The Morning Report — 2/2/26

Good morning kids. As I and many of you for sure have pondered lo these many months going on perhaps years now if we are in a state of civil war, but for sure we are in a phase of accelerating societal breakdown. On the surface, life goes on much as it always has, kids go to school we go to work or otherwise go about our routines mostly as per usual. Beyond the violence and mayhem we are witnessing in Minneapolis and elsewhere, the most alarming aspect is the utter breakdown and corruption of our judicial system that has now been infiltrated and weaponized against us.

This here is madness and things like this more than even the open violent insurrection against law enforcement which not only represents President Trump and his policies but is supposed to represent our collective individual and societal liberties, rights and freedoms, will be and are indeed our undoing, in the here and now.

First, Judge Gregory Carro in New York State argued that Luigi Mangione, the leftist terrorist, wasn’t a terrorist because he said he wasn’t.

. . . More of the same now at the federal level where Judge Margaret Garnett, a recent Biden appointee, decided that Luigi Mangione stalking Brian Thompson in order to kill him wasn’t a “crime of violence”. . . The only thing tortured and strange here is that Democrats are trying not to pretend that they’re bailing out a leftist terrorist. Had Luigi Mangione worn a red cap and hunted down and killed a liberal judge, all of a sudden all of these rulings would be the opposite of what they are, and the ‘tortured and strange’ parts of them would be the sound of the law creaking to be bent backward the other way.

You better believe that the ICE agents who took down Good and Pretti, should some Soros prosecutor get the ball rolling are going to get the Derek Chauvin treatment if not a cell on death row. Donald Trump and Kristi Noem as well. The DemoKKKrats are already making noises about impeachement should they win back Congress this coming November and beyond that, they are itching to see those two and others dangling from a hangman's noose.

They've learned their lesson. Next time they will completely wipe out all opposition to them and seize absolute power. And anyone who objects will ironically and disgustingly be labeled as a terrorist and insurrectionist, and be subject to the harshest of penalties. Like J-6 the process will only be the beginning of the punishment.

It is clear that the Democrat Left has the ability and the willingness to mobilize an armed force of internal terrorists and insurrectionists who will do their bidding knowing they face no repercussions. At least no repercussions in the legal sense.

Can you imagine if average law abiding and armed citizens had a similar system to communicate and rapidly mobilize to be on scene to counter the criminal terrorist insurrectionists and stand shoulder to shoulder with law enforcement, or to oppose any Don Lemon squad of goons bent on invading a church service?

We are heading down that road. But considering our innate sense of morality (that has been completely burned out of the Left since childhood over the past 60 years or more) and concomitant abhorrence of violence, Perhaps it might never come to armed response.

We as a nation are coming to a crossroads. The Left uses our Constitution as both a shield and a cudgel. And bearing all of the aforementioned in mind, there's this frightening development:

Democrats spent years pushing for gun restrictions. Now they’re rushing to buy firearms and invoking Second Amendment rights after federal agents killed a licensed gun owner in Minneapolis.

The shift has drawn accusations of hypocrisy from conservative critics. Writing in The Hill, columnist Robby Soave noted that progressives “favor all sorts of restrictions on gun ownership” yet now champion constitutional gun rights following Alex Pretti’s death. The ACLU even backpedaled on whether it supports concealed carry rights for protesters, Soave wrote.

But, they will acquire and use firearms in an offensive manner and when the smoke clears claim self defense as a judge like the one who let Mangione off the hook and the one who railroaded Derek Chauvin will agree. When you have mayors and governors now openly going after and attempting to impede ICE and other federal agents from doing their duty, no doubt their armed Antifa goons and gang-bangers as in Long Beach CA will be deputized and given the full protection of a bastardized legal system.

Unfortunately or fortunately? We cannot deny anyone their second amendment right to bear arms based on their political beliefs. But considering a frighteningly large number of individuals not only want to destroy America as founded but as we have seen not just in Minneapolis but since the 1960s are willing and able to use violence to achieve their aims. Worse the Democrat Party in its eternal quest to seize absolute power is giving them political and legal cover to act as their street goons/enforcers.

