The Morning Report — 10/4/24


Good Morning Kids. Well, for the Mrs. Pimp-Slap (Kamala to you) campaign it looks like one step forward and maybe one step back. Oh glory be! The Johnny-Friendly on the spot ILA union boss. The one who owns yachts has convinced (I assume via the Corleone Family defininition of that word) the rank and file whose livelihoods and pensions he controls to delay their strike until mid January. Long after the election and presumably when the next president will have been installed. Should she lose, no doubt the ILA has marching orders from the powers that be to get back on the picket lines to further sabotage the economy before the next Trump miracle can even begin to right the ship.

Look, I don't begrudge the ILA prexy for being wealthy (assuming he legitimately earned his wealth and not by wetting his beak, nor being in the pocket of crooked pols and/or mobsters. Nor do I necessarily have animosity towards the rank and file for wanting a raise, especially when the economy is tanking and hard times are hitting everyone. That said, your union backs Leftists and Democrats since forever and they are the ones that have sold you and all of us out. On top of that is, forgetting your insane demands, you made a contract and you have the legal and moral obligation to abide by your words. Same thing applies to student loan so-called forgiveness.

As for one step back, the head, the highly coveted endorsement from the firefighters union will not be given to Harris.

“As we have over our 106-year history, the IAFF will continue its work to improve the lives of firefighters and their families,” Kelly continued, contending that the Executive Board determined that “we are better able to advocate for our members and make progress on the issues that matter to them if we, as a union, are standing shoulder-to-shoulder.”

“This decision, which we took very seriously, is the best way to preserve and strengthen our unity,” he continued, encouraging members to get out and “make their voices heard in the upcoming election.”

. . . This non-endorsement comes as a huge blow to the Harris-Walz ticket; the union endorsed President Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election. . . “American workers were safer and better off when President Trump was in office – rank-and-file workers know it, and that is why they will ignore their union bosses and will vote for the Trump-Vance ticket on November 5,” he added.

Meanwhile, as bodies are still being pulled out of the mud and the trees in Appalachia, we once again have ideologically driven incompetence on full display.

It's not just the piddly $750 being handed out by FEMA to residents in North Carolina and other states whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane Helene. (A similar amount was handed out to residents of Lahaina, Hawaii, after their town was destroyed by fire.) It's the lethal incompetence.

Just as cops taking orders from state government officials blocked Lahaina residents in cars from escaping the inferno -- the only survivors were those who defied them and drove through the blockades -- FEMA officials from the federal government are doing all they can to block the delivery of aid to people in the hardest hurricane-hit rural areas, where people need food, water, medicine, shelter and everything else and have been completely cut off from civilization. They're actually stopping them, as if they were trespassers and saying just trust the government.
That might work when people have time, but these hurricane victims don't have time. Their need for aid is immediate.

One aid worker explains why that may be, and it's a doozy of a story . . . Inefficiency, waste and an absence of leadership all around.
That would be so even if they hadn't blown their budget on illegals, which Sens. Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, and the very sharp crowd in hurricane-vulnerable Florida first noticed last May -- I wrote about that here.
But the blown budget raises severe questions about their priorities -- North Carolina's taxpayers paid into that federal program to help people hit by natural disasters, and FEMA chose to pay instead for the housing and feeding of foreign nationals who have no legal right nor legitimate business being in this country. That ought to be a firing offense and it would be if this were the private sector, or most any other administration than the Biden-Harris one, where incompetence is encouraged.
If FEMA can't do the job it's tasked with, and a disaster is unfolding, they've got a moral obligation to invite in any and all who can come in and help. That obligation is so strong it ought to be enshrined into law by Congress.

Billions of dollars to import millions of foreign peasants, among them thousands of hardened criminals as well as Islamic terrorists, who want to slit our throats even if Israel were not an historic ally who now is on the verge of changing the trajectory of history in the middle East and potentially the West by handicapping if not ending the 45 year reign of terror, brought to us by Jimmy Carter, of the Iranian mullahs. While the DC Junta tells poor white folks who cling to their guns, religion, and Trump to die in a flood.

