After finding $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments since 2020, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified California, New York and Massachusetts as the primary culprits. The three Democrat-led states accounted for $305 million (80%) in improper claim payments. Nobody should be surprised that the evil, corrupt Democrat party is behind this violent DOGE resistance movement. Americans should be protesting Democrats, demanding they keep their “Hands Off” taxpayers’ dollars.
Patriot45/47
Democrats have told us that we can’t have voter ID because minority voters can’t obtain a photo ID. Democrats have now told us that women can’t prove their citizenship prior to registering to vote because it is too hard. So I guess that means only white men can do anything, according to the Democratic Party.
Vicky
The Democrats are vicious and hateful. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett mocked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who is disabled, calling him “Governor Hot Wheels,” and she said, “And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-*ss mess, honey.” She also said, “… Ted Cruz. I mean, this dude has to be knocked over the head, like hard, right?” Talk about unhinged threats and hate.
Michael Stern
The Republican Party is a mess. Elon tried and failed to buy an election. Classified information is leaked by an incompetent security team on Signal. The economy tanked by issuing stupid tariffs. The head of the Republican Party announced that the party is being sued in 81 states (don’t we still have 50?) They are a huge embarrassment! and the poor and middle class are going to suffer greatly!
Jay Miller
Democrats loved billionaires when they were in charge. But now that they’ve been relegated to inconsequential nobodies without a say in how America is governed, they serve only as comedic fodder. Billionaires like Carnegie, Astor, Vanderbilt, Ford, Getty, Mellon, and DuPont built the foundation of our great nation. Without them, our country would be a peripheral nation relying on support from core nations to survive. Attacking billionaires is as ignorant and hypocritical as it gets.
Professor Potts
America, I worked 57 years, retired, and was fishing Monday at a private farm pond at around 10:45 am outside of Zieglerville. A car with 4 unknown actors inside a small silver vehicle driving down Route 29 screamed at me, “Hope you don’t catch no —-ing fish!” I was shocked and thought these would be the people I’ll be reading about on the front page of the Mercury someday. Just saying America
Big Ben
There they go again. Lefty and Jay Miller are making stuff up. Lefty is claiming there are cuts to Veterans benefits and also claiming massive protests across the country protesting the mythical cuts — there are no cuts. Jay Miller is repeating a lie he has written numerous times about a trade deal with Canada and Mexico — Jay admits that you made it up.
Nancy Lessig
Shanticia and Kayon’s daughter Sa’Niya was a happy and healthy baby. During a visit to the hospital, she was given 6 shots of 12 different vaccines. Shortly thereafter, Sa’Niya’s health took a dramatic turn for the worse, which led to her death. No, there’s no actual proof of wrongdoing, but does anyone believe shewouldn’t still be alive, had she not been given those shots?
Anti-Vaxxer
Sound Off MAGAs tell me: When did America become a place where people take joy in suffering? Celebrating job losses, cheering immigrant arrests, ignoring terrified schoolchildren, and applauding when neighbors lose public assistance — what happened to basic human decency?
RealAmerica
Realist, I apologize, I was thinking of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the secretary is more of just a “wise” political appointment, sometimes.
The Moderate
This morning, there was a great line in Karen Bracken’s Truth Bomb article. It totally reminded me of our 4 years under Joe Biden. “There obviously is zero oversight in our government. Is this incompetence or is it done on purpose and laced with kickbacks?” It reminded me of Biden’s first year, when we all were scratching our heads, and asking, “Are they all this foolish or are they doing this on purpose?”
H John
I am so sick of the Democrats trying to stop Trump on everything he does. For at least 8 years now, Democrats have tried to stop him with impeachments, shootings, and lawfare and nothing has worked. God help us if there wasn’t someone as strong as Trump who loves this country as president. Anyone else would be eaten alive by the hateful dems. I have never seen such hatred like this in my lifetime.
Dot
Dr. Ross, Bless your heart! Under a different administration, Goldberg would have never been published! Signal is flawed, added during Biden’s administration! Comparing to Clinton’s server destruction is a stretch! Hillary had an unsecured server in a bathroom closet! Hillary deleted 30,000+ emails, then “bleach bit” applied to the server! And how did FBI director Comey explain and cover that, ” she (Hillary) used bad judgement, made a mistake”!
Just the facts!
Democrats: I believe I’m a frog. You must also believe I’m a frog. If you refuse to believe I’m a frog, you are afraid of me and full of hate. Republicans: You are not a frog.
Kermit
RealAmerica, you propose a world where most people are kept in borderline poverty (as our current welfare processes do) while having a very few filthy rich. Musk and Trump demonstrate a world where anyone willing to work can do well. Do you have a single clue as to how many very well-paid Musk hires? You obviously believe that Musk is filthy rich based on the sweat labor of his poverty-level employees.
Cato
You too can be mentally ill and be elected to any office you want. Just put money in the right place.
Night Light
How many Democrat politicians does it take to solve a problem? No one knows, because it never has happened before.
Billy G.
Recently, I hung a world map in the kitchen, handed my Bride a dart and said, “Throw the dart and wherever it lands, we’ll spend a couple of weeks there.” She threw the dart and, once again, I lucked out. Two weeks, “behind the fridge” won’t be that bad!
Jim Fitch
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