The Morning Report — 8/8/22

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and so the insanity of the Orwellian insult known as the "Inflation Reduction Act," which does the exact opposite of its name (hence, Orwellian) taxes everyone out the wazoo while spending "only" a svelte $700-odd billion instead of the original $5 trillion from last year's attempted Build Bolshevism Biggerer bill passed in the Senate. To absolutely no one's surprise, the hallucinatory brown acid trip of Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema as the saviors of "conservatism" or at best "moderation" had their palms out and got them greased by greasiest of greasy bastards Chuck "Schemer" Schumer. Now we find ourselves paranoid, sweating and retching in the gutter, trying to scoop up our vomitus like Chuck Negron with the DTs in the wake of that bad trip.

Honestly, all things considered, I'm finding it hard in a way to really give a flying fig about whatever spending there is in this monstrosity. The economy is nosediving towards a Weimar/Zimbabwe level catastrophe at the same time and primarily caused by this illegitimate junta's obsession with wiping out carbon, the element and essence of life (the Horta notwithstanding) in all its forms. So what the hell is another $700 billion, that is if you really believe that the actual final figure is $700 billion and no way is it ever going to exceed that, CBO scoring shenanigans and just plain old graft and lying notwithstanding. I have no idea what the page count on this cancer is, but for sure it's got to be in the high hundreds if not into the thousands, like every other damned massive bill that has been written months if not years in advance by armies of obedient Leftist cogs, faculty lounge lizards and C-suite suck-ups, whipped out of file cabinet at the slightest whiff of a crisis that cannot be let go to waste and passed in the dead of night with no time to read even the flyleaf that says "Reg US Pat Off." and the description of the typeface.

Yet, the wastage of money is the least of our worries. It's what's buried in the fine print on page 1,437 that one day reveals itself as the anti-constitutional beast that will suck the life out of us. Remember back to the halcyon days just prior to the Obama reign of error (and arguably that continues to this day from Schloss Kalorama) when the jug-eared, dog-eating purple-lipped fraud/candidate envisioned some Civilian National Security Force that was to be bigger than the Defense Department? Well, it may be knocking on your door in the not too distant future, all in the name of "inflation reduction."

. . . Biden’s handlers are tackling the real problem facing America today: they’re expanding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the extent that, according to the Washington Free Beacon, it will soon be larger “than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined.”

Yes, it’s true. The people who run Joe Biden looked around at their dumpster fire of an administration, and the smoking ruin they have wrought, and decided that what America really needs are tens of thousands of new employees for the IRS. . .

. . . Why does the IRS need so many new full-time employees? Why does it need a six-hundred-percent budget increase? It’s all part of the administration’s ongoing efforts to squeeze the American middle class. The Free Beacon notes that according to “a Congressional Budget Office analysis,” the new behemoth IRS “would result in more than $200 billion in additional revenue for the federal government over the next decade.” This is because the new IRS agents would devote substantial energy to squeezing Americans and bleeding them dry: “Democrats say the hiring of additional IRS agents will help root out tax cheats and other criminals,” for “more than half of that funding is specifically earmarked for ‘enforcement,’ meaning tax audits and other responsibilities such as ‘digital asset monitoring. . .’”

. . . the new IRS agents would devote substantial energy to squeezing Americans and bleeding them dry: “Democrats say the hiring of additional IRS agents will help root out tax cheats and other criminals,” for “more than half of that funding is specifically earmarked for ‘enforcement,’ meaning tax audits and other responsibilities such as ‘digital asset monitoring.’”

It’s easy to see where all this is going. The new super-IRS will be as corrupt and politicized as the FBI already is, and would use its new staff and money to go after dissenters from the Leftist regime in Washington. The IRS is already one of the most hated and feared of all federal agencies, and one that was already politicized during Barack Obama’s first two terms, when the infamous Lois Lerner began persecuting conservative nonprofit organizations.

