Squawkbox – October 25, 2025

What in the world is going on at the Northwest library?  On my last three visits, staff and patrons talked and laughed loudly as if out on the street waiting for a bus. One visitor even talked on her phone while sitting at a computer. I may be a Baby Boomer, but isn’t a library still supposed to be a quiet place?

Beware of trick-or-treaters dressed like ICE agents. They’ll kick in your door, steal all your candy and deport your chihuahua.

Stop Trump before we all end up with jobs.

Fletcher, I wish you would have asked all those Democratic state Senators why they continue to collect their paychecks when they do nothing. All those issues in your story … they don’t care about them. We need some new people in office.

Not only did Trump commute the sentence of disgraced former House member George Santos, but TMZ is reporting that Trump plans to do the same for fellow convicted felon Diddy. Getting into heaven should be among the least of Trump’s concerns.

Just another reminder to our city and county commissioners: When you show up to meetings with a bad attitude, a racist and vengeful agenda, a set of gold teeth, or dressed in overalls, it negatively impacts the poorest children and families in our community. It is both sad and unbelievable that you have to be reminded of this fact over and over.

I hate lawyers. How the hell did we get three on the city commission? 

Dear MAGA cattle ranchers: Congratulations! Your favorite president has said that he will buy (I  assume for our  armed forces) a large quantity of beef from Argentina to help out his friend, the president of Argentina. Don’t you wish he was your friend?

The Democrats are fighting hard to keep criminals on the street and make your communities unsafe.

Trump and his “flying monkeys” are fervently using the word “insurrection.” Wonder why? It’s going to be their rationale to further limit opposing voices by using the military to take over cities and control duly elected state and local governments. If you are cheering the indictments of individuals from his enemies list, you are cheering your own demise. Truth is, treason in an empire of lies.

I fully support our local law enforcement. However, it is a sad state of affairs when APD leadership is compelled to brag that there was no violent crime over the past weekend. Could they set the bar any lower for themselves? The good people of Albany deserve solid community policing rather than the amateur circus of the past several years. 

Don’t listen to the True President regarding the economy.  Wall Street may be doing good, but Main Street is not doing so good. 

I see you’re accusing our president and his impressive cabinet of opposing Bad Bunny’s participation in the Super Bowl halftime show because the singer has brown skin. Damn, Fletcher, I thought you were white.

Hershel Walker has been appointed to be the ambassador to the Bahamas. What are his qualifications? They are better than most Trump appointees. His wife’s  parents own a home in the Bahamas, and his mother-in-law currently lives there. I guess correcting the James Bond movie trade imbalance will be Hershel’s primary focus.

I don’t always agree with Carlton Fletcher’s columns — rarely, in fact — but I do appreciate his writing and his courage to say what he feels, critics be damned.

No matter your politics, at some point Trump’s lack of basic competence has got to concern you. He’s supposed to be a great businessman, a deal-maker, but I doubt he could run a successful lemonade stand in the desert. That Man Without a Family

I saw this downtrodden-looking guy in the parking lot of a local business hitting people up for “loose change.” He told anyone who would listen that he’d just hit a “spot of bad luck lately.” Irony of ironies: He was wearing a soiled MAGA hat.

Bad Bunny is a satanist? Boy, Squawker, you must have hit every limb on the dumb-a$$ tree on your recent fall. You obviously will believe any lie this cretin in the White House and his band of idiots throw out there.

What’s so sad about the latest government shutdown is that Republicans are selling a bald-faced lie — no surprise there — to try and win sympathy. Their claim that Democrats want to save funds to insure illegal aliens is a flat-out lie. What’s amazing is the number of bleating loyalists who buy into that lie, hook, line and sinker.

Bad Bunny needs to hop back to where he came from. I’ll definitely watch George Strait before I’d watch this un-American nobody.

Freddie, you got all those senators to come down to southwest Georgia. … That’s pretty amazing. I hope they listened to what the people here said and do something about it.

All these people — 7 million across the country — taking part in “No Kings” marches. Look, our country is so messed up by minorities and the gay community, I wouldn’t mind Trump becoming our king. He is a political genius and a true American patriot.

Trump’s labor market is “bed-rotting.” No hiring, no switching jobs, no higher salaries.  Everyone is staying in bed all day long, doing nothing at home.

I plan to be at Brinley’s Pet Parade Saturday in Tifton. She looked adorable, and it was so refreshing to read about a young person actually doing something that doesn’t require a cellphone and social media. If only a lot of grown-ups here would take notice.

So the shutdown will impact the free giveaways to kids whose parents are too sorry to get jobs? Who cares? These people have relied on the kindness — and tax dollars — of others long enough. It’s time they started earning their own way.

Times have changed things, but I still love getting my Albany Herald. I read it from cover to cover.