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The Morning Report 12/7/21

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and despite our world collapsing in on us, and really because of that sad reality, it’s even more important to remember and reflect on the events of 80 years ago today. Today is Pearl Harbor Day. What happened there that day, as well as the declaration of war by Germany against the United States changed the course of history and brought us to where we are today. It is bitterly ironic that in the wake of our absolute military victory and emergence as the preeminent global superpower, the evil that we overcame did not disappear, but re-emerged in only a slightly different form and spent the ensuing eight decades sowing the seeds of our self-destruction from within. No doubt, the Soviets and the Chi-Coms each played and continue to play a crucial role in fomenting the cancer that Lincoln nearly 100 years earlier prophetically warned, If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Take a look around and that is exactly what is happening. Little wonder then that the neo-Cultural Revolutionaries are aiming to erase Lincoln with equal if not more zeal than Robert E. Lee or even the Confederate flag. The logic is simple, if not completely insane. Since America was not only never perfect but evil and illegitimate from the outset, nothing that anyone did to redress its greatest flaw, slavery, really mattered. Not the founders who laid the legal foundation for its abolition in 1789, nor the 700,000 sacrificed in a civil war to end it, nor anything anyone has ever done since then to try to live up to the ideals of liberty and justice for all. Therefore, even Abe Lincoln is to be removed from history. But, as is my wont to do, I digress.

The estimable historian Victor Davis Hanson reflects,

Most Americans once were mostly in agreement about what happened on December 7, 1941, 80 years ago this year. But not so much now, given either the neglect of America’s past in the schools or woke revisionism at odds with the truth.

The Pacific war that followed Pearl Harbor was not a result of America egging on the Japanese, not about starting a race war, and not about much other than a confident and cruel Japanese empire falsely assuming that its stronger American rival either would not or could not stop its transoceanic ambitions. . . 

. . . In sum, it was largely Yamamoto’s enormous ego, his tactical genius, and his strategic ineptitude, along with Japanese hubris, that explain the strategic idiocy of a brilliant but short-lived victory at Pearl Harbor. But to be fair, no student of military preparedness, economic resources, or social organization could have ever believed that a relatively vulnerable and isolationist United States, still reeling from recurring cycles of depression, in less than four years would have fought simultaneously across the Pacific and Europe with a 12 million person military, the largest economy in history, and the world’s most formidable weapons such Essex class fleet carriers, Balao submarines, B-29 long-range bombers, Hellcat and Mustang fighters and the world’s first atomic bombs.

Dr. Hanson’s essay is well worth the read as he explodes a few myths and lays out the attack and its consequences. Now 80 years later, America is at best a nation divided and at worst (and if you have been reading my posts for any amount of time you know my feelings) a nation that no longer exists. We have no borders, we have no equal justice under a just and stable law and most dangerously, we are split into two camps that not only disagree on issues but disagree on the legitimacy and nature of the nation itself. While that is happening, China and to a lesser extent Russia are making geopolitical and technological moves that threaten to leave us in the dust and perhaps turn us into dust.

Caroline Glick warns:

Over the past several weeks a hard truth has become undeniable: The United States of America is no longer the all-powerful superpower it has been since the end of the Cold War. Far from it. The strategic implications of this state of affairs are profound, for both the United States and its allies.

A nation’s position in the global pecking order is based on two things — its capabilities and its credibility. America’s capabilities have diminished in a stunning way relative to its superpower competitors. And so has its credibility. . . 

. . . Together with its allies, the United States is still the most powerful nation on earth. It can still defeat, or at a minimum massively harm, all of its enemies. But whether it is dealing with Iran or China, Russia or Afghanistan or beyond, America’s strategic credibility is in tatters. Neither its allies nor its enemies take its commitments or its threats seriously. Consequently, as it lags behind its adversaries in space weapons, the United States projects a weakness of intent that invites aggression against itself, against its interests and against its allies.

The on-again-off-again Conrad Black in this essay is for the most part dead on:

The luxury of having no rival in the world and only the comparative irritant of almost stateless terrorist organizations, which inflict tragic outrages but cannot threaten the existence of great nations, induced the United States into the first bout of self-hate in its history.

