The Morning Report — 12/18/23

Good morning, kids. Incitatus, the horse that Caligula made a Roman Senator, just whinnied from the great beyond to say "Whoa!" I think the fact that I'm not necessarily surprised nor shocked that an aide to Democrat Senator Ben (now Ben-Dover) Cardin was caught in a Senate hearing room filming himself getting rogered up the sigmoid by some hirsute gorilla. For this, he was fired. For also last week threatening and hurling pro-"Palestinian" slogans at Rep Max Miller, he wasn't.

The shocking thing in all this I suppose is my reaction. With all the abject corruption, depravity and criminality that has driven our society to the brink of destruction, I find myself nonplussed by the filming of "A Queer and Pleasant Stranger" in a Senate chamber. The Senate itself and virtually everyone who belongs to what was once known as "the greatest deliberative body in the world" is part and parcel of the aforementioned corruption and has transformed it into in essence a multi-trillion dollar Augean stable of a whorehouse.

There is no introspection, no guilt, no shame and no contrition. Far from it. There is only radiant chutzpocrisy from the filthy deviant in question who, get this, claims HE is the real victim. Of homophobia.

I have to say, I'm at that Howard Beale mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-anymore point of exploding. The Left has succeeded in dragging us down and perhaps in one respect, it's time to just give it back to them right in the face and twice as hard. Sort of like Vivek Ramaswamy over the weekend.

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy suggested Sunday that CNN commentator Van Jones should “just shut the f–k up” in response to Jones labeling the brash Republican a “demagogue” earlier this month. Ramaswamy, who is vying for the GOP nomination for president in 2024, offered the brash suggestion toward the cable news personality after Jones said on-air he was “shaking” during the fourth GOP debate when Ramaswamy spoke because he felt like he was watching “the rise of an American demagogue.”

Jones also called the tech entrepreneur a “very, very despicable person” whose talking points during the debate were “one step away from Nazi propaganda,” the Hill reported. Ramaswamy, during an on-stage appearance at Turning Point USA’s Americafest in Arizona Sunday, didn’t mince words when replying to Jones’ characterization.

“And then you get the mainstream media, you got this character Van Jones on CNN afterwards saying, ‘This is the rise of an American demagogue who’s gonna live 50 years longer than Trump. This is dangerous, I am shaking,’ that’s what he says,” Ramaswamy, 38, said. “Just shut the f–k up.”

“At a certain point, just shut the f–k up,” he said as the crowd cheered and laughed. “We’re done with it.”Ramaswamy is competing with former President Donald Trump, ex-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie for the chance to face President Joe Biden next year. 

As you all are quite aware, I'm not exactly a choir boy in terms of the language I use. My English teacher of a mother of blessed memory, who was as refined, well-spoken and intellectual as you could imagine would certainly not approve (though in private, and mostly Hungarian, she would let loose like a gangster in a dive bar). But sometimes, you have to do what you have to do. And Ramaswmay flamed him but good. "Just shut the fuck up!" indeed.

And for those who don't know or have forgotten who and what Van Jones is, here's an excerpt from his Discover The Networks rap sheet:

Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 “Rodney King riots” in Los Angeles

Founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996

Was active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER

Suspected that the Bush administration “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war”

Served as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Free Press

In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called “green jobs czar.”

Has been a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress

. . . By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a Bay-Area Marxist-Maoist collective that had ties to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. . .

. . . Around 2002, Jones, who had experience as a record producer, produced (for the Ella Baker Center) an album that starred cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. That album featured lyrics depicting America not only as a place where “terrorists are made,” but also as “a piece of stolen land led by right-wing, war-hungry, oil-thirsty … mother fuckers” who “got people of color playing servant to do that shit for them.” Jones himself performed on the album as well. . .

. . . Also in 2005, Jones co-founded Color of Change (COC), an organization that views the United States as a profoundly racist country, and whose mission is “to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.”

. . . Amid mounting controversy over his radical past, Jones resigned his post as “green jobs czar” on Labor Day weekend 2009, claiming that he had been victimized by “a vicious smear campaign.” Jones was later asked whether President Obama had been aware of Jones’ controversial history before appointing him as green jobs czar. Jones replied: “I was fully candid, I mean, about my past, about the ideas that I explored….”

