The Morning Report - 7/6/20

Good morning, kids. Hope you all had an enjoyable Fourth of July, the present troubles notwithstanding. On a very positive note, President Trump gave arguably his best, if not the most crucial speech of his presidency so far. With Mount Rushmore as the backdrop, he was figuratively as well as literally on the front lines of what has now devolved into a civil war for the heart, soul and future of this nation. Except it's not really a civil war but more of a hijacking of the nation, since only one side is advancing that aim by engaging in violence, intimidation and propaganda, with essentially zero pushback - Donald J. Trump and all of his standing with him being the exception.

... For this America, stunned by the senseless violence which pours salt in the wounds of [Chinese] COVID-19 and a shattered economy, the president's speech was just what the doctor ordered.

He paid homage to the "56 patriots" who gathered in Philadelphia in 1776 to sign the Declaration of Independence, which "enshrined a divine truth that... all men are created equal."

He even dared to say America was "founded on Judeo-Christian principles" with the family "the bedrock of American life," where "every child, of every color -- born and unborn -- is made in the holy image of G-d."

And in his forthright way, he fingered a "new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language... recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished."

"It's not going to happen to us..."

Boom. No other President or politician allegedly on our side in my lifetime ever dared to directly indict and damn the Democrat Party and the Leftist-Progressive-Globalist agenda for their record of pain, misery and destruction and for warning about the consequences should they succeed. Not even the great Ronald Reagan. Actually, Donald Trump just declared the Democrat Party and the totalitarian thugs in it and supporting it to be an "evil empire." It's not hyperbole either. His speech was as factual an indictment of what they have done and intend to do and he essentially laid down the marker of what amounts to "over my dead body."

And then, there was the response from Joe Biden, or more likely Valerie Jarrett through the frothing, spittle flecked maw of Biden, who delivered 90 seconds of bilge appropriately enough a few feet from his basement sump pump:

... With this video, Biden has irreversibly thrown in his lot with the "America is racist" crowd. He started off bashing Thomas Jefferson -- who, not coincidentally, is one of the men depicted on Mount Rushmore and the principal author of the document for which we celebrate American Independence.

He then proceeded to declare that America is plagued by fundamental and "systemic racism," and declared the political canonization of the new patron saint of race-baiters, the martyr George Floyd. Rather than memorialize past presidents or true civil rights leaders, Biden saw fit to move our heroes to the back of the proverbial bus so that he could elevate Floyd above them in status...

... Biden himself helped to make the case for the incumbent president by being very clear about his plans to fully accommodate the vile anti-American forces on the rise in our country.

Just as President Trump vowed to protect American history, Joe Biden seeks to rewrite it in a way that would put even Orwell to shame...

... Although talk of a possible second civil war in our country is often breathless and exaggerated, it's fitting in the context of the 2020 election. Throughout most of our history, both parties have maintained that they love America, but simply have different ideas about how to improve it.

Now it is beyond clear, as articulated by both candidates, that only one party truly loves our country, while the other is ashamed of it. One party is campaigning on building on the past to create an even more glorious future, while the other seeks to tear down what we have already built so that we can start from scratch. Not since the election of 1860 has there been such a complete polarization between the two rival factions in American politics.

This election, put simply, is the first election since the Civil War to be about one thing and one thing alone: the grateful versus the ungrateful. There is no nuance anymore, nor is there any illusion of civility. One side loves America, while the other side loathes it and wants to replace it with something unrecognizable to our heritage...

Bingo. After this speech, I am much more confident that, barring anything unforeseen between now and November 3rd (both a blink of an eye and an eternity in politics), as well as the potential for election fraud on a massive scale now thanks to mail-in voting, Trump will win a second term. The only fly in that ointment is will the GOP retain the Senate let alone retake the House? The conventional wisdom states that unlike midterms, general elections tend to favor the incumbent and, the economic destruction brought about by the phony pandemic as well as the violence and mayhem of the past month aside, Trump should have some coattails that the party can ride in on. Albeit, not nearly as long as they might have been at the beginning of the year. That said, there are at least four hardcore anti-Trump Senators as well as organized pseudo-conservative establishmentarians overtly or barely covertly working to destroy his chances. And on the most crucial, unambiguous threat this nation has ever faced, instead of standing shoulder to shoulder with Trump and the American people, the GOP-e is pulling out all the stops to serve up the corpse of the Constitution on a silver platter to the Marxists. Thank you and fuck you Ron Johnson, Jim Lankford, Mike Braun and everyone of your ilk who are worse than useless. For fuck's sake, if this is what passes for opposition, my advice for the GOP is don't just do something; sit there.