If by some chance their election rigging machine fails to deliver them control of Congress, what we're seeing in Minneapolis is just a foretaste of what is to come that will be orders of magnitude worse. The President will be forced to respond and in so doing potentially play into their hands despite being completely in the right to quash an armed violent leftist/Democrat insurrection.

Friend and friend of the blog Mark Pulliam lays it all out in his latest piece, on his blog which is worthy of bookmarking and following:

. . .What happens if the Republicans lose control of Congress in the mid-terms this November?

We don’t have to wonder, because the Democrats have told us. Expect a 180-degree reversal of everything President Trump has done. We can expect as abrupt a change, on a national scale, as the radical onslaught incoming Governor Abigail Spanberger is imposing on the commonwealth of Virginia. Elections truly have consequences.

And if the Democrats re-gain the White House in 2028, things will be even worse. President Trump’s historic victory in 2024, and the MAGA agenda in general, will be foiled by the Democrats’ radical policies . . The Constitution, as we know if, would be shredded.

And for me it would essentially be the end of even the veneer of the illusion of regular order/business as usual that we barely are able to delude ourselves into believing. They will go all out to seize absolute power, crush any and all opposition and that will be that. A run of 250 years as they traipse around in the skin suit for another century or so demanding respect.

Unless something radical changes the course of history back towards sanity. As we had hoped the election, three times!, of Donald Trump would do.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Just how do they “spontaneously” materialize en masse to scream profanities, blast whistles and block official vehicles? . . . When I deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, I saw similar spotter tactics employed by any number of guerilla groups who communicated via handheld radios to initiate IEDs on roadways traveled by American troops.
  I’ve seen insurgencies up close — and anti-ICE actions look eerily familiar

• In 1776, pamphleteer Thomas Paine, in a series of essays entitled “The American Crisis,”  exhorted the besieged colonists during the Revolutionary War to stand strong in their struggle for freedom. His opening line was “These are the times that try men’s souls.” The same is true today. However bleak conditions may appear, we must remain committed to victory.
  The New American Crisis

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION




• "This opinion may strike the average person — and indeed many lawyers and judges — as tortured and strange"
  Biden Judge Protects Luigi Mangione from Death Penalty in “Tortured and Strange” Ruling, Claiming It Wasn’t a “Crime of Violence”
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• Lemon and his co-defendants could be facing months in prison for their actions.
  Unsealed Indictment Reveals Charges Against Don Lemon.

• The left cheers lawlessness abroad and at home, punishes dissent, and excuses violence—America faces decay if moral fanaticism goes unchecked.
  The War on Terror Came Home
  
• It may not even be a true story, but it teaches a lesson about when leftists resort to tactics they’d rather not experience themselves.
  When a Leftist Doxxer Gets Doxxed
  
• Martinez is one of five declared candidates for the November 2026 election to lead the city of about 450,000, having completed his Candidate Intention Statement in late 2025, according to the Long Beach City Clerk’s website. He originally posted the more than two-minute-long video message to Instagram declaring, “Long Beach needs to be ICE FREE.” He also expects to “see 55 gang leaders in front of City Hall this Monday at 5pm [sic].” (RELATED: Antifa Influencer Declares ‘Guerrilla War’ Against ICE After Minnesota Shooting)
  California Mayoral Candidate Rogelio Martinez Rallies Gang Leaders To End Federal Law Enforcement In Long Beach

• The Minneapolis-based Headwaters Foundation for Justice awarded $3,321,013 in funds and non-cash assistance since 2014 to groups that now seek to monitor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or protest the agency, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of tax filings, activists’ websites and their social media posts. One related protest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) airport led to around 100 arrests on Jan. 23. (RELATED: Radical Groups Like Renee Good’s Are Tailing ICE All Over America) (Where is the joint IRS/82nd ABN operation? - jjs)
  Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists Get $3.3 Million From Soros-Backed Charity You’ve Never Heard Of
  
