Though this article is designed for the Ward 2 voter/reader, Alderman Dowd’s chairmanship is ultimately a citywide product.  Alderman Wilshire was given the gavel by the body of 15.  That’s nine wards with one alderman apiece plus six members elected at large. Keep in mind that there was an opportunity to remove some of those 6 in addition to the mayor.

Prior to the November 2023 election, I learned that Dowd was not held in high esteem by his condo community.  As his opponent, I gave that neighborhood some extra attention while out canvassing, then wrote this article about some condo association dirty laundry I learned more about while talking to well-engaged members of that community.

I was bent on removing that old fixture and fueled by my anger against his Mask Madness and big spending modus operandi; the latter being a big part of the resulting “Property Tax Tyranny.”

Last night’s meeting offered much to observe and take note of.  It’s almost 2 hours long, but I encourage you to watch the public comments that are in the very beginning.

You could call it “3 WATCHdog Night” because the first 8 minutes were comments by three local women who almost don’t need any introduction: Laura Colquhoun, who recently wrote this article; Laurie Ortolano, who also speaks a 2nd time during a separate public comment at 1:41:35 to 1:44:35, and does hold her own as a Grokster, and Paula Johnson, who was recently ousted in a school recount and is planning to appeal recent litigation against the City that did not go favorably.

They tore it up!  Good job, ladies.

I’ll give you the brief Jim Rice NESN desk summary.  It became obvious that Alderman Dowd, as chair, knew about the ESSER funds shortfall BEFORE the election, and some of his ilk just started learning how bad only lately.  For a detailed, play-by-play review of last night’s clown show, stay tuned in beyond the 9th minute when Alderman Sullivan asks questions.  One very nasty member of The Swamp, who has been exceptionally hostile to Laurie Ortolano in the past, started questioning Dowd also though as a way of pretending to want accountability to his constituents.  What a phony!

Watching the enemy camp eat its own is very gratifying, though only fleeting, but I will finish with this montage here because elections really do have consequences.

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Here’s something that blows my mind.

On the one hand, conservative parents continue to fight over the issue of pornographic books in school libraries.

But on the other hand, they continue to send their children to a political institution controlled by woke progressives.

An institution that is being given access to those children, 6 hours a day, 180 days a year, during the most impressionable years of their lives.

That’s 13,000 hours that progressives can use to weave their agenda into the subject matter of every lesson and activity — to say nothing of countless opportunities to provide personal ‘guidance’ to the students who have been placed in their care.

If you’d like a preview of how this comes out, read Xi Van Fleet’s excellent book, Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning, in which she lays out some pretty startling parallels between Mao’s cultural revolution in China during the 1960s and 1970s, and the one that’s going on here in America right now.  (Or, if you’re short on time, watch her recent interview with Tucker Carlson.)

If you’re a conservative, the problem you need to be working on isn’t removing pornographic books from the school libraries. It’s removing your kids from the schools — at least if you would like them to grow up with your conservative values.

As someone said, if you send your kids to Caesar to be educated, it’s silly to complain when they come back as Romans.

And in case you’re thinking that the public schools can be reformed, or reclaimed, or reconstituted, or retooled, or repaired, just remember:

Any taxes you pay can and will — sooner or later — be used against you.

 

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

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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Whether a laugh, a warm feeling, or a cold slap of truth.

 

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And no repercussions.  Of course.  When people see – blatant, in your face – differences in how laws are enforced, they lose faith in the entire system.  Which is the point, of course.

 

 

 

 

Are you f*cking kidding me?????

 

 

Yes, I question the whole DEI involvement, but something seems awry.  My “paranoid antennae” are twitching on the sudden step-change uptick in this – could this be deliberate to get people to not want to fly?  If that’s true, expect other types of airplanes to start developing problems too.

 

 

 

 

I suspect she’s holding on hoping Trump gets taken down by the lawfare.  Then she can present herself as the “logical” replacement.

 

 

I remember a while ago searching for images of “X couples”.  X = White, Black, Hispanic, Asian.  You guessed it.  The latter three were as you’d expect.  The White one was virtually all mixed race.

 

 

By this standard, most of the GOP sucks canal water.

 

 

 

Speaking of:

Explain Why Obama, Admitting He’s Running Biden, Is Released – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

 

 

 

 

Combines with this:

 

 

You must remember – most people don’t want their calm, stable view of the world disturbed.  They don’t want to believe that there are truly dark and evil people in this world.  They want to live – per the TV show – in the sunlit side of reality, and flat-out deny there is a dark side.  And while I don’t normally intersperse videos anymore, this is spot-on truth-in-fiction:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/octagon-quote.mp4

 

 

 

 

What Is Caesar’s And What Is Mine? – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

 

 

 

 

Estimated net worth $680 million.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s that definition of insanity again?