Meanwhile, BLM - as in Burn Loot Murder - are drawing the ire of a lot of Black lives who supposedly matter, but mostly as political and physical cannon fodder for the movement. Even leftist Democrat Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms calls them out for the shooting death of an 8-year-old child. Along with the tearing down of monuments, the burning of the American flag and using it as a doormat on July 4th, the continued rioting and mayhem in Portland and elsewhere, and the media-embargoed wave of shootings in NYC, Chicago and elsewhere where police departments have been under the gun - forget the media, forget the Democrats; this is not playing well across a wide swathe of the nation.

With the election, as I stated, either a blink of an eye or an eternity away, the question is will all of this be forgotten by then?

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE

• "The protesters started off Independence Day by dancing and stepping on an American flag at Black Lives Matter Plaza, chanting 'fuck the Fourth of July and fuck the American flag.'"
  Black Lives Matter Totally Shuts Down Nation's Capital On Independence Day
  
• "One, two, three, four! Slavery, genocide, and war! Five, six, seven, eight! America was never great!"
  Communists Organize Flag Burnings In Some Major Cities, Including Outside White House
  
• "Per the department's official social media accounts, Portland police were so consumed with containing the destruction that they were unable to respond to anything other than emergency calls."
  Riots Explode In Portland Overnight, Protesters Target Police Headquarters, Jails, Courthouse
  
• "To save the cities from themselves, or to let them fry in their own blue elixirs?"
  Trump's Choice, and the Conflicting Voices from the Right
  
• "The situation in which a black man is charged for the death of a white woman demonstrating for Black Lives Matter has sent millions of people to the Woke Version of Political Rock Paper Scissors."
  Cops Re-Thinking Protest Rules After Car Driven by Black Man Kills White Seattle BLM Freeway Blocker
  
• "The entire world is saying, 'Black Lives Matter.'"
  BLM Co-Founder: "It is a Watershed Moment."
  
• "The corpses are already piling up."
  BLM's Violence & the Death of America's Cities
  
• If I were Zombie Hitler, I'd sue this broad for plagiarism.
  Black Lives Matter Leader: We Could "Wipe Out" White Folks, They're "Genetic Defects"

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "We got to stop this. We are doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force. We've had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks."
  Father of 8-Year-Old Killed Near Atlanta Wendy's: "They Say Black Lives Matter. You Killed Your Own."
  
• "Studies on right-wing terrorism are fake -- they are nothing but propaganda."
  How the Left Creates Fake Studies to Fabricate "Right-Wing" Terrorism
  
• "Tucker Carlson is right -- and the junior Senator from Indiana should pull his bill."
  Senator Mike Braun's Qualified Immunity Bill Is an Affront to Conservatives
  
• "African-Americans have mixed attitudes, but most are satisfied with their local departments."
  Hearing What Black Voices Really Say About Police
  
• My kind of town...
  At Least 70 Shot, 14 Dead by Sunday Night Over July 4th Weekend in Chicago

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• "But we're all supposed to die! According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of deaths from the Wuhan virus had declined so much that the agency is on the verge of calling the epidemic over."
  Chinese COVID-19 Update: CDC Says Virus Close to Losing Epidemic Status
  
• "The [Chinese] coronavirus panic was starting to ebb after the successful state re-openings of May and enthusiastic public protests of June. Rather than acknowledging this good news story, the same lunatics are clamoring to tighten the screws again."
  A Second Wave of Stupidity
  
• "Some of those who received hydroxychloroquine before acute symptoms began were much less likely to die from the virus, according to researchers at Henry Ford Health System in Michigan."
  Experimental Drug Trump Frequently Touts Helped Chinese COVID-19 Patients Survive, Study Claims
  
• "As scientists indicate that the mutation fails to make the virus more deadly, the press complains that people are losing their fear of the pathogen."
  Study: Mutation Causes Chinese Coronavirus Strain in US, Europe to be 10 Times More Infectious Than Original Form
  
