Your columns are always good or better. This one is excellent. But, let's face it--- POLLS mean nothing. This election will be tainted once again by ballot box stuffing; ballot harvesting; and a press that cares only about POWER and MONEY. As Hannity said yesterday ask most Americans what the three branches of our government are and 75% of the populace cannot name them. We are a dumbed down society of mostly IDIOTS who will vote for whomever gives them money. The Republic is in severe decline. The so-called debates mean NOTHING. Trump should ignore them all and keep going out to the workers; people who are working and are not on the dole.
“As Hannity said yesterday ask most Americans what the three branches of our government are and 75% of the populace cannot name them. “
IMHO this is all by design; by purging civics out of the classroom students grow up not-in-the-know of how this republic was founded or is supposed to work. It’s by this that people are open to the idea of direct democracy by eradicating the Electoral College which would result in NYC, L.A., & Chicago picking our presidents. To their eternal shame the Republican/RINO establishment has done nothing to arrest this.
Why call them “conservatives”? What exactly are they “conserving”? Civics are long gone, marriage has been twisted, the military has been wrecked, the edu establishment is a series of woke factories, entertainment is more woke propaganda - corporate media largely the same- rule of law has been absolutely turned on its head where the victim of a crime is more likely to be charged by a Soros-funded D.A. than the perp if they resist a crime…
I could go on but what’s the point? Both Bushes were/are establishment morons only exceeded in stupidity by their opponents in the uniparty. And Karl Rove was “The Architect”? “Architect” of what exactly? A bitter court battle? That’s where 2000 wound up.
God help us by why should He? We turned our back on Him a long time ago.
Poll seemed tough, but it was easy. Freeze Frame will be the first of the three to exit stage left. The media can’t put him on camera anymore, either. That makes him my favorite.
I just can’t vote on this. Each is more repellant than the other. They each have their own dominant repellancy- Christie his unctuous nastiness (and he’s fat); Pence his squishy smarmy ambition devoid of self awareness; McConnell his wholesale venality.
Did anyone ever see a poll of EV'ers broken down by party lines? Bet it's about 90-10 Dim-no need to bomb us back to the stone age-mass production of these will do the job. OTOH the baby electrics are kinda cute.
"We can’t keep electing billionaires and millionaires that don’t have any understanding what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to get by and expecting them to solve the problems of the working class.”
I say:
You make $75-100.00 an hour to make absolutely shit products for 50+ years and live paycheck to paycheck , there is something very wrong with your job==and YOU.
Tony you are right. People have been taught to spend, spend, spend and not worry about it. They don’t even teach basic economics today in school. If people would sit down when they are first starting their working career and create a budget plan to follow in life they would all retire very wealthy. But they dont.
My Mom and Dad sat me down as they did with all my siblings and said that whatever path I chose, to enjoy what I did and to do a good job at whatever I chose. Mission accomplished.
I made a career out of the hospitality industry to include 42 years as a waiter and line cook. People knock the field as it's tough work, but when I wanted to travel the world, I always had the money to do it.
Tip of the hat to you, Tony. And to those in your industry. Many of the most pleasurable times of my life have been dining out. Generous tips have always been my way of saying thank you.
Thank you for sharing. I also trained many servers and my favorite thing to say was "If you think you are going to get a lousy tip, trust me, you will."
Years before my trucking career I went from fry cook to lead cook trainer/bartender for a natl. chain of hotels and restaurants.Great experience in hospitality and why I remain a heavy tipper on a limited income.
One of the men in our church owned an Amoco Oil service station. The proud WWII veteran of the PTO called my little Toyota a Rice Burner, and would I mind parking it in back? He worked on it a time or two, and charged me the same he did other customers. His own 4-door Hudson Hornet he parked near the front bay.
It is not totally worthless. Trump can use the broken promise to illustrate that they are liars and cheats. Though who would doubt that at this point is unclear.
The focus of any Republican debate should be about what policies and strategies each candidate implement ASAP to dramatically, swiftly, efficiently and effectively save our nation from the catastrophic years since gay Obama took office in 2009.
