The Mercury’s Sound Off for Friday, April 19

Working-class Joe Biden is going to really put it to us if he wins reelection. First, he is going to let Trump’s middle-class tax cuts expire. Second, he has a tax plan to raise our taxes by $5 Trillion. Don’t believe the lie that he is taxing only the rich. Democrats tax everyone. Lunchbox Joe cares only about maintaining his position and power.

“Dutch”

Well, we have great news again. Illegal driver, uninsured, unlicensed and illegal resident arrested for the crash near Valley Forge Park. Thank you, President Biden (Obama) (Clinton) for all these Illegals we keep reading and hearing about that you are approving of as they come across the border. Anything to hopefully add to the Democrat philosophy and eventually voter list.

Democrats were delighted to deny Trump funding to “top off” the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at $24/barrel. They then proceeded to drain that reserve by almost 50%, not for purposes of addressing an emergency, but to offset the inflationary effects of their policies. The decision to refill the SPR has been delayed. Why? Oil is trading above $85/barrel, largely a byproduct of foreign policy miscues that have set the world on fire.

M. Furlong

The Sound Off section is full of hate toward national leaders on a daily basis. Let’s look locally and acknowledge The Upper Pottsgrove Township Commissioners and the Oley Valley School Board for being terribly run. Good job local Republicans!

When asked how fascism starts, Bertrand Russell once said: “First, they fascinate the fools, then they muzzle the intelligent.” Sound Off comments from from Dot, Greg, Patriot45 and other radical Republicans clearly show that phase one has been accomplished. Our mission is to be certain that phase two never is.

RealAmerica

There are pluses and minuses to term limits, but there can be no doubt that a big advantage to term limits would be ridding the halls of Congress of absolutely incompetent representatives like Sheila Jackson Lee, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff, and Hank Johnson or senators like Bob Casey Jr. Eight years for a Congressman and 12 years for a senator is long enough.

Michael Stern

The progressive Democrats sure are triggered over the fact that Donald Trump is promoting the reading of the Bible. But that’s not surprising considering all Democrats hate Christians. President Trump not only hit a nerve with progressive leftist Biden supporters but he’s exposed them for the morally bankrupt people they are.

Ruby

This world seems upside down, with protesters stopping traffic on bridges and highways, probably not knowing what they are protesting about. First, I think the authorities should show the awful pictures of what was done to children, women, and whole families on October 7 by Hamas before they are allowed to protest!

Dot

Some days the best thing about my job is that my chair spins.

Bill Wilson

There’s no arguing that Joe Biden is POTUS today because Americans followed election laws and he gained more votes, despite the radical Republicans’ attempts to suppress facts, promote fake propaganda, and attempted voter suppression. If Biden had kept things the way Trump had handed to him, we would be in a catastrophic recession that was started by Trump. Thank you, Biden!

Patriot54

For the low-intelligence Biden-voting libs who aren’t familiar with simple math: If you don’t prosecute criminals, of course, the crime rate goes down. Hiring back the same employees you fired earlier isn’t creating new jobs. Raising gas prices from $2.50 to $5.00, and then seeing it go down to $4.00 isn’t lowering gas prices. Driving inflation from 1.5% to 10% and then seeing it level off at 7.5% isn’t lowering inflation. Dem’s be tripp’n!

Butch

Vicky: Is Biden, government, or media, censoring political speech by Robert Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, FOX News, or Vicky? Billy G.: Private companies may endorse anyone they want, as can you. Have you a Constitutionally protected bias? (Buy a megaphone.) Unknown: Biden doesn’t allow Chinese purchases, the Constitution does. (Get standing; sue.) Others: March 31 has been Transgender Visibility Day since 2009, including Trump’s Presidency. (Did he sign the proclamation?) To all: Get lives.

I laugh at the antisemitic leftist pro-Palestinian Democrats who are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. They’re all too dumb to understand there could be a ceasefire within hours if the Palestinian Hamas terrorists lay down their weapons, release all hostages, and surrender. Short of that, death to all Hamas Palestinians is the only moral solution.

Righteous Truth

NASA is contemplating a risky mission to send a rover to ABC’s “The View” to search for intelligent life. I say it is a waste of good money. We all know there are no intelligent life forms there.

Billy G.

House in chaos says the recent headlines all thanks to disfunctional speaker Mike Johnson and the maga fools in Congress that bow down and grovel to Broke Don. Also, Broke Don has flip-flopped again on his abortion stance. At least fifteen times over the years Don the Con has changed his opinion on abortion. Donnie also is keeping up his losing streak in the courts to delay his multiple trials. You can’t make this stuff up. This is MAGA.

JR

Dutch says immigrants are spreading tuberculosis and measles, Smart seniors had their shots 50 years ago to go to school. We don’t have to worry about getting measles or tuberculosis.

A federal judge, appointed by President Biden, is sharply criticizing Biden’s DOJ for a blatant double standard. The DOJ is advising two of its lawyers to ignore a Congressional subpoena when it recently jailed two members of the former Trump administration for doing the same thing. In the corrupt Biden administration, it’s only a crime if their political opponents are doing it.

Robert Minninger

So, let me get this straight. Instead of focusing on 99% of the people’s issues with food prices, interest rates, border invaders, and rampant crime, (I could go on for days here), Joey thinks it’s more important to cater to a 1% LGBTQ minority for his eternal power grab. I don’t know any individual in this country that could be more clueless.

Biggly

There the “Moderate” goes again. He defends Bidenomics by saying “why is inflation worldwide.” The USA has the largest GDP in the world. Biden stopped US oil and natural gas exploration. US currency is essentially the world’s currency. When our currency is inflated the rest of the world is inflated. Bidenomics caused the inflation of that there is no doubt.

Jane “The Real Moderate” Batdorf

Once, while in church, the Pastor said, “Anyone who thinks they’re perfect, please stand up.” I kept trying to stand up, but my Bride kept pulling me down.

Jim Fitch

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