The Morning Report — 8/14/25

Good morning kids. God bless President Trump. I'll have to admit it took me a long time to understand why he says what he says when he says it. In any case, he let loose this latest broadside at the Democrats.

President Donald Trump said it is a “waste of time” to work with Democrats on Capitol Hill and that the Democrat Party is “led by insane people,” while speaking with reporters on Wednesday. Trump blasted Democrat lawmakers when a reporter asked if he intends to meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to discuss the government funding deadline. “Well, I will, I guess, but it’s almost a waste of time to meet because they never approve anything,” Trump said. “If we want money to fight crime, if we want money to do–only good things, just good things, let’s not even talk about controversial–they don’t want to meet about anything.”

In purely tactical terms, Trump rightly perceives that he has the Democrats over a barrel on a broad range of issues, as a wide spectrum of polls of late indicates that that accursed party's approval and favorability ratings cratering to record low levels. So I imagine he's attempting to get them to cry uncle. And given everything going on, with the ascendancy of open bust-out insane Maoism in the Democrat Party, the base and leadership must try to appeal to or otherwise appease the Better A-Holes of their nature. Assuming of course the base can deprogram themselves long enough from their Trump derangement to salvage whatever vestige of a fig leaf of reasonableness that yet exists with the public at large lest they face a wipeout next year and in the '28 election, their historic go-to insurance policy of election thievery notwithstanding.

But Psaki-psircling back to this notion of being insane, I would argue that it's less insanity than it is being amoral and evil. To have such a generational lust for power and the hubris to anoint yourself as elite and superior to those who oppose you, is not purely a question of sanity. I'll leave it to the psychologists amongst us to argue about that.

Then again . . .

What do you get when you marry victimhood and narcissistic self-worship? Today’s woke ideologue journalist. For it is left-wing journalists resting upon their precarious perch in corporate legacy media who, despite (admittedly declining) wealth and influence, believe they are actually victims worthy of America’s sympathy and support.

They are the oppressed, beleaguered heroes keeping the fires of truth burning in these dark days of reinvigorated conservative cultural and political dominance, waging a fearless battle against patriarchy and racism. They also happen to have sufficient wealth and free time to indulge in some of the priciest and most self-absorbed activities that define our digital age. One need look no further than a recent column by The Washington Post’s Karen Attiah to observe the paradox.

Attiah presents the perfect example of how the contemporary obsession with victimhood and self-absorption are actually one and the same thing. Her op-ed begins by talking about how much she hated being skinny. As a teenager, she claims she was subject to stereotypes about “underfed Africans.” She yearned to be strong so she could be “a threat to the gender system.”

Perhaps it’s not all that surprising that narratives of both alleged victimhood and narcissism go together. If you believe you are a victim, even when things are going well for you, in the wealthiest and most successful country in the world, then you are obviously spending too much time thinking about yourself. The person who interprets everything through a lens of victimhood is already focused on the self and thus more prone to self-celebratory thoughts and behaviors. The more such people cycle down the drain of this narcissism, the more impervious they are to reality, lacking the self-awareness to see themselves for what they often actually are: entitled.

The media and academia especially have been concocting the witch's brew of victimhood to create a whole class of oppressed groups that can be united under the flag of Democrat Leftism as an army of freedom fighters ready to break the chains of an evil white supreamcist Judeo-Christian America and create paradise on earth.

This poison has destroyed the lives of millions of people and is on the verge of tearing this country and our society apart.

Case in point is this latest horrific example from the Democrat controlled paradise on earth of Cincinnati Ohio. A city ironically that derives its name from an ancient Roman dictator who was long admired for relinquishing his power and privileges to return to his life as a farmer. Okay, stop laughing.

Multiple black community leaders, one of them a pastor with a previous felony conviction, called for the arrest of an alleged victim of the Cincinnati beatdown Monday. This follows a video appearing to show the victim slapping another man before the brawl allegedly ensues.

