This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  My last “normal” meme post.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

This is a long one.  So much info flowing.  Pick and choose and click at your discretion.

Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.

Note that these posts do not repeat information – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts.  Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you.  In reverse chronological order:

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

 

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TOP OF THE FOLD

Israel’s New Website On Hamas Killings Has 43 Million Viewers in the First Week (jihadwatch.org)

Israel now has put the soul-searing evidence of the Hamas atrocities before the world, on a dedicated website. As the IDF soldiers manfully carry on, fighting against Hamas terrorists up and down the Strip, from Gaza City to Khan Yunis and all the way to the southernmost city of Rafah, including all the places in between where the IDF has located Hamas fighters and weapons. The creators of this admirable and terrible website are now fighting back against Hamas’ propaganda, to win, or in some cases win back, the hearts and minds of those who are in danger of forgetting what happened on October 7. Israel is now engaged in a on a different battlefield, pitting its truthful hasbara against the lies of Hamas. This is what may be called, in the Gaza War, the Jewish state’s indispensable second front.

Here’s that site.  Bookmark it.  Stare at it.  Understand the enormity of what was done.  And then share it widely.

HAMAS MASSACRE (saturday-october-seven.com)

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Banning Jews for Their Own Protection | Frontpage Mag

Jews are being censored, suspended and even arrested for “their own protection” while Jihadists and their allies gleefully rampage across the civilized world.

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There is No ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Going On in Israel | Frontpage Mag

The problem is that this is too fine a level of detail for people who just want to let their emotions rule their minds.  And there are goods… being charged at a markup by Hamas:

Gazan Mall Slams Hamas For Attempting To Sell Aid Goods At High Prices – Israellycool

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“I am An Arab Jew” – Geller Report

Read it all.  Again I refer you to this excellent book:

Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

 

 

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A crazy story reported by the Israeli journalist Avishai Grinzaig:

On Friday in Khan Yunis, in the sector of one of the battalions in the 4th Brigade of the IDF.

Before a force from the battalion raided a certain point, they put a drone into the air after a suspicious figure was identified. In the drone they saw an elderly woman handcuffed to a bed.

After dispelling the suspicion of a deception incident by Hamas. The force went up to the apartment together with an Arabic-speaking investigator of the brigade.

They found a 75-year-old woman bound by her own hands and in very poor health.

The hands are very swollen, enlarge the picture and you will see. And the old woman was completely dehydrated.

While the doctor treated her, the division’s investigator asked her questions.

And she told them: her family fled from Khan Yunis to the south. Two Hamas operatives in IDF uniforms arrived, forcibly tied her to the bed and told her to say that the IDF did it. She lay like that tied to the bed for two days.

There are many more and monstrous and predatory cases of what Hamas is doing to the citizens of Gaza. They tie old women to a bed, attach explosives to old men, and other horrible things.

This is the evil of Hamas.

(HT Aussie Pilgrim)

And my comment on his post:

Remember, in Islam ANYONE who dies in the service of jihad is guaranteed entry to paradise. In their mind, by tying her to a bed and hoping she’d smear the IDF, they were summoning her to be a warrior for jihad.

An old woman who should be holding her grandchildren.

Related:

The blood libel at the Hague | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

During multiple wars, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have done more to avoid civilian casualties than any other army in the world ever has. In Gaza, the IDF has provided advance warning to Palestinian civilians where it plans to fight, sending 7.2 million leaflets, 13.7 million texts, and making 15 million phone calls so far to help noncombatants avoid being used by Hamas as human shields.

So, to accuse the Israelis of genocide is a lie and a blood libel.

By contrast, Hamas is proudly genocidal. The Hamas Charter declares that “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

Hamas instructs Muslims to “fight Jews and kill them.”

 

 

 

WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

The Jew-Hating ‘Two-State’ Fantasy | Frontpage Mag

Remember what Arafat said.

 

 

 

Hamas Top Dog Khaled Mashal Refuses Two-State Solution, Only Israel’s Complete Annihilation – Geller Report

And remember what I keep referring to, i.e., 2:191 “Drive them out from where they drove you out”.  They want every square inch.  If they follow the Koran they cannot EVER settle for anything less.  And then, on to the whole world.  Related to the Two State Solution (on my Rumble channel):

Commentary on the Two State Solution (rumble.com)

And:

Why are UN and European leaders slamming and threatening Israel for rejecting the so-called ‘Two-State Solution,’ yet not saying a word to the Palestinians about their total rejection of a ‘Two-State Solution?’ (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

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WATCH: Child in Gaza Pledges to Become Martyr for Hamas | United with Israel

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: Virtually every school and mosque in Gaza has weapons around

Wonder why these kids hate Israel and Jews from the very start.  Oh, wait:

How can the war between Israel and Hamas ever end when so many schools in Gaza – run by a UN agency backed by our millions – teach children to hate Jews? | Daily Mail Online

And a video about what the Palestinian textbooks have:

What’s in the Palestinian text books? (rumble.com)

And more examples of why peace is not likely any time soon (my Rumble channel):

Communist Student Leader Advocates for Israel’s Destruction (rumble.com)

Understand the Islam – Left alliance; note his language – pure Communist at the end.  The Left wants Israel’s destruction just as Islam does – and IMHO here’s why.  Remember that Israel, as founded, was going to be a Socialist state.  Perhaps not purely, but close.  Over time, Israel moved towards free market capitalism – betrayal!  Apostasy to The Lord Marx!  More:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/more-on-palis-hating-israel-1.mp4

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/children-in-judea-and-samaria.mp4

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/seeds-of-genocide.mp4

 

And then I see signs of hope:

 

 

And:

End the War and Return All Hostages Now, Demand … Gazans? – HotAir

The best way to get all the hostages back is to keep the pressure on Hamas, which never should have kidnapped them in the first place. Perhaps that point should be kept foremost in mind in these discussions. Even the Gazans agree on that point — when they are allowed to express themselves.

From this Telegram channel:

 

 

One of the fallen IDF soldiers is Ahmed Abu Latif, a Bedouin Muslim IDF soldier.

Ahmed embodied the spirit of unity and patriotism, a shining example of coexistence and unwavering love for Israel.

Ahmed, your legacy will forever inspire us.

Adding in this:

Woman in Hijab describes her visit to Israel (rumble.com)

Wow.  Such a testament.  And then I see this – a confession of an Israeli Arab:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/israeli-arab-describes-real-goal.mp4

 

Also on my Rumble channel: Israeli Arab – will they really coexist? A: No. (rumble.com)

And an interesting idea:

The Most Plausible, Benevolent, and Deep-Pocketed Future Ruler of Gaza Is… (jihadwatch.org)

The ‘Day After’ in Gaza and the Role of the United Arab Emirates (jihadwatch.org)

I’m just not sure I trust them either.

