The Morning Report — 12/26/24

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a blessed Christmas and that the light from the menorah this year, more than ever, serves as a beacon of hope not just for Jews but for all of us who yearn for freedom and for the darkness of evil and tyranny wherever it exists to be vanquished.

On that note, let us commence. The late, lamented and brilliant Andrew Breitbart long ago so eloquently observed that "politics is downstream from culture." I certainly agree with this but then it begs the question, what is culture? I'm not really looking for a Funk & Wagnall's definition of the word, but trying to put into words for me what seems to be a sort of chicken vs egg. situation. I guess culture is sort of a distillation, good and bad, of the shared human experience up to a certain moment in time of customs, traditions and patterns of behavior that taken together define a nation, society or community.

Why ask this question, because for me despite the fact that the human experience over thousands of years dictates that for a given society to thrive, people have to organize themselves and behave in a certain way. To wit The Judeo-Christian Western Model. And yet in a quest for absolute power and control, people have time and again demonstrated the need to abandon rationality, sanity and common decency. And when that happens, you create misery, pain, suffering and waste beyond belief.

Not so very long ago, the notion that anyone would be cheering with near orgasmic glee the gunning down in cold blood of UHC CEO Brian Thompson would've been nearly unthinkable to anyone except someone like David Berkowitz.

Of course, those cheering the loudest would immediately point the finger at me accusing me of cheering what Daniel Penny did that caused the death of a deranged man threatening him and fellow passengers on a NYC subway train. The only thing people were cheering was that Daniel Penny had the bravery and presence of mind to risk his own life in restraining the deviant in question who could've been armed and indeed caused grievous bodily harm to Penny and anyone else at that time without warning. No one cheered the death, which sadly, as I and others noted was the fault of Leftist policy that created a deranged drug-addicted lost soul and unleashed him on society. So that being said, and in the wake of a sleeping woman being immolated on a NYC subway train late last week, we get this comment from a supposed thought-leader in and of the left:

Stalin famously said, “a single death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic.” This is the statist bean-counter’s view of human life. Humans are sort of like widgets, existing to serve the needs of the state. . . I thought of Stalin’s words when I read what Nate Silver, the statistician, had to say about the fact that an illegal alien allegedly set a woman alight on the New York City subway. Just to get the facts straight, the illegal alien was kicked out of the country on Trump’s watch and sneaked back in on Biden’s watch. He lived for free in a homeless shelter while somehow managing to support a $ 30-a-day drug habit, in addition to drinking heavily.

. . .Bill Ackman points out what most Americans instinctively understand: That poor woman was burned alive in the most horrific fashion because of the Biden administration’s open border. Nate Silver, however, has a different take, which can be summed up thusly: “Hey, it was bad, but crime happens in big cities, so people shouldn’t get their knickers in a twist about the alleged murderer’s immigration status.”
NYC has a considerably lower crime rate than most large American cities. It's also a city of 8+ million where lots of crazy shit happens on a daily basis. I don't blame anyone for being concerned but it's sort of a test for whether you think in terms of narratives or base rates.

. . . I don’t mean to pick only on Nate Silver because his approach to the issue is typical for Democrats. They love to point out that illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than Americans or legal immigrants, which kind of overlooks the fact that every one of them is a criminal by virtue of being here. I also doubt the continuing validity of those statistics given crimes at the border that don’t go into the database, as well as the increasing aggression and geographic spread of Latin American gangs such as Tren de Aragua.

Well, a single death is a tragedy, but Comrade Stalin's fellow travelers in the Democrat Party of 2024 view it as yet another opportunity to blame the society they have worked so very hard to tear down and fundamentally transform by shifting the blame onto us who point out the conditions that allowed this barbarism to occur.

I do not know Nate Silver, nor his background. But for the life of me I cannot fathom how people that I grew up with, attended the same schools with and have similar backgrounds with, can even begin to rationalize things in so cold a manner so as to preserve their own personal political beliefs. His comments just beggar the imagination. I had quite a few liberal if not hardcore leftist professors in college back in the late 70s and yet here I am.

