The Morning Report — 5/16/24

Good morning, kids. Somewhere out there, Ronna Romney McDaniel is saying, and rightly so in this instance, "Don't look at me!" I'm not going to dwell on this because what's the point really? Why would Donald Trump, who literally invented the term "fake news" ever agree to going into a XiNN studio, without an audience (though to be sure, like the juries and judges in his kangaroo court show trials, those would be populated by shills and confederates) to "debate" Jake Tapper and Dana Bash? Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants merely playing the role of potted plant.

Michael Whatley and Lara Trump now run the RNC, but ultimately, Donald Trump himself could have easily demanded the debate take place at Sooner Stadium with Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin as moderators. Better yet, Lincoln-Douglass style with no moderators. And yet, this unforced error. I'd like to hear from the full-throated Trump defenders how this is brilliant 11-dimensional chess on his part, but I'm not seeing it. And I support him to the hilt. I'm just not going to pretend that when he shoots himself in the foot, like this, it's brilliance that I just don't see.

In any case, moving on from that distraction, did anyone notice this incident over in Europe?

In Europe's first major assault on a state leader since the assassination of Olaf Palme in Sweden in the 1980s, a socialist opened fire and injured Slovakia's conservative prime minister, Robert Fico Wednesday.

He held a lot of controversial views and stances on causes dear to the globalist crowd, but there is no clear motive thus far. Still, there has been interesting speculation as to what it might mean. . .

. . . Could it have been someone opposed to his Ukraine stance? The Czech Republic is said to be thinking about following its neighbor, which could lead to a chain reaction, even as U.S. credibility comes under duress . . .

. . . The attempt to take out Fico by either pro-Ukraine or pro-globalist forces, then, could be a scenario worth watching, given that so much is at stake and they've all played dirty in the past. This one may well be something that goes beyond local politics and could be well worth watching.

Whatever one thinks about Vladimir Putin, the rush by Junta-Controlled America and much of Europe to escalate what is a local/regional conflict between two unsavory states that has zero impact on our own national security is insanity. First and foremost, Ukraine and Russia have had a troubled relationship going back centuries. Second, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Foggy Bottom's influence over the Bush and Clinton administrations insofar as guaranteeing Ukrainian security in exchange for handing over Soviet nukes back to Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and assurances to them that NATO would not expand eastward towards its border – assurances that were worthless as we now can see, just like Putin – is what lit the fuse on this crisis.

Obviously, for whatever reasons, the globalist cabal wants Putin and Russia neutralized. The military industrial complex plus the Biden crime family grift involving Ukraine (which includes many other crooked American pols beside Biden and his bastard-breeding bastard) must be preserved. In this Venn Diagram of madness, Trump intersects insofar as he exposed Burisma and the Bidens. Hence the Russia Collusion hoax and everything that came after it.

UPDATE: Per commenter"Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey" someone just tried to take out Irish Republican European MEP candidate Malachy Steenson. He happens to be vocally against the mass immigration that globalists are foisting on everyone.

And speaking of attempted assassination, should Trump somehow survive the bevy of Stalinist show trials, as well as overcome the cheat machine that is still in place from 2020, there is no way in hell the powers that be will allow him to take office. Not after years of declaring him and all of us as "literally Hitler." Given all we have witnessed these last hellacious years, every option to take him out has got to be considered on the table. After all, these are individuals who are so warped and twisted as to believe their own propaganda about preserving "our precious democracy." Despite not believing in His existence, God is after all on there side!

And then there's Gaza. And beyond, as Daniel Greenfield yet again squares the circle:

Rafah isn’t just the last stand for Hamas, but for an entire foreign policy establishment.

The desperate effort to keep Israeli soldiers from going into the last Gaza stronghold of the Islamic terrorist organization is about more than the sum of the geopolitical parts.

After nation building failed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and everywhere else it’s been tried, the radioactive ‘Palestinian’ nation building experiment from over 30 years ago is its last hope. . .

