The Morning Report — 7/31/25

Good morning kids.

First of all, congratulations to President Trump's nominee Emil Bove who was confirmed by the Senate to the third circuit court of appeals. Bove's nomination was a particularly bitter pill for the Dems insofar as he represented the President as his attorney during the Biden Junta's persecution of him with the bullshit allegations of improper retention of classified documents as well as supposedly trying to subvert the 2020 elections. Wow, you talk about projection!

So congratulations to Justice Bove, and here's hoping your trajectory does not mirror that of Amy Coney Island whitefish Barrett. But that said, the salient point here is the fact that, Surprise Surprise Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined the Dems in casting "No" votes making the final tally 50-49.

But adding insult to injury, we have this item:

President Donald Trump railed against Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday afternoon following Hawley’s decision to join Democrats in tanking a measure that would have commissioned a government report on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stock trading history. Hawley voted against a measure sponsored by Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott to request information regarding the former speaker and her husband Paul Pelosi’s stock trades over the last 25 years during debate over a proposed stock trading ban Wednesday morning. Trump excoriated the Missouri Republican’s opposition to adding the Pelosi report as an amendment to the legislation and for working with Senate Democrats to pass a congressional trading ban that also curtails the president’s authority to trade stocks. (‘A Clown Show’: GOP Sen Teams Up With Dems To Advance Stock Trading Ban)

With Elon Musk's announcement of his intention to form a new political party all but disappearing from the headlines in the blogosphere and the propaganda press, I reiterate my assertion and appeal to him that his energy, time and money are better spent in a concerted effort to weed out the RINOs from the GOP and support actual America-first conservatives, be they under the MAGA banner or under whatever banner you want to label them, so long as they are 100% "down for the struggle" as it were, in opposing the leftist/Democrat globalists onslaught against the republic. Put aside whatever petty rivalry/differences with Donald Trump, whatever they may be, and put the nation first. More than anything else, that will burnish your credentials and/or image as it were as the patriot you have been projecting, to varying degrees of success since you first emerged as a political force to be reckoned with.

Switching gears we have a couple of truly disturbing stories that sadly are becoming more and more common:

First this nightmare:

Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler, 38, was allegedly attacked by Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29 — who has since been placed under arrest — in the offices of Showcase Magazine. Hayes, according to the outlet’s publisher and local law enforcement, dumped a five-gallon bucket of gasoline over Vogler — and when Vogler ran out of the building, Hayes followed and set him on fire. . . According to multiple reports, Vogler and the suspect knew each other prior to the attack, and the motive is not believed to be political.

I cannot seem to find any information on the political affiliation of either Vogler or the Psycho who set him on fire. That said, I am seeing boilerplate sort of lines like this one from ABC quoting local police "the attack stems from a personal matter not related to the victim’s position on Danville City Council or any other political affiliation."

To me, given what we have witnessed between open borders, the Hamasniks on campuses, transexual mass shooters and so on, and how the media and public officials obfuscate motives almost immediately after an incident takes place, a statement like this reeks of covering up for Leftists/Democrats. And as is the case with the Left, the personal is always political.

What we need is common sense gasoline control to prevent immolation attacks Global warming! Pfft.

And to underscore my assertions, we have this item that happened a few days ago and has all but been buried by the propaganda press:

Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati. The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all. . .

. . . There were many disturbing aspects to the beat-downs. One, the violence broke out along racial and age fault lines. After the initial one-on-one dispute, groups of black youths swarmed solitary older white bystanders to pound them.

Two, the surrounding assembled group of black youths not only failed to intervene to restrain the bullies. They also recorded the beatings for social media and were heard cheering on the one-sided violence. . .

. . . Racialists too often concoct white racist attackers and go silent when the evidence proves fabricated—only to be primed to manipulate the next hoax.

Five, the media and authorities did their best to either hide or play down the violence. . .

. . . The country is descending into a tribal morass of double standards and racial fixations.

The diversity/equity/inclusion industry, the Defund-the-Police madness, and the perpetual left-wing hunt for “white racism/white privilege/white rage”—from the prior Pentagon hierarchy to the lunatic fringe of Jasmine Crockett, Joy Reid, and Zohran Mamdani—have all legitimized double standards while lowering the bar of the once unacceptable.

When our careerist left-wing elites seek to divide us by race and make it essential, not incidental, to our identities, that tribalist message filters throughout communities.

