The Morning Report — 12/17/25

Good morning kids. From friend and co-blogger CBD's excellent Morning Rant essay yesterday on potential US involvement in Ukraine.

Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy.

I read that and then I remembered a link from yesterday which takes the expression "batshit crazy" to a whole new level.

Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea held a welcome back ceremony for soldiers serving in the battlefield of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this weekend, acknowledging a regiment believed to have been helping clear landmines in which at least nine soldiers died.

So the Norks are clearing mines for Putin. And what would happen if suppose there was an encounter with US troops and a firefight broke out? Despite the armistice of 1953, the North Korean regimes under successive generations of the Kim dynasty still consider themselves in a state of war with the USA and have maintained their goal of retaking and absorbing South Korea. Yeah, batshit crazy but what if Ukraine somehow devolved into a second front of the ongoing Korean "conflict?" Considering the bizarre and often testy relationship between President Trump and "Rocket Man" Kim . . . again, batshit crazy indeed.

Elsewhere in the world, we have an incident involving the USA and North Korea's prime ally:

A US special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing US officials.

The cargo consisted of components potentially useful for Iran’s conventional weapons, one official said, adding the shipment had been destroyed.

US forces boarded the ship several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, according to the newspaper, which added the vessel was later allowed to proceed….. The report cited an American official as saying US intelligence indicated the shipment was headed for Iranian companies known to be intermediaries for the country’s missile development efforts.

The action was part of a campaign by the US Defense Department to cut off Iran’s covert arms supply networks….The Iran-China relationship is a cause for concern, but is also unpredictable, since according to analysts across the board, China does not want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

The incident of American commandos raiding the ship that was heading from China to Iran was “part of a campaign by the US Defense Department to cut off Iran’s covert arms supply networks.”
Nonetheless, in the global arena, the red-green alliance is growing stronger and expanding strategically, which isn’t good news for American interests.

It should be noted that Iran and North Korea have also had and likely still have a very close relationship due to their mutual animosity and hatred of the USA and now more than ever with Trump as President. Over the years they have collaborated on both nuclear weapons and missile technology. Iran and China have made inroads in our own backyard, most especially in Venezuela first with Chavez and now Maduro, as well as some of the other Commie dictators in the region. It's why the recent elections in Chile and elsewhere installing more American aligned leaders and a rejection of the Leftists are most welcome and gratifying.

The most welcome IMHO and vocal and strident reassertion by this President of the Monroe doctrine could not come at a more crucial time in geopolitics both in this hemisphere and with repercussions that go far beyond it. That said, given the nature of the players in Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran and Caracas as well as Moscow the word RISK takes on a meaning well beyond that of a mere old time kids' board game.

Yet with all this going on in the world, the greatest risk to America and of our way of life still remains the enemy within.

Here are but two items from the links wherein greasy greaseball Gavin Newsom

and Nazi-afficionado and fanboi Graham Platner are primed and ready to seize vast tracts of land from the citizenry for the most heinous of politicized reasons.

And where does this insanity begin? Kindergarten!

Do you know what a “neopronoun” or a “xeopronoun” is? The teachers’ unions want to make sure your little kids do. . .Got it? No? But our kids are being force-fed this garbage in America’s public schools. The NEA touts over 3 million members, many of them teachers in our schools. The union steeps the teachers in this leftist brain rot, and the teachers spread it at schools across the country. It’s not just the gender bunk that was presented at the conference, either. The NEA is not entirely sure this whole “America” thing is going to stick, so they refer to it as “what we know as the United States of America” and “What we now call the United States of America” in multiple slides. Apparently xeopronouns are rock-solid but a 249-year-old country might just be a fad. Also, sorry gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA. . . Also, sorry gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA. Why? Because “this term comes across as clinical and dog whistle-y.” Well, yes, it sounds clinical because it’s a biological term and not a word made up by some TikTok influencer to describe the gender identity of the moment. How can the NEA still be prioritizing this foolishness in the year 2025? And why does an openly political special interest group continue to have so much sway over our kids? Why? How much longer can groups like this, pushing a crazy agenda, have access to our kids and their schools? Parents need to remain on guard from this asininity oozing into their kids’ classrooms.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Iran desperately seeking out allies, shifts to China for support.
  US Commandos Raid Ship Carrying Military Items to Iran From China

