The Morning Report - 1/26/21 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and the beat (down) goes on. I'm still numb from everything that's happened since last November, sort of like having my legs amputated at the thigh and yet still feeling like I can run the 100-yard dash. Just one short year ago, which seems like an eternity, Iran was on the ropes like a headless chicken after it's terror mastermind was dispatched, thousands of Hong Kongers were waving the American flag, as well as p-shopped images of Donald Trump's face on the body of Rocky Balboa while singing the Star Spangled Banner, we had virtual full employment while the welfare and food stamp roles lost millions of formerly lost Democrat souls, we were for the first time in decades the world's leading oil exporter, and every attempt to oust the President - forever my president - or otherwise smear, besmirch or otherwise destroy his voting base failed spectacularly.

Intellectually, I of course fully realize what happened in the intervening year and as noted, particularly since last November. But I just cannot accept it. I will never accept it. And, for lack of a better word, I'm happy about it. To accept what happened from a moral standpoint is almost every bit as reprehensible as those who perpetrated it upon us. I know we each live our own life and have to be concerned with the day-to-day challenges, now about to become exponentially more difficult, of keeping our families fed and with a roof over their heads. What will make it difficult will not only be because of the policy edicts handed down by those pulling the rotting cat-gut marionette strings of Zhou Bai-Din that will put a bullet in the head of the already comatose economy, but more crucially the erosion of our G-d given right to speak freely in protest. It's bad enough when the IRS latches on to you or you get the 3:00AM Paul Manafort treatment from the FBI for some crime real or imagined (but mostly imagined), but it will be infinitely worse when your employers, co-workers, neighbors, the local bank and even your own children turn into Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and denounce you for "wrong-think" to your condo board's NKVD/Twitter politruk.

Yeah, I get it. Self-preservation is a thing. Keep your head down, don't talk above a whisper and take your beating. It builds character. There's the makings of an Arbeit Macht Frei-ish slogan for some young Jack Dorsey acolyte to noodle around with. But at some point that cannot stand. There has to be a point where you have much more to gain than you do to lose before you openly, proudly declare you have had enough. It reminds me of the last act in The Longest Yard when Paul Crewe, now ostracized by his teammates who know he's throwing the game for the warden, asks the old guy if it was worth 30 years for belting the warden in the mouth. "To me it was."

What is your freedom worth? Your dignity? Is it better to live on your knees than die on your feet? In many ways small and large, we are going to have to confront ourselves with that question. It was never supposed to be that way. Then again, maybe it was. It is human nature we are dealing with, after all. Big time.

CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY IMPEACHMENT
• "But, while many will remain in position over the next couple of months, governors from several states are ordering their troops home due to poor housing conditions and a [Chinese] coronavirus outbreak. "
  5,000 National Guard Troops to Stay in DC Through March, Some Returning Home
  
• "His family is fearful because of the backlash from the district's statement that he says incorrectly connected him with the violent uprising at the U.S. Capitol."
  Pennsylvania Teacher Suspended for Attending Trump Rally Says His Life Has Been Destroyed
  
• "The 73-year-old was working at his home when three deputies questioned him on suspicion of being a domestic terrorist. Why? He had joined peaceful conservative protests."
  Anonymous Claim of Inauguration Violence Sends Wisconsin Police to Investigate Elderly Veteran
  
• "Holding Trump accountable for the actions of a handful of rioters is deeply misguided, and conservatives should know better than to support it."
  Conservatives Should Stop Trying to Justify Impeaching Trump
  
• "Desperate Democrats want to get medieval on Trump."
  Fourteenth Amendment Follies

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "The party in power has sold out to eliminating the party out of power."
  The Conservative Purge Isn't Over, It's Just Getting Cranked Up
  
• "It can't possibly be the case that the greatest republic in the history of mankind will be brought down by such transparent losers."
  This Revolution Brought to You by Cosplay Politics
  
• "This narrative and behavior by the corporate press is still being carried through the beginning of Joe Biden's [quote unquote] 'presidency' and is expected to continue as they work to achieve their political goals."
  Here Are All the Riots That Democrats and the Media Are Choosing to Ignore
  
• "Poetically, Antifa, which rages about the supposed exploitation of minorities by the founders and of working people by capitalists, were themselves exploited by Democrats for political control."
  Joe Biden, Fascist?

