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“Been There, Done That”

Mon, 2024-01-22 23:00 +0000

Florida Republican Congressman Byron Donald says: “ Trump has been there and done that!” Let’s see why: Trump secured the Southern and Northern borders. No Republican candidate has done that. Biden has allowed 10 million illegals (80% of military age) to infiltrate the United States and plans to continue this invasion. Nikki opposed the wall.

Trump unleashed American energy, headed to world energy domination. No Republican has done that. Biden destroyed our energy independence, not to mention Trump’s march to world energy domination.

Trump introduced $2.00 per gallon and 2% inflation. No Republican primary candidate has done this. Under Biden, food prices have risen 33.7%, energy 32.8%, shelter 18.7%.

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Trump corralled China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The Trump Tariff raised billions of dollars for the Treasury and convinced businesses to come home with his tax reduction plan.

Trump moved the U. S. embassy to Jerusalem, which every president since the 1950s promised but never did.

Trump exposed the vipers and vampires of the Federal “ Deep State” Bureaucracy and will eliminate them when re-elected.

Senators Mike Lee, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, together with 106 House Republicans and 22 other US Senators, have endorsed Trump because of his accomplishments as POTUS and Trump’s dedication to the rule of law. These Senators know Trump cannot be intimidated or bought. Trump is America First.

So on January 23, 2024, I urge New Hampshire voters to send our fellow Americans a message and vote Trump because Donald John Trump has “ been there and done that”! Our children’s and grandchildren’s futures depend on your vote. The State that started our nation has the opportunity to be the State that saved our Nation.

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Is Fetterman Going To Make Us Look Foolish

Mon, 2024-01-22 21:00 +0000

I was disappointed, confused, and even angry when John Fetterman continued his campaign for Senator from Pennsylvania in 2022 after suffering a stroke. The stroke hampered Fetterman’s ability to speak or think clearly. He needed a teleprompter to read reporters’ questions or the Senate Chamber proceedings.

It did not appear that the candidate stood a chance against Republican Dr. Oz, but he won handily, and it looked like the voters of Pennsylvania had elected a damaged man. There was also the situation with Fetterman’s choice of attire. He opted out of traditional dress suits in lieu of shorts, hoodies, and sneakers. There was an effort to rewrite the Senate dress code to allow the Freshman Senator to sit in the chamber in his relaxed garb, but the Senate came to its collective senses and told John to get dressed or stay in his office. He dressed.

There was no secret as to Fetterman’s political leanings. He was undoubtedly more aligned with Bernie Sanders than Joe Manchin. His leanings, health issues, and disregard, or disrespect, for the Upper House did not endear him to Republicans who thought he stole the election from Oz. His performance in his debate with Dr. Oz was embarrassing, and he checked himself into a facility for treatment of intense depression. Nobody would bet on him serving out his first term. They may all be wrong.

John Fetterman will always describe himself as a Progressive. Still, his comments, stances, and criticism of the Squad and all Radical Leftists have given people, including myself, cause to take a second look at the former small town Mayor. Fetterman claims the Progressives have left the mainstream Democrats, and three issues in particular have separated Fetterman from the Progressive wing: Defunding Police, Israel, and the Border. These issues must be very strong as they are pushing the huge Senator toward the middle.

Fetterman is becoming a go-to member of the Democrat Party and is holding his own. It looks like prayers have been answered, and Fetterman is on the road to a full recovery. Even people like me, who thought he was a mockery of the Senate, hoped the man would recover from his stroke and bouts of depression. His becoming a moderate Senator is something many may have prayed for but held little hope of being answered.

Some of the issues that Fetterman has spoken out on are the chaos at the Border. Sen. John Fetterman lobbied for securing the U.S. southern border, telling CNN on Friday that 300,000 illegal immigrants attempting to enter the country are blocking legal migrants from their “American dream.” This comment flies in opposition to the Progressive policy of no borders. He also has asked that Robert Menendez be held accountable for his ethics violations. His support of Israel is in conflict with the Progressives who support Hamas and Hezbollah.

