The Morning Report — 7/ 20 /26

Good morning kids. Well we seem to be picking up from where we left off last week. Then again why is this Monday different from any other Monday in this day and age?!

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appears to have let out a ghastly flatulence this week on the floor of the chamber while criticizing President Donald Trump over the war in Iran.

Meh, every time Chuck Schumer opens his mouth to imitate human speech he emits the noise and stench of flatus, but continuing on a more serious yet schatological note.

The lettuce now being recalled by Taylor Farms in California has also hatched a number of lawsuits filed in federal court against Taco Bell, which allegedly used the shredded lettuce contaminated with a parasite called cyclospora.

No deaths have been reported from the outbreak.

Of course, like most any negative condition that makes headlines and impacts Americans, the problem was caused by Trump, according to a Democrat lawmaker and another who is running for Congress.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) posted a video Saturday on social media claiming the “worst outbreak in U.S. history” was caused by the president “taking a wrecking ball” to “our public health infrastructure,” even though the actual source of the outbreak has been traced to Mexico.

And speaking of projection and projectile diarrhea. . .

Mamdani’s belief that, as a minor municipal functionary, he wields some imaginary international power to subvert American sovereignty just shows the delusions of his ideology.

His authority extends to fixing potholes and collecting garbage, neither of which he does competently. But his delusions of grandeur are shared by the misfits, ignoramuses, and foreign interlopers who make up his rancid branch of the Democrat Party — the DSA.

The Democratic Socialists of America know nothing, have built nothing and don’t understand the country they live in, yet they imagine they have the moral authority to tear it down.

Their aim is to import foreign conflicts and alien ideologies that are the antithesis of America’s founding principles. . . Leftists are motivated by envy and a “poisonous resentment” that makes them hostile to everything that has made America successful, as Rubio said last week when opening a State Department conference on combating left-wing violence, something his Cuban emigre family knows a thing or two about. . . But that is the mission of the DSA. To use the Democratic Party as their Trojan horse to foment a communist revolution in America.

Does Mamdani really think that any NYC police officer is really going to attempt to lay a finger on Benjamin Netanyahu? There sure is no way in hell any Mossad agent and there are likely a half dozen or so surrounding Bibi everywhere he goes, will ever allow that to happen and they're probably itching to ventilate or otherwise break Mamdani's bones if they get half a chance.

That said, sic transit gloria Democrats because of Sick Bastards like Mamdani.

So, do they really have a shot at winning the next couple of elections and then finally snuffing us out for good?

Democratic Senate contenders are dramatically out-raising their Republican peers, according to Federal Election Commission data — with Georgia’s Jon Ossoff and James Talarico in Texas leading the pack. Eight of the top 10 Senate candidate fundraiser this year are Democrats, whose top contestants have raked in $574 million, compared to the Republicans’ $336 million, per the FEC. Incumbent Sen. Ossoff (D-Ga.) is the biggest fundraiser on both sides, having raked in a jaw-dropping $77 million as of June 30, and has a staggering $42.5 million in cash on hand. . . . Democrats are considered likely to retake the House in the Nov. 3 elections, due to polls and the historical trend of the party in power in the White House losing seats in the midterms. But the Senate is a tougher call. Based on polls and incumbents, Republicans have an easier path to hold the upper chamber, but Democrats are running neck and neck with them in key races. Democrats are generally eying Maine, Ohio, North Carolina and Alaska in particular as their easiest path to retaking the Senate. But to win the upper chamber, they have to defend vulnerable incumbents, including Ossoff, who has proven to be a financial juggernaut.

Well at least I can delude myself with the likes of John Fetterman.

