The Morning Report — 4/18/24

Good morning, kids. Let me just get this off my chest. Me calling Malig-Nancy Pelosi a warped, venal C-U-Next-Tuesday is, to swipe part of Martin Sheen's dialogue from Apocalypse Now! "like handing out speeding tickets at the Indianapolis 500." Her nakedly prevaricated words in supposed defense of Israel slid off one side of her halitosis-tinged forked tongue while off the other she declared Benjamin Netanyahu to be a bloodthirsty war monger who had to be deposed.

For anyone who considers himself/herself/they-self to be a Jew, a classic liberal or even a Democrat a la JFK or Harry Truman (and let's face it, that concept was and is pure mythology given the actual bloody history of that party since Burr murdered Hamilton in cold blood), and continue to vote for and support that party is insanity. It's living a lie, unconsciously or worse, with one's eyes wide open.

So desperate are they to cling to power, because they truly are on the verge of seizing absolute power forever, that they are doing everything they can to court a voting bloc comprised of those who excused and/or orgasmically cheered on the greatest mass-slaughter of Jews since Birkenau and Babi Yar (words and concepts now ignored in our schools or if uttered can be cited as "hate speech"), that they actually green-lit Iran's mass drone attack on Israel which, depending on how Israel responds (and they must and will) could lead to a regional war that could go global. If not nuclear.

Insanity. Incompetence. Ideology. Put those three words in any combination you want, with or without hyphens to construct one or more adverbs or adjectives, and it adds up to the same thing.

That's Pelosi. That's the Democrat-Left. But that said, what the actual hell is the GOP? The former will obviously get a complete pass from a media that shamelessly and openly serves as their cheerleaders and disseminators of agitprop. Yet, someone like Marjorie Taylor-Greene gets ripped to shreds, not just from the Left but from the Right. Or to be more specific, from the pseudo-right.

She was among those who led the charge to dump Frank Luntz's useless cabana boy Kevin McCarthy from the speakership for his actions and inactions in either blocking Junta policy or advancing conservatism. That is, the will of the most put upon minority-majority in history: American-Americans. Well, she and others managed to replace him. Yet in the end, all they did was swap deck chairs on the Titanic.

With most Americans absolutely opposed to any further wastage of money we do not have on Ukraine, and screaming for our slimmest of slim majorities in the House to block the Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Junta as it continues to erase our border and flood us with millions of foreign peasants, criminals and terrorists, what does he do? Call for billions more to Ukraine as well as some lesser sum to Israel, ostensibly as a shrewd move to get the Dems to vote "no" and lay the blame on them while getting absolutely nothing in return to seal the damned border and halt the invasion.

So MTG is out to oust Johnson. Is this the right thing to do so close to an election, and with only a one-vote majority in the House? Say what you will about that, but the reason we have only a one-vote majority is because Ronna Romney McDaniel and the Grifting Oleaginous Parasites sabotaged what should have been a red wave '22 midterm election and worse, a wave of sudden GOP resignations that stink of a preemptive strike at Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in anticipation of his return to the Oval Office.

Note, the funding bill for Ukraine and Israel is being lauded by Biden and the Junta and his cue cards indicate that he's eager to sign off on it ASAP, pending the selection/sharpening of whatever color he chooses from his Crayola 64-pack.

If that's not enough, insult meet injury:

The inside story of how House Speaker Mike Johnson was flip-flopped on Ukraine aid starts with his top policy adviser, a former lobbyist whose clients include a number of major companies who have issued corporate statements indicating some kind of interest in the war.

Johnson’s policy director, Dan Ziegler, was–until he joined the Speaker’s office as his top policy aide when Johnson won the Speakership last year–a lobbyist with the firm Williams & Jensen. He had previously worked for Johnson in other capacities, but left Johnson to become a lobbyist and accumulated a client list that included several top companies–some of which seem to have a financial interest in seeing Congress pass Ukraine aid. The lobbying firm for which he worked represents a number of top companies. Lobbying disclosures reveal Ziegler represented many of these companies, including several that have made corporate statements about the war in Ukraine or issued press statements or other public guidance saying it could affect their business operations.