Except for the 4 Trump years, our march to the sewer of communism has our nation teetering on the edge of the abyss.
That PeRino wants them to attack Trump means she supports our march to communism!
Yep, and you'll notice their last debate never discussed 2A rights, the economy, or anything else that matters. There was a focus on the baby-killing message and I get it as it needs to be had, but...
Yes, that's a strange one, isn't it? Must have been some sort of deal to accomplish that. And, since Trump is a master deal maker, well... Thank God Garland didn't make the list. Can you imagine?
Favorite RINO? That's like asking which cancer you'd prefer to get. In regards to unions, I grew up in the Detroit area in the 1970s and I saw their eventual transition into major donors of the Democratic Party and, thus, destroying themselves in the process. This, I believe was the start of the modern Perpetual Grift in politics - if someone is paying you tons of money to help them solve their problems what's your incentive for actually solving their problems? We saw this happen in regards to both political parties, all of the major unions, Planned Parenthood and, eventually, the NRA. Don makes a great point in his column today about unions having their place in the workforce as a check on corporate greed and I'd tend to agree as long as they don't use their union dues to line the pockets of political parties in the process.
McConnell will forever be a hero for keeping Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court. We’ve seen enough of him now to observe how craven & spiteful he is.
Very interesting article; a few thoughts. Since debates are TV program theater, her desire to have the participants attack Trump makes perfect sense. Plus, none of them get to attack Biden if they can't beat Trump - so while I will definitely not be watching - I prefer the drama of the Cubs completely falling apart down the stretch for my TV entertainment - I understand FOX's desire here.
The Car CEO's ARE very much putting there entire workforces at risk, by throwing all their eggs in the EV basket. Trump will have to show more finesse than he has recently on abortion and transgender-ism (where his current positions are very much in line with FOX). We will see if he can pull it off.
I would note that as the US dominance in manufacturing was ending as the defeated powers after WWII finally rebuilt their industrial base all of US industry flailed away at trying to respond, and the Big Auto and Big Steel companies made multiple errors in judgement and actions that caused many problems. But having worked in the auto industry, specifically in the HR world, I can tell you that the UAW pretty much refused to even consider what was happening, and continually acted in a way that guaranteed they would shrink. And ask any labor expert and he will tell you that the Steelworkers were worse, way worse. Pretty much acting like petulant children, and as developing world steel production took off, made sure that the US steel industry would die. On top of the steel industry's executives own missteps, the entire industry was doomed. As steel production begins to ramp up at home, we can only hope they have all learned their lessons.
Polls - Don - mean nothing for the Donald. I need to see about the big 7 swing states. I still see no path and no plan. And if caving on abortion and trannyism is the plan, well I'd say he needs to reconsider. Oh, and I do love your Chrysler description. Spot on Don! Spot on!
Sep 22, 2023·edited Sep 22, 2023Liked by Don Surber
One term of PDJT - with both houses of Congress - would be a beautiful thing. Get the Dems in the minority, where they have always been but for their voter fraud, and Trump would get more done than he did in his productive first term. The biggest challenge is to get rid of the RINOs. They do more damage to liberty than the Dems.
Perino is both talented and pretty but she is a RINO enabler.
Didn't Trump have both houses for his first two years?
But I agree, the RINOs and deep staters are the real problem. My hope is that if Trump can pull off getting elected (for a 3rd time) that he now knows how to combat all that.
So, like I said, I HOPE Trump is ready to outmaneuver the deep state if given another chance because he WILL get the SAME TREATMENT if not WORSE, even if the "Republicans" have both houses of Congress.
Trump is correct. EVs are easier to make, even though they are crap. Think electric toaster from China. They can mostly be made by computer since less working parts. Therefore ultimately a significant downsizing of labor force. As to their exorbitant pay, who cares really? If everyone is making money it helps the rest of the economy around them.
Trump mentioned that China intends to flood the US with their EV batteries. That means US automakers will probably get drunk and sleep with China battery makers.
