The Mercury’s Sound Off for Sunday, Nov. 5

Speaker Mike Johnson’s most important three F-words are Faith, Family & Freedom which just happen to be the foundation of our great country. We instill faith in our children to love and serve God and people. Strengthen the family by passing on good morals and values to our offspring. God endows us all with inherited rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, own property, build
wealth and freedom to defend ourselves.

Info Depot

Attacks on Jews in our country account for 60% of the religious “hate crimes” according to the FBI. Do you know which month is “Anti-Semitic Awareness” month? That’s right there isn’t one, but there is an “Islamophobic Awareness” month — November, created by Joe Biden and Obama in 2012. Now Biden wants to create an Islamophobia Task Force as the Hamas wing of the Democrat Party is attacking Jews on campuses across the USA.

“Dutch”

Electric Cars — A plan that doesn’t work to fix a problem that doesn’t exist.

Grizz

A nice win for PJP beating what they consider the much bigger school Spring-Ford for the PAC football championship. While it’s true that Spring-Ford does have a larger enrollment they are just pulling their student body within the boundaries of the school limits. PJP on the other hand can pull their kids from all the other boundary schools in the PAC area. Kids from Spring-Ford, Pottstown, Pottsgrove, Owen J Roberts, and so on. The David vs Goliath is just a myth.

Chrissy Houlahan, Lefty, et al; Liars or just clueless? MAGA Mike did not try to overturn an election. He saw evidence that was worthy of investigation and that meant putting a stay on certifying election results. I suspect that none of them have seen the movie, “2000 Mules.” I highly recommend everyone watch “2000 Mules,” “Sound of Freedom,” and “Police State.” All three are being squelched by our federal government. Be informed.

MC923

A Connecticut judge in a large Democrat city just threw out the results of an election because there were widespread irregularities — like folks stuffing the ballot box with multiple absentee ballots. Imagine that, widespread voter fraud in an election. I thought that didn’t ever happen in the USA. The evidence was very similar to the evidence put forth in the 2020 election.

Dan Fields

One can only pray that radical Islamic terrorist sympathizers in the US are watching the blessed retribution at work in Gaza. They need to understand the same can, and will, happen in America should the left continue to tolerate and support terrorists that have taken root in our homeland (i.e. — the Democrat’s Congressional “Squad”). The Palestinian people in Gaza elected Hamas as their ruling government. The collateral damage is justified and necessary. Elections have consequences.

Patriot45

Democrat Rosa DeLauro said time is of the essence for passing the $105 billion bill and how we care for people around the world caught in the wake of devastation. I say what about Americans, what about us? Care for us!

Dot

The Biden administration put NY Mayor Eric Adams on notice to stop complaining about illegal immigration. They did that by having the FBI raid the home of Adams’ fundraiser for his 2021 mayoral campaign. Just watch for Eric Adams to stop saying anything about illegal immigration. The Biden administration is the most corrupt administration in history.

R. M.

An examination of the Chester County ballot for upcoming elections reveals four judicial posts for which no party affiliation is given. In the cases of Jack Panella, Victor P. Stabile, Patrick Carmody, and John L. Hall, voters are instructed to indicate in either a yes or no oval whether these individuals should be retained for an additional term. To make informed decisions, it behooves voters to conduct research on each.

M. Furlong

The rule of law and the decorum of procedures no longer apply. Our government was designed to work slowly and with consensus so that the “rule of the mob” did not destroy our nation. That has been chipped away at so severely by the Democrat Party, that we are now a shell of what the Founding Fathers wanted our nation to be.

Professor Potts

Sixteen attacks on American military bases by Iran-affiliated terrorist groups in the Middle East, dozens of American Military personnel seriously injured, 32 Americans killed in Hamas attacks, and dozens of Americans taken hostage by Hamas. Biden’s done nothing, hasn’t even lowered flags to honor our dead. Nine Democrats voted against a resolution condemning Hamas. Biden’s weakness invited these attacks and Biden’s weakness will get more Americans killed.

Michael Stern

Radical left-wing progressive activist journalist Catherine Rampell whined in a recent condescending commentary in The Mercury that Americans need to learn to love the US economy. Love record high inflation? Record high gas prices? Record high interest rates? Record high spending? Record high deficit? Record high mortgages? Record high middle-class tax increases? Brain dead and out of touch is the only way to characterize this Biden-apologist hack. Biased journalism at its finest!

Missy Miss

Republican Russia sympathizers need to be jailed or deported! All of them. Republican politicians, Constitution-hating college students and professors, Texas elite, and Trump voters. Lock, stock and barrel. Get rid of them! I fixed it for Cholly.

Patriot54

It looks like House Speaker Mike Johnson is serious about getting federal spending under control. He rejected President Biden’s request for a bundled $105 billion funding bill containing aid to both Israel and Ukraine as well as additional funding to process illegal aliens. Speaker Johnson is insisting on specific funding bills with offsetting spending cuts for each requested item. Hurray for Mike Johnson!

Robert Minninger

There are two ways to increase the national debt, increase spending or decrease revenue. Why is the GOP so against the IRS? We know they are not coming after you with AK-15s. The tax break really didn’t help me out, I guess you have to make over 450k to really get the benefit. Could it be all the new and old billionaires don’t want to pay their fair share?

JB in Limerick

Info Depot: “ … This is forbidden speech.”, says one constantly, publically, freely speechifying about “forbidden” things. Have you considered the possibility that “conventional wisdom” is right and you’re wrong? Probably not. That “subtle power control” is simply people tired of hearing you constantly berating them for not accepting the “truth” only you and your ilk believe? No. You’re convinced everyone is wrong except you. That’s pretty egotistical.

There should be a law that the manufacturers can’t charge more for shipping than the cost of the product.

P.S.

I can see why Biden-voting Democrats don’t own/operate any businesses. They can’t comprehend basic economic concepts. Like when a business owner’s cost of products and services goes up due to Joe Biden’s asinine policies, the business owner has to pass along those cost increases to his consumers in the form of higher prices. If not, the business will cease to exist. Democrats are bankrupt — literally, figuratively, and morally.

Mrs. Crabtree

I may be overly cautious, but before you start popping the bubbles on that bubble wrap, the air in those bubbles probably came from China!

Jim Fitch

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