According to a Homeland Security Investigations press release, two men were observed by Customs and Border Protection in Northern NH after illegally crossing into Pittsburg, New Hampshire, from Canada at the beginning of June 2024. One of those people was arrested by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for child sexual abuse-related criminal allegations.

Please note that the HSI release clearly states these are allegations, and the defendant is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Please see the official Homeland Security Investigation link Mexican National Arrested by HSI, Border Patrol on Child Sexual Abuse Material Charges | Homeland Security (dhs.gov).

Homeland Security Investigations is the main investigative arm of Homeland Security. It investigates transnational criminals who threaten our global infrastructure through international travel, trade, and finances.

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Currently, Homeland Security Investigations is also a front-line leader, on the US level at least (I believe), in investigating heinous sexual crimes against children and young teenagers who have transnational connections. Though HIS and CBP are different entities under Homeland Security, HSI and CBP work together. To my knowledge, CBP focuses on land and maritime borders, while HIS can operate within the USA internally.

As serious as the allegations are, this alarming release is also indicative of another problem Donald Trump repeatedly stated on his campaign trail in New Hampshire. The northern border along Canada is becoming an issue, and likely already is an issue, in many segments of the US/Canada boundary.  Though it is not as bad as the southern border, NH and Vermont residents should not be too complacent and should avoid thinking that it could never happen in their state because, likely, CBP is already facing some challenges that the woke mainstream media and weak, lame New Hampshire Governor will not address. I hope they prove me wrong.

I encourage NH and Vermont residents to visit some spots along the border if they have a half-day to spare. One example is Derby Line, Vermont’s port of entry. Take a drive in the small town, and you can see certain neighborhood roads that seem to bridge parts of Canada and Vermont, where illegal immigrants can walk through to get into the USA.

Also, an opera house and library straddle the Quebec and Derby Libe border. Please link below to a report about a library servicing two countries at once. Though the library has historic value, it makes me wonder how easily illegal immigrants can sneak into the USA from Canada through fissure points in our border.

The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Tiny Library – Atlas Obscura

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Transportation links are crucial for a region’s economy, connectivity with other cities, level of development, infrastructure, and other stages of civilization’s progress. Road engineering is also constantly evolving. Engineers are continuously improving construction technologies to enhance the quality and safety of road surfaces while reducing costs. Road construction progresses in stages.

Amid this backdrop, the international industrial holding company Del Mar Energy stands out by introducing its unique road construction system to the world.

The quality of road surfaces depends on adherence to standards, as state requirements for road construction specify norms that ensure the safety and comfort of road users.

Before laying a new road, the contractor must create a temporary surface. Workers will use this surface to move machinery and materials to the site. If the asphalt is being laid on a federal highway or if an existing road is being reconstructed, a temporary detour must be built. Once construction and installation work are completed, the temporary surface is dismantled.

Materials are brought to the site only after the area has been prepared. This stage can take several weeks or months. Work may be complicated by weather conditions, as well as the climate and landscape features of the area.

Forming the foundation is a crucial stage in road construction, affecting its durability and strength. Earthworks begin with the construction of an embankment. Builders sequentially lay the soil and compact it with a roller. Soil from the road construction area is used or imported if the local soil is unsuitable for the future road. Suitable soils include sandy, rocky, or sandy loam, while peat or silt soils are unsuitable. The embankment is thoroughly loosened and then compacted with a roller.

After the foundation is prepared, specialists start forming the sand “cushion.” This consists of several layers of crushed stone-sand mixture, sequentially laid on the future road site. The cushion ensures even load distribution during use and strengthens the surface. The first layer of the cushion is sand. Builders evenly distribute the sand, with a layer thickness of 10-12 cm. To prevent the sand from mixing with the soil, geotextile is laid between them.

The sand is thoroughly compacted, and then a layer of crushed stone is laid. The middle layer of the cushion uses materials of different fractions. The final layer is fine-grained crushed stone. A properly laid foundation guarantees road quality. The cushion is necessary for load cushioning. The number of layers and materials for the cushion depend on the chosen method, the area’s characteristics, and the road’s purpose.
After forming the sand cushion, specialists proceed to lay the final surface. Modern construction uses cement concrete or asphalt concrete.

The quality and durability are also determined by the material used as the top layer, as it is subject to greater wear during daily use. The most common materials are asphalt concrete and cement concrete, as these have proven effective in road construction.
Asphalt concrete involves layered laying. The construction and repair technology includes layered distribution of gravel, sand, rocks, and asphalt mixture with bitumen. The number of layers depends on the expected traffic, the road surface’s purpose, and the landscape and climate features.
Cement concrete or cast asphalt has high wear resistance, withstands mechanical damage during continuous use, and does not deteriorate under the influence of chemical reagents. However, laying cement concrete is more expensive.

To enhance the operational properties of roads, builders use geosynthetics. This is an artificial, environmentally friendly material that is inexpensive and easy to lay.
Using geosynthetic materials results in a durable surface with an anti-slip effect, increasing safety. Innovative technologies and materials allow builders to save on repairs and reduce the time and scope of work.

Therefore, it is not surprising that scientists have created entire tracks for electric cars. These tracks charge the car’s battery, eliminating the need for separate charging stations. Rails embedded in the road surface transmit electrical current to the car while it is in motion. The current is supplied only when the car is moving, posing no danger to other road users.

The use of innovations is justified. Roads become safer, more durable, and require less time for construction. At Del Mar Energy, engineers and builders use innovative road construction technologies, modern materials, and high-tech equipment to reduce road construction costs and achieve a high-quality, safe, durable, and reliable road surface.