What’s more, Ziegler also represented the highly controversial News Media Alliance, which was lobbying Congress when he worked for Williams & Jensen to push a dangerous proposal that would have severely hurt conservative media. That proposal, called the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA), has died several times in Congress but has kept coming back to life thanks to lobbyist pressure.

Ziegler is not the only one in Johnson’s inner circle who has issues. Several other staffers working for Johnson  have a series of troubling developments in their backgrounds, and as of now it is unclear if the Speaker himself is aware of all of this or not. Either way, this raises serious questions about his management of the conference and his handling of major legislative proposals like the foreign aid plan before Congress this week–and it undercuts the explanation several Johnson apologists have offered up that he is just having a tough time managing a one-seat majority and things would not be different if he resigned and Republicans picked a new Speaker. . .

. . .The Speaker intends to set up a Saturday evening vote in the House of Representatives on the plan that completely abandons border security and instead pushes to funnel tens of billions more U.S. tax dollars to foreign countries like Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. In a string of recent betrayals by the Speaker–the recent government funding plan and last week’s reauthorization of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without a requirement for warrants for surveillance on American citizens–this one stings America First conservatives even more.

Despite calls for his resignation from top conservative Republicans like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY)–who say they are prepared to vote to remove Johnson by force if necessary–Johnson has tripled down in moving forward on the matter, not just completely ignoring conservatives aligned with former President Donald Trump who are openly criticizing the effort, but authorizing staff and allies like House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) to attack them in order to achieve congressional passage of this radical agenda.

But Marjorie Taylor-Greene is an unprincipled, undisciplined, loose cannon wackadoo that needs to shut up, sit down and behave or else, or else . . . or else what?

Meh, what do these bills mean anyway when Joey's puppet masters pull shit like decreeing student loan debt forgiveness – for the second or third time already (I've lost count) – despite a Supreme Court decision declaring it unconstitutional and illegal?

How is that EO even carried out in practical terms? And doesn't the House of Representatives control the purse strings? I'm sure Mike Johnson will be all over this, right? Pfft. Well, at least he's tight with . . . Jake Tapper.

Speaking of the border and the GOP stepping on a rake, the vote to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas was effectively shut down in the Senate by Chuck Schemer. Even if it succeeded, Mayorkas would've been replaced with someone equally ideological and incompetent and nothing would have effectively changed. The Deep State bench is indeed dark and very, very deep.

That said, considering that the open border and all the concomitant disasters that have happened with the massive invasion of foreigners as a result has made it the #1 issue that will decide the election. Dao-Min Yen, martial law and/or assassination by the courts or otherwise of Trump notwithstanding, did the Dems blow it?

Here's something to consider. Maybe this time, the Dems stepped on a rake by not making Mayorkas the scapegoat, declaring the problem solved and screaming "Roe Roe Roe the Vote!" nonstop for the next seven months, or however long it will take to find the counterfeit ballots to put Biden over the top.

C'mon, now! I need something, anything, to cling to!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Richard Fernandez: ". . . the risk from authority can frequently outweigh the risk from disunity and innovation. Among the Global Risks in 2024 must be counted the threat posed by those who in their zeal, would ruthlessly save the world from dissent."
  The 'Disinformation' Game
  
• ". . . as is obvious to everyone watching, the people who are really determined to obstruct an official proceeding are the very legal operatives like Prelogar who are doing their damnedest to obstruct the most sacred official proceeding in the United States: the right of Americans to choose their own president. And that, even if it will never be prosecuted, is the real crime at issue."
  SCOTUS Asks the Right Questions in the Case That Determines the Fate of Hundreds of J-6ers—and Donald Trump
  
• "The Abraham Accords, centered on regional peace and prosperity, brought the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and Kosovo into normalized relations with Israel."
  The American Peace Initiative: Lessons Learned from the Abraham Accords
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "Leftist Democrats recast a murderous gang as heroic agents of empowerment."
  Fundamentally Transforming the Black Panther Party

IRAN ATTACKS ISRAEL
• Victor Davis Hanson: "By unleashing war in the Middle East and targeting Israel, Iran may soon learn that Israel, or America, or both might retaliate for a half-century of its terrorist aggression." (Not the "occupied territories" of this United States. Not now - jjs)
  Are Iran’s Nine Lives Nearing an End?
  
