As the world looks on, the 2024 Presidential Race will not be the pinnacle of democracy. Americans want to believe we are still a superpower, not just militarily, but as an example of what a great country can be.

Many of us want America to be that beacon on the hill, while others want us to be a magnet for every illegal migrant who can find their way to our wide open borders. Instead of two quality individuals capable of being the leader of the free world, we have a current President who cannot remember when he was a Senator or how he became President and a former President who the current President is using his Justice Department to put behind bars. We have one candidate spending nearly every day in a courtroom and another trying to buy every vote he can. The Right and Left are locked in and immovable in their commitment to their candidate. And we have the middle of America, either ignorant of the issues or incapable of caring about them. In this upside-down world, this middle America will decide the 2024 election.

Unlike Presidential elections over the last seven decades, we have two men who have been President, and have records to compare and nobody can debate they are very different records and visions of America. Trump was bringing America back from the malaise of the Obama/Biden Presidency when the Pandemic hit. The economy was racing, IRAs were growing, inflation was low, jobs were plenty, we were energy independent, and the border was secure. He was able to put the Supreme Court in a position to overturn Roe v. Wade and put abortion back in the states. We were in a good place until COVID.

Biden used the COVID situation, and convinced the country that Trump was chaotic. The Democrats used Impeachment to perfection and with Biden secure in his Delaware basement, he managed a record 81 million votes to win the White House. Common sense will tell you that the vote total is bogus, but saying so will get you canceled quicker than a bad sitcom.

MAGA Republicans want Trump back to finish the job he started. Democrats do not want Biden, but they have no other choice. With these two camps secure, the battle is for everyone between these two groups. Trump’s numbers are increasing every week, and the court cases against him are backfiring. Biden and Harris are experiencing the worst approval numbers in history. Worse for Biden is the support he is hemorrhaging in usual Democrat strongholds. Blacks, Browns, Millennials, Gen-Z, and even women are losing faith in the aging lifetime politician. People are hurting in many areas, and you will have to search hard for anyone who claims they are in a better place under Biden than Trump.

States like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Virginia are showing signs of flipping Red. If true, this could be a Reaganessque-type election. There is still the possibility of Biden being replaced at the convention in Chicago. With the campus unrest still simmering, abortion and immigration pushed as Democrat strong points, and anti-semitism on the rise, Chicago may be a mess for Biden and the Left. The msm is being forced to cover events they have shied away from for three years, which will impact Independents. If the numbers can be trusted, Biden/Harris will not finish the destruction of America. Please God, let the numbers be true.

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In keeping with my taxing things theme, this might be a good time to remind everyone, especially Republicans in the NH Legislature, that those among them who supported HB1002 (The public documents tax) can no longer argue for government transparency or accountability. They voted that right away.

And should it become law, you can no longer say, “When you tax something, you get less of it,” because that is true.

When the government attaches burdens in the form of fines, fees, or costs (a tax), you will get less of it. HB1002 allows municipalities to charge citizens for access to public documents. Citizen access to public documents is a legislative check on local executive power. The people are the legislature, and the select board, council, town manager, or mayor are the executive.

Given the power, The Executive will charge for access. In some cases, they will make sure there is a charge. In many cases, it will be prohibitive. In all cases, you will get less transparency and accountability.

You taxed it and will get less of it. If this were physics, it would be an immutable law, like how people most inclined to abuse power are drawn to it – the way pedophiles look for ways to be near children.

You can hide behind the notion that this was a necessary change to address the costs of complying with the right-to-know law, but what it does is make the entire process more complicated and labor intensive, and in the end, citizens looking to hold the government accountable will pay, either through their wallets or the decreases in accountability.

 

 

 

 

 

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The most important takeaway from the “campus protests”? That colleges are radicalizing, versus educating, young adults? NO, NO, NO. Anybody paying the slightest bit of attention already knew that colleges have been indoctrinating Woke-Communism for, not years, but decades. That’s yesterday’s news as in last century’s news.

No, the most important takeaway is how organized the Left is and how fractured and disorganized the supposed “Right” is in America versus the Left. The “Right’s” idea of “organizing” is setting up a Facebook page that consists mostly of complaining and “woe is us.” The Left, in contrast, in the blink of an eye can manifest “protests” throughout America.

And this lack of organization on the “Right” has devastating consequences. It is unarguable that the 2020 election was stolen … and stolen as in not just from Trump, but more importantly from the voters who voted for Trump. The steal succeeded because the “Right” was caught completely flatfooted whereas the Left was not.

The “Left”, with the unwitting or perhaps witting help of UniParty-GOP-quislings, had a plan to normalize the rigging of the 2020 election and carried it out flawlessly. Pointing out obvious problems with the way the 2020 election was conducted (as but one example, the many last-minute unlawful changes to voting practices in swing-States) made you an “election denier”; any protesting made you an “insurrectionist,”  etc., etc., etc..

The “campus protests” are just a small taste of what is in store not if, but when, the 2024 election is also stolen. The Left will burn America to the ground to keep power … in the blink-of-an-eye BLM, Antifa, the “college protesters,” etc., etc., etc. will be unleashed on any legitimate organic protests of the sham election. And the resulting mayhem and chaos and destruction will, of course, be blamed by the Regime-media on Trump and his supporters, on the rationale that they caused it by refusing to accept that Biden won the election, justifying intervention by the FBI and other “law enforcement” against any legitimate organic protests of the sham election.

That, my dear bitter-clingers, is the most important takeaway from the campus protests. So while you may not like … indeed may despise … the message/goals of the “campus protests,” you need to admire and respect the Left’s ability to manifest them.

 

 

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As promised in Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over.  And yes there will be a Friday edition too.

Also, please do check out my post highlighting a Bill Whittle video that I re-watch regularly:

Bill Whittle: A Defense of Civilizations – Granite Grok

Let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:

 

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

 

 

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In the Arab world, white women are considered especially valuable sex slave captives.  I read, IIRC by Raymond Ibrahim, how the promises of taking blonde Byzantine women as captives was used as a selling point for the ongoing recruitment of warriors to attack Constantinople.

 

 

 

 

 

I remember a great meme from years ago.  “I don’t have a soul.  I am a soul.  I have a body”.

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent point.  And not just at one campus, but all the campuses.  All uniform.

 

 

 

 

 

What about now, hit man?

 

 

 

 

 

I try to not crack “bad” jokes in general, at least not racial, etc.  Unless it’s a Jewish joke.  Then, I think, I am allowed.

 

 

 

 

 

As I understand it from the trial, yesterday, she was describing in lurid detail the *ahem* relations she had with Trump.  But this is the second letter in which she definitively said she didn’t do anything with him in that way.  I sure hope that Trump’s lawyer is on this like white on rice.

 

 

 

 

 

People opposed said either “Hail Cloward-Piven” or “No comprende” (to be fair, many other languages t00).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

What we’re fighting against.

 

 

 

Objective truth can be damaging to the ego.

 

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Links (some from me, some from my Jarhead friend):

Note – a lot here between me and him.  This seem to be spiraling IMHO.

 

Hakeem Jeffries just confirmed that he controls Speaker Johnson and the House. “The Republicans in the House are a majority in name only.” This is why nothing has changed for the better in America over the last three years. The Uniparty is to blame. – Whatfinger News Summary

Hakeem Jeffries just confirmed that he controls Speaker Johnson and the House.

“The Republicans in the House are a majority in name only.”

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(2) Megan Basham on X: “Google has reportedly taken down this very effective Trump ad for an unspecified “policy violation.” What policy could this possibly violate @Google?? https://t.co/XZ64tADPgM” / X (twitter.com)

Yes, very effective.  Which is why, of course, it’s been taken down.  Can’t have the proles waking up to what the Left has done to this country.  As is this one (from here):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/trump-ad-illegals.mp4

 

 

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WARREN BUFFETT COMPARES AI TO NUKES AFTER SEEING DEEPFAKE DOPPELGANGER Buffet: “I mean, scamming has always been part of the American scene, but this would make me… – Whatfinger News Summary

Been saying for a while now, “public” AI is getting to the point where it takes a very sharp eye to see that it’s fake.  Imagine, for a moment, just how good the AI is that we don’t know about.

