The Morning Report — 7/25/23

Good morning, kids. Leaving aside the doctrinaire liberal if not hard left personal politics and beliefs of RFK Jr., as I've mentioned before, his candidacy in the Democrat race – assuming for a moment that there actually will be one as opposed to the powers that be rigging it, as they have done in both 2016 and 2020 – is now growing beyond merely the turd in the punchbowl but a live hand grenade in a Delaware bunker.

Speaking with Fox News, the Democrat presidential candidate said allegations surrounding [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden and Hunter Biden about allegedly accepting $5 million in bribes are worth “a real investigation.”

“I think the issues are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened,” Kennedy said. “I mean, these revelations about the, where you had Burisma, which is, you know, a notoriously corrupt company that paid out, apparently, $10 million to Hunter and his dad. If that’s true, then it is really troubling.”

“So, I think that that needs to be investigated,” he added.

Kennedy’s statement is a dramatic course correction from just last week when he refused to attack [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden on his family’s alleged corruption, despite polling that shows overwhelming concern about the scandal. . .

. . . Kennedy’s opinion now aligns with polling that shows a majority of independents want congressional investigations into the Biden family business prioritized. Another majority of registered voters believe Joe Biden’s family received millions of dollars from Chinese government-linked sources. Moreover, 61 percent of Americans believe Hunter Biden received “special treatment” in his plea deal with U.S. Prosecutor David Weiss.

I don't have the link handy but this comes on the heels of RFK Jr.'s fairly conciliatory remarks about Donald Trump that though mild, was the moral equivalent to the average Leftist of Michael Richards' Tourette's barrage of "ni*ger!" on the reviewing stand of the Million Man March. Humanizing Donald Trump is an abject desecration of everything holy to the Left.

Be that as it may, is what Rush Limbaugh PBUH referred to as "the daily soap opera" going through a rewrite in order to ease Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants out and pave the way for a Newsom/Whitmer ticket? The narrative seems to be slipping away from the propagandists' ability to shape and control it. It's also why you'll likely see a Trump indictment within days, I would think.

Of course, the random elements include Biden himself refusing to step aside, as well as Kamala Harris. Yes, America is gone but the illusion of regular order and more importantly the preservation of that illusion dictates that Harris' ascension to the Oval Office must go forward. And that would leave her as the de facto standard-bearer for the party in '24.

But, as I maintain the fix is more than likely cemented in place – a few encouraging signs in the 2020 Election Heist section notwithstanding (see below) – and with a completely corrupted justice system that at best will either let Joe skate and give Hunter a wrist slap while Donald Trump, who I believe is unstoppable in the primary as of this moment, will be railroaded by a kangaroo court and sentenced to hundreds of years in the Gulag, what does all this matter?

It will be a moral victory for a majority of heretofore unaware or unconcerned citizens to have this corruption shoved in their face and not be able to look away from it. Frankly, I'm sick to death of settling for moral victories because moral victories won't stop us from being persecuted into silence and acquiescence on every issue under he sun. Or worse. And that is the road we're on right now.

On that note, one GOP candidate, his trustworthiness and potential for corruptibility notwithstanding seems to be making all the right noises. That's why I'm calling him Red Meat Ramaswamy:

In an interview with Glenn Beck on July 15, Vivek said that he intends to shut down the FBI and that he can do so without going through Congress—and even if Congress were entirely Republican, you know it would never act to clip the FBI’s wings:

“I’m coming in with a clear-sighted view, Glenn, of shutting down most of the administrative state,” Ramaswamy told talk show host Glenn Beck shortly after his interview with Tucker Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller and Daily Caller News Foundation. “First of all, do it on strong legal authority, so I’m a unique combination. I don’t like to brag a lot, but I’m a CEO, but I’ve also studied the Constitution deeply and the Supreme Court right now shares my view of the Constitution.”

“The U.S. president already has statutory authority, the Presidential Reorganization Act of 1977, says you can shut down redundant agencies,” Ramaswamy explained to the former Fox News host. “Well, when I look at what the DEA does and what the U.S. Marshals do, there’s my legal justification for shutting down the FBI without asking Congress for permission or forgiveness.”

