The Morning Report — 11/18/25

Good morning kids. Continuing from where we left off yesterday, our dear friend the VP and Director of Communications at the invaluable Heartland Institute, Jim Lakely, has dropped yet another poll that does not bode well for the restoration of our republic let alone for its survival.

42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency, Parents and online videos or podcasts are most likely to influence young Americans to support democratic socialism, 52% said their teachers or professors favored democratic socialism when they attended school

I don't even want to imagine what the respondents who identified as liberal wanted. Way back in the 1960s, the lower end of the aforementioned cohort had the battle cry Never Trust Anyone Over 30 Bitterly ironic and catastrophic is how many of them reached that age to become academics, the very ones they railed against trusting.

Had they only met the same fate as their contemporaries Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, or blew themselves up in Greenwich Village townhouses making pipe bombs as their expression of universal love and brotherhood. How much better off we'd all be. Alas, the Communist myth of utopianism and self-hatred is a hell of a drug. So we're primed to get Mamdani'd right in the neck. Or are we?

Decades in the making, Western civilization faces a profound crisis in its political leadership. The problem the West confronts is clear: for too long, Western leaders in Canada, Europe, and the U.S. willfully abandoned the core principles of Western Civilization. They adopted policies that were both foreign and antithetical to the historical civilization of their countries and the societies that their fathers and mothers knew, which had, in fact, nurtured the very leaders who then labored to destroy it. These policies, including multiculturalism and progressivism, were anchored in Marxist-Leninist thought. Their impact has been catastrophic. Their consequence is that the future of Western Civilization is now in the balance. This was done deliberately.

The policies had the effect of weakening the Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment core principles of the West. These included intentional and sustained efforts to evict these principles from the public space while opening their borders to mass immigration from non-Western peoples. This has been done so massively and so quickly that most Western European states, including Ireland, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden, are at great risk of destabilization. Importantly, those states that rejected mass immigration, Hungary and Poland, are not. .. The West is thus in the curious position of permitting its statues to be toppled and its civilization destroyed by those who have the freedom to hold the West in contempt, a freedom that was made possible by that civilization. Of course, the West’s enemies do not care about that irony. The point is to destroy the West, and Western freedoms will be weaponized against Western peoples. In the end, it was Western Europe’s leaders who have intentionally and consistently made this situation possible.

The focus of this essay is on western Europe but is most certainly applicable to what we are experiencing right here in the good old US of A. And its these leaders who for the most part are or were the cream of the crop of Academia.

Some of them, not so much.

Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said President Donald Trump had caused a “consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”

Crockett said, “I believe that we all need to pay attention to Trump and how he acts. He is the cause of all the confusion and the destruction that we have seen in politics. As far as I’m concerned, because it used to be we could disagree, and that was that. I disagree with a lot of Republicans, but it does not necessarily turn violent. Ever since he’s been introduced into politics, we have seen a consistent spike in the violence when it comes to politics.”

And yet this urine-saturated lice-infested whorehouse mattress somehow became an elected member of our House of rRepresentatives.

Elsewhere, is shit about to get real "down Souse American way" as Carmen Miranda would croon? John Bolton, the inept, egotistical warmongering buffoon reacted to our biggest carrier, the USS Gerald Ford arriving off the coast of South America, with what to me is a Luca Brasi/Johnny Fontaine Godfather reference:

“Well, I think the drug smugglers can obviously see what’s happening. It’d be stunning, as they do, that they don’t shift their routes and find other ways to get drugs into the United States. Let’s face it, it’s our demand for the drugs that’s giving them the incentive to try this; they’ll find other ways. But it also shows the confusion in the White House’s objectives. If it’s simply about illegal narcotics, that’s one thing, but it seems to be about overthrowing Maduro. Why else bring the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group from the European theater to the Caribbean? Trump has now put the gun on the table. The question is, is he going to use it or not?”

Either his signature or his brains will be on the paper!

Aside from being a communist thug, whose legitimacy as that nation's president is dubious at best, his close strategic ties to both Iran and the Chi-Coms have made his regime a national security threat to both America and our allies in the region. Neither of the aforementioned can be allowed to have any kind of a foothold or influence. Am I looking for a war, no. But flexing of our muscles if done very carefully and intelligently can yield the results we desire and that are necessary.

Maduro must indeed go as well as every other Communist regime in South America and the Caribbean, let alone the world. And south of our seemingly reappearing southern border, thank you President Trump, the Mexican people are sick of the narco terrorists and their corrupt government, and are taking to the streets...

Is President Trump's show of strength against Venezuelan and Colombian drug traffickers having an unexpected knock-on effect in cartel-plagued Mexico?It's hard not to think that when one sees the intensity of protests like these at the center of Mexico City:

In the long term if the pressure is kept up, no doubt it helps our situation at the border, despite most of the violence coming from American leftists attacking our own ICE agents and police.