• "Its obvious implausibility immediately directs the reader to consider the underlying allegation, which is that pneumonia deaths are being deliberately understated in order for the Centers for Disease Control to reclassify them as [Chinese] COVID-19 deaths, thus fanning public panic."
  Chinese COVID-19 Did Not "Cure Pneumonia"
  
• "Progressives' faithful devotion to socialist-style 'psychiatric' disposal of political dissidents."
  The Left's Soviet Insane Asylum for Non-Mask Wearers
  
• Dr. Joondeph: "All about making President Trump a one-term president."
  Chinese COVID Cheerleaders Change the Rules in the Middle of the Game
  
• "Irish democracy rolls into lockdown California."
  After Calling for No Fireworks for California's 4th of July, Gavin Noose-'em Was In for a Surprsie
  
• "The ask from Phillip was simple: I will watch from the parking lot with my wife and our four children if we must, but please let my sister-in-law, her family, and my parents bury my brother."
  Family Wins Fight With Chinese Coronavirus Bureaucracy To Bury An American War Hero
  
• "Fortunately, we've already been conditioned to comply with any 'new normal.'"
  A New Pandemic is Raging

  JOE BIDEN'S 50-YEAR RAP SHEET

• Chinese Firm Updates Records to Remove Hunter Biden From Its Board, But He Still Owns 10% of the Company

  SHAMPEACHMENT, CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "If House Democrats hope to impeach Trump again after his presumed re-election, they ought to think hard about the ramifications."
  Shifty Schiff-for-Brains Cannot Re-Impeach for Anything Prior to Jan. 15, 2020
  
• Julie Kelly: "For two years, as Robert Mueller tried and failed to find evidence of a criminal conspiracy, Never-Trump Republicans tended to the right flank of the Trump-Russia collusion front. But their role in pushing the hoax went much deeper."
  Weapons of Mass Collusion

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "American Jews and the Jewish Establishment do not advocate for themselves but exceed in advocating for others."
  The Orthodox Jews of Brooklyn Are Alone in the World

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION

• "Trump's Mount Rushmore speech was unifying and uplifting. But the NY Times could only see 'dark and divisive' things in it, and other media were just as bad. They seem to like to sit in the mud instead of embrace the nation on its 244th birthday."
  Trump's Finest Speech -- And a Press That Beclowns Itself in Boiling Hate
  
• "To those of us steaming as we watch Democrat governors and mayors, media, major corporations, and educational institutions fold in the face of the regressive psychology of these mobs, it is cheering to see a president standing firm."
  A Night at Mt. Rushmore
  
• "He's back! President Trump's brilliant Mount Rushmore speech Friday laid out a winning campaign theme to restore national optimism. Of course, his media antagonists fell over themselves to find fault with it."
  Rushmore Was Trump at His Best
  
• "For the first time in modern history, the presidential election will be a choice between a party that loves America and a party that hates America."
  The Civil War Election
  
• "Steve Schmidt, who works for the Never Trump Lincoln Project, said, 'The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated. Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.'"
  Never Trump Republicans Plot to Give Democrats the Senate Majority
  
• "Anticipating a debate fiasco forces the hand of the DNC to change up campaign tactics. It's called bait and switch."
  Saddled with Biden, the DNC Must Rely on Bait and Switch to Win
  
• "So how is Joe Biden going to end this nonexistent systemic racism? By throwing money at it, of course. His cynically named 'Lift Every Voice: The Biden Plan for Black America' is a smorgasbord of government-funded incentives, audits, and regulations."
  Joe Biden's Race-Baiting Fourth of July Message
  
• "Biden's America is 'the marginalized, the demonized, the isolated, the oppressed' so after 48 years in Washington, Biden will now fix everything he failed to fix for nearly a half century."
  Newt Gingrich: Joe Biden's 4th of July Video "Most Anti-American" Speech by Presidential Candidate -- Ever
  
• "It is one thing to claim a cognitive assessment would be insulting and refuse to take one. It is another to take it multiple times, only to hide the results."
  Biden Campaign Refuses to Release Cognitive Test Results
  
• "The mega-donor's torrent of spending highlights the extent to which liberal donors are committed to getting Trump out of office."
  Nazi Collaborator and Probable Key Financier of Current Insurrection George Soros Set to Double 2016 Spending, Pouring $40 Million Into Super PAC
  