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

• "Emhoff previously served as a Partner in DLA Piper's Intellectual Property and Technology practice and its Media, Sport, and Entertainment sector. Emhoff, however, departed the firm on November 10th in an effort to 'work with the Biden-Harris transition team to develop the portfolio he will focus on to support the work of the administration.'"
  SolarWinds -- Targeted by Massive Cyberattack -- Hires Kamala Harris' Husband's Former CCP-Linked Law Firm as Lobbyists

  POLITICS

• Meh, kabuki/bukkake theatre which the Democrats will ditch on the first crucial vote.
  With Democrat Path to Nuclear Option on Filibuster Closed, Senate Leaders Proceed on Power-Sharing Agreement
  
• "He's jettisoning this 215-year-old protection for minority rights based upon promises from two Democrat senators."
  Mitch McConnell Announces He's Willing to Abandon the Filibuster
  
• "Since announcing her vote to impeach Trump, Cheney has faced a growing movement for her to resign as the House Republican Conference chair."
  Kevin McCarthy: Liz Cheney Has to "Answer" to GOP Conference for Impeachment Vote
  
• Mollie Hemingway: "There is no reason to leave Cheney in her leadership position. In fact, it's negligence for Republican leaders to keep her there."
  Liz Cheney Should Step Away From Leadership for the Sake of GOP Voters
  
• "Republican challenger Claudia Tenney leads Brindisi by 29 votes."
  #NY22: Brindisi Wants Court to Only Count Rejected Democrat Votes in Oneida County
  
• "The city will soon be free of Mayor Bill [DeBolshevik], but it desperately needs good governance in a time of crisis and hardship."
  Can New York Find a Better Leader?
  
• "The people controlling Joe Biden rush headlong into a program of destruction."
  Determined Wreckers
  
• "Finding Lady Liberty's Glass Slipper?"
  Counterpoint to Lee Behringer: American Populism's Cinderella Story
  
• "The obsession by the nation's elites to rid themselves of the threat that Donald Trump posed to their hegemonic plans has prompted unforced and fatal errors. They are about to run headfirst into a brick wall."
  The Attempt to Install a One-Party Oligarchy is Predestined to Fail
  
• "Trump was a great president and he will suffer for it."
  The Assault on Greatness
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "The daunting task ahead for the patriotic movement."
  Make America Again

  THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

• "Be on the alert accordingly." George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff...
  Virginia Rule Allowing Late Ballots Missing Postmark Was Illegal, Court Rules
  
• Something tells me the judges and jury pools will be rigged -- just like the voting machines.
  Dominion Voting Sues Giuliani for Defamation, Demanding $1.3B in Damages
  
• "Dominion -- whose employees donate almost exclusively to Democrat Party candidates -- had threatened the suit against Giuliani and even quoted Adolf Hitler in their public statement on the matter."
  Giuliani Fires Back at "Act of Intimidation" $1.3 Billion Dominion Suit
  
• Julie Kelly: "One cannot simultaneously defend the integrity of the 2020 election and demand new laws to ensure election integrity."
  GOP Election Fraud Deniers Face Reckoning

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "The lawsuits claimed that Trump was violating the Emoluments Clause prohibition against foreign bribes, which prohibits elected office-holders from receiving payments of any kind from foreign agents without the approval of Congress."
  SCOTUS Throws Out Lawsuits Accusing Trump of Taking Foreign Bribes