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To those who decry the loss of civilian life, I repeat last week’s post by UK Colonel Richard Kemp:

Colonel Richard Kemp on civilian casualties in Gaza (rumble.com)

Islam is one of the two ultimate collectivist ideologies; the other being Communism.  Individuals only matter as far as they serve the “greater good”.

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Israel: Seeing Red (townhall.com)

I’d argue YES; the problem is that the war is not just being fought militarily, but in the minds of the world.  And apparently losing in America:

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Israel Over Hamas: Poll (freebeacon.com)

Americans, but not their government:

It must be said: The US is helping Hamas survive, and survival is victory ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

Hamas’ strategy is to keep civilians between it and Israel. The US and the West are doing everything they can to help Hamas in that aim. And when civilians are killed, Israel is blamed. For all of the weapons and ammunition that the US is sending Israel, it is not letting Israel win.

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Israel Still Hasn’t Learned the Strategic Lessons of Oct 7 | Frontpage Mag

This is where the proposals for any kind of truce, let alone a proposed 2-month pause to the fighting in exchange for the hostages, are disastrous. We’ve already previously seen the consequences of giving Hamas any time to regroup. In exchange for the release of some hostages, Hamas was able to move other hostages and its military assets, regroup and launch new attacks.

Victory means pushing Hamas. The more breathing room the terrorists have, the more they can settle into a new routine of pop up attacks, studying and exploiting IDF patterns, scoring occasional victories, damaging morale and building up pressure for an Israeli withdrawal.

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

Dr. Andrew Bostom on Prager: Muslim Antisemitism & Its Islamic Rootedness | Frontpage Mag

Video interview.

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As you watch this video of some “civilians” shooting mortars, remember that this is a double-bonus.  They shoot mortars at Israel hoping to kill Jews; if the shooters get splatted, Hamas claims civilian casualties because of their clothing.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/mortar-team-in-civilian-clothing.mp4

 

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OOH, good.  OTOH, remember the precedent of the Treaty of Hudaibiya:

Myth: The Treaty of Hudaibiya (thereligionofpeace.com)

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How did ARABS from ARABIA get so far and wide.  Oh, wait, colonialism and war:

 

 

And a related video.  Look at the diversity of those women’s clothes – and the drab & uniform mobile tents they’re forced into now.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/not-our-traditional-dress.mp4

 

Also on my Rumble channel:

Arab-imposed outfits on women (rumble.com)

 

 

ATROCITIES

Graphic images – be warned.  But, IMHO, you have to look.  THIS is why the meme below the image links applies.

Blood in homes 1

Blood in homes 2

Blood in homes 3

Remember… there was a ceasefire on Oct. 6.  And they started it:

 

 

 

Related:

 

 

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Does Islamic Law Sanction Hamas’ Rape of Captives? | Frontpage Mag

Hamas says its jihad mass murderers were committed to ‘Islamic values’ on October 7 (jihadwatch.org)

Remember from a couple of posts ago, I had an Imam saying that when a kaffir woman is captured in jihad, if she is married that marriage is automatically annulled by that capture?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/imam-on-concubines.mp4

 

And a parallel, also important one:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/is-consent-needed-for-female-slaves.mp4

 

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Oct 7 – covered recovered bodies (rumble.com)

These were civilians at a party.  And as recovery teams arrived – horrific!

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/terrorist-admits-there-were-rapes-and-beheadings-1.mp4

 

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Video Shows Hamas Terrorists Decapitating Israelis – Geller Report

Never forget this.

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Israeli dad of teen hostage fears daughter is being raped by Hamas (nypost.com)

Flip it.  Imagine if there were even accusations Israelis were doing this to Arabs.

 

 

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And Mohammed never visited Jerusalem.

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I recognized that Fatah and Hamas would play good cop-bad cop decades ago.

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ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

‘Zionist killer’ – Shocking antisemitic assault allegations at American University | World Israel News

Remember, it’s the LEFT that is the power on campuses.

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Who is the ‘rabbi’ and ‘peace activist’ that cheered for Hamas on Oct. 7th? | World Israel News

“When I heard the initial reports of Hamas’ attacks on Israel this past Saturday, I will be completely honest – my first reaction was ‘good for them,’” Brant Rosen wrote in response to the Hamas attacks of October 7.

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In his column, published at the People’s Voice (formerly the Communist Party’s Daily Worker), he claimed that “this latest violence did not occur in a vacuum. It is but the latest manifestation of an injustice that Israel has been perpetrating against the Palestinian people for decades.”

Oh, wait, WHAT political party’s newspaper? —

U of Illinois: Only Queer, Racial, Environmental Justice Will ‘Free Palestine’ | Frontpage Mag

Learn to understand Intersectionality:

What Is Intersectionality? (youtube.com)

Video, 4 minutes.

 

PALLYWOOD & MEDIA IN GENERAL

Libel Debunked: Israeli Toy Company Selling Dolls of Bloody Palestinian Babies – Israellycool

Wow.  I’m speechless.  Another one:

Fake blood and bad acting: Al Jazeera caught fabricating footage purportedly of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza (jihadwatch.org)

According to a hadith, Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” (Bukhari 4.52.268). But all the Christian, Muslim, and atheist Jew-haters will readily take this in and insist it’s authentic.

And:

Media assumes every Gaza civilian shot was killed by Israel – but they never have any evidence ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

Time to revisit this excellent expose:

 

Pallywood

 

 

And remember what I said about Pallywood recycling images?

Image 1 – horribly burned young girl, blamed on Israel

Image 2 – the reality

Remember, WAR IS DECEIT.  And the useful idiots eat it up with no skepticism whatsoever.

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Good video on the “game of numbers” on my Rumble channel – comparing casualty figures:

Gaza – the game of numbers (rumble.com)

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Two videos on the “apartheid” claim:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/apartheid-easily-debunked.mp4

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/arab-israeli-woman-another-interview.mp4

 

And a third on my Rumble channel:

Sarcastic piece showing how Israel is an “Apartheid” state (rumble.com)

Oh, and one from a while back – also on my Rumble channel – highlighting the fallacy of “all Jews are white”.

Black IDF soldier talks (rumble.com)

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Newest appointee to Harvard’s antisemitism task force calls Israel an ‘apartheid regime’ – The Jewish Voice

Fox, here’s your new post guarding the hen house.

 

 

TERROR COMING HERE?  TO THE WEST?

