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Throw the Bums Out: You Have the Power

By Mark T. Cicero

Election Day is coming, a ceasing of the endless and despicable character assassination ads, the ‘misinformation’, and vile vitriol issued forth regarding the candidates.

If you are to take them at face value then you will be left believing that Kari Lake is a fraud, an enemy of all women’s reproductive rights, an ’election denier’, and an enemy of our democratic republic. You would believe David Schweikert is an unrelenting and unapologetic felon who should be locked up, and Blake Masters is a dangerous right-wing racist ideologue who is an enemy of democracy, women, and America.

The bottom line is simply this: if you like sky-high gas prices, energy and food shortages, an open border, an endless supply of fentanyl killing our kids, and the most partisan federal agencies on record (think DOJ, DHS, IRA, and Department of Education to name just a few blatant examples), then you must vote for the Democrat ticket and keep the Democrats in power.

Let’s examine a few of the stark choices before us. There was a time in our country when justice and the rule of law were evenly applied, regardless of party affiliation.  In the past 20 months, since this administration took over, there has not been a single serious attempt to investigate and punish the thousands of rioters in the Summer of Love riots where 2,037 police officers were injured and dozens of Americans killed. While there were over 16,000 people arrested for these riots, over 90% of these charges were either not filed or dismissed and no Federal charges were ever handed out. Over 800 people were arrested for the events of January 6, most of which have received jail sentences or are still locked up and awaiting trial for Federal charges. The only person who lost their life on January 6th was an unarmed Ashley Babbitt, shot by a capital police officer who has never been investigated for discharging his weapon and killing her.

Our vaunted FBI and its overseer, the DOJ, and Attorney General Merritt Garland have seen fit to classify parents, who object to programming our children in public schools and preaching gender fluidity to their children, are classified as domestic terrorists.  (A weighty tome could be written to dive into this comprehensively.) The DOJ recently prosecuted Steve Bannon (an advisor to President Trump) for not complying with a Congressional subpoena. He is now sentence to three months in prison. Do you remember Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder? He never even faced charges for the very same refusal to answer a Congressional subpoena.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Majorkas has stated repeatedly that there is no crisis at our southern border! Conservatively, over 2 million illegal immigrants (a number greater than the population in 15 individual states) have crossed since Biden took office. The most public move he has taken was to publicly vilify equestrian border guards for merely doing their job – because it looked like it was bad. Meanwhile, over 100,000 American children and adults have been killed by fentanyl poisoning, mostly manufactured in China and then shipped across our southern border. There is wide agreement that the sex trafficking and rape taking place on our southern border are at record numbers.

Now let’s look at our economic policies which are destroying our economy with unbridled inflation. It begins with the ‘woke’ agenda revolving around “climate change”. This began as fear of ozone layer depletion, global warming, etc., which are claimed by radical environmentalists to represent an existential threat to our species and the planet. It has morphed into an all-out war on our energy industry. 20 months ago we were an ‘energy independent nation’ and we didn’t rely on our enemies to supply us with oil.  Now, we are begging our adversaries in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to produce more oil, just so we can keep our lights on. Hundreds of thousands are protesting in Europe over severely rising prices and dangerous energy shortages as winter commences. Germany currently has no firewood for sale as it is the new source of heating there. They now turn off their traffic signals at night to save electricity. Yet Mr. Biden and his team keep telling us they are doing everything they can to increase our energy production – which can only be seen as ignorant or an intentional lie.

There is a myriad of problems that have been created since this administration has taken over. Several are detailed here, but there are many more.  It is depressing to enumerate them all.

The bottom line is this: if you enjoy a persistent decline in your standard of living, an intentional reduction of your liberties, the unprecedented invasion of illegal aliens, an unequal application of justice and constant energy shortages – then keep voting blue. If, however, you want to see a return to liberty, energy independence, and the rule of law, be sure to check all the red choices on your ballot for this election.

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How Not to Vote in Arizona

The 2022 midterm election is fast approaching. The system for voting in Arizona is predominantly by mail-in ballots (around 80% of all ballots). The ballots will be mailed out to all voters registered for mail-in voting on October 12th. The actual ‘day’ of the election is Tuesday November 8, 27 days later.

Once upon a time when all voters went to the polls on the day of election, the tabulated results were announced the night of the election date. If the result of a specific race was razor thin and less than a legislated margin, a recount might prevent the naming of a winner. That was the exception for calling the results of the election.

It is still this way in most first world countries but not the United States and certainly not Arizona. Voting rules (some unconstitutional) were dramatically altered in many states in 2020 because of the Covid pandemic.

We at The Prickly Pear are very concerned about the flaws in Arizona’s predominant ‘mail-in’ voting system.

Please click on the red TAKE ACTION link below to learn How Not to Vote in Arizona as a mail-in ballot voter and to be certain your vote is included in the count the evening of November 8th.