Iran has launched a missile attack on Jordan

Not mosques; missiles

“Seek overhead cover and shelter in place immediately,” the embassy warned.

On Thursday, Iran directed missiles toward Jordan. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps asserted that its forces had targeted the U.S.-operated Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. This strike forms part of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran that now spreads steadily across the region.

Jordan’s military reported that it had intercepted eight Iranian missiles before they could reach their intended targets within the kingdom.The U.S. Embassy in Amman responded with a nationwide security alert. It spoke of “missiles, drones, or rockets” in Jordanian airspace and instructed American citizens to take immediate shelter.

“Reports indicate missiles, drones, or rockets are in Jordanian airspace. Seek overhead cover and shelter in place immediately,” the embassy said.The launches caused a temporary halt in air travel.

All flights at Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport were delayed while Jordan dealt with the aerial threat.This assault on Jordan followed a wider Iranian retaliatory operation launched earlier the same day.

Tehran declared that it had sent a large barrage of missiles and explosive drones against U.S. military sites in Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Iranian sources claimed successful strikes on an aerial early warning system in Qatar, fuel storage facilities in Bahrain, and a Patriot missile battery in Kuwait. Iranian state media described the targets as “key infrastructure and facilities” linked to the American military presence across the Gulf.

At the same time, Reuters noted a drone strike on a camp belonging to the Iranian Kurdish opposition northeast of Erbil in Iraq. Another front opened in a conflict that expands with alarming speed.

These latest attacks arrived while the United States pressed its own military campaign against Iran. Iranian media described explosions in several cities, among them Kerman, Bushehr, Asaluyeh, and Bandar Abbas. The deputy governor of Bushehr province was quoted as saying that U.S. projectiles had struck areas surrounding the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Several locations in the province, including the perimeter of the nuclear facility itself, came under fire in the most recent wave of American strikes.This widening exchange of blows follows consecutive nights of U.S. operations against Iranian military infrastructure. It comes after Tehran first targeted commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

The pattern now raises grave and entirely justified fears that the conflict is sliding into a broader regional war.

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Iran Signals ‘Mass Sacrifice’ By Dusting Off Saddam-Era Participation Trophy While Trump Deal Is Already “Largely Negotiated”

TEHRAN—In a bold diplomatic masterstroke, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reminded the world that his country is totally ready to throw another generation of young men into the meat grinder, just like the good old days, all while Trump’s team casually confirms the deal is basically done.

The remarks came as President Donald Trump said a deal with Tehran is "largely negotiated" but warned the U.S. could walk away entirely if the mullahs keep cosplaying 1982.

Pezeshkian invoked one of Iran’s strongest wartime symbols on May 24, signaling Tehran’s ironclad resolve to maybe, possibly, kind of fight the U.S. and Israel if they absolutely have to, according to a counterterrorism expert who sounded very impressed.

While Iran signaled broad agreement with Washington on some points, it emphasized that a final deal is not imminent because nothing says “serious negotiation partner” like publicly hyping up mass human sacrifice right before signing the paperwork.

In an X post marking the anniversary of the 1982 recapture of Khorramshahr from Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq War, Pezeshkian said, "Khorramshahr today is Iran, the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Hormuz," adding that "resistance, self-sacrifice, and repelling aggression are rooted in the culture of this land."

Analysts claimed Pezeshkian was deliberately invoking one of the deepest ideological touchstones of the Islamic Republic, you know, that time they spent eight years and a million lives to win back one city from Saddam.

"This is the Iran-Iraq War reference, and the timing is the point," said Dr. Omar Mohammed, director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative Program on Extremism at George Washington University.

"This is one of the Islamic Republic’s foundational mythological moments, civilian resistance, mass sacrifice, repelling an ‘aggressor army.’ Roughly what the Great Patriotic War is to Russia. The rhetorical move is the extension," Mohammed told Fox News Digital.

"He’s mapping the 1980-82 defensive-war frame onto the current confrontation: Iran attacked by an aggressor, ordinary citizens (‘battle-untested but brave’) expected to stand and fight, with ‘resistance, sacrifice, repelling aggression’ cast as the cultural default mode."

Some of the phrasing, Mohammed said, also evokes volunteer and Basij fighters versus a professional invading army — or as the rest of the world calls it, “the Iranian business model.”

"Invoking the strait inside a wartime-mobilization frame, even rhetorically, is a deliberate signal, not throat-clearing," he added.

"The Khorramshahr frame is the deepest register the regime has. It’s what they reach for to signal existential war, not a managed crisis."

Mohammed explained that Pezeshkian’s X post is framing the current confrontation from the presidential account to send a "high-stakes message."

"It’s also a tell on internal posture: Khorramshahr, in short, means ‘we are being invaded and we will not negotiate,’" he added, “unless the deal is really, really good and Trump throws in some sanctions relief and maybe a new soccer stadium.”Sources say the tough talk is playing beautifully on Iranian state TV, where viewers are encouraged to cheer loudly while quietly hoping their kids don’t get volunteered for the next glorious mass sacrifice.


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Unearthed Posts Show Dem Senate Hopeful Praising Vulgar Graffiti, Making Crude Porta Potty Admission

WARNING: SOME VILE LANGUAGE FROM THIS DEMOCRAT HOPEFUL. READER DISCRETION ADVISED


GOP strategist calls the years-long trail of posts a 'character issue' ahead of a potential race against Susan Collins.

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of Maine released a video of himself with a tattoo of what appeared to be a Nazi symbol on "Pod Save America."

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, who is already facing criticism over past Reddit posts, made graphic sexual comments on his now-deleted account about masturbating in portable toilets and explicit graffiti found in military restrooms.

In one March 2017 post on Reddit’s r/Military forum, Platner responded to a discussion about nostalgic military smells by writing: "I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a portas----er… that blue water smell conditioned me."

The archived posts were made under "P-Hustle," a now-deleted Reddit account that Platner previously acknowledged was his.

In another post from March 2021 on Reddit’s r/USMC forum, Platner described a crude penis drawing inside a portable toilet while deployed overseas.

Responding to a thread dedicated to so-called "GWOT Dick Art," Platner launched into an extended monologue praising the explicit graffiti in unusually vivid terms, calling it "beautiful," "engorged and veiny," and moving "towards its penetrative glory."