 

 

Beware confirmation bias.  A line from the scifi book DUNE is appropriate: “Hope clouds observation”.

 

 

Speaking of “diversity”:

Bayou Renaissance Man: Importing crime

 

 

 

 

 

In my case, same household.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

 

 

The “whales” seem to be fleeing the market.  IIRC Bezos is up to $6 billion in sales.  Why?  And what to make of this:

 

 

I do not recall, EVER, seeing any similar warning about prior eclipses.  Do you?

 

 

What’s coming?  Don’t forget, there really is a market for “ultra-rich people” getting bunkers.

Platinum Series – Atlas Survival Shelters

Inside Luxury Bunkers Where Ultra-Rich Prepare for Doomsday (businessinsider.com)

Nor should you forget our “good and dear friend” giving us this warning:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cyber-attacks-next.mp4

 

Concluding:

Bayou Renaissance Man: A reminder: why we should be storing food

Fascinating – I got this warning:

This post may contain sensitive content. In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Community Guildelines.

I’ve NEVER had to sign in to open his posts before.

 

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Others have noted it too.  Odd how they all – just about – seem to be swimming in money by the time they leave office.

 

 

See my comment above about not wanting to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember one “researcher” making some kind of “bug milk” ice cream and handing out samples.  Then, telling them what it was after they’d eaten it, and being insufferably pleased about it.

 

 

 

 

Generations and generations and generations.  This is their FAITH, remember?  And in parallel with that, their FAITH that they are made from finer clay and thus deserve to be at the top.

 

 

Peter Grant challenged me on Gab about this.  I do remember hearing a voice recording of this, so I do believe it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll give him credit for a lot of judges.  But ultimately, he’s a swamp creature.

 

 

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Link Section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Embalmers are Continuing to Find Mysterious Clots in the Vaccinated (midwesterndoctor.com)

Kind of technical, but… the overarching thing to me is how – HOW – in the face of these “calamari clots” that nobody’s ever seen before, there’s no mass interest in WHY they’re suddenly being seen.  But then, there’s the axiom:

You cannot get someone to see something, when their paycheck depends on them not seeing it.

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To Understand The Globalists We Must Understand Their Psychopathic Religion – Alt-Market.us

Long and thoughtful.

And I will argue that one prime reason they argue that there are no souls, and no divine sparks, is because they fear death – and thus believe they can just transfer their minds to a computer and live forever.

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Yes, they really are that stupid and evil. – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

On guns, or anything else, they speak from ignorance and propaganda without thinking.

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Vahid Beheshti: My Plan to Bring Down the Iranian Regime :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)

Cue Saruman voice: “If the West stands firm to support the Persian people, the Mullahs will fall”.  This can only be a good thing.

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Will Dems Steal the 2024 Presidential Election Even If Trump Wins? Count on it and Prepare. – The Lid (lidblog.com)

I’d bet every dime I have that they’ll try.

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Colorado Democrats Kill Bill Penalizing Raping Children – The Lid (lidblog.com)

I don’t want to live here any more.

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Meta’s AI Achieves the Left’s Dream, Makes Donald Trump Disappear (jihadwatch.org)

Holy Orwell, Batman!

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Death of a Nation, Birth of Another – by T.L. Davis (substack.com)

Start planning.

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Yes, Hitler Was a Socialist. – Urban Scoop

 

 

And bringing up an older piece I did:

Hitler’s Missing Speech – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

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“Who Could Be Next”: Top Canadian Pension Fund Sells Manhattan Office Tower For $1, Sparking Firesale Panic | ZeroHedge

This could be the start of an avalanche.

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Aaron Bushnell, Who Burned Himself Alive, Cheered Murder of U.S. Soldiers – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

Vipers in our midst.  Anyone remember that cadet who graduated with this T-shirt on?

