LD227 would permit the state of Maine to hold those in other states liable for violating it; violating what? The law allows human trafficking and protects adults from charges of kidnapping and transporting minors across state lines for gender surgeries. Tennessee pushed back, but not just against the unconstitutionality of LD227.

Tennessee lawmakers in the state’s Senate on Thursday passed a bill on a 25-4 vote that would make it a felony for adults to aid minors in seeking gender transition procedures. It now heads to the GOP-led House, where it is expected to get additional Republican support.

State Sen. Janice Bowling, a Republican, sponsored SB 2782, which would penalize any “adult who recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor” in Tennessee “for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured,” and make it classified as a felony.

Objections are without merit. It is about protecting children from a medical, industrial complex revenue machine that secretly admits the risks and failures of its alleged cures on one hand while cashing checks for its services on the other.

A practice that is rapidly losing support around the world (in just the past few weeks).

• “Experts” Admit That Transitioning Kids Can Result in Cancer or Death
• Night Cap: A Majority of Gender Research Lacks Rigour, Quality, or Evidence
• New Study Confirms that If You Leave Gender-Confused Kids Alone … They Grow Out of It
• UK Bans Puberty Blockers for Everyone Under 18 Years of Age
• Woke Pope Comes Out … Against Trans-Surgery and Gender Theory

A growing institutional force recognizes how dangerous and ineffective this is for children’s mental health.

What About Rights?

Children have very limited rights, historically recognized across almost every culture. No one has a history of deliberately letting kids decide what they are ready for or when they can begin certain behaviors. Results may vary (rural kids are up working the family farm and using equipment many an urban youth would be unable to master without the time and training of their rural peers). Still, when it comes to smoking, driving, vaping, drinking alcohol, tattoos, firearms*, and, until recently – sex, the universal standard has been when the time is right. That time is commonly mid to late teens (these days) or later, which ought to include the elective surgical removal of healthy human body parts.

Every culture can debate when the best time is for marriage and firearms safety, but we don’t typically let adults chop off healthy body parts (theirs or someone else’s) unless it is for sexual reassignment surgery, which, when you consider it, is not the best policy. Recent research affirms that a majority of what gets labeled gender dysphoria in children is a different mental health issue that gender-bending does not address. It would explain why the quick-to-judge gender reassignment solution is failing so badly. Even in accepting communities, those lured into the LGBTQ lifestyle continue to embrace other unhealthy habits, including suicide, in statistically high numbers.

You are not addressing their mental health. You are using it to project your political will. Adults are free to make mistakes for which they must then pay some price (unless they are members of Congress). Children manipulated into those choices, contrary to the rising body of evidence against it, are being abused sexually, politically, and forever. You can’t undo the damage of gender surgery, and hormone treatments are dangerous, leading to disease, cancer, and even death.

Maine Democrats are not just fine with the risks. They would add human trafficking to the list. They are putting children in harm’s way. Tennesse is trying to protect them. More states should do the same.

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Democrat-owned fake news media continues to bamboozle their self-blinded followers with false narratives in order to sell their stories to the unsuspecting populace.

As long as left-leaning voters take the bait by the media, they will never learn what it was like 50 years ago to have honest and unbiased news presenters like Walter Cronkite.

The “news” articles of today are more like gossip columns reeking of manipulated, sensational “gotcha” opinions by left-wing reporters at CNN, MSNBC, HuffPost, AP, ABC, et al.

This is called controlling the message. When the message is controlled, the people are controlled.

However, Democrats without a conscience don’t seem to care because they are happily living in their controlled fantasy world. Left-leaning people totally believe the negative, fictional opinions made against Republicans by the leftist media simply because it fits their Democratic narrative.

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Democrats in Congress love to claim “bipartisanship” when pushing laws. Have you noticed that they all claim to “work with” Republicans to negotiate bills? The reality is that they don’t leave space for Republican discussions; they shut Republicans out of the conversation. Congressional Democrats have no desire to negotiate. It seems it’s their way or the highway.

It is extremely rare for a Democrat to go against their party in Washington, DC. The reality is, if they appear to waffle, they pay a price. When Speaker Nancy Pelosi reigned over the House, they were led in shackles to her throne to have a “little chat”. Subsequently, the “throne-in-waiting” of the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. And to current Senate Leader Chuck Schumer. They are all given the order not to stray from liberal chronicles.

The media will never report that.

Remember when Joe Biden was running for president on a platform of unity? The reality is that Biden has denigrated Republicans for years. He slams Donald Trump at every chance, propagating the same falsehoods claimed by the media, albeit in his mumbling, bumbling Biden-esque way.

Biden is the most divisive president this country has seen in a long time. He wouldn’t know unity if it bit him in the nose.

And yet, Biden’s controlled partisan followers continue to walk around with blinders on. In their letters to the editor and other public communications, they note that Biden is ‘full of stamina and vitality’ and ‘clearly articulates his policies’. Are they drinking the weird Kool-Aid?

Another dramatically false claim is that Trump is a ‘threat to America’ and he ‘cozied up to dictators’ and his ‘greed fed corrupt pay-to-play politics’. They sound catatonic and seemingly suffer from foaming at the mouth.

Talk about being controlled.

People don’t get the full truth. All they get are subjective opinions calling Republicans bad. They listen to fake news with liberal ears and believe the false claim that President Trump said he was going to be a dictator. No. That was taken out of context by the media. Look at the transcript of the conversation. With tongue in cheek, he said he would be a dictator on day one only and would close the border and stop illegal border crossings. Frame of reference: On day one, Joe Biden acted as a dictator when he signed 77 executive orders all cancelling Trump policies simply because they were not Democratic policies.

Let’s not forget Biden holding a pay-to-play billion dollars hostage to force the Ukrainian government to fire the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Hunter Biden’s corrupt deal. Well, son-of-gun, the prosecutor got fired, and Biden got them their billion dollars!

Take the “bloodbath” incident. Trump was speaking metaphorically about a major economic disaster, not a bloody war like the liberal media claimed. Biden used the term in 2020, referring to a political bloodbath. Result: nothing from the media. They let that go without calling him out.

The media claimed Trump called all illegals ‘animals’ – they forgot to mention that he was talking about the murderous criminal element of illegals crossing our border.

Liberals will not be swayed by this column and will continue to turn a blind eye. They’d rather focus more on the lies about Trump than talk about Biden’s economic disasters affecting us all.

Knowledge is key.

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George Carlin used to tell jokes about his time in Catholic school and his smart-ass interactions with The Church, like asking a priest if God is so powerful that he can create a rock so large that he himself can’t lift it. A similar situation has arisen closer to Earth. Vermont close.

In their pursuit of ineffable emissions goals, the Vermont Legislature has created an environmental standard so complex that no one knows how to implement it. Grokster Rob Roper explains.

