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Richard Luthmann's avatar

The news cycle tells the Trump story in fragments, but the pattern is obvious. Border releases: zero. Violent crime: down hard. Biden appliance mandates: killed. Fraud in Minnesota: finally charged. Deportation costs: shifted toward offenders. Cuba: pressured. CIA: redirected toward foreign enemies. CBS Radio and Colbert-era media relics: fading. The regime’s old ecosystem is losing oxygen while Trump’s law-and-order machine gains speed. Democrats call it authoritarian because they cannot admit the obvious: open borders, weak policing, fraud tolerance, and bureaucratic sabotage made America poorer, dirtier, less safe, and more corrupt. Trump is cleaning house, and the results are showing.

Jake's avatar

So much work to do. So little time.

Anybody else tired of hearing about Colbert? Just leave already. Move to Ireland to be with Rosie.

tj's avatar

The death throes of his show have been impressive. Ranks right up there with LeBron James flopping around on a basketball floor.

Sam Prentice's avatar

How can we miss him when he won't go away?

Sam Prentice's avatar

Richard, Trump should hire you for his public relations team. You succinctly encapsulated the myriad things he has done with very little fanfare or attention. The man is a modern miracle and force of nature the likes we haven't seen before and probably won't again in our lifetimes.

NNTX's avatar

And we can add to the list: reversal of the Climate Hoax scam and its attendant costs. Revival of American energy dominance, and finds such as huge lithium lodes in Appalachia, beginnings of a turnaround in private employment stats shown in April nos and upward revision for March, PLUS crackdown on H-1-B scams, 3MM+ illegals gone and more financial pressure on those remaining via fees and crackdown in banking options for illegals, Duffy moving to upgrade Air Traffic Control and eliminate foreigners CDLs, appointed Kevin Warsh who will return the Fed to the sounder policy goals of monetary policy, many many inward investments in the USA and a rebound in capital investment (precursor to employment increases), repositioning the USA in our hemisphere and ridding much of same of tyrants (Maduro et al, Cuba next).

Iran will be resolved, I believe. NATO is being schooled while we mostly ignore the UN and other globalist enterprises (WHO, WEF, yada yada). A full throated endorsement of the GOOD of Western civilization and in this 250th anniversary year, a rededication of our country to faith.

And who can forget, working and beautiful fountains in DC?!

Sam Prentice's avatar

Excellent addition to the unbelievable list of accomplishments. And he is definitely a "very stable genius" when you see how he has worked piece by piece assembling the formerly impossible alliance among Arab countries and Israel starting with the Abraham Accords. Removing Russian influence from Syria, and working to neutralize Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis prior to decapitating Iran. Liberating Venezuela from drug lords and Chinese/Cuban influence, removing China from the Panama Canal and the entire Western Hemisphere. Soon, to eradicate the cartel syndicates in Mexico and Central America. The man does not stop or even begin to rest on his accomplishments. The ink never dries!

NNTX's avatar

Great comment, Sam!

TeaPartyGal's avatar

A great compilation! There are so, so, many excellent things happening it's nearly impossible to keep track of them all.

NNTX's avatar

Agreed. The White House needs to do a better job of publicizing the entire list for mid term voters.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Well said R.L. .

CactusMatt32's avatar

And we SEE (R)-Senators doing whatever they can to thwart Tumps actions. If you see one of them home this Memorial weekend talking about honor of our soldiers, Blow them a raspberry for leaving DHS unfunded….. Paxton will get’r done by Hook or Crook(!) in Trump’s THIRD term…. Already got my early vote in against ‘Big John’ Amnesty/Gun Control Cornyn, finally we should get a HandGrenade from Texas to move it forward in the US Senate. (Like Cruz used to in his first term).

Milquetoast Bush Texas Republicans think voting for Amnesty John is much better than an imperfect Agent that will move the MAGA agenda forward. Cornyn is in the same league of disgraced cheese-eating AG Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions III from Term45.

Charles G.'s avatar

Concise and to the point. Very well said, sir.

John Wiles's avatar

Preach it, Brother Richard! Amen and Amen!

Vince Gallo's avatar

Item 10. Keep the felon in jail.

Deport the lawyer.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

And the robed asshat who freed Maryland Man Abrego -Garcia, Vince.

tj's avatar

Yeah the first reports were it was a Trump judge, then it was later found to be an Obama judge.

Both the defendant and lawyer(s) need deported.

