The Morning Report — 11/13 /26

Good morning kids. We'll start off with this item from the Are You freaking Kidding Me Files:

Officials decided an ancient method was the best way to decide the outcome of an election in Robertson County, Kentucky. When Republican Benny Ray Renner and Democrat Kristen Gifford Fryman tied with 91 votes each in the race for magistrate in the 2nd Magisterial District, it was up to officials to decide what to do next, KCRA reported Sunday. “Out of the 182 ballots cast, there was not a single vote that separated the two candidates once all precincts had reported their numbers back,” the outlet said. The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won...The coin used to decide the election was a quarter the sheriff had in his pocket.

Well all politics is indeed "local." But to any sane person, this puerile, irresponsible madness is just indicative of how far we as a nation and society have sunk. Is it really fair to use this idiocy as a barometer for the rest of the country? After all Kentucky is the state that inflicted Tom Massie on us. In any case, given the fact that much of the country is ignorant of the tyrannical bloody history of the Democrat Party, Socialism and Islam and in places where one thought that that ignorance was not the norm nevertheless voted it into power last week.

Or did they? It Was A Coup —This is the 2020 election, exactly like it... repeating identical statistical anomalies designed to engineer an artificial realignment. . .

When an election produces outcomes that run completely counter to historical precedent, polling baselines, and raw mathematical probability, the dispute ceases to be a conventional political debate and transforms into an indictment of the process itself. The case asserting that this midterm was systematically subverted rests upon four primary pillars: statistical impossibility, software and algorithmic manipulation, unauthorized cyber penetration, and administrative chain-of-custody collapse. . . If elections cannot be independently verified and guaranteed as legitimate, this one may well be the last.

Given who and what will be in power come January that could very well be the case. Let's see who wins the coin toss in '28?!

On a separate note the ongoing war with Iran is evidently causing a major rift in the White House.

President Donald Trump on Thursday removed Vice President JD Vance from the Iran strategy, instructing him to focus on domestic issues.

I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S...),” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity.”

The president rejected a negotiated deal with the Mullah regime. He asserted that the U.S. has succeeded in opening the Strait of Hormuz, removing Tehran’s sole leverage in the talks. . “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” he said. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”

I'm wondering if this is purely about Iran or if there are some other tensions between the two that might be indicative that President Trump will be endorsing someone other than Vance to be at the top of the ticket for 2028. Frankly, Vance has not impressed me of late which given his continued refusal to distance himself from openly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Tuq'r Qatarlson makes him a non-starter for me. YMMV of course.

We'll have to wait and see as the President himself is wont to say. On this and all the other myriad meshugas in the links I nevertheless bid you all to have a very good luck-filled Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobia notwithstanding, then have yourselves a great weekend!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won. (of course she did, she's the Democrat - jjs)
  Coin Flip Decides Kentucky County’s Tied Election Between Republican and Democrat Candidates

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• ...justices she claimed “legalized” President Donald Trump’s alleged “criminality.”
  WATCH — titty-Caca AOC Suggests Democrats Are Willing to Impeach SCOTUS Justices: ‘All Options Are on the Table’ ("impeach" via the Luigi Mangione option? - jjs)
  
• The city’s public library convened former Weather Underground members and the FBI’s Most Wanted to reminisce about their glory days and inspire a new generation of radicals.
  Cop Killers and Convicted Terrorists Get a Hero’s Welcome in San Francisco
  
• Seven years after his original statement, the new undergraduate survey suggests that his attitude has grown rapidly and is becoming increasingly mainstream on campuses nationwide.
  Generation Piker: One in Five College Students Think America Deserved 9/11.
  
• The Democrats now openly genuflect to the Red-Green, Marxist-Islamist Alliance.
  From the Party of Robert Kennedy to the Party of Sirhan Sirhan
  
• Democracy in America will not die in darkness. It will die in the Democrat death grip as they proceed with a crusade-like fervor that only a sense of destiny could conjure and sustain.
  Democracy Dies In Democrats' Delusion, Deflection, And Dilution
  
• How did the Democrat Party get here, with one of its own elected leaders refusing to acknowledge that a regime responsible for killing Americans is an American enemy? (The Democrat Party itself has been an enemy of America for 200 years - jjs)
  Adam Hamawy’s Iran defense exposes Democrats’ sickening suicide pact
  
