The Morning Report — 8/20/25

Good morning kids. So it certainly seems as if the Russo/Ukraine conflict might at long last be on the road or at the very least will have taken the first steps along the road to ending. And that is due in no small part to the efforts of President Trump. That said it is encouraging that he has loudly proclaimed that there will be no American boots on the ground in Ukraine.

And yet, WTF is this?!

American support would particularly take the form of air support. Whether that means combat air patrols and air policing or the deployment of intelligence assets to feed information to European forces on the ground is presently unclear. Nevertheless, President Trump said: “When it comes to security [the Europeans are] willing to put people on the ground, we’re willing to help them with things, especially… by air because nobody has the kind of stuff we have.”

No war, however it ended, either by a clear military defeat and official surrender of one side or by an armistice or some other political accord ever stopped the mutual animosity and distrust of the victor and the vanquished for each other. I can't imagine Zelensky provoking Putin but I do think Putin will likely probe the resolve of the EU and President Trump, and that means air to air combat and at that point things can and likely could get out of hand.

Aside from facilitating an end to the bloodshed, it is up to each side to behave in a civilized manner once the ink dries on the Neville Chamberlain stationery and it's up to the EU to secure their own damned borders and security if they really think Vladimir Putin has the manpower and ability to roll all the way to and even cross the English Channel.

From my perspective, and I could be dead wrong, it seems to be in in Russia's best interest, geopolitically, domestically and economically to end the fighting. The greatest threats to global security come from Communist China and the global Islamic cause. Regardless of Putin's behavior vis a vis invading Ukraine, down the road it would be in our interest to have him in our corner as an ally with a common cause against bth of the aforementioned threats. But the Chi-Coms are now linked closely with Putin and putting a wedge between those two would be a challenge for sure. That's another reason why getting America involved in keeping the peace is not in our best interest.

Speaking of the Communist threat, over here in the US of A, whether or not he can actually do it, the President got a giant cheer from me and every sane American for announcing his intention to do away with mail-in balloting for future elections.

Of course there was an equal and opposite reaction from the clinically insane crowd:

Democrat Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), a man who identifies as a woman, claimed President Trump is waging an “all-out assault” against “American democracy” because he wants to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines.

“This president is taking notes from his favorite dictator. Let’s be clear: a president with popular policies wouldn’t need to illegally gerrymander districts, ban voting machines, or abolish vote-by-mail,” the transgender-identifying lawmaker said in a post to X on Monday evening.

American democracy is a myth, up there with Palestine and the Loch Ness Monster. Or at best a euphemism for Democrat-Party Dictatorship. At the very least kudos to the President for at the very least bringing this issue to the forefront of public discourse where the longer it remains in the spotlight, the more the Prsident's point of the threat to voting an election security is made.

Look at the reaction to calling out the National Guard in DC to combatting crime. And now look at the figures, that is the ones that the DC PD did not fake (see below) since he called out the Guard show how doing so has immediately made a difference.

The investigation raises broader questions about the reliability of crime statistics in Democrat-run jurisdictions.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Mental health diagnoses will spread like wildfire through schools, not because kids are sicker, but because being “special” has become a badge of belonging. (and a means to persecute non-leftist parents-jjs)
  JB Pritzker's mandated 'mental health screenings' for school children is a data grab, not compassion
  
• Daniel Greenfield: The book that the Communists wanted to kill is more relevant than ever.
  Animal Farm Turns 80

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
• Leidy Tatiana Mafla-Martinez filed inside her Tesla when ICE officials apprehended her last Friday in Los Angeles, California. (Give us your scum, your criminals, your teeming human vermin yearning to breed and infect us - jjs)
  Illegal Alien Influencer that Filmed ICE Raids Arrested While Livestreaming
  
• The driver of the semi, Harjinder Singh, 28, of India, was arrested and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and is being held on an ICE detainer, WFLA reported.
  DeSantis Blames California’s Sanctuary City Policies For Deadly Crash in Florida Caused By Illegal Alien Truck Driver

• Indian illegal immigrant alien who killed three with illegal U-turn was able to use the work permit to obtain a CDL from California.
  Deadly Florida Crash Suspect is Illegal Alien Granted Work Permit by Biden Junta
  
• A top federal prosecutor in California says most suspects his office has charged in anti-deportation riots are U.S. citizens, calling the trend “bizarre.”
  EXCLUSIVE: Acting US Attorney Points Out ‘Bizarre’ Trend In California Anti-ICE Rioter Cases

