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The Morning Report 12/11/25

Posted on by J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids.  So, on the latest episode of the podcast, linked here as well as in the sidebar and on the outlets listed at the bottom of the post, CBD and I discussed the outstanding leadership of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in terms of revitalizing and reviving the readiness, capability and morale of our armed forces. With the ever present threat for sure posed by the Chi-Coms and a number of other bad actors including Iran, it is vital that President Trump has the absolute cream of the crop in terms of leadership at the Pentagon and so far Hegseth has proven himself quite capable. Now, with the President determined to thwart the influx of deadly fentanyl and other narcotics from overseas (primarily via south and central America, over land and via the sea lanes) that over the past decade and longer has left a staggering body count of dead and wasted lives that is akin to a small war or a very large and sadly ongoing bloody battle. To swipe the hyperbole of the Left when describing the January 6th non-insurrection non-riot, the body count is likely akin to several 9/11 style attacks combined. Add in the pain and suffering of their loved ones and the toll we have taken on so many levels is staggering. Lest we forget, the successful smuggling of these chemical weapons of mass destruction, and that’s what fentanyl and opioids in the last analysis truly are, could not really happen without people in place on our shores to facilitate in the offloading and ultimate distribution of them right down to the dime-bag pushers on a street corner. Hence the crucial nature of border and immigration enforcement as well as the general law and order push vis a vis the ordering of National Guard troops to aid and assist local law enforcement in the apprehension of criminal elements, resisted by local politicians who are beholden to the insane policies of defunding the police, and decriminalization of crime by blue shit hole mayors, governors and DAs exclusively of the Democrat/Leftist persuasion.

So the shedding of oceans of crocodile tears for the drug smugglers that the US Navy has blown out of the water is disgusting in the extreme, although quite instructive as to who and what the anti-American Democrat Left actually care about. Hegseth as both a man and as a leader is everything that the Left is not and will never be. He, and of course Donald Trump, who Hegseth represents, is a nemesis to be destroyed. Not just because of that which is reason enough for the Left, but for what he is accomplishing, which to a large extent is the will of the people, but also for his potential future as a national political leader. — no I am not endorsing him for POTUS in 2028, but merely pointing out the salient fact that if he is allowed to continue with his successes without being hindered by his and our enemies, or should he step on a rake down the road (the laughable at best charges of infidelity or some other concocted closet skeleton), he does indeed from where I sit have a shot at national office at some time in the not too distant future (he’s only 45)

So all that said, it leads us to our lead story of the day which is yet more action on the high seas in the Caribbean:

The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday.

The tanker’s ownership and origin were not revealed, but Trump said the vessel was “very large” while speaking to reporters on Wednesday. The president did not offer the rationale behind the seizure during his remarks. “As you probably know, we’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,” he said. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually.”


Attorney General Pam Bondi posted video of the U.S. raid on an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.
The video shows U.S. forces boarding and taking control of the vessel as part of an operation to enforce U.S. sanctions on the sale of Venezuelan oil.

“[T]he Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” said Bondi. “For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” she added. “This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely—and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues.”

. . . The decision to seize the oil tanker strikes directly at Venezuela’s main source of revenue, its state-controlled oil industry. The oil it can produce through its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, is often sold internationally to countries such as Iran and China at steep discounts because of the risk of running afoul of U.S. sanctions.

Neither of the links state the final destination of the tanker, but although I cannot find where I read it, I’m fairly sure that I read somewhere that the tanker was bound for Cuba. Oh boy! Chee-Wah-Wah on so many levels if so. First, Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez have been a gigantic pain in our ass for years, let alone the long suffering Venezuelan people who, despite being awash in petroleum are among the poorest in Latin America and the world. But yes young Americans, let’s all rush to transform the USA into a socialist paradise on earth, but I digress.

Venezuela aside, a number of South and central American nations are running in the opposite direction, much to the dismay of the Castro regime that still lords over the giant tropical gulag of Cuba. Thank you JFK. As for Venezuela, that regime has a long-standing partnership and close relationship with the mad mullahs of Iran, as well as Xi and the Chi-Coms who are itching to set up shop right on our doorstep to hamper if not strangle us economically, politically and if push comes to shove militarily.

That’s why it is refreshing and sane that President Trump as well as Secretary of War Hegseth and Secretary of State Rubio are speaking with one very loud and clear voice in the aggressive reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine.

This excerpt from the White House National Security Strategy released just last month and linked here for your perusal.

Western Hemisphere: The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine After years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-Hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to own or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere. This “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine is a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistent with American security interests.

It would be quite something to finally see Cuba libré after 65 or more years of being a communist slave state, if for no other reason than to see the jug-eared dog-eating piece of shit Barack Obama (who propped up the regime after Fidel was dragged down to Hell) shriek in agony as Donald Trump dynamites the statues of Castro, Lenin and Marx at that Havana reviewing stand, in the same manner as that giant Swastika was blasted off the reviewing stand at the Nuremberg Nazi rally site at the end of World War 2 – I Have a Dream Today!


Of course the treasonous, traitorous venal tyrants in our midst will do their best to prevent that from happening:

I give you a whore who babbles on . . .

During a recent interview with the far-Left Daily Beast, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), one of six Democrat lawmakers who collaborated on the infamous video telling service members they have a duty to refuse “unlawful orders,” made an extraordinary claim. She said they felt compelled to act because:

There [were] so many people coming to us, who were on active duty who — recent veterans, family members of service members — who were coming to us individually and saying two things: One, ‘I’m concerned I’m going to sent in uniform to an American city, you know, like L.A., Chicago, Memphis, and I’m going to be asked to do things I either don’t think are legal or I’m not trained for. What do I do?

As CBD and I noted on the podcast, while President Trump perhaps ought to have informed Congress of his intentions to interdict and destroy Venezuelan drug running terrorists on the high seas and that he considers the Maduro regime and Maduro himself as complicit in running drugs and de facto terror leaders in doing so, the fact that he didn’t do so beforehand makes little difference to me. 

Given who and what the Democrats are, if past is prologue, someone for sure would have spilled the beans to Maduro ahead of time. Even if it meant putting the lives of American military personnel in danger. They hate Trump with the heat of 10,000 suns and hate America itself as much if not more because they, for the time being, have been thwarted in seizing absolute power. When they say “By any means necessary” they’re not kidding as we have seen for almost 200 years now. 

Sowing mutiny in the ranks. Look what was done to Derek Chauvin who merely did his job as a police officer, and how that affected police morale and recruitment. Luckily Trump and Hegseth are at the top of the heap and the average soldier and officer have little to fear in terms of a politicized attempt to drum someone out of the service for following orders, no matter how ridiculous or loudly SLUTkin and her ilk shriek “WAR CRIMES!” But if God-forbid a Democrat administration once again takes power, then you better believe a Stalinesque purge will sweep through the flag officer corps if not go down the line to just the average dogface for obeying, legitimate orders handed down by the C-in-C Donald Trump.

And so, with no other means to prop up their allies, that is America’s enemies, resort to destroying morale and readiness. It’s the Chicago/OBAMA way…

Unto my last breath, the greatest threat to America’s national security was is and always will be the Democrat Left. 

Have a good day.

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