Vermont is doomed

Governor Phil Scott is a….

total dipshit!

He won his last election against a confused man in a dress. But it was simply a case of bad vs. worse.

Phil Scott is a like Chief Justice John Roberts, someone we thought had conservative values and would stand up and fight for them. We understand that the Left has a super majority in the legislature. When it came to new laws dealing with abortion and gun rights instead of vetoing and forcing the legislature to override his vetos he simply acquiesced. He bent over, grabbed his ankles and took it with a smile.

But now Phil gets to become be a little dictator and force the sheeple of Vermont to wear masks and to placate all the “Karens” . Now this is what Leftist Progressives crave, getting people accustomed to losing their freedom a little bit at a time. And Phil Scott is their perfect dupe.

Hopefully the Republicans of Vermont can sent a message on Primary day August 11th. I’m voting for John Klar.

Styxhexenhammer666’s take:

Vermont is circling the drain

Another essay by John Klar at “American Thinker”.

During the COVID-19 threat, Vermont’s Legislature gave itself a raise while ramming through numerous preplanned progressive initiatives in a remotely convened legislative process.  The state announced an expected $459-million budget shortfall due to the pandemic and has yet to revise its estimated $4.5-billion pension shortfall to reflect the impacts of COVID.  Yet the Legislature appropriated millions of dollars to subsidize E.V. cars and seeks to enact a Global Warming Solutions Act that grants legal standing (and a statutory claim for attorney’s fees) to out-of-state special interest groups to sue the state to compel compliance with arbitrary carbon emission “targets.”
Read more: here.

At least Fred Tuttle was honest about being just in it for the money.

Now…

Vermont’s “open” gubernatorial primary is August 11th. Mr. Klar is running for Governor on the “Republican ticket” He’s attempting to unseat rino Phil Scott. Aside from Scott he’s competing with three other no-name candidates for the Republican nomination.

The Democrat gubernatirial primary is also Aug 11th. Present Lt, Governor David Zuckerman a Progressive running as a Democrat is running against three other no-name Democrats.

An “open” primary means you don’t have to be registered to a particular political party to vote in their primary. A Democrat can vote in the Republican party and vice-versa. But you can’t vote in both, it’s either or. If say Democrats feel that their prefered candidate is a lock they may choose to vote in the Republican primary in order to ‘block’ the nomination of what they would preceive to be the Republican’s strongest candidate. Sneaky but perfectly legal.

I’ve seen several signs for John Klar around my town (along with a few Trump flags). I know about him through his articles in “American Thinker”.

I can’t speculate about his chances of political sucess. I do know that he would be much better then the ‘rino’ we have for Governor now and certainly better then having a full blown Communist Progressive as Chief Executive.

Also the Legislature has to be flipped at least to the point where the leftist no longer have cart blanche.

Vote on Aug. 11th and Nov. 3rd as if your life depends on it.

Will the Vermont voting public recognize the danger their in? Or will they only recognize it when it’s too late?

Time will tell.

WTF do they expect.

No one will be watching us, why don’t we do it in the road” J.L.

You see skid marks on paved back roads all the time. Some people enjoy spinning their tires and burning rubber. Or they may had to slam on the brakes in that particular spot.

But if it was done on purpose, more power to them.

Leaving skid marks can now be a hate crime.

(AP) Vermont State Police troopers are working to determine if bias played a role in damaging Black Lives Matter-themed artwork painted on roads in Jericho and Underhill.

On Monday, a state police trooper discovered evidence that vehicles had burned out their tires over the artwork. Two of the locations, on Browns Trace and Pleasant Valley roads, had “Black Lives Matter” painted in the roadway.

At the third location, on Irish Settlement Road, the art reads “Black Trans Lives Matter.” Police are investigating whether the incidents are related. The incidents have been reported to the attorney general’s office under the Bias Incident Reporting System.

I would have thought that painting anything on “public” roads other than official “Stop”, “direction arrows” dividing lane lines, or crosswalks would be illegal. Sort of like hanging banners from overpasses. But these days there are two sets of rules, one for the Cultural Marxists in which laws that everyone else is compelled to obey are suspended.

