The Morning Report — 7/5/23

Good morning, kids. Hope you all had a nice long holiday break. While we're a bit light on the links as we head back to the work week, several stories are still quite huge in their importance so let's dive right in. First up is one that's about to get buried deeper than Hunter Biden's face in a mound of Oval Office llello or his father's fingers between a 12-year-old girl's thighs.

The rifle-wielding suspect who donned a bulletproof vest before allegedly shooting dead five men and injuring two children in Philadelphia has been identified as a Black Lives Matter supporter who shared gun-toting memes on social media.

Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was nabbed shortly after the bloodshed in the city’s Kingsessing neighborhood Monday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing sources. Cops haven’t yet publicly disclosed the suspect’s identity.

On his Facebook page, Carriker posted two pictures of him wearing a bra, a women’s top and earrings with his hair braided long in March, three months before the alleged shooting. He also regularly posts about supporting Black Lives Matter, including supporting workers who protested in the Strike For Black Lives in July 2020.

Police said the 40-year-old male suspect was armed with a rifle, pistol, extra magazines, a police scanner and bullet proof vest when he fatally shot four men on the street and then chased and killed a fifth man inside a home. A 2-year-old boy was shot four times in the legs, while a 13-year-old boy also suffered to gunshot wounds to his legs, according to cops. The gunman had fired at police as they chased him for several blocks before he eventually surrendered in an alley, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said. . .

. . . Carriker’s old roommate, Tina Rosette, 49, told the Inquirer she was shocked to learn of his involvement in the shooting. Rosette described Carriker as “really smart, intelligent, creative” and someone who loved computers, but said he had “an aggressive approach to some things in life.” She recalled him teaching young people how to fight “purportedly” in self-defense — but he failed to give them directions on when to stop.

Just as an aside, I find it kind of bizarrely amusing that the broad who's the police commissioner of Philly is named "Outlaw." Considering the current guiding principle in law enforcement comes from the Jagger/Richards lyric of "Every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints," well, not to cast aspersions but QED.

In any case, given that the melanin content of the shooter likely matches that of the victims, and more importantly, his psychotic delusions of being another Jame Gumb as well as a supporter of the black brownshirts of BLM, no way this story ever gets any kind of real coverage in the propaganda press. Did this Don Lemon dream date blow a fuse prematurely before it had a chance to target whites, Christians and conservatives? Well, we may never know the answer considering the authorities in Tennessee are still treating the manifesto of the psycho-tranny terrorist who gunned down adults and kids at a Nashville Christian school as a state secret even bigger than ULTRA.

Yup. It's all about the narrative, not about the truth. The estimable Robert Spencer, who is on deck for our next podcast, weighs in:

The Biden regime is authoritarian to the core. Like every hard-Left authority in the history of the world, it is intolerant of dissent and determined to stamp out all opposition, not by defeating it at the ballot box, and certainly not by besting it in the court of public opinion, but by forcibly silencing it. But on Tuesday, Judge Terry Doughty, Chief U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, put a massive roadblock in the way of Biden’s handlers’ ongoing efforts to ensure that only their own perspective can be heard in the American public square.

In a landmark ruling in Missouri v. Biden, Doughty struck back hard against what he called “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” Doughty even began his decision by quoting the most famous adage regarding the importance of the freedom of speech: “I may disapprove of what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it,” a statement that is often attributed to Voltaire but which Doughty credits to the early twentieth-century English writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall (whom he mistakenly calls Hill, but that doesn’t detract from the power of his ruling). . .

. . . Specifically, Doughty noted:

Plaintiffs allege that Defendants suppressed conservative-leaning free speech, such as: (1) suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election; (2) suppressing speech about the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin; (3) suppressing speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns; (4) suppressing speech about the efficiency of COVID-19 vaccines; (5) suppressing speech about election integrity in the 2020 presidential election; (6) suppressing speech about the security of voting by mail; (7) suppressing parody content about Defendants; (8) suppressing negative posts about the economy; and (9) suppressing negative posts about [spurious] President Biden.