Terrific, Emmit Till has become Emmett Kelly, but no one's laughing. Let us assume for a second that someone called someone a name. Even the unmentionable "N-word" that for anyone other than black to dare utter is a crime against humanity. Does that give said melanin-possessor and his/her compatriots the right to nearly stomp into unconsciousness and death a complete stranger because she's white? The answer of course, if you are a devotee of mirror universe Mein Kampf or Ibram X. Krement's "Jive Kampf" is Jawoll which in barbara Billingsley's Jive pocket dictionary is hell yes!

Meanwhile, in another part of the jungle . . .

An anti-Trump agitator is accused of shooting a wheelchair-bound man in the chest in Seattle, Washington, over an allegation of “stolen valor.” Gregory William Timm, 32, claimed the victim was pretending to be a veteran and confronted the 68-year-old wheelchair bound man on the busy Alaskan Way boardwalk on July 31.Prosecutors allege Timm proceeded to rip a military patch off the victim, resulting in the victim producing a knife and an airsoft gun to defend himself. Subsequently, stepping back several feet, Timm pulled out a handgun and fired a shot into the victim’s chest while demanding to see his ID. The 68-year-old man, who survived the gunshot, says he was reaching to retrieve his military ID when Timm fired on him. Local media reports indicate he is indeed a veteran.

The wind has indeed been sown. It's going to be a hell of a whirlwind when, or even if it gets reaped.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats decry “destroying democracy” while dismantling long-standing institutions, weaponizing agencies, and undermining the very systems they claim to defend.
  Who Has Been Busy Destroying Democracy?
  
• Democrats scream about lofty values being violated. The truth is much more typical.
  What’s Really Behind Opposition to Trump’s Move in DC?
  
• Naomi Wolf: Zohran Mamdani's Silicon Valley sellout plans for New York.
  Why Don’t I Like Him?

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
• The Trump White House told Breitbart News that illegal crossings in July 2025 dropped to what was described as the “lowest level ever recorded – just a fraction of what they were under the previous administration.”
  Trump’s Golden Age: Border Enforcement Sees Record-Breaking Lows in July: ‘Lowest Level Ever Recorded’
  
• 'Rebar is very expensive. The hardest rebar. It’s very hard to cut.'
  ‘We’ll Put It Up’: Trump Says He’s Getting Border Wall Materials Back After Biden Sold Them Off
  
• The lawsuit challenges the Trump administration’s decision to revoke TPS for Venezuelans and could slow down or stop its efforts to deport illegal aliens from the South American country.
  Venezuelan Illegals File Lawsuit Against Trump to Restore ‘Protected Status.’ (where's our Hawaiian Judge Kilauea Crater to declare no standing! - jjs)
  
• Border czar Tom Homan on Wednesday said that President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., means that the city can no longer enforce its sanctuary status.
  Tom Homan Flags Overlooked Detail About Trump’s DC Takeover

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

• The 68-year-old man, who survived the gunshot, says he was reaching to retrieve his military ID when Timm fired on him. Local news reports indicate the victim does appear to be a veteran. (well, he is now a veteran of the Democrat'Communist 200-year counter revolution - jjs)
  Anti-Trump Lunatic Shoots Veteran in Wheelchair.

• Multiple black community leaders, one of them a pastor with a previous felony conviction, called for the arrest of an alleged victim of the Cincinnati beatdown Monday. This follows a video appearing to show the victim slapping another man before the brawl allegedly ensues. The Daily Caller’s Natalie Sandoval breaks down the situation for Media Madness.
  Black Leaders Call For White Cincinnati Beatdown Victim To Face Charges (Schvartzyorim Chazar Momzerim - jjs)
  
• Emmet Till devolves into Emmet Kelly - jjs
  Black Community Leaders in Cincinnati Demand Arrest of Beatdown Victim Who Allegedly ‘Incited’ Mob Violence

• If you think you’re a victim, even when things are going well for you, then you’re obviously spending too much time thinking about yourself.
  Leftists’ Victimhood And Narcissism Are Two Self-Obsessed Sides Of The Same Coin

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• President Trump now has the authority to continue tossing foreign aid grants into the trash bin, which was all part of the initiative of the Department of Government Efficiency, which the president's former ally, Elon Musk, headed up. Much of the aid going to foreign nations has been set aside for strange projects, many of which never got off the ground. Waste spending at its finest.
  Trump Scores Yet Another Yuge Appellate Victory
  
• The decision strengthens executive authority over data access and sets a legal precedent limiting challenges to similar policies.
  Trump Triumphs in DOGE Data Access Case.
  
