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Sep 11·edited Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

We thought McCarthy would be a horrible Speaker of the House - a RINO masquerading as a MAGA American. He finally won the vote and started out like a house on fire - making us question our initial opposition to him.

He’s a RINO. He’s a horrible Speaker of the House.

MAGA for 2024.

Great post.

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

Don, you don’t come across as ramped up enough today.

Can you tell us how you really feel?

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

An important quibble about this otherwise excellent commentary: Ashli Babbitt was not the only person murdered by Capitol police. Roseanne Boyland was beaten to death by a Capitol cop while lying on the ground unconscious.

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

I’ve got to say Don this is your best Substack yet. It reads like a speech and I was engrossed in it. All I can say is wow. You were on target in every sentence. It speaks to my heart and mind and I’m sure others feel the same. I hope this moves out far and wide. The democrats have got to be running scared with all the evil they are trying to inject into our country. I hope people open their eyes and understand that is real and what consequences may occur.

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An excellent comprehensive assessment of the perilous times we face! Our beautiful America is being run by a government not of the people, not by the people and not for the people. The abuse of power, the undermining of the constitution, the lawlessness are Communist and Satanic. We are in a war between good and evil.

We must NOT COMPLY, pray fervently, do the right thing, push back, speak the truth, win souls to Christ, wake up true Christian and get them to vote. I have read that a sizable number of Christians don’t vote!

Thank you Don for your excellent article!!

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

"America doesn’t need an election; it needs an exorcism."

Yes. Let's go to the source of all power. Trump's next rally needs to become a national exorcism with as many clergy as can be obtained. With humble faith, we might be able to blow the roof off the Capitol Rotunda. We know playing politics doesn't work, so let's take it up a notch.

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

As the kids say, "so what?" So what if the politicians are corrupt or have dementia or both? So what if causing sexual confusion and mutilation is a goal? So what if protecting Ukraine's borders is more important than our own? So what if our young people are deprived of a good education and have to live in a violent world? So what if our old people are isolated and lonely? So what means:

What are YOU going to do about it?

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

The puppet uniparty government in Washington DC is going to do everything in their power to prevent Trump from becoming President, even if they have to kill him. They have been working for years to destroy him politically, and he just keeps getting stronger and receives increasing support. There is nothing they can do short of killing him, to prevent him from winning the election. There is no one running even close to him in support, despite billions of dollars being poured into the DeSantis effort.

But if they do kill him, all bets are off in terms of what happens next. I do not think they will survive that. There are just too many Americans who support Trump and too many Americans who don't even support him but will be unable to support a government that assassinates their political rivals. Killing Trump will spell their doom.

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This prophetic and clarifiying article made me weep. The answer that I chose to who should be the next vice president was Seal Team 6. I roared with laughter with that thought.

But my heart is still broken over the tragedy and travesty of our once great nation being reduced to feeding off the husks of the pig trough of our politicians.

We took our inheritance and left the heritage of faith because our older brother of ungrateful church leaders were indifferent to our yearnings and headed to the bright lights of Mammon, forgetting the abundance of joy we had at the Father's table.

I, for one, am headed back to my Father's house where the imperfect leaders will look at us skepticaly. I don't care. I want to be embraced by the Father and fellowship at his abundant table.

They that sew in tears shall reap in joy.

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

Don, ylou are firing on all twelve cylinders today! ROCK ON!

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

Extraordinary Article!!

Standing ovation!!!!!

👏👏👏👏👏👏♥️

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

Again, a thoroughly thought-provoking piece that should mobilize any God-fearing American Patriot into action AND instill the fear of the almighty in those responsible for the tyranny rampant within the federal government which threatens this nation's existence. Thank you

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

Byrd did not shoot and kill Ashley he effing executed her, point blank, and yet this POS walks free and may have even been promoted, yet many sit in the shithole of the DC gulag. No court ever looked at the evidence of the election travesty, move on deplorables nuttin' to see here. It's the frogs being boiled incrementally, ribit... 9/11 anniversary and the dummocrats cannot even trust our fearless leader to speak afraid of the gaffe machine unleashed...

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Sep 11Liked by Don Surber

A very brilliant article. I still remember the patriotism that we had as Americans on 9/11. It was only after a few years that we realized that Bush and Cheney were traitors. At the time I was wondering why there were no airplane parts found at the Pentagon or from United 93. It was clear that that day was used as a start to the long game of separating Americans from the constitution. Hell is made up of nine levels. The Democrats are in the ninth level. However, the Republicans and individuals such as Mitt Romney and other Rinos, who allow this takeover to occur are in their own level deeper which is the 10th level a new level for the true scum bags of this earth.

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My guess is some dispute between a red state and the feds will happen where the governor tells the feds to go pound sand, the feds try to use some agency muscle, and then the whole thing goes ka-boom. State police vs. fed law enforcement. Won't be pretty.

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Don, the passion expressed in this post is both understandable and appropriate, given what we know and what we can legitimately infer from what we know. I am in full agreement with you. Our federal--or more accurately our "central" government, since it has squeezed almost all the "federalism" out--has adopted the worst practices of governments described as Leviathan and Behemoth, the titles of philosophical treatises authored by Hobbes in his attempt to figure out how men best govern themselves, given that we are not angels. Those names are descriptive of the gigantic, menacing and all-encompassing, all-consuming vortices of power that the central government has become since the beginning of the Twentieth Century. That government has continue to exert a gravity-like pull on the power previously invested in the individual states, and more importantly, the individual people, or citizens, as we were formerly known, but are now more aptly described as subjects. Trump is a very imperfect vessel in which to pour our hope of restraining the central government, but he appears to be the only one with even the slightest likelihood of doing so. Whether this is the result of his desire for revenge or for true reform is irrelevant; what matters only is that he does it. Thus, I--like you--will support him even if he is only marginally successful in restraining our plunge into authoritarianism/totalitarianism. Having said all this, I respectfully wish to add one small but crucial detail to your recounting of Marion Barry's successful criminal defense. Yes, it is true that the jury simply refused to accept the FBI version of events, but this was, I believe, more the result of a racially motivated skepticism than one more generally held about the FBI or law enforcement in general. It was mostly black juror refusal to convict a black democrat that resulted in the largely successful defense. This same dynamic is currently reversed in the case of Trump. Should he be tried by a jury composed largely of black residents of DC (which is interchangeable with the term "democrats") he will be convicted despite the absence of ANY incriminating evidence. That is simply what we have come to at this point in our history. There was a time when the racial solidarity of blacks against whites was counterbalanced by white society's insistence on application of the law against law-breakers, but now it has become fashionable for upper-class whites to declare their virtue by siding against people who look like them but don't belong to their particular socio-economic class because "equity" or some other virtue signal. I sadly conclude that Trump will be convicted unless one person of integrity--regardless of skin color--is empaneled in his DC case. But like Diogenes, I believe I would search in vain for that "one person of integrity" among the pool of potential jurors in that benighted venue.

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