All that is abundantly true, and there are plenty of other examples of the regime’s hatred of dissent as well. Regime spokesbeings, however, will tell you that all they really want to do is protect poor, ignorant, distracted, gullible Americans from “disinformation.” It became clear when the Biden regime established its ill-fated and quickly disbanded Disinformation Governance Board that it had decided that labeling reports that departed from the officially approved line as “disinformation” was a likely winning strategy, both to circumvent the First Amendment and to hoodwink Americans into thinking that the crushing of dissent was a valuable service. . .

. . . Will the regime fight back? Almost certainly. Will it craft a deceptive, Orwellian, disingenuous, paternalistic argument for censorship based on its claimed responsibility to protect Americans from “disinformation”? That seems likely as well. But the more it fights in cases of this kind, the more its authoritarian nature becomes clear. Will Americans quietly accept the yoke of censorship? We have a history of resisting tyranny.

Well, we used to have a history of resisting tyranny. In any case we now are facing perhaps the most formidable tyranny in our now concluded history: our own government as well as powerful allies within the pseudo private sector and worst of all, a large chunk of our fellow citizens.

For sure, as Mr. Spencer notes, it is indeed a huge victory. But what do these court victories really mean when those who were dealt the defeat not only refuse to recognize it as such but actively work to subvert the ruling? Worse, when those charged with enforcing and upholding the ruling refuse to do their duty to enforce it?

Remember that it is an absolute Leftist article of faith that the Supreme Court, or any court for that matter, that issues or upholds a law or regulation that advances their cause is sacrosanct for all time and must be respected so as to preserve "our precious democracy" (*vomits*). Conversely, in the rare event that the opposite occurs, the courts and judges are committing acts of treason. That is their excuse to ignore or subvert these rulings since Leftists and Leftists alone are the sole arbiters of what is truth, justice and the American way. So they have their conscience, such as it is, to guide them, focused solely on the righteousness of their convictions. It's much better as three words on a belt buckle in the original German: Gott Mit Uns

Just to illustrate the point:

What fresh leftist lunacy is this, coming up at us on the Fourth of July?

According to Cristina Laila at GatewayPundit:

An Obama-appointed federal judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction against Florida’s election law that imposed limitations on third-party voter registration organizations. In May Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed SB 7020, a law that barred non-citizens from handling or collecting voter registration forms. One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is an immigrant from El Salvador who works for “Mi Vecino,” a third party voter registration organization.

US District Judge Mark Walker said the election law banning non-citizens from handling voter registration forms is unconstitutional.

What, exactly, is "unconstitutional" about not letting foreign nationals participate in our elections, including the vital task of collecting voter registrations from, presumably, citizens?

So aliens, including illegal aliens, are now equal-protection matters, and if an alien can't collect registrations, or, for that matter, vote, he's being discriminated against by all those dirty racists who happen to be U.S. citizens?  Illegals, of course, are great ones for knowing where all the valid U.S. citizens are in this game, aren't they?  And realistically, are they going to know a whole lot of potentially valid voters, or might they have an inherent interest in registering people just like themselves with their special interests, who are either foreign non-citizens here legally or foreign illegals?

The second part of that initial claim is even more disturbing.  Apparently, the foreigners have been collecting data off the new voter registrations that they are gathering and turning in beforehand — and doing something with those data, whether a voter likes it or not.

The data collected could be used to sell lists to Democrat candidates for their mailed campaign literature, perhaps, or to pressure voters over the phone, and, if these groups are really partisan, to simply give away to those Democrat candidates, which negates the nonpartisan purpose of doing voter registrations.  What do they do with a newly registered voter who doesn't register Democrat?  Do they throw that registration away?  Nobody's asking that one.  Bottom line here is, who knew that these groups were getting a little slice for themselves as they claimed to be selflessly civic-minded groups out registering voters for "democracy"?

. . . Besides registering voters, the ruling could also be applied to ballot-harvesting, which is increasingly common in the States in this age of low-confidence elections.  We already know that illegals are blithely harvesting ballots in California as their way of proxy-voting. . . That makes me think this temporary injunction, which the judge says is not his final ruling, will come to naught.  Not from him, of course — it's obvious enough how he's going to rule unless he gets some signal from the Democrats to forego a coming bad ruling.