It's a fine thing to defeat communism abroad, but we are going to have to crush the life out of it right here at home before they can crush us.

This is not the Democrat party of thirty or even twenty years ago. It is a party determined to transform this nation and destroy the foundations of Western Civilization. Because of federalism and its overwhelmingly successful 250-year history as a capitalist-based constitutional republic, they will never succeed in peacefully transforming the United States into a one-party socialist oligarchy. However, it’s very likely that they will succeed in violently fracturing the nation, fomenting civil conflict, and hastening the death of Western Civilization.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• 42% of likely voters aged 18-39 who identify as conservative want Democratic Socialist to win presidency, Parents and online videos or podcasts are most likely to influence young Americans to support democratic socialism, 52% said their teachers or professors favored democratic socialism when they attended school
  Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: Majority of Young Likely Voters Want Democratic Socialist to Win the White House in 2028
• Leaders across the English-speaking world used the pandemic to trade democratic messiness for centralized control, revealing a ruling class that trusts abstraction far more than its own citizens.
  The Dangerous Politics of Abstraction

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Jasmine Crockett is a urine-saturated, lice-infested whorehouse mattress - jjs
  Crockett: Trump Has Caused ‘Consistent Spike’ in Political Violence

• Conservatives fighting each other or doing nothing at all, blinds them to the Islamo-socialists’ well-advanced plans to end the American experiment.
  The Democrat Party And The Death Of Western Civilization

• Western nations face a breaking point as elites push policies their people reject, leaving the future of Western civilization hanging in the balance.
  Quo Vadis for Western Civilization: The Rebirth of the West’s Civilizational Confidence

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

• What could go wrong?
  Muslim Illegal Alien With Terror Ties Was Allowed to Drive a Truck

• The incident highlights the risks faced by law enforcement during immigration operations and underscores the federal push to address public safety threats.
  Officer Injured as Suspect Rams Police Cars During Immigration Raid.
  
• The early morning raid was executed at a makeshift nightclub in San Antonio on Sunday, leading to the detention of more than 150 patrons suspected of being in the United States illegally, according to sources familiar with the action. Law enforcement authorities suspect the club was being used by members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, according to one news report.
  San Antonio Nightclub Raid Nets 150 Arrests Amid Suspected Venezuelan Tren de Aragua Gang Ties

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Sec. Duffy: “Now we can refocus our efforts on surging controller hiring and building the brand new, state of the art air traffic control system the American people deserve.”
  Airlines Can Resume Regular Schedules After FAA Ends Flight Restrictions
  
• While speaking about the program during an interview on Newsmax, Rollins said, “Here’s the most unbelievable news I have really just over the last few days, that 5,000 dead people, that was just one month. The number is closer to 186,000 deceased men and women and children in this country are receiving a check. Now, that is what we’re really gonna start clamping down on. Half a million are getting two.”
  VIDEO — Brooke Rollins: ‘Unbelievable’ That 186,000 Dead People Are Getting SNAP Benefits

• Betsy McCaughey: Cynically couched as a remedy for the affordable housing crisis, its real purpose is ideological: forcing Connecticut’s 169 towns to achieve what the bill calls “economic diversity.” Translation: If you’ve worked hard to own a home in a leafy suburb with quiet streets, you can’t live there unless everybody can — including those with low incomes and even the homeless. The state, through regional councils, will dictate how many people at each income level a town must house. 
  Beware false affordable-housing fixes — new Connecticut law hides a socialist wishlist

• The government's multibillion-dollar minority contracting program is under fire.
  The Core Part Of This Federal Race-Based Contracting Program Is Illegal, Judge Says

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The abduction highlights ongoing security challenges in Nigeria, where jihadist groups frequently target schools.
  Gunmen Kidnap Dozens of Girls from Boarding School.
  

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

• The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which does not disclose its donors, has lobbied US lawmakers to create a 'digital regulator'
  EXCLUSIVE: George Soros Gave $250K to British Group Working To Censor Conservative News Sites and ‘Kill Musk’s Twitter’
  
• Christian Toto: Carr feeds terrible, anti-speech narratives at worst possible time.
  It’s Time for FCC Chair Brendan Carr to Go

• The BBC is determined to fight the claim, citing the need to protect its license fee payers, while grappling with internal staff frustration and public scrutiny.
  BBC Leadership Want to Fight Trump in Court Over Doctored Speech Clip.

