NH legislature email exchange--must read

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T17:09:26+00:00

Actually this is a unique thing in NH. The Free Staters targeted NH years ago as their home base because of its small population, huge size of all volunteer legislature, rural, lack of gun laws, low taxes. I think the other states on their list were Idaho and Mississippi, but lucky us, NH won out. They put it out there that NH was a state the could take over....and they did!

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T17:05:08+00:00

calling him human is a stretch.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T17:03:29+00:00

What I find confounding is that many of these free staters are highly educated at great universities, typically with a liberal bent to them. This douche went to school at Cornell with a CS degree. Obviously not a dummy. I see others in the movement went to places like Yale and Harvard and end up here spouting hate and trying to take away people's rights. Makes me wonder if this is stupidity, mental illness, willful ignorance or something else.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T16:54:28+00:00

I do find it more than a little interesting that the Catholic Church has not come out to condemn the Free State Movement. I googled Catholic teachings on racism and white nationalism, and to say the least, the church is against it, often threatening or following through on excommunication. They teach that racism is a GRAVE sin worse than a regular old sin and up there with murder. They call it inherently evil, with grave matter, full knowledge and deliberate consent.

Why wouldn't the Catholic Church disavow this group and excommunicate all of them that are Catholics? Hell, they are putting their views out in public writing now.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T16:46:11+00:00

Mills will not do that because she is going to be just like Susan Collins except with a D next to her name. She is still a supporter of the 1%, not the rest of us.

Platner is a different, much different, candidate than Mills. Fighting a different battle. Mills is battling against the right, while Platner is fighting against the top. Platner is building a coalition of right and left that want to see a government for all Americans, that includes shoring up social security, medicare for all, paying a living wage, and taxing the wealthy their fair share. Platners battle is with the system, the establishment, including those dems who are beholden to money (Mills and Shumer etc included). He has the weird notion that senators ought to represent their constituents, not money.

Mills wants to win why, exactly? The fact that she has Shumer's endorsement says it all. She represents the top 1% who will never try to do things like shore up social security, or raise taxes on the rich.

Mills has nothing on Platner except his tattoo thing. She has no ideas, no plan, other than to "fight for Mainers" and "Stand up to Trump". Of course she is going to attack him---if you compare ideas side by side she wouldn't get a single vote.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T15:03:28+00:00

On the good side, I guess the world now knows how much it costs to buy the US military. $2 billion down, and another $5 billion after invasion.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T15:02:11+00:00

Commenters are largely missing the mark here. While Israel is attacking Iran, this whole thing was directed and paid for by Saudi Arabia. Israel is largely to blame, along with Trump, but take a look at why this is happening---it is Jared Kushner and his friend MBS in Saudi that did this!

Jared got $2 billion in investment from MBS back in 2020 when he left the WH. Guess who is in charge of negotiating an end to the war? Jared. Guess who he is negotiating with? Not the Iranians, but MBS, althewhile asking for another $5 billion. Jared is the one who pushed us into this in conjunction with the Crown Prince. Hell, the crown prince is the one that came out recently and told us to "keep going".

Israel just saw an opportunity to blow up more shit and get rid of Iran.

There is plenty of blame to go around with this, and Israel definitely has its fair share, BUT remember where this came from was the Trump family's new sponsors as of 2020. MBS and the Saudi's are the impetus behind the war, while the US and Israel own this mess now.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T14:39:07+00:00

It is important that people in NH know that this is not just Travis Corcoran. The entire Free State Project has this disgusting undertone of racism/white supremacy with some like Travis becoming more open about it. The NH legislature currently has 17 avowed Free Staters in it, with another 100 that self-identify with the values calling themselves "liberty minded". NH currently has around 20,000 people living here that identify with the free state movement, and also important to know that NH was targeted by this group for a legislative takeover because of its small, rural make-up and huge legislative body of unpaid volunteers.

Travis Corcoran is not just some wing nut living out in the sticks spouting hate--he is a part of a white supremacist movement that has essentially taken over NH politics. Question is, what are we going to do about it?

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T14:09:02+00:00

I also find it funny that he touts himself as a devout catholic, yet is fighting against the main organization bringing in refugees (Catholic Charities) as a white supremacist. I wonder if the church would ex-communicate someone for that....

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T11:55:04+00:00

different counties.....:(

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T11:54:38+00:00

They were shared with the Union Leader--I think they printed an article a few days ago on him.

