The Morning Report — 5/ 13 /25

Good morning kids. So, President Trump is supposedly in hot water because he accepted the gift of a jumbo jet fromQatar. To be fair, does he as a private citizen who via the Trump Organization owns at least one if not more private jets, jumbo and otherwise, and as POTUS has access to Air Force One and the entire damned Air Force at his disposal really need this? Also, why give your/his enemies a way to attack you in the first place? Surely he and his advisers could've handled this more artfully. Or what am I missing.

On a positive note, after a year and a half being held captive by the subhuman bestial Hamas terrorists, Edan Alexander, the last American hostage was released thanks to the efforts spearheaded by the President, and of course to say nothing of the IDF's latest push to plough Gaza into the Mediterranean.

Unfortunately, the Democrats are looking to remove the DNC vice chair David Camera/Hogg from his position? I guess shoving Bernie Sanders, Titty-Caca Ocasio and Jasmine Crockett in front of the cameras is not the best strategy for winning over the American electorate.

This item on the immigration front jumped out at me, for obvious reasons:

Forty-nine Afrikaners — whose lives are threatened in South Africa — landed in Dulles Airport, Va., on May 12. Another 70,000 mostly poor, rural, white South Africans have applied to join the refugee program. The arrival of the legitimate refugees was greeted with hate and disdain by pro-migration groups and media.

“My read of this is that the administration is trolling the left,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News. He added: “Admitting these few dozen Afrikaners is kind of trolling to get the left to find one immigrant, one refugee group that they don’t want. The numbers are small, but the Episcopal migration service dropped out of the refugee business rather than help these guys. So [Trump’s trolling] is  already working.”

Many South Africans have already migrated to Australia, amid the Australian government’s invited inflows of Indians, Arabs, and Chinese to the country. “Australia wants them … Let them go there,” Krikoran said.

Donald Trump has frozen the U.S. refugee program, which was scheduled to import another 125,000 migrants in 2025. His administration is instead promoting policies to force more wealth-generating, wage-boosting investment in workplace productivity.

I can't wait for the usual gaggle of racialists, America-haters and others to trip all over themselves and expose themselves to the American people for their hypocrisy in shrieking about this while defending Hamas terrorists and the Tren de Aragua Illegal alien criminals as victims of President Trump's Hitlerite deportation orders.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• 71% of likely voters say they think a free-market economic system is better than socialism. Only 12% of voters say socialism is better.  46% of voters say they do not want to “see a democratic socialist candidate win the next presidential election,” compared to just 31% who say they do. 
  Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: Democrats Hope China Beats America in Trade War, Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Socialism 
  
• Judge Howell blocked Trump’s order targeting Perkins Coie, defending legal speech—while sidestepping the firm’s partisan misconduct in the 2016 election and beyond.
  Court Order Blocking Trump From Targeting Perkins Coie Is Overreach

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
• A new lawsuit threatens Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court standing.
  A Legal Ft. Sumter
  
• The dismissal of Shira Perlmutter came just days after the termination of the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.
  Trump Fires Top U.S. Copyright Official as Swamp Purge Continues
  
• In a galling display of statism run amok, New York City has demanded that two Brooklyn landlords pay $160,000 to “relocate” squatters who illegally commandeered their properties. You read that correctly. The tax-thieving city government is demanding that the legitimate property owners pay to relocate the people who trespassed and took over THEIR property.
  NYC Demands Property Owners Pay To 'Relocate' Squatters
  
• Democrats are using CBO analysis of the hotly debated budget reconciliation bill to fight President Donald Trump’s proposed historic tax cuts for Americans and efforts to reform programs throughout the federal government, including assuring American taxpayers are not on the hook for illegal aliens’ health care.
  Nonpartisan in Name Only: Congressional Budget Office Revealed as Hotbed of Unreliable Left-Wing Activists (Say it ain't so! - jjs)

  
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID
  

• The deal was reached after a weekend of negotiations in Switzerland.
  U.S., China Release Details Of Agreement To Dramatically Slash Tariffs
  
• Trump’s 90-day tariff pause weakens reshoring, fuels market chaos, and helps China and Wall Street—leaving American factories and workers in the lurch.
  Trump’s China Trade Deal: All Bark, No Factory

• Trump didn’t wait for approval from Ivy League economists to act on what should be common sense: You don’t compete with slave labor, you crush it.
  Trump’s Tariffs Are A Global War On Slave Labor
  
• From Covid eviction bans to tenant-slanted laws, property owners are under financial siege. Here’s what Trump can do about it.
  The War on Landlords

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

• Derrick Van Orden says it’s sad that his family is in more danger now than when he was ‘chasing down and killing terrorists as a Navy Seal.’ 
  Congressman Says His Family Was Threatened As Leftist Rage Rises
  
• The report’s authors say, “support for political violence – including property destruction and
assassination – is not expressed in isolation, but as part of a tightly interconnected belief system.”
  Who’s To Blame For The Left’s ‘Assassination Culture’?

