The Morning Report — 8/16/24

Good morning kids. For quite some time, I've led off so many Morning Reports with the statement that this story while revolting in the extreme still no longer shocks me.

Democrat strategist James Carville during a Thursday podcast said Republicans only characterize themselves as Israel supporters because Jews are more white than Palestinians.

Over 70% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents report having a positive view of Israel, while only 44% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents share this perception, according to Pew Research Center in 2022. Carville, on “Politics War Room,” said “racism” is what motivates the views of Israelis and Palestinians in response to a listener’s question regarding the Republican Party’s alleged embrace of “neo-Nazis,” which the listener suggested is inconsistent with the party’s pro-Israel stance.

“It’s really about the misogyny and the racism that drives the thing, and we got to recognize that. It’s not about any policy prescription. And the reason I suspect that most of these people describe themselves as pro-Israel is because the Jews are whiter than the Palestinians, which I think drives a lot of what they are,” Carville said.

The shocking statement ignores the fact that the majority of Israelis are from non-European origins, and that Israeli Jews are often physically indistinguishable from Israeli Arabs or Palestinian Arabs, with Middle Eastern features.

Is it mere pandering to bolster the Muslim base in Michigan and Minnesota, or is this a telltale indicator that he and the party do in fact fear a lack of enthusiasm from the black base, or worse for them, the latter actually voting for Trump. This is the worst kind of racialist poison as it both plays up the race card and sadly an historic anti-Jewish antipathy of blacks towards Jews. Ditto the youth set Einsatz-Groupies who cheered on the slaughter of Jews after 10/7 and attacked them on campuses across the US, and who are also indoctrinated to hate America as a racist colonial illegitimate nation founded on slavery. Convenient how the professoriate omits the crucial detail of which party was the party of slavery and Jim Crow.

Vile though he is, Carville knows what buttons to push.

Ditto, Kamala when she can get the words out in between the cackles. Here's her big idea: you're suffering because of corporate greed and capitalism. Let's let the government control the economy!

Kamala Harris believes she knows the choice before the public in November.
It is between going “forwards” and going “backwards.”
Since the Democratic nominee is wise about the nature of time she insists that this November America should choose to go forward.
In fact it would good if this country could go back.
To the economy we had before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden entered office

Because the most consequential choice there is in this election is between left-wing economics and right-wing economics.

Between the economics of Biden-Harris and the economics of Trump. . .

. . . Today the Vice President is trying to add some meat onto the bones (such as they are) of her economic plans.
These are reported to include efforts to make housing more affordable, lower the costs of living for families, boost small businesses and take on “corporate excess.”
The last of these is simply a left-wing pandering-point.
Anyone hoping to stir up the left-wing base can always paint big bad capitalists and their excessive salaries as the problem.
As though anything you did to tinker with top Wall Street salaries would do a thing for working class Americans. . .

. . . The Democrats like to pretend that Trump’s tax cuts only benefited the rich.
But again that is not just playing the politics of pointless envy.
It is simply untrue.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017) didn’t just massively spur economic growth, it also saw the average taxpayer receive an on-average tax cut of around $1,500.
Hourly and weekly earnings increased by 1.1% between November 2018 to November 2019 alone.
Again — these benefits helped everyone.
Kamala Harris may enjoy talking about minority communities and how much the state needs to help them.
But when Trump was in the White House, he helped African Americans and others to help themselves.
During the first three years of Trump’s presidency median household incomes rose by 15.4% for black Americans and 11.5% for white Americans.

And during the Trump economic miracle more people, especially minorities, got off the welfare rolls and got decent jobs. And since the Junta took control, with an erased border and millions of foreigners invading us, blacks and other minorities along with Americans across the full spectrum of ethnicity, age and gender, have been displaced in the job market, angering them mightily and fueling latent minority discontent with the Democrats.

So along with stoking racial animosity, we have the typical playbook of blaming capitalism and corporate greed. They create the problems by devaluing the currency, trillions in debt and deficits while business do whatever they can to stay afloat to cover their expenses. When the cost to do business goes up, you raise prices and/or cut services or your costs.

But to Democrats, that's greed. And it demands top down control which is the latest brainwave that has failed every time it's been tried being trotted out.

How does presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris want to tackle high prices?

Cutting red tape? Stop the government from favoring a few companies? Giving us a 100% free market to open competition?
Silly talk! SOCIALISM!! I mean, uh, price control, of course!

