Members of the Apple cult who were hoping to one day drive their iteration of an Electric Vehicle will be disappointed. After dropping billions into an effort to one day compete with Tesla Motors, The Tech Giant has cut the plug-in cord.

Apple wanted to develop new battery technology that would dramatically cut the cost of electric vehicles and wanted to develop software that would make their cars fully self driving. …

The news comes after Apple said last month that it was pushing back its timetable for debuting its electric car from 2026 to 2028, which comes as the electric vehicle market has fallen off significantly in recent years due to a wide range of consumer concerns.

What no one ever seems to say is Apple, despite its braintrust, easy access to China, and billions of dollars, couldn’t make it work. There was no path to a more affordable battery pack technology. They also didn’t say why, at least not in the reporting I found: inflation and the price hikes created by false demand.

Government policy has driven the development and manufacture of Electric Vehicles for which the general public has no use, even if they could afford one. The recent glut of inventory and an almost institutional retreat by car makers is back in the driver’s seat, with Apple not being alone in wasting billions. Domestic EV makers have reported similar losses from making EVs. Unions have expressed anger at the changing dynamic EVs bring to autoworkers who have lost jobs, pay, and opportunity. It’s gotten so bad that one government, Joe Biden’s, has decided the impending and inescapable planetary doom that precipitated their EV demands can wait until after the next election.

The New York Times reported earlier this month that the Biden administration was preparing to ease its push to force EVs onto American consumers as consumer demand for the vehicles remains low, dealerships have expressed serious concerns, and automakers have had to cut production and revamp production of gas vehicles.

The report said the move was a “concession to automakers and labor unions” from the administration, as it was forcing “limits on tailpipe emissions” to force Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to more expensive electric vehicles

It might be a useful bit of political art to remind voters that we were told we couldn’t wait until we could and that should you fall for this sleight of hand and vote for Democrats despite their crimes against common sense and the economy, they put the screws to you the minute they get back into office.

Their preferred priorities are a dead end that is voting them trillions.

 

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There are many things a local, state, and federal government can do for its people, from ensuring clean, drinkable water and road maintenance to police and fire protection to border security. But there are some elements of life that the government should avoid, and Portland, Maine, is considering crossing the line on two of them. The city of Portland is considering a Universal Basic Income (UBI) for all residents and an ordinance to increase the minimum wage in the city to $20 per hour. Both are terrible ideas that will harm local businesses and stifle the work ethic of an already stagnant workforce.

The problem with these suggestions begins with the premise. The Portland, Maine City Council’s Housing and Economic Development Committee is modeling its 2024 Plan on the implementations of Portland, Oregon. Portland, Oregon, is one of the most progressive cities in the country, and its policies are so toxic that there is an active movement for the more conservative eastern region of the state to secede from Oregon and join neighboring Idaho. This effort to secede includes portions of Northern California that do not align with the more progressive Southern California.

The Portland, Maine Council points to a pilot program of the Quality Housing Coalition that gave a UBI of $1,000 a month to a group of 20 mothers for one year. The site outlines the program, which started in 2023 but does not detail its results. The program includes training for those receiving the benefit, but not whether this is designed to be a bridge program or a renewable subsidy.

Setting up a UBI program, which was initially the idea of Democrat Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, is rife with potential opportunities for fraud and, as stated earlier, inhibits a person’s need to work. Though $1,000 a month is not a living wage, it might keep someone out of the full-time workforce at a time when workers are needed in every sector of the economy.

The minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage for a family, but that is what Democrats are trying to create. Recently, a California Senate seat candidate suggested a statewide minimum wage of $50, which would be a yearly total of $104,000. The thinking is that this is needed to support a small family in California. Can you imagine the cost of a Happy Meal or a pizza if the person making it was paid $50/hour? Wages should be set by the free market and not by the government. Arbitrarily setting a high minimum rate to give the appearance you are working for the people is destroying small businesses, which actually are helping people.

