Monday • May 13 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
Despite the collapse of the market, rising costs and prices, and the threat to wildlife, the powers that be are moving forward with offshore wind development off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.
Related: Wind and Whales
Part of that process involves a public comment period before offshore leases will be sold for development. If you have questions or comments, this is the time.
During the 60-day public comment period (May 1 – July 1, 2024) on the Proposed Sale Notice (PSN), BOEM will hold a series of in-person and virtual public meetings to describe the different elements of the PSN, answer questions, and collect public comments.
Agendas will be posted in the coming weeks
In-Person Meetings
Open House Meetings: BOEM will host three “open-house” style meetings to allow the public to talk with BOEM’s scientists and other personnel. This informal format allows people to ask questions and share information directly with BOEM employees on the Proposed Sale Notice.
At the meetings, there will also be official presentations followed by an opportunity for questions and answers focused on the Proposed Sale Notice. While the meeting will not be recorded, the Q&A session will be summarized thematically and later entered as a meeting summary on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov. The majority of the meeting time will be focused on providing the public with opportunities to engage directly with BOEM subject matter experts at poster stations.
Attendees can submit official public comments for Regulations.gov, either in writing or via oral recording and transcription at a Comment Station
Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force Meeting: BOEM will host the fourth Gulf of Maine Task Force in Plymouth, MA. This meeting will be in-person and also livestreamed; however, virtual attendees will only be able to watch and listen, and not actively participate.
As with prior Task Force Meetings, agenda sessions will include time for facilitated dialog among Task Force members, both in plenary and table discussions. Members of the public are invited to observe all plenary discussions. The agenda will include significant time for public input. Comments or questions during public input opportunities will be captured in a high-level meeting summary that is entered on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov.
Members of the public interested in submitting individual public comments on the Regulations.gov docket will have the opportunity to do so (in writing or via oral recording and transcription) at a Comment Station.
Virtual Meetings
BOEM will host a series of virtual meetings for various target audiences, ranging from the general public to specific ocean user and stakeholder groups. Members of the public are welcome to attend any of the meetings below, however, user specific meetings will focus conversation on the stated topics and prioritize participation by those from the sector of focus. All virtual meetings will be recorded, with recordings later posted on this web page. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers focused on the Proposed Sale Notice. Comments or questions during public input opportunities will be captured in a high-level meeting summary that is entered on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov; however, we will not be transcribing individual comments during virtual meetings.
Governor Sununu has long been in favor of developing wind off the coast of New Hampshire, and his commission can’t be expected to do anything but nod its collective head.
If you object, or think you do, it’s up to you.
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Gardening to poop? Sounds about right in this week’s edition of Manch Talk. We sing the praises of the volunteers helping to clean our parks, and talk about other crap (literally). Want to improve your health? Start here!
Editor: Lost track of these, with apologies – we’ll get back on our schedule this week.
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I have had my driver’s license ready when I go to the polls to cast my vote for some time now. Longer than it has been required in New Hampshire to vote in any election. I have always believed that the opportunity to vote is one of the most significant rights afforded to citizens in America.
I am proud to present my ID to ensure that my vote is cast by me. It takes so little effort to secure the integrity of my vote.
For generations, there were few options to vote. You showed up in person on Election Day, or if there were extenuating circumstances, you cast an absentee ballot. No electronic voting. Just paper ballots and black pencils. In those days, we felt confident in the election process and knew that only in Chicago did dead people vote!
Voting has become so casual in recent years and only exacerbated by COVID. Absentee ballots are now available for people away from home and anyone who doesn’t want to wait in line on Election Day. Election Day has morphed into Election Week or Month for no significant reason but just because you can. You don’t need to turn your early ballot in at town hall when there are drop boxes all over some towns, like mailboxes. If filling out and delivering your ballot is too taxing, you can call a party worker to help you vote and deliver your ballot for you. This procedure is called ballot harvesting and helps to ruin the election’s credibility.
Many of these voting modifications arose during COVID when people’s mobility was restricted. With COVID in our rearview mirror, there is no need to ease the voting process; ballot harvesting should be stopped, and access to absentee ballots should be rolled back. We need controls on our election system, not rampant opportunities for fraud and abuse.
The Left claims that Voter ID is racist and election interference. These are two separate situations, but both are bogus. There is no foundation that minority groups have more difficult access to legal ID. The Left goes so far as to say that Black people have to travel further to obtain an ID. That is a ridiculous stretch. Adults need ID in America for a plethora of situations. Driving, buying alcohol or tobacco products, cashing a check, and traveling by air are but a few. Blacks use these services as much as their White counterparts. Stop the lousy excuses and get the ID.
The argument for election interference is even a bigger stretch. The number of Black and Brown voters has been increasing exponentially over the last few election cycles. There is no evidence to support that Voter ID inhibits minority voting. None. But there is plenty of evidence supporting voter fraud because of states that do not require IDs to cast your vote.
How about we coalesce and spend our energy on legitimate elections, not ways to bend the rules? If your candidates and policies are strong, you have no need to attack attempts to ensure a fair outcome.
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By the time this reaches the readers, most people will have already known that Jeb announced his retirement, so calling this piece “Jeb’s Senate” is appropriate. Adam Sexton called Jeb the Architect of Medicaid expansion, which is NOT a moniker to be proud of, and the senate voted 24-0 for 2023’s SB 263, a Uniparty item, and Jeb is known for pushing their agenda.
Never forget 2022’s SB 400, that housing bill that got shoved into the parking garage House bill. Jeb said the Damn Emperor requested SB 400. Jeb also loves his CMS money, and it’s sacred, as we know from 2022’s HB 1210 debate on 5/5/22. There’s plenty of material on such things for readers to see, both as Grok pieces and internet search results, so let’s move on.
Mr Sylvia, a former rep from the “Impeachment 7,” told some Florida radio show host that the Senate is a place where good House bills go to die. He also said something like, “The senate, yeah, they’re a problem.” JJ Valera, a former rep, called the senate the “country club.” Because I have no representation in the House, I won’t apologize for being extra demanding on the Senate, and the Senate let me down—Jeb’s Senate. I’ve written plenty of stuff on the RTK Tax(HB 1002), so anyone late for dinner is encouraged to read it, as well as many fine pieces by RTK guru and martyr Laurie Ortolano and various others. Please talk to current and former reps if you would like examples of the Senate being a place where good House bills go to die. I want to add that the Senate is a rubber stamp for instead of firewall protection from BAD House bills, such as HB 1002.
Another thing the Senate is known to do is transform House bills, pervert them, denature them, and make them nongermane to the original agenda the sponsor sought to accomplish. Just ask several reps and election security reform activists about their anger against Senator Gray, the Election Law committee chair, and what happened to a bill that was supposed to address covid tyranny at the local level.
Going back to 2021, during the Damn Emperor’s Mask Madness and when “Jeb’s Senate” was “Chuck’s Senate,” the budget bills (HB 1&2) were being crafted. Many incoming freshmen reps had some desperately needed contributions that could only get past the Damn Emperor if shoved into an omnibus bill such as the budget. A few of them included but were not limited to ending COVID-related tyranny, and State of Emergency reform was the one I remember best. When HB 2 entered “Chuck’s Senate,” they gutted it and watered it down.
I complained to my Senator, whom I voted for, about my extreme disapproval of what his peers were doing. Though he’s not a Finance Committee member, he defended the whole body’s reputation against my attack and said something like, “The House always gets stuff wrong, and we have to fix it.” Note that I said “something like” because I am unable to quote him word for word, but you get the picture. During our brief phone call, which was a return call from my text to him, he was definitely more interested in talking about how pleased he was with inserting anti-choice language into HB 2 as well as EFAs and banning CRT. I won’t say that I don’t care about addressing the hot mess that Gov-Ed is, but my central issue(reason for texting him) was that the Damn Emperor needed to be hog-tied, and the rare window of opportunity wasn’t being taken seriously by the senate.
Someone made a comment in a private group that was an analytical observation. The comment was that Jeb’s retirement might not be in the best interest due to his constituency being a purple district and concerns related to that. Such concern does merit some practical discussion on who is to replace Jeb in Seat #3, but not at the podium. Unfortunately, the harsh reality-based prognostication (mine, at least) is that “Sharon’s Senate” will carry on the bidding of Jeb’s Senate. Don’t expect any accomplishments of significance next year, but many great minds preach to us to have an attitude of gratitude. At least Sharon’s Senate is still better than that abomination against Granite State values known as “Donna Soucy’s Senate.”
