The Morning Report — 5/ 30 /25

Good morning kids. Well, here's a bit of surprisingly good news to start the day off for a change:

A federal appeals court reinstated President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs on Thursday.

The appeals court granted the Trump administration’s request for a temporary stay of a lower court’s order freezing tariff increases across dozens of countries. The Thursday decision puts back in place a key component of the president’s economic agenda. . . On Wednesday, the New York-based Court of International Trade ruled that the president had overstepped his authority in issuing the sweeping new tariff regime, abusing emergency powers and stepping on Congress’ constitutional authority to regulate commerce with foreign countries. The court consolidated two separate cases brought by businesses and state attorneys general in its ruling.

The appeals court gave the plaintiffs until June 5 to respond to its temporary stay of Trump’s tariffs.

I say this is surprisingly good news since the Judiciary has taken it upon itself to both usurp the authority of the president and on occasion the legislative branches and dictate both domestic and foreign policy and legislation from the bench.

While I'm heartened that a court has held that this other court had no authority to stop President Trump from moving forward with his tariff policies, that fall clearly within both his domestic and foreign policy purview. I have no faith in a judiciary that, led by John Roberts refused to hear a case brought by 17 states led by Texas that challenged the 2020 election because he claimed that the states had no standing? And just last week refused to hear the case of a student who was banned for wearing a t-shirt declaring there are only two genders, among other outrages and abrogations. One of the worst abuses of its authority was not only not declaring the Obamacare individual mandate unconstitutional as it clearly was, but Roberts using a red pen to rewrite the law in his chambers instead of sending it back to Congress to rewrite the law and thus force it to do its duty and in so doing piss off the public and put the Democrats and Obama in the crosshairs of an angry citizenry.

The nation itself is on the verge of a dissolution, with political violence — 100% of it aimed at normal Americans, conservatives and Republicans, fomented and committed by the leadership, base and supporters of the Democrat Left, both as the latest eruptions in the ongoing 200-pus year anti-American Revolution and in reaction to President Trump and his success so far in fighting them and exposing the threat posed by them to the citizenry at large.

With all that said, no doubt the courts, despite this latest ruling will continue their wicked ways on behalf of the usual miscreants bringing lawsuits and as in the case of this International Trade Court all of their own doing.

And so, what does President Trump and we as a nation have to lose by defying a rogue judiciary. By not defying them, we merely embolden our domestic enemies to continue acting lawlessly, in the name of course of preserving our "precious democracy" vomit!

Screw that noise. I want to preserve, protect and defend our precious and sacred American Republic. And by any and every means necessary if that is what is called for. We and the President can begin by putting the Judiciary back in its place.

When Thomas Jefferson took office in 1801, he faced a judiciary packed with Federalist loyalists thanks to John Adams’ last-minute “Midnight Judges.” Jefferson refused to deliver some of their commissions. One of the snubbed appointees, William Marbury, sued.

That case became Marbury v. Madison.

Chief Justice John Marshall used it to establish judicial review, the principle that courts could declare laws unconstitutional. 

But while flexing the Court’s power, Marshall also agreed that Jefferson didn’t have to deliver Marbury’s commission.

Jefferson didn’t gloat. He warned that if courts could rule on everything, they’d become despots in robes.

That wasn’t disrespect to the law. That was a president defending the balance of power between branches. And it set the stage for every future president to challenge judicial overreach when it threatened to override the people’s will. . .

. . . And now, President Trump proposes sweeping tariffs to protect American industries and economic sovereignty. 

Two courts block it. They don’t dispute the wisdom of the policy. They don’t argue it’s bad for the country. They just say he used the wrong procedural hook.

Suddenly, the media cries constitutional crisis!

But we’ve been here before. A true constitutional crisis doesn’t come from bold executive action. It comes when no branch has the will to act. Or when judges try to micromanage national survival from the comfort of a bench.

Presidents are elected to lead, not to wait for permission slips.