• American radicals borrow the rhetoric of 1776 while channeling the chaos of 1789—and the mobs they summon won’t take orders.
  The Left’s Revolutionary Confusion

• "Trainings will not be recorded or posted online." (PATCO the union to oblivion and mass revocations of medical licenses - jjs)
  Major Nurses Union Holds Secretive Training Sessions To ‘Fight Against ICE’
  
• A failure of medical ethics that seems to be spreading. (or the Islamization/Mengele-fication of medicine - jjs)
  Nurses, Heal Thyself: Trump Derangement Syndrome Enters the Hospital
  
• West Chicago’s mayor scolded a teacher for saying “Go ICE,” twisting law enforcement into villains while shielding lawbreakers with emotion and bias.
  West Chicago, Illinois’ “Nonpartisan” Mayor Daniel Bovey Takes Anti-ICE Side Against Local Teacher
  
• Wilson’s measures aim to thwart the enforcement of federal immigration law in Seattle, despite no current evidence of a particular increase in ICE activity in the city.
  Far-Left Mayor Orders City Police to ‘Investigate’ ICE.
  
• A new survey finding points to the dangers of digital outrage culture.
  Women Are More Likely Than Men to Endorse Political Violence

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• U.S. District Court of Minnesota Judge Katherine Menendez on Saturday denied a motion to enjoin the federal government from continuing its immigration law enforcement surge in the Twin Cities.
  Federal judge denies Minnesota motion to end immigration surge
  
• President Trump’s current show of weakness on deporting illegal aliens risks splintering the Republican Party.
  Did We Just Witness Donald Trump’s ‘Read My Lips, No New Taxes!’ Moment?

• Tim Walz and many other Democrats in Minnesota bear heavy responsibility for the deaths of two Minnesotans and for putting the lives of federal law enforcement at risk.
  Peaceful ICE Arrest Of 650 Aliens In West Virginia Proves Dems Are Manufacturing Chaos In Minnesota
  
• Hispanic illegal aliens, with all their criminal pathologies and economic pressures, go to Hispanic neighborhoods—and legal Hispanics don’t like it.
  We know the identity of the Border Guards behind Pretti’s shooting, and it matters that they’re Hispanic
  
• The illegal alien in question abandoned his child while attempting to evade capture.
  Clinton-Appointed Judge Orders Illegal Released, Claims ICE ‘Traumatized’ His Son
  
• In a video clip of an interview from March, Wu is seen saying, “Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter.” (only as many as can fit up your sigmoid and in your mouth simultaneously - jjs)
  Boston Mayor Wu Claims ‘Every Single Human’ on Earth Has ‘Legal Right’ to Come to the U.S.

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• “No one wanted to put that pain on the American people again. The Democrats forced it. We were insistent that we would not allow that to happen,” the speaker added. “…Republicans are going to do the responsible thing.” The dynamic of the current government shutdown is very different from the 43-day record-breaking one last year, when the two sides deadlocked for weeks without a clear path out of it.
  Mike Johnson ‘confident’ gov’t shutdown will end Tuesday – as he shoots down Dem demands
  
• Zahui was the center of controversy last year when he tried to bar DOGE from accessing the USADF’s financial books and rejected the new chairman of the organization appointed by President Donald J. Trump.
  Govt. Official Who Tried to Bar DOGE From Inspecting His Books Pleads GUILTY to Corruption.

• Thousands are still without power, and restoration timelines could stretch out another 10 days.
  Tennessee Senator Declares War On ‘Woke’ Nashville Power Company After Week-Long Outage

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The candidacy has sparked outrage, highlighting concerns over extremism in UK politics and the legal loopholes enabling such figures to stand for election.
  Muslim Terrorist Stands for Election in Muslim Enclave.

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

• We may speak the same language, but our words don’t mean the same things.
  
