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The Morning Report 5/15/24

Good morning, kids. Now you can add to leftist ideologically-driven incompetence clueless cruelty or cruelty of cluelessness. Here are two shining examples. First we take you to Zimbabwe on the Pacific, formerly known as California:

As Saigon was falling, Janet Nguyen’s uncle – an officer in the South Vietnamese Army – was taken before his village and executed. After the city fell on April 30, 1975, the communists put Nguyen’s father and mother in jail. Their “crime?” They got caught trying to escape the country. 

After Saigon fell, Tri Ta’s father spent years in a re-education camp prison. His “crime?” He wrote books critical of communism. 

Both Nguyen and Ta eventually made it to California with their families. She became a California state senator and he became a member of the Assembly. The Republicans represent Orange County districts home to the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.

Forty-nine years after the Fall of Saigon, April 30 remains a solemn day for Nguyen and Ta as it is for many of 2.3 million Vietnamese-Americans in the U.S. They call it Black April. 

“It’s a day that we mourn,” Nguyen said. 

Which is why Ta and Nguyen were outraged when leaders of neighboring Los Angeles County declared April 30 “Jane Fonda Day” to honor the celebrity for her environmental activism. The lawmakers immediately began pressuring officials to rescind the recognition.

For those who are not of a certain age, like me, let me give you a bit of a refresher. Jane Fonda goes way beyond being certainly a liberal and even a leftist or hard leftist. She is in fact the dictionary definition of a traitor. 

In 1972, while America was at war with North Vietnam and their terrorist force the Vietcong, Fonda travelled to Hanoi to pose on an NVA antiaircraft cannon, shouting her opposition not necessarily to the war but to America’s involvement in it. To add insult to incredible injury, she was perhaps within spitting distance of the infamous Hỏa Lò Prison, dubbed “The Hanoi Hilton,” where captured American POWs were being tortured and brutalized for years. 

I’m no legal eagle nor well-versed in the UCMJ. But what she did should have earned her a date with the hangman. The fact that Fonda was not put to death or at the barest of bare minimums rotting away right now in Leavenworth was a huge mistake. In some ways, what we are experiencing today with the cultural rot that is the gateway drug to the institutional corruption of our government and society at large, if not completely prevented, might well have been mitigated. We’ll never know.

And speaking of that rot and corruption, I give you the second of today’s shining examples of clueless cruelty. This one is a doozy:

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken performed Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” on the electric guitar on Tuesday night in Kyiv, Ukraine, as part of a solidarity visit to boost morale in the embattled former Soviet republic.

Blinken played rhythm guitar with The 1999 band at the Barman Dictat, a nightspot in the Ukrainian capital.

“I know this is a really, really difficult time,” Blinken said. “You need to know the United States is with you.”

. . . The scene recalled a bizarre event in the aftermath of a radical Islamic terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, France, in 2015, when then-Secretary of State John Kerry, having missed a local “unity rally,” sought to console Parisians with a serenade by James Taylor, who performed “You’ve Got a Friend.”

As the estimable Joel Pollak notes, “Rockin in the Free World” was not a song in praise of the West. It was written by noted crackpot Canuck Lefty crank Neil Young – who made millions of dollars writing tunes bashing America and the west – just before the Berlin Wall came crashing down and millions enslaved behind it actually tasted freedom for the first time in decades, thanks to the America he and his ilk, including Fonda, made their bones and fortunes from bashing. 

But beyond that, the tastelessness of Blinken and his clueless cruelty lies in the fact that while he is desperate to help destroy the state of Israel by aiding and abetting the dark age savages that perpetrated the greatest mass slaughter of Jews since World War 2, he was performing (in every sense of that word) barely four miles down the road from a place called Babi Yar.

Over the course of two days, the 29th and 30th of September 1941, which coincided with the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators shot 33,771 Jewish men, women and children to death in a gigantic mass grave. 

The road from Babi Yar in 1941 goes directly to southern Israel in 2024. 

The disgusting and tragic irony of this, one of many, is that Blinken happens to be either the son or stepson of a Holocaust survivor. To not even take the time to travel, even unofficially without the media in tow, to say a prayer at the memorial site, speaks volumes. Perhaps it might have bolstered the flagging support of American Jews for Biden, but then again it might enrage the Democrat base whose blood-thirsty anti-Jewish anti-Israel anti-American vitriol is barely distinguishable from that of Hamas and the rest of the commie-heathen world itself.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has sharpened his rhetoric towards Israel, telling the key U.S. ally to ‘get out of Gaza’ as the Israeli military tightens the noose around Hamas’ terrorist leadership in Rafah.