Of course the danger here, is that future Democrat Presidents GOD-FORBID will use the pretext of any effective opposition (should it miraculously come from a usually feckless and useless GOP or even a Judiciary that actually follows the Constitution in striking down whatever a Satanic Democrat administration forces on the people as is its wont to do, will declare it a threat to the security and freedom of the nation and ignore it.

Well, since that to me is the state of play, the nation itself is, if not over the cliff in a certain sense already, then it for sure is on the knife edge.

So, it's us or them, Mr. President. It's not a situation I think anyone wanted or certainly that I had ever imagined we'd be facing at this point in my life, if at any point in my life, but to ignore the reality is to live in denial.

Let's have it out, once and for all. For all the marbles. Let victory be our's, and may it last a thousand years and may the evil that spawned the modern Democrat party be consigned to Hell forever, please God!

To underscore all this, we have Harvard insisting that the court dictates that President Trump has no right to bar potential Islamic terrorist supporters and fomenters as well as Chi-Com spies and potential saboteurs from coming or remaining here under the aegis or guise of being a student.

There are over 1 million foreign students in the United States. The largest group by far are Chinese students whose numbers have fluctuated between a third and a quarter of a million. These students are in America to gain training in this country, not only at top universities like Harvard, but at tech companies, before taking their knowledge and skills back to China.

Saudi Arabia, the tenth largest source of foreign students, had the single most famous foreign students of any country who didn’t win any Nobel prizes, but did successfully fly passenger planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, but didn’t quite make it to the White House.

Despite that, the Saudis continue to send tens of thousands of their students to America.

With Bangladesh in 13th place, Iran in 14th, Pakistan in 16th, Turkey in 19th and Indonesia in 22nd, a lot of foreign students come from the Muslim world and were involved in the pro-terrorist riots calling for the destruction of America, Israel and all of Western civilization.

Notably, few of America’s foreign students are westerners. No European nation even shows up in the top 10 countries for foreign students. The UK is in 15th place and France is only in the 20th. Only Canada, right across the border, is in the top 5, but accounts for only 2.6% of foreign students. Nigeria accounts for three times as many foreign students as France, Iran sends more foreign students than the UK and Pakistan far more than Spain. While most American students who study abroad go to Europe, European students are not going to America.

Sadly, far too many American born students are as malignant and dangerously anti-American and anti-western, IF Not MORESO, than those imported from abroad! That is a whole other issue, the deprogramming of at least three generations of self-hating homegrown degenerate Communists that are embedded in every segment of our society to our great detriment and danger, and preventing future generations from being brainwashed to destroy us from within.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• When a president defies a court, the media pulls the fire alarm. Legal experts fill TV panels with words like "unconstitutional" and "authoritarian." The phrase “constitutional crisis” gets tossed around like glitter at a political parade. But what most people forget is that history doesn’t always side with the judiciary. Some of America’s greatest presidents defied court rulings, and history later confirmed that those examples of defiance were not only justified but necessary. They didn’t do it to seek power. They did it to protect the country when others froze. That’s not a crisis. That’s leadership.
  When Presidents Are Right and Courts Are Wrong: Defying the Bench to Save the Nation
  
• It’s not that Trump should pretend courts don’t exist. But Trump should restore constitutional order by rejecting the demands of lawless authoritarians masquerading as nonpartisan arbiters of the truth.
  Trump Should Buck Rogue Judges, Not Buckle To Them
  
• And how Trump shattered the Establishment’s manufactured consent.
  When Jeb and Hillary Saved the Republic

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• They operate on a single principle: nihilism and civilizational regression.
  On The Moral Misanthropy of the Left
  
• Considering the 200-year rap sheet of his party, this is like Al Capone promising to "investigate" Elliot Ness.
  Dem Rep. Subramanyam: Musk Likely Committed Crimes, Once in Power Dems Will Investigate
  