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Approximately 40 million used vehicles are sold each year. The companies tracking those sales provide an invaluable resource—detailed information on what sells and for how much. These are the figures anyone looking to buy or sell a used car needs to know to be sure they are getting a good—or at least fair—deal. Understanding the factors that affect vehicle value is crucial, whether you’re buying, selling, or seeking emergency cash through means such as a vehicle title loan.

Age and Mileage

One of the most significant factors influencing a vehicle’s value is its age and mileage. Generally, the older the car and the more miles it has, the lower its value.

1. Age: Newer cars tend to have higher values because they usually have more advanced features and less wear and tear. However, they also depreciate quickly within the first few years.
2. Mileage: High mileage indicates extensive use, which typically means more wear and tear on the vehicle. Lower mileage cars are often valued higher because they are perceived to have more life left in them.

Condition

The overall condition of the vehicle plays a major role in determining its value. This includes both the exterior and interior condition as well as the mechanical state.

1. Exterior Condition: Dents, scratches, and rust can significantly reduce a vehicle’s value. Regular maintenance and repairs can help maintain the exterior condition.
2. Interior Condition: The state of the seats, dashboard, and other interior features matter. Stains, tears, and odors can negatively impact the value.
3. Mechanical Condition: A vehicle with a well-maintained engine and transmission will retain more value. Regular servicing and keeping records of maintenance can enhance the value.

Make and Model

Certain makes and models hold their value better than others. Factors like brand reputation, reliability, and demand can influence this.

1. Brand Reputation: Brands known for reliability and quality, such as Toyota and Honda, tend to retain value better than others.
2. Demand: Popular models that are in high demand will generally have higher resale values. This can vary by region and current market trends.

Market Conditions

The overall market conditions can also impact vehicle values. This includes factors like the economy, fuel prices, and even seasonal trends.

1. Economic Conditions: During economic downturns, the demand for new and used cars may decrease, leading to lower vehicle values.
2. Fuel Prices: When fuel prices are high, fuel-efficient cars may see an increase in value, while gas guzzlers may see a decrease.
3. Seasonal Trends: Certain types of vehicles, like convertibles, may be worth more in the summer, while 4WD vehicles may be more valuable in the winter.

Vehicle History

A vehicle’s history report can significantly impact its value. This includes accident history, title status, and service records.

1. Accident History: Vehicles that have been in accidents tend to have lower values, especially if the damage was severe or not properly repaired.
2. Title Status: A clean title is preferred. Vehicles with salvage titles or those that have been rebuilt usually have much lower values.
3. Service Records: Regular maintenance records can enhance a vehicle’s value as they demonstrate that the car has been well cared for.

Features and Upgrades

Additional features and upgrades can increase a vehicle’s value. This includes technological features, safety enhancements, and luxury add-ons.

1. Technological Features: Modern features like a navigation system, Bluetooth connectivity, and advanced safety features can boost a vehicle’s value.
2. Safety Enhancements: Vehicles with higher safety ratings and features such as airbags, anti-lock brakes, and stability control are often valued higher.
3. Luxury Add-Ons: Leather seats, premium audio systems, and sunroofs can add to a vehicle’s value, appealing to buyers looking for a more luxurious ride.

Location

Geographical location can also affect vehicle value. The demand for certain types of vehicles can vary greatly depending on where you are.

1. Regional Demand: Trucks and SUVs may be more in demand in rural areas, while compact cars may be more desirable in urban settings.
2. Climate Impact: In areas with harsh winters, all-wheel drive vehicles may be valued higher. Conversely, convertibles may be more sought after in warmer climates.

Conclusion

Understanding the factors that affect vehicle value is essential for anyone looking to buy, sell, or leverage their car for emergency cash. Age, mileage, condition, make and model, market conditions, vehicle history, features, upgrades, and location all play a role in determining a car’s worth. By paying attention to these factors, you can make more informed decisions and ensure you get the best possible deal, whether you’re on the buying or selling end of a used vehicle transaction.

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From billionaire hedge-fund honcho Bill Ackman. While I may not have known the exact diagnosis, it was obvious to me … and to anyone who gathers data about reality from sources other than the advocacy media and evil tech… that BidenX is and for some time has been seriously impaired.

I have never been a fan of the Trump-is-playing-3D- chess caucus, but in this case … intentionally or not … Trump exposed not only Biden’s incapacity but also that “Dr.” Jill is actually running the country and the advocacy media and evil tech are willing propagandists.

 

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Sunday, Norm held a “Pre-4th of July” party at his home (for a select group of Conservative political activists as well as a few politicians), high over Lake Winnipesaukee, which allows views from Wolfeboro to Alton. Both Chuck Morse and Kelly Ayotte, who are running for the Republican nomination for Governor, were among those invited.

I assumed, knowing Norm, that each politician would get a few minutes to give their “elevator speech” to the crowd and then a quick Q&A after each speech. However, this year he changed it up and stated that in the interest of time, everyone should button-hole each one individually and ask your questions.

So I did.

I had originally planned on asking each two questions: doozies, both. But under the maxim of always being adaptable (or as my former Marine Eldest STILL keeps telling me even after mustering out, “Improvise, adapt, and overcome”), I focused on something that one of them said during their elevator speeches.

SideNote: I was originally going to record the speeches, but while Norm always lets GraniteGrok cover anything going on at his house (and it stated as such on the notices on his front door), he nixed that activity: no Press. So, I’m not being coy here in not mentioning specifically who said what, as I do want to honor the request. However, I DO want to point out a significant difference in the answers. Both are “correct,” but they show a difference in thought processes in approaching their governance styles.