. . . When Iraq and Afghanistan went bad, America could just leave, Israelis did not have that luxury. Sharon forcibly expelled the Jews living in Gaza to the other side of a border wall, but despite all the sob stories that the terrorists were living in an “open air concentration camp” with five-star hotels and mansions, walls weren’t that hard to get through even before Oct 7.

Israel has been stuck living next door to a failed 30-year nation-building experiment gone bad. And everyone in the international community is worried that the Oct 7 war will see it taken apart.

Lately the nation building experts have taken to warning that Israel is doing it the wrong way. Former CIA Director David Petraeus who also oversaw American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been arguing that Israel needs to pivot to a “counterinsurgency” model. And then we’re back to “winning hearts and minds” instead of actually trying to win a war.

The Biden [junta] has never stopped insisting that Israel needs a “day after” plan for rebuilding Gaza under a PLO government and some “moderate” terrorists from Hamas. Three generations after it became the norm, fighting a war without nation building as an endgame is so impossible that warfare experts can’t even understand what they’re seeing in Israel. . .

. . . American foreign policy believes that no people or group are good or bad, they just lack sufficient representation or the ability to participate in democratic elections. And that any governments that suppress any group, no matter how evil, are inherently illegitimate.

Comedy gold! And it rings a bell right here at home! Back to the action:

That’s why Truman insisted on ending Chiang Kai-Shek’s repression of Communists in China, why Carter bailed out the Islamists in Iran, and why, based on this stunning track record, we decided that the only way to stop terrorism in Israel was to give the terrorists their own state. . .

. . . “Truly winning this war would require creating some sort of government in Gaza that could gain the support of the people and prevent Hamas from returning after Israeli soldiers pull out,” ex-neo con Max Boot argues in his Washington Post column.

But what if killing Jews is what the ‘people’ in Gaza really want? Just as what the Shiites in Iraq really wanted was to step on the Sunnis and the Kurds, what the Sunnis in Iraq really wanted was to kill the Shiites and rape the Yazidis, and what the Kurds wanted was their own country. And just as a whole lot of Afghans really wanted to lock up women and mandate beards again.

Nation building’s faulty premise is that people everywhere want what Americans want. . . The Israelis have grown tired of trying to win the hearts and minds of rapists, kidnappers and killers. They’ve grown tired of giving them what we think they want and are giving them what they deserve. Maybe we could learn something from their experiment in ‘un-nation building’.

My day after plan for Gaza? Martial law and absolute surrender. And deprogram the children; the adults are a hopeless cause, like trying to defuse a ticking nuke with a hammer and chisel. Muslims understand one thing only; violence. The problem is there are 1.5 billion of them still living in the 12th century while the rest of the world is living in denial.

Can't wait for Jake Tapper and Dana Bash to handle this topic.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The late Kevin Phillips pointed the way toward a populist-driven American renewal."
  What Does Richard Nixon’s Prophet Tell Us About 2024?
  
• "It’s been a long and disgraceful road to the propaganda factories American universities have become."
  The Fall of the Universities Began in Vietnam
• Victor Davis Hanson: "Bidenites believe they can reelect an unhealthy, unpopular, and unsuccessful president by any means necessary. And they may be right."
  The Biden Reelection Strategy
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Israel’s war teaches us what we should have done after September 11."
  Nation Building’s Last Stand in Gaza

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
• IDF drone footage shows “a Hamas terrorist firing at "Palestinian" civilians trying to get aid at an UNRWA compound east of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.”
  IDF Footage Shows Hamas Terrorists Using UN Vehicles in Rafah, Shooting Civilians Seeking Aid From UNRWA Compound
  
• Robert Spencer: A ceasefire, like cutting off Israel’s arms shipment, would allow Hamas to survive. That’s why Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) agreed with Awad: “The American people won’t forget. Biden, support a ceasefire now. Or don’t count on us in 2024.”So with Bitar on one side and Tlaib and Awad on another, the question is only why the betrayal of Israel took the Biden regime so long.
  Why Has Biden Betrayed Israel? Look at His New Special Counsel
  
• "The Obama-Biden policy in the Middle East has been laser focused on helping its ally, ever since they worked so tirelessly to create an executive agreement called the JPCOA."
  What More Can an Ally Do?
  