Sam Prentice's avatar

And not JUST an Obama judge. This is Boasberg who was also THE FISA judge that approved the fraudulent Carter Page warrant that enabled the entire fraud. He was/is in on everything from the start. He also is part of a cadre of judges who have coordinated ways to engage in lawfare to obstruct Trump. His time is coming and I don't think he will continue to have that sneer.

tj's avatar

ohhhh. Now that just makes me mad. Yeah, that sneer is enough to make you want to smack him. He is one of the worst. Yeah, I really hope that investigation continues and someone does something other than a strongly worded letter.

I didnt read the story just caught the two different headlines. I will now have to go back a read the stories.

Scott L's avatar

With all due respect, Don, isn’t Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms better described as the worst mayor in the history of Atlanta?

Steve Boggs's avatar

It 12- Congress takes a pass on compensating J6ers. Nothing infuriates me more than Republicans taking the Democrats lying line on J6.

I thought Kash would have cracked FBI and gov’t complicity in this fraud by now. I know he’s busy cleaning the Augean stables, but this huge stain isn’t going away without reparations and indictments.

Shrugged's avatar

Check out CFP's recent headline on Jim Jordan investigating SPLC money being used to pay for FBI plants in the J6 crowd - the thing Chris Wray denied. If Wray didn't pay for them, he has deniability, but if we follow the money, he may get hung.

He deserves to be castrated.

Joe LaGreca's avatar

Chris Wray ranks up there as one of the worse - if not the worse Trump appt. He was recommended to Trump by Chris Christie. Wray turned out to be a back-stabbing snake on day one.

Shrugged's avatar

Couldn't have said it any better.

Trump had a tough learning curve in 1.0, but he mastered all of it in the four years of Biden and is almost flawless today.

Sam Prentice's avatar

I think the Deep State has very adeptly influenced all of Trump's choices for Attorney General, which have all been disasters and people who were actually against Trump. Jeff Sessions, William Barr, Pam Bondi! All of them disasters. Matt Gaetz was destroyed, and Trump has lucked out with his current interim, Todd Blanche, who seems like a very solid guy. Hopefully, he'll get approved. Thune probably kept the pro forma session to prevent Trump from recess appointing Blance, true patriot and Republican that Thune is.

Joe LaGreca's avatar

I saw a graphic a few days ago that showed the # of recess appts that George W., Obama, and Biden got. As for Trump, it's a solid zero. Shameful of Thune to do this to Trump. Some on the right say that Todd Blanche would have never been confirmed by the senate & Bondi was there to clean house & fire some of the deep-staters.

Derrière Diva's avatar

I think it is all about the US Attorneys. They don't want MAGA DA's actually indicting deep-staters.

Vince Gallo's avatar

Just like Christie

Sam Prentice's avatar

I think we need to combine both of your suggested punishments into one. Hang him by his family jewels first, and then bring out the Ginza knife later.

Shrugged's avatar
1dEdited

Yes, that's a good plan.

I always called him "Nostrils Wray" because of his smug smirky smile under those huge nostrils. Perhaps for a warm-up we can hang him by his nostrils from some bungees with wire hooks. One hook in each nostril. Just watch him bounce up and down on the bungees while hanging by his nose.

Sam Prentice's avatar

You're scaring me how similarly we are thinking...! Maybe I better switch to decaf for a while?

tj's avatar

My brother has had that same sh*t eating grin for over 50 yrs. I can always tell when he is pulling a fast one. Gma let him get away with it too, whereas I would get lectured for an hour.

Vince Gallo's avatar

Why are you so soft on crime? He doesn’t have any balls. 😂😂😂

Shrugged's avatar
1dEdited

I couldn't find the headline again so I may be mistaken about the site that posted it. Here is the story from the DOJ website:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-wire-fraud-false-statements-and

Jordan's Congressional Committee announcement:

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-requests-documents-about-southern-poverty-law-center-paying

tj's avatar

Actually a lot of stuff disappears on the Internets. Almost like someone doesnt like the truth getting out. You know 'they' are very active when a story disappears in 12 or less hours. I have seen articles disappear in 2 hrs.

It does make you wonder if you are losing your mind though.

Sam Prentice's avatar

Years ago I found, and shared, a link to an actual video of John McCain when he was a POW in Vietnam doing a treasonous anti-war propaganda film. It's funny that once Trump called him out and mocked him as a POW because of his cowardice and treason, surprisingly the YouTube disappeared and searches claim it never existed. Things do get broomed when the wrong people don't like it.

tj's avatar

I had forgotten about that one. I do know even archiving websites will remove stuff if they forced/payed to. They say otherwise but a lot of dirt on Dims is gone like it never was.

