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Keep waiting: In a more perfect world, sexual predator Deshaun Watson would apologize to every woman who ever lived for his treatment of their gender, China would admit that COVID originated in one of their test labs and Trump would own up to his false claim that he was victimized in the 2020 election and promise to never mislead the American people ever again, followed by an insincere apology for telling yet another lie.
Column spot on: Thank you, Donna Vickroy, for your insightful column on drive-through, fast-food establishments. This information is for all of the fast-food franchises managers and CEOs. Your workers are sullen, disrespectful and don’t care about customer service. Fifty percent of the time the orders are incorrect after waiting unbelievable amounts of time. Take the time to hire appropriate people, people that really want to work, not the ones just working because the money is there.
Sabotaging our system: A flood of baseless accusations is being spread about the FBI, DOJ, IRS and election workers that are meant to cause a distrust of our government. Members of one of our major political parties are desperately attempting to plant baseless seeds that the current administration is corrupting these agencies. Does the American public understand these agencies are mix of both Republicans and Democrats loyal to our country and would certainly leak corruption if there were any truth to these hog wash accusations? These accusers have only one thing in common: political sabotage!
Hillary investigation done: A Speak Out commenter asked when the FBI is going to go after Hillary Clinton. Well, the Trump administration had four years to go after her. In case you missed it, Congressional committees run by Republicans spent over $80 million investigating her. She sat for 11 hours of interrogation by Republican House committees and they didn’t lay a glove on her. They didn’t find anything worthy of indictment. And, oh yes, unlike Trump and his associates, she didn’t have to take the Fifth Amendment even once.
No gas tax for electric cars: I just have one question. If the gas tax is being used for roads, bridges and public transportation to help them along, what are electric cars going to do to bring gas tax back to the marketplace? They’re using the same roads, bridges and public transportation.