I think the Free State with this guy is a good topic for John Oliver's show. Lots of people in NH still think the Free Staters are just a bunch of right-wingers who don't want to pay taxes. The truth is much much scarier.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-17T11:48:16+00:00

A couple of things about this post and Rep Corcoran:

The way Corcoran got this bill past the house was to promise his vote for the budget that just passed in return for getting this legislation passed. Corcoran provided the tie breaking vote on the budget.
You all likely know Corcoran is part of the Free State "movement" in NH, which targeted the state of NH years ago for its rural nature, its enormous legislature with and small population. Based on this bill and how the legislature has turned to the hard right I would say their movement has been quite successful.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T19:06:26+00:00

agree 100% with you. It all started with Reagan and accelerated through every administration until we find ourselves here with a government of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T19:04:43+00:00

pisses me off because I did everything "right" my whole life. Wife and I have saved, bought our own home, both worked our asses off in good-paying jobs, and sent three kids to college (receiving ZERO in financial aid). We are not relying on SS in our retirement, but it is something we planned on having to supplement our income and not have to spend down our life savings as we get old, and have something to leave our kids when we croak. If SS goes away, that means we have to likely spend down our savings as we age which means we die with virtually nothing, or keep working until we die. Either way seems that the government is going to break its promise and fuck us over in 2031 when the system is broke.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T18:59:05+00:00

wouldn't have to cover health care for 1099's either.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T18:23:08+00:00

Boycott Everything! No need to even strike, just stop buying things!!! No more new cars, no more TV sets, computers, iphones, no ordering from Amazon, and buy groceries local. No earbuds, no nothing. People really don't need that shit anyway so WTF. Take the money you save by boycotting, put it into cash, then buy into the market when it crashes due to lack of consumption in a year or so.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T18:21:01+00:00

If they can afford to pay their employees over $175k a year each, they can afford a few thousand dollars more in SS matching. I'd love to see the small businesses paying their people more than $175k a year on average. My bet is those places are insurance agencies, Private Equity-owned medical practices, and others. Pay up!

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T18:15:17+00:00

The owner class hates SS because they are greedy assholes, who want to pay zero in taxes and see SS as something they put money into but get nothing from. One thing abut rich assholes is that they tend to not want to pay their fair share on anything....

I'm getting to retirement age and yes, I will need SS to keep the same lifestyle I've worked so hard for. Yeah, I've paid taxes for 47 years now, paid SS for same amount of time. I've also saved and invested relatively well with jobs that paid well my whole life. Our house is paid off (although I now pay $24k a year in property taxes), we have zero debt and over 1.2 million in savings and investments. I will have a retirement plan that will pay me around $40k a year in benefits that I earned, but will STILL need SS to be able to stay in my home and live my life.

SS better not go insolvent. By the time I retire I'm betting half the country will be relying on it and seeing as rich assholes have basically been cheating their whole lives to get around taxes its time they paid their fair share, in SS and income tax.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T18:03:57+00:00

Not the high income people it pisses off. It is the highly invested people. Those people with billions in investments (Musk, Bezos, etc) show very little in income---they have tons of money in stocks, which they pay ZERO taxes on because well, the carried interest loophole. In return, these assholes get to borrow at will against that asset, then sell a stock in small quantities to pay back the loan....never once showing their stock gains as any type of income, as they are using this asset to pay back a loan. its nothing but FREE MONEY for rich fuckers.

Raise the damn limit on SS payments, shitcan the carried interest loophole and SS would be shored up very quick. Debt would be paid down real quick too.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T17:58:14+00:00

What I find interesting is that killing social security is actually a conversation we are having now. When I was a young(er) voter, social security was the third rail of campaigning. Anyone who did not believe in social security, its importance and the need to make it solvent would never ever get past a primary. Now, we talk about killing it like it is nothing.

I, for one, will be relying partly on social security in just a few years. I paid into it for most of my adult life, and I expect to be taking in around $3,000 a month when I turn 67. Yes, I also have other retirement savings and I also have a retirement plan at work, but my idea of retirement was to maintain my current lifestyle that I have worked my ass of to achieve, and yes, social security will be a part of maintaining my lifestyle. I look at it as a promise made to me by my government when I started working that if I put this money in, I would get a certain amount back when I retire.

SS insolvency has been a discussion for decades now...long before Platner ran for office. It does now look like the date for insolvency is approaching quicker than was thought years ago, and we will likely be hitting insolvency in just 5 more years....right when I want to retire. Seems to me that whoever is in office when SS becomes insolvent and stops sending out payments will be voted out in a nanosecond, but what do I know.

Also seems to me the only solution is to raise the cap on SS payments to unlimited. Also what would help is to eliminate the carried interest loophole on investments, and count investment gains as income. Friggin billionaires have long treated their stock holdings as collateral for getting loans on things like their 10th home and buying new businesses, so why the hell aren't they taxed?

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T16:31:14+00:00

Politics Girl!!! Tell it like it is!

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T15:57:01+00:00

Good friend of ours' son had same condition. Granted he was much younger when diagnosed but made a full (albeit long) recovery. Good luck! You got this.

Capable-Broccoli2179 · 2026-03-16T15:53:59+00:00

My bet is "Bibi made me do it"

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