Shrugged's avatar

Thanks. I read a lot on sites so I usually chock it up to my poor memory.

tj's avatar
16hEdited

Me too until that 2 hr story. I had sent the link to hubby and he asked later why I had sent him a dead link. That happened about the start of covid or earlier. After that I paid more attention.

Steve Boggs's avatar

Thanks again. I was forgetting about that investigation of the SPLC. I hope that is a large piece of the J6 puzzle, though it seems to be more of a Pelosi/Dem led thing.

Shrugged's avatar

I think if we follow the money on this, we'll learn it was a huge setup that included the FBI. I suspect the FBI plants weren't on the clock but were paid by someone. Wray probably has some deniability at this point. Hopefully, not for long, but you know Congressional Hearings really do nothing for Justice.

That said, I would bet Wray had tangential involvement in providing harm to J6 protesters to support Pelosi et al.

Just another double-standard day for the Dems. . . They burn city blocks for George Floyd in mostly peaceful protests that included setting fire to a Federal Courthouse who are not charged and have no criminal repercussions, but a guy who never stepped inside the Capitol on J6 spends months/years in prison.

Steve Boggs's avatar

A few years ago a newly retired FBI agent and family moved in next to us. We had casual conversations for the most part but one day, out of curiosity where he stands politically, and not wanting to make a social faux pas, I asked him if he knew Chris Wray personally. He said he sat next to him on a plane ride, and that he learned he’s a great family man.

I dropped it, but the thought of the old joke came to me- who really knew Al Capone- Eliot Ness or the neighbor kids he gave candy to when he saw them?

Sam Prentice's avatar

The problem is that we've all known, or highly suspected, all of this stuff from years and years ago, and nothing has ever happened to anybody. I remember when the Charlottesville fiasco took place about the "good people on both sides" nonsense, people had videos of the charter buses arriving before the riots with protesters from "both" sides getting off the same buses. But no one cared and the story died a very quick death.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

Re: Minnesota. EOM

Vince Gallo's avatar

That’s too lenient plus there probably isn’t much to cut. 😂😂👍

Jeremy R's avatar

Chemical castration using tanerite.

For those who don't know, tanerite is used to make exploding targets. When a bullet passes through a container of tanerite, it blows up! There are plenty of videos of the damage on YouTube.

Marlene Swann's avatar

I am so hoping that is the October surprise. Bennie Thompson and his committee cannot be allowed to continue their careers on the taxpayers dime after perpetuating this fraud and brutality against American citizens. They committed a crime and they should pay. We are NOT a banana republic who does this to our own people! (But I guess, actually, sadly, we are.)

donald b welch's avatar

the gop's lying line is also supported by fox news. disgusting!

Deb Hill's avatar

It makes perfect sense if you look at Fox News as the controlled opposition. When the intelligence community wants PR support, they use the Washington Post. When the FBI needs PR support, they use the NYT and Politico. When the State Department needs PR support, they use CNN. Once you see the attached strings, you can never unsee them.

donald b welch's avatar

in general fox news is not maga nor pro trump. they're rino at best. both brothers who own fox news are married to hard core feminists.

TeaPartyGal's avatar

BUT, the prime time leading anchors are MAGA all the way--Sean Hannity is firm, so is Laura Ingraham, Jesse, Gutfeld.

This is valuable.

NNTX's avatar

IIRC the Senate did vote itself $500K apiece if they were spied on during the Arctic Frost FBI caper.

Hypocrisy is not limited to Dems; it also infects RINOs

Valoree Dowell's avatar

half a million dollars. how many families could live on half a million dollars for a year?

NNTX's avatar

Good question.

Vince Gallo's avatar

Item 5. Cruises to Cuba? Sign up Bernie AOC Pocahontas Schumer Hakeem and the gang.

Make it one way.

donald b welch's avatar

cruise director to be sean penn.

Vince Gallo's avatar

Lmao. He makes me sea sick

donald b welch's avatar

i met him. seemed like a nice guy. short meet. i never mentioned i was a card caring maga masterblaster. coronado island at the del.

RevMikeyMac's avatar

We want to IMPROVE Cuba, not make it worse than it already is.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Yes it will be the 54th state, after Alberta, Venezuela, and Greenland comes Cuba Rev.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

im first in line for alberta.

donald b welch's avatar

i've never been there. i am 78 and it would be a pleasure and a hoot to go to trump's new casino on the beach.

Big Dog 333's avatar

What IF the Dumbocrats win the midterms. Hakeem “the dream” becomes the speaker? He truly is a piece of work. I would think the Dems should revote!

