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Project 2025
As to Project 2025, I wonder what the people in general and specifically the MAGAs are thinking.
The Supreme Court just told the SEC it cannot levy fines but must go to court with any charges. Great, how speedy will that process be? Greenlight to cheat.
Changing the EPA: What will happen to clean air and water standards, and where will the drilling for oil and gas begin? National parks, I guess.
Changing OSHA rules: Workers’ safety no longer matters. Do you think many employers will care?
Do you think changing FAA rules and airline disaster investigative teams will help? Oh, I get it. Boeing does not need checks and balances; just tell their CEOs to shape up, and all will be OK.
How about Food and Drug Administration? Just tell the food producers and pharmaceutical industries to be good guys.
Finally, the Department of Justice. Want to eliminate it? What about the FBI division that tracks criminals who cross the border? They actually are giving support to those conservatives who are complaining about the border.
Most people no longer think about the issues.
Daniel Bacon, Middleton
Non-citizens voting
Things must be pretty slow in the offices of the Governor and the Secretary of State this summer, so they decided to take up political grandstanding. Gov. Little issued an executive order Tuesday called the Only Citizens Will Vote Act. For years now, voter registration forms include these statements:
• “Any elector who supplies any information, knowing it to be false is guilty of perjury, which is punishable by imprisonment and a fine of up to $50,000.” AND
• “Are you a citizen of the United States of America? If you check no… do not complete this form.” AND
• “UNDER PENALTY OF LAW: By signing this card, I certify that I am a citizen of the United States… I declare under oath or affirmation that the information supplied herein is true.”
Who is going to risk a $50,000 fine, imprisonment and deportation to cast one vote? It is against the law for non-citizens to vote in federal elections and it is the rare exception that in some municipalities in other states that they are allowed to vote in local elections only but not in Idaho. Don’t be conned into thinking this is a thing here, because it is not.
Ken Twedt, Boise
Hurt feelings
I’m so tired of conservative and liberal culture warriors getting their panties in a wad over anything and everything that upsets and hurts their feelings, whether it’s Chik fil A or Pride Parades. The First Amendment says: Chik fil A as a privately owned company can donate to whomever they want and Pride Parades can occur wherever they want. Feel whatever you want about any of this, but the First Amendment is there and it doesn’t give a hoot or holler if you think any of it is mean or sinful. In this country, we get to say what we want, when we want, and where we want. Don’t like that? Move to Russia or Venezuela. If you’re going to live in this country, you’ll have to put on your big kid pants, stop whining and moaning about how offended you are about everything, and learn to be a mature adult when you disagree with people.
Tim Van Vliet, Idaho Falls
Open primaries
The Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting initiative set for Nov. 5, is another scheme by leftist Democrats and soft Republicans to cheat in elections. So, what else is new? Democrats have been cheating in elections since the earliest days of New York’s Tammany Hall.
Democrats know they cannot field quality and moderate candidates to win statewide and other elections, so they’ve concocted a scheme that just might help them and turn Idaho blue, which is their dream, all along.
Jim Jones, the ardent leftist Democrat who claims to be a Republican, and others say open primaries and ranked choice voting is the only way to bring civility to the legislature and other bodies. Mr. Jones also claims the open primaries and ranked choice voting have worked so well in Alaska. “Alaska voters found the system to be simple,” (according to the Statesman). Alaska’s open primaries and ranked choice voting is so popular in Alaska, that there is a new initiative on its November ballot to repeal it.
Let’s face it, the Idaho and national news media is the Praetorian Guard of the Democrat Party machine. In a Statesman story about this issue, organizers of the open primaries and ranked choice voting schemes were never labeled as leftist-Democrats, but rather, “Idaho’s organizers.” Vote no Nov. 5.
Daniel Murphy, Boise
Radical leftists
Radical leftist policies have opened our southern border to millions of illegal immigrants from more than 160 countries. They have assaulted police, raped and murdered mothers and little girls, and several with ties to ISIS were recently apprehended in multiple major cities. They’re currently siphoning $150 billion a year from taxpayers.
Under the leftist guise of civil liberties, Pride month has turned into 30 days of stomach-turning perversion. June now boasts fully naked men gyrating on rainbow floats and floppily strutting down main urban drags while waving and blowing kisses to kids. This year in San Francisco, an entire stretch shut down to car traffic offered up such things as a man in black leather whipping upturned bare bottoms over a stool and others in a plastic kiddie pool receiving urine into their gaping mouths.
K-12 public schools are home to fanatical leftist teachers who are brainwashing children with the doctrine of gender malleability. This curriculum has the potential to advance into a graduating regimen of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and, ultimately, genital mutilation.
If “right wing” is an ideological remedy to all of this, where the heck do I sign up?
Scott R. Hammond, Boise