• "The damage being done."
  Washington’s Betrayal of Israel
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• "According to the report, the Singham Network, which Singham leads, financially supports these activities, exploiting U.S. nonprofit regulations to funnel substantial sums into organizations that fuel anti-America and anti-Israel sentiments."
  Major Report Uncovers CCP-Linked Influence Behind Left-Wing Anti-Israel Protests in U.S.
  
• "The Democrats deliberately encourage lawbreakers, criminals, and miscreants by helping those individuals escape any serious consequences for their society-damaging actions. While targeting and punishing peaceful and patriotic citizens for non-crimes, Democrats also shield and incentivize America-loathing, Israel-hating radicals."
  LA Board Votes Taxpayer Funds for Anti-Israel UCLA Students' Legal Aid
  
• These lists are not about a “ceasefire” or any other cause. They are about hate, naming and shaming those who won’t fall in line. It would be so much easier if these people could be easily identified; perhaps they could all wear yellow stars, in the ultimate show of activist irony.
  Putting Keanu Reeves, Lady Gaga, Taylor Jenkins Reid on ‘Zionist’ Blacklists Boosts Hamas’ Mission

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Murat Güzel, a prolific Democrat donor, credits Bob Casey with helping him get a start in politics. Casey’s wife, Terese, recently thanked Güzel for a $100,000 donation to another Pennsylvania committee."
  Inside Bob Casey’s Troubling Relationship with Erdogan’s Best Friend in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  
• "The Islamic theft of eastern Christian worship rituals."
  Mountain Monks and Muslims
  
• Robert Spencer: "This incident in Savage was a harbinger of many more such incidents to come. All one need do is look at any place in the world where Muslims and non-Muslims, both in significant numbers, live close to one another. There is not a single such place where the Muslims don’t carry out regular acts of violence against the non-Muslims. Why did our leftist moral superiors assume that America would be different? Or did they assume that at all?
  Is Diversity Really Our Strength? An Incident in Minnesota Suggests Otherwise

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

• The problem is that in many states proof of citizenship is not required, apart from the registrant attesting on paper that he or she is a U.S. citizen. The new bill would require proof be shown at the time of registration. An additional problem is that state registrars do not even have access to a national database that would confirm citizenship and current registration status of those registering to vote, and the voter registration drives that are done by advocacy groups do not require them to prove it either.
  Peter Schweizer: Biden Border Crisis Could Increase Number of Illegal Ballots Cast in 2024 — up to 2.7 Million
  
• “This means that there were more gotaways in FY21-23 (1.6 million) than the decade of FY 2010 and FY 2020 (1.4 million).”
  More Illegal Aliens Evade Border Patrol Under Biden Than Other [Legtimate] Presidents
  
• A federal grand jury in Arizona handed down a 10-count indictment, first reported by Border Report, earlier this month against Ambrocio Ruiz-Angulo. Ruiz-Angulo is charged with conspiracy to smuggle goods out of the U.S., possession of a firearm by an illegal immigrant, and possession with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl.
  Thrice-Deported Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Smuggling People, Drugs, .50 Caliber Ammo Across Border

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

• Costello, who advised Cohen when he became the subject of investigation by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, told the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government that Cohen is now on a “revenge tour” against Trump and lacks credibility. His testimony challenges claims Cohen made on the witness stand during Trump’s Manhattan trial.
  Former Federal Prosecutor Testifies Michael Cohen Told Him He Had ‘Nothing Truthful’ Showing Trump’s Guilt
  