• Soros-funded operatives, a Democratic Socialists of America caucus, and an anti-Israel student group among signatories of letter endorsing murders
  Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias Rodriguez

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• A federal appeals court issued a temporary stay of the Court of International Trade's order freezing the president's tariffs.
  Appeals Court Puts Trump’s Sweeping ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Back In Place
  
• Each of the members of the three-judge panel issuing the Wednesday ruling – which was stayed Thursday by an appeals court, allowing the tariffs to continue – fit the profile of other activists judges who continued their political activism after joining the court.
  Three Judges Blocking Trump’s Tariffs Have Decades-Long Histories of Democrat Activism
  
• This case will likely end up at SCOTUS. (Ignore then appeal. And ignore anyway - jjs
  Trump Admin Will Appeal Court’s Ruling on Tariffs
  
• The agency is facing a growing number of employees either quitting or retiring, including some senior FAA leaders, fueling concerns that the departures could potentially affect air-traffic control, the WSJ first reported on Thursday. FAA workers are “departing the agency in mass quantities across all skill levels,” according to a May 7 internal presentation to senior FAA leadership discussing the agency’s so-called deferred-resignation program, the WSJ reported.
  Hundreds Of FAA Employees Hit Exit
  
• The program spent more per student than Harvard training participants to earn $17,000 per year.
  Trump Administration To ‘Pause’ Scandal-Plagued, $2 Billion ‘Job Corps’
  
• Fuyao Glass, a Chinese-owned glass company in Ohio now at the center of a federal fraud investigation, is working deep behind the scenes to oppose a state bill that would ban foreign enemies from buying land and operating businesses in Ohio.
  Chinese-Owned Company Fights Bill Banning Foreign Enemies from Buying Property in Ohio

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Liberal judges just blocked Trump’s tariffs—protecting foreign profiteers and Wall Street’s $25 trillion trade deficit cash cow at America’s expense.
  Why Wall Street Funds Anti-Tariff Lawfare
  
• Trump’s “One Beautiful Bill” could be a Trojan Horse for tyranny.
  Who’s Programming the AI, Mr. President?
  
• Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” isn’t just about tweaking the tax code. It’s a dramatic attempt to reverse the creeping Europeanization of the U.S.
  Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Tax Code

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

• U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs granted Harvard’s request for a preliminary injunction, blocking the government’s action until the case is decided. It had already been paused since last week, when Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order.
  Federal Judge Extends Order Blocking Trump Administration Ban on Foreign Students at Harvard
  
• Daniel Greenfield: From 9/11 to Chinese spying to the Hamas campus riots, they’re just not worth it. (Sadly, far too many American born students are as malignant and dangerously anti-American and anti-western as those imported from abroad. - jjs)
  America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’
  
• The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s decision to begin a process of revoking student visas previously granted to Chinese nationals, especially those with CCP ties, is “discriminatory.” In a video statement posted to X (formerly Twitter), Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning dismissed the mounting national security concerns posed by Chinese nationals at U.S. academic institutions, who have been tied to espionage and subversive activities in a number of cases.
  China Says Kicking Their Student Spies Out of U.S. Is ‘Discriminatory.’
  
• He also said that there would be greater scrutiny on all visa applications from China.
  Rubio Promises To ‘Aggesively’ Target Students Tied To Chinese Communist Party
  
• We secure international waters with our military might, ensuring the free flow of goods around the world. We maintain peace by deploying our military personnel to bases worldwide, serving as a deterrent.
  Marco Rubio's crackdown on visas is America First in action
  
• Democrat Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of several elected Democrats seeking to lead the party out of the wilderness, issued her strongest condemnation of illegal immigration to date and suggested her Democratic colleagues were out of step with voters on the issue.
  Dem Senator Says Illegals ‘Should Go Home’ — Her Voting Record Tells A Different Story
  
