The Morning Report — 2/13/23

Good morning kids. So, there was evidently some big game yesterday to which my give-a-shitometer registered somewhere between flatline and fuck-all. If it meant something to you, either congratulations or go overturn another car.

Back here on Planet Looney-Bin, also known as the former United States of America and the civilized world, yet more Red Chinese spy balloons are floating over our territory and being intercepted. Yet this musing from one of the Air Force's top brass is both laugh-out-loud funny and vomit-inducing:

When asked if the U.S. military had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for the unidentified objects, [U.S. Air Force General Glen] VanHerck responded: “I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out. I haven’t ruled out anything.”

“At this point we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it,” VanHerck continued.

A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot down shot down the unidentified ‘octagonal’ object over Lake Huron using a Sidewinder missile.

It's so outrageously dumb but the implication is clear: the Biden Junta's calculus is that there is a large enough percentage of the American people who are braindead enough to believe this. It's shrewd and evil, yet perfectly understandable given the fact that since these objects are indeed Chi-Com military balloons – the filthy Mongoloids are incensed that we had the gall to shoot them down despite floating across our territorial borders and even demanding we return the wreckage! – the prima facie evidence of rank incompetence (or worse) is hard to dismiss even for the lowest of LIVs.

It also helps to distract from Seymour Hersh's blockbuster allegations that Joe Biden, consciously or unconsciously, gave the order for the United States military to blow up the NordStream pipeline, a deliberate act of sabotage against the Russian Federation and in fact an act of war. Although, the media's complete ignoring of one of their icons' damning accusations against America speaks volumes. Yeah, they loved it when he attacked the American government. Except this time the government is anything but American.

In February 2022, just weeks before the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, Joe Biden told a journalist at the White House that if Russia were to invade, it would mean the “end” of the Nord Stream pipeline. When pressed on how he would accomplish this, Biden simply stated that he “promised” the pipeline would no longer be operable. 

[Seymour] Hersh argues that Biden kept his word. . .

. . . The sheer hubris of the alleged assault boggles the mind. If, as seems clear, Joe Biden followed through on his word and had the Nord Stream pipelines disabled, it puts the lie to all the high-minded talk about defending “democracy” in the West. No American voted for conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia. Congress did not declare war, as the Constitution mandates. Nor did the United States make any bones of consulting with its ostensible European allies. . .

. . . There is a deeper truth at the bottom of the Batlic, amidst the Nord Stream wreckage. It isn’t just Germany that is no longer a sovereign power—in fact, the very concept of the nation-state has been destroyed. All of Europe is an American satrapy. France, England, Italy, Austria, Luxembourg—these petty powers have no real existence as independent entities. They are neither economically nor militarily self-reliant. They cannot even secure their needed energy requirements without outside intervention. . .

. . . The nation-state died in 1945. The mid-20th century Anglo-American-Soviet alliance made sure of it. American liberals and Soviet communists at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam marched in complete lockstep on the future of the world order. There were tensions, of course, but there was no doubt in the minds of either Franklin Roosevelt or Josef Stalin that the postwar order would be fundamentally leftist.

Both liberals and communists could agree that the highest human aim was the satisfaction of man’s material needs (filling his stomach) and the elevation of the oppressed. For the communists, such a world would come into being with the global revolution of the proletariat. Liberals, on the other hand, thought it could come into being by exporting McDonald’s, blue jeans, and rap music on a global scale. 

In our own time, even this difference has disappeared. The American Left now openly encourages the “marginalized” and “oppressed” to fight back against “systemic racism” on a global scale. American embassies across the planet fly the pride flag and display Black Lives Matter signs. The economic proletariat under communism transformed into a racial proletariat under liberalism. . .

. . . Today, a transnational ruling “elite” centered in Washington, D.C. exerts quasi-planetary rule in the name of “human rights.” It is wrong to call this arrangement in any way American. Ordinary middle-class voters in the heartland have zero say in the methods and ends of this system. Americans, of course, are forced to pay, in blood and treasure, to keep this framework in place. . .

. . . The Nord Stream bombing displays enormous chutzpah from the American ruling elite. But it is also a clarion call for all those with eyes to see and ears to hear: A world dominated by D.C. is a world without freedom and real political life. Europe will never again be a heart of culture and civilization as long as it remains in the thrall of D.C.’s power. Until that yoke is thrown off, Europe will remain a medieval history theme park, its churches empty, its militaries laughable, and its people morally and spiritually degraded. Americans outside the hallowed halls of financial and political power in New York, D.C., and Silicon Valley are little better off. 

