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Readers sound off on corruption’s lessons, sewer explorers and lieutenant governors

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28.09.2026

An instructive era for whatever remains

Hackensack, N.J.: Just to put it in the proper perspective, between the crypto scams, diversion of taxpayer funds to accounts controlled by him, theft of Venezuelan oil revenues to himself, Pentagon contracts, pay-for-play pardons, and all the other self-enrichment schemes, Donald Trump is now stealing an average of more than $1 million per hour as president! That’s per hour! And all while the rest of us pay the price for his outrageous tariffs, exploding debt, loss of 100,000 manufacturing jobs, soaring interest rates, gutting of our healthcare system, and runaway energy costs.

Anyone that votes GOP not named Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg et al. is a clinically diagnosed moron voting against their own economic self-interests. The corruption from this administration is beyond anything seen in history, to say nothing of his anti-democratic voting schemes, gaudy monuments to his egomaniacal delusions for falsely perceived accomplishments, and his poorly planned and thus-far-failed “excursion” into Iran. It’s astonishing.

The historians will have a field day with this period in our history, provided there are any of us around to write about that history once the consequences of his complete deregulation of the AI sector (for which he has personally received $400 million in contributions to date) takes full effect.

Scranton, Pa.: There are fears about artificial intelligence / Making it hard to tell what is real / I’m more concerned about anything of relevance / Rarely spoken from behind the presidential seal / The current convicted felon and lying weasel / Whose........

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