Reflections on Elections?

 We voted a couple of weeks ago in the North Carolina primary elections. In what was probably the most expensive primary contest in the state, State Senator Phil Berger ran against Rockingham Sheriff Sam Page who wants Berger's Senate seat. As of this morning's scrawling of this screed, Page leads Berger by 23 votes. Yes, this message is for those folks who think that their vote doesn't count.

Here's something that will surprise almost no one; I don't like either one of them. Page was elected Sheriff in 1998, and Berger was elected to the State Senate in 2000. So, from my perspective, they have both served for too long already. 

Berger has served as the President of the State Senate since Republicans took the majority in 2011. Since he is in his 26th year in office, Berger is someone who I believe should have moved on from his office a long time ago. As the State Senate Districts are in what seems to be an endless state of flux, I have voted for Berger a couple of times. I think.

Page has been sheriff longer than Berger has been a state senator, so if you are guessing that I believe he should have moved on years ago, you are correct. I don't actually live in Rockingham County, so I have never voted for Page, but I still think that he has been in that job too long.

What do I know about their job performance? Sam Page can't run a jail, and Phil Berger can't pass a budget. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater?

I realize that this may be damn near heresy in this age, but I don't believe that elected office should be a career field. If you are motivated to public service, serve a couple of terms and get the hell out. We aren't going to get new viewpoints and solutions to old problems with the same old faces every year. If you don't believe me, look at the US Senate and the House. We keep fishing the same pond in every election and throwing back some to run again later. Let's find a new pond or restock the old one.

Sam Page did not have anywhere near the money spent on his campaign that Berger did. Rest assured that neither candidate could even see the high road from where they were running. I frankly think that the abundance of negative advertising may have cost Berger the election. Everyone's favorite station is WII-FM. That is "What's In It For Me"? People want to know how their lives will improve if they vote for you. Hell, I already thought that Sam Page was unfit to run a jail, I don't need a reminder every four minutes on television. Likewise, I don't need to be told about Berger's failures, I have lived through them. If you are running for political office, give me a realistic view of how you will improve my life or the state of the government.

Is there good news in all of this? Yes! First, I don't live in that Senate District, so neither clown will represent me. Second, this means that someone else will get the chance to be the President of the NC State Senate. Maybe they can get more done. And there will certainly being a fresh face running that Rockingham County jail. There's no way to go but up!

Berger is almost certainly going to ask for a recount this week. In counting the provisional ballots, two were discarded because the voters died before Election Day. Another was actually allowed because while the voter died before Election Day, it was just the day before and his family didn't have time to notify the elections board. How many die and don't tell us? This is just another nail in the coffin for "early voting". 

If you are one of those folks who say, "My one vote won't make a difference", you are in the process of being proven wrong. 

Does Gov. Spam-burger blow?

 Somebody ought to sue Gov. Abigail Spam-burger of Virginia for fraud based on her campaign claims of being a "moderate". 

The grammar junkie in me has risen to the surface and I want to point out that Spam-burger used "moderate" as a noun when she actually should have used it as an adjective. What she should have said was "I am a moderate Communist" or "I am a moderate Socialist" or "I am a moderate Dimocrat". But unfortunately, all of those statements mean the same thing. Complete honesty would have required that she should have said, "I will be a moderate dictator."

Inspired by Governor Spam-burger's threats to pass more gun laws, a convicted felon shot and killed an ROTC instructor yesterday at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. Unfortunately for the liberals who support him, he was subdued and killed by a group of students, including at least one with a pocketknife.

 Look for Governor Spam-burger to move to outlaw or regulate pocketknives today. It's part of her leftist, lunatic strategy to only allow criminals to be armed.

As Governor Spam-burger also wants to outlaw gas-powered leaf blowers, I can only assume that somewhere in Virginia, some poor, unsuspecting liberal Virginian was robbed or accosted by a random desperado armed only with a Stihl BR 700 backpack gas-powered blower. Oh, the humanity! Governor Spam-burger is only trying to make Virginia safe for unblown leaves. 

