Opinion

Sound Off: July 5, 2024

Sun Herald readers

July 4, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.·2 min read

Better than jail

Don’t see how Donald Trump can fool the Christian right about his beliefs. He has broken the Ten Commandments into pieces and is unable to do any better. He is only wanting to be president so he won’t go to jail.

Reality TV

What happened to Donald Trump revealing his pick for vice president? He plays the media like an episode of reality TV. A teaser until the next episode.

Stop the balloons

Mourners released dozens, if not hundreds of balloons in “honor” of Jackie Davis and you publicized it? Florida just enacted a statewide ban on balloon releases because of the horrendous wildlife and other ecological damages. Since simple common sense doesn’t prevail, Mississippi should pass a similar law.

Attacks on Trump

Now that the zombie president has been outed, the attacks on Donald Trump are in overdrive. Democracy is at stake.

Enough Biden

Regarding the presidential candidates, I do have to agree with Donald Trump when he said that if President Biden continues to be our leader he will have us in a third World War. The leaders of other countries I feel are more fearful of Trump and look upon Biden as being a weak leader. The U.S. has to have a strong leader. People better wake up and think about the shape the U.S. will be in if Biden is office another four years. And shame on Jill Biden for encouraging him to continue, when he is clearly cognitively impaired.

Content crucial

There are two aspects to a debate: performance and content. Donald Trump won on performance. President Biden won on content. Content is more important than performance, so I intend to vote for Biden.

Best interests?

A writer is afraid of a Donald Trump presidency because, in their opinion, he doesn’t have the country’s best interests in his platform. Have no idea what this means, but President Biden clearly, factually, doesn’t have the country’s best interests at heart by allowing millions and millions of illegal immigrants to cross into our country, which has caused havoc in many places, regretfully some of which has been tragic.

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