The Morning Report — 1/14/25

Good morning kids. Wait, what? They're trying to recall Gavin Newsom? Again?

Seriously California, wake up. So, you somehow miraculously recall Newsom and remove him from office. And replace him with who? Surely not Larry Elder or even anyone even a millimeter to the right of Che Guevara? You can blame comrade Stalin all you want for the mass deaths and failures. And then you get Khrushchev who will lead you to the glorious workers paradise you just know is within reach. 100 million souls ground into the earth in just over a century all over the world and still counting says otherwise. Add to it the 24 immolated in Los Angeles since last week (and the poor woman who was set on fire in the NYC subway the week prior).

But unless and until you blame the policies and ideology that Newsom, Bass and all the rest of them believe in, and most crucially who you vote for because tyou believe in them as well, you can rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic all you want but you're all going down with the ship.

And if you all are unwilling to do anything about it to save yourselves, the metaphorical and literal wildfires are not going to recognize state borders and as we know all to well, the cancer of Democrat/Leftist/Socialist/regressive-Progressivism will metastasize and ultimately consume us all. And the longer we wait to contain this conflagration/infection, the more radical and unpleasant the consequences, both in its effects on us and in how we will be forced to deal with it.

Christopher Roach is a sharp guy and a good essayist. But I think he misses the mark in his piece entitled "LA Fires Illustrate a Nationwide Competency Crisis"

California’s fires expose systemic neglect, where poor leadership, declining standards, and ignored maintenance have left a first-world city vulnerable to chaos.

One more time for you Christopher, THE IDEOLOGY IS THE INCOMPETENCE

I think we've beaten this to death, but no doubt long after the last embers have been extinguished, the aftermath and the way forward for residents and all of us alike will be debated well into the future, because there are ramifications for all of us, especially with the swearing in of Donald Trump and his team just one week from tomorrow. Thank God!

And speaking of ideology and incompetence with more than a mere soupçon of dementia and plain old Jew-hatred, we have Israel under the gun yet again as Biden is prepared to be wheeled out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Biden made the puzzling remarks on Monday evening at the State Department alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “I put together one of the most competent foreign policy teams, I would argue, in American history,” Biden claimed.

America-hating, anti-semitic globalist stooges who greased the wheels for Putin to invade Ukraine by first overthrowing its legitimately elected government in a color revolution, bugging out of Afghanistan and leaving Muslim savages in control and gifting them with billions in our weaponry along with still shoveling billions of dollars at them, greasing the wheels for Iran to go nuclear (and they are closer than ever), stabbing Israel in the chest by tying their hands after the bloodiest anti-Jewish massacre since the end of WW2 with the invasion from Gaza, all of this collective signaling to the Chi-coms that invading Taiwan would indeed be tolerated.

As for Israel, it faces enemies on multiple battlefronts but the illegitimate and feral Biden junta has transitioned America from ally to enemy. In an attempt to somehow polish the diseased turd of his reputation and really to hamstring the incoming Trump administration, Biden has got Arafat's Webley pointed at Bibi's head.

The Biden junta is planning a “January surprise” that is “modeled directly on the January surprise of the Obama administration in 2016—that is U.N. Resolution 2334, which basically, to put it a little bit crudely, recognized the Green Line that is the June 5, 1967, ceasefire lines that separated Israel from Jordan as an international boundary,” Michael Doran, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of its center for peace and security in the Middle East, said on his podcast on Dec. 31. . .

. . . Speaking with his co-host Gadi Taub, an Israeli historian and writer, Doran said that the Obama administration’s surprise meant that “any development that Israel has made to the east of the Green Line since the 1967 War is recognized by the U.N. as an illegal settlement.”

Trump takes over very soon. January 20 can’t come soon enough.

They'll belch out the lie that Israel is blocking aid to Gaza and use that as a pretext to invoke some bullshit excuse to cut off military aid. The usual commies and commie self-gassers in Congress are pushing this hard, of course. So, it's not a last-second hostage or, sadly likelier hostage corpses deal in exchange for the release of the savage Muslim terrorists (BIR-R-M), it's perhaps trying to shove Israel back to what is correctly deemed the Auschwitz borders of pre June 1967.