• It is time to reassess the outmoded, draconian regulatory environment that has hampered railroad innovation for far too long.
  Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger: An opportunity to reform railroad regulations

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

• This isn’t just partisan hardball; it’s a calculated misuse of government authority to topple an administration. The Schiff-Clinton intelligence nexus may have been the engine of the Russiagate hoax, and full exposure is long overdue. Few episodes in modern politics have done more damage to the rule of law and public confidence, and the very institutions meant to protect them orchestrated it all. It’s time to confront that reality head-on.
  Exposed: How Hillary Planned to Reward Schiff for Undermining Trump (A Fort Marcy Park Guest Pass - jjs)
  
• They tried to paper over their treachery, but it turns out they didn't destroy enough of their own documents to hide their tracks. 
  There Aren't Enough Shells on the Beach to Hide James Comey's Blackmail Treachery Against Trump
  
• The emails involve Clapper and Rogers discussing the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) about Trump and Russia that touched off years of Russiagate media frenzy, consuming much of Trump’s first term.
  Obama Intel Chief James Clapper Told NSA Head To Get On Board With ‘Our Story’ On Russiagate Intel
  
• Democrats and intelligence operatives went after people like General Michael Flynn and Peter Navarro to stop them, but also as a shot across the bow to keep all Republicans and Trump appointees in order.
  Trump's DOJ holds Democrats accountable for their anti-MAGA lawfare
  
• It’s hard to believe that the Russiagate plotters are so stupid, but the declassified documents tumbling out of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s files show that, while they had a lot of power and managed to hide their nefarious activities for almost a decade, President Barack Obama’s henchmen were none too bright. (More hubris than stupidity - jjs)
  Miranda Devine: Bumbling Obama aides actually admit Russiagate was a smear campaign against Trump

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The BLS has been producing objectively bad reports for decades, routinely exaggerating the good news during Democrat administrations and exaggerating the bad news during Republican administrations. 
  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics at BLS

• GE Appliances has announced a $3 billion investment to relocate production of refrigerators, gas ranges, and water heaters from China and Mexico to its U.S. facilities as part of a five-year plan. This initiative, which comes amid efforts by President Donald J. Trump to encourage the “reshoring” of manufacturing by imposing tariffs on foreign goods, will upgrade plants in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina, creating over 1,000 new jobs, and represents the second-largest investment in the company’s history.
  Trump Tariffs Push Company to Move Manufacturing From China and Mexico to the U.S.
  
• The good news for consumers and the bad news for Democrats is that just shy of seven months, President Trump is ratcheting down costs.
  The Democrats and Their 'Affordability Crisis' Scam

  ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al

• The festival 'has succumbed to pressure and threats, and has chosen to silence and erase October 7,' the documentary's subject says (Maybe Eichmann's heirs can sue the Holocaust Museum for for gas chamber footage! - jjs)
  Toronto Film Festival Cancels October 7 Documentary, Citing a Lack of 'Legal Clearance' From Hamas Terrorists
  
• A haunting silence on Israeli hostages.
  Pope Leo Mentions Suffering in Gaza
  
• The war crime no one wants to see.
  Gaza’s Human Shields
  
• Welcome to the dystopian world of faked images and non-existent media integrity.
  When Alice in Wonderland Meets Palestine

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• UN officials allegedly worked with the Taliban to bribe and extort UN contractors supplying aid to Afghanistan in exchange for lucrative, often billion-dollar aid contracts, numerous anonymous sources told SIGAR in interviews. Of the $10.72 billion in total aid given to Afghanistan between 2021 and the State Department cancelling most of the funds in 2025, $3.83 billion came from the U.S.
  ‘Senior UN Officials’ Colluded With Jihadis Responsible For Thousands Of American Deaths, Watchdog Says
  