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ICYMI: World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Wrecked by Storm Just Before Grand Launch (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

OOH, I don’t want to see this.  OTOH, I have to admit having a Schadenboner at this.

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“crooked Joe” would lead us into World War III? * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

I remember one co-worker, leading up to November 2016, who was terrified Trump would start WW3.  Wonder what she’s thinking now?

As an aside, this prompted some research.  Dem predictions of WW3 were rife with virtually every Republican candidate for multiple election cycles.

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Special Counsel Admits KEY Evidence Tampering in Trump Case; Trump Calls For His Arrest * 100PercentFedUp.com * by M Winger

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s crew is dropping a bombshell!

They’re admitting that crucial evidence in Trump’s classified documents case got tampered with after the FBI grabbed it.

And get this—prosecutors kept quiet about it for a while, which, according to legal experts, is a big no-no.

This revelation could seriously trip up the prosecutors.

Related:

‘Federal Agency Had ‘Pallets’ Of Documents Sent To Mar-A-Lago One Year Before DOJ Raid’; so did these bastards set Trump up? Did the GSA in collusion with Obama & Biden INC. do this? Did 45 know? 45 (substack.com)

I would, absolutely, bet on a set-up.

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Gov. Healey Pours Over $400 Million From Savings To Shelter Illegal Immigrants | WLT Report

Illegals over citizens and legal residents.  Priorities.  Related:

Biden plans to import the Death to America voting block – Flopping Aces

More on migration:

$3.5 Billion Slipped Into Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill To ‘Supercharge Mass Migration From The Middle East’ | ZeroHedge

Why, it’s almost as though importing millions of people who would, by definition, be hostile to us is intentional.

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US slams ‘irresponsible rhetoric’ as Russia orders nuclear drills – Insider Paper

I will keep saying this until I’m either blue in the face, or flash-fried, that this is a grim echo of the lead-up to WWI.  Every country taking every logical step in the face of what potential adversaries were doing… until the shooting became inevitable.

Russia issues military ultimatum to UK — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

Russia can / will only issue so many OR ELSE statements… and then they’ll be forced to follow through.  Or lose credibility.  And this is how it begins…

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Bayou Renaissance Man: When helping others may be hazardous to your freedom

Don’t forget the old adage: “No good deed goes unpunished”.

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Kid, you don’t even KNOW from violence (coldfury.com)

These people have stability privilege.  They have NO IDEA what the world is capable of when civilization falls:

 

 

These Leftards TRULY BELIEVE that, if America falls, all will be rainbows and light and one big global happy family.  Lennon’s IMAGINE writ large.

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Green Blob Tells Government to Spend £30 Billion on Machine to Remove CO2 From the Air – Watts Up With That?

Take away plant food.  What could go wrong?  Related to the climate change cult:

Newly Discovered 90,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Reveal How Much Higher Sea Levels Used To Be (notrickszone.com)

Nature Publication: Researchers Find Arctic Region 10,000 Years Ago Warmer Than Today (notrickszone.com)

Water Vapor Absorbs 84 Times More Radiation Than CO2 … Clouds Drove 89% Of 1982-2018 Warming (notrickszone.com)

Water vapor?  Warmer?  Why, what might have caused that?

What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave (bumped) – American Thinker

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Today’s NYT scratches the surface – Nurse Claire Says

MHO: there is a growing admission in the “beautiful people” circles that the Jab did widespread damage.  I think, I hope, we are on the edge of an awakening.  I just pray Carl Sagan’s warning about bamboozlement gets a drubbing this time.

 

 

More:

John Campbell on the new NYT article back peddling the vaxx – Vlad Tepes (vladtepesblog.com)

In other words, this NYT article starts to look like a fire-escape down from the gallows where these characters are beginning to look like they belong.

What Happened to their Babies? – by Karen Kingston (substack.com)

Pfizer’s FDA submitted data documented that the some of the babies and toddlers experienced fevers of greater than 104 degrees Fahrenheit, seizures (with eye rolling), convulsions, and seizures lasting more than 5 minutes and multiple seizures a day -sometimes a dozen or more, brain damage confirmed by an EEG, hypotonia (limp ‘lifeless-like’ baby), and lissencephaly (“genetically-induced” brain malformation characterized by the absence of convolutions/folds) in babies and toddlers injected with mRNA nanoparticles.