• “What you need to understand is that Mr. Goldman, the novice representative from New York, actually does have a personal stake in this case,” Hageman said. “He has stated that he has been involved with the Bragg case, helping to prepare Mr. Cohen for his testimony. So he is firstly aligned with an admitted and convicted liar and perjurer. He’s also paid the judge, Merchan’s daughter’s firm over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for her services. So, I think we’ve got quite a conflict of interest from Mr. Dan Goldman, the novice representative from New York.”
  Sparks Fly When GOP Rep Calls Out Scumbag Layabout Dan Goldman Over Possible ‘Conflict Of Interest’ In Trump Trial
  
• Cohen’s former criminal defense attorney said the disgraced lawyer was predominantly concerned with avoiding prison time. “Cohen kept on saying: ‘Guys I want you to remember, I will do whatever the F… I have to do, I will never spend one day in jail,'” Costello alleges his client to have told him. The statements by Cohen’s former defense counsel suggest that Cohen was and continues to be motivated out of fear of the consequences of his crimes and has been willing to lie to avoid punishment.
  New Evidence Reveals Michael Cohen Admitting "I Swear to God, I Don’t Have Anything on Donald Trump"
  
• "The apparent and significant discrepancy between the purpose of the federal award of taxpayer money and the actual use of that money raises alarms that it hasn’t been used as Congress intended," Grassley and Johnson wrote in their letter to Willis.
  Congress Launches Second Investigation Into Fani Willis's Alleged Misuse of Federal Funds
  
• "Yes. Is it an intentional joke? Sadly, probably not. If anything, it seems that the degree to which a Leftist prosecutor experiences Trump Derangement Syndrome inevitably becomes inversely proportional to their actual competence."
  Is the Democrats’ Lawfare a Joke?

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

• Mollie Hemingway: "The DOJ’s troubles are at least partly the result of an inspector general who has completely fallen down on the job of holding the agency accountable."
  Anti-Trump DOJ Officials Prepare Attacks On His Appointees During Election Year
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "His final solutions for America, Jews and Israel are coming into focus."
  Obama’s “Longer Game”
  
• Meanwhile, a plurality of respondents said they agreed with the statement, “The republic the Founders created has already fallen.” According to Rasmussen, 47 percent of voters agreed with the sentiment. Surprisingly, this number was driven primarily by female respondents, with 53 percent of women saying the republic has already fallen, while just 43 percent of men said the same.
  ILLEGITIMATE: Majority Say Biden HAS LOST Consent of the Governed (When did he ever have it? - jjs)
  
• "Just asking for trouble."
  Republicans Sound Alarm On RNC Security, Secret Service Turns Deaf Ear
  
• One more user said, “Thanks to the weaponized DOJ, this woman will spend the next 5 years in prison! If she’d been an environmental activist, she’d have probably  gotten a misdemeanor! But, she’s a pro-life advocate, so this admin used the FACE Act to prosecute her."
  Pro-Life Activist Gets 57 Months in Prison for Protesting Abortion
  
• "Auron MacIntyre makes the case that our liberal democracies have been irredeemably co-opted by the deep state and other powerful interests."
  The Total State Warns Tyranny Has Already Triumphed

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

• The letter, which was sent to executives at social media platforms including Discord, Google, Instagram, Meta, Pinterest, Reddit, Rumble, Snap, TikTok, Twitch, X, and YouTube, urges the companies to make “distinct interventions to keep online platforms safe and healthy in 2024.”
  George Soros-Funded Groups Demand Social Media Censorship Before 2024 Election
  
• "So, Ashley Biden says that her father, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., showered with her when she was very young, and she thinks she may have been molested, though it's not entirely clear who she thinks may have molested her. There's no excuse for the mainstream media not to acknowledge the existence of the diary or to discuss the disturbing passage(s) relating to Joe Biden's inappropriate behavior with his young daughter."
  Snopes Admits Ashley Biden’s Diary Is Genuine, So Let’s Talk About What It Says
  
• "We're taking these ideas that were maybe just on the outside of the Overton window 10, 15 years ago, and bringing them inside the Overton window, where, frankly, they belonged all along and we're forcing people to sort of confront some of these ideas," Lomez stated. "And I think the left sees this as a threat, they see these ideas and this burgeoning discourse, and this sort of robust, new kind of intellectual movement," he said.
  'Lomez' breaks his silence after doxxing incident by Antifa journo at The Guardian
  
