C. Chicken Lady

@gregcello is this Berlin?

current state of ‘green’ wind energy.

@travis4nh Nice disguise Mr. Glen.

Actual photo sans AI slop

Gill: "Yes or no question. Are you a racist?" Yentel: "I'm, I'm not a racist." Gill. "You're not a racist? Particularly interesting because according to one of your affiliate charities under your nonprofit umbrella, 'Denial of racism constitutes covert white supremacy.' Are you a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "Uh, sir, I'm here to talk about the essential work that nonprofits..."- Gill: "Are you a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "Can I talk about the work that nonprofits do in district?" Gill: "No, I'm asking you if you're a covert- Because think white supremacist, which according to one of your own organizations, again, 'Denial of racism constitutes covert white supremacy.' Would you like to answer the question?" Yentel: "I don't know what the question is." Gill: "So you refuse to answer whether you are a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "I am here to talk about the essential work that nonprofits do. If you'd like to ask me a question nonprofits..."- Gill: "I am utterly dumbfounded... You are on record right now and you will not say that you are not a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "I don't have a definition in front of me. I haven't looked at the definition. I'm not gonna answer a question about my personal views. I'm here to talk about the work..."- Gill: "I wanna give you one more chance to do this. Are you a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "Why are we so off track from the topic here?" Gill: "No, I'm asking you - I'm asking you a very straightforward question." Yentel: "I've heard your question. Thank you, sir." Gill: And you're not gonna answer whether you are a covert white supremacist?" Yentel: "I would like to answer questions about the work- This is- of nonprofit organizations Thank you." Gill: "That is really, really astounding. I can answer very directly that I am not a covert white supremacist and I imagine all of my colleagues can as well. I think you ought to reevaluate what you're doing in the nonprofit sector, uh, if you can't answer that in a straightforward way. That is astounding." Rep Gill is going to be the president one day imo.

So many right wingers still don’t understand where we are. Leftists can not be reasoned with, you can’t “punish” the GOP by voting for democrats then just expect Republicans will come back to power once they sufficiently “America first”. They will literally go on a multi minute long rant about how America has a systemic rape culture when they think the rape is done by white men, then the moment they learn it’s actually a story about brown rapists IMMEDIATELY do a 180 and say the women are just crazy racists. And the craziest part is they will do it without a second thought, shamelessly abandoning even their most deeply held beliefs in an instant solely to advance their cause. If these people ever take power in America, they will NEVER let it go. They will stack the courts, re-mandate racial gerrymandering, give illegals voting rights, etc. they will openly and brazenly burn this country to the ground so they can rule unopposed over the ashes.

While you were Googling "how to safely remove penis," Mexicans were freaking out over new Trump administration financial rules that have basically made remittances illegal. All illegal aliens are getting debanked as credit risks. Got what I voted for again!

@travis4nh Make sure to ask the Chair if this will be their Final ReSolution.

No particularly interesting bills or speeches yet, plus I'm so focused on my censure vote (or, optimistically, my FIRST censure vote) that I'm really giddy and distracted... Like an ICE agent getting ready to raid his first Tyson Foods chicken processing facility.

@wtgowers Can’t wait until AI solve the problem that I have to click Accept All Cookies 100x per day.

@TheCarolineMc Unless the outbreak happens during Town Meeting Tuesday. Then we'd be screwed both by tax increases AND the apocalypse.

Apparently New Hampshire ranks 5th in survival probability during a zombie apocalypse. I love getting pitches like these.

@Political_BAWss @Best4Liberty So your strategy is literally to lose. Yeah, that will show 'em. I understand the frustration. But Democrats are hell bent on destruction, which is orders of magnitude easier than creation. Four years of that and we'll need 20 years to fix it.

@Best4Liberty Third parties will not do this, but in several states and races with close results, that should endorse and back the Democratic Party candidates

They chose wrong. To anyone on the left and right who is liberty-minded, we need to organize en masse to remove as many Republicans from power as possible. No matter how red your district, enough organizing and they will lose. Hope to see you hauling ass to remove them soon.

@JoeSweeneyNH 1) The purpose of any bureaucracy is to grow the bureaucracy. 2) The laws are designed, generally, to reflect the intent if the voters. The rules, on the otherhand, are for the bureaucracy. See 1) again as to why. It is why Small Government is the only answer.

The craziest thing about New Hampshire is that we cannot build New Hampshire today in most of New Hampshire. The villages we love, the downtowns we celebrate, and the mill towns, farm towns, and seacoast towns that shaped this state - almost none of them could be built today under our current zoning, permitting, and regulatory codes. Too dense. Too mixed-use. Too close to wetlands. Too close to the road. Not enough parking. Wrong setbacks. Wrong lot sizes. Wrong everything. We turned the state we love into something illegal to replicate. Now we wonder why young families cannot afford to live here.

