The Morning Report — 8/5/25

Good morning kids. So, one of the big stories is the Leftists going apeshit over Texas' new redistricting plan. So they are screaming the usual hypocritical bullshit about power grabs and attempts to steal the midterms. Coming from a party that has gerrymandered the living hell out of most of the blue states to permanently make a sizable chunk of their constituents no more than serfs who have essentially no say in how they are governed is very near the heights of chutzpocrisy:

Not merely content with near insurmountable supermajorities, Daniel Greenfield notes they want it all. (NB: I have been having trouble linking to FrontpageMag via Safari this morning but Chrome seems to be working - JJS)

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced a plan to end democracy to save democracy. Democracy, as everyone who watches CNN knows, is in a precarious state and urgently needs to be saved by protecting it from those who want to destroy it for the wrong reasons by destroying it for the right reasons. And the right reason is ending electoral democracy. In that noble democratic spirit, California, where Republicans are occasionally allowed out in public, just not in the streets of major cities, announced plans to reduce the number of its 52 congressional seats that Republicans are allowed to hold in the state from 9 to 3.

California has 5.7 million registered Republicans to 10.3 million registered Democrats (and another nearly 7 million people who refuse to choose a political party despite the best efforts of the DMV, the Department of Cannabis Control and Jimmy Kimmel Live!) and Trump won 38% of the vote there which means that statistically Republicans ought to have more seats than that even if all they did was run a random masked guy named Bob in every single election.

Instead, California has state primaries, including Senate races, in which Democrats compete against other Democrats, as if the state were run by Communist China (instead of merely being used as a model and stash house by a succession of Democrat governors.)

How do California Democrats, who make up 45% of registered voters, control 82% of the congressional seats and all of the state government? Fraud, the use of taxpayer-funded community groups for political organizing to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and also massive gerrymandering of a kind that would have made any machine Democrat from a century ago weep tears of shame and then hide out in a cemetery to consult with his voters.

Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to take the Democrats from controlling a mere 82% of congressional seats to controlling 94% of congressional seats. To put that into context, this is a more extreme domination by an authoritarian ruling party than in Communist China. In the National People’s Congress, only 86% of the delegates belong to the Chinese Communist Party (while the others, like members of the DSA and the WFP in America, belong to organizations controlled by the Communist Party). Even Vladimir Putin settled for 88% of the vote.

Newsom looked at China and Russia, and decided that he could do better and go for 94%.

There are minor technical issues with Newsom’s plan: it’s unconstitutional, illegal and makes California look like Russia with more bleached blondes. In 2008, and a last gasp of actual democracy, a majority of Californians voted in favor of Proposition 11, to add a constitutional amendment creating an independent commission to control redistricting. In 2010, 59.5% of voters voted to have that commission set congressional districts. The commission, which currently includes Isra Ahmad, formerly of the Division of Equity & Social Justice on the ‘independent’ side, and Sara Sadhwani of CHIRLA, the group linked to the recent illegal alien riots, on the Democrat side, is a farce. But at least it’s a constitutional farce.

Of course the Texas Democrats fled to the shade and protection of the vast refuge beneath JB Pritzker's gut. And Good for Texas governor Abbott for this move:

Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott threatened Sunday to remove dozens of House Democrats from office after they fled to the state to block a GOP-led redistricting plan during a special session of the legislature.  In a statement, Abbott gave more than 50 Democrats who left the state to deny a quorum – effectively halting the legislative process – until 3:00 p.m. on Monday to return or face removal proceedings. Abbott said that the actions of the Democrats amounted to “an abandonment or forfeiture of an elected state office” and that Texas law empowered him to fill the vacancies. 

And, in a not necessarily unrelated item, as Hakeem-rent-a-camel Jeffries wets his diapers about stolen elections, which is ironic given the fact that the Democrat Party has been expert at rigging and stealing elections for decades. We have this item. Not holding my breath but still it is nevertheless good to see:

The Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a grand jury investigation into an alleged conspiracy by Obama administration officials to manufacture intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to multiple reports. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed a federal prosecutor, who is expected to present evidence to a grand jury, to begin legal proceedings, according to a letter Fox News first reported.