"Oh s---!!!," Platner wrote. "You’ve got the Hot Rod C--- from Manas!"

Manas was a major U.S. military transit hub in Kyrgyzstan used during the wars in Afghanistan. Platner enlisted in the Marines in 2003 and served three combat tours in Iraq. In 2010, he joined the Maryland Army National Guard for a fourth tour, serving in the infantry in Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan eight years later as a security contractor.

The post accompanied a photograph of a smiling serviceman posing beside the explicit illustration inside the portable restroom.

"I sat there in sheer awe," Platner wrote. "The soul filling joy to be allowed to witness such glory."Fox News Digital reached out to Platner’s campaign for comment on Monday.

Platner has previously responded to questions about his controversial posts by suggesting he was joking.

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"You should read the comments in context. It's very clear I'm joking," he previously told Fox News Digital when asked about them. "It's called s---posting. It's when you argue with people on the internet and try to bother them. So, yeah, no, it's very obviously not true."

The posts, which are accessible in the Maine Monitor’s archive but have not been previously reported, are the latest in a series of vulgar and inflammatory social media comments that critics say raise questions about Platner’s judgment as the progressive Democrat emerges as his party’s Senate nominee in Maine.Republicans are likely to use the resurfaced posts, along with others, to portray Platner as too erratic and extreme for statewide office as Democrats rally behind the first-time candidate.

Mehek Cooke, a GOP strategist and senior national security and legal analyst for the Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital that, politically, Platner’s "vulgar" posts will "matter" to voters because they are "deciding whether Graham Platner has the judgment, temperament, and basic decency to represent Maine in the Senate."

"His campaign has been built around authenticity and moral seriousness. These posts undercut both," Cooke said. "Platner is not a truth-teller. He is someone whose instincts appear crude, reckless, and deeply unserious. And by the way, if they were really ‘jokes,’ why delete the posts? That sounds less like humor and more like a CYA cleanup operation."

Cooke said that "one tasteless post" can be chalked up to "immaturity" but a "years-long trail of vulgar, sexually degrading, and slur-filled commentary is a character issue."

Platner, a first-time candidate who is backed by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, became the Democrats' presumptive nominee after his rival for the nomination, two-term Gov. Janet Mills, ended her campaign last month after trailing Platner in polling and fundraising.

Other posts Platner has been questioned about, including in a recent interview with The New York Times, include a 2013 post, which Platner later deleted, that people concerned about rape should not "get so f---ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to."

Platner has also faced scrutiny for more recent Reddit posts, including one from five years ago in which he described himself as a "communist" and "socialist." Additionally, Platner’s posts have contained alleged homophobic slurs and praise for military tactics used by Hamas.

"Will every Democrat in Maine care? No," Cooke said. "Platner has shown he can survive controversy inside a Democratic primary. But in a general election, especially against Susan Collins, the cumulative effect of his stances, controversies, and comments matters. The Nazi-linked tattoo controversy, the homophobic slurs, the disturbing comments that have already surfaced, and now these posts create a fuller picture of a morally bankrupt candidate.

Republicans will argue this is not a candidate with a few regrettable moments. This is a pattern that tells voters something fundamental about his character. And character still matters to a lot of Mainers."

Look, folks, this is what passes for a "serious" Senate candidate in the modern Democrat Party. A guy who brags about getting off to the smell of porta potty water and treats military latrine dick drawings like they're Renaissance masterpieces. But sure, he's the one lecturing everyone else about "moral seriousness." The left keeps telling us character doesn't matter until it does, and then they pretend the trail of sleaze is just "jokes." Maine voters might have something to say about that when Susan Collins comes calling.

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Islamophobia avoided: Texas migrant arrives at elementary school in tactical gear, gun, released from jail

What could possibly go wrong? You don’t want Texas authorities to do something “Islamophobic,” now, do you?

An Iraqi-born man who was arrested after entering a Texas elementary school clad in tactical gear and carrying a gun has been released back onto the streets, because nothing says "all is well in the neighborhood" like letting a guy who decided to cosplay as a one-man tactical response team inside a building full of kids walk free on bond.

Kyle Najm Chris, aka Muhi Mohanad Najm, showed up at Zwink Elementary School in Spring, Texas, last Tuesday and walked into the front office wearing a load-bearing vest, a taser, and a holstered firearm, according to court records. Chris, who became a naturalized United States citizen in 2022, was arrested Wednesday and charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, a third-degree felony.

The 39-year-old has since posted his $75,000 bond and was released from custody Sunday, according to court records.

Chris allegedly walked into the school’s front office in tactical gear with a holstered firearm after another visitor failed to close the door behind them. A school employee asked Chris how he got in, and he told her the door was unlatched. [Security much?]

Chris also asked if there was armed security on school property, according to court documents. He was asked to provide an ID, but didn’t give one, nor did he identify himself. Chris soon left the school and drove away. Perhaps this was a test-run, but for now, we don't know his true motive.

Chris had a private investigator license and a Texas concealed handgun license, but did not have any ties to the school, according to local news outlet KHOU.

Chris is required to be under 24-hour house arrest with a GPS monitor and is banned from going near any Klein ISD property, according to Fox 26. It's unknown if his firearm was left in his possession, but fearing Islamophobia, it's quite possible. 

Ah yes, house arrest with an ankle bracelet. Because the same system that thought it was a great idea to let this gentleman stroll around an elementary school looking like he was auditioning for a low-budget action flick is now confident that a little electronic jewelry and a stern "stay away" note will keep everyone safe. They forgot to wag their finger at him and admonish him with strong words.

What’s the worst that could happen? He decides to test the perimeter? Or maybe he just needed directions to the nearest tactical surplus store. Either way, the kids are definitely safer now that he's chilling at home plotting . . . whatever it is guys in full tactical gear at elementary schools plot when they're not being "Islamophobic"-ed by overzealous law enforcement. 

Sleep tight, Texas, the system's got this. And if you believe that, you might also believe that cows don't fart and snakes have hips.

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Besides destroying IRGC infrastructure, the US destroys their lies after Khamenai is also destroyed

The United States didn't pull any punches. It straight-up called out Tehran by name, shredding what CENTCOM describes as outright lies from the Iranian regime in a no-nonsense, point-by-point smackdown posted just hours after the joint U.S.-Israel operation that took out Iran's Supreme Leader.