This trend toward a Socialist government, which involves itself in every aspect of life, has to be shut down. Pro-government must be replaced with pro-people and pro-business. We must get Americans back to work instead of their mailbox to get their paycheck. Since COVID, the new jobs created nationally have been filled predominantly by non-American-born workers. This trend is contradictory to what the government is attempting to control. The immigrants are filling the jobs at lower wages than Americans. At the same time, the government wants to regulate minimum wages. It is a vicious cycle that the government should pull out of.

One more quick example of a government idea gone wrong is the plan by Brunswick to house illegal aliens relocating to Maine. Maine allocated nearly $3.5 million to provide apartments in five new buildings in Brunswick to 60 illegal immigrant families. This amount breaks down to $58,333 per family that is in our country illegally. There are over 200 homeless veterans living in shelters or on the streets of Maine. Most efforts to eradicate veteran homelessness are donation-based. It appears our priorities are very messed up.

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Rumor has it that mindless Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech will include a new deflection from his complicity in the shitshow that is the American economy. The guy who swore to end fossil fuels (no matter what…it would do to the economy) appears ready to blame greed for what ails us.

And I must admit, I agree, but not in the intended context of Joe’s handlers.

No one has taken advantage of their position to spend other people’s money like Joe Biden. Since he took office, the Government has pig-piled trillions in new debt onto the backs of children and grandchildren who didn’t have a vote and have yet to earn a dime. Add in the debt service on that profligate spending, and the notion that Joe can come up with a better example of corporate malfeasance than what he and his Government have done seems unlikely.

Taking advantage of your position to misuse trillions of other people’s dollars to pursue your self-interests is about as greedy a thing as I can imagine.

Only the Government can abuse people that way and get away with it. The Bidenistas also think they can get political traction with another trial balloon phrase – shrink-inflation.

On Friday, Politico reported that Team Biden is strongly considering making snack-food shrinkflation — “fewer chips in the bag,” as Joe said — the magnificent centerpiece of Joe Biden’s belated State of The Union speech on March 7th. I realize that idea sounds more like an SNL sketch than a real plan. It’s literally unbelievable that the leader of the free world would target smaller processed food packages as America’s primary problem.

The problem with this approach is not that the bag has fewer chips, but why? Government debt-driven spending sprees incorrectly counted as GDP make this record-setting act of generational theft look good on paper while devaluing every dollar, making everything exponentially more expensive. If the chip makers want to make any money to stay in business in this environment, they either take a few chips out of the bag or start charging a lot more.

Maybe Joe could talk about the academic shrinkflation of public schools. The schools themselves swell with staff and bloating budgets, but there is less education than ever. And it’s not just schools; every aspect of Government takes more, costs more, makes things cost more, costs even more thanks to inflation, and gives less.

Shrinkflation is what you did to the dollar, Joe. You shrank its value. We’re lucky there are chips or a bag to put them in.

And Joe’s Democrat replacement will be able to pretend whatever Joe did was none of their doing, but Joe is still operating on the assumption he is running for re-election. That is not true, though I doubt anyone has told him. His name is on the Democrat primary ballot, but it is little more than a placeholder, much like those signs progressive protesters had with a blank space to write the name of whoever Trump nominated to the Supreme Court. Gorsuch? How do you spell that – Hey, hand me the Sharipe. Until they break the news about Joe 2.0, why not keep using Joe as a trial balloon alongside whatever bit of progressive wordsmithing the DC Dungeoun narrative mills can concoct? Something might stick. After all, they want to keep the election in November close enough so that when they steal it, it doesn’t look as obvious as it did in 2020.

Sure, they got away with that one, and yes – they’d love a full-blown civil war, curfews, and a reason to roll out all those BearCats Obama sold to your local PD when he was President, but it would be easier if they could steal it to protect their political greed.

Greed is precisely the problem, and Joe blaming it on anyone but himself and the Government is more of a Democrat projection.

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This is an assertion of a history of racketeering and Ponzi Schemes relating to the attorneys and non-profits involved in the YDC cases. Attorney General John Formella sought $100 million of public funds to pay for claims against the State for victims of YDC abuse. David Vicinanzo states that he was one of the lead attorneys to seek it.

