The Morning Report — 12/23/25

Good morning kids. It's Christmas eve EVE, and so with that in mind I'm going to try to keep the editorials through the end of the week a bit shorter if at all possible, breaking and/or critical news items deserving of further exploration notwithstanding.

And away we go. I don't claim t be an expert on defense issues, but this move on the part of President Trump just makes no sense to me.

President Donald J. Trump has revealed plans for the U.S. Navy to develop a new line of “Trump-class” battleships, starting with the construction of two vessels. The America First leader shared the news from his Mar-a-Lago resort, where he is vacationing over the holidays, joined by War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Navy Secretary John Phelan. Trump described the vessels as components of a new “Golden Fleet,” with ambitions to produce up to 25 such battleships. He stated that these would be the “largest we’ve ever built.”“They will have 100 times the force, the power, and there’s never been anything like these ships,” Trump said. “We envision that these two ships will be the first of a whole new class of battleships that will be produced in the years to come.”The lead vessel in the class will bear the name USS Defiant. This development follows shortly after the Navy abandoned efforts to develop a different, smaller warship due to escalating expenses and extended timelines.

Hey, I ain't no Alfred Thayer Mahan but in the immortal words of Isoroku Yamamoto via Toshiro Mifune "R-U-F-K-M?! don't bogart the wasabi, Nagumo!"

Will dressing up like Teddy Roosevelt and running up a White House stairway as if it were San Juan Hill (watch Arsenic & Old Lace), while deploying a great white, er Golden, fleet really deter Xi and the Chi-Coms? Will it help get out the vote 11 months from now? Maybe in Newport News or Pascagoula (assuming they still build ships there?).

Meanwhile in the all American town of Lawrence, Massachusetts:

Mayor Brian DePena appeared in court on Friday, where he required a translator to participate in proceedings at a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission proceeding on Friday.

The hearing concerned former Lawrence Police Chief William Castro, a political ally of DePena, who was stripped of his policing credentials following an improper police chase. Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase and filing a false police report, claiming he was responding to an armed bank robbery when he had actually been responding to someone attempting to cash a bad check . . . DePena testified on Castro’s behalf during the commission proceeding, but it was the mayor’s request to use a translator that drew significant attention. . . DePena is a native of the Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York in the early 1980s before settling in Lawrence in 1989. Over 80 percent of the city’s population is now Hispanic, according to the US Census.  

The mayor of an American town cannot even speak English. Forget illegal immigration, this fool is a Legal Immigrant. both my parents' families (my father's side escaping the pogroms of Ukraine at the turn of he last century and my mother's side barely surviving the death camps of the Nazis,) came here to embrace and become fully American. Initially they barely spoke English but quickly learned enough to find work and support families while instilling the ideals and culture of this ountry on their children.

That an illiterate unassimilated foreigner was elected to public office by an equally alien electorate in our country is among if not its greatest failings in its history.

Wow, it looks as if the 2020 election was indeed stolen. I'm sure you're all shocked!!! I know I am.

And Mike Pence and George Conway can go pump each other.

And more "Walzing Muh shill dough" this time up in Maine. Funny how these desert dwellers all wind up living here in states that can get about as cold as the Arctic Circle.

But best not talk about it because that can be very unhealthy.

And speaking of health, Bernie Sanders is cancer, so all he's doing here is protecting his own. But you young people go out and pimp socialism as the last best hope for humanity:

Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities.

Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies.

His complaint: the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act, named for a teen cancer patient who died while advocating for its passage, is a pared-down version of a previous package that included other health-care measures as well, including funding for community health centers.

Without those add-ons, he’s withholding support of a bill that was teed up to pass easily — and that even he otherwise supported.
Yet without his vote, it didn’t win unanimous backing, so it’ll now have to make its way through a much more arduous procedural process when Congress reconvenes next year. . .Pray it doesn’t cost the lives of any kids who could’ve benefited. But make no mistake: This is super-villain behavior, as more rational lawmakers pointed out.

