The Morning Report — 8/12/24

Good Morning Kids. So, Tim Walz is a lying, crooked, inept, power-mad fraud. Is this really surprising? Look who selected him to be her running mate. Look at the party and political movemement that they are a part of.

The strategy of the Biden-Harris—er, make that the “Harris-Walz” campaign depends on people being dazzled by their theater of the absurd.  Both candidates claim now to believe things they have spent the last decades attacking.  But their supposed conversion is not the result of any heavenly illumination.  It’s not like Saul falling to the ground on the road to Damascus. Rather, it is an abracadabra sort of conversion, i.e., no conversion at all, merely subterfuge.  It’s an elaborate show we are being treated to, replete with fake polls showing Harris-Walz ahead in some swing states. . .

. . . Already, the façade is cracking as more and more devastating videos come to light about both candidates. The ridicule machine of Trump and his allies is only getting cranked up. More, much more, will be coming to an internet search near you.

As I say, this show is scheduled to run at least until November 5, maybe longer, depending on how much election fraud the Democrats are allowed to indulge in. But there will be occasional intermissions during which the deciding question will be pressed upon all of us theatergoers. Is this campaign about mood and emotion—is it, I mean, essentially a female campaign?  Or is it a matter of competing policies, of things like peace, prosperity, individual liberty, and economic competitiveness?

I am betting that, when the Chardonnay is gone and paper masks no longer fit, every robust voter will decide that he wants to live in the real world of common sense, not the hot-house world of woke theatrics and socialist nostrums. In other words, I predict that Mencken’s diminishing wager about the American public will, at least in this one instance, turn out to be dead wrong.

I like and respect Roger Kimball, but I fear he may be wrong. Regardless of polling and the seeming displeasure of the Democrat base with they way Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants was ousted as well as the seeming revulsion at the overt anti-Semitism of the party not just vis a vis it's anti-israel rhetoric but the looking the other way at assaults on Jews across the country.

I had a rather sobering conversation with a dear friend of mine who asked what I thought Trump's chances were this time around. I really couldn't say. And here is a man who put his two kids through Columbia university over 15 years ago now. Sadly, while they aren't insane radical lefties, they are liberal and even back then had to endure the brainwashing in order to graduate. Despite being revolted by their alma mater's descent into Nuremberg on the Upper West Side, their overall worldview remains tainted by their time on campus, despite their parents' being on our side of things.

At the end of our chat, as we looked at our world going up in flames, he just sighed and stated "it's their world now." It's deeply depressing to consider what we and future generations are going to have to endure before any kind of change can happen, if it can happen.

The best I can say is have faith and do what you can to maintain your sanity and perhaps make those around you at least start to see the light. Especially the children.

On those cheerful thoughts, have a good day.

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
• Robert Spencer: "America’s dad" and would-be vice president has no problem associating with terror-linked groups.
  Walzing With Hamas
  
• The “far-right ministers” who have commented on a potential deal have said that Israel should not free high-value terrorists who have murdered Israelis. White House national security spokesman John Kirby rebuked Israeli finance minister Betzalel Smotrich for expressing such sentiments.But Hamas, not Netanyahu, has been the consistent obstacle to a deal.
  Hamas Rejects Hostage Talks After CNN Tries Blaming Netanyahu for Lack of Deal
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• The “Western Massachusetts Popular University for Palestine” is not just about the Gaza war started by Hamas terrorists, the Globe reports, but also about “the manifestation of the capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy.”
  Communism the Main Goal at Pro-"Palestinian" ‘Summer Camp’
  
• The Israeli delegation — which included 33 players between the ages of 13 to 16, as well as nine adults — had been practicing and preparing for years ahead of the European Youth Ultimate Championship in Ghent, Belgium, according to Chen Bankirer, president of the Israeli Flying Disc Association.
  Israeli Frisbee team banned from competition after antisemitic graffiti appears near playing field, claim police chief said: ‘This is your war, not mine’

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The taboo truth about a choreographed invasion.
  The Flame Behind the UK Riots
  
• People in Iraq and members of human rights organizations are protesting against the law, but if adopted women and children are in danger. (What would Mohammed do? - jjs)
  Iraq Law Seeks To Force 9-Year-Old Girls Into Marriage

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

• The Democrats' coddling of pro-Hamas mobs and the snubbing of Josh Shapiro for VP may be too much for American Jews.
  Will Jews Stay With Feckless Dems in 2024?