The Clean Heat Standard (CHS), the “Rube Goldberg” carbon tax on home heating fuels, became law almost a year ago over the veto of Governor Scott. The Democrat/Progressive supermajority that passed the CHS did so without providing – or even considering in any significant detail – how it would work or what it would cost. Instead, they kicked that can into the laps of the Public Utilities Commission with the charge to just figure it all out – by September 2024 (fifteen months) for review before a legislative vote in January 2025.

So far, the only thing we’ve figured out is that this thing can’t be figured out. Certainly not by September 2024/January 2025 and probably not ever.

He proceeds to show us the receipts in support of the claim, which is simplified by the fact that the agencies tasked with achieving goals have not because the way the law is written, it can’t be done. This is progressive busybodying at its finest, and you’d be right to ask the next question.

How many emissions have been emitted not just during the drafting, deliberation, and passage of the Clean Heat Standard but also since trying to work out how it won’t work, starting with the fact that it creates a financial instrument (a carbon credit) the state would have to oversee and regulate (more government, more emissions).

“From the outset, you should treat the credit like a financial instrument if you want to see what happens when you don’t, look at the beginnings of the European Emissions Trading System ten or twelve years ago. It was a disaster. They are a financial instrument. They are basically the same as money, so you need to track them like that. There should be a single registry for credits, and they should all have unique identifiers…. And the final thing, I’d say, is there should be an annual review of market activity. It seems like overkill on day one, but it is really important to understand what is happening in the credit market to make sure that it’s being operated above board….”

Yeah, all that. And much more. Good luck hammering out the details of how to create, track, and regulate what is essentially a new crypto-currency during a three-hour Zoom meeting! This is not the fault of the TAG or the EAG, it’s the fault of the morons who passed this law with this time frame with this bureaucratic framework without doing anywhere near the due diligence necessary to determine if this were possible.

And Vermonters didn’t even want it. They don’t want to pay more to heat and cool their homes, but that’s what this does if they can figure out a way to make it work, which is not a bad thing. The longer it takes, the more time you have to replace them and get this repealed.

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IF you consider yourself a political activist … then there is a thread on X from Jesse Kelly that is a MUST-READ. But let’s start with me, okay? Am I a political activist? NO. Writing posts for GraniteGrok does NOT make me a political activist. It makes me a political commentator (the dysfunctional NHGOP would probably use gadfly instead of commentator). But it does NOT make me an activist.

The vast majority of what is posted on this site is “preaching to the choir.” I am not changing minds. I am not affecting elections, And I can say this because I see how many views the posts get. The reach of my posts, in terms of votes cast in elections, is not material.

If I were a candidate for, let’s say, a school board, or I were helping such a candidate … then I could actually call myself an activist. But I am neither, so I have no business calling myself an activist. Similarly, someone who just posts on Facebook and flies a MAGA flag is not an activist. You are not doing anything actually to manifest change.

Democrats … more accurately, Communists … are winning because they understand the distinction. They seek and win positions of power, and then they use that power. That is why you see drag shows and pride flags in supposedly Red States.

If you want to be an activist, then you need to ACT. And a word of advice, if you do choose to take Jesse’s advice … ignore the NHGOP. The NHGOP is dysfunctional and useless. Trying to “take over” the NHGOP is a colossal waste of time. Instead, the focus should be on taking over your local school board and other aspects of local governance.

Needless to say, I do not expect anyone to actually follow this advice. It is so much easier to do things the same way—the losing way—that the NHGOP has been doing things for decades. TOP OF THE TICKET, COATTAILS, DON’T MASS UP NEW HAMPSHIRE. What’s really “massing up” New Hampshire is not the alleged threat of an income tax—it is the Communist zealots running school boards and other aspects of local government.

Read the whole thread on X by clicking on the below:

Wanna know why “red” towns across America have child drag shows and muddy buddy parades?

Walk with me and I’ll tell you why. And how to stop it: https://t.co/Qvj0lsmMe3

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) April 16, 2024

Unrolled:

Wanna know why “red” towns across America have child drag shows and muddy buddy parades?

Walk with me and I’ll tell you why. And how to stop it:

Unroll available on Thread Reader

First, you need to set aside Nursery Rhyme Conservative notions like “majority”. The Right loves cope like that.

“We’re the silent majority!”

Yeah, dork. Thinking like that is why you lose. 

The communist understands “power” and “majority” are very different things. His is a demonic religion of destruction so he knows he’ll never be popular. And he doesn’t have to be.

He just has to take the choke points of power in a society. 

Which brings us to your town. You know that library you drive by on the way to work every day? Do you even look at it?

No. You don’t.

Guess who does. The communist does. You see a library. He sees a choke point. 

The communist understands power in a way the American Right never has. You put on a MAGA hat and post on Facebook and think you’re “political”.

The communist gets himself on your city’s parks department. Why? Cause he knows what politics really is about. 

So yes, there are only 10 commies in your “red” town. But they’re all on your school board. THEY have the power. Your “majority” means nothing. Nothing.  If you want to save the parts of your country that can be saved, it involves much more than voting for Trump once every 4 years and avoiding Bud Light. You must become involved. LOCALLY.  Run for school board. When there’s a meeting or a committee in your town (communists love committees), go get on them.  When the communist pushes the next tranny parade, make noise. Organize. Last time they tried that in my “red” town, I had so many people calling that they stopped answering the phones in city hall. And in the end, I won. 

Legal and local is our path to victory. Your red area is vulnerable cause you’re watching the game while the communists are planning and organizing.

Plan. Organize. Fight. Win.

That’s all. 

• • •

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The Democrats, especially Joe Biden, have learned to use the courts and trials to their advantage. They set the Justice Department loose because Donald Trump would return to run against Biden to regain his Presidency. The word in the White House last week was “Don’t.”

For the previous year, the Dems favorite word was “Indict,” and indict they did, to the tune of 91 indictments filed against Former President Donald Trump. They did this for three reasons:

1. They knew the media would cover every indictment and trial, and that would poison the people on Donald Trump.
2. Make Trump spend on legal proceedings stealing it from the campaign.
3. Tie him up in court for the stretch run when he should be on the trail for votes.

This three-pronged attack failed on every front. Every indictment meant a plus in Trump’s approval. Trump is setting records raising money and will have enough for both battles. Trump has the energy to be in a New York court during the day and hold a rally in Texas at night. Joe Biden dreams of energy, and Donald Trump exudes it.

The House has impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Not because he is incompetent but because he is doing precisely as Joe directs him to keep the border wide open. He is impeached for his treasonous activities that have led to 10 million illegal migrants entering the country under his watch. The House has delayed delivering the Articles of Impeachment to Chuck Schumer and the Senate because Schumer has leaked that he will table the articles rather than convene a trial per the Constitution. For Schumer to table would be unprecedented and in defiance of the Constitution. It would be as disastrous for the Senate as Harry Reid blowing up the 60 vote majority.