Then again, my mother of blessed memory and her family went through the same hell on earth courtesy of the Nazis as Anthony Blinken's (step?) father and yet there he and his ilk are, eagerly working to destroy the state of Israel and grease the wheels of Iran's atomic weapons program.

Well, if the death of a million per Stalin is a statistic, those who enthusiastically cheered Mangione for what he did, and were aghast at Daniel Penny's acquittal will one day, be the ones who will volunteer to line us up in front of a ditch and shoot us into it with a smile on their faces. That in the cold light of day is or God-forbid will be the politics that is downstream from today's culture.

Luigi Mangione has killer abs, a broad smile and a vendetta against the U.S. health care system. Progressive politicians like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were among several who criticized the killing, only to add “But …” to their statements. . . Chances are a MAGA rally wouldn’t cheer Mangione’s name in any setting, but liberal late-night TV watchers have had a similar reaction to some progressive politicians.Earlier this month, Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” alerted his audience that Mangione had been captured after a brief manhunt.

The crowd’s reaction? Boos. . . Why are late-night TV audiences cheering on Mangione?  It’s a complex constellation of reasons, from the Left’s embrace of political violence to our increasingly divided age. One possible culprit? Late-Night TV. These propaganda shows have been dehumanizing their political opponents for years. Trump is Hitler … and his fans are just as bad.

So, chicken and egg. Is the problem the Late Night schtick-meisters and the rest of the media/entertainment complex or is it the audiences cheering on murderers and the dehumanization of Trump and normal Americans. Or is it a self-licking ice cream cone?

Yesterday, we recalled how we marveled at the view of earth from Apollo 8 at Christmastime in 1968. Lest we forget the mindset of some of our fellow citizens at that time, such as one Bill Ayers, among others.

In No Place to Hide, Grathwohl explains that the Weathermen actually believed that they would be successful in overthrowing the U.S. government and that, with the help of the Cubans, Chinese, Russians, and North Vietnamese, they would occupy America. Americans would have to be "re-educated" in camps, similar to what the communists did in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and other countries they had taken over. Here is one of the chilling revelations Larry Grathwohl made in the film:
I asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
I asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.
And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.
And when I say "eliminate," I mean "kill."
Twenty-five million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.

Consider this in light of those cheering on the shooting of Thompson, and the rending of cloth over the acquittal of Daniel Penny, and the passing of laws calling for the arrest of parents who refuse to let their children's genitals be lopped off and for the state to become the parents.

There are signs, the biggest one being the relative landslide victory of Donald Trump last November and a rejection of the more openly avowed Leftist policies of the Democrat party across demographic lines. Let us hope and pray that this trend is indeed a cultural shift reflected in the election and that it continues for years to come, as it must if we and our progeny are to survive and thrive. What cannot go on will not go on. Hopefully it's the evil insanity of Leftist/Progressivism and not our beloved America as we want to restore.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• His tweet about the statistics behind the illegal alien burning up a woman on a subway is just chilling.
  Nate Silver shows how leftists think like communists, not like human beings
  
• Prominent figures say they've been kicked out of their banks over politics
  What Is Debanking And Why Are People Talking About It?

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
• The incoming missile set off sirens over a wide swath of central Israel, sending millions of people scrambling to reach bomb shelters. The sirens were activated as a precaution against falling fragments from the interception. The alerts were issued in a wider area than usual as part of a new policy implemented by the Home Front Command, following delayed alerts in a previous attack. The attack sparked exasperation among Israelis, after a third counterattack by Israel against the Houthis earlier this month apparently failed to deter the rebels or stop them from launching missiles.
  Houthis Attack Israel on Christmas; Second Missile in Two Nights
  
