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Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

I want someone to ask Haley if she would support South Carolina putting Robert Smalls in Statuary Hall.

Smalls was born a slave in 1839. At age 14, His master hired him out to the owner of the steamship Planter in Charleston. (Pro tip:don’t leave the keys in the fastest vehicle around) In the early morning hours of May 13, 1862, Smalls (aged 22) freed himself, his crew, their families and 4 Confederate harbor defense cannons by commandeering the ship, and sailing it from the Confederate-controlled waters past Fort Sumter to the U.S. blockade that surrounded the harbor. He was later elected to the United States Congress as a Republican. (Smalls later bought his former masters home in a tax sale)

I have a copy of the official South Carolina Public School state history textbook adopted in 1940. It does not mention Robert Smalls. This brave, resourceful, freedom loving man should be in Statuary Hall.

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Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

By 1940 the John Dewey Progressive Education crowd of Idealists had won the battle for public education supremacy in the USA over the Educational Realists. Progressive Education teaches children to dream the impossible dream instead of 2 + 2. Thanks for nuthin John Dewey.

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This is the never ending problem with Republicans. I can only imagine having the choice between New Dealer Truman or Progressive Dewey. I would have either stayed home or held my nose and voted Democrat. The horror.

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I hadn't thought of that. Maybe John Dewey and Thomas Dewey ARE related. That would fit right in with the corporate shenanigans of RNC-DNC. Those two private corporations have been pulling the wool over our eyes for a long time. A person who goes by the name of Sundance has peeled the onion of RNC-DNC cooperation and malfeasance. I can imagine Harry & Tom having a good laff over how Trrrrrruman 'suddenly' overcame Dewey's shoo-in lead. Here are pages of Sundance articles showing how the RNC-DNC collective pulls it off, year after year: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/?s=DNC+RNC

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Sorry I must have gotten that wrong. It was before my time and I don’t want to sound like our president. But he was a progressive even if he wasn’t the education Dewey. He was a Federal Attorney for the southern district and then Governor but he and the Eastern Republicans supported the New Deal.

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I was 50 before I'd ever heard of John Dewey...from a non-denominational Christian preacher in Los Angeles. He'd gotten a Ph.D in Philosophies of Education from Stanford (back in the early 50's when a Ph.D still meant something). He was highly pissed at how John Dewey's acolytes had turned U.S public education into a Dumbass Production Facility. He spent 2 months' worth of Sundays teaching his congregation about the ruin caused by Progressive Education. That teaching began to change my thinking about the way I was taught to think. Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot and Puff...soooo sexy...

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The author of The New Simms History of South Carolina (1940) was the granddaughter of a famous antebellum author, poet and historian now known mostly for his pro-slavery writings.

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Well, I'd rather have half a an oaf rather than none.

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Well done. Down in these parts, (Beaufort, SC) Robert Smalls does not go unrecognized. Kudos for the shout out.

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Living in the Pee Dee, I was late to this party.

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Being retired and a recovering New Yorker I could not be more happy living in the Low Country. Not so much for the low taxes and cost of living but it’s mostly the people. Thankfully the prejudices are almost nonexistent compared to NY -- where minorities are taught to hate at a very early age. This of course to keep the party of peace, love and happiness in power, right?

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Welcome to the heart of The Wonderful Iodine State. My dad spent his youth in Beaufort so I heard many tales of small town Beaufort. He learned his love of sailing there. Then when he joined the Navy in WWII, the Navy sent him to Adak. He Heard a lot of Gullah growing up.

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Village of Beaufort one of the prettiest small towns in the country. Also one of the best kept secrets. I’m selfishly okay with that! LOL.

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My Dad liked to recall back in the day when LIFE Magazine described Beaufort as a sleepy southern town. Beaufort is beautiful he would concede but just down the road from Parris Island, "sleepy” is inaccurate. PS Robert Smalls had much to do with the purchase of Parris Island by the Feds.