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

• Vance said, “We have to start with the fact that we have a wide-open southern border because our border czar set a lot of open border policies.”
  JD Vance: Mass Deportations Should ‘Start with 1 Million’
  
• After discussing a number of victims of illegal immigrant crime, Trump promised to enact a “Trump mass deportation,” warning that illegal immigrants would continue to surge into the country if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected president in November.
  Trump Decries ‘Vicious’ Illegal Immigrant Suspected Of Murdering Nashville Restaurant Owner

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

• Was Kamala at the Capitol on J6th?
  Kamalagate: The Harris Deception That Doomed Dozens of J6ers
  
• The legacy media is having meltdown over something Trump said in his press conference on August 8th concerning the January 6, 2021 rally.
  Trump Was Right about the Size of the Crowd on January 6, 2021

• The real tragedy of Ferguson was not the death of Michael Brown, although it certainly was for his family and friends. The tragedy was that Black Lives Matter, the media, and some in the black community decided to exploit the death of this stupid kid for nefarious purposes.We're still living with the consequences.
  A Cop Gets His Head Bashed in at a 'Mostly Peaceful' Protest, Marking 10 Years Since Michael Brown Died

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

• Harris has yet to formally sit down and address the press 20 days after Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed her on July 21. Her opponent, 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, held a 72-minute-long news conference Thursday afternoon.
  MSNSDAP Host Says Media Is ‘Whining’ That Kamala Harris Won’t Talk To Them
  
• “it is no accident that joy — a battle-tested version of it — has become the backbone of Ms. Harris’ campaign in recent days” (Behar, Reid or dish soap? - jjs)
  Media Parrots Harris Campaign’s Ridiculous Claim That it’s All About ‘Joy’
  
• Several public figures, including author J.K. Rowling and businessman Elon Musk, have criticized the decision to let Khelif compete. Rowling cited the athletes’ male-typical biology as a significant factor in the debate.
  Richard Dawkins Says Facebook Deleted His Entire Page for Calling Male Olympics Boxer ‘Male.’

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• “Kamala Harris, whose ‘Honeymoon’ period is ENDING, and is starting to get hammered in the Polls, just copied my NO TAXES ON TIPS Policy,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “The difference is, she won’t do it, she just wants it for Political Purposes! This was a TRUMP idea – She has no ideas, she can only steal from me. Remember, Kamala has proposed the LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY – It won’t happen. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
  Kamala Harris Copies Trump’s No Taxes on Tips Campaign Promise
  
• California looks to pass a digital-accessibility law that will put onerous mandates on small businesses and likely force many offline altogether. 
  In Compliance—Out of Business

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

• One of her most significant reversals has been on the issue of fracking, an oil and gas extraction technique. As a presidential candidate in the 2020 cycle, she endorsed banning the practice, but her campaign recently told The Hill she no longer supports a ban. 
  Harris Campaign Says Kamala Has Changed, But Will She Bring California’s Climate Agenda To The White House?
  
• Despite much hype, the much-vaunted green energy transition away from fossil fuels isn’t happening. Achieving a meaningful shift with current policies turns out to be unaffordable. We need to drastically change policy direction. 
  We are wasting $2 trillion a year chasing ‘green’ fantasies

  SECOND AMENDMENT
  

• The 4th Circuit has now clearly established a split among the lower courts, which will allow the Supreme Court to grant cert and further define the limitations of the state in banning popular, common and usual guns.
  Maryland, AR-15s and the Fourth Circuit

  ABORTION

• Newly unsealed footage that had previously been seized by Kamala Harris shows Planned Parenthood staff discuss harvesting baby parts and organs.
  ‘Pull Off A Leg Or Two’: Planned Parenthood Staff Discuss Harvesting Baby Parts In Unsealed Footage