Yeah, before the usual chuckleheads start in with the wasting our money on foreign aid (nudge nudge wink-wink Israel), that is an unrelated issue, of which I do agree (certainly in the funding of kleptocracies and anti-American juntas who hate us and stab us in the back. Israel being an historic pro-US bulwark). But the incompetence and ideology that is to blame for why the government is so inept at dealing with disasters, natural or otherwise is the issue.

And that incompetence and ideology, in the drive for absolute power, also leads to this:

Eva Edl is a survivor. The 89-year-old widow grew up in the former Yugoslavia, where she saw the horrors of Communism firsthand. She came to the U.S. because she thought it was a bastion of freedom and liberty, however, she now finds herself facing time in prison for trying to convince women not to kill their unborn babies.
When Edl was six, the Nazis invaded her homeland. Even though her family had German heritage, the Nazis considered her father an “impure Aryan” and sent him to the front lines. As he lay sick in a hospital bed, he sent a message to his family to flee, but they didn’t get the message in time.
“A coup against Yugoslavia's king caused a violent civil war to erupt, emasculating Yugoslavia's defenses even as the powerful Nazi war machine began to drop bombs on them,” Edl’s biography explains. “The nation's communists gradually suppressed the various sects clamoring for power, and displayed such a courageous resistance against the overwhelming Nazi forces that they won the admiration of the Western democracies.” 
The Communists targeted the German-heritage Danube-Swabian people like Edl’s family. Her Hungarian grandmother was initially able to hide her grandchildren, but not for long. The Communists forced Edl’s mother and older siblings into labor camps and sent Edl and her grandmother to a concentration camp.
Amid the grim atmosphere of the Communist concentration camp, where death loomed at every turn, Edl came to faith in Jesus. Somehow, she made her way out and fled to Austria and eventually the U.S. seeking freedom.
In the land of the free, Edl discovered a different kind of horror. While taking an English class in the ‘60s, she learned about abortion. This was before Roe v. Wade, yet Edl recoiled at the idea that a mother would kill her child in the womb. She eventually became a pro-life activist. ..

. . . “Eva felt the call of God to lay down her life to rescue unborn children, just as others laid down their life to rescue her,” her biography explains. “She became a voice for life and justice and an icon in the rescue movement in the United States, where up to 80,000 Christians were arrested blockading abortion clinic entrances in the 80's and 90's. Eva Edl has been arrested 46 times blockading abortion clinics, trying to save babies from death by abortion.”

Last month, Edl was one of seven protesters convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The protesters stood at the entrance to an abortion clinic in Michigan.

“A federal jury convicted seven defendants today of federal civil rights offenses arising out of their blockade of a reproductive health care clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 27, 2020,” the Department of Justice announced in August. “The defendants were each convicted of a felony conspiracy against rights and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offense” (emphasis added). The DoJ also announced that Edl and one other woman had blocked access to another clinic the following year.

They want us silent, compliant or otherwise out of the way. A prison or a grave. Matters not to the Democrats and Globalists. Any port in a storm. Considering the ILA and Helene, rather a perfect metaphor.

Don't think for a moment that this cannot happen here, because from everything I can see, we are well on the way to it:

A former militant group leader whose organization was affiliated with the Weathermen terrorists and monitored by the FBI now leads a small but influential group of White House policymakers championed by Vice President Kamala Harris.

The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council was created in the first week of the Biden-Harris administration as part of the White House’s effort to, according to an executive order, "increase the federal government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice." The group is composed of individuals appointed by the president who, the White House states, "have knowledge about or experience in environmental justice, climate change, disaster preparedness, or racial inequity, among other areas of expertise."

Leading those individuals is a man named Richard Moore, who co-chairs the council. His brief biography provided by the Environmental Protection Agency describes him as a "widely respected national leader in the area of environmental justice" who "has served on numerous government and nongovernmental committees and panels."