This fact-check blitz hit right after the coordinated strike that eliminated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a hit that U.S. officials are calling a major takedown in the regime's long-running terror spree and chaos across the region.In a couple of tough posts on X, CENTCOM directly slapped down claims from Iran's UN ambassador and the IRGC, branding them false and accusing Tehran of trying to snow the whole world.

At a UN Security Council session, Iran's ambassador insisted Tehran's retaliation was aimed "solely and exclusively at the bases and assets of the United States. "CENTCOM shot that down hard."

The Iranian Regime is actively targeting civilians and has attacked more than a dozen locations," the command declared, then rattled off the sites it says got hit.Those include: 

Dubai International Airport

Kuwait International Airport

Zayed International Airport in Dubai 

Erbil International Airport in Iraq, 

Fairmont Palm Hotel in Dubai, 

Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, 

Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bahrain, 

Port of Dubai, 

residential areas in Beit Shemesh, Israel, 

residential areas in Tel Aviv, 

Israel, residential area of Era Views Towers in Bahrain, 

residential areas in Qatar.

This public call-out ramps up the messaging war big time, with Washington accusing Iran of slamming civilian targets while feeding the international community a bunch of garbage.In another whopper, the IRGC claimed it nailed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier with ballistic missiles. CENTCOM wasn't having it.

"The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close," the command fired back, and media video shows that this is true.

The Lincoln continues to launch aircraft in support of CENTCOM’s relentless campaign to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime.

"These blunt denials drop as the U.S. and Israel keep hammering Iranian military targets in their joint ops, going after air defenses, missile setups, naval forces, you name it. 

By flat-out labeling Tehran's spin as bogus, the U.S. is fighting the info war right alongside the kinetic one, pushing back on Iranian propaganda, steadying allies, and making crystal clear that key American assets are still locked and loaded.

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A Middle East Meltdown Over Mere Towels: No Israelis Required

One might have thought, in these endlessly fractious sands of the Arab world, that every diplomatic dust-up required the ritual invocation of the Zionist bogeyman. Yet here we have a spectacle so exquisitely absurd it redefines the very lexicon of grievance: a row between Iraq and Jordan over pilfered linens from a hotel bathroom, which lends an unintended literalism to that old, unflattering epithet hurled at keffiyeh-clad gentlemen of being "towel-heads." 

The full farce is chronicled with admirable restraint in the Jerusalem Post.

Picture the scene: an Iraqi diplomat, one Zainab Okla Al-Saadi, departs the opulent Fairmont Hotel in Amman, only to find herself ensnared in a scandal that would make even the most petty of hotel housekeepers blush. The establishment levels the charge of filching "towels and other items" from her suite, a transgression so banal it might ordinarily warrant nothing more than a discreet billing adjustment. But no: Iraq's Foreign Affairs Ministry has seized upon the matter with the gravity of a UN Security Council resolution, while an entire Iraqi tribe has waded into the fray. This, mind you, may rank as the most preposterous contretemps to bedevil Baghdad-Amman ties in a generation, outstripping even the usual fare of water rights or border skirmishes.

The diplomat, for her part, is having none of it. "Saadi denied the allegations, accusing hotel staff of stealing her belongings and car and deliberately trying to defame her," as the website 964media reports. She has called for a "transparent and fair investigation," and, to drive the point home with theatrical flair, brandished a towel of her own during a television interview, as if to say: Behold, madam has her own supply; yours are safe, you perfidious Jordanians. 

Ah, but the sin of souvenir-swiping from hotel rooms is no mere Iraqi vice; it is a global affliction, etched into the annals of human frailty with all the profundity of a guest pilfering the complimentary shampoo. Some limit themselves to the soaps, those tiny, perfumed talismans of transience. Others graduate to towels or even the occasional bathrobe, draped like a conqueror's cloak. As Travel Weekly Asia soberly attests, towels vanish from hotel inventories with alarming frequency. Nor does the larceny end there: televisions, minibars, coat hangers, all fall prey to the wandering hand. One study claims that nearly 80% of hotels suffer this terry-cloth attrition.

In Iraq, however, the towel banditry assumes epidemic proportions. "Towel thefts are rampant in Iraq," Al Arabiya declares, as if diagnosing a national pathology. The ministry, ever vigilant, is now probing not just the alleged crime but the very leak of the story itself, which has inflamed this terry-towel tempest. "It has taken the initiative to form an investigation committee to look into the circumstances of the matter and verify all its details in accordance with the approved legal and administrative frameworks."

Ms. Saadi, undeterred, has escalated her missive to the Iraqi Ambassador to Jordan, Omar al-Barzanji, and straight to the Foreign Ministry, bewailing "the theft of towels from a prominent hotel in Amman." In her public pleas, she beseeches "immediate intervention from the ministry and the Iraqi prime minister," as though the republic's survival hinged on the swift retrieval of a few damp rags.

Could this, against all odds, burgeon into a full-blown diplomatic rupture? 

Unlikely, yet precedents whisper otherwise. Recall the last such indelible rift: in 1995, two sons-in-law of Saddam Hussein, Hussein Kamel Hassan and Saddam Kamel Hassan, fled to Jordan with the despot's daughters in tow. Lured back to Baghdad a year later, they met the traditional Iraqi welcome for defectors: a hail of bullets.

Back in the cradle of civilization, the towel saga shows no sign of drying out. Ms. Saadi enjoys the unyielding backing of the Al-Sawaed clan, that tribal bulwark against such calumnies. One shudders to imagine the blood feud that might ensue were the Fairmont to press charges.In the end, this is no trifling matter of terry cloth. It is a crusade for the dignity of Iraq, and, indeed, of every globe-trotting soul who has ever palmed a hotel soap with a flicker of illicit thrill. Pride, that most combustible of Arab virtues, hangs by a thread here. And in the Middle East, as we know all too well, even the flimsiest filament can ignite a conflagration.

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Tampon Tim gets blasted by veterans for his stolen valor and China connections

Stolen valor refers to the act of falsely claiming to have served in the military, received military honors, or performed heroic acts to gain respect, benefits, or recognition. It's considered a disrespectful and fraudulent misrepresentation of military service. 