. . . Having explained his authority to act, Vivek is starting to name the federal agencies that, in addition to the FBI, he’d do away with, starting with the Department of Education. . .

. . . Most Republican candidates talk a good game about shrinking the federal government, but Vivek is making headlines by explaining his authority and naming his targets.

About the only other candidate in the pack that is even hinting at doing anything against the Leviathan is Ron DeSantis. Everyone else is lost in Chris Christie's asscrack. Of course, the idea that the Leviathan is going to willingly and cheerfully shutter even a broom closet door is a pipe dream, wrapped in an LSD trip inside a drunken stupor. They run the show, regardless of which party is in the Executive Branch and especially if it's a Republican president. Most especially if it's an outsider/reformer.

It is this Leviathan that has brought us to the brink of disaster. And they're hell bent on finishing the job.

“Suppose we got it all wrong and the real crazies are the TV people in nice suits and $300 haircuts?”

That’s an observation by Richard Fernandez on Twitter, and he has a good point.

There’s a lot of craziness in the air these days.

But for the most part it seems to be flowing from the top down, not bubbling up from the bottom. . .

. . . All these crazy ideas and more are the product of our allegedly educated and intelligent overclass, the experts, policymakers and media types who in theory represent the thinking part, the brains, of our society.

But there’s something wrong with these people — the “brains” of our society are basically crazy. 

Crazy is when you believe and do things that obviously don’t make sense or fit with the facts.

It’s important to have an intellectual class.

Exactly how important is open to question — in his recent book “How Innovation Works,” Matt Ridley argues that most 19th- and 20th-century innovations actually came from tradespeople and industry, not academics doing abstract research — but important enough.

There are dangers to an intelligentsia, though.

Communism and Nazism started as intellectual movements; so did such fads as eugenics and lobotomies.

The Tuskegee Experiment wasn’t the product of racist Klansmen but of the curiosity of credentialed public-health experts.

In a 1999 essay, Neal Stephenson wrote that “during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.” 

It’s gotten worse. . .

. . . A decade ago, the crazy ideas I listed earlier would have been seen as beyond the pale of civilized political discussion.  Now they’re all endorsed by leading American institutions. That’s the hallmark of dysfunctional politics, and dysfunctional politics is what we have.

What the estimable Glenn Harlan Reynolds describes is nothing new, especially what he alludes to vis a vis Germany.

The term “technocracy” is nothing new to our political lexicon. It’s been around for decades and is commonly associated with totalitarian leftist regimes who appoint technical elitist “experts” to manage specialized sectors of their regime’s military, economy, and other civil sectors. A technocracy’s effect is to nullify the will of the people.

The first of such modern regimes was arguably the National Socialist German Workers Party (aka the Nazi Party). Minister of Armaments Albert Speer was among Hitler’s finest and most prized technocrats. In recent years, Speer’s role has been overshadowed by diabolical agents with more obvious blood on their hands, such as Adolf Eichman, Rudolph Hess, Hermann Goering, and others. . .

. . . When Germany surrendered, Speer was brought to the ancient German city of Nuremberg, where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity along with twenty-four others. After much deliberation between the tribunal, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at Spandau prison in Berlin. It was a slap on the wrist sentence compared to other regime members who stood trial and received death sentences.

When Speer’s trial neared its conclusion, his final testimony included information explaining how the Nazi regime effectively won the hearts and minds of the bulk of the German population after the nation’s economic and cultural decline following WWI. He also issued a stern warning to the victorious democratic nations that were already building large bureaucratic departments that were overseen by the proto-technocrats of their day.

(Keep in mind that America had a head start on this project: During the 1930s, Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed the American federal government by adding nearly seventy megalithic bureaucracies to the Federal government, permanently transforming America’s governing system. This transformation began the process of convincing many well-meaning Americans that “the bigger the government, the better,” and conditioned Americans to embrace large bureaucratic agencies run by technocrats . . .