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Parents and taxpayers in SAU16 have been engaged in many battles in the last few years. Much of it started during COVID when they were one of the last districts to reopen. It actually took the Governor to step in and force the reopening. Then, parents were frustrated that they forced every child to wear a mask without any regard for students who had mental or physical challenges.
Parents and taxpayers have been engaged in additional battles to get the administrators to focus on academics.
It was just announced that the DEIJ Director, who is also the Vice Chair of Black Lives Matter Seacoast, was resigning. This is welcome news to many parents and residents who didn’t see any benefit from a political activist working in their school. In the announcement by the Superintendent, Esther Asbell, she indicates that they will be looking for another DEIJ Director. Clearly, the Administrators are good with flushing tax dollars down the toilet.
Let’s look at ways this money could be spent that would actually help students succeed. (Or, God Forbid, returned to taxpayers)
1) Hire additional tutors for kids who are struggling
2) Quality professional development for teachers to support them in the classroom. (Focused on academics and pedagogy)
3) Bonuses or raises for teachers and paras. The ones who are doing the most to educate children in the school.
4) Lower the school budget which will help taxpayers who may be struggling during this period of high inflation.
The DEIJ Director was hired, making more money than many of the teachers in the district. Wasn’t that a slap in the face to the ones who are there doing the important job of teaching children?
Seabrook school board members have been discussing a withdrawal from SAU21. They even put a warrant article on the ballot asking residents if they should study withdrawing from the SAU. The voters said YES.
What do you get for your money by paying the SAU?
1) Inflated administrative salaries. The SAU16 Superintendent is making close to $200,000.00.
2) Dues paid to lobbying organizations that lobby against parental rights. Don’t forget that Superintendent Esther Asbell is the Director for The New Hampshire School Administrators Association.(NHSAA) SAU16 funnels money to the NHSAA through dues paid out of the budget. Talk about a scam on taxpayers.
3) Administrators instead of educators
It was a lobbyist from the NHSAA, who testified before state legislators, and opposed prohibiting schools from making pornographic content available to children. Providing pornography to children would get you arrested, but the NHSAA says it’s ok for schools to provide obscene books to your children.
The materials now provided to children in schools also include information to connect students with child sexual predators.You can listen to that here. (1:08:00) You can also read more about that here and here.
Maybe the taxpayers in Exeter do not mind offering their children up to child sexual predators. Maybe they don’t mind wasting their money on a DEIJ director who is more about dividing children versus teaching children how to read. But the parents in the other schools may have a different opinion on all of this.
If so, maybe it’s time to look at removing your school from SAU16. There is absolutely no reason any school has to be part of an SAU, especially one that continues to turn a deaf ear to the residents, and wastes a lot of taxpayer money.
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On May 2nd, a bunch of GOP Reps failed to show up for work. On the day that Kelly Ayotte’s signature issue, illegal immigration, was up for a vote. The bill, HB 563 LOST by eleven votes. Eight “GOP” Reps voted with the DemocratsWoke-Communists to allow sanctuary-cities, while eleven GOP failed to show up (versus seven DemocratWoke-Communist no-shows).
File it under, you-have-no-shame or you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up … NHGOP “Leader” Jason Osborne then issued a statement blaming the DemocratsWoke-Communists for the bill’s failure.
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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do. My last “normal” meme post. In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.
Note that I’m going to take a break from these for a week. The demands on my time are overwhelming me. Back in two, maybe three weeks.
Amongst many news sources that I peruse, are these selected ones among many from which I pull. While I’m taking a break, please do visit these regularly:
BARE NAKED ISLAM – It isn’t Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you
Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
FrontPage Magazine | Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out
Home – Geller Report
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (legalinsurrection.com)
Gates of Vienna
Israellycool: Radical Truthtelling – Israellycool
Among a cast of many…
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Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on. Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.
Also note that these posts generally do not repeat information (e.g., specific links or memes) – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
With some Israel-related materials here:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
Don’t forget my special report on the *cough cough* hardships of pre-Oct 7 “Concentration Camp Gaza”:
Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza – Granite Grok
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TOP OF THE FOLD
Muslim Bedouin ambushed and used for bait on Oct. 7
Dr. Tariq Abu Erar, a Bedouin Muslim Israeli, has a harrowing tale of being ambushed, shot, and used as bait by Hamas on October 7. He stopped to help what he thought was a wounded man, only to be tricked and trapped by the terrorists.
When he told them he was a Muslim, they spoke to him in Arabic. “They asked me verses in the Koran. What are the people of the Prophet Muhammad? Then they said: ‘Shut up, you traitor, you are working with Jews.’”
He then witnessed multiple murders, in case anyone wanted more testimony from the massacre. “They are very barbaric. Not people! They shoot without hesitation, without emotion, they had a clear goal and knew what they were doing.”
Fortunately, he was rescued by the IDF. He’s a living testament to beautiful coexistence between Jews and Muslims in Israel.
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U. Wisconsin Anti-Israel Protesters Chant ‘Heil Hitler’ at Jewish Students (legalinsurrection.com)
Seething with hate.
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
Peter Beinart vs. Israel and the Jews – American Thinker
It certainly won’t end with Plopping Jews like this taking, essentially, the enemy’s side.
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Is Peace Possible in the Middle East? – American Thinker
Diplomacy is the art of the possible. The enemy of the possible is always the ever-elusive perfect solution. We either realize that or continue down the rabbit hole.
Peace is possible, but IMHO only truly possible when Islam’s anti-Semitism and violence has, somehow, been reformed out.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Poll finds overwhelming support from Americans for Israel to completely decimate Hamas (barenakedislam.com)
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Palestinian math lesson:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/pali-math.mp4
But they’re totally responsible and good neighbors, right?
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
The truth about Arab population in “Palestine” before Israel’s establishment!
1785: Constantine Francois Volney paints a bleak picture of Jerusalem, describing it as “ruined” and “desolate,” with a tiny population estimated at only 12,000 to 14,000 people struggling in what barely resembled a city.
1843: Alexander Keith reflects on Volney’s observations, noting that even in Volney’s time, the land had not yet reached its ultimate state of prophetic desolation and depopulation, implying even greater emptiness was to come.
1816: J.S. Buckingham’s travels reveal Jaffa as little more than a “poor village,” and Ramleh as mostly ruins, indicative of the broader state of decay and abandonment that characterized much of Palestine.
1835: Alphonse de Lamartine recounts his stark encounter with Jerusalem, comparing its desolate state to the dead cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, experiencing an eerie silence and a complete absence of life both inside and outside its gates.
1857: James Finn, the British consul, reports back to England about the extensive emptiness of the land, emphasizing a dire need for a population to fill the vast, uninhabited spaces of Palestine.
1867: Mark Twain documents his journey in “The Innocents Abroad,” encountering no villages for thirty miles in any direction around the valley, describing Galilee, Judea, and the area around Jerusalem as barren deserts, devoid of any population and lamenting over a land that seemed cursed and hopelessly desolate.
1881: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, mapping the region, notes that miles and miles of Judea appeared completely devoid of life or habitation, reinforcing the narrative of an overwhelmingly vacant landscape.
By the third quarter of the 19th century, the total population of the entire country, comprising both Arabs and Jews, amounted to only 400,000, less than 3% of today’s population, highlighting the dramatic transformation and revival led by the establishment of Israel.
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Palestinian Jamil Ziyada says the quiet part out loud.
When someone, especially someone with money, power, and influence, says they want to kill you, believe them.
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“Radical islam has cleansed so many minorities around the world”
Remember what Islam is:
The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker
ATROCITIES
From here (video on my Rumble channel):
Screams Before Silence
A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence (https://m.youtube.com/hashtag/screamsbeforesilence) sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in the documentary are, we cannot afford to look away.
@CherokeeOwl
Movie: Screams Before Silence (rumble.com)
About 55 minutes.
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Bolding added:
Shani Gabay, 25, was a law school graduate who loved dogs, traveling, and singing. She lived in my neighboring town, Yokne’am. On October 7th, she escaped the Nova Music festival and took shelter in a bomb shelter nearby. After Hamas terrorists threw grenades into the shelter, she was severely injured but managed to escape. After being treated by a medic, she tried to take cover inside an ambulance with other festival-goers, but terrorists launched an RPG and burnt the ambulance down, killing everyone inside. Shani was initially considered missing, and her brother Aviel said “She knows everyone. We keep meeting people at the rallies who see her photo and know her from Costa Rica, or the army, or their studies. She cleans beaches and saves cats and dogs. I want to believe she’ll continue doing all of that.” However, 48 days after October 7th, her DNA was found at another girl’s grave, as their bodies had melted together. The remains were separated as much as possible so she could be buried alone and in dignity.
