The Morning Report — 8/16/22

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and despite all the media spin that Trump lied about the DOJ seizing his passports, only to have the DOJ come and admit that indeed they were taken, the most important points to remember about this entire horrific, nightmare scenario is that in a sane and just world, there was absolutely ZERO legal justification for this Gestapo-like raid on Mar-a-Lago, period, full stop. The records that Trump has in his possession were first and foremost legal insofar as the ones in question had been declassified by him during his tenure in office. And the idea of him having nuclear codes is ridiculous on the face of it.

In any case, former presidents do retain documents mostly for the purposes of memoirs, presidential libraries and such as a matter of time-honored tradition and routine. Prior to the raid, the FBI and DOJ were aware of the nature of the documents and Trump cooperated with them, in fact if I remember correctly (and please do correct my timeline and details if I'm fuzzy), they were present at Mar-a-Lago several times to deal with the re-classifying of some materials by the current illegal junta. Again, do chime in to correct me on these details, which are getting into the weeds. Although, that said, the video of the braindead liberal who spouted crap about Trump finally be nailed for a host of provable crimes, when queried by the interviewer to name one of them, was seen doing the "Norman! Coordinate!" boogaloo and replied "I'm done talking." That right there tells you everything you need to know as to why, as Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory would often say "the left doesn't want to level the playing field, they want to clear it." When confronted with the truth and with facts their arguments fall to pieces faster than a drunken muumuu-wearing harridan at a 9/11 memorial service. Same goes for that freak Jamie Raskin when confronted by a random act of journalism on this "Inflation Reduction Act" farce and asked point blank how specifically it will reduce inflation responds "Next question."

In any case, the salient point in all of this is whatever pretext was used to conduct this revolting incident was complete and utter bullshit. To my dying day I will maintain that Donald Trump is probably among the most honest individuals to ever hold public office in the last 50 to 100 years, bar none. Say what you will about his personality or vibe or whatever other things really have no relevancy to his tenure as president and to his oath of office, from day one, he told the absolute truth about what he was going to do if and when he took office. The only "crime" he committed was daring to try to overturn the tables of the money changers and reverse the course of history that as we now are seeing and experiencing are taking us over a cliff, and much of the western world with us courtesy of this Global Reset. Concomitant with that was the other "offense" if you will of exposing and exploding so many myths about the nature of our government and how rotten and corrupt the whole system is to tens of millions of people, myself included, who deluded themselves into thinking the republic, flawed from time to time though it may be, still functioned mostly as intended.

It is obvious that it does not and has not for many years if not decades. And for sure, it is dead. If it didn't die on Election Night 2020 or even on January 6th, 2021, there can be no doubt that August 8th, 2022 put the nail in the coffin. Like everything else Trump has had to go through with the impeachments, the NY AG investigations and all the rest, they are gunning for him, figuratively and I have no doubt likely quite literally now. It doesn't matter that there is no real evidence (manufactured by Hillary Clinton and Marc Elias or not), or if, as one link describes that they violated his 6th Amendment rights by seizing his passports, thereby supposedly putting whatever case they have in jeopardy. "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" as Lavrenty Beria would say.

They want vengeance against Trump for winning 2016 and doing things that exposed the Democrat Deep State Global Reset Crowd as the frauds, criminals and incompetents that they are for all the world to see. They cannot allow him back in power again. So he will be gotten rid of. The estimable Julie Kelly warns us to prepare for the inevitable.

It now appears inevitable that the Justice Department will bring criminal charges against the former president. FBI Director Christopher Wray’s stunt at Mar-a-Lago on August 8 is part of creating the optical illusion that Donald Trump is guilty of any number of crimes related to January 6 or the mishandling of secret government documents—or both. On Monday, the Justice Department subpoenaed another Trump White House lawyer as the legal momentum accelerates.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is doing his part to build the public case while Lisa Monaco, his deputy, runs the day-to-day lawfare operation against Trump. Monaco, a longtime Obama confidant who worked in his White House until the last day, is a rabid Trump hater. She intends to finish what the Obama Justice Department started in 2016 by indicting Donald Trump. . .

