To the Editor:
Methinks someone got a crisp new copy of Shakespeare’s Tragedies last Christmas! Fortuitous gift, and so appropriate that you would conjure Macbeth in a discussion of QAnon. That big black kettle bubbling away with “eye of newt” floaters is an inspired and apt reference. You have described it so perfectly, I wonder that, as a professional in public information, you are innocent as to what QAnon is.
Perhaps it is because you are unaware that former president Trump recently endorsed this “weird political spook” from which you distanced yourself. On his Truth Social media website, Trump showed a picture of himself posturing like Alexander the Great in modern dress with the ominous warning “The Storm is Coming.” On his opposing lapels were (1) the American Flag and (2) the letter “Q.” Beneath this, the letters WWG1WGA [“Where We Go One, We Go All”], the motto of “loosely-formed but interconnected conspiracy theorists” known collectively as “Q” or QAnon.
The individual who had been posting as “Q” has gone silent for 18 months, but his elves have kept busy, including Boebert (R-CO), MTGreen (R-GA), Paul Gozar (R-AZ), Ret. Gen. Mike Flynn, and many other Republican luminaries. And now Trump, who has alternated between knowing nothing about “Q,” and “supporting their fight” against rampant Democratic pedophilia and Satanic child cannibalizing, has embraced it. You have to log in at www.theqanons.com to view their blog, but since Trump is all in, I would think you would at least be curious. Interesting, too, is to Google “QAnon and Christianity.”
We are both of advancing age, not as flexible as we once were, but your nimbleness in waltzing President Biden and/or Hillary into every defensive gambol for the Trumpian Far-Right is astonishing (“Come and trip it as ye go/ On the light fantastic toe." Milton, L'Allegro).
Kelly Scoles,
Fillmore

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To the Editor:
May I respond briefly to Patti Walker’s letter last week? In it she asked the question, “Did you vote for this?” and she cited chapter and verse of our duly elected president’s wrongheaded policies and general incompetence, in her opinion.
Yes, I voted for Joe Biden, a centrist. Yes, I DO like his policies, and especially his support for Ukraine, the environment, a woman’s right to choose, and his willingness to defend the Constitution. We can talk policy initiatives and (outrageous! moronic!) outcomes, but at the end of the day, Americans chose a man who they believed would defend our democracy. We chose a humble public servant over a showman with autocratic tendencies. (You’ll never see Joe with a QANON button on his lapel, as happened recently with our ex-president.)
Sincerely,
Tom Somers
Fillmore

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To the Editor:
Kelly,
I’ve read oh these many months about your disdain for Republicans, Trump especially. What I’d like to read is how grateful you are that the Democrats, Biden especially, are in control of the Congress, Senate and House.
Tell me and the readers of the Gazette how proud you are of how Biden exited Afghanistan. Tell us how his open border policies have brought about a positive impact on the United States. I’d like to know, as may others, if you’re appreciative of the cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline, causing a loss of thousands of jobs, and the destruction of our energy independence.
You seem to be so concerned about Trump and the “big lie”, outline your position on the Hunter laptop and the fact that Joe is the “big guy”.
Give us, the readers, your position on the additional trillions of dollars of debt Biden has incurred in his time as President. Or the fact that the money that was set aside to pay down the debt from the Infrastructure Reduction Act is being used to pay off college loans.
Maybe you could also write about the “walk-backs” the White House has had to make concerning Taiwan and the pandemic being over. Keep in mind they didn’t seem to care about Biden’s comment that “historic inflation is no big deal”, they let that one stand.
Stop complaining about a party that is not even in control and tell us why we should vote to keep the Democrats in control for the next two years.
Patti Walker
Fillmore