The Morning Report — 4/ 7 /25

Good morning kids. Of course the leading story is the aftermath and reactions to President Trump's tariff regime announcement last week. Of course. Despite the doom casting and politicization from the usual sources, already 50 countries are crying Uncle Sam and want to negotiate with Trump and team.There are other potentially massive benefits if this is given the chance it deserves to work.

Trump’s economic team has subtly suggested the impact of the import duties could extend to increasing foreign direct investment in American industries, incentivize a shift in economic investment away from market speculation and into industries focused on producing tangible value, and put downward pressure on interest rates by lowering the 10-Year Treasury Bond yield.The myriad economic objectives the Trump White House hopes to achieve through its tariff policy are ambitious, to say the least. However, if the policy succeeds, President Trump will have fundamentally moved the United States into a position to dominate the global economy for the foreseeable future. . .

One of the more important secondary policy goals that the Trump White House likely hopes to achieve is a reduction in the 10-year Treasury Bond yield. While most people focus on the Federal Reserve Bank and its interest rate policy, the yield of long-term government bonds impacts interest rates on types of debt held for longer durations, including mortgages, credit cards, and, most importantly, government debt.The tariffs are anticipated to push the 10-Year Treasury Bond yield lower, meaning the cost of the federal government’s payments servicing the national debt will be reduced. Notably, the inflationary cycle that set in under the Biden government—and was exacerbated by former President Joe Biden’s reckless spending policies—caused the cost to service the debt to increase dramatically and made it difficult for the government to take on any new debt.

I don't know the exact figure, but the amount of money from the budget each year that goes to just the serving of internets payments on the debt and not the debt itself is insane. And the total debt now stands at 36 Trillion dollars. Regardless of who was and is in offie, that is and always has been unsustainable.

Just to reiterate a point I tried making on Friday, while it's great that numerous countries are now signaling a willingness to drop their tariffs and trade barriers on US goods, but in order to really bring jobs back home, along with the dismantling of as much of the regulatory state and bureaucracy that can be accomplished, How about major tax holidays and reductions for any enterprise, or person who opens a factory on US soil and employs actual US citizens. While the dismantling and off-shoring of our manufacturing sector has been going on since the 60s, it was the granting of Red China most-favored nation trading status and a seat at the WTO in the 90s that accelerated the death spiral of America's industrial base. And the blame rests both with the Clinton Dems and Bush era GOP that followed, with the headlong rush towards globalization, mixed with domestic power politics, despite what it did to the nation and people who elected them and their parties. But somehow Trump is an inept, dangerous fool for attempting to put things right.

And while that is going on, we still have to contend with this insanity:

Democratic strategist James Carville said Friday his “Politicon” podcast that those who cooperate with President Donald Trump’s administration were comparable to Nazi collaborators in World War II.

Carville said, “How disgraced must these law firms feel now? How disgraced must these companies that are sucking up to him – that are giving him tens of millions of dollars for access. Do you know what’s going to happen? Do you know how this ends? Do you know these collaborators, what the country is going to feel towards collaborators with this regime? Maybe you need to go in history and see what happened in August of 1944 after Paris was liberated. They didn’t take very kindly to the collaborators. No. It was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris.” He added, “I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their head shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on. I’m not saying that, but I’m saying that that did happen. And I’m saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think that these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States. What their comeuppance is I can only guess. I don’t believe in any kind of, don’t believe you should assault anybody.”

Except that by carefully and consciously making this analogy, it's exactly what he's saying! There's a direct line to what he is saying, to what Bill Ayers believed once he and the Weathermen overthrow the government that he'd have to liquidate 25 million citizens who refused to recognize his power straight down to the actual Hitler and his Nazis he equates Trump and MAGA Americans with.

And on that note, we have this item that also revolts without necessarily being surprising.

Gov. Josh Shapiro attended an ‘iftar’ dinner at a mosque where an imam had previously declared that “Jews are the vilest people”, and announced a huge grant for the hate mosque.The $5 million grant, described as the largest ever given to a Muslim institution, came only 5 years after the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in Philly was forced to apologize for posting hateful Islamic sermons by an imam delivered at its mosque declaring that the Arabs were superior to all races, that Jews were the “enemies of Allah” and the “vilest of all people”.

The imam also appeared to call on Muslims to take over the world.“By Allah, if faith had taken root in our hearts, things would have been different. We would have imposed the word of Islam upon the world, like those before us did,” Imam Abdelmohsen Abouhatab told the congregation at Al Aqsa.

