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The Rant

Kudos to our Hamilton County commissioners for distributing much-needed funds to our local food banks.

Why would Chattanooga Volkswagen workers go on strike during this time of no SNAP benefits and Obamacare support being phased out?

Ooltewah: We don’t need more fast food burger, chicken or coffee joints. Please, someone bring us some seafood — fish and shrimp.

Note to UAW and VW workers mulling a strike: Job security is top of mind for all of us. What makes you so special?

The Vols should stay with the orange-and-white uniforms. Please.

Clay Bennett’s Nov. 4 cartoon of Robin Smith was priceless. It would have been better had she been clutching a wad of cash in her left hand.

I’ve ruined two suspensions on my vehicles because of poor roads in Chattanooga. For all that is holy, mayor, please repave our main thoroughfares.

Wait a sec. Former GOP state Rep. Glen Casada and his slimy sidekick Cade Cothren get pardons? Their co-conspirator — a woman — doesn’t?

The Casada, Cothren, Smith convictions were about corruption. Hopefully, our locally elected Republican politicians will demonstrate their integrity by not vocalizing support for the pardons.

President Trump pardoned Casada and Cothren. Former Rep. Robin Smith will follow. If Trump pardons everyone, the homeless community will have remarkable options as remodeled retreat centers.

Casada/Cothren pardons are a joke. No consequences for illegal acts. What does this tell us ? Nothing matters. Everything is BS.

No one should be surprised about Trump’s pardons anymore. Remember Santos, Binance founder Zhao, Todd and Julie Chrisley, Jan. 6 rioters, Gangster Disciples co-founder?

I can’t tell if the Republicans or Democrats are in a circular firing squad. What an embarrassment; this shutdown is pure incompetence.

So Daddy Don calls “Chuck the Duck” Fleischmann a “MAGA warrior.” Only if ducking town hall meetings counts.

If you’re moving from blue states to my red state, don’t bring your liberal junk, ideals, entitlements and unfounded vocal discord. We won’t bear it.

The answer to 40 years (Pelosi) in Congress is term limits.

Parents, educate your children about socialism, communism, democracy. They’re not getting it in school. So they vote accordingly. We expect you to enlighten them.

Donald Trump is the opposite of JFK. With Trump, it’s “ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.”

Don’t fool yourself. The reason the party of Trump got stomped was because we the people do not want to see the military, ICE or the National Guard in our cities, on our streets, in our schools or anywhere else inside our country.

Want the government shutdown ended tomorrow? Cut Congress’ pay off, just like all other federal government workers. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Air traffic controllers — among others — are forced to work without pay during this obscenely stupid and unnecessary shutdown. Remind me, what is the definition of slavery?

I pray that Mamdani has good personal security around him.

A Muslim mayor elected in New York City upsets MAGA; however, MAGA doesn’t get upset when a Muslim country gives Trump a luxury jet.