The Morning Report — 4/ 29 /25

Good morning kids. Well, the entire Iberian peninsula was suddenly plunged into complete darkness yesterday for some unknown reason – nudge nudge wink wink. Actually the reason is quite clear. Insanity:

Spain and Portugal achieved net zero on Monday, but not the way anyone would want to achieve net zero: By going back to the cave-people times with no electricity. . .

. . . Sure, they are looking into a cyberattack, or a terrorist act, or a rare weather event involving magnetic fields, or maybe some bad maintenance, and they should. But they have gone remarkably quiet lately, making one think of the one possibility they might want to be quiet about.

The blackout was unprecedented, and it happened just shortly after this happened:

. . . For those keeping score at home:

April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.

April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.

Meanwhile, the Chi-Coms are building every coal-fired, fossil fuel fired and nuclear power plant they can while using gullible environmentalist stooges in the West as their agents to help destroy their own economies, in the guise of saving the planet, of course!

European officials are seemingly not very concerned about the possibility that the continent’s green energy agenda may leave it vulnerable to Chinese aggression in the future, according to Politico.

Trump administration officials met with a group of European officials in the U.K. earlier in April, warning the Europeans that China is taking advantage of the West’s climate policies to further its own geopolitical goals, Politico reported. Despite the Trump administration’s cautions and Europe’s recent experiences relying on malign actors for energy, European officials mostly shrugged off the warning and signaled that the continent is still intending to make its energy system go green in the long-run.

It's a multi-front global assault on American international diplomatic and economic preeminence that we have enjoyed almost uninterrupted since the end of the second world war, which has allowed America to steer the course of global events and keep the peace (more or lesss). Naturally, from Mao until now, the Chi-Coms could not abide by that.

American officials usually accuse China of trying to take over our manufacturing, but that’s old news. China took over our manufacturing long ago. And the parts it still hasn’t taken over are usually the parts that it doesn’t want or that are too uneconomical to be worth taking over.

Taking over America’s manufacturing was never China’s endgame. Taking over our economy is.Undercutting, stealing and dumping its way to manufacturing supremacy was how China got its foot in our door. Americans came to think of China as an assembly line for cheap junk, but the cheap junk built China’s production capacity. The next step was moving up to components for bigger products and then the products themselves. Once the components were being made in China, it made more sense for the companies to simplify by moving everything to China. . .

. . . China has assembled all the building blocks for taking over our economy. It has hijacked our manufacturing from the ground up. What began with 99-cent store fare now includes high-end smartphones, ebikes and laptops. Its hackers and employees from Silicon Valley to our defense industry provide pipelines of stolen techniques, trade secrets and R&D to supplement whatever we haven’t exported already to provide China with assured manufacturing supremacy. After swallowing our manufacturing, China began consuming our retail sector. Amazon cannibalized our brick and mortar retail by dumping Chinese products in America on a massive scale, but Chinese retailers cannibalized Amazon and turned it into a front for their products. China’s retailers have been figuring out how to rapidly move products into this country, how to set up warehouses and eventually how to master rapid last-mile delivery. And then Amazon will have nothing more to offer Americans than a billion-dollar woke version of Lord of the Rings.

Kind of ironic that the same Red-Green commie stooge fifth columnist idiots in our country who complain about consumerism and fossil fuels destroying the planet are the greatest mass consumers of Chinese crap as well as electric vehicles and other Green technology that rely on strip mining and leave behind oceans of toxic waste once batteries and other components can no longer be recharched etc. To say nothing of the fact that slave and child labor in China and all over the third world are used and abused in the initial manufacture of these goods and their components. But America as founded is evil, illegitimate and white supremacist and so must be destroyed. I guess Greta Thunberg finds it more enjoyable these days goose-stepping all over the world and railing against Israel.

In any case, before long I fear we shall see who comes out on top, the Chi-Coms or Islam, the legacy of President Trump and the movement to restore America notwithstanding. Unless the world, us included, can shake off so many delusions in the next decade or so, we're in for some very interesting times indeed. And we are living through them right now!

. . . . So insidious and unrelenting has been the Leftist encroachment upon our basic civil liberties that only lately are we starting to understand that the America we thought we knew is on the verge of -- perfectly legal! -- dissolution.

. . It's guerilla lawfare at its deadliest, waged under the false flag of "restoring norms" when by norms they mean simply: their way. They're hoping for a provocation that will force Trump into a Jessep-like confrontation with the Tom Cruise character, perhaps played by Chief Justice Roberts himself, in which Trump will openly thumb his nose at the Court and its minions and thus trigger the "constitutional crisis" the Left is trying so hard to provoke.