• Karol Markowicz: Do you know what a “neopronoun” or a “xeopronoun” is? The teachers’ unions want to make sure your little kids do.
  Teachers union pushes ‘neopronouns’ but claims name ‘America’ is a problem

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• It is apparent that the American Right, as a whole, is the group that shows grace, caring, and humanity.
  Conservative condolences to Reiner murder is stark contrast to leftists' reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination
  
• The time for swift, strategic, and sweeping steps to end organized left-wing violence is now or it might be never.
  Foiled Left-Wing Terrorist Attack Must Be The Beginning, Not End, Of Trump’s Antifa Crackdown
  
• Since 1912 and the election of Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat Party has been America’s left-wing political party. Nonetheless, over the decades it has maintained tenuous ties to the basic tenets of the nation’s founding. In the 1930s, beginning with what was a de facto “cult of... More
  The Marxist Transformation of the Democrat Party
  
• Democracy dies when citizens demand benefits instead of freedom.
  Democracy’s Great Temptation
  
• The pursuit of a noble lifestyle in agriculture should transcend pernicious identity politics.
  Gavin Newsom’s DEI Land Grab Is An Assault On American Farmers

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

• This week, Mills said she will allow LD 1971 to become law because she feels Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have engaged in “unacceptable actions,” though she still feels the law is “imperfect,” according to WMTW-TV. (when will this filthy criminal shit-whore be arrested and imprisoned?! - jjs)
  Maine Gov. Janet Mills Approves Law Preventing Police from Aiding Immigration Enforcement
  
• Rep. Omar accused ICE agents of racial profiling, despite providing no proof of the incident actually happening.
  ICE Denies Rep. Bro-Fo Omar’s Allegation of inbred haploid Son Being Stopped for Citizenship Check.

• . . . comparable to illegal aliens, as he criticized the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
  Minneapolis Police Chief Depicts Mary and Joseph as ‘Outsiders’
  
• The left insists that birthright citizenship is “plainly written” into the Constitution and immune from any challenge. But cases like that of Chinese billionaire Xu Bo expose just how stupid that claim is.
  Chinese Billionaire’s U.S. Baby Factory Exposes Birthright Citizenship Scam
  
• Reducing terror migration saves lives.
  Trump Adds Syria, Mali and ‘Palestinian Authority’ to Travel Ban

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• it looks as if we just got more jihad in Washington state. . . the very real possibility that he did all this because his namesake, the prophet of Islam, commanded his followers to “kill them wherever you find them” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, cf. 9:5).
  Washington State: Man Lures Cops With Fake 9/11 Call, Stabs One — Guess the Perp’s Names
  
• “Christmas market in Brussels turns into an Islamic hell. Elsewhere in Europe, Christmas markets are under extra surveillance."
  'Islamic hell': Former Dutch MP slams pro-'Palestine' mob who staged protest at Christmas market in Brussels
  
• Muslim terrorism cancels New Year’s Eve in Paris.
  All of France is a No Go Zone Now
  
• An Indonesian adventure in the land of Sharia.
  Famous Prostitute Deported and Banned from a Place She Should Have Known Not to Go
  
• We stand on the threshold of a mandatory choice.
  The Civilizational Equation No One Wants to Face

  BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH

• Hanukkah is not a festival of vague illumination or seasonal warmth. It is not about universalism. Bondi should have taught us that. The story of Hanukkah is about Jews who refused — violently, unapologetically, and at great cost — to stop being Jews.
  Bondi Beach brings back the true meaning of Hanukkah: resistance
  
• Public statements from elected officials across the Anglosphere added insult to injury, erasing or gaslighting Jews.
  Anglosphere Leaders’ Bad Responses to Bondi Beach Terrorism
  