. . . Moore’s earliest political activities, records show, appear to begin in the 1960s. Moore cofounded a militant group modeled after the Black Panthers in Albuquerque called the Black Berets, archives hosted at the University of New Mexico show.

The Black Berets’ 12-point program included opposing capitalism and the "Amerikkkan Military" while supporting "armed self-defense and armed struggle" as "the only means to liberation." Although the Black Berets’ membership was largely Hispanic, the group affiliated with several far-left groups at the time, including the Weathermen and the Venceremos Brigade, translated to English as "We Shall Triumph."

Moore, along with other members of the Black Berets, soon formally joined the Venceremos Brigade. An offshoot of the far-left Students for a Democratic Society, the brigade was founded for the purpose of American leftists to aid the new communist government in Cuba. Moore eventually served on the brigade’s national committee.

And this is just one thug, in a government that is chock full of them. Along with the usual go-along to get-along idlers and hacks in every department and agency, up to and including the most sensitive and crucial to our personal and national security. Depending of course on who gets to define those terms.

When the meaning of words, and indeed who gets to use what words for what purpose is controlled by the Left, it's a short walk to being arrested for inciting terrorism just for disagreeing with the powers that be. What Shitcan Chutkan and Jack Smith are doing right now against Trump all by itself is a huge flashing warning sign that the first Amendment is on life support, if not dead as it is.

Lastly, your support in hitting the tip jar is greatly appreciated.

Have a good weekend. And God be with everyone affected by Helene. And all of you!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Eva Edl is a survivor. The 89-year-old widow grew up in the former Yugoslavia, where she saw the horrors of Communism firsthand. She came to the U.S. because she thought it was a bastion of freedom and liberty, however, she now finds herself facing time in prison for trying to convince women not to kill their unborn babies. . . “A federal jury convicted seven defendants today of federal civil rights offenses arising out of their blockade of a reproductive health care clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 27, 2020,” the Department of Justice announced in August. “The defendants were each convicted of a felony conspiracy against rights and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offense” (emphasis added). The DoJ also announced that Edl and one other woman had blocked access to another clinic the following year.
  She Survived Nazism and Communism, but Eva Edl Could Die in Prison for Pro-Life Protests
  
• Douglas Murray: Look around the media and you see the same problem everywhere. Much of the media will tell you that they regard their job as being to decide what is true and what is false. But the problem is that most of them aren’t any good at the task they set themselves. In Britain the national broadcaster — the BBC — recently set up a special department called “BBC Verify” which is meant to “fact-check” content across the media. But they can’t even get the BBC’s own facts right. On issue after issue — foreign and domestic — “BBC Verify” has overseen verifiably untrue stories. I understand the panic in these media institutions.
  ‘Fact check’ has become just another word for censorship

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN




• U.S. [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden on Thursday glibly ruled out any imminent Israeli strikes against Iran as the strife-torn region prepares for a response to the recent missile attack on the Jewish state.
  Biden Telegraphs Israel’s Military Plans to the World: Reveals ‘Nothing Going to Happen Today’ in Iran
  
• Israeli war cabinet promises 'harsh response' to Iranian ballistic missile barrage
  Last Time Iran Attacked, the Biden-Harris Junta Held Back Israel's Response. This Time, the Jewish State Will 'Not Be Deterred.'
  
• "It will be painful for Iran," Danon said in separate remarks this week.
  Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon: Iran’s Nuclear Program Must Be Stopped Now Or ‘It Will Be Too Late’
  
• "I really don’t think you understand the absolute miracles that we witnessed last night."
  Israel’s Miraculous Survival of the Iranian Missile Strike
  
• The chief diplomat of the most powerful man in the world got ghosted by a terrorist scumbag for the whole world to see. It's a national humiliation, sure, but it's also business as usual under Biden-Harris. 
  Did Hamas Just Ghost the Biden-Harris Junta?
  
