The Morning Report — 8/4/25

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a nice relaxing weekend so now as we scan the links and ponder current events, I'm reminded of what the late great Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory labeled "The Daily Soap Opera," that is what the establishment media was reporting and the way in which it was reported.

That said, boy does this item really hit home, especially now that Tulsi Gabbard is putting the klieg lights on the intel community and its attempted and coup against Then-candidate and now twice-elected president Donald Trump (thrice if you include the stolen 2020 election).

Former Democrat Party presidential hopeful and current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is giving the CIA an enema, and she's putting the hose where it is most needed: in the sketchy, unofficial offices of Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's not-so-secret department dedicated to propaganda. . . The CIA has been bribing/threatening/installing journalists to do their bidding since the beginning of the Cold War. It is believed they had/have roughly 400 journalists, news reporters, and publishers throughout the world, writing what the CIA tells them to write. . . Tulsi Gabbard believes Operation Mockingbird isn't merely still alive and kicking, but that  it's being used to slander President Trump. In my opinion, it is also being used to spread globalist codswallop.) Even better, Gabbard is dedicated to tearing it down.

For example, were Lois Lerner and John Koskinen at the IRS ordered to subvert 501-C3 status of conservative Tea Party or other non-Democrat Leftist groups or simply because they were innately Leftists did they do it all on their own? Were everyone from the editorial boards of the Times and WaPo, the anchors at CNN to late night talk show stooges given marching orders from the CIA or did they rail against everyone and everything non-Democrat all on their own?

All of that said, I think back to late January of 1968 when in the wake of the complete failure of the NVA/Vetcong Tet Offensive, Walter Cronkite took to the airwaves of CBS to unilaterally declare to the American people that we had lost the Vietnam War, despite the facts on the ground that indicated it was a disastrous debacle for the communists. So whose war was Vietnam? Wasn't it the Dems' and the CIA's?

Poll after poll over the past several years indicates that trust in the media is digging its way to China. Gabbard's revelations, assuming they are given honest coverage (ha!) are not exactly going to help. That said, she is doing yeoman's work in exposing the 2015-present coup against President Trump. How or whether her revelations about Operation Mockingbird will help or even hinder her efforts to expose the corruption/treason of the Deep State is TBD. Surely and lamentably, the perpetrators of those crimes will more than likely go unpunished let alone be prosecuted.

Meanwhile, from someone who had the gall to believe he can appear in public wearing a MAGA hat ejected from a stadium, to Colorado's doughy fey governor punishing his own cops from working with the federal government to anti-Semitic mobs attempting to swarm NYC's Grand Central Station, the beat, and beat downs go on.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• The more information comes out, the more disturbing things become.
  Was the Death of Seth Rich a Hit by the Deep State?
  
• Thad McCotter: Chinese engineers accessed Pentagon systems via Microsoft’s cloud—raising alarms over Big Tech’s ties to America’s top adversary.
  Microsoft and the DOD’s Digital Escort Service: How in the World Did This Happen?
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Trump is rewriting the rules of politics, economics, and culture—and no one, not even the experts, knows what happens when the old orthodoxy finally breaks.
  Trump’s Unknown Frontiers
  
• The CIA has been bribing/threatening/installing journalists to do their bidding since the beginning of the Cold War. It is believed they had/have roughly 400 journalists, news reporters, and publishers throughout the world, writing what the CIA tells them to write.
  To Kill an Operation Mockingbird: Tulsi Goes to War With the CIA's Propaganda Yobbos

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
• With the border under control, the president has new dragons to slay...just in time for the midterms.
  Trump’s Next Winning Issue: Judicial Malfeasance

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

• The state law, signed by Democrat Governor Jared Polis in May, “prohibits local government employees, including law enforcement, from sharing identifying information about people with federal immigration officials,” Fox News reported. The Department of Justice has sued the state of Colorado, arguing that the policies violate the U.S. Constitution and federal immigration laws. The incident unfolded on June 5, when Mesa County Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander Zwinck pulled over Caroline Dias-Goncalves, a 19-year-old Brazilian nursing student after she allegedly drove too close to a semi-truck. Dias-Goncalves was reportedly released with a warning after about 20 minutes, but ICE agents followed up and arrested her for an expired visa shortly thereafter.
  Police Officers Disciplined in Colorado For Sharing Info With ICE in Dem Crackdown Against Cooperation With Federal Immigration Enforcement
  
• The leftwing group called on policymakers to 'increase access to mortgage loans for undocumented families.'
  Leftist Group Tied To Mexican Consulate Pushed Banks To Lend To Illegal Aliens

