Despite what the union leader says (and later had to correct), Lily Tang Willaims was the first Republican in the race for New Hampshire Congressional District Two. She’s been campaigning for a long time in the run-up to the 2024 contest without much support from the GOP or attention from the local media.

It is not a secret that the establishment does not think she can win, even after incumbent Democrat Ann Kuster announced her retirement. Lily’s presence, much like the original Landrigan article announcing Vikram Mansharamani’s entry, has been invisibilia. CD2? What CD2? There’s nothing there to see; move along.

Why are you not reporting accurate information @KlandriganUL ? You obviously know that @Lily4Liberty has been running for this seat since last year? You want to provide accurate coverage, right? Probably a simple oversight, right? @UnionLeader @AdamSextonWMUR pic.twitter.com/qy9nEBT42L

— Nikki For NH (@NikkiforNH) April 11, 2024

The RNC had ceded the seat to the Democrat, but Ann Kuster’s retirement announcement kicked the RINO bee’s nest, coughing up a list of names rumored to have taken an interest. Suddenly, NH CD2 was something they thought they could win. Vikram is but one of a handful of primary contenders looking to be the non-Lily candidate to appeal to what appears to be a very moderate district that no real Republican could win.

Lily has rightly been a bit miffed about the sudden attention to a race she’s been running for over a year, but that hasn’t stopped her from campaigning or taking advantage of opportunities that present themselves to be the real Republicans.

Dartmouth College, a premier #woke Ivy League wasteland, held a gun control debate featuring David Hogg and Libertarian vice presidential candidate Jeremy “Spike” Cohen.

At some point, Lily Williams stepped up to the microphone to ask D. Hogg a question. The question.

“Hi, my name is Lily Tang Williams. Welcome to my ‘live free or die’ state,” she began.

“Actually, I am a Chinese immigrant who survived communism, and under Mao, you know, 40 million people were starving to death after he sold communism to them. And 20 million people died … murdered during his Cultural Revolution,” she continued.

She then specifically addressed Hogg: “So, my question to you, David, is that can you guarantee me, a gun owner, tonight, our government in the U.S., in D.C., will never, never become a tyrannical government? Can you guarantee that to me?”

“There’s no way I can ever guarantee that any government will not be tyrannical,” Hogg replied.

“Well, then the debate on gun control is over, because I will never give up my guns. Never, never. And you should go to China to see how gun control works for the dictatorship of the CCP.”

The exchange quickly went national, appearing on The Blaze, ZeroHedge, and elsewhere as the center-right rushed to share what to 2A advocates and defenders is the crux of the matter. It is the matter—the question.

The Second Amendment exists to protect us from a tyranny that David Hogg admits the gun grabbers cannot promise will not come to be if they get their way.

As Lily implies, tyranny is likely inevitable absent those rights so why risk it? In fact, why not try it out first and see how much you like it?

We do not expect Hogg to take her up on the suggestion.

David Hogg torched by a Chinese immigrant warning against gun control.

This is what happens when liberals do an open mic. They get wrecked. They can’t defend their positions. pic.twitter.com/aeUGq0ff0c

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 11, 2024

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Diversity is our strength! Diversity is our strength! Diversity is our strength! BULLSH*T. Not according to me, but according to the people who supposedly represent diversity. More specifically, Annie Kuster has endorsed WHITE MALE Colin Van Ostern to replace her in Congress.

If “diversity is our strength,” as Annie and all the Woke-Commie bots keep telling us … then why is Annie making Congress and America weaker by making Congress less diverse?

And note how our wonderful “press,” … who are always more than happy to amplify the Democrats’ attacks on the GOP for not being “diverse” enough … don’t hold the Democrats to the same standard. Because, needless to say, the “press” in New Hampshire is an arm of the Democrat Party. Please, Kevin, explain it to us slowly and using small words … why is “diversity” our strength only when and where the Democrats tell us “diversity is our strength.”

What a wonderful opportunity for the NHGOP to meddle in the Democrat primary. But don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen … “we’re better than that,” “focus the fiscal issues,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

 

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You’d have to have been trapped under a very large rock to have missed the months of debate over a handful of states trying to keep Donald Trump off their primary ballot. He led an insurrection, they said, so that Constitution-thing they typically loath demanded they act … like ignorant partisan children.

Left-wing agitators petitioned states across America’s inflated plain to block The Donald. Their hope was that by limiting the states in which he could compete in what is effectively a private corporation’s nomination process, he might never achieve the delegates necessary to challenge their Democrat contender. The argument centered on the 14th Amendment and the supposition that Donald Trump led an insurrection and was, therefore, ineligible.

Whether you believe that or not is irrelevant. “States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.” Neither Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Michigan, nor any other state has executive authority on these grounds. So sayeht many a non-partisan confirmed by a 9-0 ruling of the US Supreme Court.

Yes, all the so-called Liberal justices agreed—a truly bipartisan ruling, which pissed off the progressives to no end and set up the current outrage. States are charged with overseeing the execution of elections. They are to set up polling times and places, ensure access, the collection and counting of ballots, and they get to decide the dance steps to get on that ballot not otherwise established in the US Constitition.