Fetterman will support and do what he can to bring Pennsylvania in for Joe Biden and his reelection campaign, but he has let it be known that he disagrees with many of the Administration’s policy positions. He may prove down the line to be as difficult for the Democrat Party as Joe Manchin has been. If that is the case, you will see Democrat support for Fetterman’s reelection a feeble effort. In the long run, it may be more than the Progressives walking away from Fetterman; you may see them eat one of their own.

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GUN CONTROL ALERT – Michael Bloomberg’s Red Flag Bill

Mon, 2024-01-22 19:00 +0000

From the Women’s Defense League of NH

On Thursday, January 25th at 1:30 PM, a hearing is planned in the Senate Judiciary Committee for Michael Bloomberg’s Red Flag bill, aka ‘Extreme Risk Protection Orders’ (Senate Bill 360).

This legislation is some of the most draconian gun control legislation to ever be presented in the NH Legislature. Bloomberg’s organization has already spent over $1 MILLION to push NYC-style gun control in one of the safest states in the country.

Red Flag laws violate our 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendment rights that are supposed to be protected by our legislators. Even New York’s Red Flag law was struck down by their Supreme Court. Yet gun controllers continue to push the very same laws in the Granite State.

They claim these laws are about safety, but they literally have nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with gun confiscation. They are discriminatory laws that are only applied to law-abiding gun owners. They are laws that allow ‘thought police’ to make assumptions about what a person might do, sometime in the future.

You can find more detailed information and research about Red Flag laws here: www.stopredflaglawsnh.org.

What can you do? Show up to the hearing. Bloomberg’s out-of-state funded organization already sends people from various states in New England. Granite Staters in the 2A community must show up in force! Arrive earlier than the 1:30 timeline as the other hearings may finish sooner and to be sure to get a seat. The committee room isn’t very big.

You can also email and/or call the Senate Judiciary Committee Members to show your opposition to the legislation:

First Name Last Name Email Address Phone
Daryl Abbas Daryl.Abbas@leg.state.nh.us (603) 271-4151
Sharon Carson Sharon.Carson@leg.state.nh.us (603) 271-3266
Shannon Chandley Shannon.Chandley@leg.state.nh.us (603) 271-3092
Bill Gannon William.Gannon@leg.state.nh.us (603) 271-3077
Rebecca Whitley Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us (603) 271-3092

You can also sign in against the bill on line. An example is below: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/remotecommittee/senate.aspx

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MONDAY MEMES

Mon, 2024-01-22 17:00 +0000

I may up the memes per post, at least temporarily, as I have a surfeit of them – I don’t want them to get stale.  And note today’s just before the FITN primary Nikki section!

Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition.  Last week’s Friday Edition.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

  1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
  2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
  3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

 

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

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Special FITN NIKKI Section!

 

 

 

Nikki Haley The Democrat’s Trojan Horse | Armstrong Economics

 

 

And kinda related – I was going to vote for Trump before anyway.  But this?  Icing.  If he does it of course – I expect TPTB to fight it tooth and nail, up to and including attempts to take him out.  Whether by jail:

The Fix Is In – Trump Goes To Prison | Armstrong Economics

Or… more permanent methods.

Alex Soros Tweets Out Bullet Hole and 47 — A Direct Violent Threat to Donald Trump! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

And no wonder they hate him:

 

 

They definitely do seem afraid of him – and are smearing him all around:

 

 

And this campaign promise is probably one reason why:

Donald Trump Just Killed The Fed’s ‘Digital Dollar’—While Quietly Leaning Into Bitcoin And Crypto Amid Price Boom (forbes.com)

For this promise alone I’d vote for him.  Nobody else has even mentioned this as far as I am aware.

 

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But… but… but the Great Replacement is a myth.  Our intellectual and moral superiors have assured us so!  More on that – including our betrayal by the GOP Elites:

 

 

Ex-presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama team up, form NGO to help fly more migrants to US (bizpacreview.com)

FLY them in?  And… priorities,right?

 

 

 

I’m not necessarily a “raw foods” person.  But somehow, the more I think about it, cooking foods at that high a temperature can’t result in good things.  MHO.

 

 

 

Do I think there are reptilians hiding here?  No… but I’m a lot more open to just looking at evidence than I was five years ago.  And I will admit – there does seem, IMHO, to be an inhuman-level of long-term planning going on here.  The depopulation effort, among other things, seems to be over decades and even centuries.  Very few human endeavors last that long,  methinks.