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Never forget. From here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gazans-celebrate-oct-7-collage.mp4
Innocent Gazans my ass.
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
Un-Informed Anti-Israel Protestors Have No Idea Gays are Routinely Killed in Palestine. Just Listen… | The Gateway Pundit | by Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely no clue. It’s just “the latest and most current thing”.
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To all the Jews protesting and wanting to help the Islamists win, here’s what you’re in for:
What Do You Know? Dhimmi, Jewish Legal Status under Muslim Rule | Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (upenn.edu)
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MASSACHUSETTS: ‘Fatties for Palestine’ join forces with ‘Faggots for Palestine’ calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel (barenakedislam.com)
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
From here – remember, they’re really good at recycling:
This girl’s name is Ghufran Ahmed Awny Naim.
I contacted Mohammed Fayq from Gaza who took the original video. He confirmed that Ghufran has Ichthyosis (genetic), a skin disorder that lead to dry, itchy skin that appears scaly, rough, and red.
I contacted two Israeli dermatologists who confirmed, by looking at the video, that it appears to be Ichthyosis and that she needs topical emollients.
So why there’s a woman whose name is Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis who shows a picture of Ghufran and writes “Israel burns children alive.”?
Garnered hundreds of thousands of views and is being circulated all over.
(Matan Uziel)
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/skin-condition-video.mp4
As stated in the pulled text, this is being presented as a case of Israeli attacks.
Except it’s not. Pallywood is a whole industry.
The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool
Pallywood Reporting – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)
Ridiculous Pallywood of the Day – Israellycool
And don’t forget this one:
Pallywood
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From here:
Palestinian kids throwing rocks at Egyptian bus driver bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza through the border crossing at Rafah
Proof the Palestinians are the same as terrorists! They train their children from birth to hate all who aren’t one of them! Therefore there are no innocents in Gaza.
X (https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1785283823497793715?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pal-kids-throw-stones-at-trucks.mp4
So let me see if I have this right. You’re desperate, there’s no food, no medicine, little power, little water… but you’re throwing stones at the trucks bringing these things to you?
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Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News: Search results for apartheid posters
Lots of posters across multiple posts showing the utter absurdity of the Apartheid charge.
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Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? (ezrafoundation.org)
Short answer: no.
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Raquella Raiz on LinkedIn: When you read sensationalized headlines with “Settlers” I want you to…
I remember reading, a few years ago, about this – how the kids were primed, organized, with photographers ready.
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
From here:
Students chant “Kill the Jews” at the Northeastern University campus last night.
This Is Happening In America
X (https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1784320906866610344?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/northeastern-kill-the-jews.mp4
Related:
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Here is what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves inside the building. Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM. These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious.They have training; it’s clear from the uniformity of stonewalling, of tactics, and lots of funding. These people are serious.
Why is the Pro-Palestinian Encampment Craze Sweeping Our Colleges? | Frontpage Mag
‘Somebody Is Radicalizing Our Students’: NYPD Finds Weapons, ‘Death to America’ Poster in Pro-Terror Encampment – Geller Report
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
The Neo-Nazi Left | Frontpage Mag
The Neo-Nazi Left cannot be negotiated with. There is no living alongside it. Either Americans defeat the Neo-Nazi Left or the Neo-Nazi Left defeats America.
RTWT. More:
Biden Launches Investigation of Columbia U for Discriminating Against… Hamas Supporters | Frontpage Mag
How Hamas Bought Joe Biden | Frontpage Mag
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Moonbattery Democrats Plan to Bring Gaza to USA – Moonbattery
And WHO will they be angry at?
MISCELLANEOUS
Glazov Gang: Miracles that Saved Israel in War | Frontpage Mag
Hashem is great.
GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL
You can’t go wrong with a donation here:
Connections Israel
And please share this post far and wide. There’s a lot of info here that many people don’t know. Post it, email it, share widely.
Also, if you’re willing:
Buy Me a Coffee
A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
U.S. Campus Chaos: A New Oct 7 on the Way? | Frontpage Mag (link in original):
It took just 50 terrorists to infiltrate the Tribe of Nova music festival, an Israeli music festival attended by young adults about the same age, or a bit older than, the young adults on America’s college campuses. In one day, they terrorized the event, killed 260, and took hostages. This hostage-taking brought Israel into a bloody war that has destroyed its prestige internationally; brought about the deaths of thousands upon thousands of Gazans (more than 34,000, according to AP) and more than 1200 Israelis; and that has not ended yet.
Now imagine just 100 terrorists in the US. At a signal, they can take hostages among the naive young adults who are in the campus encampments. At a signal, ten campuses can turn into a hostage situation.
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This attack on our nation’s campuses could be followed by a second internal strike, against other targets — strategic targets such as airports, food processing plants and energy grid operations — by terrorists who are now embedded in these many barracks-type housing locations that have been distributed throughout our nation.
Western Civilization stands on the edge of a knife. One misstep and it could fall, calamitously.
We Dare Not Tempt Them With Weakness | Frontpage Mag
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It seemed like a good time to laugh, and I stumbled across a few minutes from Comedian Brad Upton, who always makes me laugh. I thought of you. You could probably use a laugh, too.
Millennials, Old People, good times.
Nothing triggers a Gen-Z snowflakes like a boomer with a lot to say, and trust us, Brad Upton has a lot to say!
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Looking at a recent installment in Judy Aron’s series of posts about ‘What we learned from this week’s House session’, it occurs to me that it would be nice if instead of trying to make sure the gun is pointed in ‘the right direction,’ Republicans would focus on unloading it, and even disassembling it.
That is if they would live up to their claim to be the party of smaller government instead of the party of righter government.
To take just two of many examples from the post:
(1) Why is the state involved in marriage at all? Anything that can be accomplished with marriage (sharing of assets and custody, power of attorney over medical decisions, and so on) can be accomplished without it, with one exception: There are situations that involve taking money from some people (who are judged to have a surplus) to give it to other people (who are judged to have a need, or just an entitlement) that can’t be exploited without marriage.
In other words, we have made marriage a gateway to participation in certain Marxist redistribution schemes. When you get married, you commit taxpayers to your future support in various situations. So suddenly, they have to be concerned about who can or can’t line up at the trough.
If we just eliminate the schemes themselves, there would be no reason to fight over marriage. It would be a completely private affair, a commitment that two (or more) people make to each other, and no one’s business but their own.
(2) Why is the state involved in sports at all? It’s because sports are one more thing that we drag under the umbrella labeled ‘school’, so that parents can have their children’s hobbies subsidized by everyone else. That means taxes are involved, and that turns sports into a branch of politics.
Get sports out of schools, and who plays on what teams is no longer a subject for politics, but something that is determined by the choices of individual athletes and their parents.
This seems to be the GOP playbook: Set up state control over an institution or activity where it is inappropriate to begin with, and then spend eternity fighting over whose ideology should be imposed on that one-size-must-now-fit-all situation.
That’s what we learn at every week’s House session.
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Watching enormous crowds of Americans shouting blatantly racist chants in support of an agenda that is unapologetically genocidal, and backed by internationally recognized terrorist organizations – met with at best indifference and at worst the active support of our elite institutions of government, news media, education, and entertainment — I can’t help but think, this is what it must have been like in the 1920s when 30,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan proudly marched through Washington and everyone was like, okay!
Yes, Covid masks and keffiyehs have replaced pointy white hoods and robes as the face-hiding fashion signal of the day, and this generation of disruptive bigots is primarily out to get the Jews, not African Americans (so I guess in that sense more akin to Nazis than Klansmen), but the psychology behind their statements are pretty much the same.
They say they just want peace, but… yeah… no. If they really wanted peace, they wouldn’t just be calling for Israel to cease fire, but also for Hamas to cease fire, maybe return the 130 remaining hostages they took in their October 7 massacre (or at least the ones they haven’t murdered yet), stop using Gaza as a launch pad for sending missiles into Tel Aviv, and how about recognizing Israeli Jews’ right to, you know, exist.
They say they support the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination, but… yeah… no. If that’s really what they cared about they would be cheering on Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas – the terrorist organization that was elected to rule Gaza in 2005, has refused to hold another democratic election since, and absconded with billions in foreign aid, leaving the Palestinian people living in poverty and oppression under an anti-women’s- rights, anti-gay-rights, openly racist, violent, theocratic tyranny.