NYC VEHICULAR JIHAD: Screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR!” Pro-Hamas Muslim ‘Protestor” Intentionally Runs Over NYPD Cop With Car (VIDEO) – Geller Report

Already here.  Related:

 

WARNING: Muslim Scholar Says We Will Conquer and Enslave you in 40-50 Years

 

 

‘Europeans will succumb to Islam’ – Former top German spy issues new warning as Muslim majority in Europe predicted by 2200 (rmx.news)

‘They all will be executed by Muslims,’ Wisconsin Imam calls for the genocide of Jews | World Israel News

At UNC, Anti-Semitism Is Too Close to Call | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

Hey pro-migration Jews.  Still think it’s a good idea to “welcome the stranger”?

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Antisemitism From the Left | Frontpage Mag

By failing to condemn antisemitism, politicians, academics and their media allies are doing our enemies’ bidding. One week ago, ISIS released a 67-minute diatribe calling for the destruction of Jews worldwide to avenge Israeli strikes against Gaza. The message was “kill them wherever you find them.”

Meanwhile, Jewish families privately talk at the dinner table about Anne Frank, hiding in attics, and where this new wave of antisemitism could lead.

Arm up.  Get a gun, learn to use it.  From a pro-gun Jew:

Obstinate Ignorance by David Bock – According To Hoyt

I’m also guessing she’s unaware of the story of 25 year old Inbar Lieberman, who distributed firearms to a dozen members of kibbutz Nir Am and coordinated a defense plan as the attacks were occurring. The defenders then used these firearms to kill at least 25 terrorists who had come to murder them. Ms Lieberman killed five of them herself.

As a result of this decision and her personal bravery, unlike every other kibbutz in the area, kibbutz Nir Am suffered no casualties in the attacks that cost so many lives elsewhere.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…(Spurious Quotation) | Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.

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Berlin:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pro-hamas-new-years-in-Berlin-1.mp4

 

Toronto:

 

 

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Philippines:

 

 

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UCLA (Los Angeles):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ucla.mp4

 

And USC:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/chants-at-usc.mp4

 

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The Domestic Terrorists of Tomorrow are Blocking Traffic Today | Frontpage Mag

Communist revolutionaries have exploited wars and food shortages to seize power, only to then inflict even worse wars and food shortages. Obama promised peace in the Middle East, an end to income inequality and the salvation of the planet. And all of these things only grew worse.

But following the Cloward-Piven model, leftists only make things worse. The purpose of leftist governments is to destroy countries by exacerbating every social, economic, geopolitical and cultural problem until they have brought societies to their knees and can seize total power.

Leftist protests, like the terrorists they support, are also not about fixing anything, but staging ugly hostile confrontations with police and the public to recruit the malicious and the disaffected (while playing the victim) and then escalating the violence and using it to take over a country.

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A revolution requires people willing to kill. And so they need to be given reasons to kill. The ‘cause’ is the process of finding those willing to kill and giving them the reasons to do it.

It’s about destroying what WAS, so that they can create what (they think) WILL BE.  Mao, as he was murdering 60+ million Chinese, called it The Four Olds.  But however you call it, they plan to build paradise tomorrow by erasing the present today.

 

 

No matter the cost.  After all, you have to break eggs to make an omelet, right?

 

 

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

Parsha Bo: A Study in Cause and Effect (jewishprolifefoundation.org)

I have seen multiple articles in support of abortion in various (mostly Reform or Conservative) newsletters.  Here’s part of the counter argument.  Also:

 

 

 

And my cartoon on the subject:

 

 

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Wait, what political party are unions associated with?

How about Wear your kippa or Magen David to work day?

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Jewish Democrats condemn Netanyahu for rejecting two-state solution | World Israel News

Jewish Democrats would – deep down IMHO – just like Israel to go away.  Related:

Netanyahu Rejects Biden Surrender Plan (breitbart.com)

Biden Threatens Netanyahu’s Drive to Destroy Hamas :: Gatestone Institute

Leftist Jews Feel Abandoned by the Left | Frontpage Mag

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Israel grants world’s first regulatory approval for lab-grown beef | World Israel News

Yuk.  No, just no.

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UN Denies Knowledge of Hamas Tunnels Despite Gaza Presence | United with Israel

Keep your friends close and enemies closer.  The UN is the enemy – not just of Israel, but America.

 

 

 

Related:

100 Days in Gaza | Frontpage Mag

The world doesn’t give one damn if there are Jews suffering.

 

 

GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL

You can’t go wrong with a donation here:

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Also, if you’re willing:

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

Israeli lawmakers pushing to keep Palestinian workers out of Israel | World Israel News

Who, in their ever-loving meshugah mind, is thinking about letting them back in?

No, seriously.  I recently saw a video of an Arab construction worker using a hose to water electrical panels.  And you’re letting them work?  Some people want to let more in?

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Until recently, it appeared that nuclear power was simply off the energy table for climate activists and environmentalists — but they are now embracing its possibilities.

This shift likely has been motivated by growing realization that solar panels and EVs just can’t accomplish the grand rescue they promised, along with the daunting environmental problems posed in their manufacture that can no longer be ignored. But the change is also driven by technological and design advances in nuclear reactor technology, for existing fission (atom-splitting) reactors and for a brave new world of fusion reactors that could potentially create energy with less risk and pollution by joining atoms together.

Fission

Modern nuclear power has been produced by harnessing the astonishing energy released when molecules are split. This is the same terrifying power of nuclear warfare, contained in water-cooled concrete control chambers to generate electricity. Yet Fukushima, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl displayed the potential for calamity from this process and exposed the persistent challenges of safely storing spent nuclear rods.

At COP28 in Dubai November-December 2023, more than 20 nations signed a pledge to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2030, in what one headline dubbed “the year the UN climate summit went nuclear.” This tacit admission that renewables can’t cut the mustard may also reflect the sober reality that China and the UAE – and many other nations – are moving forward with nuclear power development whether the West likes it or not. Energy is the lifeblood of economic stability and growth: If the United States and other Western nations abandon fossil fuels and nuclear energy (as long demanded by the “Just End Oil” crowd), they will seed their own destruction.

Nuclear Is More ‘Renewable’

Abandoning fossil fuels becomes extremely difficult when they are necessary to mine, heat, process, and fabricate the “renewable” products manufactured to replace them. All renewable manufacturing is ultimately dependent on the fossil fuels it is designed to retire. Nosebleed oil prices compelled a reckoning with the impacts of inflation on the costs of vast solar fields and an EV in every driveway. Concurrently, rising interest rates undermined financing incentives for renewable products. The technological unfeasibility of the Utopian scheme to replace fuels with gadgets becomes clearer daily. Nuclear power quickly becomes economically and politically necessary as the only bailout for errant policy.

