Posted on 11/06/2022 8:50:43 AM PST by billorites
There is only one question to consider as you prepare to vote on Tuesday:
“Are you better off or worse off than you were two years ago?”
That’s what most Republican candidates have been asking in their last debates this week, or in their final ad buys and stump speeches. It’s just a slight variation on Ronald Reagan’s famous question during the 1980 presidential campaign against Jimmy Carter, who, by the way, is no longer the worst president in American history.
Other than the number of years in the question, the big difference between now and 1980 is that when Reagan posed his query, it had taken a decade of disasters, both foreign and domestic, from both parties, to get the U.S. into such a perilous state.
This time, the entire catastrophe has occurred in less than two years, and it’s been created entirely, 100%, by the Democrat party of Dementia Joe Biden.
In this real-life horror movie, we’ve had no Six-Day War, no mullahs in Iran, no oil cutoffs by OPEC, no idiotic decisions by GOP presidents like wage-price controls or Whip Inflation Now. MONETARY MISTAKES
This present ongoing calamity is all on one party — the Democrats.
In some places, like New York, Democrat crime may be a bigger issue than Democrat inflation. But here in New England, it’s not just Democrat inflation, it’s the likely Democrat fuel shortages, and skyrocketing prices for what little may be available as winter nears.
In parts of New England, there’s already talk of rationing home-heating oil this winter. Rationing!
Paul LePage, the GOP candidate for governor of Maine, told me Friday night that in parts of Aroostook County kerosene availability is already spotty. When you can buy it, it can run as high as $7 a gallon.
Seven bucks for kerosene. That’s what people who live in trailers use for heat. These are the people Biden’s insane green-energy policies are going to freeze this winter.
And. Democrats. Don’t. Care.
If only some of their beloved illegal aliens lived in trailers, then Democrats might be worried. But Americans freezing? You think the Squad is worried about citizens who actually… work?
“I checked home-heating oil prices in Vermont,” says Gerald Malloy, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in the Green Mountain state. “In December 2020, less than two years ago, it was $2.04. Now it’s $6, and dealers are telling me once the election’s over, it could go up as high as $9 a gallon.”
As dark a cloud as all this is for the Northeast, there’s a silver lining in it for the GOP — except in Massachusetts, where the Republican candidate for governor has barely even bothered to mount a campaign.
You know, when you think about it, the Massachusetts GOP picked a really bad year to commit political suicide. But we’ll leave that autopsy for later.
Before in-person voting begins Tuesday, let’s check in with some of my listeners and texters to see how they’re doing in Brandon’s Brave New World:
From 978 area code: “I got a $2 raise at work. It ends up 53 out of 80 & because of Brandon I have to reduce the amount I put in my 401(k) because me & the wife only make about 120 grand a year & we can barely afford our 1000-square-foot home.”
From 508: “I called to fill up my oil tank. They told me it was $5.69 a gallon but they couldn’t get out for a couple of days. By the time the truck arrived, it was up to $5.90 a gallon.” MONETARY MISTAKES
From 617: “Sunflower seeds. 50 lbs. went from $26.99 to $32.99. Bought this week, still $32.99 but bag is reduced from 50 to 40 lbs.”
Derek: “Shaw Market in Dedham — $10.79 for Oscar Meyer bacon. Used to be $6.79.”
From 508: “My water bill in Bridgewater just jumped $25. They increased the rate to cover insurance costs & give raises to the plumbers to keep them.”
From 407: “Senior breakfast at my local Mom & Pop was $6.59, now $7.69, plus 40 cent ‘upcharge’ until prices ‘stabilize.’”
Barbara: “I bought tires two years ago for $225 apiece. Now they’re $375.”
From 860: “Friendly’s Ice Cream has gone crazy. It used to be you could get 2 cartons (1.5 quarts) for $4 on sale. Now the same carton is $7 for 2!”
From 917: “I’m going to use Biden’s student-loan bailout to buy eggs.”
From 781: “Our local breakfast place has had to raise price a couple of times since Brandon took over AND they now tack on 3 ½% for credit card payments.”
From 401: “Steak at BJ’s last week $15.99. Same steak today $18.99. Thanks Brandon.”
From 508: “It’s been awhile but went to my favorite seafood market that also cooks hot food to go. Ordered some fried clams w/fries. $34!!! And it’s a takeout place.”
From 774: “Automatic transmission fluid was $4-$5 a quart 2 years ago. Now the same stuff is $10-14. I needed 3 qts. So I bought O’Reilly’s house brand for $7.49 qt.”
Justin from Arlington: “Our electric bill at Boyle’s Bodyworks is up $700.”
From 339: “My MA tax rebate check is going straight to Market Basket.”
Nancy: “I buy mini-Whoopee pies as Christmas gifts for our customers. For years it’s been $50 for 15. This year it’s $75 for 15. But what am I gonna do?”
Matt in Oklahoma: “Paint’s up 10 percent.”
Rambo: “I buy Walmart ripple chips. The party size has gone up from $2.37 to $3.12.”