They say they’re horrified by war crimes against civilians taking place, but… yeah… no. Targeting civilians for murder by rape like Hamas did; that’s an actual war crime. Using civilians as human shields as Hamas does; that’s an actual war crime. Conducting military operations out of hospitals and schools as Hamas does; also an actual war crime. Shooting your own people when they try to heed advanced warnings by Israel to evacuate targeted areas; not 100% sure on this one, but probably an actual war crime.
They say they’re opposed genocide, but… yeah… no. If you’re chanting “from the river to the sea…” and sporting a “final solution” sign (see photo below from DC, credit New York Post), you’re advocating FOR genocide. Actual genocide. Nazi-style, kill-all-the-Jews genocide. Not the tragic collateral damage inevitable in war, but as-defined-by-the-UN “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” genocide.
You students setting up tents at Middlebury and UVM are not on the right side of history. You’re on the same side of history as the folks the world executed for crimes against humanity at Nuremberg, and the one who beat us to it by blowing his own brains out in a bunker in April 1945.
This kind of pathogenic societal behavior is what we were supposed to never forget. Not only have we forgotten, but the adults in our classrooms are TEACHING our children and young adults to think and act this way. Many of our elected officials are encouraging it. Others are kowtowing to it. (Looking at you, Bernie, Peter and Becca!) And, frighteningly, it seems they have succeeded to such a degree that this kind of activity is now considered respectably normal.
Which gets me back to my opening thought about the Klan in the 1920s, and an interesting article from NPR (ironically now on board with the “from the river to the sea” crowd) back in 2015 titled, “When The KKK Was Mainstream.” It describes the scene,
In the 1920s, membership in the KKK reached several million people…. And in communities where the KKK really took root, “this meant that a very sizable part of the eligible population was in the Klan.” The KKK was even successful at “block recruiting” of whole clubs or congregations at one time.
And the Klan insinuated itself into otherwise polite society. There were KKK public initiations in many states — including California, Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas — and KKK public parades in Florida, Oregon, Tennessee and other states.
The article gives example after example of how openly proud Klan members were elected to public office, held pageants, sponsored youth baseball teams, and engaged in everything from sewing clubs to agricultural societies, all while “their main leaders promoted expulsion and economic retribution against their ‘enemies.” Of course, what made this grotesque facet of our history possible was the fact that the morality behind it was sadly generally accepted. If you weren’t a member of the KKK, at least you tolerated what they were doing. Or, if you were opposed, you were probably too intimidated to speak out.
The author of the article concluded, “How strange and scary and dangerous those times must have been, when large numbers of Klanspeople paraded around, draped in white robes and sinister ideology,” and too often resorting to violence and intimidation to get their way. Strange, scary, and dangerous indeed. Kinda like what we’re seeing on campuses today, and on blocked roads leading to major airports and bridges, ringed outside politicians’ homes, etc. Let’s not let it happen again.
Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.
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Now comes Appellant Daniel Richard pro se in his sur-reply to the supplemental briefs of Respondents, the Town of Auburn, and the state of NH.
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT
No. 2023-0097
Daniel Richard v. Christopher Sununu, et al.
Federal Issues
The Defendants have chosen not to answer or deny Appellants claims that the enactment and enforcement of the state statutory scheme violated his rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment as raised at the start. Therefore, at law they are presumed true and admitted as fact.
It is un-disputed fact that the statutory scheme (Count II – Count VI) controls the local, State, and Federal elections; Therefore, federal laws apply to this case. The United States Supreme Court (hereinafter “SCOTUS”) established precedent in (Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355, (1932), recently reinforced and cited by Moore v. Harper et al. (2023).) previously detailed in late authorities (filed Aug. 14, 2023) and Memorandum of law (filed April 24, 2024).
Smiley had taxpayer standing as a “citizen, elector and taxpayer of the state” under Article 1. Section 4 to challenge the due process violations of the Minnesota legislature’s redistricting efforts. Based on an Act of Congress June 18, 1929, Mr. Smiley appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court, and he ultimately prevailed on appeal to SCOTUS in 1932. Quoting Mr. Chief Justice Hughes:
“This suit was brought by the petitioner as a “citizen, elector and taxpayer of the state” to obtain a judgment declaring invalid all fillings for nomination for the office of representative in Congress, which should designate a subdivision of the state as a congressional district, and to enjoin the Secretary of State from giving notice of the holding of elections for that office in such subdivisions.” (1932)
Smiley v. Holm Court reaffirmed the constitutional fact that a citizen, elector and taxpayer of a state has constitutional standing under Article 1. Section 4 of the U.S. Const. to bring suit in State and Federal Court to obtain a judgment declaring an Act of a state legislature affecting the time, place and manner of federal elections contrary and repugnant to the State or Federal constitutions and void ab initio.
The Moore court and the line of decisions SCOTUS relied upon, all deal with the enactment of law and procedural due process violations by state legislatures. In all cases the question for review is: Did the state legislature act within the scope of its delegated powers when performing its law-making duties under Article 1. Section 4 Time, Place and Manner for conducting federal elections?
Smiley and Moore decisions are about redistricting. Like gerrymandering, the present claim of vote dilution is also labeled “speculative” but it is speculative only as to potential fraud operations, and not dissimilar from the effect of gerrymandering – which occurs for the purpose of altering election results. For example, the tally of all absentee ballots – if not properly verified (by the local official assigned to that task in the state constitution) means that illegally deposited votes will be included and counted. That process of counting any and all votes in the machine constitutes ‘legalized’ ballot box stuffing. But Smiley and Moore, et.al. confirm the umbrella of standing to be “all acting within the scope of delegated power while performing ….”. It is no more reason to deny judicial review in this case, than a courts review of the legislative process enabling gerrymandering.
The Moore Court defined states’ legislative duties to include other legislature responsibilities besides redistricting. Moore citing Smiley:
“By fulfilling their constitutional duty to craft the rules governing federal elections, state legislatures do not consent, ratify, or elect—they make laws. Elections are complex affairs, demanding rules that dictate everything from the date on which voters will go to the polls to the dimensions and font of individual ballots. Legislatures must “provide a complete code for congressional elections,” including regulations “relati[ng] to notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns.” (Emphasis Added).
Under Smiley, the following duties of the state legislature are subject to judicial scrutiny by this Court and fall within the enumerated categories such as “dimensions and font of individual ballots,” “registration,” “supervision of voting,” “protection of voters,” “prevention of fraud and corrupt practices,” “counting votes,” “duties of inspectors,” and “making and publication of election returns.”
Constitutional Limits
Defendants failed to establish any valid constitutional power or lawful authority to exercise un-delegated powers. This is strictly political statutory tactic, for the new election ballot-counting schemes. The N.H. Constitution is a social contract enacted in 1784. See State v. Express Co., 60 N.H. 219, (1880), cited 69 times in state law, including the Clairmont decision, it provides:
The bill of rights is a bill of their equal, private rights, reserved by the grantors of public power. The reservation precedes the grant. Before they create the power of proportional taxation in the fifth article, and the supreme legislative first article, they lay the foundation, and therein reserve those personal liberties, which, upon the evidence of history and their own experience, they think cannot safely be surrendered to government. The definition of taxation, given in the foundation, is taken from books with which the leading statesmen of the Revolution were familiar. …
Government, says the bill of rights, is “instituted for the general good,” “for the common benefit, protection, and security of the whole community.” Arts. 1, 10. “Every member of the community has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property. He is therefore bound to contribute his share in the expense of such protection.” Art. 12. Upon every member of the community is laid a constitutional obligation to contribute his share of public expense. ” … The reason is given. He is entitled to the common benefit, protection, and security for which government is instituted; he has a right to be protected in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property: “he is therefore bound to contribute his share” of the expense. The right of benefit and protection, and the duty of contribution are reciprocal. The former is the consideration for the latter. The latter is the price of the former.
In other words, this constitutional language about taxation means the people have reserved unto themselves “all government of right originates from the people, founded in consent,” (namely, the amendment process) …; and Part I, art. 8 provide “all power residing originally in, and being derived from the people,” cannot be repealed or altered without the consent of the inhabitants (Part II, art. 100.). The last sentence of the N.H. Const. of 1784 reads: “provided that no alteration shall be made in this constitution before the same shall be laid before the towns and unincorporated places, and approved by two-thirds of the qualified voters present, and voting on the question.”