. . . Speer explained that, while Hitler was the first to employ the tools of authoritarian control to carry out his regime’s crimes, as technology developed after the war, other technocratic dictatorships would pose an even greater threat to humanity:

The more technological the world becomes, the greater is the danger…As the former minister in charge of a highly developed armaments economy it is my last duty to state: Every country in the world may be dominated by technology; but in a modern dictatorship this seems to me to be unavoidable. Therefore, the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the individual human being as a counterpoise to technology.

In 2023, America is witnessing an ever-encroaching government composed of unelected and unrestricted technocrats who are increasingly running, or perhaps, ruining, ordinary Americans’ lives. Therefore, it pays to take a lesson from one of history’s most evil technocratic regimes and its chief architect.

Speers’ words from his final testimony should chill any reader who favors a free society. We already see how the dozens of huge bureaucracies routinely roll over Americans’ constitutional rights, imposing their collective wills upon the people without regard to our ostensibly representational government.

Moreover, this rogue bureaucracy is allied with Big Tech’s spiderweb. Both big tech and the Deep State are composed of radical leftist ideological factions who believe in their absolute right to censor any view or opinion that runs contrary to a far-left narrative. No wonder, then, that we are witnessing a government, press corps, and common culture run amok with the Marxist-Woke mind virus.

Big Club Status: [x] You ain't in it.

And it will be used on your head until morale improves.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The GOP has long been AWOL on both the wishes of the voters and on the candidate who has emerged to serve those voters. Why?"
  The GOP Death Wish
  
• "If Charles Brown gets this job, the office will shift from a cynical careerist to an angry true believer. This does not bode well for reversing the military’s recent string of failures, its descent into wokeness, and the all-volunteer forces’ recruiting collapse." (how the hell did this clown ever rate four stars, let alone a mop and a bucket? - jjs)
  ‘True Believer’ Joint Chiefs Chairman Will Hurt the Military
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: ". . . how does the government abort a conspiracy theory? Simple: Quit the chronic lying and for once tell the truth."
  How To Create Conspiracy Theories
  
• "What Americans need to know about their greatest enemy."
  "Stay Out of China!" – Before it Collapses?

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
• “I think the issues are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened. I mean, these revelations about the, where you had Burisma, which is, you know, a notoriously corrupt company that paid out, apparently, $10 million to Hunter and his dad. If that’s true, then it is really troubling.”
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Calls for Probe into Joe Biden for Alleged Bribes, Changing His Tune
  
• “I think that there is almost a panic setting in the media. They all want to move on because the alternative is to recognize one of the most significant corruption scandals in modern history, but it’s something the media played a role in suppressing, so they want everyone to move on.”
  Lib Legal Eagle Turley Says Democrats, Media Have No 'Maneuvering Room' Over Biden Scandals
  
• “It’s pretty clear what Burisma was paying Hunter Biden for,” Devine said. “When you look at the fact that a couple of months after Joe Biden was out of office, ceased being vice president, Hunter Biden’s 83,000-dollar a month stipend from Burisma was cut in half.”
  Larry Kudlow, Miranda Devine Say Biden Associate Could "Break This Case Wide Open"
  
• Margot Cleveland: "FBI agents told the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office they had already corroborated multiple details in the FD-1023, a source told The Federalist."
  FBI Told Delaware U.S. Attorney It Had Already Partially Corroborated Biden Bribery Claims, Source Says
  
• ". . . guess who served as a board member of Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, alongside the president’s troubled younger son, Hunter Biden? You guessed it: Archer. Archer eventually resigned from his spot on Burisma’s board after he was arrested in 2016. Biden’s best buddy was then convicted of defrauding a Native American tribal entity in 2022 and was then ordered to pay a staggering $43,954,416.75 to victims."
  Key Hunter Biden Associate Spooked, Cancels Testifying for Third Time
  
