The Morning Report — 5/ 21/26

Good morning kids, and apologies in advance, as it's going to be another one of those nothing but scum on parade posts to whet your appetite or induce projectile vomiting before or during your breakfast. On a positive note, President Donald Trump despite the ongoing muddied and muddled state of affairs with Iran has done more to bring about peace and security in service to our real national interests than perhaps any president since Ronald Reagan if not since the end of the Second World War. Finally, after 66 years ir looks as if the Socialist hellhole of an island gulag, Cuba might actually be on the brink of at least overthrowing the Communist dictatorship and breathing free once again. Certainly removing the Maduro regime in Venezuela as well as severely crippling their Iranian benefactors have brought Cuba to the verge of liberation.

With that , President Trump has issued an arrest warrant for Raul Castro, for his involvement in international terrorism and narco-trafficking.

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro with ordering the 1996 shootdown of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles, a major escalation of pressure by the Trump administration on the socialist government. President Donald Trump has set a calamitous energy blockade on the island and has been threatening military action ever since U.S. forces captured the Cuban government’s longtime patron, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. . . Top Communist Party leader praises Raúl Castro, says Cubans will defend his legacy ‘at any cost’ . . . Cuban president condemns Castro indictment

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the indictment of Raúl Castro and accused the U.S. of lying and manipulating the events of 1996. He called it “a political action without any legal basis” that only seeks to “bolster the case they are fabricating to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba.”

The question is how are we going to actually slap the cuffs on him, since as with Nicolas Maduro it would obviously entail some form of military action. While the operation in Venezuela that led to his apprehension was minimal and textbook, Attempting the same in Cuba might be much more problematic. This is a smart military blog after all so I'll leave it to the commenters here who have given us that reputation to discuss how best to bring about Castro's capture and the downfall of the regime as quickly and neatly as possible.

And with that, we now come to scumbag number one for the day:

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) discussed possible legal action against Raul Castro and said that “Legal accountability is critical. And, by the way, the Trump administration people may think about that as they undertake illegal wars and illegal actions, for example, the double-tap strike on the two individuals, the drug runners who were clinging to a sinking boat.” And “It is possible that Raul Castro undertook criminal activities, not a concept that would be entirely foreign to the occupant of the Oval Office himself.”

Yeah, nice subtle way to slander our President while weeping for the criminals poisoning our people, you degenerate filth. And with that we slide right into the next greasy shitstain on society.

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” political commentator Stacey Abrams said Democrats have to “fight back against” President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian regime.” . . . Abrams said, “Well, Ana, that’s the work that I’m doing with the 10 Steps Campaign. We are fighting to show that Democrats and people who believe in democracy can fight back against an authoritarian regime that is doing everything in its power to create harm and chaos. I’m here right now because we believe that in Georgia and across the country, the — the false incarceration of families and children show that we have to stand up for and defend our people, that we can have safe borders without denying the humanity of the people that we serve. And so what Democrats have to do in Georgia and across the country is actually fight. We have to show that we will make certain that democracy delivers . .

That Democrats deliver fake ballots by the tractor-trailer load like they did in 2020 as well as real bullets like in Butler Pa, and at synagogues, churches, pregnancy crisis enters and schools by transexual maniacs and others. . .

As a not unrelated aside, it turns out that theSan Diego Mosque gunmen weren't exactly the islamophobes the Democrat/Leftist/Media/Propagand complex painted them out to be!

The obligatory mass-shooter manifesto has been recovered in the wake of Monday’s San Diego mosque shooting carried out by two teenage losers, and predictably, it is a testament of nihilistic rage directed at just about everybody and everything. Apparently the truth can be ignored, because this is an absurd smear. There is no “state-funded demonization of Muslim Americans.” The San Diego mosque shooting notwithstanding, there is no climate of “anti-Muslim bigotry” in America. There is no such thing as Islamophobia, the “irrational fear of Islam.” There most certainly is, however, a growing, justifiable frustration among American patriots who are fed up with surging Islamic supremacism, Islamic antisemitism, the demonstrable threat of spreading sharia, and outright Islamic terrorism not only in this country but throughout the Western world. Based on their own statements in the manifesto, the Jew-haters Clark and Vasquez were more likely to attack a synagogue than a mosque; in fact, the manifesto confirms that they hoped to have opportunities to hit “a diverse selection of targets,” but proximity may have prompted them to target the Islamic Center of San Diego first (it’s in the same neighborhood as the house where Clark lived).