Part I, art. 1 and Part II, art. 100. (amendment process) are some of the protections guaranteed by the N.H. Const. Part I, art. 12, Taxation and Protection are reciprocal. In exchange for paying your fair share of the expense for such protection. Some of the consideration guaranteed to the inhabitants for paying taxes is detailed in these two clauses… First:
“But no part of a man’s property shall be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his consent, or that of the representative body of the people.”
The second part of the sentence restricts the manner in which state taxes can be levied. Part I, art. 12. Second: “and Part 1, Article 12 which forbids any tax statute which requires any taxpayer to pay more than his fair share of the tax burden?” Allene V. City of Portsmouth No. 6949. 114 N.H. 573 (1974)
This essential taxpayer element of the state constitution making privileges reciprocal duties, cannot be overruled or ignored by a series of new slippery-slope legislative voting statutes. See, Boody v. Watson, decided in December, 1886:
“The public right of enforcing a taxpayer’s obligation to contribute his share of public expense is created by a legislative division of the common burden in execution of the social contract, and not by a judicial assessment.”
“The right of every citizen that his property shall not be taken by the state under the name of a tax except in pursuance of authorizing statutes is not only affirmed by the common law, but is secured to him by the express terms of the constitution. The bill of rights (Art. 28) declares that “no subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duty shall be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people or their representatives in the legislature, or authority derived from that body.”
Part I, art. 12 guarantees taxpayers due process of law in order to alter the manner in which the people are to be subject to taxes or laws. Such changes to taxes can only be altered in the by manner provided for by art. 12. in exchange for paying taxes. One way is to amend the Const. to grant more taxing power to the legislature, or by those powers already delegated to the legislature in Part I, art. 28. and Part II, art. 5 for paying taxes.
and the Second clause:
“Nor are the inhabitants of this State controllable by any other laws than those to which they, or their representative body, have given their consent.”
Under the recent SCOTUS precedent in Bruen, and Moore decisions, this Court must examine the plain text of art. 12 and its historical application established in 1784.
The first part states, “Nor are the inhabitants of this State controllable by any other laws than those to which they …”. Who? The inhabitants. (Part I, art. 11. Part II, art. 30) of this State.”
The second part is a command that establishes that the inhabitants of this State are not controllable by “any other laws” than those which they (again, the inhabitants) …
And the third part: or “their representative body (Part II, art. 100-the amendment process)” after the fourth part is completed
The fourth part: [inhabitants] “have given their consent.” Part I, art. 1. and Part II, art. 100. These four parts clarify that at stake in this case is the private right of the Appellant, not the public right of the state. Part I, art. 12 established taxpayer standing (1784), as the plain text prohibits Part II the government, from making any other laws (including election laws) not founded upon constitutional authority and from altering or amending the Const. of N.H. without the consent of the inhabitants, who have reserved this power to themselves. (Part I, art.1, Part II, art. 100). Such acts as Appellant complained (namely the statutory voting and vote counting schemes denying him equal protection and due process at law) are prohibited by, Part I, art. 12 and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
Therefore, in exchange for an inhabitant’s paying a fair share of the expense of such protection, the legislature cannot enact any legislation that is contrary or repugnant to other provisions in the state constitution. Const. of N.H. Part II, art. 5 as such acts are also prohibited by Part II. Art. 5 as follows: “That clause, which confers upon the ‘general court’ the authority ‘to make laws’, provides at the same time that they must not be ‘repugnant or contrary to the constitution….’” Id. 210, Merrill v. Sherburne, (1818)
Defendants have exercised what they call “permissible legislative judgment” from the beginning of this case and repeatedly violated this constitutional restraint – that they believe they may act where they believe the Const. of N.H. is silent, while never establishing any history, custom or law that would permit such ultra vires actions. As such, those ultra vires acts are de facto repugnant and contrary to the state constitution.
Under our constitutional form of government, Part II the Form of Government can only exercise those powers specifically delegated to them by the Const. of N.H. The power to enact laws cannot be assumed or delegated or contrived by politicians and the legislature, (as Defendants repeatedly have done before and throughout this case as recently as weeks ago, pending appeal.) Until this court rules, state politicians continue to act in an ongoing attempt to manipulate the voting process to alter election outcomes in a manner that is repugnant to the Constitution. But all governmental powers (Part I, art. 1. art.8 art. 10. art. 12. Part II, art. 100) must be derived from the consent of the inhabitants of this State. Thus, the people retained their sovereignty in the face of even ongoing blatant political overreach to alter and control the election process. See Part I, art. 7.
The Appellant moves the Court to take judicial notice, that the state’s attorneys made material mis-representation of Appellant tax-payer standing status in this case, by repeatedly claiming Defendant lacks standing to raise the case. (pg. 19. Item II, Defend.’s Supplement Brief). Such a claim misleads and deflects accountability for repeated State Actor violations leading to present and future injury and harm.
The Appellant claimed Part I, Art. 12 as one of his rights from the beginning of this case, establishing constitutional standing as a citizen, as an inhabitant and as a tax-payer. Appellant cited these proper elements of standing from the beginning. See standing issues addressed at pages 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 24, 27, 33, 37, 40, 46, and in his Motion to Reconsider at page 9. Throughout the appeal process, Appellant cited the Const. of N.H. Part I. Art. 12 that taxation and protection are and have been reciprocal (since 1784) for constitutional standing.
Injuries
The Town of Auburn de facto deferred briefing any statutory schema issues throughout the pendency of this case in deference to the State’s Attorney’s until now.
Now, it submits a 2,911-word brief in response to the open solicitation for Amicus curie or memoranda. From the beginning, it failed to deny and answer all details of March 9, 2022 as detailed in Appellant’s Complaint (pg. 10, 11, 12, items 27—4), and it is right and fair that all facts plead by Appellant be accepted as fair and accurate descriptions of injury for purposes of this appeal.
As a result of this Court’s decision in Richard v. Speaker (2022) the legislature is now emboldened that it no longer has a constitutional duty to hear Appellant’s ‘petition’ or ‘remonstrance’ for relief (under Part I, art. 32) including a remonstrance filed regarding this new statutory scheme. See Remonstrance dated Feb. 24, 2022, @ complaint Exhibit B. (dismissed).
All Defendants were noticed, prior to the March 8, 2022 election day. It’s an undisputed fact the Town of Auburn claimed as their defense that the e-mail from the Secretary of State’s Office (Asst. Sec. of State Karen Ladd) (cited as exhibit D in the complaint), which instructed the Town to use voting machines. Atty. Tierney conceded the point that he told Town Election official to enforce the statutory scheme and use only voting machines, after notice.
Fundamentally Defendant’s brief confesses to the underlying issue. On March 9, 2022, the Town did not have a hand count policy and relied on the state’s statutory scheme to use voting machines to count all ballots. Appellant was deprived of his right to a constitutionally fair vote. The non and unconstitutional voting process, was not only illegal, but potentially fraudulent vote manipulation. The Town would only count Appellants ballot if he used the voting machine to count his ballot.
Defendant’s current position is to cure the injury. That the Town adopted a new hand count policy. This non-uniform, manner for sorting, verifying and counting all ballots is un-equal. The adaptation of a hand count policy provided a separate box in which to deposit his ballot. This adds further layers of safety, security, and equality questions about secrecy of his ballot or that his ballot was counted at all. Defective remedy is not adequate remedy to address any harm, injury, and other concerns raised in improper legislative usurpation of the constitutional process in this case. Why would the Town provide a remedy to the problem if the Appellant had no right to have his ballot properly counted by the moderator and not an electronic voting machine?
Relief
Appellant respectfully requests the following:
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel Richard
/s/ Daniel Richard
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It should be a maxim of our Constitutional Republic and inculcated into the collective consciousness that thou shalt not let legislators vote hastily on bills in response to current events. They almost always waste money, infringe on rights, or produce lousy laws, and the Antisemitism Awareness Act is an example of this bad idea.
Listen to the voiceover.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Antisemitism-awareness-act.mp3In response to the recent on-campus nonsense the U.S. House of Representatives has found something upon which a majority of them agree. The “unrest” is an opportunity to suppress constitutionally protected speech.
The Antisemitism Awareness Act (H.R. 6090) passed 320-91, not because it is good law or necessary for public interest or safety, but because it gives the appearance of doing something. Doing what?
How about shutting down debate.
