The Morning Report - 1/28/21 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Thursday and I'm not going to lie to you. Things are getting bleaker by the day, and we're only eight days into what is for all intents and purposes an illegal, criminal junta. With the stroke of a few dozen crayons, Joe Stolin has wiped out thousands of jobs with the shuttering of Keystone XL, which will multiply exponentially as the blast wave hits the rest of the economy, ditto for canceling of drilling and mining permits on public lands, halted the construction of the necessary and effective border wall, and sending what's left of our demoralized and abused men and women, and now Frankenstein monster hermaphrodites and other psychotic freaks and other bitter Klingers who make Dame Edna look like Chesty Puller into various and sundry third world meat grinders for no other reason than to keep Raytheon and TRW stocks pumped. Would be fitting if the same Wall Street corporatists and cronies got the Game Stop treatment as well, but I digress.

That and so much more in only one week was the hobnailed jackboot to the groin. Now comes the stomp on the head. Political persecution and punishment of any and all voices of opposition. Daniel Greenfield at Frontpage Mag:

The difference between resistance and sedition, between protests and insurrections, is who's in charge. Democrats resist Republican elected officials. Republicans however commit sedition against Democrat elected officials. Democrats protest, Republicans riot. These aren't distinctions in law. The only real distinction is who's in power and who's on the barricades.

Political hypocrisy isn't a new phenomenon, but Democrats weaponizing the national security state to suppress the political opposition over the same behavior they engage in is a serious threat to the survival of the United States as anything other than a banana republic in a civil war.

The Democrats fired the first shot when the Obama administration used the national security system to target members of Congress during its time in office and then, in an election year, went after President Trump's associates based on Hillary Clinton's opposition research.

Instead of being held accountable for abusing national security to target their political opponents, Democrats, their media, and their allies in the system doubled down with fake investigations of the same worthless allegations that they never managed to substantiate.

After four years of falsely claiming that President Trump was a Russian agent and that the 2016 election had somehow been rigged with Facebook ads in an event that was worse than 9/11, the Democrats have pivoted to claiming that questioning the 2020 election is worse than 9/11.

Now the old abuse of the national security state under the guise of hunting down the evidence that Republicans had rigged the 2016 election has turned into abusing the national security state to punish Republicans for suggesting that the Democrats had rigged the 2020 election.

The only consistent thing here is the Democrat abuse of national security to target their political opponents while magically transforming election skepticism from the highest form of patriotism to sedition, and riots from a moral crusade into a major threat because they are now in power.

Well, you can't have a Great Reset without an even greater deprogramming of wrong-think. Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness:

Retired General Stanley McChrystal warns that the Trump movement reminds him of the al-Qaeda terrorists who once flocked to a similar "powerful leader--presumably Osama bin Laden.

Indeed, our retired military, once critical of the use of the military as domestic police, had no objection to deploying nearly 30,000 soldiers on Inauguration Day in the capital--all on the lookout for nests of Trump insurrectionists.

So Pentagon budgets perhaps should readapt to this reality. What good are missiles and jets when NRA members with MAGA hats roam freely in our midst?

To help McChrystal and Austin, we could enlist former CIA director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, and former DNI director James Clapper to form a Deprogramming Task Force to root out the "enemies within."

Public spirited administration appointees--working closely with Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood, and New York media elites--might issue lists of all social media users indulging in "hate speech" and "big lies."

As both of these great writers note, much of the apparatus of "deprogramming" America in service to its "fundamental transformation" was put in place or ramped up starting with Obama. In truth, the real deprogramming took place over the course of the past 50 or more years in our schools, where two to three generations of American children were brainwashed into hating their country, society, culture and parents. Now, they are in every corporate boardroom, factory floor, business, union hall, military unit, police force and of course classroom across the country.

If you want to call it a ray of hope, the confusion over the impeachment and removal from office of Donald Trump, who has already been removed from office, evidently is going to go forward. Cuck Schemer is clucking his blasphemous chicken lips in lowlife Brooklynese that the trial will go forward. Ultimately, though aside from the five scum traitors on the GOP-wing side of the Senate, there will not be nearly enough votes to reach the two-thirds majority to convict.

No matter, it's all for show. When they go after Trump - in or out of office - they are going after you. Let them. Go ahead Schemer. Turn Donald Trump into Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi or more appropriately Natan Scharansky and Andrei Sakharov. Do that and you stoke a fire that is ultimately going to consume you and your ilk.