Psaki-Psircling back to Tank Abrams, it's noxious blathering like her oral flatus that drives maniacs like the ones in San Diego which was a one-off of extreme rarity, compared to Leftist violence (and the San Diego duo are freaks who have been disowned by everyone on our side of the divide, although that is never reported of course) which is praised and even sanctioned by Democrats and Leftists at every level of influence...

And with that, it brings us to our final emetic of the day:

Two police officers who defended the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, are suing the Trump administration in an attempt to block a new $1.8 billion Justice Department compensation fund designed to provide relief to Americans the administration says were targeted by politically motivated Biden-era prosecutions. Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges filed suit this week against President Donald Trump, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, claiming the administration lacks the authority to establish what critics have labeled an “anti-weaponization” fund without congressional approval.The lawsuit argues the fund could ultimately compensate some January 6 defendants and members of “paramilitary groups,” with the officers warning it could embolden political violence.

I imagine somewhere up in Heaven, Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland are looking down and shrieking "you bastards can go straight to Hell!!!"

I know I am. And hopefully the murdeous Michael Byrd, who executed n unarmed and harmless, Ms. Babbitt in cold blood, will descend to a fiery damnation before too long, having escaped justice in this world, aided and abetted by a system that enabled the murder of those women and the persecution and ruination of hundreds of other decent American citizens on that black day. What happened on 1/6 was engineered by and/or approved by none other than Malig-Nancy Pelosi herself. Her complicity or dereliction of duty in the proper deployment of the Capitol Police and refusal to allow National Guard Troops to secure the area resulted in the chaos and indeed she used that as pretext to declare an insurrection wanting to use it as a political weapon with which to destroy President Trump and indeed all political opposition to the Democrat Party if not to seize power with her bony claws and never let go.

Along with their aiding and abetting the Dresdenization of America's cities during the summer of 2020, the events of that black day of 1/6 underscores the lack of trust in law enforcement and our justice system — not only by those who become "involved" with it but by ordinary law-abiding Americans who want nothing more than to be left alone to go about their lives and whose taxes have paid for their own abuse, at the hands of said corrupt justice system and of course by an out of control bureaucracy.

Okay, I'm exhausted.

¡Cuba Libre!

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: The 'Thucydides Trap' is a misread of history: wars are not inevitable between rising and ruling powers, and today’s US-China balance points more to deterrence than destiny.
  America Is Not Caught in a ‘Thucydides Trap!’

AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!
• Ahmadinejad has been an ardent anti-U.S. critic, according to public statements that he made in the past.
  US, Israel Reportedly Floated Installing Ex-Iranian President As New Leader

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

• Defined by what they hated.
  The Mosque Shooters’ Manifesto
  
• And so what Democrats have to do in Georgia and across the country is actually fight. We have to show that we will make certain that democracy delivers, (tens of thousands of fake ballots, or mass murdering antifa jihadists - jjs)
  Bloated Shambling Shit-Stain "Tank" Abrams: Dems Have to Fight Back Against Trump’s ‘Authoritarian Regime’
  
• Once you create a moral framework in which violence is not merely understandable but righteous — once you argue that certain institutions are so corrupt, so "murderous," that the people who participate in them deserve to be killed — you are no longer condemning violence. You are licensing it. (What if the allegations are true, as when Democrats rile?! - jjs)
  When Political Violence Becomes Acceptable, It Becomes Inevitable
  
• SPLC’s game plan became ‘we’re going to create the crisis, we’re going to manufacture the crisis,’ said Chairman Jim Jordan.
  Democrats Protect SPLC By Trying To Censor Truth About ‘Very Fine People’ Hoax From Congressional Record
  
• "At the rate we're going, we could see 4 or 5 more attempts on Trump's life."
  VDH Video: Radical Leftist Assassination Culture in America
  
• The Islamic-Leftist assault on freedom of thought and expression.
  The Death of Dissent
  
