The level of DENIAL on the Right in America is breathtaking and pathetic. It is undeniable that the 2020 election was RIGGED. Yet the bitter-clingers on the Right believe that somehow 2024 will be different … even as they watch the FakeNews (I’m writing this on March 20th) run with yet another BIG LIE, the “bloodbath” hoax.

I tell people that in 2016 the world changed because it became manifest that we have a permanent government that does not care about elections AND many (not all, but many) of our supposed “representatives” represent the permanent government and NOT the voters that elected them. The permanent government, aided and abetted by the UniParty, engaged in a soft-coup against Trump from the moment he won the 2016 election … the same people who are now telling us that Trump, NOT them but Trump, is a threat to democracy.

While the non-democratic nature of America’s democracy may have become apparent in 2016, democracy’s demise really began no later than 1963 when the permanent government assassinated JFK:

Ron Paul Marks the Day We ‘Lost Our Government’

“The date I say it was concrete that there was a coup, and we lost our government was November 22, the assassination of [John F.] Kennedy.”@RonPaul finds it astonishing and despicable that the director of the CIA at the time,… pic.twitter.com/h4hRLyOPQt

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) March 20, 2024

But just keep pretending that democracy is alive and well in America. Ignore sound advice like the following from Jesse Kelly. Keep playing by the rules they demand you play by. Just lose gracefully.

Ignore them. Create a 10 state coalition to stand with you. Arrest and deport every illegal your state. Arrest and try anyone from federal government who tries to stop you.

It’s time. https://t.co/5avk4D71ij

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) March 18, 2024

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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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One of the big complains I had, and heard too, back when I was single was that women played games.  They also sent out “signals” that they thought were clear – saw a video about that, and one woman said her coy looking away and back couldn’t be clearer.  What most women do not realize is that men do not have that level of insight into human body language.

 

 

 

 

Yes, it does.  The problem is they’re not going to give up their ambitions.  Ever.

 

 

 

 

 

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When the currency of academia is papers, you publish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However much you hate the enemedia, you don’t hate them enough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

From here:

A Lebanese Hezbollah TERRORIST, Basel Bassel Ebbadi, was captured at Texas border!

During his interrogation he said “I’m going to try to make a bomb & set it off in New York.” He said he trained with Hezbollah for 7 years.

Border control is not political – it’s about securing America’s future!

 

 

Not IF, but WHEN, terror cells get activated.  Avoid crowds.  Head on a swivel.  And start profiling.  It’s a matter of survival now.

 

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One of the women who cared for my now-late mother was Haitian.  Wonderful woman with a heart of gold.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judging by the behavior of police in Covid, and now, I am starting to view all police negatively.  Understand that I don’t want to do this.  But increasingly, they’re choosing their paychecks above the people they swore to serve.

 

 

 

 

IGg4 antibodies anyone?

 

 

 

 

 

Answering the 7.3 billion person question.

The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

LOTS of links this time.  New developments are brewing up very quickly.  Apologies, but information that’s not controlled by The State is life now.  Pick and choose, but share what piques you widely.

 

Watch: CBS Reporter Horrified When Black Former Democrats Say They Will Vote Trump | ZeroHedge

Assuming they stick to it, and others do make that switch as well, this is huge.  The Dems “only” need to lose 25% of blacks to lose big.

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mRNA Experiments Have to Be Done Directly Inside the Cells of Animals. Guess Who the Animals Are? (substack.com)

Note the last sentence in particular.

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Canada rolling out social credit system, citizens’ bank accounts linked to obedience scores – NaturalNews.com

Chinada.  And double-jeopardy there now too:

Canadian facing trial again for “hate speech” after acquittal (massresistance.org)

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Liz Warren And Socialist Pals Want To Normalize Confiscation Of Assets With ‘Ultrarich’ Tax | ZeroHedge

Ultimately they want to confiscate everyone’s assets.

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The need for a remote cache. – Gun Free Zone

Not just for guns.  If, at this late hour, I could figure out how to cache six months of dehydrated food, medicines, other supplies… AND guns & ammo… I’d do it.

