The Morning Report — 12/11/25

Good morning kids. So, on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here as well as in the sidebar and on the outlets listed at the bottom of the post, CBD and I discussed the outstanding leadership of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in terms of revitalizing and reviving the readiness, capability and morale of our armed forces. With the ever present threat for sure posed by the Chi-Coms and a number of other bad actors including Iran, it is vital that President Trump has the absolute cream of the crop in terms of leadership at the Pentagon and so far Hegseth has proven himself quite capable. Now, with the President determined to thwart the influx of deadly fentanyl and other narcotics from overseas (primarily via south and central America, over land and via the sea lanes) that over the past decade and longer has left a staggering body count of dead and wasted lives that is akin to a small war or a very large and sadly ongoing bloody battle. To swipe the hyperbole of the Left when describing the January 6th non-insurrection non-riot, the body count is likely akin to several 9/11 style attacks combined. Add in the pain and suffering of their loved ones and the toll we have taken on so many levels is staggering. Lest we forget, the successful smuggling of these chemical weapons of mass destruction, and that's what fentanyl and opioids in the last analysis truly are, could not really happen without people in place on our shores to facilitate in the offloading and ultimate distribution of them right down to the dime-bag pushers on a street corner. Hence the crucial nature of border and immigration enforcement as well as the general law and order push vis a vis the ordering of National Guard troops to aid and assist local law enforcement in the apprehension of criminal elements, resisted by local politicians who are beholden to the insane policies of defunding the police, and decriminalization of crime by blue shit hole mayors, governors and DAs exclusively of the Democrat/Leftist persuasion.

So the shedding of oceans of crocodile tears for the drug smugglers that the US Navy has blown out of the water is disgusting in the extreme, although quite instructive as to who and what the anti-American Democrat Left actually care about. Hegseth as both a man and as a leader is everything that the Left is not and will never be. He, and of course Donald Trump, who Hegseth represents, is a nemesis to be destroyed. Not just because of that which is reason enough for the Left, but for what he is accomplishing, which to a large extent is the will of the people, but also for his potential future as a national political leader. — no I am not endorsing him for POTUS in 2028, but merely pointing out the salient fact that if he is allowed to continue with his successes without being hindered by his and our enemies, or should he step on a rake down the road (the laughable at best charges of infidelity or some other concocted closet skeleton), he does indeed from where I sit have a shot at national office at some time in the not too distant future (he's only 45)

So all that said, it leads us to our lead story of the day which is yet more action on the high seas in the Caribbean:

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday.

The tanker’s ownership and origin were not revealed, but Trump said the vessel was “very large” while speaking to reporters on Wednesday. The president did not offer the rationale behind the seizure during his remarks. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” he said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video of the U.S. raid on an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.
The video shows U.S. forces boarding and taking control of the vessel as part of an operation to enforce U.S. sanctions on the sale of Venezuelan oil.

“[T]he Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” said Bondi. “For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” she added. “This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely—and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues.”

. . . The decision to seize the oil tanker strikes directly at Venezuela’s main source of revenue, its state-controlled oil industry. The oil it can produce through its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, is often sold internationally to countries such as Iran and China at steep discounts because of the risk of running afoul of U.S. sanctions.

Neither of the links state the final destination of the tanker, but although I cannot find where I read it, I'm fairly sure that I read somewhere that the tanker was bound for Cuba. Oh boy! Chee-Wah-Wah on so many levels if so. First, Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez have been a gigantic pain in our ass for years, let alone the long suffering Venezuelan people who, despite being awash in petroleum are among the poorest in Latin America and the world. But yes young Americans, let's all rush to transform the USA into a socialist paradise on earth, but I digress.

Venezuela aside, a number of South and central American nations are running in the opposite direction, much to the dismay of the Castro regime that still lords over the giant tropical gulag of Cuba. Thank you JFK. As for Venezuela, that regime has a long-standing partnership and close relationship with the mad mullahs of Iran, as well as Xi and the Chi-Coms who are itching to set up shop right on our doorstep to hamper if not strangle us economically, politically and if push comes to shove militarily.

That's why it is refreshing and sane that President Trump as well as Secretary of War and Secretary of State Rubio are speaking with one very loud and clear voice in the aggressive reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine.

This excerpt from the White House National Security Strategy released just last month and linked here for your perusal.

Western Hemisphere: The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere. This “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistent with American security interests.

