Saturday • May 18 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
Minneapolis used to be a beautiful, proud city. That was yesterday, no longer true today. One-half of the Twin City region, Minneapolis is a business hub in the middle of the country, easy to access, and nestled in a beautiful area of Minnesota.
The climate has changed dramatically since the unfortunate death of George Floyd. That event created a destructive storm of riots, looting, and burning of businesses downtown. Over 1500 buildings and businesses were destroyed, and many will never return. The story told by the mainstream media at the time never told the whole story because of fear of being canceled as racist. BLM took over the downtown and contributed to why businesses opted to relocate elsewhere rather than return to Minneapolis. An unfortunate chapter in the city’s history.
Related: Minneapolis School District Will Fire Teachers Based on Skin Color
A rarely published fact about Floyd was that his autopsy showed he had enough Fentanyl in his system that he would have died of drug poisoning even if not under restraint by the Minneapolis police officer who was later convicted of Floyd’s death.
Another chapter prior was the influx of Somali refugees to Central Minnesota by Non-government organizations. The 2017 census for Minnesota shows nearly 70,000 Somalis that had relocated to the state. This influx of immigrants not only put a burden on public schools and local resources but also changed the region’s culture. This pilgrimage to Minnesota gave them Representative Ilhan Omar and her husband/brother. Omar barely won her primary for reelection last week and is almost assured of reelection.
The ongoing shame of the recent happenings is the folks of Minnesota that are giving up and fleeing the state. They no longer feel safe as the Left successfully defunded police, and crime is rising. It is unfair to these natives of Minnesota who are saying goodbye to the state they grew up loving and enjoying.
The latest event today shows how far this state has dipped. According to the NY Post:
Minneapolis public school teachers of color will have additional job protections this upcoming school year under a new contract that would allow them to keep their jobs rather than white instructors with more seniority.
The labor agreement’s intent was to protect “underrepresented populations” and keep the district’s predominantly white staff from becoming more homogenous, a report said Monday.
The contract was one of the first of its kind in the nation and a “huge move forward for the retention of teachers of color,” union leaders told the Star Tribune.
This provision is in the new Minnesota teacher’s contract approved by the teacher’s union and Minnesota school districts. It is designed to make up for past discriminatory hiring of predominantly white teachers while the population of color was rising.
This contract may be unconstitutional and is challenged by white Minnesota teachers. We have lost our way, and this contract shows how far Minnesota has drifted Left and is more interested in minorities and not the overall good of the state. Hopefully, sanity will take hold, and maybe the state can be salvaged. If not, it may become just a shadow of its former greatness. A sad footnote in our history.
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Germany has gone “full Germany” on the subject of mask mandates. The new Infection Protection Act requires indoor masking for the unvaccinated beginning this fall. Those who have been jabbed three or more times but not in the past three months will also need to wear masks indoors.
To aid with enforcement, there is a color-coded Corona Warning App (CWA), so the jabbed and unjabbed can be promptly sorted for loading on bix cars… at public venues like stores and restaurants. Like they do in China!
Depending on the color, the users then have different rights. A green code allows free movement, orange and red mean quarantine for up to two weeks. This is reported by the public broadcaster ORF.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Health is on the mend after his corona infection. According to Lauterbach, things are “slowly improving”. Nevertheless, Covid-19 is “no small thing. Despite four vaccinations and Paxlovid, I had more severe symptoms than expected.”
When you let political science supersede medical (or climate) science, things don’t appear to make sense anymore. But on the bright side, you can also silence dissenters (or change the color code on their device to lock them down).
And again, as predicted, you can’t get jabbed enough to please these people even when everyone knows the vaccines don’t do what advocates have long claimed. But if you’ve been jabbed by the ineffective thing, you won’t have to wear the other thing that doesn’t stop the spread but might make it worse.
In Dr. Colleen Huber’s “The Defeat of COVID,” she cites numerous peer-reviewed literature on various COVID-related subjects, including masks. After which, she comments on the doctor’s first requirement to do no harm (reformatted – several direct links added to footnotes).
The instruction not to inflict harm is so essential that it is basic to major religions. It is the central operating principle of civil societies, and harmonious institutions, alliances, friendships and households. The Golden Rule is the only common precept among all the world’s religions. So it is well-established that I am not ( as a physician ) allowed to cause harm to you.
It is worth repeating: I may not hurt you. As a physician, I work under, as the central principle of my philosophy and my practice, the Golden Rule as Hillel’s corollary, otherwise known as the Hippocratic Oath: First Do No Harm. But aren’t we all under the same oath? Aren’t we all obligated to not cause harm?
I do not ask others to wear a mask. Why? I have no right to obstruct anyone’s breathing. I have no right to cause widely demonstrated and clinically confirmed hypoxic injuries to the lungs, brain, heart and musculoskeletal system known in the peer-reviewed research to be caused by masking. Yes, I am sorry that you have been told over the last year that masks don’t reduce oxygen, by emphatic and dogmatic people, but the fact remains that oxygen deficit during mask-wearing is very thoroughly established in peer-reviewed clinical data.
Here[596], here[597] and here[598], for example. And yes, surgeons also suffer from deoxygenation.[599] Excess of carbon dioxide, as it accumulates inside a mask, also is a mild poisoning of the entire body, and this is also established in clinical data. [600] [601] So if you demand that a child, a worker, a traveler, a consumer or anyone else wear a mask, you have been demanding that they mildly poison themselves. I know this is vexing for some to read, but you cannot inflict harm with any moral authority, and you need to stop that, now that you know it’s an assault, if you want to be able to live with yourself, or to exist peacefully with a good conscience.
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Why do I have no right to demand that another person wear a mask? Even inside my home? Even when people are only a few feet away from me? Even when we hug or shake hands? Because I have no right to raise their blood pressure by an average of 12 points systolic.[608] I have no right to force anyone to incubate an average of 100,000 bacterial colonies in their airways or on their skin, which were cultured from the used masks of European train commuters.[609] I have no right to immobilize the cilia of people’s airways, which they need to help escalate inhaled viruses, bacteria and fungi up the trachea, away from the lungs.[610] I have no right to put asbestos fiber size particles deep into their lungs, where those are unlikely to be exhaled, and where those particles can begin the process of pulmonary fibrosis (the most frightening and hopeless disease I have seen as a physician).[611] I have no right to interfere with the function of a person’s immune system to perform its usual functions.[612] [613] [614]
Before COVID, there was no practical use for medical or cloth masks to slow the spread of flu because, at best, they help spread it (there’s plenty of peer-reviewed data on that as well). But now, Germany is defining freedoms based on a vaccine and a mask that are ineffective, could poison or kill you and may make matters worse, and they are passing this off as public health policy.