• “Today we are lighting the first candle of Chanukah to mark the victory of the Maccabees then, and also the victory of ‘the Maccabees of today’. Like then, we are striking at our enemies, and those who thought they could cut the thread of our lives here then, this will apply to them all. The Houthis will also learn what Hamas, Hezbollah, the Assad regime and others have learned, and this will also take time. This lesson will be learned across the Middle East, I tell you, in those days at this season. A happy holiday to you all.”
  Netanyahu Warns Houthis as He Lights First Candle of Hanukkah
  
• Robert Spencer: Arabs began flooding into Palestine in large numbers after Zionists began arriving there.
  The Non-Indigenous 'Palestinians'
  
• The “Palestinian refugees” are neither 'Palestinians' nor refugees.
  Israel Must End The ‘Palestinian’ Charade
  
• So it can charge a certain country.
  Ireland Wants to Redefine ‘Genocide’
  
• Bear Grylls is the latest to push the myth—one Pope Francis has embraced—that Jesus was a ‘Palestinian’ refugee.
  Contrary to today’s leftists, early Christians knew Christ was from Judea, not ‘Palestine’
  
• We will hear more such tales of cruelty, each more ghastly than the next.
  Misery and Fear Shine Through Freed Hostage’s Account of His Captivity

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The protesters marched down streets yelling, "Anyone who doesn't love Germany should leave Germany," "Migration kills" and "We must take back our cities, our villages and our homeland."
  Germans demand mass deportations of migrants after Saudi man killed 5 at Christmas market

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

• It's flourishing.
  Jew-Hate Cancer in U.S. Schools

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

• Daniel Greenfield: And invalidate any actions taken during Biden’s mental incapacity.
  Congress Must Expose the Senility Coup

  UHC CEO MURDER

• Heather Mac Donald: The assassination of Brian Thompson does not call for a “conversation” about health care—it calls for a reckoning with Americans’ moral breakdown.
  Luigi Mangione and the American Abyss

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Daniel Greenfield: The horrifying new normal.
  It’s Not Christmas Eve Without NYC Subway Slashings
  
• Biden, 82, commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row Monday — a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murderers. 
  Trump’s Christmas Day message to death-row inmates granted clemency by Biden: ‘GO TO HELL!’  (And take Biden and whoever the evil bastard(s) that ordered him to do this - jjs)
  
• Sen. Dick Durbin says Biden clemency recipients, which include a triple murderer, 'demonstrated a commitment to rehabilitation'
  Democrats Block Tom Cotton Resolution To Condemn Biden’s Commutation for ‘Kids for Cash’ Judge

  TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH

• The delay was requested by the alleged would-be assassins lawyers, who argued that they needed more time to assess the evidence against Routh as they weigh whether to pursue an insanity defense. (Is agreeing to work for the CIA and Malig-Nancy Pelosi indicators of insanity, or greed and self-preservation? - jjs)
  Alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh’s trial delayed until September — so his lawyers can weigh insanity defense

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

• Earlier in December, the Democrat-controlled San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted to expand on a California sanctuary policy that already limits local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The county-wide ordinance now prohibits law enforcement from notifying ICE agents, even in cases when a foreign national has committed severe crimes such as as rape, child abuse, burglary, gang violence or other heinous acts.
  Trump’s Border Czar Has Plan For ‘Super’ Sanctuary County Wanting To Shield Its Criminal Migrants From ICE
  
• Behind the boast—which is intended to say that people like living in a decaying leftist-run state—lies an ugly truth.
  The dirty little secret of California’s ‘rebounding’ population

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

• In a scathing letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger, Carr criticized the network’s conduct as emblematic of the national media’s cratering trustworthiness, with public confidence in mass media hitting a historic low of 31 percent, according to Gallup.Carr’s remarks spotlight ABC’s lack of credibility, particularly in light of its recent legal loss to Trump, where the network admitted regret over statements made by George Stephanopoulos during a high-profile interview. The debacle, Carr argues, epitomizes the arrogance of national media organizations that have eroded public trust while treating accountability as optional.
  Trump’s Incoming FCC Chair Rubs Salt Into ABC’s Stephanopoulos Wound in Letter to Bob Iger.