Tim Walz, [aka Tampon Tim] the Democrat Governor of Minnesota and failed Vice Presidential candidate, allegedly misrepresented his lackluster 24-year military service in the Army National Guard. The most cited issue is a 2018 video where Walz spoke about gun control and claimed he carried "weapons of war." Of course this implies he saw combat but the truth is, Walz resigned from the service when he learned that his unit was going to be deployed to Iraq. 

He also claimed that he was deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom, implying he was in combat, but he was in Italy, not in a combat zone. 

And again he has an issue with his rank. Walz was promoted to command sergeant major but retired from service before completing the requirements for that rank, so his official retirement rank was master sergeant. But Walz referred to himself as a command sergeant major in political campaigns and this was obviously misleading.

On Wednesday at a veterans rally at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Walz (D) welcomed veterans for the annual "Veterans Day on the Hill" celebration but was met by an angry group of veterans who called him a "coward" and blasted him for sympathizing with Communist China, according to footage captured by KSTP.

"Coward! You sympathize with the Chinese!" some veterans holding American flags and "take action" signs shouted at Tampon Tim as he welcomed them to the Capitol.

"Sir, you're welcome to come… Let me finish!" Walz replied as he tried to ease tensions while another veteran shouted: "Shut your f***ing mouth!"

"Woah, hey – there’s some passion in the building, which is a good thing," Walz stupidly said before beginning his address.

Footage of the hecklers disrupting Walz's remarks has gone viral on social media, with conservative influencers celebrating the criticism.

Walz served in the Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery after transferring from the Nebraska National Guard in 1996, but he resigned from the military when learning his unit was going to be deployed to the war in Iraq.

Timmy hears about guns, and wow, does he run! His unit rightfully felt abandoned. 

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Walz's decades-long ties to China also came to light when Vice President Kamala Harris picked him as her running mate last summer. He worked briefly in China as a teacher, traveling to Guangdong in 1989 for a teaching-abroad program to teach English and American history. And his woke thinking makes one wonder if a little touch of communism rubbed off on him.

Who am I kidding? Of course it did.

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USAID gave over $18 billion for Jihad to Islamic terror states

Terrorist proudly shows off his nose-cleaning finger while other compensates for 
his tiny manhood

USAID is a national security threat. In the United States, Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution defines treason against the United States as consisting only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. On the other hand, sedition is inciting rebellion or resistance against the government, which may be more accurate in te§rms of what USAID has been doing with taxpayer money.

18 U.S. Code § 2339C  prohibits the financing of terrorism, and any person involved in plundering the U.S. Treasury in support of Islamic terror must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, which brings to mind Joe Biden.

“It is really, really a sad day in America,” Rep. Ilhan "Allahu akbar" Omar (D-MN) declared at a rally by Democrats outside USAID headquarters protesting President Trump’s reconstruction of the aid agency.

Actually, the sad day wasn't for America, it was very sad for Somalia and other Islamic nations who would take our taxpayer money and use it for terrorism.

Since 2023, USAID had funneled $2.3 billion in “humanitarian assistance” to Omar’s native Somalia. Last year it reported a request for $1.6 billion in aid and even with the Biden administration on the way out the door, it sent an additional $29 million in December 2024.

The support from USAID to Omar's Somalia has doubled under the Biden administration. With $3.3 billion from USAID allocated over the last 5 years, the end of this financial support for Somalia, which some correctly call an "Islamic terrorist state," must have been tough for the lady who married her brother so he could illegally enter the US and who has close ties to the Somali government.

 Former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire once said, “the interest of Ilhan are not Ilhan’s, it’s not the interest of Minnesota, nor is it the interest of the American people, the interest of Ilhan is that of the Somalian people and Somalia.”

Can I get an 'Allahu akbar!"

It's unclear if any members of Omar's Majerteen clan have directly benefited from the billions of dollars in American aid, but given how important the clan is in Somali politics, it's very possible.

Somalia, along with other groups like the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Houthis in Yemen, and Hamassholes in Gaza, have been among the biggest recipients of USAID money.

USAID has claimed to have sent $2.1 billion to Gaza and the West Bank since the Hamas attacks on October 7th. In 2024 alone, USAID planned to spend $917 million in these areas, which some call "terrorist areas" in Israel.

Since taking over Afghanistan, the Taliban received from USAID over $3,700,000,000, with $832 million in the last fiscal year. The money was so hard to track that USAID wouldn't work with the U.S. Government's Afghan War watchdog looking into where the money was going, especially to terrorists.

And while we were fighting the Houthis, who are sponsored by Iran, as they attacked our U.S. Navy ships, USAID kept sending billions to Yemen.In 2024, USAID asked for $2.7 billion for Yemen and allocated $753 million. Over the last 5 years, USAID gave an estimated $3.4 billion to what some might call an enemy terror state.

No wonder the Democrats are running out of adult diapers as Elon Musk's crew audits the books.

Other countries with ties to terrorism that have received a lot of USAID money include Pakistan, which, of course, sheltered Osama bin Laden, receiving about $600 million over the last 5 years. While some American communities struggled for clean water, USAID was busy building water plants for Pakistan's mostly Muslim population, even as they persecuted Christians.

USAID spent over $700 million in Iraq in the last 5 years, even though the country is run by leaders backed by Iran, whose militias have been shooting at American troops.

In Syria, USAID directed $3.4 billion over the past 5 years, despite the country being in a civil war between different groups of Islamists, some aligned with Iran and others with Al Qaeda.

USAID gave $1.1 billion to Lebanon, which is controlled by Hezbollah.

Although USAID can't work directly in Iran, between Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, over $8 billion went to countries with leaders friendly to Iran, not including Gaza.

In total, USAID spent around $18.5 billion on countries labeled as Islamic terror states over those 5 years. And this isn't even a complete list.

Go Elon, go!

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ISIS Head Eliminated in Iraq

He's in a better place now, what with his rivers of wine, the pretty young boys, and the 72 virgin goats. 

i24News reported that US military along with Iraqi forces killed Abu Ali Al-Tunisi [his pronouns are was, were, gone] an senior commander with the Islamic State terrorist organization. 

Al-Tunisi, who was wanted by the United States and along with several other terrorist fighters, was killed Iraqi military said on Friday.

This belies a claim by Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris that there are no U.S. military personnel serving in any war zones under the Biden-Harris administration. In other words, Harris lied about it in the debate this month against Donald Trump, and ABC News did not challenge the lie as they were told not to do.