In the past I have supported the idea of UAW 'management' as they were supposed to serve the shareholder, of which were the employee's; I have done work in several 'Big Three' auto plants over the years and found the employee's extremely lazy and soft. I now look to support Labor solely in a fight to save internal combustion engine vehicles.
Think back to 1918. Demented Fascist race-baiting democrat Woodrow Wilson’s Caretaker unofficial POTUS wife and nurse sent our troops and a few DC SwampLackies to Vladivostok to kill off the revolution a-borning there.
We see what happened since.
Then, the Romanovs were today’s Uniparty. And we have had -since- a hundred plus years of disinformation, dissembly, and deceit from Our Romanov Uniparty, in search of our own “Bully” nascent-cum-self congratulative decadent moral crusade.
And we have handled that adventure no better than the Romans did theirs.
Human Nature drives Empire to become Empty Shell every time.
Yes, Democrats appeal to the negative side of human nature. Their universal sales pitch? Offering everyone a free lunch and the opportunity to shed personal responsibility with the excuse that they're somehow victims of something. This time around, it's all white people. Surprised me. I had no idea that I'm an inherently bad guy.
That is what the founders feared - and they did their level best to create a structure to stop the creation of power centers that could do to the republic what had been done before. I'd say we aren't dead yet, and that massive point of setting up a govt system with diverse power may save us yet.
Getting rid of the New World Order was a popular topic when I was raising my son in the 1970's. People in their 80's still believe it needs to be done. Also do some conservatives in their 50's still with teens at home.
When Trump became President, one of his first issues was resurrecting the steel industry, insisting on using “our beautiful AMERICAN steel” for all our needs. I believe that most of the UAW rank and file also remember this.
Many thanks, Don, for another super timely and articulate information piece.
I don't like any of the RINOs on today's poll, but at least McConnell blocked this SOB Garland from being on the SCOTUS. THAT alone earns him my gratitude.
Dana Perino has always seemed to be a pearl-clutching ice maiden.
She is slavishly attached to the posterior of W and the whole Bushie clan and therefore Trump is her nemesis. Screw her. She looks like she could use it.
I hope her moderating bombs and (although I loathe unions and view them as nothing more than legalized mafia) I hope Trump with the UAW workers IS da'bomb and a total humiliation to FOX, Biden, the DNC and the RNC. But then they're all mostly one in the same.
I think you and I may be kin! Thanks for saying what I was thinking. Anytime pearls are mentioned in any article, I see Barbara Bush, the elder, and her triple strand she probably wore when swimming.
Darlington SC is many miles from the Mahoning Valley. The nearest river is not suitable for water power, Darlington doesn’t have coal or iron ore. It has sandy soil from an ancient beach created when the sea level was much higher. It does have a profitable steel mill with good paying jobs. Darlington has junk cars the mill melts with clean green electric power. That power comes from the H B Robinson Nuclear Generating Station, that has been operating safely and profitably for a half century. [the Williamsburg County gentlemen, you have seen describing how the F-35 crash sounded, retired from the Georgetown SC steel mill which has only been marginally profitable during its history]
Your columns are always good or better. This one is excellent. But, let's face it--- POLLS mean nothing. This election will be tainted once again by ballot box stuffing; ballot harvesting; and a press that cares only about POWER and MONEY. As Hannity said yesterday ask most Americans what the three branches of our government are and 75% of the populace cannot name them. We are a dumbed down society of mostly IDIOTS who will vote for whomever gives them money. The Republic is in severe decline. The so-called debates mean NOTHING. Trump should ignore them all and keep going out to the workers; people who are working and are not on the dole.
The debates are ‘Bread & Circuses’ at this point.
And the news about the debates is simply popcorn. Needs more salt.
Ignore them and everything else on tv
On target my friend. Trump needs to play HIS game, not the enemies game.
“As Hannity said yesterday ask most Americans what the three branches of our government are and 75% of the populace cannot name them. “
IMHO this is all by design; by purging civics out of the classroom students grow up not-in-the-know of how this republic was founded or is supposed to work. It’s by this that people are open to the idea of direct democracy by eradicating the Electoral College which would result in NYC, L.A., & Chicago picking our presidents. To their eternal shame the Republican/RINO establishment has done nothing to arrest this.