The Senate has always been referred to as the upper chamber because it is supposed to be the more stately of the two wings. Senators tend to be more seasoned politicians, and some rules and traditions force the Senate to debate, negotiate, and compromise to get bills passed. That is how it used to be, but like everything else in this new world order, things are not as they used to be or as good. If Schumer does as he promises, it will be another notch downward for the Senate. We should not be surprised that someone like Schumer would do this, especially this New York Jew who had a brain freeze this week and turned on Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu by calling for new elections.

Being in the minority, I do not know if the Republicans have any procedural tricks they can pull to force the issue and the trial. Still, if Schumer is successful in protecting Mayorkas, impeachment will become a lame act if the impeached is of the same party as the majority. Conventional thinking has Trump back in the White House and the Republicans taking the Senate but losing the House. Should that come to fruition, you can bet the house, your house, that Trump will be impeached before the summer of 2025. If Schumer blows up impeachment like the supermajority, a Trump impeachment will become a placement in the Senate cafeteria.

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Germany, like Vermont, has some problems. They are both scrambling to meet arbitrary and unnecessary emissions targets. Stop laughing; they think this is serious. And like Vermont, Germany has unworkable laws with rules to get there from here, because the world might end if they can’t agree on how to massage or cheat them.

The problem in Central Europe’s largest nation is that dueling sides are fighting over a thinning slice of what was once a proud and stable manufacturing economy. This planned ruin includes addressing what to do about vehicle emissions, but as deadlines loom without a compromise, Transport Minister Volker Wissing thought he’d try a different sort of motivation.

In a push to get his coalition partners to quickly approve the changes, Wissing said the [Transportation] ministry would have to enforce a ban on driving to meet the current law requirements if the amendments do not come into force before mid-July. “A corresponding reduction in traffic performance would only be possible through restrictive measures that are difficult to communicate to the population, such as nationwide and indefinite driving bans on Saturdays and Sundays,” Wissing wrote in a letter dated Thursday to coalition parliamentary group leaders.

Strange meets insane. Germany is known for making decent automobiles, which is harder to do given the constraints on energy produced by unreliable intermittent fancy. Not to mention that it’s impossible to make steel in the new green world, so missing the emissions targets is less of a threat to Germans than the government that sets them and insists on meeting them.

Whether Wissing is making fun of his coalition partners or not is unclear to me, but it feels like he’s making a point they’ve all missed, which brings us to the dumber thing alluded to in the headline.

“It is not responsible for a minister to stir up unfounded fears,” Green Party parliamentary group leader Katharina Droege said on Friday, calling on the minister to make sensible suggestions for more climate protection in the sector.

Amusing, yes? The entire emissions scheme stands on unfounded fears, without which you’d not be arguing about how to meet meaningless targets whose only effect is to shackle your economy and bankrupt your people.

Failed Policy, Failed State

“Social Democrats (SPD) deputy parliamentary group leader Detlef Mueller” was also put out by the scaremongering, and he was not referring to the climate scam. He meant the bit about a driving ban, which is disingenuous coming from a Social Democrat. Driving can’t be anything but verboten to reach the movement’s actual goals. And that is not an unfounded fear; it is a logistical fact. Environmental policy is about control, especially movement. The 21st-century equivalent of a Berlin Wall. Not a physical structure but a technological one. Social credit, digital currency, transportation tyranny, cultural reprimand. All for what?

As with all forms of Marxism, once they’ve convinced you to give up your freedom, it must descend into the same sort of dirty economy China has now. Government power cannot stand on green lies. To keep it, they will make excuses for well-meaning environmental policy (not what we thought) to justify whatever energy use keeps the gears of despotism oild, turning, and oppressing.

The goal is economic control, not climate control. In the end, governments will still be scrambling to meet emissions targets, but under absolute state rule, there’ll be more emissions to keep the home fires burning.

Germans need to understand that this is a different face, but the same fascism, and the end of it isn’t all that different from that which they were liberated in the last century.

 

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If you want to understand why NHGOP House “leadership” believes it can ignore the priorities of actual GOP voters while instead pushing their decidedly non-GOP agenda … an obsession with legalizing marijuana, outlawing single-family zoning, increasing urban density, and catering to the rich and the elites (e.g., ending interest-and-dividends tax) while ignoring working people (no hard cap on local property taxes), etc. etc. etc. … check out this from “Leader” Jason Osborne on X.

Essentially, “they have nowhere to go,” … we can do whatever we want because at the end of the day voters are zombies who will vote the Party line up and down the ballot.

Not this voter, Jason. The NHGOP has left me, not the other way around. So, I intend to vote for Trump and then turn in my ballot.

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Some elements in our state are trying to force longtime-established single-family zoned neighborhoods into multi-family neighborhoods. Their goal is to eradicate the suburbs and morph towns into cities.

We urge the NH Senate to reject HB1291 on the following basis:

– This bill’s provisions amount to zoning by the State in a one-size-fits-all manner rather than by the municipalities themselves. It does not give back, but instead takes away property rights in that it takes away the choice of SF neighborhoods from buyers.

– When zoning is done by the State using a top-down mandate, existing property owners are penalized for the benefit of a few.

– If residents did not want to live in SF neighborhoods, why has no one tried to remove zoning altogether via the warrant article process?

– If HB1291 passes, single-family residential lots would now be converted to three-family rental properties “by right” (bureaucratic state mandates), under the guise of “ADUs”.

– Current RSAs allow municipalities to make their own zoning changes by warrant article at the annual vote.

– Current RSAs already allow one ADU by right and one detached ADU.

– If HB1291 passes, single-family homes will then be bought by developers, eliminating the SF housing supply and exacerbating an already low supply of SF housing.

– HB1291 will permanently alter the face of single-family neighborhoods forever.

– The changeover will be gradual, but 5-10 years out, it will be too late.

– The idea of letting the state mandate housing rules sets a dangerous precedent of “central planning.”

– This legislation forces municipalities to allow two additional rental units, one attached and one attached/unattached.

– This legislation forces municipalities to increase the size of the first rental unit to no less than 1000 sq/ft and the additional unit to no less than 850sq/ft. If a municipality does not limit sizes, there are, in effect, no limits to how big these units can be. Any/both ADUs could be bigger than the single-family residence itself.

– If you have a garage, you can convert it to a rental unit. If you have additional space above a garage, you can convert it to another rental unit. Have a big shed in the backyard? You can convert it to a rental unit.

– According to the proposed legislation, the second rental shall be required to meet the definition of “workforce housing” and shall be required to meet the definition of “affordable” as defined in the RSAs and recorded in the Registry of Deeds. This is purely a form of rent control, and the House has recently killed two bills dealing with rent control.