According to 169- C 3:
VII. “Child placing agency” means the department, Catholic Charities of New Hampshire, Child and Family Services of New Hampshire, or any successor organization.

David Vicinanzo and Nixon Peabody have served as legal counsel to the Diocese of Manchester, which covers Catholic Children’s Services and Catholic Charities.

Gordon MacDonald, New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, was also employed by Nixon Peabody and was also counsel for the Diocese of Manchester.

Together, David Vicinanzo and Gordon MacDonald handled hundreds of cases involving alleged child abuse for the Diocese.
Francis Talbot was a longtime chaplain at the YDC. He was accused of sexual abuse at the Diocese and convicted. He was not charged with sexual abuse at the YDC. I believe that David Vicinanzo and/or Gordon MacDonald or their colleagues at Nixon Peabody would have been involved in his case in 2002.

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Rule 1.7 requires Attorneys to reveal if a conflict of interest exists. I do not believe that David Vicinanzo or Gordon MacDonald have revealed this with regard to the YDC cases and their representation of the Diocese of Manchester, which included Catholic Charities and priests who had been accused of sex abuse, such as Francis Talbot – a Chaplin at YDC.

I believe there should be an investigation into quid pro quo arrangements when it comes to David Vicinanzo, who also claims that he provides “pro bono” legal counsel to the NHCADSV to whom his ex-business partner Gordon MacDonald referred plaintiffs of YDC abuse after he’d dismissed the initial case for “victim negligence.” David Vicinanzo and Nixon Peabody then joined Russ Rilee in the claims against YDC. It would be logical to assume that his client, the NHCADSV, introduced him.

It would be logical to assume that between he and his client, it was arranged for Timothy McLaughlin at Shaheen & Gordon to threaten me with a defamation suit to withdraw statements I had made about the NHCADSV and Amanda Grady Sexton being involved, with other public officials and attorneys, in a “kids for cash” type scheme.  The NHCADSV has stated that they brought on Brian Harlow, a victim of Diocese of Manchester abuse, on the 10th anniversary of the Diocese investigation/Spotlight to increase their business. Brian Harlow came from non-profit SNAP. The Executive Directors of SNAP resigned after a whistleblower highlighted a kick back scheme with attorneys.

David Vicinanzo gave political donations to Ovide Lamontagne, Kelly Ayotte, John Sununu, Chris Sununu, John Stephen inter alia:

From Wikipedia:
As an attorney for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester, Lamontagne negotiated the 2003 settlement of the New Hampshire Attorney General’s investigation into the child sex abuse scandal that spared the diocese from being criminally charged. In all, in the period of 2002–03, the diocese agreed to a $15.5 million settlement involving 176 claims of sex abuse.[5][6]

The May 2003 settlement of 61 abuse claims for $6.5 million handled by Lamontagne as counsel for the Manchester Diocese prevented the diocese from being criminally prosecuted. In December 2002, the diocese had admitted that its failure to protect children from sexual abuse may have been a violation of criminal law, becoming the first diocese in the United States to do so. Under threat of indictment by the New Hampshire Attorney General, Bishop John McCormack signed an agreement acknowledging that the Attorney General office possessed evidence sufficient to win convictions as part of the settlement.[7]

Lamontagne claimed that McCormack and other prominent church members wanted a speedy settlement and, in an example of behaving “pastorally” rather than as a litigant, instructed their attorneys to take a moderate stance and eschew hardline legal tactics. Lamontagne said of the diocese’s legal strategy, “That is not typical in terms of client requests.”[8]

John Stephen introduced the no-bid contract for Maximus Inc. for Medicaid in 2004. Maximus is contracted with Catholic Charities, and Kathleen Kerr, who was legal counsel for the NH DHHS/DCYF for 12 years, joined Maximus Inc. and is on the board. Maximus is contracted with the DCYF and YDC.

The YDC is named after John Sununu, to whom David Vicinanzo also gave generously.