And on and on and on. Colorful bastard, isn't he? People have forgotten the kerfuffle when his communism torpedoed his working in the Obama White House. Of course, that's why Obama picked him in the first place, for a job the purpose of which was to forcibly convert our economy to a socialist/communist model. Yet when the heat died down, he didn't just disappear. He wound up on television. What a country!

The fact that he's even on a national news network and pimped as some sort of journalist-cum-responsible social commentator is an abomination. Meh, CNN and virtually every other broadcast or cable "news" network and the print media are nothing more than house organs for the dissemination of Leftist propaganda. They should all only "Shut the fuck up!" Forever.

While Vivek Ramaswamy for sure is not going to be the nominee, it is evident now after several interviews and town halls with the aforementioned hostile media that he is in command of his facts and knows how to handle the stooge interviewers insofar as dismantling their typical "Have you stopped beating your wife?" bullshit. If only everyone on our side did it his way.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, something curious is happening. People whom you least expected are standing up and saying the right things.

Though first-term Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is far from a Sinema/Manchin type, he has been giving the woke left fits in recent weeks with his right-leaning stances on illegal immigration, the Sen. Bob Menendez scandal, and, most of all, his staunch support for Israel.

Fetterman, who suffered a debilitating stroke in May 2022 during his Senate run and who spent a considerable amount of time away from the Senate in early 2023 after checking himself into a hospital for severe depression, has even gone so far as to take his case to “The View,” where earlier this month he frustrated the far-left co-hosts by among other things arguing that Menendez needed to go:

But to me, I think the more important picture is that we have a colleague in the Senate that actually did much more sinister and serious kind of things: Senator Menendez. He needs to go. And if you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate?

And, you know, Santos’s kind of lies were almost funny and, like, he landed on the moon and that kind of stuff. Whereas, you know, I think, you know, Menendez, I think is really a senator for Egypt, not New Jersey. So, I really think he needs to go, and especially it’s kind of strange that if Santos is not allowed to remain in the House, you know, someone like that —

Though Fetterman has also outraged the anti-Israel contingent on the left by doing things like repeatedly calling for the safe release of the hostages held by Hamas and openly trolling agitators during protests, it was a recent interview he did with NBC News that sent some Democrats over the edge:

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is breaking with progressives on hot-button issues with his fiery support for Israel and calls for Democrats to engage on tougher immigration laws, disappointing some on the left as he shows an independent streak. He’s also continually scolding Democrats for not pushing Sen. Bob Menendez out of office after he was indicted on federal charges of taking bribes and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, which the New Jersey Democrat denies. […]

“I’m not a progressive,” Fetterman told NBC News. “I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.” . . .

. . . Fetterman’s stances have had some conservative influencers suggesting he has more or less turned into one himself. I don’t really see it that way. Though maybe not a hardcore woke progressive, he’s still a staunch Democrat. He’s pro-abortion, pro-Big Labor, pro-“tax the rich,” pro gun rights restrictions, and is soft on crime. But the fact that Fetterman’s been more right than left on Menendez, illegal immigration, and Israel as of late is certainly welcome all the same.

That last paragraph for sure is right on the money. But, what is it about what's happening in Israel that made him break from the so-called "progressives" that he claimed himself to be when he ran? More to the point, does the situation in Israel present itself as an opportunity to win the hearts and minds of not just Jews and others over only that situation in particular but to highlight the destruction wrought by the Democrat Party and its acolytes (and the GOP-e scum who aid and abet them by playing the Potemkin opposition party) on all of us?

As Stacey Matthews says, we're likely never going to win Fetterman over on all those other issues. But then again, when a window of opportunity like the bloodbath inflicted on Israel by Hamas and the insane support it got from academia, it really is time to pounce. At the very least, it's a chance to bridge a divide that heretofore did not exist.

