I'm still looking for the next shiny thing up The Trumpsters sleeve. He always has something planned to move the headlines onto some other 80/20 issue.
He talked Mexico into stopping oil shipments to Cuba. That might stir the pot if Cuba decides to talk. Another is Iran. He didn't send the armada there just for the hell of it. Something will happen soon.
I'm posting a lot. I apologize. We are snowed/iced in so there's not much to do.
I’ve been through ice storms too so you have my sympathy. Since you’re posting, I assume that you have power which is far more important than being able to go anywhere. Our policy was always to just hunker down and enjoy a few unhurried days.
I consider Ice storms as the worst possible weather, at least with Hurricanes the day after weather is usually very nice and tornadoes are usually a narrower event. (And may God bless the linemen)
We've been enjoying our "quiet time" since Friday evening. The power has stayed on the entire time unlike 5 years ago when we had to stay in the dark, cold house the whole time. The freezer has several choices of soups for us to enjoy, the heater has kept us warm, life is good. Everything has been basically canceled until Thursday so we're content to just be here until things melt. We didn't get the big rains, snow, ice as predicted by the weather guessers, just bitter cold outside but no reason to go out anyway
I'm up in Kansas. We got a bit of snow, but luckily no rain before. -7 yesterday morning, 6° this morning. I've got a few solar panels, they keep the fridge and the lights on when the grid goes down. Also have a propane generator if needed, haven't had to yet, but might before winter is over.
01/28/26: Northern NJ isn't "snowed in" --- not yet anyway, maybe next week we will be --- but the cruel wind renders us captive indoors for oh well time will tell. And as for Don Surber's take on Trump's strategic withdrawal, I second the motion. And we're all looking forward to the Winter Olympics losing $100 billion because the WDC Post "sports department" --- WDC Post obit, see --- won't be there to publicize the event.
I'm a farm kid, being snowed in means you don't have to rush the chores in order to get to the roller rink for flirtation and frustration.
Being snowed in means that you have to spend extra time out in the cold making sure the animals have access to feed and plenty of shelter from the wind. Being snowed in means having to put on an extra sweater before trudging to the wood pile for an armload of firewood.
Being snowed in means playing "treat your neighbor", a version of Uno, with mom and dad for the evening entertainment.
Being snowed in means shoveling out because no one is coming to get you.
All true, being snowed in in Ohio meant Amish neighbors buggies were emergency vehicles if you had a sickness or accident issue and thankful for that!!!
Nope, north Texas. Heat and electricity are still on. We just can't get our cars out of the garage. Hope I don't run out of beer. That would be disastrous.
trump is better entertainment than anything the left can come up with all combined into one giant hullabaloo. when he's gone i may just stop following politics.
As I have said in the past, the fourth estate whose role at one time was to protect the people from government overreach has “transitioned” if you will into this country’s most dangerous fifth column. A fifth column functioning as the propaganda arm of the Marxist/Democrat/Hate America Party aka DSA dedicated to the destruction of this nation. They cannot be hated enough!
Covid made it worse... now everyone is in a silo...echo chamber. Only your fellow believers can hear you scream. Everyone else thinks you are mad. News organizations are creatures of the silos. Sounds like a horror movie... and it is...only its real life.
I'm sure this is true in many places in the country.
However, living behind enemy lines in a solid blue state, I'm never in an echo chamber. Simply engaging with all the people I know in person is constant exposure to what the left thinks their best arguments are.
My small MAGA coterie has plenty of war stories to tell. 😆
Thank you for noting the treason of Walter Cronkite. To this day I still hear people my age (73) sing his glories and I always point out that he lied about Tet and died with a lot of blood on his hands. It always leaves them speechless.
Thank you both for keeping the truth alive. Cronkite has been portrayed as a kindly, grandfatherly figure. IMHO he was in it for the power, not the dissemination of truth. "America Loses Again". Roll 'em!
Most thought he was non partisan but it turned out he was a died in the wool Democrat. However, a normal Democrat in those days would be called a moderate today. Times and politics changed.
It wasn't long after Tet that I remember my mom referring to the evening news as SeeBS. I was watching Star Trek on NBC, mom told me to "switch over to Cronkite so I can see BS."
I used to get home from school, watch Star Trek, then head to the barn and do chores.
One time when I got to the barn, Dad told me to go pump water for the cattle.
In my best attempt at impersonating Scotty, I replied "aye dad". Well, pop thought I said "why dad" and I got a boot in my ass that literally knocked me into the manure with him shouting that I wasn't to ask why when told to do something.
When I said I was saying aye as in aye captain I lost TV privileges for two weeks.
Men of my father's generation had a hard time showing love. They fought two world wars to preserve freedom. Isn't that enough?
My siblings saw dad as cold and uncaring. I saw him as a guy struggling to feed his family, doing a job he didn't like and trying to raise kids who would be productive members of society.
Dad wasn't a veteran. Mom's side had the strong military genes. It's something that runs strong in Polish blood.
The Piorun, a Polish destroyer commanded by Captain Philip Vian was the first ship to locate the Bismarck after she was damaged by the Swordfish torpedoes. Rather than simply shadowing and reporting, they attacked the Germans and while not causing much damage, kept them occupied and prevented damage control from repairing the jammed rudder.
Poland also led the fight to rid Northern Europe of the muslim invaders.
To this I'd like to add that the place of my birth, a town called Terneuzen in the southwestern Netherlands, was liberated by Polish troops, of the First Polish Armored Division that had been formed with Poles who had fled to England after Hitler's invasion of September 1939. And those gallant troops went to considerable lengths to avoid victimizing the local population, with the result that they took quite a few casualties themselves.
At about that same time, other units of that Polish Division took part in the action at Arnhem, Operation Market Garden, designed to seize the bridge across the Rhine, and next roll into Germany. It was the topic of the movie "A Bridge Too Far", which blamed that operation's failure on the Brits' failure to follow-up on intelligence indicating a substantial presence of German forces in the target area. It has since come to light that the Germans had been informed of the plan by ... the Soviets, who had spies everywhere. What Stalin intended by such a move I don't know, but he was a conniving bastard who probably didn't want other allies to reach Berlin before the Red Army did, and very poor company for Roosevelt to keep.
In 1968, I was a teenager with a brand-new shortwave radio. I listened to Radio Moscow regularly, so when I heard pretty much the same reports from Cronkite, I recognized that we were being lied to. My distrust of the corporate media goes back a long way.
In 1968, I was also a teenager, trying to learn all the music I could from the stars of the day who were all lefty, anti-war pro-free-love, pro-drugs, et cetera...
I learned a great deal and still love so much of the music until this day.
But last year I ran across a paperback called Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, by David McGowan.
It detailed a disturbing number of connections to the see eye aye and military/industrial complex in many of the big music stars' families.
I now think the 60's music industry was used as a branch of that very operation.
He epitomizes the fraudulent myth that our media in the past were true journalists who were so impartial you didn't know what they actually believed! That was a lie then, and an even bigger one now. Cronkite showed us in his last years how much of a leftist he was, but the truth is he always was a leftist.
