The Morning Report — 4/ 3 /25

Good morning kids. So Cory Booker, who I see as the poor man's Barack Obama took to the well of the Senate two nights ago to deliver what amounts to the world's longest presidential candidacy announcement. How appropriate that he chose April Fool's Day, for this uncunning stunt.

Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour congressional floor rant is being hailed as a major achievement, but nobody has ever questioned Booker’s ability to talk endlessly. It’s his greatest talent. That and making other people’s money disappear. The 25 hours of rambling summed up everything wrong with Booker as a politician and a man. Booker and his media allies tried to bill it as a filibuster, but it wasn’t because the senator from New Jersey wasn’t trying to fight an actual piece of legislation, just calling attention to himself.

Why did Booker actually ramble for 25 hours in the Senate? To run for president.

As stunts go, this was the most obvious one yet. Booker’s next Senate election is in 2026, but he has a campaign page up which claims that “he cannot stay quiet and complacent while Donald Trump and Elon Musk shatter constitutional checks and balances” and urges, “Stand with Cory by making a donation today.” But his obvious long-term goal is 2028.

There’s a problem with Booker’s presidential aspirations. And it’s not just that every time he speaks, he reminds everyone of an unsuccessful Obama.

It’s his corrupt track record.

well, Obama was elected twice and ran the Biden junta from 21-25 from Kalorama after the 2020 election theft. Aside from that, Daniel Greenfield takes a good hard look at Booker's record of malfeasance, rank corruption and criminality during his stint as mayor of a quintessential Democrat Shithole Newark NJ and then his abortive 2020 presidential candidacy and asks the rhetorical question of where did all the millions in campaign cash thrown at him go?

Considering that, despite what happened in Wisconsin with the election of an in-your-face commie to the state Supreme Court and preserving the Leftist stranglehold on the court as well as much of the state government, the Democrat Party and Leftism in general is in total disarray as Donald Trump rolls on with his agenda, the criminal judicial law fare and borderline/crossing the line acts of domestic terrorism against Tesla and other targets notwithstanding. Here's just the latest example.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents from Dallas, Texas, arrested a man for making “terroristic threats against ICE agents” and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem.

In a post on X, HSI Dallas, revealed that they had taken a man named Robert King into custody and explained that his “social media posts included intentions to ‘open fire'” if ICE agents were spotted “in his neighborhood.”

“Robert King, a U.S. citizen was recently taken into custody in McKinney, Texas for making terroristic threats against ICE agents and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,” HSI Dallas said. “King’s alarming social media posts included intentions to ‘open fire’ if agents are seen in his neighborhood.”

The average American sees things like this, coupled with the disaster unleashed on us with the erased border, transgenderism insanity, wokeism and DEI and all the rest of it and for objecting to it, get called racists, Nazis, homophobes, xenophobes and every other slur imaginable. Perhaps Booker understands this and senses an opportunity to look like the sane alternative to Bernie Sanders and Titty-Caca Ocasio Cortez and their ilk, despite being fully in their camp ideologically. He knows when to keep his mouth shut. Or given25 hours of bloviating against Trump and an agenda that is indeed popular with a broad segment of the citizenry, maybe not. To paraphrase Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' opinion of Barack Obama, Booker and his handlers are projecting or trying to project the image of the clean, articulate black man who only speaks Jive when he has to, so as to try to recreate 2008 20 years later.

The Democrat Party is polling about 27 percent approval — and sinking.

In 2024, it lost the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and both the popular vote and the Electoral College, 312-226.

In 2024, Donald Trump won over 46% of the Hispanic vote, including a majority of Hispanic men. Trump also likely captured 26% of the Black male vote, doubling his 2020 total.

In 2024, Trump increased his 2020 vote total in every single state. And he won 89% of all the counties in the United States.

On every issue, Democrats sided with strident leftist movements rather than the majority of Americans. . .

Democrats claim no formal role in such terror — but more or less seem to approve of its ends and means.
Left-wing comic Jimmy Kimmel winks and nods on national television about the current violent Tesla terrorist campaign. Tim Walz celebrates the resulting drop in the Tesla stock price. As Minnesota’s governor overseeing his state’s sizable investment in Tesla, Walz could care less about trash-talking his own taxpayers’ investments. Rep. Jasmine Crockett boasts that Musk “must be taken down.”