“Students,” – and there are credible claims of organized outside action using the campus environment to advance other aims – are saying mean things about Jews. Yes, there is some violence, but we already have laws to address that. Most colleges, college towns, cities, and states have laws elevating punishments for actual crimes if the prosecutor can prove someone was motivated by hate. Those are bad laws, but their proliferation has skewed law and lawmaking, and The Antisemitism Awareness Act is an example of this.
It requires the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism when enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws. The working definition says antisemitism is in-part “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” The definition includes denying Jewish people their right to self-determination by claiming that the State of Israel is a racist state and drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
Detractors take issue with narrowing the definition. I take issue with the entire exercise. Discriminatory speech in the public square is protected speech. The umbrella (regardless of size) under which any individual or group might label words or ideas as hate speech is still protected speech.
It is still protected First Amendment expression.
But It’s Mean!Saying mean things is not a crime; just check social media or go outside. People can be jerks; it’s annoying and distracting, sometimes amusing, and at other times an opportunity to make a point, but it is not a crime.
Mean+action is already a crime (depending on the action). Incitement to violence is a crime. Libel and Slander are crimes.
These restrictions are narrow to ensure the government does not infringe on protected speech or is encouraged to do so by any individual, group, 50.1% of a mob, or well-meaning legislators.
We’re not supposed to like it, but disagreeing is the point.
Shouting “From the River to the Sea” is loaded with sinister connotations, but it is protected speech. Calling for any “cleansing”-be it ethnic, religious, tribal, or ideological is offensive and evil, but unless you are organizing to do it or actually caught doing it (or trying to do it), that can be proven in a court of law, saying it is protected speech.
That will offend some, but the alternative is more offensive to human liberty. It opens the door to further meddling and redefining of things that inevitably protect government abuse and people in power at the expense of natural human rights.
Check Out Steve’s Substack Then There’s The Other Exception-alismWe hear talk, especially from the political right, about American Exceptionalism. Anyone anywhere, regardless of any demographic characteristic, can work hard and succeed. They can define what success means to them and feel content when they reach it. It can and is different for each of us, and as long as the opportunity to define your success is protected, anyone should be able to seek it. It has allowed the American experiment to lift more people out of poverty than any system of government yet known.
This is not the limit of what could be considered, but it is exceptional in these respects.
Along comes H.R. 6090. Let’s say it becomes law and survives Constitutional scrutiny. What happens when we elect a Jewish president? Are students no longer permitted to object based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism (and that will change in response to the law at the behest of people looking to suppress speech)?
Will the imposition of this legislation affect students’ ability to object to Jewish members of Congress for fear of running afoul? What about its application at the local level?
Will or could The Federal Department of Education migrate these restrictions into the Public Schools, holding funding hostage in exchange for compliance?
Given that (theoretical) success, why would they stop at alleged Antisemitism? Doesn’t every other “group” deserve similar protection in the name of equity? And why are we restricting this to college campuses? Let’s let it roam free, a chilling silence following in its wake.
Lessons Not Learned?The oppressive response to COVID lingers, but humans are quick to forget. Given the opportunity, those in elected office at every level were quick to abuse their authority. Constitutionally protected rights were jabbed, masked, and distanced. Stuffed in the trunk and told to shut up. That was because we let it happen. Towns, Cities, Counties, and states had (over the years) crafted for themselves loopholes, none of which should have stood up to constitutional scrutiny when applied. When the time came, suppressing rights took precedence. People lost jobs, businesses, livelihoods, friends, and the right to speak and associate freely. Prohibitions of warrantless search were abridged.
The courts were not much help, and since they are part of the government, why should they?
In the Movie Field of Dreams, the voice whispers build it, and they will come. COVID taught us, shouted from every corner of our lives, that if the government can abuse it, it will. If we let them make it, they will beat us with it.
H.R. 6090 has been collecting dust since it was introduced last October, a few weeks after October 7th.
Not long after the ‘campus protests’ started – whose origin may not be entirely organic – it got fast-tracked.
You’d be right to question everything while you still can.
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My reps and two-time opponents, Comrades Mr & Mrs Newman, have a history of ignoring emails. Normally, I don’t email them, but my personal email history with them started in October 2021 following the executive council arrests. With them and the Damn Emperor being on opposite sides of the aisle (on paper, at least), I mistakenly thought conversation could be had about that incident.
I even followed up about a week or two later to no avail. Then several months later, my help was requested in a project to email reps about a secession-related bill. I pointed out to the presently embattled project manager how misrepresented I am in the House, but I was still encouraged to do so just the same in order to go on record. I agreed and was ignored by the Newmans though Comrade Mrs Newman has said “hi” to me in person a few times, both at the archives and the state house dining room.
Since the Parental Bill of Rights was/is a flagship issue in the legislature, I wanted to play the good soldier and do my part even though I don’t have kids. This issue, after all, is about my fellow teammates’ most precious commodity, their kids. “Kids are the future,” we all hear, and therefore everyone’s kids are MY future. Game on! However, I chose to retool my subject line. Instead of “vote yes on SB 272,” I crafted a title that didn’t include HB or SB or yes or no. I called it a civics message and sent it to all 3 of my reps. This was in the spring of last year and one of them, Linda Ryan, is a freshman. Linda was obviously not yet “schooled” by the Newmans on ignoring emails and replied-all rather promptly with a friendly though uncommitted answer. I’m sure Comrade Mrs. Newman was not pleased and later gave Linda a talking-to in private, but Mrs. Newman replied-all after Linda’s reply with a polite but useless answer. I replied all, thanking both of them for their answers and offering additional talking points, and pointing out that I hadn’t yet received a reply from Comrade Mr Newman. He has never replied to any of my emails, ever.
So here we are with the repackaged SB341 now in the House and I did my duty in emailing all 3 of them on 4/24 the following words:
As parents, you most certainly wouldn’t appreciate being lied to, especially by faculty and staff of schools your kids attended. And I give your kids the benefit of the doubt that they wouldn’t want that either with your grandchildren yet you voted the wrong way last year on both HB 10 and SB 272.
As your constituent and per Article 32 of the NH Constitution, I am giving you instructions to vote OTP on SB 341. Please do a good turn and vote in a manner that actually represents Ward 2 parents instead of the bidding of the NTU.
And I received a reply from Comrade Mrs Newman one week later, saying the following: Hi Julie – Thanks for the email. Looks like we’re going to have to agree to disagree on this bill, though. Sue
The Newmans are Bloomberg-funded staunch gun grabbers. He’s on the Criminal Justice committee, which receives all gun bills, and she’s on Public Works but attends all gun bill hearings, often speaking anti-gun rhetoric into the mic while her muzzled husband listens from the head table. If you look up their NH dot gov home pages, you will see that they’re family people; parents and grandparents. I will also add that one or both of them were on the school board before becoming reps. Another one of their constituents, Alderman Dowd, also came from that very same body. It’s a cultivating ground for higher office evil that ails Nashua.
Considering that many swamp rats everywhere in a variety of offices just stay there until death occurs, I sadly don’t see them returning to private citizenry anytime soon. So why repeat the same unproductive behavior (emailing them the ordinary way) and expect different results? Einstein wouldn’t. As Dinosaur D’Allesandro, a senate example of what I just noted, told the media about Defend the Guard, “It’s going to just keep on coming up, over and over again, in the future.” The same can be said about parental rights and guns, so both issues should be fused together when emailing Comrade Mrs. Newman, who is clearly the Ward 2 Alpha swamp rat. She needs to be asked, in your own words, if she would still support school secrecy to parents if their inquiries were gun-related.
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If you search the site for EVs or Electric Vehicles, you’ll find every reason not to buy one, and thankfully, we’re not the only ones pointing it out. EV sales are lousy in the US, which has to be why Democrat states are looking to ban gas-powered cars.
They want you on an EV bus, a bicycle, walking, or better yet – living on an urban heat island confined to quarters. If you live under that yoke, here’s a reminder of why you need to make a change politically – if you still can.
EVs have a short shelf life compared to other vehicles. Whatever the battery warranty is, that’s it. It’s over. No one is going to buy it used; it is almost worthless as a trade-in. Given how much shorter this life span can be compared to a more affordable combustion engine vehicle (assuming you didn’t crash your EV and have to scrap it sooner), you will need another car. If you are an EV-tard, that’ll mean another whole-vehicle carbon footprint before its time and a repeat of what you just went through.
If you buy a used EV and the car is over five years old (Don’t do it!), You can expect to spend two to three times its value to replace the battery pack, which has been losing range rapidly since you bought it. You might get a few years out of it.