• Smotrich’s remarks come as Israel has still not retaliated for the attack that has escalated tensions in the region and brought the world closer to the brink of a major war breaking out. . . He said that Israel’s response would “shape [Israel’s] position in the Middle East,” adding that it should “rock Tehran, so everyone there will realize they shouldn’t mess with us.”
  Israeli Finance Minister Calls for "Disproportionate" Attack on Iran
  
• "When the leftist mask comes off."
  Biden Tells Israel Not to Retaliate for Iranian Attack
  
• Casey ultimately sided with the Obama-Biden administration in supporting the deal and touted it as a boon for American and Israeli national security. "I believe the agreement enhances our national security and also enhances the security of Israel and the region," Casey told PBS on Sept. 1, 2015.
  FLASHBACK: Bob Casey Said the Iran Deal Would ‘Enhance’ Israeli Security. Critics Say It Funded Tehran’s Drone Strike.
  
• C-U-Next Tuesday. This evil slag cannot go to Hell fast enough to suit me. And she can take everyone who supports her along for the trip - jjs
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi: I Question if Netanyahu Is "Capable of Peace"

  ISRAEL GAZA/HAMAS FRONT

• "The grant is the latest blow to [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden's nascent peace plan, which involves empowering a 'revitalized' PA to govern a future 'Palestinian' state that can coexist alongside Israel. Officials in the Biden administration have demanded that the PA be reformed and then given administrative control over Gaza following Israel's war against Hamas, the rival 'Palestinian' faction that rules the territory." ("Latest blow" could describe Kamala or Hunter - jjs)
  "Revitalized" "Palestinian" Authority Boasts of Rewarding Attacks on Israel With Biden Funds
  
• "Which side deliberately targets civilians?"
  The Death of a Grandmother in Gaza Raises a Few Questions
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• In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Piker — who is also known as ‘HasanAbi’ — responded to calls by Cotton for the average American to stand up to pro-Hamas demonstrators who block bridges and road traffic with an image of an improvised gun which at least 1.6 million people have viewed. Threatening a Member of Congress is considered a felony under federal law. Offenders are often charged under 18 U.S. Code § 875 (c), which states: “Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
  Far Left YouTuber Tells 1.6 Million People to Shoot GOP Senator
  
• "Riddhi Patel, a pro-Palestinian protestor, came to epitomize the cowardice of demonstrators engaging in vile threats and intimidation tactics."
  Unmasking the pro-"Palestinian" Movement
  
• "If this doesn’t show you who and what our nation values and prioritizes, I don’t know what will."
  Pro-Lifers Face 10+ Years For Praying, Gaza Protestors? Less Than 3

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Until a Ramadan mass shooting paralyzes the news media."
  Muslims Among Us – "Good People, Good Times" (Ain't we lucky we got 'em - jjs)
  
• "Actual oppression of women."
  VIDEO: Iran Police Attacking, Arresting Women Who Resist Hijab Law

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

• Shafik testified Wednesday to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce as part of a probe regarding the school’s antisemitism response, NBC News reported. Shafik shied away from defending Columbia University materials misspelling the word “folks” when asked about it by Banks, seeming to joke that “they don’t know how to spell.”
  Columbia University President Appears To Mock Ultra Liberal Students After Republican Asks Her Question During Hearing
  
• "This man should unequivocally never have been invited to speak at a U.S. university, and whether he should even be allowed to roam free around the country explicitly defending and promoting terrorists is an open question. Harvard, by featuring Tareq Baconi, is promoting anti-Semitic jihad."
  Harvard Center Hosting Pro-Hamas Author
  
• "Former president's longtime friend, Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi, warned Israel supporters would 'infest' the Trump admin. . . [Claire] Shipman’s husband, Jay Carney, served as press secretary under former president Barack Obama, a Columbia alumnus whose longtime friendship with one of the school’s notorious anti-Semitic professors became a central issue in his 2008 campaign."
  Wife of Obama Press Sec Shocked by Proliferation of Anti-Semitism on Campus of Obama's Alma Mater
  
• "In light of the FBI’s anti-Catholic ‘Richmond memo,’ the true new resistance is everyday churchgoing folks with families."
  Why the FBI’s Assault on Catholics Threatens All Christians