. . . This is the legal and judicial circle of hell now fired up to come for President Trump—a vengeful Justice Department run by Obama loyalists working with a weaponized FBI to bring criminal charges against hundreds of Trump supporters who then face the wrath of enraged judges of both political parties. There is no way out.

And at this point, there’s no way out for Merrick Garland, either. Democrats have raised expectations that Trump soon will be in handcuffs; failure to do so will result in a harsh backlash by their own voters this fall. After six years of promises, Democrats better deliver the goods on Trump or face intra-party revolt.

Kelly of course reminds us of the kangaroo courts that have already thrown the book at J6 entrapment victims while scores still rot away in the Garland Archipelago awaiting the same fate. You think a DC jury pool with scum like Beryl Howell and Emmett Sullivan on the bench are going to give a flying fuck about minor annoyances like due process and actual evidence? We joke about the fantasy of frog-marching a handcuffed Hillary Clinton to an arraignment but that is more than likely what will happen to Trump soon enough.

And remember, this is not just about Trump. It's about you and me, especially now that the IRS has been supersized into what is effectively another branch of the same Stasi/Gestapo apparatus that is our FBI and DOJ, DHS, ATF, CIA, EPA and every other bureaucracy that is also now armed to the teeth and authorized to use deadly force if necessary. As Trump himself warned "they're after you." And now they are doing whatever they can to get him out of the way.

This is bigger than merely Trump as a candidate. Trump is quickly taking on the mantle of leader of a movement that could very well become among the greatest political movements in history. Nailing him is a warning shot to anyone else who dares pick up the mantle of restoring America and our freedom. Not just politicians running for office but anyone who dares speak out in defiance of the shackles being prepared for us as we speak. If Trump is arrested and tried, what will be the reaction and what will be the effect down the road?

The world wonders . . .

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Peter Navarro: "Jared Kushner did more damage to the presidency and the Trump agenda during his four year reign of error at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than anyone."
  The Clown Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue 
  
• "Spengler" Goldman: "One-fifth of the industrial nations’ GDP shifted to the balance sheet of governments during the [Chinese] Covid-19 pandemic, by far the biggest and fastest transfer of financial resources to governments in world history. Except for a few communist revolutions, no such transfer of economic power to governments from the private sector ever has occurred and never on a global scale."
  Against the Great Reset: "The Economic Consequences of the Great Reset"
  
• "Going toe-to-toe with the thought police in England."
  UK Cops Accuse the Wrong Guys of Wrong-Think
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "The struggle against FBI violence is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
  Fatal Bureau of Investigation Marks a Milestone
  
• Humberto Fontova: "How the fake news pioneer once served the totalitarian whims of a Stalinist dictator."
  Washed Up, Irrelevant Propagandist Dan Rather Whoops for Joy Over FBI Raid

RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO
• Julie Kelly: "Americans should prepare for the spectacle of Donald Trump pleading not guilty to charges brought by the Biden Justice Department."
  It’s Inevitable: Trump Will Be Indicted
  
• “There has never been a time like this where law enforcement has been used to break into the house of a former president of the United States, and there is tremendous anger in the country—at a level that has never been seen before, other than during very perilous times,” Trump said.
  Trump Team Drops Email Proving FBI Wrongly Seized Passports After Media, DOJ Attempted to Mislead Public with Spin
  
• "The unusual — and perhaps accidental — taking of Trump’s passports could mean that the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be unable to use at least some of the materials seized in the the raid in any prosecution of the former president. Already, it has risked violating his Sixth Amendment rights by seizing materials that may including privileged attorney-client communications, which are meant to be shielded from investigations."
  Alleged Passport Seizure at Mar-a-Lago Could Undermine Trump’s Civil Rights
  
• “The people of this country are not going to stand for another scam.”
  Trump: America ‘is in a Very Dangerous Position’ and the ‘Temperature has to be Brought Down’
  
• Margot Cleveland: "The purpose of the grand jury investigation and raid on Mar-a-Lago was to get Donald Trump, not documents."
  Records Suggest a Backbench Bureaucrat’s Partisan Grievance Spurred the FBI’s Nakedly Political Raid on Trump
  
