The Mercury’s Sound Off for Saturday, Jan. 27

Open borders guarantee unprecedented crime as countries rid their prisons of their unwanted. Open borders will overwhelm our public schools assuring a disastrous outcome for our children’s future. Open borders are a national security risk as terrorists and young Chinese males invade, waiting for the call. Open borders will lead to Third-World disease and new pandemics. And how do we pay for all the world’s sick as they keep pouring in?

Truth Be Told

Per the CDC, extreme cold results in twice as many deaths as extreme warmth. Frigid weather often necessitates the idling of wind turbines as blades can shatter from embrittlement. Freezing temperatures also have a draining effect on electric car batteries, thereby limiting travel options. Worth noting? Those dictating energy policy are the same parties who erased our borders, devalued the dollar and denied the benefits of natural immunity during the pandemic.

M. Furlong

KC, people don’t rail at government regulations, per se. They rail against bad and damaging ones, liberal agenda-driven ones, and unconstitutional ones. The worst offender is a toss-up between the EPA and the IRS. Question for elementary math students — if Jay paid an $800 tariff on his washer and the tariff is the current 20%, how much did the washer cost? Easy math.

Cato

14 Democrat Representatives came out against Joe Biden’s immigration policy. Chrissy Houlahan was not among them. When asked why her office responded the measure put too much blame on Biden! Houlahan is nothing more than a political hack trying to walk a tightrope in a purple district. She’s a phony from top to bottom, her town halls a fraud, she embellishes accomplishments (how about that book on supply chain management?), and way underperforms her resume!

Pennsylvania did not allow for election officials to pre-process mail ballots in 2020 — a significant cause of the state’s elongated vote count — and is now an outlier state that hasn’t updated its laws to allow for it in 2024. Get ready Pennsylvania. Our state once again will be the last to certify the vote count, and Republicans will cry foul… unless, of course, they win.

Portly

Fake it till you get busted and have to leave town.

Bill Wilson

It turns out that the President and his bumbling administration lied to us about Hunter’s art deal. According to sworn testimony from Hunter’s art dealer, there was no special arrangement to avoid ethical issues as we were told. The buyers were not anonymous. The top buyer was the same donor who paid Hunter’s back taxes. Rather than tracking Biden’s lies, it may be easier to track his truthful statements.

Robert Minninger

Can a Sound Off Democrat explain your logic? Biden rescinded all of Trump’s immigration controls only hours after he entered office. Immediately, illegal immigrants flood across the border in ever-increasing numbers. Democrat politicians in sanctuary cities and states have no complaint until the indigents show up in their jurisdictions. When they’re sent to these so-called sanctuaries, Democrats blame the Texas governor and Trump’s immigration policies as the source of their problems. Normal people are flummoxed.

Patriot45

It is insane how these blue city and state politicians are demonizing Texas Gov. Abbott yet they still support Biden and his lack of border security. When Biden says they are looking for the root cause of illegal migration all he has to do is look in a mirror. I didn’t think Biden voters could be any more stupid.

Biggly

Border Funding Bill …191 Republican congressional members voted against this bill and then complained that the Democrats are creating a border crisis. Let’s tell the truth.

Jay Miller

Any American confused or on the fence might set aside Trump’s other baggage and just consider this: We likely could all agree Pence was extremely loyal to Trump during his campaign and presidency. That ended with one decision. Trump is now criminally indicted for a scheme his own loyal Vice President knew about and refused to participate in to overthrow an election.

KC

If my drug addict son, who couldn’t even keep the cushy job I got him in the Navy, suddenly was living in mansions and making millions; I would be kind of curious. Especially when the kid is flying around the world on my jet. I’m posing with his business partners and I don’t even know who they are. Then he’s selling “art” to anonymous “customers” for huge sums and I’m not curious about that either.

Cholly

Saw this on the internet: Trump’s driver was arrested today for having 285 pounds of dope in the backseat. No idea why radical Republicans like this clown.

Patriot54

We have an idiot as president. Don’t bother arguing otherwise lest you risk being classified similarly.

To those screaming Biden ignited inflation with the American Rescue Plan Act, giving Americans money when they most needed it, I have just one question. Did you cash your check?

Now Jesse Watters is on Fox (Faux) News, asking if Taylor Swift is a Pentagon PsyOp Asset! Radical MAGA have absolutely lost their stuff! And the Sheep eat it up! Taylor Swift is all over the media because she is super talented, writes her own music, is wholesome and appeals to young ladies all over the world! MAGA Radicals are quickly ruining the country!

RealAmerica

Responding to Roper on Jan. 15. Ukraine definitely a second look! Biden corruption, Billions from taxpayers! 2015 VP Biden demands Viktor Shokins’ investigation into Burisma Energy and Hunter Biden and the Biden Crime Family ends or $1 billion in taxpayer aide does! Three hours later Shokins’ gone! The EU is walking away from Ukraine! It’s all about the Biden Crime Family! Chornobyl disaster cleanup will also be on the taxpayer, just wait!

Just the facts!

There is only one God and that is a fact. You can or cannot believe it. That is the choice he gave to his angels and mankind. He said he would finish what he started.

Night Light

Joe Biden lied at the 2023 G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan when he said he created the “Quad,” an alliance between the U.S., Japan, Australia, and India: “I doubt many people … I’d be able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an organization called the Quad.” The Quad was initiated in 2007, with assistance from Dick Cheney, and re-established in 2017 by Trump.

Twenty-twenty

When I was a kid we called “climate change” seasons.

Jim Fitch

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