How about no way in Hell and Vayr Ge-hargit should be Bibi's response. As for any jailed terrorists, they should be given pagers and cell phones as parting gifts. And or a visit to an Israeli dental clinic to have their teeth filled with fulminate of Mercury and Semtex amalgam with a tiny bluetooth - BLUETOOTH, get it?!!!! receiver installed.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• The New Right sees America in crisis, split between reforming, restoring its foundations, or pursuing revolutionary change to counter perceived moral and cultural decline. (PERCEIVED? RUFKM?! - JJS)
  American Conservatives Should Focus on Reform and Restoration
  
• “Those who will not be governed by God will be governed by tyrants.”
  De Tocqueville On the Difficulty of Freedom (God Bless You Alex D. Toke-ville, by Barry Hu-inSsein Obama - jjs)

LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
• 'In many ways, the current staffing, deployment mode, and size … have not changed since the 1960s,' wrote Kristin Crowley
  Two Months Before Deadly Blazes, LA Fire Chief Said She Needed More Firefighters—Then Karen Bass' Admin Scrubbed the Memo
  
• Multiple people died trying to protect their homes.
  At Least 24 Dead From Los Angeles County Fires With More Still Missing
  
• Some of the social media responses to Zelensky’s offer of assistance ridiculed his proposal to send 150 personnel as miniscule compared to the titanic amount of money the United States has poured into defending Ukraine over the past three years.
  Ukraine Offers Inept L.A. Government Help with Wildfires
  
• But wait. If climate change really is to blame, why was California so obviously, so woefully, so inexcusably unprepared?
  Blaming ‘Climate Change’ For L.A. Fires Only Makes Newsom Look Criminally Incompetent
  
• Newsom has enjoyed fan magazine-like coverage from the home media since he stepped into the governor's mansion in 2020. Now, just as he was ready to spend 2025 phoning in his last year in office to free-media his way to a 2028 presidential run, his cover's been blown. Newsom and Democrats, who run everything from the statehouse to the outhouse in California, are now revealed for turning the Golden State into Mars. And he's pissed that you noticed. 
  Gavin Newsom Has Found the L.A. Fires' Biggest Victim: Himself
  
• Social media has enabled residents to learn about the gross negligence that contributed to the current devastation.
  L.A. Leaders Can’t Hide Behind the Media Anymore
  
• In the words of the current meme, nothing changes until a “preference cascade,” the moment when “everybody” changes their mind.
  Wildfires in the Autumn of the Educated Class
  
• The state leader – along with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass – is fighting for his political life as the wildfires have torched more than 40,000 acres, destroyed more than 12,000 structures and killed at least 24 people. (So long as the ideology is protected, they are both easily replaceable - jjs)
  Recall effort against Newsom underway in California following alleged mishandling of LA fires
  
• When taxpayers are forced by the government to underwrite risky behavior, the risks increase. When the market is allowed to accurately assess risks in setting prices, there’s a powerful incentive to find solutions instead.
  Gov. Newsom’s Solution to the Los Angeles Wildfire Disaster? More Government
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• John Abatzoglou, a climatology professor from the University of California, has studied 30 years of wildfires in Los Angeles County. After examining the data, he was unequivocable: “More than 95% of these [California fires] are human-ignited fires.” Abatzoglou added that arson is among the leading causes, but most fires are started accidentally.
  Follow the Science? 95% of California’s Wildfires Are Started by PEOPLE, Not Global Warming!
  
• Daniel Greenfield: Is your city on fire? You needed diversity insurance.
  Diversity Insurance
  
• California’s fires expose systemic neglect, where poor leadership, declining standards, and ignored maintenance have left a first-world city vulnerable to chaos.
  LA Fires Illustrate a Nationwide Competency Crisis
  
• I don't even like Tesla, but what it's doing in L.A. makes that an increasingly untenable position. 
  Ugly Trucks to the Rescue!
  
