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The problem we have here is illustrated in an old joke. Someone asks a friend if he/she knows the difference between ignorance and apathy? The friend's response is, No and I don't care.

This is where we are. The process for voting is very simple. Register to vote and when election day(s) roll around on the calendar, one finds his/her polling locations and shows up to vote. After the preliminaries of identifying yourself, you are handed a ballot with federal, state, and/or local candidates for elective office.

Panic ensues. The voter is only aware of two or three candidates they planned to vote for, most likely a president, governor, or county commissioner. They look at the ballot and see there are 15-25 offices they are allowed to vote for. They do not know what these offices do and they do not know any of the names on the ballot.

They have two options. Only vote for the candidates and offices they came to vote for or vote every office on the ballot.

Commented: Monday, June 29th, 2026 @ 7:47 pm By: Ray Leary

SD: The real problem is the people that have surrounded Trump; he knows it's a trap and it's a trap he's got to exit carefully or he'll get caught in the vacuum they created.

I'm well aware that he knows who these people are, he's been around them all the time in Manhattan.

The other problem is that some, not all, Republicans shy away from this topic of who and what surrounds President Trump; the source of the problem and many problems for centuries.

Commented: Monday, June 29th, 2026 @ 1:16 pm By: John Valley

John Valley and Roadkill: The Democratic Socialist party will be finished in a couple of decades or less, and the RINOs much sooner.

Governing is not all that difficult. We just need strong hearted men and women, who can think well above what is average, and do math well well enough to get the job done, a job that does take a modicum of vision.

And John Valley: Mr Trump is doing just fine; he is far wiser and smarter than your current thoughts of him allow you to project here just now.

Commented: Monday, June 29th, 2026 @ 9:12 am By: Stan Deatherage

As a consumer, I am sick and tired of being abused by commericial enterprises. From Brightspeed to Optimum, to our insurance, to lying commericial advertisers, we humans are just a food trough, that exist to just keep feeding them.
Did u know that Brightspeed has just announced they will be adding abt $6 surcharge to your bill to pay for the copperlines they are installing to grow their business. Why are the consumers being charged for their efforts to grow their business. Govts will grow and tax us for it...but a "business?"
I'm fed up with politicians lying directly in our face as well. Do they think of us as just a bunch of cud-chewing cows?
They r saying the socialist are just demanding change. I want change too, but am not willing to shoot myself in head to get it.

Commented: Sunday, June 28th, 2026 @ 7:03 pm By: Washingtonian

CT: Why is it that older MAGA Republicans want to blame EVERYTHING on the Democrats? Do they live in a mystical dome where the prices of everything doesn't affect them? Everybody grandstanding a 30 cent drop in the price of gas is doing exactly what they, the party strategists, want them to do, celebrate deceptive numbers that mean absolutely nothing. In the real realm of actuality, $3.59 a gallon is still way too damn high. They're charging you out the ass for something that should cost way less....and they'd still make a killing.

The Boomer MAGA crowd seems to think that anyone who questions Trump is either a Commie or a rainbow liberal; they're way off the mark here. Out of respect for the man, we criticize the stupidity of the remnant-faction they've surrounded him, Trump, with.

tw, Obamacare is actually a carbon copy of Neo-Con Mitt Romney's "Romneycare". All they did was change the sticker on it and handed the credit to Obama, for scripted purposes.

Commented: Sunday, June 28th, 2026 @ 12:05 pm By: John Valley

CT,
Right here in Washington, one of my prescription medications cost more when I use my insurance, than when I dont. $10 more! WHY?

Commented: Saturday, June 27th, 2026 @ 10:55 am By: Befuddled

Interesting but I strongly disagree, we'll leave it at that.

I don't see a lot of younger people jumping with joy over Israel First, their health insurance going to hell and gas still over $3.49 a gallon. The war was/is completely unnecessary and stupid; there are no weapons of mass destruction. Bush was full of crap and so is Trump, it's all about keeping the goy distracted.

Commented: Saturday, June 27th, 2026 @ 3:43 am By: John Valley

The GOP is in late stage damage control, as things ain't got like this overnight, and they're concerned about the numbers being shown to them.

They're distancing themselves from the ULTRA-MAGA detachment BUT they can't bring themselves to fully stand with the age demographic that's holding the wall; it would cost them a seat at the Country Club and a couple of Kerr Drug paper bags of monopoly money.

Trump doesn't have the Gen X-Y support he had in '16 and '20. Those numbers are showing now and it's the dinosaur standing in the middle of the room. If there were a Conservative "NASCAR-Burt Reynolds" Democrat party before a "Patriot" party, the GOP would be packing up and going down to the Motel 6.

THIS is what they're sanitizing FOR, it's only a matter of time and sight of the chessboard.

Commented: Friday, June 26th, 2026 @ 11:15 am By: John Valley

Steve, I did not endorse all of the changes. You have some good argument on the issues you presented. The corruption, the secrecy, the manipulation against conservatives and the un ethical use of party funds is still there in in the Beaufort County Republican Party, and many other county parties.

Commented: Thursday, June 25th, 2026 @ 6:30 am By: Hood Richardson

Hood, your view on the new NCGOP Plan of Organization is very different from most NC conservatives.

A few weeks before the NCGOP state convention, I was one of five panelists on the subject of the then proposed new Plan at a statewide meeting of the Conservative Coalition of North Carolina (CCNC). Two panelists supported the Plan, with reservations> Three of us felt the concerns outweighed any benefits. After the panel, the CCNC as a body voted unanimously to oppose the new proposed Plan and circulate flyers on its flaws.

Generally, the new Plan of Organization continues to increase the top-down control of the party at the expense of the influence of the grassroots.

Some of the objections were:

- Until now, there has always been at least one path to offer Plan amendments from the convention floor and pass them by simple majority. Now that has been raised to 2/3rds and only then after first submitting the amendment 15 days in advance to the Plan of Organization Committee.

- the Arbitration Committee is no longer objectively established but instead is personally handpicked by the state chairman for each case.

- Until now, party chairmen at all levels have had "general supervision of the party with the advice and consent of the executive committee". The new Plan removes the language on the the advice and consent of the executive committee.-

- until now, the Plan has had roles for various party committees in legislative candidate recruitment. Those are all removed in the new Plan. This comes as legislative leadership, which historically has not been that conservative has been working to assert itself as the source of legislative candidate recruitment instead of the party structure doing it. Party activists tend to look for candidates who will represent local interests and conservative principles, while the legislative leadership is looking for yes-men who will do what they are told.

- it makes amendments to the Platform and to the Resolutions report much more difficult. These can no longer be offered from the convention floor unless submitted 15 days in advance to the committee (and the party these days has not even been offering contact information on committee leaders). Most delegates have not even read those reports by that time, so they are denied an opportunity to participate. The new Plan also requires a 2/3rd vote to change anything the committees have done, compared to a simple majority vote now.

There is lots more. I have been attending state GOP conventions since 1973 and served on the state Plan of Organization Committee myself five times, chairing it twice, and this ranks as the worst proposed Plan I have ever seen, even worse than last year's failed Plan.

As to the Victory Committee, the local Republican Party has had something like it for a long time. When I was county GOP chairman in the 1980s, we called it the Campaign Committee. These committees operate to support all Republican candidates at General Election time and do not get involved in primaries.

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Commented: Monday, June 22nd, 2026 @ 4:46 pm By: Steven P. Rader