Per Don Norcross: LGBTQ+ propaganda is killing our kids

By Rubashov

Everywhere we look, we see assaults on the identity and health of children – especially girls. Forget prospective legislation, it is now the law in much of our country that schoolgirls must share formerly off-limits, personal facilities with boys who are quite capable of raping them. Even at-risk women in shelters and prisons are subjected to this faith-based, ideological crucible – with two women inmates in New Jersey recently made pregnant by a “female” cellmate. Talk about “cruel and unusual” punishment!
 
Only barbaric nations imprison women with men. And it isn’t “hate” to say so, it’s hateful to allow it to happen to fellow human beings.
 
With the decline of many traditional faiths, the LGBTQ+ religion has filled the vacuum. Apparently, mankind has a need to suspend rational thought and replace it with a faith-based discipline that demands the suspension of reality. Hey, a society that once believed wine could be turned into actual blood, will find a new religion that demands you believe that boys can be turned into actual girls somewhat comforting. Religion needs to make such demands, or it isn’t religion.  And just as people in Victorian times switched religions to fit in with the establishment of the day, in this neo-Victorian era they are doing so again.
 
And so, Don Norcross (He, Him), a Congressman (or must we say Congress-Cisman?) facing re-election was dragooned into putting his name to a column co-authored by Bishop Christian Fuscarino of the new faith (and written by only God knows who). It is the job of any good bishop to keep his flock apart from the general population. Why? Because flocks only reach into their pockets to keep some fear at bay – and Bishop Fuscarino is an accomplished fear monger. Heck, the Bishop raised money off the fear of a so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill that, in fact, doesn’t mention the word “Gay”. Now that is something.
 
Why all this fear? It’s simple: No fear, no religion, no Bishop Fuscarino. He makes his living off the new religion and his pitch is as irrational and stuffed with emotion as the one served up by Tammy Faye in former times. But remember, they lapped it up then… and they’re lapping it up now.
 
That great British writer (and former member of Parliament) Matthew Parris once suggested that the personal goal of every “gay” person was to get on with a career that provides satisfaction and then to simply blend in and be left in peace to rub along like any other human being. But that way of thinking is the antithesis of Bishop Fuscarino. The Bishop holds that your career and accomplishments do not define you so much as the sex you had and with whom. It places salaciousness at the center of life. And that’s the mandate he’s demanded the state use to teach kids.
 
Imagine if a government mandated the “teaching (of) historical contributions of people in schools” based on their religious beliefs?  Would this serve as “a true representation of our nation’s rich history”? Here is a man famous for his engineering feats but the really important thing you need to know about him is that he was an Episcopalian!  And that’s what we are celebrating him for… his religion. The engineering stuff is an afterthought. Well, get ready for a lot of miseducated stupid school kids… but it won’t do the recruitment of Episcopalians any harm will it? And new recruits will keep Bishop Fuscarino in truffles… and maybe that’s the point!
 
Nothing about the new religion is as bad as its symbiotic relationship with Big Pharma and some of the more reckless elements in the field of reconstructive surgery. It has all the makings of the next opioid scandal and Congressman Don Norcross should be so advised if this is the horse he intends to ride.
 
Dr. Paul McHugh, former chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital, has written: “The idea that one's sex is fluid and a matter open to choice runs unquestioned through our culture and is reflected everywhere in the media, the theater, the classroom, and in many medical clinics. It has taken on cult-like features: its own special lingo, Internet chat rooms providing slick answers to new recruits, and clubs for easy access to dresses and styles supporting the sex change. It is doing much damage to families, adolescents, and children and should be confronted as an opinion without biological foundation wherever it emerges.”
 
Then there is this warning from the National Library of Medicine: “Transsexual issues and sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) are receiving a great deal of attention and support in the media, schools, and government. Given the early age at which youth seek treatment for transsexual attractions (TSA) and gender dysphoria and given the serious risks associated with such treatment, it is essential that family and youth be advised about these risks and alternative treatment options. Physicians and mental-health professionals have a professional responsibility to know and communicate the serious risks, in particular risk of suicide, that are associated with SRS; the spontaneous resolution of TSA in youth; the psychological conflicts that have been identified in such patients and in their parents; the successful treatment of conflicts associated TSA and the regrets of those who have been through SRS.”
 
Congressman Norcross, you too have a responsibility to acknowledge those risks.  
 