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Miranda Devine: This is not just politics as usual. It is a communist insurgency aimed at destroying America. It is intolerable.
  Mamdani and his DSA comrades have one goal — a communist revolution in America

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
• ...designed to bypass the gridlock of activist immigration courts, the Department of Justice has officially activated a powerful, 30-year-old national security weapon to aggressively deport suspected foreign terrorists from American soil.
  FIRST EVER: Trump Taps Clinton-Era Alien Terrorist Removal Court for Dangerous Migrant Deportations
  
• The rule, known as “public charge,” appeared in the Federal Register on Thursday. It will be formally published July 20 and take effect Sept. 18. Under the policy, green card applicants must demonstrate they will not become a burden on American taxpayers.
  New Trump Policy Prioritizes Financially Independent Green Card Applicants
  
• The Trump administration can’t allow its deportation policies to be dictated by the outrage of the left and the propaganda press.
  Rather Than Back Down, Trump Must Escalate His Campaign For Mass Deportations
  
• Mass immigration doesn’t stand alone. Instead, Western governments, including ours, have much grander plans for the end of nations.
  Immigration Is A Proxy Issue For A Western Government Trend
  
• The sustained increase in daily arrests also coincides with President Trump’s defense and subsequent reinstatement of traffic stops. “We CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP,” posted the President on Truth Social earlier this week.
  ICE Arrests Hit Record Average of 1,400 a Day This Month.

  THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

• Iran rapidly responded, saying two US bases in Kuwait were targeted in response to more than a week of intensifying attacks — which Tehran said included strikes on an airport, a railway station and bridges.
  U.S. Launches Strikes to ‘Punish’ Iran After Troops Killed
  
• On one hand, we are winning the war with Iran. On the other hand, the Vice President seems to be at odds with the administration.
  Strange Things Are Happening
  
• Instead of hitting them where it really hurts -- by empowering the Iranian people to overthrow the regime -- we are fighting the "old" war.
  Iran's Warning Shot

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

• "Destroy Israel" banner floats at San Fermin Festival.
  In Spain, Jew-Hate Now Running With the Bulls
  
• Soros backed group hits new lows.
  J Street Sponsors Conference Featuring Speaker Who Praised Hamas

  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• As Republicans expose fraud in the tens of billions in Medicaid and other welfare programs, Democrats’ response is to . . . duck. They made it glaringly obvious last week as Sen. Rand Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting: Nearly all the panel’s Dem members were total no-shows; only Sen. Gary Peters attended at all, and only long enough to ask a few questions before heading for the door.
  Democrats damn themselves with no-shows at hearing on fraud

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• “The Roberts Court sees only white.”
  Hawaii Supreme Ct Lashes Out At SCOTUS in CRT-Infused Rant, Citing KBJ Dissent
  
• The fast-food drive-thru was not born in California. But the idea was perfected by California cultural icon In-N-Out, which is fitting because the double-double chain has become the main villain in Culver City’s effort to ban drive-thrus. 
  Another Piece of California Culture Threatened By Prohibitionists 
  
• Good intentions gone bad—by design!
  McCain-Feingold, USAID and the NGO Network

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Jamey dutifully wore her keffiyeh, took up with a “Palestinian” man, and converted to Islam.
  Ireland: ‘Palestinian’ Muslim Man Beats His Pro-‘Palestinian’ American Lover to Death
  
• The water carriers behind the creeping Sharia.
  Baptist Report Blames ‘Republican-Fueled Islamophobia’ for Attacks on Muslims
  
• Here is a declaration of Islamic supremacy Americans can no longer ignore.
  Islam and America Are Incompatible

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

• When the state forces Catholic nuns to choose between their faith and caring for the dying, ideology has become a civil religion.
  The Left Is Intrinsically Intolerant: Attacking New York Nuns Is a Feature, Not a Bug, of the Left’s ‘Civil Religion’
  
• REVIEW: 'The Jews and the Left' by Batya Ungar-Sargon
  Another Wake-Up Call for America's Jews
  
• The statues are of the patron saints of police officers and firefighters, the National Catholic Register reported in April, noting that if the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court it “may help determine whether religious art has a continuing place in the public square”:
  Massachusetts: Legal Fight with Left-Wing ACLU over St. Michael Statue Could Land in U.S. Supreme Court
  