• Douglas Murray: Australia has long tolerated the proponents of such mayhem and silenced those who raise the alarm.
  The Massacre at Bondi Beach Was Inevitable

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

• Emails released by Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office show that officials at the FBI and DOJ communicated about FBI concerns about the warrant in the months leading up to the August raid.
  Docs: FBI Believed It Lacked Probable Cause To Raid Mar-A-Lago But Did So Anyway

• Far-left Attorney General Brad Kaul brought charges against three defendants in what many see as a proxy trial aimed at President Trump.
  Judge Rules Wisconsin Show Trial Against Trump Allies Will Go On

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The cuts redirected funding from initiatives such as diversity grants, green energy projects, and programs for illegal immigrants, sparking outrage among Democrats.
  Republicans Are Implementing Major Spending Cuts for Leftist Initiatives in This State:
  
• “By making it more expensive to do business or hire workers in the city, these measures threaten Chicago’s future economic growth and tax collections.”
  Washington Post Editorial Board Slams Mayor Johnson’s Budget Plan: ‘Chicago Has Lost its Mind’

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• “Under the Biden junta, most job growth came from government jobs and foreign labor. Now, with [President Trump] at the helm, every single job created has been in the PRIVATE SECTOR for NATIVE-BORN AMERICANS,” the Labor Department wrote on X.
  Golden Age: All Net Job Growth Going to Americans as Foreign-Born Employment Keeps Declining
  
• Despite media hype, rising incomes outpacing prices show there’s no broad affordability crisis—just isolated struggles in housing and select markets.
  Trump’s Right: The Affordability Crisis Is a Misconception

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• “I think with the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a campus there’s a question, no answers yet, but there’s a question whether this was a targeted killing.”
  Lack Of Information About Brown University Murders “Allows a Lot of Speculation to Flourish”
  
• The same intersection in Midtown was the scene of a stabbing three days earlier during a road rage clash that left a 38-year-old man wounded.
  Two Thugs Arrested in Deadly Beating, Stabbing of Rhode Island Man near Times Square (Shvarzyorim, I assume - jjs)

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

• “Is the world waiting for a Chanukah massacre in NYC before it understands how catastrophic the situation has become?”
  Two Young Jewish Men Attacked on NYC Subway — America Must Act
  
• The group, Turtle Island Liberation Front, planned to blow up buildings in Los Angeles marked by painted Hamas triangles
  California Dems Silent on Radical Anti-Israel Group's Foiled Los Angeles Bomb Plot (They either approve or are smart enough to keep their mouths shut to stay off TILF's target list - jjs)
  
• ‘You’d think Wisconsin would take a 9-0 Supreme Court loss as a hint to stop digging,’ said Becket Fund attorney Eric Rassbach.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court Ends Democrat AG’s Bid To ‘Defy’ SCOTUS’ Catholic Charity Ruling

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

• The media will never tell you stories that expose their dangerous ideology.
  ABC Downplays a Huge Left-Wing Terror Plot Busted by Trump's FBI

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

• “When a company takes a billion dollar loss just to leave, you know something is seriously broken.”
  Valero Eats $1.1 Billion Loss to Escape Newsom’s Toxic California

• If signed into law, Republican Arkansas Rep. Bruce Westerman and Democrat Maine Rep. Rep. Jared Golden’s SPEED Act would reform the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a keystone federal environmental law that the White House recently targeted. Like many deregulatory proposals, environmental groups are fighting the SPEED Act, though some hardliner House Republicans have also been resisting the measure, arguing that it would pave the way for offshore wind projects President Donald Trump has staunchly opposed.
  Congress Nears Bipartisan Permitting Reform. Hardline Republicans Argue It Threatens Trump’s Agenda. (Bipartisan = Gang-Rape - jjs)

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Democrat pederast Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota lashed out in an angry diatribe against the Second Amendment during a Tuesday press conference in which he signed executive orders he claims will reduce gun violence.
  ‘It’s All Bullsh*t’: Tim Walz Goes On Anti-Second Amendment Rant
  