Be that as it may the whole thing is absurd. Four decades of indoctrination coming home to roost.

Styxhexenhammer666 take.

Opposing violence gets you fired! Free Speech has been Abolished!

Former Windsor High Principal Tiffany Riley

Expressing a different opinion different from the orthodox Party line makes her a thought criminal. Perhaps she should be thankful she’s only being purged, someday it may be “to be shot” !

Just read some of the awful things (sarc.) she said.

“I firmly believe that Black Lives Matter, but I DO NOT agree with the coercive measures taken to get to this point across; some of which are falsified in an attempt to prove a point,” Riley wrote, according to the school’s website. “While I want to get behind BLM, I do not think people should be made to feel they have to choose black race over human race.”

“While I understand the urgency to feel compelled to advocate for black lives, what about our fellow law enforcement?” she added. “What about all others who advocate for and demand equity for all? Just because I don’t walk around with a BLM sign should not mean I am a racist.”

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“The (School) Politburo Board does not even entertain the possibility that Riley might not be a racist and still question BLM,

This whole episode stinks. A blatant violation of Principal Rileys First Amendment right of Free speech. And Lawyers are in total agreement on this. As of this writing I have not heard or read of any comment from the Vermont chapter of the A.C.L.U. Somehow I’m not surprised.

Maybe I’ll contact them and see what they have to say.

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I wonder if this guy lost his job the next day.

The Tunbridge Fair is cancelled.

Fair season is on hiatus in Vermont, on orders from Gov. Phil Scott. That includes the Tunbridge World’s Fair...

The Tunbridge fair is (was) in September!!!

Overnight camps for kids have been closed for this summer. This particular one holds a special place in my heart, but what else could they have done under the circumstances.

As with certain other States Vermont has placed restrictions on travel until at least the middle of June. But with the possibilty that restrictions could be extended if our Governor decides they need to be.

Update: Governor Scott turns the spigot a little more.

The country has been through pandemics before, in 1969 it was the Hong kong flu [H3N2] Most anyone over the age of 65 can remember the big event that took place that year, besides the U.S. landing on the moon.

In 2009 we had the Swine Flu [H1N1] pandemic. No lockdown of the nation’s ecomony occured then. Of course the media’s messiah was in power then. Obama had other methods in mind to transform stagnate America’s economy.

But lets cut to the chase, Mainly it’s the Governors of (blue) States (Newsom of California) and (Cumo of New York) in particularthat have other motives besides stopping the spread of COVID-19. In deciding to keep thier citizens in lockdown, (1) they get to indulge their authoritarian fantasies and (2) if they keep the ecomony in the tank it’s hoped that the country will blame President Trump and vote him out of office in favor of a man who has no clue of what’s happening around him most of the time. This is the fantasy scenero of the deep state and the Marxist media.

In other parts of the world it seems that in the Nordic countries and in Japan lockdowns were not very effective.

It’s well know that Phil Scott is a never Trumper. I’m sure that this colors a lot of his decisions.

What will the state of Vermonts ecomony be this fall? Summer is very short, we won’t have long to find out.

The breadlines of a shattered economy.

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Bread and soup lines during the 1930’s

Today the difference is that it’s a drive through

Bread and soup line 2020. A.K.A. “food banks”

Security provided by the “National Guard”.

The sad part is that all this is self inflected. The economy didn’t collapse for the same reasons as in 1929, this was mandated by our own governments.

No other pandemic in the past caused a response such as this. As democrats “never let a crisis go to waste”, this is Trump derangment syndrome in action. This is why blue state governors what this to go on as long as possible. The peoples misery be damned.

Blue Vermont is slowly shrinking.

Is it really such a mystery?

In each year since 2016, Vermont has experienced more deaths than births.  That means Vermont has a negative rate of what demographers call the “natural rate of increase.”  That could be the first time this has happened in Vermont’s history. Given the aging of the baby boom generation and the falling number of women in their prime child-bearing years, that trend will continue into the foreseeable future.