The technological timing of this transition is pivotal. It is questionable whether the world should be launching into mass manufacturing and installation of solar panels that are merely 22% efficient when technology promises 34% efficiency panels soon. Nuclear energy technology, in contrast, has been evolving for decades since the 1960s reactors most people envision when they think of nuclear power plants. Unless and until the technological and cost limitations of renewable energy are overcome, nuclear energy presents as a far superior option.

A New Generation

This is why nuclear energy activists were allowed entry into COP28, and climate activists have embraced nuclear power as “an effective way forward.” These are not your grandmother’s nuclear power plants. Beginning with a US-initiated research program in 2000, the “Generation IV International Forum” (GIF) collectively decided on lower-risk fission reactor designs for the future:

“[L]ate in 2002 GIF (then representing ten countries) announced the selection of six reactor technologies which they believe represent the future shape of nuclear energy … These were selected on the basis of being clean, safe and cost-effective means of meeting increased energy demands on a sustainable basis, while being resistant to diversion of materials for weapons proliferation and secure from terrorist attack … Most of the six systems employ a closed fuel cycle to maximise the resource base and minimise high-level wastes to be sent to a repository.”

Fusion on the Horizon

In the background of this nuclear power renaissance lurks nuclear fusion, which creates energy by combining (rather than splitting) lighter elements such as helium or hydrogen: The resulting reaction releases atomic “binding energy.” Nuclear fusion promises the cleanest and safest energy but presents more challenging scientific obstacles. The World Nuclear Association explained:

“Fusion power offers the prospect of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations, but it also presents so far unresolved engineering challenges.

“The fundamental challenge is to achieve a rate of heat emitted by a fusion plasma that exceeds the rate of energy injected into the plasma.

“The main hope is centred on tokamak reactors and stellarators which confine a deuterium-tritium plasma magnetically.”

The scientific jury is still out on whether these fusion challenges can be solved by humankind, especially in time to avert alleged climate doom. But it appears that the world is quietly but quickly moving toward an acceptance of modernized fission reactors much like the Prodigal Son: “Gee, we missed you. Where have you been?” Next thing you know, Greta Thunberg will be advocating for “fast-neutron” nuclear reactor construction to “end” fossil fuels and save the world!

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As promised more interviews from Radio Row in Manchester on Primary Day in New Hampshire. We shared the interview with Eric Trump yesterday, and next up is our conversation with Kari Lake.

Kari is a Trump campaign advocate and relentless fighter for election integrity. Most recently, news broke – aud leaked, actually, of Arizona Republican Party chair Jeff DeWit caught on secret recording trying to bribe Kari Lake not to run for the Senate. We didn’t talk about that but we did talk about issues relevant to America and the New Hampshire primary.

Jeff Chihidester takes the lead – watch it on Rumble (and please remember to follow us!)

 

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Modular exhibition stands are an effective means of business development, allowing companies to stand out among competitors at events and attract the attention of the target audience. Their flexibility, functionality and innovative design make mobile systems an integral part of a successful business strategy.

We offer to consider the key advantages of modular exhibition stands, their variety and ways of effective application in the modern business space.

Design features of mobile stands

They are part of all kinds of exhibition systems made of aluminium profile. Modular exhibition stands are a collapsible construction consisting of several components. Due to their versatility, they can be assembled in different variants according to the requirements of a particular site.

Modular stands are considered to be the most budget-friendly and convenient type of visual advertising. A collapsible structure consisting of all kinds of stands and frames provides a wide range of uses – from exhibitions to presentations and various promotional events.

Types of exhibition stands

• There are several types of exhibition stands, differing in shape and size:
• Linear – systems with one-sided placement of information.
• Corner – they have a non-separable shape with two identical sides.
• Island – the key feature of this format is to maximise coverage of potential customers passing on four sides of the structure.
• Peninsulas – voluminous three-sided systems that maximise the use of space.
• Through – an effective way to place the most important elements in the main aisles, which increases the availability of the submitted information content.
• Visible – installation of identical structures opposite each other.
• Multilevel – systems of several floors.

Advantages of exhibition stands

The main advantages of mobile stands include:

• convenience of placement regardless of location;
• ease of assembly and installation. They do not require a lot of time for installation, use of special tools or experience;
• adaptability. Graphic materials on the panels can be easily changed, adjusting to the requirements of a particular advertising campaign or event;
• ease of transport, and for this purpose is suitable for an ordinary passenger car;
• the possibility of modelling for a specific location, which makes the construction convenient to use at various events.

In addition, panels with graphic images can be easily attached to the profiles using magnetic tape. Modular stands are designed for multiple use, which makes their use cost-effective and reduces advertising costs.

All these factors make this format of visual advertising an effective way to promote business. It is an ideal tool for companies looking to stand out and attract the attention of their target audience.

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After the 2020 election, I saw an article online about speeding up processing by 1000 to 1 million times faster – written by Jay Valentine and his Fractal Programming team. I work with technology, and after investigating it more, I learned that Jay was involved in using Fractal technology to start cleaning up voter rolls as he was disappointed in the 2020 results.

He started a project called Omega with the intent to clean voter rolls, and he offered a system to replace the current ERIC system, which was used in 31 states and was originally (2012) funded by Soros.

Fractal – in a nutshell – is software that avoids using the I/O on a computer. The I/O greatly reduces the processing speed of today’s computer chips. The processors can work at high speeds but then get gated by traditional I/O.  Fractal makes full use of that horsepower by avoiding I/O and is able to work faster, allowing for data searches that don’t work with traditional database tools and queries.

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So, when people claim that their voter rolls are ok, some have trouble finding or pinpointing bad records because they are using 40-year-old technology. Jay’s website has several videos explaining how this works and what he is finding. The results are stunning. He has run data for 25 states, and they have found significant errors large enough to change the results of our elections.

I wrote to Jay to see if I could use his material for the Granite Grok, and he said he was about to check the voter roll data for New Hampshire. Once he checks it, he will likely post a video on his website. This is a process that, in my opinion, is required in every state – especially where mail-in voting happens. Through proactive monitoring, he has discovered that thousands of zip codes are changed in time to mail out ballots and then changed back so no one is the wiser. The recipient doesn’t know since they are getting mail just fine. They just did not receive their mail-in ballot.

You can bet that someone ended up with the ballots. So, if you haven’t heard about Mr. Valentine and his technology, it’s worth some time to look into and support.

 

Jay Valentine – Iomega4America website

Here is a video explaining what Fractal Technology can find in voter rolls and how a state can be cleaned up.