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I worked with a grad student at VU who bragged about the Pee Dee. He mansplained it to me. That was a big grin for me.

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Always good for a chuckle for people driving

across the swamp going to and from New York and Miami, just a few miles south of South of the Border (SOB)

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START YOUR DAY WITH A SMILE-Click on my founding member. 😊 .

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Absolutely!

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Rioting during the Chicago convention should be epic.

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if it's held. they don't need it anyway....stolen elections have been working just fine.

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Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

I have friends and family in Chicago. It's a powder keg right now. Wait until the convention is right!!

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I hope they get out of there at least a week before.

Chicago’s communist mayor only adds fuel to the fire.

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I am not confident that will happen. I am praying the national guard is called out before it gets extremely violent.

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What National Guard?

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I dont have much hope, that mayor is soooo much worse than Beatlejuice. Couldnt believe they voted him in and not the sorta sane democrat.

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Jan 10·edited Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

You know how i feel about anything to do with the d-rats, SL. Not that we’ll ever be able to prove it but I bet that the violence is going to be choreographed right down to the poor little jerk who gets to be the martyr.

Not only that but it’ll give the d-rat brownshirts all the impetus they need to carry it on right into Nov. so polling station intimidation/violence will be a common and widespread phenomena.

Mail in Ballots they say…you betcha!

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I guarantee two things: 1) that the “poor little martyr’s” family will be well compensated and 2) he will continue to vote well past the 22nd century--for dems, naturally.

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Illinois voters never die,just change of permanence.

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Ha! Just so you know, I’m stealing and adapting that phrase!

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History repeats. I remember watching the first one. What fun that was!

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That’s the only political event I’m looking forward to.

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The democrats are counting on the MAGA-no line to protect them.

Like the Maginot line, it will fail.

Their only hope is cheating on a never-seen before scale.

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Way to pee in Don’s cornflakes. Now he’s despondent he didn’t think up MAGA-no line.

He should put you on the payroll.

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No disrespect to Don. His humor inspires.

Like most other days, I peed on my neighbor’s mailbox post this morning.

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Did you blame it on the cat? or was this time the dog?

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Always blame a cat.

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lolol, figured but had to ask. The dog is a man's best friend.

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Good pun, SL, thanks to folks like my dearly departed who swung a couple of grease guns through France and Germany back in the day!

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Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

The only difference is Haley actually has Indian ancestors. OWWWWWCHHHH!!!

When Pocahontas bounced Bernie Sanders after one of the debates about "You called me a liar!" I always thought he missed a good opportunity. He should have responded, "This is not the time or place to discuss it." (which he DID say)... But he should have added, "Let's go to your teepee."

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I worked with a delightful lady who was from India. Somebody piped up that we should maybe do a "rain dance" during a drought. She said, "I'm a Red Dot Indian, not a Feather Indian. Cracked us up for a week or two.

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Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

Well done Don. One thing I could have said about Mike Pence before J6 was that he looked like a ‘can do’ kinda guy.

The people in the poll all look like clowns in distress!

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Pence is a 'can do' kinda guy. 'Can-do' guys faithfully execute their boss's orders. He did that.

But, Pence chose to work for the wrong boss. It wasn't Trump. It was the Never-Trumpers.

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I couldnt vote today. 4 were horrid and I cant stand Swift. She is a whiny witch. She would fail at Country Music. even playing it backwards wouldnt help.

Yep, Pence is evil I had him for Governor.

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Agreed. Maybe Mike's name is on the list!

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The problem in Chicago is certain groups of people want someone else to take care of them.

What happened to rugged individualism?

If someone else “takes car of you” that person or group owns you by your acquiescing to being taken care of.

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Not just Chicago my friend. Too many people on both sides think their security comes from the government. I would just ask them, "hows that open border thanks to the government working for you today"?