At the very least expose the hell out of perhaps the greatest crime perpetrated against the American people in our history. Of course, as I had stated in the last few editorials, to expect punishment of the guilty let alone actual prosecution is unfortunately wishing for a miracle.

As Larry Elder notes:

Why does Obama need not fear charges? The race card. Consider the protests after the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a career violent criminal, was full of drugs, resisted arrest and was subdued by a restraint technique taught in the Minneapolis Police Academy. (For the truth about the death of Floyd, watch the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis,” available for free on YouTube.) Yet, much of the country went crazy over this supposed example of anti-black police “systemic racism.” The trial was televised. Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell, a black man, took pains in his opening statement to say that the police, in general, were not on trial and that the Minneapolis Police Department, in general, was not on trial. The prosecutor said this individual cop, Derek Chauvin, was on trial for actions taken and not taken in connection with the death of Floyd. This prosecutor never even implied Chauvin was motivated by Floyd’s race, and Chauvin was not charged with a hate crime.

There's also the narrative card, which is why Hillary, Brennan, Comey and all the other pasty white criminals will never have to face the music. They were the defenders of democracy (vomit) and Trump was and remains literally Hitler. Exploding that myth cannot be allowed and the fact that we are even at this point is kind of miraculous, let alone Trump surviving several attempted physical and political assassinations and his agenda garnering all sorts of support from across the political spectrum.

And elsewhere it is encouraging to see Tom Cotton encouraging the IRS to have CAIR put in the crosshairs. Scratch their surface and aside from foreign Islmonazi supporters many of the same domestic insurrectionists and Leftist/Democrats have given them aid and comfort as well lo these many years.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Larry Elder: Does Obama need to fear charges?
  Think the George Floyd ‘Racial Injustice’ Protests Were Insane? What If Obama Gets Indicted?

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• “Wow. I wonder how @repdeliaramirez’s constituents in Illinois feel about her loyalty being to Guatemala rather than to them,” noted the Immigration Accountability Project. 
  Democrat Member of Congress Confesses Guatemalan Identity (meh, their loyalty is to Satan - jjs)

• Several left-wing American lawmakers traveled to Mexico City over the weekend to attend a summit aimed at challenging U.S. global dominance, organized by the director of an openly anti-capitalist and anti-American organization. The second annual Panamerican Congress, which took place from Friday through Sunday, brought together leftist “delegates” from around the Americas, including Democrat lawmakers such as Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib of Minnesota, according to the event website. The summit was organized by the leader of Progressive International — a radical left-wing group that describes capitalism as a “virus” that must be “ eradicated” — in partnership with Morena, Mexico’s ruling left-wing party.
  House Dems Trash America At Radical Summit In Mexico

• The woman identified only as Holly, who was reportedly trying to diffuse [sic=jjs] the situation, was punched in the face and fell to the ground during the fight that happened on Elm and Fourth Streets and involved numerous people, per Breitbart News.
  WATCH: Cincinnati Brawl Victim Reveals She Suffered ‘Bad Brain Trauma’

• Their insanely destructive beliefs are on full display in a recent viral meeting posted August 2 where the group pushes to replace the individual with the “collective.” However, there is nothing more harmful to American society than their views on marriage and family.
  Far-Left Group Meeting Goes Viral But No One’s Talking About What It Really Shows

• Too many young people today celebrate the idea of making a difference—at any cost.
  Luigi Mangione and the Romance of Murder
  
• Achieving rapid progress in the restoration of equal justice under the law will help restore America’s moral capital and help open the way for national spiritual revival. 
  Will Restoring Justice be Trump’s Greatest Achievement? (his attempt is praiseworthy, TBD if he succeeds - jjs)

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

• The Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a grand jury investigation into an alleged conspiracy by Obama administration officials to manufacture intelligence about Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to multiple reports. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed a federal prosecutor, who is expected to present evidence to a grand jury, to begin legal proceedings, according to a letter Fox News first reported.
  Attorney General Pam Bondi Orders Grand Jury Investigation Into Russiagate Hoax
  
• “As we’ve learned in later documents that we’ve reviewed throughout that campaign, Russia believed that Hillary Clinton would win the election,” Gabbard said. . . “They felt it was inevitable,” she added in the interview.
  ‘Inevitable’: Tulsi Gabbard Details Why Russia Believed Hillary Would Defeat Trump
  