Right-wing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who also supports funding community health centers, fumed: “To say that you’re not going to give a chance for children to have a cure for cancer if you don’t get what you want” is “selfish” and “tragic.” Amen to that.

Up yours NY Post for describing Bill Cassidy as "Right Wing," which by doing that is essentially saying Nazi/fascist/racist etc, ad nauseum One day, if Bernie and Mamdani take over, you can do like they do in England when you have a toothache. Make like Moe howard did to Curly, and tie one end of a string to your rotten tooth and the other to a doorknob.

Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.

Just wait until we have "Free" healthcare here and free housing, education and food like every other "civilized nation" such as Cuba does as I have seen posted too many times by a bevy of scumbag leftists on Twitter and elsewhere. Yeah, life is such a paradise in Havana and Pyongyang but you insist on staying here in evil and illegitimate America.

Have a great day!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Glenn H. Reynolds: Because the DEI fad didn’t just wreck American lives. It went a long way toward wrecking America.
  DEI hollowed out a generation — and sapped America’s promise

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Finally, the multiculturalism cult is dying as the predictably wretched results are becoming painfully clear beyond what the leftist media could hope to hide.
  The death of multiculturalism will save America
  
• Race discrimination is illegal and unconstitutional regardless of ‘equitable’ motives. 
  Why Hasn’t Trump’s CDC Ditched This Rule That Punishes Neighborhoods For Being Too White?

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

• The small expense is far less than the cost of chasing and deporting migrants — and it comes amid growing economic pressure on migrants who are losing jobs and housing amid President Donald Trump’s enforcement of the nation’s popular migration laws.
  DHS Offers Illegal Immigrants a $3,000 ‘Holiday Stipend’ for Self-Deportation
  
• Mayor Brian DePena immigrated to the United States in the 1980s.
  Massachusetts Mayor Can’t Understand English, Needs Translator In Court

• Two officers and Romero sustained non-life threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital.
  Illegal Rams ICE Agents in Walz’s Minnesota, Officer Bitten, Shots Fired.

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

•  Letting the jihadis write the histories.
  Qatar-Funded Curriculum Materials in NYC Twist the Truth of 9/11
  
• A briefing for federal and state officials and policymakers.
  Connecting the Dots from Hamas to CAIR

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

• “In other words, James Burnham was wrong. . . The JQ absolves America. . . The JQ begs the GQ. . . There are good arguments for and against continuing Israeli aid.”
  The Return of the Jewish Question

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

• Not only did the Obama and Biden juntas go to great lengths to protect Hillary Clinton, they went to unconstitutional lengths to get Trump.
  New Docs Reveal Shocking Lengths Obama And Biden Went To Protect Hillary Clinton, Get Trump

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The allegations highlight concerns over the misuse of taxpayer funds in the Somali community, and raise questions about oversight in Maine’s Medicaid and welfare systems.
  Somali ‘Medicaid Mogul’ Accused of Fraud, Family Allegedly Put Bounty on Reporter.

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Many have sought to balance their portfolios with gold and silver as a hedge for future turbulence.
  Gold, Silver Prices Reach New Highs to Reemerge as Hedge

• South Korea is using “fairness” laws as economic weapons—targeting U.S. firms with raids and threats—turning a key alliance into a test of whether free trade still means fair play.
  South Korea’s Betrayal of American Companies

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The 30-year-old transgender man legally changed his name and sex in 2023, about a year before murdering his elderly parents Joseph and Gail Bailey, according to St. George News.
  Trans Convict Who Fatally Shot His Parents in the Head Converts to Islam, Requests Death Penalty but Gets 25 to Life

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

• Though Google already owns a majority stake in the company, the deal will further support the Big Tech company’s build-out of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure while keeping Intersect’s operations separate, according to Alphabet. As America’s energy demand climbs while projected AI data center needs skyrocket, Big Tech has been searching for reliable electricity sources — with some companies looking to resurrect nuclear plants.
  Tech Behemoth Gobbles Up Power Company In $5 Billion Deal To Juice Data Centers
  