Despite the fact that a D.C. dominated world would in fact be a Beijing/Davos/Brussels dominated world with D.C. as a satellite branch perhaps, read the whole thing. It crystallizes a lot of things that I have been talking about for quite a while now; in essence the illusion and myth of both the American two-party system, the supposed independent nature and morality of those in the intel and law enforcement communities and now, at least in part, the need to take a second more serious look at the attitudes of people like Sy Hersh and others on the left. At least to the extent of recognizing and taking serious the ones who railed specifically against the depredations and hypocrisy of our vaunted institutions and not of the founding itself. I am of the belief that there is a radical (pun intended) difference between people like Hersh and Glenn Greenwald and say Ibram X. "Krement" Kendi and Michael Moore.

We have seen first hand what the military industrial complex along with the intel, foreign service and now law enforcement bureaucracies have done since Afghanistan and of course Vietnam. We have seen what they have done not only abroad but to the American people here at home who have dared speak out in protest to stolen elections, cultural depravity, lockdowns and the litany of issues, real and imagined, being used to completely steal our freedom and eradicate the last vestiges of our nation and society.

I'm not saying it's aliens . . . but it sure as hell is an alien culture looking "to serve man" or at least America as founded up on a platter.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The deeper meaning of the American attack on the Nord Stream pipeline."
  Biden’s Bombing
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "Ironically Joe Biden, the media, and the old House majority have provided Republicans the same tools to discover the truth that the Left had once used to destroy it." (not that the GOP will really do anything, let alone real punishment be meted out - jjs)
  Bombshells, Landmines, and Nemesis
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Is there anything a leftist group can do to lose its tax deductible status?"
  The Court Says They’re Pirates, the IRS Says They’re a Nonprofit

BIDEN BEIJING BALLOON-ACY
• "The object downed Sunday was traveling at an altitude of 20,000 feet, significantly lower than the objects downed over Alaska and Canada the past two days, and could therefore pose a threat to commercial air traffic."
  Pentagon on ‘Heightened Alert’ as Fourth Unidentified Aerial Object Shot Down Near Michigan, NORAD Commander Says
  
• "The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) said in a January 30 tweet that the space agency’s Subaru-Asahi Star Camera on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii captured green laser lights in the cloudy sky over Maunakea, Hawaii."
  Astronomers Say Chinese Satellite Beamed Green Lasers Over Hawaii
  
• "U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck, the commander who oversees North American airspace, did not rule out aliens when asked about the unidentified objects shot down over North American airspace in recent days." (infuriating and laughable as this this, the junta's calculus that a large percentage of the American people are braindead enough to believe this is kind of shrewd, and evil - jjs)
  Top U.S. Air Force General Makes Shocking Remarks About Unidentified Objects Shot Down by U.S. Military

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

• "It happened with the Russia hoax, it happened all during Trump’s time in the White House, and it happened again with the Chinese spy balloon."
  "Anonymous Sources" Are How Corporate Media Launder Smear Operations as News
  
• "The Los Angeles Times can make the dots disappear on their map, but they can’t do anything about the murders. That’s why the police are in — and above — those neighborhoods.
  Another Journalistic Disgrace at the Los Angeles Times: a Continuing Series
  
• "‘Disinformation’ trackers are on a mission to blacklist and defund conservative news sites, costing them thousands of dollars in ad revenue."
  Exposé Reveals Shadowy Left-Wing Network Works To Censor, Deplatform Conservatives
  
• "Why liberal education—in particular, the kind that forces students to read 'the great books' widely and deeply—is always a better option than Big Tech paternalism."
  The Racist Poetry of ChatGPT
  
• Robert Spencer: "The glamorization of Shamima Begum reveals the rotten culture of the far-Left establishment." (Aunt Shamima syrup on Rachel Corrie pancakes? - jjs)
  Meet the ISIS Bride Who Is the BBC’s New Hero and Martyr
  
• "Conservative, Inc. has a lot to answer for. It’s full of people who care more about their own fame and notoriety than they do about conservative values, and the fact that it’s coming apart is a good thing. Burn it down. Start over. What we really need is authenticity and principles, not outrage takes for clicks and fame. Our country is burning, the West is falling, and Con Inc. is protecting money-makers over values. Well done! (Cue sarcastic clapping.)"
  Sydney Watson's Lawsuit Against Blaze Media Exposes Misogyny on the Right