• On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump focused on issues that resonated with voters, including immigration, inflation and the economy. While discussing how the administration has followed through on campaign promises, Enten noted that immigration is projected to drop “at least 60%.”
  ‘Trump Is Remaking The United States’: Net Migration On Pace To Be Negative, CNN’s Harry Enten Says

• The people who passed the 14th Amendment would agree with Trump, not these judges.
  Ninth Circuit Swings and Misses on Birthright Citizenship
  
• Newly appointed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph Edlow is pushing for significant changes to the U.S. naturalization test, which he described as too lenient and not reflective of congressional expectations. Edlow contends that the test format is insufficient to ensure that those seeking naturalization know American civics sufficiently. The current test only requires applicants to answer six out of 10 civics questions correctly and complete basic English reading and writing tasks.
  Top Immigration Official Wants Tougher Citizenship Test, Overhaul of Naturalization Process. (Meh, we need a 40-year moritaurium on all immigration - jjs)

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

• A man was reportedly booted from a Major League Soccer match in St. Louis, Missouri, for allegedly wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
  REPORT: Man Escorted Out of Major League Soccer Match for Wearing MAGA Hat

• "Nothing suggests that these victims were the ones that started this mob attack."
  ‘It’s Pretty Disgusting’: Cincinnati Police Union Head Bashes ‘Victim Shaming’ After Mob Attack
  
• “The Fall of Minneapolis.”
  Documentary Exposes the Real Circumstances Around George Floyd’s Death

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

• The OSC has Smith under a microscope regarding the possibility that he violated the Hatch Act which says government workers are not allowed to take part in certain political activities, Fox News reported on Saturday, noting it received confirmation of the probe from the office and that Smith is not being criminally investigated.
  U.S. Office of Special Counsel Investigating Ex-Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith
  
• According to a Rasmussen poll released Monday, two-thirds of voters (65%) are following declassified releases over the past month by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Sen. Chuck Grassley “very closely” (32%) or “somewhat closely” (33%), repudiating the calculated media silence about the Obama administration’s fake narratives and manipulation of intelligence to frame Donald Trump as a Kremlin stooge to cover up Hillary Clinton’s wrongdoing.
  Miranda Devine: Russiagate lies are being exposed — and everybody is watching, even the Dems
  
• Robert Spencer: The last believer.
  Ex-CIA Spook Is Going Down With the Russia Hoax Ship

• Understood correctly, it means that the conspiracy began in February 2016, for it proves that the big players always knew that Russia was not a risk.
  A Strzok-Page text is the road map to catch the Russia Hoax conspirators
  
• Despite decades of scandals, cover-ups, and contradictions, Hillary Clinton still personifies the double standard shielding America’s political elite.
  Don’t Overlook Hillary Clinton

• They knew the truth about Russia, Clinton, and the Steele dossier—and they manipulated it to destroy a presidency.
  Anatomy of a Coup: The Obama-Era Big Lie That Launched a National Delusion
  
• Clarice Feldman: It’s clear the Administration is taking its time to reveal the Russiagate investigation’s conclusions for maximum impact -- an impact that will result in arrests of a number of people who pulled off this fraud. 
  RIP Disparate Outcomes, Credentialism, and the Russian Collusion Hoax
  
• Netter now works for a group chaired by Marc Elias, who helped run the Russia collusion hoax.
  EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Official Who Approved $2 Million Payout To Disgraced Russia Hoaxers Identified As Left-Wing Activist Brian Netter
  
• The Durham Annex is out and we know that the Dems and the Intelligence Community were fumbling a pathetic play to stay in the game for one more quarter.
  What Has the Intelligence Community Done for U.S. Lately?

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Kevin Hassett points to revision after [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden dropped out.
  Trump Econ Director Cites ‘Revisions’ As ‘Hard Evidence’ To Fire Labor Statistics Chief
  
• Roger Kimball: The left cheered a weak jobs report—until Trump fired the stats chief, touted native-born job gains, and doubled down on his America First economic overhaul.
  Bad News Is Good News? The Left’s Premature Celebration Over Jobs Data
  
• Jerome Powell’s stubborn rate freeze isn’t economics—it’s sabotage, a last-ditch effort by the Fed to stall Trump’s surging America First recovery.
  Yes, Trump Can (and Should) Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell

  ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al

• Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, said that Hamas’ triumphalism is due to the actions of France, the United Kingdom, and Canada, which said last month that they would recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
  Hamas Official Says 'Palestinian' State Gaining Support Due to October 7 Terror
  
• Nazis forced Jews to dig their own graves during Holocaust.
  Hamas Forces Emaciated Israeli Hostage To Dig His Own Grave
  