• "Judicial Watch, The New York Times, and several other media and government watchdog organizations filed motions to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, warrant affidavit, and property receipt shortly after the search. The DOJ made the warrant and property receipt public on Friday."
  DOJ Urges Judge To Keep Trump Raid Affidavit Sealed From Public
  
• [DOJ] claims that doing so will damage the ongoing criminal investigation." (damage the meme - jjs)
  DOJ To Unseal More Documents Related To Trump Raid, Refuses To Unseal Key Document
  
• “It’s becoming a well-worn trail of agents who say this has got to stop, and thank goodness for them and that American people recognize it, and I believe they’re going to make a big change on November 8.”
  Jim Jordan: 14 FBI Whistleblowers Came Forward Against DOJ After Mar-a-Lago Raid
  
• "Will Republicans do anything?"
  Watson Video: The Truth About the FBI Raid On Trump

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "Giuliani’s lawyers revealed on Monday that they had been informed that he is a 'target' in Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis’ investigation into efforts to overturn the election results."
  Rudy Giuliani Under Criminal Investigation In Georgia
  
• You know who else thought his political opponents were dangerous . . .
  Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Trump: 'He's Dangerous,' 'MAGA Supporters Are Dangerous, Many Republicans 'Are Dangerous'
  
• "Don’t sleep on America’s Bad Dream Team."
  Supervillains
  
• "What did FBI Director Christopher Wray do to patriotic, right-leaning agents? He claimed they 'espoused conspiratorial views' and punished them. At least one was fired."
  14 FBI Whistleblowers (and Counting) Can't Be Wrong: There's a Problem at the Bureau
  
• David Harsanyi: "Biggest expansion of the Police State in American history."
  IRS Hiring Spree
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• "Though the riots have been over for two years, Public Health Madison Dane County (PHMDC) recently coughed up even more dough for the town’s favorite subversives."
  BLM-Themed Groups Are Still Getting Paid Not to Burn Madison, Wisconsin

  DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS

• "This week brought a pause on Colorado oil leases, the end to a natural gas pipeline’s construction in Idaho & Wyoming, and the return of a ban on coal sales from federal lands."
  Biden Junta's Successful War on American Energy Industry

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The most recent polling from the Economist and YouGov shows that 66 percent of Biden voters say the economy is either poor or fair. Only five percent say the economy is excellent and 28 percent describe it as good.
  Two Thirds of Biden Voters Have a Dim View of U.S. Economy
  
• "Heedlessly imposing disaster on the American people and their economy."
  Congress and So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Biden Undermine the American Dream
  
• "Even a majority of Democrats don't believe [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden's happy talk."
  Despite Biden Denials, Most Say We’re in a Recession and Gov’t is to Blame — I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• "The Biden [junta] moves a step closer to imposing the Golden State’s chaotic independent contractor rules on the nation."
  Californifying the U.S. Labor Market

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "Next question."
  Jamie Raskin Refuses To Say How ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Will Lower Inflation (VIDEO)
  
• "The waste goes on and on. It's a disaster."
  Rep. Jason Smith: Inflation Reduction Act Includes ‘$27 Billion for a Climate Slush Fund for the EPA’ – 3 Times Its Annual Funding
  
• "Nearly everything Joe Manchin has said about it is a farce that betrays his promise to 'the everyday hardworking Americans we have been elected to serve."
  Is Anything Manchin Says About His ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ True?
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• "The TERM Act would transform the Supreme Court from an institution of law to a panel of politicians."
  Democrats’ TERM Act Would Pack The Supreme Court With Politicians In Black Robes

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

• "Only 35 percent of adults are 'extremely or very concerned' about the effects of climate change on them personally, according to a poll from the Associated Press. In 2019, 44 percent of respondents said the same."
  Democrats Are Celebrating a Climate Win. But Fewer Americans Say They Care About Climate Change Than Just Three Years Ago.
  
