Sound Off: July 6, 2025
Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.
Climate change
What makes you think the climate will never change? It always has, a little at a time. People adapt and overcome. The hysteria about it has an agenda to scam you into panic and unnecessary effort to stop it, which isn’t possible. Your climate change is all a scam based on computer models. Garbage in, garbage out. It has rained hard enough to close roads in the past; it will again in the future.
Rand Paul
Has anyone noticed that trump has not threatened to primary Sen. Rand Paul? Wonder why.
Elon Musk
Why is Elon Musk such a large part of our country’s political process? Check out his Wikipedia entry. He has no record of any elected position. He seems to be an emotionally and morally erratic smart person whose past political affiliations are all over the place.
Iran
President Obama brokered a deal with Iran in 2015 to reduce 97% of its nuclear site in exchange for the removal of sanctions against Iran. Other nations were involved with us in this deal. Part of the deal was that these nations and us would have international monitoring of Iran’s nuclear site. It was a great deal. The international monitoring was in place. We knew that Iran was following the deal because we were monitoring the site. When Trump first became president, he was out to get revenge on Obama. Trump lied and said that the Iran deal was a bad one, and that no one was monitoring Iran. It was another lie of his where he kept repeating it until his base accepted it. Trump then scrapped the deal with the blessing of his base. Iran immediately returned to making nuclear weapons. Now, we have a problem.
His words
A quote from Trump on July 1st, “DOGE is gonna look at Musk and if DOGE looks at Musk, we’re gonna save a fortune.” It begs a question: why didn’t DOGE save that fortune when Musk was running DOGE? Trump’s childish rant exposes the corruption within his administration. It’s out in the open for all to see if they listen to what he says.
Sad
Mississippi ranks last nationally in average teacher pay and falls far behind nearby states like Georgia and Alabama. While the state covers health premiums for the employee alone, teachers must pay the full cost for dependents — up to $926 per month — which can slash take-home pay by more than 20%
Big and beautiful
Thrilled to see what’s going on with President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill. Whether you like it or not, we are getting what we voted for.
Revenge
Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired three Jan. 6 prosecutors. In the meantime, the attackers have been pardoned. This is blatantly an injustice.
Alligator Alcatraz
Kudos to Florida governor Ron DeSantis. We should find more inhospitable land and put prisons there.
Nice stunt
Look, another stunt from Sen. Hakeem Jeffries. That’s apparently what the Democrats have been reduced to — talking to temporarily stall a bill that everyone knows is going to pass.
Ready for the truth
Honestly, I don’t know who to believe, as far as the alleged cuts to Medicaid. Guess I’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
Great work
So, in the dead of night, Trump Republicans stripped millions of Americans of their health care, took support away from families trying to put food on the table and gave a whole bunch of money to their billionaire donors.
Lunacy
The latest mental midgets to comment on their hate for all things Trump are Charlize Theron and John Cusack. Awards or no awards, they are simply not very bright.
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