• Authorities pepper-sprayed the anti-deportation activists and made arrests inside and outside the courthouse, local media outlets reported. Video footage from CBS New York showed protesters pushing and pulling on metal gates, getting bound by zip ties and being dragged off the streets by their hands and feet as law enforcement officers moved in to restore order.
  Anti-Deportation Protesters Set Out To Block ICE Vans, End Up In Zip-Ties Instead
  
• Congressman Andy Ogles joined Morning Wire to discuss the investigations into Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell.
  Tennessee Congressman Hits Mayor Over Opposition To ICE: ‘We’re Going To Hold You Accountable’
  
• “This criminal alien and her boyfriend will account for the tragic accident that ended the life of a young woman who exhibited enormous potential,” said Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Dallas Acting Field Office Director Josh Johnson.
  Illegals Charged After Death of 18-Year-Old Air Force Recruit Ava Moore.
  
• The left’s love affair with illegal immigrants is killing the West.
  America Under the Control of Left-Wing Immigration Policy

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

• The horrifying incident followed U.N. officials condemning the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a non-U.N. organization backed by America and Israel, for successfully distributing food and other critical aid in Gaza while circumventing attempts by the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas to thwart its efforts. Hamas is the ruling government of Gaza and regularly uses much-needed aid to cement its stranglehold on the impoverished and repressed Gaza population, working in tandem with the United Nations.
  U.N. Fail: Thousands of Palestinians Storm Aid Warehouse in Gaza, Killing at Least 4
  
• Israel’s Arutz Sheva news website: “Ravid Chaim’s mother, Tze’ela Gez Hy”d, was shot dead by terrorists from Burqin as she made her way with her husband Hananel to the delivery room.”
  Newborn Baby of Pregnant Israeli Terror Victim Dies of Injuries
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  Robert Spencer’s Contest: Name Five Famous ‘Palestinians’ of History

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• How does a tiny Gulf state wield such outsized power - and why does the West keep looking the other way? 
  Qatar – The Real Face of the Snake

• From London to New York, Islamic enforcers are claiming the streets.
  They Dress Like Cops – But Enforce Sharia

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

• Some Jewish leaders are more concerned with fighting Trump than with fighting antisemitism.
  A Tale of Two Letters

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

• Daniel Greenfield: 12,000 speech arrests a year, 1,000 a month and 30 a day.
  The UK Has More Political Prisoners Than Cuba

• President Donald J. Trump has rejected a $15 million settlement offer from CBS News in his $20 billion election interference lawsuit against them. The America First leader, who initially filed a $10 billion suit late last year before doubling it, is demanding at least $25 million and an apology for election meddling in 2024.The lawsuit stems from CBS’s 60 Minutes broadcast during the 2024 presidential race, where the network deceptively edited an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris to make her appear more coherent. By removing a previously previewed “word salad” response about Israel from their final broadcast and interview transcript, CBS is alleged to have deceived the public and violated its duty to report honestly on publicly owned airwaves.T
  Trump Rejects CBS Offer to Settle $20bn Election Interference Lawsuit.

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

• With the Trump administration back in the White House, America has an opportunity to restore commonsense energy and manufacturing policies after years of radical environmental overreach.
  Electric Vehicles and the China Connection
  
• Authoritarians continue to self-identify.
  Take A Hike: Driving Will Be Verboten

  
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The judicial system in this country has never been less legitimate than it is right now.
  These Federal Judges Are Trying To Stop Trump From Dealing With The Fentanyl Crisis

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• If this university can be publicly corrected, the rest of the American university universe will be much more compliant.
  Break Harvard, and the rest of American universities will fall into place

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• “You mentioned Jill Biden,” host Sean Hannity said. “You mentioned, I would assume Hunter Biden would be called in. Now, Hunter, you know, had a preemptive pardon, so did his brother Jim Biden. I would assume that they’re not allowed to plead the Fifth. Will every person that you bringing in be put under oath, and do you think you’re going to need to bring in these family members? And what about Ron Klain, and what about the other people close to him?
  Comer: Biden Cover-up Investigation to Seek Testimony from Staffers Responsible for Using the Autopen