. . . No self-respecting economist agrees price controls work, even Democrats and those on the Left.
Besides, Harris won’t provide details. She’ll likely only shout buzzwords to keep the “vibes” going.
Have you seen what Argentine President Javier Milei has done? He’s pulled back the government. Inflation is down (actually down, unlike ours), and housing options have exploded without rent control.

Wish I could take credit for this gem: "Munchausen's by Progressivism"
The Democrat Left cause the problem and everything they do to correct it only makes it worse by orders of magnitude and cedes more of your freedom to the state.

Every problem, dislocation and all the suffering throughout our history has followed this pattern. Whatever is wrong with this nation is the fault of Leftists, socialism progressivism and its home in the Democrat Party, and everyone whoever went along with it or tried to placate them.

Interesting that I write this 50 years after Richard Nixon was forced out of office. He too tried wage and price controls as well as saddled us with the EPA and OSHA. Sadly, the GOP-e of today sees him as a hero since they too love big powerful central government. They delude themselves into thinking they're better managers and can make a totalitarian monster behave and obey the Constitution.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• The shocking statement ignores the fact that the majority of Israelis are from non-European origins, and that Israeli Jews are often physically indistinguishable from Israeli Arabs or Palestinian Arabs, with Middle Eastern features.
  James Carville: Republicans Support Israel Because "Jews Are Whiter than the 'Palestinians’"

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
• “But it is important, also, for the Harris campaign to make the case, to win these votes, to say, here is what I’m going to do to also represent you and to represent the majority of Americans that are calling for a ceasefire, the majority of Americans that are disgusted with the way that Israel has conducted this war and the arrogance and ignorance of Netanyahu and the dangerous man that he is. We have to cut ties with his administration and say, no more.”
  Bro-FoOmar: ‘We Have to Cut Ties’ with ‘Dangerous’ Netanyahu Entirely
  
• Fred Fleitz: A Harris administration would likely implement a Middle East policy that would be openly hostile to Israel and even more willing to appease Iran than the Biden junta.
  Ominous Signs of What US Middle East Policy Might Be Under a Harris Presidency
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• While Kamala is trying to keep the euphoria going, attempting to dance and sing her way into the White House, her base will be out in the street demanding answers....
  The Jew haters who took out Minouche Shafik are coming for Kamala Harris
  
• Joseph Slaughter and Susan Bernofsky are helping the university rewrite its rules on unlawful protests. They also took part in one.
  ‘A Huge Conflict of Interest’: Two Professors on Columbia’s Top Disciplinary Body Participated in Encampment, Photos Suggest
  
• 'So you guys respect them, you shit?' Gaza-born reporter Abeer Ayyoub wrote in reply to Israeli researcher
  WSJ Journo Spread 'Antisemitic Slurs' and Pro-Hamas 'Propaganda' Online, Watchdog Finds

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Just ask it to condemn Israel though.
  Biden Junta Refuses to Condemn Bangladesh Muslim Genocide of Hindus

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

• Morgan Overton, who is 'so energized' to support Harris, launched fundraiser to cover DNC travel expenses
  Meet the Harris Delegate Quietly Pushing a BDS Resolution That Would Cripple Pittsburgh's Jewish Orgs and Punish Local Hospitals
  
• “awarded due to the overwhelming evidence demonstrating the outrageous nature of the antisemitic attack, including explicitly anti-Jewish hate speech”
  Victim of 2021 Antisemitic ‘Pro-Palestinian’ Attack Outside Los Angeles Restaurant Awarded $1.6 Million By Court

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

• The family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry expressed being sickened and disheartened after the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse the conviction of the man charged with the agent’s death. The court vacated the conviction of Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes four years after the district court in Arizona convicted him of the December 14, 2010, murder of Agent Terry.
  EXCLUSIVE: Family of Murdered Border Patrol Agent Disheartened After Court Overturns Killer’s Conviction
  
• “For more than three-and-a-half years, [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden and ‘border czar’ Vice President Kamala Harris have orchestrated the largest mass release of illegal aliens into the country in American history,” the report begins. . .
  House Judiciary Report: Biden-Harris DHS Twice Freed Illegal Alien Caught with Machete Outside U.S. Capitol

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

• Robert Spencer: Another body blow to the idea that America is a free republic.
  Trump Will Be Sentenced to Prison on Sept. 18

  TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AFTERMATH

• “All employees of the U.S. Secret Service are held to the highest standards,” he said. “While there was no impact to the North Carolina event, the specifics of this incident are being examined. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,” Guglielmi told Crabtree.
  Secret Service Agent Abandoned Post Guarding Trump To Breastfeed: REPORT

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

• "George Orwell Call Your Office"
  The Democrats’ Nauseating Doublespeak About ‘Freedom’

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The Harris campaign has been attempting to distance itself from the Biden-Harris government’s high-inflation economic record since the two Democrats took office in 2021.
  Biden Says Kamala Shares Blame for His Terrible Economic Record, Rising Recession Fears.
  
• Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have spent the last three and a half years promoting the same ideas and touting the same economic programs. That’s now seen as a burden for Harris as she tries to distance herself from Biden’s unpopular programs and economy.
  Kamalanomics: Worst Inflation Record Since 1977
  
• Yay socialism!
  Kamala Harris Will Promote Price Control today
  
• The Harris campaign’s price control idea is pandering, not serious policy.
  Kamala Revives the “Gouging” Myth
  
• Douglas Murray: "Kamala Harris may enjoy talking about minority communities and how much the state needs to help them. But when Trump was in the White House, he helped African Americans and others to help themselves. During the first three years of Trump’s presidency median household incomes rose by 15.4% for black Americans and 11.5% for white Americans.
  Economic choice in election is stark, bigger opportunity or a bigger state

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• As top U.S. universities show, DEI remains deeply embedded within schools' admissions and hiring.
  The DEI Retreat: Demise Or Disguise?

  ABORTION

• Most U.S. adults oppose abortion until birth, but voters in 8 states might permit abortion through all 9 months via radical amendments.
  Extreme And Deceptive Abortion Until Birth Amendments Make The Ballot In Arizona, Missouri
  
• “Wednesday’s decision further proves how radical and out-of-touch the Montana Supreme Court is with their constituents,” Chase Scheuer, press secretary for Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Rather than do what’s right to protect the health and well-being of babies and children, the justices sided with their campaign donors – Planned Parenthood.”
  Red State Court Rules Minors Do Not Need Parental Consent For Abortions
  
• Five events point to a positive turn for the pro-life campaign against abortion drugs. 
  Pharmacy protests may be more about Walmart than Walgreens

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Wielding prosecutions and threats of lawsuits, Democrats’ message is clear: rubber-stamp election results or else.
  Dems Lay Groundwork To Prosecute, Sue, And Threaten Swing-State Officials Into Certifying Elections
  
• Kentucky Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear defended an embattled school district caught in a potentially illegal electioneering scheme, claiming the school district has “First Amendment rights.”
  Kentucky Gov. Says Tax-Funded Electioneering Is OK Because Gov't Has 'First Amendment Rights'

  POLITICS

• Walz’s history of stealing valor — he claimed he was “in war” when he certainly was not — has become a major liability for Democrats and for Harris. Several establishment media outlets like ABC News, CNN, and more have even ripped into Walz on this front, and on Thursday in Pennsylvania Trump’s running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) held a press conference alongside several veterans at a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) local where they ripped into Walz more on this.
  Exclusive – Donald Trump: Kamala Harris Picked Tim Walz Despite Stolen Valor Because Democrats ‘Don’t Care About the Military’
  
• While people like you and me are making fun of Harris's word salads, she's been working hard at learning how to connect more directly with people.
  Harris Explained Democracy Today and I'm Laughing but Also Frightened
  
• The rude demonstration was a stark showing of the enthusiasm gap among Democrats revved up by Harris’ sudden elevation as the party’s presidential nominee after Biden dropped out last month — amid reporting that Harris, 59, is seeking to redefine herself to gain distance from the unpopular incumbent.
  Crowd leaves joint Biden-Harris event early after VP hands off lectern to lame-duck prez
  
• So childish: “Assuming Donald Trump actually shows up on September 10…
  Kamala Harris Agrees to Two Debates With Donald Trump
  
• Walz may be the presumptive nominee, but if the Democratic Party was willing to throw an incumbent president under the bus, it would swap him out just as easily. Many on social media are speculating that it could happen. Would the Democratic Party do that? I suppose nothing is out of the realm of possibility, but changing the ticket again could have major negative consequences — potentially worse than just leaving the creep on the ticket. 
  Tim Walz Looks Like an Increasing Liability for Harris
  
• This is no time to panic; instead, it's time to shift the vibes again and seize victory....
  Enough blackpilling, we have to match Trump's energy to win
  
• RFK also accuses Harris of spending “years gaslighting Americans about the health of our Commander in Chief,” in reference to the near-certainty the Vice President knew about Biden’s cognitive impairment before his disastrous debate against Trump.“I have no plans to endorse Kamala Harris for President. I do have a plan to defeat her,” RFK Jr. concludes.
  Kamala’s Democrats Would Be ‘Unrecognizable’ to John and Bobby Kennedy: RFK Jr.
  
