Folks:

Take polling in the presidential race not with a grain of salt, but with a brick of it. Any of those developed for cattle or deer will do.

Only two polls I can find (the Investor's Business Daily / TechnoMetrica poll (IBD/TIPP) and University of Southern California Dornslife / Los Angeles Times poll. - Bizarrely, the LA Times ignored their own polling and suggested a Hillary victory with 352 electoral votes.) Actually made the right call.

Story here: https://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2016/11/no-media-bias-youre-kidding-right-la.html

I point this out because much of recent polling is showing that Trump is winning and in some instances, that it could be something of a landslide.

You know, the same way they claimed Hillary was going to bury Trump.

Early on, several months ago, I suggested that you ignore 100% of what you "hear," and half of what you see for yourself.

That warning is now more important than ever.

Regardless of who you're supporting at any level, from local to federal, do the work.

Do not be an ignorant voter. Do not rely on what you've been told.
Incumbents leave fingerprints that you can easily find and identify. They're called a "voting record."

NONE of these people take credit for any of their failures.

While, for example, Sideshow Bobby Ferguson has a hair-trigger on his press release gun when he wins in Court, he remains strangely silent in the face of the tens of millions of taxpayer dollars he's lost in court in various cases... and he was involved in the cabal of billionaires who tried to strip the initiatives they hate off the ballot, behind closed, court room doors… and there are other cases that were equally disastrous for him politically. I haven't seen or heard of any of his glowingly self-flagellating efforts on the behalf of those loses.

You won't see his failures in campaign literature any more than you saw Sen. Ann Rivers taking credit for betraying us and ramming an unneeded, unwanted gas tax and tab fee increase down our collective throats after pledging, as a major part of her campaign to become a Senator to oppose both, claiming we "have to live within our means."

Candidates on both sides of the aisle generally do all they can to avoid specifics. Instead, we get what we call in the biz "glittering generalities" or "bright, shiny object" pledges.

"I support the 2nd Amendment" SOUNDS great. But the questions are both "how," and "what?"

HOW do you support the 2nd Amendment? What have you done in the past? What bills have you had signed into law, or stopped from being signed? What bills will YOU introduce to expand our rights?
And what happens when you try to nail candidates down on this issue and those related to it?

Most ignore you. At best they tell you as little as possible or, as in the case of both Perez and Harris, they outright lie to you.
The issue of abortion is one they routinely use to beat the hell out of the GOP.

What they claim is to put them back into office because THEY will return us to “nationwide abortion availability.”

They can no more do that than Kevin McCarthy, who was Speaker for a few minutes, pledged to get rid of the 87,000 IRS agent scam they ran.

No federal legislation can supersede a Supreme Court decision.
Dobbs made it clear abortion was a 10th Amendment issue. Any effort made by the Fed to remove that authority and assume it for themselves is DOA in the same court that got rid of abortion before.

Perez knows it. Harris knows it. But they can’t admit it. Neither have made any effort TO make abortion a “right” nationwide by a Constitutional Amendment… which both can be done and, in fact, is the ONLY way to arrive at the Narnia these two claim is RIGHT THERE, if you JUST KEEP US IN OFFICE!!!!

Which begs the issue: why haven’t they?

And when those reading this vote for either or both of those two, they have to do so KNOWING they are being lied to, to their faces. I did say we have the government we deserve or something, didn’t I?

You have many rights. But with rights comes responsibilities. And your responsibility is to get past voting merely because of a label of convenience. If an elected official has been a "fakir" in the past, they'll continue to do so in the future. Claiming to be either a democrat or a Republican is truly meaningless in the end.

Do not ignore their record. And do not buy into the "I'll do better next time" excuse.

When a pol promises the moon plus two dollars to get your vote, keep one hand on your wallet and the other covering your nether regions.

Politics is an outcome-based business. None of this "Well, I tried" nonsense like Herrera's miserable failure to get a bill passed that would have stopped tolling on paid for, completed structures; like the I-205 bridge.

In short, do the work. You still have time to make your decisions based on actual facts. Know what you're doing and why. Our obvious failure to hold politicians accountable for their actions... and lack of actions... is a major part of why we're as screwed up as a country as we are.

We do have the government we deserve. And what we have are the people you not only put there, they're the people we keep sending back.

And look what we, as a nation, have to show for it.