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health reports that “evidence suggests that children will change their minds as they age: just under three-quarters of pre-pubescent children attending gender identity clinics may not want to change their gender once puberty starts.”
 
But instead of them being allowed to figure it out naturally, they are being offered a smorgasbord of profit-earning puberty blockers that will short-circuit their natural growth and kill their ability to ever figure it out. Studies suggest that if allowed to follow a natural – as opposed to a pharmaceutical and surgical – course, most of these children will mature to develop same-sex or bi-sexual attractions. This suggests that the first victims of the state’s push to indoctrinate “T” will be sacrificed at the expense of “L” and “G” and “B”.
 
And despite the Congressman’s protestations, medical studies indicate that his embrace of policies to enforce the new religion isn’t saving lives as much as costing them. If battling “thoughts of suicide” produces a “solution” that causes suicide, what is the point?
 
The most thorough follow-up study of people who had reassignment surgery extended over 30 years and was conducted in Sweden – a country strongly supportive of the transgendered. The study is full of detail on their lifelong mental instability. Here is the data Congressman Norcross’ new faith would prefer to ignore: 10 to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers. We certainly hope the good Congressman doesn’t continue to embrace this policy of coddle them now, kill them later.
 
Here’s how the leftwing Guardian newspaper summarized the results of a review of “more than 100 follow-up studies of post-operative transsexuals” by Birmingham University’s Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility:
 
“The Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility, which conducts reviews of health care treatments for the National Health Service, concludes that none of the studies provides conclusive evidence that gender reassignment is beneficial for patients. It found that most research was poorly designed, which skewed the results in favor of physically changing sex. There was no evaluation of whether other treatments, such as long-term counseling, might help transsexuals, or whether their gender confusion might lessen over time.”
 
Unfortunately for Bishop Fuscarino, there are a lot of people who prefer rational inquiry to religious bullying. Even Hollywood liberals are rejecting the new religion offered by Bishop Fuscarino. Here is liberal comedian Bill Maher (a skeptic who once donated a million dollars to Barack Obama) presenting polling data to make the point that the LGBTQ+ movement is growing not due to nature (as was their earlier argument) but rather through nurture (fashion, legislation, indoctrination).
 
The genetic argument has been largely dropped in favor of blunt proselytization – applied by the corporate, media, political, and academic establishment – in service of the new religion. In our schools, the mechanical repetition of LGBTQ+ shibboleths makes for an ubiquitous catechism used to indoctrinate children into the new religion – with drag queens now revered by education authorities as saints were once by Catholic school girls. In place of “live and let live” children are offered the choice between conformity and cancellation. Tolerance is out. Celebration is mandatory. “Pride” is the new Lent.

“If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses.”

Bill Maher (May 2022)

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NJGOP: Controlling the narrative by controlling the data

By Rubashov

Last November, New Jersey Democrats weathered a national tidal wave that swept away Democrat majorities and gave the GOP its first gubernatorial win in Virginia since 2009. New Jersey Democrats maintained healthy majorities in both chambers of the Legislature and Phil Murphy bucked history to become the first Democrat governor to be re-elected since 1977.

But in the fantasyland inhabited by the cabal of consultants who dominate the NJGOP, New Jersey Republicans really won last November. The tide rose high enough for the GOP to pick up a respectable number of legislative seats and local offices… but Republicans still didn’t win control of the governor’s office or a single chamber of the Legislature. And the loss of two longtime Republican counties – Burlington and Somerset – was only more firmly established.

Why then is last November being sold as a “victory”? There are three reasons.

First, the consultants who have spent millions in losing the GOP congressional delegation, key counties like Burlington and Somerset, and dozens of other GOP candidates at the statewide, legislative district, county, and municipal levels have a reputation to maintain. They need something to pitch potential clients and keep existing ones. If you don’t have a victory to pitch, these guys have the talent to come up with a pitch that sounds like a victory – even when it isn’t. Hey, we all know bullshit fuels politics. This is just one example.

Second, Jack Ciattarelli is running for Governor in 2025 and he’s invested in this narrative. He needs to convince existing and potential donors to invest again, so it’s important that the blame not fall on his campaign and consultants. So the story goes: “We didn’t leave any votes on the table, did everything right, achieved something like a victory, and next time…”

Third, these consultants might as well own the NJGOP. They recruited Bob Hugin, made him a statewide candidate, and their latest statewide candidate – Jack Ciattarelli – handpicked Hugin for the job of NJGOP Chairman.

