Election Reflections

 I had to go to LA to pick up my wife last week. She had spent a couple of weeks visiting her sister and I went to bring her home. By the way, in our world "LA" is Louisiana, although it sometimes stands for Lower Alabama.  My wife usually flies down there, and I go down there and drive her back so that we can visit all of those places that you see advertised on roadside billboards. We also have to make a stop at a Buc-ees. More on that later.

For only the second time in my life, I voted early in an election. We went to historic Yanceyville on Thursday and voted. I hate voting early and I don't think that it should be legal. But as I get older, I realize that I may have a stroke watching that lying, moronic bitch Kamala in another bullshit filled television ad and I need to vote early rather than take a chance that I will die before getting the chance to vote on election day. WHEW!! It was good to get that out of my system.

I have to limit my television watching to keep from having my head explode from watching Kamala ads or another ad from Josh Stein. For readers not in North Carolina, Josh Stein is the Democratic candidate for governor in North Carolina. He has served as the state Attorney General for the last eight years and his accomplishments will fit on a 3X5 index card, one side only. 

Despite my limited television watching time, there is one commercial for Stein that I have seen hundreds of times. It features "Debbie" from Cornelius, North Carolina. She talks about how her son died from an accidental fentanyl overdose. I feel sorry for anyone who loses a child to drugs. I don't even want to imagine that pain. But using that death as a reason to endorse the guy who is the Attorney General and candidate for governor opens the door to questions. One of the first questions should be "How do you know that it was accidental?" Maybe someone gave it to him intentionally. 

She claims that Stein "stood up for families like mine". What exactly does "stood up for" entail? Did Stein increase prosecutions of drug dealers? Show us the numbers. Did Stein join with Attorneys-General from other states to pressure the Biden Administration to close the southern border?  Of course not. Closing the entry points for illegal drugs to enter the country would make too much sense for a Democrat. The people carrying the drugs are future Democratic voters. Did Stein and his leader Gov. Roy Crapper start some kind of increased law enforcement pressure on drug dealers in North Carolina? Are there scores of more fentanyl dealers in North Carolina prisons? Did I miss the huge number of public service ads about the dangers of fentanyl? Maybe if Democrats had opposed fentanyl with the same intensity that they hustled COVID vaccines that don't work, things might be different.

Debbie said that "If he had known about fentanyl, it wouldn't have happened." Whose fault is that? Fentanyl is all over the news. Who takes a drug that they know absolutely nothing about? It's usually stupid kids succumbing to peer pressure. What if we stop trying to educate our children about gender and race and the evils of democracy and instead give them some lessons in staying alive? Maybe things might be better. Are kids going to listen to everything that their parents tell them? Not in this world. But as parents, we are obligated to at least make the effort to help them.

The roadsides of North Carolina are filled with billboards telling us to pay North Carolina teachers more. They also tell us that "Public Education Works". How about some billboards about the danger of fentanyl?

Josh Stein and "Debbie" have brought up the issue of fentanyl. I haven't heard any proposals from them to fight it. Call me when you are serious.