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In the latest Meme Overflow I had two articles on v0te frawd by this woman.  Here’s another one:

What happened in Nevada? Arizona? Upstate NY? This: (substack.com)

Related:

The Dominion voting machine are NOT secure, and software on the machine can be used to make the “election” results anything they want:

https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1768891890726838435

I hope we’re all prepared for what’s coming at us. Assuming we even HAVE an election, if Slo-Joe “wins”, we all KNOW it was rigged, and then we need to decide what to do with an illegitimate government.  But if President Trump manages (by some miracle) to win with enough margin to overcome the cheat, there will be riots, lawsuits, and all kinds of BS happening between the election and the swearing in ceremony on January 20th.  I expect the Dems in Congress will refuse to certify the vote (especially since the sitting VP presides over this), and who will call them out?  Or, the TLA may decide to use the “JFK” solution.  Some on the left are ALREADY calling for that!  Which only proves how much they fear Trump getting back into the White House.

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Most of us know that there is not much we can do to change what happens in Washington, DC.  However, we should all get involved in local politics, as we MAY be able to change things locally.  Here’s a good article about this from BRM:

Bayou Renaissance Man: Local, local, local

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Research is showing that mRNA from the Covid-19 “gene therapy” shots actually ARE getting into the DNA of cancer cells.  Gee, who could have predicted that MESSENGER RNA (that’s what the “m” stands for) would help slip DNA sequences into other DNA?  This may be the cause of the “turbo-cancers” we’ve been hearing about.  The real kicker is this:  Will it get into OUR DNA, and if so, what mutations will it cause?  And will the “jabbed” pass the mutations on to their children?:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/covid-vaccine-gene-could-integrate-into-human-cancer-cells-researcher-5604184

At the risk of a two-year-old “I told you so”… boy, do I hate being right all the time:

Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok

More on vaccines and the Jab specifically:

COVID jabs unleashed 12 sigma mass death event * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

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In the latest judicial insanity, a Federal judge has ruled that illegal immigrants are allowed to carry a firearm.  Yes, you read that correctly.  So in many places we have “gun control” that thwarts American citizens and makes it very hard for them to get and/or carry a gun, but now it’s OK for illegals to carry.  This is definitely clown world stuff:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/illegal-immigrant-can-carry-guns-federal-judge-5609497

In order to buy a firearm (legally), I first have to go to a firearms dealer who has a Federal Firearms License (FFL) and choose a gun from them.  Then fill out a Form 4473 stating that I’m not a criminal (and it’s a federal crime to lie on that form [unless you are Hunter Biden]), get a background check to verify that I’m not a criminal (or otherwise not legally allowed to own firearms), then the government “gives permission” for the FFL to sell me the gun.  But this illegal immigrant, who did NOT fill out any forms, or get a background check, and bought the gun illegally from “somewhere”, is being told “That’s OK”.  Why should we even have to bother filling out a Form 4473 ever again?  Once again, the illegals are being giving WAY more leeway than the citizens of the country.

Added: My last purchase, there was a new 4473 form with spaces for the details of the firearm being purchased.  Now remember: when a gun shop closes, all those forms get sent to DC.  So when the shop closes, now they not only know you purchased, but what you purchased.

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A comment about the clown world we live in (from Dave Ramsey, via X):

https://twitter.com/njoyzgrl81/status/1769697164786110532

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Former President Obama was just sighted going into 10 Downing Street to meet with the Prime Minister of the UK.  Pretty sure it’s not just a social call.  But since he (officially) has no power, I wonder why this meeting, and what they plan to talk about?:

The Calvin Coolidge Project on X: “New: Former President Obama has arrived at 10 Downing Street for a private meeting. https://t.co/mAd0vI7wmL” / X (twitter.com)

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Victor Davis Hanson on the reasons people who are cynical about our legal system got that way:

Guilty!—But Not Really Guilty? – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

More by VDH:

Doug Ross @ Journal: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: From Russian Collusion to “Bloodbath”—A Decade of Toxic Hysteria (directorblue.blogspot.com)

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After 3 years of FOIA requests, the CDC finally released the 148 page report on heart issues with the COVID-19 vaccine.  It’s pretty easy to read, though, because the ENTIRE document has been redacted!  Every. Single. Page.   What are they hiding?

https://100percentfedup.com/cdc-releases-myocarditis-report-following-covid-19-jab-with-missing-information

And a good question:

In a recent substack titled “Cui Bono? What if?” so in essence, who benefits? The key issue I remind you is this (go back and read it), they tried to sell to you that COVID virus emerged all over the

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Syrian Writer Wafa Sultan delivers a scathing rebuke of Muslims & their “peaceful” ways on Al Jazeera:

https://twitter.com/sbwTweet/status/1769207314580476026

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It’s been four years since the government said “15 days to bend the curve” (remember that?).  And the results were years of lockdowns, masking, threats of (and actual) job loss, de-platforming of anyone who didn’t spout the narrative, 2-3 year educational loss for millions of children, etc.  And even after we found out just how much they were lying to us, and how bad these policies were, NO ONE YET has been punished for this.  NOT. ONE. PERSON!  So tell me again why they won’t do it again?

Four years on, COVID damage remains while Fauci & Co. pay no price (nypost.com)

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SCOTLAND: The most draconian anti-free speech laws have been enacted under a Muslim First Minister who loathes white people (barenakedislam.com)

The Globalists really, really, really want to shut you up.

In the latest victory against right-wing extremism, police officers pull a 16 year-old girl out of chemistry class and advise her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok (eugyppius.com)

Moonbat Justice Jackson Upset 1st Amendment Could “Hamstring Government” – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

And their footsoldiers really want to destroy America (and more broadly, Western Civilization).  And all White people.

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The Failed Promises We Made To The Youth | Armstrong Economics

We’re supposed to make civilization be an upward curve.

Bidenomics: People Draining Their Retirement Accounts To Survive – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Larry Summers: Inflation Much Worse Than Government Says – HotAir

Home Foreclosures Soar Nationwide – Geller Report

The economy – our nation – has been betrayed.

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Mayo Clinic Out With Some Interesting Parameters for Nursing Applicants – HotAir

Don’t get sick or hurt.

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Truth or no consequences – American Thinker

When did we become a nation of cowards who are unwilling to take responsibility for our actions? I’m afraid that I cannot pinpoint a moment in time because we’ve been at it for so long. All I know is that we are living in a society that appears to be bereft of any modicum of blame and doesn’t seem to value accountability, or if it does, it sees it as something that is negotiable and fungible.

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New Biden regulation will make gas cars effectively illegal by 2030 – American Thinker

The Founding Fathers would cringe at the level of power the executive branch has these days.  Judicial too.  Related:

Biden’s Treasury Dept. Endorses Debanking Conservatives Over Transgenderism – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Joe Biden’s Treasury Department has apparently endorsed the policy of financially destroying anyone who would dare disagree with the extreme transgender agenda.

According to Just the News, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has decided to treat funding of terror networks exactly the same way they treat those who would oppose transgendering small children.

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Homeowner Arrested For Trying To Move Into Her Own Property – Louder With Crowder

A woman in New York got arrested because she tried to change the locks on her own home after a group of people broke into the house and moved in.

Biden’s America: Venezuelan Tik-Tok Influencer Coaches Illegal Aliens on How to Invade American Homes and Invoke Squatter’s Rights | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

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Douglas Andrews: NYT Laments Losing the Disinformation War | The Patriot Post

However much you hate the enemedia, it’s not enough.

‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Blasts CNN Over Their Glee About Sizing Trump’s Assets – The Lid (lidblog.com)

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Every Alone Show Winner Had This in Their Backpack – Ask a Prepper

Good lessons here IMHO about survival, especially if SHTF.  From the same site:

If You Grow This in Your Garden, You Will Never Starve – Ask a Prepper

Read This Now, Thank Me Later – Ask a Prepper

Hidden Weapons in Your Supermarket – Ask a Prepper

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We Need Chinese Products to Fight a War With China | Frontpage Mag

Insanity.

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Hunter Biden is trying to have a judge declare that his laptop is “off limits” so that no evidence found on the laptop can be used against him (or anyone else in the Biden family).  Also, he wants anyone who published it online to take the information down.  Of course, this would throw a major monkey wrench in several court cases and impeachment proceedings.  But luckily for the Biden family, the case got “steered” to a judge who donated to (and voted for) Slo-Joe, and was appointed to the bench BY “president” Biden just a few months ago.  What a coincidence!

