Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

Sounds like a criminal conspiracy within the Biden regime to thwart our immigration laws. It looks like there is a need for a special prosecutor and for these Biden crooks to go to jail. This is a much more serious attack on America than anything the fake Jan. 6 committee is investigating.

Commented: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 6:56 pm By: John Steed

Yesterday, the far left Attorney General of Michigan called for "a drag queen in every school" saying "drag queens make everything better". AG Dana Nessell is an admitted lesbian.
www.foxnews.com
That is today's Democrat Party.

Commented: Friday, June 17th, 2022 @ 11:36 am By: John Steed

In reading the article, every case of monkey pox but one involved men who had sex with other men. The one not in that category was someone who would not say who he had sex with. In other words, not a single case of documented heterosexual transmission.

I also read whether the WHO said it was going to rename monkey pox because the name, which has been used for years, is racist and demeaning. Might I suggest calling it "diversity pox" or "LGBTQ pox"??

Commented: Wednesday, June 15th, 2022 @ 8:45 pm By: John Steed

So is the "Patriot Front" really an FBI front like those fake white supremists in Virginia with the tike torches turned out to be staged by a far left group?

Commented: Monday, June 13th, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By: John Steed

A "bio lab" can be good or bad. Is it there to defend against either naturally occurring disease outbreaks of foreign bio-warfare, or is it there to develop offensive bio-warfare? Is it conducting gain of function research, which is dangerous in any event, and could likely be bio-warfare related. The Wuhan bio-lab was dangerous simply because it was doing that dangerous, and probably military-related gain of function research. Anthony Fauci has been pushing this dangerous research and if he is involved in any bio-lab, that is a huge red flag. This article is a nothing-burger without further info on what these particular bio-labs were up to. When a country is next door to a hostile brutal dictatorship like Russia which is known to have biological warfare agents, maybe it is just good sense to be prepared to defend against such things.

Commented: Monday, June 13th, 2022 @ 8:06 am By: John Steed

There was no animosity between Beaufort County native Republicans and those who moved in from elsewhere until the 2019 county convention. At that time, a group of transplants led by Ron Buzzeo from Cypress Landing engineered a coup to exclude most native Republicans from positions within the party. They put out the much-maligned "yellow sheet" which told their supporters to only vote for their approved candidates. Since there was consensus on the uncontested race for county chairman, no one else organized so they largely bowled over everyone else. Three former county GOP chairman, who were natives, were not even on their list.

That is where the animosity between transplants and natives within the party comes from. It did not exist prior to that convention. The current Beaufort GOP first vice chairman, Paul Varcoe, was one of Buzzeo's lieutenants in that coup. Carolyn Garris is doing her best to reunify the party, but it will take time to heal all the wounds. Republicans on both sides need to back her in that effort.

Hood Richardson has been a target of the Buzzeo crowd, but while Richardson has worked to replace liberal GOP elected officials, I do not recall him ever trying to exclude people from participation in the party organization. That is a big different.

Commented: Saturday, June 11th, 2022 @ 10:30 am By: John Steed

With the idiots Biden has running our military, we cannot trust them on anything. I look to the British press which is focusing more on the details of the war, and to British military analysis than anything coming out of Biden's corrupt and politicized DOD.

One good objective source is one of the writers at Red State who is a former military officer and here is his latest on the situation in Putin's invasion of Ukraine:
redstate.com

That Russia has failed at most of its campaigns in Ukraine is blatantly obvious. How their latest attack in the Donbas will play out is still up in the air, but there are certainly many positive signs for Ukraine.

Commented: Sunday, June 5th, 2022 @ 10:12 am By: John Steed

Cooper is in a bit of a box. If he lets this become law, his liberal buddies will hate him, but if he vetoes it, and the GOP goes for an override, Democrat legislators will be caught between loyalty to the governor or voting in a way that they will not cost them their seat in November.

Commented: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 @ 5:04 pm By: John Steed

The Board of Elections conducted its canvas of precinct returns today, rechecking all the numbers to make sure they were reported and added up correctly on election night. The canvas confirmed the numbers in the county commission race that Tandy Dunn beat Dawn Slade by 5 votes. The recount of the commissioner primary on the Republican side will be 3:00 PM Tuesday and the result will be certified at 5:00 PM Tuesday.

Commented: Friday, May 27th, 2022 @ 4:32 pm By: John Steed

Great analysis. The north's war crimes in the War Between the States against Southern civilians, in clear violation of both the existing Common Law of War and of the Geneva Convention of 1863, were not a lot different that Russian behavior in Ukraine. Sherman and Sheridan, in particular should have been indicted as war criminals, and Lincoln condoned their actions.

Commented: Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 @ 7:58 am By: John Steed

Conservtives did well most places. Budd clobbered McCrory. Sandy Smith beat back Kevin McCarthy's half million dollars in the 1st Congressional district primary. Both school board RINO's were defeated by anti-CRT conservatives. Pending a likely recount, it looks like two conservatives and a RINO will go to November for the GOP for county commission. Norm Sanderson beat the wind and solar grifters favorite fixer, Bob Steinberg for 1st district state senate.

Commented: Wednesday, May 18th, 2022 @ 6:57 pm By: John Steed

NC's largest and most active gun rights organization, Grassroots North Carolina has strongly recommended Ted Budd for US Senate and Keith Kidwell for NC House. Only a handful of their recommendations are "strongly" recommended but these two are. GRNC notes that both Budd and Kidwell have been very active in pushing gun rights legislation, and that Budd's major opponent, Pat McCrory, vetoed a key gun rights bill when he was governor.

