Sound Off: June 4, 2025
Sun Herald readers weigh in on local and national topics.
Selena Gomez recently said about her dear friend Taylor Swift, 'We don't agree on everything, but we respect each other with everything.' Oh that liberals and conservatives could relate to one another like that! Our nation would be infinitely better off.
The judicial overreach by liberal Democrat judges is simple. How can a city or county circuit judge rule over the entire United States of America? Doesn't make sense.
Former president Bill Clinton stated that he did not see any cognitive decline in Joe Biden. Must be true because everybody knows Bill would never tell a lie.
The denizens of the deep state are finally emerging from the depths of the swamp. They are the appointees of the Trump administration.
The Supreme Court just blocked an attempt to ban legal purchase of semiautomatic weapons. Now they need to get rid of the block on automatic weapons. Criminals have them, so law abiding citizens should be able to get them. Criminals shouldn't have an advantage over law abiding citizens.
I generally understand the theories of how we can increase revenues to the federal treasury. We can create growth with reductions in tax, federal waste, reform and any other program that we can introduce hoping to that end result. What I do not understand is, if it does work, how are we going to stop Congress from spending all that savings and not using any of it to actually pay down the existing debt. Let's add an amendment to any new legislation making it mandatory the savings apply only to old debt.
The president, and FOX Entertainment should be ashamed for their absence of integrity and morals. You'd think that an educated Republican would see the collusion between lying FOX News and President Trump's placement of unqualified FOX News and entertainment anchors on his Cabinet and even watchdog agencies.
It was disappointing to see a post in which the writer was promoting anger. This individual didn't agree with the idea there was a store trailer a few feet from a 'no mobile vending' sign. This person asks in the post 'where is your anger, people'? I agree with the main point of the post. But anger? Why does any disagreement bring anger, let alone such a petty issue.
I had no intention of voting in the Gulfport mayoral race this year. As a result of the shenanigans of last week I have changed my mind. I have decided to go vote and hold my nose as I mark my ballot.
I don't know if the billing department for the Gulfport water department is disorganized or technologically outdated, but once again I've gotten a late bill with 2 payments due.
If local elections didn't allow a candidate to identify with a party, none of the absolute garbage and insanity would be going on in Gulfport. There is no need for party identification on the local level. Cities here are small enough that a candidate can campaign without such attachment for funding. The party ideology has no place in running our cities. This election is a perfect example of how asinine it is to attach yourself so vehemently to a party. Residents can't make a reasonably good choice because the waters are so muddy you don't know who these people really are to even make a decent decision.
A GOP senator was defending cuts to Medicaid saying 'we are all going to die.' Yes, but we want to be cared for until the end. Maybe they will legalize euthanasia next.
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