• Welcome to Pakistan.
  Kidnap, Rape, Convert to Islam, and Marry Underage Christian Girls

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

• But the criticism provoked by the project suggests Americans are beginning to recognize the perils of surrendering their privacy in the name of public safety.
  Big Brother is watching you — but this homeowner made him back down

• The implicit message is that Trump is making up a crime problem to flex his authoritarian muscles.
  The Press Is Lying About D.C. Crime

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

• The administration argues this proposal will increase costs for American consumers, energy providers, and shipping companies, and threatened retaliation against nations supporting the amendment. (Carbon is life. We should napalm the UN to save the planet - on so many levels - jjs)
  Trump Admin Rejects UN Carbon Tax, Threatens Retaliation.

  
  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Records revealed in the suit from police sergeant Charlotte Djossou showed that department leadership directed subordinates to file theft and violent crimes as lower-level offenses
  A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low. The City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit.

• Daniel Greenfield: It’s time for Attorney General Letitia James to pay the price for her crimes.
  1,000 People Died While New York Attorney General Chased Trump
  
• While investigating allegations of abuse, police discovered 15 children under the age of three in the Chinese couple’s L.A. mansion.
  Chinese Immigrants Create 21 Children Via Surrogate Before Allegedly Abusing Them

  
  

• “Most people perceive crime at a gut level.. . The nation’s crime problem calls for moral seriousness and political maturity.” (The eradication of Leftism and Democrat subversion - jjs)
  Democrats Are Kidding Themselves on Crime

• “In case people don’t know that, it is not uncommon for him to be driving in a motorcade and realize, hey, street lights are out, or look at that or look at that graffiti and make a notification on it. That is how detail-oriented this President is. So for him to see some of the crime that’s happening and some of the assaults that are occurring — and Navy Yard is just six blocks south of the of the Capitol, short distance from the White House. It’s a big area,” he said.
  Exclusive — Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund: Bigger Picture Shows D.C. Crime Is on the Rise
  
• A police chief who doesn't understand the concept of "chain of command" is a bit like a cook who's never heard of the word "kitchen."
  The Insanely Incompetent DEI Hire Running One Of America’s Most Dangerous Cities

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• ‘Parents deserve to know why basic education is being sacrificed for ideological indoctrination.’
  Docs: CA School District Spent More Than $500K On ‘Anti-Racist’ Propaganda Program
  
• A judge ordered the Trump administration on Tuesday to reinstate part of the federal grant funding that it recently suspended to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) due to civil rights violations and antisemitism concerns.
  Biden Hack-in-Black shit-whore Orders Trump Admin to Reinstate Suspended Grants to UCLA

• Six universities join forces to create a commission focused on real student achievement and job readiness.
  A Better Model for College Accreditation

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Christian Toto: Director Andrew James shares how truth comes second for some filmmakers
  Why ‘Generation-Covid’ Doc Could Prevent Future Lockdowns

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Dimwit Lobotomized Chimpanzee Doppelgänger Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson stated on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is criticizing his handling of crime because he is “intimidated” by the “intellectual prowess of black men.”
  Dem Mayor Of Crime-Ridden City Actually Thinks Trump Is ‘Intimidated’ By His ‘Intellectual Prowess’
  
• "They shouldn't be trading every day."
  Bessent Targets ‘Eye-Popping’ Stock Gains Made By Members Of Congress
  
• Stefany Shaheen's kids donated $7,000 each to their mom's campaign, federal disclosures show (confiscate the money, adopt out her hostage spawn - jjs)
  Jeanne Shaheen's Daughter Runs for Congress With an Unusual Max Donor Base: Her Unemployed Gen Z Kids
  
• Over $2.9 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds were fraudulently obtained, with funds used for personal purchases like real estate and cars
  Former Bro-Fo Omar ‘Enforcer’ Admits Guilt in Pandemic Fraud Scandal.
  