• However, virulently anti-Trump shows have attracted a considerable audience of Democrat hardliners, allowing them to derail Conde’s efforts to restore some semblance of balance. On-air rebellions by the likes of Rachel Maddow over the hiring of Ronna McDaniel, considered a Republican-in-name-only by most Trump supporters, saw her deal canceled.
  Get This! NYT Dings MSNSDAP For Liberal, Pro-Biden Bias!?

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Our economy is unhealthy. Many Americans who should be working are not, as other workers are sacrificing their youth in exchange for declining wages, higher taxes, and a lower quality of life."
  Americans Work Too Much and Too Little: Solutions for Our Unhealthy Economy

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

• "Life safety and environmental hazards are now being discovered through the actual use of green energy sources, which have essentially been ignored by green energy advocates. The bill for ignoring reasonable concerns based on real science is now coming due."
  People Evacuated From Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Center After Solar Panels Catch Fire
  
• "Wind and solar power are not environmentally friendly."
  Biden to Ruin Thousands of Miles of Land for Green Energy Scheme
  
• "Albo is throwing another billion dollars in the way of renewable-energy carpetbaggers. The beneficiaries this time are Australian companies which fatuously claim they can build and sell solar panels in competition with China. Yet more taxpayers' dollars headed down the drain. But, at question, are those living in Australia’s decrepit democracy any longer in a fit state to see through it?"
  Is 'Our Democracy' Even Worth Saving?
  
• "Benji Backer has created a niche for himself claiming conservative politicians can and must embrace climate activism as a way to hold true to conservative principles and win over young voters."
  Beware of Climate Activists Cosplaying as "Conservatives"
  
• The same CDC page suggests humming the "Happy Birthday" song twice to make sure you wash your hands for the suggested 20 seconds, so it isn't like treating us like children is anything new. But except for some extremely self-loathing blue enclaves, Americans aren't about to give up our hot water."
  Get Your Dirty Paws Away From My Hot Showers, Hippie

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "So go home, be a good lad, and don't ever do that again, m'kay?"
  Soros-Linked D.C. Judge Releases Teen Gunman After He Sprayed Dozens of Shots at a Car
  
• "This comes months after a bag of cocaine was discovered in a storage locker at an entrance used by visitors and staffers in the West Wing of the White House on July 2, 2023. The discovery of the cocaine in the White House led to an 11-day investigation and resulted in the Secret Service coming up empty with no leads."
  Capitol Police Investigating ‘Zip Lock Bag’ of Cocaine in Headquarters Building

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance, tied to and funded by Anthony Fauci, formerly of the  U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), was exposed by Wenstrup as having communicated with an advisor to Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) through private emails to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act."
  U.S. Govt Announces Debarment for Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, First Exposed By The National Pulse in 2020

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "REA recognizes that you are free to hold whatever viewpoints you wish."
  Minnesota Teachers Union Expels School Counselor Who Blew Whistle On Transgender Policies: Report
  
• “Warren Smith, who burst on the scene in February when a video of him discussing J.K. Rowling with students went viral, has been fired from his job.”
  MA Teacher Who Went Viral for Being Unwoke and Encouraging Rational Student Debate is Fired From His Job
  
• "The report found that there are at least 18,808 schools across 506 school districts with restorative justice policies in place. Restorative justice policies in practice often focus on conversations between offender and victim in contrast to more traditional discipline techniques like suspension and expulsion."
  Parents’ Rights Group Warns About New Disciplinary Technique Sweeping The Nation

  ABORTION

• Biden is widely known for being a serial liar, but his campaign’s insistence that the Democrat “doesn’t support full-term abortions” is more than just a deception. It’s a deliberate attempt to cover up the [junta's] unpopular, radical abortion actions ahead of the 2024 presidential showdown.
  Biden Campaign Lies to Cover Up the Democrat So-Called Quote-Unquote "president's" Unpopular Abortion Extremism

