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Fix the real problems: Education may be a key to success in America, but if we don’t fix the real problems — the decline of the nuclear family, mental health challenges and the liberal woke agenda in all its forms — all we’ll have are educated, personally confused criminals.
No reason to visit: I get a kick out of people who are convinced we’ve been visited by aliens. For starters, why would intelligent beings from another universe ever be interested in mankind? Even from a far-off galaxy they have to see that Earthlings are not to be trusted. What’s more, we’ve proven time and again to be incapable of ever embracing anyone who looks and acts differently than ourselves.
Easier than balloons: Republicans are up in arms about the Chinese balloon. I guess the Chinese didn’t realize that you can go to maps on your smartphones and get a picture of any military base in the country.
They don’t deserve this: There is one big thing lacking in the slurs and accusations being made against Dr. Anthony Fauci and his wife — actual proof beyond something posted on social media or FOX. These two doctors have been great public servants working for us and it is disheartening to see and hear them disparaged and accused of outrageous things.
Don’t be duped: I think these Speak Out writers who are so in love with their assault weapons ought to go to these communities like Highland Park, El Paso and others that have had these horrific mass shootings and read their comments to the people. What these folks don’t understand is the people of this country do not want these weapons in the hands of civilians. The only people that want to see these weapons out there are the ones who make them and the fools they dupe into believing there’s some kind of constitutional right to own them.
Hats off to firefighters: I know this is Black History Month, but did anybody know that January was Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month. They should have some recognition too. Fire services are the life of this country.
No repercussions: The guns and the laws are not the problem, it’s the woke liberal state’s attorneys who are the problem. There are no repercussions. The police arrest the criminals and they are let free within the next day, if not sooner. I guarantee that if they made a mandatory five years in prison if caught with an illegal gun, criminals would think twice. Slowly but surely, they will be all locked up rather than running the streets.