Comments by John Steed | Eastern North Carolina Now

Jasmine Crockett is a real piece of work. Here is Governor Abbott fact checking some of her misstatements: dailycaller.com

Commented: Monday, August 11th, 2025 @ 2:06 pm By: John Steed

We need one good strong candidate to take on Tillis in the primary, and Lara Trump would fit that bill. Whoever runs, we need them to get out from soon. Tillis needs to go. I understand Lara and her husband own a house here. She needs to move her registration soon. Lara Trump would be great. ANYBODY BUT TILLIS.

Commented: Friday, May 9th, 2025 @ 10:55 am By: John Steed

So you want government to force companies to hire criminals, Bolshevik Bob? What, are you pushing for totalitarian of the year?

Commented: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024 @ 2:14 pm By: John Steed

What if the "sexual habits" of a politician were pedophilia or rape? Running around on a spouse even with the spouse's knowledge means a politician is not going to be faithful to their constituents either. If this is how she is raising funds for her campaign, somebody needs to take a good hard look at her campaign financial reports, too.

Commented: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 1:44 pm By: John Steed

The great British political thinker Lord Acton, best known for his famous quote that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely", wrote in a post war letter to General Lee that expresses why he believed the Confederate States SHOULD be celebrated:

"Without presuming to decide the purely legal question, on which it seems evident to me from Madison's and Hamilton's papers that the Fathers of the Constitution were not agreed, I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic [the USA] have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform would have blessed all the races of mankind by establishing true freedom purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo." -Lord Acton

Commented: Sunday, March 26th, 2023 @ 8:14 pm By: John Steed

One woman who had contact with the monkeys is exhibiting symptoms:
www.zerohedge.com

Commented: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 6:02 pm By: John Steed

One conservative legislator from another county has said he was afraid that the GOP legislative leadership gave Cooper his Green New Deal in exchange for his signing the budget. If that is true, then it was a horrible deal for electric customers, both residential and business, as we will be paying out the nose for years to buy Cooper's signature on this budget. We would be a lot better off if he just vetoed it again. The Green New Deal will be a disaster for us, and a pack of shortsighted RINOs led by Berger and Moore are responsible.

Commented: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 5:08 pm By: John Steed

HB951 is a good example of the swamp we have in Raleigh that is as bad as DC. When I started looking into that bill, I was appalled by the corruption, insider dealing, and power plays, and the GOP leadership in both houses is in the thick of it. They are playing politics and really don't care how much this will hurt ordinary citizens and North Carolina businesses.

HB951 started out as a simple one page bill promoting modular nuclear reactors for generating electricity. This is a rather new but established and proven technology that is as reliable as major nuclear power plants but considerably more cost effective and flexible. It was a good bill promoting a good technology.

While this bill languished in committee, an insider cabal of Duke Energy operatives and lobbyists for wind and solar special interests were working on their own electricity plan in the back room. They called themselves "the stakeholders" but left out many of those impacted by changes in electricity supply, namely the consumers, both residential and commercial, who buy electricity. Duke Energy is totally "woke" and into the whole leftwing world view. The wind and solar special interest lobbyists were out to line the pockets of their clients. Meeting in secret in smoke filled backrooms, this cabal put together a 40+ page legislative proposal.

Instead of presenting their proposal as its own bill in the normal course of legislative business, where it could go through the usual process including hearings and other aspects of transparency, these self-appointed "stakeholders" arranged with powerful legislators to jam their product onto the existing HB951, and even downplayed its original purpose, the modular nuclear reactors, which the lefties at Duke Energy never really wanted in the first place.

That bill was fast tracked as a "committee substitute" with little opportunity for transparency or comment and sent to the House floor for a vote. The Speaker buttonholed conservative legislators, pushing for their votes (legislators think twice about crossing a Speaker who has the power to derail their own legislation), and telling them the bill would not go anywhere in the Senate, anyway. This was backed up by senators saying they had problems with the bill. Too many conservatives fell for this dog and pony show.

The Senate held a hearing on the House committee substitute and representatives of electric consumers, both residential and commercial came out in force against it. The Senate then came out with their own last minute committee substitute, failed to put it online in a timely manner, and called a quick meeting, with no public hearing to push this bill on toward a floor vote. Those committee meetings will be held tomorrow.

These Raleigh RINOs know that if they used the regular legislative process, the party base would be up in arms, so they try to blindside their own party members with all of this sleight of hand, lack of transparency, and short notice. The Senate "committee substitute" is likely a product of that secret "stakeholder" cabal, too, and the whole scheme an effort to enact very leftwing legislation before the GOP rank and file knew what was going on. This could not have been done without approval of the House and Senate leadership and their involvement in this scam is downright disgraceful.