He also quoted a Hadith describing the eventual Muslim extermination of the Jews.

With Jews like Josh Shapiro, we don't need Nazis. Can we ask Carville about what he thinks of those who cooperate with this Imam and all who think and act like him. Of course not.

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• In Colorado, and around the country, parents can be stripped of their rights to oversee their child’s medical decisions by government courts. (Hat tip to commenter Muldoon - jjs)
  Exclusive: Colorado Father Fights To Keep Government From Sterilizing His 14-Year-Old Son
  
• (Although) Roberts actually stayed in the official U.S. Ambassador's residence in Prague back when Norm Eisen was representing us there. This would be between 2011-2015 . . Roberts has strong ties to numerous rabid anti-Trump radicals, including James Boasberg, Beryl Howell and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Roberts appointed Boasberg to the FISA court. Boasberg's approval of the FISA warrants against Trump, made possible by Kevin Clinesmith's falsification of FBI documents, proved to be utterly corrupt. (And Boasberg is a crucial hack-in-black sabotaging DOGE and the deportation efforts - jjs)
  John Roberts flew to the Czech Republic to spend a week with Trump-hating Leftist lawfare strategist Norm Eisen? (And Norm Eisen insists that John Roberts "is not corrupt?")
  
• Would you hire Bill Clinton to be your marriage counselor?
  Hillary Clinton Can Go Straight to Hell

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
• "I got a report from the USTR last night (the office of the US trade representative) that more than 50 countries have reached out to the president to begin a negotiation."
  Over 50 countries contact White House to negotiate trade deals after Trump ramps up trade war
  
• If successful, this policy will: Reshore U.S. production jobs . . .Encourage foreign direct investment into real industry...Lower long-term interest rates to reduce debt costs...Shift the economy from financial engineering back to tangible production... Realign the value of the U.S. dollar to support exports.
  Trump’s Tariffs Are About a LOT More Than Just Reducing the Trade Deficit.

• Classical theory may not care where the steel mills, chip foundries, shipyards, research labs, aircraft plants, oil fields, and supply chains are, but the real world of power politics does.
  Is Bipartisan Nationalism Possible?
  
• President Trump’s concern lies not with international trade in itself but with the systemic manipulation that has come to define it.
  The Price of Reciprocity: Why President Trump’s Tariffs Make Strategic Sense
  
• Trump’s take on taxes and the Great Depression bends history, but his critique of government growth post-1913 isn’t entirely off base—even if his solution belongs to a vanished era.
  What Trump Got Right—And Wrong—About the Income Tax
  
• The shrillest critics of Trump’s tariffs are not defenders of the American worker or champions of industrial renewal, but the high priests of a globalist order.
  We Didn’t Start the Trade War—We’ve Just Finally Joined It
  
• Tariffs have always had an appropriate place as a revenue source for our federal government, when done in moderation, like any other sales or excise tax. 
  Navarro Tariffs are Too High
  
• Daniel Greenfield: California is "ready to talk" with global trading partners.
  Gov. Newsom Treasonously Asks for Separate Tariff Deal With China
  
• "We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before."
  ‘HANG TOUGH’: Trump Calls On Americans To Ride Out Tariff Storm, Predicts ‘Historic’ Investments
  
• Why do politicians (on both sides of the fence) keep asking how tax cuts are going to be paid for?
  Tax Cuts (and Tariffs) Need Not Be Paid For

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Senators voted 51 to 48 to advance the Trump-backed budget resolution to the House for consideration with Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine joining with Senate Democrats to oppose the fiscal framework. The budget blueprint’s passage at roughly 2:30 a.m. came after a marathon series of votes known as a “vote-a-rama” during which Senate Democrats forced their Republican colleagues to take politically contentious votes on amendments related to entitlement program spending, Department of Government Efficiency actions and Trump’s tariffs.
  Senate GOP Advances Tax Cuts, Border Security Spending After Marathon Session
  
• Miranda Devine: Blakeman and Patel’s meeting follows a letter from Rep. Eric Burlison to Patel and AG Pam Bondi last week accusing New York of “violating federal Medicaid law and intentionally breaching contracts with the federal government, specifically in relation to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program.”
  Nassau County Exec Bruce Blakeman, FBI Director Kash Patel discuss cooperation over Medicaid fraud allegations, sources say

  LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES AFTERMATH

• Los Angeles County has hired a consulting firm associated with anti-Trump retied general Stanley McChrystal to handle public engagement about recent wildfires — rather than simply listening to the public — among other duties.
  Los Angeles County Hires Anti-Trump McChrystal Group for Public Input

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

• The Obama-appointed judge in March blocked President Donald Trump from using wartime authorities to send suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers to a mega-prison in El Salvador, prompting incredible pushback from the president himself. As the challenge to the deportations play out in court, some legal experts have argued Boasberg should recuse himself from the case entirely, while others say he appears to be “making policy from the bench.” (RELATED: ‘The Border Is Closed’: Trump Admin Claims Historic Low In Migrant Crossings)
  ‘Should Have Recused Himself’: Legal Experts Sound Alarm On Obama-Appointed Judge Blocking Trump’s Deportations
  
• Despite the claim that cases are “randomly assigned,” what she found in the transcript shows he already knew the case was coming and had planned accordingly. “He wanted this case. He wanted to stop the deportations and most importantly—he wanted to set a contempt trap for the Trump administration,” Kelly explained in a devastating thread exposing the judge's machinations.
  Activist Judge Caught Red-Handed in Setup Against Trump in Bombshell Revelations

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

• The Jerusalem Post: “The terrorists were struck while attempting to restore Hezbollah infrastructure in the South.” 
  Israeli Airstrike Eliminates Hezbollah Operatives Rebuilding Terrorist Infrastructure in Southern Lebanon
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• Armstrong will now take sabbatical to 'spend time with family,' university says
  ‘No Specific Memory’: Columbia University’s Armstrong Tells Feds She Can’t Recall Specifics of Any Anti-Semitic Incident on Campus
  
• American Muslims for 'Palestine', Hamas's 'propaganda arm,’ organized the rally
  Murals at DC Protest Honor Terrorists
  
• Silencing an infamous group’s account will make it harder to hold them accountable.
  Instagram Shouldn’t Ban Pro-Hamas Students

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: Canada’s ‘Islamophobia’ narrative hardest hit.
  Muslim Vows to ‘Bomb Every Synagogue in Toronto’
  
• Connolly's posts were up for less than four hours, though this was long enough for someone to take a screenshot and for authorities to get involved, leading to her arrest.
  UK mom jailed for deleted social media post after Southport attack denied temporary release to care for sick husband, troubled daughter

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

• Daniel Greenfield: Gov. Shapiro promises to defend antisemitic mosque against Trump administration.
  Jewish Governor Gives $5M Grant to Mosque That Called Jews ‘Vilest People’

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

• “She literally tried to abort me,” cried Craven in an Instagram livestream recapping the incident. “It’s not just about babies,” she determined. Leftists “don’t care about human life.”
  Pro-life Influencer Brutally Beaten to the Ground By Pro-Abortion Radical

• He added, “I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their head shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and spit on. I’m not saying that, but I’m saying that that did happen. And I’m saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think that these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States. What their comeuppance is I can only guess. I don’t believe in any kind of, don’t believe you should assault anybody.” (No you're saying more than half the nation should be gassed and cremated, or shot en masse into mass graves - jjs)
  Carville Compares Those Cooperating with Trump to Nazi Collaborators
  
• Democrats are defending wasteful government spending, protecting dangerous criminals from removal, standing against the domestic production of critical medications, and rejecting basic parental rights.
  Staged or Not, Republicans Ignore the ‘Hands Off’ Protests at Their Own Peril
  
• As another weekend of protests against Tesla is planned, it will be good to review one of the most egregious cases of leftist violence in this current cycle. Davis Nafshun, a Portland man, has been charged with using a laser to assault Tesla employees during a protest at a Tesla dealership near the South Waterfront in Portland.
  Portland Man Arrested, Charged for Shining Laser into Tesla Employees’ Eyes
  
• The uninhibited Id of the Democrat party has now weighed in with a view on interracial marriage that would make George Wallace (circa 1963) proud.
  Jasmine Dixiecrat
  
• Today, in the Democrat Party, a new truth is being revealed. You can see it in its latest marketing; it’s unmasked via the rhetoric of liberal politicians and leftwing pundits. And this “truth” says something deeply disturbing about the direction of the Democrat Party:
  ‘Go Back to Africa!’ How the Democrat Party Became the Party of Xenophobes and Racists.

