The Morning Report - 8/7/20

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here, and at the risk of creating a gigantic ken-ein-a-hurra (or kinna-hurra, if your ancestors were from Kishnev instead of being Galitzianer), what may very well prove to be election-winning gold was handed to us on a silver platter yesterday. No, it did not emanate from out of the gibbering maw of Joe Biden. As horrendous as his latest vile, racialist remark concerning the intelligence (or lack thereof in his melting cranium) of black Americans sure to transform Charlamagne the G0d-Awful into a Tourette's tornado of "motherf***ing mother***er, " this Jim Marshall of an own goal came from way out of left field - literally and figuratively.

On Thursday, New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, proudly announced that she had filed suit to "dissolve" the National Rifle Association. She also sued four NRA executives for damages. The basis for the suit is her claim that the NRA has been mismanaging donor funds. She was able to attack the NRA because the organization is registered in New York, where it was first chartered in 1871.

James got a lot of attention with her announcement, but it might not have been what she was expecting. Forward-looking Democrats demanded to know whether she was trying to help get Trump elected. Meanwhile, the NRA, which has been gaining 1,000 new members a day since the "defund the police" movement began, immediately filed a lawsuit against James, accusing her of defamation and seeking to squelch the organization's right to free speech...

It's no secret why James is going after the NRA. First, it was one of her campaign promises when she ran for Attorney General. In an October 2018 pre-election interview with Ebony magazine she attacked the NRA -- which protects Americans' Second Amendment rights -- as a "terrorist organization" (emphasis added).

The reason behind the lawsuit's timing is obvious. The NRA, recognizing the threat a hard-left Biden administration poses to the Second Amendment, vowed to spend tens of millions of dollars to help Trump win battleground states. With his usual pithy flair, Trump spelled out what would happen if James's suit were to succeed:

Just like Radical Left New York is trying to destroy the NRA, if Biden becomes President your GREAT SECOND AMENDMENT doesn't have a chance. Your guns will be taken away, immediately and without notice. No police, no guns!...

First of all, I don't understand why this is a lawsuit. If Wayne LaPierre and whoever else is named in the suit committed crimes, why didn't she hand down indictments? Makes zero sense from that aspect, but of course this is just a not-so-cunning stunt. I'll say this for Joe Biden; at least he has an excuse - dementia. In any case the media is in full circle-the-wagons mode around him in covering up what they can and excusing away what they can't. But the stupidity in this move by Letitia James is positively stunning. She calls a press conference to make some sort of major announcement. The propagandists dutifully showed up, fully expecting James to perhaps announce some sort of charges or malfeasance against President Trump, since she and the latest iteration of Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance have been going after him for his tax returns and business dealings, to date, unsuccessfully. But with Americans arming themselves to the teeth in record numbers since the phony pandemic panic and Democrat-fueled and supported rioting and mayhem, this glittering jewel of stupid confirms as truth to a vast MSM audience that she's going to help bring about what Trump has been warning about for months, which that same MSM has been poo-pooing as fear-mongering for equally as long.

However many millions of dollars she thought she could prevent the NRA from spending in swing states, she just provided at least an equal amount in an in-kind donation with that press conference. You better believe that not only Trump, but Republicans up and down the ticket are going to benefit hugely come November by yesterday's fiasco. Well, played, counselor. Well played! If Nazi collaborator and key insurrection financier George Soros bankrolled this dame's campaign, he got taken. Big time.

I think the only thing that gives me pause is mail-in voting. Without that, it's a landslide. With Letitia James' stupidity now piled on top of Joe Biden's vegetative state and the Burning Looting and Murdering sure to go nationwide, I still think Trump wins

With a tip of the hat to a commenter from yesterday afternoon, "senile ain't just a river in Egypt."