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• Biden, who once referred to President Trump's travel ban on China as "hysterical xenophobic," has issued a travel ban on South Africa as variants of the coronavirus spread in the country. Likewise, Biden has reinstated travel bans on Europe and Brazil, which Trump had ended after lobbying from the U.S. airline industry.
  Joe Biden Issues Travel Ban on South Africa; Reinstates Europe, Brazil Bans
  
• Life ain't far, lady.
  Jen Psaki Says it Isn't "A Fair Articulation" to Say Then-Candidate Biden Called Trump Admin's China Travel Ban "Xenophobic"
  
• "Silencing the truth is necessary when the truth becomes inconvenient."
  Something's in a Nosedive
  
• General Jack Ripper called and said this guy's a fruitcake.
  Anthony Fauci: It "Just Makes Common Sense" That Two Masks Are Likely More Effective
  
• "In 2019 alone, Dr. Fauci made $417,608, which is more than even the $400,000 salary of the President of the United States. Fauci is, therefore, both the highest-paid doctor and employee in the federal government, which is comprised of nearly four million federal employees."
  WILD: Fauci Is American Govt's Highest Paid Employee, Pulling MILLIONS From Flawed Science And Gain Of Function Experiments
  
• Of course it's Trump's fault. Four years of this crap? Again? Four. Forever probably.
  White House Acknowledges "Confusion" on Vaccine Distribution, Blames Trump Administration

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

• "An unprecedented threat under Biden."
  Freedom of Speech Slipping Away
  
• "In broad terms, Section 230 provides website publishers with immunity from prosecution regarding third-party content placed on their site."
  Understanding Section 230: Everything You Need to Know
  
• "On both ABC and NBC's political Sunday talk shows, hosts attempted to force Republican senators to denounce themselves and their counterparts as liars."
  There Are No Coincidences: Network Sunday Talk Show Hosts Follow Same Script with Republican Senators
  
• "Data scientists say Google can shift elections based on what it shows people. Refusing to use Google for search is an easy tweak everyone can and should do now."
  How to Stop Using Google Search on Your Computer and Phone
  
• "Just a few days into the Biden presidency and the media are already chipping away at the granite on Mt. Rushmore."
  C'mon, Joe
  
• "Journalists celebrate the destruction of freedoms on which their profession depends."
  The New Censors
  
• From Bob Zimmerman: "They're coming for you next: A neonatal nurse named Cara Dumaplin, who for years has run very successful website called Taking Care of Babies, is now considered a "racist" and "hater" because she and her husband committed the unforgivable act of donating to the campaign of Donald Trump."
  Today's Blacklisted American: A Blogger About Babies
  
• I meant to post this yesterday, so today it's a twofer as we are a target-rich environment: "She also notes in this same post that she has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Paypal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Uber, and Lyft. Chase bank once attempted to shut down her bank accounts. And during her campaign for Congress, she added that "Comcast blocked my congressional campaign from sending texts and emails to voters while they donated to my opponent."
  Today's Blacklisted American: Laura Loomer

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Refuses to provide details on suspensions but reverses them."
  Facebook Reverses Ban Against Virginia Gun-Rights Group
  
• "This time AOC put her ignorance about the Second Amendment and gun laws on display."
  Another Day, Another Stunning Display of Titty Caca AOC's Ignorance

  ABORTION

• "Dr. Anthony Fauci pledged the new administration's aggressive pursuit of gender equity at the Chinese-dominated WHO last week."
  Anthony Fauci Pledges New Junta's Commitment to Taxpayer-Funded Abortion at the World Health Organization

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Conte recently lost his majority in the Italian Senate after a critical dispute over how to use funds given by the European Union to help Italy rebuild from the pandemic's devastation, according to multiple reports."
  REPORT: Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy to Resign
  