My sources in Virginia tell me that the Virginia State Police detail charged with protecting Governor Spam-burger has created a 500-foot radius area around the Governor which is declared to be a "gas-powered blower" free zone. 

 I don't believe that the Virginia State Police actually understand the situation as there have been reports of several people being searched for gas-powered blowers at public appearances of Spam-burger. The head of Governor Spam-burger's security detail, Sergeant Dudley Do-right, was interviewed by an RMOL correspondent about these searches. Do-right refused to confirm or deny that troopers were frisking people looking for gas powered blowers. However, Do-right did accidentally disclose that the security detail's codename for Governor Spam-burger is "airhead". Do-right insisted that this codename has nothing to do with gas-powered blowers.

The owner of The Mower Store in Ridgeway, Virginia told RMOL that gas-powered blowers are flying off the shelves as people stock up for the next four years of mowing grass and dealing with fallen leaves. He even expects a black market to develop for gas-powered blowers. I think that he's running a Spam-burger Special right now on gas-powered blowers. 

At the nearby Rural King, an anonymous employee said that the gas blowers were flying off the shelf like toilet tissue during COVID. Don't get caught with your pants down again. Get a gas-powered blower today!! Tell them that Governor Spam-burger sent you.

Thom Tillis, Won't you please shut up???

 Yeah, sing that to the tune of "Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?"

Since announcing that he will not be seeking re-election, Thom has been unable to shut his mouth. Like a bottomless barrel of bullshit, the swill and lies have just poured from Thom's mouth. Do us all in North Carolina a favor Thom. Just Shut Up!!!

Isn't it bad enough that North Carolinians will be forced to listen to Roy Cooper's lies every day for the next eight months as he runs for the US Senate seat that Two-Faced Thom Tillis is leaving? Can't we get any kind of a break here?

The fact that Cooper is running on his record as Governor and Attorney-General gives Republicans an opening that they should drive a truck through. What the hell are they waiting for? 

Thom Tillis should join Bruce Springsteen on his upcoming "No Brains, No Pains" themed concert tour. Tickets to hear Springsteen whine about Donald Trump start at around $200. I am pretty sure that tickets that range from $200 to $3000 pretty much destroys that whole "Springsteen is for the working man" image. But to be honest, I have always disliked Springsteen. His politics just give me a better reason.

Democrats are keeping DHS shut down just to protect their voter base. Dims also oppose the SAVE Act. If you oppose Voter ID, you support cheating in elections. There is no discussion needed. 

The number of adult Americans without a legal ID is miniscule. If you are from Minnesota, "miniscule" means a really small number.

If any major news show wanted to end all of these stupid liberal claims about people not being able to get IDs, I have their solution. Put a camera guy and a reporter outside of a liquor store. Offer $20 to anyone who can produce a legal ID on live television. They will run out of $20 bills before they find someone without an ID. If you can get an ID to drink, you can get an ID to vote. You will probably need that ID to drink after you vote.

Meanwhile, Democrats need to produce a real, live, married woman who is unable to get an ID. If they can find one, my wife has agreed to show her how to get an ID. 

On a personal note, I was adopted as a child. I have never had a problem getting an ID. It must be only Democrats that can't get IDs. Oh wait!! I forgot about the illegal immigrants who are the Democratic Party base.

Somalis in Minnesota are suing to keep Trump from ending their Temporary Protected Status. What part of "Temporary" do the Somalis not understand?? But to be honest, I wasn't aware that the federal government understands "temporary" either. They pass "temporary" taxes that last forever. Federal excise taxes on tires come to mind. I am reminded that the government built "temporary" buildings on the National Mall in Washington during World Wars I and II that Richard Nixon finally had torn down in 1970. 

