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Stephen Kruiser
The Morning Briefing
July 31, 2025
Since reality is hitting them hard right now, Democrats have retreated into fantasyland to live out their political dreams. You can hardly blame them.In Other News
Following President Trump's rollicking comeback in 2024, conservative media can't stop asking Democrats, "What happened to you guys?" Meanwhile, left-leaning outlets continue to dangle what they see as their last hope of defeating Trump: the Jeffrey Epstein case.
It's as if the Dementia Democrats forgot that the previous Democrat administrations tried to oust, imprison, and bankrupt that Russian secret agent called Donald, Donald Trump 045. Democrats came close to vanquishing their orange object of hate. Their conspiracy -- involving the intelligence agencies, political leaders, and the Obama and Biden White Houses -- succeeded in removing Trump's attorney-client privilege, stealing his executive immunity, debanking his companies, attempting to bankrupt him, trumping up felonies where none existed, and trying to imprison him for 100 years in an accounting case run by a judge best suited for a kazoo band.
They also sent goons to go through his wife's underwear drawers and staged photos of TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS at Mar-a-Lago. I know this because that's what the cover sheets read in font big enough for the FBI cameras to capture in their staged photos suitable for the 'Gram.
The moral of the story, dear Democrats, to the extent you have morals is, that if Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Susan Rice, Norm Eisen and Marc Elias thought that vomiting up all the Epstein intel would help them and hurt Trump,THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT when they tried and convicted Epstein's sidepiece and procurer of underaged girls for her sick boyfriend.
What they got instead, or have gotten so far, since $75 million has been handed out already, is a non-profit free-for-all.In Other News
We're very happy to report that a Sonoma, Calif. organization, based hundreds of miles from the fire zone, got a grant. An organization that cleans pre-school bathrooms was spiffed by the Annenberg Foundation.
Baby2Baby is probably a very fine foundation. Charlize Theron and Chrissy Teigen are featured on its webpage. The organization "single-handedly raises millions of dollars each year to make Baby2Baby’s work for children living in poverty possible." Did Baby2Baby cut checks to fire victims or something? Did they match the grant money to double the gift to the victims? No idea.
The National Day Labor Organizing Network was given fire victim money. We're unclear what giving money to the organization that riots and protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement has to do with giving money to fire victims.
We're sure the Flintridge Center is a fine Pasadena organization, but why do fire victims need apprenticeship programs? Perhaps they do. But how was that determined by the Annenberg Foundation?
Let's appreciate how $100 million could be used to help the 17,000 heads of households burned out of their homes—with no clothes, no place to go, maybe a burned-up Tesla sitting in what used to be the garage, and no idea where their kid is going to go to school next week
That $100 million in donations gathered at the end of January 2025 could have been used to get people temporarily housed in nearby area motels. It could have been used to buy a sweatshirt for the kids, a new diaper bag, gas for the car, and a few gift cards to Target and Denny's.
That money, which was given to the Annenberg Foundation to hand out to victims, could have been used to give roughly $6,000.00 per household to clean up lots, pay down the cost of permits, or get an architectural blueprint started.
Instead, that money has been handed off to NGOs and non-profits by the Annenberg Foundation, which probably thought it was doing the right thing by giving it to the non-profit that cleans pre-school toilets.
Once again, the non-profit borg has eaten the money and offered little in return. California fire victims obviously deserve better.