One of them, during their pitch, did state that they would sign a law that would ban Sanctuary Cities in NH in protecting NH.  When it was said, I thought it was odd and showed a lack of basic NH Civics. This topic is notable as it generally means that a city or town police force is then directed NOT to assist Federal immigration officials via their “detainers” (e.g., hold an illegal alien until we can come and get them). Basically, Biden’s “catch and release” program writ small.

To repeat something that I have found to be a constant BECAUSE I find that most adults, even the most politically aware ones, have no idea, I phrase my “button-hole” question to both (trying to be fair here!) thusly:

During [your|your opponent’s] pitch, you said wanted a law to sign banning NH towns and cities from declaring themselves as Sanctuary Cities. However, we are a Dillon’s Rule State which means that subdivisions of a State cannot do anything on their own. ANYTHING they can do can only be done after the Legislature/Governor have passed a Law specifically delegating the Legislature’s Power in that area / issue to a subdivision.

Given that, would you immediately then sic your AG against that town or city for trying to pre-empt the State’s Power that hasn’t been delegated to them?

The other kind of State, a Home Rule State, allows any political subdivision of a State to do whatever it wants as long as they don’t violate State or Federal law. Again, we are not that kind of state.

Now, as far as the answers go (summarized here by me, and I AM trying to get the answers correct):

Candidate 1: No, I would want to wait for a law to be passed as it can take a long time in court and can cost a lot of money to pursue it.

Candidate 2: Yes

So there it is.

I am getting the info for their Press folks and I will send my two “doozy of a question” to them and see if I get responses.

It feels good to return to this role. And I thank ALL the people there who asked me, “How is your family doing now?” It shows that Conservatives often put Family above mere politics.

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The barely Republican-majority New Hampshire legislature managed to pass a pair of bills that unequivocally protect children from abuse. One suggests that it is unhealthy and dangerous to give children (hormone) drugs linked to a rise in the incidence of heart attack and stroke (and that neutering them might not be in their best interest). The other acknowledges that men are stronger than women and allowing them to compete athletically side by side is dangerous to women and girls.

Neither of these things is scientifically or biologically inaccurate. Yet, when protesters opposed to these common-sense protections (for children and young women) collected like plaque in the hall leading to the Governor’s office, the local TV outlet declared that they were asking Mr. Sununu to veto these “anti-trans” bills.

“Pro” Tip

There is nothing anti-trans about them. These bills are pro-child, pro-trans, and pro-girls and women. Speaking to the trans issue specifically,

The drugs are poorly regulated, over-prescribed, and can cause cancer and death. The surgery cannot make you a different gender, but advocates pretend that it will align the mental confusion they created with a physical person. This isn’t true either. Even the best surgeons can’t make a boy into a girl. If you’ve got enough money and time and tolerance for pain and pain drugs you can never stop taking, it is possible to come close to the affectation, but no one seems to care about the endless physical and mental suffering that is more likely to end in suicide than if you’d left them the hell alone.

Banning puberty blockers and genital surgery for minors protects “trans youth” from medical-intervention profiteers.

It protects them from overzealous partisan cultural abuses. It allows them to be who they are now, and since gender is a fluid experience (subject to change not just daily but hourly), hormones and surgery prohibit them from being any other gender at any moment between now and the age of majority.

Puberty blockers and irreversible surgery are contraindicated if gender is on a spectrum.

What are the surgical alternatives? Male to female, female to male, in transit from one to the other. I suppose you could opt for the traditional alien look. No visible parts, shave your head (gray spray tan), but that’s not likely to solve the mental health problem, and it certainly won’t lead to fewer suicides. Speaking of which, from the UK Cass Review,

80. The original rationale for use of puberty blockers was that this would buy ‘time to think’ by delaying onset of puberty and also improve the ability to ‘pass’ in later life. Subsequently it was suggested that they may also improve body image and psychological wellbeing.

…

82. However, no changes in gender dysphoria or body satisfaction were demonstrated. There was insufficient/inconsistent evidence about the effects of puberty suppression on psychological or psychosocial wellbeing, cognitive development, cardio-metabolic risk or fertility.

Hey. Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone

Puberty Blockers, hormone drugs, and surgery make doctors, hospitals, and big Pharma rich, cashing in on rearranging deck chairs on someone else’s Titanic. They are changes that do nothing to address the mental health issues or external influences that created the dysphoria.

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has since banned puberty blockers for minors based on this extensive research. The health risk isn’t worth the lack of any measurable benefit.

The best thing you can do for a child is to

1. stop confusing them about gender. Why are you talking about sex with children? Why are you advocating or defending it? It is a form of mental abuse that causes dysphoria that leads to dangerous drugs and irreversible surgery.

2. If a child is asking questions on their own, be supportive of the curiosity and be a friend, but be honest. It’s normal; most kids outgrow it, and drugs and (especially) surgery don’t really help. The drugs must be taken…forever. The surgery will harm you and cannot be reversed.

Adults interested in children’s health should not convince them to take this journey. They should protect the child until they are an adult, and then that adult can decide for themselves. And the idea is catching on. Western nations are increasingly backing away from the practice.

New Hampshire and America should, too.

| Substack

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The day after the debate (yesterday—6/28), BidenX asked, obviously rhetorically, what he did during the debate. The tweet was obviously written for him because, as the debate made obvious, he lacks the capacity to do much more than read from a teleprompter.