It would be quite something to finally see Cuba libré after 65 or more years of being a communist slave state, if for no other reason than to see the jug-eared dog-eating piece of shit Barack Obama (who propped up the regime after Fidel was dragged down to Hell) shriek in agony as Donald Trump dynamites the statues of Castro, Lenin and Marx at that Havana reviewing stand, in the same manner as that giant Swastika was blasted off the reviewing stand at the Nuremberg Nazi rally site at the end of World War 2 – I Have a Dream Today!

Of course the treasonous, traitorous venal tyrants in our midst will do their best to prevent that from happening:

I give you a whore who babbles on . . .

During a recent interview with the far-Left Daily Beast, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), one of six Democrat lawmakers who collaborated on the infamous video telling service members they have a duty to refuse “unlawful orders,” made an extraordinary claim. She said they felt compelled to act because:

There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty who — recent veterans, family members of service members — who were coming to us individually and saying two things: One, ‘I’m concerned I’m going to sent in uniform to an American city, you know, like L.A., Chicago, Memphis, and I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?

As CBD and I noted on the podcast, while President Trump perhaps ought to have informed Congress of his intentions to interdict and destroy Venezuelan drug running terrorists on the high seas and that he considers the Maduro regime and Maduro himself as complicit in running drugs and de facto terror leaders in doing so, the fact that he didn't do so beforehand makes little difference to me.

Given who and what the Democrats are, if past is prologue, someone for sure would have spilled the beans to Maduro ahead of time. Even if it meant putting the lives of American military personnel in danger. They hate Trump with the heat of 10,000 suns and hate America itself as much if not more because they, for the time being, have been thwarted in seizing absolute power. When they say "By any means necessary" they're not kidding as we have seen for almost 200 years now.

Sowing mutiny in the ranks. Look what was done to Derek Chauvin who merely did his job as a police officer, and how that affected police morale and recruitment. Luckily Trump and Hegseth are at the top of the heap and the average soldier and officer have little to fear in terms of a politicized attempt to drum someone out of the service for following orders, no matter how ridiculous or loudly SLUTkin and her ilk shriek "WAR CRIMES!" But if God-forbid a Democrat administration once again takes power, then you better believe a Stalinesque purge will sweep through the flag officer corps if not go down the line to just the average dogface for obeying, legitimate orders handed down by the C-in-C Donald Trump.

And so, with no other means to prop up their allies, that is America's enemies, resort to destroying morale and readiness. It's the Chicago/OBAMA way...

Unto my last breath, the greatest threat to America's national security was is and always will be the Democrat Left.

Have a good day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Victor Davis Hanson: America warns Europe that only one of them is truly fighting to reverse the West’s decline—and the clock is running out for the other to follow suit. Cry the Beloved Europe?
• “I grew up in a Somali clan-based society … [where] Loyalty to kin was absolute. Loyalty to the nation was theoretical at best,” she writes ... (The Democrat Party is KLAN-based!, with a culture of civic corruption! - jjs) Hirsi Ali: Americans Must Suppress Somali Culture of Civic Corruption

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• “There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty … saying … I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?”
  Slotkin Drops Stunning New Explanation for Releasing ‘Seditious Six’ Video

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

• On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials revealed that Juan Ayala Ramos, who is charged with shooting Michael Kasper eight times while the man was loading his groceries into his car, is an illegal alien from El Salvador who crossed the border as a UAC in June 2007.
  Illegal Alien Accused of Randomly Shooting 61-Year-Old Man at Nebraska Grocery Store, Firing at Police Officers
  
•  The incident underscores ongoing efforts by far-left activists and ideologues aimed at thwarting federal immigration enforcement actions to protect dangerous, criminal illegal immigrants.
  College Official Accused of Attempting to Stop ICE Arrest of Student Predator.
  
• While Indiana’s congressional redistricting efforts generate massive attention, an immigration bill the Trump administration supports is lagging.
  ‘Gold-Standard’ Immigration Enforcement Bill Lagging In Indiana As Redistricting Sucks Oxygen

• The modern court has the chance to restore the 14th Amendment and end the judicially invented version of birthright citizenship.
  The Supreme Court Should Overturn Wong Kim Ark

  NATIONAL GUARDSMEN GUNNED DOWN IN DC, by Biden-Imported Islamic Savage

• A question the Biden junta could not answer.
  How Many Terrorists Came From Afghanistan to America?

