Carla Gericke
A little personal history as a plea to encourage more people to move ASAP and come WORK YOUR OWN MAGIC-SAUCE FOR A FREER FUTURE.
My husband and I bought our 4 bd 3 bathroom atomic ranch on a cul de sac in Manchester in 2017. At the time, I negotiated pretty hard and we got a great deal, paying under $250K. I said to Louis, if I do my job right with growing the Free State, the house should be worth $1M+ in 20 years.
I got the estimate below yesterday from someone who wants my property so looks like we’re on track… yes, some of that is prolly inflationary, and the housing market is softening somewhat and prices may start to drop.. but probably not as much as other places bc we have less supply and high demand, so I hope you will be ready to pounce!
The value proposition of living in liberty in NH was established by the thousands of early movers (2007-2012), and cemented by the movers fleeing Covidmania over the last 2 years, and we now need a third wave to come!
If you value individual liberty, NH is already one of the best places in the world to live, and it will only become even more so.
BUT, we DO need YOU to come help!
Consider, it’s actually very early in this movement. I have to remind myself of that sometimes bc I moved in 2008 and have been slogging away at expanding liberty for 14 years, so it doesn’t always feel that way, but it is true.
YOU too can be part of world history!
Imagine: YOU can still be part of building the likes of a Switzerland or Iceland or Estonia from the ground up (picked bc their population sizes/canton system/property rights).
Imagine YOU can still be early in the equivalent of Silicon Valley in the 1980s, and you could still get a decent house in Palo Alto for under $350,000.
Imagine YOU are one of first 10,000 brave enough to be founders of a new country… Or, at the very least, you were part of the movement that brought federalism and states’ rights back to America, making the entire country more free as a result.
What are YOU waiting for? Are YOU planning your next visit? Are YOU telling your liberty friends about us? Are YOU ready for LIBERTY IN OUR LIFETIME? Because we are ready to welcome you to the freest of free states! Live free and thrive!
Ep. 37 The Carla Gericke Show Calls for Nuremberg 2 & Dilbert Creator Goes Dilly
This week, the three Es: Economy, Energy, and Education–the reasons to vote Republican is clear if you don’t want to lose more money to Dem’s bad policies! Who had “Creator of Dilbert Calls Woman ‘Sexist C-Word’ for Calling Him ‘Dude’?” Deets here: https://www.carlagericke.com/dilberts… Nuremberg 2 is coming because informed consent matters. Who wants to get involved?
EDITED UPDATE FROM 1/25/23, to include the original screen-grabs because according to several idiots on Twitter, I am making stuff up. Since Scott Adams insulted me, and then blocked me, some of the embedded links on my original post below are hard to follow, so here is the unadulterated exchange, in order:
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL BLOG POST:
Did not think my Wednesday would entail getting into an insane fight with Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, but… that’s Twitter!
Who had “Creator of Dilbert Calls Woman Sexist Cunt for Calling Him Dude” for this year’s Pre-Halloween Apocalypse Bingo?
— Carla Gericke, Live Free And Thrive! (@CarlaGericke) October 12, 2022
Joking aside, I was really shocked by the exchange. I’ve always been a fan of Dilbert, and read Win Bigly last winter. I knew Adams had been bad on Covid restrictions, so when I saw a random post, I piled in.
Dude. If you were independently following the data, this was 100% clear. But I am really glad you are coming around. Now help us get #Nuremberg2 going. Heads must roll. (I’m speaking mostly metaphorically. Mostly.)
— Carla Gericke, Live Free And Thrive! (@CarlaGericke) October 12, 2022
My Life No. 23. Spicy af pic.twitter.com/ITkird0nsJ
— Carla Gericke, Live Free And Thrive! (@CarlaGericke) October 12, 2022
UPDATE: I forgot Scott also said “asshole” LOL
Some people came to my defense, thanks Bill B.
How dare you call this woman a bitch. She is the reason every American is allowed to film the police.
— Tall Bill, Comedic Failure (@billisajoke) October 12, 2022
UPDATE 3: Looks like he took down some of them, and blocked me. Boo
According to my Memories, one year ago today I started The Carla Gericke Show!
The what, you say? Exactly! PLEASE become a follower on Odysee, where I’d like to make my home-base, but only if y’all help… surely I can get more than 98 followers?
In the past 12 months, on top of the weekly show, Manch Talk, that I do with Tammy, I have published 36 episodes of TCGS (I’m counting tomorrow’s). That seems like… more than I expected and maybe less than I should have?
Idk, I genuinely struggle with the conceit, in the literal sense of the word, of doing something like this. I was taught to be seen and not heard and that pursuing attention was vain. This is the inner battle I have to overcome every time I put myself on camera. Some weeks, I win… apparently about 70% of the time!
In addition, producing a show in a home studio is a lot of technical crap for someone who has no interest in such things. I am very grateful to Louis Calitz for editing help, and Masha for cutting clips.
Not all the episodes are scratch, meaning some are “cheats”– interviews with other thought leaders and podcasters, but I feel pretty good about sticking-to-it-ish.
I still haven’t implemented many of my ideas, mostly because they’re a jumble in my notebooks, but instead of chastising myself, I just started a section in Workflowy, which I have been meaning to do for months anyway. So: identified a problem and came up with a solution, WTG!