• The proposal argued that its prolonged production for five to ten years longer than 2025 is “critical to ensure statewide energy system reliability and to minimize the emissions of greenhouse gasses while additional renewable energy resources come online, until those new renewable energy resources are adequate to meet demand.”
  Newsom Proposes Plan to Keep Nuclear Plant Open, Legislature Has Weeks To Decide
  
• "It was a disastrous policy then, and there’s no indication that it will be any better now."
  Biden Junta Climate Policy Replays Jimmy Carter in 1979

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

• "Bureaucratic inertia has plagued the American pandemic response—and the latest development shows it’s ongoing." (considering the dangers of these vaccines, I can't say this is disappointing news - jjs)
  UK Beats the US to Release of Latest Moderna Vaccine. It’s a Pattern.

  LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???

• "The case is the first known example during the current outbreak in the Americas and Europe of transmission from humans to an animal."
  Scientists Find Evidence Gay Couple Gave Monkeypox To Their Dog, CDC Updates Guidance

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "A seemingly borderless nation yields problems not even Democrat mayors are prepared to deal with."
  Sentencing of MS-13 Gang Member Casts Doubt on Unprotected Borders

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Attorneys allege outdated signature standards to blame for the failure of a petition to oust George Gascón."
  Radical Los Angeles Prosecutor Narrowly Dodges Recall
  
• "Public-safety advocates can’t afford to ignore the link between falling prison and jail populations and rising violent crime."
  The Decarceration Illusion

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

• "The left’s free speech precedent was set years ago."
  The Truth About The Attack on Salman Rushdie
  
• "The Salman Rushdie knifing is the just the latest example around which everything worth fighting for coalesces."
  Surrender Is Not An Option for Freedom of Conscience
  
• "The Left sticks to its narrative, no matter how often it blows up in its face."
  Biden and Harris Rush to Condemn ‘Hate Crime,’ But ‘Islamophobic’ Killer is…A Muslim
  
• "Respect the pronouns."
  Twitter Bans Women Who Complained About ‘Transgender’ Rugby Player Competing Against 16-Year-Old Girls
  
• David Marcus: ". . . how can we trust our newspapers when they err so grievously and refuse to ever admit they got anything wrong?" (they don't "err," David, they LIE - jjs)
  Media is Back to Anonymous, One-Source stories on Trump That We Can't Trust Anymore

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Is this white privilege?"
  Minneapolis Teachers Union Demands White Teachers Get Fired First
  
• "Both the reporter and the people she interviews do a lot of pretzel-twisting to try to obscure the fundamental racism of these contract clauses. Above all, they paint the clauses as good because of their good intentions."
  Today's Blacklisted American: White Teachers Blacklisted by Union Contract in Minnesota
  
• "Leftists control the public schools, and they are destroying our children—and will continue to do so unless we fight back."
  WOKE Education and the Next Generation
  
• "Parents are abandoning schools in large numbers, but teachers are not."
  Education Exodus

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

• Robert Spencer: "The dogma that Christianity is violent and Islam is peaceful is also central to the Left’s worldview, and now Daniel Panneton has done its best to reinforce it. How exhausting it must be to have to deny the evidence of one’s senses and construct a false reality twenty-four hours a day. No wonder Leftists tend to be so irritable."
  The Atlantic Likens the Catholic Rosary to an AR-15 Rifle

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "John Fetterman linked to creepy anime demon best known for enslaving a child."
  The Democrat Grooming Scandal No One’s Talking About
  
• "One of Cheney’s assets is her husband’s firm Latham & Watkins which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party."
  Liz-ard Cheney's Net Worth Has Grown 600% During Time in Congress
  
• "Rep. Danny K. Davis rents his Chicago office from a convicted drug pusher."
  Landlord Problems: Illinois Dem Pays Thousands in Rent to Cocaine-Pushing Butcher

  POLITICS

• "Is he ready to resume his position — or give way to Godfather II?"
  The Godfather Ex-President
  
• "Fueled by adoring media, Democrat money, and her own ego, Liz Cheney will forge ahead through the 2024 primaries."
  Liz-ard Cheney’s Wyoming Fiasco Is The Prelude To Her Gadfly GOP Presidential Run
  
• "Controversial pol is narrowly defeated for top job in a Phoenix suburb."
  ‘Sheriff Joe’ Loses Bid to Become ‘Mayor Joe’
  
