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Re: Washington: The Exodus

“I’ve lost respect for Kevin McCarthy. I agree his speakership ouster was shameful and a black mark on the GOP, so I can understand his resigning from the House. But I cannot comprehend or condone his leaving in midterm and making it easier for the Democrats to pursue their agenda. This is the act of a very small and selfish person. It’s also a microcosm of the problems the GOP has. Everyone is out for himself and gives little thought about what is best for America.” —California

“The complete corruption Congress has become demands a Convention of States to try to correct the mistakes witnessed by the population of taxpayers and patriots. It seems that when we elect senators and representatives, they go with good intentions. However, once within the cesspool of corruption, their attention turns to protecting the ‘institution of Congress,’ not the needs of the people. We have seen the federal government weaponized — bureaucratic agencies become law-writers disregarding the limitations of constitutional restrictions — and no one is being held accountable for this abuse of authority.” —Florida

“The greatest change in Congress over the last 50 years has been that swinging pendulum. The clock that pendulum swings on leans more left with every election. It is now leaning at about 45º. As the Left has moved further and further left, it’s pulled the mainstream moderates and centrists onto their turf. Now the middle-of-the-road fence-sitter is leaning so far left he can’t recover his balance.” —California

Re: Debating the Debatable Merits of Debates

“I sincerely hope all the Trump supporters actually get out and vote next November and not just stay home and assume he’ll win. In a normal world there would be no contest no matter who ran against Dementia Joe, but the world hasn’t been normal in many years. Knowing how efficient the Dems are at — shall we say — arranging things to go their way, there’s no guarantee that a Republican will win despite the pathetic shape the country is in. Personally I support DeSantis over Trump, even though I voted for Trump twice, since DeSantis has a rock-solid record, loves America as much as Trump does, and doesn’t have all the baggage. He’s a candidate people could vote for, and it wouldn’t be merely because they’re voting against the other guy.” —Pennsylvania

Re: Hunter Biden Indicted in California

“Americans of all beliefs and politics know this morally derelict tax cheat will never see a day of jail. His complicit father, as long as he wields the power of the presidency, will see to that. We who care for the grand vision of the Founders have come to realize the United States are no longer owned by people or patriots, for our wonderful constitutional republic has been bought and sold by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats for profit and their own personal interests.” —North Carolina

Re: $132 Billion and Counting

“By allowing student loan debtors to default without consequence, the Biden administration is letting them steal the funds that should go toward funding the next tranche of student loans. In other words, the money won’t be available for today’s elementary school students to go to college because Joe Biden wants to bribe voters who happen to owe money on loans they agreed of their own free will to repay. This is yet another reason for the oft-ignored constitutional limit on what the federal government can legally do — that limit should prevent much of this sort of political corruption. Student loans are no part of the legitimate scope of the federal government.” —Minnesota

Re: The Left’s False Pretense for Killing X

“Meta is nothing less than a socialist democratic propaganda machine turning out the lies and covering up the total failures of an administration that would rather censor citizens than place them as a first priority. We simply cannot allow the MSM to become the voice of a government that has decided the illegal alien is top priority.” —Florida

Re: How to Rein in the Regulatory State

“The solution is complex but mandatory, since every increase in administrative state control means less individual freedom. The first is Supreme Court repudiation of the Chevron Deference, a 1980s law that allowed the EPA to assess fines. Chevron put it on steroids. The Founders realized that government had to be constrained and established a self-governing system in which only those who were elected, and thereby beholden to the people, could assess taxes and fines. That was a brilliant move — until Congress abdicated its role to a bureaucratic agency in Chevron. The second method is to demand politicians follow the Constitution as written. No politician should be reelected if he increases spending and debt.” —Colorado

Re: Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Targets Women

“Do these ignorant wannabes ever think far enough ahead to wonder why hundreds of thousands of people were ‘born in the wrong bodies’? This social contagion is a stupid and dangerous fad (like the ‘Tide Pod Challenge’ and the ‘Blackout Challenge’) that has been promulgated by leftists.” —California

Re: The Tragic Aftershocks of ‘Gender Affirming’ Care

“The current standard of psychological and psychiatric ‘care’ for those manifesting as LGTBQ is the 21st-century equivalent of the late-19th-century patent medicines. So-called gender-affirming care is the most toxic, on par with the radium, mercury, or arsenic compounds in the worst of the panaceas once hawked to gullible people. Besides money, there may be another sinister motive to the ‘transition’ quackery. Many of those pushing it believe the world is overpopulated, so instead of treating the underlying mental illness behind gender dysphoria, they may be practicing eugenics by sterilizing their victims.” —Minnesota

“The surgeries performed on the young ladies are done without insurance, just like plastic surgery, and are frequently performed by those plastic surgeons. My oldest brother who had three children decided he was female and did go through the full surgery. But after several years he admitted that it didn’t make him happy or content and wished he hadn’t gone through with the transition.” —Colorado

Re: In Brief: The Anti-Human Depopulation Agenda

“Ironic considering that those same people are fully in favor of our open border allowing in millions of illegals, all of whom have lots of kids and will continue to have more now that their healthcare will be paid for by U.S. taxpayers. I’ve read this info before, but still don’t understand how the Left figured getting rid of white people would be their Final Solution when they’re replacing us with nonwhites who can’t and/or won’t support themselves and their ever-growing families. Eventually you’re going to run out of taxpayers.” —Pennsylvania