A big part of their narrative is that the Bob Hugin-Jack Ciattarrelli model of campaigning, in particular the turnout model, is the only “viable” way forward (to use their favorite term). Unfortunately, the two times that their model was actually used (2018 for Hugin and 2021 for Ciattarelli), it lost. And that’s kind of the opposite of “viable”.

You might have noticed that in contrast to past years, these consultants are going all out to present an examination of the data. They claim it will show how successful they were in not winning the governor’s office, state senate, and state assembly. The Save Jersey blog just did a post-mortem of sorts and the NJGOP is planning to put together a dog and pony show in March to further “prove” their point.

Some wags have pointed out that all this activity was hastened after the announcement that the GOP legislative leadership would conduct its own post-mortem into what was done and how it failed to capture a single legislative chamber. This is nothing new. Every legislative leadership in every state does it after every election cycle.

But the wags have also pointed out that this is the reason why NJGOP Chairman Bob Hugin is withholding access to the data necessary to complete a legislative post-mortem. Yes, it’s the Republican National Committee’s data, granted to each state committee as a resource for legislative and other party leaders to study voter history, conduct post-mortems, create voter turnout models, recruit candidates, and create direct-mail databases.

So why isn’t Bob Hugin and the NJGOP sharing this data with Republican legislative leaders? Could it be that they don't want the legislative post-mortem to happen? Why else would they want the NJGOP to be a one-idea operation?

Hugin and his consultants have the data. They are making selective use of it to create a narrative supporting the theory that the Bob Hugin-Jack Ciattarrelli model of campaigning, in particular the turnout model, is the only “viable” way forward. By withholding the data from competing models – like the one Bill Stepien’s team is working on for GOP legislative leaders – Hugin and his consultants are attempting to abort a potential competition of ideas.

Is this kind of cheating the Big Pharma way? If you fix it so there’s no competition allowed, you can pretty much do what you want and not be held to account for it.

For our part, we don’t like cheating. We think New Jersey Republicans can handle more than one way, in other words, a choice. And we don’t think they will explode just because they have more than one idea to consider.

Don’t cheat. Different perspectives are good things. Don't try to block them from happening. Don't try to stop them. From them, maybe you’ll figure out how to win… for real win. Not fantasy spin win.

What happens when you spin yourself and fail to come to grips with reality.

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell

If Twitter was around then, would Murphy have supported it blocking anti-opioid campaigners?

By Rubashov

Twitter was launched in July 2006. But if Twitter had been around a decade before, when the medical establishment was pushing millions of opioid doses on unsuspecting patients and Big Pharma was insisting “all is well” and that “the science” backed them up – would Twitter have blocked Senator Declan O’Scanlon for suggesting caution? The evidence suggests that they would have and, as a result, would have been culpable in a million deaths.

Now go back to late 2002, early 2003, when the Weapons of Mass Destruction debate was going on. If Senator O’Scanlon – or anybody else for that matter – had suggested caution or that the official position of the American security state was mistaken or that United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 had got it wrong – would Twitter have blocked them? We are sorry to have to say that the evidence suggests Twitter would have… and so cheered on the start of the Second Gulf War and with it the millions of lives destroyed and trillions of dollars misspent.

As it was, there were very few voices back then arguing that prescription opioids would lead to an epidemic of abuse that is the most lethal drug epidemic in American history. There were only a scattering of voices raised in opposition to the Second Gulf War. But eventually, they got through. Opioids were eventually identified as a problem. The war was revealed to have been predicated on a lie.

It would be so much more difficult today to get through. That’s because guys like Governor Phil Murphy would be siding with Twitter, with statements (and this is a quote from Monday) like: “If they are speaking or allowing information which is absolutely false and at odds with the facts … they are putting people’s lives at risk. There is no other way to put that.”

That’s right. In 1996, Phil Murphy would have been on the side of the medical Establishment and Big Pharma, telling Twitter to shut down those people questioning the wisdom of prescribing millions of pills because it’s “at odds with the facts” as put out by the medical Establishment and Big Pharma and that questioning prescribing opioids might dissuade people from using them and end up “putting people’s lives at risk… there is no other way to put that.”