It won't last forever. After "Just shut the fuck up!" silences the assholes, then maybe real dialogue can begin.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Robert Spencer: "The seeds of what we’re experiencing now were planted a long, long time ago, when few Americans fully realized what was happening. Allen Drury did. What makes great literature great is that it is enduringly relevant, and continues to illuminate and enlighten far beyond the context of its own setting and the time and place in which it was written."
  We Can’t Say We Weren’t Warned, Or, the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
  
• "Today’s young people are encouraged to believe that they are traumatized by their personal experiences and the injustices of history."
  The Therapeutic Turn
  
• "The most serious political question is whether we want our nation to survive."
  World War III is Not Possible

ISRAEL AT WAR
• “This massive tunnel system, splits into branches of tunnels, spans well over four kilometers (2.5 miles) and reaches only 400 meters (1,310 feet) from the Erez crossing,” the IDF said in a statement. “This subterranean tunnel system was a project led by Muhammad Sinwar, the brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.”
  IDF Discovers Largest Ever Hamas Terror Tunnel Inside Gaza
  
• IDF: “The soldiers are training for a range of circumstances, including daytime and nighttime combat, as well as urban and rural warfare.”
  Israel Trains Reservists for Military Operations in the North as Iran-Backed Hezbollah Terror Group Intensifies Attacks
  
• "While we mourn the deaths of innocents, we must also give accolades to Israel: a nation so committed to saving every life possible that she risks her own forces clearing one house at a time rather than take the easier road of keeping her own soldiers safe. It is a true statement that Israel protects her citizens with her army, while Hamas protects its army with its civilians."
  The Tragedies of Israel Waging an "Ethical" War
  
• "Israel cannot win these asymmetrical wars, with their ceaseless ceasefires."
  Israel Must Obtain an Unconditional Surrender (Or utter annihilation of the enemy - jjs)
  
• "The pathology of an honor-shame culture."
  Hamas’ Lust for Mutilation, Murder and Sexual Atrocity
  
• Just as tens of thousands of German civilians willingly joined in the Nazis' extermination of six million Jews, masses of ordinary Gazans flooded into Israel on Oct. 7 behind the Hamas terrorists who led the surprise assault. Footage from a number of the targeted communities shows dozens of ordinary-looking Gazans looting and taking part in killings and kidnappings of Israelis.
  'Hide Under the Bed': How Hamas Made a High Schooler's Holocaust Education Trip Unnecessary
  
• " . . . families of several Israeli hostages held by Hamas described the hardships they are enduring and shared heartfelt pleas for the safe return of their loved ones, while demanding 'justice' and calling on the world to recognize Hamas for the terrorist organization that it is."
  Families of Hostages Held Captive in Gaza Demand ‘Justice,’ Warn Hamas ‘Won’t Stop’ at Israel
  
• "While American 'aid' pours into the 'Palestinian' Authority."
  Abbas Blames America for "Deaths of Children in Gaza"
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "The romance of a cause is more compelling than arguments for its morality."
  Reclaiming the Romance of Our Cause
  * * * * *

• In the letter, Edelson said his firm usually refrains from commenting on the positions taken “by those in [its] network” but added that “when certain boundaries of morality and ethics are transgressed, silence is not an option.”
  Nationally Recognized Law Firm to End On-Campus Recruiting at Harvard Following President’s Horrendous Testimony on Anti-Semitism
  
• “You know when change is gonna happen on this campus? When we don’t have to pack up the menorah.” (Maybe if we locked up the vandals, with cement overshoes - jjs)
  Rabbi at Harvard Claims School is Forcing Jewish Student Group to Lock Up Menorah at Night for Fear of Vandalism
  
• "Hamas’ atrocities make for a rude awakening for any Democrat still trying to call himself liberal."
  Will Democrat Liberals Denounce Illiberal Progressives?
  
• "For too long, conservatives have been loath to use government power to defend the republic from enemies within. That has to change."
  If Republicans Want to Govern, They’d Better Learn How to Go After the Left

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "The news comes after seven people, including at least four suspected Hamas terrorists, were arrested in three European countries last week for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks against Jews."
  Canadian Police Arrest Terror Suspect Who Was Allegedly Planning Attacks Against Jews: Reports
  
• "German intelligence officials reportedly believe hundreds of Hamas terrorists live inside the country, a revelation which follows a recent terrorism bust there last week involving several alleged members."
  Hundreds of Hamas Terrorists Believed to Be Living in Germany: Report
  
• "President Gay was a mistake."
  Harvard is Not Listening
  
• Robert Spencer: "Is there any destructive force in America today that they won’t finance?" (If CAIR ever is legally declared a terrorist front group, perhaps the assets of all these "charities" can be seized - jjs)
  Leftist Foundations Have Forked Over Millions to Hamas-Linked CAIR
  
