HALF-FULL REPORT 05/09/25
The Yankees Beat the Padres,
The Return of Moral Clarity, and The Gathering Storm
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 11. Happy Mother's Day to the women who raise warriors, build nations, and love without limits. Your strength shapes the world.
The world just got a little more serious. From the Vatican to the South China Sea, the old guard is waking up.
In Rome, a member of the Augustinian Order from Chicago, Cardinal Robert Prevost, educated at Villanova University, is now Pope Leo XIV. Not a bureaucrat. Not a compromise candidate. A theologian forged in virtue ethics and raised in the ruins of a collapsing republic. Think Augustine with a passport and a spine. He wasn’t elected to make peace with the culture. He was elected to call it to judgment.
Gregorian chant is making a comeback, not as nostalgia but as spiritual warfare. The new pope doesn’t believe in neutrality. He sees the City of God and the City of Man, and he has already chosen sides. Don’t be surprised when he names the CCP as a spiritual evil. Don’t be surprised if he calls for Vatican III to clarify doctrine, fortify the faithful, and draw the line against totalitarian lies.
Meanwhile, the old Axis of Evil is back only this time with better branding. China just struck oil in stolen waters and is using it to bankroll its assault on the U.S.-led order. Their buddies in Moscow and Tehran are watching their influence slip as Beijing builds energy independence and flexes power.
India and Pakistan are once again toeing the edge of nuclear conflict, with Kashmir as the eternal fuse. And in the West? America and the U.K. finally remembered how to shake hands with a trade deal that might just mean something if we can keep our moral footing.
This isn’t business as usual. This is a spiritual, moral, and geopolitical reckoning. The Yankees beat the Padres, but the real game’s just starting. And this time, it’s for keeps.
Stay tuned. The world just hit chapter one of a new book.
Welcome to the TTP’s annual May 5th tradition of explaining la verdad, the truth, about today.
The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream.
[Stephen Miller is the founder of America First Legal and is currently Chief of Staff of the Trump White House.]

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