What’s Quickly? It’s where readers sound off on the issues of the day. Have a quote, question or quip? Call Quickly at 312-222-2426 or email quickly@post-trib.com.
One of the reasons I believe Quickly is so popular is because the column allows for all kinds of topics and personalities. Editors are not opposed to printing submissions they know are biased or short sighted. They make every effort to be fair and balanced. This is not easy because a huge percentage of writers choose to write about Trump and his toxic administration. One writer in particular appears to resent the attention given to Trump and responds by descriptive name calling. I happened to run across a saying that might explain the writer. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” I appreciate Quickly for their efforts to include the Great, Average and Small!
I’m getting suspicious that the person submitting Quickly comments minimizing the 1/6 insurrection and talking about Miller Lite is doing some sort of Andy Kaufman-esque satire. Either that or they’re seriously in poor mental health.
Please stop the propaganda! Before COVID-19, many American workers were forced to work several minimum wage jobs just to get by. When the government stepped in to assist them, they were able to pay their bills. The problem isn’t that people don’t want to work — it’s that employers refuse to pay a living wage. Start with the Walton family that runs Walmart they are all multi-billionaires and they refuse to pay their employees a living wage, forcing their employees to seek government assistance, while they skirt taxes.
I wonder if Albanese is having trouble finding workers because so many people remember their union-busting shenanigans that landed them in hot water with the NLRB not that long ago. I sure wouldn’t work for anyone who thought so little of their employees that they would fire hard-working people en masse for trying to form a union. I haven’t given Albanese my business since they showed us who they are and I don’t plan to anytime soon.
Why do we even have a Space Force if we can’t even fund the Postal Service?
I got my vaccination for COVID-19 when it first came out. I did it for myself and out of concern for others. Why do we have to pay people, promise and prizes, give them a chance to win the lottery try to talk them into getting a vaccination? Nobody gave me anything to get mine. And I’ll bet the majority of them vote Democratic.
It seems like the Republicans are doing everything in their power to make this pandemic go on forever. Weren’t they the ones in such a hurry to open all the schools and the businesses? They why are they against the vaccines and the masks?
Cal Thomas is a disgusting bigot. In a recent piece, he referred to desperate people fleeing crime and seeking opportunities for new lives in America as an “invasion”, accused progressives of hating America, and claimed that Democrats want the country “destroyed outright” by “importing foreigners”. If the Post-Tribune is going to prop up rank racism and xenophobia by publishing Thomas’s screeds, they can do it without my subscription dollars.
Republicans can’t string together a coherent sentence? That’s the most ridiculous comment yet, have you listened to the leader of your party? Stumbling, bumbling Joe Biden can’t read off a teleprompter without stumbling all over himself.
Well gosh, now you’ve got to wonder if any of the charges Megyn Kelly has claimed about her treatment at Fox were true, since she is now saying that the non-Fox media deliberately made the January 6th riot appear to be much worse than it was. I guess all that window breaking and assaulting of police officers we saw was just advanced photoshopping. She should have stayed with Fox News, her natural home.
In his 1902 play “The Lower Depths,” Russian (gasp!) Maxim Gorky wrote: “To lie — it’s the creed of slaves and masters of slaves! Truth is the religion of the free man.” Should be required reading for Republicans these days.
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