Blinken prophesied “enduring insurgency” in the long run if the Israeli military conducts a large-scale offensive in Rafah, Hamas’s last remaining stronghold, which has a terrorist fighting force with a strength of about four battalions.

“As we look at Rafah, they may go in and have some initial success, but potentially at an incredibly high cost to civilians,” the U.S. Secretary of State said in a TV interview on Sunday. “And they will be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency because a lot of armed Hamas will be left, no matter what they do in Rafah, or if they leave and get out of Gaza, as we believe they need to do.”

Leave and get out of Gaza? High cost to “civilians?” What civilians? Unless you are an infant in diapers, anyone above the age of 5 is either an enemy combatant or directly helping the combatants. Meanwhile, just across the Mediterranean, this is happening:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that more than one thousand Hamas terrorists have received medical treatment in hospitals across Turkey. Erdogan refused to admit Hamas was a terrorist group, instead describing it as a “resistance movement.” This greatly dismayed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who was meeting with Erdogan in Ankara to defuse tensions between Greece and Turkey. The two leaders were holding a joint press conference when Erdogan revealed Turkey had been treating Hamas fighters. . . 

. . . Erdogan loudly insisted that Hamas should not be treated as a “terrorist organization” even after it murdered, raped, burned, decapitated, and kidnapped more than 1,200 Israeli civilians on October 7.

“Hamas is not a terrorist organization. It is a group of mujahideen (holy warriors) defending their lands,” the Turkish leader said, insisting that the Israelis were the real terrorists. 

Like other apologists for Hamas savagery, Erdogan said that Israel has no inherent right of self-defense that would justify its military response against the October 7 attack. The Turkish leader has since compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler on several occasions, claiming Israel’s war in Gaza is an act of genocide like the Holocaust.

I’d say that this is serious considering Turkey is a NATO member, but then again so is Germany, France and England which are well on the way to becoming Islamic states perhaps in as little as the next 10 years.

And there’s this alarming anecdote, from the same Legal Insurrection article to Turkey’s involvement with the wounded terrorists.

The IDF has uncovered Hamas’ plan to set up a terrorist base in Turkey, the UK newspapers Times of London and Telegraph report. With IDF crippling the terror group’s ability to operate in Gaza, Hamas operatives were looking at Turkey as a potential base for plotting terrorist attacks aimed at Israeli officials, servicemen, and civilians, documents recovered by the IDF show.

I guess Qatar is not safe for Hamas. Or the emir’s family. That would make Turkey a potential target of Israel, no? And since they are a NATO member . . . do the math. 

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN

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

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM 

  • Robert Spencer: This wasn’t even the first time Kablawi said such a thing. MEMRI has also reported that Kablawi said, in a Friday sermon on March 8,  “Allah revealed to the messengers, instantly: ‘We will defeat the oppressors, and We will make you the dwellers of their land, of their homes.’… By Allah, those settlements that they built, by Allah we will live in them.… By Allah, we will seize [them]. By Allah, we will enjoy [them]. By Allah, we will live in [them]. If it is not us, our children will live in [them]. By Allah, the law of Allah and the shari’a of Allah will rule the land.” Florida Dentist Calls for ‘Annihilation’ of Jews, Could Lose His License

“BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH,” AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH

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

  • Turley noted that Cohen‘s reasoning for secretly recording a phone conversation with then-President-elect Trump was questionable. “The one thing about yesterday that was striking is I thought that Michael Cohen may have committed perjury again,” the GWU law professor told Fox News‘s Dana Perino on Tuesday. Did Michael Cohen Commit Perjury AGAIN!?
  • The gag order prevents Trump from making public comments about witnesses participating in the trial, counsel other than Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, “members of the court’s staff and the District Attorney’s staff, or … the family members of any counsel or staff member, if those statements are made with the intent to materially interfere with … counsel’s or staff’s work” on the case. It also encompasses prospective jurors. Court Rules Against Donald Trump’s Gag Order Appeal
  • “Attorneys for the former President have demanded Judge Merchan recuse himself from the trial over numerous conflicts of interest related to his daughter Loren Merchan‘s campaign fundraising business and her potential profiting from the prosecution of Trump. Thus far, the Democrat-aligned judge has refused the recusal requests.” Congressional Client of Loren Merchan’s Firm – Who Was Also LEAD COUNSEL for 1st Trump Impeachment – Coached Michael Cohen for Cross-Examination
  • “New election, same old sham. It conveniently took Democrats four years to once again dredge up Daniels to undermine Donald Trump. Despite the liberal media’s fawning praise, there is nothing noble about the lawfare being waged against Trump. It is just petty, puerile politics that further erodes Americans’ faith in our cheapened, abused institutions. And, just as Democrats intended, it is unlikely we’ll be done with this farce before Election Day.”How a Blackmailing Prostitute and a Crooked Prosecutor Could Steal the 2024 Election
  • “One of these days,” Fleming told Judge Gagliardi, “we are going to find that we reach a due process point, where, by the sheer proliferation of charges, a government can force a man either to admit guilt, which he does not feel or to bankrupt himself… The economics of this thing are overwhelming.” Call it what you will, but none call it justice.  And the tumblers are beginning to fall. Was this the playbook all along? Cohen Made Huge Admission in NYC Trump Case and Now the Tumblers Begin to Fall in Place
  • “Her remarks are a stunning admission that the trial is politically motivated and intended as election interference. Democrats are stuck with a candidate who is 81 years old with cognitive deficiencies and has been trailing Trump in the polls for months.” Mop-Top Ex-Malveaux-Muncher Karine Jean-Pierre May Have Admitted Too Much About Trump’s Trial

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

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

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

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

  • In each glove compartment will be an I-Pod with Biden attempting to recite the Hamas Charter. At least the battery will be dead, with no way to charge it – jjs SHOT: Biden Says That Americans Can Buy Any Car They Want. His Junta is Forcing EVs to Be Huge Share of Sales By 2032
  • “. . . there is a big difference between a huckster like Ron Popeil and a grifter like Joe Biden: for three easy payments of just $19.99, in six to eight weeks, Popeil would deliver the goods — Biden, not so much. This is the guy who pushed through one trillion-dollar spending bill after another, and all we got was this lousy inflation.” CHASER: $7.5 Billion Later, Biden Is Up to 7 EV Charging Stations
  • “The facts are that climate fluctuates over time for a variety of reasons, some of which are unknown. We don’t know, for instance to what extent that huge, glowing ball of hydrogen and helium floating out in space – the sun – effects the long-term warming or cooling of the earth’s various climate zones. Perhaps its influence is negligible. Or perhaps it is decisive, and the “Anthropogenic Climate Change” narrative on which we are spending trillions of dollars is nothing but a money grab by the elites from the middle class enacted for the same reason that Willie Sutton robbed banks.” Maundering Through ‘Climate Change’
  • “One scholar, however, believes it’s important to separate the two.” Scientist or Activist? With Climate, It’s Often Hard to Tell the Difference
  • “The lawsuit, led by Nebraska, argues that California’s Advanced Clean Fleets regulations on internal-combustion trucks and mandate for ‘zero emission vehicles’ by 2036 violate federal law and will have a nationwide impact. The suit argues the regulations will disrupt supply chains, raise prices on goods, and slow interstate transportation.” (Roberts sez “No standing!” right? – jjs) California Challenged Over Ban On Sale Of New Diesel Trucks

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

SECOND AMENDMENT

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

  • “America’s children are not well, and their schools are a big part of the problem.” Child Depreciation

THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY 

POLITICS 

THE UKRAINIAN “FRONT”

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

  • The remarks followed commentary in Iranian media by a prominent member of Parliament who claimed that Iran already possessed nuclear weapons, but its authorities were lying about it to appear to be abiding by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The lawmaker, Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, made his remarks shortly after a visit to Iran by the head of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, who lamented upon returning to Europe that the current state of nuclear inspections in Iran was “completely unsatisfactory.” Iran Repeats Lie of Anti-Nuclear Fatwa After Lawmaker Boasts It Already Has Nukes
  • Daniel Greenfield: “From Japan to Ukraine to Poland, nations are rethinking Biden’s ‘ironclad’ promises.” Biden’s “Ironclad” Commitments to the World
  • “In response to escalating tensions with Russia, Germany‘s Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, is advocating for reinstating compulsory military service for 18-year-olds. Originally discontinued in 2011, the proposed initiative comes as the German military faces a 21,000-soldier shortfall needed to fulfill NATO defense plans.” Germany Mulls Conscription for 18-Year-Olds
  • “Pedro Sánchez has emerged from repeated crises stronger than ever.” Is Spain’s Prime Minister the Global Left’s Great Survivor?

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

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

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

HITHER & YON 

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