• "Biden is on the wrong side."
  The Battle for America's Soul
  
• "Once again, President Trump has outwitted his opponents and forced them to fight on a playing field tilted toward his goal."
  10 Reasons Why Trump's "National Garden of American Heroes" is Such a Brilliant Move
  
• Sigh.
  Kanye Says He's "Running For President," Picks Up Elon Musk's Endorsement

  FIRST AMENDMENT, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER BIG TECH

• "Because neither death fits the progressive narrative, the media is being very low key about them."
  Black Lives Matter Protests Claim Two More Lives Over the Weekend
  
• "The questions were so soft, anyone would have fallen asleep."
  Joe Biden Meets the Press
  
• "It's a bit rich for the 'free enterprise' crowd's first response to a surge toward a Twitter alternative to be so publicly negative, nasty, dismissive, and crude."
  If You Build It, We Will Trash It

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "DMV closures, gun regs leave blue state buyers in the lurch."
  Some Struggle To Buy Guns as Chinese Coronavirus Shutdowns Linger

  ABORTION

• "Joe Biden has been struggling to walk the line between his position on abortion while in Congress -- a position that, at one time, amounted to a nearly 'pro-life' platform -- and the Democrat Party's increasingly extreme position on the issue -- a position that now includes support for abortion up until the moment of birth, as well as full Federal funding for abortion services."
  Democrats Save Joe Biden, Take Federal Abortion Funding Off 2020 Spending Bills

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The Trump administration had the 'moral clarity' to recognize that the 'removal of the Jewish people [from West Bank settlements] as an Israeli obligation in a peace accord is morally reprehensible.'"
  Expert Says "Annexation" Prevents So-Called Palestinians from Ethnically Cleansing Jews
  
• "As the US pushes extending an arms embargo against Iran, explosions at two sensitive sites remind us of how ineffective the nuclear deal was."
  Explosions in Iran Come at Time of Greater Scrutiny of the Regime's Illicit Weapons' Research
  
• "Israel (no doubt with the blessing of the US) has bought itself some time. What Israel does with it is anyone's guess."
  Iran Hints at Cyber Attack on Centrifuge Production Facility
  
• "...A succinct and powerful response when Iran's Supreme Leader issued a tweet decrying those who do not wear masks, ostensibly because he cared about the health and welfare of the Iranian people."
  Iran's Supreme Leader Tweets About Masks Protecting Iranians. Ric Grenell: "Do You Wear a Mask When You Push Gays Off Buildings?"
  
• "Resistance falls apart as Beijing moves in."
  China's "Birthday Gift" for Hong Kong
  
• "Yes, tensions with Russia are ongoing. Russia does bad things. But when it comes to threats to America, China must be our overwhelming focus. And playing the Russia card would shake them to their core."
  Playing the Russia Card
  
• "Germany's Der Spiegel: Trump uses speech to 'stress the superiority of his country.'"
  European Mainstream Media Outraged by Trump's Mount Rushmore Speech

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The drills came as the Pentagon said it was 'concerned' about Chinese military exercises in the South China Sea, warning the maneuvers will 'further destabilize' the region."
  US Aircraft Carriers Conduct Drills in in South China Sea

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: "Leftist hypocrisy revealed once again."
  Slavery Still Exists. Where's Black Lives Matter?

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "Analysts and local politicians estimate that $250 billion to $900 billion is now stashed in South Dakota trusts by the likes of Chinese billionaires looking to keep their fortunes out of reach of the government, Europeans looking to avoid taxes and Americans looking to shield wealth from spouses."
  A "Mini-Switzerland": South Dakota's Status As Tax Haven Emphasized By High-Profile Divorce Case
  
• "The failure of the state's leadership means recovery is a long way off in Minneapolis."
  Minnesota Madness
  
• "Local politicians see the government of the District of Columbia, with its bloated bureaucracy and annual multi-billion-dollar federal payment, as their own fiefdom-cum-business. Now only statehood, accompanied by the likely demand for reparations, will do."
  Swamp Within A Swamp

  EDUCATION

• "Student group coalition calls for firing of professors it deems 'racist.'"
  Students Demand Pitt Eliminate Free Speech Protections
  