Quote from Cronkite, Playboy magazine interview June 1973. “I think being liberal, in the true sense, is being a non doctrinaire, non committed to a cause-but examining each case on its merit. Being left of center is another thing; it’s a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they are not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they are preordained dogmatists for a cause, they can’t be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism.” Seriously?!
Let's not leave out the other misinformation spreaders, Huntley/Brinkley, Doug Edwards, and of course Woodward/Bernstein. The versions of Pravda we have today are more comical than serious and they are shouting into an echo chamber of their own making. Perhaps we could list the Human Potato Stelter, Jake the Snake Tapper, (sorry Jake the commenter; I'm sure no relation) Chuck, (I don't care, Margaret), and of course the harpies on the View.
I think this may be the best Don Surber column ever! How could it not be? It includes “Walz nuts” and a true description and assessment of the Tet Offensive. That’s just for starters. How about journalism disappearing like the Cheshire Cat. Or TACO/WACO?
You are always - always - uplifting, Don even on the darkest days! Thank you.
I knew most of what he said about Tet, but I had no idea we lost 4,000 men! I despise the frauds in legacy media, but I have and hold a very special contempt for Cronkite. He was as fake as they come and sure had millions of people fooled.
Vote items #1 and #2 are not mutually exclusive. Walz can - and should - be arrested, but Trump need not send in the Marines to do it. All it takes is an FBI Director not compromised by the Deep State and an AG focused on enforcing the laws instead of appearing on Fox News.
He has been fairly quite about the Bessent fraud investigations. About all he will say is they've got hundreds of auditors up there going through the books. He was asked about it in Iowa but he danced around it. It's a candidate for the next shiny thing for the press when he drops the hammer.
The Treasury, IRS, FBI, DHS and others should be so camped on top of Minneapolis that the city looks like a dried scab from the air. They should be tying up every MN official with demands for documentation and records that they can't do any news interviews. I'm tired of pretty talk and want to see handcuffs. Lots of them.
Instead, foreign money lets them remain on the offensive. How does this happen and why aren't we stopping this flow of support that supplies Rachael Maddow with talking points?
The Trumpster said yesterday he has hundreds of auditors up there going through the books. Knowing Trump, he has a plan. Bessent is in charge up there. He's turning out to be one of his best cabinet members. Rubio is number one. Hegseth is doing well too to the Left's surprise. Hegseth has made Camp Sibley available for housing ICE and other feds. He's a Minnesota Guard vet so that makes sense.
All-star teams should deliver all-star justice. That the fraud got this bad - all 50 states most likely - makes me think Government employees - ALL OF THEM - are worthless. Is there any oversight, checks & balances, other than Trump?
Hey I resent that... I worked for the Highway Department for over thirty years. We had a Code. Pave over your mistakes. Nothing can't wait until tomorrow. If we can't do something right, we can always do it again.
The whistleblowers are today's heroes because nobody else is doing their job it seems. Why does it take whistleblowers and citizen journalists to discover BILLIONS of dollars over a 5 - 10 year period are not going to the intended group?
Why are so many leftist groups able to fund and deliver an army of paid protesters to fight a law enforcement offensive?
Why are citizen journalists like Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe the ones who are finding and reporting on this deep state corruption?
Your answer Shrugged ,is that true investigative journalism died about when Cronkite was lying to the nation. Thank the GOOD LORD for digital info age and people such as Musk for making free speech available.
Repent you sinner! And you shall be saved! Hahaha! Enjoy your snowbound captivity Jake. I'm almost snowed in, so I've had to shovel for two days. Cheers!
I saw a photograph years ago of when a Penn DOT crew was painting a double yellow line in the center of a road, and they painted right over a dead dear that was lying there and kept going.
Brian, I am sure you are worthy. Municipality work does NOT scale up to Federal government jobs so don't make that comparison. I started where you did, but never worked for the Federal government of entitlement.
I feel the same way. Why did it take Nick Shirley and Cam Higby, two independent self-financed journalists to expose these stories? Where was the FBI? Sure, in a year they've captured six of the top ten wanted criminals - great job! But how about your actual investigation and sleuth work, Kash? Why does your crew always seem to be a day late and a dollar short?
The FBI was complicit in the Hillary Russia gate corruption. I posted this link above but Tom Fitton mentions the deep state FBI in this Judicial Watch update. Bondi is either totally ineffective or severely threatened by the deep state. Either way, Trump needs to fix it ASAP. It's already late for the midterms.
Good point and thanks for the clarification/reminder!
The BILLIONS in the Somali fraud was US taxpayer money.
Question: Why aren't we immediately debanking these pay streams as soon as they are identified? They debanked President Trump and we can't stop the flow of all this money and lock it down? Bullsh*t. Somebody stop pussie-footing around.
Is it any wonder our Social Security/Medicare funds are drying up for those of us who paid into it our entire working career? How many times over could we have shored-up the SS shortfall with this mis-spending on daycare that nobody seemed to notice for 10 years?
For me, this is a total loss for Minneapolis and Minnesota. There are probably some nice people there, but my opinion of the city is trashed. I know a lot of the protesters were not natives, and were once again bought and paid for by the Marxist money pots, but they actually voted for Walz and Frey. You would have to put a gun to my head to vote for either of them. Every minute of it is to distract from the 10?20? Billions of dollars stolen by the Somalis aided and abetted by the Dems in MN government. Unbelievable. I despise the lib press, “you can’t hate them enough,” but WE can’t turn on Trump and MAGA just bc those fools are spinning the actual facts. Trump did the right thing there, and Homan is in charge.
You Assume they voted for Walz and Frey. Can we be sure the elections weren't rigged? Look at the analysis of the 2020 election and the level of fraud is astounding. I can't see how we managed to win in 2024. I see what we must do to stop the fraud in 2026 and 2028, but we need to get in gear, engage the supercharger and switch on the nitrous.
Agree. I was living in Minnesota in 2020 (moved to Iowa when I retiredin'24) ... I'd bet my pension that Trump would have won MN in an honest election (he even had the Iron Range supporting him).
Yes - always remember, it was the DFL that made Walter "Fritz" Mondale the presidential candidate he was (total flop). A lotta nice people in Minnesota, but whacked for the most part.
Its phys-ops on steroids. Makes it tough to discern Trumps tactics at times, that's why I appreciate those substack analysts who bring reason and clarity - Thanks Don.
There's a lot of noise about the lack of professionalism by the Fed Troops, but, as a retired LEO, I'll simply state that what is occurring in Minneapolis and other criminal " sanctuaries " is warfare, not basic law and order actions. I would prefer that PDJT declare martial law and address these actions under rules of war for that reason, but then, I'm do not have to consider the political implications and influences. I have faith and trust that PDJT has implemented and is following sound tactics. Strategically speaking, TAW!
I can't say it enough. Justice MUST be served. arrests! If the authorities don't do their jobs, the people will. And that will get out of hand quickly.