 

 

Incidentally, good book:

Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him

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The US Government is actively funding Chinese Gain-of-Function research into bird flu.  First:  I thought this was ILLEGAL, and 2nd, didn’t the last several years teach us that this is a BAD idea?  The only thing I can conclude is that this is deliberate, “in-your-face”, we’re doing it anyway, and SHUT UP Peasants:

Watchdog group uncovers docs showing US govt. now funding more gain-of-function research in China for bird flu | Sharyl Attkisson

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Machine guns are defined as: Pull the trigger & hold it, and the system will continue firing until it runs out of ammo or you let up on the trigger.  Due to the NFA and other laws, since 1984, they are also illegal to make for civilians.  So if you want one legally, be prepared to payout some SERIOUS cash (like $15K-$30K) for a used one (assuming someone is willing to sell), plus tax stamps, a seriously deep background check etc., etc., etc.  Or you can do what the Chinese are doing:  Flooding the criminal market with special (illegal) parts that allow standard, semi-auto guns to be made into machine guns (and the Chinese are selling suppressors, which is ALSO illegal without tax stamps, & lots of paperwork).  The criminals don’t care if their gun is illegal as all He__, in fact, it may make points for them “in the hood”:

‘Blood Money’: How China Is Secretly Arming American Criminals (breitbart.com)

This is an excellent article written in 2014, and it makes an interesting perspective to see how much MORE corrupt the government has become since then:

The Pig Trap « Taxicab Depressions

Also from that site:

 

 

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The FBLie would have us believe that the retail theft in the urban areas is being done by white people.  While I’m sure there are SOME people of all races involved, the vast majority of videos from ACTUAL EVENTS show differently:

https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/ever-wonder-why-the-fbi-didnt-see

London, one of the shining cities of the West, has fallen to Islamic rule.  And thanks to the feckless “leaders” in Britain, not a shot was fired:

Londonistan: Who’s City Is It? – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)

Related:

British MPs are having to hire bodyguards to protect them from Muslim extremists (barenakedislam.com)

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For my Jewish friends:  If you or your children are attending college at a liberal university, I encourage you to get out NOW.  For the moment, the Muslims [and their Leftist allies] are just chanting slogans & breaking windows, but I fear it will soon slide into a full on violence to wipe you out.  Frankly I’m ashamed that this is happening in the United States:

UC BERKELEY: Violent pro-Hamas, anti-Israel Muslim thugs shut down event hosted by Jewish students (barenakedislam.com)

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From the “let them eat cake” department:  Kellogg’s is now advertising helping your food budget by eating cereal for dinner.  There were times in college when my food budget meant peanut butter sandwiches and Raman noodles for most of my meals, but the average family should NOT have to eat cereal for dinner!:

Cereal For Dinner – Kellogg’s CEO Sends Depression-Era Message – Victory Girls Blog

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Regarding the “pipe bombs” from January 6th, 2021.  Amazingly, a 3rd camera that showed the screen was found to have “somehow” panned away from the “scene of interest” during the whole response.  We have a saying in the military:  Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, but 3 times is enemy action.  This makes it look more and more like a set-up by the FBI & The DOJ, turning them into “enemies of the people”.  The question is:  What do we do about it?:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/3rd-pipe-bomb-camera-deliberately-turned-away-from-scene-5595947

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Whether it’s eating bugs or going gay/trans or whatever, notice that the marketing is always aimed at kids.  Remember, two famous socialists about kids:

 

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

Especially weekend mornings.

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The question is NOT why is the Biden-Regime rigging the 2024 election. What did you expect? They rigged 2020 and got away with it … with the assistance and encouragement of NeverTrump ideologues like Mikey Graham, who is still bloviating about how no courts have found voter fraud in 2020.

It is undisputed that the rigging took the form of Big Tech/Regime-media censorship (Hunter Biden laptop), Deep State disinformation amplified by Big Tech and Regime-media (Russia bounties, “suckers and losers”), Zuckerbucks, changes to voting laws in various swing States that allowed unreliable mail-in voting, etc., etc., etc.

Cry harder, Mikey. Did you really expect that the Left would stop rigging elections?

The right question is why … DESPITE EIGHT YEARS of off-and on GOP control of State government under the reign of the mighty Sun-King Chris Sununu … New Hampshire STILL ALLOWS OUT-OF-STATE COLLEGE STUDENTS to decide its elections. And do NOT tell me it’s because the Constitution requires it … other States do NOT allow out-of-State college students to vote in their elections and New Hampshire could do the same.

It is because the NHGOP are incompetent and have a loser-mentality … lose gracefully!

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Interesting things happen when you embrace forced multi-culturalism with open borders, lawlessness, gang activity, depleted or stressed law enforcement, drugs, and Democrat control. More people end up dead.

Vermont’s growing annual body count, which can be linked directly to Democrat policy, added another victim.

Vermont state police say Christina Chatlos, 38, was shot and killed during a fight in St. Johnsbury last month.

According to court paperwork, investigators say Mohamad Said, 15, of Springfield, Massachusetts, pulled the trigger. Investigators say it stemmed from a drug deal that took a violent turn.