Shout at the teleprompter would be more accurate after being shot up with a cocktail of amphetamines and who knows what else.

What I did was watch an incapacitated octogenarian babble incoherently despite being on bed rest and an IV for a full week and being shot up with drug cocktails. What I did was watch that octogenarian stare blankly at who knows what as the rightful President shamed him. And what I did was watch the real “power behind the throne” … the dowager-bitch, Jill Biden … take the incoherent, disoriented octogenarian by the hand and lead his desiccated husk off the stage.

As for morals …, it’s bold talk from someone who refused to acknowledge a granddaughter until publicly shamed into it. From someone who showered with his daughter. From someone who covered for and enabled his cocaine-addicted, criminal son’s life of drugs and crime. From someone who peddled influence, including selling out to the Communists in China. From someone who uses the death of a child as a political shield and political sword.

Needless to say, BidenX not only did not write the tweet … he has no idea what he did last night. All he actually knows and cares about is that to get his pudding and juicy box, he has to yell at the teleprompter for a few minutes.

 

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The most important Event of the past week was NOT the Presidential Debate between Trump and President Zombie (formerly known as Biden). It was important.

Related: Bad Week for the Deep State – Chevron Deference is Dead; Admin Courts on Thin Ice

Biden should resign or be removed by the invocation of the 25th Amendment based on cognitive failure. And someone, IMHO, needs to arrest Jill Biden on the charge(s) of “Failure to protect against Elder Abuse.”

That debate took the oxygen out of our Public Square, but compared to a number of decisions handed by SCOTUS (Supreme Court of The United States), it was just a sideshow. This decision to burn the Chevron Doctrine to the ground is important.

“THE THREE HAPPIEST WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TODAY – “Chevron is overruled.”

I’ve previously posted about this overreach by NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Agency) NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Services) here and here. Steve did the same here.  NOAA tried to force government human “monitors” on board fishing vessels and to force fishermen to spend lots of money on specific monitoring equipment (and the data services to relay that data). About $700/day/monitor. Not only did it violate the Fourth Amendment, but the courts also found that the agency violated the Administrative Procedures Act (“APA,” 1948) that set up the structure of how mere Executive Branch agencies could promulgate “regulations with the Force of Law.”

If you look at the Constitution, the ability to legislate is strictly a function of the Legislative Branch. But it was drafted and signed into Law when Progressivism was rising fast, and they took advantage of the growth of the Federal Govt and did the PR push that “mere legislators don’t have the expertise to make such laws; let the “experts” do it for you.” Our Elected Representatives bought into that Progressive philosophy regardless of their own Duties in the Separation of Powers as outlined in the Constitution – THEIR Foundational Law.

SideNote: Funny, isn’t it, that when it comes to abortion and other issues of Morality, Progressives get all in a tizzy about the Separation of Church and State as if there was a real firewall there.

SideNote to the SideNote: there is, but it only keeps the Government from establishing a State religion. How’s that working concerning LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ and the Government pushing that secularized sexuality religion down our throats (and into our minds and hearts)?

But when it comes to the Separation of Powers, they either remain silent or allow that philosophy to have lots of leaks by which to have us Ruled by technocrats vs Governed by elected representatives.

So, unelected, unaccountable, and unassailable bureaucrats whose ONLY Constitutional duty is to “faithfully execute the Law” as they report to the President to whom that command is laid. Here’s the background (emphasis mine):

Today, attorneys for a group of New Jersey herring fishermen landed a significant victory at the Supreme Court.  With its ruling in Loper Bright v. Raimondo [and  Relentless v. Department of Commerce -Skip] the Court has overruled the Chevron doctrine and restored the balance of power between Congress and the Administration. The Loper Bright decision was issued alongside Relentless v Department of Commerce.

The fishermen in the Loper Bright case face an unlawful requirement imposed on them by an Executive Branch agency that could force them to surrender 20 percent of their earnings to pay at-sea monitors. Because that fee resulted from unlawful overreach and threatened their ability to make a living, the fishermen decided to challenge the requirement in court four years ago. After a split decision in the D.C. Circuit, the Supreme Court decided to review the Chevron doctrine, which is the legal theory the government cited to justify its controversial monitoring rule. For 40 years, Chevron has required federal courts to abdicate their constitutional role to interpret the law by deferring to agency interpretations of statutes whenever those same agencies deem the law “silent” or “ambiguous.” In practice, such deference permitted agencies to engage in egregious overreach, often at the expense of ordinary citizens. 

Bill Bright, a Cape May-based herring fishermen and eponymous plaintiff in Loper Bright, offered this statement: “We are grateful the Court has overruled Chevron. Today’s restoration of the separation of powers is a victory for small, family-run businesses like ours, whether they’re involved in fishing, farming, or retail. Congress never authorized industry-funded monitoring in the herring fishery…

Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, who argued on behalf of the fishermen before the  Supreme Court, added the following: “

The Court’s decision puts to rest an interpretive methodology that has seriously distorted how the political branches operate for far too long. Courts should ask what the law means, not whether it is ambiguous, and in close cases, the tie should go to the citizen, not the government. We are gratified that the Court restored the constitutionally mandated separation of powers.”

In the Supreme Court’s opinion, Chief Justice Roberts wrote:

“The deference that Chevron requires of courts reviewing agency action cannot be squared with the APA.” He went on to say, “Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities.  Courts do.”

