The Mercury’s Sound Off for Sunday, Aug. 4

The Boston Herald is reporting that about 480,000 residents of Massachusetts cannot speak English. That is about 7% of the population of that state. That is horrendous. Can you imagine what the percentages are in border states? It used to be that we would assimilate immigrants but with the overwhelming influx of illegal immigrants thanks to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden that is impossible with the millions flooding us.

The Independent

The Olympics should change the name of their Boxing event to Freestyle Domestic Violence. That’s some good entertainment watching a man beat the bejesus out of a woman. I guess that’s the new spirit of the Olympics. So proud!

Archie

Take a gander at the grocery store shelves … we can buy milk in a plastic jug, pasta in a plastic container, strawberries in a plastic tub, soda in plastic bottles, bread in plastic bags, paper straws packaged in plastic wrap, and meat wrapped in styrofoam and plastic wrap, but we can’t take it home in a plastic bag. Insanity! Dems be tripp’n!

Butch

Another fantastic story by Rich Scarcella in The Mercury! Scarcella’s story of Phia Gladieux conquering her struggles while becoming a wonderful young lady was outstanding. I love the way Scarcella writes his articles. He always has just the right amount of personal information along with the sports aspects of his subject. Great job, Rich Scarcella.

Michael Stern

Beware Sound Off progressives! With Harris on board, expect the evil and viciousness that only a MAGA cult member can produce. It’s going to be ugly so feel free to call it out. I know I will. Fake!

Lefty

I stopped watching the Olympics when the U.S. capitulated to greed and allowed our professional athletes to compete in “The Games.” Today’s Olympics are more about commercial sponsorships than sports. To add to my disgust of this overhyped money grab spectacle is the fact the U.S. chose LeBron James (an America-hating/national anthem-kneeling racist who supported the criminal and violent BLM movement) to be the American Team flag bearer. Absolutely disgusting!

Missy Miss

On July 31 Kamala Harris was a no-show at the National Black Journalist Convention in Chicago, which makes 10 days since she was anointed the Democratic presidential nominee that she hasn’t answered a single question from a reporter. I guess she’s going to follow the Joe Biden playbook and let her strong allies in the lamestream media do her bidding for her since she has absolutely nothing of value to offer the American people.

Greg Levengood

The Democrat Party’s prospects are no better now with Vice President Kamala Harris, who co-owns the disastrous policy failures of the Biden Administration. As second-in-command and a completely inept border czar, Harris has been a gleeful accomplice — not only in the destruction of American sovereignty, security, and prosperity but also in the largest political coverup in U.S. history. She has known for as long as anyone of his incapacity to serve.

Tippy

Kamala Harris’ father is from Jamaica and her mother is from India. When she ran for office in California, Harris claimed she was of Asian descent. Only liberals who can’t tell us what a woman is come to the conclusion that Kamala is African American.

So the DNC wants their low intelligence base to believe them when they tell them Heels-Up Harris is the party’s most qualified successor to the presidency and their best chance to beat Trump. The cackling VP is nothing more than an unaccomplished DEI placeholder who is challenging Hillary Clinton as the most repulsive human being in American politics.

GiGi

I hope it’s dawning on the MAGA Republicans that Joe Biden is now a president with total immunity and legal protections for official presidential actions as granted him by the Supreme Court — and unencumbered without the electoral concerns of seeking re-election!

RealAmerica

The same party that can’t tell you what a woman is, is now telling you to vote for their presidential candidate because she’s a woman. More evidence that Democrats are hypocrites and liberalism is a mental disorder.

Barney

July 13th was the only Trump rally that anti-Trump CNN live-streamed this year. What a remarkable coincidence — right? Right!

My friend’s dog died, so I tried to cheer her up by getting her an identical one. It just made her more upset. She screamed at me and said, “What am I supposed to do with two dead dogs?”

Bill Wilson

The DNC’s Deep State puppeteers are at the helm. If I were one of the 20 million Democrats who helped elect Joe Biden in the primary, I’d be so pissed off that I would vote for Trump in the general election just to send a message to the perpetrators of this coup.

Mainline Mary

Senators and House members need time limits. When too long in office they owe special interests a lot of money. Money is never free.

Night Light

Former middle school teacher here. I would not put my child in a public school today. There are many other options out there but it will require hard work and sacrifice for parents. Public schools have become more violent and do not believe in just teaching the most important basics of reading, writing, math, civics, etc without “woke” indoctrination.

Mrs. Crabtree

Kamala Harris is the perfect example of why you shouldn’t put someone in a position based solely on race and gender.

Fact Jack

Regardless of the chaos in the current White House, our adversaries around the globe should be reminded that the U.S. Congress, the U.S. military, and the American people are fully prepared and committed to defend our interests both at home and abroad. If Joe Biden is not fit to run for President, he is not fit to serve as President. He must resign the office immediately. November 5th cannot arrive soon enough.

Otis

Progressives aren’t alarmed over President Trump’s “threat” to democracy and the Constitution, they’re alarmed over the threat democracy and the Constitution pose against progressivism.

Professor Potts

How hilarious is it that it was actually the Democrats that coined the term Bidenomics thinking it was a good thing? Talk about being out of touch! Biden/Harris and their Bidenomics are costing individual Americans an additional $12,434 per year. Trump couldn’t have come up with a better insulting term than Bidenomics to describe Joe and Kamala’s economic boondoggle even if he tried.

Rusty

The left is rallying around their newly coronated puppet. When casting your vote, just remember they looked you straight in the face and told you Joe was still sharp and capable of doing the job, then dumped him.

She was terrible as a DA. She was terrible as a Senator. She was terrible as a presidential candidate. She was terrible as a Vice President of the United States. She was terrible as America’s Border Csar. But because she’s Black and she’s a female, we’re supposed to ignore all of that? Sorry folks but that’s not how it works in the real world.

MAGA Proud

In typical progressive Democrat fashion, Jay Miller tries to redefine the definition of liberal and woke. When someone calls you a “woke liberal,” you can be sure you’re being insulted.

May Jiller

We were recently challenged by Puggy to name one lie from Trump. How about this whopper … he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025!

Lynn from NEPA Freedom Writers

Democrats don’t seem to understand that Donald Trump has not been President of the United States for the past 3.5 years. None of the economic, social, or national security crises happening today in America are his fault. Get past your irrational derangement and don’t fear Making America Great Again.

Billy

So true: A woman of color telling a white man, “Say it to my face” while they’re both running for President of a country that once enslaved millions, where racism is still rampant, is a watershed moment in American History that’s impossible to overstate. Will Chicken Trump debate Kamala?

Patriot54

With Nurse Jill’s encouragement, Joe Biden announced he was going to run for the presidency when he heard the current president withdrew from the race.

The Snarky Conservative

When I was a kid I wondered what it would be like to be a “Doorman.” I found out when we got our first dog!

Jim Fitch

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