Why call them “conservatives”? What exactly are they “conserving”? Civics are long gone, marriage has been twisted, the military has been wrecked, the edu establishment is a series of woke factories, entertainment is more woke propaganda - corporate media largely the same- rule of law has been absolutely turned on its head where the victim of a crime is more likely to be charged by a Soros-funded D.A. than the perp if they resist a crime…
I could go on but what’s the point? Both Bushes were/are establishment morons only exceeded in stupidity by their opponents in the uniparty. And Karl Rove was “The Architect”? “Architect” of what exactly? A bitter court battle? That’s where 2000 wound up.
God help us by why should He? We turned our back on Him a long time ago.
Ditto. I think the Molech worship did us in (abortion on demand).
gooder or better. :-D
Poll seemed tough, but it was easy. Freeze Frame will be the first of the three to exit stage left. The media can’t put him on camera anymore, either. That makes him my favorite.
I just can’t vote on this. Each is more repellant than the other. They each have their own dominant repellancy- Christie his unctuous nastiness (and he’s fat); Pence his squishy smarmy ambition devoid of self awareness; McConnell his wholesale venality.
Plus McConnell loves his wife's China connections. Keeps him out of the soup kitchens.
I dislike all 3. I wouldn’t vote for them for anything.
Tough call, but I think Pence because he's the least harmful at the moment. FF still thwarts MAGA and Moby raises my blood pressure.
Gosh thanks, Shlong. You gave me a criteria with which I could make a choice and therefore see the results.
Did anyone ever see a poll of EV'ers broken down by party lines? Bet it's about 90-10 Dim-no need to bomb us back to the stone age-mass production of these will do the job. OTOH the baby electrics are kinda cute.
I wasn't going to pick one, but you convinced me to.
Wish I'd talked to you first. I took Forgettable Pence. Lost my psychic link to the Cat.
The article said:
"We can’t keep electing billionaires and millionaires that don’t have any understanding what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to get by and expecting them to solve the problems of the working class.”
I say:
You make $75-100.00 an hour to make absolutely shit products for 50+ years and live paycheck to paycheck , there is something very wrong with your job==and YOU.
Tony you are right. People have been taught to spend, spend, spend and not worry about it. They don’t even teach basic economics today in school. If people would sit down when they are first starting their working career and create a budget plan to follow in life they would all retire very wealthy. But they dont.
My Mom and Dad sat me down as they did with all my siblings and said that whatever path I chose, to enjoy what I did and to do a good job at whatever I chose. Mission accomplished.
If one is happy at work it is not a job but a career.
I made a career out of the hospitality industry to include 42 years as a waiter and line cook. People knock the field as it's tough work, but when I wanted to travel the world, I always had the money to do it.
Tip of the hat to you, Tony. And to those in your industry. Many of the most pleasurable times of my life have been dining out. Generous tips have always been my way of saying thank you.
Thank you for sharing. I also trained many servers and my favorite thing to say was "If you think you are going to get a lousy tip, trust me, you will."
Years before my trucking career I went from fry cook to lead cook trainer/bartender for a natl. chain of hotels and restaurants.Great experience in hospitality and why I remain a heavy tipper on a limited income.
One of the men in our church owned an Amoco Oil service station. The proud WWII veteran of the PTO called my little Toyota a Rice Burner, and would I mind parking it in back? He worked on it a time or two, and charged me the same he did other customers. His own 4-door Hudson Hornet he parked near the front bay.
😊
At least half of the sacks of …. Who signed the pledge to support whoever the presidential candidate is will renege.
Krispy Kreme Christie will lead the pack.
You beat me to it. Their pledge is worthless if Trump is the nominee.
It is not totally worthless. Trump can use the broken promise to illustrate that they are liars and cheats. Though who would doubt that at this point is unclear.