IMHO, this headline encapsulates everything I’ve been saying for years: “The Supreme Court Firebombs the Administrative State and Tells Congress to Get Off Its Butt and Work“…”In short order, many of the reasons we gradually, like a frog in a pot of boiling water, transformed from citizens into subjects have been demolished…Today’s decision doesn’t prevent agencies from making rules, but it doesn’t prevent citizens from contesting those rules in court.”

And that is the Executive Branch making up its own laws under the rubric of “Federal Rulemaking”. And as the headline maintains, Legislators should now be made to make their Laws COMPLETELY and stop throwing their half-grown bills over the wall and let others finish the work THEY should be doing. This should:

• Have then creating smaller bills to more fully flesh them out – I’m hoping that these thousands of pages “Omnibus” bills will be now easily litigated by Citizens with much more of a chance of success.
• Result in much BETTER bills because they will have to sweat the details – ALL the details.

And because of that, they won’t have the time to meddle as much in our lives. Uber-Left Law Professor Laurence Tribe concurs:

Is there a 1-900 number where someone will read this to me over the phone in a sultry voice? https://t.co/V4jhvxPLH2

— Marc J. Randazza (@marcorandazza) June 28, 2024

I disagree with one part: unrealistic. Instead, it SHOULD be expected. We all should be demanding more of the folks whose butts we put into those seats.

To bring it back to NH, I’m re-purposing something I emailed to Grokster Ann Marie where the District 17 Superintendent Thomas Ambrose is trying to redefine emails containing student sexuality as a “student record” so as to bypass a valid Right To Know demand:

…An email is NOT a student record which is a record/entry in their IT system. An email is not such a record even as it is a GOVERNMENT record – there is no protection of privacy for a parent sending an email to a government worker. It then becomes Public. So he’s off base on that.

..and we’re a Dillon’s Rule State. Which, if strictly kept, has ALWAYS made us being an “anti-Chevron Doctrine) State as “agencies” can only do what the Legislature specifically delegates. Just as NOAA overreached in spite of the Federal APA, how many of OUR agencies have done so despite JLCAR?

This ban of the Chevron Doctrine, if this was MMA, is a leg sweep takedown to put him onto the legal map.

Before I forget, here’s the salient part of the Law against which SCOTUS viewed NMFS’s strong arm tactics against the fishermen:

In 1972, Congress passed the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, “to respond to the threat of overfishing and to promote conservation.” As part of that law, eight regional fisheries councils were created. Each of those councils, which is a business association, is charged with producing a fisheries management plan. Under the plan created for New England herring fisheries, half of all fishing trips had to carry a federal monitor. Originally, all the observers were employed by the federal government. Somehow, the National Marine Fisheries Service managed to lose money from its budget as the rest of the federal government porked up. In 2020, the management plan required the fishing boats to pay for monitors reporting to the federal government. The cost was over $700. Many fisheries complained that this additional expense resulted in zero profit or even a loss for a day’s fishing.

Congress didn’t authorize billing private fishing companies to pay for federal monitors. But the Department of Commerce interpreted the requirement that it may “require that one or more observers be carried on board a vessel of the United States engaged in fishing for species that are subject to the plan, for the purpose of collecting data necessary for the conservation and management of the fishery,” to mean that half the fishing boats had to carry deadweight that they paid for.

…

1. Whether the Court should overrule Chevron or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.
2. Whether the phrase “necessary and appropriate” in the MSA augments agency power to force domestic fishing vessels to contract with and pay the salaries of federal observers they must carry.

Result: Vacated and remanded.

The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment [instead of deference to the agencies because of the Chevron Doctrine -Skip] in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority, and courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous;

Chevron is overruled.

And this is part and parcel of the “overreach and self-justification of it” that I’ve been talking about for years. If you want, a more more thorough legal cut-and-paste is here. And it points out the whole issue of arbitrary and capricious:

 …federal agencies can adopt widely different interpretations and enforcement policies depending on who’s in power, and that makes the legal/regulatory environment inherently unstable for Americans.  Also, as Justice Clarence Thomas adds, it’s also flat-out unconstitutional. Chevron makes the judiciary subservient to the other two branches as a matter of structure and not just judgment…

And we’re back to the end goal of Democrats/Progressives/Socialists – being ruled by technocratic “experts” who, in their eyes, only have our best interest in their TOTALLY non-partisan hearts. Or as the post called it “the Rule of Whim” Anyone who has ever reviewed the political donations of government workers knows that a HUGE pile of human excrement.

And yet another reason that I really like this decision – Justice Kagan is against it DEMONSTRATING that she’s for the Administrative State (and you wonder why Democrats view SCOTUS as a Supra-Legislature):

Justice Elena Kagan wrote that Chevron deference “has formed the backdrop against which Congress, courts, and agencies—as well as regulated parties and the public—all have operated for decades. It has been applied in thousands of judicial decisions. It has become part of the warp and woof of modern government, supporting regulatory efforts of all kinds.”

And that’s the problem as it should be LEGISLATIVE, not regulatory. I just can’t say that enough!

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The “Right” in New Hampshire suffers … perhaps incorrigibly … from cognitive dissonance—a couple of examples. New Hampshire spends more on “public education” than almost every other State.

Yet the “Right” keeps reciting the mantra that New Hampshire is “fiscally conservative” and, worse, that the existential threat to the State’s “fiscal conservatism” is subsidizing rail to Boston, despite the cost of that subsidy being essentially a rounding error on what the State spends on “public education.” Totally irrational.

Next example. The “Right” pretends that Ayotte and Morse are conservatives. Ayotte was essentially a mini-me Jeannie Shaheenie during her last year in the Senate (having spent the previous five shilling for the military-industrial complex), while Morse voted to codify Obamacare into State law and supported Sununu’s COVID-tyranny. It is totally irrational to consider either conservative.

