The Mercury’s Sound Off for Sunday, May 5

Postage going up. Answer to the problem. Talking to my mail carrier he mentioned Sunday deliveries of packages. The carrier called in to deliver on Sunday and paid four hours to deliver one or two packages. This is what you call good business. If someone needs something that bad that must be delivered on a Sunday, why not order it earlier in the week? Thousands of carriers across the US called in on Sundays, double time.

In 2022, George Soros gave $178 million to the Democratic Party for the midterm elections. He is the fellow behind campaign money to elect the left-wing prosecutors in our major Democratic cities. And it just came out, that he is behind the funding of the pro-Hamas protesters on our college campuses. I think he is letting Biden and the Democratic Party know that we should be anti-Israel. Will they listen? Probably!

H John

You may not like Trump’s style. You may not like Trump’s tweets. You may not like how Trump fights back. But, if you are an honest person you can’t honestly say Trump’s policies didn’t have the country in a better place than it is now. Give him a chance to drain the swamp creatures and put the country back in the right direction.

Rusty

Ivermectin, a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19, greatly reduced hospitalizations and deaths, but because Democrats and the media only want vaccinations, millions of lives have been lost that could have been saved. This shows that leftists do not actually care about saving lives. They only care that people submit to their agenda. The COVID-19 vaccines represent loyalty to democratic authority, and that is all that really matters.

Info Depot

The Moderate unsuccessfully trying to convince normal people that he isn’t an easily triggered Trump-Deranged progressive liberal Democrat sounds a lot like Joe Biden unsuccessfully trying to convince Americans that the economy is strong under his leadership.

LuLu

President Trump was out at a construction site in New York City at 6:30 AM on Thursday. The construction workers were excited and enjoying the visit by Trump. Can you imagine Joe Biden getting out at 6:30 AM? He is still on his CPAP machine, LOL. Can you imagine Joe Biden getting an enthusiastic reaction anywhere? That is except for Iran or China or Russia?

Grant W.

Was it an act of omission or commission that a story on the attack of a local school girl failed to inform that her alleged assailant was a biological male transgender? As today’s press is equally reticent to cite race or immigration status of those who perpetrate crimes, one could conclude that elephants in the room that conflict with narratives are to be ignored. Such explains in part the low esteem with which journalists are held.

M. Furlong

Everybody’s an atheist until they clog a toilet in someone else’s house.

Bill Wilson

In a case of the pot calling the kettle black, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed concern over Chinese interference in upcoming elections. Blinken was the reported architect of the letter signed by 50+ intelligence officials which claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. This was a known lie.

What would happen if the Anti-Semitic student protesters were KKK student protesters saying the same things about African Americans? And the headscarves and masks were replaced by white sheets. We all know those students wearing white sheets would be immediately expelled and arrested. The tolerance for racism against Jews is horrendous. These protests are akin to 1930s German rallies that led to the Holocaust.

Michael Stern

Recent national headlines: U.S. Consumer Sentiment Falls Again as Outlook for Inflation Worsens. Average Longterm Mortgage Rate Reaches 7%. Banks Warn of Uncertain Year Ahead as White House Continues Their Recess-Inducing Policies. Gas Prices Soaring Again. Democrats Are Abandoning America’s Most Deeply Held Principles. Our Great-Grandchildren Will Be Paying Back Democrat’s Spending Spree. America May Never Recover from Biden’s Open Border Policies. This is how the Democrats Build Back Better?

Vote MAGA

Republican Congressman George Santos stole puppies to fund his election. Republican Gov. Kristi Noem shot and killed her puppy as an audition for Vice President. You can’t make this stuff up!

Jay Miller

Joe Biden is a fountain of lies. In his interview with Howard Stern, Biden said when he was an eligible bachelor as a freshman senator he used to receive salacious photos from women. Then he said he just handed them over to the Secret Service. LOL, he didn’t have Secret Service protection as a freshman senator.

Twenty-twenty

Don the Con famously calls journalists “enemies of the people,” but it turns out the friendly “journalists” of the scuzzy National Enquirer may have done as much as anyone to get him elected in 2016. Now, David Pecker is delivering devastating testimony against his old pal, which will likely corroborate that of Michael Cohen. Break out the popcorn!

RealAmerica

According to the Moderate, every wall built by humans has been breached. While technically that may be true, it is also true that every “breach” of the wall around the White House has resulted in an easy arrest. That is the point of a border wall. Nothing is ever perfect, but a substantial continuous wall makes the indefensible border, a daunting task to breach, and almost impregnable.

The Independent

Miller/Lefty: Ukraine will go down in History as another Weekend at Bernie’s Biden foul-up! Biden gave Putin permission for an “incursion,” remember? Now Ukraine’s on taxpayers thanks to Biden and useless D’s and R’s in Congress! Poland’s President Duda is again sounding the alarm that NATO is not meeting defense spending requirements, as Trump warned NATO! Get off the taxpayers’ back, enough printing money!

Just the facts!

Biden’s foreign policy can be summed up this way: It depends what the definition of “don’t” is.

Billy G.

Another business cost going up — postage. Since Biden took over, postal rates will have gone up a staggering 33% when the latest hike takes effect to 73 cents per stamp. I get it. Everything keeps going up diesel fuel, electricity, vehicles, gas, water, sewer, envelopes, wages, taxes, and the post office has to keep up. This wasn’t the case when Trump was president. Vote Trump 2024.

Joe

The MAGA people who post in Sound Off have to make up their minds. Is Joe Biden barely capable of tying his shoes and speaking coherently or the mastermind behind complex schemes to disrupt our government and put Trump in jail?

The Moderate

To all: Are you really unbiased? Do you believe you are objective about different viewpoints? You know, “Fair and Balanced.”? Educate yourself. Some interesting stuff here, if you’re actually willing to read and understand it: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/media-literacy/2021/should-you-trust-media-bias-charts/ and https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444 Analysis: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart and https://www.allsides.com/blog/center-media-bias-rating-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means Finally: https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

To the anonymous poster in Monday’s paper. Republicans voted down the border bill because it was not anywhere near what they wanted! It included still allowing 5000 per day to enter the country. It also included more money for Ukraine, Israel and Palestine. They wanted a strict border bill with no pork added. Trump had nothing to do with it.

Puggy

Protests at colleges are reminiscent of Vietnam War protests. The Hamas attack was horrific, and the response was justified. How far is Netanyahu planning on going by killing tens of thousands of people, destroying hospitals, killing aid workers, and blocking food from coming in? The world has had enough of it. He wants us to stop the protests, telling us what to do in our country. He is causing the protests. He must be stopped.

In a move that surprised no one with a functioning brain, the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolas Maduro, reneged on his promise to the bumbling Biden administration to hold fair elections in exchange for the easing of sanctions. Maduro barred the leading opposition candidate from participating in elections for 15 years. Biden’s record of futility is intact; he’s been wrong on every foreign policy decision.

Robert Minninger

Politico, the liberal news site, is reporting that CNN and MSNBC talking head legal commentators are doing a Zoom meeting every Friday to discuss and coordinate talking points on Trump’s legal problems. No wonder that they all sound the same.

R. M.

Real America, you’re right. Donald Trump’s statement about Gettysburg is really hard to understand. It’s exactly like listening to Biden or Harris.

They are running for President — why would Biden and Trump not debate? What’s the big deal here? Joe will draw on his experiences when he debated Plato, Aristotle and Socrates!

The Snarky Conservative

Since a lot of Americans are hurting financially, I believe President Biden could garner more votes if he forgave credit card debt rather than college debt! Oops, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t give him any ideas.

Jim Fitch

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