There are no words in any human language sufficient to capture how much I hate pharma for this.  And their pets in government.  But even more so for the people – nurses, doctors, and even parents – who saw this happening and stayed silent.  From here:

Most of us know someone who was injured or killed by the vaccine.

Don’t let them gaslight you into believing that these stories are fake or made up.

Millions injured. Hundreds of thousands dead- and that’s only with a 1% reporting rate on the VAERS database.

This is the reality of the destruction they have caused.
@SoundOfFreedomChannel

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/jab-injured.mp4

 

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Items I Stockpile Because I Don’t Trust the Government – Ask a Prepper

Short of having a yuuuuuge disposable income and years of time, plus a completely-supportive family supporting a prepper life, you’ll never be truly prepared.  Even then it’s iffy.  But even SOMETHING puts you ahead of the average sheeple.

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Democrats Biggest Fear Just Happened by Kevin Jackson (theblacksphere.net)

The Potato is damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.  But he’s counting on the refinement and amplification of the vote fraud machine that got him there.  Related:

Sorry, neo-Nazis: The antisemitic progressive Left is the real threat to US Jews – Michael Freund (jewishworldreview.com)

The fact is that the loudest and most virulent voices of antisemitism are coming straight from the self-proclaimed progressives, who hurl the modern-day equivalent of medieval blood libels against Israel and harass and intimidate Jewish college students.

And that recognition is getting to American Jews.  Finally:

The Jewish vote is up for grabs, and it may decide the election – Caroline Glick (jewishworldreview.com)

Let’s be real.  Most Jews are urban and live in blue hives where blue victories are, essentially a given.

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Warren Buffet Warns That You’re Going to Get a Tax Hike – PJ Media

But… but… but The Potato promised it’d only be THE RICH!  What amazes me is how, time and time and time again the ads say “The RICH will be asked to pay… a little but more” – but it always ends up hitting the middle class.  And yet, people never learn from it.

Paging this Bill Whittle video:

EAT THE RICH! (youtube.com)

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Government mandates that your car ‘monitor’ your behavior – American Thinker

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”

― William Pitt the Younger

Drivers face having ‘mandatory’ speed limiter installed in car from July – Birmingham Live (birminghammail.co.uk)

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Raconteur Report: Oopsie: Confirmation Bias Is Hard On Your Wedding Tackle

Never be diverted from the truth by what you want to believe.  Confirmation bias is a real thing.

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Biden’s description of Japan as xenophobic is ‘unfortunate’: Tokyo – Insider Paper

But… but… but the grown ups are in charge now, right?

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Another reason NOT to have all our healthcare data on the internet:

https://borepatch.blogspot.com/2024/05/kaiser-permanente-shares-user-data-with.html

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Astra-Zenica has finally admitted (publicly) that their Covid-19 vaccines can cause strokes:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/vaccine-manufacturer-finally-admits-to-stroke-side-effect-facts-matter-5640630

And the CDC covered up deaths in the Covid trials, and gave us the “safe and effective” hogwash anyway:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/exclusive-cdc-found-evidence-covid-19-vaccines-caused-deaths-5632265

We need Nuremburg II, and ASAP!

 

 

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This is for my Jewish friends:  You need to get serious about learning self-defense, because the world is a dangerous place, and when something happens, generally YOU are the ONLY person who can offer a defense against violence directed at you (or your family):

How to End the Craziness on College Campuses – PJ Media

Comments on the above:

Instapundit » Blog Archive » RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: How to End the Craziness on College Campuses. “Let’s be clear: I am not rec

And things are getting worse:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/columbia-students-take-over-building-on-campus-as-deadline-to-seize-protesting-passes-5640235

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If you have a “Ring” doorbell, you may be getting some cash back (at the cost of your privacy, of course):

Borepatch: Ring doorbell company fined millions of dollars for privacy violations