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, WAR ON POLICE
• "Eat shit and die, mother***er because it's All Lives Matter!"
  Woman Arrested For Pouring Blue Paint On BLM Mural
  
• "With hundreds of heavily geared rioters involved, the raid on the East Precinct marks the third police building attacked this week."
  'Fuck Pigs': Rioters Attack Portland Police Station With Rocks, Set It On Fire
  
• "Better late than never? While [Mayor Ted] Wheeler finally issued a full-throated condemnation of the violence, he also warned rioters that they are 'creating the B-roll film' for the campaign to reelect President Donald Trump."
  Portland Mayor Finally Admits Violent Riots Aren't the Same as "Peaceful Protests," After 68 Nights
  
• "We're not leaving."
  CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan Denies Reports That Federal Officers Retreated
  
• "The party has made its soft spot for violent mob behavior obvious."
  No Doubt About It: Democrats Are Part of the Riot Problem
  
• David Horowitz: "Time to end the charade."
  The Perils of Pretending a War is Something Else
  
• "Democrats long ago turned their backs on civil political engagement for bloodlust and destruction. Domestic terrorism is all they have left."
  Democrat Domestic Terrorism Can No Longer Be Ignored
  
• "One of the surveyed businesses that is considering leaving employs 600 people, deepening fears that the city could take another major blow to employment, which was hit by the [Chinese] coronavirus pandemic."
  Dozens Of Minneapolis Businesses Consider Leaving, Cite Possibility Of Police Being Dismantled
  
• "Durkan said the cuts would hit the 'most diverse class' of officers the city has ever had, as police union rules mandate that layoffs are determined by seniority. 'We don't want to lay off our newest recruits and newer officers... They are our most diverse class ever, and they are so committed to reform and community policing,"
  Seattle City Council Votes to Lay Off 100 Police Officers
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Defund the police and the death rate will follow."
  Austin Voted to Defund the Police, its Murder Rate Rose 67%
  
• "Minnesota's attorney general needs to pay attention to the available evidence, which in this case is incontrovertible."
  Who Killed George Floyd?

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• Hell, BLM and Antifa are doing it the old fashioned way, toots.
  Michelle Obama: Chinese Coronavirus an Opportunity to Change "How Wealth Is Distributed"
  
• Well, hell, Karen; 150 million are dead because Leftists cared the shit out of them!
  Karen Bass: 154,000 People Dead Because Trump "Really Doesn't Care"
  
• "The tragic irony is that none of these policies have even helped reduce the fatalities from the virus itself, even with this myopic and paranoid focus of our government and society."
  More Than Money: GDP Loss from Lockdowns Will Cost Millions of Life years
  
• "A Checkpoint Charlie redux might not be the best look."
  De Bolshevik Sets Up Chinese COVID-19 Quarantine Checkpoints at City's Bridges and Tunnels; Threatens Violators with $10,000 Fines
  
• "Reflections on the recent lockdown in Paris."
  The Chinese COVID Occupation
  
• "Deciphering what we're up against."
  The Corona Walkers of Mask Nation -- And Their Motivation

  JOE BIDEN'S 50-YEAR RAP SHEET

• "Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community, with incredibly different attitudes about different things."
  Joe Biden: Latino Community Has Diverse Attitudes "Unlike the African-American Community" (UPDATE)
  
• "Gee, your hair smells terrific. I mean, for a black dame. Is that the new Ultra Sheen? Tell Charlie I approve!"
  Biden "Clarifies" Awkward Comment About African American Community After Media Downplays
  
• "Joe Biden's loose lips got members of Seal Team 6 targeted for revenge and killed."
  Joe Biden, Susan Rice, and Seal Team Six

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

• "Truth be told, the Democrats should know a thing or two about Russian disinformation. The Steele Dossier is the very definition of election interference, yet we hear no objections from Democrats."
  Grassley Says Senate Democrats Acting Like "Cowards," Ignoring Evidence Of Russian Disinformation In Dossier
  
• "Yeah, I'm reading the tea leaves here, but the Trump campaign's latest video, when combined with Trump's comments to Lou Dobbs, hint at something big."
  It Looks As If This Falls Hit Show Will be Called "Obamagate"

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

• "Bush has also funneled over $25,000 from her campaign to her own pockets in the form of a salary with payments beginning in April."
  Progressive Upstart Cori Bush At Least One Year Late Disclosing Her Personal Finances As Required By Federal Law, House Records Show
  
• "Dem billionaire faces suit under labor law championed by his allies."
  Staffers Sue Billionaire Dem Tom Steyer

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

• "Joe Biden has said nothing."
  CatholicVote Demands Biden Condemn Anti-Catholic Attacks
  
• "Muhammad has quoted or otherwise promoted Farrakhan in multiple Facebook posts."
  NAACP Stands by Chapter President Who Shared Anti-Semitic Image

