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Andrew Breitbart famously said “Politics is downstream from culture.  Keep that in mind…and just sigh…

‘Post-truth’ chosen as Oxford Dictionaries word of year

LONDON (AP) — Oxford dictionary editors have chosen their word of the year: “post-truth,” a term sometimes used to describe the current political climate.

Oxford Dictionaries said Wednesday that use of the term rose 2,000 percent between 2015 and 2016, often in discussions of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and the campaign of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. It’s often used in the phrase “post-truth politics” and is defined as belonging to a time in which truth has become irrelevant.

If you are a person that highly values a high standard of morality, that results stem from that and “do the right thing” rather than “the end justifies the means” (which generally means “not much morality present”), this is both dispiriting and dismal.

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That’s what Democrats think, Chris Sununu.  You see, they have totally rejected the Founding Fathers philosophy that our Liberties are most protected when Government, constrained by our Constitutions, stay within the “negative liberties” – what Government CANNOT DO to you.  The flip side is the old European and Socialist model – Government exists to do things for (and TO) you.  Sounds “ok” at the surface level but I guess Chris is forgetting something VERY important (emphasis mine, reformatted)…

Advocates will push for paid family leave this session

Republicans may now control both chambers of the State House and the governorship, but advocates are hopeful a paid family leave law could be on the books at the end of this legislative session. With Governor-elect Chris Sununu saying he would “absolutely” support paid family and medical leave during his campaign while states across the country – including Massachusetts – take a hard look at the proposal, proponents of such a program think bipartisan momentum is here.

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Society only progresses to the degree that its members progress, and the only means a man has to measure his progress is to consider the nature of his internal governance, his conscience. He must consider that which causes him to feel pleasure and that which causes him to feel pain, that which causes him to feel pride and that which causes him to feel guilt, that which causes him joy and that which causes him sadness.

External regulation cannot induce progress.

-Branden Espinoza

(H/T: Cafe Hayek)

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From the UL (emphasis mine, reformatted):

CONCORD — Republican Gov.-elect Chris Sununu appears to be in agreement with his party’s legislative agenda when it comes to tightening up voting regulations in the state.  Thursday, he took it one step further, saying he would support a bill that would end same-day voter registration in New Hampshire. His comments came during an interview on New Hampshire Pubic Radio, when Sununu was asked about GOP voting initiatives.

“I’ve never been a fan of same-day voter registration, most states don’t have it,” he said. “There’s a reason. It can cause problems.”

We have seen how same-day registrations can be the Trojan Horse in voting – right after previous elections, Ed Naile of CNHT sent out letters (as well as others around NH) to the addresses of “voters” that used that process, they came back “undeliverable”.  That tells us a lot – vote and scoot.  And most likely, laughing at the miserable “safeguards” against fraudulent voting.  Being the foremost “illegal voter hunter”, he’s been reduced to waging this war in the States from whence these folks have established their legal “domiciles”.

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small,but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”  – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

Hmmm, is it the case that I only have about 2 months left to be able to use the above?  Or is it an evergreen statement that’s a great opener for “Political Parties / Govt malfeasance” posts?   Need to noodle upon this for a bit.  Anyways, this is about the Republicans in the US House, just after a YUGE Presidential win based on a “Drain the Swamp” promise, making that swamp deeper and wider.

Yep – created a new tax and made government bigger.  Tell me again: why we should vote Republican, why we should Trust them, and how are they different than the Democrats? (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Monday night, the Republican-controlled House voted in favor of a tax on concrete to placate special interests in Washington D.C.

Provided yet another opportunity to expand the size and scope of government, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.R. 985, (here) the Concrete Masonry Products, Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2015, a tax in all but name.

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small,but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”  – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

Still thinking about the above but what the heck, is the GOP trying to repeal, replace, and become Obama??  And yes, I’m gonna “borrow” this logo from Instapundit because if this and that are any indication, it may get used a lot.

Sidenote: are the Republicans, now holding the trifecta royal flush in DC, going to be tempted by the same sins that the Democrats did in 2009-2010 – hubris? Are they already banking on this?

Another taste:

House GOP Weighs Proposal to Bring Back Earmarks.

One week after Donald Trump won the presidency on a promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, House Republicans will vote on a proposal to bring back earmarks.

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And we should be surprised at uber-Progressive US Senator “Fauxcahantus” Warren who has lied her way (really? TMEW has more Native American heritage than you do, High Cheeks) to a 1%-er cushy job at Harvard Law teaching 1 class / semester.  Hillary famously said that she has a private face (while talking to Wall Street swells for 6 figure “honorariums” for an hour’s work) saying what she really thinks while saying quite the other thing in her public events.  Evidentially, this is a “thing” among Progressives:

An example of this was evident on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show last night when Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, odds-on favorite to lead Democrats post-Hillary, decided it no longer serves any purpose in publicly insulting Trump’s supporters regardless of her actual opinions about them.

WARREN: You know, part of what happened on Tuesday is what Donald Trump offered up with this kind of toxic stew of bigotry, but there were millions of people across this country who voted for him not because of that bigotry, but in spite of that bigotry.

Read the transcript at the link.  My take on this is that Warren realized that Democrats have to

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Ah yes, “Stronger Together”!  Tolerance, inclusivity, big tent – but get off MY lifeboat!  Nice guy to his employees, this Matt Maloney (reformatted, emphasis mine):

If you voted for Donald Trump, you may not feel welcomed at Grubhub.

The CEO of Grubhub, an online food delivery service, sent a company wide email Wednesday suggesting employees who agree with President-elect Donald Trump’s behaviors and his campaign rhetoric should resign.  “If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here,” wrote Matt Maloney, Co-Founder of Grubhub. “We do not tolerate hateful attitudes on our team.”

We stand for tolerance. Always. Please read the official statement about our CEO, @m3aloney's, post-election email https://t.co/tQU3Db0IbY

— Grubhub (@Grubhub) November 10, 2016

And yes, he even had the gall to use the word ‘tolerance”

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I do wonder of the Left is willing to listen?  No, they won’t – they’ll chalk up the Prez loss to “bad messaging” (standard excuse) or BIGOTS, MISOGYNISTS, XENOPHOBES, JINGOISTS, HOMOPHOBES, RACISTS, CHRISTIANIST (add more adjectives as you see fit)!  But there are some people speaking to EXACTLY why folks voted for Trump and here’s a few the reasonings (reformatted, emphasis mine):

• FLASHBACK: Peter Turchin: Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Society Frays. “Complex human societies, including our own, are fragile. They are held together by an invisible web of mutual trust and social cooperation. This web can fray easily, resulting in a wave of political instability, internal conflict and, sometimes, outright social collapse. . . . We now see the same forces in the contemporary U.S. Of about 30 detailed indicators I developed for tracing these historical cycles (reflecting popular well-being, inequality, social cooperation and its inverse, polarization and conflict), almost all have been moving in the wrong direction in the last three decades.”

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