Tucker Carlson lost his job at Faux because, in the eyes of the system, he went too far in exposing the cognitive dissonance of GOP voters. Asking an obvious question, like how does it benefit the United States to wage a proxy war against Russia that is destroying Ukraine, is an unforgivable sin. It’s as bad as asking why the “Right” in New Hampshire ignores the runaway spending on “public education” and instead fixates on defining “fiscal conservatism” as not subsidizing rail to Boston.

Tucker, by speaking truth to power, has become a worldwide phenomenon. Of course, simply speaking truth to power is not enough. Tucker is intelligent, articulate, fearless and, above all, funny and happy. Every State, especially New Hampshire, needs a Tucker Carlson.

HERE is Tucker in Australia:

 

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For many in America, the Thursday night debate was an eye-opening event. For these folks, this was the first uncensored look at the Leader of the Free World, our Commander and Chief, and the 46th President of the United States, the Kid from Scranton, PA, Joe Biden.

You can almost smell the fear in the air. Panic has set in as these now-enlightened souls wonder if this old man can possibly beat Donald Trump again and save Democracy. These people, who the administration and news media have hoodwinked for three-plus years, are missing the point. The real question after seeing Joe shuffle onto the stage and mumble through every incoherent answer he uttered is who is running the White House, and can Joe Biden hobble to the finish line and safely end the term for this gang who could not shoot right?

Joe Biden went all in Thursday night and bet the house, the White House, on the hope that he could muster one more scene, like the State of the Union, and show the world he is still fit to run this country and still the only person who can beat Donald Trump. Joe said, “hit me,” when he should have said, “stay,” and the last card gave him 22. The Scranton Kid went bust, lost, and is broke: political power broke. By the 13-minute mark of the debate, it was clear Joe Biden was not fit to run, nor had he been running this country since 2021. The Democrats are screwed, but so are the American people. The bad guys of the world know that we do not have a President who can protect us, and we are not safe. America is being held hostage by an octogenarian who won’t give up the keys.

So, who has been running the show these last four years? Who is behind the curtain holding the strings on this puppet? I believe it is not a single person but a group of people led by Barack Obama who has been able to fool enough people to vote for Biden and give these psychopaths the time to complete the transformation of America promised by Obama nearly 16 years ago.

Insiders claim that Joe Biden can only perform his duties from 10 AM to 4 PM. This limitation is why you usually see his on-camera events during that timeframe. Later in the day, he is more apt to gaffes and shows signs of fatigue. This schedule is unfair to Americans who deserve a full-time president, and a part-time executive is a national security issue. It is estimated that the President has seven minutes to respond to a missile attack on America, and less if hypersonic. We need a Commander in Chief who is coherent 24/7, period.

Joe Biden’s mental decline is accelerating. You only need to look at videos of the President in 2021 and now for comparison. That decline is not going to slow. Democrats should be concerned about Biden finishing his first term, let alone reelection. Biden’s selfishness in resigning may result in a constitutional crisis, with the need for emergency measures to be put in place. That may be a delay in the election or provisions for a replacement candidate on all state ballots. These will create an issue between the federal and state governments regarding the control of elections. The Democrats are concerned with the Republican threat to Democracy, but they seem to be doing an excellent job of imploding it now.

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The infinite number of progressive (AI?) monkeys are banging away on their endless number of virtual typewriters (some of whom are still tasked with the regime’s censorship duties in the digital dungeons at Menlo Park and Mountain View) to explain away or erase what happened last Thursday. Don’t let them.

We need to keep that truth alive in the minds of Americans if we can, and that’s what the latest Trump Ad below attempts to do, I think. It is a public service reminder. Mr. Biden is not running the country (as we’ve all known for some time), but whoever is can’t continue to do that if Biden is removed or voted out of office. Even if his replacement were a Democrat, the people behind Biden wouldn’t be in charge. That new president would. They don’t want that either, I suspect.

Not that the outcome would be any different. Democrats are gonna’ Democrat, as they say, and we can expect Biden’s CNN deep fake performance to feature heavily against the left up and down the ticket: How are you still Ridin’ With Biden?

The answer is a visceral hatred of Donald Trump and the projection of Biden’s failings onto him. Don’t let them get away with that, either, and feel free to send us anything you think will help.

In the meantime, we have the Trump promo below, but first,

This is what happened in #DebateNight pic.twitter.com/8Gs3uaQqq5

— Amit Shah (Parody) (@Motabhai012) June 28, 2024

 

And Second: A brutal Fact Check of the things Biden did say.

 

Prepare to watch the most brutal CNN fact check of crooked Joe you’ll ever see.

Has the call already gone out to take out Joe Biden? pic.twitter.com/YRqE9nNmDi

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 28, 2024

And Third, this isn’t a new problem for Joe (circa 2020):

Joey’s a liar with numbers ALWAYS!
Here’s a compilation of a few! pic.twitter.com/wfo8TyOwQG

— TXIND1836 (@txind1836) June 28, 2024

And Here’s a Trump Ad:

Trump just released a brutal 95 second ad of Joe Biden’s debate lowlights: pic.twitter.com/enusIKHhwN

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 28, 2024

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I remember reading the columns and editorials of several conservative and Republican pundits who were hoping that Trump would lose in 2020.  They based their hopes on hatred of Trump’s personality and his disregard for “the norms of Presidential behavior.”  They called themselves “NeverTrumpers” and were proud of it.

