To the Editor:

2024 is underway, and what a year to be alive! With so much to keep our eyes on, it has become a full-time job for "wide awake" Americans. I'll try to limit my comments to what is happening in the United States, but I recently learned that Biden's Re-election Campaign has launched an official TikTok account. Yes, the same TikTok owned and operated by the C.C.P., the Chinese Communist Party. China is no friend of a free America, but they Love Joe Biden and he loves them back.

The lawsuits continue in an unprecedented attempt to keep Donald Trump off of Primary ballots in many states, yet DJT has continuously outpolled his GOP rivals, and spanks Biden in the General election by several points, according to most pollsters, despite the stupid things that sometimes come out of his mouth. I think our own congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, is on Trump's short-list of running mates but I say, "Don't do it!" We need her values and strength in Congress representing the North Country. 

Special Counsel Robert Hur, who oversaw the investigation into Biden's mishandling of classified documents, described the current resident of the White House as "an elderly man with a poor memory", which is why he is known in some circles as "Clueless Joe". The pollsters indicate that any of the other GOP-hopefuls would also defeat Biden in November. 

The Democrat-faithful insist that things are rosy under Biden's "leadership". Yet, Forbes magazine says that since Biden took office in January 2021 prices are up 19% overall, with food prices 25% higher, energy costs 26% higher, and housing costs up 19%. No wonder Trump is leading all polls and still drawing mega-MAGA-crowds at all of his rallies.

American, and New York, voters, have their biggest decision yet this year. The dreadful economy will doom the Dems, who have no one ready to step up as a legitimate candidate. That's why Robert Kennedy Junior thinks he has a shot running as an Independent.

There's a supposed Chinese proverb, or curse, that goes, "May you live in interesting times." That surely describes 2024. It's just too bad that China, through TikTok and other means, will have the ability to influence American voters in an attempt to keep Biden, and the Deep State, in office to do their bidding. Beware of "the enemy within," folks.

Dixie Dave Ellis
Hammond