UPDATE: Operational Lawfare Targeting Marco Polo, Garrett Ziegler and the Biden Laptop Dossier Directly Impacts Biden Impeachment Inquiry – POLITICAL MOONSHINE

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A good video (about 11 minutes) that lays out how the National Police Association is pushing back against the Illinois Supreme Court (which recently upheld the massive ban on pretty much any semi-automatic firearm):

https://youtu.be/DuiOoPfY9aM

Michigan lawyer Stefanie Lambert went to a DC court to show absolute evidence of the Dominion voting machines being rigged.  She was asked to stay after the court adjourned, and then SHE was the one they arrested:

Michigan Lawyer Stefanie Lambert Arrested by US Marshals in DC Following Court Appearance — After Submitting “Evidence of Numerous Crimes” | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

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General Flynn, Ron Paul, and several other “pretty savvy folks” are predicting a major “Black Swan” event before the elections.  Have cash, food, meds, shelter, and ways to defend all of that on hand:

Former National Security Advisor General Mike Flynn Predicts a ‘Black Swan’ Event Before 2024 Election (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

Related:

WORLD WAR III and BLACK SWAN EVENTS: “Avoidable” by Description, “Unavoidable” by Design – POLITICAL MOONSHINE

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This is an article about a “gaming app” made by a retired Air Force Colonel who has a strong intelligence background.  It games out what will happen in the United States on our way to the 2024 election.  Something to note:  Over 80% of those who finish the “game” feel that a civil war or major breakup of the US is coming, and it may start even BEFORE the election.  Keep your head on a swivel, folks:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/2925022/civil-collapse-feared-in-election/

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Some more “upsetting, but not surprising” news about the Covid shots.  Looks like they can create prions, which cause encephalitis (and Mad-Cow disease).  What’s REALLY worrisome is that these prions are through-the-air transmissible.  Of course, if the whole point is to kill off billions of people, this is a feature, not a bug…

Could The Clot Shots Unleash Prion Disease? (emerald.tv)

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I’m very privacy minded, so I’m looking at the UP Phone from Unplugged.com, as it’s a secure smart phone.  Full disclosure:  I have no financial interest in this, I just thought it was cool

https://www.unplugged.com/

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The new narrative is that because of his “bloodbath” comment a couple days ago, and the fact that he “owes” $455 million in fines, Trump is now a national security risk: https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1770828151049884075 — The First Amendment is hanging by a thread as SCOTUS seems to be leaning toward supporting government censorship of any information that they deem “not acceptable”.  If this government is given the OK by SCOTUS to censor social media, the First is done, and with it, the United States of America: https://www.israpundit.org/8-shocking-takeaways-from-landmark-murthy-v-missouri-censorship-case/ — My friend concludes: Folks, I hope these are helping people to wake up, because just pulling this together is depressing.  Frankly, I’m very upset that the country I served # years in uniform for is almost unrecognizable anymore.  Find your “tribe” (people you can trust), and work with them to help each other.

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

The federal government collected $271 billion in February, but spent $567 billion. This means that America is spending twice as much as it earns, according to the US Treasury Department. The cost of servicing the US national debt has already exceeded $1 trillion on an annual basis, and the country issues $1 trillion worth of Treasury bonds every 100 days to keep the government running.

Which brings to mind this essay I did on my old blog: E I Feel Like Sarah Connor The Coming Financial Collapse

 

Collapse is coming.  It can’t be stopped.  It can’t be avoided.  More importantly, understand that it’s been planned, and for a long time.

Cloward-Piven Strategy (CPS)

 

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So, what happens if the Trump verdict in New York is overturned or if the fine is reduced to a more reasonable value? (Which — given that normal procedures were followed, and no one was harmed — would be around $10 at most.)

Is Letitia James going to use the power of the state to reverse the sales of all those buildings and business holdings that she seized or forced him to sell to pay his bond? Or can she just get away with saying, ‘Oops, my bad‘?

This is what it looks like for the process to become the punishment in itself:  The government, with virtually unlimited resources, can make bankruptcy the cost of defending yourself against charges that don’t have to have any basis in fact or law.

The point of an appeals process is that judges often don’t get it right. Decisions are overturned on appeal all the time. But more tellingly, we see split decisions, where a panel of judges looks at the same facts and law and comes to opposite conclusions.