More of what didn’t work in 2020 and 2021.
A program that will continue if Germans don’t say the same thing to their leaders as Wyoming just did to Liz Cheney.
HT | Reclaim the Net
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Derry has a 16 for 10 primary, the largest in the state. Its candidates run the gamut from extreme RINO, mediocre, excellent, to unknown. The latter may or may not be well known in the community, but they are unknown in the sense of not having voting records. And the RINO Report is based on voting records.
The three with excellent records are Erica Layon, David Love, and John Potucek.
The three with good records are Richard Tripp, Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien, and Jodi Nelson.
The three with mediocre records are Stephen Pearson, Wayne MacDonald, and David Milz.
The last, David Milz, is near RINO. He was particularly bad in 2015-16, poor in 2021-22, and mediocre in 2017-2020.
We want to thank Spec Bowers for this Op-Ed. Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
The two worst by far are Tom Cardon and Brenda Willis. They are former one-term Reps who should stay that way, never to be elected again.
Cardon and Willis are among the worst RINOs of the last decade.
In the 2015-16 session, Cardon voted with Democrats against Republicans 139 times, which placed him third worst RINO in the entire house. He voted nearly as often (48%) with Democrats as with Republicans.
In 2017-18, Willis was first, i.e. worst, among all RINOs, voting 114 times with Democrats against Republicans. Her RINO score was 46%.
Here are some highlights (lowlights?) of their short careers.
Bad votes by Cardon, G. Thomas (R, Derry) Parental Control voted AGAINST declaring that parents have the natural right to control the well being of their children ( 2016 CACR16, 2016 HB1471 ) voted AGAINST giving parents the right to remove their child from taking the state annual assessment ( 2016 HB1338 ) voted AGAINST requiring parental notification prior to the teaching of human sexuality ( 2015 HB332 ) Constitutional Rights voted AGAINST repealing a never-used and unconstitutional infringement on free speech ( 2016 HB1570, 2015 HB403 ) Right to Life voted AGAINST banning abortion after viability ( 2016 HB1625 ) voted AGAINST prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortions ( 2016 HB1684<
On all of these votes at least 80% – in many cases more than 90% – of Republicans voted the other way.
Bad votes by Willis, Brenda (R, Derry)
Education
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The FBI has now confirmed what everyone familiar with guns knew anyway: The only way that the gun used by Alec Baldwin to kill Halyna Hutchins could have fired was for him to cock the gun and pull the trigger.
Baldwin, however, continues to insist that the gun ‘just went off,’ although his story has changed slightly.
Baldwin now claims that ‘fanning’ the gun could make it go off, and that’s what he was doing. And that does work with single-action revolvers like the one he used. But fanning requires holding the trigger down, i.e., pulling the trigger and then not releasing it.
If you don’t hold the trigger down, fanning is the same as cocking.
So to claim that you fanned a gun but didn’t pull the trigger is a little like claiming that you read a book but didn’t turn the pages. It’s an inherent part of the process.
Anyway, if he gets away with this, attorneys everywhere should start presenting this as a defense for any client involved in a shooting: The gun just went off by itself! My client didn’t pull the trigger!
And it seems fitting that this defense be named after Baldwin, as in: My client’s husband was fatally shot while in bed with another woman, but I got my client off using the Baldwin defense.
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On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden took the oath of office as President of the United States. He then lied to the American people for the first time. Joe promised to heal the country from the most divisive four years in American history.
Biden assured the people that his Presidency would return civility and transparency to the White House, and most importantly, he would bring the country back together again. He did unify the country like never before, as nearly 60% of Americans feel the country under Joe Biden is heading in the wrong direction. Getting 60% to agree on the day of the week is not easy.
Joe Biden may not be tweeting daily, but his polarizing policies have created a chasm between Americans never seen before. Biden is using many of the arms of the United States government to attack specific segments of the population, primarily those with ties to the right. It is an ugly assault on the people, but some will say he is also stomping on our Constitution.
His first volley was at the wealthy and successful, who he claims have not paid their fair share of taxes. Nobody ever defines the fair share, and they forget that over 50% of Americans pay no taxes at all. With a provision in the wrongly named Inflation Reduction Act, $300 Billion will be used to expand the IRS by 87,000 new agents. Most of these agents will be tasked with investigating and auditing the middle and upper-class Americans. The CBO has determined that this provision will raise $20 Billion over the next decade. A poor return for our tax dollars.
The Justice Department and FBI are teaming up on Donald Trump. The Biden Justice Department has turned on mothers and fathers in this country by labeling anyone who challenges the education system and local school boards as Domestic terrorists. The FBI is used to investigate anyone reported by school departments as potential threats. The stream of investigations and laws suits culminated last week with the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of the former President. These proceedings solely aim to destroy and possibly run in 2024 by Trump. It does not appear to be working as the approval ratings for Donald Trump are skyrocketing, and it seems inevitable that he will run.
The Border is a two-pronged attack as the number of illegals crossing increases every month, and the amount of Fentanyl discovered is mind-boggling. July saw over 200,000 encounters at the Border. That number is twice the number of Americans killed yearly by Chinese-made Fentanyl. The border crisis impacts every state as the influx of non-English speaking students burdens schools. Social service budgets are inadequate to handle the new demand for benefits. Employee wages are driven down by increased available workers, especially for entry-level positions.
Biden has alienated every sector of the American population. Even blacks and brown people hurt by the increase in urban crime due to the destructive policies of local justice departments are turning away from the Democrat party. By weaponizing the government, Biden has successfully unified America, but definitely not how he hoped. He has turned most of America against him, and his party and Democrats will feel that pain in just a couple of months as the midterms approach.
