The Morning Report - 7/15/20

Good morning, kids. Midweek and a as I scan the links, as hideous and depressing as most of them are, this morning I feel a bit more optimistic about the election, if not the future of the nation as a whole. First up, a vaccine for the Sino Sinus Syphilis that began its initial testing back in March has yielded results wherein all of the participants developed antibodies to the virus, and now the trials can be significantly ramped up. Aside from the fact that the numbers of those infected compared with the actual number of deaths indicate that this thing really is on par with seasonal flu (those who suffer or worse, die from it notwithstanding), it's still a tantalizing announcement.

The mobilization and effort to get to this stage so quickly is a testament to both the President and his team's organizational ability and the medical research field's prowess. Second, Anthony Fauci, whom the Left seem to worship as both an oracle and a perceived enemy of Trump is unequivocally crowing about this news. Considering both he and virtually everyone on the Left insisted that there would be no lifting of lockdowns until we had a vaccine - virtually an impossible task given the nature of viruses - this is sure to knock the wind out of their sails, and perhaps their using Fauci as a cudgel to beat up on Trump. For months, people, myself included, were begging the President to jettison this guy. By keeping him close, a moment like this pays off hugely in political terms, and shows Trump's instincts are razor sharp, IMHO. Should be interesting to see the media either rip Fauci or otherwise try to spin his remarks, if not outright embargo them.

Jumping around a bit, Trump-supported Tommy Tuberville utterly trounced Jeff Sessionzzz in the GOP Alabama senate primary and will take on Doug Jones in November. Click here for the Decision Desk for all of yesterday's results plus the usual cromulent analysis. Frankly, though I am not as worried about Trump's chances as I was before the Mount Rushmore speech, it's the fate of the Senate that keeps me up at night. On the plus side, along with Tuberville's massive win, this is not a mid-term election and incumbents only rarely lose a second term. That usually means coattails, but the political/electoral landscape has changed dramatically in only a few short years. That said, the combination of a doddering, demented, deviant kiddie-diddler with oatmeal in his mouth and cranial cavity as the Democrat nominee and a party that is setting American cities, the American Constitution and the American way of life on fire should be more than enough to scare the living daylights out of anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together. Should be.

Also, while no one was looking, the markets had a tremendous day, closing up 556 points. Despite urban insurrection and nearly five months of an intentional strangulation of the greatest economic boom in history, Wall Street is still bullish on the future. Given that yesterday was also the day that Biden's handlers came out with the economy destroying Green New Deal Two-Luddite Boogaloo, they must also think his prospects for November are not so rosy. That brings us back to politics, and speaking of things that no one saw, did you know that yesterday was Day One of the Democrat National Convention? Me neither:

...The long-planned dates -- July 13-17 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- were first moved to Aug. 17-20, then cancelled and turned into some kind of national Zoom meeting, and finally dropped down the memory hole and forgotten faster than it takes Joe Biden to forget what he had for breakfast. There was no daily coverage of this disaster, no countdown to the big day, no masked reporters flitting and flailing after the former vice president or his team demanding to know when America might expect the most festive Democratic Party event since Samantha Power invited HBO to her 2016 election party...

The revelation of the platform for the media and the candidate's acceptance speech are likely the longest-lasting effects of the week, so it's no surprise Democrats don't want a convention -- and no surprise corporate media are covering for them. The party has moved farther to the left than any Biden primary supporter might have imagined, and the candidate has mentally deteriorated at a rapid rate too many of us recognize from family experiences...

"This agenda that you've laid out here is not the agenda of a man who is trying to reach out beyond his own party for support [to win the election]," 55-year political reporting veteran Brit Hume commented. "This is a man who is simply trying to solidify support within his own party, and he might be right about that..."

The insanity above sounds like it should be news, but it isn't. And that decision is as deliberate as it is partisan. For a glimpse, take a look at a Monday Google News search for Republican National Convention: Words and phrases like "dumpster fire... chaos... deep trouble... struggling" and "mad scramble" come in at the top..."

As I mentioned yesterday, the lack of media coverage of any of the rioting, mayhem and violence, whether politically-motivated or just resulting from criminality gone wild with the dismantling of metropolitan police forces - which was in our faces 24/7 almost from the moment the incident in Minneapolis made the news - is striking, if not revelatory. It means that the move to abolish police as well as the alleged popularity of Black Lives Matter, as a movement and an organization, is both a lie and as such, political poison.