It is a difference with a distinction.

The two cases … are completely different. The democrats tried to block Trump by accusing him of being an insurrectionist under a Civil War-era Constitutional provision that only applies to state officials. Ohio and Alabama’s issues relate to simple qualifying deadlines that apply to all candidates.

Trump’s call for peaceful protest and the lack of any weapons at what in progressive parlance is called the Capitol riot aside, the Constitution (apparently) does not give States the power to enforce Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment, but it does empower them to manage the logistics of ensuring that elections – no matter who is on the ballot – happen. Both Ohio and Alabama have long-standing deadlines, which the DNC ignored when scheduling its nominating convention, and this is not their fault?

Like most of what goes wrong in America, this is a Demcorat-created problem.

And so far, the DNC has not sued either state, presumably because they would surely lose on the merits, not least because they control when their convention is held.

Hate Trump all you like, but neither Ohio nor Alabama established their rules based on his choosing to run for elected office. Everyone else who intends to appear on the ballot, regardless of party, needs to meet the same deadline.

[Alabama Secretary of State Wes] Allen sent a letter to Alabama Democratic Party Chairman Randy Kelley saying that the state’s Aug. 15 certification deadline is four days before the Democratic National Convention is set to begin. Allen indicated that Biden’s name will not appear on the ballot unless the deadline is met.

“If this Office has not received a valid certificate of nomination from the Democratic Party following its convention by the statutory deadline, I will be unable to certify the names of the Democratic Party’s candidates for President and Vice President for ballot preparation for the 2024 general election,” Allen wrote.

And it is not the crisis advertised, but there is a problem within the problem.

The State Party can request “provisional certification for Democratic and Republican nominees,” and the state can allow it. The issue for Democrats—who insist that despite this matter, Joe Biden will be on all 50 state ballots—is what if it’s not Joe come November. Disregarding his declining mental state, the man is increasingly unpopular even among Democrats. Rumors abound across the political spectrum about the plan to replace him before November. Biden sweeps the nomination, then voluntarily bows out for health reasons, and the DNC picks his replacement—someone younger and less disliked who can presumably distance themselves from the past four years’ worth of policies they all supported.

If state parties have already sent provisional certifications with Joe Biden’s name on them, any replacement on the Biden-Harris ticket won’t appear on those ballots.

The New Republic to the Rescue

The New Republic article notes the 82-day requirement, the scheduling snafu, and exceptions and past accommodations that might resolve the 2024 problem, but it can’t help but be what it is: a progressive press mouthpiece.

While both Allen and LaRose could well be trying to simply uphold state laws, the moves seem remarkably suspicious given recent lawsuits regarding Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The Colorado state supreme court attempted to kick Trump off of the 2024 ballot due to his role in the January 6 insurrection, which the justices determined violated Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

While The New Republic notes the Supreme Court striking down Colorado’s unconstitutional effort to keep Trump off its primary ballot, it never notes the complicity of liberal justices in the 9-0 decision, including a Biden appointee. To them, it is the Roberts Court, which “will have to swiftly reinstate [Biden and Harris], since states don’t have the authority to remove federal officeholders, right? But that would require consistency from John Roberts’s Supreme Court, whose values are in question.”

Hardly. Were the matter not to reach a means for reconciliation (which we doubt) and head to the Highest Court, its ruling would likely acknowledge that States do indeed have that authority (as the Constitution is silent on the matter – not that this has stopped the court as often as it should) and that it is the DNC’s responsibility to work out their differences with the states.

Which it will, unless the Dems are truly throwing the dice on another Biden-Harris ticket and Joe’s ability to keep what is left of his wits about him until at least November. That’s how it sounds, and I’m curious to see if that’s true.

 

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Democrats reportedly are celebrating after passing their $20. hr min wage for many businesses. Yup, a victory for labor rights, they say, only there is a cost. As predicted, fast food chains are scrambling to adjust. Layoffs of full-time employment, cutting hours, some even closing up. Topping this off, prices are rising as we knew they would.

Welcome to California.

Burger King in Los Angeles reports a price increase. The Texas double whopper, which was $15.09, is now $16.98. The big fish meal, which was $7.49, is now $11.49. How will customers respond? I don’t think they will be thrilled.

Fosters Freeze was paying its crew $16.00 hr now – – nothing. The doors are closed. Pizza Hut laid off over 1200 delivery drivers, and many small businesses expect to see reduced profits. Wonder how much tax money the state will lose and how they intend to make up the differance? Of course, the democratic way is to raise taxes. With the increase in unemployment, those benefits will be more in demand, along with gratuities’ being given to illegals. Sunny Cal looks forward to a darter future.

Can things get worse, well yes of course, while politicians celebrate, whispers of $50.hr. have been heard in quiet corners of leftist strongholds.. If twenty has crippled the beast, then fifty is sure to kill it. While democrats ponder the side effects of their victory, there is then the question of population loss again affecting the state economy. Will citizens, even devout democrats of the working class, tolerate this absurd mismanagement for much longer?

Stay tuned for the next episode of We Told Them So, coming soon.

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