To the Editor:
Thank you for answering the question I’ve been asking. I genuinely want to understand how good people can see what I see and still support President Trump.
By your own admission, ninety percent of what I describe is real — the petty tweets, the name-calling, the chaos, the grift. You’re not denying it — you’re arguing it’s the price of having someone willing to pull the trigger when missiles fall.
If we see it, the world sees it too.
Our adversaries see volatility. Deterrence depends on credibility and stable coalitions. When policy shifts with mood, grievance or flattery, predictability disappears — and unpredictability is not strength.
As farmers know, when the barn burns down, friends matter.
You say when missiles drop, I’ll be glad he’s manning the guns. I’m saying behavior that isolates us makes it more likely we’ll be manning them alone. That doesn’t increase safety. It increases risk.
Sadly, the assassination of Lincoln wasn’t as unique as we’d all like it to be. But surviving an attack is not the same as providing steady leadership.
The real question for all of us is this: at what point does accepting instability as the price of protection become the very thing that makes us more vulnerable?
Pat Collins,
Fillmore, Ca.
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To the Editor:
The push for the Epstein files by the Democrats drawing attention away from their corruption has really backfired. The latest to fall in disgrace is Kathryn Ruemmler. Known as “Obama’s Fixer” and his White House Counsel. Two of her best known dirty deeds included Solyndra, a taxpayer loan of $535 million that benefited a campaign donor; a year later Solyndra filed for bankruptcy, paying back some investors’ losses. But not a penny to the taxpayer. And the questionable emails involving Benghazi and the coverup (remember HRC was Secretary of State, but used Susan Rice to lie “It was a video”). Ruemmler resigned Feb.12th from Goldman Sachs as Chief Legal Officer over her very close ties with Jeffrey Epstein AFTER he was convicted of child sex offenses. During 2014-2019 contact included dozens of personal meetings, emails, correspondence and gifts. At one time she was executor of his will. Yes, a very close friendship. When Epstein was arrested, she was the first person he called. Then there’s Epstein’s numerous dealings with Reid Hoffman, Brad Karp, Morgan McSweeney, Peter Manadelson and the list is growing. But the one whistleblower who tried to warn authorities of both Maxwell and Epstien BEFORE they were arrested was Donald Trump. How much of that have you heard on the MSM?
Today’s ‘ignore it and it will go away’ is to spotlight the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie or discredit the SAVE Act. Citizens on both sides approve of having an ID to vote. But the Democrat Politicians and media are again gaslighting using race/victimhood declaring minorities are oppressed and too stupid to acquire an ID. How much have you heard about inflation being down to 2.4%? January’s was way lower at .3% instead of the 2.5% expected. Both housing and food inflation has slowed to .2% and energy prices saw the largest drop, falling to 1.5% or crime at its lowest on record?
Pay attention to China and Islam/Sharia Law creeping in all around us funded by foreign money. Schools/universities, nonprofits/NGO’s, government officials and politicians have for decades welcomed that funding. Color Revolutions creep in slowly.with plans already perfected.
If you think you’re too smart/woke to be fooled. Ask yourself how the schools were able to hide how badly they had become. For three generations! Obama (Mr. Change himself) pushed Common Core State Standards using our tax dollars to push an agenda of climate change, race victimhood, sex changes are normal. Dangling more of our tax dollars, to install computers with content from a woke agenda that went straight to the government with the students’ results.
Back in the 80’s, around the time of President Reagon’s amnesty, employers were told they could not restrict employees from speaking a language at work other than English along with a push for foreign born to keep their culture, NOT to assimilate. The divide and conquer by the leftist. Schools loved it, they received more tax dollars for new special ed. classes like English as a Second Language (ESL). Areas grew where children heard very little English. When the NEXT generation started school, their English was so poor the schools added English Language Learners (ELL) in addition to ESL.Schools received billions more in tax dollars. As the numbers grew the students who couldn’t read academic English used in the textbooks, became farther and farther behind at younger ages and failing became acceptable. So they just made lessons easier and reported better grades to the parents. The schools claimed they were trying so hard to fix it but they needed more money. While the powers that be continue to push ‘don’t assimilate, keep your culture’. Many of those who are bilingual prefer not speak English in a show of solidarity with the nonEnglish speakers. The children pay a price for that.