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• The emails contained internal communications from a top Trump campaign official that included research the campaign did on Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and “potential vulnerabilities” that he may have. The research dossier was a preliminary version of the file that the campaign used to vet Vance, something that is standard practice in presidential campaigns.
  Iran Hacks Trump Campaign, Obtains File On JD Vance: Trump Official
  
• It’s not the business of local election clerks to ‘educate’ voters on who supports ballot initiatives. State law is pretty clear on that. 
  ‘Unlawful Electioneering’: Wisconsin City Clerk Accused Of Posting News Clip In Voting Booths

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Susan Wild, the Democrat Pennsylvania congresswoman in one of the country’s tightest House races, has privately and repeatedly trashed working-class conservative voters in her district as bigots who "drank the Trump Kool-Aid." But in public, the Pennsylvania Democrat has drastically moderated her positions on hot-button issues as she seeks reelection in her battleground district.
  'I Might Have to School Them a Little Bit': Embattled Democrat Rep. Susan Wild Smears Conservative Constituents in Private While Publicly Embracing Moderate Views

  On Tim WALZ

• Vance said, “Well of course, Dana, I honor his service and I’ve never criticized what Tim Walz did when he was in the military. I criticized his retirement decision and most importantly, Dana, I criticized his lying about his own record.”
  JD Vance: Tim Walz Lied About Military Career, Used Dishonesty for ‘Political Gain’
  
• Roger Kimball: The strategy of the “Harris-Walz” campaign depends on people being dazzled by their theater of the absurd.  Both candidates claim now to believe things they have spent the last decades attacking.
  Theater of the Absurd, Harris-Walz Edition
  
• Just when you thought that Walz rollout couldn't get any worse for the Harris campaign, they are finally admitting that Walz lied when he claimed that he handled weapons "in war." . . . Walz has come under fire over the past week from people who previously served with him over his embellishing of his military record, which many say makes him guilty of stolen valor.
  The Disastrous Rollout of Tim Walz Ends With Humiliating Admission by Harris Campaign
  
• The Minnesota governor is no heir of the family-oriented prairie populism of yore.
  Has Walz Betrayed the Upper Midwest?
  
• These two radicals hope to fool America into thinking they’re reasonable. Can Donald Trump thwart them?
  Harris and Walz Go for Mainstream

  POLITICS

• Victor Davis Hanson: The [so-called quote-unquote] president, the Democrat presidential candidate, and the vice presidential nominee all either cannot or will not speak casually and publicly to elected representatives, reporters, or the people.
  Our Three Silent Mice
  
• Biden said, “Look, polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, would have been down to the wire. but what happened was a number of my democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic.”
  Biden on Quitting: Dem Colleagues Thought ‘I Was Going to Hurt Them’ in the Election
  
• The Trump campaign, when reached for comment, flagged a slate of recent polls conducted by Insider Advantage and Trafalgar Group that show Trump leading Harris in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Arizona, but not Michigan. Trafalgar Group significantly overestimated support for Republicans in 2022, Newsweek previously reported.
  New Polls Show Trump Losing To Harris In Key Swing States
  
• Things have gotten worse for the Democrats, not better, with the selection of far-left Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as Harris’ running mate, after the somewhat more moderate Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania backed out of the running.
  Curtain Comes Down On The Lies Behind Dems’ Election Charade: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s like seeing the Matrix. Or being forced to watch Bridget Jones’s Diary. It’s cringe-inducing every time, and it offends the sensibilities of all but the most sociopathic in our midst. Unfortunately, this constituency is growing, boosted by the narcissism of social media and the atomization of major cities.Nevertheless, despite its repugnance, everyone should be forced to confront the stark superficiality of the Harris-Walz campaign. From its inception with its ersatz ‘Brat’ mimicry to its rallies, which are really just free concerts with a speech at the end, the Kamala campaign is essentially just a hologram of a political campaign.
  6 Key Indicators Expose The Kamala-Walz Campaign as Fake, Phony, and Fraudulent.
  