Yep. And in 2003, Phil Murphy would be telling Twitter to lock down all those anti-war nutjobs who kept falsely claiming there were no weapons of mass destruction when it was obvious there were, because the CIA, NSA, and Colin Powell had said so. Murphy would have screamed at Twitter to “stop allowing information which is absolutely false and at odds with the facts … they are putting people’s lives at risk. There is no other way to put that.”

Murphy told New Jersey Globe that he wants Twitter to be the gatekeeper of the First Amendment or, as he puts it, he wants Big Tech to “calls balls and strikes equally.” This is the same Big Tech that pocketed $9.53 billion in spending on digital advertising by the healthcare and pharma industry in 2020 (expected to grow by 18% this year). If platforms like Twitter are profiting from the medical Establishment and Big Pharma, how can they be expected to “call balls and strikes equally”?

Without the First Amendment, would the whistleblower who disclosed the opioid scam have ever been heard from? If platforms like Twitter – profiting off the medical Establishment and Big Pharma – had been allowed to, would they have blocked this whistleblower too? Ask yourself these questions while watching this shocking report from 60 Minutes...

The First Amendment SAVES LIVES. Phil Murphy favors putting Big Tech in charge of deciding what you hear about their Big Pharma advertising clients.

By any measure, New Jersey’s Governor is the most powerful State Executive in America. In other states, judges and prosecutors are elected. Not in New Jersey, they are all appointed by the Governor. Other states have an elected Attorney General, an elected State Treasurer, an elected Auditor General or Comptroller, and an elected Secretary of State. In New Jersey, all these jobs are appointed by the Governor.

Other states elect an Insurance Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, Land Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, Industries Commissioner, Utilities Commissioner… Massachusetts even has an elected eight-member Governor’s Council to provide advice and consent as an additional check on the power of the Governor. Not in New Jersey. In New Jersey, even the Lt. Governor isn’t chosen directly by the people, but rather selected by the nominee and then locked into an all or nothing ticket with the nominee.

New Jersey is the least democratic state in America.

That’s probably why it is a bad thing to have both the Legislature and Executive controlled by the same party in New Jersey. It cements too much power with one man – and any American worthy of the name knows that spells trouble.

And that’s why it is so important to elect a Governor with the kind of humility that holds back a little, that respects traditions – and things like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Because in New Jersey, with its absence of robust checks and balances, it is easiest for a Governor to abuse his power. Easier than anywhere else in America.
 

“If you want to understand why something is happening in America just follow the money.”
Krystal Ball

Big Pharma lobbyist LeRoy Jones defends Big Pharma’s Bob Hugin.

By Rubashov

In a remarkable intervention, the State Democrat Party Chairman came to the aid of his GOP counterpart, after the Republican was criticized for what the Democrat characterized as “attempting to introduce some level of diversity in candidate selection to (the state Republican) party.” On Friday afternoon, Democrat Chairman LeRoy Jones issued a press release defending State Republican Chairman Bob Hugin.

The two do share a degree of commonality. Jones is a Trenton lobbyist who counts Big Pharma among his clients (as well as Dominion Voting Systems). Hugin is a former Big Pharma executive. And, of course, both are members of the Trenton political Establishment.

It should be pointed out that, as a matter of fact, both oppose any real diversity in candidate selection – beyond that of a candidate’s surface appearance. No matter the outer husk of a candidate, you can be sure that both look to select so-called “party loyalists” – candidates who will be obedient to the needs of the Trenton Establishment. This is different than candidates who follow their party’s platform, or who have an ideological or policy benchmark.

If it were otherwise, Jones and Hugin would do away with the “county line” – a truly undemocratic institution, unique to New Jersey, that would be disqualified by the United Nations from use in an election anywhere in the civilized world. Jones’ party also wouldn’t spend enormous sums trying to stamp out reformist elements whenever they pop up.

Jones’ vision of “diversity” means that you can have candidates with a great many shades of skin coloring, or sexual interests, or gender identifications – so long as at their center there is the same corruption – the same, uniform, rot. That is how many different “identities” are managed in a way to ensure the same results: The same insiders making more money. The same taxpayers paying.

Nevertheless, it was a remarkable intervention by one member of the Trenton Establishment, on behalf of another. Jones’ press release reads, in part:

The latest NJ GOP turmoil comes from a highly critical blog post in the influential JerseyConservative.com, which attacks Ciattarelli and Hugin for attempting to introduce some level of diversity in candidate selection to their party. The post reads in part:

One high-ranking party boss in South Jersey said that Bob Hugin told him the NJGOP wants “new” looking candidates… youth, women, “minorities”, anything but old white guys. What’s going on in your head doesn’t matter… issues, policies, ideas, solutions, ethics, integrity, honesty… these things don’t matter. It is all about how you look and how they can market you. Sad, especially because they almost always lose anyway.