• When it comes to moronic political stunts, the NAACP’s call for a black boycott of athletic programs at southern universities is hard to beat.  
  NAACP’s moronic ‘voting rights’ boycott will only hurt black teen athletes
  
• It’s not just crackpot antisemite podcaster Candace Owens who is giving Hunter Biden uncritical attention so he can rewrite history. Inexplicably, top Trump administration officials are also validating the former crackhead first son’s outrageous lie that he was prosecuted only because he was Joe Biden’s son.
  Miranda Devine: Hunter Biden benefiting from Trump’s noble ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ would be a slap in the face

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Under Trump’s position, America is training its chief adversary’s rising intellectuals to help the CCP outflank the United States in AI development.
  If Beating China At AI Is Paramount, Why Are We Training Their Students At Our Universities?

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• A traditionalist constitutional conservative analysis continues.
  Part II: The Politicization of the Federal Courts During the Second Trump Presidency

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• How long can a nation endure the presence within it of those who hate it?
  The Red/Green Axis Comes Out in Force in New York City
  
• The origins of the dangerous myth of “Abrahamic Religions”.
  The “Muslim Catholic” Who Invented the Christian-Muslim Relationship

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• Democrat Reps. Jared Moskowitz of Florida and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey vowed to force a vote on expelling her from the House if she were to be sworn in, arguing that her statement were “insane” and “antisemitic.”
  Democrats Descend Into Circular Firing Squad Over Their Candidate Who Wants To Put ‘American Zionists’ In Prison
  
• Mamdani recently said at Sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani’s mosque that 'It feels like returning home to be here'
  Zohran Mamdani Paid Multiple Visits to Holocaust-Denying Sheikh Who Claimed Jewish Death Toll 'Was Exaggerated' and 'Done By Zionists,' Called for More 'Study'

  J-6 FBI/PELOSI-ENGINEERED FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH,

• The officers called the fund "the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century."
  J6 Officers Sue Trump Over $1.8B ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund

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

• The charges against Lineberger, which include theft of government property and altering public records, validate concerns over officials’ handling of sensitive government materials. The indictment is likely to cast further doubt on the impartiality of the DOJ’s now-defunct case against President Trump.
  Ex-Prosecutor Charged With Stealing Trump Case Documents Authored by Jack Smith.

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

• The Post is such a failure it has lost around a quarter of a billion — with a “B” — dollars since 2023. Since 2022, the Post has laid off around 40 percent of its staff. Still, this guy is asking, “Why lay people off?” Imagine those losses without the layoffs.
  Jeff Bezos Refuses to Subsidize Failing Washington Post
  
• A controversy that highlights the truth about DEI.
  The New York Times Hunts for an Anonymous White Male Dissent
  
• Some might say that social media is good. It connects us, educates us, and makes us more tolerant by expanding our social circle to include people of different races, religions, ethnic backgrounds, sexual preferences, etc.  That is total BS. The reality is that social media connects sick, twisted, deviant people who, prior to social media, could only meet on darkened street corners, wearing long raincoats and carrying paper bags with porn or other paraphernalia used by pedos, perverts, and purveyors of the prurient.
  A 'Mangionista' Press Corps of Groupies and Genuine Crackpots

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The significant reduction in violent crime is a major boost for law enforcement and public safety, with the data suggesting that reforms within the FBI and its collaboration with local agencies are yielding tangible results.
  FBI Reports Biggest Drop in Violent Crime Since 1937.

• . . . allegations that she buried investigations into Microsoft’s cybersecurity failures before landing a top job at the tech giant, according to a letter from the American Accountability Foundation.
  Biden Deputy AG Lisa Monaco Referred to DOJ over Alleged Microsoft Cover-Up

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Campus networks and diaspora groups groomed two citizens for radical violence that led to their deaths.
  Inside The Filipino Communists Recruiting Americans For Death Missions
  
• “Do you believe the federal government should provide student loans and financial aid to college programs where graduates do not earn higher incomes?”
  Voters Back Federal Student Loans, But Want Parents, Schools To Focus On Degrees That Pay: I&I/TIPP Poll

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• The subpoenas demanding buyer names, addresses, and serial numbers from every New Jersey Glock dealer aren’t just about crime.
  New Jersey Uses Glock Lawsuit To Build The Gun Registry Politicians Always Denied Wanting
  
• If successful, the lawsuit could overturn FOID’s requirements to own a firearm, potentially setting a precedent for similar laws in other states. The FOID Act has been in effect since 1968, so overturning the law would mark a significant change for the state. Illinois is not the only Democrat-run state that has pursued questionable gun laws.
  Dem State Sued for Forcing Gun Owners to Carry ID Cards.