Look, I'm no John Kenneth Galbraith but if the purveyors of this so-called "modern monetary theory" claim the government can print as much money as it wants to, then why does the government need to tax the citizenry at all? Ask that of a true-believing Lefty and watch him do the Norman Coordinate shuffle. But of course, the is not a dumb question at all. Taxation, at least in the post-war era of an ever-metastasizing bureaucracy is a means to stymie personal freedom as well as a punishment for individual achievement. Money, wealth and property, at whatever amount it is earned by the individual is the measure of independence and, in turn, freedom. Why do you think the Commies have spent the past hundred-odd years trying to take it away from you and why the Davos set are hot and horny for you to have nothing and like it? (see this link on the not-so-stealthy drive for a cashless society in Ireland)

Ironically, as this junta drives us all towards societal dissolution by strangling the goose that laid the golden egg of American prosperity, there won't be any money for the IRS to confiscate. You can always pay it off in debtor's prison or by building that new White Sea Canal or high-speed California railroad. One dead soul per tie just like in Burma.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Jack Dunphy: "From hero to less than zero, in one generation."
  The Decline and Fall of the Blue Wall
  
• "They figure, if the corporate world can be pushed to go full woke, then this will trickle down to the general public and influence our behaviors and thinking.  Except, it hasn’t exactly worked out that way."
  What Is ESG? It’s a Leveraging Tool for the Woke Communist Takeover
  
• "A new 'techno' communism creeps closer and closer."
  Ireland Embraces the Great Reset, Using ‘Sneaky Tactics’ to Push Cashless Society
  
• Heather Mac Donald: "Guardians of the profession discard merit in order to alter the demographics of their field."
  The Corruption of Medicine
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "The Chinese have done and will do a great deal of damage to America, but not nearly as much as we have done to ourselves."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s Childlike Diplomacy Mirrors America’s Childlike Posture Toward China

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• "Manchin-backed Inflation Reduction Act would more than double agency's size."
  Dems Poised To Make IRS Larger Than Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol Combined
  
• Robert Spencer: "The police powers of the 87,000 new taxmen."
  IRS: Gestapo in the Making
  
• "It looks more like Biden’s Congress is funding an $80 billion war on We the People."
  Increasing the IRS Annual Budget By Seven Times Doesn’t Add Up
  
• "It’s about the voters you hate and long ago betrayed and abandoned."
  To Dick Cheney and His Ilk: It’s Not About Trump
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "The ruling class desire to wage war on ordinary Americans is now part of the 'forceful mainstream.'”
  Ruby Ridge Remembered
  * * * * *

• Thomas Sowell: "You either believe in laws or you believe in mob rule."
  The Point of No Return

  DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS

• Lloyd Billingsley: "Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg comes out for Sado-socialism, ethos of the Biden Junta."
  An Evil Way of Governing

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Unexpectedly . . .
  62.1%: Labor Force Participation Falls in July, As 239,000 More Americans Drop Out of Labor Force
  
• John Stossel: "Wherever markets are free, one thing always happens for sure." (Make America Puerto Rico Again: abolish the 16th Amendment. Meh, the Build Bolshevism Biggerer bill just made the IRS bigger than the DoD and DoJ combined. - jjs)
  Tax Freedom in Puerto Rico

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Michael Walsh: "If you think the Republicans are going to clean up in the fall Congressional elections, taking back both the House of Representatives and the Senate, with a clear shot to unseating Joe Biden or Your Name Here in 2024, think again."
  These Boots Were Made for Walking
  
• "The bill goes to the House, where it will likely pass, barring any major disputes that have yet to arise."
  Senate Passes $700 Billion ‘Inflation Reduction’ Bill
  
• "The Joint Committee on Taxation has reported that 78 to 90 percent of the taxpayer money raised via new audits and investigations as a result of the legislation would come from American households earning less than $200,000 a year. Meanwhile, just four to nine percent is expected to come from households earning more than $500,000 a year."
  Democrats Reject Ban on Middle-Class Tax Hikes in ‘Inflation Reduction Act’

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

• "Think what happened in the Netherlands can't happen here? Think again . . ."
  Biden Junta's Farcical Climate Policies to Devastate Farmers, Exacerbate Food Shortages
  
• "The leftist government is using climate change to implement what amounts to slow-motion communism."
  Pay Attention to What's Happening to Dutch Livestock Farmers
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Mad dogs, Englishmen and environmentalists beat the heat."
  The Hot Pagan Nights of August

  LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???