Others on both sides of the political aisle also hoped for conservatives and Republicans to lose, saying that the “only way” for the public to understand how screwed up America had become was to allow the country to hit rock bottom.  Their theory went that “once we’ve bottomed out, we’ll be able to rebuild.”

I disagreed with all of them, often and quite loudly.  I felt that allowing the US to continue to decline was a danger to the rest of the world: the US is a stabilizing force around the world, and to destabilize the US would be to destabilize the rest of the world.

On Thursday night, CNN was instrumental in ripping off the mask that the Democrats had kept in place over Biden’s cognitive decline.  By setting the rules for the debate, Biden himself had put in place the stage where the world would know that “the emperor has no clothes.”  The Democrat’s and media’s selected and appointed leader failed miserably to speak in complete sentences, to maintain a single train of thought, and to answer questions completely and honestly – without repeating previously and often-debunked tropes about his opponent. After his disastrous performance, his wife, Jill, spoke to him as a child in front of the whole world: “You did so well, Joe!  You answered all the questions!”

Nail, meet coffin.

Democrats used the federal government to pass laws that forced individuals to submit to policies that tore families apart, violated scientific facts, and unbalanced equality throughout both government and private industry.  Now, after Thursday night and their party leader’s almost total mental collapse in front of the entire world, the Democrats are in full panic mode.

Republicans, meanwhile, concentrated on winning state-level elections and won at least half the governor’s mansions and state legislatures in the nation.  They gained the power and the state-level support to begin passing state-level laws to counter an increasing number of those federal mandates.

The up-and-coming generation is realizing that they cannot afford to live on their own because of the huge debt load that both taxes and inflation have saddled them with.  They’re not happy.  And they’re beginning to realize that Biden’s “school debt forgiveness” plan, which has twice been found unconstitutional, won’t happen.  They want to blame someone… but they can’t blame Trump.

Then:

This past week, the SCOTUS issued decisions that reversed decades of “government knows best” assumptions.  The most impactful was the declaration that “Chevron is overruled” (that is exact text from the decision).  Reversing Chevron means that Congress can no longer write obscure and confusing laws, pass them, and hope that the Administrative branch can turn those obscurities into enforceable measures.

The result is that Congress must now make its meaning clear from the start.  Legislators must legislate.  They can no longer pass the buck and use Nancy Pelosi’s “we have to pass the law to find out what’s in it” mantra.  The SCOTUS has declared that “if it isn’t in the law, then it isn’t in the law.”  The SCOTUS has slapped the wrist of the “administrative state” and told them to enforce the law as written.  And if there is obscurity, it is up to a court to decide what the law means, not some functionary in DC.

The media is still complicit in its hatred of the concept of American self-determination.  They (or it) believe that The People cannot make decisions for themselves.  The People are plainly too stupid, too uneducated, too biased, or unable because “they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them (Obama)”.  No, they declare, it is up to them, the self-appointed “experts”, to act as “guides”.  Anything else is an “attack on democracy.”

Now, after Thursday night, those self-appointed “experts” have been revealed to be sycophants and ideologues who were willing to sell their reputations for a seat at the pundit’s table on networks with ever-shrinking audience bases.  Some of those “experts” don’t even have enough national viewers to fill a mid-sized football stadium.  (You’ll be shocked at how few viewers some of those “hosts” have.  The statistics are factual: cable boxes can – and do – report the channels being watched and at what time, and those numbers can’t be faked).

Yes, there are a huge number of Americans who are still comfortable wearing rose-colored glasses and believing that the government knows best.  But more and more Americans are looking at their wallets, their children’s educations, and their hourly wages.  And their satisfaction with their current situation is waning.  They’re finding out that “that government is best which governs least” (attributed to Jefferson, but he didn’t actually write it.)

For some, it’s hard to admit that they may have been misled, especially when they believed what they were told by almost all of the “experts” in the news media, and especially after the debate and they saw for themselves that the current president is “fading.”  The big question is: will they look in the mirror and ask themselves, “Have I been played for a fool?”

My advice to them is: Don’t be too concerned.  MILLIONS of Americans were also played for a fool.  The question now is: will you continue to allow yourself to be “played” by those who only want power for themselves?

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Terry Red-Flag Roy is the gift that keeps on giving … to the Woke-Communists. Why would you legitimize a Fake-News, Advocacy-Journalism, propaganda-outlet like NHPR by giving them an interview?

The answer is obvious in the case of Terry Roy … because he is a narcissist first and a conservative a distant second. See below:

Is it possible that Red-Flag Roy doesn’t understand that the “journalists” at NHPR look down on Roy’s constituents … see them as part of a sub-class of humans that NHPR and the rest of the elites have a duty to rule over … and that NHPR’s loyal-listeners share those sentiments? And doesn’t understand that legitimizing fake news and advocacy journalism, at best, does nothing to advance conservatism?

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Vermont has just done something hailed by Climateers as groundbreaking and memorialized by The Week with the headline: ‘Vermont becomes first state to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate change.’

Really?

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. They haven’t done anything but pass a bill (S.259). They have no idea how they will execute it, or if they can, what it will look like, and how much … you get the idea. And in the interest of helping bring this closer to the planet Earth they claim to be saving, I think what The Week meant was that they are the first state to say they are going to try to do it.

Do What? If you are familiar with Vermont, you’ve got a handy string of unflattering references and colorful metaphors suggesting the political/bureaucratic equivalent of erectile dysfunction. If you know anything about Vermont’s Clean Heat Standard (for example), you are probably giggling and pointing or shaking your head. While Vermont has the votes to pass any climate legislation it can imagine (as much science fiction as climate change itself), it increasingly lacks any ability to craft language or rules its government can make work.

