The Mercury's Sound Off for Saturday, February 21

Getting your

Trinity Audioplayer ready...I see where Pa. wants to survey the worst driving habits. I’m wondering how some ever passed the driver’s test. Pulling up partially into the intersection to let others go around you when waiting for someone to make a left turn. Yes – Get going when the light turns green instead of looking at your phone. Yes, car manufacturers put too many distractions in newer cars. Big screens with all kinds of distractions.

Ooops, AOC, you have shown the world just how stupid you are. Thank you for your words. You’re a deer caught in headlights, no doubt about it. Please don’t run for the presidency — you will make an awful one.

In a few years, the Pottsgrove High protesters may look back and cringe at how naïve they were — assuming reality doesn’t catch up first. Ask the families of Kate Steinle, Mollie Tibbetts, Sarah Root, Grant Ronnebeck, Iryna Zarutska, Jamiel Shaw Jr., and Laken Riley. They paid the price for policies these activists treat like virtue signals. Reality doesn’t care about slogans – it hits harder than hashtags, and it never asks activists for permission.

Missy Miss

I know Democrats in Congress aren’t the brightest, but why call something “Jim Crow 2.0” and bring attention to their racist past policies? While they are at it, Democrats should remind everyone how their party delayed women’s right to vote for 40 years.

Robert Minninger

Saturday was a pretty racist day for me. I had to show my ID to board a plane home, had to show my ID to rent a car, had to show my ID to buy a case of beer, had to show my ID to buy a pack of cigarettes, and then I had to show my ID a fifth time to pick up a prescription. It’s so dehumanizing and traumatizing! Felony Don the Orange Con and his MAGA cult are ruining what was once a great country.

Lefty Lucy

President Trump just signed a long-overdue common-sense bill to stop sending welfare and Social Security checks to dead people. It’s expected to save billions of taxpayer dollars. Thank you, President Donald J. Trump!

Sally from Bally

Trump signed an executive order to cancel the basis for limiting emissions on tailpipe exhaust and cancel pollution controls of power plants. We are now less healthy, less safe, and less able to control climate change. The fossil fuel industry makes more money. Surprise!

Jay Miller

Florida’s new “Halo Law” requires activists to stay at least 25 feet from police and ICE agents while they’re working. Officers must first give a verbal warning to move back. Ignoring it will lead to a second-degree misdemeanor, up to 60 days in jail, a $500 fine, and seizure of your phone or camera if used during the violation. The goal is to prevent harassment or interference with law enforcement. MAGA!

Righty Tighty

Diana just refuses to face the facts. If a person is in the United States illegally, that makes them a criminal. As such, they are subject to arrest, imprisonment, or deportation. She’s either too dense or too brainwashed.

Masked thugs on the streets. Measles outbreaks across the nation. Blatant government corruption. Cover-up of elite sex offenders. The ruling party is trying to rig elections. The leader is building grandiose monuments to himself. Destruction of nonpartisan civil service. Agent Orange is turning America into a third-world country!

RealAmerica

Democrats do not hate America or Christians. Nor do they love pedophiles, drug runners or undocumented murderers. Protestors are not paid and do not deserve to be murdered by ICE. Dot, you can name all undocumented victims, and I can triple them by US citizen victims. All you people have is nonsensical emotional rhetoric and Trump’s deranged words to back you up. You are only fooling yourselves.

Diana

The Anti-ICE mob is a cult. Any doubt has been removed. Nurses, teachers, etc., are rightfully losing their jobs and licenses for telling people to poison ICE agents. Never Trumper Rick Wilson wants Trump’s senior advisor, Stephen Miller, literally hanged. Governor Walz calls ICE the Gestapo. Pastors who side with this mob should look at who they are siding with.

Michael Stern

Imagine for a moment that you go to church with your spouse and small children to worship and confirm your belief in God. Suddenly, a group of people burst in, start yelling and screaming at you and the priest or minister. Your children start crying, and these people continue to scream in your face. You are so afraid that there is nothing you can do. What if this happened to you in your church?

RO in NHT

We try to teach our kids not to lie because it’s dishonest, and it will come back to let people know not to trust you. Then the kids see the President lie every day on TV. They know he’s lying. What do we tell them? Daddy Fred told him to lie, never admit you’re wrong, and never apologize when you screw up. He’s undercutting all the decency we’re trying to instill in our kids.

It’s a miracle I got home last night. ICE was shooting people left and right — bodies everywhere. Now I just have to stay healthy so the rogue nurses don’t get me.

On the alert

Hey, you guys on the left. You do realize all of these issues we’re having today with the illegal immigrants are because of one thing: the Biden administration lied to us; told us the border was secure while millions crossed daily, unvetted, unvaccinated, and no criminal background checks. Remember those lies? This is what Miller voted for, and now s/hes complaining that the present administration is trying to fix it.

Still Amazed

Just trying to keep up with all of the political stuff without all of the emotions, none of our angst is going to change anything! Were you aware that our last president was cognitively impaired? He wasn’t all there. This president is aware that we do know that he’s paying attention and is trying to improve the situation. So, whether you approve of his platforms or not, he certainly is a huge improvement over the last guy.

H John

Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure can buy politicians.

Night Light

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