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Read an article yesterday how the Gen Z is taking their parents to interviews. Made me sad. The last couple generations had so much going for them, but instead are lost souls. I think they got given too much without having to actually do anything for it. It kills the spirit in ways that are hard to fix.

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Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

#1 The poll choices!? C'mon man! Ya killin' me.

#2 Interesting 'breaking news' -- YESTERDAY I received the info that the JCRC (a heretofore mostly worthless "Jewish" org that was primarily a leftwing shill. Hence the worthlessness.) announced they were having TODAY the "first of a series of peaceful gatherings" in front of the Embassy of Qatar to demand the immediate RELEASE of the HOSTAGES HELD BY HAMAS.

NOW THE EVENT NO LONGER APPEARS ON JCRC's WEBSITE.

WHAT IS GOING ON??

https://www.jcouncil.org/calendar

"NO RELEASE, NO PEACE" should be the chant heard round the world.

I won't hold my breath.

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"Follow the money" usually works in answering these suspicious occurrences.

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It could be money.

Or it could simply be the Islamo-fascist mafia threatening people to shut up and sit down.

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Probabaly both

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Yikes! Any of those poll choices cause nightmares. I guess Hunter is the best pick - his bribery skills would be good in dealing with Congress.

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I voted Taylor Swift - she could distract the whole country while Trump quietly gets things done behind the scenes.

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I wonder if the “Swifties,” you know the vapid, vacuous, and void-of-all-thinking fans, would have even the slightest incentive, let alone ability, to vote were TS Trump’s pick for VP. It is evident that Swift’s songs not only suck but also reduce its listeners’ IQ to single digits.

Or have I gotten that backwards?

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I for one have never heard a Swift song. No, I'm not drunk. I just find the woman incredibly fake. Can't for the life of me see why a footballer would go after her but maybe he is just looking for a retirement fund that pays well.

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I haven’t, to my knowledge, heard one of her songs either. But I am acquainted with a couple of Swifties. That’s enough for me!

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It just seems to be a phenomena, a bit like the Madonna thing maybe. I don't think she is a bad person necessarily, just uninteresting to me.

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I'm still a Vikings fan so my judgement on Swifties is suspect. Like I said earlier, in her defense, she does work for a living.... None of the others on the list do...

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To be critical of her music and believing that the fans, who like her songs, have bad taste (at best) in music doesn’t make TS a bad person at all. Like you said, TS seems to have caught a pop culture wave. And good for her.

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Me neither. I listen to Classic Vinyl, Willie’s Roadhouse, Outlaw Country, primeCountry, 60s and 70s (turn away for disco, Jackson Browne and James Taylor) on Sirius

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So, “swifties” are pretty much democrats?

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You could conclude that.

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Thats a good description. They are vapid.

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And you win the thread today! Well played!

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Jan 10·edited Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

Before we even get to November, Looming on the horizon, May to be exact, is the WHO’s newly revised Global Pandemic Treaty, which gives them unilateral power to declare a global emergency for whatever reason they decide (think Climate Change).

Once they do that they will be internationally empowered to institute any and all kinds of measures they deem necessary to abate the so-called dangers of said emergency in every country in the world, overriding that country’s laws and Constitutional orders. In short, they will rule the world.

This treaty will be coming up for a vote in the US Congress this spring, in order to be empowered to overtake our Constitutional government if they vote in favor of it.

I mention this because, in addition to the obvious major problems it presents to not just this country but sovereign nations around the world, it is not out of the realm of possibility (especially in these times we live in), that a Climate emergency, or an emergency of some kind, could be declared prior to the November election, thereby enabling the WHO to suspend it indefinitely.

Just throwing that out there as even getting to this election at all is looking pretty grim these days.

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They don't have the votes. Requires 2/3rds in the Senate.

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If WHO does that, Trump's hand would be forced: defund the United Nations, ban them from our shores.

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BTW, besides the big donors and actual campaigns buying back these books who reads them? Who would read a book about Haley? Or Pence?, Biden?, Barr? This is all just another corrupt money laundering operation. Besides all this the clown pix is most apropos!! Maybe he should wear this in his SOTU address.