• His appeals are euphemisms for talking about one particular group.
  Mamdani Invokes “International Law” Against Israel
  
• That will fix everything.
  As NYC Floods, Mamdani Ponders Arresting Netanyahu
  
• The Pennsylvania Democrat called Mamdani a “clown,” noting that the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity was from a court the United States did not recognize.
  ‘Sit Down’: Fetterman Says Mamdani a ‘Clown’ to Threaten Netanyahu Arrest

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

• Why the media forgot the 50th anniversary of Israel’s triumphant rescue.
  Entebbe Oversight
  
• No debunking. No denial. No deriding. No dismissive editorializing in the guise of ostensible reporting.
  Mainstream Media Ignores An Explosive Charge In Trump’s Speech
  
• This survey of the nation’s greatest companies is both nonsensical and evidence of the problems that plague our mainstream media.
  America’s Top Companies?
  * * * * *

• The potential for China to usurp us in AI isn’t a scary hypothetical for some future decade. It’s our current reality.
  The New American Industrial Revolution Runs on Data Centers
  
• China is the one foreign power with both the resources and the strategic incentive to shape American technology.
  Is China Sabotaging America’s Data Centers?
  
• David Harsanyi: The panic surrounding data centers is highly reminiscent of the panic surrounding hydraulic fracturing. And like the fracking ban in New York, also based on junk science and scaremongering — not to mention, initially a “moratorium” — the policy will backfire.
  Data-center debate has one winning argument: sheer panic — and it will backfire
  
• Amazon Leo intends to start its low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite internet service later this year, having now already launched nearly 400 satellites. Such broadband-capable satellites operate roughly 350 to 500 miles above the Earth’s surface. This altitude allows the satellites to deliver faster internet speeds while also making their launches more cost efficient. 
  Amazon’s ‘LEO’ Satellite Network Will Soon Be Up And Running As Federal Funds Flow

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Early moves presage a return to a humbler Federal Reserve and a smaller balance sheet.
  The Fed’s Kevin Warsh Is Already on the Right Track
  
• The new Democratic Socialists in America refer to the common good, or communist good, all the time. But what do they mean?
  Is There Really a Common Good?

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

• President Trump’s efforts to dismantle parts of the Biden junta's climate-policy framework have exposed just how much money and institutional power had become attached to it.
  Who Really Funds the Climate Agenda?

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• The suspect was identified as 55-year-old Batarti Gabbard whom police arrested and charged after the incident happened on the afternoon of July 12 in Waikiki, KITV reported Friday.
  VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard’s Brother Accused of Trying to Lure Children with Gum, Money to Hotel Room
  
•  Trust is important. Verification is essential.
  Who Watches the Watchers?

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• It was inevitable that the LAUSD’s obsessive focus on left-wing politics would wreak havoc in the classroom and that students would vanish.
  Los Angeles’s School District Went From Morally To Financially Bankrupt
  
• Moms for Libros, which had its tax-exempt status revoked, has another leader who had a judge garnish her wages over a longstanding debt
  ‘Grassroots’ Organization Fighting Miami Charter School Expansion Is Led by Democrat Operative Arrested for Stealing From Target, Pocketing Proceeds of GoFundMe Campaign, and Stiffing Mom’s Nursing Home

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• The state’s attorneys “at every turn have turned a blind eye to the Constitution while prioritizing histrionics over history.”
  Federal Appeals Court Delivers Big Second Amendment Win in New Jersey
  
• The decision says that the Second Amendment still means something.
  New Jersey’s overreaching gun and magazine bans die in the Third Circuit
  
• Gun control remains a priority including its fixation on the AR-15. It is on the SCOTUS docket this Fall.  
  Second Amendment: Using courts to engineer society is a liberal obsession and delusion

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• The move signals increased pressure from the federal government to ensure states take election integrity seriously. By linking grant funding to security measures, DHS can ensure voter rolls are accurate. This decision could provide an incentive to reduce vulnerabilities and restore public confidence in the democratic process.
  Trump Admin Warns States Must Scrub Voter Rolls to Get Federal Grants.
  
