To the Editor:
If the 2020 election had not been stolen from Trump Ukraine would not have been invaded, and I would not be writing this letter. With that said, I want you to know that I have read your letters faithfully every week. While sometimes I have questioned your reasoning regarding Ukraine, overall I have agreed with you.
Lately, your attacks of Trump regarding his international policies are quite concerning. No other president has had Trump’s success in bringing peace to our world. Your comments imply you want the war to continue until Ukraine has pushed Russa back to the original boarders. How many deaths, refugees, and human suffering are you willing to accept to achieve that outcome, and who is going to pay Ukraine to keep fighting?
Trumps new Peace Commission is being formed to apply economic pressure on Putin to force him to bargain for peace. Why not allow President Trump to do what he believes is best for America and Ukraine.
Sincerely
Huguette Johnson
Fillmore, Ca.
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To the Editor:
You’ve written forcefully about the dangers you see in Donald Trump’s conduct on the world stage—particularly the risks to alliances, global stability, and America’s standing abroad. On those concerns, we largely agree.
What I’m struggling with this week is how cleanly those dangers are being separated from the domestic agenda you continue to support.
Recent events at home—most notably the killing of a man during federal immigration operations in Minnesota—make that separation harder to sustain. Whatever one’s views on immigration enforcement, the use of lethal force followed by official accounts that are difficult to reconcile with widely viewed video footage raises questions that go well beyond a single incident.
This leads to a broader question many readers may be asking. When you weigh the domestic benefits you see in this administration’s agenda, how do you balance them against not only the international costs you’ve described, but the domestic risks now becoming visible as well—erosion of trust, aggressive federal enforcement, and an increasing reliance on narrative management rather than transparency?
And then there are the shifting goals offered to justify these actions—from targeting “the worst of the worst,” to welfare fraud, and now even to demands for access to a state’s voter records in exchange for pulling the troops out of Minnesota. In light of these evolving justifications, how do you understand what this is really about?
There is one additional dimension I’d like to raise. You and I share a Catholic upbringing and education, shaped by teachings about moral responsibility, restraint in the use of power, truth-telling, and concern for the vulnerable. I find it increasingly difficult to reconcile that moral framework with much of what we see from this administration. I’m interested in how you think about that reconciliation.
These questions seem central to the moment we’re in, and to the choices Americans are being asked to live with—here at home as well as on the world stage.
Pat Collins,
Fillmore, Ca.
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To the Editor:
Well, insurrectionists keep pushing for the civil war they want. Fake nonprofits, funded by foreign money, get a boost for the “cause”. An artificial hate gathering of counterfeit social justice warriors attacking ICE. These paid grievance gangs are just phony revolutionaries. They’re rioting for a foreign occupation of this country, yet they’re too ignorant to realize it. People die in wars and that number will grow if this continues. These brainwashed anarchists think it’s fun until they pay a price and get hurt, then claim they’re victims of fascists. If asked why they’re rioting, they spew talking points they’ve been told yet have no idea it is a foreign globalist takeover or even what a fascist is. I faced them down many years back. Get one alone and they actually start shaking. It’s a gang/group mentality.
How many more assassinations are ahead? They laughed and joked after killing Charlie Kirk. Now there’s a tranny mocking his widow. How would they deal with joking and mocking the rioters that were shot? My take; FAFO explains it!!!
These domestic terrorists are what Lenin called “useful idiots”. It’s a Color Revolution; a criminal conspiracy against this country started many years back with globalists and China funding. Foreign money given to schools, media, nonprofits, politicians and others to bring hate for this country in the minds of fools, turn them into a cancer culture and spread it.
This cancer culture started long before President Trump entered the political arena. Today’s TDS; social engineering of the clueless.
Mass migration is a political tool. Moving populations to destabilize a country is a tactic used by globalists around the world for many years. Mexico has for generations been telling its citizens the US “stole” their land and using migration to accomplish their ‘Reconquista’. That’s why our Democrat/Socialist/Communist/Marxist controlled education system put MeChA in all the western state schools starting around 1965 at UCLA, then State Colleges starting with CSUN on down to high schools throughout the west. One huge lie to give generations of youth a feeling of entitlement for the cause of Reconquista (taking over/back the west). That’s the garbage in-garbage out taught in schools.
Our enemies have an unwavering thirst for power and wealth. Foreign Color Revolutions use phony nonprofit/NGOs through USAID, Tides Foundation, Arabella Advisors to spread a cancer culture of destruction. The Clintons, Obamas, Bidens, and Bushes benefited with their own foundations and foreign bank accounts and many more sucked up billions of our tax dollars with their global New World Order agenda. The Davos crowd are now admitting the foreign globalists are the puppet masters behind the curtain. Their greed is the ugliest in our lifetime with a large population of TDS useful idiots becoming domestic terrorists who think rioting is their idea. Clueless!
TDS reminds me of the kid in high school that was so jealous of the popular, smart students, those who were better looking and got all the attention. They hate it that life in this country is improving. because they do not get the admiration for all their phony “caring” about whatever is popular that day. Life is not a popularity contest. We need the truth and sometimes it’s hard to hear. Remember, the best thieves are always nice to your face.
Global religious nonprofits today are not much different than globalists. They expect trust of the faithful and do what benefits them while hiding what they don’t want you to see. It takes great effort to have faith, and it shouldn’t be exploited. NGO’s have laundered foreign cash, given kickbacks to politicians that do what their donors want, but tell our citizens ‘Nothing to see here, it’s a conspiracy, we’re here to help’. This destruction is well funded and well organized. Create a problem and pretend to help. Discontent, homeless, emotional corners with playdough and coloring books in schools to socially engineered youth and soothe the mental issues before encouraging them to create riots, now an insurrection they claim to be just protests. USEFUL IDIOTS!!!
Just the thought that the border is locked down, entitlement fraud is being addressed, illegals are being removed, drugs and cartels are hitting a roadblock, prescription drugs cost less, chemical food dyes are gone, gas is down by half in most states, crime is down 20%, the lowest decline on record and so much more [is ignored]. But the media is so hush, hush on all of that and has the TDS useful idiots screaming. Are they losing hold of their ill-gotten gains? Will they try to shut down the government again?
It’s been reported that Minnesota’s billions of dollars in entitlement fraud are nothing compared to the corruption here in California. It’s common knowledge millions of SNAP gets sold for cash or drugs. They don’t even hide it or try to stop it. If you report it you’ll be told by the county workers, they don’t have the resources to investigate. That is what I was told when I tried to report it.
Biden got lost trying to find the White House front door or slept at the beach while a spy balloon floated by. Marxist were so proud when he checked his wristwatch as the dead bodies of our soldiers were returned. Maybe a Russiagate or BLM (George Floid died of an overdose as the first autopsy stated) riot would be entertaining or the sucking sound of our future is music to their ears?
Pat Collins wrote last week, “any system that can no longer distinguish fact from assertion, law from personal will, or accountability from loyalty is still functioning as a safeguard to all”. Well Pat, here’s a fact, not opinion or assertion. Who put in a SCOTUS justice that can’t tell you what a woman is? K.B.J. is an embarrassment! Take responsibility for that failure, it’s a big one.
A ‘Rules for Radicals’ tool I heard over 40 years ago and remember to this day; I was a Democrat and member of a women’s club in college and whenever I brought up a problem that didn’t support the left’s propaganda of perpetual victimhood I was told “Do not give it any attention, just ignore it and it will go away”. Refusing to acknowledge removes responsibility to fix it; like billions in fraud EBT/food stamps, an invasion at our borders, cartels, drugs, child sex slaves. Democratic Socialists coverup, spotlight a new shiny object, or create a crisis to play the victim. Jeffrey Epstein was regurgitated to turn away from the Somali fraud, but that may have backfired, so they started a riot. Cover up HRC’s illegal email server with BLM riots. Even when there’s proof right in front of all of us that something happened, we’re told it’s a conspiracy or it was done by White Supremacists. Use emotional guilt, claim a child won’t get an ice cream without food stamps and we’re like monkeys that see, hear and speak no evil. Take the easy choice and no responsibility. No matter how egregious and corrupt, just don’t acknowledge it happened or exists. Keep pointing at ‘the other’ as the problem grows.
It’s so much easier to trust and do nothing than take personal responsibility. We trusted there was oversight. We trusted schools were teaching skills society needed. We trusted tax dollars were going for an honest use. We trusted being represented by those we voted for. We trusted nonprofits to improve society with our generosity. We trusted the media to inform us of the truth. We trusted a safe homeland. And we were called names if we didn’t go along or questioned anything. We were lied to and deceived for decades.
Name calling isn’t working anymore. We now have a President that’s awake, not Woke. We elected President Trump and he’s keeping his promises. He exposed what was hidden and a chance to stop the Marxist/Communists. Far too many politicians on both sides promoted the lies and corruption or did nothing to stop it. Our enemies exploited our ignorance for years; U.N, globalists, deceitful NGO’s.
Those we trusted gained more money and power using race, sex, corrupt foundations/nonprofits (Clinton Foundation?), entitlements, illegal immigration, media, schools, social engineering and their favorite tool, to just ignore it and our problems would go away. What do you want to bet the Clintons will use the 5th like Lois Learner and others when cornered. Don’t believe a word they say. Yes, there are many useful idiots whose problem is ‘what they don’t know that they really don’t know’.
Jean McLeod,
Fillmore, Ca.
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To the Editor:
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, world leaders from politics, business and finance, academia, and civil society met to address global issues and solutions. They jostled to attend Trump’s speech to hear his message since threatening to annex Greenland, having captured Venezuela, and creating a self-enriching plan for Gaza. An unnamed British executive who found a seat remarked that he wanted to be present, “because seeing Trump in the wild is like a zoological experience.
Trump’s speech was predictably about himself, and the world as it revolves around him. He delivered meandering, dubious self-proclaimed victories, and demanded ownership of Greenland (“they love me. They call me “Daddy,” he boasted), He addressed the assembly by insult and intimidation, asserting that Might must control. It explained why the US is considered a hegemonic disruptor rather than a reliable ally.
Mark Carney of Canada received a standing ovation following a speech calling out the US and Trump for instigating the rupture of Post-WWII free-world alliances. In retaliation, the “revenge king” withdrew the invitation to Canada to join his “Board of Peace” for Gaza.
The “Board of Peace” is a new Trumpian invitational, international group designed by Jared Kushner (using the Mar-a-Lago social club model), whereby nations that join to develop Gaza, “a beautiful piece of property,” (without Gazans), will upfront one billion dollars each, with Trump as Chair for Life. Perhaps he will deposit those funds in the same Qatar account in which he has deposited funds from Venezuelan oil. It would be wise to ascertain the access to that account.
I had one brief, dark, laugh over Greenland. A WWII agreement with Denmark gave America the right to place military facilities wherever we wish in Greenland. The minerals could have been negotiated, but Trump preferred to chest-beat, threatening invasion, and pout-doubting that NATO would answer an attack on the US. In fact, NATO’s Article V has been invoked only once, by us, after 9/11. Trump’s “deal” got us what we already had.
When you see Trump’s unconstitutional assault on MN, you see reflected the same president as in Davos. Trump invaded MN against the expressed wishes of the governor, mayor of Minneapolis, and against states’ rights, creating a storm of resistance to federally contrived “emergencies” The feds systematically refuse any state police access or oversight of their actions, lie about facts, and have arrested and killed witnesses to their brutality.
Last Friday, Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Prettti, on his way to work at VA, was carrying a holstered gun in an open-carry state. HLS accused him of brandishing the gun and threating agents. Video of the incident clearly shows that Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun. He was pepper-sprayed directly in his face and beaten by masked agents, shot repeatedly, and murdered on the ground after an agent had removed the gun from Petti’s holster. Then they tried to make us distrust what was perfectly obvious.
AG Bondi sent a “strong letter” to MN Governor Tim Walz, brazenly demanding that DOJ be given access to MN’s voter database, in return for toning down HSL activities there. She proved that HLS is not just about immigration or safety. In MN, it’s also about citizen intimidation and blatant planned interference with future elections. Many other states have also had demands for voter rolls.
Trump’s indignant crocodile promise for “a full investigation” of the incident was immediately refuted by administration officials, one of whom replied, “Hell, no!!” Trump’s promises are unreliable, and he’ll say anything in the moment to save himself. He may temporarily cool it, but he has no intention of withdrawing his plans for vast federal control under the Unitary Executive. Nothing that Trump is doing supports “small government.”
Our only remedy is that “We, the People” demand our common Constitutional rights. When those rights are forcibly taken from some of us, it is only a matter of time before they are forcefully taken from all of us.
Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore, Ca.