If you go back 50 years, at least William Brennan's bizarro "penumbras and emanations" about some sort of inherent right to privacy in the Constitution that appears nowhere in that document nor in the collected writings of its authors at least made mention of them when crafting his raison d'être for legalizing baby-killing in all 50 states. Nowadays, judges and justices don't even do that anymore. See the vomit-on-paper of a dissent to the affirmative action ruling by Kentanji Brown-25 as an example.

As for this Florida ruling, if these fools want to play with fire then let's give them some gasoline. Governor Ron DeSantis should immediately issue a communiqué that as chief executive of that state, the judge's ruling is declared null and void. Of course, that's not going to happen since we play by the rules. Even if the rules are Calvinball.

At some point, that's just not going to cut the mustard.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The proposal might be the biggest attempted power grab in the history of the United Nations. If approved, the United States as we know it could cease to exist." (It already does for the most part - jjs)
  The U.N. Is Planning To Seize Global ‘Emergency’ Powers With Biden’s Support
  
•  “I was trafficked into a pedophile network that actually at the time consisted of the VIPs of the country... They were all quite powerful and had important posts. It was a mix of politicians, high-placed officials, government officials, clergy as well as aristocrats.”
  Belgian Woman Says Mother Sold Her into Sexual Slavery, Pedophile Ring When She Was only 6-years-old
  
• "Unless Americans come to recognize their de facto occupation by the administrative state and wrest control of their government from this hostile and alien managerial class, the American people will continue to lack freedom and independence in all the ways that matter." (Define "wrest control" - jjs)
  Our Right to Self-Government in Jeopardy from Entrenched Managerial Ruling Class

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
• "A U.S. Secret Service spokesman, Steven Kopek, earlier on Monday, would not confirm to Breitbart News whether the substance contained cocaine, only saying, 'The Secret Service does not comment on an ongoing investigation.'”
  Report: Substance Testing Positive for Cocaine Found Inside White House
  
• "[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden was part of a concerted effort in 2018 to pressure the president of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania to accept his granddaughter, despite the school’s 5.9% admissions rate and her less-than-stellar grades."
  Joe Biden Wants To Oust ‘Privilege’ From College Admissions — Except For His Family

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• "Kimbrady Carriker, 40, was nabbed shortly after the bloodshed in the city's Kingsessing neighborhood Monday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing sources. Cops haven't yet publicly disclosed the suspect's identity."
  Gunman Behind Philly Massacre is BLM Supporter – and Transgender?
  
• "Apparently there are hordes of dangerous white supremacist hikers out there."
  Oregon Groups Create Segregated Hikes for "People of Color"
  
• But do they benefit more from welfare, food stamps, Section 8 and Medicaid, to name only a few?
  University Dean: White People Benefit More From Social Security
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion' and 'Environmental, Social, and Corporate governance' are the real systemic racism backed by the system."
  White Men Face Systemic Racism in the Workplace
  
• Say, what?!. We already have one. What's needed is a moral and God-fearing people who will follow what it says to the letter. Sheesh. - jjs
  We Need a Constitution That Means What It Says
  
• "What happens when you view tragedy as opportunity."
  The Political Left is Simply Gross

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

• Robert Spencer: "Will the regime fight back? Almost certainly. Will it craft a deceptive, Orwellian, disingenuous, paternalistic argument for censorship based on its claimed responsibility to protect Americans from 'disinformation?' That seems likely as well. But the more it fights in cases of this kind, the more its authoritarian nature becomes clear. Will Americans quietly accept the yoke of censorship? We have a history of resisting tyranny. It is no accident, comrade, as Biden’s Marxist friends would say, that Doughty’s ruling came on Independence Day."
  Court Hands Down a MASSIVE Victory for Freedom on the Fourth of July
  
• "The Biden [junta's] collusion with tech companies has occasionally been brazen and unapologetic." (what makes you think the junta and the propagandists will obey the order? - jjs)
  Federal Judge Blocks Biden Junta From Meeting with Social Media Companies
  
• "In the article, the outlet argued that the word had been overtly political and taken up by extremist groups, used in ways that made it less about love for the country and more about hatred for certain minority groups." (funny, but since 1/6/21, it's been spewed all over the place by Democrats - jjs)
  AP Celebrates Independence Day by Explaining Why The Word ‘Patriot’ Is Problematic

  SCOTUS ENDS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

• "An obvious beneficiary of racial preferences who feels obliged to deny her privilege and to denounce the very system that bestowed those privileges as racist."
  Michelle Obama’s Affirmative Action Adventure at Princeton
  
• "Despite attempts to cast racial preferences as merely a helping hand to minority applicants, those preferences ultimately mean that a proportional amount of non-minority individuals will be rejected based, in part, on their race."
  Reality of Zero-Sum Game of College Admissions Was Critical To Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling

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

• "Shouldn't the politicians and media be cheering, since this is their goal?"
  Why Hasn't it Been a Big Story that L.A. Has Had Record Cool Temperatures in 2023?