• Instead, Schumer went with the standard Democrat talking point of pushing more gun laws after extant gun control fails to prevent a criminal from acting out his heinous intentions.
  Chuck Schemer Calls for More Gun Control After Handgun Attack at Gun-Free Brown University

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

• While Gov. Shapiro attacked Trump during the government shutdown, his own mal-administration was failing to deliver critical info on SNAP and other services through the mail.
  Pennsylvania Officials Let Unsent Mail Pile Up For A Month, But Promise Mail Voting Is Super Secure

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• How else to explain why they are so often caught with their hands in the till, and why they routinely try to thwart anti-fraud efforts?
  For Today’s Democrats, Fraud Is A Feature, Not A Bug
  
• Alleged fraud has cost taxpayers over $1 billion, with calls for accountability and potential political consequences for Walz.
  Trump Cabinet Member Demands Tim Walz Resign Amid Fraud Scandal.

• ‘I also am a firm supporter of any legislation on the federal level that begins to give more, frankly, land back to the indigenous peoples,’ Platner says
  ‘A Foundation of My Politics’: Graham Platner Calls To Return Maine Land to ‘Indigenous Population’
  
• There are too many politicians in Washington who believe there is no life outside of Congress or the halls of D.C. bureaucracy. It is when their job is threatened that they act.
  Henry Cuellar proves that career politicians cannot be trusted—even when they're pardoned
  
• Wesley Lowery determined to force his way back into the national discourse
  Disgraced BLM Sex Pest Says It's 'Racist' to Think Jasmine Crock-(O'sh)ett Can't Turn Texas Blue
  
• Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate. Her mouth is her own biggest obstacle. In April, Crockett claimed she “had to go around the country and educate people about what immigrants do for this country … The fact is, ain’t none of y’all trying to go and farm right now.” 
  Jasmine Crock(o'sh-)ett Backtracks On ‘Picking Cotton’ Comments
  
• The California’s GOP biggest problem isn’t Democrats, but strategy.
  How California’s GOP Wasted $45 Million for Nothing

• Democrat candidate Erik Murray credits Elaine Brown with changing the 'wiring' in his brain (Recalls lobotomized astronaut Landon from Planet of the Apes- jjs)
  Kansas Senate Candidate Names His Political Inspiration: A Black Panther ‘Soldier’ Working To Destroy the American ‘Empire’

  POLITICS

• The Trump administration has aggressively touted Trump's economic policies in recent weeks.
  Trump To Address The Nation Tonight, Tease Policies Coming In 2026
  
• The midterm clock is ticking, and the Republican majority in the House has never been more fragile. To my Senate colleagues: Please, with sugar on top, do not waste this opportunity.
  Sen. John Kennedy Op-Ed: Hey, Senate GOP, let’s get moving — pass more big, beautiful bills before it’s too late

• As Republicans seek to maintain control of Congress in 2026, several key races are poised to play a decisive role in determining whether the party can hold its majorities — and whether alignment with Trump is still enough to motivate GOP voters in midterm elections.
  Six Primaries That May Determine The Future Of The GOP After Trump
  
• Musk, who attempted to launch a third party earlier this year, appears to have had a change of heart, as he is now cutting large checks to help the GOP secure congressional seats in next year’s midterm elections, two sources familiar with the matter told Axios. The amount Musk is donating to help Republicans stop Democrats from reclaiming a majority in Congress will not be revealed until next month, when campaign finance reports are released.
  Report: Elon Musk Is Funding Republican Campaigns in 2026 Midterms
  
• Rubio’s remarks signal strong GOP unity behind Vice President Vance as a potential 2028 presidential candidate.
  Rubio Pledges to Support Vance If He Runs in 2028.

• Pelosi — who sounded more sober but perhaps less coherent than usual — gave a rambling response before getting a firm redirect from Page. "Just to make sure I understand you, [impeachment] should not be the agenda of Democrats for this last two years?"
  Wait, Malig-Nancy Pelosi Just Said WHAT?