• Alfonsi's immigration piece needed additional reporting, Editor in Chief Bari Weiss told CBS staff
  '60 Minutes' Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, Who Cried Foul Over Delayed Immigration Piece, Was Behind 'Intentionally False' Hit Piece on Ron DeSantis That Even Democrats Said Was Wrong

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

• National security concerns with Virginia Wind have been documented by the Navy for years
  Public Interest Groups Applaud the Trump Administration's Order Halting the Virginia Wind Project.. “The CVOW and the other wind facilities at issue are dangerous boondoggles, posing a clear and present danger to U.S. national security, in addition to endangering protected marine mammals. There is no economic justification for CVOW. The power it provides will compromise the electric power grid while causing electric prices to skyrocket.

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Many American public schools have become perverse, left-wing failure factories, putting the nation at risk.
  “Stupid in America” Turns 20
  
• Students need orderly classrooms to learn.
  Why Southern States Are Outperforming Others in Education

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

• After five years, people are starting to learn the truth about Georgia’s 2020 election.
  2020 GA Election Fraud is Confirmed
  
• Clayton County resident Melanie Pickett is a Bahamian native but has lived in the Peach State for approximately 30 years.
  Noncitizen Says She Voted In Multiple Georgia Elections: ‘They Gave Me A Paper To Sign’
  
• In a major win for the integrity of Ohio’s elections, Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation on Friday that requires all mail-in ballots to be received by the end of Election Day.
  Ohio Enacts ‘Commonsense’ Law Requiring All Mail Ballots Be Returned By Election Day
  
• ‘… Our leaders uncovered an army of Michiganders eager to join our opposition once they learned the truth about Ranked Choice Voting,’ Patrice Johnson said.
  Michigan Election Integrity Warriors Stop ‘Disastrous’ Ranked-Choice Voting Drive

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• The mass defection comes in the wake of Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s video defense of Tucker Carlson
  Heritage Foundation Scholars Jump to Mike Pence’s Group in ‘Reorganization of the Conservative Movement’

  POLITICS

• “The InsiderAdvantage poll shows stronger numbers for the president than those reflected in RealClearPolling’s national average, which shows him with a 44 percent approval rating and a 53 percent disapproval rating as of early Monday afternoon,” Breitbart explained.
  Trump Just Got Some Good News About His Approval Numbers
  
• Midterms punish complacency, and without turnout, message discipline, and an affordability agenda, Republicans risk a 2026 defeat that hands Democrats Congress and the future.
  How Trump Can Turn the Midterms Around

• Conway, who lives in Bethesda, Md., an affluent Washington, D.C. suburb, will vie in a crowded Democratic primary to represent a deep-blue Manhattan district to succeed Democrat New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who is retiring. The vocal Trump critic is likely to frame his congressional run around his top attorney credentials and willingness to serve as legal pitbull against Trump in Congress. (RELATED: George Conway Comes Out As Antifa At ‘No Kings’ Rally)
  George Conway Officially Running For Congress Months After Coming Out As Antifa
  
• Crossing off train set on my letter to Santa and requesting a meteor shower - jjs
  Zohran Mamdani to Be Sworn In by Bernie Sanders, NY AG Letitia James

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• This marks the second sanctioned oil tanker seizure near Venezuela in recent days, increasing tensions with the Maduro regime.
  U.S. Targets Third Oil Tanker Near Venezuela.

• The approval increases the number of settlements in the West Bank by nearly 50 percent under the current government.
  Israel Approves 19 New Settlements in the West Bank.
  
• The final desperate act of a dying regime.
  Iran’s Currency Collapse
  
• . . .the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, which has been shut down ever since the earthquake that caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
  Japan Ready to Restart World’s Largest Nuclear Reactor 15 Years After Fukushima Disaster

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The announcement signals a significant expansion of the U.S. Navy’s capabilities with plans for up to 25 new battleships.
  WATCH: POTUS Unveils Plans for ‘Golden Fleet’ of ‘Trump-Class’ Battleships.

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• After Mikaela's death, the House passed the renamed bill unanimously. Every senator but one was ready to do the same.
  Bernie Sanders Singlehandedly Kills Pediatric Cancer Bill
  (Bernie Sanders IS cancer - jjs)
  
• Ebenezer Scrooge has nothing on Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is thwarting cancer treatment for kids in a possibly futile attempt to get Congress to pass his priorities. Last week, the Vermont socialist was the sole vote opposed to fast-tracking legislation that will make it easier for kids with cancer to access treatments and clinical trials and incentivize companies to develop pediatric therapies.
  Bernie Sanders is blocking cancer treatment for kids for his own selfish reasons

• Many reporters have taken KFF’s claim that ‘premium payments will double’ to mean that total ‘premiums will double,’ but that’s just not true.
  The Health Care-Industrial Complex Is Lying About Obamacare Premiums Doubling — And They Know It
  
• American health care's 340B drug scandal makes the Somalian grift look like small potatoes.
  Enriching hospitals at taxpayer expense

• Dentists refuse to provide free dental care creating a major dentist shortage.
  UK ‘Free Health Care’ Leads to People Pulling Out Their Own Teeth (Image of Moe Howard tying one end of a string to Curly's molar and the other end to a doorknob-jjs)

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• After being asked by Mrs. Erika Kirk to share her advice for young men, Minaj replied, “Don’t be Newscum” — referring to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) — eliciting cheers from the AmericaFest audience.
  Nicki Minaj Urges Men to Look to ‘Amazing Role Models’ Trump & Vance at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest
  
• What the pundits don't understand is that we don't care about their feuds, not really. We have our own lives.
  Turning Point's pundit wars and the battle for America's youth

• Paramount announced that Ellison — whose son, David Ellison, serves as the company’s chairman and CEO — “had agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee” for the bid in a Monday press release. The elder Ellison’s cash-backing comes days after WBD asked its shareholders to reject a $108 billion Paramount offer to assume control of all of WBD’s assets, Reuters reported. 
  Pro-Trump Billionaire Larry Ellison Puts $40,000,000,000 On Line In Battle With Netflix
  
• Federal funding for Smithsonian museums is now conditioned on adherence to President Donald J. Trump’s executive order and compliance with the review process.
  Trump Admin to Cut Smithsonian Funding for Refusing to Comply with DEI Review.

• Christian Toto: New study reveals landscape's shocking, inescapable liberal bias
  Late-Night Hosts Go Silent on Massive Minnesota Fraud
  
• Her apology was insufficient, because for an apology to be true, it must be done face-to-face with the injured party. Posting something on line accomplishes nothing. The right way for Ponce to have apologied would be for her to find Beeman, to apologize to her personally and publicly, to shake hands, and then to work to encourage a dialogue between them. If Ponce's employer demanded that from her -- instead of firing her -- we might actually be moving back to a society of good will. And demanding such in the Christmas season would have been wholly appropriate and fitting.
  There is little good will on the left, and the right seems eager to lose it too

• The NY Times along with this twisted subhuman courveh and everyone who follows her cannot be composted fast enough for the betterment of humanity - jjs
  Degenerate Lowlife 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Mourns Cop-Killer Who Escaped to Cuba

• The woke Grinches wish you a very equitable Christmas.
  Decolonizing Father Christmas
  
• "In particular, we think of the people of 'Palestine,' Ukraine, and Sudan, our own history marked by forced immigration and loss," she said.
  Ireland’s New President Fails To Mention Jesus In Christmas Message, Praises ‘Diversity’

  HITHER & YON

• Will upgrades to safety and air traffic control systems ease concerns?
  Americans Still Have A Fear Of Flying, But They’ll Fly Anyway This Holiday Season: I&I/TIPP Poll

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