In other words, never buy a used EV. Just don’t do it. Here’s an example of the problem and why internal combustion engine vehicles are irreplaceable (disregarding the reality that EV trucks, tractors, and other heavy equipment will never be EV on this technology)
Take a new petrol-driven Renault Clio — it costs around £20,000, while its all-electric opposite, the Renault Zoe, costs closer to £30,000.
While you can drive a traditional petrol or diesel car for around 200,000 miles over 14 years before the engine needs fixing or replacing, by comparison a new EV is typically guaranteed under a warranty for 100,000 miles over eight years.
Should your petrol engine need replacing you can expect to pay around £5,000, but replace the battery on your EV outside warranty and you’re looking at an eye-watering £13,000 to £40,000, depending on the make of your car, if you fit a manufacturer’s new unit.
And there are external factors at play with battery degradation — including use of fast chargers and even a colder climate.
The high cost of EV batteries is a result of it being difficult to mine metals such as nickel, cobalt, lithium and manganese that are used in the lithium-ion batteries.
They are also in demand for the production of other electronics, including mobile phones and laptops.
In the most extreme cases, such as with a 12-year-old Nissan Leaf that cost £2,000 to buy, you can pay as much as £24,000 for a brand-new replacement 24kWh battery.
In contrast, for reasons that include auto-makers losing money on just about every EV they sell, which is recouped in the cost of combustion engine vehicles, everyday used cars might, for the first time in my life, be worth more than you paid for them. As in, you bought it a few years back, and it is worth more today. True story. Dealers are crying to buy your used vehicles. If you purchased it used and took care of it, it could be worth more than you paid.
We can thank Barry and the Democrats (Cash for Clunkers), the Biden EV mandate threats and the Gavin Nuiesce acolytes in states chasing the net-zero lie. Shutting down the global supply chain didn’t help (or should I say help?). Outsourcing so much of what we ought to be doing here played a hand, especially when the supply chain got bent sideways. All of which has made EVs more expensive as well.
They cost more, do less, and are worth less. That reminds me of a slogan I crafted to describe the Democrat Party.
I think I’ll take another stab at that.
To be fair, there is one bright note about the used EV problem. Maybe it is cheaper to buy used EVs, drive them for a year or two, and when the battery can no longer get you out of your driveway, get another. They should be cheap. But as with the solar panel and wind turbine end-of-life problem, you might find the cost to scrap it is another expense no one bothered to tell you about.
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Jessica Grill is a State Rep who nominally represents Ward 12 in Manchester. While some of her fellow Democrat Woke-Communist State Reps appear preoccupied with defending Hamas, Grill … who seemingly either wants to be or actually is a thirteen-year-old who lives in and on TikTok … seems preoccupied with having sex with older men.
Allow me to translate Grill’s child-speak.
DILF means Dad-I’d-Like-To-F*ck … mfs means mother-f*ckers … dee dee blanchard refers to a mentally ill woman who abused her daughter (in other words, parents who want to know what is going on in the public schools are mentally ill and dangerous to their own children) … zaddies means a sexually attractive older man.
Jessica Grill’s vulgarity and preoccupation with sex say more about the voters in Ward 12 and the sad state of the NHGOP than it does about Grill. Her teen-slang schtick is tragicomic. At best, the voters in Ward 12 are ignorant and apathetic. And as for the NHGOP … how do you possibly lose to a candidate who resembles a caricature of a thirteen-year-old addicted to TikTok?
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Most can guess who I am referring to; yes, this will be about Donald J. Trump. But before dismissing this read, try asking yourself one question. What’s more important, your animosity towards the man or our country’s survival?
What awaits this November is no longer about politics but about our Country’s actual continuance. Therefore, this situation calls for a capable and forceful leader but, above all, a loyal leader, not some vote-seeking glib mouthpiece who has never cashed a working man’s check!
We’ve all heard those expressing their displeasure over President Trump’s occasional response, of which even I have, at times, felt he might have been more tempered. However, everyone owns their personality, temperament, quirks, and irks. We humans are all different and individually unique with our separate ways and mannerisms. Given the seriousness of today, what lasting benefit comes from hearing a politician’s pleasing promises yet avoiding taking a stand on important issues?
Contrary to his occasional gruff words, there’s also a charm that the American voter instantly recognized and latched onto. He doesn’t bloviate! He spoke and still speaks the same message and in every day language, maybe a bit harsh but always what is needed to be said and heard. A perfect example was his appeal to minorities, “what have you got to lose?” This style of communicating works, which is why it’s not part of any political science coarse!
True leadership remains uncaring as to whether feelings may be hurt. This fact may unsettle some, but sensitivities are antithetical to an effective, inspiring, and worthy leader. So, when continuing with this anti-Trump drumbeat rather than applauding his peace-producing and productive record, it only reflects back upon the naysayers. This approach, choosing stubbornness rather than forgiveness, also challenges its Biblical quality defined as being Divine.
A by-product, which for understandable reasons never gets air time, is that from these eight-plus accusatory years of Trump bashing, an intimidation element has been introduced into our supposed free elections! The democrats have greatly narrowed the candidate field simply from their free wheeling of criminal charges, which are intended to occupy Trump’s campaign days while also draining his funds. Who, other than another billionaire, can follow in Trump’s MAGA footstep which has protected and provided our country with her legally scripted and proven venue? As such, America’s free elections are fading as they now resemble what in the trades is known as “a closed shop.”
Another particular of Trump questions the “hows” and “whys” that spur such a successful and affluent man to set aside all his deserved luxuries that so many of us strive to obtain in order to serve and better the country he so dearly loves. And now, he has signed up for another salary-donating hitch! So the motive is certainly not money nor is it notoriety. Not intending to further ruffle some of the reader’s feathers but could it be a spiritual calling? What else could fuel such dedication and drive?
Certain happenings occurred during our War for Independence which prompted various Founders to suppose Divine Providence being a factor in America’s quest for freedom. Within “45,” it’s certainly a possibility, at least for some of us to consider, that a celestial influence could provide his inner strength for withstanding what most would and could not endure.
Trump’s words not being part of the usual political jive was and still is another plus that magnetized his support; no, he was not a career politician, nor was he indebted or controlled by anyone. His life and career revolved around and were dependent upon successful deal-making, which also entailed being true to his word. This character trait carried over into his Presidency and has been a building block for amassing this public trust and admiration. In political circles, this didn’t and still doesn’t play well!
To wrap up, and with grateful thanks for Trump’s love and loyalty to our country and her people, America’s wise old sage, Dr. Ben Franklin offers a thought. This slice of wisdom was spoken during our 1787 Constitutional Convention: “I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth – that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?”
Being in agreement with Dr. Franklin, we might also add that a nation may not fall without His notice and permission! November will answer this, one way or the other!
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College students, and trained Marxists, do not just wake up one day illiterate and acting like cult members– they have to be trained. The dumbing down of public education certainly helps sway students to support a political movement like Marxism, especially if they are illiterate in history, and economic systems.
What we are seeing unfolding on college campuses comes as no surprise to me. Both Republicans and Democrats have laid the foundation for this kind of violent revolt. Whether it be BLM, Antifa or the Palestinian protesters, all share common characteristics; illiteracy and support for Marxists ideology.
Most normal people support black lives, do not want to see an unfair advantage among big corporations, and can value the lives of Palestinians and Israelis. But none of that matters to a trained Marxist. They become cult-like in their militant extremist positions.
Where does this all come from?
Why are parents waking up to their kids being arrested, and now part of a militant cult who are willing to use them to benefit Marxist elitists?
Some of this comes directly out of your public schools.
We can see teachers who have posted their propaganda in their classrooms, they don’t even hide it. Removing textbooks and replacing them with electronic devices, has allowed much of this radicalized propaganda in the curriculum, to be hidden from parents. Add social media to the mix, and we have a recipe for creating a dumbed-down illiterate militant Marxist.
Nellie Mae is a ” is a left-of-center nonprofit who is active in New England. Nellie Mae is oriented around furthering critical race theory-aligned policies in the region’s public education system.”
Nellie Mae used to deal primarily with student loans, but over the years, they’ve become more of a militant political organization focused on turning students to become community organizers.
How does Nellie Mae get into the schools? They offer grants to schools which then require schools to fulfill their agenda.