Wayne: “I was paying 12.9 cents per Kilowatt hr. for 2 years. They raised the price but gave me a grace period for 2 months at 10.9 cents. But then it goes up to 26.9 cents!”
From 978: “I have electric heat and I’m worried about black/brownouts. Trying to buy a generator. On edge.”
If it makes you feel any better, so are the Democrats. Except here in Massachusetts, of course.
Get out and vote like there’s no tomorrow, because if you don’t, there may not be one. At least not one that you recognize.
Don’t forget that OBAMA is the mechanism behind Dementia Joe, his administration and policies, and the radicalization of the Dems and the Left
The people on the blue team in my part of the world will never believe that.
And Carr largely ignores how GOOD everyone was having it, under Trump. Even hog-tied and continuously impeached and investigated, Trump had America EXPORTING energy. Record low black unemployment.
Not a bad place to start from. As bad as things are, they could have been so much worse.
There’s FAR MORE than just that one Question, Howie
Self interest isn’t the only reason to vote conservative
Howie is a great guy and this is a great article, but the lying libs want all these things. They look at all the thing mentioned as being good.
Price of gas high, use less, gas is bad for the planet.
Price of bacon high, use less, bacon is bad for the planet.
Price of heating supplies high, use less, heating supplies are bad for the planet.
Clearly this goes on and on.
WHAT LIES AHEAD (WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE):
leftism is now baked into much of the government ruling America.
THE CANCER CALLED BARACK OBAMA MOVED STEALTHILY AMONG US;
still Obama’s eight years in office had done its damage
<><>politicization and weaponization of federal agencies,
<><>victimization becoming a virtue,
<><>government intruding into Americans’ health decisions
<><>massive damage by his Justice Department,
<><>coerced cities into “consent decrees” that neutered police forces
<><> fully engaged feds in the cult of progressivism
<><>white supremacy invented,
<><>environmental extremism,LBGTQXYZ fanaticism, open borders lockstep,
<><>govt workers seeking to derail Trump the duly elected president,
This treachery culminated in November 2020 when the government colluded with the media and social media to execute a coup against the sitting president under the guise of “The most secure election in American history”.
And it is that coup with which Barack Obama achieved his greatest success in “transforming” the United States because it inflicted Joe Biden on us to give Obama a third term.
(americanthinker.com)
And obomination is owned by Gyorgy Soros.
And created by the GOP that let democrats run wild in the first two years of the Trump presidency when we had the house AND senate, let the impeachment go pretty much from September to January when they could have ended in a day, refused to fund the wall, refused to repeal Obamacare, supported the lockdowns across the nation, stood with BLM, and supported a blatant election theft.
Republicans are to blame too. Maybe even more. After we win tuesday, we need to remove McCarthy and McConnell and then start the long march through school boards, city councils and state houses.
People can say: "Look - even a total moron with no ethics or morals whatsoever
can become president of the US! Is this a great country, or what?
Figures......Biden clan will eat caviar and drink champagne......we’ll starve.
True!
Inflation up 486% under O’Biden.
That IS the commie way - commie party members eat well while citizens starve. I'll bet 'elite' democrats have baby formula...
Are you INSANE? Are you CRAZY?
"The most popular President in American history," President Joe Biden, who "won more than 81 Million Votes(!)" in "the fairest and most secure election ever," recently stated in his 60 Minutes interview that inflation "is just up an inch." So I have no idea why all Americans are whining & griping about inflation, when according to the esteemed, widely-respected President Joe Biden, inflation is barely up "an inch." CBS/60 Minutes interview Scott Pelley then responded to President Biden that inflation under President Biden is up to a 40-year high, what about that? President Biden responded that current inflation is "barely, basically even." Well, I don't know about anyone else, but President Biden sounds like a brilliant, world-class, Nobel Prize-level economist to me -- he even uses highly technical words such as "barely, basically even." So although literally everyone (but one person in the world) says U.S. inflation stubbornly remains very high at 8.2%, the economics expert President Biden says it's "barely, basically even." And "basically even" inflation sure sounds a lot better than "inflation at a 40-year high." So I tend to agree with President Biden on inflation (as opposed to the other 7 Billion people on the planet who all agree inflation's obviously been very high for at least a year and counting ...).
In addition, millions of illegal immigrants are constantly streaming across President Biden's open borders and into the U.S. That must be good because it means Biden's U.S. is a place people want to go to because Biden's U.S. will give them all the free government handouts and benefits they want.
Also, the rapidly escalating violent crime wave throughout the U.S. (and especially in all inner-city urban areas) according to President Biden shows that he's doing a good job because maybe that's only "up an inch" as well. ("Up an inch" is a new saying that President Biden loves to use over and over again.)
So in conclusion, President Biden is taking credit for anything good that might be happening today (which isn't much). And for all the bad things that have been happening for the past two years under President Biden, he says all those bad things are just "up an inch" or "barely, basically even."
/s
Then expect a second Civil War, if not an all-out guerrilla war which this country has never had and has no ability to fight (too many places to hide)
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The same Speaker of the House, never-Trumper Paul Ryan who screwed Trump and our nation, is working behind the scenes to promote a Ron DeSantis 2024 candidacy.
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