 

 

Related – on “Disease X”:

 

 

 

 

 

Fix your own house first – including the actual genocide of white farmers.  “Kill the farmer, kill the Boer” ring a bell?

 

 

 

 

 

I miss Rush.

Remember, this is a religion to them.  They’re missionaries for Marx.  And…

 

 

 

 

 

F yes they should.  And as I keep saying, dipping a finger in indelible ink too once you’ve voted.

 

 

 

 

 

There’s a Yiddish proverb: “Who is happy?  He who is content with what he has”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am still dubious about the “Abraham Accords” – hopeful, but I understand the precedents of treaties in Islam.

 

 

 

 

 

How dare you believe your lying eyes and diminishing purchasing ability.  The State assures you that all is well.

 

 

 

I know far, far too many people who still believe the Jab saved them.

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

 

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I wonder if this actually works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using a less-charged example, I asked my kids if charity is a good thing.  Of course, they replied.  So I painted this scenario for them:

We’re walking down the street and I see someone with a sign saying they need help, and I give a buck.  Is that good?  Of course, they replied.  So what if I was walking with a friend and, after giving that person with a sign, I asked my friend to give a buck.  Is that good?  Asking?  Sure, they said.  So what if I, and that friend, both gave a buck, and hauled out a gun on the third person with us to give a buck as well?  Or even more, we declined to give but we knew they had a lot of cash in their wallet… so we just made them pay.  That’s theft!  Because it’s compelled.

My work here is done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Selected links with comments – some mine, some from my Jarhead friend.

 

Biden Angry With Republicans Trying To Stop Kids Seeing Gay Porn – modernity (bolding in original):

During a radio interview, Joe Biden expressed disbelief that Republicans have a problem with gay porn books being made available to children as young as six years old in schools across the country.

Biden claimed that Republicans are trying to ban books, a tactic that has been repeatedly used to downplay the fact that sexually explicit material and books promoting transgenderism are being placed in school libraries.

“The idea that you can be told that you can’t read certain books. This is the United States of America, for God’s sake!” Biden stated.

Related:

Watch: Joy Reid Argues That Books With Rape And Pedophilia Should Be In Schools – modernity

Survey: Two-Thirds Of Elites Say There’s Too Much Freedom In America – Geller Report

 

They really do see The People as nothing but worker bees milling around producing what they want.  Related, you peasants aren’t allowed to see the Pfizer contracts:

European Parliament votes to keep secret Pfizer contracts withheld from public (dossier.today)

Globalists / Elites in general:

“We Were the Gatekeepers. We Owned the facts as Well” – Watch: Wall Street Journal Chief Editor Whines About Losing Control of the Narrative at Davos | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

BREAKING! WHO Calls for Global Police to Arrest Journalists Who Speak out Against Pandemic Policies: Alex Jones (substack.com)

DOJ Admits Laptop From Hell Was NOT A Conspiracy | Armstrong Economics

This scandal is far more significant than the president’s son engaging in illicit activities with drugs, guns, and prostitutes. This scandal exposes the corruption across the intelligence community – the FBI, CIA, and DOJ are in the establishment’s pocket. Most damning of all, the laptop legitimacy proves Joe Biden’s TREASONOUS dealings with foreign actors. The former Vice President of the United States, now POTUS, sold state secrets for his own profit.

For those interested, this is a treasure trove:

Robert Hunter Biden’s Laptop – Thru The Looking Glass (l00kinglass.com)

FBI knew about ‘School Massacres Discussion’ Discord server that Iowa mass shooter was member of weeks before attack took place: report | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

 

 

Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality | Principia Scientific Intl. (principia-scientific.com)

After Admitting Fatal Flaw in Electric Vehicles, the REAL Green Car Agenda Is Coming Out – The Liberty Daily

In parallel, electric cars also are – apparently – EM radiation zones.  A plus for the depopulationists.  Also, by forcing people to public transportation, it forces people into the cities.  The “15 minute” cities, of course.

Glazov Gang: Roger Stone on ‘Why the JFK Assassination Still Urgently Matters’ | Frontpage Mag

Video interview.

