State gave Young Brothers a monopoly on inter Island shipping to insure service to ALL islands---not just the profitable ones. Matson can deliver cargo from the mainland to island ports but can not pick up cargo to deliver inter Island. Any flag vessel can deliver or pick up cargo in Honolulu so long as the vessel did not visit another U.S. port. Would repeal of the Jones Act result in a big savings? I think the state would suck up any money saved!

If they started sucking up those savings then the government will have NO JUSTIFICATION WHATSOEVER to raise our taxes anymore then they already are!

Quit begging us for more money if you pricks have a new means to "steal" from us.

And if they cant get that through their thick skulls its time to rat out our local politicians to Trump's Fed, while he has the power and take these @$$holes through the ringer!

   The duties and responsibilities of a legislator are . . .
Lawmaking: Legislators are primarily responsible for creating, amending, and passing laws that address the needs and concerns of their constituents.
Representation: Legislators serve as representatives of their constituents. They act as a voice for the people who elected them and advocate for their interests. This includes understanding the concerns and needs of their constituents.
Constituent Services: Legislators provide assistance to constituents by addressing their concerns, answering inquiries, and assisting with issues related to government agencies and services.

 So if legislators are not addressing the needs and concerns of their constituents acting as a voice for the people who elected them and advocate for their interests or providing assistance to constituents by addressing their concerns, are they not violating their duties and responsibility's ?

We need to start pulling any connections we might have in government and begin digging up tangible evidence that would expose their corruption. Once the evidence has been gathered use VPNs and anonymous names to rat this info out to the department of justice, heck I would even say relay the info to Tulsi Gabbard as our Hawaii connection in the Federal Government right now. I know we are a "no snitch culture", but f@&% it, these @$$holes will rat on you for going armed into a business, I say its fair game at this point.

If we're not going to count on the people to turn on their brains, open their eyes and show up on voting day; then ratting our crooked government out to the Feds, with evidence we can fry them with, is our next best option outside of hitting the streets.

The first sentence.  Add to that a large percentage of voter apathy.  Hawaii employs a large percentage per capita in government and in the public service sector.  Self preservation.

All of this my opinion.  Of course.

So ever since the plantation industry died in the state, so did the biggest private sector employer to the population.

Once that power vacuum was created; the commies that were present in the 1960s, got voted into office and backfilled that vacuum to replace the biggest private sector employer with the public sector (the sector they control).
This would explain why despite the water infrastructure, climate and topsoil why the state to this day has never allowed a full scale industrial agriculture operation to properly start back up and take hold here. Because whether its Industrial Cannabis, Hemp, Agave, Coco beans, or otherwise any Ag operation would pose a great threat to their control and influence over the working, voting class.

The small hawaii farmer grants and such they keep preaching on the news, it's be design to pay lip service and keep these guys from sprouting up from under their thumb of control (for lack of a better expression).


I always knew about the apathy, I'm sure the so called Sovereignty Movement you see around here is nothing more than controlled opposition to discourage potential persons from voting in elections. Phrases like "It's stolen land" or "why vote for land that was stolen" etc. They know if more people participated, that would threaten their rule as well. If the Sovereignty folks were at all serious about getting their land back, they would either run as an independent party and win back power or get organized and stage a coupe. neither of which they have done and they had a lot of time to get it done.


If the people of this state aren't awake yet at high crime rates, unaffordable housing, mentally ill loonatics on their streets, and being treated as second class citizens in their own state they better wake up and smell the $#!+ that Josh Greed, Sylvia Puke, Ron Cuuchi, Bozo Hirono, Brian $#!+zhead and others have been serving them for the last few decades!
 
 

So everythings done now.  HI CCW holders have some freedom due to the injuction until SCOTUS rules in June or so.  If SCOTUS sides with HI, then bye bye CCW as it's now useless.

With that said, what does the injunction mean for us Hawaii CCW holders as of right now?

Can we CC into private businesses now regardless of the signage in the windows, knowing that there's a federal level injunction until June 2026 on the matter?

I believe Hawaii CCW holders have the right to know what we can and cannot do as of right now.

They should ban paper

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/12/18/elementary-school-student-detained-over-firearm-scare/

Were they (the school) taking this seriously to hammer anti2a into their brains at an early impressionable age, more-so than to actually stop a credible threat to school safety?

I recall going to Middle school on the eastside, a classmate of mine brought a real steel handgun into school to show it off to his friends, stupid but nobody was injured. After the cops arrived, they confirmed the gun was not loaded and there was no malicious intent to shoot anybody on campus. As a result, the boy who brought the gun was suspended from school for a good 6+ years and each of his friends who touched the gun got varying degrees of suspension to their names as well.