. . . Senator minority leader Chuck Schumer, who once issued threats to Supreme Court justices Neal Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh by name, now boasts, “We have people going to the Republican districts and going after these Republicans who are voting for this and forcing them to either change their vote or face the consequences.”

Furious at their own increasing impotence, these contemporary Democrat Jacobins are dabbling with their own version of a reign of smut terror.

All Trump has to do is keep on delivering on the promises he has made, one of the more critical and difficult things is not only turning the economy around, but reversing the disaster that globalism and unchecked trade unionism did to our once gargantuan manufacturing sector that over the east 60 years or so has been dismantled and shipped overseas.

Hence the battle over tariffs which will kick into effect this week.

President Trump and his team are telling top financiers his tariff plan unveiled today is all about playing the long game — getting trading partners who are clearly protectionist to reduce or remove their barriers to US exports in exchange for us doing the same.

In the end, they claim, everyone will be happy — including the American public that will be on the receiving end of the long-term gain of economic prosperity.

But The Post has learned that top Wall Street execs have been warning the White House and Trump himself in recent days that getting to that long-term gain, while feasible, will not be easy.

It could well result in a significant degree of short-term pain, more than just the markets going haywire. It could ignite something known as stagflation of higher prices ie., inflation, and lower growth, a possible recession. It’s an economic disruption not seen in decades as we upend the global trade ecosystem and play chicken with the rest of the industrialized world over tariffs.

Will Trump play that game of chicken? He knows trading partners will respond in kind; US goods will get more expensive overseas and import prices spike. That’s where the stagflation comes in. Everyone I know who knows Trump says he’s committed to the tariff hammer because he believes in his heart that they will rebuild America, bring jobs back to the Rust Belt and as he explained in his press conference, the trade deals we have crafted with even our allies are so unfair.

But you never know what a little stagnation will do to a politician, even one as steadfast as Trump — which is exactly the warning financiers made to the president in recent meetings.

The White House was said to be all ears during these meetings, as Wall Street executives explained the grim details of the short-term tariff pain: Uncertainty over what Trump would announce has stymied business spending for large swaths of the economy, and it will fall further once the tariffs go into effect.

US automakers are readying price hikes because they source much of their parts overseas. Trump announced a 25% tariff on imported autos.

As a Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said Wednesday in a note: “The concept of a US car maker with parts all from the US is a fictional tale . . . tariff policy will cause pure chaos to the global auto industry and will raise prices to the typical Us consumer by $5k to 10K out of the gates.” Tariffs will impact farmers because we provide grain overseas and to China; our natural gas exports will be hurt, meaning a slowdown in growth on top of spending cuts businesses already enacted before in preparation of the tariff announcement.

That’s the bad news, but here’s what good could happen down the road: Trump’s art-of-the-deal making skills will change the protectionist behavior of our trade partners. He wants that stuff to stop, and if they do, he announced that he will reciprocate and things go back to normal. Perhaps even better than normal with new trade deals that don’t put US exports at a disadvantage, and bring jobs back home. . .

. . . Put all that together and it sounds like a great place to start talking and make this short-term pain that’s coming as short as possible.

Along with the effects of DOGE as well as the reversal of regulatory tyranny on American business, and the bolstering of our labor force by the sealing of our borders and sane immigration policy, we of a certain age might not live long enough to see the Rust Belt brought back to its former glory as the manufacturing powerhouse of the world.

Certainly, there are far too many individuals and institutions in and out of government, domestic and foreign which are desperate to thwart the American renaissance, economic, political, cultural and societal for a host of reasons.

So we shall see if the estimable Victor Davis Hanson is correct about the Dems' seeming impotence in thwarting the MAGA agenda. The seemingly lackluster turnout here in the Wisconsin special election is a puzzler given Trump's performance in '24. Is it mere complacency or what is it? Yes, it doesn't help that the GOP-e is worse than useless, and at times downright collaborationist with the enemy. We need to figure that out. See here and also see here.

yes, Trump endorsed Lindsay Graham, but it's either a good strategic move or a self-own. We can debate that for days, as we no doubt will.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Dems are too impotent to derail the country, but they are certainly destroying themselves.
  From Profanity-Chic to Terrorist-Smut