“It’s sad to see the Republican Party unable to reckon with a concept as simple as representing and respecting the diversity that makes our state unique, dynamic and powerful,” said NJDSC Chair LeRoy J. Jones, Jr. “If this is what Jack Ciattarelli’s Republican Party is fighting amongst itself about, how can it be counted on to address the issues of systemic racism and inequality that exist in our state and our nation? The answer is that it can’t, and the only party interested in advancing the cause of racial, social and economic justice is the Democratic Party..."

First, the Jersey Conservative post did not attack GOP gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli. It did question the waste of GOP resources – by Bob Hugin and others – in the active pursuit of pointless primary battles. One reason for these primary battles – suggested by Hugin when he targeted an incumbent Mercer County State Committee woman and in the passage quoted by Jones, above – was the pursuit of “diversity.”

Let us, for today, leave aside the fact that LeRoy Jones is partnered in his lobbying business with a longtime member of the Republican Establishment. Jones and this Establishment Republican make money together. Lots of money. This Republican is very close to the Republican operative who recruited Bob Hugin. Some operatives benefit directly from these primary fights within the GOP – generally in the form of monetary commissions, vendor mark-ups, and direct consultancy fees. Others benefit through professional contracts and such.

Viewed in context, could this remarkable intervention just be a case of the State Democrat Chairman doing a favor for his Republican business partner? And if so, how should the average Democrat feel about that?

Second, Jersey Conservative in no way represents the “Republican Party” organization in New Jersey. So, this is hardly a case of “fighting amongst itself”. Jersey Conservative takes a skeptical view of the Trenton Establishment. We are contrarian by nature. And while open to pretty much anyone who wishes to publish, it mainly exists to raise uncomfortable questions – to challenge Establishment opinion – much in the same way that someone like Sue Altman does within New Jersey’s Democrat/ liberal circles. Granted, we have yet to be physically assaulted and manhandled the way Altman was, at the direction of her party. Perhaps Chairman Jones might wish to comment on this, to assure us that diversity of opinion within his own party will, in the future, be tolerated?

Finally, the Jersey Conservative post was an appeal for less marketing (celebrity-style branding) and more results-oriented thinking. The post’s punchline reads: “More than branding, the GOP needs thinking. Come up with solutions to the problems voters face and then tell the story of how you are going to do it, so that they believe at least you’ll try.”

“Diversity” is a species of marketing. It is craven and opportunistic in the way that only something obsessed with the outer husk of a thing can be. “Diversity” is the last line of defense for many villains, among them, the very worst – as LeRoy Jones well knows, being a lobbyist for Big Pharma. Look at all the investments in “diversity” made by all those pharmaceutical companies caught killing kids through opioids. “Diversity” is a means to get people to look away from, for example, the fact that for decades you suppressed evidence that your product was giving women uterine cancer: “Don’t worry about that, we’re LGBTQ+ friendly… we are underwriting the PRIDE parade!” It is scumbag behavior.

Don’t believe us? Well, perhaps LeRoy Jones should ask those on the honest Left. There are some in his own party’s reform wing…

LeRoy Jones’ concept of “diversity” looks to be a very narrow one. He concerns himself with surface appearances and “identity” but ignores deeper values – such as religious beliefs, philosophical and political ideas, and economic class – along with human considerations like ethics, morals, honesty, and integrity.

That’s why Jones’ party doesn’t mind running and advancing the careers of convicted criminals. It has no ethics committee. His party has an LGBT caucus – but none representing Roman Catholics, the state’s largest “minority” group. It has a Standing Committee on Affirmative Action, but none on Universal Health Care (even through the pandemic), or the Bill of Rights, or Fair Trade, or (here’s a novelty) Peace (as opposed to Endless War).

Jones claims that “diversity… makes New Jersey “unique” and “dynamic”. It certainly cannot be called dynamic – more like economically stagnant. And as for diversity making it unique, who is he kidding? Diversity is (for the moment at least) everywhere.