But the current decade-long population decline is different, occurring when the economy is healthy and nothing remotely resembling the Spanish flu plagues the world.  Moreover, some projections call for a continued population decline through the 2020s. 

If that does occur, it will be the first 20-year period of population decline in the state’s history.

The U.S. Census Bureau has some Interesting statistics for Vermont.

One is that geezers 65 and over outnumber children 18 and under.

If you qualify Vermont will give you a $10,000 bonus to move here.

Vermont isn’t the only blue State to be losing population.

New York State is losing so many people that it just might lose a congressional seat. And take a guess whose seat may be on the chopping block.

27 States and the District of Columbia lost population through net domestic migration between 2018 and 2019, six of which had losses over 25,000, and three of which experienced losses greater than 100,000. The top states with net domestic migration loss were California (-203,414), New York (-180,649), Illinois (-104,986), New Jersey (-48,946), Massachusetts (-30,274) and Louisiana (-26,045).

“Net domestic migration”, that’s people moving out folks.

Taking account of births vs. deaths and people moving in vs. moving out the the following was determined

The 10 states that lost population were New York (-76,790; -0.4%), Illinois (-51,250; -0.4%), West Virginia (-12,144; -0.7%), Louisiana (-10,896; -0.2%), Connecticut (-6,233; -0.2%), Mississippi (-4,871; -0.2%), Hawaii (-4,721; -0.3%), New Jersey (-3,835; 0.0%), Alaska (-3,594; -0.5%), and Vermont (-369  ; -0.1%)

Most though not all States with population declines are BLUE, Democrat, and Progressive. They have high taxes and many regulations, especally concerning the ownership of firearms. Which is most likely the reason many move out.

There was a time when this would have been thought a good thing.

According to some prognosticators from the distant past (1968), We should all be dead now.

Now about Europe…

Apparently the people of Europe took all this to heart. So they abandoned their Christian heritage, values and God. They Stopped having babies and then all of a sudden didn’t have enough young people working and paying taxes to maintain their cradle to grave programs of free health care and free education. So they did the politically correct thing and open their borders to the very people who have been trying to conquer them since 732 A.D.

Socialist States of America?

And Vermont wants to be one.

In 1924 Joseph Stalin and Nikolia Bukharin proposed the policy of Socialism in one Country

The theory held that given the defeat of all the communist revolutions in Europe in 1917–1923 except Russia, the Soviet Union should begin to strengthen itself internally. This turn toward national communism was a shift from the previously held position by classical Marxism that socialism must be established globally

Deep blue States such as California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia et.al have large urban population that have been ruled for decades by democrats. In schools and colleges across America, not just blue States, at least four generations have been educated indoctinated in leftist political thought. That despite many historical examples of the utter failure and cruelty of Socialism it still holds a fatal attraction for far too many young people. The excuse is that it just never been properly implemented. But they all know that if anyone can make Socialism work Bernie can.

In the past Marxism’s “raison d’etre” was class struggle. The Proletariat vs. the Bourgeoisie, and the only way that humanity could move on to a fair, equal, and classless society was the overthrow of Capitalism. From each according to his abilities,” and giving “to each according to his needs”. Sounds wonderful doesn’t it. Who could argue with that. Except that would you want some apparatchik of the new ruling class deciding for you what your abilities and needs are?

America’s free market capitalism and its commitment to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” of the individual blew away the idea of class consciousness. A man or woman can rise as fast and as far as their God given talent (and ambition) will take them. A “Blue collar” worker can earn more then a “white collar worker“. Make something people want and you could become a millionaire. But is that “fair” to someone else who chose to piss his life away?

At this point in time thanks to President Donald Trump the American economy is roaring, and unemployment is at historically low levels. The Socialist Democrat Party Presidential candidates cannot run on the economy. It can only run on identity politics, open bordors, free healthcare, free education, but the crown jewell is “CLIMATE CHANGE”!

