The Mercury’s Sound Off for Sunday, Sept. 10

Between July and August, a staggering 1.2 million American citizens lost their jobs. Meanwhile, they were replaced in the workforce by 688,000 foreign-born folks. You can thank Bidenomics for this wonderful turn of events. The source is the Daily Mail.

Ruth Mutter

Inflation is a right-wing hoax Lefty says. You must be doing pretty good to not see that the left, right, and middle are all suffering under the Inflation Reduction Act. It’s time to start blaming the Biden regime and do something next election before we are a socialist country.

Dot

I can’t remember a Sound Off post that hit me more than Patriot45’s entry on Sept. 5th. In it he cites the unprecedented economic, political, social, military, moral and global decline of our precious country in the short time Biden has been in office. Can you even imagine where we will be not only a year from now, but in four years should he win the next election? Lord do we need a regime change!

Greg Levengood

Trump claims he was just following the advice of his counsel when he committed all those allegedly criminal actions. But you don’t get to hide behind your lawyers to commit crimes, you don’t get to cherry-pick which lawyer’s advice you like and then follow it, and the advice has to have been reasonable, to begin with. None of that is true here.

Patriot54

When hear the left say “The Whole World is Watching”… I think about how the whole world IS watching and what they are witnessing, and thinking. And based on some of my friends I’ve made around the world… they are thinking “When did America become such a circus?” And “Why are Americans letting the clowns run the show?” Historians will look at this period and wonder the same thing.

Professor Potts

Minninger, the reason that the candidate that’s out on bail was indicted so soon is that he incriminated himself at every turn, and it was all recorded. His big mouth gave prosecutors all the evidence they needed. Hunter Biden didn’t do that. If Jim Jordan and James Comer had all the evidence they claim they have, they would be sharing it with the world, like a second-grade tattletale. They have nothing.

JR, if and when Trump gets convicted for and of his charges, most likely he will do a brief stint at “Club Fed” and have his sentence commuted thus reducing the added cost of his security detail. Dot, we don’t doubt you can read, we doubt your sources. The overall ineptitude of the Biden Administration is matched by the pandering of the Trump Administration to the extreme right.

The Moderate

I know you’re sick of being told you’re a conspiracy theorist for questioning the 2020 election, but how could Biden have won without it being rigged? A guy who could barely get a dozen people at rallies and spent most of his campaign in the cellar, while Hunter’s scandals were routinely covered up by the media. And, yet he supposedly acquired more than any president ever. Got any more bridges for sale?

Stinger

Should past and present members of Congress pay for the mishandling of Social Security?

Night Light

Was a recent story on civil rights struggles a carefully crafted exercise in deception? Not cited was the elephant in the room, a Democrat Party which, to this day and through the likes of BLM, fosters disintegration of the nuclear family while detracting from Black-on-Black murder (nearly half of all homicides) and denying school choice to those most desirous of it.

M. Furlong

Sound Off readers may sometimes miss the postings that are clearly satirical, like The Realist’s joke that the hottest summer in earth’s history isn’t (ahem) real because it wasn’t that hot where s/he lives. It’s a brilliant skewering of bad logic — worthy of the great Emily L — that also applies to other problems affecting whole societies, and planets: “If it didn’t happen to me it isn’t real.” Well done, The Realist.

MendaciousD

The Moderate will go to great lengths to twist the truth to support his/her radical progressive Democrat ideology. The question posed to disgraced hypocrite elitist John Kerry wasn’t whether or not he owned a jet. It was about how often he flew on private jets to spread climate change propaganda. Asking a Democrat like The Moderate to focus on the facts is like asking Bill Clinton if he had sex with his intern.

Peaches

An apple a day will keep anyone away if it’s thrown hard enough.

Bill Wilson

Anti-vaxxers, something to consider — just a brief list of diseases brought under control by vaccines, Polio, Tetanus, HepA & B, Measles, Rubella, Whooping Cough, Rotavirus, Mumps, Chicken Pox, Diptheria, Flu. I’m certainly not a doctor but then again neither are Dot and her fellow MAGA zealots. Common sense is all you need of which many daily contributors here have none.

Alzheimer’s Joe has spoken to the folks stuck in the mud at Burning Man, he said that he almost drowned once on the beach at Rehoboth. He fell asleep in his beach chair and the tide came in and washed against his feet.

MC923

Only in Jay Miller’s illogical and ignorant mind would any American citizen be compelled to prove their innocence. In the United States, the onus is upon the prosecution to prove guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. That my dear leftist friend is why The Donald has never been found guilty of any crime ever.

May Jiller

Barney, correct Jay Miller, Lefty, Stay Tuned, KC and the vast majority of Americans have no idea why the “Electoral College” was implemented! The “Founding Fathers” were very intelligent and far-sighted when establishing the “US Constitution,” the finest document ever penned! There’s a better chance of explaining how air fills a bag than explaining something to the Left! Public Schools lacking in History among other subjects!

Just the facts!

Oh Patricia, bless your heart! In July of 2019 – prior to Covid-crazy Democrats locking down America and crippling our economy – the average US gas price was $2.82. The average US gas price in July 2023 was $3.89. I understand you like to use fancy terms you know nothing about like “supply and demand,” but this 40% gas price increase has nothing to do with supply and demand, and everything to do with Joe Biden.

Missy Miss

After reading Sound Off on some days I feel very fortunate to have financial security. The constant complaining is pretty sad. The complainers don’t have the means no matter who is in charge. Inmate P1135809 only cared about the rich and didn’t give a rip about you. Joe Biden works hard for everybody. Joe Biden for President! Trump for Prison!

Lefty

This timeline says all you need to know about the Democrats and how they’ve weaponized the US justice system. 3/17: Hunter admits the laptop and its contents are his. 3/18: Trump indicted. 6/8: FBI receives documents proving Biden bribes. 6/9: Trump indicted. 7/26: Hunter’s shady plea deal collapses. 7/27: Trump indicted. 7/31: Devon Archer testified against Joe and Hunter. 8/1: Trump indicted. And 81 million low-intelligence Biden voters aren’t the least bit suspicious?

Barney

How sad it must be to believe that scientists, historians, economists, and journalists have devoted their lives to deceive you, while a reality star with decades of fraud and exhaustively documented lying is your only beacon of truth and honesty. MAGA!

Sometimes I shock myself by the smart things I say or do, but more often are the time I try to get out of the car with the seat belt still attached.

Jim Fitch

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