• Their plan was simple and devious: If they could not stop Trump at the ballot box, they would stop him in the courtroom. Biden gave it away in a candid moment in October 2024: “We gotta lock him up.” (Trump used similar language about Hillary Clinton, but only as campaign rhetoric when his power over the country’s legal infrastructure was nonexistent). It was a widely held belief in Biden’s inner circle that Trump would be in prison before election day 2024. It was just a matter of making sure he got there.
  Exclusive—‘Breaking the Law’: Exposé Reveals Biden White House Orchestrated Lawfare Against Trump to Rig 2024 Election

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

• The continuation of this policy fuels the crisis at our southern border, where millions of illegal aliens have flooded our communities, overwhelming law enforcement and local governments.
  TENNESSEE REP LEE REEVES: My first act in Congress would be ending birthright citizenship
  
• The plan is for Guard troops to assist in “alien processing” and fulfilling the administrative duties for detention and deportation in order to free up ICE officers to get back into the field. These duties are scheduled to begin this month.
  Trump to Speed ICE Paperwork with National Guard Troops (nix the paperwork and just issue more ammo - jjs)

  
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and John Curtis of Utah have placed holds on three Treasury nominees to pressure the administration to share information regarding the implementation of solar and wind tax credit phaseout language within the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, according to a source familiar with the holds. The two Republican senators, who have previously advocated against a wholesale repeal of wind and solar tax credits, are voicing concern that the administration is moving to decimate wind and solar subsidies on a faster timeline than allowed for in the president’s signature bill, which maintained some tax credits for green energy sources. (The Grassley is Always Greener (Decrepit, venal bastard - jjs)
  Republican Senators Holding Up Trump Nominees To Keep Green Gravy Train Rolling

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• “The Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico has been run inefficiently and ineffectively by its governing members for far too long, and it’s time to restore common sense leadership,” the official said.
  Exclusive: Trump Axes Five Members of Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico

  ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al

• The plan includes the IDF operating in zones where hostages are believed to be held.
  Netanyahu Approves Plan For Israel To Fully Occupy Gaza Strip: Reports
  
• Shameful appeasement.
  Macron Pleases the Men of Hamas
  
• A lot of the pathologies in Gaza may have to do with the tribal practice of cousin marriage, practiced over successive generations.
  A lot of the pathologies in Gaza may have to do with the tribal practice of cousin marriage, practiced over successive generations. (but mostly the practice of Islam - jjs)

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

• Progressive Jews once agonized over Israel’s survival—now many condemn its existence, mistaking provincial ideology for principled liberalism.
  Ezra Klein Peddles Old Progressive Disdain for Israel as New

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• 'Tax-exempt status is a privilege, not a right, and it should not subsidize organizations with links to terrorism,' Arkansas senator writes
  Tom Cotton Presses IRS To Probe CAIR's Tax-Exempt Status, Citing 'Ties to Terror Organizations'
  
• Robert Spencer: . . .This cube-shaped “not only reproduces the form of the Kaaba, but also slyly replicates several of the distinctive features of the chief shrine of Islam, including its fabric covering, known as the Kiswa. The building is also tilted at an angle to its surroundings, so that one corner points directly toward Mecca.”Did the jihadis get their victory monument after all?
  Wait, Is That a Kaaba at Ground Zero?
  
• Robert Spencer part deux: Much more of this is to come, all over Europe.
  A New Era in France: Man Sentenced to Prison for Burning a Qur’an
  
• Brexit leader Nigel Farage and the leader of Warwickshire Council took to the stage on Monday to decry police making a bid to apparently hush up an alleged sex crime by Afghan asylum seekers against a 12-year-old girl in the county last month.
  Farage Accuses Police of ‘Rotherham Style’ Coverup over Nuneaton Child Rape Scandal
  
• London’s Metropolitan Police issued a ban on a group of protesters outside a migrant hotel in Canary Wharf over alleged harassment of hotel occupants and staff.
  Cops Issue Protest BAN After Local Mothers Demonstration Outside Migrant Hotel.

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

• The extended absences of the show’s co-hosts have led to declining viewership and raised questions about MSNBC’s direction and priorities.
  AWOL: Joe and Mika Aren’t Hosting Over Half of Their Shows.
  
