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Sound Off: August 1, 2024

Vice President Joe Biden salutes toward former President George W. Bush.
Vice President Joe Biden salutes toward former President George W. Bush. NorthJersey.com-USA TODAY NETWORK

Misusing the office

Lame duck President Biden highlighted his focus in the waning months of this virtual administration. He’s going to radically alter the Supreme Court because Democrats don’t like it when the Court rules against them on high-profile issues. In all facets of government, their view must prevail or it isn’t legitimate. So, they’ll try any action to pack the court, threaten justices or whatever it takes to force verdicts to be progressive approved or else. Remember when they didn’t physically protect majority Justices after Roe vs Wade was modified?

Unequal justice

Why is it taking so long to prosecute the criminals who stole from Mississippi’s welfare fund? It appears that if you have money to hire lawyers who will appeal, and delay is being abused.

Harris’ husband

Kamala Harris is not an anti-Semite. She is married to a Jewish man. This is what I get upset about when I read Sound Off. Some people don’t fact-check their posts, so they make ignorant statements. Quit spreading your ignorance in the Sound Off section. Just take a minute to research your statements.

The rest of the story

In the video you see a police officer in a kitchen facing a mentally disturbed woman who called 911 on herself. She takes a pot of boiling water off the stove and essentially says she’s going to baptize the officer. Then comes the stupid part, the officer shoots her dead. When describing this incident, the Sun Herald’s reprint of the Newsweek article immediately points out what was the important part of the story: the woman was Black and cop was White. They took a tragic story and decided to try and divide us along racial lines. Ever remember reading a story of the Black cop that shot a White woman? No, because it doesn’t fit the current progressive Democrat needs. We must resist these despicable efforts to stoke racial hatred. Both cop and woman were wrong and that should have been the story.

Contrast

The contrast couldn’t be greater: an intelligent, articulate and capable woman with an even temperament and a sense of humor; or a mean, vindictive and unstable sociopath with verbal diarrhea.

A chicken?

Donald Trump is so afraid of debating VP Kamala Harris. You have to wonder why. Could it be, he’s afraid of the intelligent lawyer? At his rally, he boasted about her falling her bar exam for the first time. So, if he thinks she’s not smart, why is he so afraid of debating her?

Least educated

Mississippi has once again been designated as America”s least-educated state. Our politicians certainly understand that. It’s no wonder higher level politicians never get prosecuted and nothing changes.

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This story was originally published July 31, 2024 at 2:00 AM.

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