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

• Monaco reportedly ‘prevented Special Counsel Durham from releasing the 30-pp appendix to his final report b/c it implicated her old boss Obama.’
  Exclusive: New Suit Seeks DOJ Records On Obama-Biden Official’s Role In Russiagate Cover-Up
  
• Carroll’s story has more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese used for target practice.
  Trump Asks Supreme Court to Throw Out the Worst Biden-Era Miscarriage of Justice Against Him

  TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH

• Thomas Crooks allegedly tried to take Trump’s life July 13, 2024, as a bullet struck his ear. Crooks allegedly killed Corey Comperatore, 50, and seriously injured two others who were at the Butler rally.
  Report: Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Was Interested in Furries, Used ‘They/Them’ Pronouns Online

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

• Participants at the event – which, according to Brazil’s state-owned outlet Agência Brasil, had some 70,000 attendees – reportedly demanded an end to the use of fossil fuels and that “rich countries” fund a “just transition” green climate project. Participants also used the venue to attack President Donald Trump for his refusal to adhere to the global climate agenda, in addition to a litany of other commonly repeated international leftist demands.
  70,000 Join Green Protests at U.N. Climate Alarmism Conference COP30
  
• If America wants to build things again, we need to restore the National Environmental Policy Act to its original purposes.
  Federal Environmental Review Needs a Hard Reboot

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Once a moral and highly literate nation of people, America has become amoral, violent, and dumbed down. 
  American Education: From Biblical Roots to Atheism

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

• Sen. Rand Paul is asking U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to release communications between the U.S. intelligence Community, and virologist Ralph Baric, Ph.D., Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health officials.
  U.S. Spy Agencies Had Ties to Wuhan Scientists Years before 2020 Covid Pandemic Began

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

• “Arizonans are tired of excuses and chaos on Election Day. The Arizona Secure Elections Act gives voters clear rules, strong identification standards, and the confidence that only citizens are taking part in our elections,” bill sponsor and GOP Rep. Alexander Kolodin said in a statement. “These are straightforward reforms that put voters first. They ensure our elections run on time, follow the law, and earn the public’s trust.”
  Arizona Republicans Introduce Constitutional Amendment To End Post-Election Day Counting ‘Chaos’

  L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN

• Powerful families, millions of dollars and fake investigations.
  How New Mexico Democrats Covered Up Epstein’s Crimes
  
• It's another hoax, in other words, and one that exploits the suffering of Epstein's victims to go after Trump.
  Democrats Doctored Epstein Evidence, and the GOP Has the Receipts
  
• A brief introduction to Michael Wolff.
  Jeffrey Epstein’s Secret Buddy

  POLITICS

• The survey, conducted on behalf of the Republican group Sentinel Action Fund and first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, finds that voters would choose Rogers over the three Democrat primary candidates in head-to-head matchups. Michigan voters also prefer Republicans on immigration, crime and the economy, giving the GOP several “tactical advantages” in the battleground state, according to the polling memo. (RELATED: Trump Clears Senate Field For GOP In Michigan As Dems Fight Messy Primary)
  EXCLUSIVE: Michigan Senate Race Could Be GOP’s Best Midterms Offense Play, Poll Shows
  
• Chi Ossé, a democratic socialist New York City councilman, promised to defund NYPD in 2020 and has repeatedly accused Israel of committing a 'genocide' in Gaza
  Far-Left Mamdani Ally Launches Primary Challenge Against Hakeem Jeffries (radioactive Sepsis Lesions to challenge projectile colitis - jjs)
  
• Is the “Muslim wave” a mirage or reality?
  The ‘Minneapolis Mamdani’ Loses His Race for Mayor
  
• Another tax-the-rich crowd booed Hochul — to her face — when she took the stage at a Mamdani event with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders a few weeks ago. . . The gov’s in a bind: She must either deliver for Mamdani early in the legislative session, or the hard left will gun for her in the June Democrat primary. We hope she finds her spine, because his demands mean disaster.
  Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani is backfiring spectacularly

• The effort to boost the independent candidate in Tennessee’s 7th District is being led by the “Democratic/Liberal” PAC, Your Community. On Oct. 31, the PAC quietly released a poll showing Republican Matt Van Epps leading Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn by eight points ahead of the Dec. 2 special election to replace Green.
  Left-Wing Dark Money Groups Get Dirty To Take Key House Seat (Day-ending-in-Y dept. - jjs)
  
• The filibuster will end sooner or later, so conservatives should act now while they have power in the House, Senate, and White House.
  Trump Is Right. Senate Republicans Should End The Filibuster Before It’s Too Late

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

• The resolution passed the council 13-0-2, endorsing the president’s plan, which Hamas agreed to on October 8 and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially endorsed in a signing with Trump on October 13.
  U.N. Security Council Resolution on Gaza Passes, Trump Named Chairman of ‘Board of Peace’

• Anything less than dismantling Hamas’ military infrastructure risks recreating the exact conditions that made Oct. 7 possible.
  Along the Israel-Gaza border, there’s only one path to peace: eliminating Hamas (in the whole world, eliminating Islam and Leftism - jjs)
  
• Sazi Bongwe participated in anti-Israel campus activism, including illegal encampment
  Harvard Rhodes Scholarship Recipient Lauded Hamas's Oct. 7 Attack: 'Daring To Resist'

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The deployment increases pressure on Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship and enables potential U.S military action to remove strongman leader Nicolás Maduro.
  IT’S HERE! USS Gerald R. Ford, World’s Largest Aircraft Carrier, Arrives in Caribbean.
  