Whatever political headwinds there are facing Trump and Republican candidates in the Senate and House, and for sure there are some, I think much of our fear about the future is, like conventional polling, is meant to dispirit and depress us. It worked in the past because with candidates like Dubya, Pee-Air Defecto Romney and the still-lying-in-state John McCain, it was easy to be dispirited and depressed. Not so with Trump, for me anyway. Look at everything he's been through since he announced his candidacy five years ago. He's still here. And the reason is, he fights back. It also helps that he had accomplished so much essentially by himself that no other Republican president before him.

So where does that leave the Dems? Back to square one. And two: more shampeachment hearings vis a vis the pardoning of Roger Stone - muh colluzhnikovs! - and Democrat mayors and governors ignoring actual science and statistics and ramping up the psy-op scare tactics to shut down their economies once again, as well as force vote-by-mail on us which really would mean stealing the election.

Yes, it's tedious and tiresome. But if this is all that they have left, then so be it. I'm feeling good today and that's what counts. May it continue for another 111 days, with the option for another 1,500 or so.

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE
• "The suspect -- who has yet to be identified -- was reportedly located on a rooftop hours after he opened fire on the two Bothell officers, the police department said in a tweet.
  Man Arrested After Allegedly Shooting Two Washington Police Officers, Killing One
  
• "The heartbroken father also said that not enough is being done about the surge in New York City violence, adding that he feared this might happen to his son and wanted to get out of the city."
  Family Speaks Out After Baby Killed During NYC Cookout: Everybody Says "Black Lives Matter," "What About Baby Lives?"
  
• Light-in-the-Loafers with the usual memes, tropes and bullshit to try and deflect blame.
  Mayor Lightfoot on Shootings: Trump Likes to Use Chicago as a "Political Punching Bag"
  
• "What a terrible question to ask. So are white people -- more white people, by the way, more white people."
  Trump Rejects Notion Blacks Disproportionately Killed by Police: "So Are White People."
  
• "'Eternal war' doesn't give a damn about facts."
  Why BLM Yawns at Police-Shooting Statistics
  
• "It is factually impossible that somebody committed a crime so they could pay their rent."
  Angel-of-Death Cuomo Rips Donkey-Chompers AOC Over "Factually Impossible" Claims
  
• "Right now, bad guys are saying, if you don't see a blue and white, you can do whatever you want."
  Prominent Blacks Call for NYPD to Bring Back Anti-Crime Unit
  
• "It feels like something really bad is about to happen every second of the day."
  Daniel Greenfield: Minneapolis Reimagines Public Safety by Turning Parks Over to Criminals
  
• "St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden on Tuesday told News 4 they applied for warrants but did not elaborate on what those warrants allege or who they are against."
  St. Louis Police Apply For Warrants In Case Of Armed Homeowners, Reports Say
  
• "Several of my officers who we've been retained literally wrote texts to their loved ones indicating they did not feel that they were going to get out. They literally said their goodbyes."
  "Straw That Broke the Camel's Back": 150 Minneapolis Police Officers File For Disability, Citing PTSD
  
• "Since the killing of George Floyd at the knees of Minneapolis police, Black Lives Matter have exposed its true colors as a violent anarchic movement."
  Black Lives Matter Is Not a Peaceful Protest Group
  "If we can't even correctly define our enemy, how can we defeat them?" (it's both - jjs)
  
• OK, Boomers: BLM Is Not Marxist, It's Racist

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• Fauci: "No matter how you slice it, this is good news."
  American [Chinese] Coronavirus Vaccine Ready For Final Test
  
• Great news, but still no way in hell I'm going to get shot.
  Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Produces Antibodies in Everyone Tested, Report Says
  
• "Let's be clear, this is revisionism."
  CNN's Tapper: Angel-of-Death Cuomo's "Victory Tour" Poster Doesn't Include Pictures of "32,000 Dead New Yorkers"
  
• But, but, but, more cases!!!!
  CDC: Chinese COVID-19 Deaths for Week Ending June 27 Down 91.9% From Mid-April Peak
  
• "Consensus! Since May literally thousands of scientists and doctors, including a Nobel Prize winner, have publicly condemned the heavy-handed lockdowns and restrictions on freedom imposed by governments because of its panic over [Chinese] COVID-19."
  Thousands of Scientists and Doctors Condemn Chinese COVID-19 Panic
  
• "Sean Eric Ruis, 43, was pulled over by police after he had fled the scene after stabbing the elderly man over the mask dispute, police said. He was shot by a deputy after he approached the officer with a knife."
  Mask Dispute Leaves Michigan Man Dead One Day After Wretched Whitmer's Mandatory Mask Order Went Into Effect
  