The focus of any Republican debate should be about what policies and strategies each candidate implement ASAP to dramatically, swiftly, efficiently and effectively save our nation from the catastrophic years since gay Obama took office in 2009.
Except for the 4 Trump years, our march to the sewer of communism has our nation teetering on the edge of the abyss.
That PeRino wants them to attack Trump means she supports our march to communism!
Yep, and you'll notice their last debate never discussed 2A rights, the economy, or anything else that matters. There was a focus on the baby-killing message and I get it as it needs to be had, but...
At least Freeze helped get his judges across the finish line.
Yes, that's a strange one, isn't it? Must have been some sort of deal to accomplish that. And, since Trump is a master deal maker, well... Thank God Garland didn't make the list. Can you imagine?
Favorite RINO? That's like asking which cancer you'd prefer to get. In regards to unions, I grew up in the Detroit area in the 1970s and I saw their eventual transition into major donors of the Democratic Party and, thus, destroying themselves in the process. This, I believe was the start of the modern Perpetual Grift in politics - if someone is paying you tons of money to help them solve their problems what's your incentive for actually solving their problems? We saw this happen in regards to both political parties, all of the major unions, Planned Parenthood and, eventually, the NRA. Don makes a great point in his column today about unions having their place in the workforce as a check on corporate greed and I'd tend to agree as long as they don't use their union dues to line the pockets of political parties in the process.
McConnell will forever be a hero for keeping Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court. We’ve seen enough of him now to observe how craven & spiteful he is.
Yes, As I said above, that's a real mystery. Luckily, a happy mystery.
Very interesting article; a few thoughts. Since debates are TV program theater, her desire to have the participants attack Trump makes perfect sense. Plus, none of them get to attack Biden if they can't beat Trump - so while I will definitely not be watching - I prefer the drama of the Cubs completely falling apart down the stretch for my TV entertainment - I understand FOX's desire here.
The Car CEO's ARE very much putting there entire workforces at risk, by throwing all their eggs in the EV basket. Trump will have to show more finesse than he has recently on abortion and transgender-ism (where his current positions are very much in line with FOX). We will see if he can pull it off.
I would note that as the US dominance in manufacturing was ending as the defeated powers after WWII finally rebuilt their industrial base all of US industry flailed away at trying to respond, and the Big Auto and Big Steel companies made multiple errors in judgement and actions that caused many problems. But having worked in the auto industry, specifically in the HR world, I can tell you that the UAW pretty much refused to even consider what was happening, and continually acted in a way that guaranteed they would shrink. And ask any labor expert and he will tell you that the Steelworkers were worse, way worse. Pretty much acting like petulant children, and as developing world steel production took off, made sure that the US steel industry would die. On top of the steel industry's executives own missteps, the entire industry was doomed. As steel production begins to ramp up at home, we can only hope they have all learned their lessons.
Polls - Don - mean nothing for the Donald. I need to see about the big 7 swing states. I still see no path and no plan. And if caving on abortion and trannyism is the plan, well I'd say he needs to reconsider. Oh, and I do love your Chrysler description. Spot on Don! Spot on!
Jim - the election is about the corrupt democrat (yes, it’s redundant) cities in the swing states.
Yeah, unfortunately I think that states it pretty accurately.
One term of PDJT - with both houses of Congress - would be a beautiful thing. Get the Dems in the minority, where they have always been but for their voter fraud, and Trump would get more done than he did in his productive first term. The biggest challenge is to get rid of the RINOs. They do more damage to liberty than the Dems.
Perino is both talented and pretty but she is a RINO enabler.
Didn't Trump have both houses for his first two years?
But I agree, the RINOs and deep staters are the real problem. My hope is that if Trump can pull off getting elected (for a 3rd time) that he now knows how to combat all that.
Yes he did, but the Dems launched a blitzkrieg assault and the RINOs hid. He did amazingly well considering what he fought without much support.
So, like I said, I HOPE Trump is ready to outmaneuver the deep state if given another chance because he WILL get the SAME TREATMENT if not WORSE, even if the "Republicans" have both houses of Congress.