• Exhausted Biden voters may have warmed up to the idea of a presidency led by Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the strategists explained in comments provided to the DCNF. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy‘s initial support for left-wing priorities boosted Republicans by sapping support from the Democratic nominee among disaffected liberals, but his backers within the Democratic Party appear to have soured on him — contributing to a polling surge for the Harris-Walz ticket, analysts said.
  Third-Party Candidates Undermined Biden Among Disaffected Dems, But Harris Is A Different Story
  
• Obama and the Clintons spoke during the DNC in 2020, the outlet noted, adding that “a source familiar said that former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson Jason Carter is also confirmed to be speaking as a representative for his grandfather.”
  Report: [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden, Barack Obama, the Clintons to Speak at Democrat National Convention

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• After days of official silence, President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the offensive for the first time in his nightly address on Saturday, saying that Kyiv was “pushing the war into the aggressor’s territory”
  Thousands of Ukrainian Troops on Incursion to ‘Destabilise’ Russia: Official

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• “His Majesty was updated on the current situation and expressed his heartfelt thanks to the police and emergency services for all they are doing to restore peace in those areas that have been affected by violent disorder.”
  King Charles Gives Two-Tier Keir The Thumbs Up
  
• Much like Stalin dispatching Trotsky in Mexico, or a Moroccan gutting Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam, the totalitarian mindset is nothing if not global in outlook. You might not be interested British virtue signaling, but British virtue signaling is interested in you. Hence, we have Elon Musk, an American citizen on American soil under the protection of the American Bill of Rights, being threatened with prosecution by UK authorities for posting opinions on the social feed of his own company. And what horrific crimes did Elon commit that raise the specter of a possible extradition request? According to that insufferable socialist rag, the U.K. Independent, he "launched a tirade" on his platform X against Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
  Britain Is Now a Totalitarian State
  
• Protesters chanted slogans such as “Nazi scum – off our streets” and displayed a large flag depicting a swastika.
  Far-Leftists Stormed ‘Nigel Farage’s Office’ in London. The Only Problem? It Was a PO Box.
  
• The question before the American voter now is whether they will endorse this return to Engagement as espoused by the Harris-Walz team or the defeat of the CCP that a Trump victory will make possible.
  U.S. (or Soviet) Engagement Only Benefits the PRC
  
• “The overwhelming majority of comments … expressed outrage.”
  Why Jamaica Isn’t Embracing Kamala
  
• The world is aflame and shifting to a complete realignment that greatly weakens America and the American dollar.
  Harris' most vulnerable point? A world in flames

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• “I don’t see a fast, easy way to get out of this problem. It’s taken us a long time to get into it,” Eric Labs, a longtime naval analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, told ABC News, adding that the Navy’s shipbuilding was now in “a terrible state.”
  US Navy warship production hits 25-year low, falls behind China: ‘A terrible state’
  
• It is oxymoronic to suggest that women must register for a possible future draft while excusing them from close combat.
  ‘Draft Our Daughters’ Legislation Smacks Of Trojan Horse For Government Social Credit System

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
  

• Since both NASA and SpaceX need Starship/Superheavy operational as quickly as possible for numerous contractual reasons, such a delay [by the FAA] is unconscionable.
  FAA red tape apparently stalling the next Starship/Superheavy orbital test launch
  
• Previous research has suggested these terraced-appearing features, found in several nearby craters, might be springs where water was released from underground aquifer sometime in the past.
  Are these Martian terraced mesas or pits?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• “Identifying“ as women, biologically-male Algeria Imane Khelif (middleweight) and Chinese Lin Yu-ting (featherweight) are heading for the Olympic gold medal rounds after pummeling their biologically-female competitors. Last year, both were deemed men when they failed gender eligibility tests and were disqualified from International Boxing Association (IBA) competition.
  IOC Prez: Chromosomes Be Damned, ‘These Two Are Women’
  
• Terrible reviews and a troubled production history might have had something to do with this disaster. The movie had the stench of a box office bomb all over it. Generally, though, a cast like that can at least get you to a $20 million opening. Part of the problem might very well be the scandal surrounding Jack Black.
  Jack Black’s $110M ‘Borderlands’ Opens to Dismal $10M
  
• Daniel Greenfield: A new satire takes on the Biden junta and the publishing industry.
  Can ‘King of the Jungle’ Shake Up Woke Publishing?

  HITHER & YON

• REVIEW: ‘Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law’ by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze
  How Many Laws Did You Break Today?

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