They say they are going to “make fossil fuel companies pay for climate change,” but is that what their legislation will do?

The Vegas odds are low, which might be why Vermont – despite all the other blue states with their significantly larger number of left-wing lunatics – managed to pass it before anyone else.

Is it the result of an advanced case of progressive mental illness? An insular, self-absorbed obsession with the lie that the carbon dioxide emitted by Western “democracies” is going to despoil the planet (while the greater emissions from India, Africa, Asia, and especially China will not). Napolean Syndrome? Or is it simply the innate leftist hunger to redistribute other people’s earnings as they see fit, even when it harms the people in whose interest they claim to act?

How about all of the above?

Another Climate Laundromat

The problem begins with the Vermont legislature having more elected Democrats in it than (at which) you can shake a Mann-Made hockey stick. It has veto-proof majorities in both chambers. The state’s governor, Phil Scott, is a token Republican and a chief executive with a soap box but not much else. He’s also alleged to be the most popular governor in the country but has anyone considered that the two things (impotence and popularity) might be connected?

Mr. Scott allowed S.259 to become law (the thing that will “make” fossil fuel companies pay for climate change) without his signature, in part because he couldn’t stop it and, in part, because he is himself, is a little bit Hopey-climate-change.

From The Week.

[Gov. Phil] Scott did not seem too keen on the idea of the bill, seemingly brushing it off as too difficult a task. However, in a note to Vermont’s Senate secretary, he wrote that he “[understands] the desire to seek funding to mitigate the effects of climate change that has hurt our state in so many ways,” especially given that Vermont dealt with deadly, climate-caused flooding last year.

Translation: Tax and spend Democrats are so incapable of managing the taxpayer’s wages that it must find scapegoats to help pad a treasury it can’t fill despite the endless parade of new and higher taxes, and Phil is willing to let them trip over this cluster of (you know what’s) because he likes other people’s money too.

If it doesn’t work, he didn’t sign it, and he can always say he couldn’t stop it.

You Can’t Help Loving Other People’s Money

For the record, all flooding is climate-related, as is its absence. Rained out weddings, glorious beach days. Weather. Climate. In the case of Vermont, Its ‘Climate’ has a long history of major floods. Vermont also has a history of building things where it has flooded before for as long as people have been living in Vermont. I wonder if the fossil fuel company lawyers could do something with that when the Green (as in, we need a mountain of someone else’s money) State figures out how much to put at the bottom of the bill they plan to send them.

This is a state that spends thrice as much on education to crank out kids barely half as bright. That same state can’t possibly fix anything (certainly not the weather), no matter how much or whom they charge. Not that this is about that. This is a fishing expedition—legalized robbery. And by claiming the pockets to be picked are Big Oil, they make you think one thing when, in fact, the truth is something else.

S.259 will allow Vermont to “bill fossil fuel companies retroactively for the costs of addressing, avoiding and adapting to the damages that the emissions from their products have caused” between 1995 and 2024, said Heatmap News. But this is a multistep process. First, the Vermont treasurer must assess the total cost of these emissions to determine how much the state is owed.

Don’t you dare say Ex Post Facto or mention Bills of Attainder (both unconstitutional) because Vermont’s legislators love what they love (by which I mean your money). S.259, the “Climate Superfund Act,” launders money to fill the state’s coffers by charging fuel companies for alleged damages caused by alleged climate change (which amounts to whatever the government’s thieves say it is). Oh, look, a storm wrecked some infrastructure that was built where it floods every ten years. Make them Pay!

Climate change is less about climate and more about change. The change in the amount of change in your pocket. The fossil fuel companies won’t be paying for whatever the regulators decide is the cost of “climate change.” That will be borne by every citizen in the state of Vermont, and the Legislature can’t prevent that.

That added cost of doing business in Vermont won’t just trickle down. It will show up in the rising cost of everything that moves in a vehicle fueled by … fuel. All energy costs will spike. Businesses will have to cut staff, pay, and benefits and maybe even close up shop. Even the cost of government will go up.

That Climate Superfund will make everything more expensive (which includes covering the cost of climate change) at a time when, thanks to some Democrats who did something from DC, everything is already more expensive.

What Big Oil Should Do

When I first heard the Vermont State Senate bill passed (and I’ve said this here before), I thought fuel companies should stop doing business in Vermont. The State is, after all, in a huge hurry to get to its all-electric, no-fossil-fuel paradise. Say no today. Don’t wait for the office of charging fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change to send a bill. Give them their green future now. Good and hard, if you take my meaning.

And how long do you think it would take for all hell to break loose? Not long. Sure, Vermonters can drive to New York or Massachusetts to get gasoline—to New Hampshire if they want it and want to save a lot more money—but that’s an impractical solution. The entire economy needs fuel, oil, and gas to run. Without it, the state is at a standstill when the tanks in the ground are empty.

Is that what it will take to get Vermonters to end the madness? To vote for candidates whose primary goal is not to screw them as hard as they can in pursuit of their partisan fantasies?

Maybe. America is in something of the same situation, except that it only takes a few dedicated operatives in a handful of states to screw the entire nation. But that should mean more for activism at the state level.

Fix what you can as soon as possible, and then be vigilant about keeping it that way, especially in Vermont. The path it is on has been spiraling downward for years, and S.259 isn’t going to punish anyone but Vermonters.

 

| Substack

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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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