That fire is going to be something to see. Let it burn. Make it burn. Until then, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Daniel Greenfield: "Republicans failed to punish Obama's national security abuses. Biden's abuses will be worse."
  When Resistance Became Sedition and Sedition Became Resistance

  CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY IMPEACHMENT

• "Should Kamala Harris be impeached for offering to pay for violent people to get out of jail, who've been burning our cities down? No."
  In Epic Speech, Rand Paul Decries Dems' Hypocritical "Sham" Impeachment
  
• Great idea, Cuck. Turn Donald Trump into Nelson Mandela and energize a mass movement against you.
  Cuck Schemer Vows To Move Forward With Impeachment Trial
  
• "Just this week, we learned that thousands of Guardsmen could remain in Washington DC 'indefinitely.' Certainly through President Donald Trump's impeachment trial."
  The Occupation of Washington is Pure Panic Porn -- And You Are the Target
  
• "We still live in a constitutional republic, which means we are bound by its laws. So is Congress." (such a quaint notion - jjs)
  Yet Another Trump Impeachment? Sorry, But This One Too is a Sham
  
• "If Trump dives headlong into this challenge with courage, imagination, and the charisma that only he can command, then he will transcend the absurdity of this tribunal, crystallize his own political viability, and propel the populist nationalist cause forward into 2022 and beyond."
  Trump Can Turn the Impeachment on the Insiders and Put Congress on "Trial"
  
• Rabbi Dov Fischer: "Democrats aren't ready to give up slinging mud at Trump."
  No Impeachment Surprise -- Just Dirt
  
• "Congress should consider professionalizing the management of its own police force."
  Fixing the Capitol Police

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Victor Davis Hanson: "Why not borrow the current Chinese 'social credit system?'"
  How to Deprogram Us
  
• This is like the Gestapo being called in by Josef Goebbels to investigate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. I smell yet another big, fat set-up for purges, show trials and repression of political dissidents.
  FBI Investigating Explosion at Church on SPLC "Hate Map"
  
• Funny how if this really is a war that no one on his side has been wounded or killed, let alone purged, banished or deplatformed.
  Meathead Reiner: Senate Must Convict Trump, "New Leader of the Confederacy," to Win "Our Continuing Civil War"
  
• I smell yet another pretext for purges with this garbage.
  Man Pleads Guilty in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot, Agrees to "Fully Cooperate"
  
• "Watch what he does, not what he says."
  American Authoritarianism
  
• "In a brazen display of how the left encouraged violent riots, cost businesses billions, and supported murders across the country, Bowser is now demanding businesses expose their shop fronts."
  DC Mayor Bowser Demands Businesses "Pull Down" Boards Erected to Defend Against BLM Rioters
  
• "More and more, people taking common-sense steps to incorporate resiliency into their lives are being labeled 'insurrectionists' and incriminated in the latest right-wing witch hunt."
  The Right-Wing Witch Hunt Makes it a Good Time to Keep Your Well-Stocked Pantry a Secret

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

• "In one instance, [Jennifer] Granholm's administration provided a $9.1 million refundable tax credit to a renewable energy company registered to the address of a single-wide trailer and run by a convicted embezzler named Richard Short."
  Biden's Energy Nominee Divvied Millions in Taxpayer Funds to Alternative Energy Startups That Went Bankrupt
  
• "Cuck Schemer-aligned Majority Forward gave nearly $60 million to Democrat Senate candidates."
  Schemer's Dark Money Group Increased Election Spending by 825% in 2020 Cycle
  
• Frank Biden maintained in a statement that he "has never used my brother to obtain clients for my firm."
  SWAMP: Biden Bro Boasts of Links to Quote Unquote "POTUS" in Law Firm Ad
  
• "The university has received over $72 million from China since the Penn Biden Center opened -- up from $21 million in the same time frame prior -- prompting questions from watchdog groups and lawmakers about whether the uptick had any relation to the center."
  House GOP Calls on U-Penn to Turn Over Records on Biden Center and China Funding

  POLITICS

• "The likelihood of D.C. becoming a state would mean Senate Democrats would need at least 10 Republicans to jump on board, however, if they abolished the filibuster it could be done."
  Senate Democrats Reintroduce Statehood Bill, Would Make DC the 51st State
  
• "But the main reason D.C. will not become a state is that, as TIME reported in 2016, it would require a constitutional amendment."
  Washington, D.C. Won't Become a State, But Not for the Reasons NBC Claims
  
• Dear Liz: Take the friendly advice your father gave to Pat Leahy about 20 years ago.
  Poll: Liz Cheney's Political Support Collapses in Wyoming as Primary Challenger Takes Double-Digit Lead
  
• "Dem leader floats reconciliation to force controversial measures through Senate."
  Following Biden's Lead, Schemer Plans Bypass of GOP to Enact Progressive Agenda
  
• "The most telling argument against a new party is that we have perfectly serviceable one that nobody's using at the moment -- the GOP."
  A New Party: Recipe for Failure
  
