Sound Off for April 27, 2024

Sun Herald readers
·2 min read

The border

It is indeed quite funny to think anyone in this country would blame anyone but President Biden for the disaster at the border. Ten million have come in since he took over and now folks blaming Republicans for the lack of a bill? Those ten million will still be here, bill or not.

Border bill

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives did pass a border bill and sent it up to the Democrat-controlled Senate where it has languished for almost one year.

Trusted sources

Sound Off is a place for people to share opinions. It is refreshing to hear other people’s insights and ideas. However, it often becomes a place of false information when some people base their opinions solely on FOX News and Newsmax. One writer wrote that Donald Trump did not like the border bill because 5,000 people would still be allowed to enter the U.S. each day. If the writer had followed this story in literally any other news source, the writer would know that Trump was against the bill because he needed border chaos to be a campaign point for him. Trump wants chaos down there so that he can then get a bill passed and get the credit. It was all over the news, so there is no excuse for anyone to be confused.

Our president

Could the media please put President Biden on in a way where he doesn’t implode into constant gaffes? It’s not funny anymore. The decline is obvious to my 4-year-old grandson.

Another idea

I have a better idea. Since we’re proposing impossible scenarios, round up all the aggressors, avengers, and protesters on both sides of any issues, put them in time out until they promise to apologize and love each other, live in harmony, and raise their children to be understanding of others not just like themselves.

Multilingual

That’s actually a good idea. The United States is just about the only country that only speaks one language. We should start with the countries closest to us first. English would be our first language, Spanish our second language, Russian our third language. Wait, English isn’t even our first language. Native American languages are all before English.

Missing person

Donald Trump supporters, where is Melania Trump? She has not been to one Trump visit to court. She has not spoken on her husband’s behalf. She has not been seen with her husband. My point is, where is his spousal support? Make you wonder.

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