 

 

 

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Ohio legislature overriding governor’s veto of transgender bill, which bans transitioning of minors; Trump’s victory in NH; how much is because of the left’s persecution of him? Will Trump’s almost certain nomination affect world affairs and wars even now? Kari Lake’s tiff with the GOP leader in Arizona; why isn’t Trump fighting the legal battle over election fraud in light of the new evidence re: hacking election machines? Is there any reason to believe that the 2024 election will be more secure than 2020? Texas standing up to Biden on the razor wire at the border

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If you think the courts are going to stop the Biden-Regime and its allies from rigging the 2024 election, think again. More specifically, think about yesterday’s decision finding, for all practical purposes, that the Biden Regime can carry out an invasion of America with illegal aliens…

The goal being to replace white voters with non-white voters because the Regime and its allies expect the latter to vote Democrat and give them permanent control of visible government:

Amy Coney Barrett just voted in favor of allowing Biden's federal border agents to dismantle razor fencing set up by Texas agents to stop illegals immigrants entering America.

The vote was 5-4. She was the deciding vote. What a nightmare. pic.twitter.com/BJGcAFExaO

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 22, 2024

The Supreme Court is CONTROLLED OPPOSITION. It may be Coney Barrett siding with the Leftists in one case, then Kavanaugh in the next case … but it’s all for appearances. The Supreme Court has been BROKEN. Schumer, with his threats, and Garland, by allowing “protesters” to terrorize the justices, as well as the constant pressure by the Regime-Media, has BROKEN the Court. It is controlled opposition.

The question becomes what to do when the Biden-Regime and its allies rig the 2024 election, AND the courts do NOTHING. Tucker has a suggestion … the only suggestion, in fact, IF you want to keep a REPUBLIC:

So it’s unanimous: everyone in power, from the White House, to the hedge fund managers, to the Supreme Court of the United States has decided to destroy the country by allowing it to be invaded. That leaves the population to defend itself. Where are the men of Texas? Why aren’t…

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 23, 2024

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The 603 Alliance and Grok Media gathered their resources and set up shop in the DoubleTree hotel in Manchester for Radio Row, the quadrennial media feeding frenzy in the run-up to Tuesday’s First in the Nation Primary.

Jeff Chidester and I, with help from Mike Rogers, manned the mics for three days, all day, speaking with scheduled guests and lots of drop-ins. We’re sharing the Eric Trump chat first, but we also spoke with Kari Lake, Vermin Supreme, and a host of other names, local and national, from both sides of the aisle, that I will share in the coming days.

We’ve got about 20 hours of material, including some great conversations between myself, Jeff, Mike, Fran Wendleboe, Don Ewing, and others, and that long list of guests I mentioned, but enough about us.

Eric Trump dropped by for 15 minutes to chat about the primary, Nikki Haley, Joe Biden, and his dad. (watch it on Rumble).

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Some X reaction to the puerile antics of Chris “Sun-King” Sununu. The rest of America now knows what we in New Hampshire already knew. The Sun-King is an arrogant, entitled CLOWN whose political success is owed entirely to the New Hampshire Communist (Democrat) Party running candidates so far to the Left that not even the very Left-of-center New Hampshire electorate could stomach them:

Chris Sununu is a sniveling politician who was also repudiated by the people in NH, especially Republicans.

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) January 24, 2024

Way to go, insult a large portion of the conservative electorate, Sununu. You are irrelevant after today and it’s about time. Totally out of touch. https://t.co/9hFyhEcb0w

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) January 23, 2024

Salem Township, the home of the Sununu family dynasty, broke for @realDonaldTrump in overwhelming numbers.

With an estimated 91% reporting, it's 67.6/31.8 for Trump.

— Rich Baris The People's Pundit (@Peoples_Pundit) January 24, 2024

What I really forward to tonight is not only a smashing victory for @realDonaldTrump but also a stinging personal repupdiation of NH Governor Chris Sununu perhaps the single most pompous jerk-offs and assholes in the history of American politics #Pig-eyes

— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) January 24, 2024

Is there anyone more annoying than Sununu? Besides Nikki Haley?

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) January 23, 2024

Sununu 1 month ago: "It's an absolute win. Nikki is going to win in a landslide."

Sununu today: "Nobody expects Nikki to win."

FLIP FLOP! What happened, Governor? pic.twitter.com/tQuYphYmsJ

— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) January 23, 2024

 

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I’ve decided to put into words a “cyber journal entry,” for lack of better phrasing. This comes less than 24 hours after holding a Trump sign outside a school in the suburbs. I will first mention my gratitude in having the freedom of speech that one has when not being a candidate or paid spokesperson for a candidate.

In more blunt terms, let’s call it freedom from old-school manners.

Trolling happens in the adult world, mostly online, but unsurprisingly, also in person, especially when it comes to Trump. I volunteered to do my part and put in some time holding his sign and joined some like-minded folks yesterday. A surly man approached me and asked why I support Trump. My rusty, knee-jerk reaction was to go into salesman mode as if I had just rang this stranger’s doorbell. When I randomly named a few of the common answers to his question, he went into full-blown high-on CNN Kool-Aid mode.

After a few volleys, I said, “I can see where this discussion is going, and I’m done talking to you.” When he claimed to be an undecided independent, which was possibly partially true or a total lie, I said, “It’s obvious that you’ve rehearsed all the scripted talking points to refute me, no matter what path we take.” Like a school bully, he said, “but so have you.” I replied, “but YOU were the one who approached me and initiated this talk.”

At this point, one of my peers, who happened to be a good subject matter expert in one of the commonly debated related topics, stepped in and took over. A few minutes later, he went into the building. A while after that, a couple approached our group, and they similarly initiated such talk. This time, I was a passive observer as they split up the discussion, kind of like doing man-to-man instead of zone defense. After a few minutes of that unpleasantness, I thought about my cold extremities and full bladder. I told the last unoccupied team member that I was leaving and didn’t want to interrupt either of the other two. This trend of brick-and-mortar trolling was definitely taking up too much space in my mind in the hours that followed. I thought of my mother and her “sticks and stones” lecture that is commonly given to small school children, so so was in the 70s. Then I thought about the whole modern “walk away” concept, which is difficult to implement in such a venue.

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At this point, it should be clarified that this article is not about the merits of voting for Trump or criticism of his critics. It’s about handling one particular variety of them. While there are many varieties of them, I’m not going to mince words. I’m talking about the plain old-ass hole variety. They clearly have no interest in polite discourse in bringing people together as evidenced in their modus operandi. They are just agitators wanting to troll. I thought about ways to shut them down, not silencing them but shutting down their dialogue with those uninterested in engagement with their drivel. The minefield to navigate is their switching of tactics to debating WHY you’re unwilling to have their conversation. They will, of course, insult you for that. Don’t dignify them by playing defense. I will refer you to a 4-minute Prager U parenting podcast.