• The Great Los Angeles Fires have exposed the rot within the political machine governing the city of Angels.
  Trump should federalize Los Angeles
  
• On Thursday, January 9, CNN broadcast to its tiny viewership an on-the-street interview by Anderson Cooper with Newsom. And, as the glow of hellfire and smoke rose like Cthulhu behind them, Cooper tipped his hand on his own bias by saying to Newsom, “I hate to even ask this question, but the President-Elect chose to, uh, attack you, and blame you for this.”
  After Trespassing With Kamala On Burned-Out Property For Photo-Op In 2020, Gavin Newsom Claims Trump 'Politicizes' Fires
  
• The environment of California is a lot worse as a result of misguided actions by environmentalists to protect the environment.
  The Environmentalist War on California
  
• If Californians want to contain future infernos, they need to fire the woke Democrats who run the state. (That means looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves as the ignition source. Human nature says not likely - jjs)
  To Stop Wildfires, Burn Wokeism

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

• It's connected to Israel - and it isn’t pleasant.
  Is the Biden Junta Planning a January Surprise?

• "We're hopeful there's going to be a deal that's struck towards the very end of Biden's [junta]."
  Vance: Trump Will Enable Israel To ‘Knock Out’ Hamas Unless Hostages Released
  
• IDF: “Among the targets struck were a rocket launcher site, a military site, and routes along the Syria-Lebanon border used to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.”
  Israeli Airstrikes Destroy Terror Targets in Lebanon Amid Hezbollah’s Ceasefire Violations 
  
• Those terrible Israelis are at it again.
  The Kamal Adwan ‘Hospital’ Was a Hamas Base of Operations
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• Katherine Franke made comments in an interview that violated Columbia's anti-discrimination policies, the school found.
  Columbia Professor Retires After Investigation Found She Discriminated Against Jewish Students

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Rharrit was recently an honored guest speaker for the Hamas-tied Council on American Islamic Relations, a designated terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates. That apparently made her a super trustworthy guest, according to the standards of CBS, whose contributor continued to nod along to drivel that could’ve easily come out of a white supremacist’s mouth.
  60 Minutes Guest Blames Islamic Terror on America's Support for Israel
  
• Daniel Greenfield: Even after New Orleans attack, Biden frees 11 Al Qaeda terrorists.
  Biden Frees Al-Qaeda Terrorist Who Had ‘Foreknowledge of 9/11’
  
• Robert Spencer: A rapidly Islamizing country is turning out jihadis regularly.
  Sweden: A New Hotbed of Jihad Terror

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

• Margot Cleveland: It would be outrageous for AG Garland to continue to push for the release of the special counsel’s report.
  Garland Seeks To Trample Americans’ Due Process Rights To Get Trump
  
• Donald Trump’s voters don’t want Greenland or Canada, we are waiting for Joe Biden’s destructive actions to be corrected.
  We Need Immediate Action to Reverse Joe Biden’s Executive Orders

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• “Unfortunately, Schlobom cannot be prosecuted for Ms. Mattson’s murder, even if prosecutors had sufficient evidence to prove his guilt, because he suffers from advanced dementia,” the ICSO said. (Tinfoil hat time: Is this a preemptive attempt to shield Biden??? - jjs
  Investigators Say They Caught Murderer 21 Years After Cold Case But Can’t Do Anything About It

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

• The $50 million proposal comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom’s special legislative session to “Trump-proof” the state’s left-wing laws began convening Thursday. Lawmakers are reportedly planning to allocate $25 million to the state Department of Justice to provide additional funding to sue the incoming Trump administration and another $25 million in grants to immigration advocacy nonprofits seeking to shield illegal migrants from detention and deportation. 
  California Dems Propose ‘Slush Fund’ To ‘Trump-Proof’ Illegal Migrants From Deportation Amid Deadly Wildfires
  
• Texas has faithfully executed the law and played a vital role in national security — a role the state must now maintain and reinforce.
  Trump Must Immediately Build On Texas’ Successful Border Work
  
• Homeland Security officials are searching for the makers of an underground tunnel crossing from Mexico under the U.S. border into El Paso, Texas. Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents discovered the “man-made smuggling tunnel” during an inspection of a storm drain, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a Friday press release. The agency said the tunnel is equipped with electricity and ventilation and is used by “criminal organizations” to smuggle illegal border crossers. ("Palestinian" ngineering students from Bir Zeit University??? - jjs)
  Border Agents Find ‘Sophisticated’ Migrant Tunnel Built On Biden’s Watch

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• Biden maligned DOJ prosecutors ‘based solely on false accusations,’ special counsel report says
  Special Counsel Slams Biden’s Attacks on ‘Integrity of Justice System’ in Hunter Biden Case