• SpaceX will of course immediately challenge any such determination, but the subsequent court fight will certainly delay further launches. And should SpaceX lose in court (now dominated by Democrat Party rule) it would shut Boca Chica down for good.
  Texas Democrats move to block SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launches at Boca Chica
  
• For the moment, I'll just have one of my AI assistants searching for ammo deals. If it gets too hairy, meet me for a sunset beer on a gulf beach in the Sunshine State. Bring ice. 
  My Balkanization Plans Are Much Clearer After Last Week

  CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION, LAWFARE

• . . .voters want Congress to prioritize costs and ending the conflict in Iran over investigating the Trump administration, as Democrats giddily prepare to launch a series of attacks on President Donald Trump and Cabinet officials.
  Polls Show Voters Have Little Interest in Investigating Trump Administration
  
• Republicans in Washington should be working every angle to make sure the left is not empowered to derail the President's agenda while he is still in the White House.
  The Midterms Should Be a Wake-Up Call: Time to Clear Out the Deep State

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

• The secretary is making his move as part of a crackdown on federal social benefits abuses in Minnesota, which includes audits by the Internal Revenue Service on some banks under suspicion of money laundering.
  Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent Bans Migrants on Welfare from Sending Cash Back Home
  
• "The total number of ICE arrests in Fiscal Year 2026 was more than all three full fiscal years under Biden combined."
  Trump’s ICE Just Blew Past Biden On Arrests, And That’s Only Half The Story
  
• Unlike in the previous caravans, where support from Mexico’s government was not openly seen or noticed, this group is now openly being escorted by Mexican police forces throughout their journey. Additionally, the group is being given places to stay in various city auditoriums and large venues in southern Mexico as the 800-1000 people continue their journey.
  Photos: Mexico Gives Police Escorts to Migrant Caravan Headed to U.S. Border
  
• To suggest that Latinos, who voted for Trump and his immigration platform in 2024, turned on the GOP due to ICE alone is a lie.
  No, Latino Voters’ Swing To Democrats Was Not Because Of ‘Deportations’

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

• Vice President JD Vance is weighing direct talks with a top Iranian security official as President Donald Trump empowers him to lead renewed negotiations aimed at ending the months-long conflict, according to a Wednesday report.
  Report: JD Vance Weighs Direct Talks with Top Iranian Security Chief in Bid to End Conflict
  
• “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money … and we’ve got their Strait”
  ‘We Don’t Need a Deal With Iran’: Trump Breaks With Vance Over Iran Strategy
  
• So the prez will stick with the embargo and other sanctions to keep choking Iran’s economy, leaving it unable to significantly reconstitute its nuclear program, and wait — with the option of other combat operations where appropriate.
  Trump’s right — no more chasing Iran for a deal to end a war they’ve lost
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• Al-Saadi also targeted Ivanka Trump in retaliation for the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.
  Three Iran-backed men charged with plot to attack UK military base

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• A civilization serious about its liberty must understand the theocracy that seeks to govern it.
  CAIR Lies. Islam Definitely Insists Its Religion Should Control Politics
  
• The organizations include those linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
  Egypt lists 35 Europe-based Islamic groups on terror list
  
• But what about the rights of women and others?
  Does the Freedom of Religion Mean We Cannot Oppose Sharia?

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

• Rabb added that some people were ‘triggered’ by the timing of the event, which was on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht
  Chris Rabb Refuses To Condemn Antisemitic Boycott in His District; Attacks ‘Awful Things’ from Counterprotesters

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The state removes a child from a parent. The parent is told to wait for a hearing, wait for discovery, wait for services, wait for a ruling, wait for an appeal. Weeks become months. The child settles into a foster home. A new school becomes familiar. A routine forms. Then the same government that created the separation walks into court and announces that changing the child’s placement would be disruptive. The child is doing well, it says. We must maintain the status quo.
  The State Takes Your Child. Then It Runs Out the Clock.

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

• Trump might still take Mark Levin seriously. Hopefully he’ll soon see his real purpose is to be a widely recognized, fondly welcomed joke.
  Like Screech And Urkel, Mark Levin Has Become A Pathetic But Lovable Sitcom Character
  
• Now he wants to discard Reagan’s foreign policy, too
  Why Oren Cass Is the New York Times’s Favorite ‘Conservative’ Intellectual
  * * * * *

• The disruption hit government agencies in Australia, Japan, and the United States, and caused disruptions at trading firms, delays to companies publishing their results and airlines warning customers of delayed communication. (too busy with a Swalwell Eggroll in the hay - jjs)
  Microsoft platforms including Outlook, Teams down as tech giant struggles to fix outage
  
• The Board of Directors appointed Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever Chair of the Board.  Mr. Jones has been an entrepreneur, technology executive, and active venture investor for over 30 years, including serving as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Synopsys.
  Nvidia Ousts Jensen Huang from CEO Role, CFO Colette Kress Named Interim Boss
  
• Because while Jensen's affairs were unbecoming and even dangerous, this is when things get truly interesting.
  Jensen Huang Had to Go. The Real Question Is: Cui Bono

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Fred Fleitz: Trump can turn the midterm setback into an opportunity by ending the Iran war, unleashing American energy production, and locking in energy independence for years to come.
  Five Steps for President Trump to Lower Energy Prices and Lock in American Energy Security
  
• Costly labor mandates are hurting the very workers they’re supposed to help.
  The Left’s War on Gig
  
• And other opportunities to move the lobbyist-blocked MAHA agenda without increasing corporate control and private equity consolidation of American farms.
  How U.S. Farmers Can Quickly Cut Glyphosate By 95 Percent

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

• The U.N.’s COP31 climate alarmism summit in Antalya, Turkey, is proving to be a fractious affair, as energy-producing nations insist on their right to sell the fossil fuel products that drive their economies. On Thursday, Venezuela became the latest nation to declare that it will not stop pumping oil.
  Venezuela Tells Climate Doomers It Has ‘Sovereign Right’ to Pump Oil, Iran Demands Environmental Reparations
  
• It’s been almost three decades since the worldwide global warming scare was kicked off by a congressional hearing. Despite hundreds, if not thousands, of warnings since then insisting we had only a few years to act...
  Global Warming Buffoonery
  
• Greta Thunberg just gave away what a fraud she’s always been, though her devoted fans may be too drunk on the Kool-Aid to see it.Moment Greta Thunberg laughs at climate protests she started after ditching cause for Gaza
  Funny how, Greta? Greta Thunberg just exposed the fraud of her ‘moral authority’

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• UPDATE: During a 10:30 a.m. presser, FOX 5 DC pointed out the Metropolitan Police Department indicated Thursday’s suspect barricaded himself on the seventh floor of an apartment building after the shootings at and around VIDA Fitness. Negotiators communicated with the suspect and as that process was taking place, they heard a gunshot. Law enforcement made entry after the gunshot and found the suspect suffering from a self-inflicted wound. 
  Report: Multiple People Shot, Suspect at Large in Gun-Controlled D.C

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The 'resistance' class flies in the face of the longtime support for Israel and Jewish causes from the philanthropic arm of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
  Uproar as George Mason's Lifelong Learning Program Offers Class on 'Palestinians' Resistance' Taught by 'Victim' of Israel's 'Genocide'

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• How many of those voters were legal?
  Texas Flipped With Voter Turnout in Illegal Alien Counties
  
• This is the 2020 election, exactly like it, repeating identical statistical anomalies designed to engineer an artificial realignment.
  It Was A Coup

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Here's the thing: a reelection win doesn't mean much if you aren't legally eligible to keep the job.
  Bro-Fo Omar’s Days in Congress May Be Numbered as DOJ Closes In
  * * * * *

• Jackson made the amazing error of speaking with TMZ just outside of the Capitol ahead of the vote, which he somehow missed and blamed on traffic:
  Report: Dem Rep. Jonathan Jackson Caught Lying About Why He Was Absent from Hegseth Impeachment Vote
  
• The Sunrise Movement protested the presumed future Senate Majority leader and demanded change from all Democratic Senators.
  Dozens Of Left-Wing Activists Arrested At Schumer’s Office Demanding His Ouster

  GRIFTING OLEAGENOUS PARASITES — RINO SCUM SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Republicans squandered much of the opportunity Trump gave them, but he still has two years to accomplish a great deal. The least Republican legislators can do now is get out of his way.
  Sabotaging Trump Killed GOP Majorities. They Have Two Months To Make It Better