Globalism has created new waves of migration that, in the natural course of things will turn “diversity” into a global “melting pot”. What Jones’ idea of “diversity” offers is a coercive segregation of the mind – because only segregation can preserve “diversity”. If you convince people they are different, then you can get them to stay apart from people who they have been taught to perceive as opposed to them. In this way they will maintain “diversity” by segregating themselves. It’s quite unnatural.

Jones’ “diversity” reminds us of those last-gasp European “ethnics” from the 1970s, who – around the time of the Bicentennial – successfully pushed to have ethnic ancestry placed as a question on the U. S. Census for 1980. That’s why we have figures today on the relative numbers of people with Irish or Italian or Polish ancestry in a given state or census tract. For the briefest moment it got people thinking in terms like “Armenian-American” before it all fell apart and evolved into “White”. In fact, even by the time of the 1980 census it had become an act of mere self-identification, the vast majority of Americans by then being of mixed ethnic ancestry. Ultimately, Jones’ “diversity” will be a similar fool’s errand.

Jones suggests there is “systemic racism and inequality” that exists in New Jersey and the nation. There he goes again with those husks – and of course, he would, being more liable than most for the systemic effects of the Establishment of which he is a big part. As a lobbyist, Jones must be aware that just about every reformer on earth points to his profession as the most visible cause of the corruption at the heart of our system of government. The reformers at Represent.US clearly finger Jones and company as the movers and shakers behind the systemic bad shit happening:

The system, of which LeRoy Jones is a part and by which he trousers large gobs of money, led a Princeton University study (Gilens & Page, 2014) to conclude: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”  Maybe we should call it systemic Jonesism?
 
As for inequality, well, here at long last progressives like Brandon McKoy actually have something “white” they can legitimately blame society’s problems on: White-Collar Government.  The bad news for LeRoy Jones is that his party (and Hugin’s) is a major reason we have White-Collar Government.
 
In White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making, Duke University Professor Nick Carnes cites studies showing that while a majority of Americans work in blue-collar employment, only 2 percent of Congress were blue-collar workers before being elected and only 3 percent of State Legislators are employed as blue-collar workers.  Carnes and others hold that this disparity reflects the economic decisions and priorities of legislative bodies in America.  So, there’s your inequality – staring back at LeRoy Jones when he looks in the mirror to shave every morning.
 
This lack of blue-collar “diversity” shouldn't surprise anyone looking at the Legislature's agenda.  And it shows why Democrat political leaders in Trenton don't give a damn about New Jersey having the highest property taxes in America.
 
LeRoy Jones – Trenton lobbyist and Democrat State Chairman – argues that “the only party interested in advancing the cause of racial, social and economic justice is the Democratic Party”.  That’s a strange formulation, because justice – being blindfolded – isn’t supposed to be about race or social status or economic class.  If you murder someone or rape a child, that stuff is not supposed to matter.  You get what is coming to you, regardless.  Maybe not in LeRoy Jones’ world, but that’s the ideal.
 
As for his Democrat Party and “justice”, LeRoy Jones could advance the cause if he could get his boss, Governor Phil Murphy, to cooperate with the families of the more than 8,000 residents of nursing and veterans’ homes who died as a result of Murphy’s Executive Order #103.  Have an investigation, get them answers, and don’t make the same mistakes again. 
 
Justice would also be served by addressing the inequality of the state’s school funding formula – which forces poor families in rural and suburban New Jersey to subsidize the property taxes of rich people in wealthy towns like Hoboken and Jersey City.  The poor subsidizing the rich.  Where’s the justice in that?
 
And, in the interest of justice, maybe LeRoy Jones should recognize – and ask his party to recognize – the growing police response times in urban areas, caused by the Defund the Police movement.  Jones and his party should recognize that a single mom has no place to hide with her children if some street thug decides to break in and take their lives.  The police, who were already overstretched, cannot get to her in time.  So, when she applies for a firearm permit, create a process that works, in the interest of justice, so that she can defend her life and her children – so they don’t need to die.  Either that, or have your party pay for a guard and station him outside her front door… forever.  That would work too.
 
We welcome a continuing dialogue with Chairman Jones.  If you wish to write a response to this or anything else, we will happily publish it.  Thank you for taking the time to address us through your press release on Friday.  Please do so again.  
 
 

“If it were 1860, the Democrats would be bragging about their first transgendered slave-owner.”

Jimmy Dore

NJGOP: Will Bob Hugin cause a civil war for Jack Ciattarelli?