They have, they say, a "higher loyalty"; we are nation of laws, not men. But what they really mean is that their "higher loyalty" is not to the country or the constitution but to themselves and their guild, and that the laws of this nation are to be written, litigated, and enforced not by its citizens but by lawyers. Our duty is to explain to them by any means necessary that they're wrong. And for that we'll need more than a few good men.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Lawmakers, alumni of these schools, and the public must demand accountability, defund schools with ideological mandates, and restore medicine to its core mission: saving lives through reason and evidence. 
  Report: Thanks To DEI, Most Medical Schools Now Teach Doctors To Damage Patients
  
• Heather Mac Donald: Disparate-impact theory preserved the hegemony of the civil-rights regime long after the original impetus for that regime had all but disappeared. One would be hard-pressed today to find any mainstream institution that discriminates against black Americans in admissions, hiring or promotion. The reality, in fact, is the opposite: Every mainstream institution is desperate to hire and promote as many remotely qualified blacks as possible; it is white males who are disfavored and excluded from positions based on their skin color.
  Trump is restoring merit — by slaying rules that enforce reverse discrimination
  
• Michael Walsh: . . . the enemy has done of the courtesy of naming himself: the legal profession.  The Resistance 2.0 is now being fought by white-shoe law firms in the halls of justice and Congress, its Lilliputian hordes attempting to hamstring Donald Trump's second term -- not in the streets and with a phantom electorate, as they did the last time -- but in the courtroom. Call it by its name: lawfare
  THE COLUMN: Can We Handle the Truth?

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
• Not surprisingly, Democrats back the selling of Tesla vehicles and stock by 53% “support” to 26% “oppose,” while independents give the boycott 40% support to 29% opposition. But perhaps most surprising are Republicans, who support the call to protest Musk by 40% but oppose it by an equal 40%.
  Americans’ Love-Hate Relationship With Elon Musk, Tesla, DOGE: I&I/TIPP Poll

• “President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers, as they should be able to read and understand traffic signs, communicate with traffic safety officers, border patrol, agricultural checkpoints, and cargo weight-limit station personnel, and provide and receive feedback and directions in English,” the document notes.
  Exclusive: Trump to Sign Order Ensuring Truckers Speak English

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Daniel Greenfield: We still don’t understand China’s plans for our economy.
  China Isn’t Taking Over Manufacturing, It’s Taking Over Retail
  
• The powers that be are firing squarely at their feet.
  Corporate America’s Trash-Talking Tariff Temper Tantrum
  
• Here's the entire video if you'd like to watch and learn exactly how government overreach hurt the fishing industry in the U.S.  
  Making the U.S. Seafood Industry Great Again?

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

• Before WWII, America faced the same internal threats, but the law passed to address them is inadequate for the situation in which we find ourselves now.
  We’ve Been Here Before
  
• On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz expressed his dismay that “thugs are regarded as heroes, just like that thuggish judge who allowed people to walk through her back door to escape from prosecution, she’s a hero,” and said that “there’s something wrong with a country that values judges who violate the law,” students who break the law, and people like the alleged murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
  Dershowitz: ‘Something Wrong with a Country’ that Turns ‘Thuggish’ Judge Dugan Into a Hero
  
• Then he did something unexpected—he invited the protesters to be his special guests at the dinner, which was held at the Greystone Event Center in Wooster, Ohio.  "All right, if some few of you want to come as my guests, you're welcome tonight. All I ask is keep an open mind," he said. "We'll do the same. We're not going to agree on everything, but as long as we're talking to each other in a respectful, civil way, then I do think that we're going to be successful as a state."
  Protester Confronts Vivek at a County GOP Event. What Happened Next Was... Unexpected.

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

• Ninety percent of Republicans and 54 percent of independents approve, while just 22 percent of Democrats approve, according to the survey conducted April 23-25. The poll asked about illegal migrants, not about illegal migrants who committed crimes.
  CBS Poll: Trump Deportation Policy Gets 56 Percent Support
  
• Rosado on Friday temporarily barred the opening of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center on Rikers Island despite the agreement between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and the Trump administration. (Immediate arrest and disbarment - jjs)
  New York’s Mary Rosado Latest Judge with Democrat Activist Resume to Halt Trump Agenda
  
• Robert Spencer: It's going to be entertaining to see leftist “journalists” stand up for the “rights” of these criminals, but after they made heroes out of the likes of Mahmoud Khalil and Kilmar Abrego Garcia, there’s no stopping them. If Trump is against it, the left is for it, and vice versa. Trump could cure cancer (as Old Joe Biden actually promised to do more than once), and suddenly Democrats would discover that hey, they really like the wasting disease after all, and isn’t it terrible for Orange Man Bad to deprive the cancer community of its raison d'être. (After all, this is already happening with autism and RFK Jr.)
  Still More Winning: Trump Sends Back 4,000 Foreign Criminals Who Were Here on Student Visas

