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I think we will be seeing some major power moves from the Democrats to upend how our Constitutional republic has functioned for over 200 years and to set the stage for a Democrat one party state. No, they won't abolish the Republican Party, just rig the system where it can never come to power again.

The first is likely to be ending the filibuster in the senate. This will make it easier for Democrats to ram their legislation through Congress. The filibuster protects the rights of the legislative minority, which the Democrats were all for when they were the minority, but now that the Republicans are the minority, they would prefer to be able to just run over them. That only takes a majority of the Senate to change senate rules, so I think this will happen soon after Democrats are sworn in.

A second major target is the Electoral College, and I think it is likely that the Democrats will take this down before the 2028 election. With legislative results, their compact of states will probably put that scheme in play. Will the Supreme Court have the backbone to stop that play? Unlikely with people like John Roberts running things.

The Democrats will try to perpetuate their control of the Senate by making the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico states, giving them four more senators. The president does not have a veto over that.

Democrats will want to pack the courts, especially the Supreme Court, but since the president has to nominate judges, there are limits on what they can do. Still congress has the power to change the jurisdiction of various courts, so we may see some power plays around that. A majority of Democrat senate candidates in this last election openly advocated packing the Supreme Court. Most of the rest were, like Roy Cooper, evasive on the issue.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Even foreign leaders recognized the Stalin Show Trials in the politically corrupt New York courts against Trump for what they were, total shams and miscarriages of justice.

Now we have a newly elected Democrat congresswoman from our state who stole a car. The owner is out $20,000 for that stolen car. The criminal process was started years before she got into politics. How many cars have YOU stolen, BS Bob? Why does the Democrat Party recruit car thieves for their candidates?

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 4:35 pm By: Rino Hunter

In comparing this election with last election, Beaufort County did better than much of the state in voting for Republican candidates. Whatley ran a few points better than Mark Robinson, for example. Statewide, Whatley did much worse than Robinson Our judicial candidates were only a few points down from where our judicial candidates ran in 2024. One race with the exact same candidates, State Senate, Democrats did about 4 points better. You can compare the numbers on the state board of elections website.

Statewide, Republicans are in a bad way, particularly for US Senate, US Congress, and NC House. Our former congressman, Greg Murphy, is only up by about 200 votes pending a likely recount.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 3:32 pm By: piratefan

So easy to be critical. Our president is a convicted felon and owes a woman a lot of money because he lost a lawsuit for putting his hands on her in a changing room.
Good grief Charlie Brown.

MAGA - no moral high ground. None.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By: big Bob

Biden's mess was the result of the climate crazies, and today's mess is, too. Refined products are so high because of reduced refinery capacity in California and in Europe caused by the climate crazies. Trump has done all he could to block the climate nutters. It is NOT the increase in the cost of raw petroleum that has driven diesel up so much, as the reduction in refinery capacity to produce it.

Democrats have leaned on Covid for lots of things, like corrupting our election process, but it had nothing to do with the inflation of the Biden era, known as Bidenflation.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 11:02 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Just like a Democrat. Will it ever come out what see did with that $20,000 car? It never has turned up, it seems. Sadly, there will likely be some high level Democrat strings pulled to get her off from her felony. It is hard to tell how many more criminals the Democrats just put into public office.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 10:19 am By: Bubba

We will all know beyond a shadow of a doubt what mystery man Edwards is from his vote at the very first meeting to elect commission leadership. If he votes for a fully Republican team, as is the expected result of a Republican majority body, then maybe he will turn out okay on other things, too. However, if he goes for a Frankie Waters style deal with Democrats, then we will know he was nothing but a phony and a ringer all along.

The real question is who will be chairman? Richardson has been there the longest and in most systems that would be a huge factor. However with the present chemistry of the board, that is not likely to happen.

Next up in terms of length of service would be Randy Walker, but the objections to him among conservatives would be as strong as from the Waters faction to Richardson. In his first primary campaign, Walker hired Ashley Woolard to run his social media campaign based on a pledge of "no new taxes" but as soon as the primary was over, he had Woolard pull those down as he no longer wanted to talk about taxes. It seems it was just a smoke screen for the primary. Even worse, deadbeat Randy Walker stiffed Woolard for not only Woolard's own fee, but also the money Woolard had advanced to Facebook for the ads. Not paying your campaign bills is really, really low.

Next up in seniority would be Tandy Dunn, and there does not seem to be any real hard feelings from either side on him.

that very first vote of Edwards, and then his second vote on the vice chairman will tell us all we need to know about what Edwards is really made of. Hopefully, he will not be Frankie Waters 2.0, but those votes will show us one way or the other.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 10:08 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

Under Biden policies, gas and groceries went up even more, without a war as an excuse. I see the Democrat ideology doing the exact same thing again. The Democrats bull-headed war on oil and gas will resume.

The rise in the price of refined petroleum products like diesel and gasoline is due more to a shortage of refinery capacity than to a shortage of raw petroleum. It is radical environmentalism that has caused that problem. That has led Europe to cut its own refinery capacity. Here in the US, radical environmentalism in California has shut 4 out of 10 of their refineries, amounting to about half of the state's capacity. Texas and Louisiana refineries have had to run wide open to try to compensate. Democrat control of levers of power will likely cause more attacks on refinery capacity.

Don't expect a Democrat congress to do a damn thing about restoring our refining capacity. If anything, they will try to reduce it further due to their knee-jerk climate alarmism.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 9:52 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

“We. Any trust anyone”

In life we all have choices. I refuse to live this way.

We can trust each other. Be a good friend and neighbor. Help someone in need. Do a good deed. Talk with people. Enjoy the life God gave you.

Living in a maga induced hate fest is spiritually killing you.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 9:15 am By: big Bob

Bob, you see the world through the prism of far left talking points. You cannot even sit down and listen to what these Democrats have been talking about since the election. That you are somewhere to the left of Stalin does not help.

Democrats are not going to do a darn thing about "affordability" and never were.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 8:37 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

At least a couple of you understand the situation. Most likely, if Woolard is true to his promise we are still exactly where we were before on the issue of any real taxpayer relief - one vote short.

There are two things blocking us on this issue:
1. Voters that can't seem to understand how important it is to be able to count to four.
2. A voting system (Limited Voting) that often times blocks the will of the people.

Anyway, barring some unforeseen miracle, we are no better than where we were before and maybe worse. Time will tell.

Commented: Friday, November 6th, 2026 @ 8:26 am By: Van Zant

You are absolutely right on that one, Traditional. I think he will stand up for taxpayers. My concern is, where does the 4th vote to make a majority come from? Edwards has been more evasive on issues than even Frankie Waters or Randy Walker were. We will know on the vote for new commission leadership. If Edwards does a deal to give Democrats part of that leadership, we will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is bent. If he comes through on electing all Republican leadership, maybe there will be hope for him. I am not convinced, but we will see.

Commented: Thursday, November 5th, 2026 @ 7:39 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer