The Mercury’s Sound Off for Sunday, April 7

Here we go on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Biden recklessly took out most of the reserve 3 years ago for political reasons and never replaced a drop of the reserves. Now Biden can’t and he canceled plans to buy a pittance because oil prices are rising. This is the same thing Biden and Obama did to the PPE equipment and then there was nothing in our warehouses when we needed them in 2020.

Realist 

If there actually were any truly innocent Palestinians in Gaza they’d be fighting alongside the Israelis against the terrorist Hamas ruling party. But to date, I haven’t seen a single news report of that happening. The war will end when the last Hamas terrorist has taken his/her last breath.

Peaches

Good for the Senate Democrats, they aren’t going to allow a bill to pass with Laken Riley’s name on it. No way! Why in the world would US citizens want to deport illegal immigrants who are criminals? That’s the way to show’em, Democrats, don’t let the Republicans deport illegal immigrants, we don’t have enough crime here. That’s right Bob Casey, we want those illegal immigrants right here in Pennsylvania.

Billy G.

According to a recent poll, about 22% of Americans think they are better off today than 4 years ago. Obviously, some of them have had their student loans paid off illegally by Biden and the rest of them live off the taxpayers as government employees.

Jane “The Real Moderate” Batdorf

Joe Biden couldn’t take an hour out of his social schedule to make a brief stop at the funeral of the slain NYC police officer even though he was in the neighborhood. He and Barack (America’s real POTUS 46) had to get to their elite Hollywood billionaire leftists-packed fundraiser. Donald Trump not only showed up and consoled the slain hero’s wife and kids, he paid off the mortgage on their home. That’s MAGA!

Patriot45/47

On April 1, appropriately, The Moderate was at it again. Attacking thoughtful comments with foolish words. Only attacking the conservatives isn’t demonstrative of a moderate person, that is showing that you really aren’t a moderate.

Dan Fields

Throughout my 60 years on this earth, I have personally known maybe 20 or so homosexual individuals. 2 were relatives. I have yet to come across a single transgender individual. Yet Joe Biden chose Easter Sunday as a day to “honor” these folks. Biden will go down in history as a complete failure.

Grant W.

Why would the people in power leave our country open for anyone in the world to waltz in and potentially bring with them terrorism, crime, disease, drugs, a welfare mentality, and illiteracy? The heads of the FBI and CIA are against the open border. What are all of the illegals going to do when the taxpayer funds run out? Commit crimes? Collect welfare? Work? They won’t be staying in gated communities with the politicians.

H John

We get it Patriot54, you don’t like Sen. Tracy Pennycuick. Would you rather have her political opponent in office — someone who votes yes for a tax hike every chance she gets?

Unfun fact: When the fascists take over, complaining about inflation won’t be an option.

RealAmerica

When are abortions appropriate? Many, but not a majority, would say never. With exceptions for rape, incest and life endangerment, Trump has floated a 16-week post-conception window, comparable to that of France(14 weeks) but far removed from the full-term abortions (34-37 weeks) sought by U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. With noted exceptions, Pennsylvania bans abortions after 23 weeks, two weeks beyond the point where babies have been successfully delivered and lived.

M. Furlong

Wow! Joe Biden is really raking in the cash. A big $25 million fundraiser was held in NYC with stars like Obama and Clinton. The inmate was driving all over New York state visiting funeral homes and selling his sneakers and bibles. What a phony but that’s conservative politics. Four More Years!

Lefty

Will Wood spewed his usual drivel in the article, “Considering what party to choose when starting to vote.” For his criteria, he chose some convoluted, abstract item that would lead to Biden being the obvious choice — basing your decision on which administration passed the most legislation during their tenure. Never mind the fact that the trillions in legislation passed under Biden are a major contributor to our inflation woes. Lame….

Greg Levengood

One does not easily become a master of karate. First, you must accidentally walk into a spiderweb.

Bill Wilson

An ethical judge would recuse themselves if there was even an appearance of a conflict of interest. The judge in Trump’s “Hush Money” trial, Juan Merchan, has a daughter who is using Trump’s trials to help fundraise ($93 million to date) for Democrat candidates. When Trump pointed out this obvious conflict of interest, Judge Merchan didn’t recuse himself; Merchan issued a gag order and threatened Trump with jail if he continued to discuss it.

Robert Minninger

The fact is that neither Biden nor Don the Con have managed to avoid the encroachments of age. But they are not equally or similarly afflicted. Biden, a recovering stutterer, has always tended to get a bit tongue-tied. Don the con, an idiot in the truest sense of the word, has always been known to say startlingly stupid things. But there are clear signs that Trump is far more cognitively impaired than Biden, and getting worse.

Patriot54

I don’t know if Patriot54 lives under a rock, or he just doesn’t know what is going on, If President Trump put his own interests, and ego ahead of everything else, he wouldn’t be running for President. He could enjoy life to the fullest. He loves this country, and cares about us, even Patriot54! That is why he is going to “Take America Back” and “Make America Great Again” Thank You, America!

Ernman

Looks like the Jay Miller and Patriot54’s of Sound Off are wrong as usual. Trump is going to post a bond in cash. Not only that but his net worth has now increased by billions due to the IPO of Truth Social. Pallets of tissues were delivered to MSNBC and CNN after Trump had another win against Biden’s deranged DOJ attacks.

Matt

Another March without even one 80-degree day. We barely made a 70-degree day. So don’t look for a 90 in April or any 100s all summer long. Those days are long gone now that we are cooling again. I used to enjoy watching the Don’t Let the Global Warming Loonies try to BS you.

Stinger

March 28 President Trump attended the wake for NYPD officer Jonathan Diller who was slain by an ex-con who was out on bail for 21 other crimes. The ex-con was on bail due to Democrat policies allowing attempted murder suspects to be out on bail. Meanwhile, Joe Biden was attending a fundraiser across the city. Biden couldn’t trouble himself with even calling the family.

Michael Stern

Imagine a world where all cars were EVs, and then comes along a new invention — the internal combustion engine. A vehicle half the weight, half the price, only quarter the damage done to roads, can be refueled in one-tenth the time, has a range up to four times the distance in all weather conditions and doesn’t rely on environmentally damaging use of nonrenewable rare earth elements to power it. Just think how well they’d sell!

Little Joe

Hey Dot, stop your incessant whining about closing the border. The biggest and best border package from Congress was turned down by the GOP on orders from Broke Don. This bill was endorsed by the Border Patrol union but Broke Don isn’t about the country, he’s about himself. This is MAGA!

JR

I couldn’t agree more with Joe. Yield signs are not stop signs! I also can’t figure out why people insist on not using their headlights until it is pitch black dark. Are they trying to save electricity or maybe gas or whatever? They are endangering themselves and everyone else.

Jason

Did you see Trump’s latest business is selling Bibles? It’s missing 3-4-7-8-9 of the Ten Commandments. And now the first line of the Bible is in the beginning Trump created the Heaven and the Earth.

The comment about Barry Goldwater was true but not to the liking of Democrats. I was just out of the service at that time and agreed with his reasoning to get out of Vietnam. Johnson made promises to get out of Vietnam and promised no more troops in that war. As soon as he was elected he sent 25,000 more to Vietnam, also started all his giveaway programs that haunt us to this day.

Hey anonymous, care to name a single one of those “thousands of scientists and technicians globally that have spent decades studying Earth’s climate history and have come to the consensus that the planet is warming as a result of human activity.”? And I don’t wanna hear your name any scientist or organization that’s funded by the Democrats.

Tippy

Just a reminder that if you are writing in a candidate on Election Day, the name must be spelled correctly.
Also, the Gideons give Bibles away for free.

EMR

In the 1940s, Democrat men faked their ages to fight in World War II. Today’s Democrat men pretend to be women so they can win in sports.

The Snarky Conservative

When I look at what some folks spend to “camp,” I truly believe that “camping” is where you spend a small fortune to live like you’re homeless.

Jim Fitch

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