Re: “Governed by Idiots” by Italo Zarate (Letters, May 24) (Your Voices, May 29):
Yes, Italo, I guess we can finally agree on something when you contemplate, “But how to explain the unusual number of idiots who are now occupying positions of power in our government? Who put them there?”
Dude, you did. It’s very apparent you are talking about the Biden administration. You put the idiots there! You were warned what would happen if you did — historic inflation, higher gas prices, open borders, food shortages and potential wars.
Still hating on Trump? Just stop and take the loss!
Most of you still use the riot at Capitol Hill (at which no one has been charged with “insurrection”) to disparage the Republicans because that’s all you’ve got. You can’t point to anything positive that the Biden administration has done for the U.S. With Biden, it’s like “America Last.”
Good grief! Are you actually quoting California representative Adam Schiff? He is currently in charge of the House Intelligence Committee, whose primary mission is oversight of the U.S. intelligence community — and he’s been proven to be a liar for the Democrats. Over the past several years, the leftists CNN, MSNBC and the networks just could not get enough of Schiff, who repeatedly pushed the claim about Trump-Russia collusion. However, the Durham trial and newly released congressional testimony show that Schiff flat out lied about Russia and Donald Trump for three years. A verifiable “liar” in charge of the U.S. intelligence community — talk about an organization that lost its credibility and honor with this idiot in charge. Treasonous! What does Schiff know about “… right matters, truth matters and decency matters”? Good grief, Italo! That’s what I say.
Joel Ramirez
Edinburg
Editor’s note: “Insurrection” is not a formal charge. Those allegedly involved in the Jan. 6, 2020, riot at the Capitol have been charged with seditious conspiracy and other more specific crimes.
We can talk,
we can’t act
Watching the immediate TV coverage of the Uvalde incident was a suffocating experience. All the empty questions constituted a metaphor for the decades-long failed approach to the prevention of hate, violence and mental illness.
Where will the FBI fly in from? What was the role of the border police? Has the president been briefed? Whom will the FBI question and what will they ask? What about the shooter’s social media postings? What was his motive? What did witnesses and neighbors see and think? How many shots did neighbors hear? How are people finding out their child or teacher is okay, why do active shooter incidents continue to grow? How sad it is for parents who won’t be able to drop a child off to school any longer. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
Apparently, nobody knows what to do.
Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross, Utah
Politicians:
Lead or leave
It is irresponsible and unconscionable that our elected representatives in Austin and Washington, D.C., are not competent enough to come up with one significant gun regulation. One!
It’s time. Simply said, they need to lead, follow or get out of the way.
Richard Trevino
McAllen