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

• Much like every other major story, the dying news media have managed to take a really interesting topic and thoroughly dumb it down to a limited set of monotonous slogans. In this case, variations of “tariffs hurt working people the most” and “the cost is passed onto consumers.”
  Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Tariffs ‘A Tax On Consumers’ Edition
  
• Thad McCotter: AI may promise efficiency, but as studies show, it’s quietly eroding our critical thinking—turning users into passive observers in their own cognitive decline.
  AI: One Flew Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
  
• The press seems to be in a constant state of childish petulance.
  Media, Please Grow Up, Part II
  
• 'We put on notice those companies like Pepsi Cola that we will withdraw patronage,' Sharpton says on PoliticsNation
  Al Sharpton Uses MSNBC Airtime To Promote DEI Boycott Against Pepsi

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

• Once America's golden dream factory, California's progressive utopia now produces soaring costs, fleeing businesses, and fading hope for its middle class.
  Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline
  
• The Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled in January that Mann owes National Review approximately $530,000 to cover the outlet’s legal fees after spending more than a decade locked in defamation litigation against the organization, and Mann subsequently requested a stay to postpone the payments. On Thursday, the court denied Mann’s request, meaning that he will likely have to pony up cash to an outlet he once described in emails as a “threat to our children.” (RELATED: DC Jury Found ‘Hockey Stick’ Critics Defamed Scientist. What Does That Mean For Scientific Discourse Going Forward?)
  Court Delivers Massive Blow To Famed Climate Scientist Who Sued Critics
  
• Oil production has increased to 13.6 million barrels per day under Trump, just shy of an all-time record
  Trump Admin Announces First Offshore Oil Lease Sale in Gulf of America
  
• The government is outsourcing the 'crown jewel' of climate change research to liberal climate consultants.
  Meet The Government Consultants Raking In Millions To Spread Climate Doom

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• In a letter issued Friday, Daniel Morton-Bentley, who serves as the counsel and deputy commission for the NYSED argued that while they “understand” the Trump administration is seeking “to censor anything it deems” DEI, “there are no federal or State laws prohibiting the principles of DEI.”
  New York State Education Department Refuses to Eliminate DEI Practices
  
• Mike Miles is proving that traditional methods—not trendy educational fads—can improve academic performance.
  Houston’s Superintendent Is Turning Around Struggling Schools

  ABORTION

• Why Trump’s new directive is long overdue.
  Defunding Planned Parenthood
  
• A British judge has convicted a pro-life campaigner, Livia Tossici-Bolt, for breaching a “buffer zone” around an abortion clinic. The 64-year-old woman was handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay the equivalent of $25,700 toward court costs, alongside a $33,400 victim surcharge, for her actions outside the abortionist facility in March 2023. The so-called buffer zone, established by the municipal government, spans 10 streets.D
  Trump Admin Raises Concerns After Pro-Life Activist Fined Tens of Thousands for Violating Clinic ‘Buffer Zone.’

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson claims noncitizen voting is “very rare,” despite permissive practices enabling it in the past.
  Michigan Secretary Of State Discovers 15 Possible Noncitizen Voters, Insists It’s No Big Deal (If she admits 15, multiply that by hundreds? Thousands? - jjs)

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• A: new report from the House Judiciary Committee, the Committee on House Administration, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform reveals “serious gaps” in Democratic fundraiser ActBlue’s fraud prevention systems.
  House Judiciary Committee: Dem Fundraiser Made Its Fraud-Prevention Rules ‘More Lenient’ in 2024
  
• Senate Republicans obviously shouldn’t outsource their legislative prerogatives to the parliamentarian. 
  No, The Senate Shouldn’t Let Even More Unaccountable Bureaucrats Decide What The Law Says

  POLITICS

• The poll was taken by DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners of over 1,000 registered voters between March 31 and April 3.
  Media Fail — Trump Job Approval Rises 4 Points to 53%
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: The left rages against Trump but offers no real alternatives on debt, trade, or immigration—just noise, while results quietly pile up.
  The Poverty of the Criticism of Trump’s Agenda
  
• Roger Kimball: Trump is a political paradigm-shifter, taking bold action where others only talk—disrupting norms, slashing DEI, imposing tariffs, and redrawing the rules of governance.
  Actions v. Words
  
• Clarice Feldman: The Trump Administration prevails against both trade barriers internationally and out-of-control courts at home.
  The Fruits of Trump’s Audacious Policies
  