Illegal Alien Threatens Independent Journalist After He Was Asked Where He Was From: “You Find Out Who I Am Very Soon” | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

Oh, that sounds perfectly fine.  Nothing to see here folks.  Related:

10/7 is coming to the US – Gun Free Zone

Amazon Unleashes Program Making Satan ‘the Good Guy’ * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Calling Evil good.

FBI And Secret Service Are Covering Up Their Role In Alleged January 6 “Pipe Bomb” Plot, New Evidence Suggests (substack.com)

Just how widespread is the rot?  It seems like everyone and every agency is utterly compromised.

Lastly:

US Military Released Bacteria to Test Biological Warfare (businessinsider.com)

This is an extensive list of how the US government has experimented on unwitting civilians over decades.

The CIA ran an LSD-fueled brothel – it’s a $10m mansion now | Daily Mail Online

And I’m sure this, too, was Safe and effective:

Texas children sprayed with dangerous pesticide DDT in 1940s clip | Daily Mail Online

And not just the US.  This German thing is… vile beyond imagining:

The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles | The New Yorker

 

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“When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.”

― Patrick Henry

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Ouch.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

I’ll show myself out.

 

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Come back Wednesday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

Please do consider buying me a coffee.

Buy Me a Coffee

 

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The Greatest Showman

Mon, 2024-01-22 15:00 +0000

P.T. Barum claimed to have the greatest show on earth, he was the Greatest Showman as depicted in the movie that was so titled. He was the master of hoaxes and snake oil salesmanship. This is something that Donald Trump has lived his entire life emulating.

While Donald Trump comes on like P.T. Barnum with all-flash, pomp, and circumstances, when you look behind the curtain, you find this man is a lot of show, but it is like a wizard in The Wizard of Oz.

I am not criticizing all the things that he did and tried to do but there were so many things that he promised that were just smoke and mirrors to satisfy the people. These people never looked back at what was never done or even attempted.

He promised to cut spending and promised to make everything more efficient, only to turn around and sign the largest spending bill in the history of the country. If you heard, “Build the wall and Mexico will pay for it,” once you heard it 10,000 times, but very little was done. When they passed the largest Democrat-approved spending bill (7.8 Trillion Dollars), which was signed by Trump, not a dollar was appropriated for the wall.

How many times did you hear “Lock her up” referring to Hillary Clinton, only to see him praising her and Bill after the 2016 election?

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He promised to fix the immigration system, and while he did stem the tide of people coming into the country, his promise to deport illegal immigrants turned into a State of the Union address to provide amnesty to nearly 2 million. At the end of his presidency, he actually deported fewer people than Obama in his 1st term.

Although he denies it now, he shut down the largest economy in the world and believed the lies of the pharmaceutical industry or a huge supporter of theirs, Dr Fauci, when it came to COVID. He continued on when states and governors defied him and opened, and he even begged those states to follow his orders to stay in lockdown.

He promised he would hire nothing but the smartest and the brightest people for all the positions in government, but many of his hires turned out to be fired or left. I guess they were not the best and brightest, or they had the audacity to question him. He, however, did not replace anyone in the FBI and the NSA or any of the other three letter divisions, keeping the holdovers from Obama, who did nothing but investigate him and his family.

When his admirers look at him now, it is like they are still looking at the Fiery Wizard with all the flash, pomp, and circumstances. They just refuse to pull back that curtain and see it is nothing more than an old man pulling the levers of The Greatest Show on Earth.

 

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We Need the Tough Guy

Mon, 2024-01-22 13:00 +0000

I don’t think we have ever seen a candidate for national office who took this much abuse from the mainstream media. It was 96% negative press for Trump. Almost no mention of his tax cuts, his reduction in crippling federal regulations, which brought back manufacturing that Obama had sent to China.

Trump’s Abraham Accord to settle long term grievances in the Middle East. NATO was compelled to live up to the 1949 treaty to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense. Trump made the US energy independent, which grew our economy to its highest level in decades. Unemployment at record lows. Internationally, Trump would meet all our adversaries face-to-face. He knew he was operating from a position of strength, and he was not afraid to tell them potential damages that would befall them should they threaten our country. He dealt with Mexico and Canada and changed the Clinton-era trade deal that was not in the US’s best interest. He also got Mexico to stem some of the cross border illegal crossings.