  POLITICS, 2020 ELECTION

• "That may be a little harsh..."
  Trump: Biden, Dems Are "Against the Bible"
  
• "[Malig-Nancy] Pelosi was prompted by a rant from CNBC's Jim Cramer, who fulminated as he recommended a list of items that taxpayers give a 'huge chunk' of money for."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi Smirks GOP Doesn't Give "A Damn" About "Disenfranchised" and Minorities
  
• Dead right.
  President Trump Claims Getting Election Results May Take years if All Voters Have the Option to Vote by Mail
  
• "One-sixth of Clark County mail-in ballots were sent to outdated or undeliverable addresses."
  Nevada Sent More Than 200,000 Mail-In Primary Ballots to Wrong Addresses
  
• "The Democrats are already hinting at, almost 90 days out, at what they intend to do when Trump wins."
  The Apocalypse Election
  
• "I didn't back down from my promises, and I kept every single one."
  In Ohio, Donald Trump Makes Six Promises to American Workers for His Second Term
  
• "Under the terms of the rule change, which three Democrats voted against, [Malig-Nancy] Pelosi can establish a 45-day proxy voting period where members of congress can authorize another member of congress to vote on their behalf."
  Judge Dismisses Lawsuit After House Republicans Sue Pelosi Over Proxy Voting Plan
  
• "Omar, the paper argued, is overly focused on picking fights with Republicans and pushing fringe causes. Omar's anti-Semitic rhetoric and penchant for backing far-left causes has isolated her in Congress and undermined her ability to represent her district."
  Bro-Fo Omar/Nur's Hometown Paper Endorses Her Primary Opponent
  
• "Mayor Bill [De Bolshevik] posted that only 54.8% of New Yorkers filled out the Census which would mean, 'could lose HALF our funding, that means we could lose TWO representatives."
  Angel-of-Death Cuomo's Plea to Rich New Yorkers Is More About the Electoral College Than Tax Dollars
  
• "Polls are starting to break for Trump."
  Polls and Debates -- Summertime Blues for Democrats
  
• "The president personally recruited Hagerty, a longtime Trump loyalist, to leave his post in Japan and come back to run for the vacant Senate seat left open by the retiring longtime Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)."
  Trump Wins in Tennessee as Bill Hagerty Defeats Manny Sethi for GOP Nomination for US Senate
  
• "Taking in a softball interview with Judy Woodruff, her malevolence and lies came into full view."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi - Mistress of Drivel
  
• "Thursday's news had an unusual number of stories about people pushing back against Wuhan virus restrictions and Black Lives Matter madness."
  Has the Pushback Against Democrat Overreach Begun?
  
• Conrad Black: "Democrats are all still singing from the same song sheet. But they are not going to be able to wing it to Election Day with this pretend campaign."
  Biden's Pretend Campaign

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

• "It's not just 'self-censorship' and it's no conspiracy theory. The politicized U.S. news media is working hand-in-glove with the permanent bureaucracy in the Department of Justice."
  Floyd Bodycam Leak Highlights Press Collusion With Government
  
• "Causing offense isn't the only thing people are worried about. Many are concerned about their livelihoods and ability to provide for their families."
  Most Americans Are Scared Stiff To Talk Politics. Why?
  
• Insert Nelson Muntz laugh.
  Comedy Gold! Twitter Suspends DNC's Account For Retweeting Trump Clip Suggesting Kids Are "Almost Immune" To Chinese COVID
  
• "The newspaper had published hundreds of 'advertorials' from Communist Party mouthpieces."
  NY Times Memory-Holes CCP Propaganda
  
• "The root cause is a blinding liberalism."
  The Cancer of the Media
  
• "The New York Times dedicated an entire piece to complaining about the presence of a conservative reporter on a White House trip with the vice president."
  In Glaring Double Standard, New York Times Whines About Conservative Reporter On White House Trip
  
• I don't see how Greg Gutfeld can go night after night without hauling back and belting this asshole right in the teeth.
  Juan Williams Claims Protest Violence Footage Is "From the First Night Way Back," Gets Fact-Checked Immediately
  
• Christian Toto: "The Officer and a Gentleman star says we're paying a price for self censorship."
  Reporters Ignored Richard Gere Slamming U.S. Studios for China Appeasement
  
• "U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis... appointed by former President Obama, wrote in her ruling that the plaintiffs did not provide 'any specific allegation as to how the Advisory Opinion interferes with their First Amendment rights."
  Federal Workers Lose Challenge to Ban on Discussing Trump Impeachment
  
• "Welcome to Dallas, where only the far-left enjoys the First Amendment."
  Tyranny Strikes Texas As Dallas Politicians Cancel Liberty Event, Allow Mass Protests
  
• "An unfair comparison of AT&T CEO John Stankey and Admiral Takijiro Onishi of the Imperial Japanese Navy."
  What Will AT&T Do When the Suits See What XiNN Does to Profits?