• "Naftali was appointed by President Biden to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad in July 2022 — about eight months after Hunter’s first art show, which took place in Hollywood. It is unclear when Naftali bought her Hunter artwork or how much she paid for it." (hat tip to commenter "MTF" - jjs)
  Hunter Biden's Gallery Sold His Art to a Democrat Donor 'friend' who Joe Biden Named to a Prestigious Commission

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

• “The FBI continues to break the rules put in place to protect Americans, running illegal searches on public officials including a U.S. senator, and it’s long past time for Congress to step in,” argued the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s National Security Project, Patrick Toomey.
  FBI Spied on Senators & Judges With Backdoor Surveillance Tool
  
• “Effective immediately, unannounced visits will end except in a few unique circumstances and will be replaced with mailed letters to schedule meetings.”
  IRS Will End ‘Most Unannounced Visits to Taxpayers’ by Agency Officers
  
• “Permit me not to give you Kamala Harris’ motives. They’re invisible. I don’t know them. We can all have suspicions that there’s a dishonest purpose afoot. But what’s more important than that dishonest purpose is the truth, and this curriculum is devoted to telling the truth. Whereas, Kamala Harris has re-telled a lie. Now, it may have only have been a falsehood the first time she stated it. But when you repeat a falsehood, it becomes a lie.”
  'Devoted To Telling The Truth': Co-Author Of Black History Curriculum Slams Kamala Harris' 'Lies'

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

• "Too much truth for the Google-owned video platform to handle."
  YouTube Removes Glazov Gang’s General Flynn Interview
  
• "The last social media bastion of free speech is still beholden to transgender activists."
  The Twitter Exile
  
• "For Nigel Farage and free speech."
  A Stunning Victory
  
• The real question tis “Why is Biden more popular than he deserves to be?'"
  Media Can’t Understand Why Biden Is So Unpopular (After Everything They’ve Done For Him)
  
• "When whistleblowers came forward during Donald Trump's presidency, MSNBC gave them its full support. During Joe Biden's [spurious pseudo "presidency"], however, the network isn't defending two veteran IRS investigators who testified that the Justice Department interfered in their probe of Biden's son."

  WATCH: MSNBC on Whistleblowers, Then and Now

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "The PR blitz hasn't worked. People live the inflationary economy day in and day out."
  Why ‘Bidenomics’ Isn’t Selling

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

• "[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) has pushed to ban gas stoves and enact new regulations on water heaters, washing machines and dishwashers to enhance their climate agenda. The administration recently introduced a new proposal for water heater efficiency standards to allegedly curb carbon dioxide emissions."
  'How Many More Home Appliances Will Americans ... Have To Replace?': Reporter Presses KJP On Gas Stove, Heater Rules
  
• "The next 'green' horror: exploding carbon-capture pipelines."
  Cowering Before "Carbon"
  
• "The lesson? The Biden [junta] shouldn’t be investing tax dollars in solar panels. They’re unreliable and far more carbon intensive than many like to admit. And investment in solar panels inevitably ends up benefiting the Chinese Communist Party."
  Solar Panels Don’t Really Help the Environment, but They Do Help Our Enemies
  
• "The 20-year-old Thunberg was charged with and convicted of refusing to obey a police order during a June climate protest in the Swedish oil port of Malmö, the Malmö District Court ruled Monday, according to Reuters."
  REPORT: Court Finds Greta Thunberg Guilty
  
• Mercedes has previously issued a recall for the 2023 EQE350 models due to potential lithium ion battery malfunctions that might not alert drivers. The risks associated with it do not appear on the German company’s website.“ The EQE electrifies the essence of Mercedes-Benz values,” reads the description. “Leadership in user-friendly technology and earth-friendlier power. Satisfaction for driver and passengers alike.” (hat tip to commenter "MTF" - jjs)
  Mercedes-Benz electric car was parked at Florida home. Then came the fire, video shows

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Democrats in Congress have sought to codify the policy — filing legislation in 2021 that would strip from federal immigration law all references to the term “alien” and “illegal alien.”
  Watch–Alejandro Mayorkas: Banning DHS from Using ‘Illegal Alien’ Term Respects ‘Dignity of the Individual’
  