It appears that the left wants another civil war. In the first one they were expecting that England would come to their aid, but the British had just outlawed slavery and because of that shift declined to participate.
This time around they are banking on the blue helmets and the rape squads to do the fighting once they achieve a Fort Sumter event.
They spent four years under Zhou Xiden earnestly gutting the American Military replacing competent warriors with rainbow worriers.
Let's admit it, the average recruit isn't a hardcore patriot, most are kids looking for identity and willing to serve their nation. They are recent graduates of a failed education system that has undermined faith in GOD and belief in national values. With the loss of so many good leaders, our service men and women are vulnerable to attack especially when the disciples of Miley and Austin remain in the ranks.
While I agree with you, the sad fact is that thanks to media manipulation, many Americans would find that revolting and they would begin to support the communists.
One of the most important items Trump asked Walz to hand over last week was voter rolls. That’s when Walz panicked. When Trump starts his message off by saying “Walz called me” and not the other way around, and then Trump starts flattering his opponents, like he did with little Z, then you know he’s grabbing hard and fast and not letting go. He’s got Walz and Frey, and the paydays for the rioters are over. No one was more surprised than they were when the MSP rushed in and started locking them up. Democrats always spin a loss as a win, until they’re frog-marched out of the money room. Once Minnesota state government goes into federal receivership, the other blue fraud states will follow, and he will be exposing ALL the voter fraud that even John Thune won’t be able to ignore. That’s when election laws will return to sanity, and voter ID becomes the law of the land. Bessent is headed to California, too, just like Bovino. It’s time to stuff Gavin like he stuffed Walz. There will be a slight intermission while he rescues the people of Iran, too. I’d leave the Ayatollah’s side for awhile if I was there. Not a safe place to be. Hat tip to the invaluable Data Republican and Cam Higby, who— if Bezos was smart, would be replacing the entire WaPo newsroom.
We need to distinguish between those with congenital impairments and traumatic brain injury, and those who are just willfully stupid and evil. The latter are fair game.
You know before posting this comment I thought about adding the obligatory ‘and I am sorry they are dead’. I didn’t, bc I don’t. I contend they were bad people who placed themselves, their families (including a 6 YO who is now motherless & parents who now have to deal with all that comes with a loss of a son), other stupid people & LEO (who have to deal with having killed someone who resisted) in harm’s way. And why? For what? My father, who came from the last generation of people who knew first hand life is not fair or emphatic, told me ‘you don’t get any points for doing what you are supposed to do- you only get demerits for not doing what you are supposed to do & in the end your best score is zero. Sorry but I guess we will have to file this in the ‘agree to disagree’ folder.
If what Trump is doing is defined by the wackos as chickening out then we need more chicken.
Trump never had aspirations of invading Greenland but thru negotiations and threats got what he intended to get all along.
Trump wants illegals deported. Altering strategy is just part of the plan to get what he campaigned on just do it a bit differently. Hey Tim, see that jail cell? Want one for your self? Then you help us and we’ll see about the jail cell later. Tim is still in big do do but Trump seems to have offered a softening of the reckoning that is coming for him and his buddies to get the help he needs now.
That’s a different deal… He’s got 3 years left. Right now he’s got everyone thinking he wants all of Canada… he’ll settle for Alberta with B.C thrown in to sweeten (?) the deal.
Let em keep BC. Seems like an extension of Cal/Or/Wa. Let's go for Yukon Territory as it dovetails nicely with Alaska and the folks up there seem pretty hardy and resourceful.
I say we go for Yukon, the NW Territories so this country will reach to the Arctic, plus Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Leave BC to itself (maybe we could get Vancouver Island?). Let Canada have Minnesota and New England (ME-VT-NH-MA-CT-RI) to show we're not too greedy and so we'll never have to hear about the Patriots playing in the Super Bowl again!
Let's split hairs, lol. Eastern OR and Eastern WA become part of Idaho. Everything east of the CA I-5 corridor goes to NV/UT/AZ. Then we must have a border wall to keep the west coast knuckleheads in place. FYI, I'm snowed/iced in hunkered down in NE TX therefore have plenty of time on my hands for excessive commenting.
As somebody who lives in a perfectly nice, non-crazy Oregon town, I resent this. But feel free to give away Portland, and most of our problems will be solved.
jimok, there are three dots ". . ." to the right of each comment. You can click on those dots for your comment and an option will pop up that reads "Edit". Make your change, then Save. Then (optional, but good idea to) Refresh the page.
PS-- good comment--I hadn't heard that about Diego Garcia, which I looked up and see that it's a naval base supply center, and that we had/have leased it from the UK. Is that true, Trump is getting it for us in the Greenland deal? Man, he knows how to deal!
Good observation re Diego Garcia (DG). The media probably thought too many folks would notice a mention of DG so during the Greenland debate with Europe DG was referred to as the Chagos Islands. Bottom line, Britton was planning to breach a US treaty by giving away the island which is a major US base in the Indian ocean. Trump made the Brits back off as part of his Greenland compromise.
Ah! Great information. I was wondering what the heck the Chagos Islands were. And so glad Trump (and the State Department, or the Department of War, or someone) was awake and alert to head off the UK giving it away.
Once upon a time the entire ethos of true journalism was to seek out the truth, pursue it, and hold those in power accountable to that truth.
Today, so-called journalists and the legacy media have thoroughly inverted that into manufacturing lies, only lies, all the time, about absolutely every thing in order to accrue power to themselves and their overlords. It is a total perversion of the very purpose for their existence.
It is nothing short of a miracle that the majority of people who voted for Trump were able to see through that to elect him president.
What remains to be seen is whether those same voters will hold the line, not go wobbly in these midterm elections, and get out to vote in those same numbers this time around - and yes, that may also entail holding one’s nose to vote for a most imperfect, (being kind here), Republican. Not voting, and not voting for whatever Republican is on your ballot is simply not an option.
It will take years to undo the damage done to this country and clean up the house properly. We simply cannot sacrifice the good in a vain pursuit of the perfect.
And making sure President Trump maintains or better yet, increases majorities in both houses is the absolute and only way this project of Restoring the Republic, (on the occasion of its 250th birthday), can go forward.
Just vote. And get as many others as you can to do likewise.
The alternative is too frightening to even contemplate.
Trump’s base will hold the line and not go wobbly. I worry about the youth vote and independents who voted out of economic fear. We won’t win without them. The “Lower Prices” and “Bigger Paychecks” signs at the Iowa speech, and the talk about having conquered inflation, seem tone deaf and premature. People who ain’t feeling it yet will ride with someone who acknowledges the economy is a big issue, a big focus, and is moving in the right direction. Not so much when they’re being told it’s all already been accomplished.
The administration does seem to be tailoring their message a bit more toward the “we’re moving in the right direction” vein, and I wholeheartedly agree that has to be THE message. For example:
“We’re still digging ourselves out of the pit that Democrats dumped us into, so unless you want to go back into that pit, Stay the Course and Vote Republican! We’re just getting started bringing a Golden Age of prosperity for all Americans. Hold the Line!!”
