The Mercury’s Sound Off for Saturday, May 10

What have we learned from Felon 47 in his first 100 days? In just his first few months, he’s made the country weaker, poorer and less stable. He has made the U.S. less free, less efficient, less healthy, less respected and more lawless. One thing is clear: Felony Don is not making America great. In fact, his actions are un-American. Each day brings a fresh new hell. And the spineless elected bootlickers don’t care

JR

I remain perplexed by Democrats. I was going to quote some of the recent remarks from Democrats vying for attention, but I can’t quote them because they are so profanity-laced that they don’t make any sense.

Confused Melissa

The White House lawn is filled with lawn signs showing the faces of criminal illegal immigrants that were murderers and rapists. MSNBC anchors are upset that when they do reports from outside the White House, the faces of these criminals are in their shots. MSNBC wants to blur their faces to protect the child rapists, murderers, and other deported illegals and the heck with their victims.

The Independent

As an occasional letter-writer to Sound Off, I am flattered that folks noticed my letter. BTW, a 12-pack of soda is not a bottle. I also noticed that about 3 months ago, some of the folks who have written into Sound Off have discovered inflation and high food prices. It only took you folks 4 years to notice Bidinflation — by you folks, I mean Democrat ostriches.

Tina Aldez

There is something I don’t understand about Jay Miller, Patriot54, and the Democrats. They are praising the way the Democrats are against anything that Trump is doing. All they approve of is a judge who is ready to make a name for themselves by overruling Trump. Trump wants to improve what Biden (Obama, Clinton, Pelosi) have destroyed in the past four years. Democratic judges seem to have more power than the president.

Jay Miller learned a new word from CNN and his radical America-hating idols Bernie Sanders and AOC. But ask him to define “Oligarchy” and his response will be — “Donald Trump.” Comrade Miller speaks like every other unintelligent TDS sheeple who doesn’t understand how the stock market (or life in general) works and can’t grasp the simple fact that everyone who buys low and holds will benefit on the rebound, not just billionaires.

Righty for the Educated

JB is about as deranged as they come. While the Limerick Laughingstock willingly admits the economy is stabilizing and gas prices are finally coming down, according to the unhinged leftwing sheeple poster child, it’s because President Trump wrecked the global economy. Yup, read that twice. America is doing better because Trump wrecked the global economy. Let that sink in. Democrats thrive on the handicap vote.

Tucker

Jay Miller, you don’t understand tariffs. First use (China) to force you to buy their goods at exorbitant prices while keeping ours out of their country. The second (ours) fair trade. If you make phone devices and I make parts, arbitrary tariffs make no sense. They need to be specific to the items, or you create invisible tariffs. You ignored that most of our trading partners are in DC negotiating fair and honest tariffs.

Cato

Even though it is spring, The Mercury is carrying Rich Scarcella’s excellent coverage of Penn State Football. Thank-you Mercury. Thank you to Rich Scarcella for his comprehensive and splendid coverage of Penn State Football.

Michael Stern

Many Americans don’t understand “free speech”. You can fire employees telling clients, “America sucks!”, but the government can’t force you to fire employees doing it. Legal aliens have the same Constitutional right to free speech, whether you like it or not. The ICE thugs arresting, detaining Mahdawi (or you), under the justification of a “threat to foreign policy,” was government suppression of free speech and an actual crime of false arrest. Arrest them! Sue ICE/Rubio/Trump!

Berks County Prison had to be threatened with loss of federal funding for officials to agree to alert U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they were holding illegal aliens. That should be plain common sense which Berks County taxpayers are paying for. It says a lot about the progressive Democrats’ policies towards law enforcement. How did we let it get this bad?

Berks MAGA Voter

Jay Miller, bless your heart again, you speak mistruths! — This man-child leader is breaking the law, ignoring the court decision, disappearing college students, kidnapping legal immigrants, and threatening gulags for American citizens! How about providing documentation on ignoring court decisions, missing students and legal immigrants and the gulags for Americans! Those affected by Trump’s decisions are illegal aliens! Enough with stupid!

Just the facts!

Pres. Coolidge quote #4A – “We cannot finance the country, we cannot improve social conditions. through any system of injustice, even if we attempt to inflict it upon the rich. Those who suffer the most harm will be the poor.”

Dennis A. Biggs

I see people like Musk, Joe Rogan and Andrew Schultz now speaking out and turning on Felon 47, but they are all bewildered at what he’s doing… But all he’s done is implement everything in Project 2025 … the project that he never heard of. The wars are still going, grocery prices the same, OT and tips are still taxed, the stock market is down, no check from DOGE. 100 days of crashing the country.

RealAmerica

After being in power for 4 years, not knowing full well who actually ran the country, the democrats criticize everything that Trump does and tries to do. My question for all of the Dems, “Who exactly in your party do you see as a person of honesty and integrity?” Because for people outside of your party, we don’t see anyone with those traits.

H John

Let’s put things into perspective. NPR receives less than $3 million per year. PBS receives less than $85 million per year. Both are being cut. Trump is planning a birthday parade, spending $92 million of taxpayer dollars. Who is he serving?

Jay Miller

Bobby Kennedy banned food dyes in our food, which is great, but I am begging him to ban blue hair dye next!

Billy G.

In 1937, Hormel made the first batch of SPAM. I heard they’re rolling out the second batch later this week!

Jim Fitch

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