• Firms include those that pledged to eliminate DEI programs as part of agreement with Trump administration.
  44 Law Firms Hit With Discrimination Complaint Over Race-Based Internship
  
• With an official charge of discrimination filed against SEO and the law firms, the EEOC now has a statutory duty to investigate. 
  Exclusive: Complaint Argues Racial Discrimination Inside Law Firms Trump Sanctioned
  
• Trump pulled Martin's nomination as D.C. attorney general and named him the Justice Department's Weaponization Czar.
  Ed Martin Planned To Clean Up DC. Now, He’s Setting His Sights On The Whole Country.

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

• Forty-nine Afrikaners — whose lives are threatened in South Africa — landed in Dulles Airport, Va., on May 12. Another 70,000 mostly poor, rural, white South Africans have applied to join the refugee program. The arrival of the legitimate refugees was greeted with hate and disdain by pro-migration groups and media.
  Episcopal Group Quits Refugee Program over White South African Arrivals
  
• “Would’ve fought the Nazis? Now’s your chance!”
  Mob of Leftist Protesters in NYC Compare ICE to Nazis
  
• No more lax treatment of violent illegal immigrants regardless of age.
  Illegal Immigrant Youth Gang Members Released After Assaulting NYPD Officers
  
• The left-leaning National Immigration Project alleged in its April 24 lawsuit that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had detained a mother named Jenny Carolina Lopez-Villela, her 11-year-old daughter and her 2-year-old, who is a U.S. citizen. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Lopez-Villela entered the country illegally three times before she signed a letter agreeing to take her U.S.-born daughter with her to Honduras.
  Lawsuit Alleging ICE Deported US Citizen Dropped After Central Claim Falls Apart
  
• The shooting occurred on Riverside Road near the town of Lancaster at night during an alleged robbery attempt. Larisha Sharell Thompson, age 40, was found shot to death in her car.
  South Carolina: Six Illegal Migrants Charged with Murdering Woman

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

• The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international competition in which participating countries – most Eurovision, but also including some outliers such as Australia, Azerbaijan, and Israel – send an artist to perform an original song. A point system using both popular televotes and a professional jury determines the winner. Israel has been participating in the contest since 1973 and has won four times.
  WATCH: Pro-Hamas ‘Protester’ Threatens, Spits Towards October 7 Survivor Competing at Eurovision
  
• The 21-year-old was released after 584 days in captivity.
  Last Living American Hostage Edan Alexander Released Following Trump Admin Efforts
  
• Why does Tucker Carlson continue favorably showcasing people who say all the same things Israel’s worst enemies do?
  How Do You Solve a Problem Like Tucker Carlson?

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

• And the somewhat strange choice of the person allegedly leading the charge.
  The Counterproductive Move To Consolidate Conservative Media

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

• Trump DOE slashes rules targeting stoves, ovens, clothes washers, dishwashers, and shower heads
  Free the Gas Stoves: Trump's Energy Department Axes Dozens of Biden Appliance, Energy Regulations
  
• The EV charger program is cut from the same collectivist cloth: a federally funded pipe dream propped up by fearmongering, pork spending, and hubris, not science.
  Multiple States Sue Trump Over Tax Cash For EV Charging Stations

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The Good, the Bad, and the Controversial.
  School Choice Update

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• It has become in vogue for leftists to target Glock over the illegal use of the switches. For example, on March 19, 2024, Breitbart News noted that Chicago filed a lawsuit against Glock over the switches, although many of the switches in the U.S. originated in China.
  California Democrats Push Bill That Could Ban Glock Handguns

  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• Dr. Andrew Paquette has discovered algorithms that would allow double voting and that enable a hidden voter tracking system.
  An Analysis of Wisconsin Voter Rolls Reveals Evidence of Serious Vulnerabilities

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• In 2018, the Air Force contracted with Boeing to produce two new aircraft, but last year Boeing announced they wouldn’t be ready until 2029.
  Political Storm Brews as Trump Admin Considers Gift of Luxury Jet from Qatar

  POLITICS

• Comedy Gold: Christine Pelosi, a member of the credentials committee and daughter of former House Speaker Malig-Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), insisted that the vote to void Hogg’s vice chair election win had nothing to do with politics.
  DNC panel votes to void David Camera-Hogg’s election to Democrat vice chair

• With neoconservative slugs like Senators Lankford and Tillis, it's surprising that they are still in office or that the Trump Administration has not had more problems from their ilk before now.
  With RINOs like Lankford and Tillis, who needs enemies?
  