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• Manhertz faces two charges: one count of casting a fraudulent ballot and one count of illegal voting by an alien. This case strengthens the argument for stricter voter ID at elections. It also underscores the problem with relying on the honesty of applicants to confirm their citizenship. President Donald J. Trump has pursued a number of election integrity measures, including a ballot security executive order which a coalition of left-wing activist groups are trying to block via the courts.
  DHS Arrests Canadian for Voting Illegally in U.S. Elections.

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Graham Platner's campaign has been plagued by his derogatory comments about women.
  Dem Candidate Complained About Thai Prostitute ‘Loophole’ Closing
  
• Platner aggressively disputed the idea that the SEALs he encountered in Iraq were ‘amazing heroes,’ saying ‘this is the exact opposite of my experience’
  Graham Platner Smeared Murdered ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle in Podcast Rant, Claiming Navy SEAL Shot Innocent Civilians ‘To Get High Numbers’
  
• Platner said the Army 'attracts a lower standard of person' and called military officers 'gay'
  Graham Platner Disparaged Army Soldiers in Deleted Reddit Posts: 'Full of Fat, Lazy Trash Who Would Rather Not Be in Uniform'
  
• One Colorado compliance consultant called Manny Rutinel's stunt 'definitely illegal': 'He was there in his official capacity, but yet he used material to produce something for fundraising'
  Colorado Dem Uses State Capitol for Campaign Video in Apparent Violation of State Law

  POLITICS

• Thomas Massie embodies George Carlin’s observation: “People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.” ...After all, Massie’s performative brand of anti-conformity doesn’t work without an audience — and after 14 years in Congress, his national platform has never been greater. If you think he’ll squander this opportunity to slop pigs in Kentucky, you’re flippin’ nuts.
  Why Thomas Massie Wanted to Lose
  
• After losing his primary to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein,  incumbent U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is about to have a lot more time on his hands to hate Jews and pretend he cares about Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.
  Disgraced Jew-baiter Thomas Massie Humiliated by 10 Point Loss
  
• “It couldn’t win the wars it started...A strictly oppositionist ideology could find a niche in the GOP...This vision was adapted to the dark side of globalism...Anti-Zionism already has a home in Democrat primaries.”
  Thomas Massie’s Dead-End Libertarianism
  
• Massie lost because he went from being perceived as a quirky but lovable nerd who seemed to genuinely believe everything he said, to looking like a clout-chasing influencer who cared more about getting TV time with Democrats on an issue he clearly never cared about until five minutes ago than he did about representing his voters.
  Why Thomas Massie Lost
  
• Maybe it’s time for South Dakotans to reconsider the candidate they’re sending to the Senate...
  Thune fumes about Trump endorsing Ken Paxton

• Georgia voters rejected two left-leaning state Supreme Court candidates backed by Barack Obama and Kamala Harris.
  Democrats Quietly Took A Big Loss In Battleground State
  
• The results of Tuesday’s races guarantee that the Georgia Supreme Court will remain in conservative hands through 2028.
  Conservative Candidates Sweep Georgia Supreme Court Elections
  
• The President endorsed Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate, and the Bush-era Republican establishment is shrieking in disgust.
  Texas, it's our turn to prove that the GOP's 'old guard' is finished
  
• Most Senate Republicans are angrier at Cornyn’s and Cassidy’s prospective ousters than their shared history of betraying GOP voters.
  RINO Crash Out Over Trump’s Paxton Endorsement Shows How Much The GOP Hates Its Voters

• Governor McMaster summoned state legislators for a special session after a small number of Republican-in-name-only (RINO) state senators sided with the Democrats to block a previous redistricting measure.
  South Carolina House Passes Redistricted Midterms Map.
  