• Bolton said, “Well, I think the drug smugglers can obviously see what’s happening. It’d be stunning, as they do, that they don’t shift their routes and find other ways to get drugs into the United States. Let’s face it, it’s our demand for the drugs that’s giving them the incentive to try this; they’ll find other ways. But it also shows the confusion in the White House’s objectives. If it’s simply about illegal narcotics, that’s one thing, but it seems to be about overthrowing Maduro. Why else bring the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group from the European theater to the Caribbean? Trump has now put the gun on the table. The question is, is he going to use it or not?”
  Bolton: Trump ‘Put the Gun on the Table’ to Overthrow Maduro (half-assed Luca Brasi/Johnny Fontaine reference! - jjs)
  
• In a geographic area where pirates once sailed, the Caribbean has now evolved into a busy supply chain for narcotics produced or protected inside Venezuela, with reports indicating U.S. forces intercepted and destroyed a suspected drug vessel in recent days.
  The New Ho Chi Minh Trail? U.S., Venezuela, and the Narco Supply Line
  
• Should the Trump Administration negotiate a term that requires Rio to keep American resources in America at this critical time of Chinese domination?
  The Trump administration must stop partnering with mining giants tied to China
  
• The remarks drew attention to the ongoing influence of Powell, who passed away in 1998, over the immigration debate and British politics legacy.
  UK Labour Party Labels Farage ‘Today’s Enoch Powell’… As If That’s A Bad Thing?
  
• There can be no debating that the UN is now unable to prevent the very wars, hate, injustice, and instability it was created to alleviate.
  The UN Must Go!
  
• Japan has made no secret of its support for Taiwan, but previous prime ministers have avoided using the exact language Takaichi chose because “survival-threatening” situations can trigger a military response under Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution. The Chinese felt Takaichi was more explicit than previous prime ministers in saying that Japan would fight China to protect Taiwan.
  China Tells Tourists to Avoid Japan — Feud Escalates over PM Takaichi Sanae’s Taiwan Support

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• He cited recent examples in Ukraine and Russia to illustrate the scale and speed of devastation drones can produce.
  ‘Flying IEDs’: Army Sec Calls Drones ‘The Threat Of Humanity’s Lifetime’
  
• Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan spoke of the dire national security need to revive U.S. manufacturing.
  Secretaries Of War, Navy Talk Bringing Back Manufacturing Jobs, Covid Objectors, And Combat Readiness

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

• Its continuing medical education course violates multiple standards established by professional organizations in the field.
  The Texas Medical Association Is Misleading Doctors on Transgender Health Care
  
• Feminism, abortion, the decline in Christianity, the normalization of cohabitation, and rising divorce all played roles in this phenomenon.
  Girls’ Steep Decline In Desire For Marriage Is The Destabilizing Consequence Of Feminization

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Across America, young men are drifting into digital isolation.
  Boys Are Now Caught Under The Spell Of Predatory Algorithms
  
• Crooks and Robinson both fit this profile perfectly: socially isolated, downwardly mobile young white men from middle or working-class suburbs, radicalized in the exact online spaces where economic resentment, racial grievance, and sexual deviancy all converge.
  Making Beasts of Men: Why are two high-profile political assassins tied to the furry fetish?

• “My hope for Heritage is that it will be unbending and unflinching in its fidelity to its founding vision, upholding the moral principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition and the civic principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.”
  Heritage Trustee Robert George Resigns From Board
  
• “Multiplexes in the United States and Canada had their worst summer since 1981, after adjusting for inflation and excluding the Covid pandemic years,” the Times reported.
  2025 Summer Box Office Worst Since 1981
  
• Disney stock continues to slide, even though it took his advice and rehired Jimmy Kimmel.
  Mark Ruffalo Call Your Office: Disney Stock Hits 10-Year Low Since Rehiring Jimmy Kimmel
  
• It is only because Sweeney held firm, was unapologetically herself and completely unbothered, that we see just how far down the rabbit hole the left has gone.
  Sydney Sweeney triggered the left by refusing to apologize for being white and pretty
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "In both cases, the authors were handicapped by certain modern academic paradigms that crippled their ability to see the larger context of events. Those paradigms demanded that both historians treat all the cultures involved as morally equivalent, and because of this both writers miss entirely the greater moral fundamentals that moved the Western side of both stories."
  The crippling effect of “woke” on historians

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