• In 2000, Salha took part in the brutal lynching of two Israeli reservists—Sergeant First Class Yosef Avrahami and Corporal Vadim Norzhich—who had taken a wrong turn and ended up in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank. Salha was photographed with blood on his hands smiling and waving from a window after a Palestinian mob beat and stabbed the two Israeli soldiers to death.
  IDF Kills Hamas Terrorist Infamous for Ramallah Lynching of Israeli Soldiers
  
• Here’s a story you won’t see covered by the leftist media. As American college students held vigils for their dearly departed Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists, this week, a U.S. and Israeli-led operation rescued a young Iraqi woman kidnapped and hauled off to Gaza as a sex slave for 10 years. 
  ISIS Sex Slave Rescued From Gaza After Being Kidnapped At 11 Years Old
  
• Both regimes, which maintain extensive ties to Iran and its Shiite jihadist proxy Hezbollah, have been highly critical of Israel’s recent actions against Hezbollah in Beirut. Most notably, Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel publicly condemned Israel’s recent airstrike operation that resulted in the “cowardly targeted killing” of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, confirmed on Saturday. Nasrallah, who had led Hezbollah for decades, was responsible for thousands of civilian deaths, including Americans.
  Cuba and Venezuela Stand with Iran After Missile Attack on Israel

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Can you guess who it is? And what exactly is being done about it?  
  Spencer Video: FBI’s Hate Crime Stats – The #1 Target in the USA

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

• Local police identify suspect as 'black male in his late teens/early twenties,' no injuries reported
  Masked Gunman Entered UMich Rabbi's Home During Rosh Hashanah Gathering and Threatened Students, Police Say
  
• "Happy 70th Birthday, Rev! … I celebrate the day you were born," Harris said in a video aired on MSNBC. "You are a voice of truth, a voice of conscience, a voice of practicality around what we must address and what we can do, and I thank you so much for your friendship." Sharpton, a prominent Democratic ally, provoked the 1991 Crown Heights riots—one of the worst eruptions of anti-Semitic violence in American history that inspired chants such as "Let's get the Jew!" and "Hitler didn't finish the job!"
  WATCH: Harris Wishes 'Happy Birthday' to Anti-Semite Al Sharpton Who Said 'Diamond Merchant' Jews Have the 'Blood of Innocent Babies' on Their Hands

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

• The UN convened in New York to advance the implementation of digital identification and mass surveillance, marking yet another big step toward a future that no sane American would ever willingly embrace.
  Forget Project 2025, worry about the UN's Project 2030

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

• The shooting took place on Wednesday evening in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas along the highway that connects the towns of Villa Comaltitlan and Huixtla, a statement from Mexico’s Army revealed.
  Mexican Military Kills Six Middle Eastern Migrants Headed to U.S. Border
  
• "You have to remove the people, and you have to bring them back to their own country."
  Trump Vows To Deport Haitian Migrants Living In Springfield, Ohio
  
• Betsy McCaughey: Never mind the violence perpetrated by migrant gangs and the societal disorder caused by open borders: Their problem is with the words. NPR says the term “third world” is “offensive.” Foreign Policy columnist Howard French calls it “utterly racist rhetoric.”   It’s an intentional distraction.
  Word games can’t conceal the ‘third world’ truth about open borders

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• The Biden-Harris junta's National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is invoking a 30-day delay in releasing a trove of documents relating to President Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president under Barack Obama, meaning they won’t be viewable by the voting public until November 6, 2024—they day after the presidential election. It is speculated that at least some of the records held by NARA could shed further light on the Biden family’s—especially Hunter Biden‘s—foreign business dealings and how they leveraged government access and Joe Biden’s name to enrich themselves.While NARA, an independent executive branch agency overseen directly by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, technically has the authority to delay the release of the records by 30 days, the timing of the move is drawing criticism. Attorneys representing Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama secured the extension under the Presidential Records Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2208(a)(3)(B).
  Surprise! Biden-Harris Junta Hides Hunter Corruption Details Until AFTER Election.