• The left’s hatred of Trump—and now Israel—runs so deep, it’s willing to abandon decades of principle just to spite its enemies.
  Democrats, Israel, and Trump Derangement Syndrome
  
• Daniel Greenfield: There’s no ‘civil war’ within MAGA over Israel. There’s only leftist infiltration.
  Getting MAGA To Go Left on Israel

• The crowd was part of the demonstration the group called Within Our Lifetime organized, the New York Post reported. (may your accursed lifetime be a nanosecond - jjs)
  WATCH — ‘Get the F**k Out!’: Anti-Israel Mob Blocked from Taking Over NYC’s Grand Central Terminal

• Will there will be any stopping her?
  Calla Walsh, Once Celebrated by NPR, Makes a Video Lauding the Islamic Republic of Iran

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

• Daniel Greenfield: Zohran Mamdani is preparing to enable a new wave of antisemitic violence.
  Mamdani Wants Cops to Stop Responding to Attacks on Jews
  
• A Democrat state assemblyman who represents a heavily Orthodox Jewish district in Brooklyn said Mamdani's plans would mean the end of criminal investigations into hate crimes
  'The NYPD Saved My Life': Hate Crime Victims Speak Out Against Mamdani's Proposed 'Department of Community Safety'

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Daniel Greenfield: hings are great in Minneapolis. They’ll be even better with their new DFL endorsed mayor. Why would you think otherwise: “We, the undersigned members of the Somali community,"
  BRO-FO Omar Linked Mosque Wrote Letter of Support for Somali Pedophile Rapist
  
• Canada is not the only Western nation that feels the need to recognize the terrorist-controlled Gaza Strip, which, with the Israel-occupied West Bank, is considered by some to be Palestine, a country that has never existed. Both France and the United Kingdom have said they will recognize Palestinian statehood next month. As loony as that sounds, there might be a practical reason for it. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron “are likely terrified of their local Muslim populations — and probably not without reason,” says Stephen Green.
  There Goes The West

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

• Daniel Greenfield: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is in trouble.
  Forget Pledge Week. Get Ready for Pledge Year

• Not everything we enjoy is an addiction—calling TikTok or milk tea a dopamine crisis is more moral panic than medical fact.
  Addiction Fiction: Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love TikTok
  
• If the New York Times could virtue signal more efficiently by claiming the Jews bake the blood of non-Jews into their matzah crackers then so be it, it would.
  Hunger in Plain Sight
  
• Ignores Hamas gorging themselves, blames Israel, GHF, declares, "If no food aid is coming in, everyone is at risk."
  ABC Hosts Leader Of Anti-Israel Doctor Group Who Blames Blood-libels Israel For Hamas Starving Hostages

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

• The more renewables added to the grid, the worse problems become. 
  The ongoing fiction of cheap wind and solar

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Kimber, heading home from a lunch date, positioned himself between the frightened family and Collins when the frenzied attacker plunged a six-inch blade into the unsuspecting man’s neck as he glanced toward an approaching train, court documents said. 
  Hero cyclist, 28, killed shielding mom and children from knife-wielding madman at California train station (the Newsom for President ad writes itself! /sarc - jjs)

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Penny Schwinn has withdrawn her bid for second in command at the Department of Education. But where she’s going instead is almost worse.
  Why Did Trump Nominate This Woman?
  
• The Youngkin administration should explore creative tools to address leftist school district leaders’ violation of the law.
  Youngkin Isn’t Doing Enough To Purge Woke Insanity From Virginia Public Schools

  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• The move has sparked further questions about Maxwell’s cooperation with authorities and her appeal for a potential pardon.
  Ghislaine Maxwell Secures Transfer to Minimum-Security Facility, Eyes Pardon.

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• The move to walk out was a sharp escalation in the bitter partisan clash over a mid-decade redistricting in Texas that was requested by President Trump. Republicans in the State Legislature were rapidly moving forward, with the map — drawn to flip five Democratic congressional districts to favor Republicans — being passed out of two committees over the weekend.
  Texas House Democrats Flee State in Order to Block GOP Redistricting Plan
  
• “My life is sadly not the one that it was. There are far more threats and with that comes precautions that I wish I didn’t have to take, though they are precautions I am immensely grateful for. Especially the example of the NYPD detail that I have here in New York City,” Mamdani said at a press event on July 31.
  Anti-NYPD Mamdani Gets NYPD Security Detail. (He should only get a shovel from Hamas to dig his own grave - jjs)
  
• AOC's partner, Riley Roberts, is a 'spouse' to secure free gifts, but not when it comes to financial transparency
  House Ethics Committee Slams Titty-Caca AOC’s Manipulation of Rules To Shield ‘Spouse's’ Financial Affairs From the Public