Journalist today are much smarter than they used to be.They already know the truth, and so they see their job as spreading the truth to the great un- washed, and that's what they are doing, they're telling you what they already know to be true.You should be thankful that they are sharing their great intellect with us.
Hah! Yes, we ignorant, unwashed masses must be eternally grateful for their deigning to share with us their sage wisdom on all things we are utterly incapable of discerning for ourselves.
Don't you think Walz would look good in an orange jumpsuit? When that happens I'll agree the Minnesota insurrection is over. Until then, the Left is just biding it's time.
We, the American people, have been lied to for so long by people who told us they were telling us the truth that we have trouble knowing what is a lie and what is the truth. Musk's buying Twitter has made a world of difference in our learning from those who are making the news and allowing us to make our own decisions on what is right and wrong. So far, President Trump has been right a hundred times more than he has been wrong, while the 'demonicrats' have been wrong on their side of the issues 100% of the time. The majority of the American population wants the illegal squatters out, and the politicians who line up against that are finding out there are more of US than there are of 'them'. The media won't tell you that, but 'Right' is winning. There is a movement going on in this country, and every day the positive movement grows a little. Will there be hiccups? Yes, but we will get there. Stand up, speak up, pray up, believe.
"He isn’t giving them any scalps". In his first term, Trump stood behind Brett Kavanaugh during the hearings. That's when I became "ride or die" for him..
Since DataRepublican released the names funding the protests a billionaire named Neville Singham has been singled out. He lives in China with his Code Pink founding wife. The odds are greater than zero that his assets are going to be frozen. I wonder if Mr Walz knows the guy??
Yep - heard Singham's name here first, and then on yesterday's show Benny Johnson had a segment on him, that he had garnered from Bill O'Reilly.
I wonder how long he has avoided the spotlight. But it's on him now.
He should become the first to lose US citizenship.
Then we need to shut off a group of wealthy foreigners across the world who got themselves a status called "Permanent Resident" and are now allowed to DONATE to political campaigns here. None of them are American citizens.
Oh and while we're at it, speaking of AmeriPravda and how it got that way, we need to fix the Obammunist's change in Smith-Mundt. (My broken record.)
I'm still looking for the next shiny thing up The Trumpsters sleeve. He always has something planned to move the headlines onto some other 80/20 issue.
He talked Mexico into stopping oil shipments to Cuba. That might stir the pot if Cuba decides to talk. Another is Iran. He didn't send the armada there just for the hell of it. Something will happen soon.
I'm posting a lot. I apologize. We are snowed/iced in so there's not much to do.
I don’t believe that Don has a limit on posting - just ask Vince Gallo. Having been snowed in myself for 8 days once, I say, “Post Away!”.
Our garage doors are frozen down from the ice storm. It's about three to four inches of snow/ice on the driveway. We need some sun down here.
I’ve been through ice storms too so you have my sympathy. Since you’re posting, I assume that you have power which is far more important than being able to go anywhere. Our policy was always to just hunker down and enjoy a few unhurried days.
I consider Ice storms as the worst possible weather, at least with Hurricanes the day after weather is usually very nice and tornadoes are usually a narrower event. (And may God bless the linemen)
Amen on the ice storms as they do the most erratic disruptions of life on the grids.
We've been enjoying our "quiet time" since Friday evening. The power has stayed on the entire time unlike 5 years ago when we had to stay in the dark, cold house the whole time. The freezer has several choices of soups for us to enjoy, the heater has kept us warm, life is good. Everything has been basically canceled until Thursday so we're content to just be here until things melt. We didn't get the big rains, snow, ice as predicted by the weather guessers, just bitter cold outside but no reason to go out anyway
Weather guessers, I like that! And it's an apt description.
Weather guessers made me laugh, how appropriate!!!
I'm up in Kansas. We got a bit of snow, but luckily no rain before. -7 yesterday morning, 6° this morning. I've got a few solar panels, they keep the fridge and the lights on when the grid goes down. Also have a propane generator if needed, haven't had to yet, but might before winter is over.
Where? I feel sorry for Oxford, MS trees laden with ice. Not much on the east coast surprisingly.
Vince's posts are always pithy and enjoyable---I'm sure that's why Don hasn't put a limit on them.
*scribbles note to self: Strive to be pithy and enjoyable.
01/28/26: Pith.
01/28/26: Northern NJ isn't "snowed in" --- not yet anyway, maybe next week we will be --- but the cruel wind renders us captive indoors for oh well time will tell. And as for Don Surber's take on Trump's strategic withdrawal, I second the motion. And we're all looking forward to the Winter Olympics losing $100 billion because the WDC Post "sports department" --- WDC Post obit, see --- won't be there to publicize the event.
I'm a farm kid, being snowed in means you don't have to rush the chores in order to get to the roller rink for flirtation and frustration.
Being snowed in means that you have to spend extra time out in the cold making sure the animals have access to feed and plenty of shelter from the wind. Being snowed in means having to put on an extra sweater before trudging to the wood pile for an armload of firewood.
Being snowed in means playing "treat your neighbor", a version of Uno, with mom and dad for the evening entertainment.
Being snowed in means shoveling out because no one is coming to get you.
Shovelling is a way of life where snow is abundant. I've been shovelling since Saturday and digging out cars. Good exercise, though!
A snow blower, plenty of gas and salt sounds better to me.
All true, being snowed in in Ohio meant Amish neighbors buggies were emergency vehicles if you had a sickness or accident issue and thankful for that!!!
Are you in Oxford, by chance? What a mess. Wherever you are prayers ascending for your power and heat.
Nope, north Texas. Heat and electricity are still on. We just can't get our cars out of the garage. Hope I don't run out of beer. That would be disastrous.
😳 Might be a job for the Cajun Air Force ; " antifreeze " is very important in extreme cold .
The video of frozen trees was awful.
Hang in there in a lovely town, hoping thaw comes soon and no damage to you and yours.
Post It, Post It, Post it! 3M and Don Surber will love you. I will like you.
😆 I see what you did there... good groanah...
Instead of apologizing, consider yourself lucky in still having power.
fly to key west.
trump is better entertainment than anything the left can come up with all combined into one giant hullabaloo. when he's gone i may just stop following politics.
01/28/26: Hooray! On Polymarket, I bet that "Polymarket" would get "0%" votes in today's poll! And they paid!
Hey Jake -
The Next Shiny Thing is glittering in Georgia! Election truth after 5 long years!
It’s been an amazing evening.
As I have said in the past, the fourth estate whose role at one time was to protect the people from government overreach has “transitioned” if you will into this country’s most dangerous fifth column. A fifth column functioning as the propaganda arm of the Marxist/Democrat/Hate America Party aka DSA dedicated to the destruction of this nation. They cannot be hated enough!
MSM = Pravda
The folks in the Soviet Union used to laugh at Pravda. They knew it was nonsense. Sadly, there are still lots of Americans who swallow the lies whole.