People are clueless about our history because it’s been revised to paint Christianity in the worst possible light, when it was specifically the Church that preserved all the great ancient texts that illuminate the histories for us. Why did the Dark Age happen? Not because of Christianity, but because of Islam. Aside from Constantinople, all the centers of Christian learning in the East were conquered by the Caliphate. And in particular, Egypt was the greatest loss, for two reasons: 1) the catechetical school at Alexandria was a brilliant light of Christendom for the 6 centuries prior to Islamic conquest, and 2) most importantly, the production and importation of paper (made from papyrus) to Europe ceased overnight, and Europe had to resort to enormously expensive parchment for its writing mode — and thus reading and writing became relegated to the wealthy nobility and to the clergy. No one else could afford the material necessary. Couple that with the next thousand+ years of Islamic raiders plundering the coasts of southern Europe for Christian slaves, leading to most unfortified coastal areas to be abandoned for centuries, and you have a recipe for Christian Europe to be forced to draw in upon itself. This coincided with the so-called Islamic Golden Age, which occurred specifically because Islam violently conquered Christian lands and stole their knowledge for themselves. The Christian West during this period nearly collapsed altogether, but it was their unifying Christian faith that helped them band together to defeat the pagan Germans in Saxony and Bavaria, the pagan Vikings raiding and conquering the British coasts, and Islamic rule in Iberia, southern France, Sicily, and southern Italy. People like to treat “science” and “learning” as these linear progressions, but in reality the studies of the sciences, and in particular philosophy, had really begun to decline during the period leading up to the fall of Rome in 476. This era was marked by increasing decadence and a lack of moral and social cohesion in the empire, and as society decayed so too did the quality of its academic institutions and scholastic fervor. Some people try to blame this decay on Christianity, but in reality Christianity was a response to — not the cause of — this societal decay. This same pattern is playing out today. The moral and societal decay of the modern secular West is leading the younger generations to reject modernity and embrace faith, and in particular the more traditional and liturgical faiths are surging with young adult converts. History doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme.

@datrearden @JeremiahDJohns Dagny would approve.

@JeremiahDJohns Yes. I keep hearing these kids say “this is how boomers lived”. I grew up upper middle class, my boomer parents rarely took me out to eat. We ate cheap dinners at home nearly every night. My soon to be 6 year old has eaten more restaurant meals than I did my whole childhood.

The biggest thing happening behind the scenes in the "expensive lunch" discourse is that Zoomers are eating out at ridiculously high rates. It's a silent assumption for a ton of young people that restaurants are a basic necessity, not an occasional treat.

@JeremiahDJohns @Timcast Well, my personal experience as a GenX was: growing up it was a REAL BIG DEAL to get takeout, and a HUGE deal to eat in. Once, I even got to order Jello. Then with my kids, we would dine out fairly regularly. So to them, it is not exceptional to do that. It still is to me.

@flwrgirl_1 @nicksortor Thank you, I've been trying to make the same point and was being way too bombastic in my phrasing. I'm stealing yours.

@nicksortor my favorite thing abt the replies to this post are the ppl who still do not understand that you can't take Trump literally. you must take him seriously, however.

🚨 NOW: President Trump reveals the roof of the ballroom was designed to have a DRONE PORT to "protect all of Washington" "[The roof] is developed in such a way that we can have military there. The ENTIRE roof is developed for military. It's very high. It's higher than just about anything else. It'll have a 360 degree vision of Washington DC. They have a massive drone capacity. Not only is it drone proof. If a drone hits it, it bounces off. It won't have any impact. But it's also meant as a drone port, so it protects all of Washington, the roof of the building."

@travis4nh @NHDems Except the Theater Kids. "Truth to power," they said, or some other Marxist crap.

If you actually care about household budgets being stretched, it seems that @NHDems would want to cross the aisle and sign on to a Constitutional amendment against an income tax in NH ... and yet, when given a chance, they refused. "Weird", as the kids say.

@Mopar Superb points. You can't have all the "services" and low taxes. And part of what makes rural communities high trust is there isn't some magical 3rd party to clean up the mess, and you aren't stealing from a bureaucracy. It's your neighbors, their work, and they know you by name.