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

• The First Amendment protects Americans’ free speech when criticizing the government and criticizing elections. In America, you have always been allowed to claim that you thought elections were fraudulent, whether that is true or not. It’s a First Amendment right. Smith wants to criminalize that constitutionally protected free speech when the Democrats’ most formidable opponent uttered it. But if you think it will stop with Trump, think again. The Democrat party has become the anti-free speech party, the party of the censorship industrial complex.
  Jack Smith Trump Filing Argues That Free Speech Is Criminal

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

• Just when you thought this story could not get any more awesome…This all started earlier in the month when Nuzzi was herself placed on leave by New York Magazine, where she was considered their star reporter. Everything fell apart when it was discovered she had been reporting on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while pursuing a personal relationship with him.
  Politico’s Ryan Lizza on Leave over Olivia Nuzzi’s Harassment and Blackmail Claims
  
• Fainting couches are making a comeback.
  Media Swoon Over ‘Second Gentleman’ Emhoff’s ‘Masculinity’

• “When political speech and electoral politics are at issue, the First Amendment has almost unequivocally dictated that Courts allow speech to flourish rather than uphold the State’s attempt to suffocate it.”
  Judge Pauses Newsom’s Deepfakes Law: Legislators Can’t ‘Bulldoze’ First Amendment Out of ‘Fear’

• Stephanie DROOL: “The more she sits down … I mean, she’s a great interviewer. I sat down with her for 25 minutes, you might not have liked all of her answers but she had one for every single question,” Ruhle continued. The admission was seemingly a stark change in tune for Ruhle, who previously indicated it did not matter that Harris hadn’t elucidated many policy positions.
  Even Liberal Media Wants Kamala To Do More Press, But Not For The Reason You Think

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The dockworkers’ strike that could have severely hurt the American economy and the supply chain weeks before an election has been paused until January 15, diverting what could have been a political catastrophe for Vice President Kamala Harris.
  Longshoremen Pause Strike Until January 15, Throw Kamala Harris a Lifeline
  
• Okay, the longshoremen are getting a lot of flack this week. It’s not all undeserved. The union boss threatening to “cripple” the U.S. economy recently sold his 76-foot yacht, while the typical ILA worker makes well into the six-figures. But they’re just ankle-biters in the scheme of things. It’s the foreign shipping companies who are the Final Boss.
  The Real Villain In The Port Strike Debacle Isn’t Who You Think

  s

• In New York, politicians of both parties have grossly exaggerated the damage done by Donald Trump’s 2017 capping of state and local tax deductions.
  Pounding SALT

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

• Brief EPA bio describes Richard Moore, once linked to the Weathermen terrorists, as 'widely respected national leader'
  'We Need You': Former Militant Leader Whose Group Was Surveilled by FBI Co-Chairs Biden-Harris Environmental Justice Council (rounding up non-Leftists will soon be defined as just that! - jjs)

  
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Competent law enforcement agencies include complete house descriptions and photos in their warrant applications.
  The FBI raids the wrong house

• Coffee, Tea or Emhoff?
  American Airline passengers save woman from allegedly violent male companion on flight to NC: ‘Do not f–king touch her’

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Massachusetts has once again become ground zero for gun rights.
  2nd Amendment: The essence of American freedom

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Robert Zimmerman: "It was inevitable from the start that a firing like Vlaming’s was going to end up costing the school board a lot of money. Why at a minumim the board’s lawyers did not note this prior to the firing is not just baffling, it is downright appalling."
  Pushback: Fired teacher wins $575K free speech settlement from school board
  
• Tenure shields faculty members that promote harmful ideologies and fosters unaccountability, contributing to societal problems and declining trust in higher education.
  Now It’s Time to Eliminate Tenure

  THE 2020 AND 2022 ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH— Plus Anticipated 2024 Shenanigans

