NYT... Covered up the Holocaust and partnered with communist Russia during and after WWII. Walter Duranty was Communist Walt; I will take MAGA Mike any day...
Another spot-on column, Mr. Surber, with many good observations. I especially liked your observation that Democrats aren't against religion, rather against Christianity. Indeed.
Oct 31, 2023·edited Oct 31, 2023Liked by Don Surber
God has shown us that He is truly in power beyond anything we think we can control. Just like the appearance of PDJT, MAGA Mike is part of the plan. No other power can stand against it.
I LOVE the calliope music!! What a perfect soundtrack to the current White House!!! Maybe they can play it in the background of every W.H. presser with Kringe. She looks like calliope music should be her backdrop!!
Oct 31, 2023·edited Oct 31, 2023Liked by Don Surber
My only big problem with MJ's notion that "God is the one that raises up those in authority" is how does that explain THE Jew-Hating SQUAD? Unless, perhaps, as with Jungian philosophy, even evil has value, even if only as a foil to encourage goodness to emerge to defeat it, good and hard!
‘Johnson said, “I don’t believe there are any coincidences. I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority, he raised up each of you, all of us. And I believe that God has ordained and allowed us to be brought here to this specific moment and time.”’
God does raise up people in leadership to achieve his purposes--the good and the bad. Of course, God’s ways are not our ways nor his thoughts are our thoughts. Knowing that still confuses during bad times as now when every good and decent person, tradition, and institution suffers relentless attack. But then I recall that we are not called to understand his ways. We are called to trust and cast our cares on him--to have faith.
Lately that faith feels like walking in quicksand. But we haven’t sunk yet. Our merciful God hears our prayers and encourages us before our hearts surely would falter.
The examples of Pres. Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and Roe being overturned prove God has not abandoned our country altogether to the evil one. I have increasing faith that God will heal our land (II Chronicles 7:14).
If we deported all the woke university sociology departments, history departments, gender studies departments, DEI mafia, the media, and idiotic billionaire leftist to the countries where all their communist and islamofascist heroes come from, this country would turn around in about two weeks. The weakest, most dishonest, dumbest people in the land are running the show. It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck and we are all on the train. As usual they turn every single thing they touch to garbage. They whine and moan over imaginary crimes and create monsters out of thin air. Since when does being a Christian make you the enemy in the USA? These are a bunch of degenerate Commies. Whatever they call themselves is irrelevant. Climate commies, trans commies, black lives commies, all the same stuff. And bad for America and bad for ALL Americans.
I hope Mr. Johnson is a decent, practical, and principled man who cares about this country and has the testicular fortitude to fight for what’s right. Courage is contagious. Let’s see some.
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"The Constitution is a document of restraints on the government, not the people."
Indeed - but one would never know that, even if one were to consult scholars of constitutional law.
I know that Levin is an "expert" on the constitution, but I'm not sure even he sees it thusly, given how he's revealed himself to be little more than a GOPe hack ala Newt.
"Professor IUPUI just described the 1950s."
Professor IUPUI (pronounced by some of the locals and a couple of alumni I've known as, "oo-ey pooh-ey") nailed it!
"The clowns in the House DO represent us. But now they are led by [MAGA Mike] and the press is going bonkers."
He just might be the right guy for that reason, alone.
"It is not that he has faith but who he has faith in. His [faith] is a problem to Democrats because of Christianity’s track record of ending tyrannical regimes, beginning with the Romans."
Yep - as if the immediately preceding wasn't enough, he's making all the right enemies.
I barely made it through reading NPR's account without vomiting - I couldn't copy and paste any of it without doing so...
"But the record shows Johnson’s ascent was no accident. It was the culmination of a deliberate series of moves aimed at positioning himself for greater power."
This just shows what the reporter doesn't know. MAGA Mike did no such thing.
What he's done is exhibit wisdom - in demonstrating leadership, he's proven himself not only shrewd, but dangerous in the right way to all the right people.
"I thank Bouie for the good news."
As do I - the revolution that Trump unleashed must succeed his presence, and endure after he's no longer with us, here. If the kids can be standard bearers, all the better, but it must not depend on one man, or even several - it must rather perpetuate itself on the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with government severely and appropriately constrained.
"'...House Republicans want to pay for emergency aid to Israel by cutting funding to the IRS, teeing up a collision with the White House and Democrat-controlled Senate over how to support a key U.S. ally.'"
In the same way Trump's emergence exposed the rotten culture of the status quo: the unholy alliance between the deep state, the GOPe, the Political, Corporate and Donor Classes, and the propaganda apparatus; MAGA Mike's leadership is exposing the true undocumented Democrats in the senate.
I'd love to believe that Buffering Cocaine Mitch "The Turtle" McConnell might be able to read the writing on the wall, but I fear he'll retain his leadership of the caucus in the senate until he has to be carried out.
"I pray that Garcia is right."
Me, too!
Re: today's poll - the inventors of MAGA Mike aren't dumb - nor are they stupid - that they have unwittingly provided what they believe to be a moniker of derision and ridicule that is actually high praise is just the product of a myopic hatred of MAGA and the man who represents it.
NYT... Covered up the Holocaust and partnered with communist Russia during and after WWII. Walter Duranty was Communist Walt; I will take MAGA Mike any day...
Another spot-on column, Mr. Surber, with many good observations. I especially liked your observation that Democrats aren't against religion, rather against Christianity. Indeed.
John Adams, observed, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Seems the Democrats outsmarted themselves in helping remove RINO Kevin.