• Last year, Schumer said in a letter of support for CAIR that the United States is "fortunate" the organization is "fighting for the sake of our freedoms." In 2015, he applauded CAIR for its "determination to continue to spread humanity" and to "cultivate and encourage mutual understanding amongst Americans of all backgrounds and cultures," according to a letter CAIR cited in fundraising literature. That's a far cry from what Schumer said during a 2003 Senate hearing, when he slammed CAIR's leaders for having "intimate connections with Hamas" and said the group was known to have "ties to terrorism."
  Schemer Schumer Praised the 'Humanity' of Anti-Israel Group Whose Leader Was 'Happy To See' Hamas Murder Jews

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• "Law professor Jonathan Turley says that, according to the standards that the left established, he aided and abetted criminal activity."
  Is it Time for Eric "Yum-Yum" Swalwell to Face a SWAT Raid and Years in a DC Jail?
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "Have we again forgotten the subpoenaed Trump children?"
  We Are Well Beyond Hypocrisy
  
• "Apparently, Hunter Biden thought he could short-change the U.S. Treasury." (Well, the Treasury is as Leftist as every other bureaucracy so it's not a stretch to say he'll get off scot-free - jjs)
  Beautiful Things, Extravagant Lifestyle
  
• "Garland ensured that Hunter Biden's shakedown would never be prosecuted."
  A Clear Case for Merrick Garland’s Impeachment

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

• Roger Kimball: "One set of laws for Donald Trump and his supporters, and another set for the harassers."
  'Liberty and Justice For All' – A Tattered Cliche?
  
• “Just look at Jack Smith’s conduct in this case. The motivating principle behind every procedural request he’s made has been speed, has been getting this trial in before the election,” Honig said on CNN.
  XiNN Legal Analyst Admits Jack Smith Trying to Jail Trump Before Election
  
• “Very little I can say right now,” Guiliani told press outside the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C on Friday, adding: “The absurdity of the number underscores the absurdity of the entire proceedings.” The former New York City Mayor called the threats made against Freeman and Moss “abominable” and “deplorable”, but insisted: “The comments they received, I had nothing to do with.” Giuliani said he intends to appeal and may even move for a new trial.
  America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani Ordered To Pay ‘Absurd’ $148 Million To Georgia Election Workers

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

• “Jews end up becoming a proxy for everything that these groups hate about our own society. So if you did one of Kamala Harris’s Venn diagrams and you had things that were over overlapping … anti-American, anti-Capitalist, anti-Israel, there is a huge overlap.”
  “The anti-American activists are the anti-Capitalist activists are the anti-Israel activists”
  
• "This is truly shocking:  A foreign national billionaire appears to have affected the very membership of this House and this Committee. The lines governing the districts you represent may have been carved in part by foreign money. The same foreign cash may have funded the turnout efforts in your last elections."
  You Know About George Soros, but This Foreign Megadonor May Be Even More Dangerous
  
• "Unlike today's rioters, the colonists' grievances were legitimate."
  BLM Isn’t the Boston Tea Party
  
• "With no political party staunchly defending Americans’ liberty, the totalitarian virus spreads quickly."
  The Republican Party’s Paper Elephants
  
• Dear Lord, of only this were true! - jjs
  House Minority Leader Wildly Claims GOP Agenda is to End Democracy as We Know It"
  
• "‘It was almost like an open show of my arrest all the way down the street,’ he said. That was the point."
  Meet the J6 Defendant Standing Up Against a DOJ Bent on Collecting Heads 

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

• Yeah, we forced that freak to film himself getting reamed up the sigmoid. Totally our fault, NBC! - jjs
  NBC News Blames Gay Porn Video Scandal on "Conservative Outlets"
  
• Jones also called the tech entrepreneur a “very, very despicable person” whose talking points during the debate were “one step away from Nazi propaganda,” the Hill reported. Ramaswamy, during an on-stage appearance at Turning Point USA’s Americafest in Arizona Sunday, didn’t mince words when replying to Jones’ characterization.
  Vivek Ramaswamy Tells XiNN’s Van Jones "Just Shut the Fuck Up" at Turning Point USA Americafest
  