• Cuellar, who represents a district bordering Mexico that is three-quarters Hispanic, criticized his Democrat colleagues’ decision to make their defense of reputed MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia a focal point in their disagreement with the administration’s deportation policies. Congressional Democrats have traveled to El Salvador to press for Abrego Garcia’s release from the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison and return to the United States despite his alleged ties to a criminal gang.
  Cuellar Says Democrats Made The Wrong Choice In Case Of Deported MS-13 Suspect
  
• Bringing illegal immigration home to the Democrat judges and politicians, and an “Illegal Alien Snitch Hotline,” should go a long way to solving the problem.
  Two Powerful, Creative Ideas to Help President Trump With Mass Deportation

• "Even President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border."
  Tom Homan: Biden First [so-called quote-unquote] President To Intentionally Leave Border Unsecured
  
• Montecino-Sanzana, who was detained and arrested in Miami on Sunday, had previously received an order for “expedited removal,” but was instead released into the United States in January of 2021. Montecino-Sanzana and Bustamante-Leiva are believed to be members of an organized East Coast criminal organization comprised of illegal immigrants who have executed a number of notable robberies and thefts.
  Second Illegal in Noem Purse Theft Identified, Freed Into U.S. Despite Expedited Removal Order.

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

• Defending Israel against politicized human-rights attacks is vital to preserving both human rights' integrity and America's founding principles.
  Human-Rights Bodies Corrupt Human Rights To Vilify Israel
  
• Natalie Sanandaji loved dancing to music. On Oct. 7, 2023, the music stopped. Sanandaji was running for her life.
  EXCLUSIVE: Nova Music Festival Survivor Shares Her Story, Calls Out Music Artists For Political Messaging
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• Daniel Greenfield: Hamas supporters can invade Jewish neighborhoods and still play the victim.
  Media Blames Jews After Muslim Mobs Attack 2 New York Synagogues
  
• In Los Angeles, apparently, there’s absolutely no issue with calling for the genocide of Jews, attacking Jews, or enthusiastically cheering on murderous Islamic terrorists. But it is a problem if you as a Jew try to defend yourself and give the jihad-lovers a taste of their own medicine. It is deeply disturbing that such a situation could be happening in America and that Democrat politicians, leftist universities, and woke media are normalizing and even praising violent Jew-hatred.
  L.A. Drops Charges for Hamas Rioters, Charges 2 Jews Instead

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• “If you were a Christian, you were shot on the spot."
  Kenya: Jihadists Target Majority-Christian Country
  
• They do so because theft is baked into their culture.
  Why Do Arabs Chop Off Hands?

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

• Daniel Greenfield: Civil rights has become a farce.
  DOJ Civil Rights Lawyers Resign Rather Than Fight Antisemitism

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• A high threshold for involuntary commitment kept a mentally ill man on the street—until he firebombed Josh Shapiro’s home.
  Why Pennsylvania Failed to Keep Its Governor Safe

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

• Does the propaganda press want us to forget Trump was shot and that there are still unanswered questions?
  ABC Reporter Pretends Trump Wasn’t Shot While Accepting Award For Assassination Attempt Coverage

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

• Trump administration officials met with a group of European officials in the U.K. earlier in April, warning the Europeans that China is taking advantage of the West’s climate policies to further its own geopolitical goals, Politico reported. Despite the Trump administration’s cautions and Europe’s recent experiences relying on malign actors for energy, European officials mostly shrugged off the warning and signaled that the continent is still intending to make its energy system go green in the long-run.
  Europe’s Bureaucrats Whistle Along As They Barrel Towards China’s Green Energy Trap
  
• So, while scaremongering and propaganda campaigns can help the politically-tied clan get more of our tax cash, their claims help drive onerous government diktats about automobile emissions and natural gas heat that push those products and services higher in price or out of availability altogether. Without oil, gas, and coal, modern agriculture, transportation, and industry would collapse, plunging billions into poverty.
  Federally-Funded Dartmouth College Claims Energy Companies Cost $28 TRILLION in 'Climate Damage'

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

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The case could open the door for more religious charter schools across the country.
  Supreme Court To Hear Arguments In Landmark Case On School Choice And Religious Liberty
  
• These decisions, handed down on April 24, 2025, expose not only the entrenched collectivist mindset of the judiciary but also the deeper, unaddressed issue: the federal government has no constitutional authority to meddle in education funding at all. Worse, the collectivist structure of public education itself fosters a Tragedy of the Commons, where taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for a system that often disregards their values and priorities.
  Judges Block Trump's Attempt To End Federal Funding For DEI In Local Schools
  
• Christopher F. Rufo: President Christopher Eisgruber has created a system of widespread racial discrimination.
  “We Can’t Hire a White Guy”—a Professor on Life at Princeton