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

• Rose-Jones, who had been previously making threats against the president, traveled to D.C., where she continued to call for Trump to be “eliminated,” Pirro explains in the video.
  New York Woman Arrested in D.C. for Threatening to Kill Pres. Trump
  
• . . . because he wants to get rid of mail-in ballots and voting machines.
  Mentally Ill Deranged Pervert (i.e.Transgender) Democrat Rep. "Sarah" McBride Accuses President Trump of ‘All-Out Assault’ on ‘American Democracy’

• Roger P. Alford, who served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the first Trump administration and, until recently, as its principal deputy assistant attorney general in the second Trump administration, has expressed deep concerns about the DOJ’s susceptibility to influence-peddling. In an article published by UnHerd, Alford warned that while some DOJ officials like his former superior Gail Slater uphold MAGA values and the rule of law, there are also “MAGA-in-name-only lobbyists and… DOJ officials enabling them… pursuing a different agenda.”
  Ousted DOJ Official Warns of ‘MAGA-in-Name-Only’ Types, And Names Names…

  
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said that it will no longer monitor a civil rights agreement with the city of Chicago, Illinois that called for both zoning and land-use reforms to limit the onslaught of polluting businesses in low-income parts of the South Side and West Side of Chicago.
  Trump HUD Dismisses Biden Case That Targeted Recycling Company over ‘Equity’

• Government benefits make nonwork pay more than work, while inflated housing costs trap younger generations—proof that America’s inequality crisis is built by policy, not fate.
  The Motivations for American Inequality

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

• History warns us that unchecked power breeds tyranny—Americans must heed Washington’s example and remember Obama’s coup attempt to preserve liberty.
  The Past Needs Presence
  
• Gabbard claimed they “abused public trust by politicizing and manipulating” information in a post on X. Several were connected to the assessment of alleged Russian influence in the 2016 election ordered by former President Barack Obama, the New York Post (NYP) first reported.
  Tulsi Gabbard Revokes Nearly 40 More Security Clearances In Wake Of Russiagate Fallout

  
  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The U.S. economy could return to the "good, low-inflationary growth" of the 1990s, Bessent said.
  Bessent Says U.S. Tariff Revenues To Rise ‘Substantially,’ Focus On Reducing Debt

• Georgia, which has been called the “Hollywood of the South,” created an entire industry in the Peach State after a suite of tax breaks were initiated as an incentive to entice film and TV production to the state. Other nearby states, such as Louisiana, also jumped on the bandwagon. And it worked for years. But now, Hollywood has found another — and cheaper — sugar daddy overseas.
  Disney’s Marvel Studios Abandoning Atlanta Ga. for Cheaper Labor Costs in Europe

• [So-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s pro-migration deputies allowed at least 400,000 foreign students at U.S. colleges to take U.S. white-collar jobs in 2024.
  Citizenship Chief Says Federal Work Permits for Foreign Grads Are ‘Depressing Wages’

  ISRAEL AND USA vs Hamas, IRAN, et al

• “Israel remains consistent in its policy and demands the release of all 50 hostages.”
  Report: Israel Rejects Hamas’ Partial Hostage Deal, Wants Release of All Captives
  
• "Choose three people that I’m going to kill and three people that I’m going to shoot in the knee."
  Israeli Hostage Reveals Hamas’ Barbaric Execution Game
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• We allowed a Muslim terrorist sprung by Hamas into America.
  Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Muslim Terrorist Traded for Oct 7 Hostages to Appear at Same Event

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

• He tried to shake off their comments, at first — until he said he heard the irate woman call him a “k–e” and shout that “your daughter deserved to die.”
  Deranged neighbors hurl antisemitic slurs, mock grieving father of Georgia woman killed working for Israel’s border patrol: video
  
• My children go to a Zionist Jewish summer camp. It’s the kind of place that instills pride in Jewish identity and love for Israel while giving kids the normal joys of camp: canoeing, hiking, and endless games of soccer. But on the last Friday before the session ended, the kids and staff experienced a scare that revealed just how fragile Jewish life in America has become.
  A stranger told me I was sending my kids to ‘Nazi camp’ — this shows how mainstream anti-Jew hate has become

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The use of the hotel for migrants had sparked local outrage after an illegal alien from Ethiopia had allegedly sexually assaulted a local 14-year-old girl just days after breaking into the country and being put up by the government in the Bell.
  Major Win for England Anti-Mass Migration Protests as Judge Orders Epping Migrant Hotel Shut Down
  
• Tower Hamlets Council, led by Bangladesh-born Mayor Lutfur Rahman, of the pro-'Palestinian' Aspire Party, has drawn criticism for moving quickly to remove the English national flag, despite previously allowing 'Palestinian' flags to be flown from public infrastructure in the wake of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas.
  London Officials Are Tearing Down English Flags.