If you don't believe my comment about those DC buildings, here's a link to a site called "Ghosts of DC".  Temporary Structures Reshape Washington's Monumental Core

Justifying the blog name?

 Sen. John Thune is causing me to redefine "pussy". It is time for John and the alleged Republicans in the Senate to end the filibuster and pass some meaningful legislation. While they are feeling their oats or whatever Senators call them, how about some term limits legislation for the House and Senate members?

John Thune needs to grow a pair or borrow Michelle Obama's balls and pass the Save Act. Screw the filibuster! Let's make elections fair and legal. If New York City wants to elect a Communist as their mayor, that's okay. It's not okay for federal offices.

If Chuck Schumer was a dog, we would be having that painful talk about euthanasia right now. The new glasses that actually fit were not enough to make Chuck useful.

Rand Paul reminds me that my description of Libertarians as "Republicans who want to smoke pot", might need a little work.

I think that we might need to go back to literacy tests for voters. This isn't a racist move. I simply hold the intelligence of the average voter in complete contempt. My dog, Cassie, is smarter than the average voter in California, Oregon, or Washington.

If they had shown the credits after the broadcast of the Jesse Jackson funeral service, I am sure that P.T. Barnum was the Executive Producer of that three-ring clown show. It was less a funeral than a gathering of Presidential candidates past and present to test their most insane claims and stories. They started the service at 11:00 AM in the hope that Kameltoe Harris would still be sober at that hour. They needed a better plan. Hell, they were lucky that Joe Biden was possibly even awake that early in the day. 

It was reported that before the Jesse Jackson funeral, Joe Biden beat out Tim Walz as the token idiot white guy to appear at the funeral.  It was reported that Walz claimed that he knew all of the words to the songs that Jesse, Michael, Stonewall and the other Jackson brothers sang on their albums. Biden just claimed that he had met them at that black church in Delaware that he attended after going to Mass at the Catholic church on Sunday morning on his way to fight Corn Pop at the public pool. Biden won the top performance prize when he told the crowd that he was "smarter than most of you". Dr. Jill just groaned and mumbled, "I knew that I should have just stayed home with Hunter."

Bill Clinton was at the Jackson Jubilation, but he doesn't count as a real white guy. Bill didn't count as the token white guy since he acts even blacker than Barack Obama. Of course, that isn't hard as Obama didn't have a lot of black guys as role models when he was growing up in Indonesia.

If you required your employees to come to work despite the fact that you aren't paying them, the federal government would shut your business down for violating labor laws. Yet right now, most DHS employees are not being paid and are required to work. Let's start a new concept where the federal government actually complies with the laws that it passes. 

As long as we are doing that, let's start having Senators and Representatives start recording their time spent actually on the job. Shaking down people for donations and votes does not meet the standard for "work".

Finally, in just a few months, we will be celebrating our nation's 250th birthday. I think that we are getting pretty close to the average age of empires. 

As I write this, they are reporting that the FBI is raiding Epstein's ranch in New Mexico. He's only been dead seven years. Isn't this a little late?

I'm T.O.T.T.S.

 No. it doesn't have anything to do with kids. What does "I'm T.O.T.T.S." mean. It means that "I am Tired of Thom Tillis's Shit"! I have heard all that I can stand from Two-faced Thom!

For the last several weeks, Thom has been complaining about Kristi Noem. Today Trump announced that she was moving to a different job and that he will name Markwayne Mullin to head DHS. Let me give you a pointer, Thom. If you talk to Markwayne Mullin like you talked to Kristi Noem, Mullin will take your ass outside for an attitude adjustment session. 

In the election of 2020, I couldn't bring myself to vote for Two-faced Thom, I voted for the Constitution Party candidate instead. I think that his name was Hays.  I am famous for being the "other guy" who voted for him in my county. 

