Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

Bad or no messaging from the McLeadership - McConnell, McCarthy, and McDaniel - are what is to blame for the election result. They should NOT be rewarded with keeping their offices, but two of them already have been. The only messaging from McConnell was to trash our Senate ticket, which was harmful. His legislative surrenders to Biden were also a hard hurdle for candidates to overcome. McConnell spent millions trashing coknservative Republican candidates in primaries and even the general election, but pulled GOP PAC money out of competitive races and even had $40 million left unspent in his PAC at the end of the campaign. McConnell did not want to be Majority Leader, he wanted to stay minority leader. Some years ago, McConnell vowed to "crush them [conservatives] everywhere" and that is exactly the way he played this campaign, to crush conservatives, NOT Democrats.

Oh, and Trump still has a decent approval rating with voters, not the miserable 7% approval rating of McConnell.

Commented: Thursday, November 17th, 2022 @ 4:16 pm By: John Steed

Doesn't the term "Threat Reduction" tell you anything? This would appear to be setting up defenses against a possible Antrax attack, which Russia is certainly capable of, not experimenting with Antrax. The dangerous "gain of function" research money is going to Red China.

Commented: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 9:43 am By: John Steed

This is one time I have to disagree with Mark Levin. The issues were there for a substantial Republican gain, even if the number of opportunities in the Senate were somewhat limited. We had leadership in Washington and Raleigh that were incompetent (or worse) in the extreme, the worst offender being Mitch McConnell. McConnell and to a lesser degree McCarthy (and also Berger and Moore at the state level) failed to raise the issues and make the sharp distincitions they needed to. McConnell and McCarthy spent contributor money trashing conservatives in primaries. Sandy Smith was an example locally, as McCarthy spent half a million on particularly brutal personal attacks in the primary and four million overall against her. Imagine if that money had been deployed against liberal Democrat Don Davis instead? McConnell spent millions savaging General Don Bolduc in the New Hampshire primary and then refused to spend anything to help him in a close race in November. Our rotten leadership in Raleigh and Washington simply HAS to go.

Commented: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 8:50 am By: John Steed

As usual, leftie loon Tom Campbell presents the "woke" side of events. He parrots the left's talking points about Jan. 6 and the attack on Pelosi's husband (which was by an illegal alien who was a nudist activist and BLM supporter). We had a shooting into the home of a Republican congressional candidate in our own state, narrowly missing the candidate's two young daughters, but woke Campbell ignores this in his spiel.

The real threat of totalitarianism is by Campbell's own side which is at war with democratic rights like the freedom of speech. They support government power grabs on a wide range of issues. He wants to quote far left Eleanor Roosevelt on the rise of Hitler, but she ignores how Hitler concentrated power in himself, which was by ruling by decree, which is exactly what Biden is doing with his executive orders.

Commented: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 9:29 am By: John Steed

The propaganda media (self styled MSM) is deliberately giving the GOP a bad name, but if one looks at the polling the last few years, much of the public is now wise to it. Indeed, a recent poll showed that a majority of Americans consider the MSM to be one of the major threats to democracy in the country. A very substantial majority recognize that they are biased and dishonest.

Commented: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 @ 8:03 am By: John Steed

The Democrats under Biden are creating an authoritarian state just the way Hitler did by ruling by decree (executive order).

Commented: Thursday, October 27th, 2022 @ 6:04 pm By: John Steed

"Fact checkers"???? They are Democrat spin machines. They would not recognize a fact if one jumped up and bit them. Many like Politifact and Snopes are funded by Soros and others like Lead Stories by the Chinese. They check adherence to the narrative, not facts.

Commented: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 8:36 pm By: John Steed

Are these Big Pharma hacks trying to kill kids? Sweden just took action to NOT recommend the mRNA Covid vaccines for males under 40 because the dangers outweighed the benefits. ALL of the US approved Covid vaccines for children are mRNA.

Commented: Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 @ 1:50 pm By: John Steed

We have a Joint Chiefs Chairman who brags about reading Marx, Lenin, and Mao but not Jefferson, Franklin, or Hamilton. No wonder he is imposing Marxist concepts in our military. The leftist concept of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" IS "Woke" and with a capital W.