• “This un-secure border, it’s not simply a threat from possible criminals and others in South America, there are people from a variety of countries, not just China, who I think are sneaking in,” warns Fred Fleitz, the National Security Council’s chief of staff during the Trump administration and a former CIA analyst.
  9-Fold Increase in Suspected Terrorists Attempting U.S. Border Crossings
  
• “He went to I guess find safety. Instead they pushed him into the glass and pulled him out as he was trying to get away.”
  NYC Migrants Allegedly Beat Two Men Outside a Shelter in Harlem
  
• "While the governors certainly put a strain on it, leftist policies had already destabilized that poor camel almost to dropping point."
  Did Governors Abbott and DeSantis Break The Illegal Immigration Camel’s Back?

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Rider is a female to male transitioner and was eight months pregnant when "he" was shot, according to local Tampa Bay outler, WTSP. On Friday, Grover shot his “boyfriend” and their child in utero numerous times on the couple’s front lawn in front of several witnesses. After killing his “boyfriend,” Grover took his own life.
  Florida Man Shoots & Kills Pregnant ‘Boyfriend’

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Durbin was quick to mention that he was fully vaccinated and boosted on the previous two occasions that he tested positive for coronavirus. Durbin was a strong advocate of vaccine mandates during the pandemic, admitting that he would vote in favor of forcing the jab if [so-called quote-unquote "president"]
  Biden pushed for mandates. He has also regularly attacked the unvaccinated as “risking the lives of their fellow Americans."
  Vaxxed & 2X Boosted Dick Durbin is Chinese COVID Positive For 3rd Time in a Year
  
• "A laugh-out-loud short video brilliantly summarizes the evidence that Dr. Fauci bullied scientists into changing their minds about what their research showed: that Covid was the product of a lab."
  85 Seconds of Video That Hilariously Show What a Liar Fauci Was About Chinese COVID's Origins

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Phil Murphy's administration has sued school districts over parental notification policies."
  Dem Governor: Failing To Notify Parents When Their Child Changes Gender Is 'The American Way'
  
• "I identify as a gift card."
  STEM Students Troll Woke LGBT Survey — Researchers Blame ‘Rise Of Online Fascism’
  
• "I taught in public school, I homeschooled my children and I taught Sunday School. I know how beautiful and innocent children are. We are obligated to protect them from a culture that drags children to the altar of sterilization, mutilation and indoctrination. If we do not fight on this hill, on what other hill will we fight?"
  The Cultural Revolution Never Ends
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "Gov. Gavin Newsom profiles California’s $128 billion government education system."
  Offensive and Ignorant

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• The wailing and gnashing of teeth is music to honest citizens’ ears. “Instead of focusing our money, resources and time on other endeavors and talking to voters, we’re having to spend resources to get people back on the rolls,” lamented Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried — as if Republicans didn’t have exactly the same challenge. So why carry on like it’s just a Democrat problem? Why is it so important to them to have so many mail-in ballots sent out into the ether? (this should be the M.O. in every fucking state! - jjs)
  Florida Democrats Scurry to Rebuild Mail-in Voter Rolls After New Law Wipes Them Clean
  
• “Clean voter rolls mean cleaner elections. This is a victory for all legal voters in Illinois,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said of the ruling in a statement. “Voters will now have the transparency that federal law requires in order to ensure elections in Illinois are more honest and cleaner.”
  Court: Illinois Must Forfeit Voter Roll Data To Conservative Group
  
• "Democrats used [Chinese] Covid-19 as an excuse to transform our elections; they are still at it."
  The Left’s Elections ‘Fortification’ in 2024
  
• "Analyses have shown these 'Zuckbucks' were heavily skewed toward Democrat municipalities, especially in swing states, effectively making it a giant Democrat get-out-the-vote operation."
  Texas Announces Exit From Leftist-Controlled Voter-Roll ‘Management’ Group ERIC