Gordon MacDonald dismissed David Meehan et al.’s claims against the State for child abuse at the YDC for “victim negligence”. He then referred plaintiffs to the NHCADSV, who are David Vicinanzo’s clients. Then joined Russ Rilee and convinced Gordon MacDonald’s successor, John Formella, to get approval for $100 million. Nixon Peabody is seeking 40% of each claim they make. The NHCADSV I believe are also to receive a portion of each settlement as they did in Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth filed by Chuck Douglas and Steven J Kelly Esq who also filed several suits against St Paul’s School while David Vicinanzo represented members of St Paul’s Faculty.

David Vicinanzo praised Judge Richard McNamara’s decision to keep the Grand Jury Criminal Investigation Report private. His client who had petitioned for it – the NHCADSV – got a contract with the school out of it.

David Vicinanzo also represented Phillips Exeter Academy when the DCYF admitted to deleting files of sex abuse at the school. His client, the NHCADSV, got a contract out of it.

When Catholic Medical Center was forced to pay $3.8 million for a kickback scheme revealed by a whistleblower, Chuck Douglas stepped in to represent the whistleblower.  Catholic Medical Center falls under Catholic Charities as well, and former Monsignor Edward Arsenault (who pled guilty to defrauding the Diocese of Manchester, CMC, and a dead priest’s estate) had been responsible for increasing the business for Catholic Charities and CMC. That means that he was responsible for increasing business for Nixon Peabody and Divine Millimet and John Stephen, who’d introduced Maximus and had a consulting company that is down the block from Nixon Peabody. David Vicinanzo had made political contributions to Ovide LaMontagne of Divine Millimet and to John Stephen.

Nixon Peabody has been involved in a couple of National Ponzi Schemes. At least one of them using public funds. The law firm was founded in 1999. David Vicinanzo and Gordon MacDonald joined. The Diocese cases quickly ensued. James F McLaughlin was the police officer. Edward Arsenault was the “compliance” officer, personally arranging 250 settlements according to his bio, and Chuck Douglas was filing many of the claims.

Chuck Douglas was New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice when John Sununu was Governor. Chuck Douglas allegedly ordered a teenage girl back to YDC after the State had paid for her to have an abortion. In Chuck Douglas’ divorce proceedings from Caroline Douglas, she accused him of financial fraud and spoke of the “club” of attorneys and judges. They are the same club today as they were in 1999. And they are protecting James F McLaughlin, attorneys, non-profits, and AGs who have all benefitted from the Diocese cases, the St. Paul’s School cases, and the Phillips Exeter Academy cases.

Not one of these is asking for a Grand Jury Investigation into the YDC. The DOJ funds UNH for research and policy regarding child sex abuse. The centers have been operating in one form or another since 1978. The DOJ has funded the New Hampshire Justice system for the prosecution of youths. The NHCADSV endorsed former juvenile prosecutor Paul Havorsen to become DA for Merrimack County. He had sent children to YDC, where they were abused.  Forty years after the UNH center was formed, the Office of Child Advocate came into existence.

In a few months, it published a report on the extreme abuse of children at YDC. UNH never did this. Is it because the YDC is a sexual and mental abuse research center? Is it because the abuse of children at facilities that fall under Catholic Charities or the DCYF can have their data taken and become studies for UNH, whose chair is Alex Walker, who is also Chair of the Catholic Medical Center and represented the Diocese of Manchester with Ovide LaMontagne?

How can you assure the public that Nixon Peabody’s representation of the YDC cases, St Paul’s School faculty, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Diocese of Manchester were not Ponzi schemes benefitting attorneys and non-profits in a small club that included Chuck Douglas, the NHCADSV, the AGs office, Edward Arsenault, James F McLaughlin, and DCYF?

Should the public be the first ones to foot the bill for the $100 million in claims of sex abuse or the people in the club above who have profiteered?  These attorneys have dozens of companies, properties, and shell companies. Two of Nixon Peabody’s partners are on the board of directors for Primary Bank, which is the bank for Children’s Advocacy Centers. The bank’s directors are also heavily involved in Catholic charity-related businesses.

