Worth of eggs, helpfor voters lacking
We went to the polls to convey down the value of eggs. Whereas we have been at it, we despatched a message that mortgage charges have been too excessive, insurance coverage prices have been zooming, and even quick meals was unaffordable.
What occurred?
• Rioters have been launched.
• The kingpin of a significant drug cartel was pardoned.
• Mt. Denali was renamed again to Mt. McKinley.
• California is threatened with the withholding of sources for homes burned as a result of they reside in California.
What?
We voted for eggs, however the place is there even a touch of assist for the tens of millions of actual individuals who simply wished to convey down the value of eggs?
Robert CelesteFremont
America lastly hasa pal in White Home
I’m amazed on the quantity of anti-Trump opinions expressed on this web page.
One may keep in mind that President Tump, not like previous politicians, is enacting guarantees made into guarantees stored. Nothing he’s doing is new. He ran on this agenda and the American folks voted for this alteration — a coverage of safe borders, preserve America protected, preserve America sane once more. Down with DEI, countless and ineffective wars, males in girls’s sports activities and locker rooms, and the listing goes on.
As one girl on Jesse Watters stated, “It is nice to have a friend in Washington.” We do have a president who has listened to the American folks and is our pal.
Michael EricksonWalnut Creek
Reversing TikTok bancould damage democracy
Re: “How Trump’s TikTok ban reprieve could work” (Web page A7, Jan. 23).
The query has arisen whether or not President Trump has the authorized proper to successfully overrule a federal regulation (upheld by a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court docket), that requires that TikTok be offered by Jan. 19. The author argues {that a} president has that energy as a correct use of “prosecutorial discretion.” However assuming that he does possess such authorized energy, the query stays, ought to he train it?
In 1832, the U.S. Supreme Court docket made a ruling that then-President Andrew Jackson disliked. It’s reputed that Jackson remarked: “John Marshall (the Chief Justice) has made his ruling; now let him enforce it.”
The separation of powers is crucial to this democracy, and Trump could be well-served to not destroy what he hopes to avoid wasting.
Daniel MautheLivermore
Trump’s true designsdarker than oligarchy
Re: “Trump is building a U.S. oligarchy” (Web page A6, Dec. 10).
In December, I wrote to attract consideration to the oligarchy being fashioned round Donald Trump by Trump.
Together with his pardoning of 1,500 legally convicted Jan. 6 insurgents who attacked the Capitol at his behest as a result of they believed the scores of lies he instructed concerning the 2020 election, we’re understanding his imaginative and prescient for us past the oligarchy.
The celebration of regulation and order now has three courses: a) Trump, who’s above the regulation; b) the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and others who will break the regulation for him, be convicted after which be pardoned to prepare for the following battle; and c) the remainder of us.
Making America Nice Once more? With every passing hour, we extra carefully resemble a Russian dictatorship surrounded by an oligarchy and unsanctioned militia.
Barry BrynjulsonPleasanton
Trump’s spat withbishop bodes ailing
A narcissistic harm is a sort of emotional trauma that may happen when somebody with narcissistic character dysfunction (NPD) looks like their self-image has been criticized or slighted.
Referencing Donald Trump’s perception that he was saved by God from assassination, the Rev. Mariann Budde, on the inaugural church service, stated, “You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.” Her asking Trump to be variety and have mercy on others was a narcissistic harm to Trump, who responded with an insult to her and a request for an apology.
I imagine his response says all of it concerning the newly elected president, who felt insulted as a result of he was requested to be variety. God assist us all within the subsequent 4 years.
Robert ThomasCastro Valley
Donald Trump doinglittle to satisfy challenges
Amongst Donald Trump’s “challenges” from his inauguration speech: “The corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from its citizens.”
Actuality: Now we have the best concentrations of wealth because the “Gilded Age” of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They have been proximately displayed on the inaugural stage: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, et al. Insert tech in lieu of robber barons.
One other: Authorities “fails to protect law-abiding American citizens by letting in dangerous criminals across our borders.”
Actuality: He pardons violent rioters injuring police whereas trashing the U.S. Capitol. How low will he go? What’s going to he do with AI? How a lot has he and his household personally gained from crypto? What number of teams of individuals will he victimize with concern?
I’m all for unity and civil discourse however the above and lots of different heinous lies and insurance policies have to be met with resistance with out violence. Communicate loud and clear.
Keith LaytonEl Sobrante
