Letter to Daily Herald Opinion Editor Jim Slusher on pro Trump letter

Jim, did you publish Michael Imhof's letter for a little post election hilarity? Or was it simply to inform readers of how far some Trump supporters have sunk into imaginary, delusional nonsense in support of a dangerous, would be authoritarian who has held American democracy hostage for two weeks. We know folks like Mr. Imhof are out there. It's reported that 70% of Trump's followers believe his dangerous lies that the election was stolen. Tho Joe Biden will be inaugurated January 20, Trump's campaign to delegitimize the election may have done irreparable damage to our hallowed electoral democracy. Publishing possibly the most extremist public support for that disreputable campaign adds unnecessary, indeed dangerous sustenance to that effort tearing at our delicate social fabric

The Daily Herald should follow two simple rules in selecting letters for publication. The second is whether the opinion adds value to the great public debate. The first is even more important. DO NO HARM. Michael imhof's letter fails both tests. The Daily Herald did not distinguish itself in publishing it. You must do better.
Walt Zlotow, Glen Ellyn
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President will be reelected
Posted 11/23/2020

There was vast voter fraud in this election, and the corruption will be exposed. Although mainstream media has crowned Biden with the victory, it's not going to stand. The globalist scheme will be exposed, and many people are going to be prosecuted.

This scenario reminds me of different Bible stories. First, things looked exceptionally bleak for Moses and the Israelites as Pharaoh's army had them cornered at the Red Sea. It looked like no hope for them. Then, suddenly, the waves crashed down on Pharaoh and his chariots. My, how things suddenly changed.

Then there was Gideon against the Midianites. All of a sudden Gideon got the victory. Except this time, it's going to be defeat for the "Media-nites", and not Midianites. Suddenly, defeat will come upon them for their lies, deceptions, and absolute insidious corruption. It's coming.
Who can forget when Haman built the gallows for Mordechai? Haman thought that he had Mordechai right where he wanted him, but then suddenly, things changed, and Haman hung on his own gallows.

There's no conspiracy theory here; it was a blatant and premeditated attempt to steal an election, and it will fail, with many going to jail. President Trump will be reelected. It's coming, and it will be possible, because of the hand of God. Many have prayed for God's direct intervention. This election will not be stolen. Victory is coming, and it will be suddenly snatched from the jaws of defeat.

Many in the world will be shocked at the nefarious efforts of the globalists, Democrats and mainstream media.

Michael Imhof

Aurora

The crimes of Purdue Pharma

Drug maker Purdue Pharma is now a convicted felon. It pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to its two decade long sale of painkiller OxyContin. That drug not only killed pain…it fueled the killing of over 450,000 since 2000 from OxyContin and associated opioids, including heroin and fentanyl.

But the end of the fed’s sensational case was buried deep in the print media and largely absent from cable/network news. That is a disservice to the American people and especially to the family and friends of that nearly half million deep-sixed by Purdue Pharma and other drug peddlers.

How did Purdue Pharma make so many billions from OxyContin? It falsely told federal regulators OxyContin was not addictive. It peddled a fairy tale it had a program to prevent the drug's sale on the Black Market. It paid illegal kickbacks to doctors for overprescribing the drug. It bribed Practice Fusion, an electronic health records company to send out alerts to doctors to encourage over prescribing the death pills.

Purdue Pharma was fined $3.5 billion and required to forfeit $2 billion in profits. Civil penalties will raise total fines to $8.3 billion. The Sackler family which owns Purdue Pharma was also fined $225 million, a tap on the Sackler wallet bulging with $13 billion in blood money.

But no company individual or member of the Sackler family is headed to prison, just yet. Such proceedings are still possible. While luxuriating in billionaire wealth, the Sacklers claim all family conduct was “ethical and lawful”, charging they were simply duped by company execs. The only people duped were the millions who used the drug marketed as safe. Many thousands now lay dead.

The President’s Brain Is Missing

Donald Trump governed his entire 4 years without use of a brain. That’s a first in 58 presidential administrations going back to 1789… quite an accomplishment. We had an inkling his brain was missing when he claimed a landslide victory tho he lost the national vote by 2,900,000. He inexplicitly turned his sparse inauguration crowd into the largest ever. But we really knew his cranium was devoid of gray matter when he pondered injecting disinfectant to kill the covid virus. When he termed thousands of infections and deaths as 15 going down to 1, we knew the synapses in his head were firing blanks.