• And if you doubt that, just ask Obama-Appointed Judge Amy Totenberg.
  Trump Is Right About Voting Machines
  
• The president is correct: Widespread evidence of Michigan fraud was detected before the 2020 election.
  More Evidence for Trump’s ‘Debunked’ 2020 Election Fraud Claims
  
• Given the massive amount of fraud that Trump revealed (and that slipped by most people), it’s questionable whether we’ve actually had any elections recently.
  Will We Have an Election This Year?
  
• Across America, perfecting an opaque election process has become more important than the system’s fundamental integrity.
  The God Of Process Controls American Elections
  
• “Finding out that Olive Garden has better security than American elections was not on my bingo card!”
  The Olive Garden Pasta Pass Stumbles Into the National Debate Over Voter ID
  
• Senator Mark Warner attacked GOP voter reform while simultaneously mischaracterizing his own state's policy.
  Top Democrat Doesn’t Know His Own State’s Voter ID Policy
  
• Who needs fraudulent drivers licenses to vote in elections when birth tourism promises babies born on American soil authentic U.S. IDs?
  After Birthplace Citizenship Ruling, China Won’t Need Hackers To Meddle In US Elections

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

• Nothing to see here, I'm sure.
  Cops Find Body in Squad Husband’s House After $2B Contract Accusations
  
• John Stossel: "Castro famously wore two rolexes."
  Spoiled Socialists
  
• There is no bottom for the red-green alliance.
  Ro Khanna’s Unfortunate Encounter With Face-Eating Leopards
  
• The Senate hopeful is trying to distance himself from the DSA in his statewide race in battleground Michigan. His record shows years of strong support.
  Abdul El-Sayed Hailed as 'Longtime Friend' of Democratic Socialists and Headlined Socialist Fundraiser With 'Squad' Member Before Claiming He Is 'Not Somebody Who Is a Socialist'
  
• Of course, like most any negative condition that makes headlines and impacts Americans, the problem was caused by Trump, according to a Democrat lawmaker and another who is running for Congress.
  Democrats Blame Trump for Recalled Mexican Lettuce Causing ‘Explosive Diarrhea’

  POLITICS

• Democrats are considered likely to retake the House in the Nov. 3 elections, due to polls and the historical trend of the party in power in the White House losing seats in the midterms. But the Senate is a tougher call. Based on polls and incumbents, Republicans have an easier path to hold the upper chamber, but Democrats are running neck and neck with them in key races.
  Senate Dems rake in jaw-dropping cash — with Ossoff and Talarico leading the pack
  
• “It’s scary to think that this is the person who is leading the primary … There’s a lot of us that think if she’s the nominee, we lose that seat, even in what’s supposed to be a very big Dem year. And we will lose the Assembly, too.”
  Democrat ‘Chaos’ in Wisconsin Over Fears DSA Candidate Will Win Gubernatorial Primary
  
• DSA candidates are currently surging in America, winning major elections across the country.
  Seven Ways DSA Plans To Turn America Into A Third-World Communist Country
  
• “In fact, I know we have a message. We are coming. We are unbossed. We’re unbought. We’re unbound, and we will become undeniable. Thank you.”
  Hasan Piker Trashes Dems at College Democrat Convention
  
• We’ve lost the noble goal of preserving legislative debate. The filibuster has become nothing more than a bludgeon.
  Does the Filibuster Still Serve a Purpose?
  
• Could she win?
  Titty-Caca AOC is Running in 2028

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• "I wrote this book all by myself."
  EXCLUSIVE: Proof That Biden Wrote His Memoir All By Himself

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• “We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their forests and brush.” – President Trump
  Trump Threatens Canada With Tariffs Over Wildfire Pollution.
  
• The right is on the march, cleaning out the wreckage of socialism and communism.
  Trump Is Righting Latin America
  
• “The call to prayer should not be heard over Danish rooftops. It has no place in Denmark, and you shouldn’t be in any doubt whether you’ve ended up in a suburb of Islamabad when you walk around Denmark.” – Morten Bodskov, Social Democrats
  Denmark Bans Burkas in Schools to Boost Migrant Integration.
  