• In an Oct. 2 letter sent to county clerks and obtained by The Federalist, Secretary of State Chuck Gray warned that the Center for Tech and Civic (CTCL) has a foothold in the Cowboy State weeks before the Nov. 5 election.
  Exclusive: Wyoming Elections Chief Warns Local Officials Of 2024 ‘Zuckbucks’ Interference
  
• According to Just The News, the claims came from the Honest Elections Project, through a statement by Executive Director Jason Snead, who said that such delays could prevent America from knowing the winner for several days due to the close nature of the 2024 election.
  Report: Election Results Likely to be Delayed in Key States Due to Rules and Litigation

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Michigan’s Home Help program reimburses the in-home caretakers of some seniors and disabled people using Medicaid dollars  — with many of these caretakers being family members or close friends. A bill recently passed by Michigan’s Democratic-led Legislature, which Whitmer has stated she will sign, would reclassify these caretakers as public employees and push them to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
  Wretched Whitmer Poised To Sign Bill Taking Money Away From Family Caretakers To Pay Off Union Bosses
  
• “The appearance is the Wyoming conservative's first with Harris and comes in the key swing state critical to the path to the White House,” reports the Journal Sentinel. “Cheney said last month that she would vote for Harris in November. Her father, former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, also endorsed Harris.” Of course, we know that today’s mainstream media will overhype this event as the most important thing to ever take place in Ripon. Selling out the GOP for the most radical presidential ticket of all time is way more important to the left-wing press than the founding of the Republican Party.
  Liz-ard Cheney Has Lost Her Mind

  POLITICS

• Busken Bakery in Cincinnati has predicted every presidential winner since 1984 (except 2020, weird, right?) based on presidential cookie sales. They have Trump clown-slapping Kamala with 15,823 snacks sold with Trump's likeness to Harris's paltry 4,833. Cookie sales are obviously not scientific, yet they seem to have gotten more predictions right than "scientific" pollsters like FiveThirtyEight, which spectacularly dropped the ball in 2016. An article from Econotimes suggests that based on the polling of The Trafalgar Group and Insider Advantage, a landslide for Trump is quite feasible. 
  Landslide, HO! Pollsters Suggest Trump Could Pummel Harris in November
  
• A steady hand amid chaos could lead Trump to victory.
  No October Surprises Needed
  
• Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.) is one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats this cycle. The polls have been all over the place with some polls showing Casey up as much as nine points. But recent polling suggests that his Republican challenger, Dave McCormick, may have the momentum in the final weeks of the campaign.
  Is Another Democrat-Held Senate Seat on the Verge of Flipping?
  
• The International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) has snubbed the Harris-Walz ticket with a non-endorsement — news which comes after Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) spoke at their event in August. IAFF President Edward Kelly made the announcement on Thursday following an executive board meeting, where the determination was made.
  Firefighters Union Snubs Kamala Harris with Non-Endorsement After JD Vance Speech at Convention
  
• The Biden Junta's handling of the war in Gaza has eroded the bloc’s traditional support for Democrats.
  Poll: Trump Takes Narrow Lead In Arab-American Vote

• “Many large companies have simply picked up and left for other fields. . . Nearly one in five Californians—many working—lives in poverty. . .It won’t be a pretty picture, but it won’t be socialism.”
  Kamalafornia Über Alles
  
• Hung Cao, a war vet, is a refugee from Vietnam.
  Senate Candidate Hung Cao Shines In Debate, Rips Illegal Immigration, ‘Drag Queen’ Navy Recruitment

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Fred Fleitz: Despite claims of success, the Biden junta's national security policy, marked by incompetence and misguided strategies, has increased global instability and the risk of major conflicts.
  ‘The Biden/Harris Doctrine’ Has Brought the World Closer to World War III

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer — the country’s new socialist leader — shared a “seminal moment” with Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Thursday as the two agreed that the U.K. would give up the disputed Chagos Islands to Mauritius, according to a joint statement on Thursday. The U.K. took control of Chagos from Mauritius decades ago, and Mauritius has long asked that the islands be returned to them in a bid to move toward their renewed independence.
  ‘Strategic Disaster’: UK Gives Up Islands Holding Secret US Military Base