On the US Congress race, GRNC made no endorsement. They noted that Greg Murphy had voted the wrong way on a couple of key gun rights votes, but that Cowden had not returned his survey.

GRNC recommended Norm Sanderson in the 1st Senate District and Tony Moore in the Pitt County state House disctrict.

Commented: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 3:00 pm By: John Steed

That smoke is highly toxic from burning lithium. Breathing it can cause severe injury and even death. Lithium batteries do the same thing in electric cars. That is why GM recalled every Chevy Bolt it has ever built and warned anyone who kept the cars not to park them within 50 feet of a building or another car. Every injury from a Chevy Bolt fire has been from people breathing the smoke. Tesla has had the same problem, with one of their cars spontaneously combusting parked outside a home in Pennsylvania a few months ago, causing both car and house to be total losses.

Commented: Sunday, May 8th, 2022 @ 11:55 am By: John Steed

Still spouting that Buzzeo / Varcoe / Langley / Waters drivel, are you Cratch? To be in control requires a majority on a body like a county commission. The guy you call "Emporer" has never had a majority on the commission. At best, he is leader of the opposition. Who does have the power? The man behind the throne, leftie Jerry Langley. If there is an Emporer, he is only a puppet, and the current puppet would be Frankie Waters. That is the group with the majority and the power. The goal this election should be to eliminate Langley's role as the power broker.

What is important is policy, NOT personality. Jerry Langley is the AOC of Beaufort County, although he does not shout his ideology like she does. Here is some research for you; go read the online questionaires Langley answered in his House race. Hopefully they are still online. He is much farther to the left than he postures on the commission. There is not a lot of policy daylight between him and AOC. And this is Frankie Waters' boss, and the one that Slann would cross party lines to support.

You have said you think taxes and spending are not important and that illegal immigration is just a "distraction" but to real conservatives those are key issues.

You also do not seem to understand the concept of the Uniparty, which is made up of establishment Republicans and liberal Democrats who collude with each other, the mushy middle. Strong conservative Republicans, and for that matter left wing Democrats generally stand for principle of one sort or another, and are not Uniparty. Langley's incestuous relationships with weak and vain "Republicans" is the very definition of Uniparty. Frankie Waters is part of that and Dawn Slann wants to be.

You spout the Langleyite excuses for bloat in our county government.

The conservative Democrat used to have quite a population in NC politics but they are now an extinct critter. The best Democrat politicians one finds today are the opportunists who occasionally might vote the right way. On the Beaufort County Commission, the Democrats we have are a pair of progressives, Langley and Booth.

Face it, Cratch, in Beaufort County politics you are backing the progressives and the fellow travelers of the progressives. You also advocate a Uniparty arrangement to run our county government that is anti-cpnservative. There was a time, long ago that there were conservative Democrats on our county commission, but that time is long past.

Leadership on our county commission should be organized around principle - conservative principle - NOT power, ego, and ambition, as it has been under the Langley cabal.

Commented: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 4:13 pm By: John Steed

WEF leader Klaus Schwab is the 21st century incarnation of Hitler and Stalin combined, and his book on the "Great Reset" is this century's Mein Kampf. Klaus is one of the most dangerous totalitarians in the world. Glenn Beck has written a great book exposing him and the totalitarian "Great Reset" one of whose slogans is "you will own nothing and you will be happy". Another Schwab slogan is "Build Back Better" which has been copied by globalist politicians in the US, UK, and Canada. Globalism is the enemy of freedom and we must all fight it if we are to preserve liberty. Climate alarmism is an intergral part of globalism, we must stand against that as well.

Commented: Friday, May 6th, 2022 @ 7:50 pm By: John Steed

Bottom line is that the Democrats on the NC Supreme Court are politically corrupt and abused power for partisan purposes. Using these highly partisan "assistance special masters" is how they gerrymandered our state. When we get an honest state Supreme Court, the legislature needs to do a new and honest map.

Commented: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 11:18 am By: John Steed

Mr. Cratch does not seem able to show ANY specific policy positions advocated by Mrs. Slann in her campaign that support his contention that she is a "conservative". What she has been is a stealth candidate who is extremely evasive on issues. Her one major point about being "non-partisan" just screams Uniparty. I have challenged him to do that and he comes up with crickets.

His "patrioto" term continues to just seem weird. I did a search on "patrioto" and "Trump" and in scanning the first ten pages found nothing on that term. Every search result used the term "patriot" NOT "patrioto". Then I tried the term "patrioto" by itself and after scolling through a number of pagges found a page on Patreon which was a weird mixture of Spanish and English and referred to "la familia Patrioto" and "il Donaldo Trumpo" So the term does seem to be Spanish, but why would someone in an English speaking country be using a Spanish term? When the person using it also calls the illegal immigration issue a "distraction" one wonders. In that search, the other results also actually use the term "patriot" not "patrioto".

Mr. Cratch also uses the phrase "making Beaufort County great again". I know the agenda for making America great again, and totally support it, but clearly the use of that term for Beaufort County is something entirely different. Perhaps Mr. Cratch would care to explain what he means. Does it refer to the Langley agenda of taxing and spending?

Mr. Cratch contends that there must be some conspiracy of Republicans behind a Democrat candidate, but that is clearly all based on conjecture due to "it happened somewhere else" but does not even back up where the "somewhere else" is.

Commented: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 7:14 am By: John Steed