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "It’s what you might expect from a firm headed by one of the chief architects of the Russia collusion hoax."
  Obama-Appointed Judge Smacks Down Marc Elias’ ‘Absurd’ Election Lawfare
  
• "While the Wisconsin Republican Speaker has at least given vocal backing to calls for Wolfe’s resignation, it appears that is as far as he’s willing to go. In fact, Vos purposefully assigned the articles of impeachment against Wolfe to an assembly committee so that the issue would die there. The committee has not taken action on the articles since November last year."
  Wisconsin’s NeverTrump GOP Leader is Emboldening Election Riggers & Helping Ballot Drop Boxes Make a Comeback
  
• "The Trump campaign and the GOP are suing to stop Nevada’s forgiving law allowing mail ballots to be counted four days after Election Day."
  In Nevada’s Biggest County, Nearly 40,000 Ballots Counted Despite Arriving After Election Day 2022
  
• "And one big mainstream media outlet is throwing a fit."
  A Voter Integrity Group Hovers Over the Target

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Evan Low, a California assemblyman running for Congress in the state’s 16th Congressional District, paid roughly $5,000 to Sing Tao Newspapers for print advertisements in February, according to a FEC filing. The Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered Sing Tao U.S., which is Chinese-owned and distributes papers in California, to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in 2021. (Not even a Yum-Yum hum job? Sigh - jjs)
  Democrat Congressional Hopeful Paid Thousands To Chinese Foreign Agent
  
• For sure Cuellar is a crook. But his real crime was defying his own party and screaming loudly about Biden's open border bloodbath - jjs
  3 People Plead Guilty In Federal Corruption Case Against Democrat Henry Cuellar

  POLITICS

• Trump agreed to this?! - jjs
  Joe Biden to Debate Donald Trump on CNN with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash
  
• "Trump has accepted the proposal, but he should also insist some of his own conditions are agreed to by Biden and, just as crucially, whoever moderates."
  Biden’s Debate Demands Show His Weakness. Trump Can Capitalize On It
  
• "It’s no surprise that Pelosi supports Biden’s desire to hold the June 27th debate on CNN without a live audience.  It looks to be staged much like his campaign rallies, guaranteed biased coverage with nobody in attendance."
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi On Debates: 'Never Recommend Going On a Stage With Donald Trump’
  
• "Biden’s terms were, of course, stacked for Biden—why are we not surprised? The most obviously disadvantageous term was that the moderator must be someone from the mainstream media."
  The Presidential Debate Saga Is Just Beginning
  
• "Republicans need to mobilize ballot chasing operations to reach those registered but unmotivated voters who are moving toward Trump."
  Republicans Need To Chase Ballots From Every Low-Turnout Voter Who Polls For Trump
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "The problem is that every one of their comments are utterly self-defeating, and only work to make sure the left wins. While it is certainly correct to recognize the worst that can happen, these comments are drowning in it, as if there is no other possibility before us."
  Why are So Many Conservatives Such Downers?
  
• Miranda Devine: ". . . as fans of the original NBC series starring Trump from 2004 to 2017 — billed as 'The Ultimate Job Interview' — will know, the winner is not always evident halfway through a season. Sometimes it was the person you least expected or a dark horse you hadn’t noticed."
  Newest Version of Donald Trump’s Apprentice Plays Out as "Hush Money" Trial with VP Candidates Lining Up
  
• "Republicans' top three picks favor dynamic Southern governors to be Trump's No. 2 on presidential ticket."
  Forget the Media Spin — Here’s Who GOP Voters Really Favor as Trump’s V.P.: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• A recent poll shows Trump beating Biden by 9% in Georgia even as he faces an election interference case in the state among other legal issues, such as an ongoing trial in New York. The voters told MSNBC the cases have increased their support for Trump as it seems like persecution to them, with the former president appearing to be a fighter.
  Republican Georgia Voters Tell MSNSDAP Trump’s Legal Issues Make Them ‘Support Him More’
  