The folks once trapped behind the iron curtain look at how Americans swallow the lies and are astonished that people believe it.
The folks believing the lies today won't believe they are being murdered by their Messiahs who want to eliminate 80% of the population today.
Covid made it worse... now everyone is in a silo...echo chamber. Only your fellow believers can hear you scream. Everyone else thinks you are mad. News organizations are creatures of the silos. Sounds like a horror movie... and it is...only its real life.
I'm sure this is true in many places in the country.
However, living behind enemy lines in a solid blue state, I'm never in an echo chamber. Simply engaging with all the people I know in person is constant exposure to what the left thinks their best arguments are.
My small MAGA coterie has plenty of war stories to tell. 😆
i think we need hand signals to find each other in public.
So true.
Their default is to lie in service to leftist agendas. They are literal enemies of freedom.
I call this the DMAC -- Democrat Media Academia Complex
Thank you for noting the treason of Walter Cronkite. To this day I still hear people my age (73) sing his glories and I always point out that he lied about Tet and died with a lot of blood on his hands. It always leaves them speechless.
Thank you both for keeping the truth alive. Cronkite has been portrayed as a kindly, grandfatherly figure. IMHO he was in it for the power, not the dissemination of truth. "America Loses Again". Roll 'em!
Most thought he was non partisan but it turned out he was a died in the wool Democrat. However, a normal Democrat in those days would be called a moderate today. Times and politics changed.
Cronk wasn't a democrat, he was a full blown communist, or what the donks have become since Carter.
The worst kind (only kind?) of communist: rich, money grubbing hypocrite who did the opposite of what he "preached" to others.
They're all the same...
Agree. He was an operative.
Well...he never called anyone comrad...
We're not privy to his conversations with Blather and his cohorts, he very well may have.
It wasn't long after Tet that I remember my mom referring to the evening news as SeeBS. I was watching Star Trek on NBC, mom told me to "switch over to Cronkite so I can see BS."
I used to get home from school, watch Star Trek, then head to the barn and do chores.
One time when I got to the barn, Dad told me to go pump water for the cattle.
In my best attempt at impersonating Scotty, I replied "aye dad". Well, pop thought I said "why dad" and I got a boot in my ass that literally knocked me into the manure with him shouting that I wasn't to ask why when told to do something.
When I said I was saying aye as in aye captain I lost TV privileges for two weeks.
Sounds like your dad was a lot like mine. He wasn’t a farmer but was a corporate manager and he treated us kids as if we were his employees.
Men of my father's generation had a hard time showing love. They fought two world wars to preserve freedom. Isn't that enough?
My siblings saw dad as cold and uncaring. I saw him as a guy struggling to feed his family, doing a job he didn't like and trying to raise kids who would be productive members of society.
Bravo, Jeremy.
I take it your dad never served in the Navy.
Dad wasn't a veteran. Mom's side had the strong military genes. It's something that runs strong in Polish blood.
The Piorun, a Polish destroyer commanded by Captain Philip Vian was the first ship to locate the Bismarck after she was damaged by the Swordfish torpedoes. Rather than simply shadowing and reporting, they attacked the Germans and while not causing much damage, kept them occupied and prevented damage control from repairing the jammed rudder.
Poland also led the fight to rid Northern Europe of the muslim invaders.
Thereby extending the proud tradition of the Polish king Jan Sobieski III, whose cavalry charge defeated the Muslim hordes before Vienna, in 1683.
To this I'd like to add that the place of my birth, a town called Terneuzen in the southwestern Netherlands, was liberated by Polish troops, of the First Polish Armored Division that had been formed with Poles who had fled to England after Hitler's invasion of September 1939. And those gallant troops went to considerable lengths to avoid victimizing the local population, with the result that they took quite a few casualties themselves.
At about that same time, other units of that Polish Division took part in the action at Arnhem, Operation Market Garden, designed to seize the bridge across the Rhine, and next roll into Germany. It was the topic of the movie "A Bridge Too Far", which blamed that operation's failure on the Brits' failure to follow-up on intelligence indicating a substantial presence of German forces in the target area. It has since come to light that the Germans had been informed of the plan by ... the Soviets, who had spies everywhere. What Stalin intended by such a move I don't know, but he was a conniving bastard who probably didn't want other allies to reach Berlin before the Red Army did, and very poor company for Roosevelt to keep.
Not to forget that General Pulaski was a storied and critical hero in the American Revolution! (there is a “skyway” named for him in NJ)
Those were the days….think I’m a bit younger but my mom still had a fly swatter to use if we weren’t obedient.
We had a piece cut from a 2x4 that said Boise Cascade on it.
In 1968, I was a teenager with a brand-new shortwave radio. I listened to Radio Moscow regularly, so when I heard pretty much the same reports from Cronkite, I recognized that we were being lied to. My distrust of the corporate media goes back a long way.
Let’s not forget Operation Mockingbird.
In 1968, I was also a teenager, trying to learn all the music I could from the stars of the day who were all lefty, anti-war pro-free-love, pro-drugs, et cetera...
I learned a great deal and still love so much of the music until this day.
But last year I ran across a paperback called Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, by David McGowan.
It detailed a disturbing number of connections to the see eye aye and military/industrial complex in many of the big music stars' families.
I now think the 60's music industry was used as a branch of that very operation.
🎶 Hey everybody have you heard... 🎶
(James T. is mentioned in the book. Ironic?)
He epitomizes the fraudulent myth that our media in the past were true journalists who were so impartial you didn't know what they actually believed! That was a lie then, and an even bigger one now. Cronkite showed us in his last years how much of a leftist he was, but the truth is he always was a leftist.
Quote from Cronkite, Playboy magazine interview June 1973. “I think being liberal, in the true sense, is being a non doctrinaire, non committed to a cause-but examining each case on its merit. Being left of center is another thing; it’s a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they are not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they are preordained dogmatists for a cause, they can’t be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism.” Seriously?!
Wow, talk about see BS!
He could,a driven a race car!!! Turn left left left!!!
Let's not leave out the other misinformation spreaders, Huntley/Brinkley, Doug Edwards, and of course Woodward/Bernstein. The versions of Pravda we have today are more comical than serious and they are shouting into an echo chamber of their own making. Perhaps we could list the Human Potato Stelter, Jake the Snake Tapper, (sorry Jake the commenter; I'm sure no relation) Chuck, (I don't care, Margaret), and of course the harpies on the View.
Wasn't he the one who always ended his pontifications with "And that's the way it is"?
Didn't he also have Beethoven's 9th as his show theme?
I'm not sure of either - it was either Cronkite or H/B.
Quite the schtick in any case...
I don't remember; but you may be right. The only time I caught Cronkite was while visiting really old folks.
I think this may be the best Don Surber column ever! How could it not be? It includes “Walz nuts” and a true description and assessment of the Tet Offensive. That’s just for starters. How about journalism disappearing like the Cheshire Cat. Or TACO/WACO?
You are always - always - uplifting, Don even on the darkest days! Thank you.