My point is that, there's no good reason to have to get the cops involved over a "wrapping paper handgun", it's an elementary school student for f@#%-sake! I'm pissed that our crooked media cannot be bothered to show us a photo of what said  "wrapping paper handgun" looked like, and let us be the judge.

P^$$!3$

And of course the fake news media is protecting the cartels

You know your media is a propaganda machine serving the interests of the New Woke Order when there's no mention anywhere of these protests happening in Mexico. Never mind the fact that these demonstrations are against a leading official that they (the media) would deem to be an "ally" in their quest to establish another country as a commie cesspool.

Seriously, all our corporate media wants to talk about is government shutdown fallout or Epstein!

i was in washington dc the end of october and there were big banners on the union buildings supporting trump and the gop agins the shutdown
forgot to take pictures...

They are going to have to make noise soon against the Dems if they want this sham of a poltical standoff to end! Direct all their Ire at Schumer, that piece of $#!+ deserves what's coming to him!

Trump had a morning breakfast meeting with GOP Senators.  He warned them that failing to open government will hurt them in the midterms/primaries just like it hurt the party in this week's elections.  He's pushing hard to go nuclear and eliminate the filibuster.  The senate majority leader, Thune, said he hasn't changed his mind on taking such a dangerous approach, and that he doesn't think they can get the needed votes to change the rules anyway.

Trump also said that after Nov, he won't/can't fund SNAP without Congress passing either a budget or a CSR.  He doesn't have the funds in a way that authorizes him to move the money to cover SNAP benefits which is about $8 Billion per month.  The emergency funds for SNAP covering 50% of entitlements is $4.65B, but the fund only has $5B.

It's still going to take weeks at least for the emergency funds to be sent, so even that isn't an effective bandaid after 42 million households are supposed to have gotten deposits by the 3rd or 5th of Nov.

Dems are making this harder than it ought to be.  Nobody should be jumping through administrative hoops to find and distribute funds.  It should have already been passed before the first of October.

I hope that this government shutdown will hurt the Dems worse 10x than the Republicans come the midterms!

At this point I am in favor of keeping that government shut down until the "useful idiots" that make up 85% of the party at this point wake up and smell the fat $#!+ coffee they are being served by their selfish senators (looking at you Bozo & $hatz).

I hope the useful idiots come to their f@#%ing senses and turn on their blue-@$$3d constituents when it comes to voting time, seeing them as the ones to blame for the 2 1/2 (possibly +) months worth of pain they caused.

NY, CA, NJ, VA were all off-season elections that purely banked on the short term pain of the government shutdown and months of media driven TDS. The movement against them has got to remain united, America first, constitution first, and no in-fighting EVER!

It's good to have diversity of ideas but PLEASE until we secure a super majority next midterm keep your zionist conspiracy theories, uniparty black-pilling, tariff tantrums, and isolationist idiocy to your GOD D@MNED SELVES!!! 

In order to run for another office, like governor, I believe he'd have to resign his current office anyway.  That's what tripped up Jeremy Harris.  He stayed in his job as mayor while he was running for governor, and he received Gov Cayetano's endorsement.  Once he was called out on it, he dropped out of the race, and LtGov Hirono got his endorsement instead.  Lots of speculation she lost to Lingle in part due to Cayetano giving Harris his support over his own LtGov.

Anyway, it would not surprise me if it's Rhoads who wants the extra time to plan his own campaign and be ready to roll it out the day he leaves the legislature.

So you are meaning to tell me that the reason we had a republican governor within the last 30 years was because then Governor Cayetano made a massive f@#% up in endorsing an active mayor who had no business running for governor, at that time, in the first place? And here I thought the people of Maui had rallied together and chose the route of sanity that year to override the electorate of Oahu's blue zombies.

So our only path to sanity in this state is counting on our governors to f@#% themselves up royally and endorse the wrong people?

I don't remember, but recently I think it was the Venezuala President who spoke against this.  AKA protecting drug cartels.

The cartels have 2 options:

Lay low until the new POTUS

Fill a drug boat with children.  Record them going in the boat and wait for a strike.  Then send vid to the fake news and let the rest work itself out.

Or third option

They stop this s%!+ right now before Trump drops a bunker buster on Meduro!

Enough is enough, no more drugs, no more criminal gangs coming into our country, no more apartment takeovers, no more cop killing, this s%!+ ends now!