– On smaller lots with a primary residence, rental units #1 and #2 could potentially take up nearly every square foot of the property. So where would the cars park? That is covered by the following proposed language: “at a legally dedicated off-site location at the property owner’s discretion” could mean one block, two blocks, a half mile, or even several miles away from the property. What is more likely is that the renters would end up parking on and clogging up the streets near the units.

What impact would HB 1291 have on our NH communities?

First, there is the negative aesthetic and social effects on the neighborhoods. Let’s say you bought in a neighborhood consisting of single-family homes. You had the expectation that the zoning would remain the same as when you bought. But now, your neighborhood is going to change dramatically, and not for the better. Worst of all, you and your neighbors will have zero input in determining the matter because this zoning change was mandated and dictated from the central planners in Concord, not by changes proposed and passed in a warrant article that was voted on by you and your neighbors, as is the normal and proper process.

There will be increased demands on municipal water and sewer infrastructure. There will be a requirement for increased police and EMT presence and increased trash collection. What is the increased cost going to be for the taxpayers? Are the required sewer/water upgrades paid for by the State (this is a state unfunded mandate)? How many new school-aged kids will be enrolling when the rental units each have one, two or more children living on the property? Does an extra $1,000 or two collected in property taxes for the added rental units justify the $20,000 in additional costs to the taxpayers for each child? Without having voted to approve this zoning change, taxpayers/homeowners will be covering all these added costs for the benefit of a few property owners.

Summary

The additional rental structures allowed by HB 1291 would be by mandate at the state level, thereby taking away “local control” from the municipalities. This is socialist “central planning” at its worst.

To be clear, the phrase in the language used within the legislation “allowed as a matter of right” means municipalities MUST allow two ADU’s, anything else is not an option.

Progressive politicians in Concord do NOT understand or know the needs and wants of distant municipalities such as Pittsburg, or Hampton, or Lebanon, or Nashua or your town or city. To believe that these politicians and bureaucrats “know better than you” is simply wrong.

Do not infringe on the municipality’s role of zoning.

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Iran’s attack on Israel; the Trump trial in NYC; should he have not bothered to show up to the trial at all to show his disdain? Would Biden pull Trump’s secret service to send him to prison? Should SCOTUS take so long to make decisions? Do oral arguments change minds? Speaker Johnson changing his mind on section 702; Senate refused to hold trial on Mayorkas impeachment.

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I’m guessing most of the Grok Faithful are familiar with the areas of interest of the regular contributors.  A few examples would be Ann Marie Banfield and education or Claire Best and law enforcement/justice system corruption involving the youth center.

I don’t want any of the many people worthy of mention to feel slighted, so I’ll leave it at that for now.

To give full disclosure, I am a Wheeler constituent, but one of my many areas of interest is the executive council seat currently occupied by the retiring Ted Gatsas.  If you don’t know who his constituents are or who YOUR EC is, here’s a district map, which I suggest bookmarking for when you have discussions with people less informed about the EC and its role in Concord.

To back up for a quick moment, another item on my radar is the RTK crusade of Laurie Ortolano, someone also deserving of mention in the first paragraph.  While in court, I observed her mentioning “the quiet phase”(of fundraising) in her RTK case against the City regarding the new arts center.  I had never heard such nomenclature before, but it spoke for itself, at least to me.  Look it up if you want, but I’ll give my own crude definition and keep it short.  Before the public unleashing of a monster fundraising project, potential, generous donors are targeted and solicited.  It’s a concept similar to down-ballot candidates obtaining an endorsement of an up-ballot candidate, someone who has been in equal or higher office, or even a private citizen pillar of the community.  It’s desirable like your kid’s favorite professional athlete wearing a particular sneaker so s/he wants to be wearing the same one.

Because the executive council is a body of only 5, a candidate must campaign to 1/5 of the population.  Though District 4 is a densely populated area that’s smaller in square miles than Districts 1, 2, and 5, it still consists of 20 towns. That’s 20 political subdivisions that have their local busy intersections for sign waves, 20 dumps(or “transfer stations,” if you prefer) for weekend literature distributions, and 20 communities with local pillars to recruit the support of.

Speaking from her pre-nursing experience in project management, Terese mentioned the 3-legged stool.  The legs are time, money and quality.  She went on about it at the podium on how the surplus or lack of one of such things affects the demand on the others.  You get the picture.  I will also point out that one of her commonly used phrases is “we’re going up against a Goliath.”  Let’s talk about those “Goliaths” for a moment, and I don’t mean Davey Hansen’s dog.

A few of such “Goliaths” include, but are not limited to; money, name recognition, and connections.  Burns has plenty of money.  Ryan Terrell has plenty of name recognition.  Senator Reagan and Mr Stephen presumably have plenty of connections.  Terese is a private citizen political outsider and therefore disadvantaged.  Pundits might even call her an underdog, but remember that Underdog always saves Sweet Polly Purebred in the end.

What can you, the reader, do to help?  You can look again at the map.

If you live in or have ties to any of the 20 communities in District 4 or know someone who does, gather some intel.  Find out and write down who the influential locals are and where the large political signs(for our side, not the enemy camp) are usually placed.  If you’re feeling even more helpful, look up the addresses of such locations in the local assessor’s database so that owners can be reached out to in requesting their blessings.  Find out when and where popular local events are, public or private, and find out who’s in charge of them.  Get the contact info so Terese(or one of her volunteer minions) can get permission to solicit, if appropriate or required.

Because Ted Gatsas made his announcement and there are already multiple candidates with filing time still several weeks away, there will be no QUIET PHASE of the campaign process.  It’s already an all-hands-on-deck situation.  Find your puzzle piece and do your part.

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I was planning to wait for the site refresh to be completed to reboot the podcast page (GrokTV) with just podcasts, but Ken Eyring and Tom Murray just sent me an interview with our own Laurie Ortolano on government corruption (guess where!).

Neil Johnson (180,000 followers) leads the interview as part of the Lumberjack Logic Show with Tom and Ken riding sidecar as Laurie walks us through how she went from ordinary citizen to concerned citizen, taxpayer, property, and RTK rights activist, and the bane of Nashua’s corrupt city government.

Regular readers will be familiar with bits and pieces of these stories from our pages—followers of Laurie will know a good bit—but it will be news to many, including tens of thousands of Neil’s followers, exposing the city government’s crass indifference to corruption, abuse of taxpayer dollars, and the citizens’ right to know.

Some old stuff, and some new stuff you might not know yet – so please check it out!

 

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Water, water everywhere, but get ready for odd, even watering bans. Yes, spring has sprung like a stripper from a giant cake as the whores in government line up to spring regulatory speed bumps at our summertime fun. Will water bans be part of it? Is the Pope a Marxist?

