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Big D is writing right now like NBA Jam, where a player gets hot and flames start shooting out behind the ball as he hits another J. Makes this West Virginian darned proud!
04/10/25: Nomination for the Best Surberism of The Day:
Chris Matthews, ranting (on the exact day that DJIA +3000!!!)
"We get so much of our lumber ... from Canada. What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?”
DS: "The U.S. is the world's top producer of lumber and No. 4 exporter of wood. Our top customer is (drumroll) Canada (rimshot)."
Next Up: Chris explains how "more lumber" can be "made."
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Suggested edit: "Yes, the billionaire doesn’t understand economics but the fellow paying $2,000 a month for a one-bedroom apartment with a view of the next building does."
NYC apartment rental prices have soared. I could probably rent out my basement in SubBurby New Jerby (across the GWB) for $2500/month:
Change to: "Yes, the billionaire doesn’t understand economics but the fellow paying $4,000 a month for a one-bedroom apartment with a view of the bricks in the next building does."
And no money left over for dinner at The Bank of Diary Queen.
“ That’s like saying how many times he cheats on you and how many times he slaps you around are poor metrics for judging the quality of a marriage.”
OMG! 👏👏😂😂
THAT line should go down in history for THE SINGLE-MOST APT description of the piles of nonsense and sheer ignorance being vomited out by the mass media and armchair “economists” reporting on the tariff issue.
The brilliance of it is OFF THE CHARTS!! 👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🎖🎖🎖
I love Trump’s “It’s Not Ok Corral.” That’s a great visual; very Yellowstone. And throwing in that buzzy little pest Zelensky at the end there makes me imagine Trump as he treads wearily (if he’s ever actually weary) up the stairs to the Residence, and one of his aides calls from below that Zelensky is on the phone. I see him rolling his eyes and waving the aide off, “Tell him I’m out. And we’ll get back to him later.” And when hit hits the top step, “Then block the number.”
04/10/25: Curious. What makes anyone think that Switzerland would accept Z? I'd hand him some U.S. food stamps and tell him that the Fed Ex cargo plane on Zurich's International Airport's runway 12 is leaving in 20 minutes and to get his ass on it. "And don't buy junk food with it!"
The WEF is propping him up. Their purpose is probably to deplete the US and NATO ammunition stocks so we are vulnerable to the invaders. Since the WEF headquarters in Davos Switzerland it's only reasonable for them to shelter their lap dog.
I wanted to hit every button this morning. I was watching everything yesterday. My wife said I bet he has to have a custom made jock strap. One man just kicked the world’s ass. That’s a fact. What it’s like to not hear Jack-shit from Schumer, Pelosi, any of the sorry assed Democrat/Communists. And the rest of the stupid asses covering their shorts. Maybe one of the greatest days ever…
He should arrest all the political elites and have open public trials so we can all hear them defend themselves. "So, Ms Pelosi, in your own words, please describe to the court how you became so rich?"
04/10/25: "It was all due to my sunny disposition and eternal Christian sense of charity. And since the presiding judge in this courtroom is an appointee of mine, I will now ask him to throw the case out." Judge: "Done! You are free to go. And thanks for the AI stock tips!"
"That $295 billion trade deficit with Red China could buy you Bank of America with enough money left over to purchase 4 billion chili dogs at Dairy Queen."
This is the most vivid example in history for picturing large amounts of money. I think DS should be DJT's speechwriter.
It could pay for housing for truly poor indigent people. It could fix infrastructure for thousands of small towns in rural America. It could build a few prisons for the political elite who have been stealing our money for decades.
To appreciate the breadth of America, you should know that the largest domestic producer of Christmas decorations is a Hasidic-owned company in Brooklyn, New York. I doubt that they're a public Company now, but they soon sure as s__t should be. Their business expansion plan should include producing and exporting lanterns for Chinese New Year celebrations.
What's most angering is the attitude of those of the media, democrats (same), & those looking down on the administration and Trump supporters who think the Euro-weenies and the Islamist-communist regimes around the world deserve deference because they have nice office furniture and/or are also in the news.
They're ALL dependents upon US taking bad deals and closing our factories. They're NOT our friends, they're barely allies, and they're hardly equals.
Don't forget U-2 was shot down over the Soviet Union, being piloted by Gary Powers. There was a cute cartoon two pilots with parachutes looking at each other, and one says U-2?
Don, Brilliant!!! And I think you have the right take. President Trump is giving a Business Master Class to the world. Doctorate classes begin after the students come to order.
Somewhere in the background, quietly, someone is working on getting our own precious metals closer to home or at home; someone is working on the formulas and everything needed to produce our own 'necessary' vaccines and medicines; someone is looking at the pharmaceutical industry and figuring out how to break it, bend it, and reshape it; someone is looking at a new lumber mill; someone knows AI isn't the answer for everything, but American attitude and labor is ... for this country, and so on infinitum. Little by little the battleship turns until its direction is home.
Oh, and as to the survey, you left out "All of the Above" again. That's my vote.
Re: the pharmaceutical industry: I read that, on Monday, all the major Big Pharma industries based on Europe, called an emergency meeting at the EU to give them an ultimatum: “Do something, or we set sail for the USA, like tomorrow!”
Americans and NATO have been fighting and aiding the Nazis in Ukraine, so what does a couple of Chinese soldiers mean, even if that is true, which I doubt. I believe our president is going to make peace with everyone, which is why I support him.
China is in big trouble on their own, so just stand clear and watch them fall.
Then he can get down to the important business of reforming the medical scam industry, deporting the hordes of violent criminal invaders and most important of all, hanging Adam Schiff and friends.
Godless yes but communist? I would argue they’ve morphed into more of a fascist state @ this point. The difference is only by degrees. Bear with me a moment; communism & fascism have always been (will always be) two sides of the same coin. Under communism The State owns the means of production & distribution & dictates the outcome; under fascism The State nominally leaves production & distribution in private hands yet still dictates the outcome. This is why fascism is often called “corporatism” because the corporations get in bed with the govt & do their bidding. We just had a four year example of that - Big Pharma, Big Tech, MSM, etc. The govt tells the corporations when to jump & how high. Both of course are on the left side of the political spectrum. The group - the collective - is paramount not the individual. Individual rights mean nothing to either.
That’s why I laugh every time these woefully ignorant rubes call Trump or his supporters “fascists”; only in their warped worlds could making the govt smaller, more efficient, & - more importantly - answerable to the American people be “fascist”.
On the contrary it’s a refounding of what this nation was founded upon.
May God Bless America.
And two Chinese “volunteers” in Ukraine are- @ this point - no reason to panic. If that turns into a score then that’s a different story. An influx of Chinese “volunteers” to the tune of some 300,000 are what made the Korean War (1950-1953) virtually unwinnable. And the fact that they gummed up the works so effectively with a third rate military @ the time is really the major headline. So just have to see how it plays out. Could be that Xi seeks his own “Condor Legion”; the German volunteer group that actively assisted Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. This would afford Chinese officers combat experience, something invaluable in case Xi intends to hit Taiwan but the jury’s still out.
Give the Dems a break. They are totally defeated like Germany at the end of WWII. They have no policies people will support anymore. They are reduced to calling people names and lying profusely. It was sad to watch the old hippies with their 'Hands Off" signs. The wise ones will switch teams but many will opt to go down with the ship. Sadly, no one will care. They did it to themselves. I, for one, am not tired of Winning yet.....
The dems are down but do not count them out. They have these activist judges tripping things up. Plus they're still going to try to rig elections. At the very least the blue states are. Big pharma, big tech, big Wall Street, and the military industrial complex are not happy and will probably throw big money to get Democrats back into the seats of power. They're also literally gunning for Trump. I like JD Vance alot but he's not Trump. No one is.
(1) "They are totally defeated like Germany at the end of WWII." Perhaps, but they don't act like it. On a related note, I think Trump should put Germany back to the state they were in by 1945. Arrogant sausage-eating bastards.
(2) Regarding the status of the Dem party, I wish someone would SHOW me how they are still commanding in the high 40's % - almost 50% - of the vote. Their power-hold is as much a threat to us as China because it appears to me that the Dems ARE the front line of the Chinese army.
I still believe a hot civil war is unavoidable at this point. The more Trump wins: the more resentful the leftists become. They are childish. They have already started with violence. And we have yet to arrest them en mass. They will escalate until we put our foot down. And like the "patient" people we are, we will wait until it is too late. Then we will have to get downright nasty.
The constant screaming of "fascist" is a logical result of allowing the Left to paint the Nazis as "Far-Right". They were not; their economic policies were leftist; besides running make-work programs like the construction of the Autobahnen, they totally dominated German businesses large and small, by means of regulations and orders. Those economic policies were not quite the same as those in Soviet Russia, where the State simply owned every enterprise, but close enough. In addition, they never even attempted to reduce the German social-welfare state.
Korea wasn't fought to win. Turdman was afraid of a full scale war with Russia. That is why he shitcanned Mac. Not that I'm a fan of MacArthur, he cared mostly about himself and threw his men away like confetti during WW2.
Initially it was: Korea was going to be unified under a democratic govt once UN forces had reached the NK/Chinese border but then the Chinese began filtering in infantry divisions across the Yalu @ night. When they struck the entire UN line fractured, the 1st Marine Division got surrounded over by the Chosin Reservoir, & thus began the fighting retreat back south. It was a royal mess.
Dugout Doug has his +’s & -‘s but have to hand it to him for Inchon. That was a stroke of brilliance that cut the Korean Peninsula in half & severed the North Korean Army off entirely from it’s base of supply in the North. To his credit he effectively wiped them out. It was later that Truman threw in the towel, expecting soldiers/airmen/Marines to “die for a tie”, which is in effect the charge that MacArthur leveled against him in their then-deteriorating relations. Ol’ Doug did want to win but he wanted to bomb bases in China & for Truman that was a bridge too far. When he came out publicly with this is when Truman canned him.
If I could have one wish fulfilled, it would be that Don's posts would become required reading for every American.
That’s a big ‘like’ and a resounding ‘Amen!’
AMEN & ANEN to that!! The world would be a better - and happier place!
Share them with others, I do.
Are all of them readable to those you share with or just the “public” ones?
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I really like them too…
It took me a while, but I finally got my husband hooked👏🏻
He was so excited when he got a comment liked to buy Don!!🎉
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“Ask for the stars, settle for the moon. Trump just mooned the world.” Classic Don Surber!
Big D is writing right now like NBA Jam, where a player gets hot and flames start shooting out behind the ball as he hits another J. Makes this West Virginian darned proud!
Jerry West (West Virginian BTW) comes to mind. He and Gail Goodrich were a classic backcourt duo when that was popular.
04/10/25: Nomination for the Best Surberism of The Day:
Chris Matthews, ranting (on the exact day that DJIA +3000!!!)
"We get so much of our lumber ... from Canada. What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?”
DS: "The U.S. is the world's top producer of lumber and No. 4 exporter of wood. Our top customer is (drumroll) Canada (rimshot)."
Next Up: Chris explains how "more lumber" can be "made."
*
Suggested edit: "Yes, the billionaire doesn’t understand economics but the fellow paying $2,000 a month for a one-bedroom apartment with a view of the next building does."
NYC apartment rental prices have soared. I could probably rent out my basement in SubBurby New Jerby (across the GWB) for $2500/month:
Change to: "Yes, the billionaire doesn’t understand economics but the fellow paying $4,000 a month for a one-bedroom apartment with a view of the bricks in the next building does."
And no money left over for dinner at The Bank of Diary Queen.
“ That’s like saying how many times he cheats on you and how many times he slaps you around are poor metrics for judging the quality of a marriage.”
OMG! 👏👏😂😂
THAT line should go down in history for THE SINGLE-MOST APT description of the piles of nonsense and sheer ignorance being vomited out by the mass media and armchair “economists” reporting on the tariff issue.
The brilliance of it is OFF THE CHARTS!! 👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🎖🎖🎖
Your coment is in the same class!👍👍👍
The best part was when the shorts had to use their own money to cover.
I particularly enjoyed that myself. 😬
04/10/25: How many covered and got out before Wednesday?
That’s a good question - I just assumed they started shorting again. I think the goal is the same - market volatility. Environmental discomfort.
04/10/25: DJIA -1800 (12:17 pm). They must be at it again. Thank goodness for shorts --- the only possible way to expose the hoaxes.
I love Trump’s “It’s Not Ok Corral.” That’s a great visual; very Yellowstone. And throwing in that buzzy little pest Zelensky at the end there makes me imagine Trump as he treads wearily (if he’s ever actually weary) up the stairs to the Residence, and one of his aides calls from below that Zelensky is on the phone. I see him rolling his eyes and waving the aide off, “Tell him I’m out. And we’ll get back to him later.” And when hit hits the top step, “Then block the number.”
04/10/25: Curious. What makes anyone think that Switzerland would accept Z? I'd hand him some U.S. food stamps and tell him that the Fed Ex cargo plane on Zurich's International Airport's runway 12 is leaving in 20 minutes and to get his ass on it. "And don't buy junk food with it!"
The WEF is propping him up. Their purpose is probably to deplete the US and NATO ammunition stocks so we are vulnerable to the invaders. Since the WEF headquarters in Davos Switzerland it's only reasonable for them to shelter their lap dog.
The cloning effect of Don Surber. Sarcastic jewels popping up. Thanks, Damn.
I wanted to hit every button this morning. I was watching everything yesterday. My wife said I bet he has to have a custom made jock strap. One man just kicked the world’s ass. That’s a fact. What it’s like to not hear Jack-shit from Schumer, Pelosi, any of the sorry assed Democrat/Communists. And the rest of the stupid asses covering their shorts. Maybe one of the greatest days ever…
He should arrest all the political elites and have open public trials so we can all hear them defend themselves. "So, Ms Pelosi, in your own words, please describe to the court how you became so rich?"
04/10/25: "It was all due to my sunny disposition and eternal Christian sense of charity. And since the presiding judge in this courtroom is an appointee of mine, I will now ask him to throw the case out." Judge: "Done! You are free to go. And thanks for the AI stock tips!"
"That $295 billion trade deficit with Red China could buy you Bank of America with enough money left over to purchase 4 billion chili dogs at Dairy Queen."
This is the most vivid example in history for picturing large amounts of money. I think DS should be DJT's speechwriter.
It could pay for housing for truly poor indigent people. It could fix infrastructure for thousands of small towns in rural America. It could build a few prisons for the political elite who have been stealing our money for decades.
Better to build gallows.
Loud laughter.
To appreciate the breadth of America, you should know that the largest domestic producer of Christmas decorations is a Hasidic-owned company in Brooklyn, New York. I doubt that they're a public Company now, but they soon sure as s__t should be. Their business expansion plan should include producing and exporting lanterns for Chinese New Year celebrations.
Fitting. Jesus was Jewish.
Nope. They will not share their profits with the goy.
"...the daily Stupitzer Prize..."
Classic!
Another Don Surber gem!
What's most angering is the attitude of those of the media, democrats (same), & those looking down on the administration and Trump supporters who think the Euro-weenies and the Islamist-communist regimes around the world deserve deference because they have nice office furniture and/or are also in the news.
They're ALL dependents upon US taking bad deals and closing our factories. They're NOT our friends, they're barely allies, and they're hardly equals.
Don, your column should be required reading at Poca U.
I’ll open an extension campus here in town and call it Poca U 2.
Can't be U 2 because the streets have names here
Don, you are way too fast and you even did it pro Bono.
Ha!
04/11/25: I am delighted that I'm not in a (predestined losing) battle of wits with you two!
Oops!
War with Don.
I’ll have to enter the witless protection program.
Whoa! (just got it)...
It's still over my head.
I'm slow in the humor department, but enjoy the overall tone anyway :).
The band U2?
It was never banned. It just didn't get much airtime
Don't forget U-2 was shot down over the Soviet Union, being piloted by Gary Powers. There was a cute cartoon two pilots with parachutes looking at each other, and one says U-2?
EPA limited them because of all the smoke pollution at Vertigo.
https://youtu.be/GzZWSrr5wFI?si=tGTFzQbCY0JecDTI
Enjoy.
Thanks, Jeremy! now I even get John Swindall's pro-Bono.
Thanks
"Red China is a godless communist state. Do they know it’s Christmas?"
Thanks for the appallingly twee and gruesomely annoying earworm.
Don, Brilliant!!! And I think you have the right take. President Trump is giving a Business Master Class to the world. Doctorate classes begin after the students come to order.
Somewhere in the background, quietly, someone is working on getting our own precious metals closer to home or at home; someone is working on the formulas and everything needed to produce our own 'necessary' vaccines and medicines; someone is looking at the pharmaceutical industry and figuring out how to break it, bend it, and reshape it; someone is looking at a new lumber mill; someone knows AI isn't the answer for everything, but American attitude and labor is ... for this country, and so on infinitum. Little by little the battleship turns until its direction is home.
Oh, and as to the survey, you left out "All of the Above" again. That's my vote.
Re: the pharmaceutical industry: I read that, on Monday, all the major Big Pharma industries based on Europe, called an emergency meeting at the EU to give them an ultimatum: “Do something, or we set sail for the USA, like tomorrow!”
Americans and NATO have been fighting and aiding the Nazis in Ukraine, so what does a couple of Chinese soldiers mean, even if that is true, which I doubt. I believe our president is going to make peace with everyone, which is why I support him.
China is in big trouble on their own, so just stand clear and watch them fall.
Then he can get down to the important business of reforming the medical scam industry, deporting the hordes of violent criminal invaders and most important of all, hanging Adam Schiff and friends.
That has a nice ring to it: "hanging Schiff and his friends"!
Just make it public and require PBS to cover it.
Pay per view baby. Make it a contender for an Oscar.
I can hear the PBS announcers now: "Oh the horror! The humanity!" Sporta like the Hindenburg gas bag disaster.
Better than the "Hanging chads" of 2000.
“Red China is a godless, communist state.”
Godless yes but communist? I would argue they’ve morphed into more of a fascist state @ this point. The difference is only by degrees. Bear with me a moment; communism & fascism have always been (will always be) two sides of the same coin. Under communism The State owns the means of production & distribution & dictates the outcome; under fascism The State nominally leaves production & distribution in private hands yet still dictates the outcome. This is why fascism is often called “corporatism” because the corporations get in bed with the govt & do their bidding. We just had a four year example of that - Big Pharma, Big Tech, MSM, etc. The govt tells the corporations when to jump & how high. Both of course are on the left side of the political spectrum. The group - the collective - is paramount not the individual. Individual rights mean nothing to either.
That’s why I laugh every time these woefully ignorant rubes call Trump or his supporters “fascists”; only in their warped worlds could making the govt smaller, more efficient, & - more importantly - answerable to the American people be “fascist”.
On the contrary it’s a refounding of what this nation was founded upon.
May God Bless America.
And two Chinese “volunteers” in Ukraine are- @ this point - no reason to panic. If that turns into a score then that’s a different story. An influx of Chinese “volunteers” to the tune of some 300,000 are what made the Korean War (1950-1953) virtually unwinnable. And the fact that they gummed up the works so effectively with a third rate military @ the time is really the major headline. So just have to see how it plays out. Could be that Xi seeks his own “Condor Legion”; the German volunteer group that actively assisted Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. This would afford Chinese officers combat experience, something invaluable in case Xi intends to hit Taiwan but the jury’s still out.