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "A baseless premeditated attack."
  NRA Announces Lawsuit Against New York Attorney General
  
• "NRA has added 1,000 new members each day since June." (maybe this explains the NY lawsuit? Nah! - jjs)
  NRA Plans to Spend 'Tens of Millions' in Battleground States
  
• Gee, ya think?!
  Claim: Some Pennsylvania Democrats Fear Lawsuit Against NRA Helps Trump
  
• Epic backfire: Letitia James' idiotic suit itself is worth at least as much in free advertising as the NRA itself was planning to spend.
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• If this idiot is what Nazi collaborator George Soros paid for, boy was he robbed!
  Democrat AG's Attempt to Destroy NRA Comes as NRA Planned to Spend "Tens of Millions" in Battleground States
  
• "It's hard to believe that Letitia James thought her latest attack on the NRA would benefit the Democrats."
  Is New York's AG Going to be the Biggest NRA Fundraiser Ever?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The hostage-taker was armed with a handgun, and there is a bag possibly containing explosives at the scene." (but his motives will never be known, right? - jjs)
  Gunman On Watch List With "Islamist Sympathies" Takes Multiple People Hostage In French Bank
  
• "More than any other group in Lebanon, the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah bears responsibility for the conditions that led to the blast."
  The Beirut Blast is a Reminder That Hezbollah Has Ruined Lebanon
  
• "Many Lebanese are anxious to hold someone accountable for the disaster while Lebanon's leaders, many of whom are holdouts from the country's last civil war, are trying to avoid responsibility."
  Beirut Explosion "Last Nail in the Coffin" As Lebanon Hurtles Toward Failed State Status"
  
• "Pompeo vows to extend UN arms ban 'one way or another' as Russia, China veto looms."
  US Takes Final Shot at Extending Iran Arms Embargo
  
• "The challenge can be summed up in two words: stopping China."
  Post-Pandemic Foreign Policy
  
• "Paris confronts Black Lives Matter."
  An American Moment in France

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "A CNN article published Wednesday says President Donald Trump is 'sowing confusion and chaos' in what it dubs 'the new Cold War' against TikTok."
  XiNN: Trump Is "Sowing Confusion and Chaos" By Guarding America Against TikTok National Security Threat
  
• "In other words, a foreign national controls the content, technology, and revenue stream for an outlet tasked with monitoring content for the upcoming US presidential election. The staff are overwhelmingly left-wing."
  TikTok Partners With Far-Left, Foreign-Based "Fact Checker" In Risible "Transparency" Bid
  
• "TikTok has said it has never provided user data to China and that it would not do so if asked, saying in a statement that it has 'no higher priority than promoting a safe app experience that protects our users' privacy.'"Growing Number of Nations Consider TikTok Ban Over China Ties
  
• "President Trump reduces number of soldiers in Germany amid NATO funding dispute."
  Boots Off the Ground in Germany
  
• "We've all been the victim of an information operation directed at us by the Washington foreign policy 'Blob.'"
  Trump Is Saving NATO, Not Threatening It

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Raymond Ibrahim: "Rather than (or at least pretending to) reject this emphasis on the jihadist nature of their religion, emboldened Muslims around the world are calling for the "return" of other structures."
  Hagia Sophia and Cathedral of Cordoba: The Jihad Factor

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "Thanks to a previous activist court, all government officials get a free pass even if they wantonly violate our rights. Why do so many conservatives defend that?"
  Immune From Accountability

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "In a pessimistic AP story, Paul Wiseman leads with the raw number, without any comparison to the past, and immediately brings up the political argument over the emergency unemployment supplement."
  Unemployment Filings Decreased Last Week, Department of Labor Reports
  