• When one puts aside the hysteria of the mainstream media, obsession with mostly fake polls, and the fleeting trends of social media, the smart bet is still on a Trump victory in November.
  Why It’s Still Trump’s Race to Lose: Part I

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Robert Zimmerman: "In April 2023 I predicted that this war was turning into a stalement, the equivalent of the trench warfare seen for most of World War I. ... Nothing has changed since then."
  The continuing stalemate in the Ukraine War

  
  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The Chinese go-go economy of the early years of this century has taken a tumble. The 8% growth from 2010-20 is about half that today at 4.75%. The pandemic was part of the problem. China kept opening and closing sectors of its economy in different regions, which brought the economy to its knees. By the time it gave up on the "zero-COVID" model, investment and consumer spending had tanked, and housing was in free fall.
  The Second Largest Economy in the World Is Sick, and the Communists Can't Figure Out How to Cure It
  
• The outgoing president has proposed sweeping constitutional reforms for his final month in office.
  AMLO’s Final Push for a New Mexico
  
• In some cases, protesters have been convicted for as little as shouting at police. Others have been arrested for posting “inaccurate information” about the migration-background suspect in a deadly mass stabbing in Southport, which sparked the current unrest. Some of those arrested are children, including at least two boys aged 12 and another aged just 11.
  Two-Tier Policing: UK Has Arrested More Anti-Mass Migration Protesters Than People-Smugglers.

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The information includes sensitive details such as social security numbers listed with full names and even telephone numbers. There are several steps consumers can take in response to this huge leak.
  Massive Data Breach Exposes Billions of Personal Records – Here’s What You Can Do to Prevent Identity Theft
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "More than 150 pages of documents from a highly classified network."
  Why Did Pentagon Allow Turkish Muslim Citizen Access to Highly Classified Docs?

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Astronomers, both professional and amateur, have discovered a nearby star only 400 light years away that is moving so fast, 1.3 million miles per hour (almost three times faster than the Sun), it might very well escape the Milky Way and fly into intergalactic space in the far future.
  Astronomers discover a nearby star moving so fast it could even escape the Milky Way
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "This is all ridiculous. Rocket launches — especially those comparable to Nova — are well proven to do no harm to the environment. To force this company to go through this labyrinth of unnecessary paperwork for something that is clearly harmless is stupidity of the most basic sort."
  Rocket startup Stoke Space is saddled with the same red tape as SpaceX

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

• And Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are totally on board.
  How Trans Ideology Is Infecting The Foster Care System

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• “So ESPN fires [Sam Ponder], the only woman at the network who [has] publicly said men don’t belong in women’s sports,” Riley Gaines posted. “Three weeks before football season? Sam is one of the most beautiful, genuine women I’ve ever met along with [former ESPN host Sage Steele] who had a similar fate….not a coincidence.”
  ESPN Fires Female Host Who Spoke Out About Males In Girls’ Sports
  
• "I’m done giving any shit-s at all about any of it. It’s almost like there are two different sets of rules, and if you have a view that’s a little more traditional, or I’m a Christian guy, it’s like there is a different set of rules for that viewpoint," he said. "It’s hard to just turn the other cheek time after time after time.”
  ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit Won't Retract His Stance on Men In Women's Sports:
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif files “criminal complaint” against J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
  Olympic Fool’s Gold Follies
  
• Are the disabled ultimately being used/abused by the Left to achieve a dismantling of our system? 
  Sensitivity Training from the Left

  HITHER & YON

• A native son of Yorba Linda reflects on the deep state and its power to take down presidencies.
  Nixon, Now More Than Ever
  
• Christian Toto: Blake Lively drama is crushing box office, sending powerful message to Hollywood
  How ‘It Ends with Us’ Became Summer’s Counter-Programming Hit

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