God has shown us that He is truly in power beyond anything we think we can control. Just like the appearance of PDJT, MAGA Mike is part of the plan. No other power can stand against it.
A powerful column today, Don. Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtvQNzPHn-w
Maga Mike is a blessing to our country. Hopefully he does to the Democratic Party what Israel is doing to Hamas.
MJ is the best thing to come out of Shreveport since the Louisiana Hayride. Elvis has left the building, but Mike is just getting warmed up.
I LOVE the calliope music!! What a perfect soundtrack to the current White House!!! Maybe they can play it in the background of every W.H. presser with Kringe. She looks like calliope music should be her backdrop!!
My only big problem with MJ's notion that "God is the one that raises up those in authority" is how does that explain THE Jew-Hating SQUAD? Unless, perhaps, as with Jungian philosophy, even evil has value, even if only as a foil to encourage goodness to emerge to defeat it, good and hard!
‘Johnson said, “I don’t believe there are any coincidences. I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority, he raised up each of you, all of us. And I believe that God has ordained and allowed us to be brought here to this specific moment and time.”’
God does raise up people in leadership to achieve his purposes--the good and the bad. Of course, God’s ways are not our ways nor his thoughts are our thoughts. Knowing that still confuses during bad times as now when every good and decent person, tradition, and institution suffers relentless attack. But then I recall that we are not called to understand his ways. We are called to trust and cast our cares on him--to have faith.
Lately that faith feels like walking in quicksand. But we haven’t sunk yet. Our merciful God hears our prayers and encourages us before our hearts surely would falter.
The examples of Pres. Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and Roe being overturned prove God has not abandoned our country altogether to the evil one. I have increasing faith that God will heal our land (II Chronicles 7:14).
I’ll hold my judgement for a while… been too disappointed too many times…Crenshaw, Pence, Barr come to mind. Where is Rience Preibus at these days
“But there’s always room for Jell-O and anti-Semitism."
If we deported all the woke university sociology departments, history departments, gender studies departments, DEI mafia, the media, and idiotic billionaire leftist to the countries where all their communist and islamofascist heroes come from, this country would turn around in about two weeks. The weakest, most dishonest, dumbest people in the land are running the show. It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck and we are all on the train. As usual they turn every single thing they touch to garbage. They whine and moan over imaginary crimes and create monsters out of thin air. Since when does being a Christian make you the enemy in the USA? These are a bunch of degenerate Commies. Whatever they call themselves is irrelevant. Climate commies, trans commies, black lives commies, all the same stuff. And bad for America and bad for ALL Americans.
I hope Mr. Johnson is a decent, practical, and principled man who cares about this country and has the testicular fortitude to fight for what’s right. Courage is contagious. Let’s see some.
Trump 2024
How bad is the culture rot? This bad: here is Jenn “Circle Back” Psucky demonizing both Johnson & The Bible:
https://rumble.com/v3sk34h-bigot-warns-audience-that-speaker-mike-johnson-is-dangerous.html
These are your “elites” folks.
Don, you were good to the last drop.
"The Constitution is a document of restraints on the government, not the people."
Indeed - but one would never know that, even if one were to consult scholars of constitutional law.
I know that Levin is an "expert" on the constitution, but I'm not sure even he sees it thusly, given how he's revealed himself to be little more than a GOPe hack ala Newt.
"Professor IUPUI just described the 1950s."
Professor IUPUI (pronounced by some of the locals and a couple of alumni I've known as, "oo-ey pooh-ey") nailed it!
"The clowns in the House DO represent us. But now they are led by [MAGA Mike] and the press is going bonkers."
He just might be the right guy for that reason, alone.
"It is not that he has faith but who he has faith in. His [faith] is a problem to Democrats because of Christianity’s track record of ending tyrannical regimes, beginning with the Romans."
Yep - as if the immediately preceding wasn't enough, he's making all the right enemies.
I barely made it through reading NPR's account without vomiting - I couldn't copy and paste any of it without doing so...
"But the record shows Johnson’s ascent was no accident. It was the culmination of a deliberate series of moves aimed at positioning himself for greater power."
This just shows what the reporter doesn't know. MAGA Mike did no such thing.
What he's done is exhibit wisdom - in demonstrating leadership, he's proven himself not only shrewd, but dangerous in the right way to all the right people.
"I thank Bouie for the good news."
As do I - the revolution that Trump unleashed must succeed his presence, and endure after he's no longer with us, here. If the kids can be standard bearers, all the better, but it must not depend on one man, or even several - it must rather perpetuate itself on the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with government severely and appropriately constrained.
"'...House Republicans want to pay for emergency aid to Israel by cutting funding to the IRS, teeing up a collision with the White House and Democrat-controlled Senate over how to support a key U.S. ally.'"
In the same way Trump's emergence exposed the rotten culture of the status quo: the unholy alliance between the deep state, the GOPe, the Political, Corporate and Donor Classes, and the propaganda apparatus; MAGA Mike's leadership is exposing the true undocumented Democrats in the senate.
I'd love to believe that Buffering Cocaine Mitch "The Turtle" McConnell might be able to read the writing on the wall, but I fear he'll retain his leadership of the caucus in the senate until he has to be carried out.
"I pray that Garcia is right."
Me, too!
Re: today's poll - the inventors of MAGA Mike aren't dumb - nor are they stupid - that they have unwittingly provided what they believe to be a moniker of derision and ridicule that is actually high praise is just the product of a myopic hatred of MAGA and the man who represents it.
No, the dumbest people are queers for palestine.