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

• The virus that ran its course in more than seven hundred people, mostly children, in the Mennonite and surrounding communities since January appears to have lost its virulence in the area. As TX DSHS reported, more than 42 days have elapsed since a “new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission.”
  West Texas Measles Outbreak Ends, Foiling Media’s Efforts To Make It The Next Pandemic

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

• Meanwhile the U.S. is slowly getting away from the China-Syndrome inspired “Nuclear Winter” for these power plants, as shuttered facilities are reopening.
  Swarm of Jellyfish Forces Shutdown of French Nuclear Power Plant
  
• Politicized investing has hurt America’s domestic energy production, economy, and national security.
  The ESG Bubble Is Bursting
  
• Now is the time for policymakers in developing economies to stop treating plant food as public enemy number one.
  How CO2 regulation endangers developing economies

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "While Democrats continue to coddle violent criminals, President Trump [is] focused on putting them behind bars."
  STATS ARE IN: D.C. Crime Already Dramatically Lower After Trump Crackdown
  
• The investigation raises broader questions about the reliability of crime statistics in Democrat-run jurisdictions.
  DOJ Investigates Manipulation of Crime Stats by D.C. Police Leaders.

• The incident involved four robbers who busted into the Menashe & Sons Jewelers store. The crew reportedly stole an estimated $2 million worth of items that included diamonds, luxury watches, and gold.
  VIDEO: Seattle Police Chief Was Yards Away When $2 Million Smash and Grab Occurred at Jewelry Store (was it Soviet Jewelry? Never mind - jjs)
  
• Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan of Rhode Island had been asked to leave a restaurant before local police were called to the scene, according to TMZ. Bodycam video posted on YouTube by NBC 10 WJAR showed the interaction between Flanagan, her friend Veronica Hannan and the police, with Flanagan demanding the officer turn his bodycam off while saying she was “an AG” almost a dozen times.
  ‘I Don’t Give A Sh*t’: Cop Shuts Down Prosecutor’s Pathetic Power Trip, Throws Her And Drunk Friend In Jail
  
• Henderson: “ I believe that this is a manufactured emergency to distract Americans from other pressing national issues of concern. But the only way for the president to justify having all of these troops deployed on American streets is for there to be some sort of incident. And so, I do believe that this is an effort to provoke the residents of the district into some violent act.”
  D.C. Councilwoman: Trump’s Trying to Provoke Residents to Be Violent

  
  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• An investigation found that all these school districts have policies that allow students to use facilities based on their gender identity.
  Five Virginia School Districts Labeled ‘High Risk’ Over Title IX Violations

• While CNN and Democrat leaders are freaking out over the notion that a conservative organization could have even the slightest influence over what happens in a school, the test developed by PragerU simply aims to ensure teachers are “not pushing a left-wing agenda on to our kids,” Oklahoma’s top education official said.
  CNN Is Outraged that Oklahoma Wants Leftist Teachers to Pass PragerU’s Common Sense Assessment to Get a Job
  
• This would encourage more traditional, less politicized instruction in military-run public schools and boost recruitment from the most pro-America demographics.
  Defense Department May Adopt Pro-America Test For K-12 Schools, Military Academies
  
• The campaign comes in response to a Justice Department determination that the school ignored anti-Semitism in violation of civil rights law
  George Washington University Student Groups Revolt Over Trump Anti-Semitism Crackdown, Demand 'Sanctuary Campus' Free From Police

  
  THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH

• Ballot dumps are suspicious. Election law requires ballots be dropped off by the voter, a member of the voter’s family, the voter’s household
  Drop Box Camera Catches Ballot Stuffing In Fraud-Plagued Michigan Town

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Gardon is not shy to take victory laps over what he sees as living “rent-free” in the president’s head...
  Meet Newsom Press Flack Izzy Gardon: Trolling Trump, with $40 Billion in Fire Relief at Risk (Gardon with an H - jjs)
  
• At least he's consistent. (Cancer is as cancer does - jjs)
  Rep. Jamie Raskin Calls for Letting Criminals Roam Free in D.C. and Hamas in Israel

• “Basically, every time we overturned a rock, we found something under it that was either filled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unqualified recipients or reduced agency oversight,” he recounted to (Miranda)Devine.
  Lee Zeldin tells ‘Pod Force One’ how Stacey Abrams and Obama, Biden alums cashed in on $20B climate ‘slush fund’