This happens in about 2/3 of SCOTUS rulings. So right now, the odds are 2-1 that at least some Supreme Court justices would regard half a billion dollars as an ‘excessive fine’ for a conviction where there was no actual crime.  There’s a better-than-even chance that a majority would agree.

But even if Trump wins, he still loses if he has to liquidate a business empire to post a bond against a fine that should never have been handed down as the result of a conviction that should never have happened, which is itself the result of charges that should never have been filed.

The only winners are the ones who understand that these kinds of games are won simply by prolonging them.  They are wars of attrition.

And it’s not just individuals that can be punished.  It’s entire countries.

Isn’t this what’s going on at the border?  It may be years before the courts get around to declaring that states can enforce their own borders with foreign countries if the federal government declines to do that.  Will the federal politicians and bureaucrats who have allowed millions of people to cross the border in the meantime be able to get away with just saying, ‘Oops, our bad’?

Isn’t this what happens in asset forfeiture cases? Isn’t this what happens when the government decides to ‘search’ an innocent person’s car by tearing it apart because he’s got the wrong sticker on the bumper or seize all the records and electronic devices from a journalist who has been publishing the wrong kinds of things? Isn’t this what happens when a candidate is removed from a ballot because of an allegation for which he’s never been formally charged, let alone convicted?

This has become so common that it’s got a name:  lawfare.  It’s using the legal process itself as a form of punishment.

‘Sentence first–verdict afterwards!’ said the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.  As they’ve been saying lately about George Orwell’s 1984, it was supposed to be fiction, not an instruction manual.

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The latest outrage from the CDC is a redacted 148-page report on myocarditis. There’s nothing there. Every page is blank. The research is nothing but textless pages. They don’t even show the word myocarditis. There’s nothing to see here; move along, please.

No, I don’t think that’s going to fly.

There’s obviously something very damning that they’re trying to hide. Dr. @P_McCulloughMD says we’re witnessing an “active cover-up” of a “colossal consumer product safety debacle.” “Pfizer recorded 1223 deaths with their product within 90 days of release. People were calling Pfizer in desperation, watching their family members die after taking the vaccine.” 

I had some thoughts about what might, in fact, be there were the pages not redacted, the research not censored.

Hodor.  Hodor Hodor. Hodor Hodor Hodor Hodor. Hodor. Hodor, Hodor – Hodor – Hodor Hodor.

And so on for 148 pages.

I know, there’s no reason to redact that, but you get the point. They could have replied with 148 pages of Hodor to the same effect.

Can we quote you?

Hodor.

Thank you.

There is (of course) a deep and significant meaning behind Hodor’s impairment, and if you do not know the story, I won’t ruin it for you. The CDC, however, is unlikely to have any honorable moments to define why it released a report with nothing in it. What it does demonstrate is a new level of arrogance. Maybe not that new.

 

CDC Releases Paper on Myocarditis After COVID Vaccination, and EVERY WORD Is Redacted

“148 pages. The entire thing is redacted. What good does a study do if there’s nothing there?”

There’s obviously something very damning that they’re trying to hide.

Dr. @P_McCulloughMD says… pic.twitter.com/1GjI5IKKgB

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) March 18, 2024

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It was another week of wins and losses at the NH State House, and Transparency lost big time. You can get more details on that here if the urge strikes, for or purpose is different. We bring you news of Republicans who missed Roll Call votes and how many.

Reporting on attendance can sometimes rub people the wrong way, so last week, our data guy provided more context. We are providing two bits of information. Who missed roll call votes this week (at yesterday’s 3/21/24 session), and how many Roll Call votes they’ve missed all year?

Missing votes or having to be absent for a day is part of life, and constituents shouldn’t get too wound up about it. After all, if it’s that important, you should run and then get there for every vote. Missing a lot of votes is a … systemic problem.

Voting the wrong way on key votes is also a problem but that is not the purpose of this update. We’re looking for serial offenders and there are a handful.

Roll Called votes missed yesterday are on the left. Total Roll Called votes missed all year, on the right. The list is sorted by missed votes this week (on the left) so, for example, Travis O’Hara only missed ten roll call votes this week but has missed over 100 this year. He’s a bit further down the list as is Tony Piemonte (only missed 7 yesterday but 84 YTD).