  
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• $1.5B in fraud, $67 million in taxes.
  What Somalis Have Done for Minnesota
  
• More than 8-in-10 households headed by Somali refugees in the state of Minnesota are on one or more forms of American taxpayer-funded welfare, new data published by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals.
  Minnesota: ‘Nearly Every’ Somali Household with Children Is on Welfare

• Breyer’s order won’t go into effect until Monday, giving the administration time to appeal.
  Judge Blocks Trump From Deploying National Guard to Los Angeles

• It's time to fix a 90-year-old mistake that has fueled the administrative state.
  Yes, Supreme Court, Please ‘Destroy The Structure Of Government’
  
• Out-of-control tort litigation makes American businesses less competitive, decreases worker productivity, and discourages companies from investing in their operations – instead having to hold money back for the potential of a rent-seeking lawsuit. 
  American Families Pay The Price For Excessive Litigation 
  
• The move is part of a broader effort to eliminate “wasteful” diversity measures and restore traditional standards in federal agencies.
  State Department Restores Times New Roman Font to Reverse ‘Woke’ Policies.
  
• Some of the worst-managed states pay legislators the most.
  The Wages of Failure

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• “President Trump has made enormous strides in reversing the affordability crisis left behind by Democrats. From the historic working families tax cuts to over $18 trillion worth of investment in America, the benefits of the Trump economic agenda have only begun to kick in and there is more work to be done in the new year,” the spokesperson said.
  White House Deploys JD Vance To Bolster Affordability Messaging
  
• The truth is that the Trump administration is working hard to address the root causes of the high cost of living. They're doing this with intelligence, foresight, and experience, and basing their policy on bedrock economic principles. And even better: It's working. 
  Stop Worrying About the Midterms — Trump Prosperity Will Be Undeniable by Then

• No Tax on Tips became the law of the land with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, but a handful of blue state governors are refusing to give their constituents this tax relief. And the Trump administration isn’t happy about it.
  Blue State Govs Are Blocking ‘No Tax on Tips’ for Their Constituents to Resist Trump

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• When Providence police officers responded to a party on Liege Street last week, they discovered “four students passed out in the front yard of the home,” Fox News reported. Police said seven people overdosed at the party and were given Narcan. The individuals were transported to a hospital and were later reported conscious and alert, according to the report. 
  Three People Arrested After Seven Rhode Island College Students Overdose at Party

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: Predictable pushback for calling attention to the threat of jihad and sharia.
  Alabama Senator Tuberville Under Fire For Telling Inconvenient Truths

• The Muslim Brotherhood’s long game isn’t bombs but burrowing—an influence network shaping campuses, media, and government while Washington looks past the foreign regimes bankrolling it.
  Muslim Brotherhood Subversion Targets All of Western Civilization

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

• December 9 is a significant date for Jewish people. Why?
  Hoboken, NJ, Mayor Apologizes for Flying Palestine Flag on the First Intifada Anniversary

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

• The media lies even when it doesn't need to.
  FACT CHECK: Media Falsely Claims GOP Held Miami for 30 Years

• John Stossel: “Justapedia,” says Rindsberg, “was founded by a veteran Wikipedia editor who couldn’t handle the left-wing bias.” “This is exactly what we need . . . people to be able to choose among different sources, so we’re not all forced into the Wikipedia information funnel.”
  Wikipedia won’t fix its woke bias — so competitors are on the rise

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Some instructors smeared Israeli and Jewish students as colonists, occupiers, and murderers. One used an introductory astronomy class to rail against 'genocide' in Gaza.
  'It's Such a Shame That Your People Survived': Columbia Report Details 'Disturbing' Anti-Semitism From Instructors at Ivy League School

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

• Unsealed documents accuse retired Dane County Judge Frank Remington of ghostwriting Judge John Hyland’s order rejecting a dismissal motion.
  Documents: Wisconsin Judge In Trump Electors Case Didn’t Write His Own Ruling

  
  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Democrat leaders reportedly view the filing as a political stunt from a struggling Senate candidate.
  House Dem Files Articles Of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. And Even Her Own Party Is Trashing Her

• As he positions himself as a contender for the Democrat presidential nomination, the governor with the golden résumé is likely to face mounting scrutiny for repeated exaggerations and falsehoods regarding his athletic, academic, and military achievements (So, he's a fraud and a phony - tow key Democrat résumé enhancers right there! - jjs)
  Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' on Radical Islam and Was Studying for an Oxford PhD—But His Thesis Is 'Missing' and There's No Evidence He Was Ever a Doctoral Student

  POLITICS

• It's a message that every single member of our American Congress should be able to agree on, but when there were calls for objections, Sen. Dick Turdbin (D-Ill.) stepped his pretty little self up and did just that.
  In a Not so Shocking Move, Senate Democrats Refuse to Condemn Socialism

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

• Barghouti is not in prison for his ideology. He is serving five life sentences plus 40 years.
  What Celebrities Got Wrong About Marwan Barghouti – He’s No 'Palestinian' Mandela
  