According to the doomsayer’s the end is near. So it stands to reason that very drastic action will need to be taken. According to Bernie, oil company executives are criminals who need to be jailed. So it’s plain to see that radical enviromentalism and Marxist totalitarianism compliment each other perfectly. With so little time left to “save the planet” maximum State enforcement power i.e. telling people how they will live their lives by threat of arrest and imprisionment is going to be required. Like Chairman Mao’s Red Guards the Left has a Green Guard of indoctrinated youth who with a little encouragement could morph into this.

Since they know it’s a long shot that either Comrade Bernie, Fauxcahontis, crazy Uncle Joe, Buttplug, or the billionaire boys Tom S. and Mike B. are going to be elected President, so the Green New Deal will not be implemented on a federal level any time soon. That means that it will up to individual States to implement it their own.

Which is exactly what Sen.Anthony Pollina P/D Wash. intends to do.

Under the plan, which will be offered in January by Sen. Anthony Pollina, P/D-Washington, the state would raise an additional $30 million in income tax from the top 5% of earners for five years.

The funds would then be used to make investments in home weatherization and renewable heating systems, expand electric vehicle usage and help overhaul the state’s public transit system. 

Don’t worry, they’re only going to squeeze the “rich” bastards “who can afford it”. After all what’s a little wealth re-distribution. Why they’ll even smile while their bending over. After all there is a “planet to save”.

But average and low income Vermonters won’t be let off the hook.

Enter the Carbon Tax.

For example, the current proposal for Vermont under the Transportation and  Climate Initiative (TCI) is to add 5-18 cents per gallon in tax to Vermonters’ fuels.  Proponents argue that this gas tax will “incentivize” citizens to drive less: a sin tax.  But who in the world thinks that an 18-cent-per-gallon “incentive” will curb consumption?  Advocates argue that it is axiomatic that a higher cost will reduce consumption — but gas averaged $3.99/gallon nationally in May 2011, and is now only about $2.60.

A degree in rocket science is unnecessary to see where this leads.  Once the 18 cents per gallon (presented now as a mere pittance) fails to impact consumption behaviors, the progressives will be back, explaining that the tax must be raised to achieve that goal — even though many low-income Vermonters are already squeezed to breaking point and use gas to travel to work.  The question then becomes how much legislators tax Vermonters to “save the planet.”  But the tax will only go up, always with the moral clarion call of saving the children.

I don’t have much faith in our rino Governor being able to stop this. Vermonters voted in a one party legislature that can basically do whatever it wants and has the votes to override the Governor if He should dare veto their legislation.

People living within 20 miles of the Conneticut River might have an option and N.H. gas station owners will be more then happy to help.

But the madness will go on for the forseeable future.

“Inside every progressive is a Totalitarian screeming to get out”.

What a absolute coward.

Our RINO governor is.

Do you hear the fear and quivering in his voice? He knows that this is all bullshit. I suppose though that when you’re the only “Red spot” in a sea of “Deranged Blue” you’re afraid of the press whipping up the mob against you instead of Trump.

Trump has to be the most investigated person on this entire planet. And they’ve found absolutely no evidence of any “impeachable” offence. But everything that he has been accused of the Hildabeast and Bite-me have done. In psychology this is known as projection

But perhaps I’m being too critical of our Governor. After all a Trump supporter walking around Montpelier or Burlington in M.A.G.A. hat (by choice) would be like a Jew in 1930’s Germany (forced) to wear a yellow star of David. You’re only inviting contemptuous stares at best and possible verbal and physical confrontations at worse. And most likely you’re going to be surrounded.

The same is why you will hardly ever see a Trump-Pence bumper sticker. Trump supporters do exist in Vermont but we don’t really want our cars vandalized. It’s why people like me use a pseudonym.

Because the people on the Left are deranged with HATE and they don’t consider that a bad thing. They don’t believe in [God] given rights, they don’t believe in the Constitution. They believe in Marxist ideology and pagan worship. They believe they’re superior, and that they should have total political power. It’s the only way to make everything “fair”, everything “free”, and and at the same time save the planet. This can only be accomplished by “totalitarian rule”, “draconian laws” and the “force” to back it up.

