Off the Cuff: Suppressing the Vote

Sep 09, 2024

Hello, subscribers to my weekly Substack essay, which is generally about this odd thing American parents have been doing since around 1970: i.e., parenting. However, as I’ve told you before, I am occasionally caught in the grip of an urge to write about something else, the something else being either theology or politics or maybe even something else, like rock ‘n’ roll, which I played professionally for seven years and have immovable opinions about. If I write about something other than parenting, it will arrive in your in-box as a bonus, a freebie.

Today, which is Monday, the 9^th of September in the year of Our Lord 2024, I am in the grip of an urge to write about Election Aera. Look it up. You may have noticed that in most states, there is no longer Election Day. Instead, there is early voting that begins on various days in various places. Because of early voting, we now have Election Aera.

“We should vote when we get back home to New Bern,” Willie told me today.

“Right. We shall.”

There is no point in us waiting because NOTHING on or within ten billion light years of planet Earth is capable of convincing me or Willie to vote for a Democrat for anything, even street sweeper. I was a Democrat once. I stopped being one in 1992, when it dawned on me, belatedly, that the Dems of 1992 were not the Dems of 1960, which is when I began developing an understanding of the difference between the two parties and, like my parents and grandparents and great-grandparents before me, said to myself, “Self, you are hereby a Democrat.”

Mind you, the Republican Party began slipping off its tracks in 1988, but the Trumpster rode in on his glorious red, white, and blue stallion, MAGA, to the rescue in 2016 or Willie and I would be expats by now. The people on both sides of the aisle who think they have been chosen by God to manage America hate Trump. They hate him because he speaks truth.

Anyway, I’m voting for Trump for the third time this year and I hope you will join me.

During today’s conversation, Willie raised an interesting point: Democrats are vehemently opposed to requiring people to show a valid government-issued ID to vote. Why? Simple. Because requiring a government-issued ID to vote means they, the Dems, will no longer be able to artificially inflate the number of votes cast for Democrat candidates.

Oh, the rascals say, they’re opposed to requiring government IDs to vote because it’s racist, but that’s not the reason. That’s just their favorite drum, which they beat as often and hard as they can. The real reason is because requiring government IDs to vote will mean that dead people won’t vote, a whole lotta people who are in this country illegally won’t vote, fictional characters from Jane Austen novels won’t vote, minors won’t vote, most felons won’t vote, and people who don’t have the mental competency to know who they’re voting for won’t vote…and fewer Democratic candidates will be elected to public office.

Four years ago, a few months prior to Election Aera, 2020, I overheard a Democrat talking on the phone to someone. He expressed great concern that the Republican Party was going to try to “suppress” the vote. The word “suppress” is a Democrat euphemism for preventing black people from voting. You’ve surely heard that Republicans don’t want black people to vote. Ha, ha, ha and a Great Big LOL. In 2016 and 2020, a greater percentage of black voters cast their votes for the Republican candidate for POTUS than, I think, ever. Democrats are losing their voodoo over black and Latino voters. Blacks and Latinos are waking up to the scam and coming over to the Party that has always represented their best interests.

Republicans don’t monkey with the vote. Democrats have been monkeying with the vote since Reconstruction. Literacy tests were invented by the Democrat Party. The Ku Klux Klan was an arm of the Democrat Party. In the last two presidential elections, the Democrat Party was responsible for certain voters in certain Northeastern states being prevented from voting by members of the Black Panther Party. The reason Richard Nixon was illegally denied the presidency in 1960 was because the Democrat mayor of Chicago monkeyed with the vote in Cook County. After being elected, John F. Kennedy incurred the wrath of the Democrat Party bosses because he would not carry out their orders. You may recall what happened to him, and you may recall that he was succeeded by a long-time Democrat Party Big Boss.

Anyway, don’t believe what you hear from the talking heads on the Left. As Jesus said of the serpent (aka, Satan), lying is their stock-in-trade. They’ve been lying for so long now, they don’t even know when they’re lying.

When you go to your local neighborhood polling place during this Election Aera, remember one thing: If Kamala Harris is elected POTUS, the four happiest people on the planet will be Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Ali Khamenei.

Also remember that even Bill Maher is coming to his senses, finally. That may qualify as a miracle.

Remember those things and mark your ballot appropriately.

And now, back to parenting. What an odd word, that.