The operation in Iraq’s western Anbar province began in late August, the Iraqi military said, and also involved members of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service and Iraq’s air force, not to mention US military personnel who Harris claimed did not exist in a war zone.

Al-Tunisi was a key leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS). He was in charge of manufacturing for ISIS in Iraq, conducting training for ISIS members, including instruction on how to make explosives, suicide vests, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Al-Tunisi also provided advanced training on weapons development and the manufacturing of chemical weapons.

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Iraq follows Muhammad's lead and lowers marriage age to 9-year-old

The prophet of Islam Muhammad, married Aisha bint Abi Bakr ( c. 613/614 – July 678) when she was six-years-old and still playing with dolls. The marriage was consummate later after the child's father's begged Mo to wait until she was older. So the pedophile waited until she was nine and then sexually abused her because that's what it's called.

What a guy.

When the United States invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, the aim was to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein and modernize the Islamic country by freeing them of their Islamic bonds. There would now be open elections and the people would have say in their government.

When we officially withdrew our combat troops on December 18, 2011, everything went back to "Iraq normal." So if you should enter Iraq, make sure you set your watches back 1400 years because they're back at it.

The Iraqi Parliament is currently preparing to take a page out of Islamic scripture and go back to the good old days by amending their Personal Status Law. This basically eliminates all women's rights and lowers the minimum marriage age for girls to nine and boys to fifteen. 

This is just the start.

The Iraqi Parliament debated amendments to the Personal Status Law on Sunday that would effectively dissolve the country’s universal standards to protect women and girls on matters such as consent to marriage, alimony, and custody of children by allowing men to opt out, choosing traditional Shi'ite or Sunni Islamic mandates, instead. 

Little girls would have no choice.

Although child marriages, sex slavery, and other abuses are rampant in modern-day Iraq, they are not technically legal. Iraqi law currently requires both men and women to be 18 years old to enter marriage, allows a woman to inherit her husband’s assets in the event of his death, and allows for unconditional inter-religious marriage.

But that's set to change and feminists in the US have been silent.

The amendments to the secularized Personal Status Law was passed in 1959, and would allow the relevant men in a marriage or proposed marriage to choose whether to apply Sunni sharia rules or Shiite sharia. It does not discuss other religions, such as Christianity, Zoroastrianism, or the Yazidi faith, which once boasted vibrant constituencies in Iraq but were almost entirely exterminated by the Islamic State (ISIS) “caliphate” in the past decade. Members of minority religions would most likely have to abide by the current form of the Personal Status Law if Muslims are in control.

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U.S, troops at Syrian base hit by deadly drone attack

Six Kurdish soldiers were killed late Sunday at a base in eastern Syria where U.S. troops are stationed. The drone attack targeted a training ground at al-Omar base in Syria's eastern province of Deir el-Zour, the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Monday.

According to the statement, the attack struck an area where the forces' commando units were being trained. No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the attack, they said.

This was the first attack in Syria or Iraq since the Biden administration launched a perfunctory response over the weekend against Iran-backed militias. Assaults on U.S. troops and civilians in the region has been going on since the outbreak of the October 7 Israel-Hamasshole war.

The SDF initially blamed "Syrian regime-backed mercenaries" for Sunday's attack, but after investigating the attack, they accused "Iran-backed militias." These militias aren't too worried that the U.S. will do anything too untoward in response because Biden has mumbled it nearly clear that he doesn't want to start a war and that his son died in both Iraq and Normandy, in 2014 and 1918 respectively.

The Islamic Resistance, an oxymoronically named [they're not resisting anyone, they're initiating the conflict] umbrella group of all Iran-backed Iraqi militias, claimed responsibility for the Sunday attack and released a video they claim showed them launching the drone used in the attack.

U.S. Central Command forces said Sunday they conducted a "self-defense" strike against a Houthi land attack cruise missile at approximately 5:30 a.m. Sanaa time. CENTCOM forces have their hands tied because the Biden administration will not meet aggression with a powerful response.

[Symbolically, if the Houthis was the guy on the beach who kicks sand in the face of the U.S., the latter would respond immediately with, "Please cut that out. You kicked sand in my face."]

Later, at approximately 10:30 a.m., U.S. forces struck four anti-ship cruise missiles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, which they determined "presented an imminent threat to U.S. Navy ships and merchant vessels" in the Red Sea. The anti-ship missiles died in complete agony and promised never to blow up our vessels again.

Sunday’s strikes also came a day after the U.S. and U.K. launched a wave of strikes against 36 Houthi targets, meant to degrade their capabilities and tell them in no uncertain terms, "Hey, there you go again, kicking sand in our faces."

Houthi rebels rolled their shoulders, grabbed their nutsacks and vowed "escalation" in reaction to the strikes, with a spokesman for the group vowing to continue its own attacks "no matter the sacrifices it costs us."

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Uh oh, the Houthis vow revenge and proportionate response after US, UK strike again in Yemen

Following the Sunday U.S. and U.K. airstrike in Yemen, the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists, aka Ansar Allah, have vowed 'escalation' hopefully in the form of a proportionate response, like that of President Biden, so that things don't get out of hand and cause a war.

Although the U.S. and U.K. sent fighter jets and B1 bombers to destroy Houthi targets, the terror group does not have the same air power and proportionate responses will be hard to accomplish. They do, however, have small, domestically-manufactured drones, they like to call "Qasef" drones. These little babies have been used by the Houthis [and the Blowfish] in attacks on targets in Saudi Arabia's military bases, airports, and oil facilities.

A Houthi spokes terrorist vowed to keep up the good fight and plans will remain in place to disrupt regional trade, "no matter the sacrifices it costs us." Because all good terrorists go to Jannah, collect 72 virgins and get to drink along the shores of rivers of wine.

"The US-British coalition’s bombing of a number of Yemeni provinces will not change our position, and we affirm that our military operations against Israel will continue until the crimes of genocide in Gaza are stopped and the siege on its residents is lifted, no matter the sacrifices it costs us," Houthi spokesman Mohammed al-Bukhaiti bravely tweeted.

"Our war is moral, and if we had not intervened to support the oppressed in Gaza, humanity would not have existed among humans. The American-British aggression against Yemen will not go unanswered, and we will meet escalation with escalation," he added.