• Miranda Devine: In a CNN poll last month, Obama received only 4% support from Democrats who were asked which leader best represents the party, lagging behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. Ouch.
  Democrats refuse Barack Obama’s election meddling — as former prez’s influence within the desperate party withers
  
• Despite polls showing a tight race between Harris and Trump in 2024, the president won both the Electoral College and the popular vote for Republicans, leading Democrats to question their mistakes. While on “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker began by bringing up a new book by author Chris Whipple in which it is alleged how Biden had repeatedly been “struggling to focus” before withdrawing from the race.
  ‘Could Not Run Away’: Adam Schiff-for-brains Says Harris Lost Race Due To Being ‘Status Quo’ Candidate
  
• According to a report from the Daily Mail, which received an advance copy of the book, Harris's staff couldn't even properly connect the phone call. Her campaign Chief of Staff Sheila Nix and White House Chief of Staff Lorraine Voles were reduced to literally pressing two phones together to make the connection work. You can't make this stuff up, folks.
  Kamala's Staff Went Bonkers After Her Concession Call To Trump

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Ahead of the demonstration, Mrs Le Pen vowed that protests against the election ban would be a “peaceful” and “democratic fight” that would be inspired by the peaceful civil disobedience of figures like Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States.
  Marine Le Pen Vows ‘I Won’t Give Up!’ as Thousands Rally in Paris Against Election Ban
  
• Call it a "Greenland Action Plan," or, "'pulling stones from the ice.'
  Greenland: How Trump Can Deal with the Raging Danes to America's Advantage
  
• Giving Greenland’s sovereignty to the U.S. benefits all parties: the U.S., Greenland, and Greenland’s colonial overlord, Denmark.
  Greenland at the Crossroads: Why U.S. Leadership is Crucial
  
• Peace for the Czech Republic means partnership with the USA.
  Vondráček: The American Story Is Back.

  
  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The U.S.-led Golden Dome aims to counter hypersonic missile threats with cutting-edge tech and allied support, redefining North American defense for a new era.
  Golden Dome: America’s Answer to the Hypersonic Threat

• "So it really did get sucked into Mike Waltz phone ..."
  ‘So Damn Dangerous’: Signal Chat Breach Linked To ‘Automated Suggestion’ Feature On iPhone
  
• The now infamous mix-up involving White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, resulted from an automated contact update prompt in Waltz’s iPhone, according to The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell. The illustration, provided below, is indicative of the type of function that Waltz apparently used when receiving a message from his colleague Brian Hughes.
  ‘Forensic Review’ Reveals How The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Ended Up in Mike Waltz’s Houthi Signal Chat.
  
• This interview was taped before the Atlantic magazine released the so-called Signal-gate messages, where that publication’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added inadvertently to a group chat among the senior-most members of President Trump’s administration in which they discussed details relating to the president’s decision to authorize these strikes.
  Exclusive — Inside Trump’s Jihadist Elimination Unit at the White House: Senior Director Gorka Details How POTUS ‘Has Done a 180 on Counterterrorism Policy’ Compared with Biden

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The skyrocketing rate of autism may not be because of vaccines but because of deeper problems in modern American culture.
  RFK Jr. wants scientific analysis of autism, but maybe society is the problem
  
• It is undeniable that the public has become more accepting of fluoride in the generations since it was added to the water supply.
  States move to ban water fluoridation as conspiracy theorists are again proven right

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

• The thing that "never happens" happened again.
  After Poor Showing On Boys Team, Male Switches To Girls Varsity And Takes First

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Mike Myers returns to far-Left show to laugh about terrorist-style attacks
  ‘SNL’ Mocks Elon Musk, Not Democrats Torching Teslas
  
• Somewhere in our rush to modernize, we traded safety for surveillance, values for virality, and community for convenience.
  From Mayberry to Mayhem
  
• “Keep people from their history and they are more easily controlled.” - Karl Marx
  Reclaiming Cultural Literacy
  
• As we approach the 50th anniversary of Pasolini’s death, anti-colonial queer activists would do well to follow his example and grapple more seriously with the limitations of their position.
  The Limits of Queer Anti-Colonialism

  HITHER & YON

• He played the young mischief maker on the CBS comedy for four seasons and was in 'Maya,' a movie and TV show.
  Jay North, ‘Dennis the Menace’ Star, Dies at 73

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