  POLITICS

• The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to consider a major challenge that could reshape how voting maps are drawn, potentially giving Republicans a significant advantage in upcoming elections. The justices agreed Friday to expand a Louisiana case and weigh arguments about whether the 1965 Voting Rights Act still justifies creating districts specifically designed to elect Black or Hispanic representatives. The case will examine whether racial considerations should play a role in redrawing electoral maps.
  Supreme Court May Deal Democrats A Huge Blow To Ever Taking House Back

• Enten added, “That is being driven in large part by discontent within the Democratic base. The Democrat base wants something different. We’ll ultimately end up seeing who they choose. It will be quite the thing who ultimately gets the rose.” (Like what? Our blood in the streets as opposed to them surrendering? - jjs)
  CNN’s Enten: Democrat Image Is ‘Garbage’ — ‘Messier than a Hoarder’s Basement’
  
• With the midterms fast approaching, Democrats are facing a slew of recent polls showing that a record number of Americans view the party unfavorably. Despite this, some Democrats repeatedly continue to show optimism about their odds of winning back the House of Representatives in the upcoming 2026 elections.
  Dems Keep Expressing Boundless Confidence About Midterms Despite Historic Unpopularity

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Because there are some pretty ugly (and underreported) events afoot lately.
  Is war with Russia merely an abstraction?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• What happened last Sunday in Scotland was America’s emancipation from Eurocratic control.
  Whiny and Unteachable Europeans Complain About Trade Deal

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The report warns of China’s nuclear buildup and urges the U.S. to strengthen deterrence while exposing Beijing’s coercive tactics. (Iran's nuclear weapons program just got restarted - jjs)
  China Building Up Nuclear Arsenal to Match America, Dominate Asia by 2030s.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• It appears from the other Russian state-run reports, however, that [interim NASA administrator Sean] Duffy’s response was diplomatic but unenthused by such a proposal. All he apparently agreed to was to continue the ISS partnership, until the station’s retirement.
  Russia desperately lobbies the U.S. to continue and expand its space partnership
  
• (mini-documentary...Worth watching, though this underground telescope won’t be operational any earlier than 2032, and considering the present political situation related to government funding, it might never get finished at all.
  Building the newest biggest neutrino telescope

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

• A self-styled "reverend" (side note: she's not) told her congregation about taking her 11-year-old son to drag shows so he can learn that men's bodies can be "played with." (Where are the vigilantes in the community to do what needs to be done with this evil beast?! - jjs)
  'Reverend' Says She Takes Her Son to Drag Shows to Show Him Men's Bodies Can Be 'Played With'

• The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Boston, comes from 16 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C. It challenges President Donald Trump’s January executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” which instructs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prioritize enforcement against so-called “gender-affirming” care — a term encompassing things like puberty blockers and surgeries — for minors.
  Blue States Suing To Block Trump Admin From Cracking Down On Child Mutilation

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• And redefines the word "family," all in a single episode.
  ‘Celebrity Family Feud’ Normalizes Trans Prostitution
  
• The legacy of figures like Stephen Colbert is the sowing of division and hatred across the nation.
  The End of Stephen Colbert's Hate Disguised as Comedy
  
• Christian Toto: Far-left sites rage against dying NBC showcase for reaching across the aisle
  Fallon Invites Gutfeld on ‘Tonight Show,’ Media Meltdown Ensues
  
• Judging by the video clips, this version of Jesus Christ Superstar has the feel of something you’d see at a Satanic temple.
  Cynthia Erivo combines Nosferatu and Gollum for her starring role as Jesus
  
• You will be humiliated in life. That's just a fact.
  Yes, the Presidential Fitness Test was humiliating—that's a good reason to bring it back

  HITHER & YON

• Anderson died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, said her longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan.
  Loni Anderson, Beloved Actress and Star of Hit TV Series ‘WKRP in Cincinnati,’ Has Died

• Rocker Dave Edmunds, most popular for his 1970 hit “I Hear You Knocking,” has been left hospitalized and fighting for his life after suffering a “major” cardiac arrest. (Oy, a Sefton favorite. Prayers offered - jjs)
  Rock musician Dave Edmunds, 81, hospitalized and fighting for life after ‘major’ cardiac arrest

• It’s been about 18 months since Toby Keith died of stomach cancer. Conservatives and the heartland remember him very fondly.
  We Miss You, Toby
  
• The evidence suggests it was not the dead image of Jesus that was captured but rather that of a resurrecting Christ.
  What Moment in Time Did the Shroud of Turin Actually Capture?
  
• “He met everyone in the city who mattered. . . It was his own intrigue that was his downfall.”
  The Indiscretions of Curzio Malaparte

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