I always appreciate the history lesson so much.
I knew most of what he said about Tet, but I had no idea we lost 4,000 men! I despise the frauds in legacy media, but I have and hold a very special contempt for Cronkite. He was as fake as they come and sure had millions of people fooled.
Its become...urinalism...
Vote items #1 and #2 are not mutually exclusive. Walz can - and should - be arrested, but Trump need not send in the Marines to do it. All it takes is an FBI Director not compromised by the Deep State and an AG focused on enforcing the laws instead of appearing on Fox News.
He has been fairly quite about the Bessent fraud investigations. About all he will say is they've got hundreds of auditors up there going through the books. He was asked about it in Iowa but he danced around it. It's a candidate for the next shiny thing for the press when he drops the hammer.
The Treasury, IRS, FBI, DHS and others should be so camped on top of Minneapolis that the city looks like a dried scab from the air. They should be tying up every MN official with demands for documentation and records that they can't do any news interviews. I'm tired of pretty talk and want to see handcuffs. Lots of them.
Instead, foreign money lets them remain on the offensive. How does this happen and why aren't we stopping this flow of support that supplies Rachael Maddow with talking points?
The Trumpster said yesterday he has hundreds of auditors up there going through the books. Knowing Trump, he has a plan. Bessent is in charge up there. He's turning out to be one of his best cabinet members. Rubio is number one. Hegseth is doing well too to the Left's surprise. Hegseth has made Camp Sibley available for housing ICE and other feds. He's a Minnesota Guard vet so that makes sense.
All-star teams should deliver all-star justice. That the fraud got this bad - all 50 states most likely - makes me think Government employees - ALL OF THEM - are worthless. Is there any oversight, checks & balances, other than Trump?
Prove me wrong.
https://x.com/TomFitton/status/2016296326288335319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2016296326288335319%7Ctwgr%5E1ec8574d0b801979e221688bc05a3f1730241dcf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneraldispatch.whatfinger.com%2Ftom-fitton-sues-why-is-pam-bondi-and-the-deep-state-controlled-doj-protecting-obama-and-the-stolen-2020-election-as-well%2F
Hey I resent that... I worked for the Highway Department for over thirty years. We had a Code. Pave over your mistakes. Nothing can't wait until tomorrow. If we can't do something right, we can always do it again.
Oops, I guess I was worthless.
The whistleblowers are today's heroes because nobody else is doing their job it seems. Why does it take whistleblowers and citizen journalists to discover BILLIONS of dollars over a 5 - 10 year period are not going to the intended group?
Why are so many leftist groups able to fund and deliver an army of paid protesters to fight a law enforcement offensive?
Why are citizen journalists like Nick Shirley and James O'Keefe the ones who are finding and reporting on this deep state corruption?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/james-okeefe-goes-undercover-inside-minnesota-mob-leftist/
Your answer Shrugged ,is that true investigative journalism died about when Cronkite was lying to the nation. Thank the GOOD LORD for digital info age and people such as Musk for making free speech available.
Repent you sinner! And you shall be saved! Hahaha! Enjoy your snowbound captivity Jake. I'm almost snowed in, so I've had to shovel for two days. Cheers!
I saw a photograph years ago of when a Penn DOT crew was painting a double yellow line in the center of a road, and they painted right over a dead dear that was lying there and kept going.
Oh deer.
LOL
Some are more worthless than others.
I mis-spoke.
Not all are worthless. Only those who keep looking the other way and ignoring their obligations as public servants.
You still get a passing grade having identified correctly over 75%.
I work for a municipality; worthless I am not . Work with quite a few good citizens . But the rot is everywhere the free money is .
Brian, I am sure you are worthy. Municipality work does NOT scale up to Federal government jobs so don't make that comparison. I started where you did, but never worked for the Federal government of entitlement.
Good video. Fitton is one among many heroes.
One of the secrets to American success is our independent, can do spirit…just not going to be “told what to think”.
Note to self, send some $$ to Judicial Watch.
I think you mean Camp Ripley. Camp Sibley is in Larnerd Kansas. Ripley is about 100 miles from Mogadishu on the Mississippi.
I always refer to her as Wretched Madcow. Wish I'd thought of that moniker; unfortunately, I can't remember who I stole it from.
She would be satan's wife if he was married.
So a sister in law to HiLlARy?
Just one of Satan's wives. He has many!
Is that really a she or an it ??
My guess is, really a man.
A man who is bad at everything including being one.
I feel the same way. Why did it take Nick Shirley and Cam Higby, two independent self-financed journalists to expose these stories? Where was the FBI? Sure, in a year they've captured six of the top ten wanted criminals - great job! But how about your actual investigation and sleuth work, Kash? Why does your crew always seem to be a day late and a dollar short?
The FBI was complicit in the Hillary Russia gate corruption. I posted this link above but Tom Fitton mentions the deep state FBI in this Judicial Watch update. Bondi is either totally ineffective or severely threatened by the deep state. Either way, Trump needs to fix it ASAP. It's already late for the midterms.
https://x.com/TomFitton/status/2016296326288335319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2016296326288335319%7Ctwgr%5E1ec8574d0b801979e221688bc05a3f1730241dcf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeneraldispatch.whatfinger.com%2Ftom-fitton-sues-why-is-pam-bondi-and-the-deep-state-controlled-doj-protecting-obama-and-the-stolen-2020-election-as-well%2F
Foreign money??? Its our money and some of it is skimmed by foreigners!!!
Good point and thanks for the clarification/reminder!
The BILLIONS in the Somali fraud was US taxpayer money.
Question: Why aren't we immediately debanking these pay streams as soon as they are identified? They debanked President Trump and we can't stop the flow of all this money and lock it down? Bullsh*t. Somebody stop pussie-footing around.
Is it any wonder our Social Security/Medicare funds are drying up for those of us who paid into it our entire working career? How many times over could we have shored-up the SS shortfall with this mis-spending on daycare that nobody seemed to notice for 10 years?
You say debank em
I say debunk em
You say stomp em
I say Trump em..
Give them a fish
and they eat today..
deport them
and never feed them again.
How many successful prosecutions of Federal crimes have YOU done?
Many don't realize how time consuming prosecution takes. Bondi is still prepping for the Comey, Brennen cases. Gotta be air tight cases.
..and up against an almost totally rogue judicial branch of government.
Pray much! 🙏
For me, this is a total loss for Minneapolis and Minnesota. There are probably some nice people there, but my opinion of the city is trashed. I know a lot of the protesters were not natives, and were once again bought and paid for by the Marxist money pots, but they actually voted for Walz and Frey. You would have to put a gun to my head to vote for either of them. Every minute of it is to distract from the 10?20? Billions of dollars stolen by the Somalis aided and abetted by the Dems in MN government. Unbelievable. I despise the lib press, “you can’t hate them enough,” but WE can’t turn on Trump and MAGA just bc those fools are spinning the actual facts. Trump did the right thing there, and Homan is in charge.