By Ray Cardello for August 16, 2022 Season 12 / Post 31
On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden took the oath of office as President of the United States. He then lied to the American people for the first time. Joe promised to heal the country from the most divisive four years in American history. Biden assured the people that his Presidency would return civility and transparency to the White House, and most importantly, he would bring the country back together again. He did unify the country like never before, as nearly 60% of Americans feel the country under Joe Biden is heading in the wrong direction. Getting 60% to agree on the day of the week is not easy.
Joe Biden may not be tweeting daily, but his polarizing policies have created a chasm between Americans never seen before. Biden is using many of the arms of the United States government to attack specific segments of the population, primarily those with ties to the right. It is an ugly assault on the people, but some will say he is also stomping on our Constitution.
His first volley was at the wealthy and successful, who he claims have not paid their fair share of taxes. Nobody ever defines the fair share, and they forget that over 50% of Americans pay no taxes at all. With a provision in the wrongly named Inflation Reduction Act, $300 Billion will be used to expand the IRS by 87,000 new agents. Most of these agents will be tasked with investigating and auditing the middle and upper-class Americans. The CBO has determined that this provision will raise $20 Billion over the next decade. A poor return for our tax dollars.
The Justice Department and FBI are teaming up on Donald Trump. The Biden Justice Department has turned on mothers and fathers in this country by labeling anyone who challenges the education system and local school boards as Domestic terrorists. The FBI is used to investigate anyone reported by school departments as potential threats. The stream of investigations and laws suits culminated last week with the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of the former President. These proceedings solely aim to destroy and possibly run in 2024 by Trump. It does not appear to be working as the approval ratings for Donald Trump are skyrocketing, and it seems inevitable that he will run.
The Border is a two-pronged attack as the number of illegals crossing increases every month, and the amount of Fentanyl discovered is mind-boggling. July saw over 200,000 encounters at the Border. That number is twice the number of Americans killed yearly by Chinese-made Fentanyl. The border crisis impacts every state as the influx of non-English speaking students burdens schools. Social service budgets are inadequate to handle the new demand for benefits. Employee wages are driven down by increased available workers, especially for entry-level positions.
Biden has alienated every sector of the American population. Even blacks and brown people hurt by the increase in urban crime due to the destructive policies of local justice departments are turning away from the Democrat party. By weaponizing the government, Biden has successfully unified America, but definitely not how he hoped. He has turned most of America against him, and his party and Democrats will feel that pain in just a couple of months as the midterms approach.
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After reading through the affidavit on the arrest of Michael Chick, a bus driver who worked in the Greenland school district, more information has been revealed that should concern every parent whose child rides the school bus. Not only was Chick reassigned after complaints by the 8-year old’s parents, the police ordered him in May not to have any contact with the child. At the same time, “School Administration contacted the bus company, First Student, and requested that Chick be assigned to a different route (so he would not drive the 8-year old boy or his sister anymore). Chick would then drive other children instead.
There was an opportunity for parents to address the school board and administrators prior to the start of the school board meeting. However, many parents were not notified that this discussion would take place. How come no one sent a notification to the parents who have children in the Greenland schools that this meeting would take place? Some parents found out about it and showed up, but many are reporting they didn’t hear anything. Something this serious should warrant a public meeting where the entire community can attend, but they need to be notified first.
The people tasked with protecting children, ignored the warning signs of a groomer and instead placed him on another bus where he could access more children.
The affidavit reveals that Chick was spotted sitting by the side of the road taking pictures of kids at Water Country in Portsmouth in July. This was reported to police by someone who saw him taking the pictures.
The affidavit also reveals that Chick terrorized the 8-year-old boy by threatening him and his family. The boy was to provide pictures of himself to avoid any harm that could come to him and his family.
The contents of audio, captured by surveillance placed on the school bus, also reveal that Chick thought he might be transferred to another district:
Chick pressures the boy to take a cell phone, so he can stay in contact with him. Chick uses the excuse that he’s protecting the boy from a gang that wants to harm him and his family.
Chick also planted tracking devices on the cars of the parents and used that information to further terrorize the 8-year-old boy.
The police then provide details the investigation.
Here is some of what was reported:
Someone in Greenland made the decision to reassign Chick to another bus after the police instructed Chick to have no contact with the 8-year-old boy. There is nothing in the affidavit that indicates the school district administrators or the bus company conducted any kind of investigation on Chick. There was enough evidence for the police to intervene and instruct Chick to have no contact with the boy or his family.
You would think that something like this would have been taken seriously given a former school bus driver pled guilty several years ago in Kittery, Maine, for sexual assault against a child.
Parents want answers. They want someone accountable for reassigning Chick to another bus after there was evidence that something disturbing was going on. This was a classic case of grooming and there was some evidence that the family and the police picked up on. If the police feel that a bus driver should have no contact with a child, that should be enough evidence to stop him from having any contact with other children too. But the people charged with protecting children in the district and from the bus company simply passed the trash.
This happened in Greenland but it could have happened at any school in this state.
Who made the decision to reassign Chick?
Every district should make transparent the contract that their employees work under, and those who are contracted to provide services to the children in the district. Let’s see the contract that the driver works under that allows them to be transferred after a complaint is made.
When there is any complaint of this nature, the individual should be removed immediately so that an investigation could take place. In this case, if he is a threat to an 8-year old boy, he should have been terminated.
There are other teamsters working for other companies where this kind of behavior would have resulted in swift action, like a termination. There is no good reason to reassign Chick to another bus under these conditions.
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If you missed it, we got a tip on a “stolen” Republican campaign sign behind a house in Manchester. At the time of publication, we knew they supported Democrats, but it appears the home may belong a Lucas Meyer, a Young Dems President, who is Chris Pappas’ 2022 Campaign manager.
Experienced Democratic organizer and New Hampshire Young Democrats president Lucas Meyer is joining U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas to lead his reelection bid as campaign manager.
Meyer’s role with the Pappas campaign was shared first with WMUR and was then widely announced later Monday.
Meyer has been involved in progressive causes and Democratic campaigns for nearly a decade. He led Pappas’s successful reelection campaign for the Executive Council in 2014.
If true, that could be awkward. The Campaign manager of a Democrat for Congress in possession of the Republican opponent’s campaign sign hidden behind some ladders next to the shed behind his home.