• Not only did the Washington Post highlight Ms. Rachel’s activism, but the publication refused to ask her any hard questions.
  No Matter How Much WaPo Tries, Pro-'Palestine' Ms. Rachel Will Never Be Mister Rogers (It's a beautiful day to roast some kids, as long as they're Yids - jjs)

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Forty-eight individuals have been arrested following what Uthmeier’s office described as a “six-day undercover operation targeting online child predators.” A press release notes that this marks the “highest number of arrests ever made during this annual joint effort to protect Florida children from exploitation and abuse.”
  Florida Arrests over 40 Pedophiles in Undercover Operation, 7 on ICE Holds
  
• Officers responded around 11 p.m. on Sunday after spotting someone running into a building where the party, attended by 50 to 60 people, was taking place, ABC News reported. At the time, police reportedly arrested one person for firearm possession and cleared the scene — but around 1 a.m., officers were called back after reports of gunfire at the same location.
  Mass Shooting In Los Angeles Leaves 2 Dead, 6 Injured
  
• MacArthur Park isn’t melting in the dark anymore—ICE raids and renewed enforcement are turning L.A.’s symbol of lawlessness into a monument of restored order. (now disinfect the Augean stables of Democrats - jjs)
  In MacArthur Park, How Times Have Changed

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The former congressman founded and served as an unlicensed principal of an academy that pushed radical ideology and yielded dismal student outcomes.
  Is New York Ready for Jamaal Bowman as Schools Chancellor? (I read Schools Chancellor as "Reich's Chancellor - jjs)
  
• President Trump’s education plans are in motion.
  The Latest Fed Ed Revisions

  
  ABORTION

• This is not a mere opinion, but a biological truth, grounded in the undeniable reality that a unique human being, with its own DNA, is formed the moment sperm meets egg. From that instant, a distinct new person exists, deserving of the same fundamental protections as any other. Yet, in Australia, a government practice so perverse it defies belief has emerged, one that not only permits but financially rewards the destruction of these innocent lives—up to 20 weeks’ gestation - perilously close to birth, and within weeks - if not days - of a reborn child's ability to survive outside the womb. And the moral outrage is compounded by the economic injustice of forcing taxpayers to subsidize it, stripping them of their hard-earned property to fund the termination of human life.
  Australian Government Pays Women To Have Abortions Up To 20 Weeks

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

• Imagine a pair of American expats who once lived in Georgia move to France and have a baby. When the baby turns 18, he gets to vote in American elections, despite never having lived there. Not only that, he gets to vote in swing state Georgia, even though he’s never been and his parents haven’t been there for decades. That loophole in our election law currently allows an untold number of voters to vote in major swing states where they have no connection. 
  New Bill Targets UOCAVA Loophole That Lets Overseas Voters Use Outdated Addresses

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

  Rich coming from a leader of a party well known and infamous for election thievery for decades - jjs
  Jeffries: Texas Redistricting an Effort ‘Steal the Midterm Elections’
  

• The Texas governor issued a 3pm Monday deadline to return or face removal proceedings.
  Abbott To AWOL Texas Democrats: Respect Voters Or Be Removed
  
• They just want to save Democrat-held seats even if those seats are the result of unlawful racial gerrymandering.
  Texas Dems Whine About Redistricting From Illinois, The Most Gerrymandered State In The Country
  
• 45% of the voters, 94% of the seats. . . Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced a plan to end democracy to save democracy. Democracy, as everyone who watches CNN knows, is in a precarious state and urgently needs to be saved by protecting it from those who want to destroy it for the wrong reasons by destroying it for the right reasons. And the right reason is ending electoral democracy.
  Newsom Wants Dems to Control 94% of Congressional Seats
  
• How can I scam some of that action?! - jjs
  Democrats are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to spin narratives on social media as part of a $110.5 million fundraising effort, according to images of slides from a Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) donor event obtained by Breitbart News.
  
• Ryan Crosswell has said residents of his new district 'have welcomed me with open arms'
  Dem House Hopeful Said He Earned 'Impressive' Fundraising Haul By 'Barnstorming' His District. Every Donor But One Lives Outside of It.
  