• "With all respect to Ms. Becker and her investigative skills, I pray that she and this article are entirely ignored until after the war is finished and Hamas is destroyed. Otherwise it becomes fodder to hurt the war effort -- a price that we cannot afford."
  To Win This War, We Cannot Be Distracted by the New York Times
  
• Clarice Feldman: "The White House so far does not seem to be buying into the temper tantrums on the highways, the obnoxious behavior at so many colleges and universities, and the puerile nonsense of unsigned petitions and vigils by those ashamed to show their faces or reveal their names."
  Farhi – A Flicker of Light in the Post’s Darkness
  
• Rabbi Fischer: "From the American founding, to race, to Israel, to much else these obvious truths go unmentioned."
  101 Truths I Never See in the Media
  
• "While he’s subject to upcoming charges and investigation, Baker said he won’t stop his investigation into what happened on January 6."
  Biden DOJ to Charge Blaze Journalist Covering Jan. 6: "I'm Ready for the Fight"
  
• In 2018, Peter Vlaming was fired from his job of seven years as a French teacher at West Point High School because he would not address a student by biologically inaccurate pronouns. Vlaming “told his superiors his Christian faith prevented him from using male pronouns” for the student. The student complained, leading to a four-hour hearing with the school board, which ultimately voted 5-0 to fire Vlaming for “discrimination.”
  Virginia Supreme Court Says Lawsuit By Teacher Fired For Christian Beliefs About Sex May Proceed

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "What if our political class is just getting ready for negotiations when the inevitable crisis comes?"
  The U.S. Debt Is Getting Uglier—And That's the Plan
  
• "The best part of 100 million birds were culled across 2022 and 2023 in an attempt to curtail the flu. October 2023 saw 1.4 million killed, while November saw a whopping 8 million. There were over 4 million slaughtered in the early part of December alone."
  Egg Prices Expected to Soar – Again
  
• "People understand their own economic crunch."
  Media Spins While Parents Struggle with Biden’s Economy
  
• ". . . we’ve learned in recent years that when the left’s theories are contradicted by the real world, they stick with the theory. If the laboratory mice aren’t behaving as predicted, the problem isn’t the theory, it’s the mice."
  It’s Time for the Fed to Ditch the Most Lame-Brained Theory in Economics

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

• "Michigan, California, New York and Illinois have all passed legislation that consolidates authority over land use issues and rules with state-level bureaucrats at the expense of local governments that could have altered their own zoning codes to stem the tide of industrial green projects like solar and wind farms. These policies deprive rural residents in these states of their freedom and local autonomy, while also benefiting the corporate interests that line the pockets of the states’ Democratic governors. "(Time for rural counties to secede from their state and either declare statehood or join the nearest solid red state - jjs)
  Blue States are Stripping Rural Counties of Ability to Prevent Green Energy Takeover of Their Communities
  
• "Plants are better than people."
  Just Stop Breathing
  
• "We in Australia might not be capable of being a green-hydrogen superpower but we are giving Bidenomics a run for its money in the boondoggle superpower stakes."
  Vying to be a Boondoggle Superpower
  
• "All the way to full tyranny>'
  How Far Will The Climate Cult Go?'
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "Let me translate what this complaint really says, and I can do it only a few words: 'Your review didn’t come to the conclusions we want — which is to block all work by SpaceX — so that we can do what we want!'"
  Environmental Groups File Another Complaint Attempting to Stop SpaceX Launches at Boca Chica

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "The news arises amid a contentious debate over responsibility for the situation at the U.S. southern border, with over 7 million people reported to have crossed illegally into the U.S. since [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden took office. The Biden regime presently faces criticism from Congressional Republicans pushing for border closures and a halt to illegal immigration. Caught illegal immigrants are currently given a future court date and released into the U.S."
  10 IEDs Discovered at U.S.-Mexico Border
  
• "The source says the order to shut the checkpoints — a critical tier in the agency’s border security strategy — came as more than 5,000 migrants are in local detention facilities designed to hold less than 2,000 migrants. In addition, more than 2,000 migrants are being temporarily detained below the Camino Real International Bridge II in the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. Nearby, the city’s only other port of entry serving Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass remains shut due to the migrant surge." (Authorize the use of deadly force. That should stop them - jjs)
  Unstoppable Wave of Migrants in Texas Forces Border Patrol Checkpoint Closures
  
