It’s A Creepy, Chilling & Haunting Halloween - Top 3 Takeaways – October 31st, 2024
- Creepy. Joe Biden’s sniffing of children’s hair or nibbling on a child’s shoulder. Those are things that creepy. The Lake Worth Playhouse, The Blue Anchor Pub, The Flagler Museum, Gilbert’s Bar House of Refuge, The former Fellsmere Public School. These are places locally that are said to be at least occasionally creepy. And paying for Halloween this year – that's definitely proved creepy in more ways than one. First there’s the inflation creep. As we’ve become accustomed to in the Biden-Harris era your wallet will be or already likely is hemorrhaging from the cost of paying for your plans. Take for example the cost of candy for Halloween this year. Led by much higher chocolate prices, which are about 8% higher than a year ago, candy is about 3.5% more expensive overall than this time last year with a four-year inflation rate of 40%! You might say ‘Bidenflation has sucked the blood out of our wallets...it’s effectively “fun size” for the of price full sized candy bars a few years ago. The other thing that’s creepier about Halloween this year is that there’s more people doing more of it. According to a study by Advantage Outlook a record 91% of Americans are doing something for Halloween this year (or have already done something). Most commonly having decorated around the house at 65%, with 60% handing out candy, and just over half of us watching scary movies. Fewer than have of us have or will done a costume this year. Although Joel’s done enough for all of us in that regard. I don’t know that “white trash” has ever been done better. In fact, Joel’s costume donned this past weekend to a Halloween party just might be why President Biden referred to Trump’s supporters as garbage. In any event from Creepy Joe to dolling out dough this year’s Halloween is especially creepy. It’s also...
- Chilling. It's chilling to think that in five days a person could be elected president of the United States who's voting record in the United States senate was most closely aligned with Bernie Sanders, punctuated by having been one of the 11 original sponsors of “The Green New Deal”. It’s chilling to think that after having imported a minimum of 11 million illegal immigrants during the Biden-Harris administration resulting in a non-citizen crime rate that’s now 914% higher than that of the average American citizen we’d elect someone who’d only continue to deliver more of the same for the next four years... In the words of Kamala Harris, illegal entry into the US shouldn’t be treated as a crime. I’d imagine most would find her stance on life, or actually the elimination of it chilling as well. Did you know that Kamala also sponsored a bill that expressly supported abortion at any stage of a pregnancy (or birth as the case may be) “without limitations”? I don’t know if even Freddy Kreuger is that cruel. I’d also say that her selection of a running mate being a person who mandated as governor the distribution of tampons in boys bathrooms in schools is rather chilling too. On the one hand it’s exhilarating to think that in five days this country could vote to free itself from four years of relative misery, only 27% of Americans currently believe this country is headed in the right direction. On the other hand, it’s chilling to think that there are potentially enough Americans to vote this country even further into that direction. This without a doubt is the most chilling Halloween I’ve ever seen, because the prospects for our country and for that matter the world, are at risk of being handed over to potentially the most extreme presidential candidate we’ve ever seen.
- Haunting. Do you believe in ghosts? Have you seen a ghost? If you do and if you have, you have some company, but maybe not as much as you might think. Surveying shows that 36% of Americans believe in ghosts while 24% think they’ve seen one. Interestingly in the supernatural realm more people are inclined to believe in extra-terrestrial life via UFO’s, 39%, than of the earthly but departed variety. Also, more women believe in ghosts than men, but more men believe in extra-terrestrial UFO life than women. In other words, a lot of people believe in hauntings of both the supernatural and extra-terrestrial kind. But what’s potentially more haunting than either of those things? A Kamala cackle. Imagine at least four more years of those screams. But unlike things that go bump in the night or that are beamed down from above we’re in total control on this potentially haunting decision. If you believe as I do that this is the most important election of our lives, it's important that you treat it like it’s the most important election of our lives and go vote as soon are you’re able. I've still heard from many who've said they’re waiting to vote until Election Day because that’s always the way they’ve done it. How did that work out for this country four years ago when many voters waited to go to the polls and some never did? As I’ve recently shared the potential impact of voting early increases turnout within one’s party by up to 5% (due to people intending to go to the polls but never making it on Election Day and the ability for parties to focus on lower propensity voters). Here's a guarantee for you. This election will be decided by well less than 5%. Four years ago, Donald Trump lost three states by a total of 42,918 votes that handed the win to Joe Biden. A result that would have been different had so many of his supporters not waited to vote until Election Day (many of which never did because they ended up with COVID). Life happens, mistakes happen, this election is too important to leave anything to chance. Intending to vote but not getting around to vote could haunt you and potentially this entire country for at least the next four years. Go vote as soon as you can if you haven’t already.