Kathy Christian's avatar

Jeffries is hate in a skin suit.

donald b welch's avatar

if they take the house but not the senate trump is probably safe. hakeem will try to halt anything trump attempts to accomplish of course.

if the donks take both sides of the aisle i'm pretty sure they will try to impeach the donald but it will fail in the senate. 2028 is the tell.... if they have congress and the white house i see the supreme court expanding to 11 or 13 seats. fubar. our birthrate is falling beyond the point of safety. 1.5 and there's nothing trump can do about it in the next 2 years. at some point the borders will swing wide open again and that will be that. women have stopped making babies and that's the end of it.

the shift in populations will (inevitably) rearrange the demographics. sub-saharan africa will continue to produce copious numbers of babies and that leads to a question i have for you. sub-saharan african women have the lowest iq on the planet. how will that effect/affect the human genome going forward if they end up producing most of the worlds population? would that not stifle stem advancements long term? especially considering the all out war on white men and its obvious deleterious ramifications to date.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

oh please. i just ate.

CactusMatt32's avatar

Ship will be provided by White Star Line….

Subvet's avatar

Karen Bass could introduce e them to leadship

James Mead's avatar

Amazing what a closed border will do.

Lower crime

More open housing

Better wages for Americans

Less Press #2 on the phone

Sam Prentice's avatar

The Democrats are right for once. Illegal aliens don't commit much of our crime - especially when they have been deported!!!!

Joe LaGreca's avatar

When I was checking out of the Acme supermarket on Friday, I must have pressed the wrong button on the checkout screen - a voice started speaking in Spanish. I checked the screen & pressed the English button. First time I've noticed language options at the self-checkout.

Sam Prentice's avatar

I'm finding more often that I'm the only English-speaking person in a store or restaurant. I find it infuriating and very rude of these people to just so blatantly, in our faces, colonize us and try to turn us into the cesspool they came from. I really have to bite my tongue and not say anything because the only thing that will accomplish is having them stab me with their knife.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

if someone speaks spanish in front of me, I speak french. the looks i get...

Sam Prentice's avatar

That's great. I'll have to brush up on my French from many decades ago!

Vince Gallo's avatar

A fellow Philly guy who shops at ACaME. 😂😂😂😂

BJ54's avatar

Thank the good Lord for both Dons.

donald b welch's avatar

i appreciate that lol.

Albert P. Sweeney's avatar

Bravo Don! Excellent recap of the week.

I pray for Abe and Tulsi Gabbard as they navigate the rough waters of bone cancer.

2.) The “slim” Stacey will fail. Always has, always will.

13.) America a news desert. Has been for a very long time. Ever since Chet Huntley and David Brinkley signed off.

20.) And how long until we hear the left tell us this is exactly how Hitler got started?

And the 16th amendment began the destruction of our Constitution, followed by the 17th, just as damaging as the 16th.

Please, this weekend…

Pray for those who have paid the ultimate price for our freedoms, even as these freedoms erode before our eyes. Pay tribute to those they left behind when they paid the price for their loved one’s lives.

May GOD Almighty continue to bless and protect President Donald J. Trump and these United States of America.

I Love America, you should too.

Playing Augusta National with my son tomorrow. I am blessed.

APS => Out!!

Don Surber's avatar

You are. Have fun

CactusMatt32's avatar

A while back I was travelling to Miami at lot - office near the Doral, and we’d eat there occasionally. Guys suggested we could play it, but only playing once a year I declined. I remember DeMerit & Snead & Nicklaus & Norman playing there….and I would proudly post a 125. Surely you must be a better player, or the course has a year to recover…

Albert P. Sweeney's avatar

I’m lucky because my son works there and one of the perks is employee appreciation week and he gets to bring a guest to play the course before they shut it all down for summer maintenance. My score is always in the 120’s. Any one is isn’t pro who tells you they shot better than 100 is a straight up liar 🤣.

Actually got my 1st hole in one on the par 3 course warming up 2 years ago.

I put up my score next Tuesday when Don gives a run down of the weekend!

Valoree Dowell's avatar

head down, sweep, follow through...

Vince Gallo's avatar

Item 3. Who are the six RINOs that don’t know what a woman is???

Primary them.

Joe LaGreca's avatar

The 6 GOP members voted that way for another reason:

"Several GOP lawmakers reportedly opposed the museum entirely, arguing existing Smithsonian institutions already honor women’s contributions and expressing concern the new museum could become a platform for progressive activism."

"According to a source familiar with Republican concerns, some lawmakers feared the museum could evolve into “a shrine to abortion activists like Margaret Sanger or the latest progressive cause” without stricter protections in the legislation."