• "Border Patrol recorded the highest level of illegal immigration on record with more than 2.2 million illegal crossings at the southern border in fiscal year 2022, according to the Congressional Research Service."
  Biden Junta Mum on Kamala Harris’ Latest Accomplishments as "Border Czar" as Illegal Immigration Surges

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Was it necessary for 27-year-old security guard Eric Harrison to die?"
  When Shoplifters Kill

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "Shortly after the announcement, CDC pushed states to increase vaccination rates amid rising respiratory virus activity."
  Pfizer Shares Sink Following Disappointing 2024 Projections, Due to Low Vaccination Rates
  
• "Those who say they don't need the Catholic Church often need it most."
  Anthony Fauci and the Apostate’s Arrogance

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Robert Zimmerman: "To end [last] week on a positive note, a plethora of stories in the past few days strongly suggest that the bigoted status quo in most universities in America is finally facing some real pushback, pushback that includes the arrests of lawbreaking protesters, actual budget cuts to universities for having racial quotas and promoting race hatred, and the passing of new legislation to better enforce the civil rights laws that have been on the books since the 1960s."
  Is the Pushback Against the Bigots in Academia Finally and Actually Becoming Real?
  
• "And they’re going to be inefficient! And expensive!"
  Are You Ready for Pre-Pre-Apprenticeship Programs?
  
• Meanwhile, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a far-left Democrat, announced plans this week to cripple the city’s “high-achieving selective-enrollment schools” in the name of so-called “equity.” During his mayoral campaign earlier this year, Johnson explicitly promised city residents his administration “would not end selective enrollment” at Chicago public schools.
  From Woke Walkouts To Dumping Selective Enrollment, Illinois Schools Are Melting Down
  
• "In at least eight other states, state library groups have either severed ties with the ALA already or been urged to do so by state lawmakers."
  Texas Education Board Votes to Protect Kids From "Sexually Explicit" Books in School Librariess
  
• "It takes minimal effort on the part of the House to rein in the leftist mad houses that our colleges and universities have become, although it requires a Speaker with courage."
  A Republican House Can Impose Order on Colleges

  ABORTION

• "If you accept a wicked premise, sooner or later you will have to accept the wicked conclusions that follow from that premise."
  Barbarism, Ho!

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "'Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the US Senate,' Maryland Dem's office says."
  Was That Wrong? Cardin Staffer Fired Over Senate Smut Film Says He Would "Never Disrespect My Workplace"
  
• ". . . leaked video footage showed the staffer having anal sex on a table in the Senate hearing room where lawmakers sit to ask questions during important proceedings like Supreme Court nominations. The sex appeared unprotected. Another photo showed the staffer on all fours on top of a desk while salaciously staring back at the camera. The staffer was later identified as Aidan Maese-Czeropski of Sen. Ben Cardin’s (D-MD) office and was fired as a result." (The literal cocksucker is also a Jew-hater who accosted Rep Max Miller - jjs)
  Fired Democrat Senate Staffer Who Filmed Gay Sex Tape in Hearing Room Cries Homophobia

  POLITICS

• “I’m not a progressive. I just think I’m a Democrat that is very committed to choice and other things. But with Israel, I’m going to be on the right side of that. And immigration is something near and dear to me, and I think we do have to effectively address it as well.”
  Leftist Freakout Commences After John Fetterman Declares He is "Not a Progressive"
  
• “The next economic boom will begin the instant the world knows that Crooked Joe Biden is gone, and Donald J. Trump has won four more years as president of the United States. Powered by the momentum of our historic victory, by Christmas next year, the economy will be roaring back, energy prices will be plummeting, the hordes of people charging across our border will have ended—the invasion will have stopped."
  Trump Makes a Big Promise About What Will Happen When He Wins
  
• "The Republican is the clear favorite among GOP voters, with his support having grown by a whopping 26 points since February."
  Poll: Trump Dominance Hits New Level as He Nears 70 Percent Support in GOP Primary
  
• "Since the New Deal, leftists have consistently expanded government power, especially in the executive branch. Trump threatened all of that and still does."
  Leftists and the "Imperial Presidency"
  