Three generations have become victims of this woke agenda. Learning a language isn’t hard, you just have to HEAR IT and the more articulate the parents, the better a student understands the textbooks. High and low IQ or learning issues learn to speak a language, but they won’t if they don’t hear it.
If you can not define what a female/woman is, I have a suggestion. Buy a bull. Cut off his horns. Cut off his testicles. Sew on an udder. Then try to milk the Frankenstein bull’s teats. They are called mammary glands. Millions of years ago mammals became warm blooded, with hair/fur and females having mammary glands to feed their offspring.. Males are larger for protection. Dolly the sheep was a female and couldn’t be turned into a male after being created in a petri dish.
It is shameful that a significant portion of society has been indoctrinated/socially engineered into actually believing the impossible, while hating the “other” that recognizes reality. Emotions and feelings of sympathy have their place but not to the extent that we should ignore our laws, common sense, responsibility of the individual and childrens’ academic needs. Far too many in ‘woke’ society today think it’s okay to commit a crime because they ‘feel’ others are oppressed. What they don’t realize is who actually made them ‘feel’ that way.
Jean McLeod,
Fillmore, Ca.
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To the Editor:
The fact that Trump has openly and repeatedly called for nationalizing federal elections to be monitored by Republicans to ensure “voting honesty,” is apparently not meaningful to you. But, because Rittenhouse was acquitted 6 years ago, it’s important that we “let it rest.” Please note that Mr. Pretti did not live long enough for trial, and Trump still whines that he was robbed in the 2020 election, even six years later (and you agree), without evidence or “letting it rest.”
Trump has publicly warned SCOTUS that dire consequences will follow, “if these Corrupt and Deranged Democrats ever gain power.” Secretary of HS, Kristi Noem, recently said, “When it gets to Election Day, we’ve been proactive to make sure that we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.” Republican voter suppression is rampant, especially in blue states. Do you doubt Trump’s disdain for our Republic and what he plans to do about it?”
You rely on elected presidents to have “trustworthy character.” Never mind that Trump’s history of trustworthy character is non-existent, is littered with stiffed contractors and bankruptcies, that he is an adjudicated sex abuser who is using federal power to protect wealthy, high-ranking pedophiles, and a felon convicted of fraud.
Slowly, surely, pro-democracy awareness is rising to recognize the threat this administration poses to our Republic. The obvious objective of the Trump administration is Authoritarianism marching towards (Google it), “Totalitarianism.” Trump advocates extreme Nationalism, a Unitary Executive and obedient minions, one political party, control of voting options, demonization of citizens who dissent, a paramilitary force at his command, fear and resentment of the ethnic “other,” persecution of personal foes and the free press as “enemies of the state,” and censorship of criticism and uncomfortable national history.
Trump says he wants the best for America, but he means, as always, that he wants it for himself. As with all totalitarians, convincing the base that any dissent, any opposition, is an existential threat justifying extreme freedom-threatening escalation to “save the country,” is key. It’s up to the People to see the truth, and demand it or, as history has repeatedly shown, succumb to large-government control.
Be warned that, as doubts of Trump’s full Epstein disclosure and constitutional commitment rise, the danger will amplify. Trump cannot even accept the adjudicated, clear defeat in 2020 (nor can you, Martin), and he is perfectly willing to light a massive fire as the lights begin to go out on his “strongman” identity. He and his administration will not reexamine their policies. He will use his powers, wildly amplified by the Roberts Court, to double-down, as his ego and character have always demanded. There’s every indication that Republican Congressionals will warm their hands at the conflagration.
Countries in the EU have been repeatedly denigrated and insulted by Trump’s mood-swing tariffs and disrespect for their “loser” governments. They see the bribes and pathetic fealty to Trump shown by the Silicon Valley and network billionaires, grift of the Board of Peace, Trump Organization businesses in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, his admiration for despots. They know where Trump’s real interests lie, and do not trust him. They worry that America is indifferent to the forfeit of free-world esteem.
If Republican Congressionals and the Roberts Court continue to value their careers over country, if pro-democracy voters do not rise in defense of the Constitution, and Trumpism prevails, it will not be necessary to attack America to bring it down, Martin. Democracy will crumble from within, as the Russians have long predicted, and the free world now fears.
Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca.