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Don Surber 
I begin today’s newsletter by reminding readers that Asian rhinoceroses live mainly in swamps. All rhinos need water and mud wallows for cooling, skin protection, and parasite control, so they often stay near rivers, lakes, or wet areas even in drier habitats. Asian species have adapted more to forested and wetland environments, while African ones lean toward open plains.
T.S. Eliot wrote, “April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” It must suck to be a manic depressant.
President Donald John Trump is a Rolling Stones fan. When they started out, they asked John Lennon and Paul McCartney to write a song for them. The duo said yes and the Stones had their first hit in Britain, I Wanna Be Your Man.
On Saturday, people in Arkansas held a fundraiser for Aaron Spencer, the Republican nominee for sheriff of Lonoke County. They raised the money not for Spencer’s campaign. He’s a lock because Trump picked up 76% of the vote in the county 2 years ago.
The money is for his murder trial, which begins next month.
Don Surber performs his aerial surveillance of the news this week. His findings, as always, will leave you better informed than if you had actually watch the mainstream media.
Led by John Thune, Republican senators have joined the resistance by going on recess without fully funding the Department of Homeland Security—perhaps in an effort to attract the terrorist vote.
Senators claim it is a pro forma recess and not a real recess. I never studied the law but I do know that when lawyers start talking in Latin, my liberty is in jeopardy.
“Vote for the Nazi: It’s important” isn’t a sane campaign slogan.
History says it would take a miracle for Republicans to hold onto the House. Presidential parties lose seats in the House at midterms. There are a few exceptions. Backlash from the Lewinsky impeachment gained seats for Democrats and 4 years later, tough action on 9/11 earned Bush’s party extra seats.
They built this country. They built this country—those billionaires.
Now that Bernie Sanders and most American socialists are millionaires, the Lazybones senator from Vermont and his acolytes are demonizing billionaires.
Red China may have been the center of President Trump’s attention last week, but his Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela and his Operation Epic Fury in Iran continued to reap rewards elsewhere in the world, where once defiant tyrants are now acquiescing to The Donald’s demands.
Don Surber presents his unique take on this week’s media reports. As usual, you’ll learn more from his offbeat perspective than actually reading or watch the news.
He has the oil, the military and the corporate wizards on his side
Landing in Beijing with his secretary of state, his treasury secretary and the No. 1 executives of the top 30 corporations in America, President Trump received the royal treatment.
I don’t know much about the rock group 10,000 Maniacs other than when Natalie Merchant was its lead singer, the group’s cover of Because the Night reached No. 11 on the charts.
The group’s name popped up when I read the Politico story, “10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies.”
In February, President Trump joked at a closed-door Alfalfa Club dinner, “We’re not going to invade Greenland. We’re going to buy it.”
Alas there is no Buckwheat Club or even a Spanky Club.
The latest battlefront in the Democrat War Against Sanity is the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.
Barack Obama renovated it in 2012 and left a big mess when he left office because instead of using city water treated with chlorine, he brought in brackish water from the Tidal Basin and treated it with a product called Ozone.
The Gerrymander Wars of 2026 are almost at an end. Between the federal Supreme Court finally noticing that hey, minority-majority districts are kind of racist, and the Virginia Supreme Court upholding the rules for amending the state constitution, Trump pretty much handed Democrats their bums.
And voters are primarying RINOs for him.
This week marked the sixth anniversary of the fascist governments of the world—the United States included—shutting down the world over a virus. The Public Health Obergruppenführers said follow the science and then ordered us to social distance and where cloth masks, neither of course were ever studied.
The news is full of entertainment, if you know how to read it. Don Surber guides us through this week’s presentations from the media, an institution seemingly incapable of unbiased reporting.
On Tuesday, voters in Indiana primary-ed at least 5 of the 7 idiot Republican state senators who voted against a redistricting plan that would have made it easier to elect Republicans to fill all 9 of the state’s congressional seats.
MAGA Disposed of Stephen Colbert—with help of course from podcasts, Twitter and reruns of Friends, Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, and Modern Family because if you are looking for late-night humor, you will not find it on the broadcast networks.