Centuries of often excessive but certainly not unfounded self-commendation as a free and virtuous meritocracy, a champion of freedom in the world, that has made the greatest effort of any in history to raise up a subjugated racial minority to a status of equality, have degenerated into an acutely self-critical disorder and caused the United States to detach from its legitimate global strategic interests. . .

. . . The strategic equation is complicated and increasingly dangerous because this administration is so feeble and the U.S. military has been so incompetently directed recently. But the United States is fundamentally a much stronger country than China or Russia, and if it inspires and leads its allies, it is at the head of an overwhelmingly powerful coalition of free states.

We have three more years to muddle through before the leadership that is all that is really lacking, can be installed. It is perilous but far from hopeless.

A lot can happen in three years, Mr. Black. And then there’s this little item which kind of made me sit up and take notice:

CHINA has been secretly developing Trojan Horse-style missiles hidden in shipping containers that can be unleashed on enemy ports, experts warn.

Military analysts believe the country’s huge fleet of freighters and fishing vessels could be turned into warships with the use of the secretive container missiles. . . 

. . . For example Chinese missile launching containers could be stored near the Port of Seattle. The Chinese would wait for the day they can launch an electromagnetic pulse warhead-armed missiles over the nearby nuclear ballistic missile submarine base Fisher said.

“The EMP blast might take out electronics on the [submarines] and all over the base without having to launch a nuclear missile from China,” he said. “Washington would be in chaos, would not know against whom to retaliate, and perhaps China uses American distraction to begin its real objective, the military conquest of Taiwan.”

Frankly, I think the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians and every other bad actor out there are wasting their money. People (allegedly) like Rustoleum-hair Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ibram X. Krement, Titty Caca AOC, Nazi collaborator George Soros and the litany of other sick, deranged fiends will be our undoing, aided and abetted by the DC junta so long as they get their $28 trillion pieces of silver. 

Assuming we even survive the next three years without any major shifts in the geopolitical map as it stands today, our government and far too many institutions outside of it are so horribly corrupted that even if a Trump, DeSantis or other outsider were to win the White House and the Democrats lost control of one or both chambers of Congress, what real good would it do? And the national rift between American and anti-American citizens will still be there. 

With all due respect to all those who fought and perished between 1941 and 1945, the challenge facing us here and now is perhaps even more perilous. And for sure, the situation is still very much in doubt.

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The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World, available at the link.


ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • “[Chinese] COVID has accelerated the transformation of our education system into a mini-totalitarian state.” Soul Monitors
  • “The ANC has taught young black South Africans that African government doesn’t work, that their politicians are crooks and that it’s not worth voting. The exact opposite of Mandela’s dream.” (hat tip CBD – jjs) The End of the Apartheid Alibi
  • “A coalition of the World’s largest multi-national corporations is working to manipulate you into eating more ‘equitable’ food though a business strategy designed to help major ‘food players’ and other large businesses facilitate ‘the coming food systems transition.’ They plan to do so with the help of a new strategy that assesses the supposed morality of individual food items and uses that metric to make business decisions and levy performance reviews.”Big Food Says the “Transition” to the New World Order Food System is Already Underway