• Democrats are counting on the jungle primary crowding one or both Republican gubernatorial candidates off the ballot, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
  A Republican Can Be California’s Next Governor If Republicans Turn Out
  
• Nine of the ten cities were located in Republican-controlled states with the first and second-ranked cities in Indiana while another three communities were in Texas.
  Red across America Best US cities have conservative mayors and are in GOP-led states: report

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Folks, I think we've officially reached the tipping point when it comes to the fall of communist Cuba. If anyone else was president, I wouldn't buy it myself, but Donald Trump is, and I do. Ironically, it happened on May 20, when the country should be celebrating its independence, but it's a day that the regime refuses to acknowledge.
  Cuba Falling: Today Is 'the Beginning of the End' — and Rubio's Powerful Message
  
• President Donald Trump has set a calamitous energy blockade on the island and has been threatening military action ever since U.S. forces captured the Cuban government’s longtime patron, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
  The Latest: US indicts former Cuban President Raúl Castro over 1996 downing of planes
  
• It is possible that Raul Castro undertook criminal activities, not a concept that would be entirely foreign to the occupant of the Oval Office himself. (drop dead Himes - jjs)
  Democrat Traitor Scum (BIRM) Himes on Raul Castro: He Might Have Broken Law, Trump Admin. Did ‘Illegal Actions’ on ‘Drug Runners’
  
• “A deal is a deal, and the E.U. honours its commitments,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on social media. “I welcome the agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council on reducing tariffs for U.S. industrial exports to the E.U.”
  E.U. Finally Strikes Deal on U.S. Trade Pact Ahead of Trump’s Tariff Hike Deadline
  
• Gen Z ignorance about V-E Day signifies a broader effort to erase England’s past.
  Why Young Britons Don’t Know Their History
  
• Europe is the ‘jungle’ now. No garden left to speak of.
  Irrelevant Europe
  
• What a Four-and-a-Half-Hour Podcast Revealed About the State of German Democracy. (the length of the show alone! - jjs)
  The Supervised Public Sphere

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY

• The fight is not about Gaza. It is about reality itself.
  “Rape is Just Part of War”

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• . . . spreading faster than anticipated, but the wider world still has no reason to fear the disease will spread beyond the DRC and neighboring Uganda.
  W.H.O. Says Ebola Global Threat ‘Low’ as Cases Surge in DR Congo

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

• The ruling forces CHC to resume providing these controversial treatments while a lower court finalizes an injunction. This decision sets a precedent for how state anti-discrimination laws can override federal guidance, raising concerns for healthcare providers navigating conflicting legal and ethical obligations.
  State Supreme Court Orders Children’s Hospital to Administer Gender Transition Drugs to Kids.
  
• The fear of lawsuits tramples girls’ constitutional rights to privacy.
  Cabarrus School Board And NC Attorney General Betray North Carolina’s Daughters
  
• As we all know by now, the most ironic thing about feminist tropes is how often they revolve around men. Either they pantomime us, define themselves around our (mis)behavior, or join pout circles in which our behavior is more often than not the focus. Even so-called independent women are defined in terms of men, ie, not needing no man.
  What Has Women’s Studies Gotten Us? Blame Men

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The far-Left host hid [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden's cognitive decline (until he couldn't)
  Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The End of ‘Cheap Fakes’ Lie
  
• “Those comments were not productive in the sense that they caused more harm than good,” Wilson told the New York Times.
  Socialist Seattle mayor walks back stinging Starbucks comments, as fears mount coffee giant may pull out of liberal city
  
• Jordan Randall’s 2023 novel Pinkface follows Alfred Hall, a wealthy suburban high school senior who, after being rejected from his backup college, pretends to transition into a woman in an attempt to gain an advantage in admissions—only to go viral and unexpectedly become a prominent public figure within the trans community.
  EXCLUSIVE: Woke DC Coffee Chain Sued After Dropping Author Over Transgender Book
  
• An interview on a very American and very theological quarrel.
  The Pope and the President
  
• Christian Toto: 'Transformers' helmer the perfect choice for story that demands to be told
  A-list Director to Tackle U.S. Rescue of Downed Pilots in Iran

  HITHER & YON

• There is far more to life than politics and policy, pettiness and division. Take a moment to appreciate it.
  Ode To A Beagle Named Rocky

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