Weirdly, my most popular episode on YT was this one, where I speculate about whether Bob Saget was murdered:
Learn how to say my name right and hear my “Coming to America” story in the inaugural episode and please, FOLLOW ME on all the platforms (see this pinned post on my wall).
A SPECIAL THANK YOU to all my loyal friends and followers! If you have feedback, let me know in the comments below–things you might want to see… maybe more pop culture reviews about books and shows? Jokes? More guests? More me with different formats on different days? Holler at me.
Jody Underwood: Give what Free Staters advocate a chance — you might be surprised (LINK)
GURUS WHO teach how to create institutional change like to say that change happens in three steps: First, they ignore you. Then they fight you. Eventually, they think it was their idea.
This is beautifully illustrated by what happened in Croydon several years ago, when some Free Staters thought it would be a good idea to set up a town tuitioning program, which is one of the mechanisms for school choice in New Hampshire.
That is, instead of sending all students in grades 5 through 12 to the failing Newport School District, Croydon would pay to send students to their choice of schools in the area, including some private schools.
At first the town’s reaction was: Yeah, sure, set up a committee to look into it. Once the town voted to put the committee’s plan into action, the resistance began: Free Staters want to destroy public schools! Parents can’t be trusted to make the right choices for their children!
Years later, the residents — including many of those who fought hardest against it — now think of town tuitioning as central to Croydon’s identity, and critical to maintaining high property values.
The town tuitioning program has been the source of several success stories. Some children who were barely surviving in their assigned schools were able to thrive when tuitioned to other schools, including a local Montessori School. Some parents were able to exercise more direct control over the values to which their children were being exposed, again by choosing private schools, including a local religious academy.
When the state tried to narrow the scope of the town tuitioning program, it was Free Staters who went to court to protect it. It was Free Staters who raised donations so that the town wouldn’t have to pay any legal fees. It was Free Staters who worked with the state legislature to shepherd a bill onto the governor’s desk, making it possible for any town to follow Croydon’s lead in doing what was best for children.
And, since the private schools cost less than the public schools, it was better for Croydon’s taxpayers.
It’s ironic that some of the parents whose children have benefitted from town tuitioning — precisely because it offered an improvement over the traditional way of doing things — recently led a fear-and-smear campaign against Free Staters for trying to improve the academic performance of students while spending less money.
That’s just history repeating itself.
There’s an irrational fear — propped up by name calling — that Free Staters are out to destroy public institutions when really they are trying to make them work better.
That is the lesson of town tuitioning in Croydon. As with many lessons, it may have to be repeated several times before it sinks in. Up next is changing how we think about fairness in education, by switching the focus from school funding to student achievement. Once again, the resistance is fierce, but the outcome is inevitable.
In New Hampshire, they say if you don’t like the weather just wait a few minutes and you’ll get something you like better. If you don’t like what Free Staters are doing now, just wait a few years and you’ll think it was your idea.
Jody Underwood chairs the Croydon School Board
As more and more truth about vaccine harm comes out, we have a massive opportunity for outreach. Watch this testimony on Twitter.
So many of you should feel so stupid.. pic.twitter.com/ywzEJ89TUB
— Alan Roberts (@TheMFingCOO) October 6, 2022
Every person harmed by a vaccine mandate, whether physically or economically, or both, is now a potential liberty ally.
My vaccine skepticism started in earnest after being forced in 2008 to get an MMR vaccine in order to graduate from CCNY. I had gone through the entire program, managing to neither get the mandated unnecessary jab (as an immigrant to USA I’d had several before, I just couldn’t find the paperwork) nor did I give anyone at City College measles, mumps, or rubella.
The administration did not find my line of reasoning compelling, and refused to issue my M.F.A. degree without proof of vaccination.
So… despite not wanting to, but knowing I needed proof of the degree and that I was soon moving to the Free State of NH… I caved.
So I understand how you might feel right now.
After getting this coerced vaccine, which at least has a “safety” track record, unlike these ethics-violating mRNA treatments, I developed many new negative health issues:
I’d never had allergies before, but I became very susceptible to seasonal allergies.
I gained more than 50 lbs, despite not really changing my diet (I was still eating carbs at the time).
I started having severe joint pain, especially in my knees and lower back. I chalked this up to the weight gain. I started drinking more alcohol to mitigate.
I had low-energy, which I treated with… more alcohol… using my addiction as the “cheese” to get out of the house and get my projects done.
Only after reclaiming my health by switching to a keto diet made up of whole, low-carb foods, ditching alcohol (a depressive and neurotoxin), and getting enough sleep, was I able to reverse the harm I know developed from that unnecessary MMR vax in 2008.
Every symptom I suffered from is caused by inflammation, your own body fighting you.
THIS is part of the reason I refused to get vaccinated based on someone else’s “orders.” Never again.
I believe in self-ownership. This means you own your body and I own mine, and only I, based on my own conscience and consciousness, will decide what to treat myself with. Never again will some bureaucrat tell me what to inject or ingest.
Perhaps you are learning this the hard way too.
If you are experiencing negative health outcomes, no matter how mild or strong, I hope you have learned an incredibly valuable lesson about your own body, mind, and spirit.
Freedom matters.
Self-ownership matters.
The right to decide everything relating to your own body for yourself on your terms, matters.
Because if that’s not “allowed” anymore… ask yourself… who owns you, and where does it end?