Well, the shenanigans surrounding the midterms are underway as expected. Payosa Loco won’t let any opportunity go by to sow mistrust, lies and alleged criminal behavior of both citizens and noncitizens alike as we near election time.

Fake news outlets like Newsmax, One America News and the Epoch Times are salivating as the very trustworthy and upstanding Justice Department of ours has said they have the goods on Rep. Ilhan Omar. She is declared a criminal and deportation is at hand.

Yep, she is a firebrand who came to this country at 8 years old after her family fled war-torn Somalia. How many of us have lived in a refugee camp in Kenya for four years before being granted asylum and moving to the States?

So much for innocence before guilt, trumpeted across the airwaves and internet.

And regarding the 28 permanent residents, but not citizens, handcuffed and hauled away this week for alleged illegal voting in California, I have to mention that there are 23,092,098 registered voters in the state.

Theatrical, yes, but at this point a numerical microscopic particle. Great theater for the gullible in the weeks before the election.

In the last election cycle in Minnesota, 12 people were charged for election monkey business out of a total of 3,793,362 registered voters. Another microscopic particle. Not exactly rampant fraud like the right wingers claim. But no matter, hammer away and the gullible fall in step.

Locally, the New Conservative Neanderthal Party (NCNP) candidates, formerly the republicans, tout they won’t be swayed by “metro politicians and party bosses.”

The NRA also features prominently as an anchor of the Second Amendment for many candidates, to show they won’t allow anyone to tell them they can’t own military style weapons to shoot at trees or other people.

And don’t forget to promote “family values” and “protecting our way of life,” whatever that might be.
I remember the NRA being a somewhat benevolent group promoting hunting and firearm safety and education, not the angry political rhetoric it thrives on today.

A local NCNP candidate said she will fight fraud and runaway spending “that makes our life more expensive through higher costs and fees.”

You don’t have to tell an old journalist like me that Payosa Loco and his fraud, grift and profiteering, tariffs and Iran war are making our lives more expensive, no siree!

Thanks for mentioning that in your ads and flyers. We have to hold that guy and his minions in check.
Other candidates tout how much money they’ve brought to their districts for needed improvements. That sounds a lot like socialism, not your usual conservative doublespeak. Thanks for mentioning that in your ads and flyers.

Our tax dollars were brought home and shared like they should be.

Almost all NCNP candidates are trumpeting their ambitions to stop fraud and lower taxes. That’s great. Stop Payosa Loco and his ill-conceived tariffs, wild spending on wars and a triumphal arch. Any mention of his plan to give out $5,000 to all citizens if the NCNP wins the elections?

Sounds like election tampering if you ask me.

Do any NCNP candidates have plans to deal with healthcare, education and the environment?
What about childcare and climate change, data centers, vaccines, sustainable agriculture?
What is your stance on immigration and ICE?

Sorry, you can’t hide behind “we are local and that is a national concern” when two Minnesotans were killed and thousands of innocents arrested in our local communities in the past year.
If you don’t speak up you are complicit. 

Whatever you do don’t say anything to upset the MAGA base or you could be a turncoat and lose their vote. It’s a simple formula. That’s why silence on real issues is so important. That’s why the very repetitious “stop fraud and lower taxes” is such a safe and reliable mantra.

That’s why you NCNP candidates are complicit in the Payosa Loco regime. You keep your mouths shut just like Payosa Loco wants.

Unless you actually believe in his ways I guess.