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The House’s articles of impeachment charged Mayorkas with “the willful and systematic refusal to comply with the law,” including Congress’s law that asylum seekers be detained until their legal claims are completed. (Dems maybe botched an opportunity to hang a fall guy and divert the blame right before an election where the open border is issue #1 - jjs)
  Democrats Shut Down Senate Trial for Mayorkas Impeachment Charges
  
• California has seen an “exponential increase in maritime smuggling.” Biden’s border invasion continues by and, by sea, and by air…unimpeded and funded by hard-working Americans.
  Illegal Immigrants Invading in Speed Boat Nearly Slam into Surfers in Southern California
  
• “When we don’t have money for after school programs. We don’t have money to help our kids get off the street. But yet, we would just blow money left and right. That’s a fundamental problem.”
  Chicago Mayor Faces Criticism From All Sides Over $70 Million Package for Illegal Border Crossers

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH

• “So are you saying it’s Trump’s fault?” Kennedy asked.
  John Kennedy Asks Merrick Garland Point-Blank Why DOJ Let Statute Of Limitations Pass on Hunter Biden
  
• Comer and Raskin exchanged the heated comments during the House Oversight Committee’s hearing titled “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare, Part I.” Raskin started the argument by attacking the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, which the House voted to open in December.
  ‘You Need Therapy!’: Hearing Implodes as James Comer, Jamie Raskin Get Into Heated Shouting Match

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

• "Judging by the way the entire array of Democrat operatives at the federal, state, and local levels of law enforcement have scraped the bottom of the local pond, liberated copious amounts of scum, loaded DNC slingshots, and heaved the slime at former President Donald Trump, I'm thinking you might have low expectations for New York City trial, too. We can't imagine why you'd feel that way."
  Why the Fix Is in for Trump
  
• Miranda Devine: "It must infuriate Biden that all the lawfare that his DOJ and other Democratic prosecutors have flung at Trump has succeeded so far only in turning public sympathy toward the former president and given him a constant ­media presence. Trump seems to have a knack for turning legal lemons into polling lemonade."
  Deranged "Get Trump" Democrats Only Boost Ex-President with Their Constant Attacks, Insults
  
• Deroy Murdock: "A judge who wants to 'Stop Republicans' should not hear the case of America’s No. 1 Republican."
  Trump’s Tongue Is Trapped in Our Two-Track Justice System
  
• "This preposterous case is rigged."
  Black Robe Cannot Hide That Juan Merchan Is Deep Blue
  
• "Because the case centers on hush money allegedly paid by former President Donald Trump to ex-porn star Stormy Daniels to keep an alleged affair quiet, [Sunny] Hostin argued that the right response from Melania Trump could create reasonable doubt for the jury." (Puh-leeze. The verdict was preordained months ago! - jjs)
  Ex-Federal Prosecutor: It’s a ‘Big Gamble’ to Put Melania on the Stand in Trump Hush-Money Trial
  
• "The former president’s fight extends beyond the courtroom."
  Trump Begins the High-Wire Act

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

• Four current and former leaders of the Washington, D.C. National Guard testified to a panel from the House Committee on Administration, alleging two senior Army general lied about their failure to give an order rushing National Guard troops to secure the capitol grounds as rioting escalated. Retired Col. Earl Matthews, then chief legal adviser to the D.C. National Guard, accused Milley of “impeding the ability of the president” with disparaging comments heralding a potential coup attempt that influenced key Army leaders against ordering troops close to the capitol.
  ‘The Idea … Is Crazy’: National Guard Official Says Mark "Vanilli" Milley’s Jan 6. Warnings Led To Deployment Delay
  
• "Can anyone guess who of the nine it was?" (Fish-faced enemy/enema of the people isn't much of a clue - jjs)
  Flashback to 2007: J6 Committee Member Once Called for an "Insurrection"
  
• "Brian Murphy served on the board of a group that pushed to free inmates because of 'structural racism.'"
  Yet Another Biden Judicial Pick Has Ties to a Left-Wing, Anti-Cop Group
  
• "Americans should read more about the Naxalite movement. There are echoes of the past in current American left-wing activism."
  An Indian Precedent for American Upper Middle Class Radicalism
  
• "The WCN moniker must be rejected for what it is: a social (and socialist) construct without foundation in reality."
  White Christian Nationalism: Threat or Mirage?

