Random thoughts column. Try to keep up.
The old people that told young me that life does not slow down were right. This thing is going warp speed at this point. I apologize to those old geezers that I didn’t believe. Young me was a skeptical person.
The Chiefs are good at footballing. If Andy Reid ever retires, the Chiefs fan base will be in for a rude awakening for how football looks in most cities and how it used to be around here.
If you’re foolish enough like me to keep following politics, Josh Hawley is not going to lose his senate race with Lucas Kunce. There are people that think this will be a race, but Hawley is going to run away with this. Kunce is a Democrat who is desperately trying to appear to be a Republican in terms of policy, won’t have any luck in climbing the red wall of Missouri. Missouri ain’t buying that.
The true fight of the upcoming national election was/is happening in the courtrooms of swing states this summer and now. Conservatives are fighting to remove non eligible voters from the voting rolls and liberals are fighting to get as many left leaning voters eligible with the least possible documentation possible. Hundreds of thousands of voters are being purged and added by their efforts and it will likely be the historian’s take on this election. Long after it matters.
The City of Kansas City rolled out a grant program for small businesses that are the victim of break-ins. These grants, primarily in the $3-5K range, are the city response to a rash of break-ins. This is the new America policy solution in action. First of all, if you are in business, you should expect insurance to protect your financial investment, not government grants.
But most of all, you should expect your government to do its actual job, which is enforce the law, not throw you a stipend for tolerating this nonsense. Instead of paying to clean up the problem, Kansas City needs to pay to fix the problem. Prosecute some looters and break-ins like they’re J-6ers. Are you telling me we can’t put these people on blast and find them? I don’t believe that.
The fact of the matter is that this is the new world in which we live. Clean up policy is easier than fix it policy and you can expect this on every level of government.
My favorite thing in the current season of politics is to watch complete gaslighting advertising on television and social media. The lady who wants to take your guns now claims to be a gun owner, and would shoot you if you enter her house. The guy that allegedly understands business wants to put tariffs on everything that we buy. Gambling will save education and then gambling will not save education. Abortion is a “lifesaving” event, or it is “killing babies,” depending upon which advertising snippet is currently playing.
It’s not just advertising. The media who told us the President of the United States was not fit to run for President of the United States is now telling us that he’s doing wonderful things as the President of the United States. Make it all make sense.
We may be doomed but we’ll be the last to know.
(Guy Speckman can be reached watching political advertising and changing his positions every 30 seconds)