Democrats and Tillis are idiots. When Trump nominated Matt Gaetz for the Attorney-General position, anyone watching television news would have surmised that the world as we know it was about to end. Not realizing that Trump views every activity in life as a negotiation, Democrats and Tillis Republicans were relieved when Trump nominated Pam Bondi instead of Gaetz. Of course, those same "returds" are beating their heads against the wall trying to deal with Bondi. If they had been as smart as they think they are, they would have settled for Gaetz. Gaetz is a pussycat compared to Bondi. 

It's the same story with Kristi Noem. Trump is probably a little surprised that she has lasted this long. So, now he is sending Markwayne Mullin to run the Department of Homeland Security. If you are in Congress and think that you want to tangle with Mullin, take some advice from Braindead Biden. "Don't" It's just not going to end well for you.

I am tired of idiot Democrats and Tillis Republicans saying that they are worried about "an endless war with Iran". Wake the hell up, you bumbling band of "returds". We have been at war with Iran since 1979. That was probably before Tillis started that combover hairstyle. Hell, it's been so long that I might have had hair when that war started. We have been at war with Iran 47 years, but Democrats only notice in the years that Republicans hold the Oval Office. 

Obama tried to buy a peace agreement by flying a plane full of gold, cash and other valuables to Iran in the middle of the night. Obama claimed that he wasn't hiding anything, it was just a coincidence that the flight left in the middle of the night. 

Biden kept the Iranians at bay by constantly threatening to send Jill over there. Jill would have been the first President to visit Tehran since Jimmy Carter.

If Trump wants to end the Iran war today, here's a simple strategy. Load up a couple of C-17s with thousands of the Obamas' latest books and drop them over Tehran. Those who won't be laughing their asses off or fall asleep, will be begging us to stop the punishment. 

I'm thinking of starting one of those countdown things to track the departure from Congress of Two-Faced Thom.

 

Somewhere in America?

Somewhere in America, there is a school for ventriloquists training people to shove their hands up Democrats' asses and make them all say the exact same thing. Yesterday's phrase was "a war of choice".

Somewhere in America, some ventriloquist is asking, "Can somebody else make Hakeem Jeffries talk today?"

Somewhere in America, there are scores of ventriloquists asking, "Can't I just make a dog or pig say that?"

Somewhere in America, some party planner is trying to scale back on that Jasmine Crockett for US Senate victory party.

Somewhere in America, a political advisor is trying to figure out how to tell Kamala Harris that it's never too early to drop out of the 2028 race.

Somewhere in America, someone other than just me is telling his wife, "If you see me turning the television to put on that March Madness NCAA tournament crap, just go ahead and shoot me!"

Somewhere in America, people who are all working remotely are trying to figure out how to cheat on their "brackets" for the above-mentioned tournament.

Somewhere in America, a tailor is measuring US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his new Shah of Iran uniform. (Crown optional)

Somewhere in America, a Washington Post employee is pleading insanity for their obituary about the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. The flash words may have been "bushy white beard and an easy smile." I can't find their story about the death of Adolf Hitler, but I am sure that they complimented his mustache and his sharply executed goosestepping.

Somewhere in America, Democratic pollsters are telling their Senators that this idea to keep the Department of Homeland Security unfunded is about to blow up in their faces. News Flash for Dims!! If they (DHS) have to cut airline flights by 50%, nobody will be blaming Republicans. Trust me schmucks, nobody other than Congressional Dims will blame this on Republicans.

Somewhere in America, there's a group of guys talking about the Israeli air attack on the Iranian leadership. The most popular question is, "Couldn't they have just blown them all up with a text message instead like they did in Lebanon?"

 

This, That and The Other Thing

Since sometime in the 1960's, I have watched as hearing aid makers worked to make their products smaller and less noticeable. All of that money and effort was in vain as today half of the American population walks around with shit stuck in their ears that you notice from across the street. The idiots of the smartphone nation walk around with their "buds" in their ears and their iPhone god in their hand. They get robbed or hit by cars because they can't hear anything because of the earbuds or they aren't paying attention to anything but their iPhone worship service. Get off the phone and check out the world!! Pay attention! It doesn't cost anything.

