Kagro in the Morning - May 12, 2025

David Waldman throws the news at us and dives for cover.

Greg Dworkin tells us that the worst is by design, and he brings the receipts from around the world.

Trump makes the world safe for White flight. Donald stopped the war between India and Pakistan using only his mind. He is now wishing the war in Gaza to end. Who’s Ukraine? Maybe they got him coffee one time.

South Korea’s conservatives throw everything up in the air to see if it all falls into place. Germany wishes to ignore their far-right, but they are a noisy bunch.

After 40 years, the Kurdish group PKK says, “Oh well, it was worth a try.”

In Virginia, they have no one to blame but themselves but probably won’t.

So, Qatar is sending Trump a giant golden palace of a 747. Hey, can’t a country give their buddy a thing without everyone suddenly questioning it? The White House said Ceci n'est pas une émolument, or something to that effect. Anyhow, Trump is only borrowing it until he keeps it... that’s not “corrupt”, it’s called “being smart”. You’d have to be a radical Left Trump hater to say otherwise.

Trump said “tariffs”, setting off another sheep stampede. Time for another executive order to yell at another cloud, this time to demand that prices go down from up where they are. Drug prices should go down once the customer base passes away. James Bond still can rest easy, his car shopping remains tariff-free.

Insult to Nazis, Steven Miller, is thinking about suspending habeas corpus, inspiring fantasies of abusing his corpus. David explains habeas corpus, as does just about everyone with a keyboard this morning. We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka refused to take the bait at an ICE detention center, but that didn’t keep them from arresting him. He’s lucky they didn’t send in Seal Team 6.