3/21		YTD
28	Sanborn, Laurie (R, Bedford)	167
28	Coulon, Matthew (R, Pike)	56
28	Pitre, Joseph (R, Farmington)	49
28	Panek, Sandra (R, Pelham)	41
28	Proulx, Mark (R, Manchester)	35
28	Andrus, Louise (R, Salisbury)	28
28	Mooney, Maureen (R, Merrimack)	28
28	Murphy, Michael (R, Gorham)	28
28	Prout, Andrew (R, Hudson)	28
19	Durkin, Sean (R, Northumberland)	20
12	Fedolfi, Jim (R, Hillsborough)	18
11	Guthrie, Joseph (R, Hampstead)	36
10	O’Hara, Travis (R, Belmont)	108
10	Trottier, Douglas (R, Belmont)	80
10	Varney, Peter (R, Alton)	54
10	Beaudoin, Richard (R, Gilford)	30
10	Wolf, Dan (R, Newbury)	29
10	Harley, Tina (R, Seabrook)	17
10	McCarter, Nikki (R, Belmont)	11
10	Brouillard, Jacob (R, Nottingham)	10
10	Cambrils, Jose (R, Loudon)	10
10	Cushman, Leah (R, Weare)	10
10	Gerhard, Jason (R, Northfield)	10
10	McMahon, Charles (R, Windham)	10
9	Lundgren, David (R, Londonderry)	38
9	Thackston, Dick (R, Troy)	31
9	Brown, Carroll (R, Bristol)	15
9	Hunt, John (R, Rindge)	12
9	Bernardy, JD (R, South Hampton)	9
7	Piemonte, Tony (R, Sandown)	84
5	Infantine, William (R, Manchester)	25
2	Crawford, Karel (R, Moultonborough)	43
2	Bordes, Mike (R, Laconia)	26
2	Berry, Ross (R, Manchester)	8
2	Terry, Paul (R, Alton)	7
2	Comtois, Barbara (R, Center Barnstead)	2
2	Potucek, John (R, Derry)	2
1	Bickford, David (R, New Durham)	12
1	Smith, Steven (R, Charlestown)	5
1	Layon, Erica (R, Derry)	3
1	Ammon, Keith (R, New Boston)	2
1	Connor, James (R, Rochester)	2
1	Aylward, Deborah (R, Danbury)	1
1	Turcotte, Len (R, Barrington)	1

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We learned that it took from 10 am until 8 pm, with an hour break for lunch, to get through 44 bills, their amendments, and all the various motions. It was a very long day, but we got some good work accomplished. I won’t go through everything, but let’s review some highlights.

We learned that HB1528 passed on a voice vote. This amended bill will ensure adequate reporting and police protocols are in place so that the governor and the legislature will receive the information they will need to properly fund the new Northern Border Program.

We also learned that a bill that would have added transparency to Gunstock operations was Indefinitely Postponed 230-143. HB1414 died after a tabling motion failed 45-329. I don’t understand why a forensic audit would be considered a bad thing. Would sunshine melt the snow?

We learned that women’s sports in NH had a win today! HB1205, the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act”, passed 189-182 on a roll call vote. This bill as amended applies to school grades 5-12 and prohibits biological males from participating on biological female sports teams. New Hampshire schools would need to classify their sports teams as either female, male, or coed. The bill also provides for a cause of action if a student is deprived of athletic opportunities, is subjected to retaliation, or suffers any direct or indirect harm. The bill seeks to protect biological female athletes from physical harm as a result of competing with biological males who are physically taller, stronger, and heavier than biological females. Science has proven that there are physical advantages that biological males have over biological females. This bill protects women’s sports and truly levels the playing field.

We learned that HB1654, another attack on the successful Education Freedom Accounts, was Indefinitely Postponed with a roll called vote of 191-183. We also killed HR30 with the same tally of 191-183. That bill would have made a resolution to urge a robust climate education in schools including current environmental and economic information. How about we concentrate on teaching kids to read and write and do proper math instead of propagating “Climate Change Anxiety” and foisting upon them the notion that we have a “disastrous anthropomorphic climate emergency” while teaching them to hate business and industry?