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "200,000 people from all over the world crossed illegally last month."
  Flood at the Border Sinks Biden (Not when each one votes for him. At least twice - jjs)

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• “We have absolutely no idea why this happened,” said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw. “At this point, all we know is that this person left their home and decided to target individuals.” (The commissioner's last name is Outlaw? Gold, Jerry! - jjs)
  5 Dead, 2 Kids Injured In Philadelphia Shooting. Suspect In Custody.
  
• Hull lit the garment on fire and headed toward the electronics area as smoke began to fill the store, attempting unsuccessfully to break into a case of cell phones with a hammer, according to the news release.
  Man Arrested For Allegedly Torching Target Store, Causing $5 Million Worth Of Damage

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Pennsylvania school teachers must 'know and acknowledge that biases exist in the education system' before they can teach in the state."
  'Building an Antiracist America': Top Pennsylvania School District Pushes Teachers To Infuse Critical Race Theory Into Their Lessons

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "So now the Chicoms can collect voter registrations from the Chinese immigrant community and mine their data?" (DeSantis should declare the decision null and void in Florida. If we're going to play this game of judicial freakout, then let's play for keeps - jjs)
  Obama Judge Blocks Florida's Law Prohibiting Foreigners from Collecting Voter Registrations as "Unconstitutional"

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Lloyd Billingsley: "Senate Dems walk out on Ric Grenell, America’s first openly gay presidential cabinet member." (because in their eyes, he's homosexual like Clarence Thomas is black - jjs)
  California Dems Trash America’s Gay Hero

  POLITICS

• “But clearly Donald Trump is the runaway frontrunner,” Cortes, who worked on Trump’s past campaigns, admitted.
  DeSantis PAC Spokesperson Admits ‘Uphill Battle’ for the Governor in the Primary
  
• "And will Kamala be even worse?"
  Will Biden Resign?
  
• "It’s not just Iowa and New Hampshire. Nevada is also pushing back."
  States, Including Those With Democrat Leaders, Rejecting Biden’s Plan to Change Primary Calendar
  
• "Ramaswamy comes in a close third place at ten percent support, just six points behind DeSantis, making him the only other candidate to break into double-digit territory."
  Poll: Vivek Ramaswamy Breaks into Double Digits in Republican Primary
  
• “Show me where I was wrong.”
  Video: RFK Jr Pushes Back When Accused of Being a Candidate Who "Traffics Routinely in Conspiracies
  
• "Fox News and Paul Ryan are on the wrong side of history."
  Social Conservatism Is Rebounding
  
• "Some tough questions for Trump and the rest of the GOP field."
  It’s the General Election, Stupid

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• He further warned Russia might be incited “to commit new evil” and the world had to forestall such a situation “as radiation affects everyone.” (Probably Zelensky, with the help of SEAL Team 6 planning to blame Putin for blowing up their own nuke plant. - jjs)
  Russia Planning Attack On Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant, Zelensky Claims
  
• "A week after Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group made their abortive 'march for justice' the mainstream media and their featured experts continue to repeat the same story using inaccurate terminology and shallow thinking."
  No Mercenaries, No Coup, No Peace

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Demands have been made to remove the GoFundMe page, though GoFundMe refused to comply. '“Currently, this campaign complies with our terms of use as the funds will be paid directly to the family in question. The family has been added as a beneficiary and therefore the funds will be paid directly to them,' said a spokesman for GoFundMe to POLITICO on Monday."
  $1.5 Million+ Raised for French Cop Who Shot Migrant-Background Teen
  
• "Muslim migrants repay the French for their tolerance and inclusion." (More like reward them for their stupidity - jjs)
  In France, Muslim Mayhem and (Attempted) Murder
  * * * * *