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION 

AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

  • Rep Lee Zeldin: “When you dangerously combine a far-left, lame-duck politician, who is anti-business, one-dimensional, unaccountable, not bright and has a perpetual ‘I always know best’ attitude, you get Bill de Blasio, the worst mayor in America. There is no way this job-killing, small business-suppressing mandate is legal!” “Blindsided”: Fury in NYC as DeBolshevik Gives Firms Just 3 Weeks to Get Vaxxed
  • “The news that private businesses in the city will be forced to mandate vaccinations starting on Dec. 27, and indoor businesses will now have to check the vaccination cards of all kids over 5, was just the latest missile the mayor has lobbed at a once-thriving city.” Spectacle Mayor: DeBolshevik Punishes NYC on His Way Out the Door to Help Himself
  • “Science tells us we need everyone to wear a mask in public settings; accessible at-home testing’ and real public health outreach to our communities. This cannot be done municipality by municipality. New York state must finally lead.” (filthy communist slag just signed the city’s and state’s death warrant- jjs) More Than Likely Next NYS Governor Letitia James Backs NYC Vaccine Mandate — and Wants a Statewide Mask Requirement
  • “As reported by Just the News, two studies published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine showed statistically insignificant differences between participants who received vaccinations or placebos in both Pfizer and Moderna trials.” REPORT: Research Sponsored by Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Undermines Mandates
  • Michael Applebaum, M.D.: “So, how do the [Chinese] COVID vaccines compare to other vaccines?” Comparing Vaccines
  • “The [Chinese] COVID celebrity-doctor doesn’t like reminders that he badly overhyped the transmissibility of AIDS.” Sen. Ron Johnson Is Right About Dr. Anthony Fauci & AIDS
  • “Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann — a member of Pfizer Inc.’s Board of Directors — previously served as the Lead Independent Director at social media giant Facebook. The site has routinely censored posts relating to [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccines, with Pfizer in particular eliciting support from major corporate outlets.” REVEALED: New Pfizer Board Member Is Ex-Facebook Director
  • “So what there is a new variant, Omicron, that appears very contagious. It also appears relatively harmless, and besides, you likely already have natural immunity, since at least half of the American population has already been infected with [Chinese] COVID. With natural immunity Omicron is nothing more than a boogy-man monster hiding in the closet that little children cower in fear from. Are you a child, also cowering in fear? Or are you an adult willing to live life to the fullest, facing the normal risks of life?” Stop Being Afraid!

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THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  • “The price drop comes two months after a dire outlook for winter heating prices from the United States Energy Information Administration, which predicted that American households would have to pay an average of 30% more on their heating bills in comparison to last year.”Warm Winter Weather Bails Out Biden, Causes Natural Gas Prices to Fall
  • “It will take a lot more than a press conference and a paltry 50 million barrels of oil to repair the economic damage brought upon America by this [junta’s] policies.” Higher Prices? Ho Ho Ho, Yes

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT 

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

  • “The complaint we filed today alleges that Texas has violated Section 2 by creating redistricting plans that deny or abridge the rights of Latino and black voters to vote on account of their race, color, or membership in a language minority group.” (Abbott should invoke the 9th and 10th Amendments, as well as nullification of an illegal federal authority. IOW, “FOAD” – jjs) DOJ Announces It’s Suing Texas Over New Congressional Map

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION

  • “Democrats, establishment media, and Silicon Valley actively suppressed the New York Post’sstory last October, which revealed that emails on a laptop abandoned by Biden showed that he introduced a Ukrainian colleague from the Burisma energy company to then-Vice President Joe Biden, despite the latter claiming that he had no knowledge of his son’s business activities. Other emails showed Hunter Biden arranging a joint Chinese venture in which his father would have a 10% stake.” WATCH: Piss-Hockey Psaki Refuses to Revise Claim Hunter Biden Laptop “Russian Disinformation”
  • “Hunter is reportedly under investigation for tax and money laundering schemes, CNN first reported in 2020. The FBI is allegedly investigating whether Hunter and his associates violated ‘tax and money laundering laws in business dealings in foreign countries, principally China, according to two people briefed on the probe.'” (it’s gone beyond chutzpocrisy to actual sadism – jjs) White House Flags Art Industry for Money Laundering While Permitting Hunter to Sell Art to Anonymous Buyers

POLITICS

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

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM 

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS

  • “Problems with American infrastructure projects extend far beyond cost overruns.” The Wrong Critique

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 

  • “This launch tonight was 116th successful launch in 2021, which is the most launches completed in a year since 1988. Based on the number of planned launched over the next three weeks, there is an outside chance that the global total will top 127, making this the second most active year ever in the history of space. Even if the numbers end up in the mid-120s, 2021 will be among the top eight years ever. And I expect next year to easily top this year.” Ariane Espace Launches Two Galileo GPS-Type Satellites
  • “An update on the Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 has revealed that its science team has now decided to head towards a square boulder that the rover had recently spotted on the nearby horizon.” Yutu-2 Continues Its Travels on Moon’s Far Side

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.