• "The lesson the Right must learn now -- or it never will -- is that power cannot be eschewed but must instead be used."
  A Lesson in Power
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "Our ruling class has an oligarchy, if they can keep it."
  Afterbirth of a Nation
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "The media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Hollywood, top retired military brass, corporate America, universities and professional sports are all recalibrating the truth for our Year One. In about a month, they will have it down. And soon, we won't even be able to tell the old reality from the new."
  The "After Trump" Era Begins

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• "Plenty of viruses take the name of their origin -- Spanish Flu. West Nile Virus. Zika. Ebola."
  Biden Bans Term "China Virus" -- As MSM Refer to "British and South African Coronavirus Variants"
  
• "Perhaps rather than worry about what people are calling it, Joe Biden should focus on how to stop the spread. "
  Biden v. Xenophobia: New Executive Order Bans Term "China Virus"
  
• "Every time I see him talk like that I just want to turn the TV off."
  Angel of Death Cuomo Blasted for Blaming Chinese COVID-19 Deaths on "Incompetent Government"
  
• Miserable, devious worm.
  After Repeatedly Bashing Trump, Fauci Now Says It's "Not Productive" to Talk About Former Admin's Handling of the Pandemic
  
• "The [quote unquote] new 'president' releases a document that disguises sensible policy in radical language."
  Biden's Progressive Headfake on Chinese COVID
  
• "In over 256 NFL games and for well over 1,000 practices involving 32 teams and over 2,000 players, there was zero evidence of 'on-field transmission.'"
  CDC/NFL Publish Revealing Wuhan Virus Paper
  
• "If, sometime in the next two months, Congress were to approve the total $1.9 trillion in [Chinese] COVID-19 spending that Biden is now requesting, total federal spending in response to [Chinese] COVID-19 approved over the past calendar year would hit $5.1 trillion. That would be more money than the federal government spent on all of its activities in any fiscal year until last year."
  Biden's 2021 Chinese COVID-19 Bill Costs More Than Entire 1981 Federal Government

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

• "How the extremism of Rancida Taliban's Finance Director is ignored by her - and the Democrat Party."
  Rasha Mubarak's Podcast: Honor Terrorists, Oppose Israel's Existence

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "It seems what Democrats cannot accomplish in Congress, they will simply declare as law when they gain control of the White House."
  If Biden Can't Get Congress to Open the Borders, He'll Likely Do it Himself

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

• "All victims and survivors of Twitter and big tech deserve justice."
  Sex Trafficking Survivor Challenges Jack Dorsey on Heels of Bombshell Lawsuit: "How Do You Sleep at Night"
  
• "Their adulation is beyond parody."
  The Mainstream Media's Embarrassing Biden Lovefest
  
• "Instead of protecting true free speech, we've crushed the speech that matters most: the articulation and testing of the truth."
  How the Supreme Court Made it Easier to Smear People as Racists and Scream the F-Word in Public
  
• "Every single Republican lawmaker and figurehead should be required to watch the Rand Paul clip as a clinic for how to take on the left-wing media."
  Rand Paul's Cage Match With George Stephanopoulos is a Pattern Everyone on the Right Should Follow
  
• "They're coming for you next: Even as Democrats nationwide embrace blacklists of ordinary Americans for daring to express dissent from that party's leftist agenda, the extremely leftwing school board in San Francisco is moving to blacklist as many of Americans historical national figures as possible, including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Paul Revere."
  Today's Blacklisted Americans: Abraham Lincoln and George Washington

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Susan Rice can't be trusted to protect Americans' rights. She failed in upholding her oath of office while being a puppet for Hillary Clinton on Benghazi."
  Susan Rice Abandoned Me During a Gunfight In Benghazi. She'll Abandon You on Guns

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The Chinese president pitches his vision of globalism to the world."
  Pooh-Pooh Platter Xi Twists Biden's Arm at Davos
  
• IDF chief Kochavi: "In the face of these threats, we will respond with an extremely significant counterattack that will include targeting rockets, missiles and weapons."
  Israel Warns Lebanon of "Extremely Significant Counterattack" if Hezbollah Attacks
  
• "...Poland -- instinctively wary of attempts to limit freedom because of its past being occupied by Soviet Communism in the 20th century -- had noticed that the 'big tech' giants running social media were imposing their own moral codes on Polish speech, another form of foreign imperialism limiting the rights of Polish citizens."
  Gov't Minister Tells Breitbart Poland Will Regulate Big Tech to Protect Freedom of Speech
  
• "China does not act as an ordinary nation. Its actions are closer to those of an international crime family."
  The CCP: An International, Thieving Mafia

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: "Noticing the obvious is forbidden."
  Greek Archbishop Tells the Truth About Islam, Muslim Leaders Enraged

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "Perkins Coie was involved in the Russia 'dossier' on then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, and its election law practice, headed by Marc Elias, led Democrats' filings throughout the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath."
  Biden Creates "Bipartisan" Court-packing Commission Led by Democrat Election Lawyer Bob Bauer
  
• "A new research project identifies one cause: bloated station designs."
  Why is American Rail So Costly?
  
• "Wasted taxpayer dollars are not just nonproductive. Waste allowed to exist encourages more waste. Fraud allowed to exist encourages more fraud. A financially sound economy, one that works to remove waste, fraud, duplication, and incompetence, will increase respect for government, for the rule of law."
  Government Waste Thrives in Darkness

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Should taxpayers bail out states that have been economically wrecked by Democrats?" (no, but you can bet your ass they will - jjs)
  The Blue-State Cost of Lockdowns
  
• "Of the 10 states that are imposing the most restrictions, all but one are liberal Democratic states."
  Blue States' Chinese COVID Restrictions Are Killing Jobs, But Not the Virus
  
• Christian Toto: "Shocking numbers highlight uphill fight to save movie-going business."
  New Poll Spells Doom for Theaters

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "[Quote unquote] 'President' relies on old scapegoat to avoid pushing for releasing serious offenders."
  Biden's Private Prison E.O. Won't Affect Mass Incarceration
  
• "In his final days in office, Trump could have done something to exonerate Stewart of her past injustices brought about by a shared villain in a seemingly backward country. But today, Joe Biden is 'president,' and Martha Stewart is a felon."
  Trump's Failure to Pardon Martha Stewart is a National Disgrace

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Broward County Public Schools caught teachers at rallies and parties."
  Florida Teachers Who Demanded to Work from Home Caught at Mass Gatherings
  
• "This year it's all about flexibility, in both private and public schools."
  School Choice in the Time of Chinese COVID
  
• "Joe Biden calls for national unity, but his words ring hollow."
  Unity or Union Fealty?
  
• "The consequences of perpetuating minority student victimhood."
  Campus Racial Thought-Crimes

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter with more Capitalism in space: "Even as SpaceX is rolling out the internet service from its growing Starlink satellite constellation while Amazon's own Kuiper constellation languishes in development, the two companies are in a battle over the orbits of their respective constellations."
  SpaceX and Amazon in Cat Fight Over Internet Satellite Constellations

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

• Up yours, Granholm. Keep drilling, keep digging, keep exploring. State nullification.
  Biden Energy Secretary Nominee: Some Jobs May Have to be "Sacrificed" to Climate Agenda
  
• "Does one really feel joy when they find out they helped put people out of work?"
  Titty Caca AOC Brags She Helped Design Biden's Job-Killing Energy Agenda
  
• You want some "freis" with that "arbeit?"
  Democrat Rep. Conor Lamb: Biden's Job-Killing Environmentalist Agenda Good for Pennsylvania
  
• "One of the more under-reported of the Trump administration's accomplishments."
  Trump Did Well on the Environment and Saved Americans Money in the Process

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

• "A lot of concepts are left disturbingly vague in Joe Biden's LGBT executive order and his fellow radicals' Equality Act, now simmering again in Congress."
  Biden's LGBT Agenda: Pedophilia Coming Down the Pike?
  
• "The truth is if you wanted to be inclusive what you would, of course, make sure that transgender athletes, who have male bodies feel welcome and comfortable on the male teams..."
  Author Abigail Shrier Describes Biden's Trans Order as "Greatest Blow to Women's Rights" in Decades (I thought Kamala was the greatest blow - jjs)
  
• "The bill, introduced by Montana state Rep. John Fuller, protects women's sports by barring biological men from competing in women's leagues."
  Montana ACLU Threatens to Go After State's Federal Funding Over Barring Men From Women's Sports

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "Control over language easily morphs into control over thoughts and ideas."
  The Value-Laden Language of the Left
  
• "Donald Devine makes a sound one in The Enduring Tension."
  The Moral Case for Capitalism
  
• "A trendy new book recycles the same old case for normalizing drug use."
  Drug Fiends and Fools
  
• "In Ryszard Legutko's latest book, The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols, the Polish professor and survivor of communism warns that the coercive attempts of modern liberals to redefine freedom are more destructive than liberating."
  Freedom From Morality and Obligations Isn't "Freedom"
  
• "The dreamy, mixed up, unfunny comedian who rambles about Israel and BDS."
  Sarah Silverman, Dozy Bint

  HITHER & YON

• "Hank Aaron provides an example of grace, healing, and reconciliation that we need as much now as we did during his playing days half a century ago."
  Home-Run King Hank Aaron Was Also a Paragon of Grace Under Fire
  
• Rest in Peace.
  Cloris Leachman, Beloved Oscar- and Emmy-Winner Dead at 94

  FINALLY...

• "This year we want to dedicate the anniversary of liberation to the youngest victims in the camp."
  Holocaust Remembrance Day: To "Honor the Memory of Europe's Jews"

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