Related: Republican Candidate’s Campaign Sign Found Hidden Behind a Manchester Democrat’s Home
According to the property card, the home at 151 Sagamore St in Manchester with the Chris Pappas sign out front (and Mowers sign hidden in the back) is owned by someone named Lucas S. Meyer.
According to this LinkedIn page, the guy Pappas hired with whom he’s been familiar for many years is Lucas S. Meyer.
It looks an awful lot like Democrat activist (the Young NH Democrats president) and Chris Pappas for Congress Campaign manager Lucas S. Myer has a stolen Republican Campaign sign wedged against his shed.
As a reminder, this is illegal and unethical, but not unexpected from Democrats. So, same guy or just way too many coincidences?
We eagerly await angry emails denying that this Lucas S. Meyer is the owner of this residence with that sign behind it. Or an explanation as to why that sign is behind that home. Or who this Lucas S. Meyer is that also supports Pappas other than the one running an NH Democrat’s Congressional campaign? Or, if Lucas owns it but is renting it out to Democrat-supporting sign stealers (who may plan to work for Pappas, vote here, and leave).
Some other explanation?
Lots of options.
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A real quick post – it isn’t Chris “Baby Huey” Sununu (I guess he decided that he doesn’t need the Conservative / Liberty / Freedom wing of the Republican Party in the Primary in September as he’s been appealing to a lot of Democrats that he believes will cross-over).
After putting Julian Acciard, Thad Riley, and Karen Testerman through their GrokGauntlets (and we DO thank them all for trekking either to Hollis or Gilford and their time in talking with us), by a slight majority vote, GraniteGrok is not officially endorsing anyone in the race for Governor of New Hampshire.
In other words, our endorsement is, “no endorsement.”
However, as our standing policy states, any individual Grokster can still issue a personal endorsement for any candidate they wish.
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Sidenote: You have to note the use of “straight” instead of that made up word “cisheteronormative”. I am so over the Wokesters constantly trying to force us to use their Orwellian language and make us believe its the “norm” when it comes to “sexual identity” that is to be the most important attribute of being a human – RUBBISH!
Couldn’t happen to a nastier bunch of people (the militant Ts, that is). Does this mean that the front end of the sexual identity folks are about to shuck and disavow all of the other letters, numbers, and such tacked onto “theirs”? So I was rather surprised to come across this post (reformatted, emphasis mine):
It’s happening: “LGB drop the T” keeps trending on Twitter as gay activists turn on transgender activists
It was always unsustainable. The only question was how long the LGBT political movement would bask in the glory of its inarguably successful obliteration of traditional societal norms and sexual mores before they took the time to notice. But with #LGBdroptheT trending on Twitter multiple times over the course of the last week or two, it seems apparent that at least in certain quarters, the revolutionaries are doing what revolutionaries always do: turn on each other.
And the hammer is getting dropped:
Like I’ve said before – I think Peak Trans has been hit and perhaps the hits are going to keep on coming. The gay community certainly had their societal disruption moments (years?) and they knew what they were doing in their own version of social disruption. It tells me how BAD the militant trans have misread the environment so as to tick off the gays with their “disruption”. And a lot of us straight folks, traditional societal conservatives, haven’t liked either one but if I had to choose, I’d choose the gays because they never tried to redefine a LOT of our language (well, oyes, other than “marriage” that I still disagree with) that the Trans movement has done in creating utter chaos when it comes to individual relationships.
How can you relate to someone when they can be something else an hour from now and go ballistic simply because I don’t know what the latest words are (or better, no longer care – that now YOUR problem and not mine).
I’ve written on more than one occasion about what far more people than just I have been anticipating for quite some time. Namely, the inevitable clash between gay ideology and transgender theory. Transgenderism relies entirely upon the non-existence of a gender binary, assuming a sliding scale of gender identity that denies there even is such thing as truly “male” or truly “female.”
Needless to say, there can be no gay man if there is no such thing as a man. There can be no lesbian if there is no such thing as a woman.
So in order to have a Transgender sexuality identity, they HAVE to erase gay men and gay women. So while they hitched a ride with both, it is easy to see that the Transgenders USED the LG’s to start and then stole the platform from them.
Sidenote: just like GAC Commissioner Doug Lambert (of DGF Industrial, former Trump co-chair locally) did to the Belknap County Delegation (to use an analogy that I’ve been writing about a lot lately). Except his methodology was to use the Delegation to be appointed to the Gunstock Area Commission, lay low for a few weeks (like the Transgenders did in their domain) and then set about creating the chaos that has now put him on top. Illegally, thus far, but the local lawsuits are happening just like lawsuits against transgender policies.
And then simply went to work on dominating the sexual identity politics domain. And make NO mistake, this is ALL about Politics. And, as the post mentions, using our own good will and politeness against us. And, apparently, the gays and lesbians as well.
Politics can make for strange bedfellows (did I really just write that, given the topic?), doesn’t it?
Last bit from that post, though, shows how prescient many of us were back in the day:
That “slippery slope” admission is an interesting one. In the early days of opposition to the gay rights movement, conservatives warned that once traditional moral guideposts for sexuality were removed on the basis of emotional preferences, they could not later be arbitrarily thrown back down into the ground to deny other claims made upon the same basis. “Merry” is begrudgingly acknowledging that despite claims to the contrary, the conservative warning has indeed proved accurate.
It has. Society spent thousands of years creating norms of behavior that proved, for the most part, successful – the Left has demolished much of them over the last 50 or 60 years. And we wonder why everything around us is like a freight train headed for Hades? Every time I mention “Slippery Slope” to someone that isn’t agreeing with me at the time, I get a scornful look. Generally, it is someone either far younger or someone that hasn’t been watching too intently.
The author is right – we were right. Back when the Democrat / Gay alliance was first pushing for civil unions and then gay marriage, I remember having the Laconia Democrat Chair and gay activist on our radio show (he has passed since – AIDS). He obviously was trying to make the case for it and we were against it. Soon after, the Democrats legalized it by passing legislation through the NH House and Senate and Gov. Lynch (D) signed it. But near the end of the show, I asked a most impertainent question:
If the sex no longer matters, then what is so special about the number. If sex no longer matters, what’s so special about two people? Why not three, or four? Or more?
At that time, I was thinking of polyandry – and he went ballistic shouting me down and saying that wouldn’t happen and how DARE I bring it up!!! He knew that bringing that up, that the slippery slope would be that “next thing”, would start to slow that current train he was trying to push out of the station.