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "[Death] ‘Squad’ member Pramila Jayapal called Israel a ‘racist state’ in an address to Palestinian activists."
  Nazi Collaborator George and Alex Soros Max Out to Israel-Hating Congresswoman
  
• "The bakery has been embroiled in a decade-long dispute with Colorado officials over using the state’s anti-discrimination law to compel speech."
  Colorado Supreme Court Asked To Find for Christian Baker Who Refused Gender Transition Cake After SCOTUS Web Designer Ruling
  
• "For peaceably assembling to petition his government, Rev. Harold Ristau says, he was threatened with the removal of his security clearance and government confiscation of his life’s savings."
  Pastor "Exiles" Family to Kenya to Escape Canadian Persecution of Christians
  
• "Islamists Wilfredo Amr Ruiz and Omar Suleiman deceivingly label Israel 'child murderers.'”
  CAIRing for Child Terrorists

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "To the dismay of the RINO establishment in Texas, their campaign to besmirch Paxton has not diminished his popular support."
  The Establishment’s Paxton Impeachment Sham Undermines The Will Of Texas Voters
  
• He overcooked the Portuguese water dog . . .
  Obama's Personal Chef Drowns In Pond Near Their Multi-Million Dollar Home: Reports

  POLITICS

• "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is learning that, as an enemy of the state, everything he says can and will be held against him."
  The Perils of Race Baiting a Kennedy
  
• Mitt Romney is the Mike Pence of Chris Christies. Abject piece of shit.
  Pee-Air Defecto Romney Asks GOP Donors to Pressure Low-Polling Candidates Out of 2024 Race to Defeat Trump
  
• "Well, Donald Trump can scratch one more name off his potential veep list and Vivek Ramaswamy’s (or a player to be named later) chances of moving into the  Naval Observatory just got better." (It's not that he can't win it. He won't win it because the rigging is already in full swing. And this dusky duplicitous dipshit is delusional if she thinks she's going anywhere - jjs)
  Nikki Haley Says Trump Can't Win the General Election
  
• "He’s also explained that he knows how to close government agencies because he’s already studied the Constitution, laws, and regs."
  Red Meat Ramaswmay: Vivek Promises to Shut Down Specific Government Agencies on His First Day
  
• "Where's the outrage from left-wing activists?"
  Why is Malig-Nancy Pelosi Still in Congress?

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "There were reportedly no injuries in the attack, but it did strike close to where the Russian military holds briefings. The recent attack suggests that Ukraine's drones can penetrate deep within the Russian mainland."
  Drone attack near Moscow's Defense Ministry blamed on Ukraine
  
• "What role did NATO expansion and Biden family corruption play in the war in Ukraine?"
  Whither Ukraine? Part Two
  
• "The incoherent nattering about religious liberty in Ukraine shows that 'liberal values' are beside the point."
  Ukraine’s Illiberalism, and Ours
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "This Russian doctrine is exactly the same defensive strategy used by both the Allies and the Axis militaries from 1915 to 1918, during their own long stalemate."
  The Trench War Continues in Ukraine

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "There has been no clear winner in the Spanish general election, with the neo-conservative People’s Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) – currently in office – both failing to achieve an outright majority."
  Spain’s Complex Elections: Neo-Cons Largest Party But Far-Left Claims Win
  
• "Sharing dissent cables with Congress is a surprising betrayal of State Department tradition."
  Blinken’s Breach of Faith
  
• "As Beijing faces ever fewer consequences for its malign actions in international affairs, ask yourself: would we be better off with a West that acquiesces to the CCP, or by taking bold action to pressure them into better behavior?"
  As China’s International Behavior Worsens, Jimmy Lai Languishes in Jail
  
• "China experienced its first population drop in six decades last year, with the number of newborns expected to fall further in 2023. The current number of births per 1,000 people in China is just 6.77, whereas the death rate is 7.37 per 1,000. The current birth rate in the United States is 12.023 per 1,000 people."
  China Pushes IVF to Combat ‘Baby Bust’
  
• "As the left-wing establishment weaponizes U.S. law enforcement, how might these actions be viewed in Beijing or Moscow?"
  What Must Putin and Xi Think of U.S. Deep-State Shenanigans?
  