• "Virtually all monkeypox cases in the U.S. which have data available, 99%, are in men, the report also found, and 94% are in men who have sex with other men. The overwhelming majority had multiple sexual partners in the weeks leading up to their symptoms."
  One-In-Five Gay Men Who Got Monkeypox Had Sex With 10 Or More People Before Getting Infected, CDC Says

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Only about 14 of the 40 illegals Adams expected to give him his media moment arrived. Needless to say, Adams was a little miffed."
  Mayor Adams 'Greets' Illegals in NYC, but Most Don't Show Out of Fear

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Robert Spencer: "The case raises numerous questions that will never be answered because no one will dare to raise them."
  Gay Married Couple Charged With Using Their Adopted Children for Child Porn
  
• “He was riding his bike and he actually dropped his bike and assaulted me.”
  San Francisco: Asian Commissioner-at-Large Brutally Beaten Outside His Home
  
• "Amid Senate run, Val Demings whitewashes past support for Minneapolis’ far-left city council."
  Florida’s Democratic Senate Frontrunner Said These Radical Activists Would Dismantle Police in ‘Very Thoughtful’ Way

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

• "They're not gatekeepers anymore." (but are they key-masters? - jjs)
  Meet the DeSantis Spokeswoman Who’s Putting the Media on Defense
  
• No one should feel embarrassed about being tricked. Klein was trying to make a point about “fake news” and was more successful than he could have imagined.
  No Matter How You Slice It, French Scientist's 'Distant Star' Photo Makes a Valid Point About Fake News
  
• "There may be hope for the First Amendment, but not for Alex Jones."
  Alex Jones and the Right to Offend
  
• "If you want to see what a company committing suicide looks like, look no further than CNN."
  The Fall of CNN: A Cautionary Tale
  
• Roger Kimball: "Unfortunately, those loud and troublesome pests, though few, control almost all the levers of political and state police power."
  The Grasshopper Elite and Its Enemy
  
• "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) now seems to think it has a place on the table in regulating future manufacturing in space, satellite refueling, satellite repair, and the removal of space junk. How the hell did assigning and licensing frequency spectrum for communications suddenly morph into the right to regulate almost all aspects of business in space?”
  FCC Decides to Expand Its Power in Space

  ABORTION

• "The new Indiana law is set to take effect on September 15. The restrictions against abortion include exceptions for rape, incest, and protecting the life of the mother."
  ‘Devastating Step’: Biden Junta Speaks Out Against New Indiana Pro-Life Law

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• “This particular [junta] has shown that they are the least trustworthy of any administration in the history of the United States when it comes to the lawful rights of lawful responsible gun owners nationwide."
  The Biden Junta Has Found a Sneaky Way to Compile an Illegal Gun Registry

  AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "Is it any wonder the public increasingly distrusts the 'experts?'"
  Say, Whatever Happened To That New Chinese COVID Surge Everyone Was Freaking About?
  
• The study also shows that researchers worked with “recombinant proteins,”  a term that commonly appears in “gain-of-function” research.
  Wuhan Institute of Virology’s ‘Bat Woman’ Is Still Hunting Bats For ‘Recombinant’ Research
  
• "Pandemic restrictions stumble on like zombies."
  After Chinese COVID

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Christopher Rufo, perhaps best known for exposing the excesses of critical race theory and gender ideology in public school curricula, tweeted on Wednesday that he uncovered a teacher training program from the San Diego Unified School District that infuses radical gender theory and other social justice belief systems into their curriculum."
  Teacher Training Progam Shows San Diego School District Is 'All In' on Radical Gender Theory
  
• "Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto [Irish Mickey] O'Rourke, who has taken thousands from teachers' unions, says parents shouldn't question teachers."
  Déjà Vu: Another Democrat Thinks Parents Shouldn’t Have a Say in Their Children’s Education
  
• "ADL sees, hears, and speaks no evil against Harvard’s anti-Asian discrimination because (a) the school won’t openly admit it’s discriminating, and (b) the discrimination is favored by the woke ADL." (Road-to-Hell paving stones - jjs)
  ADL’s SCOTUS Brief: Harvard’s Discriminatory Admissions Policies OK Because College Meant Well
  