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

• Trump: “Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his “boss,” Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another ‘Report’ based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks  and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were,” the president-elect wrote, referring to files the now-disbanded House Select Jan. 6 Committee deleted before Republicans gained control of the lower chamber in 2023.
  Trump would have been convicted in election interference case had he not won election, special counsel Jack Smith’s report claims 

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

• “Jeff Bezos and his fellow billionaires accommodate and enable the most acute threat to American democracy—Donald Trump—at a time when a vibrant free press is more essential than ever to our democracy’s survival and capacity to thrive”
  Deranged Anti-Trump Columnist Jennifer Rubin Resigns From Washington Post, Blasts Jeff Bezos
  
• Jacob Soboroff has appeared on NBC more than 30 times since the outbreak of the California fires
  NBC Reporter at Center of Defamation Lawsuit Now Leading Network's Wildfire Coverage
  
• Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan that Facebook pushed back on the Biden regime’s censorship demands. The Facebook Files say otherwise.
  Zuckerberg’s Rebrand Of Facebook’s Role In Biden Censorship Scheme Refuted In Facebook Files
  
• Don Lemon blasted married MSNBC co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for treating incoming President Donald Trump with “civility,” going on a profanity-ridden rant on his podcast.
  Small Bitter Fruit Don Lemon Blasts MSNBC’s Scarborough and Brzezinski for Preaching ‘Civility’ Towards Trump
  
• ‘We have zeroed in on an American offering outrageous prices,’ CNN correspondent Alex Marquardt wrote
  CNN Star Reporter Refuses To Apologize to Navy Vet He Threatened To ‘Nail' as Bombshell Defamation Case Continues

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• December 2024 set a one-month record trade surplus of $104.8 billion, which the New York Times (NYT) attributed to a “rush” of exports before President-elect Donald Trump “can take office and start raising tariffs.”
  China’s Trade Surplus Hits Record $990 Billion

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

• When will Americans realize that they’re being had?
  The Climate Hoax

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• As of Thursday, the bill has 124 co-sponsors, all of whom are Republicans. President-elect Trump has vowed to sign the bill into law if it is first passed by Congress. Republicans currently hold narrow majorities in both chambers, with 219 seats in the House and 53 seats in the Senate.
  Trump-Endorsed Concealed Carry Reciprocity Measure Introduced in U.S. House
  
• Perhaps things will improve, and liberty will be preserved and enhanced under Trump, but Americans aren’t taking chances. 
  Gun sales: lies, damned lies and statistics

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• This is the part where you're supposed to look the other way...possibly at the bills piling up on your kitchen counter.
  Nothing Fishy Here: 20 Congress Members Made Double the Average Stock Gains in 2024
  
• Disgraced ex-Sen. Bob “Gold Bars” Menendez absolutely deserves to go to prison for 15 years, as federal prosecutors have requested. (Loyal Leftist since forever and Latino, so wrist meet velvet gloved slap - jjs)
  Throw the book at ‘Gold Bars’ Bob Menendez — jail him for at least 15 years

  POLITICS

• The debate over Pete Hegseth’s nomination is not just about one man; it is a test of whether America still values civilian oversight of the military and respects religious freedom.
  The Manufactured Outrage Over Pete Hegseth’s Nomination for Secretary of Defense
  
• The confirmation hearings official kick off [today]— one week ahead of Trump’s inauguration.
  Exclusive — Rep. Derrick Van Orden Lays out Confirmation Hearings: ‘Slate of Absolute Winners’
  
• Trump has chosen people who understand the threat of government coercion—because they have experienced it firsthand.
  Cabinet of the Canceled
  
• “President Trump is dedicated to uniting the country through the strength, security, and opportunity of his America First agenda,” said Co-Chairs Steve Witkoff and Kelly Loeffler, Trump Vance Inaugural Committee, Inc. “The 2025 inaugural celebrations will reflect President-elect Trump’s historic return to the White House and the American people’s decisive vote to Make America Great Again.”
  Here’s Trump’s Official List of Engagements for His Inauguration.
  