Please investigate Ponzi schemes before the public is defrauded. The FRM Ponzi scheme under Kelly Ayotte’s tenure as AG involved the Banking Department and other public offices. The AG’s office has withheld information on the cover-ups of YDC abuse. I understand that victims are unable to access their medical records from the doctors they were sent to see while at YDC. These doctors were affiliated with the Catholic Medical Center/Charities.

There must be a clear and transparent investigation before the public is further defrauded. The money came to New Hampshire for child services. It was used for everything but the protection of children.  AG Gordon MacDonald dismissed Anna Carrigan v New Hampshire. What is going on?

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Hillsdale College, located in Hillsdale, Michigan, is the premier bastion of classical freedom-loving American no-compromise higher education.
It offers free, noncredit online courses by its faculty. These online versions are based upon those in the College’s undergraduate core curriculum, which all Hillsdale students must complete prior to graduation.

In addition to lectures, these online courses feature readings, study guides, quizzes, and discussion groups. There is also an opportunity to receive certificates of completion for each course.

For more information on, and to sign up for, the free online courses, go to www.hillsdale.edu and click on the Online Courses” tab at the top of the home page.

ABOUT HILLSDALE COLLEGE

Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 by men and women who proclaimed themselves “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the prevalence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety in the land,” and who believed that “the diffusion of sound learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.”
Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit in its charter any discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin. Associated with the anti-slavery movement from its earliest days, it attracted to its campus anti­ slavery leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Edward Everett, who preceded Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. Several of the College’s leading men were instrumental in founding the new Republican party up the road in Jackson, Michigan, in 1854. And Hillsdale sent a larger percentage of its students to fight for the Union in the Civil War than any other American college or university except West Point. Two of those Hillsdale veterans helped carry Lincoln’s casket to the slain president’s final resting place in Springfield, Illinois.
Hillsdale’s modern rise to national prominence began in the 1970s, when the federal government attempted to impose a host of regulations on the College-including racial quota requirements that violated Hillsdale’s principled policy of nondiscrimination. When the Supreme Court upheld these regulations in the 1980s on the basis that Hillsdale students received federally funded grants and loans, the College decided to refuse even this indirect form of federal aid, replacing all federal student aid with privately funded grants, loans, and scholarships.

Hillsdale’s Board of Trustees pledged first that the College would continue its long­ standing policy of nondiscrimination, and second that it would not accept any encroachments on its independence. It is a pledge that has been renewed several times in subsequent years and stands to date.

Today an independent, coeducational, residential liberal arts college with a student body of some 1,460 undergraduates, the College continues to carry out its original mission. With a core curriculum that comprises about one-half of courses a student needs to graduate, Hillsdale maintains its strong fidelity to the liberal arts.

In its outreach, too, the College teaches those same ideas that advance “civil and religious liberty.” Its many programs include the Center for Constructive Alternatives, one of the largest college lecture series in America; the Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence, which holds seminars for high school teachers of civics and history; the National Leadership Seminars; the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, in Washington, D.C.; and Imprimis, a monthly newsletter that reaches over 4 million people. Opened in the fall of 2012, the Hillsdale College Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship offers an M.A. and a Ph.D. in politics.

For more information about Hillsdale College, and to obtain a free subscription to the Imprimis monthly, please visit www.hillsdale.edu

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Though this article is designed for the Ward 2 voter/reader, Alderman Dowd’s chairmanship is ultimately a citywide product.  Alderman Wilshire was given the gavel by the body of 15.  That’s nine wards with one alderman apiece plus six members elected at large. Keep in mind that there was an opportunity to remove some of those 6 in addition to the mayor.

Prior to the November 2023 election, I learned that Dowd was not held in high esteem by his condo community.  As his opponent, I gave that neighborhood some extra attention while out canvassing, then wrote this article about some condo association dirty laundry I learned more about while talking to well-engaged members of that community.

I was bent on removing that old fixture and fueled by my anger against his Mask Madness and big spending modus operandi; the latter being a big part of the resulting “Property Tax Tyranny.”

Last night’s meeting offered much to observe and take note of.  It’s almost 2 hours long, but I encourage you to watch the public comments that are in the very beginning.