• "The minerals — gallium and germanium — and dozens of other related metals will be subject to new export regulations that are aimed at punishing the West for restricting China’s ability to access advanced semiconductors."
  China Restricts Export On 2 Minerals That Could Damage Economy
  
• "Weapons cache uncovered under Jenin mosque. Palestinian terrorist rams, stabs pedestrians in Tel Aviv."
  Israel: IDF Conducts Counterterrorism Operation in West Bank Jihadist Stronghold of Jenin
  
• "'Palestinian' leaders do their Nazi job."
  Poisoning the Next Two "Palestinian" Generations
  
• "The decision likely erases any chance of Bolsonaro regaining political power in the country." (as intended - jjs)
  Brazilian Court Rules Bolsonaro Cannot Run for Office Until 2030 Over Election Fraud Claims
  
• "A necessary approach."
  A Transformative Shift in the Western Approach to Iran Regime

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: "The pontiff is not enraged over the industrial-scale clerical sex abuse that has plagued the Church, or about the escalating persecution of Christians worldwide, or about the wholesale abandonment of Christianity in Europe. Instead, he is furious because an Iraqi refugee in Sweden set fire to a copy of the Qur’an."
  Pope "Fiction" Gets Angry Over the Burning of a Book That Calls Christians "Vile"

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "Men might soon no longer need a prescription to access medicines to treat erectile dysfunction."
  Erectile Dysfunction Is Now So Common Men Can Get Remedies Over The Counter

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

• "Folx, we know you think we hate you. We can have that discussion another time. But remember, once you are in deep enough with the state, you may finally realize what we have been warning you about all these years."
  LGBTQ Folx Beware: New York Wants To Keep an Eye on You

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Another called the ice cream brand “the Bud Light of ice cream,” tweeting, “But seriously now, close shop, or better yet, donate your business and everything you own in these lands that rightfully belong to the indigenous people, apologize to them, and return to the continent your ancestors came from. Now.”
  Ben & Jerry’s Claims "US Exists on Stolen Indigenous Land," on July 4th; Outcry Ensues – "Make them Bud Light Again"
  
• "Bottom line: only a fascist believes the government has the right to force Americans to say something or use their talent and artistry to express a belief that violates their conscience. Imagine such a world! Welcome to the Woke Reich."
  Michael Imperioli Is a Fascist and Constitutional Moron
  
• "Fewer than a third of employees believe an ethnically diverse workplace is 'very important'”
  The Numbers Don’t Lie: Corporations Are Realising Going Woke Kills Business
  
• "Jones’ malaise now animates our society at large: We, too, are exhausted by the present."
  Indiana Jones, Independence Day, and the Presence of the Past
  
• "ESPN must be n dire straits if it’s having to say goodbye to some of its most recognizable employees."
Woke & Broke? ESPN's Latest Round Of Layoffs Include Kellerman, Van Gundy
  
• "There is a clear aggressor in the vast majority of similar incivilities."
  Ask Amy’s Bridezilla and Mother Are Just One Example of Leftist Intolerance

  REFLECTIONS ON JULY 4th

• Jeffrey Lord: “There were titans in those days, and their Promethean seed is scattered throughout the length and breadth of America.”
  Remembering the First Fourth of July
  
• "Let is listen to the words of the Declaration of Independence again."
  Ronald Reagan: Why Do We Celebrate July 4?
  
• "Frederick Douglass shows us that while America has dark periods, those times only come when we fail to live out our nation’s highest ideals."
  Honoring Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July Just Makes Sense

  HITHER & YON

• "The torch of that hallowed generation is now in our hands. We must not let it fall."
  The Greatest Generation Is Leaving Us
  
• "Leo Alexander, author of the Nuremberg Code, speaks to us about morality and professional ethics."
  How Governments Create Inhumane Bureaucracies
  
• Christian Toto: "Child-trafficking thriller offers ultimate counter-programming to summer fare."
  Sound of Freedom Eyes Stunning $20 Million Debut
  
• "Go see it.  You truly must. Sound of Freedom is pure perfection. Gripping, chilling, evocative, it will seize your soul and break your heart. It will lift you up and give you hope."
  God’s Children are Not for Sale: A Review of Sound of Freedom

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