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

• "Johnson joined Tapper remotely from outside the House floor in the Capitol as a handful of reporters looked on. He remarked during the interview that he had known Tapper, a proven leftwing partisan known for broadcasting false claims, for a long time."
  Mike Johnson Praises CNN’s Jake Tapper Off-Air: "You’re Always Fair"
  
• “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done,” she said.
  NPR Chief Bragged About Taking Censorship Orders From Feds as Head of Wikipedia
  
• Christopher Rufo: "NPR’s new CEO exemplifies the ideological capture of America’s institutions."
  Quotations from Chairman Maher
  
• "The radical new CEO is just the tip of the iceberg. Among America’s elites, her views are par for the course."
  It’s Bigger Than NPR’s Katherine Maher
  
• "Has there ever been a more hypocritically thin-skinned occupation than journalism?"
  In True Journalistic Fashion, NPR Can’t Take What It Dishes Out
  
• "Watch out for your thought crimes."
  "Public" Radio isn’t Dedicated to the Masses
  
• "Our mainstream press has abandoned its sentinel post, leaving America vulnerable as we move toward the most important election in generations."
  The Price of Surrendering Speech

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Sohrab Ahmari: “Hawley’s pathbreaking alliance with the Teamsters is good news for workers.”
  Josh Hawley’s Labor Revolution
  
• "Big government has a big appetite and a big ego. And those in power will sleep well, knowing that they have made the world a better place by forcing you to take a pill that they will never even have to see."
  Four More Years, No More Money
  
• David Harsanyi: "It is no surprise the leader of what is allegedly the greatest deliberative lawmaking body in the world — tasked with checking the power of the executive branch — is telling us he will sell out the legislative branch for a few votes. . . These are the same people, incidentally, who’ve deputized themselves as democracy’s great defenders. Thank you, heroes."
  Don’t Fall For Democrats’ Dishonest, Unconstitutional, Norm-Busting, Vote-Buying Student-Loan Racket
  
• "Anything to buy the youth vote."
  Biden’s Latest Assault on the Constitution’s Separation of Powers

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

• As the list documents, [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden has consistently issued anti-energy executive orders, while canceling and denying leases and drilling permits. Additionally, his [junta] has issued regulatory rules that have increased compliance costs and requirements and allowed for restrictions based on subjective environmental and social judgements. The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] and Democrats have also pushed to impose new punitive taxes and fees on domestic oil and gas producers.
  Report Lists 200 Ways Biden, Dems Have Deliberately Obstructed Domestic Energy Production
  
• The layoffs at Rivian will affect around 1% of the company’s staff as they continue to look for ways to cut costs to bolster struggling profits due to less-than-expected EV sales, the company confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Rivian announced in February that it was laying off 10% of its workforce after it released its 2024 production forecast, which was well below analyst expectations, according to Reuters.
  Electric Vehicle Maker Launches Another Round of Layoffs as Demand Slows
  
• "The belief that mandates and massive subsidies can summon a world without fossil fuels is magical thinking."
  When Politics and Physics Collide

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "In the debate over gun rights and regulations, it's imperative to remember that the goal should be to create a safer American society while respecting the foundational principles of liberty and self-defense."
  Do Strict Gun Laws Actually Prevent Gun Violence?

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• “He is devastated and concerned that the racism label on his school record will harm his future goal of receiving a track scholarship. We are concerned that he will fall behind in his classes due to being absent for three consecutive days.” (This is how they get you to comply - jjs)
  School Suspends Teen for Saying "Illegal Alien"
  
• Move over gender-benders - now, interspecies "identity" is all the rage. 
  4th Graders Shown 'Inclusivity' Video About a Puppet Dog Who Thinks He's a Cat

  ABORTION

• 66 percent of American voters believe abortion should not be legal past three months, according to Rasmussen Reports. At three months, an unborn baby has developed sex characteristics, is developing all of his or her organs and facial features, is growing fingernails and toenails, and is even “starting to explore a bit by doing things like opening and closing its fists and mouth,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
  Poll: Most Voters Do Not Support Abortion Throughout Pregnancy
  