Damn straight (that’s so bigoted!), there will be bans. We’ve had odd, even watering in my town for so long that I can’t remember when we didn’t.  Last year, amidst near-record precipitation, the signs were still up, and I think I know why. For the previous decade that we’d had them, it was wetter than usual but not wet enough (is it ever?). Since then, we’ve added thousands of additional “apartments,” each with faucets and toilets and showers used by people who are paying too much for rent because they can’t afford to pay too much for one of those racist single-family homes.

That’s a developer scam. The sums they get for rent are not far from what you might pay for a mortgage. Rent at $2700 a month is more than you’d need for a 30-year mortgage at 5% with 10K down over 30 years. But I digress.

I can’t speak for everyone, but New Hampshire has been in a decades-long wet period that you can clearly identify by the years of corporate media drought reporting. How much more? The 100-year mean from 1901 to 1999 is 43.44 inches annually. The mean for the past 50 years (1973-2023) is 47.35 inches annually. Since 2000, the annual mean is 48.97 inches.

Something up, if you take my meaning.

Post-Ice Age warming has resulted in a generous increase in available water for Granite Staters, at least on the averages, but the reporting is a bit less measured. We’re either drowning or droughting because clicks are more important than facts. And given the facts, as present by NOAA of all places, issues with water management seem more likely the culprit than the absence or presence of rainfall in any given month.

There is enough for mosquitoes to breed but no outside watering for you on odd or even numbered days, depending on the numerals in your street address.

To be fair, I can’t recall anyone enforcing the ban even as you drive by homes in the morning, irrigation systems watering luscious green lawns on the wrong days of the week. I’ve not taken a survey, but it seems more like an affectation. Virtue signaling. Look, we put up signs that say odd-even watering in effect, but it really means, isn’t it odd how evenly watered some of these lawns are?

That does not mean they would not choose to make an example of someone in the same way the FBI engages in entrapment as policy. No crimes to investigate? Why don’t we encourage someone to commit one and then brag about how we caught them?

If the fines go to the water district, that’s exactly what this looks like, but until then, we live with clown-car edicts about the lack of water despite years of record rainfall. 2023 saw 56.19 inches, which is a lot but not a record. 1954 was wetter, as were 1996, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2010. We’ve had above-average years 17 of the past twenty, and 2024 has begun looking to keep the trend.

February was way below average, coming in at 0.73 inches against a mean of 2.91, but January saw 5.46″ (mean at 3.24), while March dumped four inches above the norm of 7.58″ compared to 3.52.

 

April typically sees 3.64 inches but has been at or above average for seven consecutive years, following five years with below-average totals. May 2023 was just above average, followed by a very wet June and July. In other words, there’s no way to know. The Farmers Almanac says a sultry and soggy New England this year, while NOAA – not much better of a predictor, says above average temps and precipitation across most of New England (they agree this year!).

If you like to bet the NOAA line on hurricane predictions, an easy way to lose money, they’ve got another best guess for 2024: 23 storms, 11 of which will become hurricanes and five of which will reach Category 3 status or stronger. Stories of a warm Atlantic suggest this could be closer than in recent years, in which NOAA has blown the call by a wide margin in one form or another. Two years ago, not even close. Last year, total storms were good, but few made landfall, and NOAA had guessed there’d be more.

The reality is they have no clue what the weather is going to be like in a few days, so months, years, or decades are, at best, guesses – a well poisoned by politics and climate cult narratives. It’s not so much science and faith, but there are resources out there that stick to the data and trends based on past years. Weatherbell analytics, for example – and they say we’re kind of screwed on Hurricanes this year.

Basin Forecast

Names Storms 25-30
Hurricanes 14-16
Major Hurricanes 6-8

 

Impact Forecast

Named storm Impacts 10-14
Hurricane Impacts 5-8
Major Hurricane Impacts 3-5

 

And hurricanes that come close or make landfall mean more rain up the Atlantic coast.

All we can do now is wait.

 

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The 2024 Property Tax Revolt continues, with two more budgets going down to defeat last week.  As reported in VDC, 30 school districts rejected budgets March 5. Since then, five of six revotes (known to VDC) failed.

Add two more to the No list. Voters in the Essex Junction-Westford school district and the Rivendell Interstate School District (Orford NH, and the Orange County towns of Vershire, West Fairlee, and Fairlee, Saturday morning) both rejected their 2024 school budgets last week.

It was the first 2024-25 school budget vote for both districts. In the aftermath, as elsewhere, their school boards must prepare tighter budgets in the face of voter unrest, if not outright rebellion, against the proposed 20% statewide property tax increase.

Both votes were resounding Nos.

Saturday night, RISD voters in Orford, NH and the Orange County towns of Vershire, Fairlee and West Fairlee voted 240 no, 143 yes on the proposed school budget.

In the Essex-Westford vote Tuesday April 9, the vote was 2,353 (yes) – 3,340 (no). A ‘yes’ in Essex/Westford would have increased spending by 7.7% and property taxes by about 23%.

School board chair Bob Carpenter said April 10, “as an elected board, we respect the will of our community in choosing not to uphold the initial EWSD budget brought forth. Now, our board is focused on bringing a revised budget forward over the next few weeks.” Voters did approve the tech center budget.

More school budget votes are scheduled for this week.

Hartford (White River Junction) will vote tomorrow, April 15, for the first time. The budget would increase taxes by an estimated 18.5%.

“If this budget does not pass, we will try to produce a budget that will pass. We will need to keep putting out budgets until we pass one, or we run out of time before the new fiscal year, which begins July 1,” a Hartford board statement said.

Schools may borrow up to 87% of the current budget necessary to operate schools. Taxpayers would be on the hook for all interest we incurred on the funds borrowed.

April 16 will be a Super Tuesday of sorts for budget revotes.

Milton, Champlain Valley Union SD, and Springfield,  Mount Abraham Union Middle/High School, and Northfield schools, and the Elmore-Morristown school district will have their revote on April 16.

Georgia, South Burlington, St. Johnsbury, the Slate Valley Unified School District, and the Kingdom East School District all have voted no a second time to reduced school budgets. Alburgh is the only school district (known to VDC) to approve a revoted school budget. VDC readers, including school officials, are invited to report their school budget vote news to news@vermontdailychronicle.com.

Meanwhile, legislators are developing a bill that would fund a ‘foundation’ level for schools statewide with taxes other than the homestead property tax, leaving it as a local option to fund education above and beyond the ‘foundation’ level.

 

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After writing and publishing nine books about liberty, Alu has taken on some unique ventures related to writing. He has helped three other libertarians self-publish their own books, he’s translated his books into Spanish, and there are numerous other projects in the works. One of these projects simply involved compiling some of the best quotes about liberty, peace, and prosperity from the dawn of recorded time until 2024. 

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What is the alt-right? Trump judge refusing to acquiesce to the appeals court re: the bond he has to put up in order to appeal or did Letitia James say the insurance company that issued the bond is not qualified to do such business in NY. Abortion as national issue vs states right; what is Trump standing for in this election cycle? How much else could Trump be doing to spread a winning message and strengthen other GOP candidates?