Since the pond scum killed three of our soldiers in Jordan, tensions have been very high. It is believed that President Biden may have said something about an ongoing response but it was difficult to make out his words. He mumbled something about targeting Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria then attempted to find his way offstage.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who is gay, also refused to rule out the possibility of carrying out strikes within Iran in the near future on Sunday because he doesn't want to start any trouble.

Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah are also high and could lead to another front in Israel's current war against the Hamassholes that the latter started on October 7.  The Jewish State made it clear that if push came to shove, they would not hesitate to invade in order to protect themselves.

"We do not choose war as our first priority, but we are certainly prepared," IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said. "We will continue to act wherever Hezbollah is present, we will continue to act wherever it is required in the Middle East. What is true for Lebanon is true for Syria, and is true for other more distant places." 

He added: "The Holocaust was real, but the Jews aren't so easy to f*** with anymore."

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Report: Americans injured by militants in Iraqi base attack

Americans and Iraqi security forces were injured in an attack on Iraqi's Ain al-Asad air base Saturday according to a report.

A US official who demanded anonymity said the Americans who were injured only suffered minor injuries, but one of the Iraqi security forces was reported to be seriously wounded, The Jerusalem Post reported.

The initial reports said the ballistic missiles hit the base but there is an ongoing assessment to determine whether it was actually a rocket attack, rather than a guided missile offensive, the official said.

“Two security sources in Iraq and one government source said the base was hit by multiple rockets fired from inside Iraq,” The Jerusalem Post’s report says. “A second US official said the attack was carried out by militants from inside Iraq.”

According to US military data, there have been to date, 58 strikes by drones and rockets by Iran-supported militants. Theses same militants have also attacked American forces in Syria no less than 83 times concurrent to the Iraq attacks.

According to The Jerusalem Post, those militants are seeking a way to “impose a cost” on America for its support of Israel in the fight against Hamas, which is backed by Iran.

And while it appears the Biden administration is fully committed to supporting the Jewish State, don't necessarily count on that support in the future if the political winds change. Biden has no other ideology other than what's good for the Bidens. 

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3 US military personnel injured by Kataib Hezbollah--one critically

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin [they, them, he, haw]

Three U.S. military personnel were injured, in an attack by Iranian-affiliated Kataib Hezbollah terrorists in Iraq on Christmas Day. One of the wounded is in critical condition and may not make it, so let's pray for him.

The attack occurred Christmas Day in what is only the latest attack on our troops in the Middle East by terrorist proxies of Iran.

The White House reported that kamikaze drones were launched by Kataib Hezbollah and other terrorist groups and Erbil Air Base in Iraq was targeted early on Christmas morning. The Commander in Chief, Joseph Robinette Biden was awakened from his Christmas sleep by his urinary urgency and later upon awakening was told of the drone attack.

After Biden was briefed he asked for options in response, because he didn’t know what to do and someone, possibly former President Barack Hussein Obama, told him to strike on facilities used by the terrorists for their drone operations that were used to target Americans.

So by Sunday evening, CENTCOM forces conducted “necessary and proportionate strikes” on three facilities used by the scummy Kataib Hezbolla and affiliated groups.

Proportionate is like when someone who wants to kill you starts by punching you in the shoulder and you know he also has other weapons in which to carry out his intentions. But you respond proportionately by punching him back on his shoulder just as hard. He grabs a gun and shoots you in the same shoulder that he punched you and you respond proportionately by shooting him in the shoulder that you had punched him. Then he shoots you in the face and you die. That’s why a proportional response is stupid. 

When you’re attacked by an enemy who you know hates you and wants you dead, you respond with shock and awe and beat him to where he decides to leave you alone and go out and find another enemy who he can bully, because you aren’t that person. 

The Biden administration is seen as weak and our enemies are constantly testing it.

Anyway, our proportionate “precision strikes” were “intended to disrupt and degrade capabilities of the Iran-aligned militia groups directly responsible” for the attacks that wounded our service members. In other words, we punched them back in the shoulder.

"These strikes are intended to hold accountable those elements directly responsible for attacks on coalition forces in Iraq and Syria and degrade their ability to continue attacks. We will always protect our forces," said General Michael Erik Kurilla, U.S. Central Command Commander.

They are quaking in their Nikes.

But not really because Iran doesn’t care how many Kataib Hezbollah dudes are killed—it’s no skin off their butts.

U.S. so called Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin [pronouns: they, them, he, haw] made a statement: "Today’s attack led to three injuries to U.S. personnel, leaving one service member in critical condition. My prayers are with the brave Americans who were injured.”

Then he got on his knees and began praying, asking all who would read his written statement to do the same, and he asked the god of Woke to please make it all go away.

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U.S. Embassy in Baghdad attacked as usual

The U.S. embassy in Baghdad has been attacked by mortar fire on Friday morning. Minor material damage resulted in the attack but there were no U.S. casualties.

There were explosions near the embassy at around 4:15 a.m. which were confirmed by an embassy spokesperson who said, "[A]ssessments are ongoing, but there are no reported casualties on the Embassy compound."

The attack was also confirmed by a U.S. military official who said the attack was launched at U.S. and Coalition forces in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which contains Iraqi government buildings and embassies.

A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed later that at least seven 60 mm mortar rounds landed in the U.S. Embassy compound while others fell into the river. U.S. and Iraqi officials mistakenly said at first that the projectiles were rockets.

 
The attack was believed to have been carried out by Iran-sponsored militias in Iraq, an embassy spokesperson said, but group immediately claimed responsibility but you can bet there were a bunch of "Allahu akbars" shouted as each mortar was fired.

"We again call on the Government of Iraq, as we have done on many occasions, to do all in its power to protect diplomatic and Coalition partner personnel and facilities," the official pleaded. "We reiterate that we reserve the right to self-defense and to protect our personnel anywhere in the world."

This was the first such attack on the U.S. Embassy since the Hamassholes started the war with Israel. Various terrorist groups have participated in the jihad since the war began.

The U.S. has about 2,500 troops stationed in Iraq and approximately 900 others in eastern Syria, operating on various missions to thwart the Islamic State group.

According to the U.S. military, there have been 78 attacks against U.S. facilities, and of these, 37 were in Iraq, and 41 in Syria. This would not have happened under former President Trump's watch, I strongly believe.