  POLITICS

  
  

• Philly beats Pittsburgh in leftist indoctrination.
  PA Primary: Dumb and Dumber
  
• This cunning runt can go micturate up a rope. But GOP being what it is will love to have her back - jjs
  Ousted RNC Chair Comes Crawling Back To The GOP After Failed NBC Contract

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Russia has proposed a second round of Moscow-Kyiv talks for Monday June second, calling Istanbul “the central location for talks”. The Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu thanked Turkey for its “significant efforts” to support talks, saying on Thursday they had ensured “security and creating favorable conditions for the delegations’ work”.
  Moscow Says Istanbul to be Venue for Next Week’s Proposed Russia-Ukraine Talks

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Influential voices within the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement have opposed military action against Iran. However, the debate has often conflated limited airstrikes with an invasion or all-out war.
  Poll: 57% of Americans Favor Military Action to Stop Iran from Going Nuclear
  
• The high-level meeting between Chinese, Iranian, and Russian officials confirms fears of an attempt by the three countries to weaken the U.S.'s negotiation position with Tehran
  American Adversaries Meet To 'Coordinate Their Positions' on Iran's Nuclear Program

• “Their votes in Congress give them the power to sink virtually any bill.”
  Laura Loomer Is Right About Venezuela
  
• The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is celebrating British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, bolstering Beijing’s influence in the Indian Ocean at the expense of Western security. On May 27, 2025, China’s ambassador to Mauritius, Huang Shifang, hailed the agreement as a “massive achievement,” directly contradicting Starmer’s claim that Beijing opposed the transfer of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius.Mauritius, aligned with China’s Belt and Road Initiative, will be paid billions of pounds by the British government for the privilege of taking the islands. This is in part to pay for a 99-year lease on the island of Diego Garcia, which hosts a major American military base alongside a small British contingent.
  China Cheers Britain’s Surrender of U.S. Base Islands to Ally Mauritius.
  
• “Resources are shrinking across the board" . . . I’ll believe it when I see it. Or more specifically, when I see the ‘internationaliat’ of Turtle Bay swap out 5-star Manhattan restaurants for Chick-Fil-A.
  UN to Cut Budget 20%, Fire 7,000 Employees

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• A commonsense reform to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse.
  Work Requirement Will Remove Freeloaders from Medicaid

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Musk also noted that this entire program is presently being funded by Starlink revenues. The government for SpaceX and Musk’s space exploration plans is largely now irrelevant. This fact is possibly the most historically significant revelation in his presentation.
  Elon Musk’s presentation “The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary”
  
• This sputtering is believed to be the process in which Mars lost the thick atmosphere that scientists believe must have existed in the past so that liquid water could exist on the planet’s surface.
  Scientists believe they have detected the actual process in which Mars loses its atmosphere

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

• "So many men have no idea what women go through," Obama said. (She then belted out Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed!" segueing into "You're Having My Baby!" - jjs)
  Michelle Obama Says Creating Life Is ‘The Least’ Of What A Woman’s Reproductive System Does

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Americans used to routinely ridicule this ... behavior. We considered it childish. And we understood that these name-changes were superficial, often used like a Potemkin Village to hide failures. You don’t achieve success by changing a name. You achieve success by achieving success. That achievement would then give the name — whatever it was — a value far beyond the sound of the words.
  Just as I refuse to say “native American”, I refuse to say “Gulf of America”

  HITHER & YON

• Kerik, whose high-profile career was peppered with success and controversy, shot to prominence when he was named the Big Apple’s top cop by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2000 and presided over a 63% drop in violent crime.
  Bernie Kerik, former NYPD Commissioner known as ‘America’s Cop’ after 9/11, dead at 69

• Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. (TIppecanoe and Rock'nroll Hoochie Koo too- jjs)
  Last Living Grandson Of America’s 10th President, John Tyler, Dies At 96

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