• A recent article on Jasmine Crockett in The Atlantic reveals that she sees representing the American people as a mere side hustle.
  Jasmine Crockett Sees Congress As The Side Hustle To Her Full-Time ‘Influencer’ Gig
  
• “Socialism for thee, and not for me.”
  A Salon Bolshevik Celebrates His Lavish Wedding

  POLITICS

• While President Trump’s leadership style and policies both can at times be controversial even among his own GOP base, he continues to hold on tight to his solid overall favorability ratings among American voters, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll data show.
  So Much Winning — Voters Give Trump’s Leadership, Policies Strong Backing In August: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• Despite President Donald Trump’s 1.71-point victory in Pennsylvania in 2024, newly released voter registration data from Decision Desk HQ shows Democrats barely maintaining their lead, now just 59,135 voters, as their numbers plummet heading into the 2026 midterms. Republicans, with a smaller decline, continue gaining ground amid Trump’s infrastructure and economic resurgence in the state.
  Democrat Voter Drop in PA Shrinks Party Advantage Ahead of 2026
  
• The race is expected to draw national attention, with Mace’s policy agenda focusing on law and order, eliminating state income tax, and advancing a Trump-like “America First” approach.
  Nancy Mace Launches Bid for South Carolina Governor as ‘Trump in Heels’.

• Mamdani, a self-avowed socialist, defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in last month’s Democratic mayoral primary, but has struggled to gain the explicit endorsement of prominent Democrats. Days earlier, Booker excoriated his fellow Democrats on the Senate floor for not doing enough to “fight” President Donald Trump and failing to “stand together” as a party. 
  Cory Booker Realizes Endorsing Mamdani A Ticket To Nowhere
  
• It looked at what happened to Colorado and is trying to avoid that fate.
  Oklahoma plans to save itself from a California invasion

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The mental health field isn’t just biased—it’s ideologically captured.
  Trump's plan to combat homelessness is a good start—but woke psychiatry needs to be overhauled

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

• In a Google Group for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), healthcare providers strategized about how to impose radical gender ideology into clinical settings, including methods for coercing parents to accept child sex-change procedures. The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained more than a hundred pages of messages in the group sent in 2020 through a series of public records requests.
  EXCLUSIVE: Notorious Org’s Members Tried Pushing ‘Developmentally Delayed’ Young Adult Into Sex-Change Operation
  
• State and local policies might still force sports organizations to deny the reality of male advantage.
  Prepare For A Wave Of State Court Battles Over Men In Women’s Sports

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Consumers' Research says Albertsons pushes DEI and gender ideology.
  Grocery Chain Discrimination Policy Keeps Men In Women’s Bathrooms, Watchdog Warns

• When facts contradict the official narrative, 'experts' change the narrative.
  How Scientists Are Working Overtime To Deny God
  
• Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss
  Why Are Urbanites More Likely To Embrace Zero-Sum Thinking?
  
• “Are you on the side of Western civilization and Western values or are you on the side of the terrorists?” – Bill Maher
  Bill Maher & Guests Blast Dems Over ‘Communist’ Mamdani – ‘It’s All True About This Guy.’
  
• In the end, the outrage by liberals against Sydney Sweeney and her catchy advertisement campaign is an objection against what is normal and indeed natural.
  Decoding the Outrage Against Sydney Sweeney
  
• “You’ve got the walls and balconies, we’ve got the ropes and daggers.”
  ‘An Honest Life’s’ Honest Take on Class Warfare
  
• For years it hasn’t been “cool” to be Catholic, or even easy to say you believe in God. But as with anything pushed aside or suppressed, sometimes the opposite happens — it re-emerges as something unexpected, something different. Something countercultural that intrigues young people and starts to draw them in again. Cue the Jubilee of Youth, and a million young people on their knees in a field outside of Rome. Something profound is drawing them, and with the Catholic Church having a new, relatively young and timely pope who talks about social media, algorithms, and artificial intelligence, young people are engaged.
  My awakening: How Gen Z’s relationship with religion is changing

  HITHER & YON

• A trip to the Balkans this summer uncovered one of the most remarkable stories from WWII I’ve ever heard.
  The Inspiring Story of a Daring Escape from Behind Enemy Lines
  
• Christian Toto: 'Naked Gun' scores solid, not spectacular debut ... but here's what else happened
  Another Reason Hollywood Can’t Quit Sequels and Reboots

  
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