Who knew, at that time, that the Left would come up with Transgenderism that has turned out to be FAR worse?
I haven’t used this analogy for a few years but perhaps I need to bring it back a LOT more often: that Society is a brick wall where the Left’s various groups have been plucking out individual brick just as fast as they can both to achieve their little agendas and to aggregate Power. Each time a brick (a societal norm or Law) is removed, that wall loses another smidge of its stability. Keep removing them and it can move onward to looking like a Jenga tower.
How many more can be removed before traditional America just falls down?
I can tell you that the Left can’t wait for it to happen. That’s their end game. But if part of the solution is to join forces in trying to put even some of those bricks back into the wall to stabilize it, yes indeed, strange bedfellows.
Your response? And what are you willing to do?
(H/T: Not The Bee)
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Lily Tang Williams for Congress tops the third round of LibertyBallot.com recommendations for the 2022 New Hampshire Republican Primary. Tom Mannion for State Representative is recommended. Additionally, Glen Aldrich, Harry Bean, Gregg Hough, and Norman Silber for State Representative are recommended.
Lily Tang Williams for Congressional District 2Lily Tang Williams was originally born in oppressive China. Williams said, “I fear that the country I love is becoming like the country I left.” That’s why she is running for Congress. To keep us free. Tea Party Express, The Resolve Initiative, and New Hampshire Conservative Majority Project endorsed Williams. Get involved with William’s campaign at https://www.lilytangwilliams.com/.
We want to thank James Thomas for this Op-Ed. Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
Tom Mannion for State Representative Hillsborough County District 1Tom Mannion is a Marine veteran and software engineer that opposed lockdowns. Mannion was endorsed by Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire and Hershel Nunez, Pelham’s most pro-liberty legislator. Mannion is running to represent Pelham. Learn more about and help Mannion at https://mannion4nh.com/
Glen Aldrich, Harry Bean, Gregg Hough, and Norman Silber for State Representative Belknap County District 6Glen Aldrich, Harry Bean, Gregg Hough, and Norman Silber are incumbents seeking reelection. They have a history of voting with the people, supporting government transparency, and working hard for taxpayers. The New Hampshire House Republican Alliance gives all four incumbents outstanding ratings! Voters are able to vote for four candidates for this position and we recommend that voters vote for all four of these people. They are running to represent Gilford, Gilmanton, and Laconia ward 2. Learn more about and help them at https://glenaldrich.com/ and https://greggfornh.com/
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For months we’ve reported on the exponential cost increase (and lack, domestically) of all the rare-earth metals you need to mine to make batteries for the Electric Vehicle paradise the Left promised. EV makers are finally announcing price hikes, and they just happen to be almost exactly the sum Congress just approved for EV subsidies.
Related: The Left’s Electric Car Future Is All Carbon Smoke and Mirrors
The Detroit automaker adjusted the MSRP on the F-150 Lightning for the first time since it was revealed in the spring of 2021. Since then, industrial metal prices for batteries, including nickel, manganese, cobalt, and lithium, have jumped, forcing the automaker to raise the new EV truck prices by up to $7,000, depending on the model.
And …
The Senate passed legislation on Sunday allowing automakers to keep offering up to $7,000 in tax credits for EVs. The House plans to interrupt summer break to reconvene on Friday to clear the bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk for signature.
Which tail is wagging what dog?
No one in DC knows how to run a business that requires long-range planning. Material, logistics, manufacturing lead times, all of that. They print money and give it to their friends. And when it comes to Electric Vehicles, the US Government (Progs, Dems, and Libs in particular) are the automaker’s BFFs. And now there’s some rumbling about these just-in-time price hikes.
The digital murmuring class is mumbling about how car makers are raising their prices to cash in on the 7K handouts by the same amount. And that concern is not far-fetched unless you’ve been paying attention to the cost of rare earth metals (on top of inflation, etc.). Cost hikes were baked in as early as last year. It was just a question of when the costs in the manufacturing cycle would catch up to the sale price.
So, here we are. Congress has been hiding its green new deal in legislation the way cartels hide drugs, but the Inflation Reduction act, more appropriately called the Reduction Inflation Act, is packed with fake-green gimmes, including massive subsidies for wind, solar, and a 7K hand out for EVs.
In my opinion, it is not a coincidence that the automakers raised their prices to take advantage of the handout; the handout was created in response to knowledge of the unavoidable price hike. The Progs, Dems, and Libs are just trying to keep the dream alive even though most EVs are purchased by the upper classes, the only ones who ever would or could afford them.
It’s a dream, on paper, that has no future reality. And the 7k is just another gimme to people more likely to donate money to them. EV’s have no practical use in the real world. They are not green. They can’t replace most of the vehicles needed to move or build a society. And that was never the point.
We’ve been saying for years that the transition to useless vehicles no one can afford had but one purpose. To slow down and, if possible, end private or individual mobility. The green car goal was not to transition to green cars – and EVs are anything but – it was to end your ability to go and do whatever you wanted when you wanted. And the WEF just proved me right.
The WEF is concerned about the availability of rare earth metals. Their answer is shifting from ownership to users. A fancy way of supporting the world where you don’t own anything. In other words, communism. You’ll get it if they think you need it, but guess what? You don’t need it, but they do. It’s John Kerry saying, But I have to fly a private jet to the climate conference to do my job applied to everything.
Create scarcity, demand cultural change, and coincidentally, the cure for everything is communism. So, the 7K subsidy is another smokescreen. It keeps the dream within reach because they are not quite ready to tell you the truth. The green utopia is a dirty, empty, immobile future at the top of which sits a protected class of elites with all the guns and power.
Canadain Truckers, Dutch Farmers. There are a lot of dogs and tails and who ends up wagging what remains to be seen but here’s to hoping Liberty wins. The alternative is not much of a future, at least not for most of us.