All I can say is If Barack Obama had a son an SS Division named after him, it would look an awful lot like this.

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Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: Black teens beat white bystanders in downtown Cincinnati as police, media, and public figures stay silent—revealing a dangerous double standard on racial violence.
  The Cincinnati Cop-outs

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
• The 50-49 Senate vote was largely along party lines with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voting against Bove’s confirmation to the federal bench.
  Senate Confirms Trump Nominee Emil Bove to Seat on Third Circuit Court of Appeals
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• Expect the exodus of major corporations to pick up if the "head tax" is passed.
  The 'Worst Mayor in America' Promises a 'Head Tax' on Larger Businesses

  "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
  

• Over the last month, federal immigration officials have faced increasingly violent attacks in the wake of the June riots. The National Pulse reported last week that Elpidio Reyna, accused of hurling concrete blocks at law enforcement during immigration enforcement actions in Paramount, California, on June 7, was apprehended at the U.S. southern border. Meanwhile, earlier this month, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents captured Benjamin Song, a suspect accused of shooting at ICE officers during a riot at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4. The ambush resulted in a local police officer being shot in the neck.
  Anti-ICE Activists Help Detainee Escape Facility.

• Navas’ husband, Jose, illegally entered the U.S. from El Salvador in 2003 and has been in ICE detention in West Texas since Sunday, according to KPRC. She told a reporter for the outlet that her husband likely did not seek citizenship for over two decades because of his “pride” and to prevent others from thinking he only married his wife to become a citizen.
  Wife Of Illegal Immigrant In ICE Detention Says His ‘Pride’ Kept Him From Becoming Citizen (What month is subhuman criminal scumbag month?-jjs)

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

• "Our hearts and prayers are with him. We don’t really know what to say."
  Virginia City Councilman Doused In Gasoline, Set Aflame In Horrific Attack

• The police chief in Cincinnati has decided to attack the media.

  The Chilling Backstory Behind The Anti-White Mob Attack In Cincinnati

• Robert Spencer: Now she has to pay her fair share.
  Titty Caca AOC Demands the Rich Pay Their Fair Share

• Schweizer points out that government agencies develop incentives to increase their funding by making a problem seem worse. He wonders if that happened in the Oklahoma City case. “We know some of these groups exist, but government agencies get budgets based on the demand for their services. You don’t get a bigger budget by downplaying threats; I think it would help the FBI to be transparent.”
  Peter Schweizer: Book Claims Oklahoma City Bombing Was ‘Manufactured Terror’ with Deep FBI Involvement

  
  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Margot Cleveland: ‘You need to TRUST ME on this,’ Clapper’s crony told the analyst, saying he ‘would need to demonstrate [his] ability to “outgrow”’ the refusal to sign off on assessments he did not concur with.
  EXCLUSIVE: Clapper Crew Threatened Whistleblower Who Refused To Sign Off On Fabricated Intel Assessment
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Revenge or justice? (those are not necessarily mutually exclusive - jjs)
  Investigating Barack Obama and the 2016 Trump Presidential Campaign
  
• When investigators attempted to probe the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane operation, documents were systematically hidden from them.
  Thousands Of Russia Hoax Documents Found In FBI Secret Room In Burn Bags

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The increase in real GDP in the second quarter primarily exceeded economists’ expectations of 2.0% growth and reflected both a decrease in the negative impact of imports and an increase in consumer spending. Decreases in investment and exports partially held back GDP growth.
  GDP Rebounds in Second Quarter, Jumping 3.0% as Tariff Fears Ease
  
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says $300 billion revenue will flow in this year from tariffs and Trump expects trillions more to come, which he will use to pay down the debt. He’s also teased the idea of giving Americans back some of their own money next year in the form of checks for $1,000 or two thousand dollars $2,000, likely means-tested, and with any luck spent in America to benefit the economy. That’s on top of the $5 trillion or $6 trillion of direct investment in America that has been pledged by foreign countries and investors.
  Miranda Devine: Trump nailed the biggest trade deal in American history and proved everyone wrong – again!

  ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al

• The 22-member Arab League — which includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — backed a declaration at the UN on Tuesday calling for the terrorist group to relinquish its power in the Gaza Strip. The move marks the first time the Arab states have collectively called for the removal of Hamas, with many also condemning the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel for the first time.
  Arab Nations Urge Hamas To Give Up Arms And Power In Gaza For First Time
  
• Daniel Greenfield: In total, 24 Senate Dems voted to cut off weapons to Israel.
  Majority of Senate Dems Vote to Block Arms Sales to Israel

• The 21-year-old self-described communist puts AOC to shame.  (may this filthy scum get an Islamic Gay flying lesson off the roof of the Tehran Hilton - jjs0
  American Activist Chants ‘Death to America! Death To Israel!’ At Tehran Rally
  
• The October 7 atrocities convinced Israelis that any territory given over to the 'Palestinians' would become a launchpad for terror.
  The Two-State Solution Died on October 7
  
• The world deserves to stop being lied to.
  Who’s Really Starving Gaza?
  
• U.N. agencies and charities in Gaza have reached varying degrees of accommodation with Hamas, according to several-high ranking Israeli military officers. The most accommodating, they said, has been the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), with which Israel officially cut ties earlier this year over its ties to Hamas. (Mock Turtle .. . BAY Soup Nazis! - jjs)
  How the ‘Neutral’ UN Is Helping Hamas Oppress Gazans and Fool the World
  
• The International Criminal Court enters the Twilight Zone.
  ICC Refers Hungary to Its Oversight Body for Failing to Arrest Netanyahu
  
• Other aid contractors said Anthony Aguilar's claims that workers and Israeli forces indiscriminately fired on civilians are false
  US-Backed Gaza Aid Group Releases Evidence Suggesting Former Contractor Who Accused It of 'War Crimes' Fabricated Documents as Revenge for Firing

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

• Against the wishes of President Donald Trump, House Republicans have restored full funding to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in an appropriations package, allocating $315 million to the anti-Trump organization for the upcoming fiscal year. For years, critics have been calling for NED to be reformed or defunded over its connection to George Soros, history of censorship against conservatives, and interference in foreign affairs in the name of “promoting democracy.”
  House Appropriations Bill Includes $315 Million For Pro-Censorship ‘Democracy’ Org Trump Wants Defunded
  
• The figures indicate that CNN viewership dropped 42 percent from last year, Deadline reported. CNN's finances and ratings have cratered in recent years. The liberal network's revenue tanked by around $400 million in three years, according to financial metrics revealed at a defamation trial in January.
  'Disastrously Bad': CNN's Primetime Viewership Plunged in July, Report Says
  
• 'Is there bias? Sure,' admitted CPB president Pat Harrison
  Public Broadcasting Board Members Cry, Quote Shakespeare and Russell Crowe After Congress Yanks NPR Funding
  
• Okay, at least they're trying something new; I suppose I should give them credit for that. 
  'Juan Crow' Is The New York Times' Latest Way to Call Trump RAAAAAACIST
  
• That spell of public low esteem for the media changed dramatically in Trump’s first six months in office. Traditional media readings jumped to an average of 44.7, a 16% gain over Biden’s comparable six months the year before.
  Media Trust Bounces Back Sharply During President Trump’s First Six Months In Office: I&I/TIPP Poll

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

• What we're witnessing in Europe is a culture so obsessed with performative humility and aesthetic regulations that it can't keep its people from dying indoors.
  More people die in Europe from lack of AC than Americans die from guns
  
• This means something extraordinary for the American economy.
  WINNING: Trump’s EPA Wrecks The Radical Green Agenda
  
• The Big Beautiful Bill replaces slogans with substance. It ends wasteful subsidies, enforces ethical sourcing, and restores the market's role in determining which energy technologies succeed.
  The Big Beautiful Bill puts an end to the 'green energy' gravy train of the Inflation Reduction Act

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• 'Harvard can't hide. Garber must provide transparency,' Rep. Elise Stefanik says
  Harvard Trains Rising CCP Elites Through Partnership With Top Chinese Department, Congressional Investigation Finds (maybe they'll learn to hate their own country too, so perhaps it's a positive? - jjs)
  
• Belmont University rebrands DEI, harbors illegal students, and still cashes federal checks—how long will Christian schools defy the law and get away with it?
  DEI by any other name is still DEI 

  ABORTION

• The cause of America’s falling birth rate is complicated. But adding a male contraceptive to the mix certainly isn’t helping.
  The Last Thing A Nation With A Record Low Fertility Rate Needs Is A Male Birth Control Pill