But as we suffered horribly with the president’s missing brain for four years, we celebrated the disappearance of his bloated, orange topped body starting election night. The grotesque sight of a brainless body leading Nuremberg style rallies has mercifully disappeared. Behind by 5,900,000 votes, the brainless body of Trump has retreated down into his White House bunker. He’s even eschewed his planned superspreader Thanksgiving dinner to flail about wildly, sans brain, in an hallucinatory effort to avoid becoming a private personage in a world that requires a functioning brain to survive.

The president’s brain is missing, bad. The president’s body is missing, good.

Duckworth delusionally wrong on Afghan troop withdrawal

My senator Tammy Duckworth never met a criminal U.S. war she didn’t love. She extolls her participation in the monstrous Iraq war as regularly as Rudy Giuliani once touted his heroic response to the 911 attacks. As congresswoman and now senator, she’s a staunch proponent of U.S. exceptionalism to maintain our many perpetual wars.

So it’s no surprise she’s out front opposing even meager troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. Her reasoning is a trifecta of lunacy. First, the generals are against it. That ignores civilian control of war policy. When would a general ever support end to their means of power and career advancement? Second, Duckworth claims leaving Afghanistan will get our soldiers killed. How? On the flight home from a war they should never have been sent to fight? Invading Afghanistan twenty years ago got 2,382 U.S. troops killed for nothing. The Taliban didn’t do 911. They could no more have stopped Osama bin Laden than the U.S. government could have stopped the Oklahoma federal building bombing. Third, leaving Afghanistan will endanger our national security. The idea that the Taliban, once they inevitably retake the Afghan government, will set their sights on the homeland is preposterous.

But for war hawk Duckworth, whose war service is fueling a decades long career peddling more endless war, no war hysteria falsehood will go unsaid.

100,000 dead signals time to end U.S. criminal Yemen war

Beginning with Obama and continuing under Trump, war obsessed America has fueled Saudi Arabia’s murderous war against neighboring Yemen. That’s literal fueling as one of America’s treacherous means of support to the Saudis was refueling their bombers reining death upon the hapless Yemenis. The world’s worst humanitarian crisis includes a hundred thousand dead, 24 million becoming food dependent from blockade and bombs, half of Yemen’s health care facilities shattered, including 70 hospitals, and covid spreading wildly. Nice going Uncle Sam. Without U.S. logistical, military and moral support the incompetent Saudis could not continue the war. It’s was an American effort from the get-go as a way of degrading our bete noir Iran who we and the Saudis claim are directing the Houthi rebels Saudi Arabia is trying to defeat in the Yemen civil war.

Last year Trump vetoed a congressional resolution to invoke the 1973 War Powers Act which would have ended U.S. involvement; effectively ending Saudi hostilities. Congress is trying again. Five Dems and three Republicans have reintroduced a new bi-partisan War Powers Act resolution to end one of the most horrific U.S. military interventions in history. Incoming President Joe Biden has made noises about ending U.S. support for the Saudis, something Trump will never consider, much less do.

Every decent American should support this new resolution and demand the president, honor it. It’s time for all of us to wash the blood of the Yemeni dead from our hands and end the suffering of its 24,000,000 souls condemned to horror from the self-proclaimed greatest country in the world.

Feeling blue in DuPage County....and that's good

Prez: Biden 58% to 40%

US Senator: Durbin 55% to 41%

County Board went from 1 of 18 in 2016 to 7 of 18 in 2018 to 11 of 18 in 2020. Dems now control Board first time since FDR landslide in '34

Forest Preserve went from 0 of 7 in '16 to 1 of 7 in '18 to 4 of 7 in '20 inc. the prez. Dems control FP Board first time ever

US Congress 8 of 8
Newman
Quigley
Casten
Krishnamoorthi
Foster
Underwood

IL Senate 3 of 3

IL House 12 of 17

My home DuPage township of Milton topped voter turnout of 9 DuPage townships with 79.1%. And my 14 years of canvassing Milton Precinct 13 paid off with the highest turnout of Milton's 130 precincts at 87.4%....and those were all legal votes, Mr. Trump.

Onward to more DuPage blue in 2022.