• "From the border to hunting, Jon Tester can't stop attacking political positions staked by Jon Tester."
  Democrat Jon Tester Campaigns Against His Own Record In Montana

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Did someone from either the pro-globalist or pro-Ukraine side, which is getting desperate, do this?"
  There May Be Something Bigger Afoot Regarding That Assassination Attempt on Slovakia's Prime Minister
  
• "April’s reduction in inflation, in addition to being the first time since October 2023 when it has dropped down to one digit, also marks the fourth month in a row that inflation has significantly fallen in Argentina during Milei’s now five-month presidency."
  Argentina: Inflation Drops to 8.8%, Reaching Single Digits for First Time in 6 Months
  
• "Dreaming of the end of American preeminence."
  The Xi-Macron Romance – and Big Nukes

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The Biden [junta's] domestic-manufacturing requirements have hampered the construction of VA nursing homes."
  How “Buy America” Hurts Our Veterans

  BALTIMORE BRIDGE COLLAPSE DISASTER

• Illegal immigrants cascading over the southern border are "caught" and given court dates, usually years away. Why is the crew of the Dali being treated differently? They aren't foreign invaders. They are maritime sailors on a ship that, admittedly, demolished a bridge in what appears to be a perfectly placed accident. Are they suspects? Or is the FBI hiding something a bit more sinister?
  The Sailors From the Baltimore Bridge Collapse Ship Are Still on Board and That Isn't Even the Weird Part

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• As a health policy analyst, I recognize that over-treating patients can cause complications such as anti-microbial resistance, not to mention raising health care costs for all of us. But when my primary care practitioner, who also happens to moonlight in another emergency room in the nation’s capital, identified basic precautions that the staff at George Washington failed to take, I became concerned not just that I had received poor care, but that the resident’s attire — one button referencing pronouns, another supporting the SEIU affiliate union representing the hospital’s resident physicians — suggested a focus on things other than patient care.
  When I Went To The Doctor For Kidney Stones, She Cared More About Pronouns Than Patient Care

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Robert Zimmerman: " . . . despite the screams of panic prior to the arrival of this storm, its arrival produced only minor disturbances in the world’s electrical grid, and in fact was proof positive that the many decades of work that electrical companies have devoted to protecting the grid from such storms has paid off."
  The Aurora as Seen Looking Down From Space
  
• "Though the FAA claims this new impact statement is necessary because SpaceX has upped the planned annual Superheavy/Starship launches from 24 to 44, that claim is bogus."
  FAA schedules first three public meetings for Starship/Superheavy impact statement review

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

• "The PEAS is a minimum healthcare benefit plan that Peruvian citizens receive when enrolling in the nation’s public, private, or mixed health insurance providers. PEAS provides for the basic medical procedures a citizen needs and contains a detailed list of outpatient medical care, tests, specialized consultations, and other treatments that patients may be entitled to according to their particular health condition."
  LGBTQIAP2S+ Outrage over Peru Declaring Transgenderism a Mental Illness
  
• "Young men and women are increasingly divided."
  Gen Z’s Gender Stalemate

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Disney marked Tinker Bell “because she is ‘body conscious’ and jealous of Peter Pan’s attention.”
  Disney Cancels ‘Potentially Problematic’ Tinker Bell From Disney World’s Meet and Greet
  
• Christian Toto: "Colorado's Fentanyl Disaster is playing out in a neighborhood near you."
  Devastated is the Wake-Up Call We Need
  
• "It seems like a simplistic question, but the answer is enlightening for those of us who want to fight effectively the onward leftward march."
  Why Is There a Left?
  
• Naomi Wolf: "Two Americas – one Marxist."
  Letter from Salem, MA

  HITHER & YON

• "The thematic problems of 2024 were born in the relatively idyllic final years of the 20th century."
  The 1990s Were a Decade of Failure

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