Sound Off: March 30, 2025
Just admit it
I’d sure feel a whole lot better about my government if the folks in charge could just, for once in their lives, admit that they might, maybe, possibly have made a mistake. And without the incessant “But what about the other side ...?”
Unsightly
There is a very large dumpster near the street on Tegarden Road. I assume it’s for the apartment building adjacent to it. I have reported to the city; it looks like they just moved it back a little. It is an eyesore. If we have an ordinance to not park cars outside of our driveway, surly this too should be considered unacceptable.
You’re right
A Sound Off writer was upset that folks are not mentioning the bungled retreat from Afghanistan when discussing the Signal story. And the more I thought about it, the more I think he’s right. But let’s not stop with Afghanistan. Heck, let’s go back to the Iran-Contra affair. Or Watergate. How about the War of 1812? Where, exactly, should we stop?
Twisted logic
The rationale Ella Holmes-Hines is using to try to avoid repaying council salary over payments is right out of President Trump’s playbook of twisted logic.
Too late?
I have lost almost all hope. The Republicans are too stupid to recognize the importance of universal tax-based health, education, environmental, and other social programs to the strength and vitality of America, plus the importance of democratic allies in this dangerous world, and the Democrats were recently too stupid to recognize the importance of protecting our borders and the price of eggs, and to avoid self-inflicted blood-letting by getting caught up in peripheral cultural issues. Now both sides spawn more and more people who are rigid, angry, insulting, and provocative. The two parties seem like trains speeding toward one another in a tunnel. Can a crash still be avoided? Is it too late? Are compromise and cooperation still possible? Or is widespread political violence now inevitable?
Thumbs up
DOGE is exactly that. No benefits are being cut, they’re actually being improved.
Great work, Joe
According to The Daily Show, President Biden’s Build Back Better program spent $42 billion to connect a grand total of zero homes.
Upside down
Some people are in La La Land. The Atlantic most definitely does not operate or program the Signal app. And, the measles outbreak is being caused by unvaccinated Americans following wackos like Secretary Kennedy, not immigrants. And, tuberculosis is a bacterium, not a virus.
Make Measles Great Again
It takes about six seconds to search the web and find out that the Texas measles outbreak began in a hyper-religious area, where vaccinations are rare. Is illegal immigration bad? Yes. Does it have anything to do with this? No.
Signal
We have top Trump administration officials sharing war plans by way of text, and they didn’t even know they were sharing it with outsiders. When it became known, they have came up with every lie conceivable. Let’s not forget the name-calling. They should be telling the world that they should lock themselves up, like they suggested for Hillary Clinton. They put so many lives on the line with this outrageous mistake.
Funny stuff
I’m just trying to imagine how the folks in the Trump administration and the right-wing media would be reacting if the Signal scandal included Barack Obama, Joe Biden and a bunch of Democrats.
Can the center hold?
I fear for a country that lurches back and forth between two extremes. In the USA it’s Donald Trump at one extreme and Bernie Sanders at the other. We’ve got to find something in the middle or we will tear apart. In that case everyone will suffer for a very long time.
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