• The five men allegedly claimed to be looking at the stars.
  5 Chinese Nationals Accused Of Photographing Michigan Military Facility

  HURRICANE HELENE AFTERMATH, BIDEN/HARRIS DEBACLE

  
  

• If Biden can prove that Helene was due to climate change, he should win a Nobel Prize. Climate science has yet to find the magic indicators that can say for certain that climate change caused the hurricane.
  Biden Asks Americans to 'Put Politics Aside' for Storm Victims, Then Calls Climate Doubters 'Brain Dead'
  
• "Mainly what we're struggling with is water, and mainly what we're struggling with is just people being able to cook, people being able to take showers, people being able to use the bathroom."
  Kenny Cody provides update on devastation of Hurricane Helene from Cocke County, TN
  
• A disaster wrought by America-Last Democrats.
  Appalachian Elegy
  
• They're from the government and they're here to help themselves.
  FEMA blew out its budget to pay for illegals, now it's using its remaining resources to block aid from private citizens
  
• Not only are billions going to Ukraine, but $640 million in DHS money went to indirectly supporting illegal aliens.
  Mayorkas Says FEMA Doesn’t Have Funds to Last Through Hurricane Season
  
• The federal government isn't the only institution that failed during Hurricane Helene -- mass media did as well. 
  Coffee and Cable TV in Helene-ravaged NC

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Hurricane Helene has wrought deadly and destructive havoc across the South and Appalachia, killing dozens and doing billions in property damage. Fast on Helene’s heels, we now have another disaster hitting the U.S.: The longshoreman strike that now threatens to shut down much of the U.S. economy. And very conspicuously, Joe Biden did nothing about it. No jawboning. No ideas. No attempt to cool tempers and bridge differences to get a deal. Apparently Biden’s leaving it to others as he whiles away the remainder of his only term as president at his beloved Rehoboth Beach vacation home.
  Is Anyone Here Competent? Responses To Hurricane, Port Strike, Add To White House Failures
  
• “And I would say that this is something that would have significant impacts on the nation’s economy anyways. But to have this happen in a way that could negatively impact people that are reeling from a category four hurricane…that is just simply unacceptable.”
  DeSantis Orders FL National Guard to Ports to Hopefully ‘Resume Operations’

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Its legally dubious persecution of Pharmacy Benefit Managers ignores empirical evidence.
  The FTC Jettisons Economics—and Law

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Rachel Zegler casts herself as the victim of sexism in the backlash to her Snow White comments, claiming people deliberately misinterpreted what she said in order to see a woman being torn down. Later, she doubles down on her “free Palestine” activism — a phrase that has been adopted by anti-Israel activists demanding the elimination of the Jewish state.
  Rachel Zegler Says Infamous Woke ‘Snow White’ Comments Were Misinterpreted After Massive Reshoots Try to Salvage Disney Film
  
• The video clip was from Temple’s October 25, 1988 interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” Temple recalled her experience with a naked producer at MGM when she was just 12 years old. She said she was separated from her mother at MGM and taken into the office of Arthur Freed to discuss a movie role. She alleged Freed exposed himself when she entered his office.
  Shirley Temple Once Called Out Hollywood’s Pedophilia Problem In 1988 Larry King Interview That’s Going Viral
  
• Christian Toto: Todd Phillips' 'Folie a Deux' leaves him ripe for return to neglected film genre
  ‘Joker’ Director Could Change Hollywood with This Movie

  HITHER & YON

• The centenarian Carter was a singular figure in American politics.
  Stopping the Steal—in 1962

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

Follow us on Twitter: @CutJibNews
Follow us on Instagram: @Cutjibnewsletter

TIP JAR : Your support helps keep the lights on and is truly appreciated. Note: We are on Stripe, not PayPal.

posted by J.J. Sefton at 07:09 AM

| Access Comments