• "Crazy is coming in so fast from all over it's becoming tedious. Sanity is the new sexy."
  Mask Shamer Crashes Into Man's Shopping Cart and Spits In His Face - And Claims She Has Chinese COVID-19
  
• "It seems like the Department of Health is trying to justify what was an untenable policy. They really need to own the fact that they made a mistake, that it was never right to send [Chinese] COVID patients into nursing homes and that people died because of it."
  Health Experts Rip Angel-of-Death Cuomo's Report Defending Nursing Home Policy
  
• "It's reflective of a generation that is inundated with Apple, Google, and Yahoo's sensational news headlines on their phones and, unlike their parents and grandparents, have no minds of their own to decipher the information and interpret it with the proper context."
  New Study: Millennials Think Their Risk from Chinese COVID-19 is Exponentially More Than the True Threat
  
• "Public health and economic growth are two sides of the same coin."
  Flattening the Curve Is Still the Right Answer
  
• "We find ourselves agreeing with Donald Trump for the first time in four years about reopening schools, [and] somehow you guys found a way to make it all happen."
  Thanks To My Child's Insane School District For Making Me Agree With Trump
  
• "I have no concerns about sending my child to school in the fall."
  Five Pediatricians on Chinese Coronavirus: "Benefits of Being in the Classroom Far Outweigh the Risk of the Disease"
  
• "This kind of life cannot be allowed to last. Our liberty and livelihoods depend on it."
  Our Insidious New Normal

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

• "House Republicans made four primary points in their Monday memo refuting the Democrat narrative that Barr engaged in an unlawful termination."
  House Judiciary Republicans Refute Democratic Narrative on Fired US Attorney
  
• "Weissmann also pushed a false claim about the criminal charges against Stone, whose prison sentence Trump commuted on Friday."
  Mueller Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann Calls For a Roger Stone Re-Do
  
• Jeffrey Lord: "The cynical senator ignored Carter/Clinton/Obama pardons."
  The Unhistoric Corruption of Mitt Romney

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

• "'Squad' member has paid her new husband more than $1 million from campaign."
  Bro-Fo Omar/Nur's Payments to Husband's Firm Hit $1 Million in 2020 Cycle
  
• Blackburn was right over the target in calling BLM Marxists.
  Democrat Strategist Calls GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn "Inbred Racist Trash"
  
• "The allegations from [LAPD officer Matthew] Garza focus on Rick Jacobs, asserting that Garza was 'subjected to unwanted sexual harassment by Jacobs, who is openly gay.'"
  Garcetti Targeted By Lawsuit Claiming He Ignored Sexual Harassment

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

• Cannon to blast CBS as a nest of evil, filthy Yahoodies in 5-4-3-2...
  ViacomCBS Terminates Nick Cannon Over Anti-Semitic Remarks, Does Not Mention Anti-White Remarks
  
• "The tragedy of San Gabriel Mission and other attacks on Catholics have flown under the radar."
  When Churches Burn
  
• "Though many names are listed for commemoration, one absent figure is most worthy of a place in this America pantheon: Venerable Fulton Sheen, one of 20th-century America's most-celebrated Catholics."
  With Anti-Catholicism Raging, Trump Should Honor a Great American Catholic

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION

• "It's our moment to reclaim our Senate seat from Schumer and Pelosi. That begins right here and right now."
  Tuberville Defeats Sessions in Alabama GOP Senate Primary, Will Face Incumbent Dem Doug Jones
  
• "With America's anti-Trump voters and allied reporters in the bag, Democrats know the biggest threat to their candidate is their candidate."
  Monday Was a Big Day For Democrats, But You Probably Missed It
  
• Says the hag chutzpadik who helped try and overthrow him.
  Hillary Clinton: We Have to Be Ready if Trump Doesn't "Go Quietly"
  
• Transparent... fraud.
  Joe Biden Refuses to Take Questions from Reporters for 2nd Time in Under a Week
  
• "If you don't think Biden is serious about implementing this agenda, it is important to note he opened the door to ending the Senate filibuster today." (his handlers are serious, anyway - jjs)
  Voters Saw Joe Biden Moving Left Even Before the Horrific Unity Platform
  
• "Joe Biden's turn to the far left raises serious questions about his campaign."
  Has Democrat Party's Far Left Hijacked Joe Biden's Presidential Campaign?
  
• "Angela Davis said the 2020 election is about 'choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement.'"
  Communist, Anti-Semite Angela Davis Says Biden Can Be "Effectively Pressured" by the Left
  
• Anticipating a repeat of 2000 peut-etre?
  Why Has Biden Hired 600 Lawyers?
  