Chatlos, of Williamstown and Barre, was found dead on Jan. 23 inside a car with bullet holes in it parked in a lot on Portland Street, on the grounds of the Cornerstone School.

Said is in custody in Massachusetts after his arrest on a separate matter but will be extradited to Vermont, where he will enjoy all the comforts of the criminal justice system while awaiting trial. But we can’t ignore the similarities between this shooting and the rising violence across the state. Much of it involves non-Americans who either snuck in and were welcomed thanks to sanctuary policy or were resettled from a second or third-world country by some taxpayer-funded religious organization like Catholic Charities (notice the lack of Left-Wing outrage here about the separation of Church and State).

Vermont’s economy is not great, which Bidennomics only makes worse. The result is a land of milk and honey, where both seem spoiled. You simply can’t afford either, and the lack of jobs means that as a subject to the state, living on the dole, drugs, and crime are your fastest opportunity to a better-looking life or way out of it.

If professional shoplifting isn’t your thing, there are enough imported criminals, thugs, and gang leaders to start a nice war, which is how an increasing number of murders come to pass in places like Vermont.

The Democrat’s knee-jerk response to a rise in violence for which they are responsible is to disarm law-abiding citizens, a task well underway in the Green Mountain State.

You’d be right to ask if they saw it coming and this deliberate chaos was to justify eroding Second Amendment rights, which will only make the problem of murder worse for victims, and no, Democrats don’t care. Murder is good for their politics.

Vermont should expect more of it.

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In Daniel Webster’s eulogy of George Washington, Webster praised our first President’s concern that posterity would forget the blessing of liberty our Constitution is to our nation. “He invokes a respect for our Constitution and issues a solemn duty in watching over it carefully — in words so beautiful as to bring tears to our eyes.” Due respect for this blessed heritage was lacking in the NH’s legislature when HCR 40 passed an application calling for a constitutional convention (ConCon) to ratify a Balance The Budget Amendment in 2012. State Rep. Nikki McCarter has sponsored HCR 9 that would rescind New Hampshire’s sole live application for a ConCon.

Human nature is prone to selfish deception to achieve personal goals. Organizations with six-figure lobbyist salaries, such as the Convention of States (COS) & Wolf PAC, have wined and dined many state legislators to convince them to sponsor their cause. Instead of pursuing the Article V process, that has given us the first 27 Amendments, they have promoted the dangerous ConCon method to fix the Constitution. They blame the Constitution for the federal abuse of power caused by politicians who ignore its limits.

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Money buys support, but truth begets true believers. The grassroots voice of freedom, the John Birch Society (JBS), comprised of 99% volunteers in their educational army, has opposed and stopped this deceptive narrative throughout the nation. For over four decades, I have been in this battle for truth to preserve the Constitution. At JBS, we say, “The Constitution isn’t broken; it just needs to be obeyed.” Naturally, everyone is for a balanced budget. People then argue it is the Constitution’s fault and one amendment will fix the problem when thousands of violations of it each year are causing a 34 trillion dollar debt to fund unconstitutional wars, foreign aid, and unlimited bureaucracies. Politicians love this lie that hides their big spending. Orwell exposes how the mind is conditioned to accept what is not true: “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie becomes truth.”

The crux of this issue requires a lot of history going back to the 1787 ConCon that set the precedent of a runaway convention. All states under the Articles of Confederation (AC) sent delegates to the 1787 ConCon with commissions to amend the AC. Delegates Pinckney from SC and Eldrige of MA said the delegates do not have the authority to go beyond their state’s mandate to amend the AC. Madison and the Virginia delegation decided to appeal to a higher authority, as the signers of The Declaration of Independence did: “They chose to exercise the transient and precious right of the people to abolish or alter their governments “ When the God-given rights of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are denied: “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, …”

Historically, Americans have been blessed with more freedom than any people who have walked the face of the earth. Obviously, this issue is deep. My effort here is only to pen “tip of the iceberg” information to trigger your investigation. Will you discover this is a fraudulent cause with dangerous consequences? Follow this link to learn and take action: rescind-new-hampshires-con-con-applications. Tell your state legislators to pass HCR 9 to rescind all ConCon’s

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Isaiah stated in the Tanakh, “Your silver is fake, and your wine is watered down.” -Isaiah 1:22.

At this point in time, Isaiah lived in Jerusalem during the latter half of Israel’s kingdom and was speaking with the leaders of Jerusalem and Judah on God’s behalf. He was warning the leaders of their corruption and that this corruption against God’s commandments would have dire consequences.

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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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