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In January 2024, there was a meeting of the New Hampshire House State-Federal Relations and Veteran Affairs committee. The committee heard two separate bills on secession.

The first one, CACR 20, would be a constitutional amendment that would see the people of NH vote to amend the constitution to say that if the federal government’s national debt reaches $40 trillion, New Hampshire shall peacefully secede from the union.
The second one, HB1130 would form a commission to study everything we would need to know about secession, such as economic impact.

This is video of the full public hearing for both bills and the people’s testimonies.

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:

• legislation to place an independence referendum on the ballot which was sponsored by nine lawmakers in the New Hampshire House
• a poll by SurveyUSA finding that almost 100% of NH residents strongly resent the federal government and 29% are ready to secede immediately
• increasing demands by lawmakers and the centrist governor telling the DC tyrants to back off 
• An abundance of pro-independence sentiment, including flags for the Granite Republic, hats, T-shirts, books, articles, and podcasts, and even a national anthem

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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A recent poll conducted by SurveyUSA on behalf of the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence (FNHI) shows that while the peaceful separation of New Hampshire from the federal government has low support among politicians, it has significant support among registered voters.

According to an overwhelming number of respondents, the people of the United States are getting more and more divided over important issues like LGBT rights, guns, abortion, election integrity, race relations, involvement in foreign wars, climate change, immigration, and so on (91%).  Nearly as many fear that if this trend continues, it will lead to increases in political violence (89%).

Large majorities of respondents agreed that the federal government doesn’t have their best interests in mind (67%); that it violates their rights more than it protects those rights (65%); that it produces laws, regulations, and court rulings that are incompatible with New Hampshire’s culture of freedom (63%); and that its financial decisions and economic regulations hurt our livelihoods, and could lead to inflation and bankruptcy (77%).

In short, 63% of respondents feel that their state can be trusted more than the federal government.

One possible way forward would be for New Hampshire to begin ignoring federal laws and regulations regarding matters reserved to the States by the 10th Amendment. Fewer than half of respondents believe that the federal government should be able to force New Hampshire to follow federal mandates and laws regarding cannabis (27%), medicine (37%), public health (42%), education (41%), welfare (42%, firearms (42%), businesses (38%), and abortion (33%).

This approach, also referred to as ‘nullification’ is common, currently being utilized by dozens of states, and is consistent with the recent enactment of New Hampshire HB 1178, ‘prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms’. 

However, a more comprehensive way forward would be for New Hampshire to reclaim its sovereignty, peacefully separating from the federal government to govern itself as an independent country, an idea that was supported by 29% of respondents and 52% of Republicans. Only 58% of respondents do not support immediate and full secession from the federal government today. More than 2/5 of respondents agreed that the state should be able to do this without securing permission from the federal government (43%). And only 3% of respondents would support the use of military force by the federal government to interfere with such a separation.

Again, while politicians declined to put the question to the people, more than 2/5 of respondents support the idea of placing independence on the ballot (42%) while only 47% currently oppose it.

History is filled with proposals that seemed at first to be politically impossible, but after serious discussion and evolving circumstances, proved to be politically inevitable. To take just one example, shall-issue laws for concealed carry licenses, once viewed as extreme, are now the law in nearly every state. As the results of this poll show, peaceful separation already has more support now than shall-issue laws had in 1990. Today, not only is shall-issue the norm, but 25 states allow their residents to carry concealed guns without even requiring a permit. If New Hampshire independence follows a similar path, it may only be a few short years away from broad adoption. 

The survey also found strong support for independence and extreme discontent with DC politicians among all 8 states polled. In Texas, 90% of Republicans recently endorsed putting secession on the ballot, officially placing the position in their platform. California progressives have a strong independence movement of their own, and surveys show that around half of Californians support or are open to independence from the union. Progressives in Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington also support independence. States like South Carolina, Florida, and many other states have new independence movements that are rapidly growing, as well. 

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Over the past few weeks, a group of pro-freedom activists in New Hampshire has been holding informal meetings to brainstorm how to best promote independence in the next legislative session. Predictably, progressive authoritarians have already begun to attack the concepts of independence and liberty. A few conservatives cling to hope that they can fix DC and all 50 states, convince all Democrats to embrace conservative liberty values, and ‘save America’. 

 

I have written dozens of articles, published three books, and produced hundreds of videos making the case for a national divorce from the authoritarians. Here are just 100 reasons why every New Hampshire citizen who supports freedom should support a bill and a ballot referendum on independence from DC. 

 