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Biden officials want him to give Hamas a break and have Israel stop winning

About four hundred Hamas supporters from 40 US government departments and agencies within alleged President Biden's administration signed a letter supporting and demanding that Israel, who is winning the war with Hamas, stop winning and cease fire. 

The letter comes after Hamas, a terrorist organization, mercilessly and sadistically slaughtered 1,400 Israelis in an unprovoked sneak attack on October 7th. 

The New York Times first reported the Tuesday letter that includes State Department officials, the Justice Department, and the National Security Council (the latter being an oxymoron since Israel is our closest Middle East ally that is strategic to our national security).

Those who signed onto the letter remained anonymous due to their lack of political courage.

"We call on President Biden to urgently demand a cease-fire; and to call for de-escalation of the current conflict by securing the immediate release of the Israeli hostages and arbitrarily detained Palestinians; the restoration of water, fuel, electricity and other basic services; and the passage of adequate humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip," the anonymous letter reads, in part.

Who the hell is he to demand a cease-fire by a nation that was attacked and is now winning the war? If Israel agrees to a cease-fire, they would be agreeing to handing over a win for Hamas and anti-Semites everywhere. Their goal is to make Israel safe from those who want to destroy it and all of the Jews there and everywhere. They say it and we can believe it.

Biden along with other Western leaders have pushed back on calls for Israel to lose and for now, the White House has not responded to the anonymous letter.

However, France's President Emmanuel Macron is the only Western leader to call on Israel to implement a cease-fire, but after being pressured by people who don't want Israel's destruction, he then clarified his remarks on Monday and said that he thinks Israel has a right to defend itself.

It's obvious to anyone who supports Israel, that now is not the time to back off if the Jewish State is to prevent further terrorist incursions by anti-Semitic barbarians. 

Ask yourself, why didn't the U.S. ask Iraq to cease fire in the Ba'athist-Iraq war that saw anywhere between 109,032 to 650,726 casualties, or during the Shia insurgency in Yemen with 8,500 to 25,000 casualties, just to name a few?

The answer is because it didn't involve Israel, just like all the other wars and terrorism in the Middle East. It's only when it involves the Jews that American anti-Semites speak out on behalf of terrorists. 

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Fencers from Iraq, Kuwait afraid of losing to Israelis: bail from international competition

When Kuwaiti fencer Abdulaziz Alshatti, 32, withdrew from competition in Istanbul [it was once Constantinople] when he discovered that he was scheduled to duel against an Israeli. The very thought of losing to a Jew was more than he could bare, and he tried to save face by simply claiming to have an ingrown pubic hair which restricted his lunge and parry. 

Alshatti [the second 'a' is pronounced like an 'i'] said that his trust in Allah is great and perhaps some time in the future he will go up against "the Jew" and beat him unmercifully. "But for now, my groin is killing me and I have to carefully bow out."

Ironically, Alshatti also pulled a groin hair in the 2018 World Fencing Championship when he was matched up with an Israeli opponent with better skills. And other Kuwaiti cowards have also done the same when it came to going head-to-head with "those Zionists."

As a way to avoid further pubic hair calamities, in May 2021, Kuwait's National Assembly unanimously approved bills outlawing all efforts to normalize relations with Israel.

Israel sticks it to them

The Iraqi national fencing team said in a released statement that it too was withdrawing from the FIE World Cup also to evade being paired up with members of the Israeli team who would disgrace them with better fencing skills.

Both the Iraqi and Kuwaiti teams walked away with their tails between their legs, which may be the reason their pubic hairs were getting pulled.

Israel's advice to both teams: "Be a mensch."

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CT man lied about being US war hero to his wife and the public--she now has dumped him

A man from Connecticut fighting for Ukraine has for decades lied to everyone, including his now former wife, about being a US war hero. After learning of his stolen valor, she ditched the marriage. [H/T New York Post]

James Vasquez, 48, became one of the most high-profile Americans to get over to Ukraine and help thwart the Russian invasion. Being the legend in his own mind that he claimed to be, he shared dramatic images from the front lines and also created controversy by claiming to have access to American weapons.

Vasquez constantly claimed to be a decorated US Army sergeant who unselfishly and quite heroically shared his incredible skill-set he acquired from his imaginary tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“I was in Kuwait during Desert Storm, and I was in Iraq after 9/11 … This is a whole different animal,” Vasquez bragged in an online interview pleading for funds to help his brave Ukraine war efforts.

But eventually, Vasquez, a Norwalk-based home improvement contractor, has admitted to the New York Times that he’d misrepresented [as in 'lied'] his military record for decades — and was kicked out of the Army Reserves before ever going to war.

The Pentagon confirmed that he’d never been deployed, and had only been a private first class — the second lowest rank one can have in the Army— rather than a battle-tested sergeant.

Vasquez poses with George Castanza of 'Seinfeld' fame

“I had to tell a million lies to get ahead,” Vasquez told the Times. However, he refused to elaborate on why he’d been kicked out of the military, where he specialized in fuel and electrical repairs rather than combat and heroic stuff.

“I didn’t realize it was going to come to this,” he said of the exposé, meaning: he didn't think he'd get caught.

His confession was an even bigger shock to his now-ex-wife Tina Vasquez, who had proudly told The Post when her husband first flew to Ukraine that war was “in his DNA.”

“He did the same thing after 9/11, rushed in to help. That’s just who he is — he’s my hero,” she proudly said at the time.

On Monday, she told The Post that she “was just as shocked as anybody else” to see her now-ex’s confessional.“It was just devastating to me. He fooled everybody.” 

“I believed him. The war stories that had supposedly happened brought tears to his eyes. I felt terrible for what [he said] he had to go through and endure — and then come to find out it was all just a lie,” she said.

“Here I am, I’m with him for 11 years and I don’t even know the man I married.

“You think you know somebody and it just blows up in your face,” she said, adding it all “seems like a dream.”

Tina filed for divorce over “other personal reasons” last July when her charlatan husband announced he was heading back to Ukraine for a second time after a few months back in the US. The divorce is now finalized.

The Post could not immediately contact Vasquez, who has since deactivated the Twitter account he used to share his now-questionable tales of conflict alongside Ukraine’s far-right Da Vinci’s Wolves battalion.