You Assume they voted for Walz and Frey. Can we be sure the elections weren't rigged? Look at the analysis of the 2020 election and the level of fraud is astounding. I can't see how we managed to win in 2024. I see what we must do to stop the fraud in 2026 and 2028, but we need to get in gear, engage the supercharger and switch on the nitrous.
Agree. I was living in Minnesota in 2020 (moved to Iowa when I retiredin'24) ... I'd bet my pension that Trump would have won MN in an honest election (he even had the Iron Range supporting him).
Headway on election fraud! You've probably seen the good news that our FBI raided Fulton County Election Headquarters today.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/fbi-searches-fulton-county-election-hub
And if I'm wrong, we carpet bomb Hennepin and Ramsey counties and move the Capitol to Mankato.
Lived in MN for a year. DFL has always been a Petri dish for growing crackpots.
DFL - Democrats, Farmers, and Laborers party!!!!! Never a good combination as what could possibly go awry?
Yes - always remember, it was the DFL that made Walter "Fritz" Mondale the presidential candidate he was (total flop). A lotta nice people in Minnesota, but whacked for the most part.
Minneapolis?? Maxilawlessness!!!
Its phys-ops on steroids. Makes it tough to discern Trumps tactics at times, that's why I appreciate those substack analysts who bring reason and clarity - Thanks Don.
There's a lot of noise about the lack of professionalism by the Fed Troops, but, as a retired LEO, I'll simply state that what is occurring in Minneapolis and other criminal " sanctuaries " is warfare, not basic law and order actions. I would prefer that PDJT declare martial law and address these actions under rules of war for that reason, but then, I'm do not have to consider the political implications and influences. I have faith and trust that PDJT has implemented and is following sound tactics. Strategically speaking, TAW!
I can't say it enough. Justice MUST be served. arrests! If the authorities don't do their jobs, the people will. And that will get out of hand quickly.
It appears that the left wants another civil war. In the first one they were expecting that England would come to their aid, but the British had just outlawed slavery and because of that shift declined to participate.
This time around they are banking on the blue helmets and the rape squads to do the fighting once they achieve a Fort Sumter event.
They spent four years under Zhou Xiden earnestly gutting the American Military replacing competent warriors with rainbow worriers.
Let's admit it, the average recruit isn't a hardcore patriot, most are kids looking for identity and willing to serve their nation. They are recent graduates of a failed education system that has undermined faith in GOD and belief in national values. With the loss of so many good leaders, our service men and women are vulnerable to attack especially when the disciples of Miley and Austin remain in the ranks.
Agree ; whatever the breaking point may be it will quickly get out of hand . Not long after the Left will cease to exist .
I can't begin to describe how badly I've wanted to see every one of these thugs have their heads bashed in by National Guard. "Damn the Torpedoes!"
While I agree with you, the sad fact is that thanks to media manipulation, many Americans would find that revolting and they would begin to support the communists.
One of the most important items Trump asked Walz to hand over last week was voter rolls. That’s when Walz panicked. When Trump starts his message off by saying “Walz called me” and not the other way around, and then Trump starts flattering his opponents, like he did with little Z, then you know he’s grabbing hard and fast and not letting go. He’s got Walz and Frey, and the paydays for the rioters are over. No one was more surprised than they were when the MSP rushed in and started locking them up. Democrats always spin a loss as a win, until they’re frog-marched out of the money room. Once Minnesota state government goes into federal receivership, the other blue fraud states will follow, and he will be exposing ALL the voter fraud that even John Thune won’t be able to ignore. That’s when election laws will return to sanity, and voter ID becomes the law of the land. Bessent is headed to California, too, just like Bovino. It’s time to stuff Gavin like he stuffed Walz. There will be a slight intermission while he rescues the people of Iran, too. I’d leave the Ayatollah’s side for awhile if I was there. Not a safe place to be. Hat tip to the invaluable Data Republican and Cam Higby, who— if Bezos was smart, would be replacing the entire WaPo newsroom.
Yes. As you listed there are too many real issues at stake then fixating on the deaths of two people non-Mensa candidates.
ICE needs to be careful, Minnesota has laws against abusing the mentally retarded.
We need to distinguish between those with congenital impairments and traumatic brain injury, and those who are just willfully stupid and evil. The latter are fair game.
Those born with impediments are challenged as are those who suffer from a dibilitating injury. Retard defines those who are willfully ignorant.
I get your point but TWO people, rral human beings are dead
They made mistakes, but wetr not bad people. They just followed bad advice
You know before posting this comment I thought about adding the obligatory ‘and I am sorry they are dead’. I didn’t, bc I don’t. I contend they were bad people who placed themselves, their families (including a 6 YO who is now motherless & parents who now have to deal with all that comes with a loss of a son), other stupid people & LEO (who have to deal with having killed someone who resisted) in harm’s way. And why? For what? My father, who came from the last generation of people who knew first hand life is not fair or emphatic, told me ‘you don’t get any points for doing what you are supposed to do- you only get demerits for not doing what you are supposed to do & in the end your best score is zero. Sorry but I guess we will have to file this in the ‘agree to disagree’ folder.
Your actions define your character,. Their actions were bad....ergo
I’d rather Higby and DataRepublican stay outside the infested precincts of MSM.
Of course, not my prerogative to decide for them….
If what Trump is doing is defined by the wackos as chickening out then we need more chicken.
Trump never had aspirations of invading Greenland but thru negotiations and threats got what he intended to get all along.
Trump wants illegals deported. Altering strategy is just part of the plan to get what he campaigned on just do it a bit differently. Hey Tim, see that jail cell? Want one for your self? Then you help us and we’ll see about the jail cell later. Tim is still in big do do but Trump seems to have offered a softening of the reckoning that is coming for him and his buddies to get the help he needs now.
Let’s not forget that in addition to Greenland, our “allies” threw in Diego Garcia too. “The art of the deal”
A little sad he didn't get Alberta too.
That’s a different deal… He’s got 3 years left. Right now he’s got everyone thinking he wants all of Canada… he’ll settle for Alberta with B.C thrown in to sweeten (?) the deal.
Let em keep BC. Seems like an extension of Cal/Or/Wa. Let's go for Yukon Territory as it dovetails nicely with Alaska and the folks up there seem pretty hardy and resourceful.
I say we go for Yukon, the NW Territories so this country will reach to the Arctic, plus Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Leave BC to itself (maybe we could get Vancouver Island?). Let Canada have Minnesota and New England (ME-VT-NH-MA-CT-RI) to show we're not too greedy and so we'll never have to hear about the Patriots playing in the Super Bowl again!
I can't say it's not a good plan.
But it would require me to move from blueMA or be subject to death by euthanasia, probably sooner than later.
I tend to agree. My suggestion would be give CA, OR, and WA to British Columbia. We get the rest of Canada (with serious reservations re Quebec).