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
• Robert Spencer: May there be many more such decimations.
  DOGE Victory: Institute of Museum and Library Services ‘Decimated’
  
• Lawsuits against websites based on the ADA are common because lawyers can get a quick monetary settlement if they find any issues.
  The Americans with Disabilities Act Should Not Include Websites

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

• Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin's work for Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto could fuel calls for her recusal
  Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin To Resume Funding Left-Wing Immigration Groups—Including Her Former Employer
  
• Data collected from immigrants should have "meaningful and useful basis for identification," agency states.
  EXCLUSIVE: Trump Immigration Agency Halts Biden Era Gender Policy ‘Effective Immediately’

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND Democrats

• Israel now reportedly controls 30% of Gazan territory.
  Israel Heats Up Ground Offensive In Gaza In Effort To Pressure Hamas To Return Hostages
  
• This revelation makes us look back and reassess much of what we know about Israel's war against Iran and its proxies. 
  Iran's Quds Force Commander in Israel After Being Identified as an Israeli Asset
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Hamas has previously claimed that 70% of casualties have been women and children"
  Hamas: 72% of Casualties are Male
  
• The latest controversy to roil Israeli politics involves a complicated intra-Arab rivalry, fought out on the terrain of Israeli and American politics, with Israeli officials and a Jewish American lobbying firm as unlikely intermediaries.
  Judge: Qatar Tried to Bribe Israeli Officials to Downplay Egypt’s Role in Negotiations
  * * * * *

• The demonstration occurred as prospective students walked by on a campus tour
  Welcome to Columbia: Keffiyeh-Clad Activists Chain Themselves to Campus Gate, Call for 'Intifada'
  
• The long game of indoctrination and radicalization.
  How American College Campuses Became the Islamo-Leftists’ Playground

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Honoring Muslim genocide of Hindus to create Pakistan.
  Texas Sets Aside Special ‘Pakistan Day’

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

• “Robert King, a U.S. citizen was recently taken into custody in McKinney, Texas for making terroristic threats against ICE agents and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,” HSI Dallas said. “King’s alarming social media posts included intentions to ‘open fire’ if agents are seen in his neighborhood.”
  DHS Arrests Man for Threatening ICE Agents and Kristi Noem
  
• And its supporters are full of “passionate intensity”.
  Tyranny is an Eternal Threat
  
• Nashville police said the attacker was motivated by "notoriety."
  Nashville Police In Final Report Downplay Covenant Shooter’s Transgender Identity, Hatred Of Christianity
  
• The American Alliance for Equal Rights reported the groups to the IRS over their discriminatory scholarships and programs.
  Bill Gates Foundation, Other Nonprofits Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Over Anti-White Discrimination
  
• The war on Elon Musk and Tesla is driven by far more than politics.
  What’s the Real Target of the Assault on Tesla?

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• Americans deserve the truth, even if it is one year too late.
  Trump Should Release The Audio From Robert Hur’s Interview With Joe Biden
  
• Miranda Devine: In other words, the FBI “prebunked” The Post’s story so that the social media companies immediately censored it. 
  Miranda Devine: New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ senior leadership used to shutdown any Hunter Biden laptop discussion

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

• Not the pitiful character they claimed he was -- he was an MS-13 gang member with a host of other issues.
  The Atlantic's phony migrant tear-jerker about a pitiful 'Maryland father' shipped back to El Salvador falls apart

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• President Trump's protection and liberation of America from China's dirty tricks is peak leadership—decisive, unapologetic, and laser-focused on America's future.
  Liberation Day has come as Trump dismantles China and the Uniparty
  
• Regardless of political persuasion, most agreed, with Republicans once again tops in support at (70% “A great deal/Quite a lot,” 6% “Very little/None), but most Democrats (32% “A great deal/Quite a lot,” 28% “Very little/None) and independents (34% “A great deal/Quite a lot,” 21% “Very little/None) also agree.
  Will Americans Support Trump’s Plan To Hike Tariffs On Foreign Goods? The Answer Is ‘Maybe’: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• The March figure sharply outpaced February’s upwardly revised 84,000, and beat Wall Street’s consensus forecast of 120,000. In other words, despite the policy “uncertainty” and alleged “downbeat” consumer mood cited by critics of the Trump administration’s trade agenda, businesses kept hiring at a healthy clip.
  Hiring Accelerates in March Despite Tariff Hysteria, ADP Reports
  
• A policy push for domestic manufacturing risks boondoggles.
  Will Tariffs Make the U.S. Less Competitive?
  