• Proponents of public grocery decry “failures” of the free market—but what does this failure say about their ideas?
  After millions of taxpayer dollars and months of crippling issues, city-funded grocery store in Missouri abruptly closes its doors

  POLITICS

• Gerrymandering wars heat up as both parties redraw districts to cement power, with Republicans flipping liberal tactics and Democrats scrambling to keep their edge.
  Gerrymandering, Race Pandering, and Political Meandering
  
• If the DNC truly had a nationwide army of enthusiastic supporters, it wouldn't be begging for loans. But it doesn't.
  The DNC's collapse is the direct result of the defunding of USAID
  
• Trump blasted Democrat lawmakers when a reporter asked if he intends to meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to discuss the government funding deadline. (Their mental health for sure is questionable, but IMHO it's more about being evil and amoral - jjs)
  President Trump: Democrats ‘Are Led by Insane People’
  
• “We are in a basketball game right now,” O’Rourke says in a video making the social media rounds. “The refs have left the arena, and the other side is just clobbering the shit out of us, just punching us in the face, kicking us in the nuts.”
  One Of Democrats’ Biggest Losers Back With Midterm Advice
  
• The sugar daddy of temper-tantrum-throwing Texas Democrats appears to be ramping up for another losing political campaign. (More homemade E.L. Fudge feces cookies stat! - jjs)
  Beto O’Rourke Is The Political Wart That Won’t Go Away

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• European leaders have expressed readiness to support a lasting peace in Ukraine.
  UK Prime Minister: Peace Is Possible in Ukraine Thanks to Trump.

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Vance says American strength has enabled Trump to broker peace deals and prepare for talks with Putin.
  Vance To Troops In UK: Make It Our Mission To Bring Peace To Europe (You'd have to eradicate Socialism and Islam to achieve that - jjs)
  
• Nodutdol has supporters in academia and among far-left activist groups.
  Meet the Group Pushing Americans to Support North Korea (Hello Bondi and Patel?! - jjs)
  
• The individuals targeted, the State Department said in its official statement on the sanctions, stand accused of being “complicit” in “the Cuban regime’s medical mission scheme in which medical professionals are ‘rented’ by other countries at high prices and most of the revenue is kept by the Cuban authorities.”
  Exclusive – State Department Restricts Visas of Foreign Officials Tied to Cuban Slave Doctor Programs

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Using a 2022 law, President Trump can support marijuana research without giving drug dealers a tax cut. . . But the president can move in a popular direction on pot without rescheduling, a change that would be disastrous for public health and orderliness. He need only take a series of steps to expand medical research into pot. This would give him a political victory while preventing the messy consequences of rescheduling.
  Trump Might Reclassify Marijuana. He Should Do This Instead

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Robert Zimmerman: " Uncertain results based not even on observations but on theories are routinely touted these days by both press departments and news outlets as big discoveries, even if they are only describing uncertain theories that may prove true. In fact, words like “may”, “might,” or “could” in headlines are always a give-away. They tell you that the story is not about an actual discovery, but a speculation that remains unproven."
  New study: Both PR departments and the press love to speculate wildly about science, even when the scientists don’t
  
• With Starlink’s Direct to Cell system, Ukrainians will be able to send SMS messages in remote or hard-to-reach areas—such as in the mountains, during severe weather, or blackouts—without the need for expensive satellite equipment. The only requirements: a standard 4G smartphone with a SIM or eSIM card, and a clear view of the sky.
  Starlink expands in the Ukraine, starts in Kazakhstan, but hits roadblock in Lebanon

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Trump became chairman of the Kennedy Center earlier this year and says the institution is returning to its traditional mission.
  Watch: Trump to Host Kennedy Center Honors as He Announces Honorees Sylvester Stallone, Kiss, Gloria Gaynor
  
  
• Little Beasts gives viewers a chance to take a step back, appreciate the beauty of nature, and contemplate mankind’s place in the universe. 
  Little Beasts gives viewers a chance to take a step back, appreciate the beauty of nature, and contemplate mankind’s place in the universe. 
  
• And John Oliver, the singularly unfunny political commentator, did a laugh-out-loud video about Schumer’s fantasy.
  Chuck Schumer spent decades tailoring his legislation to a family he made up
  
• You might want to pop a blood pressure pill before this one.
  Mom Says She 'Deserves' To Buy Junk Food on Food Stamps

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