We learned that we dealt with a number of election law bills. HB1098 passed 192-175 which allows town election officials to deliver and assist with the distribution and processing of absentee ballots to residents of eldercare facilities. We also passed HB1119, with a vote of 282-92, which consolidates the reasons a voter may request an absentee ballot on the Monday before an election that may be impacted by an impending severe weather concern (ex: snowstorm). We killed HB1149 with an Indefinite Postponement vote of 190-184. That bill would have brought us back to the “honor system” days when you didn’t need an ID to vote and we took people at their “pinky swear” word that they lived in the district, and voter fraud was as easy as can be. We tabled a bill, HB1099, with a vote of 188-186, which would have enabled specification of party affiliation in school district elections. Rep. Robert Wherry (R-Hudson) channeled Lesley Gore this week with his entertaining rendition of “It’s my party and I’ll vote how I want to, I’ll vote how I want to…”

We learned that the annual Democrat attack on Columbus Day failed yet again. HB1135 was the 7th time that the attempt to remove or rename Columbus Day has come to us. This bill died 331-42 on a roll called vote. It would be nice if they didn’t waste our time with this nonsense.

We learned that HB1683, relative to coverage of circumcision under the state Medicaid plan, was tabled 188-187. There were concerns regarding Jewish ritual circumcision being denied, but the reality is that that is done on the 8th day, at home, with a privately hired mohel (rabbi). No Medicaid money is paid for that. Circumcisions done in the hospital are elective surgeries that really do not need to be paid by Medicaid. In any case, Rep. Paige Beauchemin (D-Nashua), who laid out all of her important nursing credentials, seemed to have talked forever, and we wish that had been cut off instead. That being said, Rep Emily Phillips (R-Fremont) reminded us that “foreskin is not a birth defect and no one wants less penis.” I’ll just leave that there.

We learned that the ghost of HB1002 (the fees placed on the Right To Know Law) paid the House a visit again, coming back from the Judiciary Committee after the House sent it back to them on 2/8/24 with a recommit motion. Today, the Interim Study motion on this bill failed (105 Yes-266 No), and then an amendment was offered. Members of the Judiciary Committee worked hard to craft an amendment (2024-1173h) that would only charge for electronic communications (emails, texts), and only after the first 250 of those, plus the time it takes to redact them. There are exemptions to the fees if you’re poor or information disclosure is in the public interest – although media requestors are not exempt. The amended bill ultimately passed with a roll called vote of 268-106. Now, it will be taken up in the Senate.

We learned that HB1115, relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term, passed 194-180 on a division vote. This bill adds the expiration of the term, of the lease or tenancy if over six months, as grounds for eviction. A contract should be as the contract states. As the law stands now a landlord can’t evict someone at the end of their lease because of a bad ruling in 2005 by the NH Supreme Court. They decided that the end of a lease does not constitute “good cause” for evicting a tenant. What part of “end of lease” did they not understand?

We also learned that last week, HB1336 was tabled by a voice vote. Today it was removed from the table with a vote of 189-183. An amendment was offered (2024-1271h) which changed the bill to make it allowable for an employee to keep a loaded firearm in his personal locked vehicle while at work at a publicly funded business. The premise being that a publicly funded business would have to support Constitutional rights. The bill would also still remove any civil liability on the part of the employer should there be an illegal use of that firearm by a third party – as in if the car or firearm was stolen from the parking lot. Of course, our “firearm worry wort” colleague Rep. David Meuse (D-Portsmouth) had great concerns that a child would escape from a daycare center and somehow get into a locked car in the parking lot and get a hold of a firearm and “something bad would happen”. One has to wonder where he dreams up these scenarios. But he also invoked the Constitutional rights of the business owner. Rep. Terry Roy (R-Deerfield) commended Rep. Meuse on his newfound love of the Constitution, and Rep. Jennifer Rhodes (R-Winchester) said, “A child in daycare has more chance of being harmed by an elected official” (a reference to past Democrat Rep. Laughton and Tyngsborough daycare in June 2023). Nuff said.

Additionally, we learned that HB1283 – the assisted suicide bill – ultimately, after many motions and an hour and a half of floor speeches, passed OTP/A 179-176. I think they were trying to talk us to death. It is interesting that the breakdown of the votes was that the 179 Yes were comprised of 36 Republicans and 143 Democrats, and the No votes were comprised of 142 Republicans and 34 Democrats. Prior to the OTP/A vote we tried to Table the bill – that failed 155-217. We tried to Indefinite Postpone the bill – that failed 150-212. All votes were roll called so you can check it out. This bill will now go off to the Senate. Perhaps they can assist in the bill’s suicide there.