  POLITICS

• If you need a laugh, try to imagine Joe Biden or any recent president holding court in the way Donald Trump is doing it. To double the laugh, try to imagine any of the current presidential wannabes sitting in the big chair in the Oval Office.
  Michael Goodwin: Trump’s unique talents make him a true leader – and have redefined what it means to be commander in chief

• Trump was the choice of voters who had enough of the Obama Democrats who were wrecking the country.
  The Backlash Presidency
  
• 'Donors see the DNC as rudderless, off message and leaderless,' a Democrat adviser says
  DNC 'Wildly Trails' RNC in Fundraising as Donors Bemoan Party's Direction: Report (It's gone in the same direction since Woodrow freaking Wilson! - jjs)
  
• Waiting for a natural course-correction and a pendulum swing after radicals have already taken power is tantamount to playing Russian roulette with America’s future.
  Mamdani Versus the Statue of Liberty
  
• Three guesses.
  Who’s Behind Zohran Mamdani?

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• U.S. President Donald Trump gave his personal assurance that there will be no American boots on the ground in a post-peace deal Ukraine security operation because that will be the job of European states.
  President Trump Says American Planes in the Air But Not Boots on the Ground for Ukraine Security Mission

• “There can be no end of this war without security guarantees,” he added. “I’ve got one goal here. To make sure there’s no third invasion. If America would tell the world, Russia and Ukraine, we have Europe’s back if there’s another fight in Ukraine, that you would be picking a fight with the United States if there was a third invasion, there will never be a third invasion. And Donald Trump is setting that in motion. As to land swaps, remember, China is watching. Don’t do anything in Ukraine that would entice China to take Taiwan.”
  Light-Loafers Lindsay Graham: Ukraine Will Have to Recognize Parts of Ukraine Will Be Under Russian Control
  
• Despite protests, President Trump delivers peace.
  In Ukraine, the ‘Buts’ Win in the End
  
• Representatives of NATO and the EU arrived uninvited at the Ukraine negotiations in Washington. And Donald Trump sent them back home with plenty of baggage.
  Peace Talks in Washington: The New Center of Power

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Kim made his remarks while attending the launch of the new 5,000-ton destroyer Choe Hyon at North Korea’s western port city of Nampo. North Korean state media claims the destroyer will be capable of carrying nuclear missiles when it becomes operational in 2026.
  North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un Orders More Nuclear Weapons

• Move over, Prince Andrew.
  A Blockbuster Royal Scandal in Norway

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The effort aims to protect livestock, secure the food supply, and bolster national security by preventing the spread of the New World screwworm. The parasitic, flesh-eating fly larva can decimate cattle populations and even burrow through human skin.
  What Is the New World Screwworm, and Why Is the USDA Spending $750 Million to Stop It?

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The black hole, estimated to have the mass of 300 million suns, sits in the center of one of the mysterious “little red dots” that Webb has discovered in the early universe that remain a mystery. This black hole suggests each is an early galaxy with its own super-massive black holes.
  Webb discovers another “oldest black hole”
  
• Scientists comparing the spectroscopy of samples returned from the near Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu have found they closely resemble the much larger main belt asteroid Polana, suggesting all three formed at the same time and place.
  Scientists link near Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu to much larger main belt asteroid (Bennu & Ryugu opened for Bennie & the Jets at the Fillmore East in '71 - jjs)

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

  
  

• ‘Ultimately we would love to see the Coalition of States reshape the culture of America towards the next generation so that child gender mutilation would become unthinkable.’
  This Coalition Could Apply Pressure To Blue States Refusing To Protect Kids From Trans Mutilation

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Trump singled out the Smithsonian, which he deemed "OUT OF CONTROL" with wokeness.
  Trump Vows To Gut Wokeness From Our Museums: ‘We Are Not Going To Allow This’
  
• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is in the middle of an “orderly wind-down” across its operations after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting funds to NPR and PBS earlier this month, meaning the well of public money is almost dry.
  Far-Left Documentary Filmmakers Scramble for Funding After Spending Cuts Kill Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  
• Christian Toto: Does Kenya Barris' re-imagining fit into a President Trump 2.0 culture?
  Could Woke Backlash Crush ‘Wizard of Oz’ Remake?
• Male cheerleaders and end zone social justice messaging.
  The Woke NFL Hates Football Fans
  
• 'What Tomorrow Brings' becomes an unstoppable family affair
  How This Indie Filmmaker Stared Down Identity Politics

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