Sound Off: October 7, 2025

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

Underhanded

A woman in Arizona has been elected to fill a vacant congressional seat. This election was very significant as her single vote allows a petition to go forward to release the Epstein files. To stop a petition vote, Republican Speaker Johnson has postponed her swearing in, over and over. Usually it’s one day after election. President Trump’s illegal national guard deployment distractors will continue, but not allowing the swearing-in of an elected Congresswoman is unprecedented and is beyond underhanded.

Remember the balloons

Has anyone seen any Chinese balloons flying over American airspace since Donald Trump became president?

How about that?

t’s so funny that the very states afraid President Obama would invade them are now sending troops to other states and cities saying it’s patriotic.. The tyrannical far right is neither patriotism nor American.

Farmers

President Trump is considering a $10 billion bailout for our farmers who have been affected by the tariff war. The tariff war that he himself created. So not only do Americans have to pay extra for the tariffs, we now also have to pay from our pockets, $10 billion dollars to save the farmers?

Warfighting

Our Secretary of War is appealing to the wrong capabilities for our military. He should be appealing to brains vs. brawn. Tactics, not pushups, win wars—an early example: David vs Goliath. The point tip of our warfighting spear, the Seals, the Rangers, the Marines, have always been fit. We have to outsmart our enemies.

Be in shape

I really don’t think it’s asking too much of our military leaders to hold themselves to a respectable standard of fitness.

America is back

Behind the strength of President Trump and Sec. Hegseth, we are making our military great again.

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