Commented: Saturday, October 15th, 2022 @ 9:02 am By: John Steed

Makes sense in one way. A "transgender woman" is not a woman at all, just a man with psychological problems. But do we really want such nutjob freaks in our military?

Commented: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 8:29 am By: John Steed

There are lots of theories on this. Russia says it was a truck bomb. Others say a wave was noticed in the water under the bridge just before the explosion and Ukraine is known to have built small drone submarines. A British general who is an expert in logistics of moving ammunition says he suspects the Russians just got sloppy with an ammunition shipment, The Daily Express of London reported his analysis: www.express.co.uk

Commented: Sunday, October 9th, 2022 @ 5:30 pm By: John Steed

Electric vehicles make us dependent on China because that is where most of the lithium for the batteries comes from, and 6 of the 10 largest makers of EV batteries are in Red China, and 3 others in South Korea using Chinese lithium.

Commented: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 9:41 am By: John Steed

This fake news is a political smear concocted by Pat McCrory's campaign consultant, Paul Shumaker. Shumaker is also the consultant for Tillis and Burr. It is a lie. Soros at one time bought stock and then sold it in a big national company that Ted Budd's FATHER was on the board of. Trying to say that is a connection between Ted Budd and Soros is just nonsense, but it is what you get our of RINO scumbags like Paul Shumaker.

BCNOW should have never posted this outright LIE from McCrory and Shumaker.

The irony of ironies is that Shumaker is the one with an actual political connection to Soros. Shumaker has in the last few years received many thousands of dollars from a Soros funded far left environmentalist pressure group to push the Green New Deal in the North Carolina General Assembly. Shumaker is a leftwing RINO scumbag who has a long history of lying about opponents and of doing the left's dirty work while claiming to be a Republican.

Commented: Saturday, October 1st, 2022 @ 7:56 am By: John Steed

Has the town of Chocowinity turned this major embezzlement over to the sheriff's department or the district attorney? If not, why not? Are they trying to do a cover up? Regardless of that, the district attorney and the sheriff would clearly have heard of the embezzlement. Have they initiated any investigation? If not, why not? Has anyone forwarded this embezzlement info to the State Auditor or State Treasurer? They should be investigating it. And our county commission is a joke. They refuse to take any action to try to recover the county taxpayers money involved or punish those who stole it. They want to help cover up for the perp while throwing the county taxpayers, whose money was stolen under the bus. Just because the perp is the daughter of a longtime RINO county commissioner, why should they try to cover up for her? Jerry Langley, Frankie Waters, and Ed Booth are a disgrace. They are covering for a crony instead of looking out for the taxpayers money.

Commented: Monday, September 26th, 2022 @ 10:07 pm By: John Steed

Traitor Thom Tillis voted for Biden's big spending fake "infrastructure" bill that has helped fuel inflation. When the RINOs let Biden do that as an ordinary bill instead of their one shot at a "reconciliation" bill, they opened the door for the monster "Inflation Reduction Act" that actually increases inflation, while squeezing the middle class with 87,000 new IRS auditors and wasting billions on expensive and unreliable wind and solar energy. If Tillis and other RINOs like Mitch McConnell had not provided Biden the 60 votes for the fake "infrastructure" bill, they would have had to use their one "reconciliation" slot for that and it would not have been available for the horrible bill they used it for. Tillis is a despicable Biden Republican who needs to be bounced out of office at the next opportunity. He is a drag on the GOP ticket in North Carolina.

Commented: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 12:00 pm By: John Steed

This fake "infrastructure" bill set up the climate / IRS bill just passed. It was a big spending nightmare. RINO Thom Tillis is one of those who has made inflation worse. Tillis is totally unacceptable as a candidate for any office in the future. Tillis is a despicable patsy of Joe Biden.

Commented: Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 @ 7:52 pm By: John Steed

This is hardly an isolated incident. President Trump has spoken about the bird slaughter by wind turbines. Also see www.savetheeaglesinternational.org

Commented: Monday, September 19th, 2022 @ 10:20 am By: John Steed