You could call it “3 WATCHdog Night” because the first 8 minutes were comments by three local women who almost don’t need any introduction: Laura Colquhoun, who recently wrote this article; Laurie Ortolano, who also speaks a 2nd time during a separate public comment at 1:41:35 to 1:44:35, and does hold her own as a Grokster, and Paula Johnson, who was recently ousted in a school recount and is planning to appeal recent litigation against the City that did not go favorably.

They tore it up!  Good job, ladies.

I’ll give you the brief Jim Rice NESN desk summary.  It became obvious that Alderman Dowd, as chair, knew about the ESSER funds shortfall BEFORE the election, and some of his ilk just started learning how bad only lately.  For a detailed, play-by-play review of last night’s clown show, stay tuned in beyond the 9th minute when Alderman Sullivan asks questions.  One very nasty member of The Swamp, who has been exceptionally hostile to Laurie Ortolano in the past, started questioning Dowd also though as a way of pretending to want accountability to his constituents.  What a phony!

Watching the enemy camp eat its own is very gratifying, though only fleeting, but I will finish with this montage here because elections really do have consequences.

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Here’s something that blows my mind.

On the one hand, conservative parents continue to fight over the issue of pornographic books in school libraries.

But on the other hand, they continue to send their children to a political institution controlled by woke progressives.

An institution that is being given access to those children, 6 hours a day, 180 days a year, during the most impressionable years of their lives.

That’s 13,000 hours that progressives can use to weave their agenda into the subject matter of every lesson and activity — to say nothing of countless opportunities to provide personal ‘guidance’ to the students who have been placed in their care.

If you’d like a preview of how this comes out, read Xi Van Fleet’s excellent book, Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning, in which she lays out some pretty startling parallels between Mao’s cultural revolution in China during the 1960s and 1970s, and the one that’s going on here in America right now.  (Or, if you’re short on time, watch her recent interview with Tucker Carlson.)

If you’re a conservative, the problem you need to be working on isn’t removing pornographic books from the school libraries. It’s removing your kids from the schools — at least if you would like them to grow up with your conservative values.

As someone said, if you send your kids to Caesar to be educated, it’s silly to complain when they come back as Romans.

And in case you’re thinking that the public schools can be reformed, or reclaimed, or reconstituted, or retooled, or repaired, just remember:

Any taxes you pay can and will — sooner or later — be used against you.

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, or if you share an individual meme or link, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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

 

 

Whether a laugh, a warm feeling, or a cold slap of truth.

 

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And no repercussions.  Of course.  When people see – blatant, in your face – differences in how laws are enforced, they lose faith in the entire system.  Which is the point, of course.

 

 

 

 

Are you f*cking kidding me?????

 

 

Yes, I question the whole DEI involvement, but something seems awry.  My “paranoid antennae” are twitching on the sudden step-change uptick in this – could this be deliberate to get people to not want to fly?  If that’s true, expect other types of airplanes to start developing problems too.

 

 

 

 

I suspect she’s holding on hoping Trump gets taken down by the lawfare.  Then she can present herself as the “logical” replacement.

 

 

I remember a while ago searching for images of “X couples”.  X = White, Black, Hispanic, Asian.  You guessed it.  The latter three were as you’d expect.  The White one was virtually all mixed race.

 

 

By this standard, most of the GOP sucks canal water.

 

 

 

Speaking of:

Explain Why Obama, Admitting He’s Running Biden, Is Released – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

 

 

 

 

Combines with this:

 

 

You must remember – most people don’t want their calm, stable view of the world disturbed.  They don’t want to believe that there are truly dark and evil people in this world.  They want to live – per the TV show – in the sunlit side of reality, and flat-out deny there is a dark side.  And while I don’t normally intersperse videos anymore, this is spot-on truth-in-fiction:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/octagon-quote.mp4

 

 

 

 

What Is Caesar’s And What Is Mine? – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

 

 

 

 

Estimated net worth $680 million.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s that definition of insanity again?

 

 

Beware confirmation bias.  A line from the scifi book DUNE is appropriate: “Hope clouds observation”.

 

 

Speaking of “diversity”:

Bayou Renaissance Man: Importing crime

 

 

 

 

 

In my case, same household.