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CRT, DEI, and SEL’s stoking of racial tensions aside, its efforts to promote gender confusion under the guise of serving minority gender groups, even among the prepubescent, are finally being recognized as fraudulent to wit:
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“There is a lack of current evidence-based guidance for care of children and adolescents who identify as transgender regarding the benefits and harms of pubertal suppression, medical affirmation with hormone theory, and surgical affirmation;”
(1) this treatment “currently outweigh the possible benefits, that the treatments should be offered only in exceptional cases;”
(2) “that the phenomenon of detransition is more common than previously thought,” thus “gender-confirming treatment thus may lead to a deteriorating of health and quality of life (ie: harm)”
(3) there is a lack of evidence to support hormonal or surgical interventions, except for exceptional circumstances.
“In light of available evidence, gender reassignment of minors is an experimental practice,” and that “no irreversible treatments should be initiated.”
Albeit extremely profitable for some, perhaps it is time to pause the use of our public schools to initiate non-mental health professionals’ secret “counseling,” “diagnosing,” and designing “interventions” to include the secret administration of puberty blockers which overwhelming leads to sexual mutilation of children. This phenomenon is grounded in the nonacademic agenda of CRT, SEL DEI’s ideological need to identify the “oppressed” rather than SCIENCE. It will be years before we can collect meaningful data on the impact of age-inappropriate pornography and psychological harm, and quality of life issues this rancid ideology has forced upon children and their parents.
Respectfully submitted:
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Director,
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If the “experts” were right, I should be writing this article from a dingy while floating down an overfilled White River. I’m not. In fact, the river is so low I can’t put a dingy in it.
Perhaps even lower is the integrity of the scientific “experts” surrounding the global warming/climate change catastrophism they’ve been pushing onto the people of Earth since former Vice President Al Gore nominated himself the climate tsar for the world. One might recall the bold and devastating claims he made in his “Inconvenient Truth” documentary, which included:
So far, he’s batting a solid .000 on these predictions, which isn’t just embarrassing for him. It is for the rest of the world who bought into it as well as buying a Prius or a designer set of recycling bins off Etsy to do their part. Global warming, like with COVID-19, only moves policy if you can sufficiently scare the crap out of a maximum number of people willing to believe the doomsday mantra “we’re all in this together.” Only some of us have known it wasn’t a methane problem but a steaming pile of cow pies since the beginning.
The polar bear population, rather than dying off, has exploded to the point of threatening the native Inuit population in Canada. However, experts desperate to save face insist their encroaching southward isn’t due to their increase but thanks to climate change.
How about those sea levels in Manhattan? Rather than admit his error, Gore does what any corrupt expert would do to save face. He simply changes his claim, you know, like how the climate changes. I imagine he couldn’t stomach the thought of being cornered by little Greta Thunberg crying, “how dare you!”
What about that arctic ice recession? How about this quote from the Danish Meteorological Institute:
“The year 2020 is now all-but upon us, Al, and we have clear evidence that the ice at the poles is now not only not melting, it is in fact once again growing, in both thickness and extent (DMI).”
Oops!
The Great Barrier Reef is also not only not dying but is getting greater by the year. Australians are proud to be its stewards and are even more proud of their efforts to keep it healthy, which they have. Maybe the climate changes backward down under? Who knows.
The real inconvenient truth is that global warming is not taking place. Nor are the schizophrenic weather phenomena of climate change. Storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes have all decreased steadily over the past one hundred years. This makes sense since these atmospheric occurrences are needed to cool the earth and oceans, neither of which have gotten appreciably warmer.
As a result, the catastrophism that animates the global green movement is no longer theoretically viable – it’s definitively been proven false. The honest scientists are admitting as much. However, the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change just had to admit the earth has not warmed in 15 years. This admission wasn’t followed up with contrition toward a world that had upended itself to stop the spread of global warming only to find out it was based on, at best, erroneous scientific theorizing, at worst bald-faced lies. No, the collective embarrassment of the panel found scientists around the world, mostly the European countries who have gone all-in on going green, following Al instead of the science and simply changing the data to suit the narrative.
Science relies on falsifiability, which is different than saying it is open to lies. It’s not. It is by its very nature the pursuit of that which is true for the purpose of giving mankind insights by which to guide how we live faithfully among each other and nature. Those behind and out front of the global warming turned climate change movement don’t understand either the boundaries set by scientific philosophy or the laws that actually keep us safe as a human race.
It appears the same hubris that believes humans are capable of fundamentally transforming the Earth’s climate is in operation of those who believe they can fundamentally transform science to suit their political manipulation of people.
If anything needs to change, it’s that.
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Hollywood Updates Insensitive Movie Titles
Hollywood is usually the first to speak up for the rights of the underprivileged, who also happen to never live in Hollywood. The Screen Actors Guild along with the Harvey Weinstein Foundation have teamed up to bring classic movie titles, once perfectly acceptable in lights on the marquee, into the 21st Century where accurate nomenclature takes a backseat to the feels. After several thousand online tweets demanding these insensitive titles be changed to spare the feelings of people who prefer to remain anonymous yet demand to be the center of attention, major Hollywood production offices have relented. Here are just a few of the new titles:
Several agents, who represent major starlets were asked how this would affect the challenge of getting equal pay with their male counterparts, could not be reached for comment as they were busy finishing up Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) training.
Antifa Changing Name To Protifa After Realizing They Love Fascism
The militant arm of America’s new protest culture known as Antifa announced via social media that they will be changing their name. The group’s name derives from “antifaschistisc”, a 1930s era German word associated with a group of anti-Nazi radicals. It would later be associated with anti-fascist groups in Italy.
After having so much success as the foot soldiers for former Nazis George Soros and Klaus Schwab, from whom Antifa has drawn considerable financial support, the group is rethinking both its name and image. Group leaders, who wish to remain anonymous, have recently given a press release stating they will now go by Protifa after three straight summers of success and support by both the US government and many US corporations.
“Fascism sucks until you can use it for your cause” said one member who was recently released from jail after serving six hours of a twelve year sentence for arson, armed robbery, vandalism, and child molestation.
Also seeing a change are the all black uniforms with black facemasks worn by Antifa members since the early rioting in 2016. New corporate sponsors Adidas will be making a lighter, more breathable black jumpsuit with white pinstripes borrowing a page from 1950s mobsters, coupled with a sensible street shoe complete with steel toes and heel compartment that can hold small explosives or up to a 3” blade.
Dartmouth college historian Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Antiefascist Handbook has given his blessing to the change.
“Antifa is ready to go pro!” said Bray. “Protifa is a much more positive message, and one we hope will inspire kids to look to us for role models”.