• Gasparino: Will Trump play that game of chicken? He knows trading partners will respond in kind; US goods will get more expensive overseas and import prices spike. That’s where the stagflation comes in. Everyone I know who knows Trump says he’s committed to the tariff hammer because he believes in his heart that they will rebuild America, bring jobs back to the Rust Belt and as he explained in his press conference, the trade deals we have crafted with even our allies are so unfair. But you never know what a little stagnation will do to a politician, even one as steadfast as Trump — which is exactly the warning financiers made to the president in recent meetings.
  Trump tariffs could stoke massive short term pain for better trade deals

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

• The Constitution Pipeline could save New Englanders $1 billion in energy costs while providing more reliable energy than renewable energy.
  New York Could Save New Englanders $1B If It Stopped Blocking A Natural Gas Pipeline

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

• Grady was given the boot as part of the post-pandemic restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to the New York Times and STAT News. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his top aides have said the layoffs are aimed at consolidating administrative functions and overhauling a failed status quo in Americans’ health. . .Even an NIH official who described Grady as well respected acknowledged that her marriage to Fauci impacted the ability of the institutes to tackle ethical questions that risked reflecting poorly on the former White House medical advisor.
  Fauci’s Wife, An NIH Bioethicist Who Never Probed Ethics Of Wuhan Research, Fired

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• ‘A system where a voter has no way to know whether their ballot reflects their true selections is fundamentally incompatible with the constitutional right to vote.’
  Judge Admits ‘Substantial Concerns’ About ‘Security’ Of Georgia’s Voting System But Refuses To Address Them

  
  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• The case was dismissed "with prejudice," meaning the DOJ cannot bring charges against Adams in the future based on the same evidence.
  Federal Judge Dismisses Corruption Case Against NYC Mayor Eric Adams
  
• He's a nepo baby and he knows it.
  NYC Socialist Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Admitted 'Nepotism' Landed Him Plum Disney Job—While Using a Fake South African Accent
  
• Democrat donors secretly funded influencers to boost Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, but the costly effort failed as key voter groups swung toward Trump.
  Revealed: Pro-Kamala Social-Media Millions That Couldn’t Sync ‘Brat’ With ‘Democrat’
  
• On Tuesday, Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna teamed up with Democrats to push the U.S. House to consider legislation allowing new parents to vote remotely, also known as proxy voting. Her fight to force proxy voting, which is unconstitutional, down the throats of House members caused House Speaker Mike Johnson to cancel all votes in Congress this week. This means another week is going by without the House working to codify President Donald Trump’s agenda.
  Republicans Sabotaged By Their Own Feminist Infiltrators, Again

  POLITICS

• Backed by wealthy socialists, liberal candidate Susan Crawford beat conservative Brad Schimel in Tuesday’s pivotal election.
  Leftist Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election, Keeping Power In Liberals’ Hands
  
• Republicans should resist the temptation to drink the Kool-Aid of electoral despair Democrats are pressing on them — and focus instead on keeping the promises that won them the White House.
  Don’t be fooled by special elections — Democrats are still in trouble
  
• Liberal Susan Crawford beat conservative Brad Schimel by about 10 percentage points in the race to fill a vacant seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court roughly five months after Trump won Wisconsin in the 2024 presidential election by a little over 29,000 votes. Spicer said that the margin in Wisconsin, where the conservative lost an election to fill a vacant seat on the state supreme court, was a warning sign during an appearance on 2Way.
  ‘That’s A Huge Problem’: Sean Spicer Sounds Alarm About GOP Turnout When Trump Isn’t On Ballot
  
• I'm not trying to sugarcoat anything here — this was a horrible result for Republicans in Wisconsin. However, the supreme court race there has no bearing on the nation's economy or national security, which will be the two biggest things upon which President Trump's eventual success or failure will be judged. And given what a hot mess the Democrat Party is right now, its propaganda pimps might want to hold off on ordering any champagne for 2026. 
  I'll Just Be Over Here Relaxing While Media Dems Read Too Much Into WI Supreme Court Race