• Can you guess what the goal was?
  Hamas Deliberately Hid Tons of Infant Formula and Nutritional Shakes for Children
  
• Those who protect Israel “neither slumber nor sleep.”
  IDF Kills 'Palestinian' Islamic Jihad Commander Who Infiltrated Kibbutz on October 7

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• For Operation Spider’s Web to be a success, Ukraine was relying on a group of unwitting Russian drivers to transport their drones to the desired locations, with the truckers believing they were only hauling mobile wooden cabins. . .
  Hungover Russians thwart Ukraine’s ‘Pearl Harbor’-style attack on Moscow: report

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The tanker’s ownership and origin were not revealed, but Trump said the vessel was “very large” while speaking to reporters on Wednesday. The president did not offer the rationale behind the seizure during his remarks. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” he said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”
  US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, President Trump Confirms
  
• Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video of the tanker seizure online on Wednesday.
  Trump Admin Drops Video Showing U.S. Forces Swarming Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast

• Brazil mine is being developed with U.S. partnership, and US firm now merges mining with REE processing capabilities.
  U.S. Strategically Securing Rare Earth Element Supply Chain Away from China

• Heavy fighting has displaced over half a million people, with at least a dozen fatalities reported along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
  Trump Intervenes in Asian War, Plans Crucial Phone Call as Half a Million Displaced.
  
• Right from the old playbook.
  Khamenei’s Lies, Hypocrisy, and the Art of Blaming Others for One’s Own Wars

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Microsoft’s deep entanglement with China, exposed in a new report, shows how the tech giant’s pursuit of profit is undermining U.S. security and handing leverage to a hostile regime.
  New Report Exposes Microsoft’s Disturbing Ties To China

• In eight glorious years, Reagan canceled American depression and defeatism with sound economic policy and a defense strategy that was stunningly realistic and enormously effective.
  Hegseth revives Reagan's defense policy and neocon war hawks hate it

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• A blog post by Congressional Budget Office staff dropped a bombshell: Spending on Medicare prescription drug coverage has exploded.
  Medicare Prescription Drugs Could Cost $500 Billion More Than Expected Over The Next Decade

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The record-breaking launches highlight China’s ambition to become a space superpower, with plans to expand its orbital infrastructure.
  China Surpasses SpaceX Rocket Launch Record.
  
• The science team labels this “Exposure of North Polar Layered Deposits,” an apt description of the horizontal red and grey and blue layers that dominate the image and make this geology look more like an abstract painting than a natural landscape.
  Abstract art produced by nature within Mars’ north pole ice cap (It's no Rothko - jjs)
  
• If anything, these stories illustrate again the corruption in our modern propaganda press. Such stories would have been considered junk four decades ago. Then it was traditional practice that a story needed at least two independent sources, one of which was not anonymous. No longer. Anyone can push any lie, and these news outlets will publicize it, for the sake of clicks.
  Unconfirmed anonymous sources at Reuters and Bloomberg claim SpaceX is planning a public stock offering

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

• The fear of waiting too long, missing out on the right love, or wasting precious childbearing years pushes us to accept any affection — even when it’s fleeting or unhealthy.
  Young women's loneliness drives them to 'cuffing season,' temporary romance is not the answer

  
  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Futurism reports that in an attempt to embrace the growing trend of generative AI, McDonald’s Netherlands division collaborated with ad agency TBWA\Neboko to create a 45-second AI-generated Christmas advertisement. However, the fast-food giant’s foray into AI-powered marketing backfired as the ad was met with intense criticism and mockery from viewers for both its “AI slop” features and anti-Christmas message, ultimately leading to its removal from the company’s YouTube channel. The video is available in archive form, and has been reuploaded to YouTube by others:
  McDonald’s Calls Christmas ‘Most Terrible Time of the Year’ in AI-Generated Ad
  
• Now Disney seems to be pushing the message that the happiest place on earth is as far away from your family as possible.
  Zootopia 2 Teaches Kids They Have Trauma And It’s Their Parents’ Fault
  
• Posobiec said, “I actually have a source who went to school with the Duffer brothers…it was MKUltra experiments…it was a paranormal show. … That’s all it was supposed to be.”
  Posobiec: ‘Stranger Things’ Was Supposed to be About MKUltra, then Netflix Turned it into LGBTQ+ Propaganda
  
• Christian Toto:Far-left comic won't name names, but we all know she means Joe Rogan and co. (she's hot and horny for me and CBD! - jjs)
  Michelle Wolf: Pro-Trump Podcasters Crave Power

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