  ABORTION

• A study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center released on Monday found that 10.93 percent of women who had mifepristone abortions — the first drug used in a two-drug medication abortion regimen — experienced severe complications including sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following the abortion. This percentage is significantly higher than the less than 0.5 percent in clinical trials reported on the FDA-approved drug label. 
  Exclusive — Shocking Data Suggests Abortion Pill Complications 22 Times Higher Than Previously Reported: ‘FDA Must Reinstate Stronger Safeguards’

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Clyburn began by saying Biden was, substantively, a great president and no Democrat has had a record as good as Biden’s since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. (Scattered the ashes of what LBJ incinerated - jjs
  Clyburn: I Wasn’t Around Biden Enough to Say if He Declined

  POLITICS

• Connolly, 74, explained his decision to retire in light of his esophageal cancer diagnosis, which he said had returned. The Virginia Democrat defeated New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the top spot on the House Oversight Committee in January, which outlets had described as a generational fight in the Democrat Party.
  Top Democrat On House Oversight Committee Announces Retirement
  
• A former FBI analyst who resigned over the Trump administration and boasted about working on January 6 cases is running for Congress as a Democrat.
  Dems’ Newest Congressional Candidate Is Proof The Deep State Is Real

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Following a recent meeting in Rome, President Donald J. Trump has commented on changes in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s stance in peace negotiations. The discussions, which took place around Trump’s visit to honor the deceased Pope Francis, suggest Zelensky’s attitude toward a possible peace agreement with Russia may be evolving.
  Trump Hints Zelensky Willing to Cede Crimea for Peace Deal.
  
• The Trump admin has been ramping up pressure to bring the war to a close.
  Putin Declares 3-Day Ceasefire As Trump Pushes For End Of War
  
• With some wars, the immediate post-war narrative (e.g., WWII) never shifts, but with others, history has, or will have, a great deal to say.
  The Battle of the Russo-Ukraine War Narratives

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The outage affected transportation systems, halted court activities, and disrupted electronic transactions in both countries. Some areas of France and the microstate of Andorra, between Spain and France, also experienced disruptions.
  Major Power Outage Hits Europe, Capitals in Darkness.
  
• Spain went to net zero on Monday. It wasn't pretty.
  Spain's big blackout came less than week after it went full green on electricity
  
• The results have not yet shown whether the liberals will form a minority or majority government.
  Canada: Liberals Projected Winners, Mark Carney Retains Leadership

• It remains unknown if the Swiss team’s actions were a bitter display of poor sportsmanship in the face of defeat or if they were protesting Israel for political reasons. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemned the behavior as “disrespectful.”
  Swiss Fencing Team Turns Backs to Israeli National Anthem After Defeat
  
• India offers significant advantages: a pliable workforce that is both young and tech-literate, and perhaps most importantly, a government eager to accommodate U.S. corporate interests.
  The Great Decoupling: Apple, India, and the Strategic Migration of U.S. Manufacturing

  POPE FRANCIS' FUNERAL

• The Vatican announced that the conclave to select a new pope will commence on May 7, following Pope Francis’s death last week. The election will occur within the historic confines of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City’s Apostolic Palace. This announcement was made after several informal meetings among cardinals, who gathered to discuss Church matters after the late pope’s funeral.
  Vatican Sets Conclave Date for Papal Election.

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• As the White House official responsible for the Counterterrorism portfolio, I have a great deal to report.
  Exclusive — Gorka: A Hundred Days of Killing Jihadis

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• “Patients will almost certainly die under this bill who would have otherwise survived.”
  New York Must Reject Euthanasia
  
• Fewer artificial dyes is great, but if Americans want to make their country healthy again, they can’t wait for the government to save them.
  Getting Rid Of Food Dyes Is Good, But Healthy Eating Is Ultimately Up To Us
  
• 100 Days Of Trump: From food and drugs to autism research, RFK is shaking things up.
  MAHA In 100 Days: How Trump And RFK Are Transforming Food And Healthcare In America

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 49 to 38. Two more launches are still scheduled for today, one by SpaceX placing more Starlinks into orbit, and a second a classified Angara launch out of its Plesetsk spaceport in northeastern Russia.
  ULA launches Amazon’s first 27 Kuiper constellation satellites; SpaceX launches more Starlinks
  
• The theorized formation process of that bar is based on computer modeling using the limited data we presently have, and thus carries a great deal of uncertainty.
  Hubble snaps picture of barred spiral galaxy

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

• Parents sue Montgomery County Schools in Maryland after being barred from opting kids out of lessons promoting LGBTQ+ themes, a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
  SCOTUS Hears Case on LGBTQ Books Forced on Little Ones

• Paying for babies doesn’t work. But government could certainly stop making raising kids so expensive and undesirable.
  Why Paying Women To Have Babies Is A Terrible Idea — And What To Do Instead

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
  

• Christian Toto: Political journalists gaslight America during annual DC gala
  THAT’S Why WHCA Canceled Amber Ruffin

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