Suzie's avatar

Also, aren’t we something like $37T in Debt?

And they just keep spending money on things we can surely live without.

We still have libraries…for now.

Damn the torpedoes's avatar

Andrew Carnegie was the philanthropist who gave us numerous libraries. With the rising wealth that Trump will bring us will be the (hopefully) rising numbers of philanthropists. Bring back private charities, and dump the NGOs forever!

Vince Gallo's avatar

Truer words. 😂👍🙏

Joe LaGreca's avatar

Worse than that $37T debt is that the yearly interest on that debt is approaching $1.5T - our debt will automatically rise every year even without new spending. How long can this go on before it all comes crashing down.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

until we can't pay interest to Japan, UK and China.

Vince Gallo's avatar

I have an idea. Instead of a Wymn’s museum let’s open a big shopping center. It’ll honor what women really want and instead of spending gazillions we’ll make money.

Another twofer.

Sam Prentice's avatar

But it's other people's money, not ours. And they have plenty of it and can make more anytime they need it.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

Yes. We are. And that's why I voted the way I did. Broken record.

Liberty Belle's avatar

I would use the libraries more but they rarely have the books I’d like to read.

steph_gray's avatar

ITEM 11: Paging PDJT!

Shortly after the SCOTUS knocked racism off the lefty table in redistricting, PDJT said he would get to the blue states' gerrymanders.

None of the "blue states" are solid blue, in fact - they have blue _areas_ and _cities_. Better named as lefty bubbles...

Especially PA!

Sam Prentice's avatar

If you take out Pittsburgh, Philly, and Harrisburg - Pennsylvania would be crimson red. Same with New York by getting rid of NYC and Albany. Connecticut is over 40% Republican but not even one congressman or whatever you would classify Rosa DeLauro as. And you are the same in Mass if you take out Boston and Woooooster.

Alice Ball's avatar

Sweet Home Alabama is definitely the redneck anthem. I’m from the South, I know! Oswald missed——just think of all the years without the CIA we could have had.

Vince Gallo's avatar

Item 6. We made need those cruise ships to deport all those fraudsters back to Somalia.

Lee's avatar

Nice hat tip to The Fridge. Thanks for the X jokes - the IRS ones are always best.

steph_gray's avatar

ITEMS 2 and 3:

Here's a woman who is sick of "first woman to..."

I got enough of that in the 70's at my fancy woke college.

The exhibits will probably include Lucy Stone. It was very fashionable to acclaim her signature accomplishment, which was to retain her maiden name in marriage.

My husband at the time was also as woke as the college where I met him. He insisted I keep my maiden name Coz Woke, though I kind of wanted his, because it sounded better with mine.

He also believed in "open marriage" and proved it. Divorce after 3 years was a foregone conclusion.

Sam Prentice's avatar

I like your own last name. It is one of my family names. It was my mother's last name. Her family of Gray's came from Northern Ireland via Boston, then they moved to Manchester, CT. Maybe we're distant cousins!!!

Jim Miller's avatar

I am soooo with you on the "first woman, first person of color, and so it goes. How about first asshole to be elected President? Any offers? I'll come right out and say Woodrow Wilson. As to your "husband at the time, I'm betting you picked better the next time. Some women (and men) do not. I've known a few.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

Where is the first disabled left handed openly gay revert woman of color with a 9 handicap? Just to pull all our comments together.

CactusMatt32's avatar

Don’t forget the Hemmings….aka a Jefferson’s southern comfort. Trouble is, probably one of the other Jefferson men canoodled, not TJ- Smithsonian chose to skip input from leading genealogists that noted several Jefferson men were more likely contributors, but could not definitively be determined.

BlasterJack's avatar

The 16th was not properly approved in Oklahoma, Kentucky and Tennessee. Should be tossed.

Ken H's avatar

I agree with this, but when we start repealing amendments, the 17th needs to go first.

BlasterJack's avatar

From what I’ve read, the passage of the 17th was a case of replacing a problem with a disaster. Such hubris of the part of the reformers, to think the founders made a mistake. It tipped the balance of power from the states to DC. The corrupt practices at the state level, only worsened.

Marlan Hoerer's avatar

Thank you for your service and writing this blog every day is a great service to the American voter. We appreciate the DONNING of American rejuvenation courtesy of you and PDJT and company , both showing serious patriotism blende with off the cuff humor and for this I thank you again. Enjoy the MEMORIAL DAY weekend and be safe Surberville, heads on a swivel if you travel.

Owen A Jones's avatar

Just when I had given up hope and was planning on moving to Dominica along comes Nick Shirley.