• The Democrats seem to be preparing to coronate Newsom as their nominee for 2028.
  Gavin Newsom's Barbaric Stand on Young Children
  
• There are two problems with Newsom's viability as a presidential candidate, and I've been highlighting both for a long time. The little miracle agreement I alluded to at the beginning of this column has to do with the first one: Newsom's brand of crazy leftism doesn't play well once it moves inward from the West Coast. This is from a recent Axios newsletter:  "Gavin Newsom's Democratic rivals are plotting how to take down the early 2028 frontrunner, with a heavy emphasis on how unpopular his left-leaning views are outside deep-blue California."
  Even Some Democrats Are Starting to Side-Eye Gavin Newsom’s Coastal Lefty Elitism

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• If Europe’s elites want war, they should pick up a rifle and fight.
  Why Should Americans Die for European Tyranny?
  
• After Jimmy Lai’s conviction under Hong Kong’s national security law, Trump and allies urge Xi Jinping to free the ailing pro-democracy publisher before it’s too late.
  Jimmy Lai’s Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders

• Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar Assad fled to Moscow when he was driven from power and has reportedly settled into a new life as a celebrity ophthalmologist since his usefulness to the Russian government has come to an end.
  Reports: Deposed Syrian Dictator Bashar Assad Resurfaces in Moscow as Celebrity Ophthalmologist
  
• Thai bombing raids have struck near shelters for displaced people and about 50 miles away from the country’s key tourist spot of Angkor Wat.
  Continuing Cambodia–Thailand Clashes Leave 38 Dead, Border Towns Emptied Out
  
• The fight occurred during debate over proposed reforms to Mexico City’s transparency oversight agency.
  Cat fight in Mexican congress as ladies tussle, pull hair over government accountability

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• “I thought it was pretty comprehensive. And this idea, some things out in the media, it’s kind of putting out this that the military’s just picking off any boat that comes across. That’s just not true."
  Fetterman: Military Knows Who and What’s on Boats, ‘Quite Frequently’ Declines to Strike
  
• The move seeks to cut off funding and resources to the Clan del Golfo and curb its violent activities.
  Trump Designates Colombian Cartel as Foreign Terrorist Group.

• The company, WuXi AppTec, 'operates genetic testing centers established in coordination with the PLA,' lawmakers warned last year
  Chinese Investment Firm Funded By Yale and Princeton Buys Slice of Shanghai Tech Company That Works With China's Military

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The investigation could influence whether Obamacare’s enhanced premium subsidies are extended or allowed to expire, amid concerns of fraud and inefficiencies.
  House GOP Investigates Obamacare Brokers Over Fraud Allegations, Soaring Premiums.
  
• The government is standing between patients and their health care.
  Stop forcing patients to choose between pain or addiction

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• There are several theories as to what causes these flashes, but none are accepted whole-heartedly. Now a team of astronomers have looked at one flash and proposed a new theory.
  Astronomers propose a new explanation for “Bright Blue Outbursts”
  
• The location is about 50 miles to the southwest of Jezero Crater where the rover Perseverance landed.
  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high resolution camera takes its 100,000th picture

• Since it was discovered July 1 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, a telescope backed by NASA, scientists have been tracking the rare comet. (RELATED: Strange-Looking UFO Spotted Hovering Over Bogotá, Colombia In Hair-Raising Video)
  3I/ATLAS: Here’s What To Know And How You Can See Rare Interstellar Comet

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• “The world is not rooting for you—in fact, it’s deliberately rooting against you. . .The demographic shift reshaped not only who told the stories, but which stories got told...“Among sixteen tenured or tenure-track millennials, just one is a white man...“He has recurring fantasies of changing his name and moving to Thailand. . .The white men shut out of the culture industries didn’t surge into other high-status fields...That was the last time either of us saw the inside of a writer’s room.”
  The Lost Generation
  
• Christian Toto: Eco-friendly franchise delivers more sumptuous visuals, storytelling dead space
  ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Won’t Save Mother Earth
  
• The West is increasingly in the grips of a killing cult, whose champions mask terminating human life from prebirth to old age and everywhere in-between in the language of compassion and right.
  The West’s Growing Killing Cult

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