By Rubashov

First, a hearty welcome to our new readers in the Washington Metro area.

Later today, former U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin will become the new Leader of New Jersey’s Republican Party. Ideologically, Hugin is very different from the last two men at the helm of the NJGOP. Outgoing Chairman Mike Lavery is a behind-the-scenes guy who shares a similar issue grid with the Chairman he replaced, Doug Steinhardt, an unashamed conservative on issues like the Right-to-Life, the Second Amendment, illegal immigration, taxes, and traditional values.

Of course, Hugin spent $36 million on a campaign to convince voters that he wasn’t a conservative. Nevertheless, he had more than enough connections with President Trump for the Democrats to define him. His campaign provided insiders with six-figure jobs, made some consultants rich, but was otherwise a disaster. While suppressing the GOP base, Hugin drove up swing Democrat turnout in several congressional districts that Hugin won – and the Republican Congressman or congressional candidate lost.

Last December, Hugin ran for Chairman of the NJGOP and came up short. Since then, the former Big Pharma executive has busied himself with changing the face of the GOP. Since his 2018 campaign, Hugin appears to have more deeply embraced identity politics.

For example, an independent expenditure committee controlled by Hugin called Women for a Stronger New Jersey spent around $30,000 on direct mail, text-messaging, robo-calls, and social media in an attempt to defeat a conservative State Committeewoman in Mercer County and replace her with what would have been the first transgender State Committeewoman to represent the GOP. The effort ultimately failed, but one can only ask why such resources – scarce in the best of times – would be wasted on such a silly primary, for such a silly cause. Surely, with so few legislators and counties in the GOP column, $30,000 would be better used to defeat Democrats.

Women for a Stronger New Jersey is run by Bob Hugin’s 2018 U.S. Senate campaign manager, who also benefits as a vendor to the committee. Hugin’s spouse is a member of the three-member board that runs the committee, according to its webpage. And as if anyone needed clarification as to the ideology of the candidates the committee is looking to promote, the Women for a Stronger New Jersey website is very clear on this:

“We're working to grow the number of women serving in elected office at the state and local level by building a diverse network of moderate Republican and Independent women throughout the state and expanding the pool of women considering public office.”

That’s right, conservative Republican women need not apply. But independents – as in non-Republicans – are okay. That’s kind of a sucky formula, isn’t it?

Earlier this year, when the state’s senior Pro-Life Senator decided to run for re-election, Women for a Stronger New Jersey was there wasting resources and urging a primary. And there was a primary – not for the Senate, but for the Assembly – with another enormous waste of resources. In total, Republicans have pissed away about $2 million on avoidable primaries – and that’s not counting the gubernatorial race. Insider vendors and consultants trouser the proceeds and benefit, but the party doesn’t. Because money doesn’t come easy.

Women for a Stronger New Jersey is not the only committee Bob Hugin has set-up that seems drawn to killing its Republican brethren. Jersey Real is a federal independent expenditure SuperPAC that has spent hundreds of thousands in Republican congressional primaries in seats that we later failed to pick-up. The Treasurer of Jersey Real happens to be that same candidate who was hoping to become the first transgendered Republican State Committeewoman. Small world.

Jersey Real is already active fomenting primaries in two congressional districts for next year: CD05 and CD03. Jersey Real’s choice in CD05 worked on Hugin’s 2018 campaign. It doesn’t appear to matter to anyone that the Democrat incumbent is sitting on $9 million. Nobody has asked, let alone answered, the question about how Republicans spending a million or more dollars bashing each other is going to help that arithmetic. Hey, the consultants and vendors will trouser a lot of cash – but the poor GOP donors shouldn’t expect a return on their investment.

One high-ranking party boss in South Jersey said that Bob Hugin told him the NJGOP wants “new” looking candidates… youth, women, “minorities”, anything but old white guys. What’s going on in your head doesn’t matter… issues, policies, ideas, solutions, ethics, integrity, honesty… these things don’t matter. It is all about how you look and how they can market you. Sad, especially because they almost always lose anyway.

After the scandal of Watergate, steps were taken to make our election process more democratic. In the time since, the Courts have destroyed those reforms, ruling that money is speech. Today, the average voter feels shouted down by a few very rich oligarchs who count for a very few votes but whose money allows them to scream very loudly and shout down millions of voters.