Last week when New York City was looking for people to shovel snow, they were requiring applicants to have two (2) forms of ID. They also wanted applicants to provide two (2) photos measuring 1 1/4" square. Apparently, these photos were needed for the ID card they were going to provide snow removal workers. They certainly did not want to take a chance on an unpaid worker showing up to shovel your snow.

I have a Leto High School Class of 1971 reunion this year that it is tentatively scheduled for the first weekend of October in Tampa. They have not actually finalized the date at this time. I have a conflict with that since I have already purchased tickets to see the Bellamy Brothers in concert that weekend, fifteen miles from my home. What a dilemma! Do I drive 700 miles to see a bunch of folks who never contact me, or do I see the Bellamy Brothers who have never called me either? If I find that a couple of people who I was friends with at school will be there, I might go. Otherwise, it's dinner with my wife, the Bellamy Brothers' concert and a fifteen-minute drive home. I can probably save about a thousand dollars with that plan. This is not exactly the definition of "on the horns of a dilemma".

Tuesday, March 3 is primary election day in North Carolina. I will be delighted as that will end the Phil Berger- Sam Page for the NC State Senate seat. You can't turn on a television set or drive down the street in this area with \out seeing a sign or hearing an ad. Democrats hate Phil Berger so badly that they are quietly funding Sam Page's campaign. 

The primary for the US Senate seat currently held by the useless Thom Tillis is also this Tuesday. Former Governor Roy Cooper is the favorite to win the Democratic Party nomination. Many in the news media here have already anointed King Cooper as our next US Senator. I have one word for those people, "COVID". Roy Cooper kept North Carolina in a "state of emergency" for 888 days for COVID. There aren't many state laws that Roy Cooper failed to break in his two terms as Governor and four terms as Attorney General. It hasn't been long enough for people to forget what he did.

The North Carolina State Constitution states this: During the absence of the Governor from the State, or during the physical or mental incapacity of the Governor to perform the duties of his office, the Lieutenant Governor shall be Acting Governor. During his eight years as Governor, Cooper left the state on scores of occasions, he NEVER notified the Lt. Governor that he was out of the state. At the start of COVID, he left the state to fly to Tampa for a fundraiser for his campaign for his second term. Apparently, there aren't enough people in North Carolina interested in funding his campaign, so he had to raise money elsewhere. The video of him going up the back stairs of a hotel in Tampa and his press secretary trying to block a camera's view of him was on the local news before Roy got back from Florida.

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol covered for Roy on his travels. Asked if they had transported Cooper to the airport, they would only disclose how far that they had transported him. An actual "reporter" drove from the Governor's Mansion to the airport and measured the distance. To the dismay of King Cooper, the world figured the rest of it out.

King Cooper would not allow Ace Speedway to hold a stock car race, but then he marched in a Black Lives Matter protest with his mask hanging off the side of his face. (See photo below) Churches had to go to court to be allowed to hold a church service with more than ten people. Cooper's Dr. Fauci, Mandy Cohen, advised Cooper on all of these absurd COVID decisions. She went on to head up the Center for Disease Control under President Jill Biden. I'm sorry, but I just don't trust doctors who have never actually practiced medicine.

In 2016 in North Carolina, Cooper ran for governor and Josh Stein ran for Attorney-General. Stein's biggest campaign issue was that he was going to reduce the backlog of rape kits being tested here in North Carolina. What Stein never said and what no "reporter" ever asked or mentioned, was that the backlog of rape kit testing happened under Cooper's leadership of the NCDOJ. Why has no one in the news media ever mentioned that?  Maybe, it is the same reason that no one said anything about this picture of Roy at the BLM protest.

Here's a link to more: Random Moments of Lunacy: Thoughtless Thursday- Things that don't make sense
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