Speaking of privacy, the scammers are now using artificial intelligence (AI) to create “deep fakes” of voice, video, even signatures, and then using them to scam you (or others in your family) to send them money.  This is why I do NOT allow my picture to be taken randomly (only by my wife, with a non-web connected camera), and I don’t do any type of social media:

How scammers use AI | Allstate Identity Protection

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The Great Replacement is the GOAL, not just a conspiracy theory anymore.  Here is a 12 minute video given at the CPAC gathering in Hungry by Eva Vlaardingerbroek of the Netherlands talking about it.  NOTE:  Many EU countries are trying to ban this video, because she NAILS it:

Worth the Time to Watch | NC Renegades

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Jeffery Tucker opines on how the CIA is the power that is REALLY running the country:

Does the CIA Run America? | The Epoch Times

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Canada introduces blood-curdling new ‘thought police’ law that would make even Stalin blush… – Revolver News

Relentlessly advancing.  And you think you’ll VOTE your way out of this?

 

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Not to say that I’m eager for SHTF, “Spicy Time”, or whatever you want to call it.  Nor am I eager, with a few notable exceptions, for the Jab-pocalypse to start taking large numbers of people – I pray for those in my life that I value who are Jabbed daily.  Still, cue this famous line from the movie Caddyshack:

Caddyshack – Well? We’re Waiting (youtube.com)

 

 

 

 

 

I say this is deliberate.  Individual minds can only take so much before they start to shut down.

 

 

 

 

More than one Globalist has admitted that GREEN is really a way to push the world to become RED.

Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors

From the blurb:

At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. Green on the outside, red on the inside, the liberty-loathing, humanity-hating “watermelons” of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is an opportunity to create another NITZAKHON QUOTABLE:

 

When you have to build a wall – whether physical or otherwise – to keep people in your “people’s paradise”, then it’s not paradise, but a prison.

— Nitzakhon, 2024

 

And brings up one of my better quotes from times past:

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Peg out the RIDICULE-O-METER!  Brilliant!

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

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Been nailed by this more than once.

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

 

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Israel is preparing to take their battle to obliterate Hamas to Rafa, and this does not sit well with Joe Biden. Even though an aid package for Israel has been approved by Congress and signed by Biden, the President is withholding military equipment from our number one ally in the Middle East.

Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the campaign into Raffa today and sent a subliminal message to Joe Biden. Without mentioning the decision by Biden, Netanyahu told the world that they will continue their mission even if they have to do it alone. Joe Biden is destroying our relationship with Israel, and it is inexcusable but explainable. Joe Biden is more concerned with votes in Michigan than the safety and sovereignty of Israel. Joe Biden should be impeached for abandoning Israel, and where is Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress, with a condemnation of Biden’s actions?

Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have been trying to micromanage Israel’s retaliation against Hamas. As I have written previously, neither of these men is in any position to tell any country how they should handle their military strategy. Biden has political pressure to get Israel to cease this conflict as soon as possible. That is not what Israel needs or wants. They want Hamas gone, just like we wished to have Al-Qaeda gone after 9-11. If any country had attempted to restrict our efforts, we would have told them precisely what Israel is telling us. Thanks, but we have this. Now, get out of our way.

Joe Biden has Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) looking over his shoulder, and he is petrified of her power base in Michigan. Biden already experienced Tlaib’s influence with the Michigan Primary. Tlaib got over 100,000 Democrats to vote for “Anyone except Biden.” If Biden does not appease Tlaib and she pulls the same trick out of her bag for the Presidential election, Biden could very well lose Michigan to Trump.

Tlaib and her followers support Palestinians and want an end to this conflict. They are not concerned with the Hamas invasion of October 7 or the attacks of Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel. Monday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, which recognizes the end of the genocide of Jews by Hitler. At that time, the world pledged, “Never again.” According to Benjamin Netanyahu, “Never again is now.” With this declaration, Netanyahu is committing to all Israelis that Israel is intent on destroying any future threat from Hamas.