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Reducing immigration would cause wages to rise," one of the study's authors contends.
  Native-Born American Labor Participation Slumps As Immigrant Labor Numbers Jump

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

• Daniel Greenfield: So how long until there’s a call for banning them?
  Media Claims Christmas Trees are Destroying the Planet
  
• Meanwhile, Association of American Medical Colleges did a survey and found that 55% of medical schools reported that the health effects of climate change were a required topic in their courses.
  Europe’s Medical Students Being Trained to Consider Climate Impact of Inhalers and “Green Prescribing”
  
• Notably, city officials blamed “climate change” for the swell that caused the wharf to collapse — not the 110-year-old structure.
  Santa Cruz Wharf Collapses After Environmental Lawsuit Delayed Repairs
  
• China – the world’s worst polluter on several metrics, including carbon emissions – “consumes 30% more coal than the rest of the world put together,” according to the IEA study. Its government approved hundreds of new coal power plants in the past two years, suggesting that it will grow its outsized share of the world’s fossil fuel consumption and production of greenhouse gases despite being a signatory to the Paris Climate Agreement.
  Study: Global Coal Demand at Record High in 2024 – Driven by China

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• The U.S. Marshals Service has ceased a government-funded security detail for Anthony Fauci, marking the end of a $15 million arrangement in place over the past two years. The security detail was funded by taxpayers, coinciding with Fauci’s retirement, during which he received an annual pension approaching $500,000. This decision follows Fauci’s public acknowledgment in a book tour that he harbors concerns about potential threats to his life.Fauci, who became a figure of intense mockery due to his lies during the COVID-19 pandemic, has transitioned to self-funded security measures. He has been frequently accompanied by security, with protection visible outside his residence–a move never needed by public servants who have served the taxpayer well.
  Fauci Gets Private Security as Taxpayer-Funded US Marshal Detail Ends.

  ABORTION

• Killing voiceless, innocent babies does not stir Biden’s conscience, but killing killers does.
  ‘Catholic’ Biden Supports Death Penalty For Unwanted Unborn But Not For Convicted Murderers

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Robert Spencer: And leftists are ENRAGED.
  Fetterman Comes Out for Common Sense Again

  POLITICS

• "Many of the Democrats who succeeded this cycle — our best over-performers in House races, for instance — are people who ran against the Democrat Party brand," Lis Smith pointed out. "Trump tore down the blue wall in the industrial Midwest, but he also expanded his vote the most in our bluest and most urban areas." That strategy by Democrats in, for the most part, purple districts probably saved the party from total disaster. As it was, they actually picked up one seat in the House. And the three seats the GOP picked up in the Senate could have easily been more if some candidates hadn't run away from Biden/Harris. The Democrat disaster can't be found in the numbers.
  It's Even Worse for the Dems Than They Thought And It Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better
  
• In the unlikely persona of Donald Trump, the American ‘rabble’ have found an unlikely hero who stands up on their behalf to remind the ‘warped, frustrated’ old men inside the Beltway who it is that does most of the living and dying in this country.
  How Trump And The Republicans Became The Party Of George Bailey
  
• Donald Trump’s victory, combined with Republicans regaining the Senate majority and keeping control of the House, made 2024 a bad year for Democrats. Signs suggest it could be something even worse: a historic defeat that puts Republicans in the political driver’s seat for a generation or more. That’s because the exit poll showed that more voters said they were Republican than Democrat — for the first time in a presidential election since 1928.
  A realignment — if Trump can keep it: 2024 results signal a new political era

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• “Unfortunately, we will have to evacuate one of the city’s hospitals again, where more than a hundred patients are staying."
  Massive Russian strike leaves over half a million Ukrainians without heat on Christmas: report

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 was on its way to Grozny in Russia but was diverted because of fog.
  38 dead after jet crashes in Kazakhstan—passenger films crash from inside cabin as plane goes down
  
• Trump’s renewed interest in our northern neighborhood hints of a new opportunity for a more robust alignment of American, Canadian, and Greenlandic strategic interests.
  Making the Arctic Great Again?
  
