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Sound Off: December 11, 2025

Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 3, 2025 in New York City.
Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 3, 2025 in New York City. Getty Images for The New York Times

Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.

Club America

Public officials should make sure they are not repeating fake news before taking sides on issues like Christian children wanting a Club America Chapter at Gulfport High. Charlie Kirk and his staff promotes Christian values like work instead of welfare, marriage instead of irresponsible lifestyle, biblical values of sexual identity and more. I challenge everyone posting that they promote racism to give us an example.

Complaints

Yes, the president does give us something new to complain about every day. It’s called distraction.

No sense

Drugs are coming into country from a lot of countries via a lot of routes. If drug traffickers are delivering via small boats, they are not major suppliers. Try the big shipping containers and planes dropping them who knows where. These bombings are done for something else, and Venezuela is their target.

That Dem ticket

I saw a very funny satirical piece yesterday. It was Gov. Walz in a conversation with Kamala Harris, stating he could not believe he was responsible for $1 billion in fraud. Kamala responded, you know we blew through $1.6 billion in 170 days.

Affordability

Its no wonder President Trump, after campaigning on it, now calls “affordability” a scam and a hoax. Nearly every middle- and lower-class American knows what affordability means. The everything-gold obsessed president has no clue because he has always lived the life of a millionaire. His family has made more than $3 billion this year alone leveraging the presidency. Who is really being scammed?

MAAA

Make America Affordable Again for the middle and lower classes.

Thank you!

Thanks to the person who brought back my umbrella to the Diamondhead Country Club and put it in lost and found. I got it back yesterday. Thanks again.

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