• "If faculty are to be held accountable for the utterances of the guest speakers that they invite to campus, possibly at the expense of their livelihood, why would any of them take that risk?"
  Guilt by Association and the Shunning of Amy Wax
  
• "North Carolina is ground zero for the battle over woke primary education at the state level."
  The Flying Unicorn Lands in North Carolina
• "This board is going to lose big, not only in court. First, while the nominal damages are tiny, the court costs are going to be expensive. Second, in November two seats are up for re-election, with Chairman Wesley McCall trying for re-election. Though he claims to be a Republican, that is irrelevant. His Democratic Party opponent should win big. Expect other members of this board to slowly vanish in future elections."
  Pushback: Forsyth County School Board in Georgia Sued for Censoring Parents During Public Comment

  THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

• Margot Cleveland: "In questioning Wray during Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, four exchanges proved intriguing — and potentially insightful."
  Grassley’s Questioning of Wray Suggests Biden Scandal is the Tip of the Deep-State Iceberg

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

• "If it passes, the persecution of religious groups will intensify."
  Will Religious Freedom Concerns Doom the Senate’s Gay Marriage Bill?

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "More than a dozen high-ranking members of the Biden[junta] were previously registered foreign agents." (Biden was an unregistered one - jjs)
  Report Shows Biden Junta Run By Former Registered Foreign Agents
  
• "New York Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney draws scrutiny for personal relationship with "bodyman."
  DCCC Chair Hit With Ethics Complaint Over ‘Unusual’ Arrangement With Staffer

  POLITICS

• Former press secretary for First Lady Jill Biden, Michael LaRosa, said, “I hope he runs. I know he’s going to run. He’s planning to run, as he said many times.”
  CNN’s Tater Stelter: Hunter Biden ‘Not Just a Right-Wing Media Story’ — ‘A Real Problem’ for Joe Biden in 2024
  
• "Here are the Democrat benchwarmers itching to itching to wrest that brass ring from Old Joe."
  Meet the Democrats Who Could Replace Joe Biden
  
• "Views of the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] are evenly divided in the Empire State."
  Polls Show Mixed Feelings for Biden in Dark Blue New York
  
• "The left, the Democrats, and the #neverTrumps, are running scared."
  If Trump is Irrelevant, Why is He Still Such a Political Force of Nature?
  
• "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not at CPAC but is widely considered to be a potential candidate for the 2024 presidential election. Vendors were even seen selling merchandise bearing the governor’s name at the conference, the Dallas Morning News reported."
  Winning: Donald Trump Easily Claims CPAC Straw Poll in Dallas
  
• Robert Spencer: "Strategist touts AOC as Dems’ best hope for 2024."
  The Ditz vs. the Don
  
• "A second Trump term would be bad for the permanent bureaucracy (Democrats) but very good for American democracy."
  A Bureaucratic Swamp Shakedown ia Trump’s Strongest Case for a Second Term
  
• "Donald Trump threatened to kill the liberal golden goose—to stop the shakedown of the white middle class. That’s why they hate him." (white? - jjs)
  The Brilliance of Trump’s 2015 Announcement Speech, Seven Years Later
  
• "Popular Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is not running for reelection in 2022. The two Republican candidates vying to replace him — Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty — lag considerably behind Democratic nominee Maura Healey in early polling. "
  Two Republican Candidates Hope to Prevent ‘San Francisco On Steroids’ After the Nation’s Most Popular Governor Retires
  
• "Sen. Maggie Hassan plays up her appeal to independents. NH voters say she's a reliable vote for the Biden [junta]."
  ‘I Don’t Buy the Bipartisan Talk’: New Hampshire Voters Reject Dem’s Campaign Message
  
• "'Freedom' becomes a leftist sales word."
  Gavin Newsom Lectures Hollywood on 'Values'

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "The aid will include munitions for long-range weapons and armored transport vehicles, according to three anonymous sources, who added that the package had not yet been signed by [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden, and could change in value and content before it’s a done."
  US Prepares To Send $1 Billion In Latest Ukraine Weapons Package
  
• "Theory and practice diverge sharply in this war."
  Ukraine’s War Today: Are We Winning or Losing?
  