• "In addition to his support for diplomacy with Iran, [Robert] Malley played a lead role in shaping the Obama administration's Syria policy, which drew widespread criticism as the humanitarian situation in the country deteriorated."
  Top Iranian Official Celebrates Biden's Rumored Iran Envoy
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "From calling for the destruction of Israel to the National Security Council."
  Biden Puts Anti-Israel BDS Activist in Charge of NSC Intel
  
• "The Biden [junta] must take serious steps to ensure China ceases its exploitation of the [Chinese] COVID-19 crisis in ways that threaten our national security."
  The U.S. Government Shouldn't Send Communist China Americans' DNA and Health Info

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Types, deletes, types, deletes...
  Joe Biden Signs Order "Permitting Transgender Individuals to Serve Openly in the Military"

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Inside the world of an academic fraud who never interacts with critics."
  Craig Considine's Qur'anic Cosmopolitism

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "The USPS is behind the times and needs genuine reform."
  Lawmakers Must Examine Real Issues Plaguing the Postal Service
  
• "The Biden administration seems determined to run the country on the ruinous model of the Golden State."
  Making America California

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "An epic bust looks like not a matter of if, but when."
  Biden's "Debt Doesn't Matter "Theory Guarantees Economic Crisis
  
• "New investments by foreign businesses into the U.S. fell 49 percent in 2020 according to newly released United Nation Conference on Trade and Development figures." (1. Unleash plague on world, 2. Watch as world commits economic suicide, 3. ??? 4. Install Biden, 5. Profit! - jjs)
  China Overtakes US as Top Foreign Investment Destination

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "...it is the fastest that any of the 15 states with recreational marijuana has gone from voter approval to actual sales."
  Legal Sales of Recreational Marijuana Begin in Arizona

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "While the science suggests educators should end virtual schooling, many schools remain closed to millions of young people whose mental health is tanking."
  The Left's Anti-Science School Closures Are Killing More Students Than the Chinese Virus
  
• "My children have always loved school but I'm heartbroken to say that after 10 months of nothing but e-learning, the spark my children have for school has faded."
  Chicago Teachers Union Votes Not to Return to Schools as Parents Beg Teachers to Reconsider
  
• "Critical Race Theory strikes again -- and it's striking America's schoolchildren hard. "
  Anti-White Racism Pervades Major Academic Publisher's Teacher Resources
  
• "Not to fight this battle is to lose it -- and to lose it is to concede that America should be a society that judges people based on the color of their skin, not the content of their character."
  Biden Has Embraced Lunatic "Critical Race Theory" But You Can Still Fight It

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter: "In showing my readers today's cool image, I want to present it as it is seen by scientists, first from a far distance that with time increasingly zooms in to reveal mysteries on a very human scale."
  The Strange Moated Mesas of the Kasai Valley on Mars

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

• Building a mass grave back to the 12th century...
  Majority of Gov't, Private Sector, Self-Employed and Retired Workers Say Climate Accord Will Cost Jobs, Raise Utility Bills

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Shepherd's pie. First, peel two shepherds, then...
  Food Network Scrubs Full Season of Worst Cooks in America After Winner Charged In Child Murder
  
• "The 1776 report intends to reacquaint American citizens with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, renewing the American mind."
  No Wonder Biden Canceled It: 1776 Commission Report Takes Aim at Identity Politics, Socialism, and Slavery
  
• "'White nationalist' and 'white supremacist' serve the same function in our denatured republic as 'running dog of capitalism' did in Maoist China or 'parasitic capitalist' did in the Third Reich."
  'Multiracial Whiteness' Is the Latest Leftist Branding Iron

  HITHER & YON

• "Documentary shares a richer, balanced look at King and his vast accomplishments."
  MLK/FBI Doesn't Avoid the Icon's Flaws
  
• "Thomas E. Ricks explores how the first four presidents learned about statecraft from the great thinkers of antiquity."
  A First-Rate Study of the Founders' First Principles
  
• "The keys to transforming lives in the most desperate communities."
  Lessons From the Least of These

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