• "Abortion is one of those issues, like the death penalty, that should be left in the hands of the states to decide."
  Abortion Best Decided at the State Level

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Margot Cleveland: "For political reasons, Los Angeles DA George Gascon dismissed the criminal charges against Konnech CEO Eugene Yu, says the lead prosecutor on the case."
  Prosecutor: California DA Dropped Bombshell Election Data Case Because It Might Help Trump
  
• "Maine is the latest entrant in the leftist interstate Popular Vote compact, but is the NPV an exercise in futility?"
  ‘National Popular Vote’ Scheme Aims To Erase Electoral College’s Protections For States

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Lobbying disclosures reveal [Dan] Ziegler represented many of these companies, including several that have made corporate statements about the war in Ukraine or issued press statements or other public guidance saying it could affect their business operations. What’s more, Ziegler also represented the highly controversial News Media Alliance, which was lobbying Congress when he worked for Williams & Jensen to push a dangerous proposal that would have severely hurt conservative media. That proposal, called the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA), has died several times in Congress but has kept coming back to life thanks to lobbyist pressure."
  Mike Johnson’s Top Policy Adviser Is Former Lobbyist: Clients Have Corporate Interest in Ukraine War

  POLITICS

• "If you evaluate Trump’s actions while in office and his core positions on the most important issues of our time, there is strong evidence that he is not the least bit extreme in his views." (Except to the Maoists in power, he and we who crave America as it was, we are the extremists - jjs)
  The Power of Moderate Populism
  
• "'The buck stops with me,' Eugene Vindman says after top Democrat calls him 'ignorant.'"
  Dem House Candidate Vindman [the Siamese-Bearclaw] Calls To Change Virginia State Flag After Posing With Confederate-Era Version

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• “I don’t know quite what to make of it,” Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley told Business Insider in March. “I mean, if they’ll actually pay it back, then okay, that would be one thing. But I assume they won’t, right? I mean, if they had the money, wouldn’t they be spending it?” “It’s like you getting a loan on a car that’s blown up,” Republican South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman told Semafor in March. “No engine, no tires. How do you get paid back?”
  There’s a Huge Caveat Tucked Away in Congress’ New Plan to Loan Ukraine Billions in Aid
  
• "The battle this ‘wartime speaker’ is ready to fight isn’t at home for his voters but nearly 5,000 miles and an ocean away."
  Mike Johnson Promised To Fix The Border Before Funneling Money Overseas. He’s Doing The Opposite
  
• “This would not have happened if Ukraine had received enough air defense equipment." (Or if you just agreed to an armistice, give up territory and stop needless bloodshed, you crooked clown - jjs)
  Russian missile strike kills 14 near Kyiv, Zelensky blames West for lack of support

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "This is what the postliberal, post-Christian era looks like: police in riot gear, cracking down on a peaceful assembly."
  In Postliberal Brussels, A Mayor Sends Police To Shut Down NatCon
  
• Denmark’s Deputy Prime Minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, called the fire “our own Notre Dame moment.”
  In Denmark, Copenhagen’s Iconic Stock Exchange Spire Collapses During Blaze

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Chinese diplomats reportedly met with Capitol Hill offices to lobby on behalf of TikTok after the legislation was overwhelmingly passed in March by the U.S. House of Representatives, making its way over to the Senate for review. Congressional staffers, one of whom worked for the House and the other for the Senate, told Politico that the Chinese Embassy did not initially mention TikTok when it sought out meetings on Capitol Hill."
  Report: China Covertly Lobbying Congress on TikTok
  
• “That’s taking time when they go in for their upgrades, and that’s taking a little bit longer than expected” (Recommission it as the USS Senator Ma'am. Problem solved - jjs)
  USS Boxer, Amphibious Assault Ship Carrying Hundreds of Marines, Forced to Return to Port for Repairs Two Weeks After Deploying

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "The report, from the American Accountability Foundation, found that three asset managers used by the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) have used money from state retirement accounts to support shareholder proposals rooted in woke politics and environmental, social, and governance principles. According to the report, three firms — State Street Global Advisors, Newton Capital Management, and Westfield Capital Management — have used some of the $1.7 billion they manage for OPERS’ portfolio to support at least 216 ESG-tinged proposals that take aim at the oil industry and push leftist social values."
  Watchdog Warns About ‘Weaponization’ Of Red State’s Pension Funds For Leftist Causes
  