“He’s a ghost now — nobody knows where he is,” his ex-wife said, saying that former friends have also been unable to get through to him but believe he is now back in the US possibly working for Uber Eats.

“He needs help and I hope he gets the help that he needs. I pray for him every day,” she said.

Vasquez had confessed to the Times as part of a larger exposé of Americans aiding Ukraine’s war efforts despite problematic pasts.

The only remaining question Americans have is "which political party did this guy belong to?"

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Iran-sponsored militants launch rockets on 2nd US military base in Syria after Biden's "precision airstrikes"

Iran-backed military style jihadis launched a second rocket attack on a U.S. base in Syria on Friday in a retaliatory exchange after President Biden's handler [whoever that is] ordered not very  “precision airstrikes” on their positions. 

Three missiles narrowly missed a US base in northeast Syria  on Friday morning, with two falling in the nearby Al-Omar oil field and another striking a luckless civilian house, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

No casualties were reported from the strike but three of the wounded serving as part of a coalition to beat back ISIS militia scumcrumpets had to be medivaced to Iraq, according to the Pentagon.

The missile attack occurred hours after one of Biden's handlers ordered US Central Command to launch “precision airstrikes” from F-15 fighter jets on groups linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, killing at least 11 and thus scrambling 731 brown-eyed virgins to service the dead in Jannah.

Biden allegedly had airstrikes ordered after an Iranian suicide drone killed a US contractor and injured five US military service members and another contractor at a coalition base near al-Hasakah.

Woke Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed the airstrikes had targeted the IRGC, which the US designates as a terrorist group mainly because they are. He also said the unmanned drone was of Iranian origin.

“As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” Austin said, obviously covering for the fact that Biden makes nothing clear. “No group will strike our troops with impunity.” [With the exception of those terrorists who killed 13 Americans during the fustercluck known as the Afghanistan withdrawal.]

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday the US airstrikes had killed 11 terrorists, including six confirmed pro-Iran militants and two Syrians.

The woke and useless White House national security spokesman John Kirby on MSNBC called the Iran-backed missiles “completely ineffective” and noted that no US personnel were harmed.

“It is not uncommon, when we take a retaliatory strike like this, for them to answer right back with some ineffective rocket fire — and these were largely, completely ineffective,” Kirby said. “Nobody was hurt, no U.S. casualties at all.”

US Central Command General Michael Kurilla promised further action if necessary.

“We are postured for scalable options in the face of any additional Iranian attacks,” he said in a statement.

Kurilla informed Congress on Thursday that since January 2021 Iran has been behind at least 78 attacks on US positions in Syria.

And still they enrich uranium while we do nothing to stop them.

“Iran’s vast and deeply resourced proxy forces spread instability throughout the region and threaten our regional partners,” Kurilla told members of the House Armed Services Committee.Groups linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were behind Friday’s attack.

And while war seems like it could be on the horizon, we have a President who couldn't run a lemonade stand, much less a country; a Vice President who sounds like she's perpetually drunk or plain stupid and confused; and a military more concerned with transgender and gay issues than doing what it's intended to do.

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Iraq Presidential Palace Breached but US Denies Embassy Evacuation

Haydar Karaalp/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Iraq's presidential palace was breached Monday in response to a Shi'ite cleric announcing his resignation from politics to pursue a career as a standup comic at a Gaza Strip club. [He has been working on an opening line joke: "A Jewish guy walks into a mosque."]

A video appears to show U.S. Embassy employees in Baghdad being airlifted by a helicopter.

John Kirby, the empty-suit coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, later claimed that there was no evacuation of U.S. Embassy personnel, in contrast with earlier reports.

“There’s no evacuation going on at the embassy and no indication that’s going to be required at this time,” Kirby told Democrat note-takers, [aka reporters] according to The Hill.

Concerns of unrest have grown recently, with the U.S. Embassy in Iraq releasing a statement last week urging calm among all parties.

“We are closely monitoring reports of unrest in Baghdad today at the Supreme Judicial Council,” an embassy spokesperson said.

“We urge all parties to remain calm, abstain from violence, and resolve any political differences through a peaceful process guided by the Iraqi constitution. We also call for those demonstrating to respect the proceedings and property of Iraq’s governmental institutions which belong to and serve the Iraqi people,” the spokesperson added, tongue-in-cheek. 

The Iraqi government has been in controversy since October when cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s party won the most seats in the election but failed to reach the number needed to form a majority government, kind of like what happened in Canada with Trudeau. The Shi'ite leader refused to negotiate with Iran-backed Shi'ites to create a consensus government because only no good can come from that.

Al-Sadr’s supporters staged a government sit-in over the past four weeks to prevent political/religious rivals from forming an opposing coalition government. His party members have also announced their resignations, with al-Sadr joining in solidarity. "I will do comedy now," said al-Sadr.

The leaders’ statement was in response to the retirement of the Shia spiritual leader Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri, who counts many of al-Sadr’s supporters as followers. The Ayatollah plans to open a university in Italy calling it "Ayatollah U." It will specialize in Critical Racist Theory and chemical engineering.

On Sunday, al-Haeri announced he was stepping down and called on his followers to support Iran’s main Shi'ite leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei instead of the Shia spiritual center in Najaf, Iraq.

In response, several hundred crazed protesters breached the concrete barriers outside the palace gates and stormed the building. Iraq’s military issued a curfew and has called on protesters to leave immediately.

Some protesters have decided to stay despite the warning, with video surfacing of intruders enjoying the palace swimming pool, much like the Jan. 6 "insurrectionists," in which Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female "insurrectionist" climbed through a window and was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer, with a questionable history regarding his use of his firearm.

Outside of the palace, other protesters ran from gunfire The Jerusalem Post reported .The gunfire was believed to be from the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) firing to stop demonstrators dead in their tracks.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has reportedly been evacuated as a safety precaution.

As of this posting, some outlets are reporting that the U.S. Embassy is evacuating the building via helicopter, proving just how empty John Kirby's suit really is. Also, Reuters reports that thus far, 10 people have been killed and dozens injured in clashes, and various groups are throwing rocks at each other.

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Joe Biden has not yet refused to answer questions by reporters but he hasn't been asked any as of now as he appears to be on another well-deserved vacation.

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