  Leftist Censors Cry about Censorship
  
• "Conveniently missing from what you just showed, George, is the appellate court and a judge on the appellate court who said just a few days later there was clearly probable cause, and it wasn't even a close question," Blanche explained. “So, and by the way, a grand jury, which is what our system has set up to determine whether probable cause exists, concluded that there was probable cause. That indictment is now public. Everybody in this country can pull it up and read for themselves and see what the grand jury found that, that Mr. Lemon did.”
  Deputy AG Todd Blanche Annihilates Stephanopoulos Over Don Lemon

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• A civil lawsuit was filed in federal court on Thursday against a $60,000-a-year New York private school and a former teacher, Winston Nguyen, 39, who was arrested in June 2024 for sending nude photos of two young teenage girls in a “revenge porn blast” to his students on Snapchat.
  Girls Sue Elite NYC Prep School over Teacher Soliciting Nudes Then Distributing Them as ‘Revenge Porn’

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• Democrats spent years pushing for gun restrictions. Now they’re rushing to buy firearms and invoking Second Amendment rights after federal agents killed a licensed gun owner in Minneapolis. The shift has drawn accusations of hypocrisy from conservative critics. Writing in The Hill, columnist Robby Soave noted that progressives “favor all sorts of restrictions on gun ownership” yet now champion constitutional gun rights following Alex Pretti’s death. The ACLU even backpedaled on whether it supports concealed carry rights for protesters, Soave wrote.
  Left-Wing Groups Suddenly Discover The Second Amendment

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

• The FBI recently raided Fulton County’s Election Hub and Operations Center. What comes next?
  A Voter Fraud Reckoning in Georgia?
  
• Congratulations, Chief Justice Roberts.  You kept your hands clean.  But at what cost?
  Will New Election Evidence Damage the Supreme Court?

  POLITICS

• For more than a year now, rightwing influencers have been opening the Gates of Toledo, injecting figures who are not even plausibly rightwing, who try to secure real world political victory for liberals, and who in every ambiguous situation will always take the side of the Left, into the highest levels of rightwing discourse.
  Escape Velocity: Evaluating the first 12 months of the 2nd Trump administration (Hat tip to commenter "The Lower Depths" - jjs)
  
• Until the Trump team can override the negativity the media create—in stark opposition to the successes of his presidency—Republicans are in trouble.
  Trump’s First Year Was A Triumph, But Republicans Aren’t Acting Like It
  
• Minnesota’s political battleground sparks unrest, shapes elections, and shows how closely the nation’s future can hinge on one state.
  Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lunatics, Turning Red This Year?
  (If they can steal $9+ billion, they can steal elections, just ask Norm Coleman - jjs)

• I am the Tennessee First, Trump-supporting, Christian conservative in this race running to represent all citizens of Tennessee House District 11.
  KENNY CODY: Why I am running to represent Tennessee's 11th District in the State House

• Roger Kimball: Elite opinion hardens into “wisdom,” but conservatism thrives on realism, humor, and hard-earned limits—antidotes to the gloomy utopianism of perpetual reform.
  Conservatism’s Case for Cheerful Realism
  
• . . . I found this Nick Freitas video really helpful and I wanted to pass it along.  Nick explains a strategy for improving our representation and where to find better information about a politician's true loyalties.  (hat tip to commenter Emmie! - jjs)
  The Worst RINOs in America

  IRAN ON the BRINK?!

• Blindfolded, beaten, and silenced, Arash paid the price for asking questions the Iranian regime refused to answer.
  Inside Iran’s Notorious Section 209 Political Prison

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

• I didn’t expect to be so overcome with so many emotions.
  Recovering the Last Hostage in Gaza
  
• What kind of peace do the 'Palestinians' really want?
  Do Muslim Preachers Who Rail Against Zionism Really ‘Forget the Qur’an’?