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

• Lloyd Billingsley: "A black motorist runs down a doctor and stabs him in the back while screaming about 'white privilege.”' 
  Doctor Downc
  
• Clarice Feldman: "If you’ve ever wondered why you can’t find common factual ground with liberal friends, the reason may be that not only have private outfits worked successfully to censor news, but government agencies as well."
  ‘Shaddup,’ the Government Said
  
• "The disturbing answer is related to how Marxist ideology gained ground in America, the proud home of individual liberty."
  How the Administrative State Subverts the Constitution

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Minnesota lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would authorize state regulators to amend the state’s energy code to 'mitigate the impact of climate change,' which could be used to justify a natural gas ban, according to the Minnesota think-tank Center of the American Experiment."
  Forget Stoves! There’s a Growing Movement to Ban New Homes From Having Any Gas at All
  
• "It will take at least another ten years and $100 million before it happens. Aboriginal children die, while Rae luxuriates in his faux virtue. It’s a perfect picture of our ruling class, our lost country."
  The Passive Perversity of the Canadian Elites
  
• "He confirmed exactly what we’ve been saying was the real cause of high gas prices – namely, his war on energy."
  ICYMI: Biden Just Admitted He’s Responsible For Today’s Energy Crisis
  
• "Sixty-four out of 12,000 scientists agree!"
  Where did the '97 Percent' Claim Come From?
  
• Robert Spencer: Inconceivable? Hardly. This business about wildlife suffering the effects of “systemic racism” coalesces neatly with the Left’s handwringing about racist trees. Remember that back in November 2021, alleged Vice President Kamala Harris appeared at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where she interrupted a presentation to ask if NASA could “measure trees” in the cause of “environmental justice.”
  Woke Biologists Claim Now Even Wild Animals Are Suffering From the Effects of Systemic Racism

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• “Meanwhile, the government’s Medicaid program rolls reportedly inflated, which began draining many state’s budgets."
  Report: Biden Junta Allowing Medicaid Funds to Pay for Groceries
  
• "Biden, for all his flaws and unpopularity, is using this tried-and-true approach to peel off the Republican Party’s newly arrived, working-class voters."
  Republicans Retreat From Economic Populism at Their Peril
  
• "The data and common sense tell a very different story."
  Biden’s Biggest Lie at the State of the Union Address
  
• "In a speech on the Senate floor on Jan. 31, 1995, then-Sen. Biden said that Congress should be honest with the American people about how much something will cost, and how Congress intends to balance the budget." (28 freaking years ago! - jjs)
  Biden in 1995: "When I Argued That We Should Freeze Federal Spending, I Meant Social Security as Well. I Meant Medicare and Medicaid"

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• “The border is just wide open,” said Hawley. “Who knows, by the way, these are just the folks on the watch list that we’ve heard about. Who knows who else has actually come in cause we’re not even able to keep track any longer.”
  Sen. Hawley Says Border Patrol Has Encountered Increased Number on Terrorist Watchlist "Because of Joe Biden's Open Border Policy"

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Homicides, auto thefts or both have surged in Philadelphia, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago and St. Louis."
  Crime Has Risen Under the Watch of Nazi Collaborator George Soros-Backed Prosecutors in Six Major Cities
  
• "Legal action against Epstein’s alleged associates has been confined to civil lawsuits by victims and attorneys general, despite the evidence available for criminal prosecutions, such as Epstein’s little black book and the testimonies in the Maxwell trial."
  Why Hasn’t Anyone From Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Little Black Book’ Been Arrested Yet?
  
• "After Tyre Nichols’s death, decarceration advocates make policy arguments based on visceral-but-rare examples—a tactic they had long decried."
  The Willie Horton Effect, Reprise

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: "Where are the 3-letter health agencies? Why haven’t the FDA, NIH, or CDC offered their own data to refute this alleged increase in sudden deaths?"
  So Many People Recently "Died Suddenly" – What's Going On?
  