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

 

 

The “whales” seem to be fleeing the market.  IIRC Bezos is up to $6 billion in sales.  Why?  And what to make of this:

 

 

I do not recall, EVER, seeing any similar warning about prior eclipses.  Do you?

 

 

What’s coming?  Don’t forget, there really is a market for “ultra-rich people” getting bunkers.

Platinum Series – Atlas Survival Shelters

Inside Luxury Bunkers Where Ultra-Rich Prepare for Doomsday (businessinsider.com)

Nor should you forget our “good and dear friend” giving us this warning:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cyber-attacks-next.mp4

 

Concluding:

Bayou Renaissance Man: A reminder: why we should be storing food

Fascinating – I got this warning:

This post may contain sensitive content. In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Community Guildelines.

I’ve NEVER had to sign in to open his posts before.

 

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Others have noted it too.  Odd how they all – just about – seem to be swimming in money by the time they leave office.

 

 

See my comment above about not wanting to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember one “researcher” making some kind of “bug milk” ice cream and handing out samples.  Then, telling them what it was after they’d eaten it, and being insufferably pleased about it.

 

 

 

 

Generations and generations and generations.  This is their FAITH, remember?  And in parallel with that, their FAITH that they are made from finer clay and thus deserve to be at the top.

 

 

Peter Grant challenged me on Gab about this.  I do remember hearing a voice recording of this, so I do believe it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll give him credit for a lot of judges.  But ultimately, he’s a swamp creature.

 

 

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

 

Embalmers are Continuing to Find Mysterious Clots in the Vaccinated (midwesterndoctor.com)

Kind of technical, but… the overarching thing to me is how – HOW – in the face of these “calamari clots” that nobody’s ever seen before, there’s no mass interest in WHY they’re suddenly being seen.  But then, there’s the axiom:

You cannot get someone to see something, when their paycheck depends on them not seeing it.

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To Understand The Globalists We Must Understand Their Psychopathic Religion – Alt-Market.us

Long and thoughtful.

And I will argue that one prime reason they argue that there are no souls, and no divine sparks, is because they fear death – and thus believe they can just transfer their minds to a computer and live forever.

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Yes, they really are that stupid and evil. – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

On guns, or anything else, they speak from ignorance and propaganda without thinking.

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Vahid Beheshti: My Plan to Bring Down the Iranian Regime :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)

Cue Saruman voice: “If the West stands firm to support the Persian people, the Mullahs will fall”.  This can only be a good thing.

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Will Dems Steal the 2024 Presidential Election Even If Trump Wins? Count on it and Prepare. – The Lid (lidblog.com)

I’d bet every dime I have that they’ll try.

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Colorado Democrats Kill Bill Penalizing Raping Children – The Lid (lidblog.com)

I don’t want to live here any more.

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Meta’s AI Achieves the Left’s Dream, Makes Donald Trump Disappear (jihadwatch.org)

Holy Orwell, Batman!

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Death of a Nation, Birth of Another – by T.L. Davis (substack.com)

Start planning.

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Yes, Hitler Was a Socialist. – Urban Scoop

 

 

And bringing up an older piece I did:

Hitler’s Missing Speech – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

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“Who Could Be Next”: Top Canadian Pension Fund Sells Manhattan Office Tower For $1, Sparking Firesale Panic | ZeroHedge

This could be the start of an avalanche.

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Aaron Bushnell, Who Burned Himself Alive, Cheered Murder of U.S. Soldiers – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

Vipers in our midst.  Anyone remember that cadet who graduated with this T-shirt on?