• Daniel Greenfield: In a 25-hour speech, Sen. Booker talked about everything but where his money comes from.
  Crooked Cory Won’t Shut Up
  
• "It won't have a tangible impact on business in Washington."
  Even Democrat Operatives Are Throwing Cold Water On Booker’s Stunt
  
• “AOC 2028: Because Moderation is for Fascists.”
  Please, AOC, Save the Democrats (and Run Against Schumer)

• President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on four Republican senators ahead of a key Senate vote that could unravel his efforts to hold Canada accountable for its role in the fentanyl crisis. The measure, a joint resolution backed by Democrats, seeks to terminate the national emergency Trump declared on fentanyl, effectively overturning his executive order imposing tariffs on the country. 
  ‘What Is Wrong With Them?’ Trump Unloads on Four GOP Senators
  
• “John Cornyn has waved the white flag on election integrity, border security, protecting the 2nd amendment, and everything else constitutional conservatives care about.” — Ken Paxton.. . Cornyn’s ouster would strengthen the America First movement in the Senate, where establishment Republicans such as the outgoing Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski still hold significant sway.
  Trump Ally Ken Paxton Would Crush RINO Cornyn in Texas Senate Primary, Data Confirms.
  
• Kamala Harris emerged from whatever bunker she's been hiding in to celebrate Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court race results — and boy, was it a spectacle. Kamala Harris, whose public appearances have become increasingly erratic, posted a TikTok video that left many wondering if she'd hit the sauce before hitting the record button.
  Is She Drunk? Kamala's Latest Public Appearance Was… Yikes…
  
• Why did Trump endorse a raging RINO like Lindsey Graham?
  MAGA: Progress, Not Perfection
  
• Confucius and Cicero would judge Trump by virtue or appetite—does he lead with principle or personal gain, and can such a leader uphold moral governance?
  Donald Trump through the eyes of Confucius and Cicero

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Resist the globalist push for WWIII.
  War Is Hell

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Defense analyst and retired Israeli fighter pilot/special forces soldier (what a combo, right?) Naftali Hazony reported on X Monday that "At least six U.S. B-2 bombers are now stationed at Diego Garcia air base in the Indian Ocean."
  Trump's Latest Move Ought to Keep Iran up at Night

• A Paris court enacted a five-year ban from running in any election against populist firebrand Marine Le Pen after finding her, and other members of her National Rally party, guilty of “embezzling” European Union funds for political activities in France.
  One in Five EU Lawmakers Broke Same Rule as Le Pen Accused of, Almost All Avoided Punishment: Report
  
• Vance warned that shutting down speech destroys democracy. European leaders have apparently taken his statement as an instruction manual.
  Europe’s Latest Attacks On Free Speech And Free Elections Prove Vance’s Munich Warning Right
  
• Hungarian Prime Minister Orban has been a staunch supporter of Israel; he is meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday.
  Hungary Could Be 1st European Country To Withdraw From ICC

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• All in all, the story here is that NASA last year took a very nonchalant attitude towards the lives of these two astronauts.
  Starliner’s troubles were much worse than NASA made clear
  
• Even dedicated space buffs were a bit taken aback when news of Fram2 reminded us that human beings had never flown a polar orbit before. You might wonder why, but Fram2's five-day mission has a stellar rationale.
  This Private Spaceflight Is a Very Big Deal

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

• “I knew what I had to do because USA Fencing had not been listening to women’s objections regarding [its gender eligibility policy],” Turner said.  “I took a knee immediately at that point. Redmond was under the impression that I was going to start fencing. So when I took the knee, I looked at the ref and said, ‘I’m sorry, I cannot do this. I am a woman, and this is a man, and this is a women’s tournament. And I will not fence this individual.”
  Women’s Fencer Takes a Knee in Protest, Refuses to Face Trans Opponent: ‘This is a Man’

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• You can just say, ‘Not today, Satan,’ and take action. Freedom of speech shouldn’t cover every sacrilege imaginable.
  Catholics Thwarting A ‘Black Mass’ Shows You Don’t Just Have To Tolerate Everything
  
• Drama captures TV journalists covering 1972's Summer Olympics terror attack
  ‘September 5’ Draws Powerful Distinction Between Good and Evil

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