• "There’s got to be a reckoning the likes of which we’ve never seen."
  Chinese COVID Response: "Despicable Acts of Betrayal"
  
• Thomas T. Siler, Jr., MD: "From the start, brave physicians and scientists have challenged the government’s [Chinese] COVID narrative—and they’ve been right. We must listen to them."
  Let’s Pay Attention to rhe Experts Who Challenged the Chinese COVID Narrative
  
• "The city played favorites in granting exemptions from the vaccine mandates."
  New York Public Employees Fired for Refusing Chinese COVID Vaccine Sue to Get Jobs Back

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• “To win the GOP primary, this is a smart strategy,” Dr. Keith Gaddie, Oklahoma University professor and political scientist, told the DCNF, adding that candidates’ background in enacting state-level education policy would “no doubt” be a valuable asset to their campaigns.
  There’s One Key Issue That Could Decide the 2024 GOP Primaries
  
• “Belief in democracy had authorized abuse.”
  A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell
  
• “My immediate reaction is, take your kids out of these schools.”
  Baltimore: 23 Schools Have Zero Students Who Can Do Math at Grade Level
  
• "The board doesn’t want to hear it."
  Video: Mother Reads Shocking Porn Content From Books Given To Kids In NY Schools
  
• "Connecticut lawmakers introduced a bill to hide teacher-student communication on ‘sensitive subjects’ like gender identity from parents."
  Connecticut Lawmakers Move To Block Parents From Seeing Teacher-Student Communications
  
• "The bill will need to be considered in the Education and Health Committee in the Senate to move forward. The 15 person committee, stacked 9 to 6 in favor of Democrat lawmakers, is unlikely to allow the bill to see the light of the Senate floor." (just purge the Democrats and declare the law passed - jjs)
  Pivotal Parental Rights Bill to Face an Uphill Battle in the Virginia Senate
  
• A tenured professor at the law school, Wax had sparked outrage earlier that year when she argued, in a speech at the National Conservatism Conference, that the United States should favor immigrants from countries with similar values to its own. Since those nations "remain mostly white for now," Wax said, her approach implied that "our country will be better off with more whites and fewer non-whites"—even though, she stipulated, the policy "doesn't rely on race at all."
  Inside the University of Pennsylvania's Precedent-Setting Effort to Revoke Tenure From Its Most Controversial Professor

  ABORTION

• "The spirit of lawless interpretive manipulation infects too many judges."
  Judge Manipulates Constitution in Attempt to Revive Abortion Rights

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "Here's hoping the new House crop of firebrands can blow some smoke down the Democrat chimney and suffocate their efforts to steal the next election."
  The GOP Will Win by Making Voting Harder for Everyone

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

• "The Dobbs decision brought to the surface the anti-Catholicism of woke progressives."
  They’re Coming for Traditionalist Catholics

  POLITICS

• "At other times he floundered and mixed up things he did 14 years ago with his [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"]."
  Video: Biden "Wonders Where the Hell the President of the United States Is"
  
• "'I give you my word as a Biden' just means that whatever is said next is almost certainly untrue."
  Biden's Right: His Word Means Nothing
  
• "Serial liar Santos, who raked in only 42 percent unfavorability, has 11 percent less negativity than the official leader of the GOP Senate."
  POLL: Mitch McConnell Has Worse Unfavorability Rating Than George Santos
  
• "This [so-called quote-unquote "president"] has delivered." (a dead fish in a bullet ridden flak jacket - jjs)
  Michigan Governor Wretched Whitler Doubles Down On Support For Biden
  
• Thad McCotter: "A weary, wary legislator must stomach the spectacle on the odd chance something important may accidentally escape the chief executive’s mouth."
  Biden Paints the State of Disinterest
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "The Golden State governor and presidential candidate nobody knew."
  Brown Happened

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Roger Kimball: "Marinated in peace and affluence, we in the West have neglected the truth that human beings are geared for war."
  The Forgotten Truth of War
  
• "Beijing unsatisfied with dismissal of Seymour Hersh bombshell."
  China Demands US “Explain Itself to the World” Over Nord Stream Attack Story
  
• "Put another way, who in his right mind would have made Ukraine the centerpiece of America’s foreign policy?"
  Our Government’s Ukraine Obsession Endangers America and Her Allies
  
• "Who started this one? The Russians, or everyone else?"
  The Debate Over the Origins of the War in Ukraine

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The numbers keep rising as crews dig through the rubble of buildings that collapsed when 7.8-magnitude and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria early last week. Those who survived continue to face hardship, in part because of the need for food and shelter as temperatures drop below the freezing mark."
  Earthquake Death Toll in Turkey and Syria Surpasses 33,000
  
• The “ambassador was taken to a safe room by Israeli and local security guards, and one even pulled out his weapon and pointed it at the activists.” 
  Spain: BDS Activists Attack Israeli Ambassador, Disrupt Speech at Madrid University

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Colin Kahl rides a bike to work, carries a man purse, posts his favorite 40 albums every year, DJs on the side."
  Top Biden Nat Sec Official Finds Time To Talk About His Top 40 Albums of 2022
  