• “All of these polls point to voters having already decided against Biden on the current merits. They just don’t think he’s up to the job, whether we’re asking about traits like stamina and sharpness or about policies like the economy and immigration.”
  The Polls for Joe Biden Might Even Be Worse Than You Think
  
• He increasingly questions the incumbent’s prospects for next year’s election and “feels that Democrats very well could lose,” according to a report by Annie Linskey citing an anonymous source in the Wall Street Journal.
  Report: Barack Obama Fears Joe Biden ‘Could Lose the White House’ Next Year
  
• He announced his departure on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, hours after The Washington Post published a story focused on internal disputes and suspicions between Never Back Down, the campaign, and other DeSantis allies that included accusations of “mismanagement and conduct issues, including numerous unauthorized leaks containing false information.”
  Top Strategist Resigns from DeSantis-backing Super PAC
  
• "Whoever ends up winning the 2024 election the outcome will likely be very close."
  Swing State Politics in 2024
  
• "The state is a must-get seat for both the Senate and the presidency."
  Kari Lake’s Bid to Raise Arizona
  
• "Say what you will about DeSantis’ run for president, but we need more governors like him. Where do we find the next one?"
  The Next Ron DeSantis
  * * * * *

• "Is Haley gaining some support in New Hampshire? Sure. But her ceiling is low and her support is weak. She hasn’t really taken anything from Trump, instead picking up a couple of percentage points here and there from DeSantis, Vivek, and others."
  The New Nikki Haley Hype Poll In New Hampshire Isn’t All It Seems . . .
  
• Thad McCotter: "Amidst today’s awful politics, the prospects exist for improvement."
  Part III: Why Are Today’s Politics So Awful?
  
• "For those worried about Trump trashing the Constitution, that ship has long sailed under the current regime. Trump may be the last and only chance to resurrect the Constitution." (Only if it's rewritten to outlaw Leftists - jjs)
  Election 2024 – It’s the Voters, Stupid!
  
• Utah Senate GOP Candidate Trent Staggs: “We see these candidates that are popping up in the continuation of Romney, Mitt Romney 2.0, they’re very much part of the establishment of the Utah swamp.”
  Trent Staggs: Mitt Romney Only Passionate About Attacking Donald Trump, Utahns "Embarrassed"
  
• “If Christie is as committed to stopping Donald Trump as he says,” National Review (!!!!) concluded in a Friday editorial, “it’s time for him to retire to his tent.”
  All I Want for Christmas is for Crisco Christie to Have a Silent Night
  
• "Lots of little moments from this woman tell us a lot about her true character."
  Why Michelle Obama is as Rotten a Choice for President as Hillary Clinton

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "The most corrupt nation in Europe keeps finding its way into American political scandals. That reason is money. As Republicans continue to vote for Ukraine funding, they would do well to consider the risks."
  The Stench of Ukraine Corruption Is Wafting Westward
  
• "A Russian air base hosting bomber aircraft used in the war in Ukraine was among the targets, according to a Russian Telegram channel critical of the Kremlin. The channel posted short videos of drones flying over low-rise housing in what it claimed was the Russian town of Morozovsk, whose air base is home to Russia´s 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment."
  Russia and Ukraine Duel in the Skies Launching Dozens of Drones at Each Other on Sunday

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The political scientist painted a bleak picture of the future for Die Welt, noting that fundamental changes in American society — like demographic change, for instance — is going to make holding Washington’s attention in the future more difficult. She told the paper: “For many younger Americans, including a generation of politicians, Europe is little more than an open-air museum. You feel and are actually closer to Asia and the Pacific region. China is the biggest geopolitical threat for them.
  Europe is ‘Entering an Era of Wars’, Top Security Forum Warns
  
• "Sinn Féin, one of the early Irish nationalist organizations (not to be confused with the modern day eurocommunist party), means 'ourselves alone.' The Irish nationalists of that era fought and died for the freedom to steer their own course. It's a shame that, in the end, their beloved country has ended up as a willing tool in another imperial enterprise."
  Eire, We Hardly Knew Ye
  
• "Surrogacy advocates be warned: When selling babies becomes an industry, it soon becomes a racket."
  The Rise and Fall of International Adoption
  
• "Daniel Ortega, the man the great Ronald Reagan once called 'the little dictator' of Nicaragua, really has it in for the sweet-tempered Nicaraguan beauty who won the Miss Universe pageant."
  She is Pretty and Driving a Leftist Dictator Crazy