 

 

Incidentally, good book:

Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him

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The US Government is actively funding Chinese Gain-of-Function research into bird flu.  First:  I thought this was ILLEGAL, and 2nd, didn’t the last several years teach us that this is a BAD idea?  The only thing I can conclude is that this is deliberate, “in-your-face”, we’re doing it anyway, and SHUT UP Peasants:

Watchdog group uncovers docs showing US govt. now funding more gain-of-function research in China for bird flu | Sharyl Attkisson

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Machine guns are defined as: Pull the trigger & hold it, and the system will continue firing until it runs out of ammo or you let up on the trigger.  Due to the NFA and other laws, since 1984, they are also illegal to make for civilians.  So if you want one legally, be prepared to payout some SERIOUS cash (like $15K-$30K) for a used one (assuming someone is willing to sell), plus tax stamps, a seriously deep background check etc., etc., etc.  Or you can do what the Chinese are doing:  Flooding the criminal market with special (illegal) parts that allow standard, semi-auto guns to be made into machine guns (and the Chinese are selling suppressors, which is ALSO illegal without tax stamps, & lots of paperwork).  The criminals don’t care if their gun is illegal as all He__, in fact, it may make points for them “in the hood”:

‘Blood Money’: How China Is Secretly Arming American Criminals (breitbart.com)

This is an excellent article written in 2014, and it makes an interesting perspective to see how much MORE corrupt the government has become since then:

The Pig Trap « Taxicab Depressions

Also from that site:

 

 

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The FBLie would have us believe that the retail theft in the urban areas is being done by white people.  While I’m sure there are SOME people of all races involved, the vast majority of videos from ACTUAL EVENTS show differently:

https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/ever-wonder-why-the-fbi-didnt-see

London, one of the shining cities of the West, has fallen to Islamic rule.  And thanks to the feckless “leaders” in Britain, not a shot was fired:

Londonistan: Who’s City Is It? – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)

Related:

British MPs are having to hire bodyguards to protect them from Muslim extremists (barenakedislam.com)

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For my Jewish friends:  If you or your children are attending college at a liberal university, I encourage you to get out NOW.  For the moment, the Muslims [and their Leftist allies] are just chanting slogans & breaking windows, but I fear it will soon slide into a full on violence to wipe you out.  Frankly I’m ashamed that this is happening in the United States:

UC BERKELEY: Violent pro-Hamas, anti-Israel Muslim thugs shut down event hosted by Jewish students (barenakedislam.com)

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From the “let them eat cake” department:  Kellogg’s is now advertising helping your food budget by eating cereal for dinner.  There were times in college when my food budget meant peanut butter sandwiches and Raman noodles for most of my meals, but the average family should NOT have to eat cereal for dinner!:

Cereal For Dinner – Kellogg’s CEO Sends Depression-Era Message – Victory Girls Blog

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Regarding the “pipe bombs” from January 6th, 2021.  Amazingly, a 3rd camera that showed the screen was found to have “somehow” panned away from the “scene of interest” during the whole response.  We have a saying in the military:  Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, but 3 times is enemy action.  This makes it look more and more like a set-up by the FBI & The DOJ, turning them into “enemies of the people”.  The question is:  What do we do about it?:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/3rd-pipe-bomb-camera-deliberately-turned-away-from-scene-5595947

 

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Whether it’s eating bugs or going gay/trans or whatever, notice that the marketing is always aimed at kids.  Remember, two famous socialists about kids:

 

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

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The question is NOT why is the Biden-Regime rigging the 2024 election. What did you expect? They rigged 2020 and got away with it … with the assistance and encouragement of NeverTrump ideologues like Mikey Graham, who is still bloviating about how no courts have found voter fraud in 2020.

It is undisputed that the rigging took the form of Big Tech/Regime-media censorship (Hunter Biden laptop), Deep State disinformation amplified by Big Tech and Regime-media (Russia bounties, “suckers and losers”), Zuckerbucks, changes to voting laws in various swing States that allowed unreliable mail-in voting, etc., etc., etc.

Cry harder, Mikey. Did you really expect that the Left would stop rigging elections?

The right question is why … DESPITE EIGHT YEARS of off-and on GOP control of State government under the reign of the mighty Sun-King Chris Sununu … New Hampshire STILL ALLOWS OUT-OF-STATE COLLEGE STUDENTS to decide its elections. And do NOT tell me it’s because the Constitution requires it … other States do NOT allow out-of-State college students to vote in their elections and New Hampshire could do the same.

It is because the NHGOP are incompetent and have a loser-mentality … lose gracefully!

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