And so we can live in the neighborhood we can afford. I've mentioned many times I chose to live in one of the lower taxed places in NH. That doesn't come without trade-off though. We have minimal infrastructure. Our water comes from wells. We have no municipal sewer. Some do not even have public electricity. Our DPW is 2-3 guys, same as our PD. Our post office has one full time carrier. Many of our roads are unpaved. We do not have grocery store in town (or the next town), we don't have a gas station or a doctor. Hell, we don't even have a traffic light. The nearest main road is 15 minutes away from me. The nearest interstate highway is well over an hour away. The kids spend an hour or more on the bus to get to the nearest middle and high schools. We don't have a senior center, community center, trash pickup, or pretty much any other taxpayer funded social services and almost zero business. If you need virtually anything you need to travel 30-45 minutes away. If you want to drastically increase the population of the rural parts of NH, you need to first drastically increase the the infrastructure to handle the people and that requires an equally drastic increase in taxes. In other words, to "make housing more affordable" here, they actually have to make housing LESS affordable.

@CloverKitt16901 @countyhwy Their theory of mind is composed entirely of words. It's why they kill the kulaks when in power, create 5 year plans with fake results, and can maintain positions unbounded by physics or facts.

@countyhwy I understand your explanation for it but what I don’t understand is the lack of theory of mind because isn’t that positively correlated with intelligence

One of the reasons highly educated people tend to be so remarkably stupid and destructive is that they don’t know anyone who functions in the real world their ideas are intended to change. They have ideas about war without having ever seen war, and without knowing anyone who actually fought. They have ideas about crime without having committed crimes themselves or knowing hard-core criminals. They have ideas about justice without having been victimized, and without knowing cops. They have ideas about capitalism without having ever started a bricks and mortar business or knowing anyone who had. Its a giant tower of bullshit. The fantasy world they live in is removed from human mess. Some of them are insulated by inherited wealth. Others are ambitious social climbers who are taught to reject their families of origin as bigots as the price of admission. They understand religion as primitive superstition and as a result have zero understanding of human life. They see themselves reflected in the shrinking mirrors of elite opinion and prestige institutions that tell them they are beautiful and righteous, even as those institutions themselves are rotting away. We all know these people. We spend our lives being condescended to by them, while they destroy what it took others decades or centuries to create. Their record of unrelieved failure doesn’t seem to make any impact on what has become a closed culture which continues to congratulate itself on its genius while blaming the rest of society for its escalating failures. Twenty years ago, there was still a widespread awareness that this was a bad situation — if only because the Democratic Party still thought that talking to the middle of the country was the only way to win elections. Bill Clinton was the model, however flawed, of how to reconcile the meritocrats and their chain-smoking slot-machine playing aunts. Plenty of Republicans followed that model. It involved a lot of fakery. But it created at least some common ground, which in turn offered a way out. Now you have the moronic radicals on the left at war with the radicalized morons on the right. Together, they represent at most 30% of the American public. But the tools of coercion and division that they have at their fingertips are only growing more powerful. The remaining 70% still wants to enjoy life and make new stuff. Thats where hope lies. But we need to build more, better, and faster — and to make new friends.

Like most of Travis' bangers, the pearl clutchers can't actually quote what he said without having to explain it... and they can't properly explain it without looking stupid to their audience.

The reality of the boomer phenomena is that they are the main characters of history and we just have to wait our turn. Every decision made for the past 60 years was at the behest of maximizing the boomer experience. In their time America had such unprecedented wealth that there were literally no wrong decisions, they could only fail upwards. When boomers got uppity about Vietnam, which we were about to win, we did they do? We pulled out. When boomers were in the working class economy, unions were heavily rigged to maximize wages and benefits while COLs were abysmally low. This was the golden age of the American middle class. During this time they saved and heavily invested into assets and equities, guess what happened after that? We went off the gold standard, started endlessly printing money, and every fortune 500 that they had stock in acquired regulatory capture of their industries. They then offshored to the global 3rd world to maximize profits, which in turn maximized evaluations, which in turn maximized boomer stocks. When their kids stopped having children what did they do? They imported endless hordes of mindless drones to work below market wages to keep the economy going. When a housing crisis caused by overlending to retards and immigrants (done to maximize boomer stock value) threatened the security of the banks managing their portfolios what did they do? They bailed the banks out. When a virus with a 0.001% death rate to everyone EXCEPT old people what did they do? They shut the entire world down and printed more money than ever before to keep their portfolios afloat. Never forget that the stimmy checks only came after we injected trillions into the stock market to keep it afloat. Every. Single. Decision. Has been at their behest. The tragedy of the boomer is that they have literally no vision beyond themselves. No other generation was able to rig the world in a way they did. No other generation holds the wealth of nations in the palms of their hands, and what will they do with it? They will spend every cent on health and hospice care so they can drag themselves by cane and IV bag onto their 30th cruise before dying as they recite the mantra of their time "I was at woodstock..."