When a kid asks their parents WHY they just barked a particular order, the parents are advised to say, “Because I said so.” That used to drive me nuts as a kid when my parents, mostly my mother, did that once I “poked the bear” too hard in my persistent pursuit to have my way. Don’t let the troll play armchair cross-examining lawyer with you. Say “I would prefer not to (have this conversation)” when approached with a “why do you support Trump” and smell ill intentions. Of course, this requires a bit of profiling and supposition, but such people are not going to just disappear. Implementing the philosophy of acceptance (that they’re here to stay) is necessary. It’s a good idea to have tools in your toolbox, and this is one of them.

I also recommend the 2001 movie Bartleby the Scrivener if you’re into that kind of humor.

So, all in all, I share these thoughts that might prove helpful to some but not necessarily to all. If you, dear reader, think this tactic might be useful, try it. But then again, maybe you “would prefer not to.”

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If you recall, I reported on an email exchange with an editor or researcher (or some such thing) from NewsGuard. They are a deep-state surveillance stooge for policing unapproved content. Put another way, the lower your rating, the less likely you are peddling the uniparty, globalist narrative

I am happy to report that, as expected, NewGuard gave GraniteGrok a 37.5 rating (100 being the best).

I won’t go into the details because all you need to know is that a well-funded tool of the speech police has branded us as unfavorable to their message control, and I look forward to fundraising off that, especially since the primary complaint appears to be that we, frequently publish false or egregiously misleading claims about US elections and COVID 19 vaccines.

That’s a very strange lede, given that what we’ve published about vaccines has turned out to be as true.

I can only assume that the other venues for information peddled as news – especially in New Hampshire – did better than we did, given that most of them have yet to report anything honest about the Vaccines even after the CDC, FDA, and other agencies have admitted to issues that are costing us points. But, I would like to thank NewsGuard for making my job easier. If they have rated local and regional media, we can look at those numbers and know where to dig deeper.

One of my projects this year is to expose them for failing to challenge the truth about the covid response, especially vaccines.

So, this is good for us, yes? It is. A self-proclaimed third party with suspect funding and ties to the government has decided we aren’t toeing establishment uni-party lies.

As for elections, the funny thing is that, as we just reported how, the state’s chief elections and law enforcement agencies have admitted, in writing, to evidence of gross negligence by election officials (in 2020 and 2022) whose failure to follow multiple election laws compromised integrity, and election results.

I’m not sure where else in the 75+ NewsGuard rating universe you are likely to find that, but if I had to guess, it’d be nowhere, which goes for the honest reporting about concerns over experimental injections that were given without full informed consent.

37.5

We’ll take it.

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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. Yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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Well, up until, perhaps, the mid to late 1800s in the US.  Still, point taken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reminds me of a Robin Williams line (IIRC him):  “I don’t mind if it’s my time to die.  What if it’s the pilot’s time to die”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The agency that regulates these products is also a part co-owner of these products and makes money through their sale?  Can we spell CONFLICT OF INTEREST?  Same for all the CDC / FDA people who get “royalties” from pharma – but then contribute to the approval process of those same products.

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

OOH, I know they want to keep Trump out.

OTOH, this is a very shrewd concept if they try this.  As a back-up plan if they can’t stop him.  And then we’re screeeewwwwwweeeeed.  The WH and both chambers?

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Come back on Friday for more memes.  Same meme time.  Same meme channel.

 

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As if the climate cult needed fuel for its wildfire narrative, Quebec lit up like a Christmas tree in June Last year. We showed satellite images of multiple fires starting almost simultaneously under a clear sky (so not lightning strikes). Not lighting. Not Climate change. Brian Paré.

Bri-Bri made the case online that the government set those fires, and given how Prime Minister ‘Troo-doh!’ is always looking for a climate axe to grind, why not? “[Paré] repeatedly posted conspiracy theories suggesting the fires had been set by the government in an attempt to coerce the public into believing in climate change.” But there are plenty of examples of climate cultists starting fires (or derailing trains) to create environmental catastrophes, not on the scale of minorities and hate hoaxes or consenting college girls crying rape the next day, but the scope of these less frequent events is typically greater.

“On May 31 at 8:30 pm, the town of Chapais issued a mandatory evacuation order due to the raging fires, in particular the fire at Lake Cavan as well as the airport fire, two fires that are included in the charges and were caused by the accused,” [Prosecutor Marie-Phillippe] Charron stated.

We reported on Canadian forest fires last summer. You couldn’t avoid it. The smoke had converted the airspace over US cities to match the gloomy dystopian reality on the ground (after decades of Democrat rule). A week into the alleged man-caused climate disaster, it was obvious men were involved more directly. “In the past months, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have arrested several arsonists who have been charged with lighting fires across several provinces, including Nova Scotia, Yukon, British Columbia, and Alberta. The motive behind lighting the fires is unclear. One Albertan, John Cook, has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of arson after setting a string of wildfires in and around Cold Lake, a hamlet near Edmonton.”

Paré (Brian) pleaded guilty “to 13 counts of arson and one count of arson with disregard for human life at a courthouse in Chibougamau, Quebec on Monday. Two further charges of breaking and entering, and causing a public nuisance have been conditionally suspended.” That’s fourteen fires on him, to which he has copped. There may be more to which he has not.

Those wild fires were man-made but not the way the Climate fearmongers would prefer. Fires set by arsonists are a product of the culture, not the climate. Some people just want to see the woods burn.

 

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You guys do not make this easy. Another great week of comment content and the addition of a few new names I don’t recall seeing or seeing in a while. Thanks for reading and engaging not just the content but each other.

We did have some intrigue last week. I received emails challenging whether certain First Amendment exercises were unconscionable and, therefore, not protected speech. After review, the alleged offenses were deemed protected. That will piss someone off, no doubt, but I can’t help how you feel, and I won’t delete content or ban someone unless there is a clear incitement to violence or explicit threats against a person or group.

Trolls don’t get that consideration, for the record, nor does the inappropriate or excessive reliance on the use of “adult language.” No porn, obviously, with rare exceptions related to the current debate of age-appropriate material in schools and libraries. When possible, we will edit out the offense and not the speaker, but repeat offenses could get you the boot in part for wasting our time.

I was also asked about why someone got banned for something while others with perhaps an opposing opinion were not. I didn’t ban them so that one is still under investigation – I’m waiting on them for more details.

This isn’t rocket science—attack issues, not people.

And, as a side note, I have a lot of emails left to sort and several submitted op-eds to review. If you sent a piece, it is likley waiting for me to get to it.