• "Over the past week, Russian troops have begun pushing into the frontline towns of Avdiivka, Pisky, and Maryinka – some of Ukraine’s most heavily fortified positions in the entire Donbass. Capturing the towns has long been a high priority for the Kremlin due to their close proximity to the pro-Russian rebel capital of Donetsk."
  After Lull, Russia Launches Renewed Offensive in a Bid to Capture the Rest of Donbass

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Over fired 580 rockets towards Israel since Friday, many of them falling short and landing in Gaza."
  VIDEO: Palestinian Islamic Jihad Rocket Misfires Killing Gaza Civilians, Israel Falsely Blamed
  
• "Like sheep led to the slaughter." (we elected a Marxist gorilla in '08 - jjs)
  Colombia Elects a Marxist Guerilla for President
  
• UK daily The Guardian: “Beijing on Saturday continued some of its largest-ever military drills around Taiwan – exercises seen as practice for a blockade and ultimate invasion of the island.”
  Chinese Military Rehearses Invasion of Taiwan, Island Officials Say
  
• "There is no Chinese government, there is only the Communist Party instructing government functionaries on what to do."
  Our Deal with the Chinese Devil
  
• "If Joe Biden really does want to weaken the United States and reports to Chinese masters, this is exactly the policy he would pursue."
  Who Cares About Taiwan?
  
• "Putin wouldn’t be pursuing this drug war if someone else were still in the White House."
  Brittney Griner: Basketball Player, Vaper, Political Prisoner
  
• "So will Biden cut off the lavish U.S. aid to the PA?"
  Palestinian Authority Declares Its Heartfelt Support for Communist China
  
• In addition to Spain, “Waves of needle pricks at nightclubs and musical events also have confounded authorities in France, Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands.”
  European Nightclubs Plagued by Needle Prick Attacks on Customers
  
• "As America’s founders knew, government does not need to be the exclusive province of specialists and policy wonks."
  The Extraordinary Diplomacy of Ordinary Citizens
  
• "Review: Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything."
  Not Quite Her Majesty’s Service

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "‘The U.S., in particular, will likely have to update and amend its mining regulatory regime,’ authors at the liberal Brookings Institute wrote."
  Even This Left-Wing Report Sounds the Alarm: U.S. is Way Too Dependent on Communist China for Minerals

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Raymond Ibrahim: "A look at 17 years’ worth of killing terrorists - and where it's gotten us."
  A Dead Terrorist vs. the Eternal Jihad

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "Despite that aging, Curiosity’s general condition appears quite excellent, with its wheels the greatest concern but generally holding up. Based on the last ten years, the rover is likely to remain operational for at least ten more years, if not longer."
  Curiosity Celebrates 10 Years on Mars
  
• "I predict this company will likely never fly any customers, and it appears the stock agrees, with the stock plunging in value, from $8.25 to $6.95 in less than a day."
  Virgin Galactic Once Again Delays Commercial Suborbital Operations

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

• “It is ironic that women who discriminate when a situation threatens their safety or their children — a message from our ancestors — are now accused of discrimination as if they have made someone else a victim.”
  Washington YMCA Bans 80-year-old Woman After She Complains About Biological Male In Women’s Changing Room
  
• "Advocates of pediatric gender transition publish a fatally flawed study purporting to debunk the social-transition hypothesis."
  A New Low

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "It was 55 years ago, babe."
  Pete Rose Brushes Off Sexual Misconduct Question At Phillies Reunion
  
• Kurt Schlichter: "Lower your expectations, serfs."
  Everything is Worse - and You are Just Supposed to Take It
  
• Christian Toto: "Ian Haworth's right-leaning series builds on Gutfeld's success story."
  Off Limits – A Conservative Assault on Late Night "Clapter"
  
• The Six Days Seven Nights actress was apparently slurring her words throughout the podcast, according to TMZ reporting. She also told listeners she was “rocked” by a “very bad day” and alluded to suffering “no good, very bad days.”
  Actress Anne Heche Boozed In Podcast Dropped Hours Before She Drove Into a Home, Sustained Severe Burns: Report

  HITHER & YON

• "An anniversary that reminds us of what greatness required."
  America Turns the Tide: The Meaning of Guadalcanal

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