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "We should be able to speak freely about one of the greatest medical scandals in modern history."
  Belgium Investigating Arrest And Detention Of ‘Billboard Chris’ And British Activist
  
• Brussels and Berlin are increasing regulatory pressure on European industry. 
  EU Tightens Regulatory Pressure
  
• French officials have recently introduced an aggressive social media strategy in an effort to promote the country’s political messaging and combat the spread of alleged disinformation from the U.S. and other countries, Politico reported Thursday.
  French Officials Try Outdoing Trump Admin In New Strategy

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The issue of Chinese corporate espionage has been a serious problem in the United States and in other Western nations in recent years, especially in the AI and semiconductor industries.
  Former Google Engineer Convicted of Spying for China. (Why aren't his lungs being waterboarded to mush? -jjs)

  BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH

• Can you guess the numbers?
  The Cost to Taxpayers of Afghan Refugees

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The plant will create 850 permanent jobs and 2,000 construction jobs, while advancing production capacity for obesity treatments.
  Eli Lilly Invests $3.5 Billion in America for Advanced Obesity Drugs Plant.
  
• My sources suggest that they are—and that the problems are the same seen across the rest of America.
  Are Fraud And Waste Embedded In Washington State’s Health Care Authority?

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• ...if approved, it will give SpaceX license approval to launch Starship/Superheavy as much as 146 times per year, from its launchpads at Boca Chica, Kennedy, and Cape Canaveral.
  FAA moves forward on its environmental assessment of SpaceX’s proposal to launch Starship/Superheavy from Kennedy Space Center
  
• None of this is confirmed, but Musk has not denied it either. If so, this IPO would be the largest ever in the history of the stock markets, by many magnitudes.
  Rumors: Musk is considering merging SpaceX with xAI and Tesla

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

• A psychologist and surgeon were found liable for the mutilation of a "trans" minor.
  Detransitioner Awarded Millions In First Malpractice Verdict: ‘This Is How It All Ends’

  
  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Melania is set to haul in more than $8 million in its opening weekend, which would be the best at the box office for a documentary in the last decade. A humble Ratner told Breitbart News via a phone interview Saturday that he gives “all the credit” to the first lady, the film’s subject, for its extremely successful box office performance.
  Exclusive: ‘Melania’ Director Brett Ratner Gives First Lady ‘All the Credit’ for Documentary’s Opening Weekend Success
  
• "That's the left's Charlie Kirk. They're gonna get shirts 'I am Renee Good. I am a dumb, retarded lesbian.' Get your shirts right now. Benbankas.com," he continued. "I mean, if you watch the footage, she should have been shot ten minutes before that. The way she was acting, driving around with cops, and they gave her a break. They didn't shoot her right away because they're like oh, she's a dumb, retarded, crazy lesbian; she doesn't know what she's doing; she's white, so she's never committed a crime before... they gave her the benefit of the doubt."   
  Comedian's Sold-Out Minnesota Shows Canceled... Because He Made a Joke

• Thad McCotter: What once seemed a frantic modern world now looks quaint, as technology and postmodern ideology combine to turn everyday life into a nonstop sprint of stress, indulgence, and negation.
  Koyaanisqatsi Reconsidered
  
• Hillary speaks, but she doesn’t listen. She half-absorbs events and the lives of other people, and coughs out a kind of instinctive Reader’s Digest annotated version, but mangles all the details as efficiently as bad AI.
  Saint Hillary Is Here To Tell You You’re A Terrible Christian
  
• Christian Toto: Why did comedy maestro change his tune on classic western spoof?
  Mel Brooks Does Shocking 180 on ‘Blazing Saddles’

  HITHER & YON

• In no particular order, here are 10 great Justice Alito quotes to commemorate his 20 years on the Supreme Court.
  Here Are 10 Great Justice Alito Quotes To Mark His 20 Years On The Supreme Court
  
• Look at the reasons it ticked closer to midnight this year.
  The ‘Doomsday Clock’ Ticks Down Again — Here’s Why That Is Good News
  
• Daniel Greenfield: But the more the fake clock ticks, the safer we are.
  The ‘Doomsday Clock’ is Running Out of Seconds

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