Give the Dems a break. They are totally defeated like Germany at the end of WWII. They have no policies people will support anymore. They are reduced to calling people names and lying profusely. It was sad to watch the old hippies with their 'Hands Off" signs. The wise ones will switch teams but many will opt to go down with the ship. Sadly, no one will care. They did it to themselves. I, for one, am not tired of Winning yet.....
The dems are down but do not count them out. They have these activist judges tripping things up. Plus they're still going to try to rig elections. At the very least the blue states are. Big pharma, big tech, big Wall Street, and the military industrial complex are not happy and will probably throw big money to get Democrats back into the seats of power. They're also literally gunning for Trump. I like JD Vance alot but he's not Trump. No one is.
(1) "They are totally defeated like Germany at the end of WWII." Perhaps, but they don't act like it. On a related note, I think Trump should put Germany back to the state they were in by 1945. Arrogant sausage-eating bastards.
(2) Regarding the status of the Dem party, I wish someone would SHOW me how they are still commanding in the high 40's % - almost 50% - of the vote. Their power-hold is as much a threat to us as China because it appears to me that the Dems ARE the front line of the Chinese army.
There are still lemmings and low-information voters that follow the corporate media.
And the dead, their biggest voter block.
They have squeaky clean, shiny smooth brains that cannot be touched by reason or logic. Zombies.
We haven't won yet. In my state it looks like they are planning for a hot civil war.
I still believe a hot civil war is unavoidable at this point. The more Trump wins: the more resentful the leftists become. They are childish. They have already started with violence. And we have yet to arrest them en mass. They will escalate until we put our foot down. And like the "patient" people we are, we will wait until it is too late. Then we will have to get downright nasty.
Here they completely control the levers of power. When they repeal the Second Amendment as they intend, they better hope I can sell my house and move.
The constant screaming of "fascist" is a logical result of allowing the Left to paint the Nazis as "Far-Right". They were not; their economic policies were leftist; besides running make-work programs like the construction of the Autobahnen, they totally dominated German businesses large and small, by means of regulations and orders. Those economic policies were not quite the same as those in Soviet Russia, where the State simply owned every enterprise, but close enough. In addition, they never even attempted to reduce the German social-welfare state.
Well, compared to today's democrats, they are far right. So is Stalinism, Maoism and most totalitarianism.
Korea wasn't fought to win. Turdman was afraid of a full scale war with Russia. That is why he shitcanned Mac. Not that I'm a fan of MacArthur, he cared mostly about himself and threw his men away like confetti during WW2.
Initially it was: Korea was going to be unified under a democratic govt once UN forces had reached the NK/Chinese border but then the Chinese began filtering in infantry divisions across the Yalu @ night. When they struck the entire UN line fractured, the 1st Marine Division got surrounded over by the Chosin Reservoir, & thus began the fighting retreat back south. It was a royal mess.
Dugout Doug has his +’s & -‘s but have to hand it to him for Inchon. That was a stroke of brilliance that cut the Korean Peninsula in half & severed the North Korean Army off entirely from it’s base of supply in the North. To his credit he effectively wiped them out. It was later that Truman threw in the towel, expecting soldiers/airmen/Marines to “die for a tie”, which is in effect the charge that MacArthur leveled against him in their then-deteriorating relations. Ol’ Doug did want to win but he wanted to bomb bases in China & for Truman that was a bridge too far. When he came out publicly with this is when Truman canned him.
As to today's poll... I really like the thought of Hillary behind bars. There's even a prison in Dannemora named the Clinton Correctional Facility.
Perfect! Just like the rich donors to get their names on buildings😄
Lots of monsters wield control from behind bars. Name one who does it from the grave.