Grantmaking
On January 1, 2020, in order to better serve its new critical race theory-aligned focus, as well as combat “the idea that education can be a great equalizer,” which the organization dubs, “the myth of meritocracy,” the Nellie Mae Education Foundation announced a new grantmaking strategy encompassing six grant funds: “Supporting Organizations Led By People of Color”; “Advancing Community-Led Partnerships,” which supports community-organizations led by minorities; “Amplifying Youth Voice,” which supports student youth groups in New England; “Building Movements and Networks,” which supports networking projects and institutions “elevating the discourse about race”; and “Strengthening State and National Coalitions,” which supports groups advancing critical race theory aligned policies in public education on the state-level.This is why every school board should be reviewing school grants. They need to see what they’ve sold to the grant foundation.
Nellie Mae has worked with the New Hampshire Department of Education to promote Competency-Based Education in our public schools. In 2013, with support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the NHDOE designed a performance assessment model. This makes you wonder who’s really running our local public schools.
Here is a link to the notice to the federal government by former Commissioner Virginia Barry. New Hampshire is required show the Feds on what kind of performance exam we will use in our schools: https://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/stateletters/nhassesspaceproposal.pdf
With the generous support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the NHDOE in 2013 constructed a performance assessment model of local accountability to support the implementation of competency education based on the tenets of a white paper completed by the Accountability 3.0 Taskforce of the Innovation Lab Network of the Council of Chief State School Officers, (CCSSO). This model, which laid the foundation for the PACE proposal (see Appendix B), conceptualized a scalable model of state and local accountability supported by common performance assessments juried at the state level and aligned to NH state level graduation competencies in English language arts, mathematics, science, and work study practices.
Competency Based Education (CBE) has done nothing to improve academic outcomes, because competencies are focused on changing a child’s values, attitudes and beliefs. Parents may think that their child has mastered Algebra 1 after they’ve completed their competencies, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Go read them. The focus of CBE isn’t to improve academic outcomes, which might explain why Nellie Mae was so eager to help New Hampshire.
Now there are Social and Emotional Learning Competencies, even though legislators insisted that Competencies NOT evaluate a child’s dispositions. I know, I was at the hearings years ago when CBE was passed into law.
Republicans have been complicit in this education reform because they’ve never done the research. Ask yourself, if CBE is so great, why is it the private schools will not touch it? Why does it have to be forced on schools through a state law?
How do they turn kids into radical community organizers? Here’s one example from the former Asst. Superintendent from Manchester, David Ryan, explaining how they would be turning students into community activists in class. When the students have no idea what they are fighting for on the college campuses, or cannot locate Gaza on a map, you will have a better understanding how they got there.
The former Asst. Superintendent, David Ryan went on to become the Superintendent of SAU16/Exeter for several years. He instituted a focus on Social Justice by hiring a DEIJ Director. None of this actually helps students learn to read and write, but it does divide students while pushing the students into activism. He’s now taken those talents to Hinsdale, NH.
As an activist myself, I can certainly understand and support anyone actively supporting a political cause; but this isn’t what we are seeing. We are seeing an undermining of our democratic values, and our economic system from young adults who are illiterate in the subjects of history and civics.
We have the best political system in the world because we do not have to resort to violence. We can run for office or vote for a representative who aligns with our values. There is no need to burn down cities like we saw during the Summer of Love when BLM and Antifa teamed up to destroy cities, businesses, and harm anyone who got in their way.
Children writing to their legislators about police brutality, are learning to become political mules for Marxist elitists.
What can you do about this ?
1) Stop ignoring your public schools, you pay for this.
2) Start looking at what’s being taught in the school you pay for.
3) Get involved with your local school board election.
4) Either run for school board, or help get good board members elected.
5) If you are elected, do not cower in the corner, start asking questions.
6) Expose what is going on in the schools.
7) Why are teachers displaying flags from one group while ignoring all of the other students in your district? That’s not inclusive.
8) Keep communicating with your school board and demand that they focus on quality academics vs civics action.
Students in our public schools deserve a quality education, black and brown included.
These kids are not the ideal candidates for a good job in the future. Once a company sees that they’ve been engaged in this fight, they know that kind of employee will eventually take their fight to their employer. That will be come a big problem for those running the company.
This is a big set up for failure, unless you are George Soros.
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If you missed it, mostly-rural-Maine has succumbed to the electoral weight of its cities and Left a majority of Democrats running the political store. They assume this means they should advance every nutty progressive thing in case the people come ot their senses. And so they have, no matter what the cost.
The Kittery Trading Post, just over the border in Maine, is a Tourist magnet, but recent changes in State Law would complicate matters and undermine firearms sales.
In a statement, Kittery Trading Post said the law will have “irreversible consequences” for its longstanding outdoor sports retail business, which relies heavily on tourism.
The 72-hour waiting period “forces law-abiding customers” to make two visits over three days to complete a legal firearm sale, with the extra time, gas, and other expenses further driving up costs for the consumer, the company said.
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The gun retailer estimated it brings in over $11 million in new and used firearm sales each year and that roughly 60% of those sales are to out-of-state residents.
That’s no small amount of cake.
The store’s announcement follows a statement from Gov. Janet Mills this week that she would let the legislation become law without her signature.
The law, which will take effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns, likely some time in August,…
I hope they do it. We’d be happy to take them in, and they already have space here.
Kittery Trading Post said that it would move its firearms business to New Hampshire, where it currently has a small gun exchange facility. The Maine store is about 2 miles from the New Hampshire border.
It is yet another unpleasant side-effect of knee-jerk progressive policymaking. Pass a law that will do nothing to improve public safety (that will likely make matters worse) and lose millions in sales and commerce. Maine residents should also know they don’t care—the Democrats in office. Lost jobs and revenue are not part of any such calculus. Disarming you is the priority. Preventing young Mainers from embracing any gun culture that is not anathema to firearms is more important. And since they never cut spending, they’ll tax something else and call you names if you complain.
You voted for it. This is what you get.
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Joe Biden is constantly talking about the threat Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans pose to our Democracy. This talk is part of the scare tactics used by all Democrats because there is no way they can run on their record for the last four years. We have been getting graphic visuals of what is happening in America for months, showing Joe Biden’s Democracy at work, and it does not look like any America I want to live in.
From Day One of his administration, our border has been thrown open, and millions of undocumented, unvetted, illegal migrants have come into our country and dispersed throughout the country, making every state a border state. These people are transported to whatever region of the country they desire, regardless of whether the receiving region has the infrastructure and funding available to handle these new residents.
The children of these migrants are putting a burden on every school district they are now attending. Individuals and families are overtaxing the available housing, with some communities building new units to house these migrants at no cost to them but to the taxpayers.
The list of Americans dead from Fentanyl poisoning continues to grow. Over 300,000 during Biden’s term, yet he does not feel an obligation to challenge China or Mexico for their complicity in the manufacture and distribution of Fentanyl, killing Americans in their prime.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate and opponent of Joe Biden, faces 91 exaggerated counts in various locations across America. Biden is using his Justice Department as a weapon to interfere with the 2024 election by keeping his number one opponent confined to a courtroom when he should be on the campaign trail and under a bogus gag order in an attempt to silence Trump. The ridiculous fines are an apparent attempt to break the former President or empty his campaign coffers by paying court fees. It is not working, and Trump’s approval rating increases with each sordid twist in these trials.
College campuses around the country are exploding with “peaceful” protests, as Congresswoman Cortez (D-NY) called them, that are anything but peaceful. Mob scenes at Columbia, the University of Oregon, and UCLA turned violent, resulting in conflicts with local and state police. Buildings have been damaged and covered with vulgar graffiti. These illegal encampments have been happening for ten days. Still, finally, on Thursday, Joe Biden made a quick statement describing Freedom of speech versus hate talk or violence but said little about the students and activists claiming freedom of speech but spewing hate speech against Israel and Jews and claiming alliance with the terrorist group Hamas. Police reports indicate that more than one-half of those arrested in these uprisings have no affiliation with the school. This confirms these violent acts were organized and funded by anti-American and anti-Israel activists.
These illegal actions should have been shut down ASAP as they were in Florida or Texas, but Biden ignored the rioting until Day 9 when he finally spoke out but took no questions. Biden’s lack of leadership is consistent with every significant decision or policy of his Presidency. He is always late, weak, and non-specific in his responses, and his staff usually has to clean up the mess he leaves with his comments or reinforce them with what he meant to say.
Joe Biden claims he has brought America back from the turmoil of the Trump Presidency, but you never saw these ugly situations during his term. What we see with our eyes is the real Biden Democracy that he wants to protect. Biden shows by his actions that he does not love this country and wants to complete the transformation of America that started when he was Vice President under President Obama.
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