Now, we see the total corruption that the Democrats have imposed on our federal government. Obama-Biden set the FBI and the DOJ into placing false charges on Trump before he even took office. Trump had to deal with career civil service types who supposedly took an oath to our constitution, but were deliberately making trouble for our elected President. Decades of Democrat control of our federal jobs have poisoned these people to a path of total self-serving and dedication to growing government no matter the cost.

Democrats are totally dedicated to the maxims of Vladimir Lenin. “The same lie told often enough becomes the truth.’ and “Always accuse your opponent of committing your own crimes.”  Democrats are out to destroy our country and our way of life to please the Dictators of the World and the World Economic Forum. Some of our own billionaires are part of this. They all want a Global Economy where they and their chosen elites use the rest of us as obedient serfs.

Only Donald Trump is tough enough and smart enough to stop their campaign. No one person has ever executed as many deals in his favor. He has the long-term view like no one else, and is always several steps ahead of the other party.

There are signs that the majority of our population are wising up to the phony “WOKE” baloney and the economy destroying “Human caused Global Warming Hoax.” Honest scientists are showing the evidence of Solar variations that have been going on for thousands of years. Our consumption of fossil fuels will have less effect on these cycles than a couple of volcanoes. The huge fortunes arrayed against our freedoms will be hard to defeat. I would ask for no greater leader to take on this fight than Donald Trump. He has taken on all the corrupt abusers of our laws and court systems. We need Trump!

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For the Record, Defense of Public Comment

Mon, 2024-01-22 11:00 +0000

There is a disturbing trend at the Public Meetings of the Town Council, in which elected officials have repeatedly opted to take time after the closure of public comment to make inaccurate statements about citizens or events in town. This is a repeated pattern of behavior in which Council members are allowed to make statements, free from public rebuttal or examination, in an attempt to control the narrative surrounding town issues.

At the most recent public meeting of the Town Council on Friday, Jan. 12, the Council Chairman made vague, non-specific complaints regarding what he felt were “inaccuracies” in a “local publication.” Notably, Chairman John Farrell appeared to use this time to deride former Town Councilor Debra Paul, as well, as opposed to limiting his remarks to the content of the paper. This does not seem to be in line with the Council’s suggested rules of order and Chairman Farrell’s own previous statements, in which it was stated that attacks on individuals were not encouraged. Most notably, Farrell did not seem eager to apologize for wasting thousands of taxpayer dollars fighting Mrs. Paul over the release of documents related to Town Manager Mike Malaguti’s frivolous actions against Mrs. Paul. Despite Chairman Farrell’s claims that certain articles were one-sided, the majority of the story he referenced was comprised of court documents, highlighting a nearly nine-month wait through the courts, where, in the end, a judge ruled that the town needed to hand over the document and also pay all attorney fees associated with it.

Farrell also made an incorrect assertion that, in his opinion, the only reason Deb Paul chose to pursue a remedy through the courts was so she could print the sexual harassment letter in the newspaper. Thankfully, the judge did not agree, clearly placing the onus for frivolous behavior on the Town Manager.

Contrary to Farrell’s assertion, the letter was NOT published in this paper, though there were links published on the website to the letter for readers to verify its content. The story that was written at the time focused on the judge’s decision.

The Chairman also made references to an investigation that the town conducted into these matters but falsely claimed that Mrs. Paul was privy to the fact that an investigation was ongoing at the time; she was not.

Chairman Farrell refused to elaborate further.

In our opinion, Farrell has used his gavel repeatedly as a shield to hide behind while he pontificates on his version of the truth.

If the town felt that articles in the paper were inaccurate, they could have taken the opportunity we provide to request a correction to be run. It is noteworthy that this paper has not received any requests regarding the story being referenced.

It is clear that as long as Mr. Farrell is sitting in the Chairman’s seat, he will continue to try and “control the narrative” without allowing folks in opposition a chance to respond.

For us, as long as we continue to publish the Londonderry Times, we will continue to give folks a voice in the “letters to the editor” section.

The editorial is in response to comments made by Chairman Farrell at the 1/12/2024 Council meeting.

 

 

It’s important to note that Councilor Farrell Chose NOT to address the other comments made during public comment. Those comments are below.

 

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