• "Since 2017 Bezos has now raised more than $11 billion from sales of his
  Amazon stock. Initially he had said such sales were to finance his space company Blue Origin, but more recently he has indicated he wants to use the bulk of this cash to fight climate change, with portions also devoted services for the homeless and early childhood education.
  Jeff Bezos Sells $3 Billion More in Amazon Stock
  
• "We have to keep drivers safe."
  Trucking Company Not Going to Cities Pushing to Defund the Police
  
• "The American Academy of Pediatrics has stressed that reopening is critical for children's emotional and educational development. There is also an overwhelming economic case to be made in favor of reopening. To wit, the cost of not reopening schools will last a generation."
  Open the Schools -- Or Kiss the Economy Goodbye

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Why is an inmate's rights more important than a victim's?"
  California Releasing Almost 18,000 Inmates -- Including Convicted Murderer -- in Virus Prison Break
  
• "I was just, like, shocked. He's like, there's a meth lab right above your room, so we need you to evacuate, cause it could explode at any time."
  Meth Lab Discovered in San Francisco Hotel Used as Chinese Coronavirus Shelter
  
• "He does things without asking. There's a lot of people who assume because we're adult actresses that it's OK to just touch us inappropriately."
  Report: Dozens Of Women Come Forward To Accuse Ron Jeremy Of Sex Crimes After He Was Formally Charged
  
• "Initiative 44, which will be on the ballot in November, would end the criminalization of simple drug possession of small amounts of all drugs by changing the penalties from felonies and misdemeanors to a $100 administrative fine."
  Oregon Could Become The First State To Decriminalize Drugs

  HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE

• "Let's be honest: [Malig-Nancy] Pelosi's weed provision had little to do with Americans' health -- and everything to do with pot shops getting access to the federal financial system."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Ill-Advised Boost for Big Pot

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "A silver lining to the [Chinese] COVID crisis: Forced online, activist administrators are less effective."
  Liberal Indoctrination Impeded at Colleges This Semester
  
• "Systemic nihilism."
  Professor Blasts Democrat Lawmaker's Call To Abolish American History Classes

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter with "more weird Martian geology, suggesting glacial ice sublimating away while also giving us another hint at the many past cycles of climate
  change on Mars."
  Slushy Floor of Southern Martian Crater

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• LOLGF Goodell!
  NFL Set to Lose Billions From Not Having Fans Attend Games
  
• "American studios are not only cutting content that displeases the CCP, but actively inserting propaganda at the behest of the Chinese government."
  Producers, Writers Expose How Much Hollywood Self-Censors To Appease China In New Report
  
• "Seems the only thing worse than being a white lady in America who profits off stoking racism is being transparent about it."
  Peddling the Idea That "All White People Are Racist" For Profit
  
• "Fashion, fascism? See the connection?"
  The Woke Mob Declares Hawaiian Shirts a Symbol of "White Nationalism"
  
• Walter Williams: "A tyrant's first battlefield.
  Leftist Effort to Revise American History

  HITHER & YON

• "I can't say he deserved to die, but he deserved to get his ass beat."
  Former WWE Star Tells Story of Alleged Childhood Sexual Abuse: "The Very First Time I Made a Man Disappear"
  
• "The pandemic paves the way for an all-American return to outdoor movies."
  Revenge of the Drive-In Movie Theater
  
• "Many people claim to be fighting to create the world they would like to live in, but an astonishing number appear content to win on a technicality or disqualification rather than in a fair fight."
  The Strength of Strength and the Strength of Weakness
  
• "What many anguished American teens were able to relate to in the '50s now seems to be the trademark quality plaguing teens, specifically teen girls, everywhere in 2020."
  J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye Offers a Timeless Message For Teen Loneliness Epidemic
  
• "Remembering Pete Hamill."
  The Last Great Newspaperman

  FINALLY...
  

• "Ultimately, the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan hastened the end to WWII, halted further Soviet aggression, and saved millions of lives."
  75 Years Later, It's Clear Truman Was Right To Drop The Atomic Bomb
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "In the terrible arithmetic of World War II, the idea that such a nightmare might end in a day or two was seen as saving millions of lives rather than gratuitously incinerating tens of thousands. It was in that bleak context that Harry Truman dropped the two bombs -- opting for a terrible choice among even worse alternatives."
  Our Annual August Debate Over the Bombs

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