• Paxton is ahead of Cornyn by 16 percentage points — 56% to 40% — in a two-way poll commissioned by the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), Punchbowl News first reported on Monday. Meanwhile, in a hypothetical three-way matchup with Republican Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt, who is reportedly considering entering the primary contest, Paxton notched 44% of the vote to Cornyn’s 34% and Hunt’s 19%.
  AG Paxton Leads Sen. Cornyn By Double Digits In Texas Senate Race, Poll Shows

• Fetterman has received intense backlash from his Democrat colleagues over growing concerns about his mental health and for reportedly missing committee hearings. Phillips, who ran against former President Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic Primary, said on “Fox & Friends” that his party needs to show some grace toward Fetterman and be more tolerant toward their colleagues who hold “different perspectives.”
  ‘Cut Him Some Slack’: Former Dem Presidential Candidate Calls Out His Own Party For Attacking John Fetterman
  
• Voters in the Presbyterian Church USA go back and forth between Democrats and Republicans, but 57% of that denomination’s voters broke for Trump in November. Members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) are all over the map in voting for presidential candidates, but Trump garnered 51% of the vote in that (quasi-)denomination in 2024. Even the ultra-progressive United Church of Christ — Barack Obama’s denomination of choice — gave Trump a slight majority of 51% last year.
  New Data Reveals Surprising Trends Among Mainline Protestant Voters
  
• Here’s how they reached their cockamamie conclusion:
  New Theory on Why Kamala Harris Lost: Guns & Crime Made It Too Scary for Liberals to Vote!

  POPE LEO XIV COMMENTARY

• Michael Walsh: The early indications, therefore, are good that Leo's papacy could be both transformative and restorative. The name hearkens back to Leo I, the Great, who faced down Huns and Vandals in the fifth century and eased the Church's transition during the tumultuous transformation that followed the conquest of Rome by Odoacer in 476. That his first official Mass was conducted in Latin, with remarks from the pulpit in both American English and Italian, is encouraging, as was his use of traditional papal robes and choice of residences at the Vatican.
  THE COLUMN: American Caesar
  
• Based on their histories, the papal name Leo suggests a unifier willing to take the steps necessary to isolate further dangers to fracturing the Church; will Prevost continue the legacy?
  Is the New Pope a Francis in Leo’s Clothing?
  
• What we're seeing with this panic over Pope Leo is precisely the reason why progressives can never actually be devout Catholics.
  The Left Discovered The New Pope Is Actually Catholic And They’re Horrified

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Who will the Mullahs blame?
  A Huge Fire at the Port of Bandar Abbas
  
• The senators' resolution comes amid concerns of Russian meddling and an unclear administration stance on enrichment
  GOP Senators Demand 'Full Dismantlement and Destruction of Iran's Nuclear Program' as Trump Admin Negotiates With Tehran
  
• The president's high-stakes foreign visit comes amid the promise of peace and a Qatari controversy.
  Here’s What You Need To Know About Trump’s Middle East Trip
  
• President Donald J. Trump’s bold vision to secure Greenland and unlock the Arctic’s commercial and strategic potential is taking shape, with Finland’s world-leading icebreaker industry ready to answer the call. Having built or designed 80 percent of the world’s icebreakers, the European Union (EU) country offers unmatched expertise to help the U.S. construct a new fleet.“Ice is our playground,” said Mika Hovilainen, CEO of Aker Arctic, a Finnish firm designing ships for Canada, Sweden, and now eyeing American contracts. “We want to be involved in every Western icebreaker,” Hovilainen added, noting his role in designing 10 ships, including one that operates sideways.
  Trump Turns to Expert Finns to Build Fleet of Icebreakers, Dominate Arctic from Greenland.

• “May Trump come, take the canal in his pocket, and remove all those people from its administration. They are thieves,” one unemployed worker told The Telegraph, echoing the sentiment among laborers who claim Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino prioritizes foreign workers, particularly from a Chinese consortium building the canal’s $1.4 billion fourth bridge. Marvin Moreno, a 42-year-old welder, put it bluntly: “Right now [Trump] is the best option because the president we have is putting Panamanians practically against a wall. He is practically acting as a dictator.”
  Panamanians Pushed Out of Canal Work by Foreigners Back U.S. Return.

  BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH

• Daniel Greenfield: President Trump can undo one of Biden’s worst crimes.
  $3.5 Billion From 9/11 Victims Being Held by U.S. for the Taliban

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• I’m shocked the order does not mention patent policy. Want to bring down prices? Reform the drug patent policy!
  Trump’s EO Aims to Slash Prescription Drug Costs But Should Address More
  
• Now, a new study has found that nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) — a common class of medications for HIV — could dramatically decrease the risk of developing this neurodegenerative disorder.
  Doctors discover drug already on the market ‘could prevent 1 million new cases of Alzheimer’s’ a year

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• NASA has long suffered from shifting political winds, its mission rewritten every few years. This move gives NASA the right goals.
  Why Trimming NASA To Focus On The Lunar Space Race Is The Right Move

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

• HHS’s new review is a comprehensive and sober reevaluation of the science and ethics of the “gender-affirming” model.
  A Long Overdue Return to Reality in Pediatric Gender Medicine

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Box office receipts remain strong but industry still producing epic duds
  ‘Snow White’ Bombs (Again) … So Does This Action Thriller

  HITHER & YON

• “Suetonius depicts what is under everyone’s clothes. . . The Lives of the Caesars is a portrait of the political world into which Jesus was born.”
  The Horror of Unlimited Freedom

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