This disparity led a Princeton University study (Gilens & Page, 2014) to conclude: “The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.” Voters believe in the ideal of democracy but increasingly understand they do not have it.

“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”

In an opinion column, published in yesterday’s New Jersey Globe, Fairleigh Dickinson’s Peter Woolley wrote: “Jack (Ciattarelli) barely mustered half of the Republican primary vote though running against two candidates who were, to put it most charitably, marginal.”  It’s actually worse than that, because most Republican voters weren’t excited enough or mad enough to vote at all. 
 
Bob, you have been chosen to lead the NJGOP by the 2021 gubernatorial nominee.  His name is Jack Ciattarelli.  He is job one.  Along with every legislator and legislative candidate and all the county offices and local elected offices.  The party has candidates who face do or die THIS November. 
 
Don’t get ahead of yourself worrying about how to put your stamp on the 2022 congressional primaries so that the GOP establishment nominates a bunch of lefties nobody cares about.  If you are going to do that, you might as well take Alan Steinberg’s advice and just embrace critical race theory and then – for all your money – prepare to be the state’s third party.
 
Finally, you need to accept that this is a grungier, more blue-collar party now.  A candidate can get by perfectly well just by repeating the word “Trump”.  Of course, that is not a policy or a solution.  But neither is the first transgendered (fill in the blank).  More than branding, the GOP needs thinking.  Come up with solutions to the problems voters face and then tell the story of how you are going to do it, so that they believe at least you’ll try.          

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”

Eric Hoffer

The Ivermectin Story: A Power Elite Analysis

Suggested Reading by Prof. Sabrin, Ph.D.

Charles Burris

Here is a power elite analysis of the backstory on Ivermectin, a cheap, widely available drug that could have stopped the pandemic last summer. An understanding of power elite analysis is the examination of causal relationships regarding the nature and scope of political power, who has it and how it is exercised, is crucial to understanding the nexus between the State and Big Pharma, Big Tech and the mainstream media.

We will show the similarity between this analysis and what researcher Peter Dale Scott calls “Deep Politics,” the critical examination of the sub-rosa reality behind surface events, an attempt to unmask the true face of power, exposing the elite social, economic, and financial groups and individuals who benefit from the exercise of State coercion.

After RICO conviction of Opioid maker, Trenton should come clean on Big Pharma connections

By Rubashov
 
On Monday, as Trenton Democrats failed in their attempt to forcibly mandate a Big Pharma product, federal prosecutors in Boston were securing tough sentences in their first Big Pharma conviction in an opioid crisis that has resulted in more than 400,000 deaths.
 
NPR called the criminal trial of top executives at Insys Therapeutics a “landmark case” and the “first successful prosecution of high-ranking pharmaceutical executives linked to the opioid crisis, including onetime billionaire John Kapoor.” 
 
Kapoor and his four co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering and conspiracy – a charge that is often used to prosecute drug dealers and mob bosses.  In this case the federal government used racketeering to go after corporate executives.
 
The Big Pharma executives were found guilty of running a nationwide bribery scheme. According to court documents, from 2012 until 2015, the pharmaceutical company paid doctors to prescribe opioids in high doses and give it to patients who did not necessarily need it.
 
To facilitate their scheme, the Big Pharma executives created a sham "speakers program” where doctors were paid if they wrote a lot of prescriptions.  It’s the same kind of scam that was used by special interests to pay-off friendly politicians. 

Senate President Steve Sweeney and Senate Democrat Leader Loretta Weinberg have promised their political bosses that they will remove the rights of people to have religious and conscientious objections to the use of Big Pharma products, in this session of the Legislature.  There is a real concern here, because pharmaceutical companies like the one sentenced in federal court on Monday have used their billions to shout down average voters.
 
In 2016, Insys Therapeutics underwrote an effort to defeat a ballot initiative in Arizona.  This included an advertising campaign claiming that opposing the measure was to "protect children".
 
Insys Therapeutics’ allies included major state politicians, the Association of County School Superintendents, the Hospital and Healthcare Association, and several other community organizations.  Big Pharma won… defeating the ballot initiative 51.3% to 48.7%. 
 
That’s why it is so important for New Jersey reformers to demand that a fully transparent website be created that details all of Big Pharma’s influence in New Jersey.  There have been too many deaths as a result of that influence and the resulting lax oversight by government.  400,000 dead and counting…
 
The time for transparency is now.