• "It’s infinitely more sophisticated now, but Chinese researchers have long viewed our property as their property."
  Chinese Intellectual Property Theft is Nothing New

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• ". . . And the Muslim invasion of a continent."
  The Disappearing Jews of Europe
  
• "A couple of takeaways: 1-Operation Iraqi Freedom apparently didn’t deliver liberal democracy to the Middle East as promised by the neocons. First, ISIS emerged from the wreckage, and now honor killings are more or less sanctioned in the law. It turns out that changing a society for the better requires more than bombs and bullets. 2-This shouldn’t be taken as an endorsement of honor killings, but if Western fathers were as involved in their children’s online activities as this Iraqi man was, the internet in the West might not be so cringe. Dylan Mulvaney might just find the fear of God — Allah, Christ, or otherwise."
  Iraqi YouTube Sensation Murdered by Father in 'Honor Killing'

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "The federal government’s onerous regulations on HSAs have limited their availability to all but the luckiest American workers."
  How More HSAs Could Help Dig Us Out of the Hole Of Disastrous Medicaid Expansion
  
• "The deeper and more perilous cultural decay, if left untreated, could be life-threatening to our republic."
  Politicization of Medicine Is Merely a Symptom of Our Culture's Disease

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• “…the Sun is our astrophysical plasma laboratory…”
  A Piece of the Sun Breaks Off, Creating a Spectacular Solar Polar Vortex

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

• The demonstration, organized by the right-wing Patriotic Alternative group, involved waving flags that read “No drag for kids!” and “Leave our kids alone!”
  Protesters Swarm 'Drag Queen Storytime' Event at London's Tate Modern
  
• "Even so-called moderates in a conservative state aren’t about to object to the mutilation of so-called trans children."
  Matt Walsh vs. Tennessee’s Democrats Is an Eye-Opener
  
• “ChatGPT claimed that today’s doctors & scientists ‘widely accept’ that gender is a complex concept,” Flor wrote on Twitter. “So I challenged ChatGPT to ‘cite a scientific paper.’ And ChatGPT >MADE UP A PAPER<. That’s unethical of the AI Engineers behind chatGPT to gaslight the public. #EthicsInAI.”
  ChatGPT Makes Up An Academic Paper To Push Radical Gender Theory, Professor Says
  
• ". . . concerns were raised about the flag being divisive rather than inclusive, and the fact that it was not an official government or military flag."
  Huntington Beach City Council Votes to Remove LGBT Flag From City Hall

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The piece also weighs the feasibility of getting “a whole nation of people to stop being racist all at once on a Sunday.”
  Leftist Rag The Nation: Super Bowl Featuring Kansas City Chiefs ‘Passively’ Encouraging ‘Racism Against Indigenous Peoples’
  
• "In 2018, when former 49ers quarteback Colin Kaepernick enacted his kneeling campaign in protest of the National Anthem over police brutality, Rihanna said she would not be performing at the halftime show in solidarity with him." (A braindead lefty being hypocritical? Unpossible! - jjs)
  Viewers Blast Rihanna as ‘Biggest Sellout’ over Super Bowl Performance: ‘How’s That Kaepernick Boycott Going’
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "A consulting firm wants CEOs to use psychedelic drugs to be more open to diversity." (you'd have to drop the brown acid to be, or a leftist, which is no different - jjs)
  Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on Drugs
  
• "Sadly, too many on the left define everything by race."
  Actor Idris Elba Under Fire From Left for Rejecting 'Black Actor' Label
  
• Christian Toto: "Superstar vows to set record straight on Fox Nation's 'Cancel This!' special."
  Roseanne Barr: "I Cannot Let Assholes Win"
  
• Heather Mac Donald: "A major Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit rejects beauty and cultivates racial resentment."
  Barometer of Hate
  
• Amity Shlaes: "Ken Burns’ The U.S. and the Holocaust distorts the historical record in service of a political message."
  Shaming Americans

  HITHER & YON

• "With his emphasis on tax and spending cuts, the president created the modern conservative movement." (which is not what we have today - jjs)
  Calvin Coolidge: Freedom Works Best
  
• "Lincoln’s birthday used to be a holiday in America but it has unfortunately been superseded in popularity by dates such as Black Friday, and now Lincoln and George Washington share Presidents’ Day. But American patriots should celebrate the birthdays of these great men and remember both their faults and their virtues, because there would be no America today without them."
  Words of Wisdom from Abraham Lincoln on His Birthday

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