• Trumpism appears to be catching on in Europe, with key figures in the international populist movement making major gains this year and in some cases entering into government in countries where it would have been unthinkable even just a few years ago. Although the world has broken out into chaos in Trump’s absence, with wars erupting in both Europe and the Middle East, in many respects the global chessboard appears much more favourable to the MAGA position. Here’s a look at some of the key areas of the board and the pieces left standing . . .
  2024: The Year Trumpism Triumphed and Put Globalists on the Run in Europe
  
• "Anyone who is discovered to be a member of a house church can be charged with a crime against national security..."
  Here Are The 10 Most Dangerous Countries For Christians To Celebrate Christmas
  
• The reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris is a triumph not just for France, Catholics, and other Christians, but for everyone.
  A Christmas Present to the World
  
• Collapsing buildings are a recurring deadly problem for Cubans. The communist Castro regime, which controls housing and all other aspects of Cuban life, appears to have no interest in improving housing for its people nor in maintaining Cuba’s historic buildings, many of which are presently in a precarious state.
  Cuba: 6 Decades of Communism Leave a Third of Island’s Housing in Ruins

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Did the U.S. Navy mistakenly shoot down an airliner?
  After the USS Gettysburg Misfire, Can We Talk About TWA 800?

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The holidays approach following the publication of reports this month that wait times to see doctors in Canada, particularly specialists, are longer than even in the modern history of the country, and thousands of Canadians are dying on waitlists for life-saving medical interventions.
  Canada’s Dysfunctional Healthcare System Fears ER Surge During Holidays
  
• "Half of the mice with melanoma tumors became cancer-free after treatment"
  Cancer-Fighting Vibrating Molecules: 99% Efficiency Against Lab Cultures Of Melanoma Cells Reported

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: ‘SNL,’ ‘Daily Show’ crowds fawn over alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO
  Late-Night TV Has a Luigi Mangione Problem
  
• Amazon Prime Studios is taking heat on Christmas for censoring a key scene in the classic Christmas film, It’s a Wonderful Life with many saying the edits make the movie nonsensical and eliminates one of the most important bits of character development in the film.
  Amazon Studios Blasted for Censoring Scenes in Christmas Classic ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’
  
• The Thieves of Words: The tyranny of the absurd is the natural progression of political correctness,
  How Political Correctness Stole Christmas
  
• Behind Netflix’s cocoa-sipping rom-com frippery must lie the hard Thucydidean realities of diplomacy and war.
  The Secret Geopolitics Of The Netflix Christmas Movie Universe
  
• Don’t spend too much time trying to untangle that ball of mental yarn - it’s just another day in the gender-deluded, mentally addled life of Dylan Mulvaney, a skinny little dude who wanted social media fame so bad that he devoted his life to cosplaying as a little girl for clicks on Instagram, eventually spending God-only-knows-how-much money to mutilate himself into looking like a woman while progressive leftists hailed the crossdressing scheme as the ultimate display of courage, right up there with Rosa Parks and the dude facing off with a tank in Tiananmen Square.
  Grifter Bro: Dylan Mulvaney, Who Thinks He's a Girl, Dresses Up Like a Dude

  HITHER & YON

• According to a declassified document, the agency believed that giant beings once inhabited the red planet. The report, titled "Mars Exploration May 22, 1984," details how the CIA used astral projection — the concept that a person’s spirit can traverse different planes of existence — to transport a ‘subject’ to Mars approximately one million years ago.
  Did You Have 'CIA Docs Say There Was Life on Mars' on Your Bingo Card?

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