• "The absence of the weapon led to Henry dying terrified, alone and disbelieved. Her actions contributed to this."
  Mom of Henry Nowak's killer jailed for 3 years over hiding knife to protect son
  
• But Brits hoping for a fresh start, perhaps even a bit of vision and principle to steer us through these troubled times, are bound to be disappointed. Like Keir Starmer, whose premiership was defined by so many policy u-turns he might as well have been doing donuts, Burnham is the walking, talking embodiment of the Groucho Marx line: “These are my principles. If you don’t like them, well, I have others.”
  The UK’s incoming prime minister, Andy Burnham, is a far-left human windsock

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The measure imposes an annual fee (translation: tax) on employers with at least 50 employees receiving health coverage through Medicaid.
  After Pushing Medicaid, New Jersey Fines Businesses Whose Employees Use It

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The discovery is of significance, as it proves finally — more than two decades after the first detection of an exoplanet — that rocky exoplanets outside our solar system can have an atmosphere. There is also evidence that this loss of helium might be seasonal in nature.
  Evidence of an atmosphere detected for the first time on a rocky terrestrial exoplanet
  
• CEO Elon Musk saying SpaceX will likely try to launch again early next week
  SpaceX’s 13th Starship Test Aborted Less than a Second before Liftoff
  
• In a spectacular success, the Indian private rocket startup Skyroot today completed the first launch of its smallsat rocket Vikram-1, placing several payloads into orbit. This is the first private Indian rocket ever launched.
  Indian’s private rocket startup Skyroot completes a perfect first launch

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

• “Feminism that is focused on the needs of white women is something we must constantly battle.”
  League of Women Voters Declares War on Women
  
• It’s not just Christians who support a return to a traditional marriage definition.
  Observant Jews Want Obergefel Overturned
  
• America’s experiment with Title IX social engineering has failed.
  Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity
  
• California’s 'first partner' claims more than 2.5 million students have been exposed to her lessons, which come with the documentaries
  Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Radical Gender Documentaries Force Student Viewers To Reveal if They're Gay and ID 'Fags': Films Are Funded and Promoted by Newsom Donors, Appointees
  
• The Health Council of the Netherlands backed a controversial transition protocol against best evidence.
  Gender Medicine’s Regulatory Capture
  
• The footage shows a blue-haired University of Central Florida student, identified as 27-year-old Jarrett Vick, screaming at a police officer after the cop arrived at a campus building for an unrelated call.
  Chaotic bodycam video shows trans Florida student freak out on cop for ‘misgendering’ him — before being cuffed

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: Larry David's historical series jabs Trump, RFK, jr., leaves laughs behind
  Is Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness a Score-Settling Screed?
  
• Along with architectural historian Vincent Scully (Yale) and urban theorist Colin Rowe (Cornell), the European architect and theorist Leon Krier is widely recognized as a foundational intellectual inspiration behind the American New Urbanism movement.
  The Modernist Anti-City And New Urbanism
  
• Roger Kimball: Modern art stopped challenging convention long ago. Now it challenges only common sense—and rewards the people willing to applaud the loudest absurdities.
  ‘Art’ and the Pathology of our Age
  
• Have I unwittingly entered the Big Tent of the Bible thumpers?
  Sifting Through Biblical Translations In A Woke World
  
• The exhibit room openly stated that the purpose of National Geographic had changed as Americans became more climate-focused.
  DC’s Newest Museum Tells Tale Of National Geographic’s Tragic Fall From Patriot Explorers To Globalism Activists
  
• Phyllis Schlafly was the ultimate American frontier woman.
  What Phyllis Schlafly Understood About Family, Culture, and Civilization

  HITHER & YON

• — marking the first time in over 150 years a child’s been born to a sitting vice president. 
  Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha welcome 4th child, baby boy Alec Neel

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