Comment of the Week

Many a great remark we shared last week, and I am seeing longer and more involved debates on some posts, which is exactly what we want. I apologize for not being nearly as engaged as many of our authors, but I find myself overly busy, and since we missed our fundraising target for 24, I am pulling in other work to make up the difference. If you’d like to help us reach the goal this year, you know what to do.

I pulled at least two dozen great comments to review for last week, but as you all know, there can be only one.

Dan McGuire.

Ian (deliberately, I think) misses the point. This constitutional amendment is a direct attack on the incorrect Claremont supreme court decision from the 90’s. That decision said that “cherish” meant “pay for”. He is right that it never did, but that’s not what they said. This is the subtle way to kick them in the pants to changing that ruling, without having to reprint the constitution. Of course, it will never pass because so many D’s love dem an adequate education, but at least we can get the issue percolating again. The real bit I think you should consider is what was the 1784 meaning of “public schools”. Might it be the current British meaning of the phrase, i.e. what we now call private schools? [I will, of course, be using Ian’s point about “and” as part of the argument to reinterpret “cherish”. As inigo Montoya said, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” ]

There were plenty of other comments as good, but Dan’s unique take on this issue intrigued me. “The real bit I think you should consider is what was the 1784 meaning of “public schools.”

I’d not seen it or heard it (and maybe I missed it elsewhere), so thanks to Ian for inspiring Dan to write it – Ian, as always, has a lot of keen insights on this and other issues. And isn’t that what this is all about? Conversations that allow debate move the needle in our minds to a perspective we’d not yet considered.

I think it is. That’s what I want to build here and we’ve always had a great foundation to rise from.

Congrats to Dan, and since we’re halfway through this week, I need to start looking for the next winner.

 

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In a remarkable segment of the FOX News coverage of the New Hampshire Primary, Charles Payne went off on Democrat pundit Jessica Tarloff on the divisiveness of Joe Biden and the Democrat message. Payne is a brilliant business and political analyst and is a Black man.

On Tuesday night, in an emotional moment, Payne set Tarloff straight on the difference between Trump taking on individuals like DeSantis and Haley and the President of the United States denigrating half of the country by calling them MAGAs in a derogatory manner. MAGA is an acronym coined by Donald Trump to denote his Make America Great Again movement. Biden has taken the term MAGA and twisted it to describe the demonic, Nazi-like, radical, white supremacist followers of Donald Trump who are anti-American and a danger to Democracy.

As a man who grew up knowing the racism Charles Payne experienced as a black child in New York, he dispelled the notion that Trump is a racist and minimized his personality that takes on opponents with terse terms versus Biden labeling half the country as disgusting human beings. His claim is the vitriol that Biden spews is far more damaging to the country. I could not agree more and have written about it often.

But aside from this uncharacteristic emotional outburst, Charles is a numbers guy, and the results of the 2024 NH Primary are a numerologist’s playground. New Hampshire has a unique voter demographic where the largest block of registered voters identify as Independent. There are roughly 303,000 Democrats, 299,000 Republicans, and 400,000 Unafiliated or Independents registered to vote in the Granite State. NH allows Independents to vote in the Primary on the Party ballot of choice and then change their affiliation back to Independent after voting. It makes predicting elections very difficult in New Hampshire as you need to identify the trend of 400,000 voters that can go either way. The Independents played a significant role in Tuesday’s results.

I covered in a previous article why Joe Biden did not appear on the Democrat ballot, and he won the Democrat race on the wings of a successful write-in campaign, though the Democrat vote count was suppressed. There were over 300,000 Republican votes cast and only 96,000 Democrat votes. There was evidence of many Independents casting their vote for Nikki Haley, but their vote was more Anti-Trump than Pro-Haley. This Independent movement accounted for the closer-than-expected margin of victory for Trump. Many polls had Trump up by 20-30 percent over Haley, and the actual margin was closer to 12%.

This anomaly makes it difficult to analyze the results of New Hampshire to predict future primary election results in upcoming states like South Carolina and Nevada. The Southern NH counties, which tend to be more Liberal, were within the 10-15% range for Trump, and Haley actually won the Western Strafford county. The Northern Coos county, which tends to be more traditionally Conservative, gave Trump a 30% margin.

The write-in victory for Biden and the Independent votes for Trump shows the power of the Democrat machine. The Republicans will not only have to beat Biden at the ballot box in November but simultaneously fight off the Leftist ground game. It will be a battle for Trump and the Republicans to win, but the stakes require our best effort.

 

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The New Hampshire primary has come and gone – well, not quite gone. I’m sure we’ll have a few messes in Aisle 5, but the counting is about as over as it’s going to be, and we have results we’re meant to accept as legitimate.

Donald Trump won with over 50% of the vote. That was what everyone was predicting. Haley, however, managed 43%, which was higher than expected (results are not final).

 

DONALD TRUMP Republican RACE NOT CALLED	163,700	54.55%
NIKKI HALEY Republican	129,646	43.20%
RON DESANTIS Republican	2,046	0.68%
CHRIS CHRISTIE Republican	1,270	0.42%
TOTAL WRITE-INS Republican	1,061	0.35%
VIVEK RAMASWAMY Republican	687	0.23%
MIKE PENCE Republican	353	0.12%
RYAN BINKLEY Republican	265	0.09%
MARY MAXWELL Republican	243	0.08%

 

On the other side, nearly half of NH Democrats did not support the write-in Biden campaign. And yes, the 14% of unprocessed write-ins could be ‘Cease Fire.‘

 

JOE BIDEN (WRITE-IN) Democrat RACE NOT CALLED	54,570	51.50%
DEAN PHILLIPS Democrat	20,976	19.80%
UNPROCESSED WRITE-IN Democrat	14,967	14.13%
OTHER WRITE-INS Democrat	6,583	6.21%
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Democrat	5,016	4.73%
DEREK NADEAU Democrat	1,180	1.11%
VERMIN SUPREME Democrat	639	0.60%
JOHN VAIL Democrat	506	0.48%
DONALD PICARD Democrat	272	0.26%
PAPERBOY PRINCE Democrat	220	0.21%
MARK GREENSTEIN Democrat	202	0.19%

We will be providing more analysis of this as the week progresses, including balancing these results against the guests we spoke to on Radio Row. For now, the quick take is this. Trump’s train is still rolling. Haley looked better here, getting more of the anyone but Trump vote but she’s not likely to find similar success as we move down the primary calendar.

As for Biden, he skipped New Hampshire, created problems for his supporters here, and nearly 50% of them took Dean Phillip’s advice (I think it was Dean). Biden wrote you off, so why would you write him in? Incumbents typically get 80%. Biden barely broke 505.

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A number of bills proposed by legislators in New Hampshire this session may be worrisome for supporters of free speech. Three bills relate to posting things online that any person may find objectionable. 

