No, this is NOT a PSA about infant safety and child-proofing one’s home.
As many of you know, I grew up in the Garden State and many of my family still live there. You may also note that New Jersey (along with Virginia) are the only two states to hold gubernatorial elections in the year following a presidential election, that is, this year.
Four years ago, a man named Jack Ciattarelli essentially won the election. I say, “essentially” because the results were straight out of the 2020 playbook. On election night, it looked like the incumbent jackass Phil Murphy (who’s smile resembles that of the Cheshire cat if he had swallowed a fistful of percocets) was heading to defeat. And then? You know what happened. From Tuesday night until Friday afternoon – magically – just the right amount of ballots were discovered in various shoeboxes and mailboxes to put Murphy over the top. Jack rolled over like a dog on a hot Texas patio and that was that.
Now Jack wants to be governor again. His opponent is a loathsome creature named Mikey Sherrill. She’s about as far left and crazy as they come. Even the Jersey electorate doesn’t seem to be able to stomach her. Jack might just eke out a victory this time. Hell, he might even do it in such a way as to thwart the “found ballots” syndrome of the past.
The big issue at stake this year?
Plastic bags.
I’m not joking.
Governor Murphy in his vaunted wisdom outlawed plastic grocery bags a few years ago and the good folks of the 21 counties of New Jersey have become iridescent with rage over having to bring their own shopping bags to the supermarket. They want their bags back.
I don’t blame them. It’s an egregious over-reach of executive power. It serves no purpose other than to virtue signal about supposed environmental concerns that are not real. It’s hypocritical considering that Murphy has simultaneously destroyed what’s left of the Jersey shore by erecting enormous “windmills” off the coast that do nothing other than kill birds and apparently whales. And it’s a major inconvenience.
Catch that? It’s an inconvenience.
The voters are outraged because they are inconvenienced.
Do they care that Jack is as pro-baby killing as anyone else running for office? Nope. Take a look at his position directly from his campaign website:
“Jack is the proud father of four children and being a dad is the greatest thing that has ever happened to him. He also understands that any decision to terminate a pregnancy is deeply personal. As governor, he won’t pretend to know what is inside a woman’s heart or head. He believes that with certain reasonable exceptions/restrictions agreed upon by the vast majority of Americans, this decision should be between a woman, her partner, her faith, and her healthcare professionals.”
Translation: I want to be governor so I’m not touching this one with a ten-foot pole.
Jack’s going to give them back their plastic bags! That’s an issue we can all get behind! All will be right with the world.
You have to know at this point that Barnhardt axiom #2 holds true now more than ever.
“The culture has degraded such that seeking and/or holding office, especially national-level office, is, in and of itself, proof that a given person is psychologically and morally unfit to hold public office.”
They are all narcissists. You’re not voting your way out of anything. Saying that he’s at least “better” than her is a falsehood. For many of these people, abortion is the “convenience” they’d rather keep than the inconvenience of having to remember to bring bags to the Shop-Rite. And for all the hand-wringing, it will likely not go their way anyway. See 2021, 2020, etc. If he wins and you get your bags, you’re still being taxed to death. But hey, you’ve got those bags.
How long will this go on? I’ve reached a point where I am certain that only divine intervention can end this. When the men of this generation are more concerned with a plastic shopping bag than ending the slaughter of the innocent, there’s not much to do but let God sort it out.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us!
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