We also learned that the bill that would give the Commissioner of the Dept. of Education subpoena power, HB1353, was Tabled 293-58 after the amendment died 169-178. Seeing as we didn’t have the votes to pass it, it was decided tabling would be better for now.

We further learned that HB1664, relative to legal remedies for individuals who receive medical detransitioning, was Indefinitely Postponed 181-164 (181=R:8 D:173). This was a tough one to lose as the day wore on, and Republican numbers began to dwindle. This would have established standards for a cause of action to recover damages for injury caused by gender transition surgery, the administration of puberty-blocking drugs, and/or the administration of cross-sex hormones. A 3-year time limit of action would be established, and informed consent is a concern. This bill was important because many who have transitioned are now regretting it, especially as health problems emerge, and they are now seeking detransitioning services. Permanent injury is a real thing.

We also learned that HB1479 was ultimately Indefinitely Postponed 211-129. This was the bill that would have prohibited the use of federal, state, and local funds to pay for lobbying activities. Organizations that offer lobbying services would have to separate the lobbying activity and fund it differently than with public money. Rep. Gregory Hill (R-Northfield) offered an amendment (2024-0982h) which he deemed, “If you like your lobbyist, you can keep your lobbyist”. Among other things, it allowed for town officials to choose services that organizations may provide, including lobbying activities. That amendment failed 135-207. Then Rep. Josh Yokela (R-Fremont) offered another amendment (2024-1160h), which allowed towns to vote via warrant article for whether they want to use tax money to pay for lobbying activities or not. That amendment failed 117-224. A Table motion also failed 135-205. There are other issues with this bill, as well as current law and how it is or is not being adhered to. At the end of the day, we did not have the votes to keep tax money from being used to pay lobbyists. By the way, we also saw firsthand how lobbyists lobbied our constituents to ask us to vote against the bill, and the misinformation that was spread about the bill was pretty incredible.

We learned that as the hour began to get late, around 6 pm, our House Speaker’s office brought us all snacks to enjoy in the back anteroom: fruit, cookies, granola bars, and there was coffee too. Soon after that, NH Democrat Party Chair Ray Buckley sent his Democrat House caucus many boxes of pizzas for them to enjoy in their ante room, and we heard that it came with instructions not to share with Republicans. Just so you know.

We learned that when speeches are done and voting is ready to begin you cannot enter the House Chambers…Even if you are Speaker of the House. Yes, while Deputy Speaker Steven Smith was presiding, our House Speaker Sherm Packard was locked out of House Chambers. I guess he’ll have to make it back in quicker time next time.

We further learned that HB1584 passed on a voice vote after an ITL motion failed 159-167. This bill would alleviate the daycare crunch by allowing unlicensed daycare operators to care for four kids versus 3. Of course, Rep. David Paige (D-Conway) painted this grim picture of some rural, unlicensed, unqualified, ill-equipped daycare provider living in a firetrap and unable to evacuate four kids from a fire in her home. He must get worry wort training from Rep. Meuse (see above). The Democrats just spend their days thinking up worst-case scenarios for every bill that tries to do good and solve problems, especially if that bill was not written by them. Republicans, on the other hand, understand unmet needs and balance access and affordability while maintaining quality and safety in this day care issue. We understand truly what is good “for the children”.

We learned that Democrats want to solve the childcare crisis by throwing money at it. HB 1611 died 163-162 along complete party lines (163 R’s 162 D’s). They wanted to set up a childcare workforce fund – non-lapsing and continually funded. This would be overseen by the Dept. of Health and Human Services and money would be distributed as “grants” to employers and given to eligible child care providers. Wait… I thought Democrats were vehemently opposed to public money going to pay for private services (like EFA’s)… I am so confused.

Finally, we learned that Rep. Joe Sweeney (R-Salem) has a new name: Rep. Indefinite Postpone, since he’s always up to making that motion. Good one, thanks to Deputy Speaker Steven Smith!

There’s more to come next week, so stay tuned! There will be two new Democrats seated in the House as a result of special elections, so that means there will be a slimmer majority of House Republicans, and Ray Buckley has two more mouths to feed.

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