• “We had a great meeting. He was very impressive. His wife was with him, and she was really fantastic, too.”
  Trump Praises ‘Fascinating’ and ‘Impressive’ Fetterman: ‘He’s a Commonsense Person’

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Communist China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) celebrates its centenary in 2027, the same year the CCP has indicated it will be ready to take Taiwan by force — and new satellite photos show that it could be prepared to cross the straits in force before then.
  China: War in Two Years or Less

• Money will go to 'marginalized' and 'underrepresented groups' in Indonesia, Guatemala, and Kenya, documents show
  Lame Duck Biden Junta Spends $1 Mil in Taxpayer Funds on Foreign DEI Programs

• Trudeau announced his resignation on January 6, using a maneuver known as “prorogation” to force the legislature out of session so he could remain as a lame-duck “caretaker” prime minister until March.
  Lame Duck Castreau-Cescu/Trudeau Leaves Power Vacuum in Canada, Forcing Liberals to Talk Tough to Trump
  
• Von der Leyen, 66, is the EU´s most high-profile political figure. In September, she marked the start of her second five-year term as commission president by traveling to Ukraine and then to South America for a major trade meeting.
  EU Denies Coverup of Health of Commission President, Hospitalised With Severe Pneumonia
  
• In this game of global chess, America needs to start taking the queen.
  JACK POSOBIEC: The path to a true 'fortress America'
  
• Polls show that a clear majority of Greenlanders want independence from Denmark, but not if it lowers living standards. In his latest statement, Egede said, “Greenland’s independence is Greenland’s business, also in relation to the use of its land, so it is also Greenland that will decide what agreement we should come to,” referring in particular to the possible expansion of the U.S. military presence on the island.
  Greenland PM Gives Major Indication of Future U.S. Involvement.
  
• "American economic and security interests will no longer take a backseat."
  GOP Bill Would Give Trump Authorization To Negotiate Greenland Acquisition
  
• Trump's foreign policy game is now nuanced and impressive.
  Trump is becoming a master statesman and world leader
  
• Biden's foreign policy record is one of the weakest in American history.
  Biden: I Built ‘Most Competent Foreign Policy Team’ In U.S. History (Indigestible vegetable emits gas - jjs)

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Instead of strictly scrutinizing the DOJ’s new justification for racial discrimination, the judge accepted it because the admirals said so.
  Biden’s DOJ Digs Up New Justifications For Racial Discrimination In Military School Admissions

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The academic said he wanted to help people unpack their 'invisible knapsack of white privilege'
  Top Medical Association Academic Blames Health Care Problems On ‘Cisgenderism’ (Why Kildare can't cure is the new Why Johnny can't read! - jjs)

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Hah! It is now two years later, and the company is still awaiting that launch license. According to the company’s head Adam Gilmour he is now hopeful the license is only weeks away.
  After more than two years, Australian rocket startup thinks its launch approval is about to finally arrive
  
• The most intriguing feature in this picture however might actually be that nondescript channel.
  Ridges from fractures at the head of a 300+mile-long Martian drainage channel (aka Maxine Waters' crotch- jjs)

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

• It is unimaginable to me that surgeons today perform ‘gender surgeries’ as treatment given what we now know.
  Trans Surgeries Like Mine 40 Years Ago Were Wrong Then And Are Wrong Now
  
• Christian Toto: New documentary details impact of TikTok, Instagram on vulnerable teens
  Chloe Cole (‘Identity Crisis’): Social Media Silences Detransitioners

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge on Friday, meaning he will face no fine, jail time or probation. Charlamagne, on “The Breakfast Club,” said that it is a “waste of time” to laud the fact that Trump is now officially a convicted felon because he was still elected to serve as president of the United States.
  ‘Who Cares?’: Charlamagne Says It’s ‘Ridiculous’ For ‘Liberals’ To ‘Celebrate’ Trump Sentence
  
• Aaron Renn’s Life in the Negative World offers a way forward for Christians in a society at war with traditional morality.
  How To Fight Against A World Hostile To Christian Values
  
• The Daily Caller’s latest original documentary, “Pedo Hunters,” explores this phenomenon as it unfolds against some of our nation’s sickest criminals: alleged pedophiles.
  The Daily Caller’s latest original documentary, “Pedo Hunters,” explores this phenomenon as it unfolds against some of our nation’s sickest criminals: alleged pedophiles.

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