  POLITICS

• In the latest count, Peltola’s lead narrowed against incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.
  Alaska Judge Denies Peltola’s Request for Rejected Absentee Ballot Information
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• Last (week's) election results were certainly a disaster, but it is important to maintain perspective and not become overcome by gloom. The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard warned that “despair is a sin,” so we must use the mid-term defeat as a lesson for future battles, and not an excuse to give up. 2028 looms (from friend and friend of the blog Mark Pulliam - jjs)
  Midterm Postmortem
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Come next year, Trump will still not have to face a veto-proof Congress — unless renegade Republican senators and representatives join Democrats on key legislation to provide them with the necessary 67-Senate-vote/290-House-vote override... Even though the Democrats cannot hope to override the veto, some, like Elizabeth Warren, have recklessly called for ending the filibuster.
  Don’t count Trump out despite the midterms rout — he’s got plenty of power to flex
  
• What replaced MAGA dynamism was a feed of grievances.
  From Dynamism to Diatribe: How Republicans Lost the Plot
  
• “It’s now on us to meet this moment, and to do that we need new leadership,” Van Hollen said. “This is not about any one person — it’s about answering the call of the American people. That is why I’m running for Senate Majority Leader.” (Pancreatic Cancer vs. Liver Cancer - jjs)
  Lefty Dem Chris Van Hollen challenging Schumer for Senate Majority leader, arguing voters ‘called for change’
  
• “When we’re less democratic than the Republican Party … that raises questions for me.”
  Democrat Leaders to Rep-Elect: Back Jeffries or We’ll Make Your Life ‘a Living Hell’

  FRANCE IS BURNING, And Europe With It

• Going after Michel Houllebecq.
  A Judicial Disgrace in France

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• This comes after the two brokered peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Abu Dhabi earlier in the week.
  Steve Witkoff, Jared Kusher meet with Putin at Kremlin for Ukraine peace talks

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• What role did China play in the 2026 midterms?
  CHINAGATE: House Dems Plot to Shut Down Committee Investigating China’s Subversion
  
• This event underscores Europe’s increasing concern about Russia conducting a hybrid warfare campaign.
  U.S. Army Officer Arrested in Britain on Suspicion of Spying for Russia
  
• God bless those soldiers who protect the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
  Hegseth Awards Soldier Who Reprimanded Him and His Aides at Tomb of Unknown Soldier

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The symptom accounts of the runners are disturbing, and included hallucinations and forgetting long stretches of the run.
  Police Probe ‘Suspicious’ Illness After 27 Runners Fall Sick at California Race.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Known as 1998 KY26, the roughly 36-foot-wide object is believed to be a near-Earth asteroid, but something other than gravity appears to be affecting its path. New research has now cast doubt on one explanation for what is pushing it through space.
  Scientists question what is pushing strange, speeding object through space as new theory grows
  
• A bunch of cool images!. . . Gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein, occurs when the gravity of a massive foreground object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies, bends, warps, and magnifies the light from a more distant background object.
  A gallery of gravitationally-lensed objects taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
  
• NASA cancelled the original Mars Sample Return mission in 2024 because its cost had ballooned over $11 billion (with further overruns expected) and fallen years behind schedule. The design of the project was overall too complex, involving multiple companies and governments doing things they had never done before. At the time the agency asked the private sector for new ideas, and got at least one, a $4 billion proposal from Rocket Lab.
  NASA once again studying how to get Perseverance’s Mars samples back to Earth

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• He willingly put a target on his back, lost friends, and stepped smack dab into the middle of the most dangerous fight in the world.
  The Debauched 80s Icon Who Found His Voice When It Mattered Most
  
• Makeup brand Maybelline wants to do away with the “ambiguity” of its world famous slogan, but has left everyone scratching their heads instead.
  Beauty blunder Maybelline’s new slogan is woke nonsense — there’s no ‘maybe’ about it
  
• Yes, nothing says lower grocery bills like ‘I Am Jazz,’ tampons in boys’ bathrooms, and oral sex education for sixth-graders.
  Forget Affordability. DEI Is Back With Democrats’ Power Trip
  
• Christian Toto: What about the documentaries that get hidden by the usual suspects? That’s assuming they get made in the first place
  Lights! Camera! Inaction!.
  
• Toto too: Mike Baron and veteran friends deliver follow-up to unwoke original
  ‘Private American’ Sequel Needs YOU
  
• What we prefer as customers or citizens is not what our betters have planned for us.
  Bud Light, Tom’s Toothpaste, And The Reinvention Of Maine
  
• Vatican diplomacy, religious relativism, and the abandonment of the persecuted Church.
  Surreptitious Surrender

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