Eleven Democrats from the New Hampshire House and Senate sponsored House Bill 1500. 

The bill would add very broad new crimes to the state’s ‘Forgery and Fraudulent Practices’ statutes. According to the bill’s own text:

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The crew gets into a heated argument right from the get go; Trump’s victory in Iowa; Is Iowa ever predictive? Was the low turnout a sign of low enthusiasm? Does the press want Trump as the Republican nominee? How will the National Guard v. Feds faceoff end in Texas? Government of NJ fighting against NYC congestion pricing; California governor saying he will ignore SCOTUS on Bruen/guns; DEI affecting airline safety?

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Harrowing predictions of national political division for 2024 have heightened as polls show Joe Biden’s approval ratings plummet. Haters of Donald Trump are froth-mouthed over his clear and growing lead, notwithstanding a pull-out-all-ethical-stops legal and propaganda campaign by Democrats to discredit him and even knock him out of the race.

Neither of the traditional parties will accept their Democrat or Republican adversary as POTUS.

Into that breach strides the increasingly influential third-horse option: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

His natural base begins with disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters. It is very possible that Bernie Sanders would have defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 election had he not been cheated by the Democrat leadership of the nomination for president in lieu of Hillary Clinton.

Many erstwhile Sanders supporters then shifted to Donald Trump, swinging the election away from the presumed Clinton dynastic succession.

RFK, Jr. has been even more bluntly snubbed than Bernie Sanders by the Democrat establishment.

Unlike the Bern, though, RFK, Jr. has not laid down and played possum – he has mounted a viable, steadily expanding third-candidate challenge.

When he announced his presidential candidacy, RFK, Jr. emphatically declared that he identified as a Democrat.  Despite the vaunted Kennedy name and decades of RFK, Jr.’s aggressive environmental litigation against chemical pollution, the mainstream media and DNC shunned him because of his willingness to question COVID vaccines and the wisdom of lockdowns during the pandemic.

Rather than fall on his sword for Joe Biden’s ascension a la Bernie redux, RFK, Jr. then tirelessly toured the alternative media world, reaching millions of American ears through Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, Bari Weiss, Jordan Peterson, and others.

Kennedy’s approval ratings have grown.  This has revealed the toxic bias of many media outlets to Americans intrigued by Kennedy’s willingness to speak truth to power.  Kennedy directly fingers Big Pharma and government health agencies for their COVID-19 pandemic actions, alleging mRNA vaccines were unsafe for children and insufficiently tested, that alternative therapies were unreasonably discouraged and that the disease was exploited to expand government powers.  His recent book is titled “The Wuhan Cover-Up and the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race.”

RFK. Jr. has vigorously challenged the national media, and that is giving some Americans hope.  His Kennedy name is a political phoenix from the nation’s 1960s ashes which appeals to some. Yet plenty of Kennedy family members in the Democrat establishment disavow him, which kills the ‘dynasty’ vulnerability.  He is growing in popularity with younger voters disenchanted with established two-party perfidy.  And he is attractive to people who hate Trump but can’t stomach Biden, and vice versa.

When Ross Perot famously challenged the two-party establishment as an independent candidate in the 1992 presidential election, he ominously warned the nation of the “giant sucking sound” of lost American jobs if the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted.  Perot was right about job losses, but the nation was distrustful of third-party dark horses, and the candidates (George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton) did not deliver the vitriol of the 2024 Trump-Biden battle.

Now, the political climate may be warming for an odd underdog.

Though many observers predicted that RFK, Jr.’s run as an independent would throttle Joe Biden’s election run, and it has, Kennedy’s popularity has also drawn from votes that would otherwise be cast for Trump.  The Los Angeles Times, in a story dated January 8, projects that 16% of voters from the Democrat side would move from Biden to RFK, Jr, while 11% of Republicans would move to Kennedy from Trump. Kennedy’s frank depiction of globalist corporations seeking to dominate the world through control of currency, food, and health is a message that resonates even with some conservatives.

Democrats who refused to contemplate Bernie Sanders in 2016 likely threw Hillary to the historical dustbin and propelled Donald Trump into the White House.  With monkey-wrench RFK, Jr. robustly running as a third-party candidate, will Democrats repeat the 2016 election blunder and back Biden over Kennedy, undermining the Camelot candidate and resurrecting The Donald?  That risk has escalated dramatically since Kennedy announced his independent challenge.

The stakes for an American election have arguably never been higher than in 2024.  RFK, Jr. is roiling the political landscape as he speaks truth to power.  Not since Ross Perot has an independent candidate garnered as much electoral support.  A January 10 Quinnipiac poll puts Kennedy at 11% of the vote in a five-way 2024 match-up: already enough to swing the election result.

RFK, Jr. is the only candidate whose positive favorability ratings have outweighed his negatives.  Bobby, Jr. is an unheard-of animal: a Democrat favorably viewed by most Republicans. This makes him a force to reckon with – not ignore – in 2024.

The Democrat party is prepared to lose the election with Biden rather than win with Kennedy. However, Republicans, too, must now be wary of the implications of a three-way race for Donald Trump.

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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It looks like business as usual at the polls in New Hampshire, by which I mean we’ve got strange things happening. This story comes to us form the People’s Republic of Hopkinton.

 

I went to bring up my ballot and asked to put it in hand count, but despite a sign that said hand count, the slot was shut and unavailable. The clerk said, oh, just put it in here. We’re going to be counting them later. I said this is bizarre. I have never voted this way; this slot is supposed to be open and available. She says don’t worry.

My son came up a few minutes later, and she tried the same thing; however, this time, there was another person next to her, and she told my son to hold on. She got out a key to open the door access, and he put it in.

I said this isn’t legal; that slot can’t be blocked, and you made me put mine in the machine; the town clerk said oh, I didn’t know.

You could tell she was lying and getting nervous. The town clerk has a purple shirt on in the picture above; if you zoom in, the plastic tub alongside the machine is for people to put their ‘ballot pens’ in.

It’s so close to the machine that you would almost miss seeing the sign that says paper ballot. Also, why do they have ballot pens? 

One more story from the Primary day election, from Merrimack. Two residents registered as Democrats were at the table to check in to vote. They wanted to take Republican ballots even though they were registered as Democrats. The clerk would not allow it and directed them to the Same-day registration table to “register” their complaint.  I am told they were very unhappy – they clearly intended to meddle in the Republican primary but did not know they needed to change their party registration back in October to do that.

We don’t know what happened there, but Haley advocates will take votes from anyone so feel free to decide who to blame for that.

And send us your election day stories. We’ll try to get them published. We don’t need to use your name, but we do need to confirm who you are.

 

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