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "A 2022 study from the Pentagon found that 77 percent of young Americans would not qualify for military service due to being overweight, using drugs, or having mental and physical health problems. The Pentagon also discovered that only nine percent of Americans between the ages of 16-21 said they would consider military service last year, dropping 13 points from before the [Fauci-Chinese] coronavirus pandemic."
  Gen Z U.S. Soldiers Engaged in "TikTok Mutiny," Discouraging Army Recruits

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "Gavin Newsom wasn’t the first leftist to destroy California, but he has undoubtedly been the most successful."
  How Democrats Like Gavin Newsom Got Away With Devastating the Greatest State in America
  
• "After 20 years of failure, the Transportation Security Administration continues to waste resources, harass travelers, and actively mug air passengers. It is far more of a threat than the dangers from which it supposedly protects us," writes Reason's J.D. Tucille.
  It's Time to Kill the TSA

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "If other companies follow CVS’ lead, patients should benefit from lower prices."
  CVS’ Shift in Drug Markups Could Stop Big Pharma’s Price Gouging

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Robert Zimmerman: "None of these facts matter to the paper-pushers in Washington, or to the politicos in the White House. I predict that the third orbital launch will occur no earlier than March, two to three months after SpaceX announces it is ready to go, as these government agencies slow-walk their rubber-stamp launch approvals."
  Update on Starship/Superheavy Work at Boca Chica
  
• "Once again the monumental scale of Mars astonishes."
  Another minor canyon on Mars that would be a world wonder on Earth

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

• "The 2nd Circuit will allow Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools to proceed in federal court. The court ruled the girls had 'plausibly stated an injury' and that they could be entitled to 'monetary and injunctive relief.'”
  Female High School Athletes Notch Big Legal Win Over Biological Men Competing In Their Sport
  
• “I’ve been assaulted and held for ransom for four hours when these protestors demanded that if I wanted to make it home to see my family safely again, I had to pay them money. The list goes on.”
  "Blatantly Obvious": Riley Gaines Explains Why She Believes Women Fear Speaking Out Against Trans Athletes
  
• The couple knelt in front of Canon Andrew Dotchin, who held their heads as he gave “thanks for Catherine and Jane, to the love and friendship they share, and their commitment to one another as they come before you on this day.” (God is watching - jjs)
  Church of England Blesses Same-Sex Couples For the First Time

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• “This is not just an Israel or Jewish crisis. This is not just an Israel or Jewish crisis. This is a world wide global humanitarian crisis. The Red Cross, you need to get involved, you’re an embarrassment.”
  Jewish-American Actor Michael Rapaport Blasts the Red Cross Iinn Israel: "You’re an Embarrassment"
  
• Christian Toto: "Troubled First Son offers endless material, but NBC series refuses to take the bait."
  Saturday Night Live Won’t Touch Hunter Biden (And We All Know Why)
  
• "Just keeping your sanity in the face of this dizzying unreality is an act of courage."
  The Totalitarianism of Cultural Fog
  
• "Michael Cassidy, 35, a Christian and formerly military officer, tore down the Satanic Temple’s display of Baphomet, complete with a goat skull adorned in mirrors and decked out with a red cloak. He then flipped over the altar that had been set up in front of the statue before turning himself over to police, who arrested him and charged him with 4th-degree criminal mischief."
  Holiday Hero: Christian Veteran Destroys Satanic Temple's Demon Goat Statue In Iowa
  
• "There’s nothing I hate more than waking up from a 40,000-foot nap to find my seatmate’s sprawling caboose taking up half the seat I paid for. But that’s just it: I paid for it."
  Under the Weight of Southwest’s "Fatties Fly Free" Policy, Normal People Will Pay More

  HITHER & YON

• "Like today, Americans 250 years ago faced an openly hostile government that was determined to prove its dominion regardless of cost."
  250 Years After The Boston Tea Party, Americans Still Recognize Government Tyranny When They See It
  
• "The Boston Tea Party was the first expression in history of an American nation that had already taken form."
  The Course of Human Events
  
• "Harvey Mansfield’s new book connects the Renaissance philosopher with modernity’s origins."
  Machiavelli’s World

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