Trump is correct. EVs are easier to make, even though they are crap. Think electric toaster from China. They can mostly be made by computer since less working parts. Therefore ultimately a significant downsizing of labor force. As to their exorbitant pay, who cares really? If everyone is making money it helps the rest of the economy around them.
Trump mentioned that China intends to flood the US with their EV batteries. That means US automakers will probably get drunk and sleep with China battery makers.
They already are. Batteries are an eco disaster
Therapy, Don.
In the past I have supported the idea of UAW 'management' as they were supposed to serve the shareholder, of which were the employee's; I have done work in several 'Big Three' auto plants over the years and found the employee's extremely lazy and soft. I now look to support Labor solely in a fight to save internal combustion engine vehicles.
Think back to 1918. Demented Fascist race-baiting democrat Woodrow Wilson’s Caretaker unofficial POTUS wife and nurse sent our troops and a few DC SwampLackies to Vladivostok to kill off the revolution a-borning there.
We see what happened since.
Then, the Romanovs were today’s Uniparty. And we have had -since- a hundred plus years of disinformation, dissembly, and deceit from Our Romanov Uniparty, in search of our own “Bully” nascent-cum-self congratulative decadent moral crusade.
And we have handled that adventure no better than the Romans did theirs.
Human Nature drives Empire to become Empty Shell every time.
Yes, Democrats appeal to the negative side of human nature. Their universal sales pitch? Offering everyone a free lunch and the opportunity to shed personal responsibility with the excuse that they're somehow victims of something. This time around, it's all white people. Surprised me. I had no idea that I'm an inherently bad guy.
That is what the founders feared - and they did their level best to create a structure to stop the creation of power centers that could do to the republic what had been done before. I'd say we aren't dead yet, and that massive point of setting up a govt system with diverse power may save us yet.
Hope you are correct, Jim. Uniparty has been pretty facile in side-stepping such so far to get what they want for themselves.
Today;s New World Order is the same one that crashed and burned at Sarajevo in 1914.
Getting rid of the New World Order was a popular topic when I was raising my son in the 1970's. People in their 80's still believe it needs to be done. Also do some conservatives in their 50's still with teens at home.
When Trump became President, one of his first issues was resurrecting the steel industry, insisting on using “our beautiful AMERICAN steel” for all our needs. I believe that most of the UAW rank and file also remember this.
Many thanks, Don, for another super timely and articulate information piece.
Dittos. Let's see if we could get a few college credit for these daily classes! (I suffer a bit from drop-out guilt.)
And hence your nom de plume?
Yep, I wrangled attorneys for the state for 24 years.
I will let you carry my guilt as well Lawsy and thank you!
I don't like any of the RINOs on today's poll, but at least McConnell blocked this SOB Garland from being on the SCOTUS. THAT alone earns him my gratitude.
Dana Perino has always seemed to be a pearl-clutching ice maiden.
She is slavishly attached to the posterior of W and the whole Bushie clan and therefore Trump is her nemesis. Screw her. She looks like she could use it.
I hope her moderating bombs and (although I loathe unions and view them as nothing more than legalized mafia) I hope Trump with the UAW workers IS da'bomb and a total humiliation to FOX, Biden, the DNC and the RNC. But then they're all mostly one in the same.
I think you and I may be kin! Thanks for saying what I was thinking. Anytime pearls are mentioned in any article, I see Barbara Bush, the elder, and her triple strand she probably wore when swimming.
Thanks Lawsy0! 😊
Darlington SC is many miles from the Mahoning Valley. The nearest river is not suitable for water power, Darlington doesn’t have coal or iron ore. It has sandy soil from an ancient beach created when the sea level was much higher. It does have a profitable steel mill with good paying jobs. Darlington has junk cars the mill melts with clean green electric power. That power comes from the H B Robinson Nuclear Generating Station, that has been operating safely and profitably for a half century. [the Williamsburg County gentlemen, you have seen describing how the F-35 crash sounded, retired from the Georgetown SC steel mill which has only been marginally profitable during its history]