1. Without the federal income tax, we’d each save around $25,000/year right off the bat.
2. The IRS is corrupt, tyrannical, and about to grow by 80,000 employees and billions of dollars. Years ago, they were caught targeting conservatives. Now, they are surely much more polarized and hateful against us. I could live without them.
3. The ATF is extremely anti-gun. They have been one of the biggest reasons that federal gun control laws have grown increasingly strict. The ATF passes laws and bypasses Congress. Once the murderous criminal, Dave Chipman is confirmed as the new ATF director, things will get much worse. I could live without the ATF. Once we divorce DC by declaring independence from the union, the ATF will no longer have jurisdiction over us. 
4. The CDC is out of control, and the agency will only ever grow more tyrannical. This was before corona-fascism made the CDC into the most harmful agency to liberty of all 400 illegal executive agencies. By the way, did you know that the CDC took legal ownership over every rental property in the united states?
5. I don’t trust Joe Biden to run my life or to do anything that could impact me. I have around 28 trillion reasons for distrusting that corrupt, evil, demented sociopath. 
6. I don’t trust Congress to run my life. They have proven time and again that they support authoritarian socialism. Even with majorities in the House and the Senate and even with Trump in the White House, Congress did nearly nothing to expand liberty. But they did pass many laws that violated my natural rights. 
7. The federal government benefits from terribly untrustworthy elections, such as the one in 2020. Once HR1 passes into law, all elections in the united states will be required to abide by the same insane rules that caused us all to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
8. Once HR51 passes into law, DC will be a state, complete with two more hardcore socialist Senators. The Democrats will control the Senate forever.
9. If you aren’t a big fan of sobriety checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
10. If you aren’t a big fan of immigration checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded and/or conducted. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
11.  Local cops only use tanks, drones, BEARcats, and other aggressive military gear against us because the feds give them those toys. Once we cut ties with DC, our local cops will return to their proper role as peace officers instead of acting as soldiers against us.
12. One of the reasons that Dictator Sununu locked us down and derailed our economy involved pressure and money from DC encouraging him to do so. 
13. If you don’t like being forced to pay for the DC politicians to wage futile endless wars in dozens of countries all over the world while veterans, women, and babies in our own communities starve on the streets, it means you want to separate from DC. 
14. If you are ready to give up on the war on drugs and stop sending cops to homes to punish people for consuming a plant, separating from DC is the first step you must take. DC politicians STILL consider cannabis a schedule one top-tier dangerous substance that is 100% illegal to possess. 
15. Do you love it when cops steal your property (car, house, money, guns, etc.) without convicting you of a crime? Well, federal law allows law enforcement to seize any property that could be involved in a past, present, or even future crime. And the feds have ‘extended’ that authority to state and local cops. Once we sever ties with DC, cops in NH lose the power of civil asset forfeiture.
16. If you ever wondered why bad cops almost never receive any punishment, you should know that ‘qualified immunity’ is a federal doctrine. Without DC, local cops become much more accountable to their neighbors.
17. The millions of federal regulations cost businesses over 2 trillion dollars each year in lost productivity. Once we divorce DC, our businesses will truly be able to unleash their creativity, making New Hampshire more prosperous than we could ever imagine.
18. Who should decide whether NH accepts illegal aliens or Afghan refugees? Biden and Pelosi or our governor and legislature?
19. Are you tired of being ruled by nine lawyers in long black robes who live in DC and have the power of Gods? If five out of the nine rule a certain way, that becomes the law for all 330,000,000 people in the united states.  
20. The federal reserve and DC politicians have overseen a decline in 99% of the US dollar’s purchasing power over the past century.
21. DC politicians have run up a debt of 28 trillion dollars and counting. And they claim that you and I are responsible for it. 
22. Nearly every politician has ambitions and eventually wishes to be sent to DC. This affects nearly every decision they make. Once DC is no longer in their minds, they will focus on what is most important: you.
23. Federal law enforcement (including the FBI) have shown themselves to be thoroughly corrupt. Even conservative commentators like Dan Bongino have called for their abolition. A few months ago, the FBI and other federal cops came to New Hampshire and violently kidnapped six of my friends. They are charging them with crimes that could result in them spending the remainder of their lives in federal prison. Their excuse? That my friends committed some victimless crimes by using and selling cryptocurrency. Once we leave DC, that will never happen again. 
24. Want a suppressor so that you can save your hearing? They are only illegal because the feds prohibit them. Without the feds, NH would be totally free, and you could put a suppressor on your SBR without any worries. 
25. Are you worried about increasingly strict EPA restrictions on vehicles, houses, and everything else? Once we divorce DC, they will have no jurisdiction over us.
26. Are you sick of random federal judges issuing injunctions that overrule actual laws passed by Congress or state legislatures? An independent NH would not have to worry one bit about federal judges.
27. The DC politicians are destroying the once-mighty American military. Their current secretary of defense and commander-in-chief continually insist that the #1 priority for their military is pleasing LGBT individuals. An independent New Hampshire could have a military with a top priority of defending us against hostile militaries. As it should be.
28. Have you accumulated a respectable net worth? Soon, the federal government will tax your net worth each year in addition to all of the other taxes. 
29. The US Congress literally does not represent you or me.
30. The federal government hates you. Especially if you are white. 
31. Multiple federal court rulings have declared that the first amendment does not protect any speech that is insulting, especially towards a government agent. 
32. Right now, even policies that you think are set by state lawmakers are really controlled by the feds via extortion. 
33. If the thought of Pelosi’s Capitol Police Force growing worries you …. You might support NH independence from DC. 
34. If you would rather have your highway taxes spent on highways … You might be a NHexiter.
35. Do you think that Facebook and Twitter are too powerful and too damaging to liberty? Federal law grants them effective immunity from lawsuits while also granting them the power to manipulate content. They get to act as both a publisher and a platform, whichever suits them at the moment. 
36. If you support sound, free-market money like gold and silver (and crypto) ….You already support NHexit. It’s only a matter of time before the feds ban them.
37. If you are afraid that Donald Trump might become President again …. You just might be a NHexiter.
38. If you are afraid that Kamala Harris might become President…. You just might be a NHexiter.
39. If you think that Title IX is a major reason that free speech and due process in colleges were destroyed, you support NHexit.
40. If you believe that boys should not have a free pass to the girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, you support NH independence. 
41. If you can’t count the billions of federal laws….you might support independence.
42. The FDA hurts and kills patients by stifling innovation and preventing people from using medications until the FDA spends decades of time and billions of dollars approving them.
43. Cutting ties with DC would immediately and drastically cut prices and improve the availability of drugs like epinephrine, insulin, loperamide, and many others. 
44. DC politicians use the federal department of education to brainwash your children to hate freedom. Once we are independent, that goes away.
45. The federal government believes that showing online ads to specific cohorts is a crime.
46. If you are not comfortable with the REAL ID becoming a dystopian federal identification card, you might be an NHexit supporter.  
47. Support in Congress for a magazine ban is getting very close to a majority. In a few years, your magazines will be federally illegal. 
48. Once HR127 passes Congress, every firearm will be effectively illegal. Hope you’re ready to turn in your guns to the feds! You are a patriot and not a criminal, so you’d never violate federal law, right? 
49. It is very likely that Congress (or federal regulators) ban armor plates for all civilians very soon. Hope you’re ready to turn in your plates!
50. Even the best ‘conservatives’ in DC are working with Bloomberg to take away your guns.
51. Technically speaking…the federal government should not exist anymore. 
52. Federal judges have ruled that police have no legal obligation to protect you. 
53. The federal government thinks it can take your property by force, as long as it plans to use the property for anything that could benefit the government, including giving your property to companies like Pfizer. Without DC, states and localities have no power of eminent domain (AKA theft of property).
54. Federal politicians from Biden to McConnell and everyone in between consistently sell us out to oligarchs like Putin and Xi to enrich themselves. 
55. We can’t take power back from Congress, even with a Convention of States.