• "The Dearborn, Michigan-based carmaker said some 402,978 2021-2024 Ford Bronco Sport vehicles and 53,587 2022-2023 Ford Maverick vehicles would be recalled, according to its safety recall report submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)." (And during OJ Simpson Ride Month! - jjs)
  Ford Recalls Over 450,000 Vehicles Over Potential Battery Detection Flaw

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Health officials call for ‘urgent measures’ to contain the virus, which appears to be spread primarily through sexual transmission.
  Researchers Warn of Mutant Monkeypox Strain with ‘Pandemic Potential’, Discovered in Congo Village
  
• Chinese state media reported the patient underwent a procedure in 2022 at a clinic called “Chumeiren” that has since been shut down. The clinic advertised an exclusive procedure using “CRT autologous collagen regeneration technology.” China’s state-run Global Times explained this procedure was touted as involving “no surgery or synthetic implants, instead utilizing the consumer’s own blood tissue for cultivation, promising a 20-minute procedure resulting in larger breasts.”
  Chinese Firm Caught Injecting Women with Camel, Bat, Chimpanzee ‘Fillers’ for Breast Augmentation

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Robert Zimmerman: "The article confirms what I had speculated last week, that the Coastal Commission wants to find ways to impose its regulatory power over commercial launches inside Vandenberg, expressly to limit or stop those launches."
  Confirmed: California’s coastal commission is looking for ways to block SpaceX launches at Vandenberg
  
• "That Juno captures plumes like this on every close fly-by tells us the extend of activity that is on-going on the moon. Basically, eruptions are continuous and never ending."
  Io on Juno’s 60th close fly-by of Jupiter (You can see "Con-Am 27" if you look real close - jjs)
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "There’s the Right Stuff and the Woke Stuff. NASA no longer has the right stuff, so all it’s got is the DEI stuff." (They can plant the flag up the Sheila Jackass-Lee crevasse; the rainbow flag - jjs)
  New NASA Mars Crew Has a Muslim, No White People

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

• Missouri AG Andrew Bailey recently obtained a court order from St. Louis City Circuit Court that would force Planned Parenthood-St. Louis to give the Republican attorney general documentation regarding so-called “gender transitions” of minors. Bailey then vowed to get “to the bottom of how this clandestine network of clinics has subjected children to puberty blockers and irreversible surgery, often without parental consent.” Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood and its medical affiliates are reportedly doing their best to refuse giving information. Why? What are they hiding?
  Is Planned Parenthood Trans-ing Kids Without Parental Consent?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: "Ungentlemanly Warfare star lashes out at Florida Republican in latest hard-Left rant." (or How to Alienate a Mass Audience in 10 Seconds - jjs)
  Alan Ritchson Doubles Down on Cops, Attacks DeSantis
  
• In addition to being objectified for her obvious endowments — particularly by the rotten industry in which she works — she's also an object of our increasingly ugly culture wars. She risks becoming persona non grata in Hollywood, now that "her looks [are] being used by right-wing commenters as a valid argument that 'woke is dead'."
  A Hollywood Producer's One-Woman War Against . . . Sydney Sweeney's Looks?
  
• Popular YouTuber and critic Richard C. Meyer summed up DC Comics' work as “the comic book equivalent of a gay bar.” Despite its over-the-top changes to fan-loved characters' sexualities, nothing has been as egregious as a recent issue of Wonder Woman by Tom King that paints Donald Trump and Christians as villains. (These days, with junk-tucking freaks being pimped as the second coming of Rosa Parks, it's a wonder if she's actually a woman - jjs)
  DC Comics Turns Wonder Woman Into Anti-MAGA, Anti-Christian Rant
  
• "One drag performer who was planning an event in collaboration with the Smithsonian before its abrupt cancellation was Wyn Wylie, a far-left, anti-white extremist who performs under the moniker ‘Pattie Gonia.’" (Tuck-his Carlson - jjs)
  Smithsonian Eliminates Drag Shows Following Investigation
  
• "Of course, this is all a bad dream. Of course."
  Blood Insanity

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