• "It is currently unclear what charge the election commission’s order is related to, and whether police would be acting on the warrant."
  New arrest warrant issued for former Pakistani PM Imran Khan days after Revolver interview
  
• David Harsanyi: "The alleged authoritarian ‘backsliding’ by Israel’s ‘far-right’ government would actually make the country far more democratic."
  Ignore So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Biden, Here’s What Is Really Happening In Israel
  
• "The Arab mindset replaces truth with bragging about imaginary heroism and victories."
  The "Palestinians" Keep Dreaming That They’re Close to Victory
  
• "The main financial stream of support to Hamas suddenly dries up."
  Hamas Unable to Pay Salaries in Gaza

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• ". . . Then admits he has no idea what the term means."
  Video: Air Force Head Declares Support For ‘Demi-genders’
  
• "The U.S. military has an enormous pool of unused and capable retirees. Let them help." (this assumes the junta wants the best and most qualified, which it does not - jjs)
  Privatize Military Recruitment

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "Jihadist sieges of Nigerian Christian communities became a topic of concern in Washington this month as the House Foreign Affairs Committee hosted a hearing on global religious persecution. The hearing was prompted by meetings Father Ihyula and Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi held with lawmakers through cooperation with Aid to the Church in Need, a pontifical charity organization."
  Local Priest: Nigeria Trying to Blame Its Christian Genocide on Climate Crisis

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "While at first glance this Martian terrain vaguely resembles the granular surface of the Sun, with the largest depression having its own faint resemblance to a sunspot, the resemblance exists only in our feverish imagination."
  No, that is not a sunspot on Mars!
  
• "What struck me about this picture however were the many smaller spiral galaxies scattered nearby and behind UGC 12295."
  Spirals within spirals

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

• "As evidence mounts against their position, how long will proponents of 'gender-affirming care' for minors hold out?"
  The New Onodas
  
• "If, as the left insists, there is nothing fixed about gender, how can mutilating surgery provide care?"
  The Deceptive Advertising of Gender-Affirming Surgery

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• “A form of extremist propaganda”
  VOX Declares Sound of Freedom Movie to Be “As Dark and Dangerous” as Child Sex Trafficking Itself
  
• "If the Left isn’t against it, are they for it?" (Yes - jjs)
  Slavery in the 21st Century Falls on Deaf Ears of the Left
  
• Christian Toto: "Daily Wire pundit tells 'Club Random' host about Trudeau's totalitarian ways."
  Jordan Peterson Schools Bill Maher on Canadian Fascism
  
• "Joel Webbon’s book Fight by Flight makes the case for leaving blue states. Indeed, such trends could shape future elections for the better."
  How Do You Know When It’s Time to Flee a Deep-Blue Hellhole?
  
• "Conservatives have disliked the movie because of its values (which are a problem), but its real problem is that it’s just not a very good movie."
  Barbie Is All Emotionalism And Appearance But Lacks Any Rationality
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Adults who refuse to grow up are ruining childhood."
  Barbie and the Left’s War on Childhood

  HITHER & YON

• Lloyd Billingsley: "According to the National World War II Museum, of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, only 167,284 remained in 2022. The great Tony Bennett was one of them. Take a good look, people. You’re not likely to see, or hear, someone like that ever again." (Billingsley glosses over the singer's more lefty leanings, but he was surely an original. RIP - jjs)
  Tony Bennett Departs the Good Life: Great American Artist, Liberator, Civil Rights Activist
  
• Glenn Reynolds: "A decade ago, the crazy ideas I listed earlier would have been seen as beyond the pale of civilized political discussion.  Now they’re all endorsed by leading American institutions."
  Our Society's "Top Brains" Have Gone Mad — and Dysfunctional Politics is the Result
  
• "Speer was evil, but he was not stupid, so he understood how mass communication helped shape and empower the Third Reich."
  Related: Albert Speer’s Warning to the West About the Rise of Technocracy

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