Some of Biden’s most lucrative sponsors also fund these illegal encampments and college protests nationwide. Biden is between a rock and a hard place, or to be more specific, he is between votes/money and the best interests of Israel and America. Biden has no spine and concentrates on retaining power and office. He has to get these situations under control before the DNC Convention in Chicago this summer. If not, the optics will harm him badly. When he finally spoke out on the campus unrest last week, he condemned antisemitism but also anti-Islamic words or actions. There has been no anti-Islamic activity in these campus actions, and he was covering all bases. What it showed was weakness.

Biden has to make a decision. He is either going to shut down these college actions and support Israel or satisfy his critics. Even considering a choice is not presidential, and that is why he should not be given a second term.

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Some of you voted, and we’ve got another comment of the week winner!

Congratulations to notoriousBLOG.

Here is that winning comment.

Post: Night Cap: TWENTY (20) Percent Of Mail-In-Votes in 2020 Were Fraudulent
Author: notoriousBLOG

Comment: Three and a half years later and the “truth” that most on the right already knew is being told. What are we to do when Washington is so corrupted that this type of activity is actually orchestrated from the White House and the ABC agencies? The bigger question is will there even be an election this November? What do the powers that be have in store for us this go-round? Will it be another plandemic? Will it be martial law declared to cancel the elections? Or will the puppets find a way to lock up or otherwise eliminate Trump? This is going to be the year that determines the fate of our entire existence as a sovereign nation.

If notoriousBLOG would like to collect a prize for this honor, they can email me at steve@granitegrok.com and provide a shipping address where I can send it!

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This might be a great Town Hall forum question for Democratic candidates. “Is there any problem you can’t fix with a new or higher tax?” I want a list, please, but I sense it would look like that redacted FDA document—a bunch of blank pages. While true, Dems do believe this; they don’t want to admit it publicly.

The government spent a lot of taxdollars to ‘cure’ COVID, and that cure was worse than doing nothing. There ought to be a lesson in that, but no one seems to have learned it, at least not in Massachusetts (Taxachusetts, Massghanistan). They keep electing candidates who think every problem can be solved with another tax.

Governor Maura Healey’s $4 billion housing bond bill, the state’s biggest-ever investment in its residential stock, includes a provision allowing cities to impose a transfer fee of 0.5% to 2% on property sales exceeding $1 million. The revenue generated would go toward affordable housing projects.

Bloomberg’s headline uses the term Mansion Tax. Have they been to Massachusetts? Peabody, MA, has an excellent multifamily rental for sale for $1.25 mil. A four-bedroom, three-bath, 2300-square-foot home can cost more than a million.

In some towns, you can’t get a three-bedroom two, two-bath ranch for less. Mansions? Seriously?

Supporters, including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and leaders of more than 15 other municipalities, see the transfer fee as a critical tool to address a growing shortage of affordable housing. State Housing Secretary Edward Augustus says Massachusetts needs 200,000 more homes to keep pace with population growth.

“This policy is a win for local governments, but most importantly it is a win for renters and homeowners who have otherwise been priced out,” Augustus said in an e-mailed statement.

Democrats are also convinced that the tax will produce something other than well-fed camp followers once collected. It also makes Mass less desirable, a place to live and invest for people who can barely afford that 2300 square foot home.

Critics argue that the additional tax would burden commercial property developers already facing high vacancy rates, particularly in office buildings, and could lead to a decrease in overall real-estate tax revenue. Vacancy rates for office space are on the rise in Boston, Cambridge and surrounding suburbs as remote work trends persist. According to Colliers’ first-quarter market analysis, occupancy in Boston’s office market has hit its lowest point since 2010.

Oh, look – a solution!

COVID killed office space leasing, which Bidenomics made worse. Massachusetts’s State-of-emergency Alien Invasion problem is at the heart of the affordable housing rants (or is it the million-dollar 2300 sqft housing problem)? Taxpayers are already paying to put the invaders up in whatever space the state can find (it has even asked residents to house Biden’s invading army in their own homes.

If Developers are unhappy, they should convince the state to use the Mansion tax to rent out the empty office space or, here’s an idea: put them on planes and send them to a country that speaks their language and honors their customs. That would cost a lot less, reduce chaos, and you wouldn’t need a new tax.

But we wouldn’t want any of that, would we?

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