Trump supporters know we’re a minority in Vermont. Like Black people in the Jim Crow South we know better not get too “uppity”.

Four generations of indoctrination of Vermont youth has flipped the State 180 deg. since the days of Calvin Coolidge politically and spiritually.

I think the State Vermont needs to have Socialism implemented “good and hard” The Green New Deal needs to be made the law of the State. Vermont should be a sanctuary State for all illegal aliens and health care should be “free”. And everyone, I mean everyone lives under the rules.

Vermont and Venezuela will have a lot more in common then both beginning with the letter “V“.

If Phill Scott is running for re-election I think I’ll just stay home.

I am through with Phil Scott !

Phil Scott should announce that next year he will be running for re-election as a progressive Democrat and end this charade of being a Republican. 

He is a political COWARD!!  A gutless S.O.B ! He has turned out to be the most worthless P.O.S. ever to have occupied the Governers chair.

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Now I understand that Vermont voters in their stupidity  wisdom gave supermajorities to the Democrats in both the House and Senate.  That the Vermont Republican Party is basically a hollow shell and the Democrat Party could pretty much do whatever it pleased in the legislature.  Phil Scott won the election for Governer as a Republican, (defeating a confused man in a dress) with the hope that he would at least apply some brakes to Vermont’s headlong rush into the Socialist abyss.  But that hope has been shattered not once, or twice but (so far) three times.

First came the betrayal on Gun rights.

Morning Consult analysts believe the drop can be pinned on Scott’s move to sign sweeping gun control legislation into law.

“That decision clearly was unpopular,” said Anthony Patterson, a spokesperson for Morning Consult.

Scott, who previously opposed gun control efforts, softened his stance after authorities said they thwarted a school shooting threat in Fair Haven in February, just days after a deadly shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida.

The legislation expanded background checks to private sales, raised the age to purchase a firearm to 21, banned bump stocks and limited magazine size for handguns and rifles. Scott signed it on the Statehouse steps to jeers from gun rights advocates and cheers from gun control supporters.

That was strike 1.

Next was his signing of the Covenent with Satan that went even beyond Roe vs. Wade.

Now I understand that a veto would have most likely have been overridden being that the worshipers of Baal held an overwhelming majority in the legislature.  That would have put the onus of the massacre of the innocent squarely on the “progressives” ,but NOOOOO… he signed it without any reservation whatsoever.  So much for the Republican party standing for life. Instead he stood with the party of death.

That was strike 2.

Now the latest…I understand that phil Scott is a “never trumper” So I guess it should be no suprise that Scott has become this first Republican Rino Governor to back the ongoing witchhunt the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
Which for the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) is already blowing up in their faces.

It will blow up Phil Scott’s face too. Not that it will bother him.

Stirke 3.

Rather the stand on any principles and defend them. Phil Scott has chosen the easy path.

He never was a Conservative Republican, Ok I get it.

He get praise from Democrats. He gets accolades from the media. It’s so much easier to go with the flow.  I hope he gets primaried, if not I will not vote for him. or anyone.

But it is time for the people of Vermont to finally get what it seems to have been wanting for a long time. 

Progressive Socialism good and hard!

It’s time for Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman  to become Governor in 2020.
It’s time for Vermont to declare itself a sanctuary state. A haven for all illegal aliens undocumented Americans.  And prohibit Vt. Law Enforcement from cooperating with I.C.E.
Implement Single Payer Healthcare. Free healthcare for all.  Of course how soon you get your healthcare may depend on your Social Credit.
Mandatory gun registration.
Higher taxes for everyone, especially on the successful RICH !
The full implementation and enforcement of the Green New Deal (we have a planet to save you know).

This is what the majority of voters seem to want.  The people who don’t will simply have to VOTE WITH THEIR FEET !

All you people who vote Progressive, Democrat, or virtue signaling Liberal, be careful what you vote for, because you will get it.  And you may not like it, but by then it likely will be too late.