• "Unregistered group collects $10,000 from student government coffers."
  Cornell Improperly Sends Student Fees to BLM Activists

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter with " cool image of a strange crater on Mars." I was hoping for a Hanging Judge Crater here on Earth...
  A Hanging Crater on Mars

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "When you lie about what I believe about mental health medication and when you misrepresent the views of a trans woman for whom I feel nothing but admiration and solidarity, you cross a line."
  J.K. Rowling Fires Back At Critics: Hormones, Surgery For Young People a "New Kind of Conversion Therapy"

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "I think we should listen to the argument there, but remember that the president at Mount Rushmore was standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans who had actually been given that land during a treaty."
  Tammy Duckworth: "We Should Listen to the Argument" For Removing George Washington Statues
  
• "Duckworth's jab at Mount Rushmore seems particularly bizarre. Just five years ago, the very same Tammy Duckworth tweeted on the Fourth of July, 'Next year I'm going as Mt. Rushmore!'"
  Wait Until 2020 Tammy Duckworth Hears What 2015 Tammy Duckworth Thought About Mount Rushmore
  
• "In recent years, Black Lives Matter activists have been fond of quoting a speech in which Douglass called the Fourth of July a 'sham' because of slavery. However, in the remainder of the speech, Douglass praises America's founding and its principles."
  Statue of Frederick Douglass Torn Down in Rochester
  
• "If we are to strip the names of admitted slaveholders from public memorials, might we also want to demand an apology from the party that gave us slavery, secession, and a century of segregation?"
  Bring Me the Head of Harry Truman
  
• "No one outside conservative media can criticize Black Lives Matter without being fired or ostracized, so how can we expect the average American to chime in for a productive dialogue?"
  We Can't Have "National Dialogues" If People Get Fired For Talking Honestly
  
• "With BLM, we are reaping what the educators have sown."
  The Myth of "White Guilt"
  
• "Instead of destroying these iconic monuments, relocate them to red states where leaders and citizens appreciate our culture and traditions."
  Let's Move Statues Honoring Heroes to Places That Will Protect and Preserve Our History
  
• I "decide to die on this hill.
  Terry Crews Doubles Down On Desire To Unite People Despite Leftist Outrage
  
• "Say one wrong word in the year 2020, and you may be next."
  The Cancellation of David Starkey
  
• "Cheerleading the move further empowers corporations to police political discourse -- an effect you'd think the left would oppose."
  The Left Weaponizes Newfound Love of Corporations to Override Native American Support For Redskins
  
• "While most people still say they are proud to be Americans, this marks the second straight year that the number of extremely proud Americans fell below the majority level."
  Left-Leaning Media Celebrates as American Pride Hits Lowest on Record on Fourth of July (left-leaning?! - jjs)
  
• "What does our nation mean to us?"
  Rejecting the Culture of Hate

  HITHER & YON

• Victor Davis Hanson: "The brand of all cultural revolutions is untruth about the past and present in order to control the future. Why we have this happening to our country is the only mystery left."
  An Industry of Untruth
  
• "Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi said, 'It happened, therefore it can happen again. It can happen everywhere.'"
  Could IT Happen Here?
  
• "Farrakhan then suggested that the Nation of Islam should work on its own to create a [Chinese] coronavirus vaccine."
  Riots, Murder Hornets, Hold My Beer. This Farrakhan Chinese Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Is Something Else
  
• Christian Toto: The "rapper's Instagram feed denigrates black Americans who dare vote Republican."
  Snoop Dogg Calls Prominent Black Conservatives the "Coon Bunch"
  
• "To honor the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President Calvin Coolidge gave a stirring speech on the values of faith and freedom that rings like a bell today."
  What Calvin Coolidge Said on the Declaration of Independence's 150th Anniversary
  
• "Marriage is altogether a more serious matter these days."
  And They Lived "Happily Ever After": Predicted Flood of Covidivorces Never Materialized
  
• "The number of graves beneath history's bloodthirsty communist and socialist regimes is staggering."
  The Deadly Double Standard of Communism Vs. Fascism
  
• Rabbi Fischer: "Now Revealing Why Sometimes I Seem to Have Disappeared for Weeks at a Time."
  In Memoriam: For Ellen, My Precious Wife of Twenty Years, the Love of My Life -- Part 1 of 2

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