When asked if he was concerned for the children’s safety due to the large number of pedophiles among Protifa’s ranks he stayed true to his positivism commenting “Absolutely not. If anything it will lead to member retention at both ends.”
Vermont Prostitutes Announce Plans To Unionize
The recent decriminalization of prostitution in Vermont has many sex workers looking to protect their industry. Recently the non-profit Whores For Change held a meeting at the ONE Community Center in Burlington. Meeting notes reveal the topics of discussion included:
Those in attendance seem encouraged by the discussions and appreciate the opportunity to increase the professionalism of the world’s oldest profession. We reached out to the Whores For Change legal team of Dewey, Lay & Howe who were unavailable for comment at this time.
Wokesters Identify Dangerous New Group Of Oppressors
The vanguard of social justice warriors out to defend the oppressed have identified the latest threat to the human race – humor.
“This attack on the humorless is no laughing matter” said Reece P. Kupps (zee/zer), Professor of Stoicism at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Professor Kupps cites the staggering number of students on campus suffering depression and an almost crippling inability to laugh, about anything.
Behavioral scientists at the Cleveland Clinic have been studying this growing trend among Americans by screening classics such as Blazing Saddles and Airplane for groups of millenials and gen Z, using Baby Boomers and Generation X as control groups. Their research has found not only do the younger generations not laugh throughout the films but become violently offended. One African American researcher was removed from the study team after laughing out loud at multiple instances of racial humor, ironically aimed at black people, during a showing of Blazing Saddles.
“I’ve always thought that was some funny s**t” said the scientist.
“Racialized humor is never funny” scolded a younger Caucasian female who got up midway through the film to start a protest outside the building.
“He’ll see how funny it is looking for a new job” retorted another (also Caucasian) young Ivy League student.
Upon learning of the termination the Dave Chappelle Show hired the scientist to join their team of writers where he now makes nearly quadruple his income from last year.
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If you peruse the corporate media on J6 Never-Trump Liz Cheney’s embarrassing primary loss in Wyoming, you might throw up in your mouth. It’s embarrassing. And I’ll be honest, it had an impact on my choice of headlines. I was looking for some much-needed balance.
Cheney chose a side. She voted to impeach Trump. She decided to be a useful idiot in the J6 star chamber. And the people she was supposed to represent didn’t like that. Democracy! Boom!
“Hageman secured greater than 66% of the vote while Cheney was only at 28.9%.”
Democrats (and Never-Trumpers) can’t shut up about democracy until we all turn blue. But when it works against them, the narrative needs a new direction. And as hard as Cheney tried to get Democrats to cross over and meddle in a Republican primary, it failed. She lost. The Trump-backed candidate won.
How the hell do they spin that? They are spinning, but there’s no spin.
Liz made poor choices down in DC, and Wyoming Republicans told Lizard Cheney to F off, and that’s as clear as you can make it.
So, what next?
Liz has nothing to lose. She can be as progressive as the elitist political blood that runs through her veins demands. And if you listen to her concession speech or read the reporting from the Left’s pundits doing business as reporters, the goal remains the same. Do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump can’t run for president again.
That makes Trump the best person for the job.
If stooges like Cheney fear him, then he’s what America needs. A guy who will try to dismantle the bureaucratic state and the machine that props it up. So, I hope Trump’s Secret Service detail is up to the job because they weren’t joking when someone said out loud that if this FBI-raid thing doesn’t stick, someone will have to assassinate him.
Trust me, they’ve all been thinking it, and the only reason it hasn’t happened is that, like all such figures, he is probably more dangerous o their cause as a martyr.
That is still true, but at some point, they will take the shot … and then try to use it to ban guns.
Note: The link to the Daily Wire and the pull quote with the election results were added a few minutes after publication.
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This is the second in a series that points a spotlight on some RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) to defeat in the upcoming primary.
Pittsfield is a very strong Republican town. You might think that a Rep from such a town would himself be a strong Republican. Sadly, Jim Allard is a severe RINO. He has “blossomed” from mediocre to one of the worst RINOs in the whole House.
In the 2019-20 session, Allard voted with Democrats against Republicans 50 times, which placed him in the top (i.e., worst) ten RINOs. In 2021-22, he voted against Republicans 123 times. That was second only to Dan Wolf as worst RINO.
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Allard has two newcomer opponents in a 3 for 2 primary – Cy Aures and Clayton Wood. I have no info about either one, but they could hardly vote worse than Allard. It is best to vote for both of them so that Allard finishes last.
Here are some highlights (lowlights?) of Allard’s career.
Bad votes by Allard, James (R, Pittsfield) Parental Control voted AGAINST parental choice regarding face masks ( 2022 HB1131 ) Education voted AGAINST education choice ( 2022 HB1298 ) voted FOR repealing the education freedom account program. ( 2022 HB1683 ) voted FOR restricting education choice ( 2022 HB1516, 2022 HB1684, 2022 HB1120 ) Cost of Living voted AGAINST reducing costs of energy ( 2021 HB373, 2022 HR17 ) voted FOR higher property taxes for most owners ( 2021 SB102 ) voted FOR requiring state taxpayers to make up for poor investments by the Retirement Board ( 2022 HB1417 ) Constitutional Rights voted AGAINST prohibiting the suspension of civil liberties ( 2021 HB440 ) voted AGAINST property rights ( 2021 HB402, 2022 HB414 ) voted AGAINST religious liberty ( 2021 HB542 ) voted AGAINST repealing a never-used and unconstitutional infringement on free speech ( 2022 HB1625 ) voted AGAINST rights of conscience ( 2021 HB63 ) voted AGAINST rights of conscience regarding vaccination mandates ( 2022 HB1604, 2022 HB1379, 2022 HB1455, 2022 HB1490, 2022 HB1210 ) voted FOR restricting property rights ( 2021 HB177 ) Right to Life voted AGAINST prohibiting abortions after 24 weeks ( 2021 HB625 ) voted FOR weakening the right to life ( 2022 HB1609 ) Other voted AGAINST the right to join or not join a union ( 2021 SB61 On all of these votes, at least 80% – in most cases, more than 90% – of Republicans voted the other way.The post RINO Report: Jim Allard appeared first on Granite Grok.