A few thoughts on DUI, crime, drug manufacture or sale and illegal aliens:

 Actually, the ways to deal with DUI are rather simple:

1. Make it illegal to drink any amount and drive. Simply stated, reduce the BAC level to 0.0.
2. Impound the vehicle. If convicted, auction the vehicle off, paid for or not.
3. Permanently suspend the driving privilege. For life.

The responsibility for DUI begins and ends with the driver.

Knowing these are the penalties for ANY DUI conviction would sharply reduce DUI, and end any ambivalence on the part of drivers: "Did I drink too much to drive?"

Drinking and driving at all is automatically too much.

We either want to end this problem or we don't.

And that philosophy could be applied to any criminal issue confronting us: Use a weapon in a crime, gun, knife, baseball bat?

Life in prison. No parole.

We need to make the illegal use of weapons so expensive in terms of prison time to the offender that they'd never think of using a weapon illegally for any purpose.

Illegal drugs?

Anyone involved in the manufacture, importation or distribution of any illegal drug?

Life in prison. No parole.

200,000 deaths attributed to fentanyl over the past two years. The outrage that SHOULD be evident is strangely muted. Locking people up for life that have imported or manufactured the tools for those deaths should be job one.

Illegal aliens?

Immediate deportation. End the illegal alien destination resort we've built here that brings them here by the millions. If they want to appeal deportation, they may, from outside the US.

Any illegal is automatically banned from legal residence or citizenship, ever.

Illegals are to be denied ownership of property, businesses, and/or licenses.

Illegal alien criminals serve their sentences in prisons and then are immediately deported.

Proof of citizenship or legal status needs to be required to attend schools at any level, or to get medical assistance, save to make the patient stable and then deport them.

End the bastardization of the 14th Amendment which was never meant to confer automatic citizenship to illegal aliens of the children they deliberately come here to have.

We take expensive, time-consuming and by no means guaranteed efforts to stop DUI's. PSA's abound about drinking and driving... but we effectively say it's OK to drink, just don't drink too much.

I'm pretty sure that idea is small comfort to the dead and crippled that result from such a wink, wink; nod, nod concept.

As a nation, we either want to end these issues or, at least, dramatically curtail them or we don't.

We keep doing the same things, over and over, achieving the same dismal results.

It's long since passed time to do something that will work. Doing the same things, over and over, while expecting a different outcome is insane.

How much longer do we put up with it?

When is enough, enough?

When pondering celebrity endorsements for the upcoming elections... (On either side)

 

Thought for the day: texting while driving kills.

In case anyone is wondering...

 

A quick reminder: Politicians frequently make promises they cannot keep... on both sides

A quick reminder: Politicians frequently make promises they cannot keep.

Two examples are Kevin McCarthy, who became Speaker of the House, who promised he would eliminate the 87,000 IRS agent scam the Biden Regime was running... which, of course, he could not do, since any such effort was DOA not only in the Senate, but also would have been subject to veto by Biden.

Anyone who knew even the least of politics knew he couldn't accomplish that, and to date, as expected, it STILL hasn't been accomplished and won't be unless the GOP has control of all 3 branches of government, i.e., until at least next year.

The second lie is from Kamala:

There is nothing she can do to codify nationwide abortion.

Nothing.

That she claims she can... that she believes or claims she believes getting rid of the filibuster would, in any way, make that happen is simply a lie.

The nature of the Supreme Court decision to overturn RvW is clear: the Court has determined that the abortion issue is to be decided by the several states.

In short, they have made it clear that abortion is a state's rights issue.

Period.

They left no door open that would enable federal legislation to overturn their decision: even if any such bill passed and was signed into law, it would immediately be tossed out by the same Court that tossed it in the first place.

Why she lied is obvious: she wants to be the Great Female Hope.

But she knows, as I do, that she is lying. Just like I knew McCarthy was lying and for the same reason.

If the democrats control all three branches of government, it will make exactly zero difference.

Vote for who you like. But it's not just that the Pole Dancer is lying... it's that she's so bad at it and her supporters are gullible enough to believe her. Know up front that she is lying to you about this and lying to you about lowering grocery (or any other) prices (for which she has zero plan; if she DID have a plan, why is she hiding it?) and other issues no doubt.

This is very much a case of her REQUIRING to be burdened by what has been.

She would say or do anything, legal or illegal, to get elected.

Including lie to the faces of her supporters.

What you do is up to you.

Willie would approve.