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I suggest honest Congressmen & Congreswomen, not required to pass laws these days, should

(1) require the ATF to require each purchaser of each book, to show ID and provide a verified name, address, cellphone #, and confirmed email;

(2) have the FEC post the information on its donor list,

(3) have the FBI, NSA, ODNI, DOJ, Google, X, and Harvard Law, all certify that they have checked the author(s) creation that it contains

(a) no plagiarism of any democrat elected official, and

(b) does not pose a risk to National Security or Obama.

(3) Only then can the Federal Reserve approves the payment to the Pol of the price of the book in Federal Reserve e-dollars (Feddy-coins).

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And reveal the name of the ghost writer.

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Nailed the poll. This is a smart audience. Pick the one who can damage you the least. Don is getting sadistic with these polls, man.

Floydsylvania - where citizens get a bag of fentanyl in every pot. And a Narcan inhaler hopefully.

Black people in Chicago and everywhere else are right about the Commie Democrats prioritizing the importation of illegal aliens from parts unknown over their interests. But the idea that the government should “take care of us” is why they are in this position in the first place. The government’s not your friend, a bad substitute for mom, and will always stab you in the back. Vote Trump, y’all. He has no hot sauce in his wallet, unlike Hillary, but he gets people jobs and his policies mostly make sense for actual American citizens.

Pro-Palestinian protestors, aka pro-terrorism protestors. They ruin Christmas celebrations. They close roads. They threaten Jewish businesses, none of which are near “Palestine”. They started a war with grotesque brutality, and they are getting their asses kicked like they deserve.

So unlike any other group in history that does that, the terror loving Commie retards demand concessions. Doesn’t work that way in real life. When you are the offending party and you lose the fight, you don’t get a prize. Go live in “Palestine”, which does not exist and is shrinking as I type. Fuck off, murderers.

Nikki Haley will get a fake think tank job, make some speeches that nobody wants to hear and continue, like Liz Cheney, who is totally irrelevant, to be a pimple on the derrière of American politics.

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Easy choice: Taylor Swift for VP checks the boxes for women and sports fans for the Lefties. The negative is that she is successful in a cutthroat business without needing affirmative action. *** The organization of these pro Hamas, anti-Israel protests may surprise some but I was educated in such matters over twenty years ago. A friend traveling to Chicago for business shared a row of seats with a man whom he engaged in idle conversation. Two days after his arrival, there was a big DNC sponsored demonstration. That night, he boarded another plane to Houston and recognized his seatmate from the incoming flight. The ensuing conversation went something like this. "What a coincidence. We were both in Chicago and now we are heading to Houston. You must be in sales as well." "No," the man replied, my two friends sitting behind us and I, we work for the Democratic party. We are professional demonstration organizers. We are going to Houston to coordinate another demonstration."And there was a big demonstration as predicted. *** Organization and funding (ever notice how the signs are always professionally printed - by a union shop, I assure you.) for all of these demonstrations come from well-funded organizations. These are not localized spontaneous organic grassroots demonstrators at work. These are our enemies flexing their muscles. *** Arrests? "Journalism" of today makes me laugh. While the masses may fall for the use of the word "arrest," it actually means the demonstrators were briefly detained but will face no punishment. Every one of them were released without bail and will face no charges in New York and other blue cities. *** I love the demonstrations against Biden for supporting Israel. They demonstrate the idiocy of Leftists. Lefties never think or care about consequences. (See Sanctuary City declarations.) As they demonstrate against Biden, they don't seem to realize they are supporting Trump. Down with Biden. Up with Trump. I may join them and start the chant. *** The frightening part: Our open borders, aka. the Biden/Obama government approved invasion of our country, has allowed a vast army of demonstrators to join the existing in-place organizations tearing down our country. Many of those invaders are waiting to take up arms and explosives to attack us internally. *** Be Prepared - now more than ever.