• "The indicators are all there."
  Does Trump Have a Secret Well of Unreported Support
  
• "Despite not being Ronald Reagan, President Trump may still be bailed out by the Left's wild excess."
  The Look of Things, Headed Toward November
  
• Just what we needed. Sheesh.
  Republican Kansas Rep. Steve Watkins Charged With Three Felonies Over Alleged Voter Fraud
  
• "Victimhood is the fuel for the Progressive, Socialist revolution."
  Identity Politics, Oppression and Aversion to the White Man

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "The latest data show an unmistakable correlation between border areas and the rise of this latest wave of serious cases, while most of the rest of the country is experiencing a milder second wave."
  Virus Cases in Border Counties Are Surging, and the Government Hasn't Told Us How Many Migrants Are Sick
  
• "The decision means foreign students won't have to choose between returning to their home countries or transferring to a school holding in-person classes during the [Chinese] coronavirus pandemic.
  Trump Admin Drops Policy Forcing Foreign Students to Attend In-Person Classes
  
• "What's so troubling about New York's sanctuary city policy is that it favors the criminals over citizens."
  Sanctuary NYC Frees Three Illegal Aliens Charged with Child Sex Abuse, Assault, Theft

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

• "Yang called out the New York Times after its former writer and editor Bari Weiss published a scathing resignation letter on Tuesday."
  Andrew "Out-the-Ying" Yang Suggests NY Times "Make Some Real Changes" After Bari Weiss Resignation Letter
  
• Fallout over the Bari Weiss departure from the Slimes?
  Andrew Sullivan Announces He's Quitting New York Magazine
  
• "Bari Weiss sets off an explosion at the Newspaper of Record."
  Quitting the Times
  
• "The allegation that Bob Unanue only supports Trump because he craves 'white acceptance' is classic racism."
  NBC News Launches Racist Smear of Goya CEO
  
• "It turns out that more Americans appreciate a center-right flavor to their cable news, and don't appreciate lectures from woke scolds on a nightly basis."
  Fox News Continues Ratings Dominance as Hannity Trounces Maddow Again
  
• "Adler reports that Wikipedia editors... jointly made negative changes to Levin's Wikipedia page over several months following Levin's 2017 exposition of the 'police state tactics' of the Obama administration weaponized against the Donald Trump.'"
  Ex-Wikipedia Editor Calls Out Former Colleagues for Smear Campaign Against Mark Levin
  
• "The companies that were first to boycott Facebook and denounce the company most vocally for supposedly not doing enough to curb 'hate speech' had already dramatically dialed back ad buys before doing so."
  REI, North Face, Patagonia Were Barely Spending Anything On Facebook Ads Before Boycotting Platform
  
• "The media has set new, ahistorical, and impossible to achieve goals that must be achieved before reopening."
  How Would the Media Cover School Reopening if Hillary Clinton Were President?
  
• Julie Kelly: "And yet without this president, Never-Trump will go back to the political wilderness, loathed by the Right and ignored by the Left."
  Never-Trump Parasites Won't Give Up on Destroying Their Host
  
• "By now, you'd think the Washington Post and the rest of the lefty media cohort -- which is pretty much the entire American media sans Fox, talk radio, and a handful of online publications -- would have learned their lesson. But no."
  America's Pravda Subsidiaries

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "[Chinese] Coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest, calls to defund police bringing in new buyers."
  Americans Are Buying Guns in Record Numbers; Many Are First-Time Buyers

  ABORTION

• "Abortion activists exploiting the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic to push their long-sought goal of expanding dangerous chemical abortion drugs have proven over and over that they will prioritize profits at the expense of health and safety."
  Court Injunction Allowing Abortion Drugs by Mail During Pandemic Dismays Pro-Lifers

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Executive order eviscerates distinction between PRC and Hong Kong."
  Trump Ends Special Status for Hong Kong
  
• If only Lebron knew!!: "In one Uighur country, government data shows the county planned to sterilize 34% of women of reproductive age in one single year -- in 2019."
  Sterilization, Forced Abortion and Mandatory Birth Control: Inside China's Xinjiang Province
  
• "Iran similarly executed Iranian citizen Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd in June, who the government accused of helping the U.S. kill Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January."
  Iran Executes Former Member of Government For Joining CIA, Selling Missile Information
  
• "Thanks to new sanctions on Venezuelan oil shipments, the country's exports have plummeted to their lowest level in 80 years."
  Venezuelan Economy in Shambles as US Cuts off Oil Exports
  