The Center for Disease Control has developed a new set of COVID guidelines. The new guidelines may not be an apology, but they are an admission of agency overreach.
There is no accompanying apology to America for the irresponsible restrictions the CDC inflicted on Americans over the last two years. You will not see the CDC accept responsibility for damaging our children and their educational development. You will not see how unjustly American families were separated, with many seniors passing away without a relative by their side. The new guidelines are an admission of incompetence at the highest level of the CDC but do not hold your breath waiting for terminations or resignations. These bureaucrats are beyond accountability.
The new guidelines indicate the CDC eased its COVID-19 guidance on Thursday, reflecting a shift of tone from institutional mandates to personal choice. Many will find this shift too little and far too late.
Among the biggest differences in the new recommendations is that the guidelines will no longer differentiate people who are up-to-date on their vaccinations and those who are unvaccinated.
The agency no longer recommends 6 feet social distancing or quarantining after being exposed to the virus but not experiencing symptoms.
The agency will also remove several specific COVID-19 recommendations for schools, like “test to stay” guidance that required students exposed to the virus to continue to test negative to remain in school.
But the guidelines do keep some measures in place, including encouraging testing for people with symptoms and their close contacts.
The CDC continues to recommend that those who test positive should stay home for at least five days and wear a mask for 10 days. The CDC did not call for a negative test before exiting isolation.
Contact tracing should be limited to hospitals and certain high-risk group-living situations, such as nursing homes, the CDC said. The new rules remove regular testing except in certain high-risk settings, such as nursing homes and prisons.
The new guidance also tailors advice on isolation for people who became very sick from COVID-19.
People with moderate symptoms, such as shortness of breath, and those who were hospitalized, should stay at home for at least 10 days.
People with compromised immune systems should now talk to their doctor about ending their isolation after contacting COVID-19.
For the many whose COVID-19 symptoms rebound, the CDC recommends beginning the isolation period over again and visiting the doctor.
There are a few points here that lead to more questions. With no longer differentiating vaccinated vs. unvaccinated, what does that mean for all who lost their jobs for not taking the jab? Does that mean that these people should be automatically reinstated and compensated for lost wages? Does that mean that all our discharged military personnel are now returned to active? This may be a quick change to the CDC, but it has many ramifications.
Does removing distance requirements mean we can get our classrooms back to pre-Covid capacity and cancel any mask mandates implemented this year in California and Pennsylvania? Those who made those mandate decisions should take the initiative to retract them immediately. Though these new guidelines are a welcome relief, the timing has puzzled many.
All of a sudden, personal responsibility was key to the CDC when they had taken away our liberties for over two years. It is no wonder that most Americans have no faith in CDC decisions. Then again, we have that same feeling about all of the government. I don’t see how they will ever regain our trust.
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People seem to forget that political parties — including the two major parties — are private organizations that can make up whatever rules they want for nominating candidates for office.
For example, many in the GOP would like just about anyone except Chris Sununu to be the nominee for governor, but they worry about how the challengers (Karen Testerman, Julian Acciard, and Thad Riley) might split the vote, leaving His Excellency as the winner (and conservative values as the loser).
But the party could choose to use something like Instant Runoff/Ranked Choice voting or some other alternative voting scheme designed to combat the many weaknesses inherent in the first-past-the-post scheme that is normally used.
Alternatively, the party could just include Anyone But the Incumbent as a choice on the ballot, which would encourage voting among party members who figure that none of the other candidates could possibly be worse, but don’t have the time, energy, or patience to learn which would be best.
A variation on this would be to let a voter choose between voting for someone and voting against someone. Each vote against would cancel out one vote for. This could put the whole field on more or less equal footing without singling the incumbent out.
For that matter, the party doesn’t even have to make use of the normal primary system that is run (at taxpayer expense) on its behalf.
It could, for example, use mail or email ballots, which it would accept only from people who are registered as Republican well before primary day. This would exclude ODORs (One Day Only Republicans) who change party registration at the last minute. It would also exclude people who amble over from neighboring states to try to influence what happens here.
As soon as you let go of the commonly held but completely bogus idea that the two-party system is an official part of the government, all kinds of possibilities arise, most of which are better than the traditional method, which right now looks pretty certain to nominate someone who might as well be a Democrat.
Yes, it’s risky to try something new. But should the GOP be more afraid of trying something that might not work, or clinging to something that almost certainly will not work?
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Yes, I am well aware that there are never-Trumpers, anti-Trumpers, and people who wish Trump would burst into flames. That’s not today’s subject. You can find that on almost any “news” outlet.
If you think that the raid, oh, excuse me, warrant execution at Trump’s Mar a Lago residence (by multiple heavily armed agents of the State, some wearing tactical gear when he wasn’t home) is acceptable or even the best thing ever, you might want to pause and think again.
The search was ostensibly for documents, not narcotics that could be flushed away or a bomb that could be detonated. Paper, including, per several reports, a cocktail napkin. (Our Democracy, I mean Republic, is safe! Thank goodness!) Were the agents expecting armed resistance? Perhaps the documents were going to be thrown in a fire pit?
Attorney General Garland said that no one is above the law. Agreed. One of our founding principles is the law should be applied to everyone equally, regardless of their position in life. Also agreed.
Now, for a moment, imagine that the political leanings were reversed: that a Republican administration sent the same agents into the home of a Democratic politician (who wasn’t there). Does that still seem acceptable?
Well then, where was the raid on Obama’s home after missing records were noted back in 2018? Or the raid on Eric Holder’s home after the Fast and Furious gun walking debacle of the late 2000s?
Or the raid on Hillary Clinton’s home after Director Comey’s 30-minute exposition on the alleged illegal acts relating to her server? Or the raid on the Clinton home after the reports of many missing items after they vacated the White House?
If he really trafficked under-aged girls, then where is the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s “client” list? And currently, where is the raid (and indictment) of Hunter Biden after he’s admitted to crimes and with video evidence of others?
No one is above the law, you say?
Who will hold the FBI accountable for the Steele dossier/collusion hoax, their lying to the FISA court, the efforts of agents Strzok & Page to undermine the Trump presidency, or the suppression of Hunter’s laptop? (I’m avoiding more deadly “missions” such as Waco and Ruby Ridge.)
I’ll wait for an answer…for quite a while, I’m sure.
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