56. The DC politicians incentivize single motherhood and discourage employment. 
57. If you don’t believe that global warming is the biggest threat to our lives, you should not be in the same union as DC, the federal government, and the other states. 
58. If you don’t appreciate being spied on by the NSA and other creepy DC agents and politicians, you should consider divorcing them. 
59. If you don’t want to support the Taliban by providing them with money and military weapons and helicopters, you should leave the union and stop paying federal taxes. 
60. The federal government considers people guilty until proven innocent – the opposite of how it was supposed to be. Peaceful protesters have been receiving punishments in prison for months despite never being convicted. If you support due process, you support NHexit.
61. The federal TSA regularly violates our natural rights, despite literally missing 95% of actual threats. 
62. DC politicians maintain a horrifically managed ‘no-fly list’, which mistakenly puts many people (including babies) onto the list, preventing them from flying. It’s also nearly impossible to get off of the list. 
63. Conservatives from Candace Owens to Matt Walsh have spoken in support of state independence from DC. 
64. Federal government leaders believe that if you don’t wear all the masks they recommend and if you don’t get all of the vaccines they recommend, you are just like the Taliban suicide bombers. 
65. DC politicians prohibit beneficial pipelines that would have been amazing for our national security and economy while simultaneously supporting pipelines for nations that are hostile to us. 
66. Who is arming the violent Mexican drug cartels? Federal agents from DC!
67. The federal government has kidnapped innocent Japanese people and put them in concentration camps. New Hampshire has never done that. And they couldn’t ever do that. Because we all have lots of guns. 
68. The US government banned firearms and ammunition from Russia. New Hampshire would never do that.
69. The US government puts many kids in cages at the border. New Hampshire would handle immigration in a much more sensible and humane way. 
70. Things will literally never change for the better. Even with Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling Congress and the SCOTUS, freedom only diminished and tyranny continued to grow.
71. New Hampshire citizens are the hardest workers and earn the most money, which is demonstrated by our continent-leading median household income. We don’t need DC politicians to be wealthy.
72. New Hampshire is the freest state. Nearly all of our issues are caused by federal laws. Once we are independent, we will be almost 100% free to live as we please!
73. New Hampshire is the safest state. We don’t need DC or other states bringing violence to our peaceful paradise. 
74. Half of the people in the united states believe that Biden was legitimately elected and that Republicans are all traitors, while the other half believes that Biden lost the election and progressives are traitors. How could one country be united if its people hate each other so much? 
75. The DC politicians now feel so entitled to infinite power that they essentially ban medications that could help treat COVID, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. 
76. DC politicians are so arrogant that they no longer feel the need to pass legislation in Congress; they now use executive orders to pass new laws, including the most recent one forcing all private companies in the united states with over 100 employees to vaccinate their employees or test them for COVID weekly. This will affect 80 million employees. If you don’t want DC sociopaths coming between you and your employer (or you and your doctor), you support independence. 
77. When conservative states began having success treating COVID with monoclonal antibodies Biden and DC politicians began to BLOCK the life-saving treatments from getting to pro-freedom anti-Biden states like Alabama and Florida, potentially causing people to die.
78. DC politicians have made it clear that they will continue to prioritize foreign nationals and illegal immigrants over American citizens like you and me.
79. On the other hand, DC politicians have made it very clear that Cuban immigrants are not welcome here (because they tend to vote for freedom and against communism). 
80. The Biden IRS is now going to monitor every bank account with over $600 in it so that they can tax all people who make any money in any way. Those who receive more than $600 in PayPal transactions in a year will also be subject to taxation, according to experts. Peaceful separation solves this IRS issue because the IRS would no longer have any jurisdiction over us. 
81. When NH adopted federal food laws, it made selling mushrooms illegal, among many other prohibitions. Now, the only way to make it legal for anyone in NH to sell mushrooms is to create more regulation requiring ‘licenses’, which is somewhat counterproductive. The only other way to make mushrooms legal in NH would be to sever ties with DC. 
82. Dictator Biden nominated an actual Soviet communist to be the comptroller of the currency. If you don’t want your country’s financial system to be run by an avowed communist, you support separation from DC.  
83. On 10/8/21, the preliminary deal on a GLOBAL tax on businesses was officially agreed to. A total of 136 countries have signed onto the measure, guaranteeing that they will work together to stomp out businesses seeking to evade taxes by implementing at least a 15% tax on them, no matter where they come from. Once New Hampshire becomes a self-governing state, its low (or absent) tax on business could attract so much business to the state that it could cause the biggest economic boom in world history. 
84. Dictator Biden’s OSHA implemented a vaccine mandate for nearly every worker in the united states. It is extremely unlikely that an individual could beat this in federal courts or via federal legislation. Separating from the union is actually the more practical way to nullify this mandate. 
85. A federal law to require all new cars to have passive drunk-driving monitoring technology is about to go into effect, making all cars in the united states more expensive and much more intrusive. The law does not specify, but the new technology may be tantamount to perpetual breathalyzers and/or eye monitoring in every car. 
86. The medical system and all medical institutions in the united states are becoming increasingly racist towards whites, and it all starts with DC politicians. 
87. The Supreme Court is composed of 9 judges. The SCOTUS is perhaps the most powerful entity in the united states now. These nine judges are either evil or mentally retarded. They certainly do not believe in freedom. Is that who you want to be ruled by?
88. The US House of Representatives passed legislation that would take over control of elections, taking the power that always resided with the states and granting it to DC politicians. Among the many measures in the legislative package was a law that prohibited any election in the united states from requiring ID in order to vote. New Hampshire citizens who would like to retain their voter ID law must either support secession or give up voter ID forever once this federal law passes. 
89. DC politicians just passed a law mandating that all vehicles made after 2026 be equipped with perpetual monitoring systems to detect ‘impaired driving’. The vehicles must also have ‘kill switches’ that allow cops to turn them off at any moment. If you don’t like this policy, secession is the only solution. 
90. In the summer of 2022, federal government will begin to require facial recognition/uploading pictures of your face in order to access tax/ documents on the IRS website.
91. The President announced that the next US Supreme Court Judge he nominates will be a black woman. Upon joining the court, she will likely hear a massively important case involving ‘affirmative action’.
92. DC politicians are literally stealing our organs. In 2021, a policy change at UNOS essentially caused nearly all organs from donors in New Hampshire to be sent to NYC, CT, and MA, harming New Hampshire’s patients who desperately need organs to live. DC is viciously fighting NH legislation that would allow Granite Staters to state their preference that their neighbors be granted priority over foreigners if they pass away with viable organs. 
93. The brilliant experts in DC are using $30,000,000 in taxpayer funds to give out drug paraphernalia, including crack pipes, to drug users. The statement from the DC politicians specifically mentioned that they are being distributed primarily to minorities and that they are to be used for illegal drugs. 
94. Our Lords in DC believe that they must force New Hampshire to build more housing projects so that our state could look more like the Bronx.  
95. Our brilliant Lords in DC are destroying our savings and devaluing our salaries by printing so much money that annual inflation is now at a frightening 9.1% annual rate.
96. DC politicians have been forcing you and me to pay for dangerous bioweapons labs in Ukraine for years. 
97. Your federal tax dollars are being used to pay Tik Tok influencers to create and promote propaganda approved by Dictator Biden. If you don’t want to be forced to fund such endeavors, you may want to consider secession. 
98. If you don’t enjoy paying $6 billion for the annual NIAID budget doled out by Anthony Fauci to fund foreign bioweapons labs and development and approval of ludicrously expensive patented pharmaceuticals and suppress use of cheap off-patent drug, you should consider supporting a vote of NH residents to leave the union.
99. The federal government violates free speech in numerous ways. Leaving their jurisdiction solves these issues and restores freedom of speech, expression, press, association, and worship. 
100. The federal government is increasingly racist. Most recently, Dictator Biden nominated a black woman to be a judge on the highest court because of her gender and skin color. Ironically, she will likely soon be ruling on an affirmative action case. 

 

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