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Gomez said, “If Republicans, Donald Trump, are going to try to steal another House majority, which they did, remember that they redrew North Carolina, and all of a sudden, if they didn‘t do that, the Democrats would be in the majority, and it would be a different Donald Trump administration. So if the Texas Republicans and Donald Trump want to steal, try to steal another House majority, absolutely. That‘s what we have to do. We can‘t continue this getting slapped in the face, letting them get away with it, and then allowing them to steal our democracy and rig the game.”
  Dem Rep. Gomez: ‘Future of Our Country’ Depends on Democrat Redistricting
  
• Hawley voted against a measure sponsored by Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott to request information regarding the former speaker and her husband Paul Pelosi’s stock trades over the last 25 years during debate over a proposed stock trading ban Wednesday morning. Trump excoriated the Missouri Republican’s opposition to adding the Pelosi report as an amendment to the legislation and for working with Senate Democrats to pass a congressional trading ban that also curtails the president’s authority to trade stocks.
  Trump Torches GOP Sen For Blocking Effort Investigating Pelosi Stock Trades

• Every so often, this evil slithering succubus of botulinum and bile can make even Hillary Clinton seem positively cuddly by comparison - jjs
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi: Newsom’s Right, 2026 Election ‘Is Being Rigged’

  POLITICS

• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that left-wing figures like New York City Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani are gaining traction among young voters who have grown skeptical of the system, comparing the situation to “Caracas on the Hudson” and arguing that the antidote is broad-based ownership and economic stakeholding.
  Exclusive–Bessent Warns of ‘Caracas on the Hudson’ as Young Voters Turn to Socialism: ‘They’re Disillusioned with the System’
  
• Harris explained that she was “looking forward to getting back out and listening” to American citizens, and helping to get more Democrats elected, adding that she would be “sharing more details” about her “own plans.”
  Kamala Harris Rules Out Running for California Governor: My Leadership ‘Will Not Be in Elected Office’ (a glory hole in a gas station toilet on I-10 - jjs)
  
• Daniel Greenfield: And now the Dems have to figure out how to stop her.
  Kamala Preps Presidential Run

  
  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Russia’s real reason for fighting in Ukraine has nothing to do with any potential benefits it might achieve if it could even win that war.
  Perpetual Russian Wars

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• A growing movement seeks to brand non-indigenous residents as "settlers" and relegate them to second-class citizenship
  Racial Hierarchies Are Gaining Traction in Canada

• "The policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Brazil are repugnant," the order states.
  ‘Extraordinary Threat’: Trump Unleashes On Brazil With Massive Tariff, Sanctions On Extremist Judge

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• He previously served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army before joining the elite Ranger Regiment and the Special Forces.
  Senate Confirms Joe Kent As Director Of National Counterterrorism Center

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The rule, tucked into Section 453 of the House’s Fiscal Year 2026 Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, has sparked backlash from supporters of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. They argue it could mirror the fallout of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which created a no-fault system protecting vaccine producers from injury lawsuits.
  ‘Extinction-Level’: MAHA Warns Pesticide Immunity Provision Could Mirror Anger-Inducing Bill From 1980s

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• “America must maintain its global leadership.”
  An America-First Approach to Science Funding
  
• It is believed that the two stars at the center of this nebula act to churn the expanding material to form this complex shape. Imagine them functioning almost like the blades in a blender.
  A Webb false color image of a planetary nebula
  
• This Starship is one of the last two version-2 Starships being prepped for test flights. After they have flown, the company will move to version-3, which hopefully will have a better flight success record than version-2.
  Next Starship moves to launchpad for static fire testing

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

• Our culture is driving men away from women in ways that destroy men at the individual level and society as a whole.
  The United States Is Experiencing A Perfect Storm Of Non-Self-Perpetuation

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• A glimpse at some ridiculous ad trends from an experienced adman.
  Today’s Advertising: The Good, The Bad and the Really Bone-Deep Ugly
  
• The Left's fatal humor deficit.
  ‘That’s Not Funny!’
  
• Christian Toto: That Zucker magic is missing, but earnest homage offers steady stream of laughs
  ‘The Naked Gun’ Shovels More Dirt on Woke Comedy’s Grave

  HITHER & YON

• Advocates and critics of evolution see the Scopes centennial as an opportunity to reset the debate.
  A Century Ago, The ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’ Shook The Nation. The Stakes Are Just As High Today.

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