Hampshire’s biggest cities this Saturday, May 27th!
It’s not cheap, but it should definitely get some attention. The idea is that online or big media ads are too common and it’s hard to stand out, however aerial banners are relatively rare and tend to get people talking.
You can help get the word out about this flight, especially if you’re in the Nashua, Manchester, Concord corridor. Here’s how: if you see the plane – take a photo or video and share it on your social media with #NHexit. Of course, you should also mention your support for peaceful NH Independence.
Further, you can join our NHexit chat room on Matrix or Telegram for updates on where the plane has been spotted. It’s also a great place to keep up with the goings-on in the NH Independence movement.
New Hampshire Independence PAC Chairman Matt Sabourin dit Choinière was this week’s guest on “Free State Live”, the weekly video show hosted by Free State Project movers and liberty-loving NH natives. Of course, they discussed peaceful NH independence. Watch the full episode here: