Mail-in ballots can’t be opened prior to 7 a.m. Election Day. A mail ballot is folded and sealed within two envelopes. They have to be checked for signatures, dates and seals, opened and unfolded prior to running them through the machine. Other states allow these ballots to be processed before election day. PA Republicans blocked a bill allowing it. Argue whether or not it should be allowed but don’t spread lies about late results.
KC
Kamala says her government will regulate pricing of consumer goods and services. Hillary says her government needs to monitor and regulate social media and news content. Joe says his government can spend taxpayer dollars any way they want. Walz had his police force shoot civilians for not obeying his Covid lockdown orders. Democrat presidents govern by Executive Order rather than the powers granted to them in the US Constitution. So who’s the threat to democracy?
Patriot45/47
Ten schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have been allowed to opt out of standardized testing. Why? Per the President of the LAUSD, “To restore the love of education.” Also, but unspoken, to dispense with accountability. Public schools are now fully invested, through DEI, in normalizing mediocrity and marginalizing excellence. A telling indicator? Like Josh Shapiro, 30% of Chicago public school teachers send their children to private schools.
M. Furlong
I do have to wonder who Patriot54 is. Patriot54 appears every day in Sound Off. The posts are monotonous, and repetitive and never deviate from lying about Trump and his supporters — today the lie was that Trump supporters cheer Putin, never happened. Many other folks have a much more diverse posting record and don’t lie every day.
Shirley Huck
President Biden praised his Vice President Kamalalalalala Harris for handling “everything from foreign policy to domestic policy” under his administration as her campaign struggles to cast her as a “change” candidate and not an extension of the Biden presidency. But Lefty for the Sheeple, Jay Miller, KC, and Patriot45 are so Trump-Deranged they won’t even believe their own idol when he speaks the truth about the Democrat’s dumpster fire!
Sparky
Mike S: All of the votes cannot be counted on election night because the Republican-led legislature in Pennsylvania will not allow local election officials to begin counting them until Election Day. They have fought every Democratic effort to begin counting earlier. The votes that they will count are RealAmerica votes. Many for Republican Party candidates.
RealAmerica
As many folks who pay attention to the news know, the Biden-Harris cut funding to the Medicare Advantage plans again. You will be paying more for less. Remember this when you vote. Your Medicare premium costs will be increasing again in 2025. The Democrats are the ones cutting Medicare and my prescription costs increased in 2024 and will be increasing again in 2025.
Michael Stern
Got to hand it to Joe Biden he still has it. On Friday Biden gave Kamala all the credit for things his administration has accomplished. Saying she was involved in everything. Afghanistan withdrawal, high inflation, high gas prices, high taxes, spending $8 billion for 8 charging stations, the border crisis, the fentanyl crisis, etc. Donald J. Trump agrees with Biden.
Richard Paladino
Trump has Elon Musk campaigning for him in America’s battleground states. Kamala has Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy campaigning for her in America’s battleground states. Let that sink in.
SBD
Trump campaign ad: “And a recession now headed our way.” Not for the country but Trump, personally, as he hemorrhages money for his legal troubles, and can’t divert funds from his court-overseen company. Why do you think he’s trying to con suckers into buying his various lines of crap? Trump told Fox Business, in an interview in 2021, that Bitcoin “just seems like a scam.” So he’s decided to get in on it. [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/donald-trump-flips-crypto-scam-building-crypto-army-rcna157171]
Dutch, did you not know that Joe Biden was in the hurricane zone, or didn’t you want to know? First responders didn’t want security people getting in the way, so he held off. Not Trump. He went there just to get in the way.
Amazing! More than 75,000 great American patriots gathered in Butler, Pa., at the Trump/Vance rally. The only time Harris/Walz gets that many supporters gathered together at the same time is the influx of migrant criminals they’re inviting to cross into our country illegally every day.
Trump has been campaigning for 10 years and served for four. He has never presented a health care plan or economic plan. He has a “concept” of a plan. Admit it folks, his appeal to you is that he wants Black and brown people out of the country. Unless you are Native American … we are all immigrants!! Can’t make this stuff up.
Jay Miller
Sad to see Bruce Springsteen selling out the people he wrote songs about. I’m not sure which disease is worse, Liberalism or Trump Derangement Syndrome. Sheeple will always idolize hypocritical progressive elitists.
Missy Miss
Let’s see if I understand the Biden-Harris crime data analysis that the anonymous poster so kindly regurgitated for us. We are to throw out 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic and compare 2023 to five years ago under Trump. Violent crime is still 7% higher under Biden, but that’s not statistically significant. Therefore, it’s false to say crime is up. This must be how Biden-Harris determined no service members died on their watch.
Robert Minninger
As she’s desperately trying to distance herself from the devastation inflicted upon America by the Biden administration, Biden threw Kamala under the bus when he unexpectedly popped in at a White House press briefing last week (for the very first time in his presidency) and told reporters that Kamala was instrumental in conceiving and implementing every economic, social and border security policy over the past four years. Someone give that man a MAGA hat!
Righty Tighty
In honor of the Fall Equinox, I have begun to be cold, distant, and full of darkness.
Bill Wilson
I heard that Kamala wanted to upstage the “Trump Watch” so she had a beautiful watch designed with her image. It didn’t work out, since, when it struck the hour, the cuckoo wouldn’t return and stop “cackling!”
Jim Fitch
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