It is high time for a fruitbasket turnover of the GOP leadership in both House and Senate. The corruption shown by this bill should not be allowed to continue.

Commented: Monday, October 4th, 2021 @ 7:05 pm By: John Steed

Things are coming to a boil over the lockdowns in the state of Victoria, Australia. Now, 20,000 mostly labor union members have blocked the busiest freeway into Melbourne and say they will be back daily until the lockdowns are lifted. www.zerohedge.com

Commented: Tuesday, September 21st, 2021 @ 3:01 pm By: John Steed

In the end, there was very little change in Canada. Trudeau's gambit for a majority failed, but he is still in a position to continue to lead a minority government, with almost no change in seats held by the major parties. The new populist party received 5.1%, mostly in Ontario, and split the vote allowing some Liberals to squeak back in. In the west, the Maverick Party got 0.97%, with many of its supporters heeding calls to vote tactically and back the Conservatives.

Commented: Tuesday, September 21st, 2021 @ 1:53 am By: John Steed

In the first UK election poll since Boris Johnson's big tax increase, which broke his election promises, his Conservative Party is now behind Labour for the first time since the Conservatives 2019 landslide victory. That's what happens when a party betrays the principles in ran on. And Reform UK, a party to the Conservatives' right has more than doubled its support. The poll is by YouGov for the London Times.

Commented: Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 @ 3:12 pm By: John Steed

Dr. Fauci is a modern day Dr. Frankenstein. What he has done is criminally reckless and it has killed a lot of people. He needs to be arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and executed.

Commented: Saturday, September 11th, 2021 @ 1:37 pm By: John Steed

Did "woke" joke Mark Milley plan this fiasco based on his reading Marx, Mao, and Lenin, like he told Congress? It is surprising he took away time from tilting at his usual windmills, the pahntom "enemies of climate alarmism and "white supremacy" to bother with Afghanistan. It went down more like he farmed Afghanistan planning out to Milley Cyrus.

Commented: Sunday, September 5th, 2021 @ 12:57 pm By: John Steed

Parents and citizens face two institutional problems getting a school board to move on policy, whether on masking students or on Critical Race Theory. Those are the nature of the career path of school superintendents and the electoral structure of our school board. The advancement path of school superintendents runs to seeking jobs in larger, higher salaried school districts, which is why they tend to change every few years. To protect their resumes for future jobs, they are almost invariably adverse to having anything to do with policies that run contrary to the positions of the education establishment. Being associated with cracking down on Critical Race Theory or going off the mask policy reservation would be two examples of what they would regard as dangerous to advancing their careers. Elected school board members should take the advice of school superintendents or other bureaucrats on that career path with a huge grain of salt. The other is the electoral structure of the Beaufort County School Board, which is in the very worst form for responsiveness and accountability; staggered four year terms. This leaves around half the school board at all times two elections away from facing voters again, where the odds are that whatever they do will be forgotten by the time they run again. They believe, often truthfully, that they can thumb their noses at voters and get away with it. Our county commission has the same problem in its structure. Much better was the electoral structure of the old Washington City School Board before the merger, which consisted of nine members serving two year terms and all elected at the same time. That way if citizens cannot make them see the light, they can make them feel the heat. We cannot do anything to change the career paths of school superintendents, but thanks to the Hardy bill, we can change how our school board is elected.

Commented: Thursday, August 26th, 2021 @ 1:28 pm By: John Steed

Two more resignations are needed. Democrat Joe Biden needs to resign for his digital rape of his staff member Tara Reade. RINO Pat McCrory needs to withdraw from the GOP Senate primary for his sexual harassment of a male ABC News reporter as detailed at First in Freedom Daily: firstinfreedomdaily.com

Commented: Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 @ 8:47 am By: John Steed

There are frightening similarities in the playbooks of the Biden regime and late 1930s Germany. Ruling by executive order instead of legislation is a big one. The threat of gun control is another. Biden wants to follow Hitler's 1938 Reich gun law. The deification of "science" is another major parallel, as is the Biden regime using the Jan. 6 Capitol riot like the Nazis used the Reichstag Fire.

Commented: Sunday, August 8th, 2021 @ 7:18 pm By: John Steed

The YouTUbe suspension of SkyNews Australia was for one week and prohibits new videos being posted. YouTube claims it is for videos that deny the existance of the Wuhan coronavirus, but SkyNews says it has never posted any such videos. Maybe it is time SkyNews opened a channel on the free speech site Rumble. YouTUbe is becoming PravdaTube. www.zerohedge.com This is a "first strike" under YouTube's censorship regime, with second and third strikes bringing sorse repercussions. This is an effort to intimidate them and for something they did not do.

Commented: Monday, August 2nd, 2021 @ 7:55 am By: John Steed