• "Fetterman, typically a confident and competent public speaker, spoke at the Bayfront Convention Center Friday night in Erie, Pennsylvania, and made some uncharacteristic blunders, video from WTAE Pittsburgh shows. He struggled with words and took awkward pauses at times during his 11-minute-long remarks." (I assume there will not be a debate with Mehmet Oz - jjs)
  VIDEO: PA Democrat John Fetterman Struggles at First Campaign Stop Since Stroke

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "China’s response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan gives a glimpse of what future conflicts could look like."
  In Its Rage, China Just Offered a Sneak Peek of Its Plans for Striking Taiwan
  
• "The Turkish tyrant draws a dangerous red line."
  Erdogan Blasts Israel For Defending Itself
  
• “Inflation is nearly as high in Peru as it is in the US.”
  Pedro Castillo’s Fight for Survival
  
• "Finnish Christian Paivi Rasanen and her husband Niilo granted The Federalist a series of in-person interviews during a recent visit to the United States."
  Prosecuting Paivi Rasanen For Quoting The Bible Is Making Her An International Star

  BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER

• "Biden was so desperate for this [9/11] photo op that he spent weeks covering up the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and even pressured Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to lie about conditions on the ground so that he could look good while withdrawing from the country."
  NEVER FORGET: It's Been a Year Since Biden's Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
  
• The U.S. State Department’s false designation of the Haqqani network as “separate” from al-Qaeda in August 2021 seemed especially relevant nearly one year later when U.S. [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden announced in a nationally televised address on August 2 that his administration had successfully neutralized al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul on July 30. Al-Zawahiri was bin Laden’s deputy at the time of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
  Taliban, Haqqani Network Closer than Ever, a Year After Biden Junta Claim They Were ‘Separate Entities’
  
• "Elite Afghan forces bring U.S. training to Tehran, according to whistleblower interviews."
  U.S.-Trained Afghan Commandos Fled to Iran With Weapons, Report Finds

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "The new reconciliation bill passed by Democrats to be signed by [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden this week would expand the Obamacare subsidies for another three years. And the pandemic emergency declaration will stay in place until at least October, at which point Biden could let it lapse. So far, he’s given no indication he plans to do so."
  Here’s How the Biden Junta is Quietly Expanding the Government’s Control Over Health Insurance

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "At those Starship candidate landing sites orbital data has suggested there is ample water very close to the surface."
  Cones South of Starship's Prime Landing Site on Mars
  
• "No longer able to make money selling the spare seats on Soyuz to NASA, and apparently not getting much interest from the private sector inside or outside of Russia to buy these seats, the Putin government is now using them for international diplomacy, just as it did during the Soviet era."
  Russia to Launch Tunisian Astronaut to ISS

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

• Breitbart News previously revealed that Carswell has received thousands of dollars in compensation for consulting on behalf of Endo Pharmaceuticals, a company that makes a drug that is used off-label as a puberty blocker for children who are considered to be transgender. (innuendo isn't just an Italian suppository - jjs)
  Boston Children’s Hospital: Children Know They Are Trans ‘the Minute They Were Born’

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "Now he’s 'done talking.'"
  Video: Simple Question BREAKS Leftist Protester's Brain Instantly
  
• "A BBC documentary attributes Islamic and African prejudices to — what else? — the British Empire."
  Diving Into a Pool of PC
  
• "Rice sees the threats. He sees the opportunities. And he seizes the day in The Woking Dead. If you read one book on politics, culture, movies, music, and this moment, make sure it’s  The Woking Dead. This is the smartest, sharpest, and most entertaining political book in years."
  The Woking Dead: Phantoms and Woke Zombies of This American Moment
  
• Christian Toto: "Loss of low-rated Full Frontal and Desus & Mero means less ways to spread liberalism."
  Media Panic Over Late Night’s Lack of Diversity (Just Not Ideological)
  
• "Explaining why there is so much evil in the world - and so many foolish people."
  Prager U Video: Why the Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

  HITHER & YON

• "She knew the Reagans and the Bushes."
  Remembering Olivia Newton-John
  
• "David McCullough’s elegant style and his belief in the American story brought him a wide audience, but the consensus under which he wrote is disappearing."
  Historian in the Arena

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