• "Given the uncertainty that this creates around Huawei's supply chain, the U.K. can no longer be confident they can ensure the security."
  UK Banning Huawei From Its 5G Networks by 2027

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• RADM Philip Sobeck: "400 sailors have been on board that ship to make sure that... we make every effort to save that ship."
  1,000-Degree Fire Burns Aboard USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego
  
• "Sino-Russian military cooperation in space may have already begun in earnest. One 2019 Pentagon report detailed potential cooperation between Moscow and Beijing to build militarized space technology."
  China, Russia Tout Space Partnership to Counter US
  
• "What if the biggest threat to this nation's safety and well-being has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction or foreign militias? What if the biggest threat is invisible?"
  Has the Federal Government Done Enough to Strengthen National Cybersecurity?
  
• "The mission of the NSEP attempts to fill government positions with knowledgeable applicants." (I expect the flunky stooge Deep Staters to sabotage him 24/7 - jjs)
  President Trump Appoints Dr. Sebastian Gorka to National Security Education Board

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "We have primary source documents describing exactly what the Turks and Sultan Muhammad did after conquering Constantinople and its Hagia Sophia in 1453."
  Hagia Sophia: Turkish Propaganda vs. Documented History

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "Library, utilities administrators with six-figure salaries will work to advance 'racial and social justice.'"
  Seattle to Hire "Social Justice" Advocates for Administrative Roles

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "The closer one looks at Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, the dirtier he seems."
  The Prosecutor Targeting Garrett Rolfe May Have Committed a Serious Crime
  
• "The U.S. Supreme Court resolved the issue at 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning, putting out an unsigned 5-4 ruling overturning the Monday stay."
  Feds Carry Out First Execution In 17 Years Against Man Who Murdered Arkansas Family

  HEALTHCARE

• "This is the first case of the plague in Jefferson County this year, according to the JCPH statement."
  Squirrel Tests Positive For Bubonic Plague In Colorado
  
• "Will greater price transparency make hospital care cheaper?"
  Seeing the Bill

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "It boggles my mind that anyone would advocate giving people -- extraordinarily privileged people already, let me point out: Princeton professors -- extra perks for no reason other than their pigmentation."
  Princeton Professor Shunned By University After Criticizing Faculty "Anti-Racism" Requests
  
• "How colleges have become 'islands of repression in a sea of freedom.'"
  The Race Exception to Academic Free Speech in the Era of Black Lives Matter
  
• "Lots of parents want to check out of public schooling given the coronavirus mess. But they don't all want to homeschool. What are the laws for families hiring a tutor or sharing homeschooling?"
  Can Parents Hire a Tutor This Fall and Call it Homeschooling? Maybe

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Biden's campaign debuted segments of its comprehensive policy agenda last week as part of a declaration of 'unity' between Biden's operation and supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who have been skeptical of backing a 'moderate' Democrat candidate for president."
  Joe Biden Releases Gas and $2 Trillion "Climate Agenda" Inspired By Green New Deal, But Mostly Gas
  
• "There is nothing new under the sun, except for maybe this weird hyper-environmentalist song about reducing cow farts."
  Burger King Claims to Reduce Cow Farts in Bizarre New Video

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter with more amazing Martian imagery.
  Monument Valley on Mars

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE, HITHER & YON

• "Liberals claim they care about Hispanics, yet they're trying to 'cancel' a company that means so much to people like my family and me."
  An Attack On Goya Is An Attack On US Hispanics
  
• "A letter accusing a prominent linguist of racism applies familiar tactics."
  Pattern of Smears
  
• "Like all mental disorder, the black privilege complex narrows the scope and embitters the tone of life for the disordered person."
  The Black Privilege Complex
  
• Nowadays "you can't make a film without a sensitivity counselor."
  Oliver Stone Calls Out "Fragile" and "Politically Correct" Hollywood
  
• "Charles Cole saw the oppression up close and personal. Now it's on our shores, and half the country welcomes it."
  An American's Odyssey in Soviet Russia: Will We Heed His Warning?

  HITHER & YON

• "No fictional horror will ever compare to standing in a warship guarding supply convoys during a stormy mid-Atlantic night, hunted by German submarine wolf-packs." (but he's still a brain-dead lefty asshole - jjs)
  Only Tom Hanks Could Have Made New WWII Drama Greyhound
  
• "Could Gus Van Sant's powerful film even be made today given our P.C. age?"
  How My Own Private Idaho Defied Hollywood Conventions

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