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Excellent comment. I would like to see the Project Veritas guy /James O’Keefe get some video of these professional demonstration organizers. (Might want to check out Van Jones on this.). These “demonstrations” are just a form of propaganda and intimidation.

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See my post above with Tablet article….

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https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/for-profit-dc-firm-staging-americas-grassroots-movements-arabella-advisors

It is a vast mega funded network of Dem/Leftist orgs behind all of it.

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Excellent link, Suzie--am pressed for time now so only scanned it, but lots of clear detail. Well--it's clear except for the original source of all the money--and I bet alot of it is foreign money from our enemies. I still think some James O'Keefe undercover videos would be important in fighting this.

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Oh I agree! That would be most valuable in exposing just how inorganic these demonstrations are.

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Exposure is so valuable. There's a verse from Proverbs (KJV) 1:17-- "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."

(I think there's another translation out there that has it clearer--

"In vain is a net laid in the sight of any bird.").

We Americans as a country are getting a lesson these days in how to be savvy about being propagandized and manipulated.

PS--based on that article you linked to on Tablet-- we should just start referring to these as "Arabella demonstrations". Or maybe one of the keen wits on this site will come up with a better or 'punny' name.

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OK, now I'm getting silly-- "Arabella arabesque"?

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Before the antifa masks arrived I used to point out protesters at various events from previous ones to family and friends .They came to agree and started following the traveling faces protest to protest.

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Jan 10·edited Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

ELISE STEFANIK FOR VICE PRESIDENT. After watching her disgrace three college presidents, the electorate knows she brushes her teeth with gun powder.

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She is tough. Gotta give her that. We're still looking for a number two that will keep the MAGA bus on track post Trumpster.

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That's her. She gets seasoned via being at Trump's side for four years, then takes over for another eight. Looking at the future, I can't think of a better female to run the country. She's smart, tough, totally MAGA, and young.

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Totally agree Jester!! I have thought about it for awhile, but after the hearing, I thought absolutely she's the one!! Smart, tough as nails....."brushes her teeth with gunpowder" indeed!

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Nope. No one who receives a paycheck from the Federal government - period.

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Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

The Sikh and destroy candidate, Nikki Haley is just the deep state military industrial complex back up candidate in case Weekend at Biden fails. She is George GW Bush with Dark hair and maybe will have Liz Chaney as her VP to complete the ninth circle of hell. If indeed as the democrats and news media get their wish and DJT meets Tony Soprano figuratively and literally, the Republican bench is as piss poor as the Democrats. While Vivek may appease some Maga supporters, I for one would not vote for Haley, as a bad republican is worse than a bad democrat (oxymoron).

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Sikh and destroy!!!!!! Spot on.

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I live in South Carolina. Haley may be behind Trump by 30 points here, but we have open primaries. I fear that the odious moron, James Clyburn, who saw to it that Pedo Joe won his primary here and paved the way to stealing the presidency, will have his obedient homies go out in droves and vote for her.

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Jan 10·edited Jan 10Liked by Don Surber

Dems know they have to do something big to restore the election. Under Biden, there are three constituent segments for them - none of them attractive: (1) The institutional grifters who want money for nothing and things for free, (2) millions of illegal aliens (and those who want them here) who will vote in some states, many of whom are also terrorists, and (3) Palestinians who want to destroy the American concept, and many of whom are terrorists. They need a big event to fix this. It will happen.

Joe Biden won't be on the ticket. Neither will Kamala. My money is still on Michelle (Big Mike) Obama that will put Barak back in the Whitehouse making is easier for him to execute his next four years of destruction. It also would restore some of the DNC classic constituent segments.

As for Trump, Taylor Swift would help him with young voters. Plus, she can do a Halftime show at the inauguration like its a Superbowl. The 30 and 60 second ad sales for it can be the best memes about Biden and/or Trump.

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