Let's split hairs, lol. Eastern OR and Eastern WA become part of Idaho. Everything east of the CA I-5 corridor goes to NV/UT/AZ. Then we must have a border wall to keep the west coast knuckleheads in place. FYI, I'm snowed/iced in hunkered down in NE TX therefore have plenty of time on my hands for excessive commenting.
As somebody who lives in a perfectly nice, non-crazy Oregon town, I resent this. But feel free to give away Portland, and most of our problems will be solved.
Give California to Mexico and let them deal with the problems their drugs caused.
You don't want B.C. It's Canada's California.
Aberta bound
Alberta bound
Its good to be
Alberta bound...etc
jimok, there are three dots ". . ." to the right of each comment. You can click on those dots for your comment and an option will pop up that reads "Edit". Make your change, then Save. Then (optional, but good idea to) Refresh the page.
PS-- good comment--I hadn't heard that about Diego Garcia, which I looked up and see that it's a naval base supply center, and that we had/have leased it from the UK. Is that true, Trump is getting it for us in the Greenland deal? Man, he knows how to deal!
Good observation re Diego Garcia (DG). The media probably thought too many folks would notice a mention of DG so during the Greenland debate with Europe DG was referred to as the Chagos Islands. Bottom line, Britton was planning to breach a US treaty by giving away the island which is a major US base in the Indian ocean. Trump made the Brits back off as part of his Greenland compromise.
Ah! Great information. I was wondering what the heck the Chagos Islands were. And so glad Trump (and the State Department, or the Department of War, or someone) was awake and alert to head off the UK giving it away.
Thanks
Tim needs lodging next to Maduro. They can spend their days singing their praises for the panda and their nights dreaming of rescue by Putin .
Once upon a time the entire ethos of true journalism was to seek out the truth, pursue it, and hold those in power accountable to that truth.
Today, so-called journalists and the legacy media have thoroughly inverted that into manufacturing lies, only lies, all the time, about absolutely every thing in order to accrue power to themselves and their overlords. It is a total perversion of the very purpose for their existence.
It is nothing short of a miracle that the majority of people who voted for Trump were able to see through that to elect him president.
What remains to be seen is whether those same voters will hold the line, not go wobbly in these midterm elections, and get out to vote in those same numbers this time around - and yes, that may also entail holding one’s nose to vote for a most imperfect, (being kind here), Republican. Not voting, and not voting for whatever Republican is on your ballot is simply not an option.
It will take years to undo the damage done to this country and clean up the house properly. We simply cannot sacrifice the good in a vain pursuit of the perfect.
And making sure President Trump maintains or better yet, increases majorities in both houses is the absolute and only way this project of Restoring the Republic, (on the occasion of its 250th birthday), can go forward.
Just vote. And get as many others as you can to do likewise.
The alternative is too frightening to even contemplate.
Trump’s base will hold the line and not go wobbly. I worry about the youth vote and independents who voted out of economic fear. We won’t win without them. The “Lower Prices” and “Bigger Paychecks” signs at the Iowa speech, and the talk about having conquered inflation, seem tone deaf and premature. People who ain’t feeling it yet will ride with someone who acknowledges the economy is a big issue, a big focus, and is moving in the right direction. Not so much when they’re being told it’s all already been accomplished.
The administration does seem to be tailoring their message a bit more toward the “we’re moving in the right direction” vein, and I wholeheartedly agree that has to be THE message. For example:
“We’re still digging ourselves out of the pit that Democrats dumped us into, so unless you want to go back into that pit, Stay the Course and Vote Republican! We’re just getting started bringing a Golden Age of prosperity for all Americans. Hold the Line!!”
Journalist today are much smarter than they used to be.They already know the truth, and so they see their job as spreading the truth to the great un- washed, and that's what they are doing, they're telling you what they already know to be true.You should be thankful that they are sharing their great intellect with us.
Amen
Hah! Yes, we ignorant, unwashed masses must be eternally grateful for their deigning to share with us their sage wisdom on all things we are utterly incapable of discerning for ourselves.
Good comedy today! Kudos to you both.
Amen to that!
Don't you think Walz would look good in an orange jumpsuit? When that happens I'll agree the Minnesota insurrection is over. Until then, the Left is just biding it's time.
Walz couldn't look good in anything!
He'd look awful in nothing.
We already have AWFULs, so how do we describe (him?) ? AWCRAP?
He'd also look good in pine pajamas.
Walz la'ronge
Walz would look good in a hemp necktie doing the Oklahoma Air Dance.
That's preceded by the Texas Two Step isn't it?
We, the American people, have been lied to for so long by people who told us they were telling us the truth that we have trouble knowing what is a lie and what is the truth. Musk's buying Twitter has made a world of difference in our learning from those who are making the news and allowing us to make our own decisions on what is right and wrong. So far, President Trump has been right a hundred times more than he has been wrong, while the 'demonicrats' have been wrong on their side of the issues 100% of the time. The majority of the American population wants the illegal squatters out, and the politicians who line up against that are finding out there are more of US than there are of 'them'. The media won't tell you that, but 'Right' is winning. There is a movement going on in this country, and every day the positive movement grows a little. Will there be hiccups? Yes, but we will get there. Stand up, speak up, pray up, believe.
And vote the midterms. If the Repubs don't vote the midterms, we are screwed biggly.
Heard that only 40% of churchgoing evangelical Christians are voting. Let’s all remind our neighbors, of whatever Christian faith, to VOTE!
Cronkite may have died a journalistic legend, but he still had to stand before God and answer for his sins.
TAW
Trump Always Wins
Even 2020
Thanks for the upbeat assessment of our President. And for the garbage of the msm
Thanks for spelling that out... I couldn't remember what "TAW" stood for...
Took me a few days but I finallly remembered what TAW stood for yesterday.
Not that good with acronyms...
But I love an idea I heard yesterday. PDJT should do another renaming.
If it were called National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, every last leftist head would explode simultaneously.
"He isn’t giving them any scalps". In his first term, Trump stood behind Brett Kavanaugh during the hearings. That's when I became "ride or die" for him..
Trump never gives scalps, he takes them.
Yes that clown show was a preview of the conniptions currently in view. Kamala in her senatorial disguise was among the worst.
My Bible reading last night was Psalm 37. So thankful that a just and truthful God is in charge, ultimately.
Since DataRepublican released the names funding the protests a billionaire named Neville Singham has been singled out. He lives in China with his Code Pink founding wife. The odds are greater than zero that his assets are going to be frozen. I wonder if Mr Walz knows the guy??
Does a bear shirk the use of indoor plumbing?
😂 good one!
Yep - heard Singham's name here first, and then on yesterday's show Benny Johnson had a segment on him, that he had garnered from Bill O'Reilly.
I wonder how long he has avoided the spotlight. But it's on him now.
He should become the first to lose US citizenship.
Then we need to shut off a group of wealthy foreigners across the world who got themselves a status called "Permanent Resident" and are now allowed to DONATE to political campaigns here. None of them are American citizens.
Oh and while we're at it, speaking of AmeriPravda and how it got that way, we need to fix the Obammunist's change in Smith-Mundt. (My broken record.)