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Re: ‘Transgender’ Adults Don’t Like the Two-Gender Passport Policy

“Boohoo! First of all, there are only two genders: male and female. Wearing different outfits or changing hairstyles doesn’t change your gender! No one really cares what gender you think you are, so get a life and move on, or start seeing a shrink for your mental illness. Eighty percent of Americans feel this way, so move on or move out!” —Washington

Re: Democrats Aim for the DOGE Shutdown

“‘Congress decides by statute what the government will spend taxpayer money on.’ And therein lies the problem — Congress is not spending money it has collected through taxation; it is printing and spending money that has not been properly appropriated through taxation. If the government was only spending taxpayer money, the budget would be equal to what was collected through taxes the previous year. The concept of spending collected taxes has been twisted to spending and then collecting taxes to pay for it.” —Montana

Re: Trump, Musk, and Social Security

“It’s a crime to force successive generations into these pyramid schemes. They would have far better returns if they were allowed to invest their money in Roth retirement accounts. Democrats dishonestly decry ‘privatization,’ but it has worked well for both Chile and Switzerland. The hard part is the transition. The rest of the government will have to be cut back severely and much federal property sold to fund existing dependents. Not doing so risks a collapse like Chile had with its old system.” —Minnesota

Re: Slashing EPA Regulations

“With the money spent on the Green New Deal and other wastes before that, we could have built enough clean nuclear power plants to power the whole country in ANY weather and not have to deal with the waste from batteries and windmills.” —Illinois

“I’m pretty certain that personal philosophy does not insulate one from the tenets of law. Mostly peaceful burning of property is still a felony and should be prosecuted. Has any money from the BLM movement repaired the damage done to the public?” —Washington

Re: ‘Reduction in Force’ at Department of Education

“To understand the decline in student achievement, just follow the timeline. In the 1960s, the NEA morphed from an organization of shared classroom lessons and techniques to an organized labor union, ostensibly to benefit students. As a union, it lobbied for and finally got a Cabinet-level Department of Education, through which it influences the nation’s education directly. Combining these events and the political influence the teachers unions politically wield, it has massively increased the salaries of teachers and administrators while presiding over a steady decline in academic skills via the implementation of classroom structures that produce equity, not excellence.” —New York

Re: Having Good Hands

“Thanks, Rhinehart. I am a girl and didn’t get my pocketknife until I was older, but my dad took me hunting one year for the adventure of my life. All the men in my life— dad, husband, sons, son-in-law, and now grandsons — can all wield a pocketknife, stripping electrical wires, gouging holes or wedges and marking off lengths on a board, or cutting off a length of cord. My father-in-law could peel an apple in one unbroken length with his pocketknife. Men and boys taking care of things. You moved me to tears, Rhinehart. You really did.” —North Carolina